Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I
Speaker 1: think Vladimir Putin just sent Trump to not very carefully
Speaker 1: coded messages and to borrow the stylings of Vice President Harris.
Speaker 1: One began with the letter F and the other began
Speaker 1: with the letter you. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskoff, as I
Speaker 1: assume you know, has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Bob
Speaker 1: Woodward's book is right that Trump did send tests and
Speaker 1: testing machines early in the COVID Nightmare of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: to Putin, but quoting Peskoff, but about the phone calls,
Speaker 1: it's not true. Putin just outed Trump as a liar
Speaker 1: twice in different direcrections, confirming what he wanted, denied denying
Speaker 1: what he wanted. Confirmed on Tuesday, Trump's spokesmodel Stephen Chung
Speaker 1: insisted the report that in the window that must have
Speaker 1: been between March thirty first and May seventh, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: Trump took COVID tests meant for and desperately needed by
Speaker 1: Americans and sent them to Putin for Putin's personal use.
Speaker 1: He insisted that was just a story Woodward had made up.
Speaker 1: The Kremlin spokesman might as well have called the fatuous
Speaker 1: Chung a liar, and Trump with him. We thus know
Speaker 1: that Peskov's words also add to the logical extrapolation that
Speaker 1: somewhere an American must have died because Trump stole the
Speaker 1: test that might have saved him and diverted it instead
Speaker 1: to our greatest enemy in this world. The idea that
Speaker 1: it was just one American denied the test and denied
Speaker 1: his life that could have led to help that could
Speaker 1: have saved him. That thought is in fact Louter Chrisley
Speaker 1: small c Conservative at a time when ten thousand of
Speaker 1: US were dying per week because of Trump's utter mismanagement
Speaker 1: of and disinterest in the pandemic. Moscow's denial that Putin
Speaker 1: and Trump have spoken in the last four years, meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the estimate from Woodward's source was seven times, also paints
Speaker 1: Trump as a liar. It was Trump, after all, who
Speaker 1: insisted to the world in the debate with President Biden
Speaker 1: that he spoke to Putin about Ukraine after this nation's
Speaker 1: withdrawal from Afghanistan in August twenty twenty one, but before
Speaker 1: Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, it
Speaker 1: was Trump who name dropped Putin while ushering an aid
Speaker 1: out of his office at Merrik Krapshak earlier this year,
Speaker 1: according to Woodward, insisting he had to have a private
Speaker 1: call with the Russian dictator just to dig Trump's metaphorical
Speaker 1: grave on this a little deeper. Here comes j to
Speaker 1: the rescue of Trump's post presidency dialogue with Putin. Jd
Speaker 1: Vance says, quote, even if it's true, is there something
Speaker 1: wrong with speaking to world leaders? No? Is there anything
Speaker 1: wrong with engaging in diplomacy unquote Obviously not if you're
Speaker 1: a diplomat, if you are an elected official of the
Speaker 1: United States, if you are not violating the Logan Act
Speaker 1: by freelancing in international affairs, especially if you're contradicting American policy,
Speaker 1: which Trump not only confesses to daily but boasts about.
Speaker 1: Trump is not some sort of international statesman nor American
Speaker 1: spokesman at this point. He's a guy selling bibles on TV.
Speaker 1: But the Logan Act isn't the point here, and not
Speaker 1: just because it is a toothless law that has never
Speaker 1: resulted in a successful prosecution, and has not even resulted
Speaker 1: in an unsuccessful prosecution since the year eighteen fifty two.
Speaker 1: As Aaron Blake usefully notes in The Washington Post, throughout
Speaker 1: his time occupying the White House, Trump continuously accused Barack
Speaker 1: Obama's second term Secretary of State John Kerry of speaking
Speaker 1: to Iran and continuously insisted Carrie was breaking the law
Speaker 1: when he did so, and continuously pressured his own Department
Speaker 1: of Justice to prosecute Carrie. And while that DOJ managed
Speaker 1: to stall Trump, it did investigate Carrie while Trump and
Speaker 1: his dirigible Mike Pompeo kept up public pressure. In September
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, Pompeo said Carry was undermining US policy and
Speaker 1: he called it unseemly and unprecedented. Almost simultaneously, Trump wrote
Speaker 1: John Kerrey had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian regime.
Speaker 1: The next May, Trump said Carry should be prosecuted on that.
Speaker 1: In March twenty twenty, Trump literally accused Carrie of violating
Speaker 1: the Logan Act. So Trump says he's done the same
Speaker 1: thing he tried to get Trump prosecuted for, only with
Speaker 1: Vladimir Effing Putin, and Vance is vague about whether or
Speaker 1: not it happens, but says it would be fine if
Speaker 1: Trump has kept talking to the dictator and Putin's spokesman
Speaker 1: says it never happened, and Trump's minions deny he sent
Speaker 1: Putent COVID tests, and putin spokesman says, yeah, he did too.
Speaker 1: And this matters not only because it is added to
Speaker 1: that list of events that proves Trump has no connection
Speaker 1: to morality or reality or patriotism, but maybe more importantly,
Speaker 1: it really is a reminder in public from Putin to
Speaker 1: Trump as to who owns whom. Trump continuously drops Putin's
Speaker 1: name as if they are buddies. Who knows, maybe they
Speaker 1: met at mass murdering dictator night school, and he keeps
Speaker 1: doing it as if such references somehow helped Trump's image
Speaker 1: with thinking Americans. I think Putin, by confirming what Trump
Speaker 1: denied and denying what Trump can firmed, is reminding Trump
Speaker 1: you should only speak when you are spoken to. Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris has raised one billion dollars since becoming the Democratic
Speaker 1: presidential candidate. Is that a lot in retrospect? The corruption
Speaker 1: and cash before Citizens United was the good old days?
Speaker 1: But somebody is going to raise a billion dollars in
Speaker 1: just eighty one days if somebody is in position to
Speaker 1: buy the election with saturation advertising and get out the
Speaker 1: vote efforts. You want it to be your candidate billion
Speaker 1: dollars more than a billion in fact, per the New
Speaker 1: York Times sources, is more than Trump has raised in
Speaker 1: all of twenty twenty four. Harris's figure is just since
Speaker 1: the afternoon of July twenty first most fastest two polls
Speaker 1: of note yesterday you Gov for The Economist National closed Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Harris forty nine, Trump forty five. And that is with
Speaker 1: Trump's Stoog's, Stein and West in the mix, Harris by four.
Speaker 1: But far more interesting something done by a new polster
Speaker 1: called Blueprint for the website The Bulwark. It polled Republicans
Speaker 1: and independents who had supported Nikki Hayley, and Trump is
Speaker 1: only getting forty five percent of them, and Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is getting thirty six percent of them. Lemming's gonna Lemming,
Speaker 1: of course, But the interesting number here is that in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election, these same voters had gone for
Speaker 1: Trump by fifty nine to twenty eight. Trump won them
Speaker 1: the disaffected Republicans by thirty one points. In twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: he is winning them by just nine points. Now. Haley's
Speaker 1: support in the Republican primaries this year was twenty percent
Speaker 1: of the vote's cast, just under four million, four hundred
Speaker 1: thousand votes. If the polling numbers are correct, and this
Speaker 1: is obviously a vast oversimplification, I mean, the polling numbers
Speaker 1: don't even account for nearly a fifth of Haley's supporters
Speaker 1: who are apparently undecided. But if it's even vaguely correct,
Speaker 1: just for context, just for a ballpark figure, it would
Speaker 1: mean that out of four million, four hundred thousand Republicans
Speaker 1: and independents in this subset, Trump is only getting a
Speaker 1: net total of three hundred and twenty thousand votes out
Speaker 1: of four point four million. Any poll which suggests that
Speaker 1: more than one third of any subset of Republican voters
Speaker 1: is voting for Kamala Harris is not just an important poll,
Speaker 1: but a goddamned important poll. The other headlines Trump Again,
Speaker 1: Kitty kittied out of the second debate with Harris, and
Speaker 1: by the end of his social media post, he apparently
Speaker 1: thought he was writing some kind of business letter, because
Speaker 1: his last sentence reads, quote, thank you for your attention
Speaker 1: to this matter. I don't know Trump got laughed at
Speaker 1: on one podcast. Sure you heard that. It was like
Speaker 1: when it happened at the United Nations. He clearly convinced
Speaker 1: himself they were laughing with him. They were chanting boomp.
Speaker 1: On a different podcast, Trump claimed nine hundred million people
Speaker 1: saw his interview with Elon Musk. By next week it'll
Speaker 1: be nine hundred billion, or that may be what Musk claims.
Speaker 1: Rumors continue to fly that Leon really does think he
Speaker 1: can get into the white He parasitically that he will
Speaker 1: run the government while Trump is just the front man.
Speaker 1: You may have noticed by this point that I'm not
Speaker 1: particularly fond of Trump, but between the two of them,
Speaker 1: Trump is the smarter one. If Musk thinks that Trump
Speaker 1: will let him actually run anything. Also, it's been confirmed
Speaker 1: Trump's special Bibles the only ones that fit the head
Speaker 1: of the Oklahoma State school Boards requirement for the mandatory
Speaker 1: Bibles in public schools in Oklahoma. They are made in China, China.
Speaker 1: They cost three dollars to make and here your price,
Speaker 1: just fifty nine ninety nine. Those are the sort of
Speaker 1: things that eventually send people to jail and more evidence.
Speaker 1: That's funny now because it shows how stupid Trump is
Speaker 1: and how he never learns, not even from public heath amiliation,
Speaker 1: but is also ominous because at underscores his knee jerk
Speaker 1: reaction to criticism, which is to prosecute it. Trump again insisted,
Speaker 1: and I believe the first time he insisted it was
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, that television news organizations
Speaker 1: all have licenses and that the licenses can be revoked.
Speaker 1: This time it's sixty minutes and CBS, and as usual,
Speaker 1: it is as if he's heard the criticism of him
Speaker 1: somewhere in the background, in this case criticism of the
Speaker 1: same washing of his increasingly incoherent language, and assumed they
Speaker 1: couldn't be talking about him, they have to be talking
Speaker 1: about somebody else. Quote. I've never seen this before, but
Speaker 1: the producers of sixty minutes sliced and diced parentheses, cut
Speaker 1: and pasted Kamala's answers to questions which were virtually incoherent,
Speaker 1: over and over again, some by as many as four
Speaker 1: times in a single sentence or thought, all in an
Speaker 1: effort possibly illegal as part of the news division which
Speaker 1: must be licensed to make her look more presidential or
Speaker 1: at least better. It may also be a major campaign
Speaker 1: finance violation. This is a stain on the reputation of
Speaker 1: sixty minutes that is not recoverable. It will always remain
Speaker 1: with this one storied brand. I have never heard of
Speaker 1: such a thing being done in news. It is the
Speaker 1: very definition of fake news. The public is out of
Speaker 1: major in immediate apology, like a major apology, please and
Speaker 1: a major award. This is an open and shutcase and
Speaker 1: must be investigated starting today. That's the great sixty minutes
Speaker 1: brand that he backed out of the interview with. There
Speaker 1: are no news licenses. You don't need one. No license
Speaker 1: for your pet fish Eric either. One assumes this starts
Speaker 1: somewhere in the nineteen fifties when young, somewhat less crazy
Speaker 1: Donnie Trump finds out that individual television and radio stations
Speaker 1: are licensed by the government to operate over public airwaves.
Speaker 1: And since he never grows intellectually beyond that point, he
Speaker 1: thinks that the license's CBS owns to operate Channel two
Speaker 1: in New York and Channel two in LA and Channel
Speaker 1: sixty two in Detroit are somehow news licenses. But then again,
Speaker 1: if Trump actually understood what was happening, given the clumsiness
Speaker 1: of our nation in defending itself against him, we would
Speaker 1: be in real danger. Even in an America in which
Speaker 1: Trump's all too obvious affection for Hitler and the Nazis
Speaker 1: is actually exceeded by the psychoses of so many of
Speaker 1: his supporters, it would seem to be obvious that the
Speaker 1: last thing that even pro Nazi trumpest idiots would want
Speaker 1: to do would be to invoke February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 1: February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine was the day when at
Speaker 1: the previous Madison Square Garden at eighth Avenue and fiftieth Street,
Speaker 1: also nowhere near Madison Square, the German American Bund held
Speaker 1: a rally, and twenty thousand showed up for a thinly
Speaker 1: veiled American Nazi rally, complete with a giant image of
Speaker 1: George Washington surrounded by swastikas. The problem was, of course,
Speaker 1: that the event was so close to the media nerve
Speaker 1: centers of nineteen thirty nine that coverage was everywhere radio,
Speaker 1: every newsreel, every imaginable way of communicating the news, and
Speaker 1: much of the nation the next day became newly aware
Speaker 1: that there were twenty thousand Nazis in New York. More
Speaker 1: impressively was that part of the nation that did not
Speaker 1: become newly aware the garden was night surrounded by one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand anti Nazi protesters who three times nearly broke lines,
Speaker 1: manned by just under twenty five hundred police. As it was,
Speaker 1: the Nazi image in New York received fatal damage when
Speaker 1: a former Navy officer now Plumber's assistant named Isidore Greenbaum
Speaker 1: sneaked inside the garden and, able to contain his rage
Speaker 1: no longer, rushed the stage all by himself, him versus
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine Nazis who did
Speaker 1: not know what to do next, and after a few
Speaker 1: flailed punches at Greenbaum, a handful of police stopped all
Speaker 1: of them pulled Greenbaum out. He was uninjured and fined
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. With that as the history of pro
Speaker 1: fascism and pro despotism and pro Nazism in New York
Speaker 1: City at Madison Square Garden, what have Trump and Garden
Speaker 1: and New York Knicks and Rangers owner James Dolan Dunn,
Speaker 1: They have scheduled a Trump Nazi rally on October twenty
Speaker 1: seventh at Madison Square Garden. They hope to get twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people exactly as many as attended the German American
Speaker 1: bund Swastikafest on February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. The means
Speaker 1: of ticket distribution is unclear. If it is like previous
Speaker 1: Trump rallies, it could easily be sabotaged by phony registrations
Speaker 1: or even swamped by counter protesters who managed to fake
Speaker 1: their way inside. Apart from the impact on Dolan's sports teams,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a lot of authoritarian white trash
Speaker 1: running the hockey franchise, but I'm beginning to think the
Speaker 1: Knicks players may not be happy about sharing their building
Speaker 1: with the ever increasingly racist Trump. Apart from that, there
Speaker 1: is the second half of the nineteen thirty nine disaster
Speaker 1: that Trump and especially this idiot clown Dolan need to
Speaker 1: think about, and think about real hard, in time to
Speaker 1: cancel this thing before it is too late for them.
Speaker 1: Twenty thousand inside, with five times as many outside Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden waiting for them. Oh and compared to the
Speaker 1: old Madison Square Garden at eighth and fiftieth, the new
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden sitting atop Penn Station, has far more
Speaker 1: open room and space to stand around and wait in.
Speaker 1: And good luck to you James Dolan. Maybe he'll open
Speaker 1: for Trump by singing, and then most of the twenty
Speaker 1: thousand people will leave and there won't be trouble. By
Speaker 1: the way to clear up a previous point and make
Speaker 1: a new one with the same topic, Lemmings like Trump
Speaker 1: idiots showing up in the heart of Manhattan without thinking
Speaker 1: they may be out numbered five to one or worse,
Speaker 1: do not actually commit mass suicide. They do sometimes, it
Speaker 1: turns out, accidentally kill themselves in large numbers because their
Speaker 1: instinct to migrate in order to mate is so strong.
Speaker 1: To put it non scientifically, they sometimes don't look where
Speaker 1: they're going. There's a cliff. There's a cliff. Never mind.
Speaker 1: So the comp with Trump cultists still fits, just in
Speaker 1: a different way. Also of interest, here more news about
Speaker 1: another one of my axes. Nah, not that one, I know,
Speaker 1: not that one, the one between them, the one with
Speaker 1: the husband in trouble. Also, Jesse Bruno Waters and Steven
Speaker 1: Nosferatu Miller suggest men can attract the lady by wearing
Speaker 1: their Trump support on their sleeves. Maybe at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to give my main joke away, but
Speaker 1: it rhymes. Well. Here's coincidence, it rhymes with Deutschland, Deutschland
Speaker 1: uber ales. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown
Speaker 1: with Keith Alberman.
Speaker 2: This is Sports Senate. Wait, check that not anymore. This
Speaker 2: is countdown with Keith Alberman.
Speaker 1: From Sports Central centered newsdesk Tonight Dateline, New York, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. Lester Patrick Award for Service to Hockey in
Speaker 1: the United States No. Of America goes to Sam Rosen
Speaker 1: for being my first boss. I mean, I know that
Speaker 1: very few people besides Sam could have survived being my
Speaker 1: first boss. But still a major award for that. Oh. Actually,
Speaker 1: it goes to the individual who has done the most
Speaker 1: to grow hockey in this country, and Sam who has
Speaker 1: been the voice of the New York Rangers so long
Speaker 1: that when he was my first boss a mere forty
Speaker 1: five years ago, he had already been the backup play
Speaker 1: by play announcer for the Rangers for two years, got
Speaker 1: the TV job full time in nineteen eighty four and
Speaker 1: has been doing it ever since, and is scheduled to
Speaker 1: retire at the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'll believe that when I see it. Lester Patrick. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: who began playing big time hockey in nineteen oh four,
Speaker 1: helped start the sport on the West Coast and was
Speaker 1: the first coach of the Rangers in nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 1: Famous in Game two of the nineteen twenty eight Stanley
Speaker 1: Cup Finals, the Rangers goaltender was knocked cold by a
Speaker 1: shot and there were no backups in those days, so
Speaker 1: Lester Patrick, at age forty three and having never been
Speaker 1: a goalie in his life, donned the unconscious goalies uniform
Speaker 1: and played goal for the rest of the game. The
Speaker 1: Rangers won that game in overtime against the Montreal Maroons
Speaker 1: and then went on to win their first Stanley Cup. Coincidentally,
Speaker 1: Sam broadcast that legendary Lester Patrick game in nineteen twenty
Speaker 1: eight on radio, and Leicester was Sam's first color man
Speaker 1: with the range Wait. I think that No, that's that's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, sorry, Sam, That's that's a typo. I think
Speaker 1: it's a typo. Congratulations, Samola still ahead of us on
Speaker 1: this initiative countdown. Following this Tony da Koppel's story, It's CBS.
Speaker 1: He attacks an author during an interview and CBS News
Speaker 1: is ready to suspend him or fire him or something,
Speaker 1: and then the owner of CBS says no, I like
Speaker 1: the interview, and she talks to him directly, and the
Speaker 1: next thing you know, there's a recording of the meeting
Speaker 1: with his bosses yelling at him, and that goes public.
Speaker 1: And so everything over there at CBS News is an
Speaker 1: fing mess. You may know this, maybe you don't. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen it mentioned a lot. You know who Tony
Speaker 1: Diacoppel's wife is, right, well, yes, you're correct. The odds
Speaker 1: are six to five that whoever it is, it's one
Speaker 1: of my exes. And if you place that bet in
Speaker 1: this case, you won. Because he's married to Katie terror
Speaker 1: And when Katie Urr first asked me to write her
Speaker 1: Trump book for her, and when I said, we'd never
Speaker 1: get away with that, people would recognize how I wrote.
Speaker 1: When the book finally came out, she essentially erased me
Speaker 1: from it, and later told me she had done so
Speaker 1: so she would not anger her new husband, Tony Dakoppel. Honestly,
Speaker 1: if my exes continue to make this much news, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to assign them uniform numbers. The Katie book
Speaker 1: story coming up in More Things I Promised not to tell,
Speaker 1: should give them numbers number one hundred and seventy four. First,
Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The
Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Donning Kruger
Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute today's worst person in the world,
Speaker 1: the Brons. Maria Bartiromo the stupidest person in America. It's
Speaker 1: one thing to deny facts every day, to say up
Speaker 1: is down, to lie and propagandize and make Tokyo rows
Speaker 1: look like Edward Armoureau. To sell your soul for I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know what she gets out of it. Shoes,
Speaker 1: I don't know what she gets out of it. She's
Speaker 1: on Fox Business. It doesn't pay as well as the
Speaker 1: original Fox crack channel. I don't know what she gets
Speaker 1: out of it. But beyond all that, to get owned
Speaker 1: again and again on your own show by your own guests,
Speaker 1: even the ones from your own Nazi party who are
Speaker 1: supposed to be there helping you bullshit America day after day?
Speaker 1: How is she possible? Maria Bartiromo says, condescension dripping from
Speaker 1: her nose, that FEMA is out of money, reading a
Speaker 1: list of complaints against the administration off the teleprompter in
Speaker 1: front of her as her guest, The Republican Congressman French Hill,
Speaker 1: and what the f kind of name is that? Nods?
Speaker 1: She repeats, how is FEMA out of money? Which is
Speaker 1: when Congressman Hill snaps and Congressman Hill, a Republican, says
Speaker 1: FEMA is out of money. I can't show you this.
Speaker 1: This is a podcast and that's video. But Maria Bartiromo
Speaker 1: was so shocked by the unauthorized truth from french Hill
Speaker 1: that her eyes and eyebrows shot up so fast her
Speaker 1: fake eyelashes fell off. The runner up worser, Senator Marco Rubio.
Speaker 1: That's Mark Rubio, the Mitt Romney of Maria Bartiromo's. This
Speaker 1: is why spending the entirety of your wasted time in
Speaker 1: the Senate quietly sowing the seeds of doubt that anything
Speaker 1: a Democrat says could be true, that anything the federal
Speaker 1: government says must be a lie. Why that's going to
Speaker 1: wind up not just killing innocent people, but killing many
Speaker 1: of the people who voted for you. Last Friday, Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio responded to the government monthly employment data release by writing, quote,
Speaker 1: another fake jobs report out from the Biden Harris government today.
Speaker 1: All the fake numbers in the world aren't going to
Speaker 1: fool people. Unquote, I'm actually a US Senator, despite my
Speaker 1: behavior suggesting I'm something closer to a lunatic. When the
Speaker 1: President came back at Marco Rubio for lying like that,
Speaker 1: Rubio doubled down on his allegations that it was a
Speaker 1: fake jobs report out of the government. Then suddenly Marco
Speaker 1: Rubio's feed turned into please to Floridians to follow what
Speaker 1: the government says. Do what the government says. Follow government
Speaker 1: instructions to the letter. Get out of Florida. There's a hurricane, Well,
Speaker 1: why would they do that. On Friday, he's telling them
Speaker 1: the government lies to them all the time and all
Speaker 1: government information is fake. On Monday, he's telling them, well
Speaker 1: except for right now. Last April this torp Rubio issued
Speaker 1: a press release praising his own op ed at the
Speaker 1: Federalist site, which is itself devoted to telling everybody that
Speaker 1: the government is lying to them. The press release begins
Speaker 1: quote icee y am I. Rubio takes on elites for
Speaker 1: defending the deep state. Elites love the deep state because
Speaker 1: they loathe the American people. US Senator Marco Rubio are
Speaker 1: Florida that are for Rubio. It comes as no surprise
Speaker 1: that America is self proclaimed newspaper of record, is leading
Speaker 1: the charge to defend the deep state left wing elites.
Speaker 1: This is all the press release. Left wing elites want
Speaker 1: to protect the deep state because it shields them from
Speaker 1: accountability as they pursue their own agendas. That's four uses
Speaker 1: of the deep state and three different references to the
Speaker 1: elites at the start of his press release, and Rubio
Speaker 1: insisting to his constituents that those people the government loathe
Speaker 1: the American people quote unquote, but he thinks his voters
Speaker 1: will be smart enough to listen and do what the
Speaker 1: government says. Just about hurricanes, Marco, how smart could your
Speaker 1: constituents be, after all, they voted for you as a worser.
Speaker 1: Adjacent there's Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who insists all efforts
Speaker 1: to make new homes environmentally sound and all new construction
Speaker 1: more suited to the climate crisis, those are a Biden
Speaker 1: plot to raise prices so that Chinese can make more money.
Speaker 1: Now she's urging residents to evacuate, but she's still including
Speaker 1: her own psychosis in which she says that all of
Speaker 1: this is being done so FEMA can spend its money
Speaker 1: on immigrants also, Anna Paulina's real name is Meyerhoffer, right
Speaker 1: jorm Is Meyerhoffer, and her German grandfather was literally drafted
Speaker 1: into the Nazi air force, the Wehrmacht. But you're supposed
Speaker 1: to believe her and Rubio and the government now, not
Speaker 1: last week, and certainly not next week. It's funny, it's stupid.
Speaker 1: They are stupid. They could disappear tomorrow and nobody would
Speaker 1: know that Rubio or Ana Paulina Motherhoffer are gone. But
Speaker 1: there is tragedy in this and it will be too
Speaker 1: late to do anything about it when these idiots get
Speaker 1: some of their own constituents killed and still they're not
Speaker 1: the winners. The winners Stephen Nosferatu Miller from the Trump
Speaker 1: campaign and Jesse Eraser head Waters from the other Trump
Speaker 1: campaign Fox News Miller, who looks kind of like a
Speaker 1: flat Stanley, only more like he was made out of
Speaker 1: construction paper, and who genuinely resembles Max Shrek, the German
Speaker 1: actor who played Count Orlock in the silent film horror
Speaker 1: classic Nosferatu, a sympa of horror. You know, Miller all
Speaker 1: the parts of Trump's speeches that have sentences that each
Speaker 1: feature a noun a verb and a threat against minorities.
Speaker 1: Miller wrote those. Miller comes on Waters show, and if
Speaker 1: you're looking for an entertainment comp for him, Waters is
Speaker 1: the great Eugene Levy as Doctor Tungue's assistant Bruno in SCTV.
Speaker 1: You know, John Candy is Doctor Tungue in Doctor Tungue's
Speaker 1: Three D House of Cats, in Doctor Tongue's three D
Speaker 1: House of Stewardesses and Doctor Tungue's three the House of Pancakes.
Speaker 1: His assistant in this Eugene Levy is Bruno. That's who
Speaker 1: Waters looks like. All right, So preamble mercifully over and
Speaker 1: scene set. Miller comes on and Waters greets him with
Speaker 1: this quote. We have to address the elephant of the room.
Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of texts from women about Steven Miller.
Speaker 1: Our audience believes you are some sort of sexual matador. Quota, Wait,
Speaker 1: some sort of sexual matador? You mean a bowld gorge
Speaker 1: Stephen Miller in the genitals. Anyway, Steven Miller is loving
Speaker 1: this because both of these men are very, very odd,
Speaker 1: and I don't know about their personal lives, and I
Speaker 1: don't care about their personal lives, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to know about their personal lives. But if you are
Speaker 1: looking for people about whom you will someday hear, nobody
Speaker 1: in our family knew anything about his so called hobby.
Speaker 1: These are two first round draft choices for you, Miller
Speaker 1: and Waters. Anyway, so Water says this about sexual matadors,
Speaker 1: and Steven Miller, almost drooling, replies to Jesse Waters some
Speaker 1: advice to any young man out there. If you are
Speaker 1: a young man who is looking to impress the Laneys,
Speaker 1: to be the alpha, to be attractive, the best thing
Speaker 1: you can do is where your Trump support on your sleeve.
Speaker 1: Show that you are a real man, Show that you
Speaker 1: are not a betta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter,
Speaker 1: and your dating life will be fantastic. And yes, he
Speaker 1: pronounced it as beta, as in better get a bucket,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw up. But setting that aside for a moment,
Speaker 1: let's reexamine Steven Miller's answer there where your Trump support
Speaker 1: on your sleeve? Let's see what is it that the
Speaker 1: fascists and the Trumpists and the Republicans and the original
Speaker 1: Nazis would wear on their sleeves to show their support
Speaker 1: for their fewer oh right. Red armbands with Swatsikas Jesse.
Speaker 1: I like matadors, they wear tight pants. Waters and Stephen,
Speaker 1: there your Trump support on your sleeve. The armband goes
Speaker 1: with any attire. Miller two Days Worst Persons in the World.
Speaker 1: On January twenty second, twenty seventeen, Katie Urr of MSNBC
Speaker 1: asked me to write her Trump book for her. She
Speaker 1: was serious, and there are receipts. I'll get back to
Speaker 1: the bookstory, but first, Since last spring, when her second
Speaker 1: book came out, I have read story after story that
Speaker 1: boiled down to one of the headlines I read that
Speaker 1: was Katie Terr's relationship with Keith Olberman haunted her. Now,
Speaker 1: the articles have not been overtly negative, except in a
Speaker 1: passive aggressive sense, although try out that headline on yourself
Speaker 1: there and see if you like to be described as
Speaker 1: haunting someone. But she wrote a book claiming that many experiences, somehow,
Speaker 1: including the time she lived with me, hurt and slowed
Speaker 1: and limited her career. So all this time I have
Speaker 1: remained silent about the nearly three years she and I
Speaker 1: lived together and the eight years after that, during which
Speaker 1: I remained her good and loyal friend. And I have
Speaker 1: remained silent even though the day she moved into my
Speaker 1: place in New York, she expected a New York TV
Speaker 1: station would hire her with no experience and no audition tape.
Speaker 1: And I have remained silent about how her father, whom
Speaker 1: she has never stopped trashing, sent her ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: worth of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started.
Speaker 1: And I have remained silent about how I pushed her
Speaker 1: to not just sit there staring at all that equipment
Speaker 1: her dad sent, but to use it to go cover
Speaker 1: stories so she could at least make a tape. And
Speaker 1: I have remained silent even though once she didn't like
Speaker 1: something I told her and she immediately said she was
Speaker 1: thinking of calling the New York Post gossip page and
Speaker 1: telling them terrible things about me. And I have remained
Speaker 1: silent that after I asked her to move out, I
Speaker 1: paid her rent at a new apartment for a year
Speaker 1: so she could keep working and living in New York.
Speaker 1: And I have remained silent even though I paid off
Speaker 1: her college loans, and when she complained that every time
Speaker 1: you googled her name, you've also got my name. I
Speaker 1: loaned her the money to hire a company that altered
Speaker 1: her Google results, and I have remained silent, even though
Speaker 1: I introduced her to her first agent and to all
Speaker 1: the people who hired her at News twelve and WPIX
Speaker 1: and WNBC and NBC News. And I have remained silent,
Speaker 1: even though when she happened to be assigned to Trump's
Speaker 1: campaign announcement and Trump knew who she was because when
Speaker 1: we lived together, it was in one of these Trump
Speaker 1: buildings here and she got to do the last great
Speaker 1: actual interview with him, and NBC promptly offered her the
Speaker 1: chance to be its reporter on his campaign. She called
Speaker 1: me and said, no, I'm going back to London. I
Speaker 1: don't like politics. You know that I was the one
Speaker 1: who told her she was nuts and this wasn't politics,
Speaker 1: dark terrible history in progress, and she sighed and said, fine, okay,
Speaker 1: send me some books about it. And I have remained silent,
Speaker 1: even though she sent me nearly all of her scripts
Speaker 1: for her NBC News stories, including her Trump campaign coverage
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, and I edited nearly every one of them,
Speaker 1: and several times I had to completely rewrite them for her.
Speaker 1: And I have remained silent even though when her father
Speaker 1: announced he was transitioning. The friend she called up in
Speaker 1: hysterics was me, and I have remained silent, even though
Speaker 1: she twice lied to reporters and editors at The New
Speaker 1: York Times and The Washington Post, telling them she had
Speaker 1: asked me on their behalf to do interviews with them
Speaker 1: about her. And I have remained silent, even though she
Speaker 1: lied to them that I had declined the interviews. And
Speaker 1: I have remained silent even those six days after my
Speaker 1: emergency appendectomy in two thousand and seven, she started punching
Speaker 1: and slapping me with real intent to do harm because
Speaker 1: the living room wasn't clean enough in our place, And
Speaker 1: exactly do you even try to defend yourself against a
Speaker 1: woman one hundred and twenty five pounds lighter and a
Speaker 1: foot shorter than you. So yesterday I'm reading stories about
Speaker 1: her husband getting a massectomy, and I'm sitting there waiting
Speaker 1: to see how she managed to make this one my fault.
Speaker 1: When Katie's first book came out, she reduced our entire
Speaker 1: history to a throwaway anecdote defending Kelly Ann Conway. The
Speaker 1: story described me as somebody she had dated briefly in
Speaker 1: her twenties. After the book came out and frankly and calmly,
Speaker 1: I don't know for certain who wrote her first book.
Speaker 1: I mean, people who can't write suddenly can find their muse.
Speaker 1: It's possible she wrote it and her other books too.
Speaker 1: But after the first book came out that dismissed three
Speaker 1: or years of our shared life as dating briefly in
Speaker 1: her twenties, I told her she had been awful to me,
Speaker 1: and she replied, I'm sorry. You're right, I'm a terrible person,
Speaker 1: and it is the last thing we discussed. I told
Speaker 1: her I would not communicate with her again, and I
Speaker 1: have not, nor have I spoken about her publicly. But
Speaker 1: I do keep wondering about that book. I still have
Speaker 1: a text from her from nine to fourteen PM on
Speaker 1: December eleventh, twenty sixteen, after she had signed her contract
Speaker 1: for her book, which became unbelievable an ironic title. It reads,
Speaker 1: do you still want to share your Trump doc with me? Doc? Here?
Speaker 1: Meaning my trove of documents, my hundreds of pages of
Speaker 1: Trump notes that I had kept for use in my
Speaker 1: GQ video series. And I joked back, sure, how much?
Speaker 1: And she joked back ten twenty dollars and I emailed
Speaker 1: it all to her for free that night, with only
Speaker 1: one request, don't leave me out of your acknowledgments in
Speaker 1: the book. And guess what, she left me out of
Speaker 1: the acknowledgments in the book too. More than a month later,
Speaker 1: at two thirty five pm on Sunday, January twenty second,
Speaker 1: I had just returned home from Los Angeles and doing
Speaker 1: Bill Maher's show, and Katie Turr text me about why
Speaker 1: they had never invited her on, and then she switched
Speaker 1: topics to ask quote, want to write this book. I
Speaker 1: had taken a nap, so it was not until five
Speaker 1: thirty two that I replied, what, Well, you're not serious,
Speaker 1: how would that work? That's when she phoned. She was
Speaker 1: about to give the advance money back to the publisher.
Speaker 1: She said, I can't write a book. I'm like fifty
Speaker 1: thousand words short and it's terrible. I'll give you half
Speaker 1: the money. I'll give you more than half the money.
Speaker 1: I pointed out to her that I had written or
Speaker 1: rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC,
Speaker 1: and it was not a question of money. It was
Speaker 1: a question of what we could get away with no
Speaker 1: viewer and maybe only one executive in a million whatever.
Speaker 1: Notice that one sentence or one paragraph of script in
Speaker 1: her two minute report was actually written by me. First
Speaker 1: of all, she was the one saying it each time
Speaker 1: I wrote or rewrote in her name for NBC. It
Speaker 1: was a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody
Speaker 1: would ever think to look for, even though there is
Speaker 1: necessarily an email trail ten miles long. But writing a
Speaker 1: book for her about Trump in my writing style, not
Speaker 1: read aloud by her, but in print, I have a
Speaker 1: pretty distinct writing style which I don't think I could
Speaker 1: ever sufficiently hide for more than about seventeen words at
Speaker 1: a stretch. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might cancel it
Speaker 1: or even sue, or if it got published, NBC might
Speaker 1: notice it and fire her. It was not just a
Speaker 1: bad idea for her and very dubious ethically, but it
Speaker 1: stood an excellent chance of destroying her career and damaging mine. Maybe.
Speaker 1: She said, Okay, you're right, And she told me she
Speaker 1: was going to talk it over with her boyfriend Tony
Speaker 1: from CBS that night, and her thought was to give
Speaker 1: back the advance and cancel the book. And I said ghostwriter, maybe,
Speaker 1: And she said, like who? And I said I had
Speaker 1: no idea. I tried to joke her out of these
Speaker 1: grim prospects by reminding her that at least for the
Speaker 1: several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, I
Speaker 1: had cut the price to no dollars and no cents.
Speaker 1: And anyway, the next thing I knew the book was published.
Speaker 1: There isn't a paragraph of it that reads like the
Speaker 1: rest of her writing, and I get reduced in it
Speaker 1: from the guy she lived with for three years who
Speaker 1: started her career, to somebody she dated briefly in her twenties,
Speaker 1: and the dark half of an anecdote defending Kelly Ann
Speaker 1: freaking con job. I will say, I think the things
Speaker 1: I glossed over before about the New York Times and
Speaker 1: Washington Post were genuinely deplorable. The thing about the Post. First,
Speaker 1: a Washington Post reporter I'd known for more than a
Speaker 1: decade named Paul Farhee called me up and asked me
Speaker 1: to do an interview with him about Katie. And I
Speaker 1: had my doubts, As I said to Paul, this is
Speaker 1: at least a little sexist. When I broke through at
Speaker 1: MSNBC in nineteen ninety eight, nobody called up one of
Speaker 1: my girlfriends, even the ones in the business, to ask
Speaker 1: one of them about me. This was an unfair gradient
Speaker 1: for her or any woman that the first thing a
Speaker 1: reporter or just somebody googling her brought up or found
Speaker 1: was her boyfriend or ex boyfriend, especially me. It is
Speaker 1: utter misogyny. In fact, on the other hand, there could
Speaker 1: be a calculation in which it is useful to Katie
Speaker 1: if I do the interview and amplify the publicity. It
Speaker 1: is also one of the things I had warned her
Speaker 1: about literally the day we started dating, and in fact
Speaker 1: I reminded her of it the night of the first
Speaker 1: real date at an Al Gore book event at the
Speaker 1: Museum of Natural History in New York in the whale room.
Speaker 1: Sure enough, I went from the whale room to the
Speaker 1: men's room for a moment. While I was out, an
Speaker 1: online gossip clown who had been following us around went
Speaker 1: over and pretended he knew her or something. And when
Speaker 1: I got back, she was bubbling over telling me she'd
Speaker 1: met a friend of a friend and told him all
Speaker 1: about us. And I asked if she had remembered my warning,
Speaker 1: and she obviously had not. And quote Katie Turr, new
Speaker 1: girlfriend of Keith Olderman was online before we got home,
Speaker 1: so when she found there was a way to scrub
Speaker 1: your Google searches so every time somebody plugged in her name,
Speaker 1: they would not also get Keith Olderman's girlfriend or Keith
Speaker 1: Olderman's ex girlfriend. As I said, I helped her pay
Speaker 1: to use that service. I get it. The sexism prevails.
Speaker 1: Maybe it'll go away someday, maybe it won't. So anyway,
Speaker 1: when Farhee of the Post called me up, I called Katie.
Speaker 1: She said she thought it was sexist, and anyway, she
Speaker 1: wasn't participating with the Post's story on her, and it
Speaker 1: would really help if I did not do so either.
Speaker 1: So I declined the interview, and a week later there
Speaker 1: in the Washington Post was a big feature on Katie
Speaker 1: to her because guess what, she did participate with it
Speaker 1: after all, complete interview and worst yet, she told Farhee
Speaker 1: that she had encouraged me to do the interview with him,
Speaker 1: so he put it in the paper that I declined
Speaker 1: to be interviewed, so I looked like an idiot. And
Speaker 1: another thing, I'm not mad, Please don't put in the
Speaker 1: newspaper that I got mad. I called her up and
Speaker 1: I yelled at her, and she apologized, and she promised
Speaker 1: she would not do anything like that ever again, and
Speaker 1: then she promptly did something even worse. A month or
Speaker 1: two later, the New York Times article comes out. It
Speaker 1: is a huge profile of her, I think in the
Speaker 1: magazine or a weekend edition, and in it, mister Olberman
Speaker 1: refused to be interviewed for this story. This is a
Speaker 1: complete surprise to me. I didn't even recognize the writer's name.
Speaker 1: I found her contact info and I reached out to
Speaker 1: her and said, have we ever spoken? And she says no,
Speaker 1: And I say emails texts, and she says no. And
Speaker 1: then I say, then, when did I refuse to be
Speaker 1: interviewed for your Katie Turr article for the New York Times.
Speaker 1: And she says, oh, I asked Katie Turr to ask you,
Speaker 1: and Katie Turr asked you, and you told Katie Terr
Speaker 1: you refused to be interviewed. And I said, none of
Speaker 1: that happened. And there is a long silence on the
Speaker 1: end of the phone, and then the writer says, let
Speaker 1: me call the editor to take that part out. And
Speaker 1: the Times changed the online version of why I didn't
Speaker 1: do the interview, although they do not note that they
Speaker 1: changed it, and I later got a note from a
Speaker 1: Times editor apologizing she just lied to this reporter from
Speaker 1: the Times. Just lied. Oh, I'll call him and ask oh,
Speaker 1: he told me he doesn't want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about me. Just lied. And I just sat there, and
Speaker 1: I know, very unlike me, I have to say, I
Speaker 1: was actually too angry to do anything anyway. As I mentioned,
Speaker 1: Katie Turr published another book this year, and a lot
Speaker 1: of the publicity was about how I haunted her and
Speaker 1: she had to go to great lengths to separate her
Speaker 1: career from mine, even as she keeps mentioning me, and
Speaker 1: even though she asked me in dead seriousness to write
Speaker 1: the first book for her. The book, the second one,
Speaker 1: is mostly about all the impediments and roadblocks she has faced,
Speaker 1: while what's the word forging her career? But I will
Speaker 1: add this last point and then drop the subject. I
Speaker 1: hope forever. For forty three years full time, I have
Speaker 1: done this and counting college, it's God help me forty
Speaker 1: seven years. And throughout that stretch, I have tried to
Speaker 1: acknowledge anybody and everybody who helped me in my career,
Speaker 1: even the ones I don't like, even people who are
Speaker 1: totally utterly politically opposed to me. I still think fondly
Speaker 1: of Stuart Varney from Fox News, because he taught me,
Speaker 1: when I was right up against it one night, how
Speaker 1: to use a teleprompter. I'll always cherish the memory of
Speaker 1: working with Stuart Varney. He was such a help to me. Politically,
Speaker 1: we could have a duel, but of course, as I said,
Speaker 1: the dynamic is different. Still, her book is about people
Speaker 1: who hindered her, and almost none of it is about
Speaker 1: people who helped her. She is rapidly turning into a
Speaker 1: kind of professional martyrdom. I saw this in its earliest
Speaker 1: stages sixteen years ago, and she is now going from
Speaker 1: making it martyrdom into a brand. And I'll say this
Speaker 1: lastly and sincerely. If your story of your career is
Speaker 1: all about people you think held you back, and not
Speaker 1: even mostly about the people who bent over backwards to
Speaker 1: help you along, that is all just very very sad. Okay,
Speaker 1: I just have to say this. For like three weeks
Speaker 1: it was Olivia Week. For the last week it's been
Speaker 1: Katie Week. Are we going to have another week of
Speaker 1: Katie Week? One of the lawyers coming back in the
Speaker 1: Olivia case Is the FBI going to get involved? Is
Speaker 1: the FBI going to get involved in the Katie case?
Speaker 1: Are they going to be the same agents? Will I
Speaker 1: know any of them? Because they had something to do
Speaker 1: with my fake anthrax sender who sent me antracks when
Speaker 1: Katie was living with me from California. Wait a minute, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just had to vent that. You date a lot.
Speaker 1: This is what happens. And I didn't even have to
Speaker 1: wear my Trump support on my sleeve like Stephen Miller
Speaker 1: if that is your real name. I've done all the
Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. No, Anna,
Speaker 1: Paulina Luna's grandfather really was a Nazi Wehrmacht remember drafted. Nevertheless, Plea,
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here, Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week,
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Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars,
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Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best
Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is
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Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed in My announcer today
Speaker 1: was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything out U was pretty
Speaker 1: much my fault or that of one of my ex girlfriends.
Speaker 1: That's countdown for today. Three weeks and five days until
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty fourth presidential election, the three and seventy
Speaker 1: fourth day since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted
Speaker 1: coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
Speaker 1: Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity.
Speaker 1: If you have to President Biden to keep him, I'm
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