1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:22,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:22,955 --> 00:00:27,355 Speaker 1: only scum here is Trump, and the only thing that 3 00:00:27,435 --> 00:00:33,275 Speaker 1: has been obliterated is America's reputation. We have now descended 4 00:00:33,315 --> 00:00:36,275 Speaker 1: to that level of hell in which the entire purpose 5 00:00:36,355 --> 00:00:39,475 Speaker 1: of the government of the United States is to say 6 00:00:39,675 --> 00:00:42,955 Speaker 1: and shout and lie so loudly and so often that 7 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:48,915 Speaker 1: the insane, deteriorating, mentally dissolving international joke, that is, the 8 00:00:48,995 --> 00:00:53,035 Speaker 1: current president does not yell at the fools and whorees 9 00:00:53,115 --> 00:00:56,395 Speaker 1: who work for him and can't stand the sound of 10 00:00:56,435 --> 00:01:01,315 Speaker 1: his voice another god damned minute. He has now gotten 11 00:01:01,355 --> 00:01:05,675 Speaker 1: the government of Israel to lie for him about his 12 00:01:06,235 --> 00:01:10,195 Speaker 1: private war against Iran. He has now gotten his own 13 00:01:10,235 --> 00:01:15,395 Speaker 1: government to issue assessments that not only completely contradict yesterday's assessments, 14 00:01:15,715 --> 00:01:20,235 Speaker 1: but completely contradict his own assessments. He has now gotten 15 00:01:20,275 --> 00:01:24,595 Speaker 1: his own Director of National Intelligence, presumably under the threat 16 00:01:24,595 --> 00:01:30,555 Speaker 1: of being fired, to cherry pick somebody's intelligence, maybe ours, 17 00:01:31,115 --> 00:01:38,275 Speaker 1: maybe Katars, maybe sho Rogans who knows and insists that 18 00:01:38,475 --> 00:01:43,395 Speaker 1: this is new intelligence and it confirms his obsession, his 19 00:01:43,555 --> 00:01:46,755 Speaker 1: obsession that everybody in the country, everybody in the world, 20 00:01:46,915 --> 00:01:50,435 Speaker 1: everybody in the universe, everybody yet to be born must 21 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:56,075 Speaker 1: agree with him that Iran's nuclear capacity is quote obliterated 22 00:01:57,155 --> 00:01:59,595 Speaker 1: and for all time and forever, in no arguments, and 23 00:01:59,635 --> 00:02:02,635 Speaker 1: it's the greatest military success in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And 24 00:02:02,715 --> 00:02:07,915 Speaker 1: don't you dare say otherwise, don't you dare inconclusive obliterated, 25 00:02:08,755 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: except that twenty four hours ago Trump said it was inconclusive. 26 00:02:12,955 --> 00:02:16,075 Speaker 1: Both you and Secret Terry Rubio on hex I mentioned 27 00:02:16,075 --> 00:02:19,395 Speaker 1: the week. But can you clarify is the intelligence correct, 28 00:02:19,435 --> 00:02:20,755 Speaker 1: wh is the intelligence wrong? 29 00:02:20,915 --> 00:02:25,035 Speaker 2: Well, the intelligence was was very inconclusive. The intelligence says, 30 00:02:25,075 --> 00:02:28,555 Speaker 2: we don't know. It could have been very severe. That's 31 00:02:28,595 --> 00:02:33,355 Speaker 2: what the intelligence says. So I guess that's correct. But 32 00:02:33,555 --> 00:02:35,315 Speaker 2: I think we can take that we don't know. It 33 00:02:35,475 --> 00:02:40,355 Speaker 2: was very severe. It was obliteration. And you think that 34 00:02:40,595 --> 00:02:43,995 Speaker 2: a media outlet would say, isn't it a great thing? 35 00:02:44,715 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: Inconclusive but also obliterated and obliterating, because about an hour 36 00:02:51,435 --> 00:02:55,795 Speaker 1: before he said that, Trump wrote this fake news CNN. 37 00:02:55,915 --> 00:02:57,635 Speaker 1: This is all caps, by the way, so you know 38 00:02:57,715 --> 00:03:01,235 Speaker 1: he really means it. Together with the failing New York Times, 39 00:03:01,555 --> 00:03:03,475 Speaker 1: have teamed up in an attempt to demean one of 40 00:03:03,515 --> 00:03:08,355 Speaker 1: the most successful military strikes in history. The nuclear sights 41 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:11,515 Speaker 1: in Iran are completely destroyed. Both the Times in CNN 42 00:03:11,555 --> 00:03:18,475 Speaker 1: are getting slammed by the public. They're not. He's holding 43 00:03:18,515 --> 00:03:22,755 Speaker 1: another news conference, having hegseeth do it today to say, 44 00:03:23,875 --> 00:03:27,115 Speaker 1: presumably something like fake news. CNN, together with the failing 45 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:29,075 Speaker 1: New York Times, have teamed up in an attempted to 46 00:03:29,115 --> 00:03:32,035 Speaker 1: mean one of the most successful military strikes in history. 47 00:03:32,075 --> 00:03:34,235 Speaker 1: Can I have my weekend job back at Fox and 48 00:03:34,275 --> 00:03:38,715 Speaker 1: a drink please? And by the way, Fox reported the 49 00:03:38,755 --> 00:03:46,075 Speaker 1: same thing that CNN and the New York Times reported inconclusive, inconclusive, 50 00:03:47,075 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: and again Trump said it was inconclusive. But don't you 51 00:03:50,075 --> 00:03:54,995 Speaker 1: dare say anything about inconclusive. Don't say anything but obliteration, 52 00:03:55,155 --> 00:03:58,355 Speaker 1: or you will be included when America's all time worst 53 00:03:58,435 --> 00:04:03,355 Speaker 1: scumbag makes his daily proclamation of who is scum and 54 00:04:03,475 --> 00:04:07,635 Speaker 1: who is not? And not just left town. 55 00:04:08,395 --> 00:04:13,115 Speaker 2: This was an unbelievable hit by genius pilots and genius 56 00:04:13,155 --> 00:04:15,955 Speaker 2: people in the military, and they're not being given credit 57 00:04:15,995 --> 00:04:18,635 Speaker 2: for it because we have scum that's in this group, 58 00:04:19,115 --> 00:04:21,555 Speaker 2: and not all of you are. You had some great reporters, 59 00:04:21,555 --> 00:04:26,515 Speaker 2: but you have scum. CNN is scum. MSDNZ is scum. 60 00:04:26,755 --> 00:04:29,995 Speaker 2: The New York Times is scum. They're bad people, they're. 61 00:04:29,875 --> 00:04:33,035 Speaker 1: Sick good things. CNN has been sucking up to him 62 00:04:33,075 --> 00:04:36,115 Speaker 1: for three years, or he'd be saying this three times 63 00:04:36,155 --> 00:04:41,155 Speaker 1: a day, and not just at NATO conferences to international reporters, 64 00:04:41,715 --> 00:04:45,595 Speaker 1: international reporters that have the courage, unlike our wretched leftovers, 65 00:04:46,515 --> 00:04:48,715 Speaker 1: to laugh at him of. 66 00:04:48,715 --> 00:04:51,715 Speaker 2: Question on his Spain, Are you satisfying with today? 67 00:04:51,795 --> 00:04:51,875 Speaker 1: Oh? 68 00:04:52,435 --> 00:04:54,155 Speaker 2: It's terrible what they've done. 69 00:04:54,715 --> 00:04:55,115 Speaker 1: Now I do. 70 00:04:55,515 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 2: They're the only country they won't pay the full up. 71 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:00,595 Speaker 2: They want to stay at two percent. I think it's terrible. 72 00:05:00,635 --> 00:05:02,515 Speaker 2: And you know, they're doing very well. The economy is 73 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:05,795 Speaker 2: very well, and that economy could be blown right out 74 00:05:05,795 --> 00:05:07,915 Speaker 2: of the water with something bad happening. You know, Spain 75 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:11,955 Speaker 2: is the only country that are you from Spain? Good congratulations. 76 00:05:12,635 --> 00:05:15,355 Speaker 2: You're the only country that is not paying. I don't 77 00:05:15,395 --> 00:05:16,395 Speaker 2: know what the problem is. 78 00:05:16,435 --> 00:05:20,395 Speaker 1: It's also he wants a Nobel Peace Prize for obliterating 79 00:05:21,235 --> 00:05:26,635 Speaker 1: like Hiroshima. So to quiet d menhaed Trump down for 80 00:05:26,635 --> 00:05:30,035 Speaker 1: a few hours while somebody figures out a way to 81 00:05:30,075 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: impeach him or twenty fifth amendment him, or just next 82 00:05:33,195 --> 00:05:37,835 Speaker 1: time leave him at the Hague. That's where the International 83 00:05:37,835 --> 00:05:42,395 Speaker 1: Court of Justice is. Here is who is lying to 84 00:05:42,555 --> 00:05:46,915 Speaker 1: him and to us now statement on behalf of the 85 00:05:46,995 --> 00:05:51,595 Speaker 1: Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The devastating US strike on Fordeaux 86 00:05:51,995 --> 00:05:56,395 Speaker 1: destroyed the site's critical infrastructure and rendered the enrichment facility inoperable. 87 00:05:56,635 --> 00:05:59,875 Speaker 1: We assessed that the American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, 88 00:06:00,035 --> 00:06:03,035 Speaker 1: combined with Israeli strikes on other elements of Iran's military 89 00:06:03,115 --> 00:06:06,715 Speaker 1: nuclear program, has set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear 90 00:06:06,715 --> 00:06:10,595 Speaker 1: weapons by many years. This achievement can continue indefinitely if 91 00:06:10,595 --> 00:06:16,075 Speaker 1: Iran does not get access to nuclear material. This statement 92 00:06:16,115 --> 00:06:21,195 Speaker 1: apparently shocked observers in Israel because it was not released 93 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:25,435 Speaker 1: by the Israeli government to anybody in that country. It 94 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:28,075 Speaker 1: was for American media only. In point of fact, it 95 00:06:28,115 --> 00:06:31,995 Speaker 1: was for Trump only. You can tell that it's not 96 00:06:32,595 --> 00:06:36,475 Speaker 1: largely holy or perhaps at all true because Nettnyahu's government, 97 00:06:36,515 --> 00:06:40,675 Speaker 1: which also needs to maintain a war footing and create 98 00:06:40,715 --> 00:06:43,195 Speaker 1: this sense that there is an existential threat to keep 99 00:06:43,275 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: its leader out of prison for life. In this statement, Netnya, 100 00:06:47,155 --> 00:06:53,595 Speaker 1: whose government credits American strikes, now another lie domestic. The 101 00:06:53,635 --> 00:06:56,395 Speaker 1: one member of the Trump administration, who seems to have 102 00:06:56,435 --> 00:06:59,795 Speaker 1: gotten it right of all people, the stopped clock herself, 103 00:07:00,075 --> 00:07:05,195 Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabbard, skunkhead, Iran was not within weeks or months 104 00:07:05,235 --> 00:07:09,075 Speaker 1: of a nuke. This attack would accelerate the nuclear risk 105 00:07:09,395 --> 00:07:13,595 Speaker 1: actual ascertainable fact. And then they don't even tell her 106 00:07:13,635 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 1: in advance when they decide to bomb against her advice. 107 00:07:16,355 --> 00:07:18,915 Speaker 1: She's not in the situation room that night, so she 108 00:07:19,075 --> 00:07:23,235 Speaker 1: presumably has to issue the most ridiculous lie yet or 109 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:28,155 Speaker 1: lose her job. New intelligence confirms what Potus has stated 110 00:07:28,235 --> 00:07:35,115 Speaker 1: numerous times. Iran's nuclear facilities have been destroyed. What new intelligence? 111 00:07:35,915 --> 00:07:39,395 Speaker 1: Who's did you find it on a slip of paper 112 00:07:39,435 --> 00:07:44,595 Speaker 1: inside a fortune cookie? Telsey? If the Iranians choose to rebuild, 113 00:07:44,955 --> 00:07:47,755 Speaker 1: they would have to rebuild all three facilities Natans for 114 00:07:47,955 --> 00:07:54,315 Speaker 1: now Esfahan entirely, which would likely take years to do. Sure, 115 00:07:54,395 --> 00:07:57,915 Speaker 1: because they didn't move anything out of those three facilities 116 00:07:58,635 --> 00:08:02,035 Speaker 1: to allow them to put them elsewhere and build elsewhere, 117 00:08:02,635 --> 00:08:06,235 Speaker 1: And they didn't learn one thing that they better build 118 00:08:06,275 --> 00:08:09,275 Speaker 1: their nukes back better and stronger than ever before. Before 119 00:08:09,315 --> 00:08:14,995 Speaker 1: this asshole bombs the empty facilities again. The propaganda media 120 00:08:15,035 --> 00:08:18,875 Speaker 1: has deployed their usual tactic, selectively released portions of illegally 121 00:08:18,955 --> 00:08:25,955 Speaker 1: leaked classified intelligence assessments. Tulsie, the leaker is in the house. 122 00:08:28,075 --> 00:08:31,275 Speaker 1: Those were re leaked by somebody with access to that information, 123 00:08:31,355 --> 00:08:35,195 Speaker 1: that somebody works for Trump. You moren incidentally, this memo 124 00:08:35,395 --> 00:08:37,995 Speaker 1: that you just issued that I'm reading here, this is 125 00:08:38,115 --> 00:08:43,955 Speaker 1: you selectively releasing portions of classified intelligence assessments, not a notice. 126 00:08:44,035 --> 00:08:48,755 Speaker 1: Did you notice the coincidence there, Tulsi, unless you made 127 00:08:48,795 --> 00:08:52,475 Speaker 1: them up? Unless this is a lie, in which case 128 00:08:52,515 --> 00:08:56,555 Speaker 1: you're in the clear. Portions intentionally leaving out the fact 129 00:08:56,595 --> 00:08:59,395 Speaker 1: that the assessment was written with low confidence to try 130 00:08:59,395 --> 00:09:03,195 Speaker 1: to undermine President Trump's decisive leadership and the brave servicemen 131 00:09:03,275 --> 00:09:06,875 Speaker 1: and women who flawless executed a truly historic mission to 132 00:09:06,955 --> 00:09:10,995 Speaker 1: keep the American people safe and secure. The oldest trick 133 00:09:11,075 --> 00:09:14,835 Speaker 1: in the Neocon book. And yes, Maga and the Neocons 134 00:09:14,995 --> 00:09:19,475 Speaker 1: are now indistinguishable. Doesn't matter how differently the roots were 135 00:09:19,555 --> 00:09:21,715 Speaker 1: that they got they took to get there, they are 136 00:09:21,795 --> 00:09:24,195 Speaker 1: now the same thing they got to the same place. 137 00:09:24,675 --> 00:09:28,275 Speaker 1: Meaningless carnage in the Middle East that makes things worse 138 00:09:28,395 --> 00:09:31,555 Speaker 1: and will have ramifications a quarter century from now that 139 00:09:31,635 --> 00:09:37,075 Speaker 1: we can't possibly predict. But you defend that by saying 140 00:09:37,115 --> 00:09:40,115 Speaker 1: that if you dare to question the outcome, the purpose 141 00:09:40,195 --> 00:09:43,675 Speaker 1: the president the secretary of brill cream. If you don't 142 00:09:43,675 --> 00:09:49,315 Speaker 1: say obliterated, if you don't praise, dear leader, you're insulting 143 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:53,955 Speaker 1: the troops. And to try to stitch all this together, 144 00:09:54,075 --> 00:10:00,195 Speaker 1: let me quote the Wall Street Journal, Iran nuclear obliterated. 145 00:10:00,795 --> 00:10:04,995 Speaker 1: So now we have to negotiate with Iran to get 146 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: them to discontinue their nuclear quote. Trump said he doesn't 147 00:10:11,355 --> 00:10:13,675 Speaker 1: think a nuclear deal with Iran is necessary after the 148 00:10:13,755 --> 00:10:16,675 Speaker 1: US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites that he added 149 00:10:16,875 --> 00:10:20,475 Speaker 1: there would be talks with Tehran next week. He said 150 00:10:20,515 --> 00:10:22,795 Speaker 1: the US would be asking the Iranians for the same 151 00:10:22,835 --> 00:10:26,115 Speaker 1: thing before Israel attacked Iran. We want no nuclear, the 152 00:10:26,155 --> 00:10:31,075 Speaker 1: president said, adding we destroyed the nuclear Speaking from the 153 00:10:31,155 --> 00:10:34,035 Speaker 1: NATO summit, Trump said he believed the ceasefire between Israel 154 00:10:34,035 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 1: and Iran would hold. The president signaled that he wouldn't 155 00:10:37,995 --> 00:10:41,035 Speaker 1: stop China from buying oil from Iran, saying Tehran needs 156 00:10:41,035 --> 00:10:43,075 Speaker 1: the money to put that country back into shape. Trump 157 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:45,675 Speaker 1: also pushed back on a leaked intelligence report that said 158 00:10:45,915 --> 00:10:49,515 Speaker 1: US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities only set back Tehran's 159 00:10:49,555 --> 00:10:53,435 Speaker 1: nuclear ambitions by a few months. Defense Secretary Pete he 160 00:10:53,595 --> 00:10:56,715 Speaker 1: Said said the FBI started a probe into how the 161 00:10:56,755 --> 00:11:01,515 Speaker 1: preliminary assessment became public. Cash Patel's going to put a 162 00:11:01,515 --> 00:11:07,315 Speaker 1: couple of eyes on it. As the reporter Roger Sallenberger 163 00:11:07,395 --> 00:11:10,075 Speaker 1: noted about this Wall Street Journal write up, we don't 164 00:11:10,235 --> 00:11:12,835 Speaker 1: need to deal with Iran, but we're still going to 165 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:17,915 Speaker 1: ask them to give up their nuclear program, which we destroyed. 166 00:11:20,555 --> 00:11:24,195 Speaker 1: And of course it's all bill, and Iran has finished. 167 00:11:24,195 --> 00:11:26,275 Speaker 1: And Trump posted a music video in which the Beach 168 00:11:26,315 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: Boys Barbara Ann is subhumanly repurposed as bomb Iran. The 169 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:34,515 Speaker 1: old John McCain joke. Don't tell but Trump he'll stroke 170 00:11:34,555 --> 00:11:38,715 Speaker 1: out when he hears it's a John McCain joke. Good 171 00:11:38,715 --> 00:11:40,915 Speaker 1: week to do it too, when Brian Wilson has died. 172 00:11:42,675 --> 00:11:46,915 Speaker 1: And remember, there's no threat. Obliterator obliterated. And you're scum 173 00:11:46,955 --> 00:11:49,195 Speaker 1: if you say otherwise. So I guess that means that 174 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:53,275 Speaker 1: Trump administration is scum. Oh and Trump, who you heard 175 00:11:53,275 --> 00:11:56,955 Speaker 1: in the clip before, agreed the results are inconclusive. Trump 176 00:11:57,235 --> 00:12:26,675 Speaker 1: thinks Trump is scum, and for once he's right. There 177 00:12:26,715 --> 00:12:32,675 Speaker 1: are four sidebars initially anyway to Zoran Mamdani's startling and 178 00:12:32,875 --> 00:12:35,715 Speaker 1: thrilling first round win in the Democratic primary for mayor 179 00:12:35,755 --> 00:12:40,955 Speaker 1: here in Fun City one the early tepidness of national 180 00:12:40,995 --> 00:12:45,195 Speaker 1: Democratic support for him and for his run for mayor 181 00:12:47,195 --> 00:12:54,955 Speaker 1: from Chuck Schumer, the Gironto crostis in chief. He praised 182 00:12:55,195 --> 00:13:01,915 Speaker 1: his campaign Akeem Jeffries, whose only apparent career goal is 183 00:13:01,915 --> 00:13:04,835 Speaker 1: to last long enough to join that jeron tocras he 184 00:13:05,395 --> 00:13:08,355 Speaker 1: did the same. Oh, he ran a wonderful campaign. What 185 00:13:08,515 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: was his name again? Gentlemen, get on board, Ma'm Danny 186 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:14,915 Speaker 1: won the middle class in New York City by doing 187 00:13:14,955 --> 00:13:17,915 Speaker 1: the two things you idiots refuse to even try to 188 00:13:17,955 --> 00:13:22,515 Speaker 1: do last November. Combine concern for the financial crushing of 189 00:13:22,555 --> 00:13:26,315 Speaker 1: the middle class and stand up for what's right in 190 00:13:26,355 --> 00:13:29,035 Speaker 1: the country and the world, including opposing Trump and Ice 191 00:13:29,075 --> 00:13:33,115 Speaker 1: and the fascists as loudly and frequently as possible while 192 00:13:33,195 --> 00:13:37,475 Speaker 1: reducing costs. It's only two things. I know. You might 193 00:13:37,515 --> 00:13:40,235 Speaker 1: have to eliminate a bunch of banquets and dinners and 194 00:13:40,315 --> 00:13:43,475 Speaker 1: press conferences from your schedule to accomplish two things in 195 00:13:43,515 --> 00:13:48,315 Speaker 1: one year, but this guy apparently is doing it. Also, 196 00:13:50,995 --> 00:13:53,475 Speaker 1: Schumer Jeffries, you and the other chameleons who are now 197 00:13:53,515 --> 00:13:56,355 Speaker 1: trying to be centrist after everything else failed because you 198 00:13:56,395 --> 00:14:01,635 Speaker 1: aren't any good at this. They are responsible for democratic 199 00:14:01,675 --> 00:14:06,435 Speaker 1: cowardice at every corner. From Politico, it is extremely alarming 200 00:14:06,435 --> 00:14:09,435 Speaker 1: that the only candidates who genuinely excite our voters are 201 00:14:09,435 --> 00:14:13,355 Speaker 1: the ones making absolutely insane promises on politically toxic positions. 202 00:14:13,635 --> 00:14:17,395 Speaker 1: One DEM strategist tells Playbooks Adam Wren, leaving us in 203 00:14:17,435 --> 00:14:19,995 Speaker 1: the spot of trying to execute on bad policy and 204 00:14:20,035 --> 00:14:23,235 Speaker 1: losing terribly or failing to keep our promises, and reinforcing 205 00:14:23,275 --> 00:14:26,755 Speaker 1: the idea that all politics is bullshit. Firstly, politically, you 206 00:14:26,755 --> 00:14:30,275 Speaker 1: know what bullshit is. Bullshit is granting somebody anonymity for that. 207 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:34,115 Speaker 1: You know why Kamala Harris lost last year. You know 208 00:14:34,155 --> 00:14:36,355 Speaker 1: why the Senate didn't get any closer. You know why 209 00:14:36,435 --> 00:14:40,035 Speaker 1: the House was lost because an alleged Democratic strategist who 210 00:14:40,075 --> 00:14:44,035 Speaker 1: has his finger on the pulse of nothing, does not 211 00:14:44,075 --> 00:14:47,595 Speaker 1: have the honesty nor the confidence in his own analysis 212 00:14:47,715 --> 00:14:51,275 Speaker 1: right or wrong to put his own goddamned worthless name 213 00:14:51,555 --> 00:14:57,235 Speaker 1: on that milk toast quote. Secondly, sir or madam, talking 214 00:14:57,235 --> 00:15:00,795 Speaker 1: to Politico, how about this crazy idea. How about keeping 215 00:15:00,835 --> 00:15:05,995 Speaker 1: your promises? Or if you can't make as much noise 216 00:15:06,035 --> 00:15:09,235 Speaker 1: as possible, because you have been thwarted by the armies 217 00:15:09,275 --> 00:15:12,635 Speaker 1: that Maurice Metterlink saw. At every crossway on the road 218 00:15:12,675 --> 00:15:16,155 Speaker 1: that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed 219 00:15:16,155 --> 00:15:21,795 Speaker 1: by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. The 220 00:15:21,835 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: second sidebar those thousand men, they're all named Andrew Cuomo. 221 00:15:28,555 --> 00:15:31,115 Speaker 1: The biggest threat to New York City right now, the 222 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:33,715 Speaker 1: biggest threat to the Democratic Party right now, the biggest 223 00:15:33,715 --> 00:15:36,035 Speaker 1: threat to the midterms, The biggest threat in twenty twenty 224 00:15:36,035 --> 00:15:40,035 Speaker 1: eight is tepid Democratic support for ma'm Danny for mayor 225 00:15:40,715 --> 00:15:43,955 Speaker 1: and the window that then opens for Cuomo to run 226 00:15:44,235 --> 00:15:47,035 Speaker 1: as an independent backed by another twenty million or so 227 00:15:47,235 --> 00:15:51,915 Speaker 1: from Mike Bloomberg Republican and other rich bastard Republicans to 228 00:15:52,115 --> 00:15:55,915 Speaker 1: keep the boy socialist out, even if all that results 229 00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:59,395 Speaker 1: in is spoiling it for ma'm Danny and we get 230 00:15:59,395 --> 00:16:04,635 Speaker 1: another term of Eric Adams. Eric Adams who is missing 231 00:16:04,835 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: yesterday in the day after the New York political earthquake 232 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:12,515 Speaker 1: because he was doing live guest hits on Newsmax from 233 00:16:12,595 --> 00:16:17,515 Speaker 1: inside his car, which is where next year in a 234 00:16:17,755 --> 00:16:24,315 Speaker 1: just world, Eric Adams will be living the third sidebar 235 00:16:24,555 --> 00:16:27,555 Speaker 1: Watch now for the chance that went Trump. Our minor 236 00:16:27,675 --> 00:16:31,875 Speaker 1: bird president who keeps repeating the same word, switches from 237 00:16:33,995 --> 00:16:38,315 Speaker 1: to mandelli once they teach him how to say it 238 00:16:40,315 --> 00:16:45,035 Speaker 1: when he pivots back from persecuting Hispanics to persecuting Muslims. 239 00:16:46,515 --> 00:16:49,755 Speaker 1: Under the radar. Trump has just established an America first 240 00:16:49,755 --> 00:16:56,675 Speaker 1: Homeland Security Advisory Committee on it. Mark Levin, the guy 241 00:16:56,715 --> 00:17:02,235 Speaker 1: in Fox who talks like this, Corey Lewandowski, he's an 242 00:17:02,275 --> 00:17:06,715 Speaker 1: advisor to Christy. No. You know, I've heard a lot 243 00:17:06,755 --> 00:17:09,875 Speaker 1: of terms for this before. I never heard Hey, let 244 00:17:09,955 --> 00:17:17,115 Speaker 1: me give you some advice, honey. And Rudy Giuliani, who 245 00:17:17,195 --> 00:17:21,515 Speaker 1: apparently has escaped from his new home in the Bronx Zoo. 246 00:17:23,475 --> 00:17:29,715 Speaker 1: So clearly, Levin, Lewandowski and Giuliani are their inside Homeland 247 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:33,435 Speaker 1: Security to push back against and balance all those at 248 00:17:33,435 --> 00:17:39,075 Speaker 1: Homeland Security who are in favor of protecting America. Meanwhile, 249 00:17:39,955 --> 00:17:43,875 Speaker 1: after ma'am Donnie's knockout blow, the Laura Loomer Charlie Kirk 250 00:17:43,915 --> 00:17:48,795 Speaker 1: types have already invoked nine to eleven. And how dare 251 00:17:48,915 --> 00:17:54,315 Speaker 1: New York elect one of them? Let me tell you 252 00:17:54,355 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: something in nineteen ten, and I have this secondhand from 253 00:18:01,235 --> 00:18:05,995 Speaker 1: my late grandfathers, who were very happy about it because 254 00:18:06,035 --> 00:18:09,315 Speaker 1: they were German and they had been this category of 255 00:18:09,355 --> 00:18:13,675 Speaker 1: New Yorker the decade before. But in nineteen ten, Italians 256 00:18:13,955 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: not named Enrico Caruso in this city were presumed to 257 00:18:17,075 --> 00:18:21,195 Speaker 1: be mafiosi, and Jews in this city were treated as 258 00:18:21,235 --> 00:18:26,395 Speaker 1: third class citizens. Twenty three years later, nineteen thirty three, 259 00:18:26,475 --> 00:18:29,595 Speaker 1: New York City elected its greatest mayor of all time, 260 00:18:29,635 --> 00:18:38,395 Speaker 1: who was Italian and Jewish Lagardia. His mother's name was 261 00:18:38,435 --> 00:18:46,635 Speaker 1: Irene Lozato Cohen. Oh, and he was a socialist. Sorry, 262 00:18:46,635 --> 00:18:49,835 Speaker 1: I didn't mean to shock you. He was a Republican socialist. 263 00:18:51,275 --> 00:18:55,635 Speaker 1: Our second greatest mayor, John Purroy Mitchell, was thirty four 264 00:18:55,795 --> 00:18:58,995 Speaker 1: when he was elected. Thirty four, Why that's too young? 265 00:18:59,755 --> 00:19:02,795 Speaker 1: And our greatest mayor since LaGuardia ed Koch. To this 266 00:19:02,915 --> 00:19:06,115 Speaker 1: day we don't know his second orientation. And guess what 267 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: nobody really ever bothered to ask. We don't give a crap. 268 00:19:12,435 --> 00:19:15,915 Speaker 1: This is a city that looks for competence. This is 269 00:19:15,955 --> 00:19:20,355 Speaker 1: a city of immigrants and assimilation and especially the mixing 270 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:26,875 Speaker 1: of the gene pools. Often we miss we screw it up. 271 00:19:27,195 --> 00:19:29,195 Speaker 1: I mean, we're on a hell of a mayor's streak. 272 00:19:29,475 --> 00:19:34,715 Speaker 1: This idiot Adams, this idiot Deblasio, this idiot Bloomberg, this idiot, fascist, 273 00:19:34,835 --> 00:19:38,515 Speaker 1: lunatic Giuliani. But one thing we do not do, and 274 00:19:38,595 --> 00:19:42,155 Speaker 1: this is the fourth takeaway after the election results in 275 00:19:42,195 --> 00:19:44,755 Speaker 1: the primary, one thing we do not do is get 276 00:19:44,795 --> 00:19:49,115 Speaker 1: full the second time. This above all else was lost, 277 00:19:49,555 --> 00:19:52,195 Speaker 1: and not just Mandani's victory, but his victory in round 278 00:19:52,315 --> 00:19:56,875 Speaker 1: one instead of round seven of ranked voting. This was 279 00:19:56,955 --> 00:20:01,795 Speaker 1: as much of a repudiation of Andrew Cuomo and the 280 00:20:01,915 --> 00:20:04,075 Speaker 1: idea that there's no longer such a thing as bad 281 00:20:04,115 --> 00:20:07,795 Speaker 1: political publicity. It's the Trump theory. It's the way we've 282 00:20:07,835 --> 00:20:11,115 Speaker 1: lived for a decade now. It doesn't matter who you raped, 283 00:20:11,475 --> 00:20:15,515 Speaker 1: as long as they spelled your name right. New York 284 00:20:16,035 --> 00:20:19,435 Speaker 1: is trying to show America, trying to show the Democratic Party. 285 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:22,395 Speaker 1: Please wake it up if you see it, that the 286 00:20:22,435 --> 00:20:25,115 Speaker 1: way to beat a scumbag is to remind everybody what 287 00:20:25,195 --> 00:20:29,915 Speaker 1: a scumbag he is, and while doing so, offer alternatives 288 00:20:29,955 --> 00:20:34,475 Speaker 1: that can benefit them in their real lives. Trump is 289 00:20:34,475 --> 00:20:40,875 Speaker 1: a scumbag. Here are free buses. I wonder if they 290 00:20:40,915 --> 00:20:44,515 Speaker 1: have figured this out now in all the places where 291 00:20:44,595 --> 00:20:54,355 Speaker 1: Zamdani was attacked and Cuomo Cuomo an unrepented sleeze, and 292 00:20:54,435 --> 00:20:56,915 Speaker 1: I'll need to see a paternity test to believe he's 293 00:20:56,955 --> 00:21:02,755 Speaker 1: really Mario Cuomo's son, where Cuomo was welcomed back as 294 00:21:02,795 --> 00:21:06,675 Speaker 1: if none of that had happened. Bill Clinton endorsed Cuomo. 295 00:21:07,195 --> 00:21:12,395 Speaker 1: Bloomberg did. Jim Clyburn. I love Jim Clyburn. Jim Clyburn 296 00:21:12,475 --> 00:21:18,795 Speaker 1: called Cuomo the future of the Democratic Party nationally. Cowomo's 297 00:21:18,795 --> 00:21:21,155 Speaker 1: older than I am. Jim, your trolley has come off 298 00:21:21,195 --> 00:21:24,875 Speaker 1: the track. Best of all the New York Times editorial Board, 299 00:21:25,915 --> 00:21:28,075 Speaker 1: which said, whatever you do, do not put him on 300 00:21:28,115 --> 00:21:32,195 Speaker 1: your ballot anywhere. Don't rank him last he is. There's 301 00:21:32,235 --> 00:21:36,595 Speaker 1: no way he can possibly run the few New York 302 00:21:36,635 --> 00:21:40,275 Speaker 1: Times And by the way, we are now officially in 303 00:21:40,355 --> 00:21:43,555 Speaker 1: this period of time, the New York Times editorial Board 304 00:21:43,595 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: and the New York Times publisher have affirmed that the 305 00:21:47,075 --> 00:21:51,355 Speaker 1: words New and York are just part of a brand name, 306 00:21:52,195 --> 00:21:56,435 Speaker 1: and any actual connection between that paper and this city 307 00:21:57,075 --> 00:22:09,875 Speaker 1: has long since been eliminated. I know I called him Zamdani. 308 00:22:10,035 --> 00:22:12,395 Speaker 1: It was a kind of a telescoping of his first 309 00:22:12,475 --> 00:22:16,195 Speaker 1: name and his last name, just call him Mayor. Also 310 00:22:16,195 --> 00:22:19,195 Speaker 1: of interest here, anybody noticed Trump went full gay bashing. 311 00:22:20,955 --> 00:22:23,795 Speaker 1: I mean, I understand stuff getting buried under the avalanche 312 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:30,675 Speaker 1: of Trump is bullshit and rage and but full unmistakable 313 00:22:30,755 --> 00:22:35,315 Speaker 1: homophobia in writing from Trump. That's next. This is Countdown. 314 00:22:37,595 --> 00:22:43,475 Speaker 2: This his countdown with Keith Oberman Oberman. 315 00:23:04,235 --> 00:23:06,755 Speaker 1: Stollah on this all new editionive Countdown. Since I am 316 00:23:06,795 --> 00:23:09,675 Speaker 1: back in TV sports doing stuff for the baseball games 317 00:23:10,195 --> 00:23:14,675 Speaker 1: carried on the fan dual network sports regional outlets, might 318 00:23:14,755 --> 00:23:18,115 Speaker 1: be a good time to commemorate my departure from ESPN, 319 00:23:19,035 --> 00:23:23,275 Speaker 1: the first one this time of year in nineteen ninety seven, 320 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:28,075 Speaker 1: not the second time, not the third time, when I 321 00:23:28,115 --> 00:23:34,115 Speaker 1: became a Disney retiree. Seriously, I'm a Disney retiree. Get me, 322 00:23:34,235 --> 00:23:40,635 Speaker 1: I'm a Disney retiree. The first time I left. Boy, 323 00:23:40,675 --> 00:23:43,195 Speaker 1: oh boy, was that a big story. I'll explain next 324 00:23:43,195 --> 00:23:45,435 Speaker 1: in Things I promised not to tell first, Believe it 325 00:23:45,515 --> 00:23:47,635 Speaker 1: or not, There's still more new idiots to talk about. 326 00:23:48,395 --> 00:23:50,795 Speaker 1: The roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 327 00:23:50,795 --> 00:23:56,315 Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute the latest other worse persons in 328 00:23:56,395 --> 00:24:01,915 Speaker 1: the world Thebron's David Ellison, who, along with my former 329 00:24:01,955 --> 00:24:05,235 Speaker 1: friend Jeff you should have known I was lying to Shell. 330 00:24:06,675 --> 00:24:10,435 Speaker 1: We'll be running CBS news once Sherry Redstone finishes pretending 331 00:24:10,475 --> 00:24:14,395 Speaker 1: she's just settling a Trump lawsuit when in fact she's 332 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:18,995 Speaker 1: taking the smell off a little payola. This is from 333 00:24:19,035 --> 00:24:24,995 Speaker 1: Oliver Darcy's Absolutely Necessary Status newsletter. Late last year, during 334 00:24:25,035 --> 00:24:27,195 Speaker 1: a trip to New York City, David Ellison quietly made 335 00:24:27,195 --> 00:24:29,035 Speaker 1: time for a meeting that said as much about his 336 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:31,835 Speaker 1: worldview as it did about his interest in media. According 337 00:24:31,875 --> 00:24:35,715 Speaker 1: to people familiar with the matter, the Hollywood scion sky 338 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:38,675 Speaker 1: On I never knew how to pronounce that word, Hollywood asshole, 339 00:24:38,955 --> 00:24:42,035 Speaker 1: set time aside on his busy calendar to meet with 340 00:24:42,195 --> 00:24:48,235 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss, the founder of the Free Press. Allison, like 341 00:24:48,275 --> 00:24:52,515 Speaker 1: a number of C suite executive types parentheses longing to 342 00:24:52,515 --> 00:24:55,635 Speaker 1: turn the rest of us into robots, has long been 343 00:24:55,635 --> 00:24:58,915 Speaker 1: an admirer of Weiss's style of journalism, and I have 344 00:24:58,955 --> 00:25:02,275 Speaker 1: to compliment Oliver for not putting journalism in quotes here. 345 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:05,115 Speaker 1: I'm told viewing her as one one of the more 346 00:25:05,115 --> 00:25:10,435 Speaker 1: compelling voices in the shifting landscape of independent journalism. Independent 347 00:25:10,515 --> 00:25:18,635 Speaker 1: journalism being an ironic term for sucking Trump's ass. Ellison 348 00:25:18,675 --> 00:25:21,475 Speaker 1: appeared to leave a wide range of options on the table, 349 00:25:21,675 --> 00:25:25,795 Speaker 1: signaling that he sees Wiss's a valuable addition to CBS News, 350 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:29,235 Speaker 1: wants to hire her for CBS News while he considers 351 00:25:29,275 --> 00:25:32,195 Speaker 1: how to put his stamp on the news division. Trust me, 352 00:25:32,595 --> 00:25:36,595 Speaker 1: you put a lunatic, loser, asshole like this woman at 353 00:25:36,595 --> 00:25:39,675 Speaker 1: CBS News, you put your stamp on the news division, 354 00:25:40,515 --> 00:25:43,515 Speaker 1: and then you threw the package out the window. Might 355 00:25:43,515 --> 00:25:47,835 Speaker 1: as well change the name from CBS to well, we're 356 00:25:47,835 --> 00:25:51,675 Speaker 1: going to say CBS stands for completely bullshit. Now, while 357 00:25:51,715 --> 00:25:54,075 Speaker 1: a management role is not said to be on the table, 358 00:25:54,355 --> 00:25:56,595 Speaker 1: it would not be out of the range of possibilities 359 00:25:56,675 --> 00:25:59,195 Speaker 1: that she could be named as an on air contributor 360 00:25:59,435 --> 00:26:04,235 Speaker 1: or perhaps even given a coveted correspondent position On sixty minutes, 361 00:26:06,515 --> 00:26:09,555 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss is the asshole who thinks everyone and everything 362 00:26:09,715 --> 00:26:14,035 Speaker 1: is woke and anti Semitic, that criticism of Israel is 363 00:26:14,435 --> 00:26:18,835 Speaker 1: anti Semitism. She wrote her way out of real journalism. 364 00:26:19,075 --> 00:26:21,235 Speaker 1: She now provides a platform for people who were never 365 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:24,275 Speaker 1: good enough to be in it. If you think CBS 366 00:26:24,315 --> 00:26:28,235 Speaker 1: has already hit rock bottom, no weight. There's still the 367 00:26:28,355 --> 00:26:33,195 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss basement to hit. The runner up Kerry Lake, 368 00:26:33,915 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: you know, the fired Phoenix weather caster who looks like 369 00:26:37,675 --> 00:26:42,515 Speaker 1: the marionette from the old Act Whylon Flowers and Madam 370 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:46,835 Speaker 1: look it up? What of all things did this country 371 00:26:46,915 --> 00:26:51,515 Speaker 1: actually need during Trump's private war of obliteration against Iran? 372 00:26:52,835 --> 00:26:59,155 Speaker 1: The one that ablittered nothing propaganda or information against Iranian 373 00:26:59,235 --> 00:27:05,795 Speaker 1: propaganda broadcast into Iran? What did it get dead? From 374 00:27:05,795 --> 00:27:08,635 Speaker 1: Axios mid a historic flashpoint in the Middle East. The 375 00:27:08,675 --> 00:27:12,035 Speaker 1: Voice of America has broadcast just seventy five minutes of 376 00:27:12,075 --> 00:27:15,235 Speaker 1: content targeted to its audience in Iran over the last 377 00:27:15,275 --> 00:27:19,275 Speaker 1: seventy two hours. This is a little old. A source 378 00:27:19,315 --> 00:27:22,755 Speaker 1: familiar with the schedule said the programming was limited to 379 00:27:22,915 --> 00:27:28,075 Speaker 1: just one show for around thirty minutes Sunday morning. I 380 00:27:28,075 --> 00:27:31,435 Speaker 1: believe it was Breakfast with the Beatles, and another for 381 00:27:31,475 --> 00:27:35,275 Speaker 1: around forty five minutes Monday morning. The source said nothing 382 00:27:35,315 --> 00:27:39,195 Speaker 1: against Breakfast with the Beatles. Before the Trump administration's efforts 383 00:27:39,195 --> 00:27:43,035 Speaker 1: to gut funding for USAGM and its outlets, the Voice 384 00:27:43,075 --> 00:27:46,115 Speaker 1: of America broadcast twenty four to seven for its Iranian audience. 385 00:27:47,075 --> 00:27:51,715 Speaker 1: Why it matters? Duh? Driving the news. Carrie Lake, special 386 00:27:51,715 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: advisor to VOA's parent agency, the US Agency for Global Media, 387 00:27:56,195 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: last week said termination notices were sent to six hundred 388 00:27:58,715 --> 00:28:05,155 Speaker 1: and thirty nine employees at USAGM and VOA. One time 389 00:28:05,195 --> 00:28:09,155 Speaker 1: Carrie Lake actually does something that isn't about her and 390 00:28:09,315 --> 00:28:14,155 Speaker 1: how she is the greatest martyr this side of whiny gains. 391 00:28:15,475 --> 00:28:20,435 Speaker 1: The one time she does something, it actually hurt Trump's 392 00:28:20,435 --> 00:28:24,515 Speaker 1: private war against Iran. I sure hope Trump doesn't hear 393 00:28:24,555 --> 00:28:30,155 Speaker 1: about this. Speaking of which our winner de mensaed Trump himself. 394 00:28:30,755 --> 00:28:35,075 Speaker 1: We all know he hates black people, Jews, Hispanics, the truth, 395 00:28:35,475 --> 00:28:38,715 Speaker 1: anybody who looks at him, funny Muslims, members of his 396 00:28:38,755 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: own family, foreigners, sane people. And there's another like three 397 00:28:43,675 --> 00:28:46,435 Speaker 1: thousand names on this list, but I'm going to skip them. 398 00:28:46,635 --> 00:28:51,275 Speaker 1: But we tend to overlook his homophobia. It's transactional homophobia. 399 00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:55,435 Speaker 1: Roy Cone, who tutored Trump's psychoses and various expertises in 400 00:28:55,475 --> 00:28:57,915 Speaker 1: the Evil Arts, he was gay, But of course roy 401 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:02,355 Speaker 1: Cone hated himself for that, so this fits. This is 402 00:29:02,395 --> 00:29:04,155 Speaker 1: not the first time he did this. He did this 403 00:29:04,315 --> 00:29:06,555 Speaker 1: just before the election. But see if you can spot 404 00:29:06,675 --> 00:29:10,155 Speaker 1: the homophobia. The sites that were hit in Iran were 405 00:29:10,195 --> 00:29:12,435 Speaker 1: totally destroyed, and everyone knows that only the fake news 406 00:29:12,435 --> 00:29:14,795 Speaker 1: would say anything different in order to try and demean 407 00:29:14,835 --> 00:29:16,995 Speaker 1: as much as possible, and even they say that they 408 00:29:17,035 --> 00:29:20,155 Speaker 1: were pretty well destroyed. Working especially hard on this falsehood 409 00:29:20,235 --> 00:29:32,515 Speaker 1: is Allison Cooper of fake News CNN. Allison Cooper, I 410 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:36,355 Speaker 1: have a long history with Anderson Cooper. I think he'd 411 00:29:36,395 --> 00:29:38,195 Speaker 1: say hello to me if I said hello to him, 412 00:29:38,195 --> 00:29:41,435 Speaker 1: and that'd be the end of the conversation, and probably fine. 413 00:29:42,235 --> 00:29:45,075 Speaker 1: I think just too many times he missed opportunities to 414 00:29:45,115 --> 00:29:47,675 Speaker 1: stand up for what was right. Other times he stood 415 00:29:47,755 --> 00:29:50,995 Speaker 1: up for what was right. But that's irrelevant to this. 416 00:29:53,715 --> 00:29:56,195 Speaker 1: You don't judge whether or not to say something when 417 00:29:56,235 --> 00:29:58,595 Speaker 1: you read something like that based on your own personal 418 00:29:58,635 --> 00:30:02,275 Speaker 1: experience with somebody. Because one of the most reliable ways 419 00:30:02,315 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: of mainstreaming hatred, violent filth, prejudice, repression in government, the 420 00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:14,875 Speaker 1: death of freedom of speech, one of the most reliable 421 00:30:14,915 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: ways to allow eventual murderers and persecutors to begin to 422 00:30:18,715 --> 00:30:22,435 Speaker 1: lay the groundwork to try to extinguish a class of people, 423 00:30:22,715 --> 00:30:25,355 Speaker 1: a group of people because of who they are is 424 00:30:25,395 --> 00:30:29,115 Speaker 1: to stop calling them out every time they take a 425 00:30:29,155 --> 00:30:34,675 Speaker 1: step towards that, Ah, well, that's just Trump Allison group, 426 00:30:34,795 --> 00:30:38,875 Speaker 1: So the hell it is. In any other time, any 427 00:30:38,955 --> 00:30:43,715 Speaker 1: politician who made that reference once about anybody, let alone 428 00:30:43,715 --> 00:30:48,315 Speaker 1: a public figure, would be finished. Within weeks. You'd be saying, 429 00:30:48,395 --> 00:30:53,275 Speaker 1: whatever happened to that Trump guy? Erased from public discourse 430 00:30:53,555 --> 00:30:57,395 Speaker 1: because we stood for something, Because exhausted as we might 431 00:30:57,435 --> 00:31:01,075 Speaker 1: have been by war or depression or conflict, or prejudice 432 00:31:01,155 --> 00:31:08,915 Speaker 1: or hatred, we shamed the malefactors among us. The Cuomos 433 00:31:08,955 --> 00:31:14,515 Speaker 1: of this world disappeared after what they did. Donald Trump 434 00:31:14,835 --> 00:31:18,955 Speaker 1: is the worst person who has ever lived in this country, 435 00:31:19,395 --> 00:31:24,435 Speaker 1: the worst. It is no longer close. The insult against 436 00:31:24,515 --> 00:31:31,355 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper, against gay men, against LGBTQ, against any minority group, 437 00:31:31,635 --> 00:31:36,075 Speaker 1: against just anybody who dares to combat Trump's lies and 438 00:31:36,195 --> 00:31:41,435 Speaker 1: delusions and delusions of grandeur with reality, anybody who dares 439 00:31:41,555 --> 00:31:44,435 Speaker 1: to take reality and hit Trump in the fucking face 440 00:31:44,475 --> 00:31:49,915 Speaker 1: with it. That insult against those people is an insult 441 00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:56,115 Speaker 1: against you, and against me, and against everyone in America. 442 00:31:56,555 --> 00:32:00,795 Speaker 1: And when we ignore it for one second, it lets 443 00:32:00,955 --> 00:32:06,715 Speaker 1: Trump retain strength. And draining Trump of all of his 444 00:32:06,875 --> 00:32:16,915 Speaker 1: strength is our only chance of survival. Trump homophobe, truly 445 00:32:17,115 --> 00:32:23,555 Speaker 1: unquestionably and permanently two Day's worst person in the world. 446 00:32:38,275 --> 00:32:41,835 Speaker 1: There is a huge oral history of ESPN from twenty 447 00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:44,875 Speaker 1: eleven by Jim Miller, and most of it is pretty good, 448 00:32:44,955 --> 00:32:47,635 Speaker 1: but there's one line in it that triggered this recollection. 449 00:32:48,355 --> 00:32:51,155 Speaker 1: The executive vice president of the company in nineteen ninety 450 00:32:51,195 --> 00:32:53,755 Speaker 1: seven was named Howard Katz, and in this ESPN book 451 00:32:53,755 --> 00:32:56,555 Speaker 1: he was quoted as saying, I didn't fire Keith. I 452 00:32:56,715 --> 00:33:00,755 Speaker 1: just chose not to renew his contract. And then there's 453 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:02,395 Speaker 1: a couple of quotes from guys I never heard of 454 00:33:02,435 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: who said, no, we fired him. None of it's truth. 455 00:33:05,475 --> 00:33:08,595 Speaker 1: Howard and I got along surprisingly well at ESPN and 456 00:33:08,675 --> 00:33:10,675 Speaker 1: even better since, so I'm just going to assume he 457 00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:14,675 Speaker 1: misremembered all this, and he's right, I mean, legally, he 458 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:18,155 Speaker 1: chose not to renew my contract early in nineteen ninety seven, 459 00:33:18,195 --> 00:33:20,635 Speaker 1: and a couple of weeks later, instead he offered me 460 00:33:20,675 --> 00:33:23,835 Speaker 1: a new four year contract which would have basically doubled 461 00:33:23,835 --> 00:33:26,715 Speaker 1: my salary. And even after I had said no thanks 462 00:33:26,715 --> 00:33:29,795 Speaker 1: and I signed with NBC, the then president of ABC, 463 00:33:29,995 --> 00:33:33,155 Speaker 1: Bob Eiger, whatever happened to him, tried to get me 464 00:33:33,355 --> 00:33:36,035 Speaker 1: to back out of the NBC deal to renege on 465 00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:39,275 Speaker 1: it and then sign a new deal at ESPN. So 466 00:33:39,315 --> 00:33:43,835 Speaker 1: they offered me two new deals after they didn't renew 467 00:33:43,915 --> 00:33:47,475 Speaker 1: my old contract. See how this works. In ninety six 468 00:33:47,515 --> 00:33:49,355 Speaker 1: and ninety seven, it was no secret that my first 469 00:33:49,435 --> 00:33:52,995 Speaker 1: choice was to leave ESPN. I had come within hours 470 00:33:53,035 --> 00:33:54,995 Speaker 1: of asking to be let out of my deal. In 471 00:33:55,035 --> 00:33:58,115 Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen ninety six, a radio station in Chicago, 472 00:33:58,315 --> 00:34:02,075 Speaker 1: WMVP had wanted me to go do the afternoon drive 473 00:34:02,195 --> 00:34:05,235 Speaker 1: show there, a mix of news and sports, and they 474 00:34:05,235 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: were offering me twice the money I was getting to 475 00:34:07,955 --> 00:34:11,635 Speaker 1: host SportsCenter, and I was ready to go. Loved it, 476 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:14,475 Speaker 1: had a great week there. They wined me, they dined me, 477 00:34:14,515 --> 00:34:17,795 Speaker 1: and everybody offered me a free beer. Welcome to Chicago, 478 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:21,635 Speaker 1: you're from out of town. And then ownership of the 479 00:34:21,715 --> 00:34:24,355 Speaker 1: radio station simply pulled the plug on the station it 480 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:27,515 Speaker 1: was in thirty first place and said they could save 481 00:34:27,555 --> 00:34:29,995 Speaker 1: a lot more money by simply rebroadcasting what was on 482 00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:33,675 Speaker 1: FM radio. And eventually, and this would have been interesting 483 00:34:33,715 --> 00:34:37,955 Speaker 1: had I gone to Chicago. Eventually the owners sold WMVP 484 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:43,355 Speaker 1: to ESPN. Anyway, my ESPN deal was set to expire 485 00:34:43,435 --> 00:34:46,515 Speaker 1: on December thirty first, nineteen ninety seven, but they had 486 00:34:46,795 --> 00:34:50,515 Speaker 1: the option to extend it for I can't remember either 487 00:34:50,755 --> 00:34:53,555 Speaker 1: either for a year after that or two years, but 488 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:56,915 Speaker 1: they had to notify me really early in ninety seven, 489 00:34:57,035 --> 00:35:01,475 Speaker 1: and instead, on February eighteenth, nineteen ninety seven, Howard Katz 490 00:35:01,515 --> 00:35:04,035 Speaker 1: proposed to my then agent that we tear up the 491 00:35:04,035 --> 00:35:07,275 Speaker 1: contract and do a new four year deal that started 492 00:35:07,275 --> 00:35:10,515 Speaker 1: at seven hundred thousand dollars a year and covered a 493 00:35:10,635 --> 00:35:13,715 Speaker 1: radio show with Dan Patrick, and the Sunday edition of 494 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:17,515 Speaker 1: Sports Center, and the sp Awards ceremonies, and the Internet 495 00:35:17,555 --> 00:35:21,035 Speaker 1: and everything else. This was a lot of money for 496 00:35:21,275 --> 00:35:25,435 Speaker 1: ESPN in nineteen ninety seven, seven hundred thousand dollars a year, 497 00:35:26,235 --> 00:35:29,075 Speaker 1: so we played around with that for a while, but 498 00:35:29,155 --> 00:35:31,595 Speaker 1: I didn't really want to go into radio full time, 499 00:35:31,955 --> 00:35:35,355 Speaker 1: not then when I still had dark hair. So on 500 00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:38,075 Speaker 1: April fourth, nineteen ninety seven, Howard Katz came back with 501 00:35:38,155 --> 00:35:41,475 Speaker 1: another offer, three Sports centers a week plus some radio, 502 00:35:42,115 --> 00:35:44,835 Speaker 1: starting at five hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. 503 00:35:45,355 --> 00:35:47,915 Speaker 1: I noticed that this was less than the first offer, 504 00:35:48,395 --> 00:35:51,675 Speaker 1: so two weeks later, at the first ever Jackie Robinson 505 00:35:51,755 --> 00:35:54,435 Speaker 1: Night at Chase Stadium in New York Howard came up 506 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:56,555 Speaker 1: to me and asked me, in front of everybody in 507 00:35:56,635 --> 00:36:00,235 Speaker 1: our booth, ranging from Chris Berman to Robin Roberts, to 508 00:36:00,275 --> 00:36:03,915 Speaker 1: all the producers, and briefly to President Bill Clinton, he 509 00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:06,475 Speaker 1: asked me if we were close on this new deal 510 00:36:06,515 --> 00:36:09,395 Speaker 1: that he'd offered me. I got angry at him. He 511 00:36:09,475 --> 00:36:11,315 Speaker 1: got angry at me for getting angry at him, and 512 00:36:11,355 --> 00:36:12,995 Speaker 1: I said, you know, forget it. And what's more, it 513 00:36:12,995 --> 00:36:14,955 Speaker 1: makes no sense for me to hang around here as 514 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:19,075 Speaker 1: a lame duck. Howard wait, Howard the duck, and he 515 00:36:19,195 --> 00:36:21,315 Speaker 1: calmed down. He said I could look at other jobs 516 00:36:21,395 --> 00:36:23,995 Speaker 1: and we'd let things cool off and talk again about 517 00:36:24,035 --> 00:36:25,915 Speaker 1: a new deal in a few weeks after I looked 518 00:36:25,955 --> 00:36:27,595 Speaker 1: around to see if it was something I'd rather do 519 00:36:27,675 --> 00:36:30,595 Speaker 1: than be at ESPN, and if it still wasn't going anywhere, 520 00:36:30,675 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: we would agree on a date early in the summer 521 00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:35,555 Speaker 1: and I could leave six months before the contract officially ended. 522 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:39,395 Speaker 1: And then three huge things happened about this that most 523 00:36:39,435 --> 00:36:42,955 Speaker 1: people still don't know to this day. Even after all that, 524 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:46,155 Speaker 1: When I called Phil Mushnick of the New York Post 525 00:36:46,435 --> 00:36:48,395 Speaker 1: and Richard Sandomir of the New York Times, and I 526 00:36:48,435 --> 00:36:51,635 Speaker 1: told them I would be leaving ESPN, and it appeared 527 00:36:51,635 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: I would be going to go to Court TV to 528 00:36:54,435 --> 00:36:56,875 Speaker 1: be the host and executive producer of my own sports show, 529 00:36:56,955 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: four nights a week. I almost stayed at ESPN once 530 00:37:02,115 --> 00:37:04,275 Speaker 1: it got out that I was leaving. I got a 531 00:37:04,355 --> 00:37:07,035 Speaker 1: letter for a viewer who told me that his son, 532 00:37:07,075 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: who had autism, had been at his other son's little 533 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:13,795 Speaker 1: league game, and when his brother banged out a base hit, 534 00:37:13,995 --> 00:37:18,675 Speaker 1: this kid, who had rarely ever spoken in his life, 535 00:37:19,075 --> 00:37:24,515 Speaker 1: suddenly shouted out one of my catchphrases. This guy said, 536 00:37:25,075 --> 00:37:28,835 Speaker 1: he hit the ball real hard. Then there was a flyball, 537 00:37:28,915 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: and the boy said it's deep, and I don't think 538 00:37:31,155 --> 00:37:35,555 Speaker 1: it's playable. Then they went home, and this virtually noncommunicative 539 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:43,435 Speaker 1: child began to draw illustrations of my catchphrases. For whatever reason, 540 00:37:43,515 --> 00:37:46,995 Speaker 1: I had triggered some kind of blossoming by this child 541 00:37:47,635 --> 00:37:51,275 Speaker 1: at his brother, and his father sent me a book 542 00:37:51,715 --> 00:37:57,035 Speaker 1: of the child's illustrations of my catchphrases. I am not 543 00:37:57,035 --> 00:37:59,515 Speaker 1: trying to suggest I really had anything to do with this. 544 00:37:59,995 --> 00:38:03,595 Speaker 1: It was good fortune and circumstance, and probably something to 545 00:38:03,635 --> 00:38:06,195 Speaker 1: do with the tone of my voice, nothing more. But 546 00:38:06,275 --> 00:38:08,675 Speaker 1: I was very moved by this, and I remain so 547 00:38:09,635 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: and by other things. People wrote to me or wrote 548 00:38:11,675 --> 00:38:13,675 Speaker 1: in the press about how much the show Dan and 549 00:38:13,715 --> 00:38:15,755 Speaker 1: I did meant to them, and I went back to 550 00:38:15,755 --> 00:38:18,635 Speaker 1: Howard Katz and I said, look, I know I've been impossible. 551 00:38:19,075 --> 00:38:21,475 Speaker 1: You have to understand that from my perspective, the company 552 00:38:21,515 --> 00:38:24,515 Speaker 1: has also been impossible. But Dan and I created too 553 00:38:24,555 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: good a show to let it die. When I go 554 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:29,435 Speaker 1: here to Court TV, I'm only going to work Monday 555 00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:32,235 Speaker 1: through Thursday on this new thing. If you will send 556 00:38:32,235 --> 00:38:35,555 Speaker 1: a car to take me to and from Bristol every 557 00:38:35,595 --> 00:38:39,275 Speaker 1: Sunday and give me some tokensal give me fifty thousand 558 00:38:39,315 --> 00:38:41,675 Speaker 1: dollars or something, I'll just do the Sunday night show 559 00:38:41,715 --> 00:38:45,155 Speaker 1: for you every week. You'll never see me, I'll never 560 00:38:45,235 --> 00:38:48,355 Speaker 1: see you. It's the show that has the highest factor 561 00:38:48,355 --> 00:38:53,155 Speaker 1: of management control. It's basically coloring in by numbers, and 562 00:38:53,235 --> 00:38:56,355 Speaker 1: it reruns all morning on Monday. So forty percent of 563 00:38:56,395 --> 00:38:58,115 Speaker 1: the people who see Dan and I during the week 564 00:38:58,195 --> 00:39:00,875 Speaker 1: they see this one show. That's it. If you want 565 00:39:00,915 --> 00:39:03,595 Speaker 1: some other stuff for me to do, like radio commentaries, great, 566 00:39:03,595 --> 00:39:06,915 Speaker 1: we can negotiate that, but we should not let this die. 567 00:39:07,275 --> 00:39:10,435 Speaker 1: At least let's have it on once a week, and 568 00:39:10,475 --> 00:39:13,555 Speaker 1: Howard Katz said, Okay, let me think about this. It 569 00:39:13,995 --> 00:39:16,475 Speaker 1: sounds really good. And he got back to me the 570 00:39:16,475 --> 00:39:18,155 Speaker 1: next day and he said it was the most difficult 571 00:39:18,155 --> 00:39:20,515 Speaker 1: decision he had ever made in this business, but he 572 00:39:20,715 --> 00:39:24,995 Speaker 1: just couldn't do it. It established too much of a precedent, 573 00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:28,395 Speaker 1: especially the idea that somebody could work at ESPN and 574 00:39:28,595 --> 00:39:33,795 Speaker 1: also at some other TV operation. He put it very bluntly, 575 00:39:34,355 --> 00:39:37,755 Speaker 1: if ESPN was not the sole employer of its people, 576 00:39:38,115 --> 00:39:41,315 Speaker 1: it could not control them by threatening to fire them. 577 00:39:41,635 --> 00:39:44,475 Speaker 1: And he looked at me and he said, especially you, 578 00:39:45,835 --> 00:39:47,835 Speaker 1: And in the same sentence he said, look, we'd love 579 00:39:47,915 --> 00:39:50,075 Speaker 1: to continue the relationship, though we see lots of ways 580 00:39:50,075 --> 00:39:53,115 Speaker 1: you could fit into ESPN Classic, like once a week 581 00:39:53,195 --> 00:39:54,995 Speaker 1: or once a month or whatever, and we'd like to 582 00:39:55,035 --> 00:39:58,075 Speaker 1: get in on the bidding for these radio commentaries that 583 00:39:58,115 --> 00:40:01,195 Speaker 1: you're going to do on the side. Well, it all 584 00:40:01,275 --> 00:40:05,555 Speaker 1: ended surprisingly amicably. I decided to go to NBC and 585 00:40:05,715 --> 00:40:09,395 Speaker 1: NBC Sports instead of Court TV, and as I signed 586 00:40:09,395 --> 00:40:13,235 Speaker 1: the contract, I called the ESPN president, Steve Bornstein and 587 00:40:13,275 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: the head of Sports Center, John Walsh. I called them 588 00:40:15,835 --> 00:40:18,755 Speaker 1: from the office of the head of NBC Sports Dick Eversol, 589 00:40:19,675 --> 00:40:21,275 Speaker 1: and in my diary, I can't tell if that was 590 00:40:21,355 --> 00:40:24,755 Speaker 1: June nineteenth, nineteen ninety seven or June twentieth, nineteen ninety seven, 591 00:40:24,795 --> 00:40:27,355 Speaker 1: but I made the calls, and it was Eversall's idea, 592 00:40:27,955 --> 00:40:30,395 Speaker 1: call them now, call them right now, it'll matter later. 593 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:36,115 Speaker 1: The funniest thing was the following Monday, June twenty third, 594 00:40:36,435 --> 00:40:39,395 Speaker 1: I was packing up my stuff in my house in Connecticut. 595 00:40:40,035 --> 00:40:42,355 Speaker 1: I am all set, and I am officially beginning my 596 00:40:42,395 --> 00:40:45,635 Speaker 1: first week not working for ESPN and instead working for NBC. 597 00:40:46,195 --> 00:40:50,515 Speaker 1: And the phone rings, and it's John Walsh in Los 598 00:40:50,555 --> 00:40:53,595 Speaker 1: Angeles for something, and he has to talk to my 599 00:40:53,715 --> 00:40:56,955 Speaker 1: agent immediately. Do you know where she is right now? 600 00:40:57,275 --> 00:40:59,635 Speaker 1: Howard Katz and I have just spoken with Bob Iger 601 00:41:00,115 --> 00:41:03,155 Speaker 1: and he wants to present a primetime proposal to you 602 00:41:03,595 --> 00:41:08,595 Speaker 1: for ABC and you can continue at ESPN. And I laughed, 603 00:41:08,595 --> 00:41:11,635 Speaker 1: and I said, John, I signed with NBC last week 604 00:41:12,115 --> 00:41:15,795 Speaker 1: the World Series and the news show and Super Bowl stuff. 605 00:41:15,795 --> 00:41:19,715 Speaker 1: Remember I called you from Dick Ebersoll's office. You remember 606 00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:22,835 Speaker 1: it was Friday or Thursday, whatever it was. We're having 607 00:41:22,915 --> 00:41:28,035 Speaker 1: the news conference today and he is dead serious and 608 00:41:28,075 --> 00:41:32,555 Speaker 1: he says to me, oh oh oh, and there's a 609 00:41:32,595 --> 00:41:34,875 Speaker 1: long pause. Well, well, I still need to talk to 610 00:41:34,915 --> 00:41:38,915 Speaker 1: your agent. Well. I had known Bob Iger, who had 611 00:41:38,915 --> 00:41:41,875 Speaker 1: apparently precipitated this phone call, since I was in college 612 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:43,915 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. He had given me an hour 613 00:41:43,955 --> 00:41:47,075 Speaker 1: of his time just for career advice, because I had 614 00:41:47,155 --> 00:41:49,635 Speaker 1: interned at the TV station for which his first wife 615 00:41:49,675 --> 00:41:51,835 Speaker 1: had been a news producer, Channel five in New York. 616 00:41:51,995 --> 00:41:54,355 Speaker 1: I told that story I think two weeks ago, and 617 00:41:54,435 --> 00:41:57,635 Speaker 1: Bob was wonderful to me. So I called Bob and 618 00:41:57,675 --> 00:42:00,755 Speaker 1: I explained what had happened, and he said, Steve Bornstein 619 00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:03,275 Speaker 1: only told me that you were leaving this morning. I'm 620 00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:06,315 Speaker 1: very very sorry. I knew there was contentious negotiations about 621 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:08,115 Speaker 1: a new deal for you, but I had no clue 622 00:42:08,115 --> 00:42:10,235 Speaker 1: it was at the point where you might actually leave. 623 00:42:10,475 --> 00:42:12,515 Speaker 1: I should have known. That's my fault. That's why I 624 00:42:12,555 --> 00:42:14,315 Speaker 1: told John to make the call. He did. Trust me. 625 00:42:14,355 --> 00:42:16,515 Speaker 1: If I had known, would have been totally different. I 626 00:42:16,515 --> 00:42:18,155 Speaker 1: would have made it right by you. You would have 627 00:42:18,235 --> 00:42:20,875 Speaker 1: wanted to stay. And if it doesn't work at NBC, 628 00:42:20,995 --> 00:42:23,475 Speaker 1: you call me directly and I'll bring you back here myself. 629 00:42:25,475 --> 00:42:29,195 Speaker 1: I mean the ending was so unexpectedly and surprisingly pleasant 630 00:42:29,515 --> 00:42:32,955 Speaker 1: that even when my new bosses at MSNBC suddenly announced 631 00:42:32,995 --> 00:42:35,395 Speaker 1: I think it was in newsweek that they were going 632 00:42:35,435 --> 00:42:38,835 Speaker 1: to call my program The Big Show, which was our 633 00:42:38,955 --> 00:42:41,835 Speaker 1: nickname for Sports Center at ESPN, the Big Show. But 634 00:42:41,915 --> 00:42:43,995 Speaker 1: they hadn't told anybody at ESPN that we were going 635 00:42:44,075 --> 00:42:47,195 Speaker 1: to call our MSNBC show the Big Show. It was 636 00:42:47,315 --> 00:42:49,595 Speaker 1: me who got on the phone with Howard Katz and 637 00:42:49,635 --> 00:42:52,795 Speaker 1: a couple of other people at ESPN to apologize and 638 00:42:52,835 --> 00:42:55,955 Speaker 1: to make sure they were okay with it. So even 639 00:42:55,995 --> 00:42:59,675 Speaker 1: after my ESPN career was officially over and all chance 640 00:42:59,715 --> 00:43:02,555 Speaker 1: of my returning was dead, we tried to revive it, 641 00:43:02,915 --> 00:43:05,395 Speaker 1: both of us, Howard Katz and me, in good faith. 642 00:43:06,155 --> 00:43:08,515 Speaker 1: And I don't think Bob Eiger was blowing smoke at me. 643 00:43:08,515 --> 00:43:11,755 Speaker 1: He had no reason to. And even after all that, 644 00:43:12,515 --> 00:43:16,075 Speaker 1: the parting was non nuclear. I think they sent me 645 00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:19,155 Speaker 1: a fruit basket for my first night at MSNBC on 646 00:43:19,275 --> 00:43:24,275 Speaker 1: October first, and then it all blew up. John Walsh 647 00:43:24,315 --> 00:43:28,915 Speaker 1: called the TV sports columnist at USA Today, Rudy Marski, 648 00:43:29,795 --> 00:43:32,915 Speaker 1: and gave him my first set of ratings from MSNBC, 649 00:43:33,315 --> 00:43:36,395 Speaker 1: just to try to make me look like I couldn't 650 00:43:36,395 --> 00:43:41,435 Speaker 1: succeed without ESPN. Marski told me that direct quote. They 651 00:43:41,475 --> 00:43:44,515 Speaker 1: want to punish you publicly. Walsh has been pressuring me 652 00:43:44,595 --> 00:43:47,315 Speaker 1: to run the very poor ratings, and he said, I'm 653 00:43:47,315 --> 00:43:48,795 Speaker 1: going to finally do it. I just wanted to give 654 00:43:48,795 --> 00:43:51,995 Speaker 1: you a little warning and maybe you have a comment. Well, 655 00:43:52,035 --> 00:43:54,675 Speaker 1: that set the tone for the next five years of warfare, 656 00:43:55,955 --> 00:43:59,395 Speaker 1: and it was nuclear pretty quickly. But this impression that 657 00:43:59,635 --> 00:44:02,475 Speaker 1: ESPN chose to dismiss me or not renew me, or 658 00:44:02,515 --> 00:44:06,115 Speaker 1: not bring me back, it's nonsense. Howard did not not 659 00:44:06,355 --> 00:44:08,675 Speaker 1: renew me. Instead, he offered to double my salary if 660 00:44:08,715 --> 00:44:12,915 Speaker 1: I stayed. If I had signed with NBC, Iiger was 661 00:44:12,915 --> 00:44:14,955 Speaker 1: still trying to get me to back out after I 662 00:44:14,955 --> 00:44:17,635 Speaker 1: had signed with NBC and stay at ESPN and ABC. 663 00:44:19,475 --> 00:44:22,435 Speaker 1: The irony of this minor detail from about nineteen ninety 664 00:44:22,435 --> 00:44:26,315 Speaker 1: seven printed in twenty eleven, I think is that I 665 00:44:26,355 --> 00:44:29,715 Speaker 1: had already returned to ESPN by the time it was printed. 666 00:44:30,195 --> 00:44:32,395 Speaker 1: I took an hour out of my day at MSNBC 667 00:44:32,515 --> 00:44:34,835 Speaker 1: to go on with Dan Patrick on his ESPN radio 668 00:44:34,875 --> 00:44:36,995 Speaker 1: show from two thousand and five through two thousand and seven. 669 00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:40,595 Speaker 1: A year after that book, came out with that quote 670 00:44:40,635 --> 00:44:43,435 Speaker 1: in it. Twenty twelve, I was talking to the executives 671 00:44:43,435 --> 00:44:46,515 Speaker 1: at ESPN about going back full time, and a year 672 00:44:46,595 --> 00:44:49,835 Speaker 1: later I did to launch a nightly show on ESPN two. 673 00:44:50,555 --> 00:44:53,035 Speaker 1: And that ended when they laid off like one hundred 674 00:44:53,035 --> 00:44:55,955 Speaker 1: million dollars worth of talent salaries in twenty fifteen. But 675 00:44:55,995 --> 00:44:59,515 Speaker 1: then I went back again in twenty eighteen and I 676 00:44:59,555 --> 00:45:02,235 Speaker 1: did Sports Center, and I did baseball games on radio 677 00:45:02,315 --> 00:45:04,475 Speaker 1: and on TV, and I did reports, and I did 678 00:45:04,675 --> 00:45:07,115 Speaker 1: commentaries and did the not top ten plays of the 679 00:45:07,115 --> 00:45:09,755 Speaker 1: week and on and on and on, and finally we 680 00:45:09,875 --> 00:45:12,795 Speaker 1: parted happily in the late summer of twenty twenty so 681 00:45:12,835 --> 00:45:15,315 Speaker 1: I could return to political coverage, and I knew they 682 00:45:15,315 --> 00:45:17,155 Speaker 1: wouldn't want that, and I didn't want to put it 683 00:45:17,195 --> 00:45:22,075 Speaker 1: on ESPN, and the unlikely result of that my partying 684 00:45:22,155 --> 00:45:26,475 Speaker 1: happily in twenty twenty. On the books at Disney, I 685 00:45:26,515 --> 00:45:34,435 Speaker 1: am listed as a Disney and ESPN retiree. I get 686 00:45:34,635 --> 00:45:40,235 Speaker 1: benefits I retired from ESPN. I mean, they didn't give 687 00:45:40,275 --> 00:45:43,275 Speaker 1: me a gold watch or anything, but I'm technically a retiree. 688 00:45:43,795 --> 00:45:46,115 Speaker 1: And if you had predicted that in nineteen ninety seven 689 00:45:46,435 --> 00:45:50,315 Speaker 1: or twenty eleven. Well, you know the cliche. I bring 690 00:45:50,355 --> 00:45:52,755 Speaker 1: all this up again because I don't know how often 691 00:45:52,835 --> 00:45:55,115 Speaker 1: I have thought of that father and his two boys, 692 00:45:55,715 --> 00:45:57,795 Speaker 1: and the one who started speaking, but only in my 693 00:45:57,915 --> 00:46:02,155 Speaker 1: catch phrases. I would guess it's at least once a month. 694 00:46:03,835 --> 00:46:05,755 Speaker 1: Those boys would have to be in their thirties by 695 00:46:05,835 --> 00:46:10,795 Speaker 1: now or nearly, and I wonder often of what has 696 00:46:10,835 --> 00:46:14,275 Speaker 1: become of them, and I sure hope they are well. 697 00:46:27,275 --> 00:46:29,035 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 698 00:46:29,075 --> 00:46:33,995 Speaker 1: you for listening. Fan Duel Sports Network, that's the new address, 699 00:46:34,955 --> 00:46:42,555 Speaker 1: five networks just covering baseball fiftieth anniversary. In the business 700 00:46:42,595 --> 00:46:46,235 Speaker 1: is October, if there's still a business, if there's still 701 00:46:46,235 --> 00:46:50,115 Speaker 1: a planet in October. Most of our Countdown music was arranged, produced, 702 00:46:50,115 --> 00:46:52,875 Speaker 1: and performed by Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel, the 703 00:46:52,955 --> 00:46:56,235 Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown, and it was produced by TKO Brothers. 704 00:46:56,795 --> 00:47:00,795 Speaker 1: That's Brian and John and me. Mister Ray was on guitars, 705 00:47:00,835 --> 00:47:03,675 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and keyboards. 706 00:47:03,995 --> 00:47:06,795 Speaker 1: Hour sit here and fifthy. Musical comments are by the 707 00:47:06,795 --> 00:47:10,675 Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, the Olderman theme 708 00:47:10,715 --> 00:47:14,275 Speaker 1: from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis, appears courtesy 709 00:47:14,275 --> 00:47:17,435 Speaker 1: of ESPN, Inc. And it is the sports music other 710 00:47:17,555 --> 00:47:20,155 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns allowed. 711 00:47:21,075 --> 00:47:24,435 Speaker 1: My announcer today because we were talking about New York 712 00:47:25,155 --> 00:47:28,315 Speaker 1: was my friend Clarie David doing the impression of the 713 00:47:28,355 --> 00:47:34,435 Speaker 1: old Yankees' public address announcer Bob Shepherd. Everything else was 714 00:47:34,475 --> 00:47:39,315 Speaker 1: as always my fault. Let's countdown for today, day one 715 00:47:39,355 --> 00:47:42,955 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty seven of America held hostage again at 716 00:47:42,995 --> 00:47:45,755 Speaker 1: just one three hundred and seven days until the scheduled 717 00:47:45,795 --> 00:47:48,995 Speaker 1: end of his lame duck and lame brained term. Unless 718 00:47:48,995 --> 00:47:54,035 Speaker 1: putin or musk remove him sooner or advance does where 719 00:47:54,075 --> 00:47:58,635 Speaker 1: the actuarial tables do or we do. He did Iran 720 00:47:58,795 --> 00:48:03,235 Speaker 1: because he thinks it will help him domestically. All that 721 00:48:03,275 --> 00:48:08,555 Speaker 1: matters is that you say, is it blue? The next 722 00:48:08,595 --> 00:48:11,995 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Monday. Until that next one, I'm Keith Olberman. 723 00:48:12,075 --> 00:48:33,355 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. We 724 00:48:33,555 --> 00:48:37,315 Speaker 1: here is obliteration. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production 725 00:48:37,555 --> 00:48:42,515 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio 726 00:48:42,595 --> 00:48:46,275 Speaker 1: app Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts