1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:36,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Hi 2 00:00:36,635 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: for one, welcome our new insect overlords, and I welcome 3 00:00:42,995 --> 00:00:47,155 Speaker 1: them the same way Russian state television did by showing 4 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: naked pictures. 5 00:00:48,995 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 2: Of Milania Milania tramp, I will Milania. 6 00:00:59,755 --> 00:01:02,955 Speaker 1: If you don't speak Russian, that's Russian for do you 7 00:01:02,955 --> 00:01:05,875 Speaker 1: have any nude photos of your wife? Would you like some? 8 00:01:06,715 --> 00:01:09,995 Speaker 1: Thanks to Julia Davis, the invaluable Russian media monitor of 9 00:01:09,995 --> 00:01:13,955 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast, I think that underscores something. I think 10 00:01:13,995 --> 00:01:18,355 Speaker 1: that underscores that Putin is running president halfwit and choosing 11 00:01:18,395 --> 00:01:22,035 Speaker 1: his cabinet for him. That same Russian state TV channel 12 00:01:22,075 --> 00:01:25,075 Speaker 1: reported neither Mike Pompeo nor Nikki Haley would be in 13 00:01:25,115 --> 00:01:29,315 Speaker 1: that cabinet, long before Tucker Carlson did, and long before 14 00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:33,955 Speaker 1: Trump himself announced it. But moreover, I think the photos 15 00:01:33,995 --> 00:01:37,555 Speaker 1: are the final reminder to Trump that Trump no longer 16 00:01:37,635 --> 00:01:42,355 Speaker 1: has any claim on Putin, nor influence on Putin, nor 17 00:01:42,355 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: should he expect anything from Putin accept demands and instructions. 18 00:01:47,955 --> 00:01:51,035 Speaker 1: Two months and nine days before he again seizes power, 19 00:01:51,315 --> 00:01:54,395 Speaker 1: Trump is a lame duck, and while he and his 20 00:01:54,435 --> 00:01:57,235 Speaker 1: supporters here will certainly try to get him an unconstitutional 21 00:01:57,235 --> 00:02:00,315 Speaker 1: third term a it will be quite a feat, even 22 00:02:00,355 --> 00:02:04,435 Speaker 1: for fascists and a corrupt judiciary. And b Putin, who 23 00:02:04,435 --> 00:02:07,235 Speaker 1: did not called to congratulate Trump but waited until Trump 24 00:02:07,315 --> 00:02:11,995 Speaker 1: called him yesterday or Saturday, is obviously expecting that by 25 00:02:12,035 --> 00:02:15,835 Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty eight, Trump will be dead 26 00:02:16,035 --> 00:02:30,915 Speaker 1: by then, Thank you, Nancy Faust, I would assume if 27 00:02:30,915 --> 00:02:35,635 Speaker 1: Putin hasn't already selected Trump's successor maybe the name rhymes 28 00:02:35,635 --> 00:02:40,315 Speaker 1: with squeal On Tusk, maybe it rhymes with JV. Prance, 29 00:02:40,635 --> 00:02:44,955 Speaker 1: maybe it rhymes with Tucker Carlson. Whatever it is, he's 30 00:02:44,995 --> 00:02:48,275 Speaker 1: working on it now. If it's Trump's job to now 31 00:02:48,435 --> 00:02:51,355 Speaker 1: end birthright citizenship, that could work both ways, couldn't it. 32 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:53,155 Speaker 1: If he finds a way to say you're not an 33 00:02:53,195 --> 00:02:55,875 Speaker 1: American just because you're born here, your parents were born here, 34 00:02:56,195 --> 00:02:58,995 Speaker 1: surely he can find a way to say you are 35 00:02:59,115 --> 00:03:03,395 Speaker 1: an American even if you weren't born here. Elon, whoever 36 00:03:03,435 --> 00:03:07,435 Speaker 1: Putin's choice is, his wife does not have nude photographs 37 00:03:07,515 --> 00:03:10,235 Speaker 1: that can be run by Russian state television as part 38 00:03:10,235 --> 00:03:15,555 Speaker 1: of its news coverage of their election. Talk about rubbing 39 00:03:15,635 --> 00:03:19,955 Speaker 1: your face in it. It even appears Russia and the 40 00:03:19,995 --> 00:03:23,275 Speaker 1: Republicans have largely backed away from Robert F. Kennedy Junior 41 00:03:23,715 --> 00:03:26,715 Speaker 1: and dashed his hopes of becoming anything in the Trump 42 00:03:26,755 --> 00:03:33,395 Speaker 1: Reich more important than Secretary of Masturbation. Side show. Bobby 43 00:03:34,035 --> 00:03:36,675 Speaker 1: thought it was his time to shine now, from dead 44 00:03:36,715 --> 00:03:41,995 Speaker 1: bear cubs to whaleheads to brain worms. The day after 45 00:03:42,035 --> 00:03:44,555 Speaker 1: the election, he even laid out his vision. And remember, 46 00:03:44,555 --> 00:03:47,355 Speaker 1: his vision does not necessarily include anything that can actually 47 00:03:47,355 --> 00:03:50,635 Speaker 1: be seen, because it does not necessarily include anything that's 48 00:03:50,675 --> 00:03:54,675 Speaker 1: really happened. Chap has asked me to do three things. 49 00:03:55,355 --> 00:03:59,195 Speaker 1: Clean up the corruption in our government health agencies, return 50 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:02,715 Speaker 1: those agencies to their rich tradition of gold standard evidence 51 00:04:02,795 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: based science. Make Merica healthy again by ending the chronic 52 00:04:07,195 --> 00:04:10,595 Speaker 1: disease epidemic. This is being said by a man who 53 00:04:10,595 --> 00:04:14,875 Speaker 1: looks two hundred and six years old. The problem it 54 00:04:14,875 --> 00:04:18,035 Speaker 1: also looks like he didn't clear that post or the 55 00:04:18,155 --> 00:04:23,235 Speaker 1: MSNBC interview clip that it plays with Trump or with Russia. 56 00:04:24,035 --> 00:04:27,755 Speaker 1: As Kennedy went even further and threatened to eliminate all vaccines, 57 00:04:28,035 --> 00:04:31,475 Speaker 1: the Trumpists finally realized that, like Musk, Kennedy is not 58 00:04:31,555 --> 00:04:35,075 Speaker 1: there to help the old Man, but to supplant him 59 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:39,315 Speaker 1: inside Trump's camp. CNN Now reports questions have been raised 60 00:04:39,315 --> 00:04:42,915 Speaker 1: about whether Kennedy could get confirmed or obtain a security 61 00:04:42,955 --> 00:04:46,755 Speaker 1: clearance necessary for a cabinet level position, and even if 62 00:04:46,795 --> 00:04:49,155 Speaker 1: he could, they doubt Kennedy would want to go through 63 00:04:49,435 --> 00:04:54,235 Speaker 1: those processes. Quote, if you dump a bear in Central 64 00:04:54,355 --> 00:04:58,195 Speaker 1: Park and think you're above the law, you don't want 65 00:04:58,235 --> 00:05:01,395 Speaker 1: to have to go through that gauntlet of political correctness, 66 00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:06,195 Speaker 1: said a former Trump official briefed on the discussion. Trump 67 00:05:06,275 --> 00:05:10,795 Speaker 1: obviously wants the fewer connections to Central Park as can 68 00:05:10,835 --> 00:05:14,875 Speaker 1: be arranged. On the other hand, if if Bob has 69 00:05:14,915 --> 00:05:17,755 Speaker 1: to go back to his world of FaceTime, at least 70 00:05:17,755 --> 00:06:02,755 Speaker 1: he can focus on getting the nation to come together. No, 71 00:06:03,395 --> 00:06:06,955 Speaker 1: the election was not stolen, not in the way you're 72 00:06:06,995 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: thinking anyway. We Democrats and Liberals just never did fully 73 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:13,195 Speaker 1: understand how much into how many people to phrase the 74 00:06:13,355 --> 00:06:19,075 Speaker 1: economy only meant supermarket prices and household budgets. And by 75 00:06:19,075 --> 00:06:21,235 Speaker 1: the way, unlike everybody else telling you what went wrong, 76 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:23,475 Speaker 1: I did not know this a week ago, or you 77 00:06:23,475 --> 00:06:28,195 Speaker 1: know I would have mentioned it. Also, the Democratic Party 78 00:06:28,235 --> 00:06:30,995 Speaker 1: is not dead. That was not a landslide, and that 79 00:06:31,075 --> 00:06:35,075 Speaker 1: was not a disaster. As Bill sure, the Politics editor 80 00:06:35,075 --> 00:06:38,635 Speaker 1: of the Washington Monthly noted Democrats, after losing by two points, 81 00:06:38,795 --> 00:06:41,275 Speaker 1: our brand is in ashes. We need a complete overhaul. 82 00:06:41,395 --> 00:06:44,115 Speaker 1: Republicans after losing by four and a half points, Let's 83 00:06:44,195 --> 00:06:48,675 Speaker 1: run the same guy again. For the sake of exactitude. 84 00:06:48,715 --> 00:06:51,755 Speaker 1: It is looking like that final loss number may come 85 00:06:51,755 --> 00:06:56,115 Speaker 1: in at around one and a half points, which would 86 00:06:56,115 --> 00:07:00,635 Speaker 1: make Trump's the fiftieth biggest or if you prefer, fifth 87 00:07:00,915 --> 00:07:05,715 Speaker 1: smallest popular vote margin of all time. But you get 88 00:07:05,715 --> 00:07:10,275 Speaker 1: the idea, So burn it down, no, retire a lot 89 00:07:10,315 --> 00:07:17,675 Speaker 1: of people. Yeah, maybe not necessarily looking at you, Chuck Schumer, 90 00:07:18,955 --> 00:07:21,435 Speaker 1: because there is actually something bigger to face than a 91 00:07:21,515 --> 00:07:25,475 Speaker 1: complete overhaul or what if it was stolen? Bigger but 92 00:07:26,035 --> 00:07:30,115 Speaker 1: happily at least in one sense, more fixable. And let 93 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:34,035 Speaker 1: me state this again. The election was not stolen. The 94 00:07:34,115 --> 00:07:39,355 Speaker 1: numbers do add up. There aren't discrepancies. Kamala Harris got 95 00:07:39,395 --> 00:07:42,355 Speaker 1: more votes than Jackie Rosen did in Nevada, and Rosen 96 00:07:42,395 --> 00:07:46,635 Speaker 1: got elected and Kamala didn't. Yes, the Russians did make 97 00:07:46,675 --> 00:07:51,315 Speaker 1: bomb threats to keep polling places in the swing states. Yes, 98 00:07:51,355 --> 00:07:53,395 Speaker 1: the Biden administration is going to do nothing about it, 99 00:07:53,955 --> 00:07:56,195 Speaker 1: even though they should just turn off the electricity grid 100 00:07:56,195 --> 00:07:58,675 Speaker 1: in Russia. They're going to do nothing about it, just 101 00:07:58,715 --> 00:08:02,515 Speaker 1: as the Obama administration did nothing about that in twenty sixteen. Yes, 102 00:08:02,915 --> 00:08:05,475 Speaker 1: Merrick Garland should be fired live on pay per view, 103 00:08:05,635 --> 00:08:08,835 Speaker 1: and they should re enact the humiliation scene after the 104 00:08:08,875 --> 00:08:11,275 Speaker 1: court martial of the Chuck Conners character in the ancient 105 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:15,395 Speaker 1: TV series Branded Only. Instead of the commander breaking the 106 00:08:15,475 --> 00:08:18,875 Speaker 1: guy soared over his knee, he should break Garland's glasses. 107 00:08:20,475 --> 00:08:23,275 Speaker 1: But as somebody who still to this day wants to 108 00:08:23,315 --> 00:08:26,075 Speaker 1: know why they really locked down the vote count in 109 00:08:26,155 --> 00:08:29,555 Speaker 1: Warren County, Ohio on election night two thousand and four 110 00:08:30,195 --> 00:08:33,395 Speaker 1: on a laughable claim that al Qaeda was planning to 111 00:08:33,475 --> 00:08:38,915 Speaker 1: attack Warren County, Ohio, the election was not stolen, not 112 00:08:39,075 --> 00:08:44,475 Speaker 1: in the way you're thinking. It was stolen in the 113 00:08:44,555 --> 00:08:48,155 Speaker 1: sense that the fascists and the anti democracy billionaires have 114 00:08:48,275 --> 00:08:53,235 Speaker 1: been running a series of illicit, hidden, disguised pro Republican 115 00:08:53,275 --> 00:08:58,395 Speaker 1: advertisements twenty four seven, three sixty five for at least 116 00:08:59,395 --> 00:09:03,915 Speaker 1: thirty years. They have been bombarding the underachievers of this nation, 117 00:09:04,035 --> 00:09:07,755 Speaker 1: the in cell, the morons, the idiots, the bros, and 118 00:09:07,915 --> 00:09:12,315 Speaker 1: now the social media addicts of America with a series 119 00:09:12,315 --> 00:09:16,515 Speaker 1: of easy to digest, sweet tasting conspiracy theories that you 120 00:09:16,555 --> 00:09:20,035 Speaker 1: cannot trust the government, that you cannot believe the news media, 121 00:09:20,115 --> 00:09:22,595 Speaker 1: that you cannot think the Democrats can keep you safe. 122 00:09:22,955 --> 00:09:26,275 Speaker 1: That the economy is disastrous, that they are eating the 123 00:09:26,315 --> 00:09:29,555 Speaker 1: cats and they are eating the dogs. That whatever these 124 00:09:29,595 --> 00:09:32,355 Speaker 1: people might be afraid of or angry at at the moment, 125 00:09:32,435 --> 00:09:34,715 Speaker 1: that is the fault of the Democratic villain of the moment, 126 00:09:34,995 --> 00:09:40,395 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, the Dixie Chicks, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, me 127 00:09:41,115 --> 00:09:47,715 Speaker 1: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and this commercial has been poisoning 128 00:09:47,755 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 1: and addicting the gullible twenty four to seven, three sixty 129 00:09:50,555 --> 00:09:54,275 Speaker 1: five via the latest technology, dating back to when the 130 00:09:54,355 --> 00:09:59,715 Speaker 1: latest technology was satellite radio and cable to today when 131 00:09:59,755 --> 00:10:02,755 Speaker 1: it's streaming and gaming and sports talk shows that aren't 132 00:10:02,755 --> 00:10:06,355 Speaker 1: actually about sports. Every day, this is fed to them 133 00:10:06,395 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: by literally dozens, probably hundreds of twenty four to seven 134 00:10:09,435 --> 00:10:14,235 Speaker 1: spigots that look like television news operations or sound like 135 00:10:14,355 --> 00:10:21,955 Speaker 1: talk shows or podcasts or Twitch game commentary. There's right 136 00:10:21,995 --> 00:10:25,075 Speaker 1: wing Fox News and further right Newsmax and sneaky further 137 00:10:25,155 --> 00:10:29,515 Speaker 1: right Sinclair and Crazy Lindell, Pillow TV, and dark subhuman 138 00:10:29,635 --> 00:10:33,355 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk TV and Steve Bannon TV and Nick Fuente's TV. 139 00:10:33,675 --> 00:10:35,955 Speaker 1: And if you are most susceptible to a bunch of 140 00:10:36,035 --> 00:10:40,155 Speaker 1: text bros talking about it, they are there to sell 141 00:10:40,195 --> 00:10:42,955 Speaker 1: it to you. And if no, you need to hear 142 00:10:42,955 --> 00:10:45,475 Speaker 1: it from a black man, there's Larry Elder, And if no, 143 00:10:45,595 --> 00:10:47,355 Speaker 1: you need to hear it from a black woman, there's 144 00:10:47,355 --> 00:10:49,555 Speaker 1: Candice Owens. And know if you need to hear it 145 00:10:49,555 --> 00:10:52,035 Speaker 1: from a sitting senator, there's Ted Cruz. And if none 146 00:10:52,035 --> 00:10:54,075 Speaker 1: of that is enough, there is a Sea PAC convention, 147 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:57,595 Speaker 1: or a Conservative Women's conference, or an American Greatness Leadership 148 00:10:57,635 --> 00:11:00,715 Speaker 1: Summit every other weekend. And finally, if no, that's still 149 00:11:00,715 --> 00:11:03,115 Speaker 1: not enough, you need to be totally drowning in it, 150 00:11:03,315 --> 00:11:06,115 Speaker 1: if you need this to be injected directly into your veins. 151 00:11:06,315 --> 00:11:09,395 Speaker 1: If twenty four seven, three sixty five just isn't enough, 152 00:11:11,395 --> 00:11:17,475 Speaker 1: Elon Musk bought Twitter and now we know why. Meanwhile, 153 00:11:17,475 --> 00:11:31,035 Speaker 1: the Democrats have Oh, MSNBC, You're welcome MSNBC except in 154 00:11:31,075 --> 00:11:34,275 Speaker 1: the mornings where the anti Trump guy used to be 155 00:11:34,835 --> 00:11:40,195 Speaker 1: the most virulently pro Trump guy, and except for middays 156 00:11:40,195 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 1: where it's my ex making excuses for Trump and nighttime 157 00:11:43,835 --> 00:11:47,755 Speaker 1: when the shows are startlingly dull, and the icon of 158 00:11:47,795 --> 00:11:50,355 Speaker 1: the network vetoed the return of the founding icon of 159 00:11:50,395 --> 00:11:56,595 Speaker 1: the network because she is consumed by Peak. There are 160 00:11:56,715 --> 00:12:05,755 Speaker 1: some pushbacks Midas Network, promising Lincoln Project some podcasts, but 161 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:08,035 Speaker 1: the New York Times and Washington Post are dead so 162 00:12:08,155 --> 00:12:10,835 Speaker 1: blinded by the sheer volume of right wing bullshit that 163 00:12:10,875 --> 00:12:12,995 Speaker 1: they have been reduced to try to see which one 164 00:12:12,995 --> 00:12:15,835 Speaker 1: of them can bend over further backward to pander to Trump. 165 00:12:17,995 --> 00:12:24,035 Speaker 1: And that's the entirety of the left wing media on 166 00:12:24,115 --> 00:12:27,275 Speaker 1: the right, hundreds of outlets, some of them underwritten by 167 00:12:27,275 --> 00:12:32,795 Speaker 1: the Russian government, ultimately unnecessarily so, because American billionaire after 168 00:12:32,835 --> 00:12:35,835 Speaker 1: American billionaire spends money to make sure that whether three 169 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:39,235 Speaker 1: hundred thousand people watch Nick Fuentes or three hundred dew 170 00:12:39,315 --> 00:12:43,155 Speaker 1: he's on all the time, with all the motivation in 171 00:12:43,195 --> 00:12:45,475 Speaker 1: the world to stay on, namely all the money in 172 00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:50,755 Speaker 1: the world and the coordination with the Republican Party, with 173 00:12:50,795 --> 00:12:53,795 Speaker 1: the Republican candidates one hundred percent. What do you Joe 174 00:12:53,875 --> 00:12:58,395 Speaker 1: Rogan need from us Trump? He'll be there, somebody else 175 00:12:58,515 --> 00:13:01,835 Speaker 1: She'll be there. They'll be there. Just make sure it's 176 00:13:01,875 --> 00:13:04,275 Speaker 1: at least an hour long, and then you talk about 177 00:13:04,275 --> 00:13:12,075 Speaker 1: it for another ten days. Over here have some podcasts 178 00:13:12,955 --> 00:13:15,955 Speaker 1: this one since we started doubling up on YouTube. Between 179 00:13:15,955 --> 00:13:19,755 Speaker 1: the views and then the verified downloads of the podcast 180 00:13:19,915 --> 00:13:23,515 Speaker 1: last year through yesterday, the audience is fifty three million, 181 00:13:23,595 --> 00:13:26,515 Speaker 1: seven hundred and one, nine hundred and thirty four. Honestly, 182 00:13:26,635 --> 00:13:29,035 Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a lot or a little. 183 00:13:29,995 --> 00:13:32,995 Speaker 1: I don't know how many other liberal podcasters have more 184 00:13:33,035 --> 00:13:35,435 Speaker 1: in that kind of time span. I don't know the 185 00:13:35,555 --> 00:13:38,435 Speaker 1: names of most of the liberal podcasters. I don't know 186 00:13:38,515 --> 00:13:42,955 Speaker 1: the name of one liberal streamer. And the next contact 187 00:13:43,035 --> 00:13:45,435 Speaker 1: I get from the Democratic Party or anybody in it 188 00:13:45,515 --> 00:13:50,515 Speaker 1: will be the first. If George Sorows is behind all this, 189 00:13:51,035 --> 00:13:55,035 Speaker 1: he's not very good at it. The next contact I 190 00:13:55,075 --> 00:13:58,195 Speaker 1: get from somebody saying, could we put together at twenty 191 00:13:58,235 --> 00:14:01,955 Speaker 1: four to seven streaming operation and use your podcast or 192 00:14:02,395 --> 00:14:05,995 Speaker 1: or show your podcast at least for a while, or 193 00:14:06,115 --> 00:14:08,515 Speaker 1: you know, since you did create MSNBC, maybe you have 194 00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:11,955 Speaker 1: ideas on how we could do something. As the world 195 00:14:11,955 --> 00:14:15,115 Speaker 1: of media implodes and there are a thousand outlets and 196 00:14:15,235 --> 00:14:19,715 Speaker 1: like nine of them are liberal, next time I hear 197 00:14:19,755 --> 00:14:21,955 Speaker 1: that that'll be the first two. I'm not trying to 198 00:14:21,995 --> 00:14:24,795 Speaker 1: sell this podcast, certainly not to you, you're already listening 199 00:14:24,875 --> 00:14:26,515 Speaker 1: to it. I don't need the money, and I'd like 200 00:14:26,595 --> 00:14:29,755 Speaker 1: to retire. Actually that was the plan, Kamala. The plan 201 00:14:29,955 --> 00:14:34,035 Speaker 1: was I got to retire last week. But we aren't 202 00:14:34,115 --> 00:14:37,955 Speaker 1: just losing the media wars. We're not even fighting back. 203 00:14:39,675 --> 00:14:42,515 Speaker 1: The Harris campaign spent like a billion dollars on commercials 204 00:14:42,515 --> 00:14:45,355 Speaker 1: on television and online, and they spent just as much 205 00:14:45,395 --> 00:14:49,315 Speaker 1: as every other Democratic campaign and Democratic leader has on 206 00:14:49,435 --> 00:14:57,115 Speaker 1: the NonStop slerms spigot of streaming propaganda nothing and you 207 00:14:57,155 --> 00:15:00,835 Speaker 1: know what happens. Then, if you have no new media infrastructure, 208 00:15:00,955 --> 00:15:05,595 Speaker 1: grassroots or astro turf or Russian sponsored or whatever, not 209 00:15:05,635 --> 00:15:10,475 Speaker 1: only can't you sell your candidate. You not only can't 210 00:15:10,555 --> 00:15:12,835 Speaker 1: lie if you decide you have to or want to, 211 00:15:13,955 --> 00:15:16,715 Speaker 1: but you can't tell the online audience the truth about 212 00:15:16,755 --> 00:15:21,275 Speaker 1: the fascists. They hear one thing everywhere and assume that's 213 00:15:21,315 --> 00:15:26,355 Speaker 1: the marketplace of ideas. We're not only not even in 214 00:15:26,435 --> 00:15:29,155 Speaker 1: the marketplace of ideas, We're not only not set up 215 00:15:29,155 --> 00:15:31,635 Speaker 1: at the marketplace of ideas, we don't even know where 216 00:15:31,675 --> 00:15:35,675 Speaker 1: the marketplace of ideas is you go down here, make 217 00:15:35,755 --> 00:15:40,395 Speaker 1: seventeen laughs, and then you're there and you know what happens. 218 00:15:40,435 --> 00:15:44,155 Speaker 1: Then the New Republic Greg Sargeant got a look at 219 00:15:44,155 --> 00:15:50,395 Speaker 1: the real internal Harris research quote. It proved disturbingly difficult 220 00:15:50,395 --> 00:15:55,995 Speaker 1: to persuade undecided voters that Trump had been a bad president. 221 00:15:56,155 --> 00:15:58,715 Speaker 1: Internal testing in all the battleground states over the course 222 00:15:58,715 --> 00:16:01,315 Speaker 1: of many months yielded a result that unnerve the campaign. 223 00:16:01,515 --> 00:16:04,235 Speaker 1: According to a senior Harris campaign operative who has seen 224 00:16:04,275 --> 00:16:07,795 Speaker 1: the data, it was this undecided voters didn't believe that 225 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:11,515 Speaker 1: some of the highest profile things that happened during Trump's presidency, 226 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:17,395 Speaker 1: even if they saw these things negatively, were his fault. Quote. 227 00:16:17,955 --> 00:16:20,595 Speaker 1: People gave him a total pass because of COVID. The 228 00:16:20,675 --> 00:16:24,075 Speaker 1: operative says there was frustration inside the campaign that voters 229 00:16:24,115 --> 00:16:27,915 Speaker 1: turned the massive job losses into a non issue. Added 230 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:33,555 Speaker 1: a second Democratic operative, privy to internal data, unquote, same 231 00:16:33,795 --> 00:16:36,915 Speaker 1: on convincing them about social security cuts to come, or 232 00:16:36,955 --> 00:16:39,875 Speaker 1: even that he made social security cuts last time. Same 233 00:16:39,955 --> 00:16:43,435 Speaker 1: on abortion. On abortion, they gave him a pass on 234 00:16:43,515 --> 00:16:48,035 Speaker 1: appointing the Supreme Court justices who perjured themselves and then 235 00:16:48,115 --> 00:16:52,835 Speaker 1: gutted Roe v. Wade. Quoting again from Greg Sargent and 236 00:16:52,875 --> 00:16:55,915 Speaker 1: the internal Harris polling. That's because they didn't believe Trump 237 00:16:55,955 --> 00:17:00,355 Speaker 1: himself was sincerely anti choice. These voters thought he's ambivalent 238 00:17:00,795 --> 00:17:05,875 Speaker 1: about abortion because many didn't think he had core principles, 239 00:17:07,555 --> 00:17:10,035 Speaker 1: so he won because he didn't have any principles. As 240 00:17:10,075 --> 00:17:13,595 Speaker 1: in aside, we have now entered the era of post principles, 241 00:17:14,035 --> 00:17:18,555 Speaker 1: post character, post belief, post policy presidential campaigns. Twenty five 242 00:17:18,635 --> 00:17:22,195 Speaker 1: years ago, we all mocked the idea that George Bush 243 00:17:22,195 --> 00:17:25,875 Speaker 1: had won because as an afterthought, he was the one 244 00:17:25,875 --> 00:17:28,595 Speaker 1: you would prefer to have a beer with. Today it's 245 00:17:28,675 --> 00:17:32,875 Speaker 1: the only thing in the campaign. It's only about having 246 00:17:32,915 --> 00:17:37,115 Speaker 1: the metaphorical beer. You can see it in retrospect even 247 00:17:37,155 --> 00:17:41,115 Speaker 1: with Obama. McCain was a grumpy old man. Romney was 248 00:17:41,155 --> 00:17:43,235 Speaker 1: a grumpy younger man with a two slick by a 249 00:17:43,315 --> 00:17:47,875 Speaker 1: half voice. Trump. They liked Trump from TV. They got 250 00:17:47,915 --> 00:17:51,155 Speaker 1: sick of him in twenty twenty. Friends of theirs had died, 251 00:17:52,115 --> 00:17:54,715 Speaker 1: but they missed his entertainment value, and they forgot about 252 00:17:54,715 --> 00:18:02,115 Speaker 1: their dead friends the end, and prices were higher. If 253 00:18:02,155 --> 00:18:05,435 Speaker 1: I had to pick one Democrat today as the twenty 254 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:11,475 Speaker 1: twenty eight nominee, and I couldn't Convince Taylor Swift or 255 00:18:11,555 --> 00:18:17,035 Speaker 1: Missus Obama. I'd pick John Fetterman. I think John Fetterman 256 00:18:17,115 --> 00:18:19,635 Speaker 1: might be crazy. I rabibly agree with John Fetterman on 257 00:18:19,675 --> 00:18:22,555 Speaker 1: about thirty percent of issues. But he's a great character, 258 00:18:23,315 --> 00:18:26,915 Speaker 1: perfect for the unrealistic world the election deciding part of 259 00:18:26,915 --> 00:18:29,715 Speaker 1: America now lives in, and the Left is not in 260 00:18:29,755 --> 00:18:36,475 Speaker 1: that world at all. Oh yeah, and if you don't 261 00:18:36,515 --> 00:18:39,915 Speaker 1: have a twenty four to seven three sixty five media infrastructure, 262 00:18:40,355 --> 00:18:43,915 Speaker 1: when the economy is robust and inflation is rolling back 263 00:18:44,155 --> 00:18:46,115 Speaker 1: and the recovery is the best in the world, you 264 00:18:46,235 --> 00:18:51,915 Speaker 1: have no way to convince anybody that that's true, and 265 00:18:52,075 --> 00:18:54,075 Speaker 1: that the prices at the gas pump and that the 266 00:18:54,115 --> 00:18:57,475 Speaker 1: wah wah and the sheets are happening to rise and 267 00:18:57,555 --> 00:19:01,915 Speaker 1: stay risen because the corporations and billionaires like Jeff Bezos 268 00:19:01,915 --> 00:19:04,995 Speaker 1: and Elon Musk and Trump, they're the ones who raise 269 00:19:05,075 --> 00:19:08,435 Speaker 1: the prices and stole the money out of your household budgets. 270 00:19:08,795 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: They are the guilty parties. We should be screaming that, 271 00:19:12,915 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: except there's nobody here to scream. There's nobody to tell 272 00:19:18,395 --> 00:19:22,475 Speaker 1: these people that the Republicans will tell them anything. If 273 00:19:22,475 --> 00:19:24,715 Speaker 1: you don't have the infrastructure. You can't drill it into 274 00:19:24,755 --> 00:19:29,315 Speaker 1: their heads that Trump is insane, that an outright abortion 275 00:19:29,475 --> 00:19:33,635 Speaker 1: ban is coming, that he almost killed them in twenty twenty, 276 00:19:33,715 --> 00:19:35,355 Speaker 1: and now he's going to try to do it again. 277 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:41,075 Speaker 1: If you don't have the media infrastructure, and the political 278 00:19:41,155 --> 00:19:49,115 Speaker 1: world has devolved into media wars, you're gonna lose. All right, 279 00:19:50,955 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: we lost, that's right. Different. By the way, I am 280 00:20:02,515 --> 00:20:05,595 Speaker 1: not pushing this podcast as the mob for everything the 281 00:20:05,675 --> 00:20:08,515 Speaker 1: left needs to do to save the country. If that's 282 00:20:08,515 --> 00:20:11,995 Speaker 1: still on the table. I'm going to be sixty six 283 00:20:12,075 --> 00:20:15,715 Speaker 1: in two months. God helped me a week after the inauguration. 284 00:20:16,235 --> 00:20:20,715 Speaker 1: If I survived the week after the inauguration, I am 285 00:20:20,795 --> 00:20:25,635 Speaker 1: too old to run this crap. I might be able 286 00:20:25,635 --> 00:20:29,635 Speaker 1: to help start it, though, then retire to the old 287 00:20:29,755 --> 00:20:39,155 Speaker 1: Sports Center home in Bristol, Connecticut. Yeah, A, thank you 288 00:20:39,315 --> 00:20:42,875 Speaker 1: very much, Nancy Faust. I mean. In two thousand and 289 00:20:42,955 --> 00:20:45,715 Speaker 1: four and two thousand and five, Liz Winstead and Al 290 00:20:45,795 --> 00:20:49,435 Speaker 1: Franken and a bunch of very talented liberals launched an 291 00:20:49,475 --> 00:20:52,715 Speaker 1: all liberal radio network in hopes of countering Limbaugh and 292 00:20:52,755 --> 00:20:57,115 Speaker 1: Savage and Hannity and O'Reilly. And they got like six 293 00:20:57,195 --> 00:21:01,435 Speaker 1: listeners and Mattow was one of the hosts, and she 294 00:21:01,515 --> 00:21:05,995 Speaker 1: had so not succeeded that when Tucker Carlson MSNBC show 295 00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:10,355 Speaker 1: began to die, they had to, for budget reasons, fire 296 00:21:10,475 --> 00:21:13,475 Speaker 1: one of the two liberal foils they used to have 297 00:21:13,555 --> 00:21:16,955 Speaker 1: on to counter Tucker Carlson, So they kept Max Kellerman 298 00:21:17,475 --> 00:21:25,235 Speaker 1: and fired Rachel Maadow. Meanwhile, at MSNBC, NBC's attempt to 299 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:27,875 Speaker 1: go further to the right than Fox had failed so 300 00:21:27,995 --> 00:21:30,395 Speaker 1: badly that they had fired everybody and were preparing to 301 00:21:30,475 --> 00:21:33,715 Speaker 1: run the little nightly news show they had called Countdown, 302 00:21:33,955 --> 00:21:35,915 Speaker 1: and then at nine pm every night turned the rest 303 00:21:35,955 --> 00:21:37,715 Speaker 1: of the night and much of the day and the 304 00:21:37,715 --> 00:21:44,035 Speaker 1: whole weekend over to prison documentaries, basically ten to fifteen 305 00:21:44,035 --> 00:21:48,995 Speaker 1: hours a day of prison documentaries. Nobody at NBC News 306 00:21:49,035 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: headquarters even bothered to watch MSNBC anymore so when I 307 00:21:53,835 --> 00:21:57,795 Speaker 1: started to go anti war and anti phony terrorism warnings 308 00:21:57,795 --> 00:22:01,835 Speaker 1: and anti Bush. By the time management even noticed we 309 00:22:01,835 --> 00:22:04,195 Speaker 1: were a hit, and instead of throwing me in the 310 00:22:04,275 --> 00:22:06,915 Speaker 1: trunk of a car, they handed me an armored car 311 00:22:06,955 --> 00:22:10,355 Speaker 1: full of cash. And still I was mocked on the 312 00:22:10,435 --> 00:22:15,475 Speaker 1: left as doing this for ratings, as trying to be 313 00:22:15,915 --> 00:22:19,235 Speaker 1: the left's bill O'Reilly, and I was mocked for trying 314 00:22:19,275 --> 00:22:23,395 Speaker 1: to launch other shows hosted by liberals on MSNBC rather 315 00:22:23,435 --> 00:22:28,115 Speaker 1: than tenaciously and viciously holding on to my liberal TV monopoly. 316 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:35,075 Speaker 1: To this day, liberal media is mocked. It is territorial, 317 00:22:35,195 --> 00:22:38,395 Speaker 1: It is spiteful, it is amateurish, It is tiny, and 318 00:22:38,515 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: it is unplanned. And when it was unplanned in two 319 00:22:42,075 --> 00:22:46,835 Speaker 1: thousand and five and MSNBC sprung out of it organically, 320 00:22:46,875 --> 00:22:51,155 Speaker 1: that was a good thing. Surprise. Right now, it's a 321 00:22:51,195 --> 00:22:56,075 Speaker 1: fatal thing. We don't have a billionaire supporting anything. We 322 00:22:56,075 --> 00:22:59,075 Speaker 1: don't have a Joe Rogan. We don't even have a 323 00:22:59,115 --> 00:23:02,435 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman, a young Keith Olderman. And you know the 324 00:23:02,555 --> 00:23:06,835 Speaker 1: joke one, who's this Keith Olberman guy? Two? Get me 325 00:23:06,955 --> 00:23:10,075 Speaker 1: Keith Olberman. Three, get me a Keith Olverman. 326 00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:10,795 Speaker 2: Four? 327 00:23:11,075 --> 00:23:14,075 Speaker 1: How about a young Keith Olberman five? Whatever happened to 328 00:23:14,155 --> 00:23:21,595 Speaker 1: Keith Oldman? Six? Keith Houberman? Okay, a lot of self 329 00:23:21,595 --> 00:23:26,315 Speaker 1: indulgence today. On the other hand, it may be unseemly, 330 00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:31,435 Speaker 1: but it ain't untrue. I will sum this up. If 331 00:23:31,475 --> 00:23:36,595 Speaker 1: Democrats think they can win with their media ecosystem, ooh, 332 00:23:36,635 --> 00:23:39,715 Speaker 1: phone banks. If they think they can win the midterms 333 00:23:39,715 --> 00:23:42,315 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six or the presidency in twenty twenty eight. 334 00:23:42,355 --> 00:23:46,475 Speaker 1: This way, if there is an election, if they think 335 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:51,715 Speaker 1: we can win, we are crazy. Oh and by the way, 336 00:23:52,195 --> 00:23:58,275 Speaker 1: the fascist media ecosystem I described earlier with its thousands tentacles, 337 00:23:58,995 --> 00:24:05,635 Speaker 1: has already begun to support the cancelation of the twenty 338 00:24:05,675 --> 00:24:13,675 Speaker 1: twenty eight election. Yeah, it began last year. They started 339 00:24:13,675 --> 00:24:15,675 Speaker 1: to do this last year. Well. A twenty second amendment 340 00:24:15,715 --> 00:24:19,635 Speaker 1: ononium plies two consecutive terms a third trip. If we 341 00:24:19,715 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: are not ready to shoot back and win the streaming 342 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:27,075 Speaker 1: wars within a year's time, we should instead devote our 343 00:24:27,235 --> 00:24:35,595 Speaker 1: energies to fleeing. Also of interest here, the good news 344 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,995 Speaker 1: is the Trump wresh primary and most effective opponent at 345 00:24:39,035 --> 00:24:44,035 Speaker 1: the moment is the Trump Wresch. We have finally found 346 00:24:44,075 --> 00:24:47,755 Speaker 1: out what is behind the push to deport immigrants. It's 347 00:24:47,795 --> 00:24:51,715 Speaker 1: not to deport them, it's to detain them. Because it 348 00:24:51,755 --> 00:24:56,555 Speaker 1: turns out the profits are in detaining them. And guess 349 00:24:56,635 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: which industry is all ready to make those profits. And 350 00:25:01,955 --> 00:25:05,275 Speaker 1: from no less an ass kissing source than Politico, Trump 351 00:25:05,315 --> 00:25:10,435 Speaker 1: World has devolved into a quote dick fight for dominance 352 00:25:11,155 --> 00:25:17,715 Speaker 1: between Chris las Avida and Corey Lewandowski. Now see here's 353 00:25:17,755 --> 00:25:22,435 Speaker 1: where side show Bobby Kennedy could reassert himself, right, that's next. 354 00:25:22,755 --> 00:25:37,475 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. This 355 00:25:37,515 --> 00:25:40,955 Speaker 1: is the Countdown podcast. And these are the places where 356 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:44,835 Speaker 1: there are postscripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, 357 00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:50,075 Speaker 1: some snark, some predictions, par lago. This is from Politico 358 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:52,995 Speaker 1: on Thursday, and I read it altering only a couple 359 00:25:52,995 --> 00:25:55,035 Speaker 1: of words, because as salty as I am, I really 360 00:25:55,035 --> 00:25:57,555 Speaker 1: do believe I have an F bomb quota and this 361 00:25:57,595 --> 00:26:00,635 Speaker 1: would put me way over it for like the whole 362 00:26:00,795 --> 00:26:05,115 Speaker 1: year and next. And I read it in full because 363 00:26:05,155 --> 00:26:09,195 Speaker 1: this is what winning looks like in the maga hellscape 364 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:15,875 Speaker 1: of our new insect overlords. Quote los Sevita's revenge. Backstage 365 00:26:15,875 --> 00:26:18,675 Speaker 1: at Donald Trump's watch party Tuesday night, before the now 366 00:26:18,755 --> 00:26:23,555 Speaker 1: president elect took the stage, the notoriously pugnacious Cory Lewandowski 367 00:26:23,795 --> 00:26:27,235 Speaker 1: did something a bit unusual. He extended an olive branch 368 00:26:27,315 --> 00:26:30,275 Speaker 1: to a foe. After being brought into the campaign fold 369 00:26:30,315 --> 00:26:33,315 Speaker 1: in late summer, Lewandowski was sidelined by Trump for trying 370 00:26:33,355 --> 00:26:35,675 Speaker 1: to elbow his way to the top and causing drama 371 00:26:35,715 --> 00:26:38,195 Speaker 1: with the team. The man who had been Trump's first 372 00:26:38,195 --> 00:26:41,515 Speaker 1: campaign manager in the twenty sixteen cycle had been locked 373 00:26:41,515 --> 00:26:44,155 Speaker 1: in what a GOP official once described to us as 374 00:26:44,275 --> 00:26:49,235 Speaker 1: a quote dick fight for dominance with Chris los Savita, 375 00:26:49,635 --> 00:26:52,035 Speaker 1: who was running the twenty twenty four show with Susie 376 00:26:52,035 --> 00:26:57,595 Speaker 1: Wiles before he left this year's campaign. Trump officials believe 377 00:26:57,715 --> 00:27:02,075 Speaker 1: Lewandowski planted a slew of negative stories about los Aveta, 378 00:27:02,155 --> 00:27:05,795 Speaker 1: including one in The Daily Beast that suggested he personally 379 00:27:05,835 --> 00:27:09,875 Speaker 1: banked millions off Trump campaign entities over two years. When 380 00:27:09,915 --> 00:27:13,435 Speaker 1: Trump saw the story, he reportedly flipped out and confronted Losaveta, 381 00:27:13,675 --> 00:27:17,035 Speaker 1: who pulled up bank statements and FEC reports to argue 382 00:27:17,235 --> 00:27:20,355 Speaker 1: the story was wrong. He wasn't swindling Trump that the 383 00:27:20,355 --> 00:27:22,995 Speaker 1: money sent to his businesses overwhelmingly went to pay for 384 00:27:23,075 --> 00:27:27,915 Speaker 1: campaign ads. By Tuesday, as Trump basked in the limelight 385 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:31,155 Speaker 1: of his election, Lewandowski apparently saw the writing on the 386 00:27:31,155 --> 00:27:33,315 Speaker 1: wall and realized that he needed to make peace with 387 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:36,675 Speaker 1: a man who had won back Trump's trust and shepherded 388 00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:39,875 Speaker 1: him to victory. He extended a hand to las Avita 389 00:27:39,915 --> 00:27:44,355 Speaker 1: and offered a congratulations. Instead of shaking his hand, la 390 00:27:44,475 --> 00:27:47,035 Speaker 1: Savita pointed to him square in the chest and tore 391 00:27:47,155 --> 00:27:51,955 Speaker 1: into him. According to people familiar with the EXCHANGEF you 392 00:27:51,955 --> 00:27:55,515 Speaker 1: you and F you you have f't with the wrong person. 393 00:27:55,875 --> 00:28:00,195 Speaker 1: I'm going to effing destroy you. Lasavita and the RNC 394 00:28:00,275 --> 00:28:03,195 Speaker 1: now appear to be teaming up to do just that. Yesterday, 395 00:28:03,235 --> 00:28:05,835 Speaker 1: a lawyer working on their behalf sent a legal threat 396 00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:08,635 Speaker 1: to The Daily Beast demanding the story be corrected and 397 00:28:08,795 --> 00:28:12,115 Speaker 1: or retracted. In fact, they later did change the story 398 00:28:12,155 --> 00:28:13,915 Speaker 1: to say the money went to the companies, not to 399 00:28:13,995 --> 00:28:18,555 Speaker 1: him personally. Notably, the RNC hired Mark Garrigos, a hard 400 00:28:18,635 --> 00:28:22,155 Speaker 1: hitting criminal defense lawyer whose roster of former clients includes 401 00:28:22,235 --> 00:28:25,755 Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. That's the right one to have. In the letter, 402 00:28:25,835 --> 00:28:30,755 Speaker 1: Garrigos asserts the story as categorically false. Blah blah blah. 403 00:28:30,795 --> 00:28:33,835 Speaker 1: But Los Savita and the RNC aren't stopping there. We're 404 00:28:33,835 --> 00:28:35,715 Speaker 1: told that in the days ahead they plan to send 405 00:28:35,795 --> 00:28:38,875 Speaker 1: letters to others involved in the story. And since the 406 00:28:38,915 --> 00:28:42,115 Speaker 1: letter clearly points to Lewandowski for providing the publication with 407 00:28:42,275 --> 00:28:46,195 Speaker 1: unreliable information in a blatant act against mister los Avita 408 00:28:46,235 --> 00:28:48,635 Speaker 1: and the RNC, we can guess what's going to be 409 00:28:48,635 --> 00:28:52,875 Speaker 1: showing up in Lewandowski's mailbox soon. Meanwhile, The Daily Beast 410 00:28:52,915 --> 00:28:56,075 Speaker 1: is reporting that Lewandowski personally says he won't be joining 411 00:28:56,075 --> 00:29:02,195 Speaker 1: the administration. No shocker there. The campaign is over. We're 412 00:29:02,195 --> 00:29:06,075 Speaker 1: focused on delivering the promises. Ah blah blah blah blah. 413 00:29:06,275 --> 00:29:08,875 Speaker 1: Las Sevita declined to comment, but around the time we 414 00:29:08,995 --> 00:29:11,955 Speaker 1: reached out about this tip, he tweeted a picture of 415 00:29:12,155 --> 00:29:16,155 Speaker 1: HBO's famous mob boss Tony Soprano flipping the bird. If 416 00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:19,035 Speaker 1: you know why I'm posting this, then well you know, 417 00:29:19,475 --> 00:29:24,515 Speaker 1: Lasavita wrote, So as we continue to watch in horror 418 00:29:24,555 --> 00:29:27,635 Speaker 1: at the Democrats post mortem, hey there's too much post 419 00:29:27,675 --> 00:29:31,275 Speaker 1: and not enough mortem circular firing squad, Let's just remember 420 00:29:31,355 --> 00:29:35,475 Speaker 1: this sweet little image of Lasovita planning to destroy Lewandowski, 421 00:29:35,875 --> 00:29:39,155 Speaker 1: and remember that this is why all the fascists are 422 00:29:39,235 --> 00:29:43,235 Speaker 1: in politics, just for that kind of bloodlust. Let's just 423 00:29:43,355 --> 00:29:48,155 Speaker 1: remember that that is how they behave after they have won. 424 00:29:49,275 --> 00:29:54,235 Speaker 1: Mister Lsavita, mister Lewandowski, more of this. Please. We are 425 00:29:54,315 --> 00:29:57,755 Speaker 1: the Democrats. We are great at circular firing squads. But 426 00:29:57,795 --> 00:30:01,075 Speaker 1: we bow to you with amazed respect that you can 427 00:30:01,115 --> 00:30:04,595 Speaker 1: do it in literally the moments after a presidential election. 428 00:30:05,955 --> 00:30:09,995 Speaker 1: If you need any further advice on circular firing squad logistics, 429 00:30:10,195 --> 00:30:13,635 Speaker 1: just ask. We can't do much to destroy you for 430 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:17,235 Speaker 1: two years at least, but hot dam you seem ready 431 00:30:17,275 --> 00:30:21,235 Speaker 1: and willing to destroy yourselves. And this is the subject 432 00:30:21,435 --> 00:30:27,635 Speaker 1: that I can get all bi partisan about Wall Street. 433 00:30:27,995 --> 00:30:30,715 Speaker 1: The day after Trump's election, Stock in a company called 434 00:30:30,915 --> 00:30:35,875 Speaker 1: Geogroup Inc. Rose forty one percent. Stock in its rival, 435 00:30:36,075 --> 00:30:39,595 Speaker 1: core Civic Inc. Went up twenty nine percent. And because 436 00:30:39,635 --> 00:30:42,115 Speaker 1: those numbers did what they did, we now know what 437 00:30:42,195 --> 00:30:46,555 Speaker 1: the old man's Trump purge is actually all about. All 438 00:30:46,835 --> 00:30:51,875 Speaker 1: of the immigration issues and all of the deportation issues, 439 00:30:51,915 --> 00:30:54,715 Speaker 1: and all of the roundups, and all of the camps 440 00:30:54,755 --> 00:30:57,955 Speaker 1: and all the rest of the hate. What do Geogroup 441 00:30:57,995 --> 00:31:04,675 Speaker 1: and core Civic do they build and run private prisons. 442 00:31:04,675 --> 00:31:07,875 Speaker 1: Group already has contracts with Immigration ice to the tune 443 00:31:07,875 --> 00:31:10,435 Speaker 1: of a billion dollars. I'm the editor in chief of 444 00:31:10,475 --> 00:31:14,075 Speaker 1: the Ohio Capital Journal, David DeWitt quote. To deport twenty 445 00:31:14,115 --> 00:31:17,235 Speaker 1: million people a number Trump has claimed they need to 446 00:31:17,235 --> 00:31:21,915 Speaker 1: build massive camps, deportation detention camps where people are concentrated. 447 00:31:22,155 --> 00:31:26,075 Speaker 1: To handle such massive numbers, Brokers are speculating a nice 448 00:31:26,155 --> 00:31:29,315 Speaker 1: windfall for a private prison giant on the backs of 449 00:31:29,395 --> 00:31:34,795 Speaker 1: millions of families being put in camps unquote. Apart from 450 00:31:34,835 --> 00:31:37,315 Speaker 1: the obvious, the other thing that disturbs me about this 451 00:31:37,515 --> 00:31:39,995 Speaker 1: is I made a joke about this last week about 452 00:31:39,995 --> 00:31:43,595 Speaker 1: how if you order forty thousand prefab concentration camps from 453 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:47,395 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos's Amazon, it'll be free delivery. Never dawned on me, 454 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:49,875 Speaker 1: even after all this, It never dawned on me. And 455 00:31:49,915 --> 00:31:54,235 Speaker 1: that's sure. There's hate, treated racism and cruelty, but basically 456 00:31:54,355 --> 00:31:59,755 Speaker 1: Trump is in the immigration and deportation thing because it's 457 00:31:59,795 --> 00:32:05,835 Speaker 1: another source of income. Brussels NATO headquarters, while the understandably 458 00:32:05,915 --> 00:32:09,115 Speaker 1: upset members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization wonder what's 459 00:32:09,155 --> 00:32:13,035 Speaker 1: next for, you know, not being overrun by a Russian 460 00:32:13,075 --> 00:32:15,755 Speaker 1: war against Europe while Trump is playing with his toes. 461 00:32:16,515 --> 00:32:19,315 Speaker 1: There is the reverse angle on this if you are 462 00:32:19,475 --> 00:32:23,115 Speaker 1: Canada or England or France or Germany or any other 463 00:32:23,235 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: country with a halfway decent intelligence operation. After Trump's clear 464 00:32:27,395 --> 00:32:31,195 Speaker 1: indebtedness to Putin became evident again and the Republican Party's 465 00:32:31,315 --> 00:32:34,995 Speaker 1: subsummation by Russia, and the evidence already out in public 466 00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:38,035 Speaker 1: about all the classified documents he read aloud to passers 467 00:32:38,035 --> 00:32:42,395 Speaker 1: by and book publishers and stole last time, Why would 468 00:32:42,435 --> 00:32:47,315 Speaker 1: you ever share intelligence with the United States of America? Again? 469 00:32:48,195 --> 00:32:53,035 Speaker 1: Better yet, how could you now resist not sharing with 470 00:32:53,155 --> 00:33:00,715 Speaker 1: Trump the wrong intel? Fake intelligence, like documents showing that 471 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:04,315 Speaker 1: Putin is going to invade Uranus or something, just to 472 00:33:04,355 --> 00:33:07,355 Speaker 1: see how long it would be before it's surfaced somewhere 473 00:33:07,355 --> 00:33:12,875 Speaker 1: else dateline Silicon Valley now comes the revenge of the 474 00:33:12,915 --> 00:33:18,395 Speaker 1: tech pros Mark Andresen, who invented something with computers? Who 475 00:33:18,435 --> 00:33:20,715 Speaker 1: knows they'll never remember him who invented the flash drive? 476 00:33:20,795 --> 00:33:23,395 Speaker 1: You have any idea who cares? He was a Democrat, 477 00:33:23,435 --> 00:33:25,555 Speaker 1: then his net worth dropped by a million or something 478 00:33:25,635 --> 00:33:28,315 Speaker 1: due to taxes. Now he's a Trumpist, and he wants 479 00:33:28,395 --> 00:33:32,555 Speaker 1: nothing less than the prosecution of everybody who doesn't give 480 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:36,475 Speaker 1: Elon Musk money. I have no doubt. He writes that 481 00:33:36,515 --> 00:33:40,435 Speaker 1: the orchestrated advertiser boycotts and censorship operations of the last 482 00:33:40,475 --> 00:33:43,955 Speaker 1: decade have been criminal conspiracies. They all need to end 483 00:33:44,075 --> 00:33:47,955 Speaker 1: right now. Everyone involved in the long standing illegal joint 484 00:33:47,995 --> 00:33:52,555 Speaker 1: government university company censorship apparatus should take care to preserve 485 00:33:52,675 --> 00:33:58,915 Speaker 1: their files and communications. Sunlight is coming. The orchestrated advertiser 486 00:33:58,995 --> 00:34:05,155 Speaker 1: boycott against X and popular podcasts must end immediately, and 487 00:34:05,195 --> 00:34:09,955 Speaker 1: restraint of trade is a prosecutable crime. Here it is 488 00:34:10,715 --> 00:34:14,635 Speaker 1: send musk three dollars. Oh, you're going to be in 489 00:34:14,675 --> 00:34:20,115 Speaker 1: big trouble. Date Line, Dallas. The NFL Dallas Cowboys did 490 00:34:20,115 --> 00:34:23,115 Speaker 1: their Veterans Day salute a day early. They had a 491 00:34:23,355 --> 00:34:26,915 Speaker 1: perfect built in honoree their first coach, the man who 492 00:34:26,995 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: almost single handedly made them into America's team for owner 493 00:34:30,915 --> 00:34:34,675 Speaker 1: Jerry Jones made them into America's laughingstock. Their first coach, 494 00:34:34,755 --> 00:34:38,155 Speaker 1: Tom Landry, was a World War II bomber pilot who 495 00:34:38,235 --> 00:34:42,075 Speaker 1: flew twenty six missions over occupied Europe, including one where 496 00:34:42,115 --> 00:34:45,155 Speaker 1: they evaded the German guns but kind of ran out 497 00:34:45,235 --> 00:34:49,035 Speaker 1: of gas and had to crash land in Belgium. They 498 00:34:49,075 --> 00:34:52,715 Speaker 1: honored Tom Landry on the Cowboys scoreboard during the game yesterday, 499 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:56,395 Speaker 1: complete with a photo of him in his trademark coaches hat, 500 00:34:57,275 --> 00:35:04,235 Speaker 1: and they misspelled Tom Landry's name. It spelled la n 501 00:35:05,155 --> 00:35:10,755 Speaker 1: d r Y his old team, but Dallas Cowboys spelled 502 00:35:10,795 --> 00:35:21,675 Speaker 1: it la U n d r Y Laundry. Coach Tom Laundry, 503 00:35:22,235 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: We honor Tom Laundry, talk about whitewashing history. Worst Person's 504 00:35:32,995 --> 00:35:59,195 Speaker 1: next new format for at least this episode. Before we go, 505 00:35:59,395 --> 00:36:01,515 Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The 506 00:36:01,595 --> 00:36:04,475 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Kruger Effects 507 00:36:04,475 --> 00:36:10,755 Speaker 1: Best Samenzo constitute today's other worst persons in the World 508 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:15,995 Speaker 1: Bronze Worse. Eric Adams, mayor of New York City Gotham 509 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:21,635 Speaker 1: Fun City, Don't blame me, I voted for the garbage Commissioner, Lady. 510 00:36:22,435 --> 00:36:25,995 Speaker 1: Recent polling has indicated that seventy percent of New Yorkers 511 00:36:25,995 --> 00:36:32,035 Speaker 1: now want him to resign because seven percent seven seven 512 00:36:32,075 --> 00:36:35,435 Speaker 1: the number between six and eight seven percent believe he 513 00:36:35,475 --> 00:36:40,315 Speaker 1: has not committed a crime. His approval ratings he doesn't 514 00:36:40,355 --> 00:36:43,755 Speaker 1: have any he has disapproval ratings. He actually is at 515 00:36:43,875 --> 00:36:48,995 Speaker 1: strong approval by seventeen percent of African American New Yorkers. 516 00:36:50,355 --> 00:36:52,395 Speaker 1: Adams has now revealed that he has done exactly what 517 00:36:52,435 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: you would do if you face the city ready to 518 00:36:54,355 --> 00:37:00,195 Speaker 1: seriously reconsider Andrew Wiener or Andrew Cuomo to replace you, apologize, 519 00:37:00,715 --> 00:37:06,995 Speaker 1: address the residents on TV No. He has called Trump 520 00:37:08,035 --> 00:37:10,995 Speaker 1: insisted he did not discuss his own criminal case with Trump, 521 00:37:11,995 --> 00:37:15,675 Speaker 1: did not say pardon me. President elect did not talk 522 00:37:15,675 --> 00:37:20,315 Speaker 1: about joining the Republican Party. Can you see where he's 523 00:37:20,355 --> 00:37:23,475 Speaker 1: going with this? Though? The runner up, Congressman Seth Moulton 524 00:37:23,555 --> 00:37:26,995 Speaker 1: of Massachusetts. Just when you thought Tulsey Gabbard was the 525 00:37:26,995 --> 00:37:30,315 Speaker 1: biggest moron to seek the Democratic nomination for president in 526 00:37:30,315 --> 00:37:33,755 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, there's this imbecile from the New York Times 527 00:37:34,275 --> 00:37:41,475 Speaker 1: circular firing squad time Seth happily brought nail clippers. Representative 528 00:37:41,515 --> 00:37:45,115 Speaker 1: Seth Moulton of Massachusetts suggests that the party should shift 529 00:37:45,155 --> 00:37:51,795 Speaker 1: its approach to transgender issues. Quote. Democrats spend way too 530 00:37:51,835 --> 00:37:54,915 Speaker 1: much time trying not to offend anyone, rather than being 531 00:37:54,955 --> 00:37:58,715 Speaker 1: brutally honest about the challenge as many Americans face. Mister 532 00:37:58,795 --> 00:38:02,715 Speaker 1: Moulton said, I have two little girls. I don't want 533 00:38:02,795 --> 00:38:05,155 Speaker 1: them getting run over on a playing fee by a 534 00:38:05,155 --> 00:38:08,715 Speaker 1: male and formerly mail athlete. But as a Democrat, I'm 535 00:38:08,715 --> 00:38:12,515 Speaker 1: supposed to be afraid to say that. Multon who is 536 00:38:12,555 --> 00:38:16,115 Speaker 1: an imbecile, promptly saw his press spokesman and top advisor 537 00:38:16,155 --> 00:38:20,235 Speaker 1: resign in protest. He has since doubled down on his 538 00:38:20,275 --> 00:38:24,195 Speaker 1: remarks and says he's confused because the Massachusetts State Democratic 539 00:38:24,235 --> 00:38:29,955 Speaker 1: chairperson will not return his calls, his calls, including his 540 00:38:29,995 --> 00:38:32,515 Speaker 1: call insisting that the way forward for the Democratic Party 541 00:38:32,555 --> 00:38:35,395 Speaker 1: after the presidential loss and the House loss and the 542 00:38:35,435 --> 00:38:39,275 Speaker 1: Senate loss is to become transphobic. That that's the wave 543 00:38:39,355 --> 00:38:43,075 Speaker 1: of the future, that's the slogan Democrats. We now hate 544 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:47,835 Speaker 1: transgendered people. And he wants to do this because of 545 00:38:47,875 --> 00:38:51,635 Speaker 1: the zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero 546 00:38:51,795 --> 00:38:55,795 Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero 547 00:38:55,915 --> 00:38:59,955 Speaker 1: zero one percent chance that his little gals get run 548 00:38:59,955 --> 00:39:03,155 Speaker 1: over during a sporting event by one of the what 549 00:39:04,995 --> 00:39:10,755 Speaker 1: do transgender athletes in Massachusetts scholastic sports? You know what's 550 00:39:10,915 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: likelier that Seth Moulton's daughters will be run over on 551 00:39:13,915 --> 00:39:16,955 Speaker 1: a playing field by Seth Moulton because he's so totally 552 00:39:16,955 --> 00:39:21,115 Speaker 1: lost he runs out onto the playing field. You are 553 00:39:21,155 --> 00:39:24,155 Speaker 1: supposed to be afraid to say something like that, Congressman. 554 00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:28,795 Speaker 1: It's hateful, barbarous, likely to get somebody hurt, indicates that 555 00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:32,035 Speaker 1: you're a bigot, no moron, and since you're too stupid 556 00:39:32,035 --> 00:39:35,035 Speaker 1: to understand any of that, consider it in these terms. 557 00:39:35,395 --> 00:39:41,355 Speaker 1: It will end your political career. But our winner the 558 00:39:41,555 --> 00:39:47,595 Speaker 1: worst Emerald Robinson. Emerald Robinson used to be a correspondent 559 00:39:47,675 --> 00:39:51,155 Speaker 1: for One American News. Consider that job for a moment. 560 00:39:51,835 --> 00:39:55,115 Speaker 1: Is she crazy? Yeah, very much, so hire her immediately. 561 00:39:55,755 --> 00:39:58,595 Speaker 1: Did you see her last report? I did give her 562 00:39:58,635 --> 00:40:02,635 Speaker 1: a raise. She's even crazier than we thought. Then they 563 00:40:02,675 --> 00:40:05,515 Speaker 1: realized she was making stuff up and she was too 564 00:40:05,555 --> 00:40:08,755 Speaker 1: crazy even for them, So One American News fired her, 565 00:40:08,995 --> 00:40:12,235 Speaker 1: and she was hired by Newsmax for two years, and 566 00:40:12,235 --> 00:40:14,435 Speaker 1: then they realized she was making stuff up and she 567 00:40:14,475 --> 00:40:16,875 Speaker 1: was too crazy even for them, and they fired her. 568 00:40:17,835 --> 00:40:22,075 Speaker 1: And now she's on Mike Lindell's website Frank, which they 569 00:40:22,115 --> 00:40:27,475 Speaker 1: call Frank because Chairman of the Board TV was taken Lindell. 570 00:40:27,915 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Trump's Secretary of the Department of Pillows and 571 00:40:31,435 --> 00:40:35,395 Speaker 1: Homeland betting. Mike Lindell is two nuts to notice anything. 572 00:40:35,435 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: So Emerald Robinson is still on there, apparently doing stuff 573 00:40:38,435 --> 00:40:40,675 Speaker 1: like what she wrote about the Senate race in Arizona. 574 00:40:40,795 --> 00:40:43,035 Speaker 1: It's all you need to know about this in advance. 575 00:40:43,595 --> 00:40:51,955 Speaker 1: It's the Senate race somebody called a suburban black man. Yeah, 576 00:40:52,235 --> 00:40:55,355 Speaker 1: in Moscow. The vote count in the Arizona Senate race 577 00:40:55,395 --> 00:40:58,915 Speaker 1: between Carrie Lake R And Reuben Diego d hasn't moved 578 00:40:58,915 --> 00:41:00,955 Speaker 1: in hours, and we're supposed to think this is all 579 00:41:00,995 --> 00:41:05,595 Speaker 1: totally normal. Meanwhile, Trump flipped Arizona with ease. It makes sense. 580 00:41:06,875 --> 00:41:11,515 Speaker 1: And she retweeted this and said it's called cheating. Now 581 00:41:11,595 --> 00:41:14,435 Speaker 1: you ready for the operative part. Democrats are trying to 582 00:41:14,475 --> 00:41:20,835 Speaker 1: flip the house by cheating. It's the Senate race, dimbolb 583 00:41:22,155 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: Senate Diego defeating Lake was for the Senate. Has nothing 584 00:41:29,355 --> 00:41:31,715 Speaker 1: to do with flipping the house. The House and the 585 00:41:31,755 --> 00:41:36,795 Speaker 1: Senate are two different things. Yeah, I know, surprised me 586 00:41:36,915 --> 00:41:40,795 Speaker 1: too when I was six. There's nothing to do with 587 00:41:40,835 --> 00:41:43,275 Speaker 1: flipping the house or not flipping the house, or flipping 588 00:41:43,275 --> 00:41:46,155 Speaker 1: the pancakes. Also, Emerald, why would the Democrats cheat to 589 00:41:46,155 --> 00:41:48,795 Speaker 1: steal the Arizona Senate vote but not the Arizona Electoral 590 00:41:48,875 --> 00:41:54,515 Speaker 1: College vote? You idiot? There is a reason. Emerald Robinson's 591 00:41:54,555 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: Wikipedia profile begins Emerald Robinson is an American broadcaster and 592 00:41:59,675 --> 00:42:04,675 Speaker 1: conspiracy theorist. Unquote like she has a freaking degree in it. 593 00:42:05,355 --> 00:42:08,635 Speaker 1: I majored in conspiracy theory. Actually, we don't know where 594 00:42:08,675 --> 00:42:11,475 Speaker 1: she majored or what she majored in, because her bio 595 00:42:11,555 --> 00:42:14,275 Speaker 1: has no date of birth or personal data, like whether 596 00:42:14,355 --> 00:42:18,115 Speaker 1: she's originally from this planet or what her names used 597 00:42:18,155 --> 00:42:21,595 Speaker 1: to be. It mentions that she used to be an actress. 598 00:42:22,475 --> 00:42:26,715 Speaker 1: IMDb is far more informative. It tells us she was 599 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:31,995 Speaker 1: Ruthie in You, Me and Five Bucks. I believe Laurence 600 00:42:31,995 --> 00:42:34,795 Speaker 1: Olivier was in that. But her breakout role was in 601 00:42:34,835 --> 00:42:38,435 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen hit Miracles from Heaven, where she played 602 00:42:39,315 --> 00:42:45,115 Speaker 1: Woman with Big Hair Emerald. That was part of the 603 00:42:45,275 --> 00:42:48,315 Speaker 1: Woman with Big Hair trilogy. Woman with Big Hair, Woman 604 00:42:48,355 --> 00:42:51,115 Speaker 1: with Bigger Hair, and woman whose hair was so big 605 00:42:51,155 --> 00:42:58,755 Speaker 1: it crushed her cervical vertebrae. Robinson two days worst person then, 606 00:43:46,035 --> 00:43:48,915 Speaker 1: don't tell anybody, But like half this episode was music 607 00:43:51,475 --> 00:43:54,195 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here ro let 608 00:43:54,235 --> 00:43:57,955 Speaker 1: the music do the damage for me. Thank you for listening. 609 00:43:58,835 --> 00:44:06,235 Speaker 1: Follow me for the podcast promo videos on Blue Sky YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, threads, 610 00:44:06,955 --> 00:44:12,435 Speaker 1: and fred Face, but no longer on TikTok. They banned 611 00:44:12,435 --> 00:44:15,155 Speaker 1: me from TikTok for sharing a satirical anti Trump meme. 612 00:44:16,915 --> 00:44:20,395 Speaker 1: There'll be a camp for that soon enough. Brian Ray 613 00:44:20,395 --> 00:44:22,995 Speaker 1: and John Phillips Shaneil, the musical directors, have Countdown Arrange 614 00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:25,835 Speaker 1: produced and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled 615 00:44:25,915 --> 00:44:28,475 Speaker 1: orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass 616 00:44:28,475 --> 00:44:32,515 Speaker 1: and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical 617 00:44:32,555 --> 00:44:35,075 Speaker 1: and fifty musical comments are by the best baseball stadium 618 00:44:35,155 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust. And yes, that little joke at 619 00:44:38,555 --> 00:44:42,915 Speaker 1: the beginning, I staged that entirely. Nancy's not mad that 620 00:44:43,035 --> 00:44:45,635 Speaker 1: I know of sports music is the Olderman theme from 621 00:44:45,835 --> 00:44:48,875 Speaker 1: ESPN two, which was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy 622 00:44:48,875 --> 00:44:52,155 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the 623 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:55,395 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my ever 624 00:44:55,515 --> 00:44:58,875 Speaker 1: faithful friend Larry David, and everything else is pretty much 625 00:44:58,875 --> 00:45:02,635 Speaker 1: my fault. That's countdown for today, just one, five hundred 626 00:45:02,635 --> 00:45:05,355 Speaker 1: and thirty two days until the scal sled end of 627 00:45:05,395 --> 00:45:08,995 Speaker 1: the term of lame duck President Trump. The next scheduled 628 00:45:08,995 --> 00:45:12,915 Speaker 1: countdown is Thursday. Still playing this scheduling by EAR. I 629 00:45:12,955 --> 00:45:16,395 Speaker 1: may do shorter ten minute editions as the news warrants, 630 00:45:16,395 --> 00:45:19,075 Speaker 1: if that works for you, and then two main ones 631 00:45:19,155 --> 00:45:22,875 Speaker 1: during the week. Let's see as always bulletins as the 632 00:45:22,915 --> 00:45:26,355 Speaker 1: news warrants till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman, good morning, 633 00:45:26,395 --> 00:45:49,395 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 634 00:45:49,555 --> 00:45:54,035 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. 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