1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I'd 2 00:00:22,795 --> 00:00:26,315 Speaker 1: like to congratulate Vice President Kamala Harris on her victory 3 00:00:26,315 --> 00:00:30,875 Speaker 1: in the presidential debate last night. Against Chex's notes, Brett beher, 4 00:00:31,795 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: despite the refusal by the moderator to stopped her opponent 5 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:39,755 Speaker 1: from compulsively interrupting her. The moderator Chex's notes again, Brett beher, 6 00:00:40,355 --> 00:00:42,675 Speaker 1: and despite the fact that when she called out Trump 7 00:00:42,755 --> 00:00:46,395 Speaker 1: for threatening to use the military against citizens and jailing 8 00:00:46,435 --> 00:00:50,275 Speaker 1: those who criticize him and about the enemy within, the 9 00:00:50,355 --> 00:00:53,475 Speaker 1: anchor claimed to be playing a clip of Trump pertaining 10 00:00:53,475 --> 00:00:55,395 Speaker 1: to that. Only they did a bait and switch. The 11 00:00:55,435 --> 00:00:58,675 Speaker 1: anchor played a Trump clip about a different topic. The 12 00:00:58,715 --> 00:01:00,995 Speaker 1: anchor Chex' notes a third time. 13 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:05,035 Speaker 2: Brett beher question to the former president today, hers Faulkner 14 00:01:05,115 --> 00:01:08,235 Speaker 2: had a town hall, and this is how he responded. 15 00:01:09,435 --> 00:01:12,315 Speaker 3: I heard about that. They were saying I was like threatening. 16 00:01:12,315 --> 00:01:15,275 Speaker 3: I'm not threatening anybody. They're the ones doing the threatening. 17 00:01:15,555 --> 00:01:19,995 Speaker 3: They do phony investigations. I've been investigated more than Alphonse Capone. 18 00:01:19,995 --> 00:01:22,475 Speaker 1: He was the greatest action. No, it's true, we don't 19 00:01:22,515 --> 00:01:23,035 Speaker 1: but think of it. 20 00:01:23,035 --> 00:01:24,915 Speaker 3: It's called weaponization of government. 21 00:01:24,995 --> 00:01:25,715 Speaker 1: Is a terrible thing. 22 00:01:26,195 --> 00:01:29,875 Speaker 4: So, Bret, I'm sorry, and with all due respect, that 23 00:01:29,915 --> 00:01:33,235 Speaker 4: clip was not what he has been saying about the 24 00:01:33,355 --> 00:01:37,395 Speaker 4: enemy within that he has repeated when he's speaking about 25 00:01:37,435 --> 00:01:38,235 Speaker 4: the American people. 26 00:01:38,275 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 5: That's not what you just showed. 27 00:01:39,675 --> 00:01:40,235 Speaker 1: He was asking. 28 00:01:40,275 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 5: No, no, that's not what you just showed. In all 29 00:01:42,675 --> 00:01:45,675 Speaker 5: fairness and respect to you, the question that we asked him, 30 00:01:45,795 --> 00:01:48,355 Speaker 5: he didn't show that. And here's the bottom line. He 31 00:01:48,435 --> 00:01:51,235 Speaker 5: has repeated it many times, and you and I both 32 00:01:51,355 --> 00:01:54,235 Speaker 5: know that. And you and I both know that he 33 00:01:54,275 --> 00:01:57,555 Speaker 5: has talked about turning the American military on the American people. 34 00:01:57,835 --> 00:02:00,915 Speaker 5: He has talked about going after people who are engaged 35 00:02:00,955 --> 00:02:05,195 Speaker 5: in peaceful protest. He has talked about locking people up 36 00:02:05,235 --> 00:02:09,275 Speaker 5: because they disagree with him. This is a democracy and 37 00:02:09,355 --> 00:02:12,995 Speaker 5: an inner democracy. The president of the United States, in 38 00:02:13,035 --> 00:02:16,835 Speaker 5: the United States of America should be willing to be 39 00:02:16,915 --> 00:02:21,355 Speaker 5: able to handle criticism without saying he'd lock people up 40 00:02:21,435 --> 00:02:24,515 Speaker 5: for doing it. And this is what is at stake, 41 00:02:24,555 --> 00:02:27,235 Speaker 5: which is why you have someone like the former Chairman 42 00:02:27,275 --> 00:02:31,115 Speaker 5: of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying what Mark Milly 43 00:02:31,235 --> 00:02:35,595 Speaker 5: has said about Donald Trump being a threat to the 44 00:02:35,715 --> 00:02:39,035 Speaker 5: United States of America. He's quoted in the Bob Woodward 45 00:02:39,075 --> 00:02:39,555 Speaker 5: book that way. 46 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:42,755 Speaker 2: Yes, let me ask you this matter, Vice President, you 47 00:02:42,835 --> 00:02:44,915 Speaker 2: called Donald Trump unificant. 48 00:02:45,035 --> 00:02:48,795 Speaker 1: You back, she kicked Bear's ass. She went on Fox, 49 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:52,595 Speaker 1: and despite being subjected to a failed gotcha and conspiracy 50 00:02:52,635 --> 00:02:56,115 Speaker 1: theory interview that could have been prepared by Cat Turd 51 00:02:56,675 --> 00:02:59,315 Speaker 1: or another one of those neurotic paranoids on the right 52 00:03:00,155 --> 00:03:05,035 Speaker 1: like Trump, she answered his questions and called Fox out 53 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:09,035 Speaker 1: on its lies. On Fox. Although I give bare credit, 54 00:03:09,515 --> 00:03:13,115 Speaker 1: he is apparently not resigned nor realized that until last 55 00:03:13,195 --> 00:03:14,835 Speaker 1: night he had not actually been out in the real 56 00:03:14,875 --> 00:03:18,115 Speaker 1: world talking to people who weren't sycophantic towards him in 57 00:03:18,155 --> 00:03:21,435 Speaker 1: his propaganda channel and the poisonous bastard who owns it, 58 00:03:21,515 --> 00:03:23,915 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch hadn't been out in the real world since 59 00:03:23,915 --> 00:03:26,595 Speaker 1: he was a local newscaster in Charlotte in nineteen FN 60 00:03:26,755 --> 00:03:30,555 Speaker 1: ninety eight. He hasn't quit the business nor fled the country. 61 00:03:30,595 --> 00:03:35,155 Speaker 1: Well done. At the other extreme, Trump yesterday went on 62 00:03:35,235 --> 00:03:41,395 Speaker 1: a Fox women's town hall with actual Republican Party officials 63 00:03:41,435 --> 00:03:45,315 Speaker 1: among the questioners. They didn't reveal that, and when he 64 00:03:45,395 --> 00:03:48,315 Speaker 1: was still asked by somebody why the government had any 65 00:03:48,355 --> 00:03:51,675 Speaker 1: authority over a woman's body. He answered by lying again 66 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:55,555 Speaker 1: that everybody wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. And then he 67 00:03:55,595 --> 00:03:58,875 Speaker 1: went on Univision and did a town hall with questions 68 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:02,155 Speaker 1: from the people he is the most prejudiced against him? Boy? 69 00:04:02,235 --> 00:04:06,835 Speaker 1: Is that saying something? Hispanics one man asking one question 70 00:04:06,955 --> 00:04:10,515 Speaker 1: in Spanish about this bullshit about the legal immigrants in 71 00:04:10,555 --> 00:04:15,275 Speaker 1: Ohio eating pets that resulted in Trump denying that he 72 00:04:15,355 --> 00:04:18,395 Speaker 1: had ever said that was happening. He was just repeating 73 00:04:18,475 --> 00:04:25,275 Speaker 1: reports the central dehumanizing and degrading theme of his a 74 00:04:25,515 --> 00:04:31,435 Speaker 1: vance's campaign of hate and violence and nightmare, and Trump 75 00:04:32,035 --> 00:04:37,235 Speaker 1: disabout it completely. Do you really believe that these people 76 00:04:37,315 --> 00:04:39,435 Speaker 1: are eating the people's pets? 77 00:04:39,875 --> 00:04:42,235 Speaker 2: Thank you well, thank you very much. And this was 78 00:04:42,315 --> 00:04:45,435 Speaker 2: just reported. I was just saying what was reported, that's 79 00:04:45,475 --> 00:04:49,555 Speaker 2: been reported, and eating other things too that they're not 80 00:04:49,595 --> 00:04:52,675 Speaker 2: supposed to be. But this is all I do is report. 81 00:04:53,115 --> 00:04:56,315 Speaker 2: I have not I was there, I'm going to be there, 82 00:04:56,755 --> 00:04:58,395 Speaker 2: and we're going to take a look, and I'll give 83 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:00,915 Speaker 2: you a full report when I do. But that's been 84 00:05:00,955 --> 00:05:03,675 Speaker 2: in the newspapers and reported pretty broadly. 85 00:05:03,635 --> 00:05:08,875 Speaker 1: Via Condio Donnie your meat. And just to round out 86 00:05:08,875 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: the set, Tim Walls did some more Tim waltzing yesterday, 87 00:05:12,275 --> 00:05:15,075 Speaker 1: which is why his approval numbers are within one point 88 00:05:15,115 --> 00:05:18,035 Speaker 1: of where they were right after the vice presidential debate. 89 00:05:18,355 --> 00:05:21,715 Speaker 1: But JV Vance did some more jv vancing yesterday, which 90 00:05:21,755 --> 00:05:24,955 Speaker 1: is why his approval numbers were minus two right after 91 00:05:24,955 --> 00:05:29,355 Speaker 1: the debate but are now minus ten. Vance was again 92 00:05:29,595 --> 00:05:35,315 Speaker 1: asked about his repeated endless, nauseating tiptoeing around the question 93 00:05:35,355 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: of whether or not he believes Trump lost in twenty twenty, 94 00:05:39,195 --> 00:05:43,195 Speaker 1: and he finally answered it, and the answer was not great. 95 00:05:43,995 --> 00:05:48,155 Speaker 1: Not great JV on the election of twenty twenty. I've 96 00:05:48,235 --> 00:05:53,035 Speaker 1: answered this question directly a million times. No, I think 97 00:05:53,035 --> 00:05:55,155 Speaker 1: there are serious problems in twenty twenty. So did Donald 98 00:05:55,195 --> 00:05:57,635 Speaker 1: Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I 99 00:05:57,675 --> 00:06:01,435 Speaker 1: would use. So it's Harris fresh off of victory over 100 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:05,995 Speaker 1: Fox News on Fox News and over Trump by proxy 101 00:06:06,075 --> 00:06:10,155 Speaker 1: on Fox News versus Trump of the famous Trump pre 102 00:06:10,155 --> 00:06:14,795 Speaker 1: recorded concert series and his running mate, a lunatic election 103 00:06:14,915 --> 00:06:20,475 Speaker 1: denier wearing eyeliner but back for a moment to bear 104 00:06:20,555 --> 00:06:23,435 Speaker 1: and the vice president. Throughout the interview, I kept flashing 105 00:06:23,515 --> 00:06:27,115 Speaker 1: back to thirty six years ago. May have been this month. 106 00:06:27,875 --> 00:06:31,075 Speaker 1: I was trying too hard in a brand new job 107 00:06:31,115 --> 00:06:35,355 Speaker 1: at Channel two in Los Angeles. I did an absolutely terrible, 108 00:06:36,475 --> 00:06:40,235 Speaker 1: long satirical segment about a top draft choice who was 109 00:06:40,275 --> 00:06:42,475 Speaker 1: in the middle of a contract holdout from a local 110 00:06:42,515 --> 00:06:47,235 Speaker 1: sports team, and then I ran it again and only 111 00:06:47,435 --> 00:06:52,075 Speaker 1: shortened it a little bit, and it was terrible, not funny, 112 00:06:52,115 --> 00:06:57,035 Speaker 1: not clever, not worth it. Bill Stout was one of 113 00:06:57,075 --> 00:07:00,435 Speaker 1: my friends and role models at KCBSTV. He had been 114 00:07:00,515 --> 00:07:04,115 Speaker 1: on the air doing news in LA at that point 115 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:07,315 Speaker 1: for thirty nine years, and he was still in the 116 00:07:07,315 --> 00:07:10,595 Speaker 1: office every day though he was desperately ill, and he 117 00:07:10,635 --> 00:07:13,915 Speaker 1: would die still on the job almost exactly a year later. 118 00:07:14,635 --> 00:07:18,075 Speaker 1: Bill had been involved in my hiring. He was very supportive, 119 00:07:18,515 --> 00:07:20,755 Speaker 1: and as I walked back to my desk after the 120 00:07:20,795 --> 00:07:25,355 Speaker 1: disaster of the Danny Manning satire, he looked at me 121 00:07:25,475 --> 00:07:29,395 Speaker 1: and said, I know, I know, look at it this way. 122 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:32,475 Speaker 1: You have far more courage than I do. My boy, 123 00:07:33,235 --> 00:07:36,635 Speaker 1: if I had just put that on the air, I'd 124 00:07:36,635 --> 00:07:40,155 Speaker 1: have gone home and nobody would have ever seen me 125 00:07:40,275 --> 00:07:44,355 Speaker 1: on TV again. And I laughed and I thanked him, 126 00:07:44,355 --> 00:07:47,115 Speaker 1: and I said, next time, tell me beforehand, and he 127 00:07:47,155 --> 00:07:52,155 Speaker 1: agreed in that spirit. Brett Vair Next time you're going 128 00:07:52,235 --> 00:07:55,915 Speaker 1: to try to bully and talk over and play gotcha 129 00:07:55,995 --> 00:07:59,875 Speaker 1: with and smear the Vice president of the United States 130 00:07:59,915 --> 00:08:03,275 Speaker 1: and the likely next president of the United States. My 131 00:08:03,315 --> 00:08:07,595 Speaker 1: advice to you is, first quit your job and go 132 00:08:07,755 --> 00:08:20,435 Speaker 1: right to a monastery to atone I say the likely 133 00:08:20,515 --> 00:08:23,915 Speaker 1: next president for a reason. As the Harris interview aired 134 00:08:23,995 --> 00:08:28,155 Speaker 1: on Fox News, Fox put out its new polling. Last month, 135 00:08:28,555 --> 00:08:31,715 Speaker 1: Fox had Harris up by two fifty to forty eight. 136 00:08:32,115 --> 00:08:36,035 Speaker 1: Now it has Trump ahead by two fifty to forty eight, 137 00:08:36,035 --> 00:08:42,595 Speaker 1: a four point swing. However, Fox's polling registered voters shows 138 00:08:42,715 --> 00:08:48,155 Speaker 1: Harris ahead in the battleground states by six points. Six 139 00:08:48,155 --> 00:08:52,755 Speaker 1: points in the battlegrounds, that's all they say. Surprisingly enough, 140 00:08:53,275 --> 00:08:56,235 Speaker 1: they did not break this downstate by state, nor after 141 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:59,075 Speaker 1: the initial mention in a very long story full of 142 00:08:59,195 --> 00:09:02,635 Speaker 1: very pretty graphs, did they ever circle back to the 143 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:06,475 Speaker 1: point that she's winning in the battle ground states according 144 00:09:06,595 --> 00:09:10,395 Speaker 1: to their polling, by six points. They made only one 145 00:09:10,435 --> 00:09:13,035 Speaker 1: further point way at the end, namely that if their 146 00:09:13,075 --> 00:09:15,875 Speaker 1: current polling is correct, Trump would win the popular vote, 147 00:09:15,875 --> 00:09:21,035 Speaker 1: but Harris would win the electoral College. I don't know 148 00:09:21,035 --> 00:09:24,355 Speaker 1: about you, but if Trump wins the popular vote and 149 00:09:24,435 --> 00:09:28,195 Speaker 1: Harris wins the Electoral College, I would be laughing so 150 00:09:28,555 --> 00:09:31,995 Speaker 1: long that they would have to tape my mouth shut 151 00:09:32,635 --> 00:09:39,955 Speaker 1: during her inauguration address. Also on polling you gov for 152 00:09:39,995 --> 00:09:43,675 Speaker 1: the Economist, polling concluded Tuesday Harris forty nine Trump forty five, 153 00:09:43,955 --> 00:09:47,475 Speaker 1: Harris by four. But more importantly, last week in this 154 00:09:47,595 --> 00:09:51,435 Speaker 1: poll among Hispanic voters you gov for the Economist, it 155 00:09:51,475 --> 00:09:54,555 Speaker 1: was Harris forty eight Trump forty three. This week in 156 00:09:54,595 --> 00:10:00,555 Speaker 1: the Economists poll among Hispanic voters, Harris sixty Trump thirty five. 157 00:10:01,115 --> 00:10:04,915 Speaker 1: That is a swing in Hispanic voters of twenty points 158 00:10:04,955 --> 00:10:09,555 Speaker 1: to Harris in one week. Economist average of polls Harris 159 00:10:09,555 --> 00:10:12,995 Speaker 1: forty nine point eight Trump forty six point seven, Harris 160 00:10:12,995 --> 00:10:16,195 Speaker 1: by three and change and almost at fifty percent. Also 161 00:10:16,275 --> 00:10:20,915 Speaker 1: fairly Dickinson University poll Harris fifty Trump forty seven, and 162 00:10:20,995 --> 00:10:24,595 Speaker 1: two other polls to mention. As analyzed by the former 163 00:10:24,675 --> 00:10:28,515 Speaker 1: top Republican strategist Matt Dowd. He notes the most accurate 164 00:10:28,635 --> 00:10:32,635 Speaker 1: national poll from twenty twenty tip it had Biden up 165 00:10:32,635 --> 00:10:35,315 Speaker 1: by four, and Biden won the popular vote by four 166 00:10:35,355 --> 00:10:38,955 Speaker 1: and a half, now has Harris up by three. He 167 00:10:39,075 --> 00:10:42,835 Speaker 1: notes that the most accurate poll from twenty sixteen, Marrist 168 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:46,075 Speaker 1: had Clinton up by two in the popular vote. Clinton 169 00:10:46,115 --> 00:10:49,035 Speaker 1: won the popular vote by two point one percent. It 170 00:10:49,795 --> 00:10:53,275 Speaker 1: Marrist has Harris up by five. He concludes, very simply, 171 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:59,195 Speaker 1: this race has been very stable for six weeks. For once. 172 00:10:59,715 --> 00:11:02,635 Speaker 1: The actual numbers, even the ones Dowd does not cite 173 00:11:02,875 --> 00:11:06,715 Speaker 1: mean something. In that Mari Harris pole, she is up 174 00:11:06,715 --> 00:11:09,715 Speaker 1: by five. She's up fifty two to forty seven. In 175 00:11:09,795 --> 00:11:13,875 Speaker 1: that Tip pole. He mentions, it's Harris fifty to forty six. 176 00:11:14,355 --> 00:11:17,635 Speaker 1: I mentioned Fairley Dickinson in that one. It's Harris fifty 177 00:11:18,035 --> 00:11:21,235 Speaker 1: Trump forty seven. That is three prominent poles where she 178 00:11:21,355 --> 00:11:24,315 Speaker 1: is at fifty percent or more. We don't know what 179 00:11:24,355 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: the number is in the Swing States in the Fox pole, 180 00:11:27,555 --> 00:11:29,955 Speaker 1: but if she's winning by six, she may be at 181 00:11:29,995 --> 00:11:32,955 Speaker 1: fifty in the Swing States. In the Fox pole. The 182 00:11:33,035 --> 00:11:35,595 Speaker 1: five point thirty eight average of poles has her up 183 00:11:35,595 --> 00:11:38,875 Speaker 1: by two point six. That is her biggest margin in 184 00:11:38,955 --> 00:11:44,555 Speaker 1: eight days. This crap turns on a dime. The Swing 185 00:11:44,595 --> 00:11:48,635 Speaker 1: States in other polling still nauseatingly tight. No matter what 186 00:11:48,715 --> 00:11:52,555 Speaker 1: Fox says. That's so beneficial to Kamala Harris. But there 187 00:11:52,715 --> 00:11:57,955 Speaker 1: is unquestionably a polling surge going on right now, and 188 00:11:58,075 --> 00:12:03,075 Speaker 1: as of this moment, it is towards Kamala Harris, not 189 00:12:03,235 --> 00:12:05,475 Speaker 1: that you would know that from the new Ouse outlets. 190 00:12:06,155 --> 00:12:11,035 Speaker 1: It continues the lead at Politico yesterday, Harris and Trump 191 00:12:11,235 --> 00:12:17,635 Speaker 1: exit their comfort zones, quoting actor sticking mostly though not entirely, 192 00:12:17,715 --> 00:12:23,195 Speaker 1: with more liberal friendly shows and podcasts. Sixty minutes is 193 00:12:23,235 --> 00:12:29,555 Speaker 1: a liberal friendly show, univisione town Hall idiots. She'll be 194 00:12:29,635 --> 00:12:32,675 Speaker 1: in for a drastic change on Fox. Pete Buddha Jedgiside. 195 00:12:32,995 --> 00:12:35,235 Speaker 1: Party leaders rarely appear on the network because they think 196 00:12:35,275 --> 00:12:38,115 Speaker 1: the risk isn't worth the reward. You even absent the 197 00:12:38,315 --> 00:12:41,115 Speaker 1: hunt of the neck and neck presidential race, she kicked 198 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:46,035 Speaker 1: their ass. How does Politico think Trump exited his comfort zone, 199 00:12:46,075 --> 00:12:50,155 Speaker 1: by the way, by being interviewed at the Economic Club 200 00:12:50,355 --> 00:12:56,515 Speaker 1: at Chicago? Politicoat you had a wellness check lately? Is 201 00:12:56,555 --> 00:13:00,155 Speaker 1: this whole Liza thing really destroyed the place? I find 202 00:13:00,155 --> 00:13:05,075 Speaker 1: that hard to believe. When self proclaimed super business man 203 00:13:05,115 --> 00:13:10,995 Speaker 1: Trump sits down to talk business at an economic club 204 00:13:11,315 --> 00:13:15,915 Speaker 1: with a business publication Bloomberg whose Twitter handle is at Business, 205 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:20,315 Speaker 1: and he takes business questions from the business editor. He 206 00:13:20,475 --> 00:13:29,835 Speaker 1: did not just leave his business comfort Business Zone, Harris 207 00:13:29,995 --> 00:13:36,355 Speaker 1: kicked Brett Bear's ass, Trump crashed and burned in front 208 00:13:36,555 --> 00:13:48,195 Speaker 1: of an audience full of of businessmen. Also of interest here, Oh, 209 00:13:48,235 --> 00:13:52,555 Speaker 1: there's still more newsy nudes news. There's so much revenge 210 00:13:52,635 --> 00:13:55,955 Speaker 1: popcorn and has caused the lining of my stomach to 211 00:13:56,195 --> 00:14:01,435 Speaker 1: burst in some places. And it's cold revenge popcorn too. 212 00:14:02,475 --> 00:14:05,875 Speaker 1: And if that is not nightmare fuel, were you? Maybe 213 00:14:05,915 --> 00:14:14,315 Speaker 1: this will be? How about CNN being sold to Elon Musk. 214 00:14:15,675 --> 00:14:20,355 Speaker 1: That's next? Ted didn't like it. This is countdown. 215 00:14:22,635 --> 00:14:25,515 Speaker 5: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 216 00:14:45,555 --> 00:14:47,595 Speaker 1: Still ahead on this edition to countdown. So The New 217 00:14:47,715 --> 00:14:51,235 Speaker 1: York Post attacked me yesterday because I made a joke, 218 00:14:52,395 --> 00:14:56,035 Speaker 1: a crass joke. The crass joke consisted of one word 219 00:14:56,075 --> 00:14:59,235 Speaker 1: and an emoji, and it wasn't crass. You may not 220 00:14:59,275 --> 00:15:01,955 Speaker 1: have thought it was funny, but it wasn't crass. The 221 00:15:02,075 --> 00:15:05,475 Speaker 1: Post tweeted about the Ryan Lizzer reply to my ex's 222 00:15:05,595 --> 00:15:08,755 Speaker 1: legal filing for what amounts to a restraining order against 223 00:15:08,755 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: her ex, with him saying she told him RFK Junior's 224 00:15:12,715 --> 00:15:17,595 Speaker 1: plan for Live was to impregnate and possess. I added 225 00:15:18,435 --> 00:15:23,235 Speaker 1: same with the shrug emoji. Now it might not be funny, 226 00:15:23,795 --> 00:15:26,595 Speaker 1: but to deconstruct the effort. Phrasing it that way, I 227 00:15:26,635 --> 00:15:29,795 Speaker 1: could have meant same as in that was also my 228 00:15:29,955 --> 00:15:33,795 Speaker 1: plan for her, or same that it was rfk's plan 229 00:15:33,915 --> 00:15:37,355 Speaker 1: for me. Anyway, you decide if it's funny. I think 230 00:15:37,395 --> 00:15:40,835 Speaker 1: it was. But they wrote an entire article about this 231 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:46,435 Speaker 1: incredibly crass because they were punishing me. When The New 232 00:15:46,515 --> 00:15:50,915 Speaker 1: York Post attacks someone, if that person fights back, the 233 00:15:51,115 --> 00:15:53,355 Speaker 1: rule there is and I have been told this by 234 00:15:53,435 --> 00:15:58,635 Speaker 1: people who work and worked there, they have to attack harder. 235 00:15:59,035 --> 00:16:02,355 Speaker 1: You're supposed to accept the Post's punishment and shut up. 236 00:16:03,115 --> 00:16:06,595 Speaker 1: This is Murdoch. Murdoch runs his operation like the mafia 237 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:11,035 Speaker 1: runs their operation. Anyway, I don't do that. They were 238 00:16:11,075 --> 00:16:13,115 Speaker 1: about to report if you'll remember that Olivia and I 239 00:16:13,155 --> 00:16:16,875 Speaker 1: had dated, so I beat them to it. Rupert mad, 240 00:16:17,395 --> 00:16:21,435 Speaker 1: excuse me? Ope? It mad? So this was my punishment. Yesterday, 241 00:16:21,435 --> 00:16:23,915 Speaker 1: they make up a story. They've been doing this fake 242 00:16:23,955 --> 00:16:28,235 Speaker 1: scandals followed by reactions to fake scandals if I thwart them. 243 00:16:28,275 --> 00:16:31,315 Speaker 1: They've been doing this since nineteen ninety six. To me, 244 00:16:31,435 --> 00:16:33,995 Speaker 1: they've been doing it to everybody since Murdoch bought the paper. 245 00:16:34,435 --> 00:16:38,155 Speaker 1: The process coming up and examples of it in things 246 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:41,235 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell first, there are still more 247 00:16:41,235 --> 00:16:43,355 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about, the daily roundup of the 248 00:16:43,395 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunn Kruger effects specimens who constitute 249 00:16:46,395 --> 00:16:53,515 Speaker 1: today's last passions in the world, the Bronze Worse. Okay, 250 00:16:53,515 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 1: why not, we're here anyway, new Zy, Ryan Lizza, and 251 00:16:56,675 --> 00:17:01,195 Speaker 1: RFK Junior. Again, I don't know what day of this is, 252 00:17:01,275 --> 00:17:05,395 Speaker 1: but seriously, they are now in the Washington Post, and 253 00:17:05,675 --> 00:17:09,955 Speaker 1: clearly somebody gave the Washington Post the entirety of my 254 00:17:10,155 --> 00:17:15,555 Speaker 1: ex's ex's self defense filing to the court because this 255 00:17:15,755 --> 00:17:19,515 Speaker 1: is new and quoting the paper. Quoting this filing by 256 00:17:19,595 --> 00:17:22,515 Speaker 1: Ryan lizab and a document filed with the court Friday 257 00:17:22,515 --> 00:17:25,875 Speaker 1: and made public Tuesday, Liza said Newsy's allegations were quote 258 00:17:26,115 --> 00:17:30,795 Speaker 1: defamatory lies that were meant to create sensational headlines, damage 259 00:17:30,795 --> 00:17:35,635 Speaker 1: my reputation, and distract from press attention about ms Newsy's 260 00:17:36,155 --> 00:17:46,955 Speaker 1: catastrophically reckless behavior. Unquote uh oh, catastrophically reckless behavior. You say, yeah, 261 00:17:46,955 --> 00:17:50,435 Speaker 1: that's her. I'd recognize here anywhere. All right, So this 262 00:17:50,595 --> 00:17:53,315 Speaker 1: might change again, but right now I'm leaning towards Liza 263 00:17:53,795 --> 00:17:57,835 Speaker 1: being less wrong than Newsy. And by the way, Liza Newsy, 264 00:17:57,835 --> 00:18:01,435 Speaker 1: can we somehow work Lizo into this story. Also, there's 265 00:18:01,475 --> 00:18:04,635 Speaker 1: this from the wa Po, quoting the paper during tuesdays 266 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:08,275 Speaker 1: virtual court hearing, Newsy's video showed her in a tastefully 267 00:18:08,315 --> 00:18:12,435 Speaker 1: decorated room, wearing a black crew neck shirt with her 268 00:18:12,435 --> 00:18:16,635 Speaker 1: hair loose. She kept a straight face throughout the attorney's negotiations. 269 00:18:16,955 --> 00:18:20,155 Speaker 1: Liza appeared seated with his attorneys in a blue sweater 270 00:18:20,195 --> 00:18:23,555 Speaker 1: with a gray jacket. He looked disappointed when the judge 271 00:18:23,555 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 1: decided that the trial would be postponed until November. Two things. 272 00:18:29,515 --> 00:18:32,915 Speaker 1: Once again, The Washington Post cannot look at Donald Trump 273 00:18:33,315 --> 00:18:36,355 Speaker 1: with makeup on his face where he's missed the whole 274 00:18:36,395 --> 00:18:39,875 Speaker 1: spot near his ear and say he put on his 275 00:18:39,995 --> 00:18:42,995 Speaker 1: makeup badly today, or whoever put it on for him 276 00:18:43,115 --> 00:18:46,115 Speaker 1: did it badly today. They can't say that. They can't 277 00:18:46,195 --> 00:18:49,475 Speaker 1: listen to him being insane every day of the week 278 00:18:49,635 --> 00:18:52,555 Speaker 1: for the last nine years at least, and say the 279 00:18:52,635 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: man is insane. They can't publish historial, though they came 280 00:18:56,755 --> 00:19:01,475 Speaker 1: closest to it, describing what happened in Pennsylvania on Monday night, 281 00:19:01,595 --> 00:19:04,115 Speaker 1: what happened in Oaks Pennsylvania. When he went into that 282 00:19:04,235 --> 00:19:07,355 Speaker 1: fugue stayed and just decided to play all the hits. 283 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:10,875 Speaker 1: They can't do that, but they can say that Ryan 284 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:14,915 Speaker 1: Lizza looked disappointed when the judge decided it. Did he 285 00:19:14,995 --> 00:19:17,715 Speaker 1: say something or you just saw the smirk on his 286 00:19:17,795 --> 00:19:22,315 Speaker 1: face changed slightly. You're basing the phrase he looked disappointed, 287 00:19:22,315 --> 00:19:26,035 Speaker 1: which is now in the Washington Post as fact based 288 00:19:26,035 --> 00:19:30,515 Speaker 1: on a reporter interpreting what they saw. Why don't you 289 00:19:30,595 --> 00:19:33,555 Speaker 1: do that with Trump? Why don't you all do that 290 00:19:33,595 --> 00:19:37,355 Speaker 1: with Trump? Interpret what you saw? That's why you're there. 291 00:19:37,515 --> 00:19:41,195 Speaker 1: Otherwise they could just send the tape recorder and a 292 00:19:41,235 --> 00:19:46,475 Speaker 1: guy who presses the button and then goes second. Aside 293 00:19:46,475 --> 00:19:49,355 Speaker 1: with the popcorn I have already consumed during this story, 294 00:19:49,435 --> 00:19:51,795 Speaker 1: I have regained ten of the forty five pounds I 295 00:19:51,835 --> 00:19:54,875 Speaker 1: had lost, thanks a lot of kids. The runner up 296 00:19:54,915 --> 00:19:57,155 Speaker 1: worser James Dolan, you know, the owner of the New 297 00:19:57,235 --> 00:19:59,515 Speaker 1: York Knicks, New York Rangers, and the home of the 298 00:19:59,555 --> 00:20:02,435 Speaker 1: only most famous arena in the world that he is 299 00:20:02,435 --> 00:20:05,595 Speaker 1: now responsible for having rented out to Nazi in two 300 00:20:05,675 --> 00:20:11,395 Speaker 1: consecutive centuries, Madison Square Nazi Garden. Dolan's name has popped 301 00:20:11,435 --> 00:20:13,875 Speaker 1: up again where trash like him should probably try to 302 00:20:13,915 --> 00:20:16,595 Speaker 1: avoid it. First, it was renting the garden to Trump 303 00:20:16,595 --> 00:20:19,955 Speaker 1: for a fascist rally and fundraiser eight days before the election. 304 00:20:20,915 --> 00:20:22,835 Speaker 1: It'll be like when the Elephants used to come in 305 00:20:22,875 --> 00:20:25,715 Speaker 1: for the circus during the playoffs, the Stanley Cup playoffs, 306 00:20:25,795 --> 00:20:27,875 Speaker 1: and you'd go to a Rangers playoff game which had 307 00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:32,155 Speaker 1: to be rescheduled because the elephants had been taking huge 308 00:20:32,275 --> 00:20:35,875 Speaker 1: dumps on top of the garden over the ice, and 309 00:20:35,955 --> 00:20:37,915 Speaker 1: all you could do was go get a shovel. As 310 00:20:37,915 --> 00:20:42,595 Speaker 1: I once said in radio in college. Yeah, elephant crap 311 00:20:42,635 --> 00:20:45,515 Speaker 1: and Trump. That's about the same now, in an event, 312 00:20:45,555 --> 00:20:48,315 Speaker 1: the Legal Defense Fun for New York's possibly doing this 313 00:20:48,595 --> 00:20:51,355 Speaker 1: deliberately as some sort of prank for a TV series 314 00:20:51,475 --> 00:20:54,995 Speaker 1: or something. Mayor Eric Adams Eric Adams, who has an 315 00:20:55,035 --> 00:21:00,075 Speaker 1: approval rating of not and whose city leadership divides evenly 316 00:21:00,115 --> 00:21:03,355 Speaker 1: now into his appointees who have resigned, some under indictment 317 00:21:03,715 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: at his appointees who have not yet resigned. Dolan has 318 00:21:07,555 --> 00:21:11,195 Speaker 1: given the Eric Adams Legal Defense Fund five grand, and 319 00:21:11,315 --> 00:21:14,595 Speaker 1: another Dolan at the same address named Aiden, who appears 320 00:21:14,635 --> 00:21:17,195 Speaker 1: to be his son, has given another five grand, so 321 00:21:17,235 --> 00:21:20,275 Speaker 1: they have James Dolan, on the one hand tied to 322 00:21:20,355 --> 00:21:24,755 Speaker 1: the disastrous, messianic mayor of New York and on the 323 00:21:24,795 --> 00:21:28,675 Speaker 1: other tied to the disastrous, psychotic presidential candidate of the 324 00:21:28,675 --> 00:21:35,995 Speaker 1: Republican Nazi Party. Let's go Rangers, but our winners David 325 00:21:36,115 --> 00:21:43,195 Speaker 1: Zaslav and Evon Musk. David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery chieftain, 326 00:21:43,715 --> 00:21:46,075 Speaker 1: the man who has run CNN into the ground to 327 00:21:46,155 --> 00:21:49,795 Speaker 1: the point where Lachlan Cartwright has reported now that they 328 00:21:49,795 --> 00:21:53,035 Speaker 1: couldn't afford raises for all their quote stars un quote. 329 00:21:53,795 --> 00:21:57,035 Speaker 1: The best anybody's getting is the same. They're already being 330 00:21:57,075 --> 00:22:00,155 Speaker 1: paid in new contracts, and they may let Chris Wallace go. 331 00:22:00,635 --> 00:22:02,715 Speaker 1: You know how old Chris Wallace is. He's two hundred 332 00:22:02,715 --> 00:22:07,395 Speaker 1: and six US more. Though, Oliver Darcy reports in his 333 00:22:07,435 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: newsletter that David Zaslab is courting Elon Musk, Yes, Daddy 334 00:22:13,995 --> 00:22:18,275 Speaker 1: Warbucks himself Elon Musk, As Darcy notes in his newsletter's 335 00:22:18,275 --> 00:22:23,755 Speaker 1: status in March, Musky wrote, as mind blowingly tragic as 336 00:22:23,795 --> 00:22:29,075 Speaker 1: this sounds, some poor suckers still believe CNN. Yet Darcy 337 00:22:29,115 --> 00:22:31,915 Speaker 1: scoops that when Musk and Zazlab were seen on the 338 00:22:31,955 --> 00:22:35,315 Speaker 1: telecast of Tennis's US Open last month, sitting next to 339 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:39,115 Speaker 1: each other, it was actually just part two, again quoting Darcy. 340 00:22:39,435 --> 00:22:42,715 Speaker 1: Earlier in the summer, Zaslab had hosted Musk at his 341 00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:46,435 Speaker 1: ocean side estate off Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton. 342 00:22:46,875 --> 00:22:49,915 Speaker 1: People familiar with the matter told me Musk was traveling 343 00:22:49,915 --> 00:22:52,715 Speaker 1: in the Haptins for a Michael Milken event and Zazlab 344 00:22:52,835 --> 00:22:58,195 Speaker 1: urged him to drop by regardless, Zaslav's relationship with Musk 345 00:22:58,315 --> 00:23:01,675 Speaker 1: extends beyond the occasional meetup. When not spending time together 346 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:06,275 Speaker 1: in person, the two have been regularly exchanged For a second, 347 00:23:06,315 --> 00:23:08,675 Speaker 1: I thought it was FaceTime. In New Zealand, Lizzig and 348 00:23:08,715 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: an RFK Junior, thank God, have been regularly exchanging text messages. 349 00:23:13,355 --> 00:23:15,995 Speaker 1: One of the people familiar with their relationship told me 350 00:23:17,115 --> 00:23:20,675 Speaker 1: they have a relationship. What kind of a relationship. No, don't, don't, 351 00:23:20,875 --> 00:23:24,435 Speaker 1: don't tell me. Oliver Darcy seems to think courting Musk 352 00:23:24,515 --> 00:23:27,355 Speaker 1: is just a mistake by Zaslav, And I mean that's 353 00:23:27,395 --> 00:23:30,795 Speaker 1: a valid thought. Zaslav makes mistakes by the car load lot. 354 00:23:31,395 --> 00:23:34,435 Speaker 1: But I think mister Darcy may be missing the real 355 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:38,355 Speaker 1: purpose here. Musk was willing to throw away billions to 356 00:23:38,435 --> 00:23:41,795 Speaker 1: buy Twitter, just to be the king of Dung Mountain 357 00:23:42,235 --> 00:23:44,515 Speaker 1: and turn the place into a huge contribution in kind 358 00:23:44,515 --> 00:23:46,995 Speaker 1: to the Trump campaign. If Musk is that dumb or 359 00:23:47,035 --> 00:23:51,195 Speaker 1: that stoned, why wouldn't he be dumb enough and stoned 360 00:23:51,355 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: enough to buy CNN from Zaslav. Can you imagine CNN 361 00:23:56,515 --> 00:24:00,515 Speaker 1: owned by Elon Musk, the new lineup CNN Mornings with 362 00:24:00,595 --> 00:24:03,515 Speaker 1: the team of Elon Musk, Elon Musk and Elon Musk, 363 00:24:04,035 --> 00:24:07,995 Speaker 1: then the Midday Musk, then a phone in show called 364 00:24:08,395 --> 00:24:13,595 Speaker 1: Musk Hotel I like that one, Anderson Cooper Tonight with 365 00:24:13,635 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, and of course the Situation Room with Wolf 366 00:24:18,155 --> 00:24:21,515 Speaker 1: Flitzer with Elon Musk, And of course every time you 367 00:24:21,555 --> 00:24:26,555 Speaker 1: click over to CNN, your TV would explode. David, I 368 00:24:26,635 --> 00:24:29,235 Speaker 1: swear I don't look for these disasters. They choose me 369 00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:35,515 Speaker 1: Zaslab and Elon. I know we could close CNN, Musk CTV. 370 00:24:35,795 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: You get it must only with a K, you get 371 00:24:38,555 --> 00:24:40,995 Speaker 1: it K instead of T. I'm funny. I'm funny. You 372 00:24:41,035 --> 00:24:44,075 Speaker 1: will laugh now K for ketamine, No, forget that part, 373 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:49,155 Speaker 1: K for Musk Musk CTV, laugh now Musk two days 374 00:24:49,795 --> 00:25:21,275 Speaker 1: worst person and no wa he the number one story 375 00:25:21,315 --> 00:25:23,875 Speaker 1: on the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things 376 00:25:23,915 --> 00:25:25,995 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell. And here we go again, 377 00:25:26,075 --> 00:25:31,195 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch's quote news outlets unquote shooting themselves in the 378 00:25:31,275 --> 00:25:35,795 Speaker 1: groin yet again while they were aiming at me. A 379 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:40,315 Speaker 1: little timeline is required on this one. April eighteen sixty five. 380 00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:44,875 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was assassinated May 381 00:25:45,155 --> 00:25:48,315 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, maybe earlier. May twenty twenty was the earliest 382 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:52,515 Speaker 1: I remembered or found. Trump started claiming he had been 383 00:25:52,555 --> 00:25:58,075 Speaker 1: treated far worse than Abraham Lincoln had. March sixteenth, twenty 384 00:25:58,115 --> 00:26:02,275 Speaker 1: twenty four. Trump said it again. Then Biden Harris Headquarters 385 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:05,835 Speaker 1: tweets the clip, adding Trump says he's been treated worse 386 00:26:05,875 --> 00:26:10,075 Speaker 1: than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated also March sixteenth, twenty 387 00:26:10,075 --> 00:26:14,835 Speaker 1: twenty four. I retweeted that, adding there's always the hope. 388 00:26:14,835 --> 00:26:18,835 Speaker 1: March eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Fox News publishes a story 389 00:26:18,875 --> 00:26:22,875 Speaker 1: first headlined Keith Olderman appears to hope for Trump assassination, 390 00:26:23,555 --> 00:26:26,275 Speaker 1: but the headline was then changed to Keith Olderman's sparks 391 00:26:26,315 --> 00:26:30,235 Speaker 1: outrage by hinting at trump assassination with a blue stripe 392 00:26:30,315 --> 00:26:35,755 Speaker 1: over my face reading Blue Blood Bath, meaning on some 393 00:26:35,995 --> 00:26:39,395 Speaker 1: level I am the same as Trump to the New 394 00:26:39,475 --> 00:26:42,515 Speaker 1: York Post and the Fox News and all the rest 395 00:26:42,515 --> 00:26:45,995 Speaker 1: of Murdoch's outlets. While I was tempted to answer this 396 00:26:46,115 --> 00:26:49,395 Speaker 1: by saying I was just referring to the auto industry, 397 00:26:50,035 --> 00:26:54,195 Speaker 1: in reality, obviously I was and am hoping that Trump 398 00:26:54,315 --> 00:26:56,915 Speaker 1: will be right, and that he will be treated worse 399 00:26:56,955 --> 00:27:00,675 Speaker 1: than Abraham Lincoln, something worse than assassination, which would be 400 00:27:01,355 --> 00:27:04,955 Speaker 1: that Trump is convicted and dies in prison. I don't 401 00:27:04,995 --> 00:27:09,075 Speaker 1: know how many times I have said this, maybe more 402 00:27:09,115 --> 00:27:13,075 Speaker 1: than Trump's ludicrous charge that he's been treated worse than Lincoln. 403 00:27:13,115 --> 00:27:14,915 Speaker 1: I may have actually said it more than he has 404 00:27:14,915 --> 00:27:18,475 Speaker 1: said that. I think I first said I hope he 405 00:27:18,675 --> 00:27:22,155 Speaker 1: dies in prison. I expect he dies in prison in 406 00:27:22,155 --> 00:27:26,555 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. This is because I hope he dies in prison. 407 00:27:27,555 --> 00:27:31,195 Speaker 1: But of course the point of this is Murdoch and 408 00:27:31,275 --> 00:27:34,075 Speaker 1: Fox and especially the New York Post have been doing 409 00:27:34,115 --> 00:27:39,915 Speaker 1: this to me since about nineteen ninety six, always always 410 00:27:40,475 --> 00:27:43,555 Speaker 1: getting it wrong, ever since I caught the Post in 411 00:27:43,635 --> 00:27:46,035 Speaker 1: a lie that year about a couple of hockey players 412 00:27:46,315 --> 00:27:48,515 Speaker 1: that it claimed had been thrown out of a New 413 00:27:48,595 --> 00:27:51,955 Speaker 1: York City bar for knocking over tables to the horror 414 00:27:51,995 --> 00:27:55,995 Speaker 1: of customers, when in fact I was with them, and 415 00:27:56,035 --> 00:27:59,115 Speaker 1: they left the place in their own form of horror 416 00:27:59,155 --> 00:28:02,235 Speaker 1: because as one of them, Eric Lindross, stood up, he 417 00:28:02,435 --> 00:28:05,355 Speaker 1: almost knocked over the chair he was sitting in. He 418 00:28:05,395 --> 00:28:08,795 Speaker 1: said to the other, John Leclair, I think I've had enough. 419 00:28:08,795 --> 00:28:12,155 Speaker 1: We got to go home, Johnny, and they politely left, 420 00:28:12,235 --> 00:28:15,435 Speaker 1: but not before asking if I needed a lift. In 421 00:28:15,435 --> 00:28:18,515 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, the Post slammed me because I 422 00:28:18,555 --> 00:28:21,995 Speaker 1: attended a New York Mets game while wearing cargo shorts. 423 00:28:23,475 --> 00:28:26,155 Speaker 1: A few years later, the Post showed a picture somebody 424 00:28:26,155 --> 00:28:28,475 Speaker 1: had snapped of me leaning against one of the gates 425 00:28:28,515 --> 00:28:30,555 Speaker 1: of Central Park here in New York and said I 426 00:28:30,635 --> 00:28:35,115 Speaker 1: was alone and depressed. Actually, I was alone and early 427 00:28:36,115 --> 00:28:38,995 Speaker 1: to my dental appointment across the street, and I was 428 00:28:38,995 --> 00:28:43,595 Speaker 1: trying to talk myself into actually going into my doctor's office. 429 00:28:43,875 --> 00:28:47,155 Speaker 1: There was a brief interruption in the year during the 430 00:28:47,435 --> 00:28:50,115 Speaker 1: two and a half years or so that I worked 431 00:28:50,115 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: for Murdoch in Sports, a brief interruption in these constantly 432 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:59,675 Speaker 1: hilarious stories before Murdoch personally fired me after I had 433 00:28:59,715 --> 00:29:02,715 Speaker 1: reported with his office's full approval in advance that he 434 00:29:02,795 --> 00:29:05,435 Speaker 1: was working behind the scenes to sell the Los Angeles 435 00:29:05,475 --> 00:29:09,435 Speaker 1: Dodgers baseball team, which he was. Murdoch later boasted about 436 00:29:09,475 --> 00:29:12,195 Speaker 1: firing me, but he didn't say that. He didn't boast 437 00:29:12,235 --> 00:29:16,115 Speaker 1: about it until after he had sold the La Dodgers 438 00:29:16,155 --> 00:29:21,075 Speaker 1: baseball team. The origin of the post's quarter century of 439 00:29:21,155 --> 00:29:25,355 Speaker 1: badly aimed shots at me stems from that firing. When 440 00:29:25,475 --> 00:29:29,075 Speaker 1: Murdoch fired me, his minions did it slowly in stages 441 00:29:29,155 --> 00:29:31,235 Speaker 1: over the course of a couple of days, in hopes 442 00:29:31,715 --> 00:29:34,875 Speaker 1: that they could get me angry and bait me into 443 00:29:35,035 --> 00:29:38,915 Speaker 1: attacking Fox and News Corp. In the newspapers, so that 444 00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:42,195 Speaker 1: then they could fire me for cause that way they 445 00:29:42,195 --> 00:29:43,995 Speaker 1: wouldn't owe me the rest of the money on my 446 00:29:44,075 --> 00:29:47,915 Speaker 1: contract instead. As I've mentioned here before, given the choice 447 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:51,755 Speaker 1: between waiting eight months to insult someone and getting a 448 00:29:51,755 --> 00:29:55,195 Speaker 1: lot of money, or getting no money and yelling at 449 00:29:55,235 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: them right now, I'll always wait the eight months. I 450 00:29:59,475 --> 00:30:03,995 Speaker 1: remained quiet for eight lovely months, and Rupert had to 451 00:30:04,035 --> 00:30:06,795 Speaker 1: pay me one one hundred thousand dollars a month to 452 00:30:06,795 --> 00:30:14,355 Speaker 1: do that best job I ever had. So whenever this 453 00:30:14,595 --> 00:30:17,155 Speaker 1: happens and somebody says, why don't you sue Murdoch Go, 454 00:30:17,355 --> 00:30:19,955 Speaker 1: sue News Corps, sue the New York Post. I always say, 455 00:30:20,235 --> 00:30:22,675 Speaker 1: what kind of money could I get from them that 456 00:30:22,715 --> 00:30:25,435 Speaker 1: could hurt them more than that eight hundred thousand dollars 457 00:30:25,435 --> 00:30:28,915 Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. Also, most of the 458 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:32,515 Speaker 1: stuff they do is so hilariously wrong, like the worse 459 00:30:32,595 --> 00:30:39,155 Speaker 1: than Lincoln story, that it's transparently desperate. But twice they 460 00:30:39,235 --> 00:30:41,995 Speaker 1: threatened me with stories that I had to take some 461 00:30:42,235 --> 00:30:46,395 Speaker 1: action about. Once they completely made one up, and once 462 00:30:46,675 --> 00:30:49,115 Speaker 1: they ran a story even though the FBI and the 463 00:30:49,155 --> 00:30:53,115 Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security specifically asked them not to run it. 464 00:30:54,475 --> 00:30:57,635 Speaker 1: The obligatory reminder before I tell you those two stories, 465 00:30:57,675 --> 00:31:01,235 Speaker 1: you should never believe any source story you read in 466 00:31:01,275 --> 00:31:04,755 Speaker 1: The New York Post or indeed on any mets me 467 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:09,475 Speaker 1: outlet owned by the Murdochs. Like Fox, they occasionally report 468 00:31:09,555 --> 00:31:13,555 Speaker 1: real things, but just as often they make stuff up. 469 00:31:13,915 --> 00:31:20,315 Speaker 1: Not exaggerate or get slightly wrong or twist, but utterly fabricate. 470 00:31:21,675 --> 00:31:24,235 Speaker 1: On April eleventh, two thousand and five, the New York 471 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:26,955 Speaker 1: Post was to run exactly the kind of story I'm 472 00:31:26,995 --> 00:31:31,115 Speaker 1: talking about, only under threat of multiple lawsuits did they 473 00:31:31,155 --> 00:31:34,795 Speaker 1: actually spike it. I hadn't told this story before, but 474 00:31:34,875 --> 00:31:36,915 Speaker 1: I was reminded of it. I think going through the 475 00:31:36,955 --> 00:31:40,075 Speaker 1: mechanics of it will illustrate just how evil an organization 476 00:31:40,395 --> 00:31:45,115 Speaker 1: News Corp. Actually Is and more importantly, how unreliable it 477 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:48,715 Speaker 1: is as a source of news. As a New York 478 00:31:48,755 --> 00:31:52,235 Speaker 1: Post Page six gossip story, this one, though, had everything. 479 00:31:52,635 --> 00:31:57,075 Speaker 1: It attacked MSNBC. It had quotes from informed sources, and 480 00:31:57,155 --> 00:32:00,235 Speaker 1: even at one point it had a witness. Now the 481 00:32:00,275 --> 00:32:03,155 Speaker 1: witness disappeared during the evolution of this story, but at 482 00:32:03,155 --> 00:32:06,515 Speaker 1: one point it had a witness. It had somebody prominent 483 00:32:06,635 --> 00:32:09,995 Speaker 1: insulting Peter Jennings, the newscaster, right after he had revealed 484 00:32:10,035 --> 00:32:12,635 Speaker 1: he had lung cancer, and it was constructed in such 485 00:32:12,675 --> 00:32:15,315 Speaker 1: a way that if I did not comment on it, 486 00:32:15,515 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: they could print the story, then come back the next day, 487 00:32:18,755 --> 00:32:21,555 Speaker 1: rehash it and add that I was still refusing to 488 00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:25,955 Speaker 1: comment on it. But there was one overriding problem. It 489 00:32:26,235 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: was a complete fabrication, and thus it was full of 490 00:32:29,235 --> 00:32:33,915 Speaker 1: events that didn't happen and people who did not exist. 491 00:32:35,115 --> 00:32:40,275 Speaker 1: New York Post Page six contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy, 492 00:32:40,355 --> 00:32:44,115 Speaker 1: Jeremy Gaines on Thursday, April seventh, two thousand and five, 493 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:48,115 Speaker 1: with the following story. Keith Olderman, a quote frequent critic 494 00:32:48,155 --> 00:32:52,555 Speaker 1: of President Bush, had refused to anchor the coverage of 495 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,715 Speaker 1: the death of Pope John Paul the Second, pretended to 496 00:32:55,755 --> 00:33:00,315 Speaker 1: be ill and called in sick instead. There was, as 497 00:33:00,355 --> 00:33:04,155 Speaker 1: I suggested earlier, a major problem here. I had anchored 498 00:33:04,155 --> 00:33:06,635 Speaker 1: the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul the Second. 499 00:33:06,915 --> 00:33:11,235 Speaker 1: I had been anchoring the primetime coverage four hours each weeknight, 500 00:33:11,595 --> 00:33:15,115 Speaker 1: day after day, leading up to the potiffs passing. There 501 00:33:15,155 --> 00:33:19,275 Speaker 1: were viewers who had seen me. There were studio staffers. 502 00:33:19,635 --> 00:33:23,915 Speaker 1: Carl Bernstein was there. He was the inn studio papal expert. 503 00:33:23,955 --> 00:33:26,195 Speaker 1: He was on the air with me every night for 504 00:33:26,355 --> 00:33:30,155 Speaker 1: like six nights in a row. There were video tapes. 505 00:33:31,035 --> 00:33:33,715 Speaker 1: Joe Torre, then the manager of the New York Yankees, 506 00:33:33,835 --> 00:33:37,995 Speaker 1: called me to compliment me on my reverential coverage of 507 00:33:38,075 --> 00:33:41,995 Speaker 1: the Pope's illness. That did not stop. The New York 508 00:33:42,035 --> 00:33:45,315 Speaker 1: Post in the first version that page six told us 509 00:33:45,355 --> 00:33:48,235 Speaker 1: it was going to print their unnamed source had been 510 00:33:48,275 --> 00:33:52,435 Speaker 1: on board an Amtrak Acella train going from Washington, DC 511 00:33:52,635 --> 00:33:56,435 Speaker 1: to New York, sitting near my agent. As my agent 512 00:33:56,515 --> 00:33:59,675 Speaker 1: talked to somebody on a cell phone. This is apparently 513 00:34:00,115 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: a very favorite construction when the New York Post wants 514 00:34:04,515 --> 00:34:07,915 Speaker 1: to make up a story about somebody their witness said. 515 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:10,675 Speaker 1: My agent complained that I had had a quote meltdown 516 00:34:11,155 --> 00:34:14,995 Speaker 1: after quote calling in sick rather than anchoring the papal coverage, 517 00:34:15,035 --> 00:34:18,675 Speaker 1: which I anchored, but there was more quote. Alderman, a 518 00:34:18,795 --> 00:34:22,595 Speaker 1: frequent critic of the president's policies, said it was better 519 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:26,515 Speaker 1: in sports. They quoted my agent quoting me into the phone. 520 00:34:26,675 --> 00:34:30,915 Speaker 1: I'll be dealing with this all day now. Apart from 521 00:34:30,955 --> 00:34:33,195 Speaker 1: the fact that I had anchored the coverage, they said 522 00:34:33,235 --> 00:34:35,795 Speaker 1: I had not anchored. There was another major flaw in 523 00:34:35,835 --> 00:34:40,275 Speaker 1: this story. My agent was not on a train from 524 00:34:40,395 --> 00:34:43,995 Speaker 1: Washington to New York on the day in question, or 525 00:34:44,075 --> 00:34:46,875 Speaker 1: the week in question, or the month, or in fact, 526 00:34:47,275 --> 00:34:50,515 Speaker 1: the year in question. My agent told me she thought 527 00:34:50,595 --> 00:34:52,875 Speaker 1: she had once been on a train from Washington to 528 00:34:52,915 --> 00:34:57,395 Speaker 1: New York in the year nineteen sixty seven. My agent 529 00:34:57,475 --> 00:35:01,355 Speaker 1: at that time lived a top Mount Shasta in California, 530 00:35:01,395 --> 00:35:04,635 Speaker 1: and so seldom left there that when she once drove 531 00:35:04,995 --> 00:35:07,515 Speaker 1: to town to get the mail, I asked her for 532 00:35:07,595 --> 00:35:10,995 Speaker 1: the details of her trip because I jokingly suggested to 533 00:35:11,035 --> 00:35:16,155 Speaker 1: her we should lead the newscast with it. So the 534 00:35:16,195 --> 00:35:19,075 Speaker 1: next day, Friday, April eighth, two thousand and five, New 535 00:35:19,115 --> 00:35:21,595 Speaker 1: York Post Page six came back with a different version 536 00:35:21,635 --> 00:35:25,795 Speaker 1: of this same story. They had misheard their source. Of course, 537 00:35:25,835 --> 00:35:29,115 Speaker 1: it wasn't my agent on the train from DC to 538 00:35:29,155 --> 00:35:32,835 Speaker 1: New York. It was a woman who worked for my agent, 539 00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:36,715 Speaker 1: a woman named Susan. A woman named Susan whom I had, 540 00:35:36,755 --> 00:35:40,595 Speaker 1: they would report, already phoned three times that morning, and 541 00:35:40,675 --> 00:35:43,275 Speaker 1: I was to meet her urgently at the boat House 542 00:35:43,435 --> 00:35:48,995 Speaker 1: in Central Park, presumably because meeting her in the middle 543 00:35:49,035 --> 00:35:51,515 Speaker 1: of Penn Station when she got off that train would 544 00:35:51,555 --> 00:35:56,155 Speaker 1: have been a little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded 545 00:35:56,195 --> 00:36:01,155 Speaker 1: again with some irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for 546 00:36:01,235 --> 00:36:05,795 Speaker 1: my agent. In fact, nobody at all worked for my agent. 547 00:36:05,875 --> 00:36:09,395 Speaker 1: She was independent. She had a working relationship with a 548 00:36:09,395 --> 00:36:12,915 Speaker 1: small agency in Los Angeles, and basically they covered her 549 00:36:12,955 --> 00:36:15,955 Speaker 1: phone calls when she was on vacation, which she almost 550 00:36:15,995 --> 00:36:18,475 Speaker 1: never was, because she never left the top of Mount 551 00:36:18,555 --> 00:36:23,475 Speaker 1: effing Shasta. We called that agency and they confirmed that 552 00:36:23,515 --> 00:36:25,875 Speaker 1: not only did they not have anybody working for them 553 00:36:25,955 --> 00:36:28,995 Speaker 1: named Susan, but nobody from that agency was even on 554 00:36:29,075 --> 00:36:33,035 Speaker 1: the East Coast or had been so far that entire year. 555 00:36:34,795 --> 00:36:37,715 Speaker 1: At this point I called the television columnist of the 556 00:36:37,715 --> 00:36:40,035 Speaker 1: New York Post and off the record, explained to him 557 00:36:40,035 --> 00:36:42,795 Speaker 1: that I was kind of furious, and this time I 558 00:36:42,835 --> 00:36:45,715 Speaker 1: was actually going to sue, but that NBC was far 559 00:36:45,795 --> 00:36:48,275 Speaker 1: angrier than I was, and that they were going to 560 00:36:48,315 --> 00:36:51,875 Speaker 1: sue as well, and sue the editor of page six. Personally, 561 00:36:52,715 --> 00:36:55,595 Speaker 1: I calmly went through the facts of this. This guy, 562 00:36:55,915 --> 00:36:58,715 Speaker 1: the TV guy, had a conscience, he sighed. He said 563 00:36:58,755 --> 00:37:00,835 Speaker 1: he got those kind of calls more often than I 564 00:37:00,875 --> 00:37:03,475 Speaker 1: would believe. And I said, no, I believe it. And 565 00:37:03,515 --> 00:37:05,155 Speaker 1: he said he would go to the editor of page 566 00:37:05,195 --> 00:37:07,915 Speaker 1: six and explained somebody was lying to him, the editor, 567 00:37:08,115 --> 00:37:10,635 Speaker 1: and he was going to get himself sued into bankruptcy 568 00:37:10,955 --> 00:37:17,475 Speaker 1: over a really obviously untrue and completely disproved story. Okay, 569 00:37:17,515 --> 00:37:19,835 Speaker 1: So now a couple hours later, New York Post Page 570 00:37:19,875 --> 00:37:23,155 Speaker 1: six calls again demanding a comment from me on the 571 00:37:23,195 --> 00:37:28,715 Speaker 1: third different version of their exhaustive papals scoop. No. The 572 00:37:28,755 --> 00:37:31,915 Speaker 1: woman their witness heard, who they first said was my agent, 573 00:37:32,395 --> 00:37:33,995 Speaker 1: then said she had gotten it wrong. It was a 574 00:37:33,995 --> 00:37:36,115 Speaker 1: woman named Susan who worked for my agent. She had 575 00:37:36,115 --> 00:37:38,675 Speaker 1: now become a woman who worked for my agent, whose 576 00:37:38,755 --> 00:37:41,435 Speaker 1: name the witness never heard. But she was talking to 577 00:37:42,275 --> 00:37:47,315 Speaker 1: somebody else named Susan. And there was an additional quote 578 00:37:47,355 --> 00:37:51,075 Speaker 1: now thrown in, I'll be dealing this all day now, 579 00:37:51,635 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: had morphed into I'll be dealing with this all day now. 580 00:37:55,355 --> 00:37:58,475 Speaker 1: The same week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having 581 00:37:58,555 --> 00:38:02,035 Speaker 1: lung cancer, this idiot, a frequent critic of President Bush, 582 00:38:02,235 --> 00:38:04,955 Speaker 1: is sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this. 583 00:38:07,235 --> 00:38:10,035 Speaker 1: I'll spare you how I know this was not true. 584 00:38:10,115 --> 00:38:11,635 Speaker 1: It has something to do with the fact that I 585 00:38:11,675 --> 00:38:17,275 Speaker 1: don't wear pajamas. Years later, a former gossip reporter in 586 00:38:17,355 --> 00:38:20,915 Speaker 1: Murdoch's employ explained to me that his celebrity and gossip 587 00:38:20,915 --> 00:38:24,795 Speaker 1: people are taught never to back down from a confrontation, 588 00:38:25,155 --> 00:38:26,995 Speaker 1: and that if the subject of one of their hit 589 00:38:27,075 --> 00:38:31,115 Speaker 1: jobs fires back or tries to refute, or especially threatens 590 00:38:31,195 --> 00:38:34,635 Speaker 1: legal action, to keep making the story worse and worse 591 00:38:34,715 --> 00:38:38,355 Speaker 1: for them. And in the first decade of this century, anyway, 592 00:38:38,395 --> 00:38:40,315 Speaker 1: you were supposed to try to work in a defense 593 00:38:40,355 --> 00:38:44,315 Speaker 1: of George W. Bush but there's also what she said. 594 00:38:44,355 --> 00:38:48,355 Speaker 1: They called an emergency exit. If there is no question 595 00:38:48,435 --> 00:38:52,155 Speaker 1: that the story is nonsensical, if the basic spine of 596 00:38:52,195 --> 00:38:55,715 Speaker 1: the story does not line up with provable facts, just 597 00:38:55,795 --> 00:38:59,995 Speaker 1: abandon it. Abandon it. Don't tell the subject of your 598 00:39:00,035 --> 00:39:02,915 Speaker 1: attack that you are abandoning it. Just don't make any 599 00:39:02,995 --> 00:39:05,795 Speaker 1: more phone calls, don't send it any more emails about it. 600 00:39:05,875 --> 00:39:11,715 Speaker 1: Just vanish. Just disappear the story, and then send the 601 00:39:11,795 --> 00:39:14,995 Speaker 1: name of the subject of the story that you've just punted. 602 00:39:15,675 --> 00:39:18,115 Speaker 1: Send it around to all the other Murdoch operations to 603 00:39:18,115 --> 00:39:19,835 Speaker 1: see if they can come up with any dirt on 604 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:23,995 Speaker 1: the subject, to punish them for fighting back against Rupert 605 00:39:24,115 --> 00:39:31,035 Speaker 1: Murdoch's lies. So they abandoned the story, and it took 606 00:39:31,075 --> 00:39:33,395 Speaker 1: the New York Post a year and a half to 607 00:39:33,475 --> 00:39:36,755 Speaker 1: get me back, and to get back the Department of 608 00:39:36,755 --> 00:39:41,275 Speaker 1: Homeland Security and the FBI. On September twenty six, two 609 00:39:41,275 --> 00:39:44,435 Speaker 1: thousand and six, I opened an envelope bearing a California 610 00:39:44,515 --> 00:39:48,275 Speaker 1: postmark at my home in New York. I shouldn't have 611 00:39:48,275 --> 00:39:51,115 Speaker 1: done it, but bluntly, I'll confess to this, I thought 612 00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:54,035 Speaker 1: it was some baseball cards I had bought off eBay 613 00:39:55,195 --> 00:40:00,275 Speaker 1: Well it wasn't. The envelope contained a sticky substance looked 614 00:40:00,355 --> 00:40:04,635 Speaker 1: like draino mixed with talcum powder, and it fell out, 615 00:40:05,115 --> 00:40:08,395 Speaker 1: and accompanying notes said it was anthrax. Now I and 616 00:40:08,515 --> 00:40:11,275 Speaker 1: other Liberals would get a taste of our own medicine. 617 00:40:12,475 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: Even reading those chilling words and having covered the actual 618 00:40:15,915 --> 00:40:19,475 Speaker 1: anthrax letters terrorist attacks of two thousand and one when 619 00:40:19,515 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: I was with CNN, I knew it was an anthrax. 620 00:40:23,275 --> 00:40:26,435 Speaker 1: The guy who supposedly sent the actual anthrax in two 621 00:40:26,515 --> 00:40:30,075 Speaker 1: thousand and one was an expert in the field, and 622 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:33,155 Speaker 1: even he masshandled the stuff so badly that supposedly he 623 00:40:33,195 --> 00:40:37,435 Speaker 1: gave himself anthrax and died of it. On the other hand, 624 00:40:38,515 --> 00:40:41,035 Speaker 1: I know the odds were impossible, but what if I 625 00:40:41,195 --> 00:40:44,755 Speaker 1: was wrong. My apartment building was filled with little old 626 00:40:44,835 --> 00:40:48,435 Speaker 1: ladies who had lived there since Roosevelt was president. I 627 00:40:48,475 --> 00:40:52,955 Speaker 1: only assumed that meant Franklin, not Theodore. The odds were. 628 00:40:53,595 --> 00:40:56,075 Speaker 1: I don't know one in a billion that it was anthrax. 629 00:40:56,795 --> 00:40:59,675 Speaker 1: But who was I to dismiss this one in a 630 00:40:59,715 --> 00:41:02,675 Speaker 1: billion chance that these little old ladies were going to 631 00:41:02,715 --> 00:41:06,435 Speaker 1: get anthrax? Who was I to make that call? So 632 00:41:06,515 --> 00:41:11,155 Speaker 1: instead I made a call. I called the FBI. Well, 633 00:41:11,315 --> 00:41:14,155 Speaker 1: it was quite an evening. The cops showed up, the 634 00:41:14,235 --> 00:41:16,675 Speaker 1: FBI showed up. They said, of course it's not anthrax, 635 00:41:16,715 --> 00:41:18,875 Speaker 1: but we have to act like it is. Welcome to 636 00:41:18,915 --> 00:41:22,555 Speaker 1: our new world. The hazmat squad came in. They set 637 00:41:22,635 --> 00:41:25,235 Speaker 1: up a command post in the building. They swept my 638 00:41:25,275 --> 00:41:26,835 Speaker 1: apartment and they said, okay, now you have to go 639 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:30,075 Speaker 1: to the emergency room for tests. And I said, it's 640 00:41:30,115 --> 00:41:32,435 Speaker 1: not anthrax. You just said so. And they said, if 641 00:41:32,435 --> 00:41:35,275 Speaker 1: we have to do this, you have to do this too. 642 00:41:35,835 --> 00:41:38,395 Speaker 1: I laughed. Plus, if you don't, we can arrest you 643 00:41:38,435 --> 00:41:40,515 Speaker 1: as a threat to public health, and we can make 644 00:41:40,515 --> 00:41:44,195 Speaker 1: you go to the hospital. So out I went into 645 00:41:44,235 --> 00:41:48,755 Speaker 1: an ambulance dressed in a hazmat suit one size too 646 00:41:48,835 --> 00:41:54,075 Speaker 1: small that really cut in the groin. I spent the 647 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:56,795 Speaker 1: night getting checked out. The FBI then called and said, 648 00:41:57,875 --> 00:42:02,795 Speaker 1: it's like it's like draino with ivory soap flakes. But 649 00:42:03,315 --> 00:42:05,955 Speaker 1: they also said there had been other letters that had 650 00:42:06,075 --> 00:42:08,875 Speaker 1: arrived that night and the night before, sent to people 651 00:42:09,115 --> 00:42:13,195 Speaker 1: like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's office, and 652 00:42:13,315 --> 00:42:16,595 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and some poor guy who happened to have 653 00:42:16,675 --> 00:42:19,635 Speaker 1: the name John Stewart, who was not the John Stuart. 654 00:42:20,595 --> 00:42:22,595 Speaker 1: And they couldn't make me do this, but it would 655 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:26,395 Speaker 1: really help if I did not report what happened on 656 00:42:26,435 --> 00:42:30,035 Speaker 1: my TV show that night, just for the one day, 657 00:42:30,675 --> 00:42:32,915 Speaker 1: do it tomorrow, because they had a lead on the 658 00:42:32,915 --> 00:42:34,875 Speaker 1: guy who had sent all these letters and they didn't 659 00:42:34,915 --> 00:42:39,635 Speaker 1: want to scare them off. And I said, sure, I'm 660 00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:43,675 Speaker 1: a patriot. The next day, while we were still observing 661 00:42:43,715 --> 00:42:47,035 Speaker 1: the embargo on the story, my story, planning to run 662 00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:50,195 Speaker 1: it at eight o'clock at night, New York Post page 663 00:42:50,235 --> 00:42:54,555 Speaker 1: six led with a picture of me with the headline 664 00:42:55,115 --> 00:42:59,675 Speaker 1: powder Puff spooks Keith and making sure to identify me 665 00:42:59,795 --> 00:43:03,755 Speaker 1: as quote, a frequent critic of President Bush's policies. The 666 00:43:03,795 --> 00:43:07,475 Speaker 1: New York Post mocked me for not just assuming it 667 00:43:07,555 --> 00:43:10,755 Speaker 1: was fake antrax and ignoring it, and claimed I insisted 668 00:43:10,795 --> 00:43:14,395 Speaker 1: the cops should take me to the hospital. Quote whether 669 00:43:14,515 --> 00:43:17,795 Speaker 1: they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. 670 00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:23,155 Speaker 1: By the way, one of the actual anthrax letters in 671 00:43:23,195 --> 00:43:25,395 Speaker 1: two thousand and one, one of the letters with actual 672 00:43:25,515 --> 00:43:28,755 Speaker 1: anthrax in it that got some people sick and killed 673 00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:32,915 Speaker 1: a little old lady, had been mailed to the New 674 00:43:32,995 --> 00:43:36,715 Speaker 1: York post and one of their staffers had contracted anthrax, 675 00:43:36,995 --> 00:43:43,795 Speaker 1: and still this was their attitude towards anthrax threats. Anyway, 676 00:43:43,835 --> 00:43:45,835 Speaker 1: as it turned out, there was a guy in California 677 00:43:45,915 --> 00:43:48,635 Speaker 1: sending out these threatening letters, each with fake antras, to 678 00:43:48,675 --> 00:43:51,675 Speaker 1: about a dozen people. He sent me four of them. Ultimately, 679 00:43:52,435 --> 00:43:55,875 Speaker 1: I soon knew the FBI guys by their first names. 680 00:43:56,235 --> 00:43:59,355 Speaker 1: I pointed out to FBI Doug that the last envelope 681 00:43:59,395 --> 00:44:01,475 Speaker 1: I received had a bar code on it. Maybe they 682 00:44:01,475 --> 00:44:03,275 Speaker 1: could track the guy that way, and he said, oh, 683 00:44:03,355 --> 00:44:05,595 Speaker 1: you're right, And the next time I knew the FBI 684 00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:09,635 Speaker 1: had just videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me, 685 00:44:09,715 --> 00:44:13,435 Speaker 1: the fifth from his home in Woodland Hills, California, and 686 00:44:13,475 --> 00:44:18,075 Speaker 1: I swear to god he actually lived in his mother's 687 00:44:18,155 --> 00:44:23,155 Speaker 1: basement at age thirty seven or something. And FBI Doug said, 688 00:44:23,675 --> 00:44:25,555 Speaker 1: do we have your permission to pull a letter out 689 00:44:25,595 --> 00:44:28,275 Speaker 1: of the mailbox and open it? I said sure, And 690 00:44:28,315 --> 00:44:30,515 Speaker 1: the next thing I knew the guy was sentenced to 691 00:44:30,675 --> 00:44:35,275 Speaker 1: prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI Doug said, 692 00:44:35,555 --> 00:44:40,315 Speaker 1: by the way, that barcode, you noticed it. It connected 693 00:44:40,355 --> 00:44:43,315 Speaker 1: to the post office here, and that's where we found 694 00:44:43,315 --> 00:44:45,915 Speaker 1: his address, and we also found the fact that he 695 00:44:46,155 --> 00:44:50,395 Speaker 1: purchased a postal money order for fifteen dollars made out 696 00:44:50,515 --> 00:44:55,355 Speaker 1: to the Catherine Harris for Florida Senate campaign, if you 697 00:44:55,435 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: remember her from Gore V. Bush and his online history. 698 00:44:59,915 --> 00:45:02,035 Speaker 1: We looked that all up. It's all about how she 699 00:45:02,315 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: Catherine Harris and some woman Na Laura something or another. 700 00:45:06,795 --> 00:45:10,635 Speaker 1: They are the most beautiful women in history. And I said, Laura, 701 00:45:12,675 --> 00:45:21,755 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram, and FBI Doug said, yeah, that's it, Laura Ingraham. 702 00:45:22,155 --> 00:45:25,555 Speaker 1: And if that isn't ten years of my life in 703 00:45:25,595 --> 00:45:29,155 Speaker 1: one sentence, courtesy of the New York effing Post, I 704 00:45:29,475 --> 00:45:45,835 Speaker 1: don't know what is. I've done all the damage I 705 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:47,635 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. We're now back 706 00:45:47,635 --> 00:45:50,955 Speaker 1: to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. 707 00:45:51,275 --> 00:45:56,995 Speaker 1: Follow me for the podcast promo videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, 708 00:45:57,035 --> 00:46:00,955 Speaker 1: and tube face. Once again, there is a Monday countdown 709 00:46:00,995 --> 00:46:04,435 Speaker 1: at least through the election whatever happens after that. Please 710 00:46:04,475 --> 00:46:06,715 Speaker 1: send this podcast to somebody who does not know they 711 00:46:06,755 --> 00:46:09,355 Speaker 1: need to listen, but they should. We have a new 712 00:46:09,355 --> 00:46:14,155 Speaker 1: addition to the staff, Kit has joined us. In fact, 713 00:46:14,235 --> 00:46:18,115 Speaker 1: Kit and Ted sat through these last two segments. Ted 714 00:46:18,195 --> 00:46:21,395 Speaker 1: is already asleep, and Kit, who is four months old, 715 00:46:23,115 --> 00:46:25,355 Speaker 1: is looking up at me quizically like what the hell 716 00:46:25,395 --> 00:46:30,035 Speaker 1: are you talking about? As often Brian Ray and John 717 00:46:30,035 --> 00:46:32,795 Speaker 1: Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have countdown, have looked at me. 718 00:46:33,355 --> 00:46:35,675 Speaker 1: They have arranged, produced and performed most of our music. 719 00:46:35,715 --> 00:46:38,835 Speaker 1: Mister Shanelle handling orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on 720 00:46:38,875 --> 00:46:42,195 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 721 00:46:42,555 --> 00:46:44,995 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best 722 00:46:44,995 --> 00:46:48,515 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is 723 00:46:48,555 --> 00:46:51,835 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 724 00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:55,915 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed 725 00:46:55,955 --> 00:46:58,715 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was 726 00:46:58,715 --> 00:47:02,155 Speaker 1: my friend Dennis Leary, and everything else was as usual, 727 00:47:02,435 --> 00:47:06,355 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today. Two 728 00:47:06,355 --> 00:47:10,235 Speaker 1: weeks and five days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 729 00:47:10,635 --> 00:47:14,555 Speaker 1: the one three hundred and eighty first day since convicted 730 00:47:14,595 --> 00:47:19,035 Speaker 1: feldon dissociative fugue Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the 731 00:47:19,035 --> 00:47:22,275 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States, use the election, 732 00:47:22,395 --> 00:47:25,075 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep 733 00:47:25,155 --> 00:47:28,795 Speaker 1: him from doing it again while we still have a 734 00:47:29,075 --> 00:47:33,875 Speaker 1: chance to do so. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 735 00:47:34,235 --> 00:47:37,155 Speaker 1: Bulletins as the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Olberman. 736 00:47:37,155 --> 00:47:54,315 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 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