1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:22,275 --> 00:00:26,915 Speaker 1: Implausible as it sounds, since they are as imbecilic as 3 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:31,515 Speaker 1: they look, they have to have coordinated this. The fascists 4 00:00:31,555 --> 00:00:35,435 Speaker 1: have put on another push to sell January six as 5 00:00:35,475 --> 00:00:38,755 Speaker 1: some kind of false flag operation for reasons that are 6 00:00:38,795 --> 00:00:41,595 Speaker 1: pretty easy to suss out. The news here I think 7 00:00:41,675 --> 00:00:44,915 Speaker 1: is that the coordination, the collusion, if you will, is 8 00:00:44,955 --> 00:00:50,395 Speaker 1: principally between Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and the explanation 9 00:00:50,475 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: for that unholy and unhinged alliance is a little bit 10 00:00:53,595 --> 00:00:57,435 Speaker 1: more impenetrable. Musk is doing it with his holier than 11 00:00:57,435 --> 00:01:02,235 Speaker 1: now analysis of Twitter's d platforming of Trump. Trump has 12 00:01:02,235 --> 00:01:04,035 Speaker 1: picked it up with interviews in advance of the House 13 00:01:04,035 --> 00:01:08,475 Speaker 1: Committee report it and its criminal referrals and his likely indictments. 14 00:01:08,515 --> 00:01:12,835 Speaker 1: And even Marjorie Trailer Park Green was doing it with her. 15 00:01:13,195 --> 00:01:15,435 Speaker 1: If I had planned it, we would have won dribble, 16 00:01:15,475 --> 00:01:18,715 Speaker 1: But of course she screwed up what she was supposed 17 00:01:18,755 --> 00:01:24,275 Speaker 1: to say. Consider bluntly, after the January six Committee reports 18 00:01:24,315 --> 00:01:28,115 Speaker 1: its findings and makes its referrals, a sizeable percentage of 19 00:01:28,155 --> 00:01:31,835 Speaker 1: this country will no longer describe itself as uncertain or 20 00:01:31,915 --> 00:01:36,435 Speaker 1: ambivalent or even forgetful about Trump's coup on January six. 21 00:01:37,075 --> 00:01:42,595 Speaker 1: That newly informed or reinformed demographic could be two or two. 22 00:01:43,395 --> 00:01:45,955 Speaker 1: But whatever it is, it will be enough to put 23 00:01:46,035 --> 00:01:49,355 Speaker 1: Trump right back behind the public and criminal eight balls 24 00:01:49,675 --> 00:01:53,315 Speaker 1: as clearly as he was one year and one days ago. 25 00:01:53,955 --> 00:01:56,755 Speaker 1: And it will also put the Republican Party and Kevin 26 00:01:56,835 --> 00:02:00,875 Speaker 1: McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Green right back behind those same 27 00:02:00,915 --> 00:02:04,795 Speaker 1: eight balls. Thus it is imperative that Trump put she 28 00:02:04,915 --> 00:02:08,315 Speaker 1: was the nonsensical narrative that the protesters he said he 29 00:02:08,355 --> 00:02:11,995 Speaker 1: would take to the Capitol were then somehow replaced literally 30 00:02:12,115 --> 00:02:17,675 Speaker 1: minutes later by Antifa replicants, or they were only inspired 31 00:02:17,715 --> 00:02:23,995 Speaker 1: to violence because Nancy Pelosi and thus Trump picked up 32 00:02:24,035 --> 00:02:27,835 Speaker 1: the dead carcass of this alternate timeline in an interview 33 00:02:27,875 --> 00:02:31,355 Speaker 1: with Christina Bob for One American News. And yes, I 34 00:02:31,395 --> 00:02:34,995 Speaker 1: know Christina Bob is one of his lawyers, and that 35 00:02:35,075 --> 00:02:37,715 Speaker 1: would be a fatal conflict, but for the fact that 36 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:41,275 Speaker 1: she's about as much of a journalist as the latest 37 00:02:41,395 --> 00:02:45,595 Speaker 1: aging actress on the latest TV infomercial. They don't want 38 00:02:45,635 --> 00:02:49,195 Speaker 1: to know about Nancy Pelosi turning down ten thousand soldiers 39 00:02:49,235 --> 00:02:52,035 Speaker 1: because she didn't look like the look, have you had 40 00:02:52,075 --> 00:02:56,595 Speaker 1: ten thousand soldiers for you know, hundreds of people, they 41 00:02:56,595 --> 00:02:58,875 Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten anywhere near the place. It wouldn't have been. 42 00:02:58,875 --> 00:03:03,555 Speaker 1: There would have been no no January six, that wouldn't 43 00:03:03,555 --> 00:03:06,955 Speaker 1: have been advanted. January or six might be the problem. 44 00:03:07,075 --> 00:03:08,955 Speaker 1: Oh no, Well, there are a lot of people that 45 00:03:09,035 --> 00:03:12,115 Speaker 1: think they wanted it. But but if you had soldiers 46 00:03:12,435 --> 00:03:15,755 Speaker 1: circling and I recommended it strongly, But it's her decisions. 47 00:03:15,755 --> 00:03:17,715 Speaker 1: She's the one that has to make the decision. And 48 00:03:17,915 --> 00:03:19,795 Speaker 1: just for the record, and I feel like I'm reading 49 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:22,995 Speaker 1: the may cause death warning on the side of a 50 00:03:22,995 --> 00:03:26,955 Speaker 1: package of cigarettes. Just for the record, Trump never signed 51 00:03:26,995 --> 00:03:30,515 Speaker 1: any order to send ten thousand troops or one troop 52 00:03:30,675 --> 00:03:33,115 Speaker 1: to the capital. And the Speaker of the House has 53 00:03:33,155 --> 00:03:36,315 Speaker 1: no control over any branch of the military. And since 54 00:03:36,355 --> 00:03:38,755 Speaker 1: there is no governor there, the National Guard in the 55 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:42,595 Speaker 1: District of Columbia can be activated only by the President 56 00:03:42,755 --> 00:03:46,235 Speaker 1: of the United States, and nobody can turn him down. 57 00:03:47,595 --> 00:03:50,475 Speaker 1: But of course, if we've learned nothing else these seven years, 58 00:03:50,875 --> 00:03:53,795 Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be true in trump Land. The 59 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:56,875 Speaker 1: fascist don't even have to believe what Trump says. They 60 00:03:56,995 --> 00:03:59,235 Speaker 1: just have to be able to say of course it 61 00:03:59,355 --> 00:04:02,955 Speaker 1: is a fact. We believe in facts. It is a 62 00:04:02,995 --> 00:04:08,355 Speaker 1: fact that Trump said the sly, so it's a Republican fact. 63 00:04:09,795 --> 00:04:13,235 Speaker 1: So Trump is pushing the January six false flag nonsense. 64 00:04:13,715 --> 00:04:15,955 Speaker 1: Of course it's a fact. It's a fact that Trump 65 00:04:16,075 --> 00:04:20,355 Speaker 1: said that lie. So it's a republican fact. And so 66 00:04:20,435 --> 00:04:23,035 Speaker 1: did Marjorie Trailer Park Green in the now infamous speech 67 00:04:23,035 --> 00:04:25,795 Speaker 1: in New York Saturday night, which should have resulted in 68 00:04:25,835 --> 00:04:29,195 Speaker 1: the lame Duck House calling an immediate expulsion vote, but 69 00:04:29,275 --> 00:04:33,395 Speaker 1: it won't because even Democrats frequently see only the opportunity 70 00:04:33,395 --> 00:04:37,315 Speaker 1: for political umbrage and not the danger, and many of 71 00:04:37,355 --> 00:04:39,915 Speaker 1: them would rather say she's pointing a gun at me, 72 00:04:39,995 --> 00:04:44,915 Speaker 1: how dare she? Rather than you know, disarm her. Her 73 00:04:44,955 --> 00:04:48,675 Speaker 1: speech served a triple purpose. I think it allowed her 74 00:04:48,715 --> 00:04:51,755 Speaker 1: to endorse the violence of January six and political violence 75 00:04:51,755 --> 00:04:55,155 Speaker 1: in general. It allowed her to embellish her own brand 76 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:57,915 Speaker 1: as a violent fascist who will win the next coup 77 00:04:58,115 --> 00:05:01,995 Speaker 1: because she owns more guns. And most importantly, it was 78 00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:06,755 Speaker 1: supposed to underscore that Republicans send conservatives and fascists and 79 00:05:06,835 --> 00:05:10,795 Speaker 1: Trumps could not have carried out the coup because they 80 00:05:10,875 --> 00:05:13,435 Speaker 1: loved this country, and thus it had to have been 81 00:05:13,515 --> 00:05:18,755 Speaker 1: Pelosi and the Democrats. But being an idiot as she is, 82 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:23,315 Speaker 1: Marjorie Trader Green blew it. She was supposed to insist 83 00:05:23,395 --> 00:05:27,075 Speaker 1: that the Democrats did it, or Antifa or an army 84 00:05:27,155 --> 00:05:33,115 Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi clones with Jewish space lasers, well anything, 85 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:36,275 Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who did it. Remember, if you lie 86 00:05:36,315 --> 00:05:38,795 Speaker 1: about it, it's still a fact that you said it. 87 00:05:39,035 --> 00:05:44,435 Speaker 1: Therefore it's a Republican fact. But Green couldn't remember all that. 88 00:05:44,835 --> 00:05:48,595 Speaker 1: Her area of expertise is not membrane stuff. It is, 89 00:05:48,715 --> 00:05:51,475 Speaker 1: in her own words, quote, a butt plug and a 90 00:05:51,555 --> 00:05:55,275 Speaker 1: dildo unquote. So she used the lie about there being 91 00:05:55,395 --> 00:05:59,635 Speaker 1: no guns in the coup and thus wound up proving 92 00:05:59,675 --> 00:06:02,715 Speaker 1: the obvious. If, as she says, it's the Second Amendment 93 00:06:02,755 --> 00:06:05,595 Speaker 1: conservatives who would have brought guns to a coup, and 94 00:06:05,675 --> 00:06:08,915 Speaker 1: there were guns at the coup, then the guns at 95 00:06:08,955 --> 00:06:12,475 Speaker 1: the coup were you with me? The guns at the 96 00:06:12,515 --> 00:06:16,515 Speaker 1: coup were brought by Second Amendment conservatives. It is worth 97 00:06:16,635 --> 00:06:19,995 Speaker 1: listening to the tape of Marge again just so you 98 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:26,235 Speaker 1: can hear carefully as Marge screws up the narrative yet again. 99 00:06:27,275 --> 00:06:30,235 Speaker 1: Then where six happens? And next thing you know I 100 00:06:30,355 --> 00:06:35,595 Speaker 1: organized the whole thing along with Stevin in here, and 101 00:06:35,635 --> 00:06:37,795 Speaker 1: I don't tell you something I Step and I had 102 00:06:37,875 --> 00:06:46,795 Speaker 1: organized that we would have won, not a minus have 103 00:06:46,795 --> 00:06:54,475 Speaker 1: been hard joke, isn't they always playing? And I'm like, 104 00:06:54,515 --> 00:06:57,675 Speaker 1: are you kidding me? A bunch conservative set and the 105 00:06:58,035 --> 00:07:00,715 Speaker 1: Horst went at the Capital without guns and they think 106 00:07:00,795 --> 00:07:07,235 Speaker 1: that we organized that. I don't think so she blew it. 107 00:07:07,875 --> 00:07:10,555 Speaker 1: Then she spent much of yesterday morning insisting all that 108 00:07:10,715 --> 00:07:15,395 Speaker 1: was quote sarcasm, that she was making fun of Joe Biden, 109 00:07:15,915 --> 00:07:18,115 Speaker 1: even the part in which she endorsed violent coups and 110 00:07:18,115 --> 00:07:21,235 Speaker 1: promised to win the next one and never mentioned Joe Biden. 111 00:07:22,235 --> 00:07:26,075 Speaker 1: So Trump is again selling a Democratic false flag scenario, 112 00:07:26,315 --> 00:07:29,115 Speaker 1: and Taylor Green was supposed to sell a Democratic false 113 00:07:29,115 --> 00:07:32,915 Speaker 1: flag scenario but wound up disproving it. Where and why 114 00:07:33,555 --> 00:07:38,515 Speaker 1: does Elon Musk come into this doing Trump's bidding for him? Well, 115 00:07:38,515 --> 00:07:42,115 Speaker 1: the obvious part. First, Musk is a fascist, and not 116 00:07:42,275 --> 00:07:46,555 Speaker 1: a particularly intelligent fascist. He is an easily led fascist. 117 00:07:46,915 --> 00:07:49,795 Speaker 1: He's also strung out on something. It may be nothing 118 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:53,395 Speaker 1: more than buying Twitter and suddenly being the gigantic gulliver 119 00:07:53,795 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: in the land of the tiny Liliputians who haven't had 120 00:07:56,835 --> 00:08:01,355 Speaker 1: anybody to worship since Trump was banned. But whatever, Musk 121 00:08:01,435 --> 00:08:03,995 Speaker 1: is high as a kite on the power if nothing else. 122 00:08:05,395 --> 00:08:10,035 Speaker 1: Under pressure from hundreds of Octivist employees, Musk tweeted yesterday 123 00:08:10,235 --> 00:08:14,315 Speaker 1: Twitter deep platforms Trump, a sitting US president, even though 124 00:08:14,315 --> 00:08:18,395 Speaker 1: they themselves acknowledged that he didn't violate the rules. Then 125 00:08:18,435 --> 00:08:23,355 Speaker 1: he retweets Barry White's who is the female Matt Taiebee 126 00:08:23,475 --> 00:08:26,715 Speaker 1: but with even more lack of credibility and lack of intelligence, 127 00:08:27,275 --> 00:08:31,315 Speaker 1: and he omits the small details that if it is against, say, 128 00:08:31,315 --> 00:08:35,275 Speaker 1: federal law, to call for or begin the violent overthrow 129 00:08:35,315 --> 00:08:37,515 Speaker 1: of the government of the United States of America, you 130 00:08:37,555 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: don't also need some boutique social media company to have 131 00:08:42,395 --> 00:08:47,715 Speaker 1: its own rules saying it's against their rules, their Twitter 132 00:08:47,875 --> 00:08:50,715 Speaker 1: rules to call for or begin the violent overthrow the 133 00:08:50,715 --> 00:08:53,955 Speaker 1: government of United States of America. That the federal laws 134 00:08:54,555 --> 00:08:59,195 Speaker 1: are sufficient and take precedent over your little rules. And 135 00:08:59,235 --> 00:09:01,675 Speaker 1: by the way, it might make the executives or your 136 00:09:01,755 --> 00:09:05,595 Speaker 1: little company accessories before the fact to the tempt to overthrow, 137 00:09:05,795 --> 00:09:08,715 Speaker 1: and theoretically they might be arrested. So they really do 138 00:09:08,875 --> 00:09:10,795 Speaker 1: sort of have to act whether or not that says 139 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:16,635 Speaker 1: so in their rules. This is not something Elon Musk understands, 140 00:09:17,515 --> 00:09:21,075 Speaker 1: nor is it something Elon Musk can permit. In his world, 141 00:09:21,355 --> 00:09:26,715 Speaker 1: Twitter rules must take precedence over federal code because he 142 00:09:26,835 --> 00:09:31,155 Speaker 1: owns Twitter, just as Twitter files are more important than 143 00:09:31,275 --> 00:09:36,315 Speaker 1: historical fact, just as Elon Musk is above all laws, 144 00:09:36,355 --> 00:09:38,955 Speaker 1: just as what you heard on the tape is only 145 00:09:39,035 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: ten percent of the crowd at the Dave Chappelle show 146 00:09:41,955 --> 00:09:44,715 Speaker 1: booing him. And then he changed his story to a 147 00:09:44,795 --> 00:09:47,035 Speaker 1: major fight broke out in the audience just as I 148 00:09:47,075 --> 00:09:49,395 Speaker 1: was about to talk, so didn't get to say much 149 00:09:49,435 --> 00:09:55,475 Speaker 1: because he's Elon Musk, super genius. And guess what. Of 150 00:09:55,515 --> 00:09:59,155 Speaker 1: course it's a fact. It's a fact because I Elon 151 00:09:59,275 --> 00:10:06,835 Speaker 1: Musk said this lie. So it's an Elon Musk act narrator. 152 00:10:07,395 --> 00:10:12,675 Speaker 1: When Chappelle brought him on stage, Elon Musk was booed. 153 00:10:13,275 --> 00:10:29,675 Speaker 1: Man in the world. They're not booing, they're chairing el 154 00:10:30,115 --> 00:10:34,515 Speaker 1: Lan boom. And when Musk started to talk, guess why 155 00:10:34,595 --> 00:10:44,195 Speaker 1: he was booed again, don't say that they're only spoiler. 156 00:10:47,155 --> 00:10:55,755 Speaker 1: That's sounds still unrisk. And this was before the news 157 00:10:55,835 --> 00:10:58,955 Speaker 1: that Musk has done such a spectacular job at Twitter 158 00:10:59,075 --> 00:11:01,955 Speaker 1: and at Tesla, which sank to a hundred and sixty 159 00:11:01,955 --> 00:11:04,595 Speaker 1: seven yesterday. It had been four hundred to one year 160 00:11:04,715 --> 00:11:08,675 Speaker 1: ago this month that spectacular news that Forbes says that 161 00:11:08,835 --> 00:11:11,875 Speaker 1: as of yesterday, Elon Musk is no longer the richest 162 00:11:11,875 --> 00:11:14,435 Speaker 1: man in the world, that it's now Bernard r. No 163 00:11:14,675 --> 00:11:18,715 Speaker 1: who owns Louis Vutan and Moa Shandon and Hennessy konjac 164 00:11:18,995 --> 00:11:24,355 Speaker 1: and Mark Jacobs and other overpriced stuff. Nice work, Elmo. Anyway, 165 00:11:24,395 --> 00:11:27,395 Speaker 1: The remaining part of this puzzle is why Musk is 166 00:11:27,435 --> 00:11:31,795 Speaker 1: so desperately and obviously participating in Trump's latest bid to 167 00:11:31,915 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: call January six somebody Else's fault, anybody else's fault. Musk's 168 00:11:38,475 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 1: pandering to the Q and On or q Elon crowd, 169 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:45,915 Speaker 1: his embrace of kN men like Glenn Greenwald and Robbie 170 00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:49,755 Speaker 1: Starbuck and the COVID deniers has clearly been leading up 171 00:11:49,755 --> 00:11:54,715 Speaker 1: to this remarkable conclusion that Trump was somehow illegally deep 172 00:11:54,755 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 1: platformed by Twitter. Why now, barring further evidence, honest reporting 173 00:12:01,195 --> 00:12:04,155 Speaker 1: requires me to conclude the answers are the obvious ones. 174 00:12:04,715 --> 00:12:07,755 Speaker 1: Musk is desperate for Trump's approval and to lure him 175 00:12:07,755 --> 00:12:11,715 Speaker 1: back to Twitter, and Musk is just another moron who 176 00:12:11,755 --> 00:12:14,955 Speaker 1: fell into money and wants whatever form of government that 177 00:12:15,035 --> 00:12:18,595 Speaker 1: will give him more money. Most businessmen are not more 178 00:12:18,635 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: complicated than that, especially the ones who like Musk don't 179 00:12:22,315 --> 00:12:25,195 Speaker 1: do a very good job of hiding their fundamental awareness 180 00:12:25,275 --> 00:12:28,835 Speaker 1: that at heart they do not really understand how they 181 00:12:28,915 --> 00:12:34,435 Speaker 1: became successful, nor at hiding their terrible transcendent fear that 182 00:12:34,595 --> 00:12:38,235 Speaker 1: it will all go away as fast as it had arrived. 183 00:12:39,275 --> 00:12:43,395 Speaker 1: Musk has decided he needs Trump, and he will do 184 00:12:43,475 --> 00:12:50,755 Speaker 1: whatever Trump needs to service Trump. And lastly, and I 185 00:12:50,875 --> 00:12:54,555 Speaker 1: intended this as an entirely unrelated topic. You may think 186 00:12:54,595 --> 00:12:59,595 Speaker 1: otherwise I could not possibly comment. The actual tape of 187 00:12:59,755 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: Marjorie trailer Park trash Green talking Saturday Night about her 188 00:13:04,435 --> 00:13:30,075 Speaker 1: re expertise has finally surfaced. Still ahead, Sam Bankman freed arrested. 189 00:13:30,395 --> 00:13:33,915 Speaker 1: I did not see that coming. You think the World 190 00:13:33,955 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: Cup and Qutar has been a disaster. The vice president 191 00:13:36,755 --> 00:13:40,715 Speaker 1: of the European Union has reportedly been arrested as part 192 00:13:40,715 --> 00:13:44,395 Speaker 1: of a massive scandal in which that parliament was bribed 193 00:13:44,555 --> 00:13:48,835 Speaker 1: by guitar. The Toronto Blue Jays may have just thrown 194 00:13:48,875 --> 00:13:51,675 Speaker 1: sixty three million dollars down a rat hole. For what 195 00:13:51,795 --> 00:13:53,995 Speaker 1: does it profit a team to sign a picture whose 196 00:13:54,115 --> 00:13:58,435 Speaker 1: entire success is based on holding the baseball indefinitely until 197 00:13:58,475 --> 00:14:02,555 Speaker 1: the batter gets disoriented. If they're installing a pitch clock 198 00:14:02,635 --> 00:14:05,595 Speaker 1: that will prevent him from doing that. Next and J 199 00:14:05,755 --> 00:14:09,195 Speaker 1: d Vance wants a national porn band, why that's bad 200 00:14:09,235 --> 00:14:12,475 Speaker 1: news for Ted Cruz. And for seven years it was 201 00:14:12,555 --> 00:14:16,915 Speaker 1: just a rumor, And then what glorious day he boasted 202 00:14:16,955 --> 00:14:22,515 Speaker 1: about it? The day Rupert Murdoch fired me personally and 203 00:14:22,555 --> 00:14:26,315 Speaker 1: then had to pay me a hundred thousand dollars a 204 00:14:26,355 --> 00:14:30,235 Speaker 1: month for eight months. That's next. I still have the money. 205 00:14:30,715 --> 00:14:41,595 Speaker 1: This discountdown. This is Countdown with Keith Olberman, my crazy friend. 206 00:14:45,315 --> 00:14:49,075 Speaker 1: Thanks still ahead. If the picture depends on stalling until 207 00:14:49,115 --> 00:14:52,595 Speaker 1: the batter is disoriented, why would you sign that picture 208 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:54,035 Speaker 1: for next year? If there's gonna be a new rule 209 00:14:54,075 --> 00:14:57,675 Speaker 1: giving him just fifteen seconds to throw a pitch. Plus No, 210 00:14:57,835 --> 00:14:59,875 Speaker 1: I have not been fired a lot, but yes, I 211 00:14:59,955 --> 00:15:04,635 Speaker 1: have been fired personally by Rupert Murdoch. First, in each 212 00:15:04,715 --> 00:15:06,715 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need you 213 00:15:06,755 --> 00:15:08,515 Speaker 1: can help. 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Pos Scripts to 233 00:16:16,435 --> 00:16:19,955 Speaker 1: the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some prediction, 234 00:16:19,995 --> 00:16:24,595 Speaker 1: state Line, Washington. The website TPM has obtained the two thousand, 235 00:16:24,715 --> 00:16:28,795 Speaker 1: three nineteen text messages that former Trump Chief of Staff 236 00:16:28,835 --> 00:16:31,955 Speaker 1: Mark Meadows turned over to the January sixth Committee. They 237 00:16:31,955 --> 00:16:36,555 Speaker 1: are parceling them out author by agonizing author and today 238 00:16:36,635 --> 00:16:39,835 Speaker 1: you do not want to be either Pennsylvania Congressman Scott 239 00:16:39,835 --> 00:16:43,875 Speaker 1: Perry or Arizona Congressman Andy Biggs. Not that either of 240 00:16:43,915 --> 00:16:46,435 Speaker 1: them was not already suspected in one or more of 241 00:16:46,475 --> 00:16:49,315 Speaker 1: the various Trump coup attempts, but in black and white 242 00:16:49,435 --> 00:16:53,395 Speaker 1: it is damning. A week after the election, Scott Perry 243 00:16:53,515 --> 00:16:56,595 Speaker 1: was trying to convince Meadows and thus convinced Trump to 244 00:16:56,835 --> 00:16:59,755 Speaker 1: seize all the voting machines in all the swing states, 245 00:17:00,155 --> 00:17:02,955 Speaker 1: and soon he was introducing Jeffrey Clark to both of 246 00:17:02,955 --> 00:17:05,275 Speaker 1: them in hopes of getting him named at Ernie General 247 00:17:05,355 --> 00:17:08,955 Speaker 1: so he could seize all the voting machines the texts. Meanwhile, 248 00:17:08,995 --> 00:17:13,315 Speaker 1: Thai Congressman Biggs completely into the fake Electors scheme. I 249 00:17:13,355 --> 00:17:17,515 Speaker 1: could not do justice to TPMs reporting or Josh Marshall's 250 00:17:17,555 --> 00:17:21,115 Speaker 1: analysis in a million episodes. So go and read what 251 00:17:21,195 --> 00:17:25,315 Speaker 1: they posted at TPM site dateline Nassaw prosecutors for the 252 00:17:25,315 --> 00:17:27,875 Speaker 1: Southern District of New York on the government of the Bahamas, 253 00:17:28,075 --> 00:17:32,395 Speaker 1: confirming earlier reports, Sam Bankman Freed has been arrested there 254 00:17:32,715 --> 00:17:38,555 Speaker 1: on criminal fraud charges after his FTX cryptocurrency exchange exchanged 255 00:17:38,715 --> 00:17:43,035 Speaker 1: eight billion dollars for a bag of magic beans. This 256 00:17:43,635 --> 00:18:11,075 Speaker 1: s BF protection was zero. Thank you, Nancy Faust. Dateline Moscow. 257 00:18:11,195 --> 00:18:13,395 Speaker 1: Yesterday should have been the day that Kremlin would announce 258 00:18:13,475 --> 00:18:17,355 Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin's annual marathon press conference, the one in which 259 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:20,515 Speaker 1: journalists dress up like audience members from the old game 260 00:18:20,515 --> 00:18:23,835 Speaker 1: show Let's make a Deal to toss the Russian dictator 261 00:18:23,955 --> 00:18:27,875 Speaker 1: pre screen softball questions while he drones on for four 262 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:32,275 Speaker 1: hours like well, bluntly, like Trump in a better suit. 263 00:18:32,715 --> 00:18:35,835 Speaker 1: A spokesman said he might hold it next month. Or 264 00:18:36,595 --> 00:18:38,555 Speaker 1: you know, why are you asking? Why don't you go 265 00:18:38,635 --> 00:18:51,035 Speaker 1: over there and stand here by this open window and 266 00:18:51,155 --> 00:19:08,675 Speaker 1: thank you again, Nancy Faust. This is Sports Center. Wait, 267 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:16,475 Speaker 1: check that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith Alberman 268 00:19:16,875 --> 00:19:20,515 Speaker 1: in Sports. Grant Wall's body was returned to this country 269 00:19:20,635 --> 00:19:24,635 Speaker 1: yesterday morning by JFK Airport in New York. The State 270 00:19:24,675 --> 00:19:28,875 Speaker 1: Department spokesman Ned Price had two relevant statements. First, there 271 00:19:28,915 --> 00:19:32,435 Speaker 1: will be a full autopsy conducted, obviously in this country. 272 00:19:32,715 --> 00:19:35,475 Speaker 1: And quoting Price, what I can also say is that 273 00:19:35,515 --> 00:19:38,035 Speaker 1: we have seen no indication of foul play or anything 274 00:19:38,075 --> 00:19:42,835 Speaker 1: nefarious at this point. We did receive excellent cooperation from 275 00:19:42,835 --> 00:19:46,355 Speaker 1: our Qatari partners. On the other hand, members of the 276 00:19:46,395 --> 00:19:51,395 Speaker 1: European Parliament, including reportedly the Vice President Eva Kyley, have 277 00:19:51,555 --> 00:19:54,915 Speaker 1: been arrested in Brussels as part of a massive investigation 278 00:19:54,995 --> 00:19:58,275 Speaker 1: and raids at sixteen properties in which six hundred thousand 279 00:19:58,355 --> 00:20:01,835 Speaker 1: euros in cash plus lots of other stuff were seized. 280 00:20:02,035 --> 00:20:05,275 Speaker 1: The allegation is bribery and the alleged bri Brewers are 281 00:20:06,595 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: the government of Qatar. Baseball's fleet market continues. Catcher Sean 282 00:20:11,355 --> 00:20:13,795 Speaker 1: Murphy goes from Oakland, which used to have a major 283 00:20:13,875 --> 00:20:16,875 Speaker 1: League team, to Atlanta in a three club swap that 284 00:20:16,915 --> 00:20:19,875 Speaker 1: also includes the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers get the d 285 00:20:20,035 --> 00:20:23,275 Speaker 1: h William Contreras, Oakland gets a handful of prospects that 286 00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:26,835 Speaker 1: they can trade away three or four years from now. 287 00:20:27,195 --> 00:20:30,435 Speaker 1: Free agent catcher Christian Vasquez leaves the Astros to sign 288 00:20:30,515 --> 00:20:33,915 Speaker 1: with Minnesota and the Toronto Blue Jays have reportedly signed 289 00:20:33,915 --> 00:20:36,915 Speaker 1: pitcher Chris Bassett away from the New York Mets three years, 290 00:20:36,915 --> 00:20:40,675 Speaker 1: sixty three million dollars. Considering metrics show Bassett was the 291 00:20:40,755 --> 00:20:43,515 Speaker 1: second most valuable pitcher on the Mets last season. That 292 00:20:43,715 --> 00:20:49,235 Speaker 1: sounds like a bargain, except Bassett has control and a 293 00:20:49,235 --> 00:20:52,115 Speaker 1: good fastball and some set up pitches. But the essential 294 00:20:52,155 --> 00:20:55,435 Speaker 1: key to his success is to throw off the timing 295 00:20:55,475 --> 00:20:59,595 Speaker 1: of hitters. By a very simple stratagem. He shakes off 296 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:04,595 Speaker 1: the pitch signal from his catcher again and again and again, 297 00:21:05,675 --> 00:21:07,955 Speaker 1: whether it is sent to him by the new electronic 298 00:21:07,995 --> 00:21:11,755 Speaker 1: pitch com system or the old Luddite method of finger waggling. 299 00:21:12,435 --> 00:21:15,795 Speaker 1: Bassett says no at least twice per at bat, and 300 00:21:15,875 --> 00:21:20,355 Speaker 1: some estimates are that he averages four headshakes and thus 301 00:21:20,435 --> 00:21:26,475 Speaker 1: four long delays per at bat. Again, so what next 302 00:21:26,555 --> 00:21:30,715 Speaker 1: season baseball is going to introduce a pitch clock. With 303 00:21:30,755 --> 00:21:34,035 Speaker 1: nobody on base, a picture will have only fifteen seconds 304 00:21:34,235 --> 00:21:36,755 Speaker 1: to begin his delivery of the next pitch, or it 305 00:21:36,835 --> 00:21:39,995 Speaker 1: is an automatic ball. When somebody is on base, he 306 00:21:40,035 --> 00:21:44,435 Speaker 1: gets twenty seconds. If it's between batters, he gets thirty seconds. 307 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:47,595 Speaker 1: You know how long Bassett is going to survive under 308 00:21:47,635 --> 00:21:51,195 Speaker 1: that kind of pressure, Well neither do I. But starting 309 00:21:51,195 --> 00:21:53,195 Speaker 1: next year, at least there'll be a guy at every 310 00:21:53,195 --> 00:21:55,795 Speaker 1: ball game with an official clock with which we can 311 00:21:55,835 --> 00:22:12,795 Speaker 1: all time him. I had. Many are fired, few are chosen. 312 00:22:12,915 --> 00:22:15,115 Speaker 1: For years, after Fox Sports got rid of me, the 313 00:22:15,155 --> 00:22:18,715 Speaker 1: rumors sworld that Rupert Murdoch had personally fired me because 314 00:22:18,755 --> 00:22:22,635 Speaker 1: I had had the nerve to completely follow his rules. 315 00:22:23,595 --> 00:22:25,915 Speaker 1: The real story. Next First, the daily round up of 316 00:22:25,955 --> 00:22:29,555 Speaker 1: the misgrants, morons, and Donning Krueger effect specimens who constitute 317 00:22:29,555 --> 00:22:35,675 Speaker 1: today's worse persons in the world. The bronze to Walter Hudson, 318 00:22:36,195 --> 00:22:39,355 Speaker 1: an African American man recently elected to the Minnesota House, 319 00:22:40,035 --> 00:22:43,195 Speaker 1: A survivor of the Tea Party Remember the Tea Party. 320 00:22:43,915 --> 00:22:47,475 Speaker 1: At a hearing of anti Max nut jobs, Mr Hudson 321 00:22:47,515 --> 00:22:52,315 Speaker 1: explained that health professionals or mere civilians who support vaccine 322 00:22:52,355 --> 00:22:59,835 Speaker 1: mandates are well slave owners. The plantation owner who said 323 00:23:00,235 --> 00:23:03,595 Speaker 1: I need cotton and you're gonna pick it is morally 324 00:23:03,635 --> 00:23:07,355 Speaker 1: equivalent to the person today who says, I don't want 325 00:23:07,355 --> 00:23:09,075 Speaker 1: to get six, so you have to take the jab. 326 00:23:10,595 --> 00:23:12,835 Speaker 1: I am placing it is it is, and I want 327 00:23:12,835 --> 00:23:18,035 Speaker 1: to be clear that I mean exactly what I just said. Okay, 328 00:23:18,275 --> 00:23:21,675 Speaker 1: it's not a gaff. I mean it. You are equivalent 329 00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:25,275 Speaker 1: to a plantation owner who enslaved black people and forced 330 00:23:25,315 --> 00:23:28,475 Speaker 1: them to work for you. If you, today, as a 331 00:23:28,515 --> 00:23:31,755 Speaker 1: medical professional or just a member of the populace, demand 332 00:23:31,915 --> 00:23:35,515 Speaker 1: that your neighbor take a vaccination to keep you safe, 333 00:23:37,955 --> 00:23:43,515 Speaker 1: let's see malnutrition, rape, torture, murder, physical labor until you died. Well, 334 00:23:43,555 --> 00:23:47,115 Speaker 1: that sounds the same as routine public health standards that 335 00:23:47,235 --> 00:23:51,915 Speaker 1: have saved mankind from scourges like polio and tetanus in smallpox. Yeah, 336 00:23:51,955 --> 00:23:55,355 Speaker 1: absolutely the same. Walter Hudson. By the way, if that 337 00:23:55,955 --> 00:24:02,955 Speaker 1: phony tone and the condescending cadence sounds familiar, Walter Hudson 338 00:24:02,995 --> 00:24:05,555 Speaker 1: has boasted that he listened to Rush limb Ba every day. 339 00:24:05,915 --> 00:24:09,555 Speaker 1: He is a Rush Limbaugh Coast player. I'm sure that 340 00:24:09,595 --> 00:24:13,395 Speaker 1: makes Russell Limba happy in hell. And this reminder, however, 341 00:24:13,435 --> 00:24:18,755 Speaker 1: they couch it and whosever voiced these Walter Hudson and 342 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:21,875 Speaker 1: the other baxtoniers are hiding the real truth that they're 343 00:24:21,875 --> 00:24:26,355 Speaker 1: simply afraid of the needles. The runner up, Shane Trejo, 344 00:24:26,555 --> 00:24:30,115 Speaker 1: the chairman of the Michigan eleventh Congressional District Republicans who 345 00:24:30,195 --> 00:24:35,235 Speaker 1: posts on social media under the really deceptive alias Sean Trujillo. 346 00:24:36,395 --> 00:24:39,995 Speaker 1: Oh God. Sheriffs are investigating what is believed to be 347 00:24:40,035 --> 00:24:45,275 Speaker 1: a threat by Shane Sean Treho Trujillo made on Facebook 348 00:24:45,315 --> 00:24:49,555 Speaker 1: towards the community supported Patmos Library and Jamestown Township, Michigan, 349 00:24:49,595 --> 00:24:52,195 Speaker 1: also in Michigan, but a hundred miles away from Shane 350 00:24:52,195 --> 00:24:56,195 Speaker 1: Shawn's home. The threat quote time to shut down the 351 00:24:56,275 --> 00:25:00,275 Speaker 1: library by force and then perhaps charts the people writing 352 00:25:00,315 --> 00:25:05,235 Speaker 1: these checks as accessories for child abuse. Mr Treo is 353 00:25:05,275 --> 00:25:09,195 Speaker 1: also previously supported white supremacist. He's already over social media 354 00:25:09,275 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: with that. He now claims that when he said shut 355 00:25:12,275 --> 00:25:15,155 Speaker 1: down the library by force, he meant force of law. 356 00:25:16,115 --> 00:25:18,395 Speaker 1: Unclear what he might be charged with, but they should 357 00:25:18,395 --> 00:25:21,555 Speaker 1: throw in a charge of a really bad elios but 358 00:25:21,635 --> 00:25:26,395 Speaker 1: our winner. Senator elect j D. Vance of Ohio. Vance 359 00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:31,875 Speaker 1: has reiterated his call for a national ban on pornography, 360 00:25:31,915 --> 00:25:34,035 Speaker 1: which I find hard to believe since it would send 361 00:25:34,035 --> 00:25:37,915 Speaker 1: everybody who makes a commercial for any Republican to jail. Plus, 362 00:25:37,915 --> 00:25:40,555 Speaker 1: this is gonna make for an interesting senatorial first meeting 363 00:25:40,555 --> 00:25:44,555 Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz of Texas, whose Twitter account was not 364 00:25:44,635 --> 00:25:49,195 Speaker 1: only caught liking a porn video on nine eleven, but 365 00:25:49,275 --> 00:25:52,675 Speaker 1: whose anti Marco Rubio ad during the two thousand sixteen 366 00:25:52,715 --> 00:25:57,715 Speaker 1: Republican primary season starred one Amy Lindsay. You may remember 367 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:02,435 Speaker 1: her from such movies as Sex Sent Me to the 368 00:26:02,875 --> 00:26:08,435 Speaker 1: R Deviant Wars and I don't know what these initials mean. 369 00:26:08,915 --> 00:26:15,435 Speaker 1: M I LF educational films, no doubt j D. It 370 00:26:15,555 --> 00:26:20,795 Speaker 1: does not stand for just DVDs vance two days, Worst 371 00:26:21,555 --> 00:26:37,115 Speaker 1: person in the worlds to the number one story on 372 00:26:37,115 --> 00:26:40,035 Speaker 1: the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things I 373 00:26:40,115 --> 00:26:44,955 Speaker 1: promised not to tell. Over the weekend watching hockey, I 374 00:26:44,995 --> 00:26:47,835 Speaker 1: had occasion to invoke my days hosting the Baseball Game 375 00:26:47,875 --> 00:26:49,795 Speaker 1: of the Week and the World Series for Fox, and 376 00:26:49,835 --> 00:26:53,235 Speaker 1: it reminded me of the delightful way that ended with 377 00:26:53,395 --> 00:26:55,475 Speaker 1: me being paid a hundred thousand dollars a month not 378 00:26:55,555 --> 00:26:58,955 Speaker 1: to do anything. I have changed jobs a lot, and 379 00:26:59,035 --> 00:27:03,035 Speaker 1: seldom have the departures included gold watches and going away parties, 380 00:27:03,755 --> 00:27:06,795 Speaker 1: at least not going away parties to which I was invited. 381 00:27:07,675 --> 00:27:10,635 Speaker 1: But in forty three years in radio and television, I 382 00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:13,955 Speaker 1: have only actually been fired in the traditional sense of 383 00:27:14,155 --> 00:27:18,315 Speaker 1: go clean out your desk and get out twice. Once 384 00:27:18,995 --> 00:27:21,595 Speaker 1: the order was from a drunken radio executive who did 385 00:27:21,635 --> 00:27:23,835 Speaker 1: not like the fact that I was twenty one years old, 386 00:27:24,395 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: and he was overruled, and he was sent home with 387 00:27:27,355 --> 00:27:30,795 Speaker 1: a warning by his bosses hours later, and I was 388 00:27:30,875 --> 00:27:34,595 Speaker 1: back on the job forty eight hours after that. The 389 00:27:34,675 --> 00:27:37,795 Speaker 1: other time, when it actually happened, You're fired, clean out 390 00:27:37,795 --> 00:27:41,435 Speaker 1: your desk. That was, unsurprisingly at the hands of Rupert 391 00:27:41,475 --> 00:27:45,675 Speaker 1: Murdoch and Fox, and I mean Rupert Murdoch personally, or 392 00:27:45,795 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 1: so he claims. When I finally convinced NBC News that 393 00:27:51,075 --> 00:27:54,275 Speaker 1: I was serious about no longer hosting its Monica Lewinsky 394 00:27:54,275 --> 00:27:58,715 Speaker 1: athon in the head of NBC Sports, Dick Ebersol had 395 00:27:58,755 --> 00:28:02,715 Speaker 1: an ingenious solution. He knew his friends at Fox Sports 396 00:28:03,115 --> 00:28:06,715 Speaker 1: longed to have me front their version of Sports Center, 397 00:28:07,235 --> 00:28:09,915 Speaker 1: and so he proposed the following NBC would give my 398 00:28:10,035 --> 00:28:14,195 Speaker 1: agent ten days in which to negotiate two deals. A 399 00:28:14,275 --> 00:28:16,675 Speaker 1: deal for me to go to l A and host 400 00:28:16,875 --> 00:28:21,675 Speaker 1: Fox Sports News and Major League Baseball on Fox, and 401 00:28:21,835 --> 00:28:25,795 Speaker 1: another deal in which Fox would pay NBC one million 402 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:33,035 Speaker 1: dollars for my contract, like I was a mediocre baseball pitcher. Amazingly, 403 00:28:33,875 --> 00:28:37,115 Speaker 1: it worked. I got what was then a record breaking 404 00:28:37,155 --> 00:28:41,115 Speaker 1: salary for any cable sportscaster ever, NBC got its million, 405 00:28:41,515 --> 00:28:44,595 Speaker 1: and maybe most startlingly, NBC then asked me to stay 406 00:28:44,635 --> 00:28:48,235 Speaker 1: on the air as a lane duck at MSNBC for 407 00:28:48,355 --> 00:28:53,835 Speaker 1: like six weeks. Curiously, throughout my career, no matter how 408 00:28:53,875 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: abrasive the exit, my lane duck employers have always for 409 00:28:57,955 --> 00:29:02,355 Speaker 1: some reason trusted me to stay on their air, even 410 00:29:02,355 --> 00:29:06,115 Speaker 1: though I was leaving in local news in Los Angeles 411 00:29:06,195 --> 00:29:11,555 Speaker 1: once I did this for three months. Anyway, At first, 412 00:29:11,915 --> 00:29:14,715 Speaker 1: going to work at Fox Sports was a delight. Their 413 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:18,275 Speaker 1: news guys, the evil Roger Ales and his henchman John Moody, 414 00:29:18,555 --> 00:29:21,235 Speaker 1: pitched me on doing stuff for them, maybe co anchoring 415 00:29:21,235 --> 00:29:27,235 Speaker 1: with Bill O'Reilly. I'm serious. I passed sports. We spent money, 416 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:30,315 Speaker 1: I worked with friends. I didn't have to talk about politics. 417 00:29:30,595 --> 00:29:34,355 Speaker 1: I could narrate highlights. I could do funny voices. White 418 00:29:34,355 --> 00:29:39,275 Speaker 1: downtown Bang I lived on the beach. I mean, my 419 00:29:39,355 --> 00:29:42,835 Speaker 1: next door neighbor was Hawaii. Every time there was a 420 00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:46,675 Speaker 1: newspaper story about ESPN, even though our ratings were terrible, 421 00:29:47,195 --> 00:29:49,555 Speaker 1: there was also my picture in it with a caption 422 00:29:49,635 --> 00:29:55,715 Speaker 1: like challenging ESPN. It was great. But then two things happened. 423 00:29:56,155 --> 00:29:59,315 Speaker 1: The Fox guy, who knew we needed five years at 424 00:29:59,435 --> 00:30:03,315 Speaker 1: minimum just to tie ESPN in the ratings, took me 425 00:30:03,355 --> 00:30:06,195 Speaker 1: to lunch one day and said, sorry, mate, Moll Mrs 426 00:30:06,275 --> 00:30:09,355 Speaker 1: is moving back to England tomorrow with without me, so 427 00:30:09,435 --> 00:30:13,795 Speaker 1: I'm going good luck. He was replaced by guys who 428 00:30:13,835 --> 00:30:17,475 Speaker 1: replaced the five year plan with a five week plan 429 00:30:17,995 --> 00:30:22,555 Speaker 1: to raise the ratings by literally one fifth of one point. 430 00:30:23,795 --> 00:30:26,515 Speaker 1: I left that meeting in which they explained their suicidal 431 00:30:26,555 --> 00:30:31,275 Speaker 1: plan and revealed that my salary represented an unsustainable of 432 00:30:31,315 --> 00:30:34,715 Speaker 1: their entire budget, and I called my real estate agent 433 00:30:35,195 --> 00:30:37,915 Speaker 1: and put my house on the beach up for sale. 434 00:30:39,235 --> 00:30:42,155 Speaker 1: Not long after, my doctor gave me a physical and 435 00:30:42,195 --> 00:30:45,395 Speaker 1: a warning cut back on work and stress and everything else, 436 00:30:45,795 --> 00:30:48,275 Speaker 1: or you can have a heart attack ten years from now. 437 00:30:49,275 --> 00:30:51,675 Speaker 1: I told my boss is this and their response was 438 00:30:52,115 --> 00:30:55,635 Speaker 1: to blackmail me. We have a clause in your contract 439 00:30:55,635 --> 00:30:57,595 Speaker 1: which allows us to send you on the road once 440 00:30:57,595 --> 00:31:00,355 Speaker 1: a week while you are still working five days in 441 00:31:00,395 --> 00:31:03,275 Speaker 1: the studio. We're going to enforce that unless you kick 442 00:31:03,355 --> 00:31:06,675 Speaker 1: back two thirds of your gallery. They put this in 443 00:31:06,715 --> 00:31:11,195 Speaker 1: a document. There are, as the kids say, receipts. So 444 00:31:12,955 --> 00:31:16,555 Speaker 1: I folded to blackmail, because two thirds of three million 445 00:31:16,595 --> 00:31:20,115 Speaker 1: dollars a year is still pretty good. But I kept 446 00:31:20,195 --> 00:31:23,435 Speaker 1: doing the job. I broke a story that everybody laughed 447 00:31:23,435 --> 00:31:26,155 Speaker 1: at that Michael Jordan was unhappy in retirement and he 448 00:31:26,195 --> 00:31:28,035 Speaker 1: wanted to come back to play in the NBA, but 449 00:31:28,075 --> 00:31:31,155 Speaker 1: instead of getting a salary, he wanted an ownership stake 450 00:31:31,235 --> 00:31:35,395 Speaker 1: in a team. Two years later, he did exactly that. 451 00:31:36,395 --> 00:31:38,515 Speaker 1: In two thousand, I got to host the first Mets 452 00:31:38,595 --> 00:31:41,675 Speaker 1: Yankees World Series, and hosting baseball every Saturday on Fox 453 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:44,355 Speaker 1: was a pretty good gig. And we were just gearing 454 00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:46,715 Speaker 1: up for the two thousand one baseball season when I 455 00:31:46,715 --> 00:31:50,355 Speaker 1: got a tip on April that the owners of the 456 00:31:50,395 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers had unofficially put their team up for sale, 457 00:31:54,795 --> 00:31:57,395 Speaker 1: and in fact, they were talking to the old owners, 458 00:31:57,435 --> 00:32:01,555 Speaker 1: the O'Malley family, about taking the Dodgers off their hands, 459 00:32:01,995 --> 00:32:06,235 Speaker 1: selling the Dodgers back to the sun of Walter O'Malley. 460 00:32:06,475 --> 00:32:09,595 Speaker 1: This was a great scoop, but it had great danger 461 00:32:09,915 --> 00:32:14,995 Speaker 1: because the owners of the Dodgers were Fox, my own employers. 462 00:32:16,755 --> 00:32:19,155 Speaker 1: The next day, after getting this scoop, I made about 463 00:32:19,155 --> 00:32:21,235 Speaker 1: a hundred phone calls, and sure enough I got the 464 00:32:21,235 --> 00:32:22,995 Speaker 1: friend of a friend of a friend of my agent 465 00:32:23,075 --> 00:32:26,035 Speaker 1: to confirm that he and his family were in preliminary 466 00:32:26,035 --> 00:32:30,395 Speaker 1: discussions joining the O'Malley's to buy the Dodgers from Fox 467 00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:34,435 Speaker 1: two sources great scoop, And that night I reached out 468 00:32:34,435 --> 00:32:36,275 Speaker 1: to my bosses and said, what the hell do we 469 00:32:36,355 --> 00:32:40,315 Speaker 1: do here? The story is solid, the Dodgers are for sale. 470 00:32:40,595 --> 00:32:44,035 Speaker 1: But look, this is your candy store, and I do 471 00:32:44,195 --> 00:32:46,075 Speaker 1: work for you, and if you don't want me to 472 00:32:46,075 --> 00:32:48,915 Speaker 1: report this, I'm obviously not going to report it, and 473 00:32:48,955 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pouch and I'm not going to give 474 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:54,715 Speaker 1: the story to somebody else. My boss is replied, good 475 00:32:54,755 --> 00:32:57,195 Speaker 1: for you. Why don't we all get on the phone 476 00:32:57,195 --> 00:33:00,675 Speaker 1: with the top Rupert Murdoch has his own personal news 477 00:33:00,755 --> 00:33:05,835 Speaker 1: Corps public relations department. Let's see what he says. So 478 00:33:05,915 --> 00:33:09,795 Speaker 1: on Sunday, April one, we got Murdoch's own PR guy 479 00:33:09,835 --> 00:33:12,155 Speaker 1: on the blower and I explained it to him. My 480 00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:14,955 Speaker 1: Mr Murdoch has a policy about this. He never interferes 481 00:33:14,955 --> 00:33:18,955 Speaker 1: in editorial decisions, not even in sourced business stories, not 482 00:33:19,115 --> 00:33:22,795 Speaker 1: even if they involve him. So long as you make 483 00:33:22,875 --> 00:33:25,955 Speaker 1: it clear your sources are not from within the company, 484 00:33:26,395 --> 00:33:29,235 Speaker 1: and so long as you're confident in your sources, and 485 00:33:29,315 --> 00:33:32,915 Speaker 1: so long as you include our denial, you should proceed 486 00:33:32,995 --> 00:33:35,475 Speaker 1: with this Dodger story. That is what we are paying 487 00:33:35,515 --> 00:33:41,435 Speaker 1: you for. For a brief moment, I thought maybe I 488 00:33:41,555 --> 00:33:45,395 Speaker 1: have misjudged Rupert Murdoch. Well, it turned out to be 489 00:33:45,475 --> 00:33:49,475 Speaker 1: a very brief moment and a very wrong moment. I 490 00:33:49,515 --> 00:33:55,315 Speaker 1: reported the story that night, howls of denials. Five days later, though, 491 00:33:55,355 --> 00:33:58,835 Speaker 1: the Long Beach Press Telegram newspaper had its own story said, 492 00:33:59,435 --> 00:34:03,835 Speaker 1: despite denials, Dodgers are for sale, with far more details 493 00:34:03,835 --> 00:34:06,875 Speaker 1: than I had, And that really was the end of it. 494 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:10,475 Speaker 1: The team was unofficially for sale. Dodger fans who hated 495 00:34:10,515 --> 00:34:12,835 Speaker 1: what Fox had done to the team seemed happy, and 496 00:34:12,875 --> 00:34:16,955 Speaker 1: the vast, stinking pile of burning excrement that was Fox 497 00:34:17,035 --> 00:34:23,115 Speaker 1: and News Corp. And Murdoch sailed on unperturbed. But twelve 498 00:34:23,195 --> 00:34:25,195 Speaker 1: days after that, just before I was getting in my 499 00:34:25,275 --> 00:34:28,035 Speaker 1: car to go to the first Fox Baseball meeting for 500 00:34:28,155 --> 00:34:32,075 Speaker 1: our two thousand one season coverage, the president of Fox Sports, 501 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:36,035 Speaker 1: yet another Aussie called David Hill, called my agent and 502 00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:39,275 Speaker 1: told her case not doing any baseball for us this year. 503 00:34:39,515 --> 00:34:46,435 Speaker 1: Business decision click end of conversation. Nothing else, no firing, 504 00:34:46,915 --> 00:34:49,595 Speaker 1: no get out, no clean out your desk, no announcement. 505 00:34:50,275 --> 00:34:53,275 Speaker 1: But then two days later they turned off my access 506 00:34:53,315 --> 00:34:56,035 Speaker 1: to the Fox computer system. And four days after that 507 00:34:56,115 --> 00:34:59,875 Speaker 1: they called and canceled my cable show. And then that 508 00:35:00,075 --> 00:35:03,235 Speaker 1: night I got two weird calls from Rich Sandymere, who 509 00:35:03,275 --> 00:35:06,395 Speaker 1: was the TV sports critic and TV sports business reporter 510 00:35:06,475 --> 00:35:09,355 Speaker 1: for the New York Times. And Rich asks me, so, 511 00:35:09,515 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: did you know you got fired by Rupert Murdoch personally? 512 00:35:13,115 --> 00:35:16,475 Speaker 1: And I said, with genuine astonishment that I not only 513 00:35:16,595 --> 00:35:20,395 Speaker 1: didn't know that, but even given my thoughts about Rupert Murdoch, 514 00:35:20,475 --> 00:35:23,435 Speaker 1: I didn't believe that. Now that's what my sources at 515 00:35:23,435 --> 00:35:26,595 Speaker 1: Fox tell me. Apparently your Dodger story really pissed him off. 516 00:35:26,635 --> 00:35:30,035 Speaker 1: But but really, and I said, I had cleared it 517 00:35:30,075 --> 00:35:33,355 Speaker 1: through his personal PR guy I don't know. Rich sandom 518 00:35:33,355 --> 00:35:35,875 Speaker 1: Here said apparently he was on vacation and he got 519 00:35:35,875 --> 00:35:38,235 Speaker 1: back like the ninth of this month, and he read 520 00:35:38,235 --> 00:35:40,715 Speaker 1: all these stories about the Dodgers being for sale and 521 00:35:40,755 --> 00:35:42,595 Speaker 1: how Fox Sports was the first to report it, and 522 00:35:42,635 --> 00:35:44,595 Speaker 1: he called up David Hill and and he told Hill 523 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:48,035 Speaker 1: to fire you immediately. So I told Rich, this is 524 00:35:48,075 --> 00:35:50,075 Speaker 1: the first I ever heard of this, and I still 525 00:35:50,195 --> 00:35:53,155 Speaker 1: don't believe it, even though the day he mentioned May 526 00:35:53,275 --> 00:35:56,395 Speaker 1: nine was the day David Hill had called my agent 527 00:35:56,395 --> 00:35:58,275 Speaker 1: and told her I would not be doing baseball for 528 00:35:58,315 --> 00:36:02,515 Speaker 1: Fox that year. An hour later, the phone rings again 529 00:36:02,555 --> 00:36:05,235 Speaker 1: and it's Rich Sandom here again, and he sounds shaken. 530 00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:07,795 Speaker 1: I got it wrong. I don't have any sources at 531 00:36:07,795 --> 00:36:10,955 Speaker 1: Fox who told me Rupert fired you personally. My source, 532 00:36:11,435 --> 00:36:14,475 Speaker 1: uh said that you were telling people Rupert had fired 533 00:36:14,515 --> 00:36:18,435 Speaker 1: you personally over the Dodger story. And I gave Rich 534 00:36:18,635 --> 00:36:23,515 Speaker 1: a sequence of well, kind of friendly uh huhs, and 535 00:36:23,555 --> 00:36:26,835 Speaker 1: I said, no, I didn't and know you've never been 536 00:36:26,915 --> 00:36:28,715 Speaker 1: dumb enough in your life to make the mistake you're 537 00:36:28,755 --> 00:36:31,195 Speaker 1: saying you just made. And he said, well, I never 538 00:36:31,275 --> 00:36:33,915 Speaker 1: said somebody at Fox said Murdoch fired you. Okay, thanks. 539 00:36:33,955 --> 00:36:37,635 Speaker 1: By the next day, they had me come into the 540 00:36:37,635 --> 00:36:40,915 Speaker 1: Fox building on Pico Boulevard and clean out my office 541 00:36:40,915 --> 00:36:43,875 Speaker 1: while a guard watched. And she was a really nice guard. 542 00:36:43,915 --> 00:36:46,955 Speaker 1: In fact, she brought donuts but a lovely way to 543 00:36:46,995 --> 00:36:50,035 Speaker 1: go out. As I packed, I thought more and more 544 00:36:50,075 --> 00:36:52,155 Speaker 1: of what had happened in the month since I had 545 00:36:52,155 --> 00:36:55,315 Speaker 1: gotten that tip about the Dodgers being for sale. As 546 00:36:55,355 --> 00:36:58,195 Speaker 1: I left the Fox lot for the last time as 547 00:36:58,195 --> 00:37:00,315 Speaker 1: an employee, I went back a couple of times to 548 00:37:00,355 --> 00:37:03,555 Speaker 1: attend the table reads for the Simpsons. Table reads for 549 00:37:03,595 --> 00:37:05,755 Speaker 1: the Simpsons were much more fund than being an employee 550 00:37:05,755 --> 00:37:08,395 Speaker 1: at Fox. I called a couple of reporters I knew, 551 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:10,715 Speaker 1: and my agent and some people in the business, and 552 00:37:10,715 --> 00:37:13,675 Speaker 1: we tried to put together a timeline that made some 553 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:17,835 Speaker 1: sort of sense. Because the slow motion firing thing. May ninth, 554 00:37:17,875 --> 00:37:20,915 Speaker 1: you're not doing baseball. May eleventh, your computer, it won't work. 555 00:37:21,155 --> 00:37:24,355 Speaker 1: May fift your cable show is canceled. May sixteenth, clean 556 00:37:24,355 --> 00:37:28,635 Speaker 1: out your office. A week long firing made no sense 557 00:37:29,435 --> 00:37:33,755 Speaker 1: until one reporter friend said, you know, Fox called me 558 00:37:33,755 --> 00:37:36,715 Speaker 1: and said, call Keith up and provoke him, get him 559 00:37:36,715 --> 00:37:39,835 Speaker 1: to call us names, tell him about this story in 560 00:37:39,875 --> 00:37:43,355 Speaker 1: that paper, calling him washed up, get him going. And 561 00:37:43,395 --> 00:37:46,595 Speaker 1: then it all clicked. My contract ran through the end 562 00:37:46,635 --> 00:37:50,035 Speaker 1: of the year two thousand one because Fox was firing 563 00:37:50,075 --> 00:37:52,715 Speaker 1: me without any cause or even claiming there was a cause, 564 00:37:52,795 --> 00:37:56,395 Speaker 1: without any violation of my contract or their rules. Because 565 00:37:56,435 --> 00:37:58,475 Speaker 1: I had left a trail of good behavior on the 566 00:37:58,515 --> 00:38:02,195 Speaker 1: Dodger story. They were trying to enrage me and get 567 00:38:02,235 --> 00:38:06,155 Speaker 1: me to say something nasty that itself would be a 568 00:38:06,235 --> 00:38:09,435 Speaker 1: violation of my contract, so they could outright fire me 569 00:38:09,555 --> 00:38:12,675 Speaker 1: and keep the money. And the money still on the 570 00:38:12,675 --> 00:38:17,915 Speaker 1: contract was about eight hundred thousand dollars. Now, after decades 571 00:38:17,995 --> 00:38:21,195 Speaker 1: of contemplating this, I am confident that I am no 572 00:38:21,395 --> 00:38:24,635 Speaker 1: crazier than the next guy, at least not the next 573 00:38:24,635 --> 00:38:30,035 Speaker 1: guy in television. But on my worst, craziest, least rational day, 574 00:38:30,035 --> 00:38:33,435 Speaker 1: if you said you have two choices, aldermen, you can 575 00:38:33,475 --> 00:38:35,715 Speaker 1: blow up these people who are firing you, and you 576 00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:38,235 Speaker 1: can make them look bad in a newspaper for a 577 00:38:38,475 --> 00:38:40,955 Speaker 1: day and then they'll fire you and keep all the 578 00:38:40,955 --> 00:38:44,355 Speaker 1: money they owe you. Or you can keep your big 579 00:38:44,435 --> 00:38:49,115 Speaker 1: bazoo shut for just seven months. You can keep the 580 00:38:49,235 --> 00:38:52,955 Speaker 1: eight hundred thousand dollars, and you can spend the summer 581 00:38:52,955 --> 00:38:55,235 Speaker 1: doing whatever the hell you want, and you can then 582 00:38:55,275 --> 00:38:58,835 Speaker 1: spend the rest of your natural life blowing these people up. 583 00:38:59,195 --> 00:39:03,955 Speaker 1: If that's the choice, I will always take the scenario 584 00:39:04,035 --> 00:39:07,515 Speaker 1: that gives me the eight hundred thousand dollars for doing nothing. 585 00:39:08,675 --> 00:39:14,195 Speaker 1: Always so. On January one, two thousand two, after the 586 00:39:14,275 --> 00:39:18,155 Speaker 1: last Fox check cleared, I began making a professional avocation 587 00:39:18,235 --> 00:39:24,635 Speaker 1: out of attacking Fox News, Fox Sports, Fox Business, Fox Murdoch, Fox, O'Reilly, Fox, 588 00:39:24,715 --> 00:39:29,715 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, whatever, and I got the eight hundred thousand dollars. 589 00:39:29,755 --> 00:39:32,875 Speaker 1: But they're lingered for years, this kind of academic question 590 00:39:32,915 --> 00:39:37,075 Speaker 1: of whether Rupert Murdoch had actually fired me for having 591 00:39:37,115 --> 00:39:42,275 Speaker 1: followed the rules set out by his own personal pr guy. 592 00:39:42,955 --> 00:39:46,795 Speaker 1: As usual, these things resolve themselves when you least expect 593 00:39:46,835 --> 00:39:50,195 Speaker 1: them to. Murdoch was speaking at a Dow Jones conference 594 00:39:50,235 --> 00:39:55,715 Speaker 1: in Carl's Bad, California, on May two thousand eight, seven 595 00:39:55,795 --> 00:39:58,035 Speaker 1: years to the month they got rid of me, and 596 00:39:58,075 --> 00:40:00,995 Speaker 1: a story came across the wire with my name on it. 597 00:40:01,595 --> 00:40:05,315 Speaker 1: The guy interviewing him at this conference talk about whether 598 00:40:05,315 --> 00:40:08,915 Speaker 1: there should be dissenting voices on Fox quote news unquote, 599 00:40:09,075 --> 00:40:12,275 Speaker 1: like that guy who was killing it on MSNBC Keith Alderman. 600 00:40:13,035 --> 00:40:17,515 Speaker 1: Now Murdoch barked, ah fired and five years ago he 601 00:40:17,835 --> 00:40:22,275 Speaker 1: was craggy, timing was off. But there it was Rupert 602 00:40:22,355 --> 00:40:27,075 Speaker 1: Murdoch confessing in front of a crowd that he fired 603 00:40:27,075 --> 00:40:32,435 Speaker 1: me personally, the red badge of courage in quotes. I 604 00:40:32,515 --> 00:40:34,235 Speaker 1: wondered if it still pissed him off that he had 605 00:40:34,275 --> 00:40:36,075 Speaker 1: to pay me the eight hundred thousand dollars when I 606 00:40:36,075 --> 00:40:40,755 Speaker 1: didn't take the grievance bait. Three years after that, Murdoch 607 00:40:40,955 --> 00:40:43,235 Speaker 1: said it again like I hadn't heard it the first time. 608 00:40:43,955 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: On February one, two thousand eleven, Rupert Murdoch was interviewed 609 00:40:48,115 --> 00:40:51,435 Speaker 1: by his business talking head Neil Cavuto, who for some 610 00:40:51,475 --> 00:40:54,555 Speaker 1: reason asked him if he would consider hiring me to 611 00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:58,195 Speaker 1: put me on Fox News. Now. We fired him once. 612 00:40:58,435 --> 00:41:03,475 Speaker 1: We don't believe in fign people. Twice, Cabudo replied, you 613 00:41:03,555 --> 00:41:05,795 Speaker 1: called him a nut lad. He was a nut on 614 00:41:06,675 --> 00:41:09,675 Speaker 1: we had him on late night Fox Sports. There was 615 00:41:09,715 --> 00:41:12,315 Speaker 1: never any such show called Late night Fox Sports. But 616 00:41:12,395 --> 00:41:16,075 Speaker 1: never mind, Rupe went on, It was impossible. I fired him. 617 00:41:16,315 --> 00:41:22,195 Speaker 1: He was crazy, fired me for following his rules, and 618 00:41:22,355 --> 00:41:28,075 Speaker 1: I was the one who was crazy. Finally, speaking of crazy, 619 00:41:28,435 --> 00:41:31,835 Speaker 1: I have had for sixty three nearly sixty four years now, 620 00:41:31,875 --> 00:41:36,155 Speaker 1: a love hate relationship with the name Keith. But did 621 00:41:36,195 --> 00:41:40,595 Speaker 1: you know that Rupert Murdoch's real first name is also Keith, 622 00:41:41,395 --> 00:41:46,355 Speaker 1: but that rather than call himself Keith, he voluntarily chooses 623 00:41:47,075 --> 00:41:52,875 Speaker 1: to call himself Rupert. I mean, sure, my name is Keith, 624 00:41:53,955 --> 00:42:14,475 Speaker 1: but at least my name ain't freaking Rupert. I mean, 625 00:42:14,475 --> 00:42:19,715 Speaker 1: who calls themselves Rupert? Who deliberately chooses to call themselves 626 00:42:19,715 --> 00:42:23,955 Speaker 1: are Rupert. My name's Rupert. I've done all the damage 627 00:42:23,995 --> 00:42:27,235 Speaker 1: I can do here to the name Rupert. Thank you 628 00:42:27,315 --> 00:42:30,515 Speaker 1: for listening. Please subscribe if you're not doing so already, 629 00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:33,635 Speaker 1: and tell somebody else to do so. Here are our credits. 630 00:42:33,635 --> 00:42:36,235 Speaker 1: Most of the music, including our theme from Beethoven's Ninth, 631 00:42:36,595 --> 00:42:39,355 Speaker 1: was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John 632 00:42:39,355 --> 00:42:42,955 Speaker 1: Philip Chanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. All orchestration 633 00:42:43,035 --> 00:42:46,715 Speaker 1: and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle, guitarist, bass and drums 634 00:42:46,715 --> 00:42:50,515 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, produced by t Ko Brothers. Other Beethoven 635 00:42:50,555 --> 00:42:53,475 Speaker 1: selections have been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. 636 00:42:53,955 --> 00:42:57,075 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two 637 00:42:57,515 --> 00:42:59,995 Speaker 1: and it was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears 638 00:42:59,995 --> 00:43:05,075 Speaker 1: courtesy of my friends at ESPN, Inc. Musical means from 639 00:43:05,155 --> 00:43:08,315 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. Our announcer 640 00:43:08,355 --> 00:43:13,755 Speaker 1: today was my ESPN friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was 641 00:43:13,755 --> 00:43:16,435 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this. The 642 00:43:16,475 --> 00:43:20,195 Speaker 1: seven and seventh day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup 643 00:43:20,195 --> 00:43:23,515 Speaker 1: against the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest 644 00:43:23,595 --> 00:43:27,515 Speaker 1: him now while we still can a new edition tomorrow. 645 00:43:27,675 --> 00:43:30,355 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, 646 00:43:30,915 --> 00:43:38,995 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman is a production 647 00:43:39,155 --> 00:43:42,795 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. 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