Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Give
Speaker 1: Me Liberty or Give Me Death. Patrick Henry said that
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years ago, yesterday, to galvanize Americans
Speaker 1: against the tyranny growing around them, brought by an insane
Speaker 1: dictator king, not whatever was manifesting near Saint John's Church
Speaker 1: in Richmond, where the Second Virginia Convention he was addressing
Speaker 1: was meeting, Not what threatened them individually, not what was
Speaker 1: at their door, but what they knew would be at
Speaker 1: their door soon or late, because it was already inside
Speaker 1: the homes of their fellow Americans in far off Boston.
Speaker 1: Give me Liberty or give me death, because whether or not,
Speaker 1: the tyrant is here for us now, he is here
Speaker 1: already for our brothers and sisters. He will be here
Speaker 1: for us soon enough, and soon the Virginia Militia embroidered
Speaker 1: their battle shirts with Liberty or Death, and soon an
Speaker 1: entirely new concept. Americans had destroyed those who intended to
Speaker 1: enslave them, and they had won a liberty that lasted
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years, well nearly closer to what
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five minus eight two one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: two years, give me liberty or give me death March
Speaker 1: twenty third, seventeen hundred and seventy five. And what would
Speaker 1: our Patrick Henry have said on March twenty third, two
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty five, Give me liberty or give me
Speaker 1: a free twelve ounce coffee with the purchase of a
Speaker 1: dozen donuts while supplies last at participating outlets only. Our
Speaker 1: collective selfishness and self obsession is virtually total. Our collective
Speaker 1: incapacity to see anything further than our own needs. For
Speaker 1: that matter, our own needs for no span of time
Speaker 1: longer than a couple of weeks, is so powerful, so ritualized,
Speaker 1: so rewarded, that we barely see it anymore. Even when
Speaker 1: our laws, our courts, our institutions, our leaders, our media,
Speaker 1: our political parties, our handful of responsible corporations, even when
Speaker 1: they fold under pressure or just the fear of pressure,
Speaker 1: or worst of all, even without any pressure whatsoever, we
Speaker 1: sit there, pointing at them and at those of applying
Speaker 1: the pressure, as if pointing at them were somehow enough,
Speaker 1: as if shame would be enough to make them stiffen
Speaker 1: and fight back and risk something, risk anything to save democracy.
Speaker 1: And in that word, hour I include myself, and I
Speaker 1: exclude literally no more than a handful of others like
Speaker 1: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders, who are at least
Speaker 1: out there yelling and warning and being the focal points
Speaker 1: for the crowds and inviting the hatred and the pressure
Speaker 1: of the fascists, and inviting worse than just pressure. The
Speaker 1: rest of us are celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth
Speaker 1: anniversary of Patrick Henry by proclaiming, give me liberty or
Speaker 1: give me unlimited text and data when I trade in
Speaker 1: my iPhone. The institutions that made their bones in this country,
Speaker 1: that grew their gravitas that we're supposed to do this
Speaker 1: when we needed them to do this, that earned some trust,
Speaker 1: even as trust shrank in every corner with every passing year,
Speaker 1: are now racing each other to capitulate and to collaborate
Speaker 1: before their rivals do. Columbia University, whose board of trustees
Speaker 1: co chair is one of my oldest professional friends and
Speaker 1: one of the reporters I had the most respect for,
Speaker 1: was barely done humiliating and prostrating itself in front of
Speaker 1: Trump in hopes of getting back four hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: in federal grants out of five billion in federal grants,
Speaker 1: when Colombia's endowment is fourteen and a half billion. Columbia
Speaker 1: was barely done getting the public praise yesterday from the
Speaker 1: idiot former head of wrestling who is now Secretary of
Speaker 1: Education without telling her to shove the four hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars up Trump's ass, one silver dollar at a time,
Speaker 1: without the student body walking out, or taking over Upper Manhattan,
Speaker 1: or shutting down the entire goddamned city of New York.
Speaker 1: Columbia was barely done collaborating when the entire infrastructure of
Speaker 1: my alma mater, Cornell, did nothing about ice the Gestapo
Speaker 1: demanding that one of Cornell's students turn himself in for
Speaker 1: deportation today because of anti Israel protests. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you, shutting down Inthaca, New York, would be a
Speaker 1: lot goddamned easier than shutting down half of Manhattan. And
Speaker 1: when I was still there, the majority of the faculty
Speaker 1: and even some students had witnessed the response to rampant racism,
Speaker 1: including a cross burning at a black women's dorm, and
Speaker 1: the response was for students to take over the student
Speaker 1: union while carrying long guns and wearing bandoliers. And even
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine when I graduated. A decade after
Speaker 1: that and a group of low income minority students felt
Speaker 1: they had been discriminated against because their degrees were being
Speaker 1: withheld because they hadn't fully paid back tuition extensions when
Speaker 1: they were black, even they peacefully and without weapons, took
Speaker 1: over an administration building for a few hours just to
Speaker 1: say this is wrong. You didn't do this with the
Speaker 1: white students who were late with their money just to
Speaker 1: do something, to do anything but obey in advance. Then
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn if the protesters at Cornell
Speaker 1: and Columbia or anywhere else are anti Semites, or are
Speaker 1: defending a really unpopular cause, or seemingly have carefully chosen
Speaker 1: every possible strategic move to make themselves and their causes
Speaker 1: more unpopular and less palatable in this country. I don't
Speaker 1: care who they are or what you think you have
Speaker 1: to do to establish parameters for them. The parameters Columbia
Speaker 1: cannot include establishing a campus thought police that can now
Speaker 1: arrest the protesters it and you do not like, and
Speaker 1: Trump does not like, and not arrest the protesters who
Speaker 1: are demanding faster transfer of academic records for postgraduate applications
Speaker 1: or job interviews. And I don't care who they are
Speaker 1: or what you think you have to do to establish
Speaker 1: parameters for them. The parameters Cornell cannot include completely ignoring
Speaker 1: the demand that one of you gets yanked off campus
Speaker 1: in the middle of the goddamned spring semester and deported
Speaker 1: to where where they sent the gay barber they decided
Speaker 1: was a terrorist, or where they sent the god with
Speaker 1: the real Madrid soccer tattoo. It cannot, Cornell include ignoring
Speaker 1: the disappearing of a Cornell student because it doesn't effing
Speaker 1: matter which Cornell student they are disappearing for which unpopular opinion,
Speaker 1: because next time that Cornell student could be you, and
Speaker 1: at this rate, eventually it will be you. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what your campuses did not do when they
Speaker 1: came for these mistaken and incompetent protesters, because your collaboration
Speaker 1: will earn you nothing except the Trump dictatorship's recognition that
Speaker 1: Cornell and Columbia are officially pushovers, and the next time
Speaker 1: they need somebody for a show trial, they will go
Speaker 1: to Cornell and Columbia first, because Cornell and Columbia will
Speaker 1: help you round up whoever you want, whether it's a student,
Speaker 1: a professor, or the head of the board of trust.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 1: And if you didn't learn all this at Cornell, Cornell,
Speaker 1: and if you didn't learn all this at Columbia Columbia,
Speaker 1: go out of business and close Columbia and close Cornell
Speaker 1: and sell the campuses, and do it today, because that
Speaker 1: what you just did not do, That was your purpose,
Speaker 1: that was why you existed, to teach that liberty requires
Speaker 1: us to defend our liberty and the other guy's liberty.
Speaker 1: And if you didn't learn all this at every college
Speaker 1: and university and juco and community college in this country,
Speaker 1: close them too. You have all lost the plot. Happily,
Speaker 1: the students imperiled can always call the noted law firm
Speaker 1: of Paul kama Weiss and its chairman Brad S. Karp,
Speaker 1: advocate for corporations and protesters alike, and rich and poor alike.
Speaker 1: Except mister Karp and Paul kama Weiss tried to challenge
Speaker 1: a threat from Trump and have a pro Trump firm
Speaker 1: called Quinn Comma, Immanuel Kamma, Erkut Kamma and Sullivan joined
Speaker 1: them and when those pro trumpists saw the opportunity to
Speaker 1: destroy a rival, and so what if it destroyed the
Speaker 1: rule of law in the process, And when that rival
Speaker 1: said no, Paul kama Weiss capitulated. Paul kama Weiss will
Speaker 1: now bribe Trump with forty million dollars in free lawyer
Speaker 1: hours to help Trump, because you know, somebody's got to
Speaker 1: litigate whatever Trump's version of the Nuremberg Race laws turns
Speaker 1: out to be. Thank you all for your patience during
Speaker 1: this time, said Karp of Paul kama Weiss to his staff.
Speaker 1: With this behind us, we can devote our complete focus
Speaker 1: as we always do, to our clients, our work, our colleagues,
Speaker 1: and our firm. Mister Carp, you are an idiot With
Speaker 1: this behind us. It is not behind you. You have
Speaker 1: assured that it will forever be in front of you.
Speaker 1: Trump will be back soon, mister Carp, to tell you
Speaker 1: who you can and cannot hire, and who you can
Speaker 1: and cannot represent, and which other clients' confidential records Trump
Speaker 1: does and does not want because hours after this idiot,
Speaker 1: self interested, self deluding lawyer told the thousand lawyers who
Speaker 1: worked for him that it would all be fine now
Speaker 1: now that he had old their souls to the devil.
Speaker 1: The White House sent out a memo Saturday to the
Speaker 1: little witch now running the Department of Justice, which reads,
Speaker 1: in part quote that she should seek sanctions against attorneys
Speaker 1: and law firms who engage in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious
Speaker 1: litigation against the government. The slave overseers who work for
Speaker 1: Trump also instructed the dog murdering head of Homeland Security
Speaker 1: dress up Barbie with a thousand different action adventure outfits
Speaker 1: in her closet to quote prioritize enforcement of those regulations
Speaker 1: governing what lawyers can do inside the immigration courts. That
Speaker 1: is a somewhat cloudy way of saying, represent somebody we
Speaker 1: are trying to deport, and if we can, we will
Speaker 1: deport you with them, or we will deport you or
Speaker 1: employee or your friend or another student at Cornell or Columbia.
Speaker 1: The Columbia case was Trump testing how much educational money
Speaker 1: would need to be threatened before the universities were willing
Speaker 1: to sell their core values. That figure turned out to
Speaker 1: be four hundred million dollars, not very much if your
Speaker 1: endowment is fourteen point eight something billion. The Paul comme
Speaker 1: a wis case was Trump testing how much litigational money
Speaker 1: would be needed to be threatened before the big law
Speaker 1: firms were willing to sell their core values. That turned
Speaker 1: out to be forty million dollars. Lawyers are cheaper than universities,
Speaker 1: turned out, though in both cases they're very cheap, and
Speaker 1: the cost wasn't very much at all. By the way,
Speaker 1: lawyers all lawyers. The cowardice, the complicity of Paul kama
Speaker 1: Weiss has now emboldened Trump to tell Pam Bondi to
Speaker 1: try to punish law firms who take asylum cases pro bono,
Speaker 1: to give her the right to start to poll security
Speaker 1: clearances for firms she doesn't like, and to try to
Speaker 1: prosecute lawyers who sued the government starting in oh twenty seventeen,
Speaker 1: you know, the year when Trump took over the first time,
Speaker 1: four years before we napoleoned him instead of putting him
Speaker 1: in prison, because give me liberty or I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pay a lot for this muffler. And so we
Speaker 1: can add the universities and the lawyers to the list.
Speaker 1: The list of the guard rails that turned out to
Speaker 1: be made out of paper mache filled with oatmeal, The
Speaker 1: list that includes pretty much every American institution of any
Speaker 1: importance except the Visiting Nurse Association, the owners of the
Speaker 1: television networks for instance, the other news organizations, more on
Speaker 1: them presently. The Republican Party obviously, I mean, why should
Speaker 1: any of them risk what they have the increased power
Speaker 1: Trump's dictatorship has given them. It's not like Trump's going
Speaker 1: to deport me or take away my power yet. On
Speaker 1: the list, of course, the Democratic Party leadership. And thank
Speaker 1: you to the TV networks for putting on Chuck Schumer
Speaker 1: every goddamned day since he sold out this country so
Speaker 1: he can keep selling his effing book without having to
Speaker 1: face one single protester or obviously on the TV political shows,
Speaker 1: having to face one difficult question. Thank you to the
Speaker 1: Democratic leaders out of office who have joined this list.
Speaker 1: Has any man squandered his post presidency more than Barack Obama?
Speaker 1: No one in this country could enrage Trump faster or
Speaker 1: more thoroughly than Barack Obama. He stops Trump so thoroughly
Speaker 1: in his tracks that Trump thinks he ran a presidential
Speaker 1: race against Obama. Almost no one in this country, no,
Speaker 1: no one in this country, despite his flaws. Rally, the
Speaker 1: dispirited and confused opposition begging for leadership now than could Obama. Well, happily,
Speaker 1: he is all over the news at the moment with
Speaker 1: his college basketball picks South Carolina over Southern I don't know,
Speaker 1: because give me liberty or give me a two hundred
Speaker 1: dollars bonus bet. When I sign up with sports Betting, Inc.
Speaker 1: Must be twenty one or over gambling problem called one
Speaker 1: eight hundred gambler. And most importantly on the list, the
Speaker 1: law on the courts, the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice.
Speaker 1: I begin to think his family name is justice, because
Speaker 1: there's nothing justice about his work. Trump as President, as
Speaker 1: he did before, publicly demands the removal of a judge
Speaker 1: who thwarted him at in so he is testing to
Speaker 1: see if he can get away with that, and John
Speaker 1: Roberts comes out with a robust, profound, dramatic warning in response,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. He issued boiler plate Pablom quote. For more
Speaker 1: than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is
Speaker 1: not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.
Speaker 1: The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose. There's
Speaker 1: got to be something else on this sheet. That's all
Speaker 1: he said, thank you, Justice, Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts,
Speaker 1: thank you for the three three and a half minutes
Speaker 1: you devoted to this statement trying to defend democracy in
Speaker 1: the rule of law. Not the faintest glimmer of understanding
Speaker 1: that Roberts as Chief Justice, as the supposed restraint against
Speaker 1: the corrupt influence peddling religious nuts on his own court.
Speaker 1: Roberts still immunized Trump against virtually any prosecution for virtually
Speaker 1: any crime, and now seems surprised when Trump decides to
Speaker 1: try out the crime of threatening judges and dismantling the
Speaker 1: judiciary and arresting political opponents. Oh, dismantling the judiciary, arresting
Speaker 1: political opponents. I'm sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm
Speaker 1: reading one of my commentaries from next fall when Trump
Speaker 1: tries to arrest Chuck Schumer or AOC or Sonya Sotomayor
Speaker 1: or Mehdi Hassan. Actually, I'm just reading the news from Turkey.
Speaker 1: The same day the opposition voted for its choice to
Speaker 1: run against the quasi dictator Ereuwan. In twenty twenty eight,
Speaker 1: Erewan had that man, the mayor of Istanbul, formally arrested
Speaker 1: and charged with corruption ekkrem Imama Glue can still run
Speaker 1: for president even if they keep him in detention until
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. But if he's convicted of anything, and
Speaker 1: how could he be convicted of anything in a Turkish
Speaker 1: judicial system that at minimum exaggerated the severity of the
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen quote coup quote against Erdiguan. If he's convicted
Speaker 1: of anything, he cannot serve Now, of course Erdiguan is
Speaker 1: prevented from running again in twenty twenty eight. But of
Speaker 1: course he can't run again in twenty twenty eight because
Speaker 1: of term limits in the constitution, which is why he's
Speaker 1: now trying to change the constitution. Why does this all
Speaker 1: sound so familiar? The Turks have been protesting for five nights.
Speaker 1: It now seems, after years of this, as if they
Speaker 1: will have only one option, which would be to remove
Speaker 1: their dictator by force. I assume they are at this
Speaker 1: point because ten or twenty or whenever years ago, when
Speaker 1: celebrating the anniversary of their Patrick Henry, it came out,
Speaker 1: give me liberty or give me up to thirty percent
Speaker 1: on rooms that select Disney resort hotels when I stay
Speaker 1: five nights or longer while I am burning things to
Speaker 1: the ground on your time. Back to the media for
Speaker 1: a moment, please. We have both long since discovered and
Speaker 1: paid for the incompetence of the modern insulated self referential,
Speaker 1: sealed in both a bubble and in bubble plastic political
Speaker 1: media complex. But here's something new and terrible, even for them.
Speaker 1: Hot off the presses, as it were, the ground zero
Speaker 1: of world in which access is the only thing that
Speaker 1: matters or is understood, and in which there is no
Speaker 1: comprehension of the dangers to which that access provides front
Speaker 1: row seats. The ground zero of that world is not
Speaker 1: the Washington Post. It's not even the New York Times.
Speaker 1: It's Politico. Its lead item day before yesterday was a
Speaker 1: breathless account, a doubly fake scoop, a book excerpt. It's
Speaker 1: from a book by Jonathan Allen and Amy Parnes, and
Speaker 1: Politico can't decide which is the bigger news, an anecdote
Speaker 1: about Joe Biden's memory or the fact that it somehow
Speaker 1: obtained a copy of this book long before it's supposed
Speaker 1: to be available. It's only supposed to be available April first,
Speaker 1: and they got it here at the March twenty second
Speaker 1: or something. As to that second point. It is amazing
Speaker 1: but deeply symbolic that political writers keep pulling this done
Speaker 1: year after year after year, and expecting anybody to fall
Speaker 1: for it. And there's always somebody at Politico to fall
Speaker 1: for it. You got a copy of a book before
Speaker 1: the publication date, you must be the greatest reporter since
Speaker 1: Woodward and Bernstein. How is such a mighty feat possible
Speaker 1: by mere humans? The answer is, of course, that proof
Speaker 1: copies of a book come out months before publication. I
Speaker 1: used to get a box of them at least six
Speaker 1: weeks before publication, two months, mailed them to friends. If
Speaker 1: I'd found a way to sell them on eBay, I
Speaker 1: would have done it. These inexplicable pre publicity pre publication
Speaker 1: leaks happen as follows. Hey, Politico, says the author, my
Speaker 1: book is coming out in a month. I need some
Speaker 1: pub The Politico guy replies, well, what's good in it?
Speaker 1: And the author responds, why I can give you this
Speaker 1: anecdote because I already promised the other good one to
Speaker 1: the post. Take that axios, The Politico guy says quietly
Speaker 1: to himself, another scoop for yours. Truly, I bet my
Speaker 1: European bosses will give me a five dollars bonus. The
Speaker 1: new one Saturday from Politico has the added embarrassment of
Speaker 1: underscoring how the authors do not understand politics, or America,
Speaker 1: or in fact life. I'll just read what Politico excerpted
Speaker 1: about how one Democrat who had run for the Democratic
Speaker 1: nomination in twenty nineteen, quote became concerned about Biden's mental
Speaker 1: acuity at a June twenty twenty three White House picnic
Speaker 1: for members of Congress. Quote when they came face to face,
Speaker 1: Biden did not immediately recognize his one time rival for
Speaker 1: the party's nomination. Quote. The candidate quote had to Biden
Speaker 1: with personal details to remind him that sounds bad about
Speaker 1: last year's big story which X would be nominee was
Speaker 1: so supposedly struck that Biden didn't remember that both of
Speaker 1: them had run for president, could not identify his former
Speaker 1: rival on the debate stage. Which one of them Eric Swollwell, now,
Speaker 1: if you're anything like me, your response to hearing this
Speaker 1: anecdote was, wait, Eric Swowell ran for president? The congressman, right, good,
Speaker 1: good guy, but congressman from Illin, New York, California, California. Yes,
Speaker 1: I can almost picture him in my mind, I had
Speaker 1: no memory at all that Swalwell had run, just like
Speaker 1: Biden had no memory at all that Swalwell had run.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing just like you had no memory that Swalwell
Speaker 1: had run. In fact, my surprise is that Swalwell remembered
Speaker 1: that he had run, writing Jonathan Allen about how somebody
Speaker 1: forgot he ran, and I'm still taking his word for this.
Speaker 1: That he did run is not the negative flex against
Speaker 1: Joe Biden you think it is. But wait, there's more.
Speaker 1: The official Swallwell response to Politico was that there was
Speaker 1: no White House party for members of Congress on the
Speaker 1: date Allen has given June twenty twenty three, And it
Speaker 1: turns out he's right. There was none. Politico then dives
Speaker 1: into showing how great it is by proving that there
Speaker 1: was one in July of twenty twenty three, and Swallowell
Speaker 1: was there. See where journalists, we and the authors and
Speaker 1: the editors forgot when the party was got it wrong.
Speaker 1: But it's Biden who was already having trouble remembering things
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, and Swawell didn't go public about it.
Speaker 1: See we're smarter than they is. Wait, there's even more.
Speaker 1: Politico's Adam Wren foolishly took credit for writing this. He
Speaker 1: managed to please his new neo fascist European owners by
Speaker 1: turning this story into a story by the way of
Speaker 1: an author getting a date wrong about a piece of
Speaker 1: trivia at at which somebody forgot a piece of trivia.
Speaker 1: He turned this into a Democrats lied about Biden, and
Speaker 1: now everybody hates the Democrats and the Democrats is dead
Speaker 1: story quote Adam Wren, Politico. Biden's refusal to pass the
Speaker 1: torch until more than a year later still looms over
Speaker 1: the party, and the Democrats are still facing questions about
Speaker 1: who knew what and when about Biden's faculties. It's not
Speaker 1: difficult to see more of these anecdotes surfacing in the
Speaker 1: coming weeks and months. What's harder is seeing how the
Speaker 1: party regains voters trust trust Adam wrenn trust Politico, trust
Speaker 1: Jonathan Allen. Joe Biden and the Democrats aren't the ones
Speaker 1: who can't tell the difference between a president for getting
Speaker 1: an actual campaign rival and an utterly and literally forgettable
Speaker 1: vanity campaign for the nomination that lasted exactly three months
Speaker 1: and out of which the guy himself bailed two hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven days before the first primary, and Biden wasn't
Speaker 1: the one who got the month of the party wrong
Speaker 1: and published it anyway, And none of us out here
Speaker 1: let our Politico White House Bureau Chief conduct an official
Speaker 1: on stage event at Sea pack Nazi Party memberships for
Speaker 1: people who don't like the letter Z. The real memory
Speaker 1: loss about Politico that Politico should address is after it
Speaker 1: goes out of business, will anybody remember it was? Ever?
Speaker 1: There also of interest here because believe it or not,
Speaker 1: I have some venom left, if not much voice. There's
Speaker 1: also something up at NBC. I'm not sure what it is,
Speaker 1: but Trump has now threatened them again about MSNBC. And
Speaker 1: it's four months since Scarborough rehoard himself to Trump, and
Speaker 1: it's a month tomorrow since they fired Joy Reid and
Speaker 1: the other hosts of Color. So NBC is preparing to
Speaker 1: throw somebody or something out the windows at the fifty
Speaker 1: second floor corporate offices at thirty Rock. What is it?
Speaker 1: Who is it? That's next? This is countdown? This is
Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olberman host scripts to the news, some headlines,
Speaker 1: some updates, some stark still ahead of course worse persons,
Speaker 1: and you know why you need a Department of Education
Speaker 1: so idiots like the South African Elon Musk can learn
Speaker 1: English correctly and not wind up publicly misspelling the words
Speaker 1: Department of education. First, this is the Countdown podcast, and
Speaker 1: these are the places where there's news. Date line thirty Rock.
Speaker 1: I live a few blocks from where I used to work. This,
Speaker 1: of course, is an evergreen statement almost anywhere I've ever
Speaker 1: lived in New York. I could say that about one
Speaker 1: of the places I used to work, but this time
Speaker 1: I am being specific about thirty Rock, thirty Rockefeller Center,
Speaker 1: thirty Rockefeller Plaza, the heart of New York City, the
Speaker 1: home of the National Broadcasting Company and the corporation that
Speaker 1: owns it. I'm not sure what specific ass kissing they
Speaker 1: have planned for Trump as our business quasi humans rush
Speaker 1: for the exits to get the best deal from the
Speaker 1: fascist state, but I can tell from the looks on
Speaker 1: their faces they're thinking about it. In the month just closing,
Speaker 1: Trump was nice enough to declare that MSNBC and CNN
Speaker 1: are illegal. He used the word three times in his
Speaker 1: reichs Parthai tog at the Ministry of Love. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: the Department of justice. The Ministry of Love was in
Speaker 1: the book nineteen eighty four. Anyway, When indictments did not
Speaker 1: immediately follow his thrice use of the word illegal, he
Speaker 1: brought the subject up again last week and blocks away.
Speaker 1: I can smell the fear from the fifty second floor
Speaker 1: at thirty Rock. It's not all I smell from there,
Speaker 1: but mostly it's fear. They are planning to fold to Trump.
Speaker 1: It's just a question of which way. I don't think
Speaker 1: they're literally going to do what he suggested last week,
Speaker 1: because frankly, that would not be enough for Trump at
Speaker 1: this point. He doesn't want that. He doesn't want MSNBC
Speaker 1: switched off. He wants them to go all Scarborough. He
Speaker 1: wants msn VS keep the brand name, keep a lot
Speaker 1: of the same people, pretend they are being critical of him,
Speaker 1: and the Republicans become the official authorized controlled resistance, which
Speaker 1: offers no resistance at all, except maybe complaining that Trump
Speaker 1: hasn't praised his own bitcoon brand recently enough. God knows
Speaker 1: NBC has done it before with Republicans. When Republicans have
Speaker 1: said something like this, we just.
Speaker 3: Need honest journalism and we don't have it.
Speaker 2: When you have a CNN. I watch.
Speaker 1: You have to watch these people every once in a
Speaker 1: while just to see where they're coming from.
Speaker 2: And it's so dishonest.
Speaker 3: MSNBC is, I think, probably worse, and they're both doing
Speaker 3: horribly in the ratings.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be turned off.
Speaker 2: I don't think they're not doing any ratings.
Speaker 1: Wow, does this crap sound familiar? NBC corporate NBC is
Speaker 1: in reruns. They were already blackmailed once by the Republicans,
Speaker 1: long before Trump was sent here by the devil. And
Speaker 1: boy did this flash me back? Because this happened to
Speaker 1: me at MSNBC in two thousand and eight, courtesy the
Speaker 1: supposed sane Republicans, and it underscores that they have never
Speaker 1: been sane. There have never been sane Republicans. They have
Speaker 1: always longed to dictate to the media what it can
Speaker 1: and cannot say about whichever asshole is its presidential candidate,
Speaker 1: and thanks to people like Tom Brokaw, they often get
Speaker 1: away with it. Chris Matthews and I were co anchoring
Speaker 1: the Republican Convention on MSNBC in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: He was there at the convention in Minnesota. I was
Speaker 1: in the studios at thirty Rock in New York, ostensibly
Speaker 1: so I could also anchor hurricane coverage, though it was
Speaker 1: pretty clear that at least half the reason I was
Speaker 1: not in Minneapolis was because the Republicans had threatened NBC
Speaker 1: or said they could not guarantee my safety there or
Speaker 1: something like that. So I was the one on September two,
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, who had to throw it to
Speaker 1: a video that we had been told by the Republicans
Speaker 1: was a tribute to the dead of nine to eleven
Speaker 1: that they were playing in the theater in their convention
Speaker 1: in Minnesota. It was not a tribute. It was a
Speaker 1: snuff film. All of the images that the net works
Speaker 1: had stopped showing of nine to eleven within weeks or
Speaker 1: even days of the attacks, all of them were in
Speaker 1: this snuff film. People jumping, falling to their deaths from
Speaker 1: the World Trade Center, endless replays of the planes hitting
Speaker 1: the towers, dismembered bodies in the plaza, the building collapses,
Speaker 1: the equally terrifying scenes at the Pentagon, and all with
Speaker 1: the grotesque voiceover from that Fink Robert Dove, emphasizing that
Speaker 1: this was all the Democrats fault. The message was they
Speaker 1: might as well have praised it this way. Elect Obama
Speaker 1: and you will die, and you will die like this.
Speaker 1: I was angry just on that base level. For that
Speaker 1: five and a half years I had been back at MSNBC,
Speaker 1: we had been rigorous about not showing any of that
Speaker 1: video that the Republicans had just forced upon us by
Speaker 1: lying to us about it. There were rules that if
Speaker 1: we had to for some reason sneed some snippet, we
Speaker 1: would show only still images, and even then only with
Speaker 1: extensive warnings to the viewers. But I knew from my
Speaker 1: conversations with the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, who I
Speaker 1: had known for twenty eight years at that point, that
Speaker 1: he would insist that on the scene in Minneapolis, Matthews
Speaker 1: and Tom Brokaw, whose career at NBC I had resuscitated
Speaker 1: after Brian Williams had buried him alive two years earlier.
Speaker 1: I knew from what Griffin told me that one or
Speaker 1: both of them would rebuke the GOP for showing not
Speaker 1: a nine to eleven tribute, but, as I just said,
Speaker 1: a nine to eleven snuff film. The snuff film ended,
Speaker 1: we came out to Brokaw and Matthews and Brokaw kind
Speaker 1: of coughed, and Matthews said wow. And he turned to
Speaker 1: Brokaw and said, in that loose fire hose delivery he
Speaker 1: had tom that kind of scores terrorism, big thing for Republicans.
Speaker 1: They try stuck Obama. Brokaw droned on approvingly the Republican
Speaker 1: sneaking a snuff film, a banned video onto MSNBC and
Speaker 1: by the way, also onto CNN, onto NBC proper, onto CBS,
Speaker 1: onto ABC without any warning. That was not mentioned back
Speaker 1: to New York to Keith, I was supposed to add
Speaker 1: liberates about what we were expecting from the Republican convention
Speaker 1: for the rest of the night and then throw to
Speaker 1: a commercial instead, I said, and this is a paraphrase,
Speaker 1: the original tape disappeared that night that before we moved on,
Speaker 1: I felt I needed to apologize that we at MSNBC
Speaker 1: and for that matter, at NBC News, at extremely strict
Speaker 1: rules about not showing the video the Republicans had just
Speaker 1: shown you via our network, without any warning, without any context,
Speaker 1: and by lying to us, and we certainly would not
Speaker 1: have shown the horror and death and blamed it on
Speaker 1: the Democrats, or for that matter, on the Republicans. I said,
Speaker 1: if we had done such a thing ourselves, there would
Speaker 1: have been people fired. The public program the GOP provided
Speaker 1: said that was going to be a nine to eleven
Speaker 1: tribute film, I said, and so did the private conversations
Speaker 1: with the network, which included the reminder from NBC and
Speaker 1: MSNBC that we had rules against showing the scenes of
Speaker 1: horrible death and mutilation and destruction. So I apologized on
Speaker 1: behalf of whoever trusted the Republicans to live up to
Speaker 1: their word that MSNBC viewers were forced to see the
Speaker 1: video our network had promised never to show them. So
Speaker 1: three nights later, without as much as an email to me,
Speaker 1: this Griffin had called my agent and told her I
Speaker 1: was fired and Matthews two from our coverage of the
Speaker 1: upcoming McCain Obama debates. I happened to be off that
Speaker 1: night in the press box watching a Mets Phillies game
Speaker 1: at Shay Stadium, so she had to relate these details
Speaker 1: to me by phone. As I walked down the many
Speaker 1: ramps in the stadium's bowels and headed towards the subway,
Speaker 1: I told her to call Griffin back and tell him
Speaker 1: I was quitting on the spot. Right then, and he
Speaker 1: could work his way out of the ensuing disaster by himself.
Speaker 1: Liberal network MSNBC fires liberal host Alderman for criticizing Concerns
Speaker 1: Servatives for sneaking nine to eleven snuff film onto MSNBC.
Speaker 1: He could work his way out of that disaster any
Speaker 1: way he chose, and then he could wait for my
Speaker 1: response on Good Morning America, CBS, This Morning, the PBS
Speaker 1: News Hour, any other news program that bothered to ask
Speaker 1: and in court. I made a few phone calls to
Speaker 1: friendly voices within the NBC management structure, got from them
Speaker 1: a clearer picture of what had happened. And despite the
Speaker 1: spotty cell service along the elevated train line heading back
Speaker 1: into Manhattan, I got a message from a newspaper reporter
Speaker 1: friend who neatly tied together all that I was hearing elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw is going around NBC saying he got you
Speaker 1: fired from the debates because the Republicans told him to.
Speaker 1: Nine maybe ten months earlier, the same Phil Griffin had
Speaker 1: come to me and asked me if I would be
Speaker 1: okay with Brokaw appearing during our weekly coverage of the
Speaker 1: Democratic and Republican primaries. Just a couple of minutes, buddy
Speaker 1: like from a perspective desk. That's all he wants to do.
Speaker 1: He's so unhappy Brian Williams has frozen him out of everything.
Speaker 1: I was appalled, but not surprised. The power had gone
Speaker 1: to Brian's head, and of course there it had not
Speaker 1: met very much resistance. Plus, as I said to Griffin,
Speaker 1: you're asking me if i'd like to add Tom Brocaw's
Speaker 1: experience and Tom brocaws gravitas to stuff I'm anchoring when
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I know as much as I really
Speaker 1: know to do this the right way. Tom to be
Speaker 1: fair fit in beautifully, and twice after those long Tuesday
Speaker 1: evenings during the primaries, he sent me brief emails awarding
Speaker 1: me what he called the game ball, because he was
Speaker 1: so impressed by my ability to balance the roles of
Speaker 1: political anchor and political commentator. Having tried this myself, he wrote,
Speaker 1: I know of a perilous tightroup. This is game ball
Speaker 1: to Koh. I mock them now, but they meant so
Speaker 1: much to me then that I print them out and
Speaker 1: carried them in my wallet until September. And now Brokaw
Speaker 1: had gotten me fired because, as my newspaper friend said,
Speaker 1: the Republicans told him to Well, that wasn't hard to
Speaker 1: unpack either. Tim Russard had died on the third of
Speaker 1: June that year. I anchored that night until two in
Speaker 1: the morning. It was still an open wound. There were
Speaker 1: still tears. We didn't know it then, but the structure
Speaker 1: of NBC News and the perilous tight group balancing NBC
Speaker 1: and MSNBC had died with Tim Russard. So did the
Speaker 1: role of moderator of the second debate between John McCain
Speaker 1: and Barack Obama, scheduled for about a month. From my
Speaker 1: subway ride on October seventh, two thousand and eight in Nashville,
Speaker 1: Tim had not even been buried yet when Brokaw began
Speaker 1: to angle to get that assignment that was now vacant,
Speaker 1: along with brushing away the dirt of his Penny Anti
Speaker 1: role on the MSNBC Perspective desk, leaving us in the
Speaker 1: in order to take over Tim's spot as Brian's sage
Speaker 1: sidekick on Big NBC. The one before August, there had
Speaker 1: been a story coming out of the east end of
Speaker 1: the third floor at thirty Rock, where NBC News managers
Speaker 1: sat around not doing much of anything. That a Republican
Speaker 1: goon named Ed Gillespie had been in there with Griffin
Speaker 1: and the idiot NBC News president Steve kappis trying to
Speaker 1: get me silenced or fired or off the convention coverage
Speaker 1: or something, and that somebody prominent from NBC News was
Speaker 1: in there with Gillespie or was invoked by Gillespie. The
Speaker 1: rumor mill was not confident in who it was or
Speaker 1: what exactly they were doing. That Friday night in September
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, as I switched from the elevated
Speaker 1: seven train to the underground f the whole thing came together.
Speaker 1: Before my comments about the GOP Convention nine to eleven
Speaker 1: snuff film, Gillespie had come in and had somehow vaguely
Speaker 1: threaten and Campus and Griffin about me using as leverage
Speaker 1: the debate which Tom Brokaw was now supposed to moderate,
Speaker 1: the one that had been Russots, And when I apologized
Speaker 1: for their snuff video on our air, Gillespie must have
Speaker 1: turned it into an either or get rid of me,
Speaker 1: or McCain would refuse to participate in any debate moderated
Speaker 1: by Brokaw. Tom Brokaw had already come back from the
Speaker 1: dead once in two thousand and eight, I had made
Speaker 1: that happen, and he would be damned if he would
Speaker 1: be forced to do it a second time. But as
Speaker 1: the train took me home to an apartment, I was
Speaker 1: now going to have to sell since I had quit
Speaker 1: MSNBC on the spot for folding to such obvious blackmail,
Speaker 1: something else now occurred to me. Why would MSNBC or
Speaker 1: NBC or our parent corporation GE actually think that they
Speaker 1: could remove me from the debate coverage on MSNBC, where
Speaker 1: the Rachel Meadow Show had not yet been born, was
Speaker 1: only going to premiere the next week, and the three
Speaker 1: times a night my show ran accounted for something like
Speaker 1: sixty percent of the entire day's network audience and all
Speaker 1: of its profits. How did they think they were going
Speaker 1: to get away with that without a really bad reaction
Speaker 1: from our audience. Plus, if a newspaper man already knew
Speaker 1: the Brokaw part, how could this story be avoided something
Speaker 1: like this? MSNBC has announced it had removed its liberal
Speaker 1: star Keith Alderman from coverage of the McCain Obama presidential debates.
Speaker 1: Sources confirmed former NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw now an
Speaker 1: MSNBC commentator had helped the Republican Party to blackmail NBC
Speaker 1: into the decision. Olderman immediately resigned, saying, quote in succumbing
Speaker 1: to this coercion on behalf of John McCain, NBC has
Speaker 1: now forfeited any further right to be called a news organization,
Speaker 1: and I'm sad to say MSNBC, which I built, is
Speaker 1: now dead. At that point, it dawned on me that
Speaker 1: the only thing that could save the credibility of the
Speaker 1: whole NBC News debate vision and the careers of Griffin
Speaker 1: and Cappus and NBC Network president Jeff Zucker and especially
Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw was for me to publicly state to lie
Speaker 1: that I had asked to be removed from anchoring the
Speaker 1: debates because the whatever was just too much blah blah
Speaker 1: blah for me, and I felt I should just stick
Speaker 1: to the post debate analysis in commentary and blah blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. In short, they would have a choice.
Speaker 1: They could fire me from the debates and destroy everything,
Speaker 1: including the one hundred million dollars a year or so
Speaker 1: in profits NBC was suddenly making off MSNBC after years
Speaker 1: of losing about that much, or I could lie and
Speaker 1: claim it was my idea and I could save everybody's
Speaker 1: ass and their money, including my own. I got out
Speaker 1: of the subway and raced home. I called my agent.
Speaker 1: I explained it to her. I'm not quitting. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm going to get a huge raise. Listen carefully, you
Speaker 1: call Griffin back and explain to him I will now
Speaker 1: personally save his job, even though he doesn't deserve it,
Speaker 1: and campuses and Zooker's and bro cause in everybody else's
Speaker 1: I'll take the fall instead of letting them get fired
Speaker 1: by the MSNBC audience. I'll say this was my idea,
Speaker 1: and it will cost him only twelve million dollars. Oh,
Speaker 1: and he has to leak the fact that it cost
Speaker 1: him twelve million dollars. That's the deal. And she paused
Speaker 1: for a second, and she said, hey, that's genius. It
Speaker 1: might not quite be twelve, but I bet I get
Speaker 1: at least nine million. On Sunday, several news organizations reported
Speaker 1: I had asked to be taking off the anchor desk
Speaker 1: for the debates. Two months and one week later, The
Speaker 1: New York Times wrote, quote Keith Oldraman, the anchor of
Speaker 1: countdown on MSNBC has extended his contract through the next
Speaker 1: presidential election season. The networking outs mister Olderman and MSNBC
Speaker 1: essentially tore up the four year, four million dollars a
Speaker 1: year contract they signed last year and replaced it with
Speaker 1: one worth about seven and a half million a year.
Speaker 1: So that was a three and a half million dollar
Speaker 1: raise for four years to a total of fourteen million dollars.
Speaker 1: Except the new contract added two years to my old deal,
Speaker 1: so the rais was actually twenty two million dollars. All
Speaker 1: stories have punchlines. This punchline is about Brokaw. We would
Speaker 1: have gotten away with this. NBC would have gotten its
Speaker 1: money's worth for the twenty two million in hush money
Speaker 1: it had to pay me because it had rolled over
Speaker 1: for Republican Party blackmail. Except Brokaw couldn't keep his mouth shut.
Speaker 1: So proud was he of preserving his role as moderator
Speaker 1: of the October seventh debate that he had to explain
Speaker 1: in explicit detail how he went to his bosses at
Speaker 1: NBC News and threatened them on behalf of the GOP.
Speaker 1: I mean on the record, he said this September twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: a lengthy and glowing Brocaw profile in the New York Times. Quote,
Speaker 1: mister Brocaws said that over the summer he'd quote advocated
Speaker 1: within the executive suite of NBC News to modify the
Speaker 1: anchor duties of the MSNBC hosts Keith Olberman and Chris
Speaker 1: Matthews on election Night and on knights where there were
Speaker 1: presidential debates. Mister Brocaw said he had also conducted some
Speaker 1: shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks between NBC and the McCain campaign.
Speaker 1: His mission, he said, was to assure the candidate's aids
Speaker 1: that despite some negative on air commentary by mister Olderman
Speaker 1: in particular, mister McCain could still get a fair shake
Speaker 1: from NBC News. Unquote. That was his mission. The hell,
Speaker 1: that was his mission. Happily, Rocaw just could not resist
Speaker 1: boasting even further. The next sentence reads quote, mister Brocaws
Speaker 1: said he had been told by a senior McCain aide
Speaker 1: whom he did not name, that the campaign had been
Speaker 1: reluctant to accept an NBC representative as one of the
Speaker 1: moderators of the three presidential debates until his name was invoked.
Speaker 1: One of the things I was told by this person
Speaker 1: was that they were so irritated they said, if it's
Speaker 1: an NBC moalorator for any of these debates, we won't go.
Speaker 1: Mister Brocaw said, my name came up, and they said,
Speaker 1: oh hell, we have to do it, because it's going
Speaker 1: to be Brokaw. No insufferable person in all of broadcasting
Speaker 1: history has a better rep and a better and more
Speaker 1: undeserved rep than Tom Brokaw. So when a Trump leans
Speaker 1: on NBC management because the coverage that he got was
Speaker 1: not the coverage he wanted, don't think it won't have
Speaker 1: an effect. Because in two thousand and eight.
Speaker 2: They loved me then as they love Meadow now. But
Speaker 2: what they loved about each of us was not the
Speaker 2: truth we provided, but the money.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, there are still more new idiots
Speaker 1: to talk about the roundup of the misgrants, morons and
Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. Here are the nominees, the brons worse
Speaker 1: the perpetrators, in this case, Canadian anger towards that nation's
Speaker 1: hockey immortal, well former immortal, Wayne Gretzky, has re redoubled
Speaker 1: and here comes the feces smeared on the nine foot
Speaker 1: tall statue of Gretzky outside the hockey rink in Edmond,
Speaker 1: where Gretzky played the bulk of his career. Feses, a
Speaker 1: lot of feces. The Edmonton Oilers executive vice president of
Speaker 1: UH statue defecising or something, a man named Tim Shipton
Speaker 1: telling the news division of CTV quote, it's unfortunate over
Speaker 1: the past several years we've had to deal with issues
Speaker 1: of disorder in our downtown core.
Speaker 2: Sir.
Speaker 1: That is not disorder, it's feces. They have not defaced
Speaker 1: or done any disordering. They have defecis. Or to put
Speaker 1: it in terms that invokes two of Gretzky's teams and
Speaker 1: probably his best known teammate, it's messy. A that's a
Speaker 1: hockey joke. The runner up worser New York Mayor Eric Adams,
Speaker 1: who's just a joke joke. His re election campaign has
Speaker 1: raised this year thirty six thousand dollars. Oh wait, that's
Speaker 1: before he had to give eighteen thousand dollars back to
Speaker 1: donors who were over the legal limit. For comparison, eight
Speaker 1: hundred and forty five thousand dollars has been raised this
Speaker 1: year by the campaign of Zoran Mamdani. Who is Zoran Mamdani.
Speaker 1: I had no idea and I live here until I
Speaker 1: looked him up. He is the Socialist candidate for mayor.
Speaker 1: He outraised the mayor mayor same time span by a
Speaker 1: factor of forty seven. On the other hand, Mayor Adams
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to understand the implications here. He held a
Speaker 1: town hall in the ocean side neighborhood of the Rockaways
Speaker 1: and decided instead of talking about what he could do
Speaker 1: to save the city and himself, he decided to reminisce
Speaker 1: about riding the subways without paying so he could visit
Speaker 1: his quote Shorty unquote who lived in the distant Rockaways.
Speaker 1: Shorty means many things in the urban lingo. This time
Speaker 1: it appears to be a reference to a girlfriend, possibly
Speaker 1: a girlfriend on the side of another relationship. Or it's
Speaker 1: Eric Adams, who the hell knows what he means.
Speaker 2: There's a real history for me.
Speaker 3: I had a shorty that lived out here, you know,
Speaker 3: used to come out, come out, taking that long a train, right,
Speaker 3: you know, and the cold, you know, love is blind,
Speaker 3: and you know, taking that long, long a train I
Speaker 3: did not have a car, and one or two times
Speaker 3: I didn't have a tokens. So yes, I did jump
Speaker 3: up with the turnstile. I'm not gonna it's over. The
Speaker 3: statue of limitation is over.
Speaker 1: Statue of limitations. Statue of limitations. The Mayor of the
Speaker 1: City of New York, everybody but the winner worst Ellen
Speaker 1: Musk wait I may have mispronounced that. Yeah at Elon,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk. Now that he and Trump have eliminated the
Speaker 1: Department of Education, which Mayor Adams so desperately needed, who
Speaker 1: knows how much more stupid we will each become. Musk,
Speaker 1: of course, does not have much further to descend. He
Speaker 1: celebrated the thing that will increase those non college white
Speaker 1: trash men for Trump numbers by doing the graveside meme
Speaker 1: with the guy kneeling in front of the tombstone giving
Speaker 1: the two finger piece or V for victory sign. Only
Speaker 1: in this one the guy is Trump and on the
Speaker 1: tombstone it reads Department of Education. Yes, depart men d
Speaker 1: E P R T M E N. Because Musk has
Speaker 1: misspelled department because he's a clucking idiot. Elon Department of Education. Musk.
Speaker 1: The law of proving Darwin was right. This has to
Speaker 1: come into play with this loser at some point, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got to try to get the toast
Speaker 1: out with a fork sooner rather than later, doesn't he
Speaker 1: Elon Musk two days worse person and no word. I've
Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you
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Speaker 1: announcer today is my friend Larry David. Everything else was
Speaker 1: as ever my fault. That's countdown for today, just three
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine days. We've cleared fourteen hundred until
Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lane Duck lame reigned term
Speaker 1: unless Musk removes him sooner or the actuarial tables due.
Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Voice still tentative. As always,
Speaker 1: Bolton's as the news warrants, remember im peach Trump. It
Speaker 1: won't work now, it will win the Democrat. It's the
Speaker 1: midterms if there are midterms, and remove Schumer immediately. Until
Speaker 1: next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
Speaker 1: and good luck.
Speaker 3: The statue of limitation is over.
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