Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's nephew,
Speaker 1: the one who likes him, says Trump told him in
Speaker 1: the Overall Office in May twenty twenty that the disabled.
Speaker 1: Quote these people, the shape they're in, all the expenses,
Speaker 1: maybe those kinds of people should just die. This is
Speaker 1: not merely horrifying on some kind of generic human level.
Speaker 1: Fred Trump the first was Trump's father, Fred Trump. The
Speaker 1: second was Trump's older brother who died young. Fred Trump
Speaker 1: the third is Trump's nephew, and he has a son, William,
Speaker 1: who has spent the whole of his twenty five years
Speaker 1: on this planet fighting illness after illness, and complication after completion.
Speaker 1: And when the medical fund the family set up for
Speaker 1: William began to run dry in twenty twenty, Fred the
Speaker 1: Third called his uncle, the President and asked for help.
Speaker 1: I don't know Fred Trump quotes Donald Trump as saying,
Speaker 1: with a sigh, he doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should
Speaker 1: just let him die and move down to Florida. The
Speaker 1: him in this sentence Trump wants to die is his
Speaker 1: own grand nephew. Because all the expenses, maybe those kinds
Speaker 1: of people should just die. There are lots of words
Speaker 1: for what Trump is proposing here euthanasia, mercy killing, assisted suicide,
Speaker 1: quietus for the elderly, senicide or geronticide. The Nazis called
Speaker 1: it Oxyon T four. We all have our differing moral
Speaker 1: north stars, but for most of us, I think there
Speaker 1: are at least some circumstances in which the idea, regrettable
Speaker 1: as it is, of helping people in trouble leave this
Speaker 1: life is valid and justifiable. And then there are monsters
Speaker 1: like Donald Trump who would make it mandatory, who would
Speaker 1: give themselves the choice to kill you or your disabled relatives.
Speaker 1: These people the shape therein all the expenses. Maybe those
Speaker 1: kinds of people should just die. Your son doesn't recognize you,
Speaker 1: maybe you should just let him die and move down
Speaker 1: to Florida. Because the only term that applies to what
Speaker 1: Trump was thinking about the physically challenged is mass murder.
Speaker 1: I have asserted here before that what we saw of
Speaker 1: Trump during COVID suggested this was at the heart of
Speaker 1: his attitude towards people. A mass murderer, that people just
Speaker 1: another commodity. Kill a few, kill a few thousand, kill
Speaker 1: a million, So what just let them die and move
Speaker 1: down to Florida. Round them up by the millions in
Speaker 1: camps before you deport them leaving. Lord knows how many
Speaker 1: to die in those camps. These people, the shape they're in,
Speaker 1: all the expenses, Maybe those kinds of people should just die.
Speaker 1: Fred Trump the third has published these quotes in excerpts
Speaker 1: of his book All in the Family, How, fitting Trump
Speaker 1: as Archie Bunker, only without the brain power and conscience.
Speaker 1: The excerpts in Time magazine, The New York Times and
Speaker 1: The Guardian also got hard copies of the book, which
Speaker 1: comes out next Tuesday. It is not amazing to me
Speaker 1: that the sick people of this country, the ones without conscience,
Speaker 1: the ones like Trump with no real understanding that the
Speaker 1: people they are not related to or friendly with or
Speaker 1: don't like, that those people are still people, and the
Speaker 1: people too lazy or stupid to realize that this is
Speaker 1: the kind of man they have been supporting. It is
Speaker 1: not amazing to me that they are supporting this monster
Speaker 1: Trump for president again, or that they got him elected
Speaker 1: president in twenty sixteen. What is amazing to me is
Speaker 1: that we humanity, the people of this nation and all
Speaker 1: the other nations, somehow survived Trump. Watching Joe Biden last night,
Speaker 1: Thank you sir, thank you for helping us survive Trump,
Speaker 1: and thank you for the great sacrifice that will enable
Speaker 1: us to survive Trump again, because Trump is a mass murderer.
Speaker 1: And one side note, quote these people the shape there
Speaker 1: in all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should
Speaker 1: just die. If it ever, for some reas crosses your
Speaker 1: mind to actually say something like that out loud, think again.
Speaker 1: Quote might not just hurt you if somebody repeats it,
Speaker 1: But in fact, somebody worse than you, somebody sicker than you,
Speaker 1: somebody more murderous than you, might hear that, and wonder
Speaker 1: if the quote might also be applied to you. By
Speaker 1: the way, Fred Trump the third has another nightmarish anecdote
Speaker 1: about his uncle to share in his book decades earlier.
Speaker 1: The New York Times put it in the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: when the author claims to have heard his uncle use
Speaker 1: a racial slur after his car had been damaged and
Speaker 1: he was searching for someone to blame. The quote from
Speaker 1: the book cleaned up just a little bit, quote N words.
Speaker 1: I recall him saying, disgustedly, look what the N words did. Unquote,
Speaker 1: when you are quoted directly in a book by a
Speaker 1: close relative who heard you repeatedly use racial epithets, and
Speaker 1: that's not even close to the worst thing he quotes
Speaker 1: you as saying, because the rest of it is about
Speaker 1: letting your own disabled great nephew die or killing untold
Speaker 1: numbers of physically and mentally challenged people. When the racial
Speaker 1: epithets are not the lead story, you're not having a
Speaker 1: good day, asshole, which continues something that started nearly two
Speaker 1: weeks ago. All men, at all times in all history,
Speaker 1: greater or small, good or evil, live their lives, often
Speaker 1: without detours or disasters. They often live them on top
Speaker 1: of the world until some unpredictable, unforeseen day comes when
Speaker 1: the world turns on them. One day they are beloved
Speaker 1: or feared, or for other reasons, they have primacy. And then,
Speaker 1: just as inexplicably as when the hundreds of summer flies
Speaker 1: seemingly filling that invisible box in front of your eyes
Speaker 1: outside one day, when they all suddenly and simultaneously decide
Speaker 1: to move exactly thirteen and a half inches to their left,
Speaker 1: just like that, your primacy vanishes, no rhyme, no reason,
Speaker 1: no explanation, your luck or your goodwill or your mastery,
Speaker 1: or your followers or your Reich ends, I think this
Speaker 1: is happening to Trump. One of his own maga gun
Speaker 1: nuts tried to kill him. He got hit by something,
Speaker 1: claims it was a bullet, though a bullet would have
Speaker 1: taken his ear off. No law enforcement or medical authority
Speaker 1: outside of a substance addled ex doctor has confirmed any
Speaker 1: of this. Each day, it still lingers in the background,
Speaker 1: waiting to explode into an unprecedented scandal. He goes from
Speaker 1: there to picking a vice president, and the average net
Speaker 1: favorable score for all VP picks since two thousand both
Speaker 1: parties is plus nineteen, and this idiot picks another idiot
Speaker 1: whose net favorable is minus six. Did they vet this
Speaker 1: idiot advance at all? Did they know he wrote the
Speaker 1: forward to the book by the guy behind Project twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, the thing Trump insists he knows nothing about.
Speaker 1: Then after that, Trump's entire campaign, his entire campaign since
Speaker 1: literally April of twenty nineteen, collapses because his entire campaign
Speaker 1: was only about calling for Joe Biden to leave the
Speaker 1: White House and or the campaign trail, not Joe Biden
Speaker 1: actually leaving the White House and or the campaign trail.
Speaker 1: Turns out, Trump's crackstaff had nothing ready in the event
Speaker 1: it actually happened, least of all any preparation for the
Speaker 1: moment it dawned on America that Donald J. Dementia Trump
Speaker 1: is now the exclusive national distributor of crazy old man.
Speaker 1: Then the first polls with the new candidate hit and
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was ahead or tied or damned close for
Speaker 1: somebody on day three of their campaign. More on the
Speaker 1: polls in a moment than after eight years of their
Speaker 1: racism being enabled by Trump, Republican campaigners actually had to
Speaker 1: warn senators and congressmen not to make racial references to
Speaker 1: her nor call her dei. So of course all oh
Speaker 1: they did was call her dei because they can't help themselves,
Speaker 1: because it is as if somebody has tampered with the
Speaker 1: brakes on their mental cars. And guess who the hell
Speaker 1: that was. And suddenly Brian kill Mead goes on Fox
Speaker 1: and tries to attack Harris for skipping net and Yahoo's
Speaker 1: campaign speech on Capitol Hill yesterday and instead going to
Speaker 1: a college sorority. Only one of the many things that
Speaker 1: does not work properly in kill Mead's brain does not work,
Speaker 1: and at best he kind of MUSHes up the word
Speaker 1: college with another word he might have been thinking of,
Speaker 1: which sounded like colored. And half the people watching Fox
Speaker 1: or watching the tape here kill Mead say something like
Speaker 1: colored sorority or color or colored sorority. And while we're
Speaker 1: arguing about whether or not Trump's top morning TV advocate
Speaker 1: just used colored about Kamala Harris, everybody forgets the two
Speaker 1: weeks Trump's favorite foreign fascist, Sebastian Gorka literally and seemingly
Speaker 1: proudly called Kamala Harris colored. She's a DEI higher right,
Speaker 1: she's a woman. She's colored. Therefore she's gotta be good.
Speaker 1: Do you think perhaps he called her college? I think
Speaker 1: she's college. Oh and while we're debating Kilmead and ignoring Sorca,
Speaker 1: guess what others of Trump's friends are bringing us more bertherism.
Speaker 1: There is this crazy woman named Emerald Robinson, and she
Speaker 1: started her career started it as the White House corresponded
Speaker 1: for One America News. Previously, she had starred as Jennifer
Speaker 1: Lee in the blockbuster film Airline Disaster. Didn't last long.
Speaker 1: When America fired her, she went to Newsmax. They fired her.
Speaker 1: She's now on Mike Lindell Lumpy Pillow TV and here
Speaker 1: we go berther two electric Boogaloo. Emerald Robinson posts at
Speaker 1: the time of Kamala Harris's birth, her parents were not
Speaker 1: US citizens. They were foreign students. Her mother's visa was expired.
Speaker 1: She's the daughter of non citizens. Harris is not eligible
Speaker 1: to hold the office of president. Where does it say that, Well,
Speaker 1: it says that in the Invisible Book Emerald Robinson has
Speaker 1: that only she's allowed to read. Obviously, famed actress Emerald
Speaker 1: Robinson is now working on actually getting fired somehow from
Speaker 1: Mike Lindell's website, where she is currently senior Chief Fluffiness Correspondent.
Speaker 1: Citizenship is automatically confirmed on any child born here period.
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. I don't know the
Speaker 1: last time I looked Oakland was in the United States.
Speaker 1: So where did Robinson get this idea that there's a
Speaker 1: Birtherism thing here. Well, a Republican said it in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen quote I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements.
Speaker 1: And the Republican who said that about Kamala Harris was Wow,
Speaker 1: you got it in the first guess Trump, So don't
Speaker 1: say anything racial about her other than the Dei and
Speaker 1: the second wave of birthriism and calling her colored. Oh
Speaker 1: and his own nephew quoting Trump using the N word
Speaker 1: and advocating for the forced killing of the disabled to
Speaker 1: save on the expenses on one more sign that the
Speaker 1: worm has turned on Trump. Trump accept in speech Republican
Speaker 1: National Nazi Fascist convention about the North Korean dictator and oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, mass murderer Kim Jong un, I get
Speaker 1: along with him. He said he'd like to see me
Speaker 1: back too. I think he misses me. If you want
Speaker 1: to know the truth, it's nice to get along with
Speaker 1: someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong
Speaker 1: Loon has now issued a response. Even if any administration
Speaker 1: takes office in the US, the political climate, which is
Speaker 1: confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change,
Speaker 1: and accordingly, we do not care about this. Congratulations Trump.
Speaker 1: You only have about three friends in the world, and
Speaker 1: one of them just said he does not care about you. Well,
Speaker 1: when Kamala Harris beats Trump in November and Trump has
Speaker 1: to flee the country to avoid dying in prison, here,
Speaker 1: I guess he's gonna have to cross off North Korea
Speaker 1: from the list of friendly destinations. The Harris campaign is
Speaker 1: betting at least a dozen candidates for vice president. Wait,
Speaker 1: somebody vets CA candidates for vice president? Does Trump know
Speaker 1: about this? Hit the road JD. We're going vetting quote.
Speaker 1: Multiple sources tell CBS News that the list of candidates
Speaker 1: include several governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of
Speaker 1: North Carolina, Andy Basher of Kentucky, Tim Waltz of Minnesota, JB.
Speaker 1: Pritzker of Illinois, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Members of
Speaker 1: the Biden administration, including Commerce Secretary Genia Rimundo and Transportation
Speaker 1: Secretary Pete Pootage Edge, are also being considered, along with
Speaker 1: Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, among others. I got an out
Speaker 1: of the box idea about the others? What about for
Speaker 1: Vice president? Joe Biden? Man? Would that throw a monkey
Speaker 1: wrench into the political pundit machine? The Times wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to publish for a freaking month? Only a dozen candidates?
Speaker 1: All right? Debates Fox is playing its part to letting
Speaker 1: Trump run away. Scared from debating her, Fox has now
Speaker 1: offered a debate on September seventeenth. Once again, this would
Speaker 1: allow Trump to back out of a debate he has
Speaker 1: already committed to and blame the other participant. Now, the
Speaker 1: correct response from the Harris campaign to this offer from
Speaker 1: Fox is we will be at the ABC facility as
Speaker 1: planned at Texas Southern University on September twelfth. And as
Speaker 1: to anything else, there is no reply, make no reference,
Speaker 1: no thanks, no, she's busy measuring the drapes. Nothing, no reply.
Speaker 1: Leave Trump hanging. Keep him talking. He has hit a
Speaker 1: talking slump. Keep him talking. Let's also assess some of
Speaker 1: the newer polls. Nothing as cleanly all Harris as yesterday,
Speaker 1: but all our good and one set of interior numbers
Speaker 1: is great from the CNN poll comparing with Biden's numbers
Speaker 1: against Trump either in an April or June poll. And
Speaker 1: these are the same respondents. So this is the same
Speaker 1: people who said X in April or June are saying
Speaker 1: why now Kamala Harris has an eleven point improvement from
Speaker 1: Biden among young voters, and a sixteen point improvement among
Speaker 1: black voters, and a five point improvement among female voters.
Speaker 1: That is the sort of thing you will see first
Speaker 1: before you see the overall numbers. In the larger polls changed.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, you may recall that three weeks
Speaker 1: ago CNN put out what was considered even on the
Speaker 1: Trump side to be something of an outlier, something showing
Speaker 1: Trump ahead of Biden by six. Their overall number now
Speaker 1: again on day three of the Harris campaign is Trump
Speaker 1: forty nine, Harris six. That is the lead cut in
Speaker 1: half in three days. The Yugov poll for the Economist
Speaker 1: National Trump forty four, Harris forty one, Kennedy five, West one,
Speaker 1: Stein one, so putin getting what seven percent there? Active vote.
Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking, I've never heard of active
Speaker 1: vote before. What a coincidence. I've never heard of active
Speaker 1: vote before. National ge Trump fifty point five, Harris forty
Speaker 1: nine point five National among independents, Active vote Harris fifty four,
Speaker 1: Trump forty six among independents r MG. RMG is a
Speaker 1: breakaway poll from Rasmussen Polling. And as you know, Rasmussen
Speaker 1: Polling is created by the two idiots who thought up
Speaker 1: ESPN and then sold it for a bag of magic beans.
Speaker 1: This is the breakaway. Apparently there's some sort of fissure
Speaker 1: at Rasmussen make up the numbers polling company. The New
Speaker 1: Scott Rasmussen poll is Trump forty four, Harris forty three,
Speaker 1: Kennedy six. I don't think it's a liberal leaning poll.
Speaker 1: It's just a guess. Now they have another number where
Speaker 1: they throw in leaners, leaping leaners for you, Stan Freiberg
Speaker 1: fans Trump forty eight Harris forty six. Still one of
Speaker 1: those is a one point lead for Trump. The other
Speaker 1: is a two point lead for Trump. On the breakaway
Speaker 1: right wing pole, the Big Village Pole, Trump forty four,
Speaker 1: Harris forty three. Last one had Trump over Biden by
Speaker 1: four and one state pole in Pennsylvania North Star Opinion
Speaker 1: for the American Greatness North Star Opinion Pennsylvania Trump forty seven,
Speaker 1: Harris forty five. And the interesting thing about this poll
Speaker 1: is obviously Pennsylvania was getting away from the Democrats, so
Speaker 1: a two point margin is a good start. However, the
Speaker 1: American Greatness is a rabid Trump centric organization and they
Speaker 1: only have their lunatic in charge of Pennsylvania by two points.
Speaker 1: And I close with the MOE. Just of the day
Speaker 1: from doctor Joscelyn J. Fitzgerald, a euro gynecologist from Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: on what he has been so far. And there will
Speaker 1: be others but so far, the only non dei, non
Speaker 1: birth attack on Vice President Harris in this brand new campaign,
Speaker 1: the attack that says she cannot be president because she's
Speaker 1: not invested in America's future because she has never had children,
Speaker 1: says doctor Fitzgerald. No US president has ever given birth.
Speaker 1: So explain to me why suddenly we think that's necessary. Hey,
Speaker 1: Harris campaign, are you vetting doctor Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald for
Speaker 1: vice president? Because I think that might be a nice pick.
Speaker 1: A programming note. I will try to do a Friday
Speaker 1: edition tomorrow, but if you will recall Tuesday's news, I
Speaker 1: am getting my tattoo of my late seventeen year old
Speaker 1: rescue pup Meney today. I suspect that will make a
Speaker 1: long enough and full enough day if there is anything
Speaker 1: urgent or frankly, there's just something I can you know,
Speaker 1: get a row of stamps and mail in. There will
Speaker 1: be a brief episode Friday. If not, try to struggle
Speaker 1: on without me in the interim. Also of interest here today,
Speaker 1: honest to god, if you think Trump is screwed up.
Speaker 1: After Biden pulled out, The New York Times is now
Speaker 1: running half a dozen pieces a day criticizing Biden and
Speaker 1: how he dropped out, and how the Democrats handled it
Speaker 1: and the Times blank surprise that, to quote the headline
Speaker 1: in one of these pieces, the most ruthless political operator
Speaker 1: in the country is a woman. Oh my god, there's
Speaker 1: a powerful woman. That's it. We're shutting the Times down forever.
Speaker 1: Our Times world is at an end. Who could have
Speaker 1: thought something so horrible could have happened in this the
Speaker 1: year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety six Christ,
Speaker 1: that's next. This is countdown, George Crolin. Pleasure to have
Speaker 1: you here. Thank you. This is the best news show ever.
Speaker 1: I told that to one of your producers, and I
Speaker 1: want you to know that I've seen them all and
Speaker 1: it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. Thank
Speaker 1: you sir. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between
Speaker 1: you and I. We got six minutes to completely still
Speaker 1: that in my rapt Yeah, that's good. I cheated. That
Speaker 1: was from October two thousand and seven. My late hero,
Speaker 1: George Carlin doing the introduction. I saw him at Carnegie
Speaker 1: Hall when I was fourteen years old, sat around laughing,
Speaker 1: wondering when the adults were going to come in and
Speaker 1: throw me out. When I was forty eight years old.
Speaker 1: He sat next to me and told me mine was
Speaker 1: the best newscast of all time. Just saw the documentary
Speaker 1: on him again, not an extraordinary man, so ahead of
Speaker 1: us on this edition of Countdown, partly in honor of George.
Speaker 1: That's what made me think of running that both the
Speaker 1: New Yorker and a great baseball fan that he was
Speaker 1: the story of how one of the most infamous baseball
Speaker 1: people of all time, the most hated in New York history,
Speaker 1: used to also distort words in a way that would
Speaker 1: have driven George, who was as good with the language
Speaker 1: as was H. L. Mankin, would have driven him nuts.
Speaker 1: How hated was the guy I'm going to tell you about.
Speaker 1: The old joke was, you're in a boat with Hitler,
Speaker 1: Mussolini and this guy. You have a gun, you have
Speaker 1: two bullets. What do you do? The answer, shoot this guy,
Speaker 1: throw Hitler and Mussolini overboard. Then shoot this guy again
Speaker 1: to make sure he's coming up in things I promised
Speaker 1: not to tell first. There are still more new idiots
Speaker 1: to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons
Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's wors persons
Speaker 1: in the world keat George used to call me Keith
Speaker 1: like my granddad's did. They're all from the same neighborhood, Keith.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you the bronze Newsmax, which is a
Speaker 1: propaganda network, and boy are they unhappy. Ed Henry and
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin. I'll just read what the head of media
Speaker 1: Matters tweeted the two people Newsmax brings on this afternoon
Speaker 1: to insist that the GOP and Megamedia are not running
Speaker 1: a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris are Ed Henry and
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin. And there is a picture of the two
Speaker 1: of them around some host guy in the middle, and
Speaker 1: Henry has got that faint I'll kill you smile and
Speaker 1: Halprin looks like but it looks like this is a
Speaker 1: mugshot of some sort, which is possible. Ed Henry fired
Speaker 1: by CNN, then he went to Fox. Fox fired him
Speaker 1: after harrisman and rape charges and been sued for rape.
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin fired by NBC at HBO after harassment and
Speaker 1: improper touching while he was still at ABC, and also
Speaker 1: for not wearing pants. Mark Alprin and Ed Henry talking
Speaker 1: about how nobody's running a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Of course not well to be fair ed. Henry and
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin would be the experts on misogyny. My god,
Speaker 1: you couldn't have gotten O'Reilly on there. Dig up Roger
Speaker 1: Ales and put him out there. He's probably still trying
Speaker 1: to fondle somebody even though he's dead. What's that? Who's
Speaker 1: that's been bothering you? The skeleton of Roger Ales? Runner
Speaker 1: up The New York Times. The New York Times right
Speaker 1: now is the third best political paper in New York,
Speaker 1: behind Newsday and the Daily News. And I think it
Speaker 1: has a chance to sync to fourth place behind the
Speaker 1: New York Post. And I'm only counting those in English.
Speaker 1: The Times caught the car with Joe Biden because he
Speaker 1: would not do an interview with them. They made up
Speaker 1: a whole construction about how that proves he was not
Speaker 1: cognitively read. It was about the Times. The Times is ultimately,
Speaker 1: although there are excellent reporters doing great work, The New
Speaker 1: York Times as an institution under this editor con and
Speaker 1: after the latest Sealzburger, who's the publisher? The New York
Speaker 1: Times is about the New York Times. The best thing
Speaker 1: in the New York Times was wordle until they whirdled
Speaker 1: everybody into the ground. Now the best thing about the
Speaker 1: New York Times is canceling the subscription because it's so
Speaker 1: so very satisfying. They caught the car with Biden stepping
Speaker 1: aside that has not stopped them. Can't stop, won't stop.
Speaker 1: A Brett Stevens op ed Democrats deserved a contest, not
Speaker 1: a coronation. Brett Stevens, who is a conservative, apparently was
Speaker 1: in a coma during the Republican National Convention, in which
Speaker 1: they did everything but declare that Trump had changed his
Speaker 1: name to King Jesus H. Christ. A coronation, a coronation
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris has to come in and try to
Speaker 1: win an election starting in late July. Oh, what an
Speaker 1: unfair thing to Republicans. But wait, there's more in the Times.
Speaker 1: Jessica Bennett. Now the article wasn't bad. It's about Nancy Pelosi.
Speaker 1: The headline once again is where the Times really? They
Speaker 1: should empty the building, make sure everybody's safe, preserve a
Speaker 1: few artifacts, and then implode the Times headquarters. Jessica Bennett's
Speaker 1: story about Nancy Pelosi was fine. The headline was from
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. The most ruthless political operator in the
Speaker 1: country is a woman. What there are women politicians? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna tell me?
Speaker 2: Next?
Speaker 1: Women have the vote, Women are allowed to walk around
Speaker 1: not wearing high heels. Does Ed Henry know about this?
Speaker 1: What about Mark Alprin? The most ruthless political operator in
Speaker 1: the country is a woman? Oh no, repeal all the amendments.
Speaker 1: My god. Next you'll be telling me there's a person
Speaker 1: of color running for president. The most ruthless political operator
Speaker 1: in the country is a woman. Then wait, there's more.
Speaker 1: Brent Staples, Biden should have treated Harris as a future president. Okay,
Speaker 1: I I'd like to point out that it was Joe
Speaker 1: Biden who in fact selected Kamala Harris to be the
Speaker 1: vice president of the United States provided that they were elected,
Speaker 1: and just more recently, in case mister Staples did not
Speaker 1: know about this happening Sunday, when Joe Biden finally saw
Speaker 1: the light and said, yes, I have to get out
Speaker 1: of the race. I can't win this. The person he
Speaker 1: immediately endorsed, and I mean immediately endorsed. His endorsement came
Speaker 1: before anybody else who was hoping this would happen, would
Speaker 1: endorse her. The immediate endorsement was of Kamala Harris. However,
Speaker 1: Brent Staples is not satisfied. He wants to speak to
Speaker 1: the presidential manager. Biden should have treated Harris as a
Speaker 1: future president. He's doing that now. He's doing it right now,
Speaker 1: and you're complaining he's not doing it. He's not doing
Speaker 1: it fast enough, he's not doing it twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day. And this COVID thing shouldn't have stopped him
Speaker 1: from being out there on the campaign trail saying that
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is the most ruthless photical operator in the country.
Speaker 1: Is a woman, but it's not Kamala Harris. See Times.
Speaker 1: I can write your headlines for you. There's one more
Speaker 1: thing out of the Brent Staples op ed. Let me
Speaker 1: just quote this paragraph, which is where mister Staples went
Speaker 1: really wrong. Apart from the premise and the fact that
Speaker 1: The Times should just shudder its op ed section, all
Speaker 1: it is doing is killing subscriptions and credibility with every
Speaker 1: passing hour. Brent Staples actually wrote this, in the words
Speaker 1: of my Times colleague Astead Herndon, Well you're done now,
Speaker 1: mister Herndon is the least knowledgeable writer in politics. And
Speaker 1: you know how many people that covers. I mean, Chris
Speaker 1: Silizziz somewhere has just burst into tears that I have
Speaker 1: suggested there's somebody worse than him. Wait, there's more from
Speaker 1: The Times, Thomas Edsall, who at least has the excuse
Speaker 1: that he's a Republican and therefore he's not supposed to
Speaker 1: be able to put two thoughts together. Donald Trump and JD.
Speaker 1: Vance are cobbling together a core constituency that includes millions
Speaker 1: of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard press.
Speaker 1: Trump's selection of Vance reflects his determination to focus on
Speaker 1: incorporating middle and lower income, predominantly, but not exclusively, white
Speaker 1: men and women who often did not graduate from college,
Speaker 1: into the base of the Republican Where does he aff
Speaker 1: to the part about JD. Vance having sex with a couch?
Speaker 1: I don't see that in here, mister Edsall, Is there
Speaker 1: a reason you left that out? You said cobbling together
Speaker 1: culturally conservative and financially hard pressed. Why you got the
Speaker 1: hard pressed part right? JD hard pressed himself into the couch.
Speaker 1: His selection of Vance reflects his determination to vote he
Speaker 1: liked his beard. Did you vet him? Yeah, he trimmed
Speaker 1: his beard today. Okay, he's in now. These were all
Speaker 1: op eds driving the New York Times into the ground,
Speaker 1: to the point where the people who own the name
Speaker 1: New York Herald Tribune are going ge. Do you think
Speaker 1: we could start up again? I mean, we've been out
Speaker 1: of business for what is it now, fifty eight years?
Speaker 1: I bet we could probably outsell them, at least in
Speaker 1: the city. Look at this crap I have. My entire
Speaker 1: staff has been dead for forty years. They could write
Speaker 1: better than these guys. There's a news article by a
Speaker 1: man named Charles Homans, a political news article, and it's
Speaker 1: not bad. But once again, the headline has been written
Speaker 1: by fourth graders to be read by third graders. How
Speaker 1: Democrats learned to love the smoke filled room again? Sub headline,
Speaker 1: It's because it's because they want to win. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: the Times is just broken. The story of the century.
Speaker 1: The Democrats want to win the presidency. Oh no, stop
Speaker 1: the presses, don't make I don't bother with a word'
Speaker 1: email email people about this Charles Holman's article breaking the
Speaker 1: news that the Democrats want to win the election. My god,
Speaker 1: and still somehow somebody is worse that Ed Henry and
Speaker 1: Mark Halprin and everybody writing the headlines at the Times,
Speaker 1: and the editor and the publisher, and these nitwitz in
Speaker 1: the op ed pages, and the people who stick these
Speaker 1: unbelievable headlines on these otherwise okay articles, and how they
Speaker 1: are now in third place in the city of New York.
Speaker 1: Somebody worse than that. Yes it's Russell Brand. I don't
Speaker 1: know for some of you younger folks if you know
Speaker 1: that he was once a comedian sometime I think in
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century. He's now been banned from like all
Speaker 1: of Great Britain for a series of alleged attacks on
Speaker 1: women in the studios at the BBC and other place
Speaker 1: in England before his own shows. And of course, as
Speaker 1: always with people who get caught, he says, I'll go consoled.
Speaker 1: The biggest problem with Russell Brand is he's not He's
Speaker 1: not bright, but he's been taught the words that you
Speaker 1: use to make yourself sound bright. He's an autodidact, which
Speaker 1: means he actually doesn't know anything, or more importantly, many
Speaker 1: of the words he's used he's never trying to pronounce
Speaker 1: before or heard other people use in context, he wrote,
Speaker 1: and I'll spare you my impression of him. If Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is to be the new pick in the bait
Speaker 1: and switch find the lady cup and ball trick that
Speaker 1: we are being offered in lieu of democracy, we already
Speaker 1: know she's a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent
Speaker 1: institutional power. He has a list of words he likes
Speaker 1: to try to work into things like this, solely offering
Speaker 1: cutaneous and jenet novelty to a famished pack of secularist
Speaker 1: devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an X chromosome could
Speaker 1: represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory. Melatonin, melatonin,
Speaker 1: Russell Brand wrote, Melatonin. The word is melanin. Melanin is
Speaker 1: what he's talking about, which is the pigmentation in skin
Speaker 1: is from the chemical melanin. Melatonin is what you take
Speaker 1: at night when you can't sleep, like on the occasion
Speaker 1: when you keep thinking about all those girls you assaulted. Russell,
Speaker 1: what's my profession? Den I have been.
Speaker 2: Taught words as one might attempt to philosophically educate a
Speaker 2: minor bird, and my air is so dirty. I need
Speaker 2: some Shambalic immediately brand two days, worst person Underworld of
Speaker 2: Planets of the Earth, Gov No.
Speaker 1: Sear the number one story on the countdown and my
Speaker 1: favorite topic, Me and things I promised not to tell.
Speaker 1: And this story is secondhand, but I'm pretty sure Gil
Speaker 1: Stratton told it to me. And Gil was gold. If
Speaker 1: you've ever seen the movie Stalog seventeen, and if you
Speaker 1: have it, you should like right now. Gil played William
Speaker 1: Holden's right hand man, Cookie, and Gil narrates the film too.
Speaker 1: And he was in the Wild One with Marlon Brando,
Speaker 1: and he co starred on Broadway with Judy Garland. And
Speaker 1: Gil was a baseball umpire and Gil was the number
Speaker 1: one TV sportscaster in LA from nineteen fifty four to
Speaker 1: about nineteen seventy five. And he stayed on the air
Speaker 1: so long that eventually he worked with me and then
Speaker 1: for me, and he never complained about that once. Loved
Speaker 1: the business, loved doing it, and he knew everything that
Speaker 1: had ever happened in Los Angeles. In a city that
Speaker 1: almost deliberately erases its past as quickly as possible, Gil
Speaker 1: was one of those living history books. And I always
Speaker 1: tell this one story of his whenever a sports owner
Speaker 1: or commissioner says his team or league lost money. After
Speaker 1: some research, it turns out the year of the story
Speaker 1: has to have been nineteen sixty four. From the details
Speaker 1: in the anecdote, we know the Dodgers had won the
Speaker 1: World Series the year before, but had not been in
Speaker 1: the Pennant race in the year in question, so that
Speaker 1: had to be nineteen sixty eight or earlier. Because one
Speaker 1: of the three men in the story, the Dodgers vice
Speaker 1: president Fresco Thompson, passed away on November thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1: So the nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be,
Speaker 1: ends at Dodger Stadium fifty eight years ago this week,
Speaker 1: late on the afternoon of Sunday, October fourth. The Dodgers
Speaker 1: have just won, but it's not enough to save them
Speaker 1: from a losing season. Eighty and eighty two, just under
Speaker 1: fourteen thousand people have paid to get in, which means
Speaker 1: two million, two hundred and twenty eight thousand, and seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one souls have dropped some cash into
Speaker 1: the till of the infamous Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. That
Speaker 1: was a lot of fans in nineteen sixty four. The
Speaker 1: stench of Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is still
Speaker 1: the villain in sports in New York City, where he
Speaker 1: moved the Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the borough
Speaker 1: of Brooklyn has never recovered, even though the historical record
Speaker 1: is pretty clear that the Dodgers did have an attendance
Speaker 1: problem in Brooklyn, and the City of New York did
Speaker 1: not think it was worth it to merely sell O'Malley
Speaker 1: the land he thought was ideal for a sports stadium.
Speaker 1: O'Malley was right about the land. The land is now
Speaker 1: where they put the Barclays Center, an arena at Public Spence.
Speaker 1: O'Malley wanted to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back
Speaker 1: to nineteen sixty four, a sixth place Dodger season has
Speaker 1: just ended, and either that day or the next day
Speaker 1: or the day after that, fifty eight years ago this week,
Speaker 1: one of the three men who basically run the franchise,
Speaker 1: vice president and general manager, Buzzy Bavasi, leans in through
Speaker 1: the doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium, where
Speaker 1: the man who got rich for closing on mortgages during
Speaker 1: the depression, including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how
Speaker 1: he became the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind
Speaker 1: his desk, thumbing through accountant's ledgers, smoking a large cigar
Speaker 1: and using a long plastic holder. See it the winter meetings.
Speaker 1: Boss O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At
Speaker 1: least we had a decent fiscal year. I mean, with
Speaker 1: kofax heard and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls,
Speaker 1: why do you main dacent fiscal year? We lost two
Speaker 1: million dollars. Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell
Speaker 1: Buzzy Babasei to leave his office, because Buzzy Babasei feels
Speaker 1: as if he has just been shot. We lost two
Speaker 1: million dollars, he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars.
Speaker 1: Two million dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of
Speaker 1: the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls
Speaker 1: around him. Two million. Just four years earlier, when Baseball
Speaker 1: had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in
Speaker 1: that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry, the price
Speaker 1: had been two million, one hundred thousand dollars. Two million
Speaker 1: was literally the price of a Major League Baseball franchise
Speaker 1: in the early sixties. Buzzy Bavasi staggered down the hallway.
Speaker 1: The sweat poured from every part of his body. His
Speaker 1: vision blurred, and he found it difficult to breathe. He
Speaker 1: almost fell into the open doorway of the third man
Speaker 1: who ran the Dodgers, the other senior vice president, Fresco Thompson.
Speaker 1: Buzzo said, with considerable alarm, you okay, Buzzy Vesei barely
Speaker 1: croaked the word no, but the rest of the sentence
Speaker 1: he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost two
Speaker 1: million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, And now Vivasi's
Speaker 1: terror turned to anger. What the hell are you laughing
Speaker 1: at two million? We lost two million? Don't you know
Speaker 1: what this means. We'll have to fire everybody. We'll have
Speaker 1: to trade kofax. At least we have to trade morey wills,
Speaker 1: which toured two million, and we lost two million. And
Speaker 1: now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy Vesi. Jesus Fresco,
Speaker 1: He's gonna fire one of as Isity Ravesi had not
Speaker 1: noticed Fresco's Thompson's laughter, growing you Italian idiot, BAVESI Only
Speaker 1: Fresco Thompson did not say, Italian, how long you been
Speaker 1: working for this guy? O'Malley. Vesey spit out the answer
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty Thompson and calmly replied, Ah, yeah, nearly as
Speaker 1: long as I have, and you still haven't figured him out.
Speaker 1: Buzzy Bavasi was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy
Speaker 1: in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused, for
Speaker 1: some reason, on how long they had each known Walter O'Malley.
Speaker 1: They were all about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco.
Speaker 1: Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still
Speaker 1: shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year,
Speaker 1: buzz What that greedy bastard means is last year, when
Speaker 1: we won the World Series, we made a profit of
Speaker 1: six million dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place,
Speaker 1: we only made a profit of four million dollars. So
Speaker 1: in his mind, that means this year we lost two million.
Speaker 1: We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So
Speaker 1: the next time you hear the owner of a sports
Speaker 1: franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you
Speaker 1: it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars.
Speaker 1: Just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley math, and
Speaker 1: it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal
Speaker 1: profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. Push Mussolini overboard,
Speaker 1: push Hitler overboard, and shoot O'Malley twice. I've done all
Speaker 1: the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown.
Speaker 1: Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on
Speaker 1: the guitars, the bass and the drums. It was mister
Speaker 1: Shaneale on orchestration and keyboards. It's all produced by TKO Brothers.
Speaker 1: As I like to remind you periodically, TKO Brothers consists
Speaker 1: of mister Ray, mister Shaneale and me and the title
Speaker 1: was mister Ray's idea. Other music, including some of the
Speaker 1: Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No
Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. Their name was their idea. The sports music
Speaker 1: is the Ulderman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch
Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And the name ESPN
Speaker 1: two was ESPN's idea. Our satirical and pithy musical comments
Speaker 1: are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever.
Speaker 1: As I noted earlier, I cheated today. My announcer was
Speaker 1: my late friend and hero, George Carlin, and everything else
Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the
Speaker 1: one hundred and fourth day until the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: presidential election, and the two hundred and ninety fifth day
Speaker 1: since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempt to whop against
Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the
Speaker 1: September eighteenth sentencing hearing, Use the mental health system. You've
Speaker 1: got it, President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him
Speaker 1: from doing it again while we still can governor well
Speaker 1: you still can, mister President, and Republicans, please stop shooting
Speaker 1: at Trump. The next scheduled downtown he is as mentioned Tuesday,
Speaker 1: gotta go get that tattoo of me. Nay, I will
Speaker 1: try to do a quick one tomorrow. We'll see bulletins
Speaker 1: as always as the news requires till the next one,
Speaker 1: whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Oldrimman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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