1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,955 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:09,875 --> 00:00:34,995 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Not for a moment 3 00:00:35,315 --> 00:00:38,035 Speaker 1: do I want to reign on the Inflation Reduction Act 4 00:00:38,075 --> 00:00:41,435 Speaker 1: parade nor its passage, despite three Republicans killing the cap 5 00:00:41,475 --> 00:00:44,635 Speaker 1: on insulent prices, and despite the late treachery from Princess 6 00:00:44,675 --> 00:00:50,195 Speaker 1: Cinema saving Wall Street four billion billion more. But a 7 00:00:50,235 --> 00:00:54,155 Speaker 1: reminder that all this will be erased if the fascists 8 00:00:54,235 --> 00:00:57,075 Speaker 1: take the House and the Senate at especially if l 9 00:00:57,155 --> 00:01:00,875 Speaker 1: Douche wins in. Because if you missed it, because you 10 00:01:00,915 --> 00:01:03,195 Speaker 1: spent the weekend in the real world of a Biden 11 00:01:03,275 --> 00:01:06,555 Speaker 1: and Democracy win. In wash Rington, Trump revealed the c 12 00:01:06,795 --> 00:01:11,875 Speaker 1: Pack coven in Dallas revealed Hell. He boasted that he 13 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: is planning on a virtual military dictatorship for America, complete 14 00:01:16,475 --> 00:01:21,115 Speaker 1: with the obligatory concentration camps. Every day we get a 15 00:01:21,195 --> 00:01:24,635 Speaker 1: little closer to that torture chamber world of ce Pack 16 00:01:25,195 --> 00:01:28,355 Speaker 1: and a Trump return, and we remain standing alongside that 17 00:01:28,755 --> 00:01:32,835 Speaker 1: anonymous former Republican congressman that Mark Leebovich quoted as saying, look, 18 00:01:32,875 --> 00:01:36,595 Speaker 1: we have no plan for this except sitting around hoping 19 00:01:36,635 --> 00:01:42,675 Speaker 1: he dies. Eight words and eight words only were spoken 20 00:01:42,715 --> 00:01:46,675 Speaker 1: truthfully and honestly at the fascist rally in Texas over 21 00:01:46,715 --> 00:01:50,715 Speaker 1: the weekend. Are you ready to hear them? Let's go, 22 00:01:50,995 --> 00:01:55,675 Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we are all domestic terrorists. Ladies and gentlemen, 23 00:01:55,675 --> 00:01:59,035 Speaker 1: we are all domestic terrorists. The disembodied voice of the 24 00:01:59,075 --> 00:02:03,115 Speaker 1: convention announcer nominally she was introducing a panel by that 25 00:02:03,235 --> 00:02:07,075 Speaker 1: name at three tent Saturday afternoon, prevailing Local Racist Time 26 00:02:07,555 --> 00:02:10,035 Speaker 1: on the main stage of the Trinity Ballroom, in which 27 00:02:10,035 --> 00:02:15,075 Speaker 1: a panel including founding Seapack grifter Mercedes Schlapp, insisted that 28 00:02:15,155 --> 00:02:21,075 Speaker 1: anybody protesting quote woke, gender, identity, and history classes controlled 29 00:02:21,075 --> 00:02:27,075 Speaker 1: by unaccountable and unpatriotic unions would be branded a domestic 30 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:32,555 Speaker 1: terrorist by Attorney General Merrick Garland. Wait, somebody branded a 31 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:39,635 Speaker 1: domestic terrorist by Attorney General Merrick Garland. I wish it 32 00:02:39,795 --> 00:02:42,195 Speaker 1: is easy to turn away from things like Seapack, because 33 00:02:42,235 --> 00:02:45,555 Speaker 1: after you have seen one three headed cow, how many 34 00:02:45,595 --> 00:02:48,915 Speaker 1: more do you need to look at? The problem arises 35 00:02:48,955 --> 00:02:52,675 Speaker 1: when you realize they are all three headed cows and 36 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: their plan is to make being a three headed cow 37 00:02:55,395 --> 00:02:58,995 Speaker 1: mandatory under the laws of the United States of America. 38 00:02:59,595 --> 00:03:03,275 Speaker 1: Along with Trump's insistence that he will purge government of 39 00:03:03,315 --> 00:03:06,835 Speaker 1: anybody he did not appoint. At his repetition and clarification 40 00:03:06,955 --> 00:03:10,835 Speaker 1: of his earlier announcements about the concentration camps and the 41 00:03:10,915 --> 00:03:15,075 Speaker 1: enforcement by armed troops of political decisions which you know, 42 00:03:15,235 --> 00:03:20,395 Speaker 1: between them kind of define a military dictatorship, he intends 43 00:03:20,435 --> 00:03:23,315 Speaker 1: to take over the National Guard and utilize it as 44 00:03:23,355 --> 00:03:29,075 Speaker 1: his own army. Period from his slurred speech Saturday about 45 00:03:29,075 --> 00:03:32,515 Speaker 1: the National Guard, quoting, we're sending them in because we're 46 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:35,795 Speaker 1: not gonna let Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland. It's 47 00:03:35,835 --> 00:03:40,755 Speaker 1: so dangerous those streets. Los Angeles is so bad, San Francisco. 48 00:03:42,115 --> 00:03:46,795 Speaker 1: And if troops beholden to him over ruling laws established 49 00:03:46,835 --> 00:03:52,115 Speaker 1: by democratic states, democratic legislatures, democratic governors, democratic mayors by democracies, 50 00:03:52,515 --> 00:03:56,835 Speaker 1: if they were not warning enough their first target. Let 51 00:03:56,835 --> 00:03:59,915 Speaker 1: me quote this diseased mind yet again. The only way 52 00:03:59,915 --> 00:04:02,955 Speaker 1: you're going to remove the homeless encampments and reclaim our 53 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:07,315 Speaker 1: downtowns is to open up large parcels, large tracts of 54 00:04:07,355 --> 00:04:11,875 Speaker 1: relatively inexpensive land on the outer skirts of the various 55 00:04:11,875 --> 00:04:16,475 Speaker 1: cities and bring in medical professionals, psychiatrists, psychologists, and drug 56 00:04:16,555 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: rehab specialists and create tent cities, you know, like the 57 00:04:21,875 --> 00:04:24,555 Speaker 1: tent cities on the southern border, only this time for 58 00:04:24,675 --> 00:04:28,995 Speaker 1: the homeless and anybody else. The Trump Torrian Guard sweeps 59 00:04:29,115 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: up protesters, democratic politicians, critics, tent cities, forced psychological and 60 00:04:36,675 --> 00:04:43,555 Speaker 1: drug treatment, madness impossibilities. I wrote a piece six years 61 00:04:43,555 --> 00:04:47,595 Speaker 1: ago about the obvious next step to Trump's xenophobic attack 62 00:04:47,675 --> 00:04:51,275 Speaker 1: on immigrants, documented or otherwise, that nobody in this country 63 00:04:51,315 --> 00:04:54,195 Speaker 1: was addressing at that point. The ones in the country. 64 00:04:54,195 --> 00:04:57,435 Speaker 1: You're gonna round them up, the ones trying to get 65 00:04:57,435 --> 00:04:59,595 Speaker 1: in the country. You're gonna round them up. Where are 66 00:04:59,635 --> 00:05:02,115 Speaker 1: you gonna keep them? You're going to have to build 67 00:05:02,195 --> 00:05:05,315 Speaker 1: large areas in which large numbers of people can be kept, 68 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:08,115 Speaker 1: even if it's just keeping them there until you can 69 00:05:08,155 --> 00:05:13,075 Speaker 1: expel them. Camps with concentrated populations. What would you call 70 00:05:13,515 --> 00:05:19,195 Speaker 1: those kinds of camps with concentrated populations, concentration camps. I 71 00:05:19,275 --> 00:05:22,875 Speaker 1: had editors at major news websites tell me that the 72 00:05:22,955 --> 00:05:25,755 Speaker 1: logic might be right, but we would never see such 73 00:05:25,755 --> 00:05:29,235 Speaker 1: places because this was America and this was just Trump's 74 00:05:29,355 --> 00:05:34,075 Speaker 1: over the top campaign rhetoric. The BBC finally published that piece, 75 00:05:34,275 --> 00:05:39,595 Speaker 1: and Trump finally built his immigration concentration camps. Tell me 76 00:05:39,635 --> 00:05:44,395 Speaker 1: what would stop him next time. At the Dallas CEPAC 77 00:05:44,475 --> 00:05:46,995 Speaker 1: there was a guy in an orange jumpsuit on a 78 00:05:47,115 --> 00:05:49,435 Speaker 1: stage made up to look like a jail cell. He 79 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:53,755 Speaker 1: was portraying a victim of the political persecution, the concentration 80 00:05:53,875 --> 00:05:59,435 Speaker 1: camps that Trump's band of authoritarians believe exists. He was, 81 00:06:00,355 --> 00:06:04,035 Speaker 1: in his mind a political prisoner, one of those many 82 00:06:04,235 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: piece old January six protesters being held in a gulag 83 00:06:09,435 --> 00:06:13,475 Speaker 1: in d c merely because he questioned blah blah blah 84 00:06:13,475 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 1: blah blah. And it's not like he killed anybody, and 85 00:06:15,755 --> 00:06:18,235 Speaker 1: they didn't stop the electoral college count and they didn't 86 00:06:18,275 --> 00:06:21,595 Speaker 1: actually overthrow democracy. Look at him, he's crying, and there 87 00:06:21,675 --> 00:06:25,115 Speaker 1: goes cave woman Marjorie Taylor Green to kneel in front 88 00:06:25,155 --> 00:06:30,275 Speaker 1: of him and comfort him. This is how self unaware 89 00:06:30,275 --> 00:06:34,035 Speaker 1: of the people who support Trump actually are. You know, No, 90 00:06:34,195 --> 00:06:36,955 Speaker 1: it's not even self unawareness, is it. They don't care 91 00:06:36,995 --> 00:06:42,275 Speaker 1: about details like awareness or hypocrisy, or contradiction or logic 92 00:06:42,355 --> 00:06:45,515 Speaker 1: or truth. The guy in the orange jumpsuit was actually 93 00:06:45,635 --> 00:06:49,435 Speaker 1: at the January six coup attempts. His name was Brandon Straka, 94 00:06:49,715 --> 00:06:53,235 Speaker 1: and he avoided jail time because he flipped on the 95 00:06:53,275 --> 00:06:56,155 Speaker 1: other members of the mob. And the trumpets didn't care 96 00:06:56,195 --> 00:06:59,915 Speaker 1: about that. If they can mold bull crap into the 97 00:06:59,955 --> 00:07:02,795 Speaker 1: shape of whatever they need to believe at the moment, 98 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:06,515 Speaker 1: they will do so and plaud and then they will 99 00:07:06,595 --> 00:07:13,195 Speaker 1: eat the bullcrap. Logic, contradiction, hypocrisy, reality no longer a 100 00:07:13,195 --> 00:07:17,355 Speaker 1: problem here. Rick Scott, Senator from Florida, the state where 101 00:07:17,355 --> 00:07:22,155 Speaker 1: the governor dictator boasted of removing math textbooks because they 102 00:07:22,195 --> 00:07:26,035 Speaker 1: had too much critical race theory in them in math. 103 00:07:27,275 --> 00:07:29,875 Speaker 1: Rick Scott got up and called big Tech Anthony Faucci 104 00:07:29,915 --> 00:07:33,955 Speaker 1: and Neil Young quote the modern day equivalent of book burners. 105 00:07:34,635 --> 00:07:40,315 Speaker 1: Ted Cruz insisted, my pronouns are kiss my ass. If 106 00:07:40,355 --> 00:07:43,675 Speaker 1: only he understood that means we should call him kiss 107 00:07:43,715 --> 00:07:48,315 Speaker 1: my ass, which I can work with. Andy Biggs, the 108 00:07:48,395 --> 00:07:51,875 Speaker 1: Arizona congressman. The crazy one is opposed to the other 109 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:53,675 Speaker 1: crazy one, and the other crazy one and the other 110 00:07:53,675 --> 00:07:56,955 Speaker 1: crazy one. He insisted, he will defund the FBI on 111 00:07:56,995 --> 00:07:58,915 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. And I'm sure it's just a 112 00:07:58,915 --> 00:08:01,875 Speaker 1: coincidence that he is being investigated for his role in 113 00:08:01,955 --> 00:08:04,435 Speaker 1: the coup by the FBI and the Department of Justice. 114 00:08:05,315 --> 00:08:08,795 Speaker 1: And in the grossest of the gross Trump pointed out 115 00:08:09,275 --> 00:08:12,675 Speaker 1: the former White House physician, now crazed right wing extremist 116 00:08:12,675 --> 00:08:16,795 Speaker 1: Congressman Ronnie Jackson, And as Jackson rose to his feet 117 00:08:16,835 --> 00:08:20,275 Speaker 1: to greet Trump, Trump said of Jackson, quote, he loved 118 00:08:20,315 --> 00:08:23,875 Speaker 1: looking at my body. It was so strong. Now there 119 00:08:23,915 --> 00:08:26,955 Speaker 1: are two reactions to have here. One and overlooked way 120 00:08:26,995 --> 00:08:30,635 Speaker 1: to CounterPunch Trump and this entire miasma of the Emperor 121 00:08:30,675 --> 00:08:33,995 Speaker 1: has no clothes is to not indulge his small lies 122 00:08:34,115 --> 00:08:38,275 Speaker 1: nor be delicate about them. Say Trump's body is not 123 00:08:38,395 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: only not strong, it is grotesquely weak. Say he is 124 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:45,395 Speaker 1: a fat old man who can barely walk down a 125 00:08:45,555 --> 00:08:50,155 Speaker 1: three degree gradient, And say he hides his enormous paunch 126 00:08:50,515 --> 00:08:56,835 Speaker 1: with cleverly retrofitted tent suits. The second reaction is, I'm 127 00:08:56,875 --> 00:08:59,555 Speaker 1: probably burying the lead on the Ronnie Jackson part of 128 00:08:59,555 --> 00:09:03,035 Speaker 1: the story, which is that Ronnie Jackson surprised one and 129 00:09:03,155 --> 00:09:07,875 Speaker 1: all at Speck by being able to stand up. Ladies 130 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:11,675 Speaker 1: and gentlemen. We are all domestic terrorists. It would be 131 00:09:11,715 --> 00:09:14,515 Speaker 1: comforting if we could think all the Republican and fascist 132 00:09:14,595 --> 00:09:18,035 Speaker 1: domestic terrorists were at that convention that unfolded like a 133 00:09:18,075 --> 00:09:21,955 Speaker 1: Stephen King novel, but the immediate danger from them played 134 00:09:21,995 --> 00:09:24,755 Speaker 1: out in the background of the justifiable celebration of the 135 00:09:24,795 --> 00:09:28,715 Speaker 1: Inflation Reduction Act. I just worry that we forget that 136 00:09:28,795 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: these people have declared war on American democracy, and to them, 137 00:09:32,035 --> 00:09:35,835 Speaker 1: each day is another battle, separate and distinct. And while 138 00:09:35,875 --> 00:09:39,195 Speaker 1: we take a deep breath, they resumed planning to give 139 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:41,715 Speaker 1: Trump control the National Guard and to let him purge 140 00:09:41,755 --> 00:09:43,915 Speaker 1: the civil service like this where Turkey and oh, by 141 00:09:43,915 --> 00:09:46,075 Speaker 1: the way, they also still have votes on the Senate floor. 142 00:09:46,195 --> 00:09:51,355 Speaker 1: Right now, in n Vile, filled with one thousand international 143 00:09:51,475 --> 00:09:56,275 Speaker 1: units of insulin, a month's worth cost twenty one dollars. 144 00:09:56,315 --> 00:10:00,235 Speaker 1: Today it's three hundred dollars. The world is not running 145 00:10:00,235 --> 00:10:03,995 Speaker 1: out of insulin. There's no supply chain issue. Big Pharma 146 00:10:04,075 --> 00:10:06,995 Speaker 1: is not having a financial meltdown. This is all about greed. 147 00:10:07,915 --> 00:10:11,315 Speaker 1: Recent polling suggests half of all diabetics have cut back 148 00:10:11,435 --> 00:10:16,035 Speaker 1: on food to pay for insulin, have skipped or rational 149 00:10:16,115 --> 00:10:21,155 Speaker 1: doses to pay for insulin. Sixty have sold personal belongings 150 00:10:21,195 --> 00:10:24,595 Speaker 1: to pay for insulin. Scent have gone into debt to 151 00:10:24,675 --> 00:10:29,435 Speaker 1: pay for insulin. It is such a deliberate soulless torture 152 00:10:30,275 --> 00:10:33,675 Speaker 1: that even seven Republican Senators went along with that part 153 00:10:33,715 --> 00:10:36,155 Speaker 1: of the Inflation Reduction Act that would have capped the 154 00:10:36,195 --> 00:10:40,075 Speaker 1: price of that thousand IU vile at thirty five dollars, 155 00:10:40,835 --> 00:10:44,715 Speaker 1: and forty three Republican senators did not. And their votes 156 00:10:44,835 --> 00:10:47,635 Speaker 1: should be hung around their necks every time they run 157 00:10:47,675 --> 00:10:51,475 Speaker 1: again for office. And they not only include people sometimes 158 00:10:51,515 --> 00:10:55,515 Speaker 1: seen as reasonable, like that great flaming fraud Mitt Romney. 159 00:10:55,595 --> 00:10:59,755 Speaker 1: And they not only include this stupid, senile, old yokel 160 00:10:59,875 --> 00:11:03,955 Speaker 1: fascist Chuck grass Lee, who, as he voted no on insulin, 161 00:11:04,195 --> 00:11:07,635 Speaker 1: tweeted he had once voted yes on insulin. But included 162 00:11:07,635 --> 00:11:10,275 Speaker 1: in these forty three three of the forty three who 163 00:11:10,275 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 1: will tell you that they are pro life, we're pro life, 164 00:11:16,035 --> 00:11:18,555 Speaker 1: Richard Burr and Rob Portman and Pat to me. And 165 00:11:18,635 --> 00:11:21,595 Speaker 1: they could have been the last three Republican votes that 166 00:11:21,675 --> 00:11:24,795 Speaker 1: were needed to relieve diabetics from the choice of insulin 167 00:11:24,955 --> 00:11:27,915 Speaker 1: or food, because the three of them are leaving the 168 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:31,475 Speaker 1: Senate in January, and they could vote their conscience if 169 00:11:31,475 --> 00:11:34,275 Speaker 1: they had one, if they were at corporate whores, if 170 00:11:34,315 --> 00:11:39,035 Speaker 1: anyone or anything mattered. Besides, they're desperate, endless insatiable desire 171 00:11:39,155 --> 00:11:42,435 Speaker 1: for money, and the leader of their party, whom none 172 00:11:42,435 --> 00:11:45,235 Speaker 1: of them will call out, whom none of them will fight, 173 00:11:45,275 --> 00:11:47,955 Speaker 1: whom none of them has integrity or courage enough to 174 00:11:48,195 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: pose as they retire. He is in front of a 175 00:11:51,515 --> 00:11:56,155 Speaker 1: crowd of wildly cheering fascists and racists and white supremacists 176 00:11:56,155 --> 00:11:59,715 Speaker 1: at authoritarians, and many of them actual Nazis, and he 177 00:11:59,835 --> 00:12:03,115 Speaker 1: is outlining taking over the National Guard and sending it 178 00:12:03,195 --> 00:12:06,355 Speaker 1: to Chicago and San Francis go to do his will. 179 00:12:07,155 --> 00:12:09,675 Speaker 1: And a lot of us didn't notice because we think 180 00:12:09,715 --> 00:12:13,075 Speaker 1: a Senate vote that they will happily and immediately erase 181 00:12:13,155 --> 00:12:17,715 Speaker 1: if they regain power is a turning point. This nation 182 00:12:17,755 --> 00:12:22,275 Speaker 1: has always opposed and fought and destroyed fascists and racists 183 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:27,435 Speaker 1: and white supremacists and authoritarians in Germany, in Japan, in Georgia, 184 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:30,995 Speaker 1: and we have to oppose and fight and destroy them 185 00:12:30,995 --> 00:12:34,715 Speaker 1: today and every day, even if they live in Phoenix 186 00:12:35,035 --> 00:12:39,835 Speaker 1: or Rome, Georgia, or Mari Lago. They threatened freedom on 187 00:12:39,875 --> 00:12:43,995 Speaker 1: this planet. We defend freedom on this planet. That's our job, 188 00:12:44,075 --> 00:12:48,395 Speaker 1: that's what we do, especially when, as the cliche goes, 189 00:12:48,675 --> 00:12:54,715 Speaker 1: they literally tell us who they are, ladies, and gentlemen, 190 00:12:54,915 --> 00:13:08,275 Speaker 1: we are all domestic terrorists. Still ahead uncountdown. A major 191 00:13:08,355 --> 00:13:12,595 Speaker 1: Indiana corporation Rick coils at the new theocratic abortion law there, 192 00:13:13,195 --> 00:13:15,595 Speaker 1: but a much more high profile one has done nothing, 193 00:13:15,635 --> 00:13:20,395 Speaker 1: even though it is vulnerable to your phone call. In sports, 194 00:13:20,395 --> 00:13:23,195 Speaker 1: Pete roses back, and that means it's one to three 195 00:13:23,235 --> 00:13:28,155 Speaker 1: controversies come out at the old ball game and worse persons. 196 00:13:28,315 --> 00:13:30,835 Speaker 1: We all know what the fascists mean when they invoked 197 00:13:30,875 --> 00:13:34,795 Speaker 1: George Sorrows. So which United States senator has just invoked 198 00:13:34,875 --> 00:14:10,035 Speaker 1: George Soros? That's next. Let's just countdown. When your state 199 00:14:10,155 --> 00:14:14,475 Speaker 1: legislature makes bad farmer guys look good, you have royally 200 00:14:14,515 --> 00:14:17,915 Speaker 1: screwed up the Indiana story. Coming up first. In each 201 00:14:18,035 --> 00:14:20,395 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need whom 202 00:14:20,435 --> 00:14:24,075 Speaker 1: you can help. Every dog has its day first. From 203 00:14:24,155 --> 00:14:27,155 Speaker 1: last week, some good news Dory, the bear faced dog 204 00:14:27,195 --> 00:14:29,555 Speaker 1: on death row at the New York Pounds. She has 205 00:14:29,595 --> 00:14:33,635 Speaker 1: been rescued. This time it is a dog named Spot. 206 00:14:33,755 --> 00:14:36,075 Speaker 1: You know this is not a lack of creativity. Spot 207 00:14:36,155 --> 00:14:39,315 Speaker 1: lives up to his name. He has striking black circles 208 00:14:39,355 --> 00:14:43,115 Speaker 1: around both eyes. He's four months old and American staff. 209 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:46,035 Speaker 1: He mix he's twenty four pounds. He was hit by 210 00:14:46,075 --> 00:14:49,995 Speaker 1: a car. He's recuperating well at the shelter in Tampa, 211 00:14:50,075 --> 00:14:54,315 Speaker 1: the Hillsborough County Facility, and he's up for fostering or 212 00:14:54,315 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: adoption anywhere in that area, Tampa, St. Pete, wherever you 213 00:14:58,195 --> 00:15:00,875 Speaker 1: can see pictures of Spot. Whose number, if you want 214 00:15:00,875 --> 00:15:03,755 Speaker 1: to write this down, is A two two three six 215 00:15:03,835 --> 00:15:06,715 Speaker 1: three two oh. Find full details at my account for 216 00:15:06,795 --> 00:15:10,355 Speaker 1: dogs in Need. Tom Jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. That's Spot 217 00:15:10,475 --> 00:15:14,355 Speaker 1: in Tampa at Tom jumbo Grumbo on Twitter. Thank you. 218 00:15:31,075 --> 00:15:34,755 Speaker 1: Time for postscripts to the news, some headlines, some thoughts, 219 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:37,795 Speaker 1: some snark. Dateline Indianapolis. The only good news behind the 220 00:15:37,835 --> 00:15:41,835 Speaker 1: Indiana's passage of another draconian anti abortion law, and doing 221 00:15:41,875 --> 00:15:44,315 Speaker 1: so in the dead of night Friday, is that several 222 00:15:44,315 --> 00:15:48,595 Speaker 1: of the state's highest profile businesses have already revolted without 223 00:15:48,635 --> 00:15:52,715 Speaker 1: any prompting or boycotts. Eli Lily and Let's not forget 224 00:15:52,755 --> 00:15:55,755 Speaker 1: they are one of the handful of pharmaceutical companies bankrupting 225 00:15:55,795 --> 00:15:58,755 Speaker 1: and killing diabetics in this country by charging them ten 226 00:15:58,835 --> 00:16:03,355 Speaker 1: times what insulin costs. They have shown a minor sign 227 00:16:03,395 --> 00:16:06,755 Speaker 1: of being human beings. They say they will shift new 228 00:16:06,875 --> 00:16:10,595 Speaker 1: jobs out of Indiana as a result of this bill. 229 00:16:11,315 --> 00:16:16,755 Speaker 1: Roche Diagnostics, Kroger Commons, Airplanes, Engines, they have all criticized 230 00:16:16,795 --> 00:16:19,595 Speaker 1: the new laws and or promise to help Indiana employees 231 00:16:19,795 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: who need abortion or reproductive care. And that's how you 232 00:16:23,115 --> 00:16:27,035 Speaker 1: beat the fascists. You turn their modern slave states into 233 00:16:27,075 --> 00:16:31,635 Speaker 1: business deserts. It is the only thing they understand. Indiana 234 00:16:31,715 --> 00:16:34,675 Speaker 1: receives about eleven billion dollars more out of the federal 235 00:16:34,715 --> 00:16:38,315 Speaker 1: government each year than the state puts in the state economy, 236 00:16:38,315 --> 00:16:42,475 Speaker 1: has no margin for error. Yet they're religious nut theocracy. 237 00:16:42,595 --> 00:16:46,435 Speaker 1: State houses just made one another solution. Of course, if 238 00:16:46,475 --> 00:16:50,395 Speaker 1: you read a story or heard a newscast anywhere referring 239 00:16:50,435 --> 00:16:54,875 Speaker 1: to Indiana's vote as pro life or a victory for 240 00:16:55,075 --> 00:17:01,555 Speaker 1: pro life forces, phone that newsroom. Emails are easy to ignore, 241 00:17:01,635 --> 00:17:06,635 Speaker 1: phone calls are not and switchboard are listed. Call the 242 00:17:06,675 --> 00:17:10,075 Speaker 1: newsroom and politely dress somebody down over the use of 243 00:17:10,115 --> 00:17:14,915 Speaker 1: the term pro life. Trust me, word moves up and 244 00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:19,915 Speaker 1: down a newsroom food chain fast. There's a second area 245 00:17:20,275 --> 00:17:22,115 Speaker 1: in which you might actually be able to do something 246 00:17:22,155 --> 00:17:25,915 Speaker 1: about Indiana. One of the largest and most geographically broad 247 00:17:25,995 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: businesses headquartered in that state has said nothing and done nothing. 248 00:17:30,275 --> 00:17:35,435 Speaker 1: Yet they are extraordinarily vulnerable to pressure. Though the National 249 00:17:35,595 --> 00:17:40,435 Speaker 1: Collegiate Athletic Association, the n C Double A headquarters Indianapolis. 250 00:17:41,155 --> 00:17:43,115 Speaker 1: You don't even have to try to make your feeling 251 00:17:43,155 --> 00:17:45,595 Speaker 1: known to them, and you do not have to be 252 00:17:46,235 --> 00:17:49,995 Speaker 1: in an Indiana or Indiana itself, a state where abortion 253 00:17:50,075 --> 00:17:52,635 Speaker 1: rights are under immediate attack. Did you go to college? 254 00:17:53,195 --> 00:17:55,875 Speaker 1: Did they have sports there? If not, do you just 255 00:17:55,955 --> 00:18:00,235 Speaker 1: have a favorite college sports team? Call the athletic department 256 00:18:00,635 --> 00:18:02,835 Speaker 1: ask them why they are associated when the n C 257 00:18:02,955 --> 00:18:04,995 Speaker 1: Double A. When the n C Double A is turning 258 00:18:04,995 --> 00:18:09,875 Speaker 1: a blind eye to the misogynistic pro death Taliban of Indiana. Again, 259 00:18:09,915 --> 00:18:13,435 Speaker 1: phone calls, Your email can be deleted or forwarded to 260 00:18:13,475 --> 00:18:17,115 Speaker 1: somebody else. In half a second. Your phone call delays 261 00:18:17,195 --> 00:18:21,955 Speaker 1: somebody from going home. Twenty phone calls, we'll keep them 262 00:18:21,955 --> 00:18:25,395 Speaker 1: from going home for half an hour. The n C 263 00:18:25,515 --> 00:18:28,315 Speaker 1: double A makes money off college athletes in every remaining 264 00:18:28,475 --> 00:18:31,555 Speaker 1: free state. If they want to keep getting that money, 265 00:18:31,595 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: they have to move out of Indiana. Make them make 266 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:39,835 Speaker 1: the call. The next battleground on this will probably be Ohio. 267 00:18:39,955 --> 00:18:44,115 Speaker 1: The New Yorker's Jane Mayer interviewed and Ohio State Rep. 268 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:48,515 Speaker 1: Named Gary Klick, pastor Gary Click of the First Church 269 00:18:48,595 --> 00:18:51,835 Speaker 1: of the Gooey Death. I'm sorry, I couldn't read my 270 00:18:51,875 --> 00:18:57,275 Speaker 1: notes the Fremont Baptist Temple in Sandusky, Ohio. Click who 271 00:18:57,355 --> 00:19:01,395 Speaker 1: is the graduate of one of these un accredited Bible colleges. 272 00:19:01,755 --> 00:19:06,675 Speaker 1: It says here Midwestern bullcrap school. Something I can't read 273 00:19:06,715 --> 00:19:09,875 Speaker 1: my notes. I'm sorry. He plans a Personhood Act in 274 00:19:09,875 --> 00:19:12,995 Speaker 1: Ohio which would outlaw not just nearly all abortions, but 275 00:19:13,115 --> 00:19:16,355 Speaker 1: also most in vitro techniques and a lot of contraception. 276 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:20,035 Speaker 1: Abortion to save the mother's life would be legal. Incest 277 00:19:20,235 --> 00:19:25,155 Speaker 1: rape tough. Worst of all, Representative Click still doesn't believe 278 00:19:25,235 --> 00:19:27,395 Speaker 1: that story of the ten year old rape victim in 279 00:19:27,475 --> 00:19:30,235 Speaker 1: his state, even though a twenty seven year old Ohio 280 00:19:30,395 --> 00:19:34,115 Speaker 1: fiend has already confessed to raping the child. Click called 281 00:19:34,155 --> 00:19:38,035 Speaker 1: the story quote suspicious and said it fit too neatly. 282 00:19:38,995 --> 00:19:42,115 Speaker 1: Jane Mayer adds one last singer. Guess who this Click? 283 00:19:42,195 --> 00:19:47,435 Speaker 1: It is a close political ally. Of of course, Congressman 284 00:19:48,035 --> 00:19:52,875 Speaker 1: Jim I didn't see these kids get raped. Jordan's one 285 00:19:53,115 --> 00:19:55,315 Speaker 1: overall bit of good news that may have passed under 286 00:19:55,355 --> 00:19:58,715 Speaker 1: your radar. The newest Monmouth poll released last week on 287 00:19:58,755 --> 00:20:02,115 Speaker 1: who is favored in the generic congressional ballot is now 288 00:20:02,155 --> 00:20:07,515 Speaker 1: Democrats leading fifty to forty three fifty three. Perhaps more important, 289 00:20:09,235 --> 00:20:12,795 Speaker 1: of Democrats in this poll say it's very important for 290 00:20:12,835 --> 00:20:15,755 Speaker 1: them to vote, and that is five points ahead of 291 00:20:15,835 --> 00:20:22,235 Speaker 1: Republicans saying the same thing. This is sports Senate. Wait 292 00:20:22,435 --> 00:20:30,035 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 293 00:20:42,315 --> 00:20:45,795 Speaker 1: and from the Worldwide Sports for the thirty third consecutive year. 294 00:20:45,915 --> 00:20:51,875 Speaker 1: Pete Rose is the gift of controversy that keeps on controversying. 295 00:20:52,875 --> 00:20:55,995 Speaker 1: Pete Rose managed to produce a big picture controversy, a 296 00:20:56,075 --> 00:21:01,115 Speaker 1: smaller picture controversy, and a misogyny controversy all in one afternoon. 297 00:21:01,435 --> 00:21:05,235 Speaker 1: The Philadelphia Phillies celebrated their first World championship team from 298 00:21:05,275 --> 00:21:08,595 Speaker 1: the year nineteen eighty and sure enough invited onto a 299 00:21:08,635 --> 00:21:11,435 Speaker 1: Major League baseball field for the first time since he 300 00:21:11,555 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: was banned for life in nineteen eighty nine. A Major 301 00:21:14,155 --> 00:21:17,955 Speaker 1: League baseball field in Philadelphia, anyway, was the nineteen eighty 302 00:21:18,075 --> 00:21:41,515 Speaker 1: Phills World Championship first baseman Peter Edward Rose. Five years ago, 303 00:21:41,555 --> 00:21:44,595 Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies had canceled a ceremony in which they 304 00:21:44,595 --> 00:21:47,475 Speaker 1: were going to put Pete Rose on their Wall of fame, 305 00:21:47,755 --> 00:21:51,075 Speaker 1: and he lost his Fox Sports Baseball pregame show job 306 00:21:51,595 --> 00:21:55,195 Speaker 1: when court documents revealed sworn testimony from a now adult 307 00:21:55,235 --> 00:21:57,675 Speaker 1: woman that he had had sex with her when she 308 00:21:57,795 --> 00:22:01,435 Speaker 1: was fourteen, and his defense was he thought she was sixteen. 309 00:22:02,275 --> 00:22:04,515 Speaker 1: The team must have figured that in the intervening years 310 00:22:04,675 --> 00:22:07,715 Speaker 1: things had cooled off. Not so much at the event 311 00:22:07,755 --> 00:22:11,035 Speaker 1: for the team, Rose was asked about his presence at 312 00:22:11,035 --> 00:22:14,995 Speaker 1: the Phillies event by reporter Alex Coffee of the Philadelphia Inquirer. 313 00:22:15,835 --> 00:22:18,875 Speaker 1: What would he say? She asked him to people who 314 00:22:19,035 --> 00:22:22,515 Speaker 1: said his presence sends a negative message to women. His 315 00:22:22,595 --> 00:22:25,715 Speaker 1: reply to her quote, no, I'm not here to talk 316 00:22:25,755 --> 00:22:33,435 Speaker 1: about that. Sorry about that. It was fifty five years ago, babe. Later, 317 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:36,315 Speaker 1: an Associated Press reporter asked a similar question of Rose, 318 00:22:36,315 --> 00:22:38,675 Speaker 1: and Rose's reply quote, I'm going to tell you one 319 00:22:38,675 --> 00:22:40,675 Speaker 1: more time. I'm here for the Philly fans, I'm here 320 00:22:40,675 --> 00:22:43,395 Speaker 1: for my teammates, I'm here for the Phillies organization. And 321 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:47,635 Speaker 1: who cares what happened fifty years ago? You weren't even born, 322 00:22:48,155 --> 00:22:50,875 Speaker 1: so you shouldn't be talking about it because you weren't born. 323 00:22:51,355 --> 00:22:53,395 Speaker 1: If you don't know a damn thing about it, don't 324 00:22:53,435 --> 00:22:56,915 Speaker 1: talk about it. End quote. So Pete, you're saying the 325 00:22:56,955 --> 00:23:02,595 Speaker 1: reporter simply isn't old enough. They then brought Pete Rose 326 00:23:02,635 --> 00:23:05,795 Speaker 1: back to the Philadelphia Inquirer reporter box coffee. She now 327 00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:10,115 Speaker 1: reports quote Rose was made available after the ceremony. Someone 328 00:23:10,235 --> 00:23:12,395 Speaker 1: maybe an agent, said he had something to say to me, 329 00:23:12,795 --> 00:23:14,835 Speaker 1: but he didn't seem to know he was expected to 330 00:23:14,835 --> 00:23:18,635 Speaker 1: say anything. He asked if he defended me and said, quote, 331 00:23:19,115 --> 00:23:22,075 Speaker 1: will you forgive me if I signed one thousand baseballs 332 00:23:22,115 --> 00:23:27,835 Speaker 1: for you? End quote, before saying quote, sorry, Like one 333 00:23:27,875 --> 00:23:31,195 Speaker 1: thousand signed Pete Rose baseballs is a lot. He has 334 00:23:31,235 --> 00:23:36,955 Speaker 1: signed like ten thousand baseballs a day every day since nine. Look, 335 00:23:36,955 --> 00:23:39,955 Speaker 1: there's a bigger controversy even than this. Pete Rose has 336 00:23:39,995 --> 00:23:43,795 Speaker 1: been banned for life from baseball for gambling on games 337 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:46,915 Speaker 1: in which he was the manager. He's been banned since 338 00:23:47,035 --> 00:23:50,435 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty nine. What does that mean? As late as 339 00:23:50,515 --> 00:23:52,915 Speaker 1: nineteen nine nine, he was not permitted even to go 340 00:23:53,035 --> 00:23:57,595 Speaker 1: into a Major League Baseball stadium, even when the suspension 341 00:23:57,635 --> 00:23:59,955 Speaker 1: was relaxed so they could bring him onto the field 342 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:02,635 Speaker 1: at the World Series for a credit card company promotional event, 343 00:24:02,955 --> 00:24:05,595 Speaker 1: and of course there was a controversy then too, when 344 00:24:05,595 --> 00:24:09,515 Speaker 1: a reporter asked him about the gambling. Active players were 345 00:24:09,515 --> 00:24:13,755 Speaker 1: warned that just talking to Pete Rose on a major 346 00:24:13,795 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: league field or a minor league field might result in 347 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:20,915 Speaker 1: them getting fined or suspended. So what does Major League 348 00:24:20,955 --> 00:24:24,675 Speaker 1: Baseball expect when it brings Pete Rose back out onto 349 00:24:24,715 --> 00:24:27,435 Speaker 1: a field because a sponsor or, a team can make 350 00:24:27,475 --> 00:24:31,515 Speaker 1: a little extra money because he's there. Either he is 351 00:24:31,555 --> 00:24:35,675 Speaker 1: suspended for life or he's not. Don't try to have 352 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:40,515 Speaker 1: it both ways. You suspend him and he suffers for it, 353 00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:43,555 Speaker 1: and in a limited way, you have to live with 354 00:24:43,595 --> 00:24:47,435 Speaker 1: the reality that you suspend him and you suffer for it. 355 00:24:47,915 --> 00:24:49,955 Speaker 1: You can't bring him to the Phillies celebration of the 356 00:24:50,635 --> 00:24:56,675 Speaker 1: World Series win. Sorry, but Commissioner Rob Manfred now runs 357 00:24:56,715 --> 00:25:01,195 Speaker 1: the game out of the terrible, suffocating fear that's somewhere, someplace, 358 00:25:01,995 --> 00:25:05,675 Speaker 1: somebody has a dollar left that they have not spent 359 00:25:05,875 --> 00:25:10,315 Speaker 1: on baseball. And so Pete Rose is suspended for life 360 00:25:10,835 --> 00:25:13,675 Speaker 1: and can't have anything to do with baseball except for 361 00:25:13,835 --> 00:25:18,115 Speaker 1: events like the Phillies celebration. Alright, big news in golf. 362 00:25:18,195 --> 00:25:20,635 Speaker 1: Let's go to Greensboro, North Carolina, and here is our 363 00:25:20,715 --> 00:25:24,835 Speaker 1: countdown golf correspondent, Bob SLURP. Thank you Keith Thomas. The 364 00:25:24,875 --> 00:25:28,315 Speaker 1: tank Engine comes to life as juw Young Tom Kim, 365 00:25:28,355 --> 00:25:31,035 Speaker 1: of course, named for the poet Dylan Thomas. The tank 366 00:25:31,075 --> 00:25:33,755 Speaker 1: Engine N sixty want to win this journey by five strokes. 367 00:25:34,035 --> 00:25:36,475 Speaker 1: He's twenty years old, second youngest to win on the 368 00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:39,115 Speaker 1: PGA Tour since Oh what a shot that was, since 369 00:25:39,155 --> 00:25:42,915 Speaker 1: the Spanish inquisition of four seven. He earns a PG 370 00:25:43,075 --> 00:25:46,435 Speaker 1: eight Tour card for next year. Six birdies He had 371 00:25:46,435 --> 00:25:49,195 Speaker 1: an eagle on Ostrich, three albatrosses and an ibex. What 372 00:25:49,275 --> 00:25:51,715 Speaker 1: a golfer? What a nickname? What a first half of 373 00:25:51,715 --> 00:25:54,035 Speaker 1: the last round? What last half of the first round? 374 00:25:54,155 --> 00:25:56,595 Speaker 1: This is Bob slurm. Back now to the golf movie 375 00:25:56,635 --> 00:25:59,595 Speaker 1: Dead Solid, Perfect with Randy Quad and Keith Overman already 376 00:25:59,635 --> 00:26:03,955 Speaker 1: in progress. Randy, thanks Bob, great report, good god, it's 377 00:26:03,995 --> 00:26:06,075 Speaker 1: already football all season. They played the Hall of Fame 378 00:26:06,115 --> 00:26:08,595 Speaker 1: exhibition game, and remember the NFL hates it when you 379 00:26:08,635 --> 00:26:11,875 Speaker 1: call them exhibition games. Jaguars fell to the Oakland Los 380 00:26:11,875 --> 00:26:16,755 Speaker 1: Angeles Oakland Las Vegas Raiders eleven, the first preseason game 381 00:26:17,195 --> 00:26:21,035 Speaker 1: slightly less meaningless than usual because Raiders coach Josh McDaniels 382 00:26:21,115 --> 00:26:23,275 Speaker 1: grew up in the shadow of the Hall of Fame 383 00:26:23,355 --> 00:26:26,035 Speaker 1: and thus the game in Canton, Ohio and his team 384 00:26:26,115 --> 00:26:29,115 Speaker 1: got the win and back to baseball for two last notes, 385 00:26:29,195 --> 00:26:32,355 Speaker 1: for six innings only, the Pittsburgh Pirates had the greatest 386 00:26:32,355 --> 00:26:36,315 Speaker 1: one to punch among catchers for all time in terms 387 00:26:36,395 --> 00:26:40,955 Speaker 1: of names. In addition to catcher Jason Delay, they had 388 00:26:40,995 --> 00:26:46,395 Speaker 1: obtained catcher Jose Goodoy, best known as Jose Waiting for 389 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:51,315 Speaker 1: Goody and yesterday Jose Goodoy played and then left the 390 00:26:51,355 --> 00:26:53,715 Speaker 1: Pirates game with an injury in the sixth inning, meaning 391 00:26:53,755 --> 00:26:58,955 Speaker 1: the Pirates are now actually waiting for Goodoy. Goodoy and 392 00:26:58,995 --> 00:27:01,795 Speaker 1: Delay are almost as good a name combo as baseball's 393 00:27:01,875 --> 00:27:05,235 Speaker 1: unbeatable pair of teammates from the White Sox May five 394 00:27:05,315 --> 00:27:10,755 Speaker 1: and May nine, Chicago pitcher Frank Owen was throwing to 395 00:27:10,835 --> 00:27:17,675 Speaker 1: his catcher Frank Owens. And lastly, this news Uennus Cespedis 396 00:27:17,795 --> 00:27:20,155 Speaker 1: once as feared to hit her as there was but 397 00:27:20,235 --> 00:27:22,755 Speaker 1: who because if injury has played exactly forty six Big 398 00:27:22,835 --> 00:27:25,915 Speaker 1: League games since two thousand seventeen, at least he says 399 00:27:25,955 --> 00:27:28,435 Speaker 1: it's injury. He says he will play this winter for 400 00:27:28,515 --> 00:27:31,995 Speaker 1: Santiago of the Dominican League. I was once treated by 401 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:35,075 Speaker 1: a physician who said he was the one who gave 402 00:27:35,115 --> 00:27:37,395 Speaker 1: Cespedis a court his own shot just before the start 403 00:27:37,395 --> 00:27:40,635 Speaker 1: of the World Series. I said, you missed. He said no, 404 00:27:40,955 --> 00:27:42,995 Speaker 1: I hit the inflammation in the shoulder right in the middle. 405 00:27:43,475 --> 00:27:45,595 Speaker 1: I said no. I meant you should have given it 406 00:27:45,635 --> 00:28:02,235 Speaker 1: to him in the heart. That's what ails him still ahead. 407 00:28:02,275 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: My career has featured an endless buffet of crazy bosses, 408 00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:07,475 Speaker 1: but only one of them actually chased me around the 409 00:28:07,515 --> 00:28:11,435 Speaker 1: studio threatening to kill me, and he got in trouble 410 00:28:11,475 --> 00:28:14,635 Speaker 1: because of it. We will meet him next. First, the 411 00:28:14,715 --> 00:28:17,715 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect 412 00:28:17,755 --> 00:28:22,555 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. The 413 00:28:22,675 --> 00:28:27,995 Speaker 1: bronze to the Los Angeles Times. I have marveled at 414 00:28:28,075 --> 00:28:32,235 Speaker 1: them since I first moved there. In it's a monopoly 415 00:28:32,355 --> 00:28:35,635 Speaker 1: it you cannot rely on the papers accuracy or whether 416 00:28:35,675 --> 00:28:39,275 Speaker 1: it always lives up to journalistic standards. Yesterday, the LA 417 00:28:39,355 --> 00:28:43,115 Speaker 1: Times produced a special memorial section about Los Angeles and 418 00:28:43,195 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: sports legend Vince Scully. It's tweet promoting that section quote, 419 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:50,595 Speaker 1: don't miss behind the scenes stories and photos dating back 420 00:28:50,635 --> 00:28:53,155 Speaker 1: to his debut as the voice of the Dodgers in 421 00:28:53,235 --> 00:28:57,795 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four. Vin Scully's debut as the Dodgers voice 422 00:28:57,835 --> 00:29:03,595 Speaker 1: was in nineteen fifty not nineteen fifty four, even if 423 00:29:03,635 --> 00:29:06,355 Speaker 1: somebody was being shuttle and was referring to Vin Scully's 424 00:29:06,395 --> 00:29:09,115 Speaker 1: ascension to being the lead voice of the Dodgers that 425 00:29:09,195 --> 00:29:11,875 Speaker 1: took place in nineteen fifty three, not nineteen fifty four, 426 00:29:12,035 --> 00:29:14,395 Speaker 1: when Red Barber refused the assignment to be the Dodger 427 00:29:14,475 --> 00:29:17,155 Speaker 1: voice on the World series and Scully took over. As 428 00:29:17,195 --> 00:29:19,955 Speaker 1: of this recording, the time still had not fixed. The 429 00:29:19,995 --> 00:29:23,835 Speaker 1: tweet a runner up Senator Lindsey Graham like the old 430 00:29:23,875 --> 00:29:26,875 Speaker 1: Saturday Night Live sketch about a news conference about President 431 00:29:26,915 --> 00:29:31,075 Speaker 1: Carter becoming gigantically tall because of exposure to radiation at 432 00:29:31,075 --> 00:29:34,675 Speaker 1: the Three Mile Island nuclear accident. To reporter asks is 433 00:29:34,715 --> 00:29:38,195 Speaker 1: the president a hundred feet tall? Spokesman played by Richard 434 00:29:38,195 --> 00:29:43,515 Speaker 1: Benjamin answers with a laugh, no, absolutely not. Another reporter 435 00:29:43,635 --> 00:29:46,835 Speaker 1: asks is the president ninety ft tall? And the spokesman 436 00:29:46,835 --> 00:29:52,075 Speaker 1: says no. Comment. Asked about gay marriage CNN on CNN, 437 00:29:52,155 --> 00:29:56,115 Speaker 1: Graham flinched and then said, quote, I think states should 438 00:29:56,115 --> 00:29:59,195 Speaker 1: decide the issue of marriage. The follow up, should states 439 00:29:59,235 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: also decide whether interracial marriage is legal? We're talking, he said, 440 00:30:04,155 --> 00:30:06,355 Speaker 1: about things that are not happening, because you don't want 441 00:30:06,355 --> 00:30:11,955 Speaker 1: to talk about inflation. Whenever it is they have on Graham. 442 00:30:11,995 --> 00:30:15,955 Speaker 1: It would make the most amazing series Netflix has ever produced. 443 00:30:16,075 --> 00:30:19,995 Speaker 1: I'm just saying here, but our gold medal winner, Senator 444 00:30:20,115 --> 00:30:23,635 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio of Florida. In the middle of the all day, 445 00:30:23,675 --> 00:30:27,475 Speaker 1: all night vote on the inflation climate change bill, he tweeted, quote, 446 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:31,435 Speaker 1: the Democrats just blocked my effort to try and force 447 00:30:32,115 --> 00:30:38,515 Speaker 1: Sorrows backed prosecutors to put dangerous criminals in jail. Sorrows backed, 448 00:30:38,595 --> 00:30:41,955 Speaker 1: you say? I mentioned this last week. One of the 449 00:30:42,075 --> 00:30:46,075 Speaker 1: easiest dog whistles in modern American fascism is phrases like 450 00:30:46,315 --> 00:30:51,235 Speaker 1: Sorrows backed or George Sorrows globalists. They mean only one 451 00:30:51,315 --> 00:30:56,555 Speaker 1: thing in the world of Marco Rubio, Jewish people. Marco 452 00:30:56,715 --> 00:31:02,315 Speaker 1: Rubio using pure dog whistle anti Semitism in Florida. That 453 00:31:02,355 --> 00:31:08,355 Speaker 1: seems like an odd flex. Nevertheless, Marco Rubio Today's worst 454 00:31:08,955 --> 00:31:29,555 Speaker 1: person in the world. Finally, our number one story in 455 00:31:29,595 --> 00:31:31,875 Speaker 1: the Countdown Things I promised not to tell him. Back 456 00:31:31,915 --> 00:31:36,675 Speaker 1: to my favorite topic, me, how exactly was I supposed 457 00:31:36,715 --> 00:31:39,395 Speaker 1: to tell the police that the man threatened to kill 458 00:31:39,435 --> 00:31:43,195 Speaker 1: me was the president of MSNBC. He was chasing me 459 00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:47,395 Speaker 1: through the studios. He was too overweight to run. But 460 00:31:47,475 --> 00:31:50,035 Speaker 1: even though he inexplicably lied and said he was six 461 00:31:50,035 --> 00:31:52,915 Speaker 1: ft seven, at six ft five, this guy his name 462 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:54,635 Speaker 1: was Rick Caplan, and he was the soon to be 463 00:31:54,715 --> 00:31:57,715 Speaker 1: ex president of MSNBC, just as he was already the 464 00:31:57,795 --> 00:32:00,835 Speaker 1: ex president of CNN, he still had strides as long 465 00:32:00,915 --> 00:32:05,475 Speaker 1: as my own. Plus On that night of August eighth, 466 00:32:05,595 --> 00:32:09,715 Speaker 1: two thousand five, I was multitasking. I was trying to 467 00:32:09,875 --> 00:32:13,795 Speaker 1: mentally record everything he was shouting, while also drawing him 468 00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:17,675 Speaker 1: away from the live microphones of the live studio in 469 00:32:17,715 --> 00:32:21,235 Speaker 1: which he had started shouting, while also fishing for my 470 00:32:21,355 --> 00:32:23,915 Speaker 1: office key so I could lock myself in there if 471 00:32:23,955 --> 00:32:26,955 Speaker 1: need be, while also figuring out how I would hit 472 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:29,435 Speaker 1: him if it came to that, while also trying to 473 00:32:29,475 --> 00:32:34,035 Speaker 1: register the superb double takes from my colleagues past whom 474 00:32:34,075 --> 00:32:38,435 Speaker 1: he was stomping like an out of shape Frankenstein, while 475 00:32:38,595 --> 00:32:43,555 Speaker 1: also trying to suppress an overwhelming and seemingly inappropriate desire 476 00:32:43,635 --> 00:32:48,115 Speaker 1: to burst into laughter while still game planning the soon 477 00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:53,115 Speaker 1: to be inevitable call to the cops of beautiful downtown Secaucus, 478 00:32:53,115 --> 00:32:57,195 Speaker 1: New Jersey. Uh. Yeah, yeah, he's trying to kill me, 479 00:32:57,955 --> 00:33:02,715 Speaker 1: my boss, the president of MSNBC. Yeah, the the Yeah, 480 00:33:02,795 --> 00:33:06,715 Speaker 1: the cable television network. Yeah, exact down the street from 481 00:33:06,715 --> 00:33:11,875 Speaker 1: the London fog outlet story yep, one MSNBC Plaza. I 482 00:33:11,955 --> 00:33:17,195 Speaker 1: know it's a dumb address. Uh. He's about sixty uh 483 00:33:17,275 --> 00:33:21,595 Speaker 1: to pounds. By the way, he says he's six ft seven, 484 00:33:21,595 --> 00:33:25,195 Speaker 1: but he's only six ft five. Why Why does he 485 00:33:25,235 --> 00:33:26,835 Speaker 1: lie about his height or why is he trying to 486 00:33:26,915 --> 00:33:30,355 Speaker 1: kill right? Well, I did a commentary urging the viewers 487 00:33:30,395 --> 00:33:34,835 Speaker 1: to stop smoking, and he's afraid of the mention of blood. Hello. Hello. 488 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:38,475 Speaker 1: As all of this played out in my head, President 489 00:33:38,555 --> 00:33:41,955 Speaker 1: Kaplan was huffing and puffing his way through our giant studio, 490 00:33:42,075 --> 00:33:45,155 Speaker 1: weaving through the news assignment area, past the makeup room, 491 00:33:45,235 --> 00:33:48,075 Speaker 1: down the hallways, nearing the offices of my show Countdown, 492 00:33:48,395 --> 00:33:50,675 Speaker 1: and past the bank of a couple of hundred television 493 00:33:50,715 --> 00:33:53,075 Speaker 1: monitors with a different face on every one of them, 494 00:33:53,155 --> 00:33:57,515 Speaker 1: each seemingly staring slack jawed at the executive, screaming threats 495 00:33:57,795 --> 00:33:59,995 Speaker 1: at the only guy on his own network who got 496 00:34:00,035 --> 00:34:06,155 Speaker 1: any ratings. I'll pay you back, I'll get your I'll 497 00:34:06,195 --> 00:34:14,715 Speaker 1: fetish your call. This had all begun roughly ten days earlier, 498 00:34:14,795 --> 00:34:18,275 Speaker 1: in late July two thou five, an oral surgeon who 499 00:34:18,275 --> 00:34:20,915 Speaker 1: had intended to examine a growth on the roof of 500 00:34:20,955 --> 00:34:25,555 Speaker 1: my mouth that instead, with one pale look, silently betrayed 501 00:34:25,595 --> 00:34:28,315 Speaker 1: his suspicion that it was cancerous. Then he cut the 502 00:34:28,355 --> 00:34:32,035 Speaker 1: whole thing out. I was on my way to work anyway. 503 00:34:32,515 --> 00:34:34,955 Speaker 1: It was too late to get a replacement, and I 504 00:34:34,995 --> 00:34:37,675 Speaker 1: was bleeding so much that our technical director and I 505 00:34:37,755 --> 00:34:41,635 Speaker 1: decided to pre record all of my on camera segments 506 00:34:41,635 --> 00:34:45,155 Speaker 1: for that night show, thus reducing the chances of viewers 507 00:34:45,155 --> 00:34:49,235 Speaker 1: hearing me say President Bush today while blood oozed out 508 00:34:49,235 --> 00:34:51,795 Speaker 1: of my mouth, over my teeth and lips, and onto 509 00:34:51,835 --> 00:34:58,195 Speaker 1: the desk like I was dracul anchor. When the following Wednesday, 510 00:34:58,235 --> 00:35:00,995 Speaker 1: I got the unexpected all clear from the surgeon's office, 511 00:35:01,035 --> 00:35:03,915 Speaker 1: I decided to devote some of each night's newscast to 512 00:35:03,995 --> 00:35:09,195 Speaker 1: a campaign help viewers and myself quit smoking. My premise 513 00:35:09,395 --> 00:35:11,915 Speaker 1: was a simple one that I had never heard argued 514 00:35:11,995 --> 00:35:15,075 Speaker 1: before and have rarely heard argued since that it would 515 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:19,115 Speaker 1: be a lot easier to quit if you didn't have 516 00:35:19,275 --> 00:35:23,395 Speaker 1: cancer than if you did have cancer. I pitched my 517 00:35:23,435 --> 00:35:26,435 Speaker 1: producers on the series. I went into Rick Kaplan's office 518 00:35:26,435 --> 00:35:29,635 Speaker 1: to get his seal of approval. He was enthusiastic and supportive, 519 00:35:29,635 --> 00:35:32,835 Speaker 1: and most rare of all, he was paying attention. And 520 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:34,515 Speaker 1: then I said, I was also going to point out 521 00:35:34,555 --> 00:35:36,755 Speaker 1: that if you got the good outcome like I had, 522 00:35:36,995 --> 00:35:39,195 Speaker 1: they would merely stick a laser in your mouth and 523 00:35:39,275 --> 00:35:41,955 Speaker 1: you'd smell your own flesh burning for like forty eight hours, 524 00:35:42,155 --> 00:35:44,235 Speaker 1: and you'd have to keep spitting out your own blood. 525 00:35:44,395 --> 00:35:49,195 Speaker 1: Don't say that he can't. Suddenly threw his meaty hands 526 00:35:49,235 --> 00:35:51,875 Speaker 1: out towards me in a strangling gesture, and then just 527 00:35:51,995 --> 00:35:55,155 Speaker 1: as quickly clamped them over his own ears and closed 528 00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: his eyes and began actually screaming no no, no no 529 00:35:57,875 --> 00:36:00,395 Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no no. I 530 00:36:00,515 --> 00:36:03,915 Speaker 1: thought he had gone crazy, as it proved he was 531 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:08,515 Speaker 1: just practice foregoing crazy. Later, I'm sorry, I'm squeamish. I 532 00:36:08,555 --> 00:36:12,235 Speaker 1: got the point. I just can't handle references to you know, uh, 533 00:36:12,635 --> 00:36:15,755 Speaker 1: the red stuff. Go ahead with the series just just 534 00:36:16,075 --> 00:36:22,955 Speaker 1: toned down the red stuff. I toned down the red stuff, 535 00:36:23,875 --> 00:36:26,675 Speaker 1: and my executive producer, Azz Povich sent him the scripts 536 00:36:26,715 --> 00:36:29,435 Speaker 1: and he told her to tone down the red stuff 537 00:36:29,475 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: a little more, and I went and I did that too. 538 00:36:33,115 --> 00:36:36,075 Speaker 1: We all decided to start the anti smoking series the 539 00:36:36,115 --> 00:36:41,795 Speaker 1: following Monday, August eight, two thousand five. By nauseating coincidence, 540 00:36:41,835 --> 00:36:44,995 Speaker 1: that was the day after the ABC anchorman Peter Jennings 541 00:36:44,995 --> 00:36:48,475 Speaker 1: had died of lung cancer. The MSNBC president had been 542 00:36:48,515 --> 00:36:52,115 Speaker 1: a producer on Jennings newscast. I had long since written 543 00:36:52,155 --> 00:36:55,755 Speaker 1: and recorded Jennings obituary, and now the somewhat cold, but 544 00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:58,955 Speaker 1: still journalistically valid segue would have to be made. We 545 00:36:58,955 --> 00:37:02,315 Speaker 1: would have to go directly from the twelve minute long 546 00:37:02,395 --> 00:37:04,555 Speaker 1: Jennings oh bit to the start of our anti to 547 00:37:04,675 --> 00:37:08,915 Speaker 1: bacco campaign. Eight or nine minutes into that pre recorded 548 00:37:08,995 --> 00:37:11,955 Speaker 1: Jennings obituary, Rick Kaplan came out of his office and 549 00:37:12,035 --> 00:37:14,715 Speaker 1: walked the fifty ft or so through the vast open 550 00:37:14,795 --> 00:37:17,595 Speaker 1: newsroom to where my anchor desk was. His eyes were 551 00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: full of tears. This is wonderful, he said quietly. Peter 552 00:37:21,755 --> 00:37:24,555 Speaker 1: would have liked this. He gave me a thumbs up. 553 00:37:24,835 --> 00:37:27,355 Speaker 1: Then he walked to a second desk another fifty feet away, 554 00:37:27,395 --> 00:37:30,635 Speaker 1: where his first big hire, a woman named Rita Cosby, 555 00:37:31,035 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: was about to premier his first big gamble, her new 556 00:37:33,995 --> 00:37:38,555 Speaker 1: show immediately following mine. I was actually moved by Rick 557 00:37:38,755 --> 00:37:41,875 Speaker 1: Kaplan's comment. I did not once think of phoning the 558 00:37:41,875 --> 00:37:47,635 Speaker 1: Secaucus police. But then I began the anti smoking segment, 559 00:37:47,675 --> 00:37:49,875 Speaker 1: and as I focused on the camera and the teleprompter 560 00:37:49,915 --> 00:37:51,595 Speaker 1: in front of me and detailed the blood and the 561 00:37:51,595 --> 00:37:54,235 Speaker 1: gore and the spitting and how that was the good outcome, 562 00:37:54,475 --> 00:37:57,435 Speaker 1: out of the corner of my eye, I saw this 563 00:37:57,515 --> 00:38:00,915 Speaker 1: weird site. The President again left his office and waddled 564 00:38:00,955 --> 00:38:03,435 Speaker 1: out along the wall thirty feet ahead of me in 565 00:38:03,475 --> 00:38:07,275 Speaker 1: the general direction of the troll rooms. Within moments, as 566 00:38:07,315 --> 00:38:09,395 Speaker 1: I continued to read my script, he was back in 567 00:38:09,475 --> 00:38:14,395 Speaker 1: the studio and standing right next to my camera, gesticulating wildly. 568 00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:18,315 Speaker 1: I said, they never say it, but wouldn't it be 569 00:38:18,355 --> 00:38:20,755 Speaker 1: really easier to quit smoking when you didn't have cancer 570 00:38:20,755 --> 00:38:23,395 Speaker 1: than when you did? And Caplan responded with the same 571 00:38:23,755 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: two handed choking gesture he had made briefly in his 572 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:31,035 Speaker 1: office much earlier. I presumed there was some simple problem 573 00:38:31,035 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: like that the building was on fire, but I calculated 574 00:38:34,035 --> 00:38:35,875 Speaker 1: that I could still make it to the shows scheduled, 575 00:38:35,875 --> 00:38:40,435 Speaker 1: finished time e E D T, and still survive even 576 00:38:40,475 --> 00:38:44,835 Speaker 1: if others perished. That's countdown for this the thirtieth day 577 00:38:44,835 --> 00:38:47,875 Speaker 1: since the declaration of mission accomplished in Iraq. I'm Keith Allerman. 578 00:38:47,915 --> 00:38:52,435 Speaker 1: Goodnight and good luck your slivan. Rick Kaplan suddenly screamed 579 00:38:53,195 --> 00:38:56,075 Speaker 1: from the other anchor desk. I could hear, and this 580 00:38:56,155 --> 00:38:59,555 Speaker 1: is my impression of her. Good evening. I'm Rida Cosby. 581 00:38:59,795 --> 00:39:02,755 Speaker 1: This is Rida Cosby Live and direct with Rida Cosby, 582 00:39:02,835 --> 00:39:06,155 Speaker 1: and I'm Rida Cosby. She was not a big woman, 583 00:39:06,195 --> 00:39:07,835 Speaker 1: but she had a voice on her, like the horn 584 00:39:08,235 --> 00:39:11,115 Speaker 1: on the Staten Island ferry if it had a cold. 585 00:39:12,035 --> 00:39:15,315 Speaker 1: You are over the top. You aren't disgusting. My first 586 00:39:15,315 --> 00:39:18,075 Speaker 1: thought was that Kamplin had forgotten that microphones fifty ft 587 00:39:18,075 --> 00:39:20,675 Speaker 1: away were live during the premiere of his pet project 588 00:39:21,835 --> 00:39:25,235 Speaker 1: Rita is on. I actually whispered to him, silly me, 589 00:39:25,955 --> 00:39:27,755 Speaker 1: I don't get a half if three day is on. 590 00:39:28,355 --> 00:39:30,395 Speaker 1: You were told by is He Povidge at the piece 591 00:39:30,515 --> 00:39:32,195 Speaker 1: was over the top and you needed to cut it, 592 00:39:32,315 --> 00:39:36,755 Speaker 1: and you didn't. I still couldn't bring myself to yell back. 593 00:39:36,755 --> 00:39:39,435 Speaker 1: We're in a live studio. I did cut it and 594 00:39:39,515 --> 00:39:41,395 Speaker 1: easy read it and approved it, and she said you 595 00:39:41,475 --> 00:39:44,755 Speaker 1: had too, and and and read his premier is going 596 00:39:44,795 --> 00:39:47,275 Speaker 1: on over there in that sort of direction. Maybe you 597 00:39:47,275 --> 00:39:49,875 Speaker 1: should yell at me closer to the assignment desk. Maybe 598 00:39:50,075 --> 00:39:52,155 Speaker 1: I don't give a crap. If as he approved it, 599 00:39:52,155 --> 00:39:54,195 Speaker 1: then she's an ass and I can't trust her. I 600 00:39:54,195 --> 00:39:56,595 Speaker 1: can't trust you. You're all idiots. I can't believe you 601 00:39:56,635 --> 00:39:58,475 Speaker 1: did this to me. I'm trying to get Ridas show 602 00:39:58,515 --> 00:40:00,675 Speaker 1: off the ground and you start talking about spitting blood 603 00:40:00,715 --> 00:40:04,915 Speaker 1: into a garbage can. Well, now I was getting angry. 604 00:40:04,915 --> 00:40:08,755 Speaker 1: I couldn't resist. Yes, Rita is in fact live and 605 00:40:08,795 --> 00:40:11,675 Speaker 1: direct from that desk right over there. And if you'll notice, 606 00:40:11,715 --> 00:40:14,915 Speaker 1: she keeps looking over here at us, wondering why you 607 00:40:14,955 --> 00:40:18,395 Speaker 1: are yelling during the first minutes of her first show. 608 00:40:18,795 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: So why don't we move over here? Rick began to 609 00:40:22,155 --> 00:40:24,755 Speaker 1: move away from him, and we're walking away from the 610 00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:28,155 Speaker 1: live MOA mix, and and we're walking, and we're walking, 611 00:40:28,195 --> 00:40:30,595 Speaker 1: and Rick and Keith are walking because the noise isn't 612 00:40:30,595 --> 00:40:33,995 Speaker 1: really professional. Well we're not talking professionals, are we We're 613 00:40:34,035 --> 00:40:38,035 Speaker 1: talking idiots. We were walking and he was still screaming, 614 00:40:38,395 --> 00:40:41,715 Speaker 1: you're idiots. I will never trust you again. He had 615 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:44,635 Speaker 1: begun to trot or stumble or whatever he was doing. 616 00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:47,475 Speaker 1: This is not over. I will pay you back self 617 00:40:47,475 --> 00:40:50,235 Speaker 1: serving garbage. I will get you, and I'll get that 618 00:40:50,475 --> 00:40:53,035 Speaker 1: a hole is he for not staying here and reading 619 00:40:53,035 --> 00:40:55,235 Speaker 1: that script? How many times did you intend to say 620 00:40:55,315 --> 00:40:57,835 Speaker 1: spit blood into a garbage can before I stopped you. 621 00:40:59,395 --> 00:41:02,355 Speaker 1: I now realized what he thought had happened, as he 622 00:41:02,395 --> 00:41:05,715 Speaker 1: had gestured spasmodically at me while he stood next to 623 00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:09,115 Speaker 1: my camera. I briefly let my focus shift to amazement 624 00:41:09,115 --> 00:41:10,995 Speaker 1: at the fact that this guy, who had been in 625 00:41:11,075 --> 00:41:14,555 Speaker 1: TV news for twenty five years, knew almost nothing about 626 00:41:14,595 --> 00:41:18,595 Speaker 1: how TV worked. I explained to him that Izzy and 627 00:41:18,635 --> 00:41:20,715 Speaker 1: one of her assistants and I had gone over the 628 00:41:20,715 --> 00:41:25,315 Speaker 1: script several times and taken out half of the gorrier references. 629 00:41:25,595 --> 00:41:28,475 Speaker 1: Then they suck at television. And since I can't trust 630 00:41:28,515 --> 00:41:30,715 Speaker 1: anybody here, since they won't stand up to you and 631 00:41:30,835 --> 00:41:34,515 Speaker 1: edit the script, since you obviously bullied them. He bawled 632 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:37,755 Speaker 1: up his fist and stomped his foot on the floor 633 00:41:38,115 --> 00:41:40,795 Speaker 1: as he called me a bully. I'm now going to 634 00:41:40,835 --> 00:41:46,315 Speaker 1: have to approve every piece of your copy. By this point, 635 00:41:46,355 --> 00:41:49,355 Speaker 1: I was backing into the countdown work area, where its 636 00:41:49,435 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: array of desks and all the producers Kaplan had just insulted. 637 00:41:52,715 --> 00:41:54,835 Speaker 1: I knew one of them would dial the phone when 638 00:41:54,835 --> 00:41:58,035 Speaker 1: I said, call the cops and call this lunatics boss, 639 00:41:58,795 --> 00:42:00,875 Speaker 1: Did you hear me? And if you don't like it 640 00:42:00,915 --> 00:42:02,635 Speaker 1: and you don't want to come into work tomorrow, that's 641 00:42:02,675 --> 00:42:06,835 Speaker 1: fine too. And never did get that part, But now 642 00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:09,195 Speaker 1: I had him. I crossed my arms in front of 643 00:42:09,195 --> 00:42:12,355 Speaker 1: my chest slowly, like you have seen every news anchor 644 00:42:12,435 --> 00:42:15,475 Speaker 1: do and every television news promo ever shown in the 645 00:42:15,515 --> 00:42:19,035 Speaker 1: history of the world. I flashed as evil a slowmos 646 00:42:19,195 --> 00:42:23,755 Speaker 1: smile as I could, Oh, I'll be here tomorrow, And 647 00:42:23,795 --> 00:42:26,835 Speaker 1: then I made a sweeping gesture back towards my staff, 648 00:42:27,435 --> 00:42:30,995 Speaker 1: who were both, of course literally and figuratively behind me, 649 00:42:31,355 --> 00:42:36,635 Speaker 1: and so will all of them. Suddenly, at that point, 650 00:42:36,675 --> 00:42:39,555 Speaker 1: for no apparent reason, Rick Kaplan's hysterics were replaced by 651 00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:43,835 Speaker 1: mere confusion. He even stopped huffing at almost normal volume. 652 00:42:43,875 --> 00:42:48,555 Speaker 1: He asked me all of who. Only at this point 653 00:42:48,555 --> 00:42:51,755 Speaker 1: did I turn around to discover that my entire staff 654 00:42:51,755 --> 00:42:55,315 Speaker 1: had already left the building. There was nobody there behind me. 655 00:42:56,755 --> 00:42:59,355 Speaker 1: Of course, there was nobody there, As he Povich told 656 00:42:59,395 --> 00:43:01,835 Speaker 1: me later, he went into the control room and threatened 657 00:43:01,835 --> 00:43:04,235 Speaker 1: all of them first. So we got on the phone 658 00:43:04,275 --> 00:43:06,115 Speaker 1: back to the office. Tell everybody to get the hell 659 00:43:06,115 --> 00:43:09,035 Speaker 1: out of the building. She paused and laughed. I mean, 660 00:43:09,075 --> 00:43:14,555 Speaker 1: we love you, but we're not crazy. Rick Kaplan's exorcism 661 00:43:14,595 --> 00:43:18,235 Speaker 1: was a brief one. He began screaming again, I'm gonna 662 00:43:18,315 --> 00:43:20,915 Speaker 1: end your career tomorrow. I'm gonna completely f you up. 663 00:43:22,155 --> 00:43:24,715 Speaker 1: He turned and stumbled away from my office. Good luck 664 00:43:24,835 --> 00:43:30,195 Speaker 1: sleeping tonight. I slept like a stone. Not because Kaplan 665 00:43:30,235 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: had previously threatened to fire me for not leaving my 666 00:43:32,555 --> 00:43:35,675 Speaker 1: father's bedside after what they thought was a heart attack 667 00:43:36,035 --> 00:43:38,155 Speaker 1: to fly to l A to appear on the Tonight show, 668 00:43:38,355 --> 00:43:40,715 Speaker 1: and not because he once threatened to fire me because 669 00:43:40,715 --> 00:43:44,035 Speaker 1: he didn't like my tie. And not because he had 670 00:43:44,035 --> 00:43:46,635 Speaker 1: previously threatened to fire me for not doing something during 671 00:43:46,715 --> 00:43:49,635 Speaker 1: live coverage that I had already done but he thought 672 00:43:49,635 --> 00:43:52,275 Speaker 1: we hadn't done because he was watching us, not live 673 00:43:52,355 --> 00:43:56,675 Speaker 1: but on delay on his DVR. President of a network. 674 00:43:57,515 --> 00:44:00,635 Speaker 1: And I slept beautifully, Not because I correctly guessed this 675 00:44:00,715 --> 00:44:03,195 Speaker 1: would be it for Rick Kaplan, and it was the 676 00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:06,875 Speaker 1: next day human sources forced him to apologize to me, 677 00:44:07,515 --> 00:44:12,035 Speaker 1: and ten months later his bosses fired him. Nor did 678 00:44:12,075 --> 00:44:17,435 Speaker 1: I snooze blessedly because of any bravery or stoicism or 679 00:44:17,475 --> 00:44:20,475 Speaker 1: fatalism on my part. But I slept well simply because 680 00:44:20,475 --> 00:44:24,595 Speaker 1: of the realization that, even after all of this, Rick 681 00:44:24,715 --> 00:44:30,395 Speaker 1: Kaplan was still only the second or third craziest MSNBC 682 00:44:30,595 --> 00:44:40,275 Speaker 1: executive I had ever worked for. I've done all the 683 00:44:40,315 --> 00:44:44,235 Speaker 1: damage I can do. Here the Countdown theme from Beethoven's 684 00:44:44,315 --> 00:44:47,875 Speaker 1: Ninth arranged, produced and performed by Countdown Musical directors Brian 685 00:44:47,915 --> 00:44:51,475 Speaker 1: Ray and John Philip Chanelle. All orchestration and keyboards by 686 00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:56,955 Speaker 1: John Philip Chanelle. Guitars based drums and drums by Brian Ray. 687 00:44:57,515 --> 00:44:59,955 Speaker 1: Produced by t k O Brothers. I think I got 688 00:44:59,955 --> 00:45:03,515 Speaker 1: an instrument wrong there. 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