1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:25,315 --> 00:00:31,715 Speaker 1: calls America stupid. I'll get to his delusional Iran's speech 3 00:00:31,835 --> 00:00:34,315 Speaker 1: last night in a moment, but honest to God, forgive 4 00:00:34,355 --> 00:00:37,395 Speaker 1: the ego just this once, but everybody else is burying 5 00:00:37,435 --> 00:00:44,755 Speaker 1: the lead. Trump called America stupid after the birthright citizenship 6 00:00:44,915 --> 00:00:47,915 Speaker 1: oral arguments at the Supreme Court. He called America stupid. 7 00:00:49,235 --> 00:00:52,075 Speaker 1: He didn't call the Supreme Court stupid, not the Constitution, 8 00:00:52,275 --> 00:00:56,355 Speaker 1: not John Roberts, not the immigrants, not the Democrats, America, 9 00:00:56,995 --> 00:01:02,475 Speaker 1: You and me and Christy Nomes's husband and everybody else, 10 00:01:02,515 --> 00:01:06,275 Speaker 1: all of us, the whole country stupid. Quote. We are 11 00:01:06,355 --> 00:01:10,915 Speaker 1: the only country in the world stupid enough to allow 12 00:01:11,355 --> 00:01:19,795 Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. Seriously, asshole, for better or for worse, you 13 00:01:19,875 --> 00:01:22,915 Speaker 1: are the president of this country, president of the United 14 00:01:22,955 --> 00:01:25,915 Speaker 1: States of America, and you just called the United States 15 00:01:25,955 --> 00:01:32,915 Speaker 1: of America stupid. You are a disloyal, deranged, dying moron 16 00:01:32,995 --> 00:01:36,595 Speaker 1: with a melting brain who just said he thinks library 17 00:01:36,795 --> 00:01:40,835 Speaker 1: is just another word for hotel, And we're stupid. You 18 00:01:40,915 --> 00:01:43,635 Speaker 1: make a fool out of yourself and this country on 19 00:01:43,715 --> 00:01:47,835 Speaker 1: an hourly basis, and we're stupid. With the words, and 20 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:50,635 Speaker 1: the stories you make up, and the tests they have 21 00:01:50,675 --> 00:01:53,075 Speaker 1: to keep giving you to make sure your brain hasn't 22 00:01:53,115 --> 00:01:58,555 Speaker 1: completely melted yet. If you you greasy makeup slathered torp 23 00:01:59,715 --> 00:02:02,875 Speaker 1: which one of us went to the Supreme Court with 24 00:02:03,075 --> 00:02:06,875 Speaker 1: three justices on it you or us appointed and had 25 00:02:06,875 --> 00:02:09,395 Speaker 1: to watch them kick the living shit out of your 26 00:02:09,555 --> 00:02:13,075 Speaker 1: solicitor general or was it our solicitor general? Which one 27 00:02:13,155 --> 00:02:19,235 Speaker 1: you or us? The audacity the imbecility of this semi 28 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:24,955 Speaker 1: alive bastard to use that word stupid about this country. 29 00:02:25,795 --> 00:02:30,235 Speaker 1: F you pal, the real Trump, and my god, which 30 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: democrat will have the simple presence of mind to run 31 00:02:33,515 --> 00:02:38,195 Speaker 1: a campaign? We're just one commercial showing that post and 32 00:02:38,275 --> 00:02:41,235 Speaker 1: the words we are the only country in the world 33 00:02:41,395 --> 00:02:46,635 Speaker 1: stupid enough and emphasize Trump thinks America is stupid and 34 00:02:46,715 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: go with a new acronym massa Trump make America stupid 35 00:02:52,995 --> 00:03:01,235 Speaker 1: again while we are here, And honestly, F you and 36 00:03:01,395 --> 00:03:05,035 Speaker 1: Junior and Eric and this clown grand daughter or you're 37 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: trying to force on this country like she was even 38 00:03:07,635 --> 00:03:11,555 Speaker 1: just as unbearable as a Kardashian A. F the lot 39 00:03:11,595 --> 00:03:15,595 Speaker 1: of you while we are here. Trump in fact, got 40 00:03:15,715 --> 00:03:19,195 Speaker 1: smoked at the Supreme Court yesterday and the racist attack 41 00:03:19,235 --> 00:03:22,875 Speaker 1: on birthright citizenship, which is why Fred Trump was an 42 00:03:22,875 --> 00:03:27,115 Speaker 1: American citizen and why Marco Rubio is an American citizen 43 00:03:27,435 --> 00:03:31,755 Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. The attack on the Fourteenth Amendment by the 44 00:03:31,755 --> 00:03:35,715 Speaker 1: fascists is over. The Supreme Court will not rule on 45 00:03:35,755 --> 00:03:38,835 Speaker 1: it until June. But the questioning in the oral arguments 46 00:03:38,955 --> 00:03:43,195 Speaker 1: was such from everybody but Alito and Thomas that he 47 00:03:43,275 --> 00:03:46,475 Speaker 1: and the other racists in the quizzlings like Marco Rubio. 48 00:03:48,275 --> 00:03:51,235 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio doesn't know how much of MAGA thinks he's illegal. 49 00:03:52,875 --> 00:03:55,675 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court will rule seven to two or maybe 50 00:03:55,795 --> 00:03:59,555 Speaker 1: eight to one against the attempt to overturn birthright citizenship, 51 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:05,035 Speaker 1: and the entire majority decision might simply be quote, you're kidding, right, 52 00:04:06,835 --> 00:04:10,395 Speaker 1: This was the tell Chief Justice John Roberts, not having 53 00:04:10,395 --> 00:04:14,115 Speaker 1: any of this shit from Trump's Solicitor General, another one 54 00:04:14,155 --> 00:04:17,835 Speaker 1: of his former civilian life ambulance chasers named John Sower. 55 00:04:18,195 --> 00:04:21,115 Speaker 1: John Sower is the one in this clip who sounds 56 00:04:21,315 --> 00:04:24,035 Speaker 1: like he gargles with flaming chainsaws. 57 00:04:24,475 --> 00:04:27,995 Speaker 2: It certainly wasn't a problem in the nineteenth century, no, But. 58 00:04:27,955 --> 00:04:30,235 Speaker 1: Of course we're in a new world now. Is Justalita 59 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:32,555 Speaker 1: pointed out to where eight million people are one plane 60 00:04:32,635 --> 00:04:35,795 Speaker 1: ride away from having a child who's a US citizen. Well, 61 00:04:35,835 --> 00:04:39,475 Speaker 1: it's a new world. It's the same constitution. Turn your 62 00:04:39,475 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: sets off there now to Iran. And that nine pm 63 00:04:44,595 --> 00:04:48,595 Speaker 1: Eastern speech last night, that could have been Trump surrendering 64 00:04:49,155 --> 00:04:53,275 Speaker 1: or Trump declaring victory, or Trump sending twenty thousand more troops, 65 00:04:53,515 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: or Trump announcing the war is over but it will 66 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:58,715 Speaker 1: go on indefinitely. I'll be damned if I know which 67 00:04:58,755 --> 00:05:03,995 Speaker 1: it was. He came out squinting desperately towards a teleprompter 68 00:05:04,155 --> 00:05:06,955 Speaker 1: that had been laced far too far away for him 69 00:05:06,995 --> 00:05:10,075 Speaker 1: to see it clearly. He said it's all close to 70 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:12,835 Speaker 1: completion now and that America would be hitting them hard 71 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:16,195 Speaker 1: in the next two to three weeks unless they make 72 00:05:16,235 --> 00:05:19,595 Speaker 1: a deal. He said the doubling of gas prices is 73 00:05:19,635 --> 00:05:22,555 Speaker 1: all Iran's doing. We have all the gas we need, 74 00:05:22,635 --> 00:05:24,955 Speaker 1: not explaining why on Earth the price would have gone 75 00:05:25,035 --> 00:05:27,115 Speaker 1: up if we're only using our own gas and we 76 00:05:27,195 --> 00:05:30,995 Speaker 1: have all we need otherwise. He didn't mention the economic 77 00:05:31,075 --> 00:05:34,915 Speaker 1: crisis he has put this country into. He called America 78 00:05:35,195 --> 00:05:39,555 Speaker 1: not stupid this time, but quote dead and crippled and 79 00:05:39,675 --> 00:05:43,475 Speaker 1: quoted stock prices from two months ago before he tanked 80 00:05:43,475 --> 00:05:47,075 Speaker 1: the economy. The rest of the speech was insults about Obama, 81 00:05:47,435 --> 00:05:51,475 Speaker 1: fabrications about previous presidents, the insistence that everything was like 82 00:05:51,555 --> 00:05:56,715 Speaker 1: nobody's ever seen before and never seen before, and this straining, 83 00:05:56,955 --> 00:06:01,195 Speaker 1: failing voice that suggested the thrilling possibility that Trump might 84 00:06:01,315 --> 00:06:06,395 Speaker 1: fall asleep while standing at the podium. Maybe the best 85 00:06:06,395 --> 00:06:09,195 Speaker 1: part was when he claimed he killed a guy. When 86 00:06:09,195 --> 00:06:12,195 Speaker 1: he kept invoking saying Iran was about to get nukes 87 00:06:12,235 --> 00:06:15,275 Speaker 1: even though he personally ate their nukes or something. I 88 00:06:15,315 --> 00:06:17,875 Speaker 1: couldn't follow it. Then he repeated a bunch of his 89 00:06:17,915 --> 00:06:20,955 Speaker 1: truth social posts. Then he explained the straight up horror 90 00:06:20,955 --> 00:06:24,355 Speaker 1: moves would just open naturally someday, you know the way 91 00:06:24,355 --> 00:06:27,075 Speaker 1: he said COVID would just go away naturally one day 92 00:06:27,115 --> 00:06:32,435 Speaker 1: without him doing anything. And he complimented himself because this 93 00:06:32,675 --> 00:06:35,795 Speaker 1: has not taken as long as World War two did. 94 00:06:37,075 --> 00:06:40,195 Speaker 1: And back to his favorite cliche, he says he has 95 00:06:40,435 --> 00:06:45,155 Speaker 1: all the cards. Well not the horror Mooze card or 96 00:06:45,235 --> 00:06:49,355 Speaker 1: the Card Island card, but he has all the jokers 97 00:06:49,395 --> 00:06:51,675 Speaker 1: in that one card with the girl on it. We 98 00:06:51,755 --> 00:06:52,595 Speaker 1: have all the cards. 99 00:06:52,635 --> 00:06:55,435 Speaker 2: They have none it's very important that we keep this 100 00:06:55,595 --> 00:07:02,515 Speaker 2: conflict in perspective. American involvement in World War One lasted 101 00:07:02,595 --> 00:07:07,915 Speaker 2: one year, seven months, five days. World War Two lasted 102 00:07:08,035 --> 00:07:11,475 Speaker 2: for three years, eight months and twenty five days. The 103 00:07:11,555 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 2: Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days. 104 00:07:16,355 --> 00:07:20,555 Speaker 2: The Vietnam War lasted for nineteen years, five months and 105 00:07:20,635 --> 00:07:25,115 Speaker 2: twenty nine days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight 106 00:07:25,195 --> 00:07:29,875 Speaker 2: months and twenty eight days. We are in this military operation, 107 00:07:30,115 --> 00:07:33,915 Speaker 2: so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries, 108 00:07:33,955 --> 00:07:36,195 Speaker 2: for thirty two. 109 00:07:36,115 --> 00:07:40,755 Speaker 1: Days, thirty two days. See, he's great because he bombed 110 00:07:40,755 --> 00:07:46,435 Speaker 1: Iran and the war is shorter than Vietnam. Well, I'm 111 00:07:46,475 --> 00:07:52,315 Speaker 1: sold when it ended. After every cliche except your mileage 112 00:07:52,355 --> 00:07:57,155 Speaker 1: may vary and employees must wash hands. Trump said goodnight 113 00:07:57,835 --> 00:08:01,435 Speaker 1: and then forgot to leave the podium. He may still 114 00:08:01,475 --> 00:08:07,555 Speaker 1: be standing there by the way. About having this country, 115 00:08:08,115 --> 00:08:11,195 Speaker 1: you know, America is stupid, says Trump, About having this 116 00:08:11,355 --> 00:08:14,675 Speaker 1: country pull out of NATO because none of our NATO 117 00:08:14,875 --> 00:08:19,715 Speaker 1: allies decided to join in on this. And incidentally, although 118 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:22,435 Speaker 1: he did take a shot at them, he didn't mention 119 00:08:22,595 --> 00:08:25,155 Speaker 1: NATO or pulling out of it once. He didn't mention 120 00:08:25,315 --> 00:08:29,675 Speaker 1: NATO at all. I hate to break it to the isolationists, 121 00:08:29,755 --> 00:08:32,595 Speaker 1: but this whole question of US pulling out of NATO 122 00:08:32,715 --> 00:08:36,475 Speaker 1: may be too late. The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer 123 00:08:36,515 --> 00:08:39,355 Speaker 1: already said flat out this is not the United Kingdom's war. 124 00:08:39,955 --> 00:08:42,835 Speaker 1: Now from the e newspaper in England comes word that 125 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:45,995 Speaker 1: the British are holding back intelligence from this country because 126 00:08:45,995 --> 00:08:50,115 Speaker 1: they do not trust America with it. The Germans, the Italians, 127 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:53,475 Speaker 1: the French, the Czechs have already either refused to participate 128 00:08:53,475 --> 00:08:56,595 Speaker 1: in Trump's folly in Iran or they are shying away 129 00:08:56,595 --> 00:09:00,555 Speaker 1: from this intel question. Right now, there is no NATO, 130 00:09:01,515 --> 00:09:03,795 Speaker 1: or worse yet, there is a NATO and we are 131 00:09:03,835 --> 00:09:08,995 Speaker 1: not in it any more because of Trump. That's the 132 00:09:08,995 --> 00:09:11,395 Speaker 1: same Trump who said on Tuesday that Iran wasn't even 133 00:09:11,435 --> 00:09:15,275 Speaker 1: shooting back at US. It is clear the story with 134 00:09:15,355 --> 00:09:17,795 Speaker 1: which I led this program a week ago today, about 135 00:09:17,795 --> 00:09:20,875 Speaker 1: the video they show him every morning, that that story 136 00:09:20,955 --> 00:09:25,355 Speaker 1: was correct. That two minutes of highlights of American aircraft 137 00:09:25,515 --> 00:09:28,635 Speaker 1: blowing stuff up in Iran. That's all he sees of 138 00:09:28,675 --> 00:09:33,195 Speaker 1: this war. All he knows about it, that how many 139 00:09:33,315 --> 00:09:38,075 Speaker 1: days it's been. Look, he's an imbecile and a sadist, 140 00:09:38,355 --> 00:09:40,755 Speaker 1: and because they didn't send him to jail instead of 141 00:09:40,795 --> 00:09:43,475 Speaker 1: the New York Military Academy, he thinks he's a general 142 00:09:44,235 --> 00:09:47,675 Speaker 1: when my dogs literally have a better understanding of battle 143 00:09:47,715 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 1: than he does. But on top of this, it is 144 00:09:50,555 --> 00:09:54,755 Speaker 1: obvious they are keeping reality from him. They have not 145 00:09:54,915 --> 00:09:58,155 Speaker 1: shown him the a Wax command and control craft, the 146 00:09:58,195 --> 00:10:02,635 Speaker 1: flying radar destroyed on the ground in Saudi Arabia. They 147 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:05,035 Speaker 1: have not told him his multi million dollar min whistles 148 00:10:05,035 --> 00:10:08,035 Speaker 1: are being wasted trying to shoot down twenty thousand dollars 149 00:10:08,035 --> 00:10:12,475 Speaker 1: Iranian drones. And why would they tell him? What would 150 00:10:12,475 --> 00:10:16,035 Speaker 1: that get heg Seth other than the crazy old guy 151 00:10:16,075 --> 00:10:18,555 Speaker 1: shouting at him and saying we are the only country 152 00:10:18,555 --> 00:10:21,035 Speaker 1: in the world stupid enough to have pete Hegseth as 153 00:10:21,355 --> 00:10:27,355 Speaker 1: secretary of anything. Instead, heg Seth humors him and shows 154 00:10:27,435 --> 00:10:30,595 Speaker 1: him the videotape, and Trump thinks we're winning when we 155 00:10:30,675 --> 00:10:34,595 Speaker 1: are in fact still losing. And then Hegseth goes and 156 00:10:35,155 --> 00:10:39,275 Speaker 1: calls off track war bedding, or whatever it is heg 157 00:10:39,315 --> 00:10:50,355 Speaker 1: Seth does in his spare time. Three other things to 158 00:10:50,435 --> 00:10:53,395 Speaker 1: note here before we get to the boobs in Trump's 159 00:10:53,395 --> 00:10:58,115 Speaker 1: cabinet so to speak, approval disapproval UMass Amherst poll, he's 160 00:10:58,155 --> 00:11:00,995 Speaker 1: down to one third of this nation. He is at 161 00:11:01,075 --> 00:11:05,115 Speaker 1: thirty three percent approve, sixty two disapprove. That is twenty 162 00:11:05,235 --> 00:11:08,555 Speaker 1: nine points underwater. And this would be the point where 163 00:11:08,555 --> 00:11:11,595 Speaker 1: the Baywatch crew says, dude, we did the best we could. 164 00:11:12,155 --> 00:11:14,755 Speaker 1: Same poll a year ago, he was forty four proved, 165 00:11:14,835 --> 00:11:19,035 Speaker 1: fifty one disapproved. He's lost twenty two points in exactly 166 00:11:19,435 --> 00:11:24,035 Speaker 1: one year. No wonder. He issued another executive order that 167 00:11:24,075 --> 00:11:27,315 Speaker 1: wreaks more panic than of fascism, demanding the creation of 168 00:11:27,355 --> 00:11:31,235 Speaker 1: a federal list of citizens, demanding that the Post Office 169 00:11:31,475 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: then only send mail ballots to people on the list. 170 00:11:36,475 --> 00:11:41,355 Speaker 1: Check each envelope against this list of three hundred million people. 171 00:11:42,395 --> 00:11:45,035 Speaker 1: One assumes the reaction at the US Post Office is 172 00:11:45,435 --> 00:11:52,275 Speaker 1: you want it when this November? How about the midterms 173 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:58,795 Speaker 1: in the year twenty fifty four? Also, Alverman will have 174 00:11:58,795 --> 00:12:01,115 Speaker 1: that envelope from your accountant at your house no later 175 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:06,155 Speaker 1: the next January February latest. There's also the fact that 176 00:12:06,235 --> 00:12:11,635 Speaker 1: such a list such unconstitutional. Theft of the authority over elections, 177 00:12:12,075 --> 00:12:17,475 Speaker 1: which is the state's authority, is incredibly illegal. Also just 178 00:12:17,515 --> 00:12:21,195 Speaker 1: to ratchet up the larfs. Who does Trump want to 179 00:12:21,275 --> 00:12:24,315 Speaker 1: make the list? He wants Homeland Security to do this. 180 00:12:24,595 --> 00:12:29,915 Speaker 1: Homeland Security, where John Wayne Gacy Mullen now presides, and 181 00:12:29,955 --> 00:12:34,195 Speaker 1: where the poor new secretary is presumably discovering very unfortunate 182 00:12:34,275 --> 00:12:37,835 Speaker 1: things in the nooks and crannies of his office that 183 00:12:37,915 --> 00:12:42,315 Speaker 1: were left there by his predecessor and her family. Why 184 00:12:42,435 --> 00:12:48,635 Speaker 1: the hell's there been so much balloons in modesks one 185 00:12:48,675 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: bit of international news. Now he could completely cancel the 186 00:12:52,475 --> 00:12:55,195 Speaker 1: election there or find other ways to alter this. He 187 00:12:55,355 --> 00:12:57,715 Speaker 1: is the role model for Trump after all on this, 188 00:12:57,835 --> 00:13:01,195 Speaker 1: But all the polling says the Hungarian would be dictator 189 00:13:01,275 --> 00:13:04,515 Speaker 1: Victor Orban will get his clock cleaned and the elections there. 190 00:13:04,515 --> 00:13:09,995 Speaker 1: On the twelve, his opponent, Peter Magyar, surrounded by enthusiastic crowds. 191 00:13:10,475 --> 00:13:15,435 Speaker 1: Orbon pretty much has just Trump and Tucker Carlson showing up. 192 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:18,675 Speaker 1: Magyar has grown his lead to fifty six to thirty 193 00:13:18,715 --> 00:13:21,835 Speaker 1: seven in the polls. Magyar has added a net five 194 00:13:21,915 --> 00:13:23,955 Speaker 1: points to his lead in the last three weeks. The 195 00:13:24,035 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: problem here, of course, is Orbon is about three years 196 00:13:26,795 --> 00:13:30,435 Speaker 1: ahead of Trump in killing off the lingering melody of democracy. 197 00:13:30,515 --> 00:13:36,155 Speaker 1: In his country. So no lead is automatically safe. And 198 00:13:36,235 --> 00:13:41,155 Speaker 1: now back to Trump. That Paula White, the smarmy evangelical 199 00:13:41,155 --> 00:13:44,075 Speaker 1: who is this close to snake handling while serving as 200 00:13:44,075 --> 00:13:48,555 Speaker 1: Trump's religious fluffer, whose gnome were Gates or Patel like 201 00:13:48,635 --> 00:13:51,315 Speaker 1: scandal has yet to be revealed. Get your bets in now. 202 00:13:51,435 --> 00:13:53,675 Speaker 1: Will it be girlfriends? Will it be a chain of 203 00:13:53,675 --> 00:13:56,315 Speaker 1: abortion clinics that she has money in. Will it be 204 00:13:56,355 --> 00:13:58,955 Speaker 1: a tape of her sleeping with atheists? Will it be 205 00:13:59,075 --> 00:14:04,315 Speaker 1: three husbands? Oh wait, I'm sorry, she's had three husbands Anyway, 206 00:14:04,995 --> 00:14:08,915 Speaker 1: Yesterday Paula White made the big leap on behalf of 207 00:14:08,955 --> 00:14:13,915 Speaker 1: the evangels Trump, it turns out, is Jesus Christ. 208 00:14:14,315 --> 00:14:17,475 Speaker 3: Mister President. No one has paid the price like you 209 00:14:17,595 --> 00:14:22,315 Speaker 3: have paid the price. It almost cost you your life. 210 00:14:22,995 --> 00:14:30,515 Speaker 3: You were betrayed and arrested. I'm falsely accused. It's a 211 00:14:30,555 --> 00:14:33,915 Speaker 3: familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed. 212 00:14:33,715 --> 00:14:39,635 Speaker 1: Us Jesus H. Christ. So Trump is the equivalent of 213 00:14:39,755 --> 00:14:54,435 Speaker 1: Jesus video or it didn't happen. Time for our regular 214 00:14:54,595 --> 00:14:57,635 Speaker 1: check in on the perverts in the Trump administration. Hacked 215 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:01,235 Speaker 1: video of Cash Patel sashing around a room in short 216 00:15:01,315 --> 00:15:06,315 Speaker 1: shorts still pictures of Lindsey Graham, a Disney World aged 217 00:15:06,475 --> 00:15:12,595 Speaker 1: seventy by himself, no kids, carrying a bubble wand Press 218 00:15:12,595 --> 00:15:17,035 Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline Levitt getting Getty Images to delete a photo 219 00:15:17,035 --> 00:15:20,435 Speaker 1: taken of her at a White House Thanksgiving photo op 220 00:15:20,715 --> 00:15:24,515 Speaker 1: where she was the host for the photos, where photographers 221 00:15:24,515 --> 00:15:28,675 Speaker 1: were encouraged to take photos, where she was dressed as 222 00:15:28,715 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: a pilgrim for the photos. The photo was shot from 223 00:15:33,035 --> 00:15:36,435 Speaker 1: a low angle. There was a turkey, there was Levitt, 224 00:15:36,555 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: and I guess she thought it was difficult to tell 225 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:46,355 Speaker 1: the difference in the photo. Rubio Impaired means as yet unidentified, 226 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:50,515 Speaker 1: insisting there is no birthright citizenship under the constitution. Your 227 00:15:50,595 --> 00:15:54,035 Speaker 1: parents have to be citizens, even though his parents were 228 00:15:54,875 --> 00:16:00,155 Speaker 1: not citizens and he is a birthright citizenship citizen. And 229 00:16:00,275 --> 00:16:04,795 Speaker 1: of course the cornucopia of images of Christy Nome's husband 230 00:16:04,995 --> 00:16:08,595 Speaker 1: and his extramarital fetish for women who have had plastic 231 00:16:08,635 --> 00:16:11,635 Speaker 1: surgery out of proportion with all reality. I mean, we're 232 00:16:11,675 --> 00:16:14,595 Speaker 1: talking about women who now look like they were constructed 233 00:16:14,675 --> 00:16:19,995 Speaker 1: out of legos. And also images of Christy Nomes's husband 234 00:16:20,035 --> 00:16:24,275 Speaker 1: in drag wearing balloons under a T shirt to simulate 235 00:16:24,515 --> 00:16:29,995 Speaker 1: enormous women's breasts again, so cartoonishly sized that someone wrote 236 00:16:29,995 --> 00:16:33,435 Speaker 1: that those puppies were so big it's a surprise Christy 237 00:16:33,555 --> 00:16:38,395 Speaker 1: didn't shoot them, or, as the Great Frank Dakova cried 238 00:16:38,435 --> 00:16:44,515 Speaker 1: on f Troop, he's myl So anyway, turns out both 239 00:16:44,595 --> 00:16:47,555 Speaker 1: members of the Nome marriage like to pretend to look 240 00:16:47,675 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: like a woman. Realistically, this may force us to reassess 241 00:16:51,635 --> 00:16:54,995 Speaker 1: why Christy Nome has had her body redesigned more often 242 00:16:55,035 --> 00:16:58,155 Speaker 1: than a Cadillac, to say nothing of why mister Nome 243 00:16:58,315 --> 00:17:01,955 Speaker 1: was at Nome's career ending house hearing where she sat 244 00:17:01,995 --> 00:17:05,395 Speaker 1: next to Corey Lewandowski while mister Nomes sat behind them 245 00:17:06,115 --> 00:17:09,195 Speaker 1: watching them. On the other hand, it raises the interesting 246 00:17:09,235 --> 00:17:12,035 Speaker 1: reality that she turns out to have had only the 247 00:17:12,115 --> 00:17:18,275 Speaker 1: second most augmentation in her own family. So Graham Patelnome, 248 00:17:18,595 --> 00:17:22,715 Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, and then there's Trump himself unveiling his memorial 249 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:27,315 Speaker 1: library and hotel. He says what, according to the video 250 00:17:27,435 --> 00:17:30,235 Speaker 1: released by one of his idiot boys, his sons, I 251 00:17:30,275 --> 00:17:33,515 Speaker 1: forget which one looks like a two hundred story tall 252 00:17:33,555 --> 00:17:37,235 Speaker 1: building in Miami. I'm thinking it will eventually be built 253 00:17:37,315 --> 00:17:41,035 Speaker 1: rather in Caracas. Any Who, The highlight of the thing 254 00:17:41,115 --> 00:17:43,555 Speaker 1: is a statue of Trump in the lobby. Apparently it's 255 00:17:43,555 --> 00:17:47,635 Speaker 1: about sixty feet tall, making a fist pump gesture. It 256 00:17:47,835 --> 00:17:52,315 Speaker 1: is gold head to toe. And it's interesting. His head 257 00:17:52,355 --> 00:17:55,515 Speaker 1: in real life has been gold, his buildings have been gold. 258 00:17:55,595 --> 00:17:59,315 Speaker 1: Yet this a giant, ten times life sized statue of him. 259 00:17:59,795 --> 00:18:03,235 Speaker 1: This being gold, This is the first time the gold 260 00:18:03,275 --> 00:18:07,035 Speaker 1: has made me think of this. The statue looks like 261 00:18:07,115 --> 00:18:14,355 Speaker 1: Trump just really pede himself, just saying seriously. Of course, 262 00:18:14,395 --> 00:18:17,315 Speaker 1: the Gnome story, like the Patel video and the Graham 263 00:18:17,355 --> 00:18:21,995 Speaker 1: images and the sound bites of poor Rubio, underscore three 264 00:18:21,995 --> 00:18:25,595 Speaker 1: things about this administration. And the entirety of MAGA and 265 00:18:25,675 --> 00:18:27,955 Speaker 1: the cult part of the Trump culp say nothing of 266 00:18:27,955 --> 00:18:30,835 Speaker 1: a lot of human nature. One of these things is obvious. 267 00:18:31,395 --> 00:18:35,275 Speaker 1: We may never know how blackmail fits into Trump's nomination 268 00:18:35,675 --> 00:18:40,035 Speaker 1: support election. The conversion of Lord knows how many formerly 269 00:18:40,195 --> 00:18:44,515 Speaker 1: reasonable or at least intelligent and critical conservatives A. Graham 270 00:18:44,555 --> 00:18:46,635 Speaker 1: was always a front runner throughout his life, but he 271 00:18:46,635 --> 00:18:50,435 Speaker 1: did predict Trump would destroy the Republican Party. Rubio almost 272 00:18:50,475 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: took a swing at Trump once, and instead these people 273 00:18:53,915 --> 00:18:58,195 Speaker 1: have become unstoppable advocates and enablers for Trump to say 274 00:18:58,195 --> 00:19:01,915 Speaker 1: nothing of the judges, probably some of the Supreme Court justices. 275 00:19:02,035 --> 00:19:06,395 Speaker 1: God knows how many media figures who are his virtual slaves, 276 00:19:06,675 --> 00:19:10,675 Speaker 1: certainly his whores. But the Patel video and the mister 277 00:19:10,795 --> 00:19:15,395 Speaker 1: Gnomes story certainly would seem to confirm blackmail is in 278 00:19:15,475 --> 00:19:20,275 Speaker 1: play here and always has been before Jeff Bezos gave 279 00:19:20,315 --> 00:19:22,995 Speaker 1: into some kind of pressure from Trump in the last 280 00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: few years. Bezos not only defied Trump, but he revealed 281 00:19:26,675 --> 00:19:29,995 Speaker 1: on the record the attempt by Trump's ex crony David 282 00:19:30,035 --> 00:19:34,075 Speaker 1: Pecker and the National Inquirer to force Bezos to turn 283 00:19:34,115 --> 00:19:38,475 Speaker 1: the Washington Post pro Trump in twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen, 284 00:19:39,075 --> 00:19:42,475 Speaker 1: they tried this on him by attempting to coerce Bezos 285 00:19:42,555 --> 00:19:46,155 Speaker 1: over his extramarital affair with his now second wife. My 286 00:19:46,315 --> 00:19:50,075 Speaker 1: ex colleague, Lauren I look a lot like Christy Noms Sanchez, 287 00:19:50,955 --> 00:19:53,235 Speaker 1: As I noted then and I will note again, do 288 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:58,235 Speaker 1: you expect anybody to believe that the first time somebody 289 00:19:58,475 --> 00:20:02,875 Speaker 1: tried to blackmail somebody else on behalf of Donald Trump, 290 00:20:03,395 --> 00:20:07,075 Speaker 1: they ran into the w one guy out of thousands 291 00:20:07,555 --> 00:20:10,675 Speaker 1: who would say, f you, I'll just give my wife 292 00:20:10,715 --> 00:20:14,715 Speaker 1: all the money in the divorce settlement. Really, the first 293 00:20:14,795 --> 00:20:20,155 Speaker 1: would be blackmail. Victim said, No, that's not how blackmail works. 294 00:20:20,795 --> 00:20:25,035 Speaker 1: That's not why blackmail works. So once again, how could 295 00:20:25,115 --> 00:20:28,595 Speaker 1: Trump get loyalty from the cash Betels and Christy gnomes 296 00:20:29,075 --> 00:20:32,915 Speaker 1: that rivals that which was given to Dracula by his 297 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:38,635 Speaker 1: guy Renfield? Wow, I haven't the faintest idea. Does it 298 00:20:38,675 --> 00:20:42,435 Speaker 1: start with a B and end with mail? There's the 299 00:20:42,435 --> 00:20:45,835 Speaker 1: second part of this. Of course, Trump's primary currency is 300 00:20:45,915 --> 00:20:48,875 Speaker 1: less the threat than it is the pardon. There isn't 301 00:20:48,875 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: another political figure in America who would trust RFK Junior 302 00:20:52,035 --> 00:20:55,275 Speaker 1: long enough to pose for a selfie with him. Yet 303 00:20:55,315 --> 00:20:57,995 Speaker 1: there he is in the cabinet. We forget now. But 304 00:20:58,075 --> 00:21:02,315 Speaker 1: Trump's choice for Attorney General was Matt Gates, who now 305 00:21:02,435 --> 00:21:05,635 Speaker 1: says that the government not only has as aliens from 306 00:21:05,715 --> 00:21:09,515 Speaker 1: other planets in its possession, but is breeding them with humans. 307 00:21:11,355 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: You didn't ask how young they were. How many members 308 00:21:14,115 --> 00:21:16,315 Speaker 1: of the Trump circuit have you looked at, especially as 309 00:21:16,315 --> 00:21:19,715 Speaker 1: they have fumbled to kiss their wives or awkwardly padded 310 00:21:19,755 --> 00:21:23,835 Speaker 1: their children on the elbow, and said, the number of 311 00:21:23,915 --> 00:21:28,115 Speaker 1: closets in this administration may be infinite. It's not just 312 00:21:28,155 --> 00:21:32,835 Speaker 1: the question of blackmail or exposure. It's Trump hardening that behavior. 313 00:21:34,035 --> 00:21:37,075 Speaker 1: He's not gay, she's not lesbian. They just have same 314 00:21:37,195 --> 00:21:42,995 Speaker 1: sex sex. Sure whatever. You can now become secretary of 315 00:21:43,435 --> 00:21:47,355 Speaker 1: whatever in my administration. I'll help you keep your lie going, 316 00:21:47,715 --> 00:21:52,155 Speaker 1: your lie to the public, your lie to yourself, or 317 00:21:52,515 --> 00:21:55,515 Speaker 1: you failed at everything. Your spouse is a crook. Your 318 00:21:55,515 --> 00:21:58,635 Speaker 1: heroes are Hitler and Ted Bundy. Your beliefs are just 319 00:21:58,715 --> 00:22:04,355 Speaker 1: Internet conspiracies. Cool. Cool, I'll back you up. I'll legitimize you. Hell, 320 00:22:04,355 --> 00:22:08,435 Speaker 1: I'll But you're in charge of protecting Israel or prosecuting criminals. 321 00:22:09,235 --> 00:22:14,435 Speaker 1: Just serve me. Just do whatever I tell you to do. 322 00:22:15,555 --> 00:22:19,195 Speaker 1: I will protect you from jail, from humiliation, from exposure, 323 00:22:19,235 --> 00:22:23,395 Speaker 1: and most importantly, I will protect you from your own conscience. 324 00:22:25,875 --> 00:22:31,355 Speaker 1: Why does this work? Why is every trumpest accusation a confession? 325 00:22:31,675 --> 00:22:34,635 Speaker 1: Why is there a chicken in every Maga pot and 326 00:22:34,715 --> 00:22:38,715 Speaker 1: a skeleton in every Maga closet? And why is the 327 00:22:38,795 --> 00:22:42,995 Speaker 1: skeleton often a drag queen? I turned to a friend 328 00:22:43,035 --> 00:22:48,435 Speaker 1: of twenty eight years, a psychological professional doctor. Why do 329 00:22:48,555 --> 00:22:52,115 Speaker 1: these people who get abortions for their mistresses and hire 330 00:22:52,195 --> 00:22:55,195 Speaker 1: gay hookers and do coke in their bathrooms. Why are 331 00:22:55,275 --> 00:22:58,515 Speaker 1: they the ones who are the most loud, the most angry, 332 00:22:58,595 --> 00:23:02,715 Speaker 1: the most vindictive about trying to criminalize abortion, about trying 333 00:23:02,755 --> 00:23:06,275 Speaker 1: to punish homosexuality, trying to send people to jail for 334 00:23:06,395 --> 00:23:10,515 Speaker 1: life for doing drugs. Why are they serving Trump a 335 00:23:10,635 --> 00:23:14,875 Speaker 1: nihilist who believes in nothing and believes in none of this. 336 00:23:16,275 --> 00:23:18,595 Speaker 1: Our answer was not what I expected. I had studied 337 00:23:18,595 --> 00:23:21,635 Speaker 1: some of this stuff in college. I assumed maybe you 338 00:23:21,755 --> 00:23:25,915 Speaker 1: still assume that it was projection or compensation, or a 339 00:23:25,995 --> 00:23:29,035 Speaker 1: desire to get caught and maybe even to force their 340 00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:32,235 Speaker 1: own hands and get help, or anything else that was 341 00:23:32,315 --> 00:23:38,755 Speaker 1: psych speak for every MAGA accusation is a confession. No, 342 00:23:38,795 --> 00:23:42,875 Speaker 1: not at all. She called this the scoreboard theory of 343 00:23:42,955 --> 00:23:47,115 Speaker 1: personal behavior. Say you have been taught since childhood that 344 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:50,995 Speaker 1: sex out of wedlock is wrong and abortion is wrong. 345 00:23:51,435 --> 00:23:55,515 Speaker 1: And you've had sex out of wedlock like three hundred 346 00:23:55,555 --> 00:24:00,115 Speaker 1: and fifty times, and there have been a dozen pregnancies, 347 00:24:00,235 --> 00:24:03,435 Speaker 1: and you've talked the women into and paid for half 348 00:24:03,475 --> 00:24:07,275 Speaker 1: a dozen abortions. And you're a conservative congressman, and your 349 00:24:07,315 --> 00:24:10,195 Speaker 1: constituents are every day getting a little lighter on that 350 00:24:10,355 --> 00:24:13,195 Speaker 1: forgiveness of the lord stuff. But they're getting a little 351 00:24:13,235 --> 00:24:16,715 Speaker 1: heavier on that wrath of God stuff, and to make 352 00:24:16,755 --> 00:24:19,275 Speaker 1: it worse for your own sanity. Maybe you really believe 353 00:24:19,395 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: sex out of wedlock is wrong. Maybe you really, in 354 00:24:22,555 --> 00:24:25,595 Speaker 1: your heart believe abortion is wrong. And yet here you are. 355 00:24:26,315 --> 00:24:29,435 Speaker 1: You are the local distributor of sex out of wedlock 356 00:24:29,755 --> 00:24:35,675 Speaker 1: and of abortions in your own congressional district. Your unconscious 357 00:24:35,915 --> 00:24:40,715 Speaker 1: my shrink explains hits on an ingenious solution. You have 358 00:24:40,795 --> 00:24:44,235 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty sexes out of wedlock and six 359 00:24:44,275 --> 00:24:48,875 Speaker 1: abortions on your scoreboard. You can make that number irrelevant, 360 00:24:49,355 --> 00:24:53,795 Speaker 1: virtually wipe it away, make it look like nothing. Simply 361 00:24:53,915 --> 00:25:00,835 Speaker 1: act and talk and legislate three thousand anti abortion things. 362 00:25:01,795 --> 00:25:04,955 Speaker 1: Persecute the doctors, encourage neighbors to rat out people who 363 00:25:04,995 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: help women in need, accuse the other side of killing 364 00:25:07,835 --> 00:25:11,355 Speaker 1: viable infants after birth, or take it to the final step, 365 00:25:11,395 --> 00:25:14,955 Speaker 1: accused them of pedophilia and eating babies, and run for 366 00:25:14,995 --> 00:25:18,675 Speaker 1: office on a platform of exposing those secret baby torture 367 00:25:18,795 --> 00:25:21,875 Speaker 1: chambers in the basements of the pizza restaurants that not 368 00:25:21,915 --> 00:25:24,995 Speaker 1: only don't have torture chambers, but don't even have basements. 369 00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:29,995 Speaker 1: Why that proves you can't be an adulterer and an abortionist. 370 00:25:30,435 --> 00:25:35,515 Speaker 1: You're an anti adultery anti abortion activists. You can't be 371 00:25:35,595 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: an adulter. Well, maybe once or twice in your life, 372 00:25:39,115 --> 00:25:42,155 Speaker 1: or three hundred and fifty six times, you made a 373 00:25:42,195 --> 00:25:46,155 Speaker 1: simple human error that God long ago forgave you for 374 00:25:47,875 --> 00:25:54,275 Speaker 1: you heard him. But look, you've closed a thousand abortion clinics, 375 00:25:54,475 --> 00:25:57,995 Speaker 1: You've forced a thousand women to give birth. You've accused 376 00:25:58,035 --> 00:26:01,635 Speaker 1: one thousand liberals of eating babies. That's a score of 377 00:26:01,755 --> 00:26:05,435 Speaker 1: three thousand to three hundred and fifty six. See on 378 00:26:05,475 --> 00:26:09,075 Speaker 1: this scoreboard. You are so anti abortion it's as if 379 00:26:09,115 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: those abortions you paid for never happened. Three thousand to 380 00:26:14,795 --> 00:26:20,115 Speaker 1: only three hundred and fifty six. And that, my shrink 381 00:26:20,155 --> 00:26:23,875 Speaker 1: friend said is the gist of it. It works on 382 00:26:23,915 --> 00:26:27,915 Speaker 1: almost anything that society shies away from, from balloons under 383 00:26:27,915 --> 00:26:31,435 Speaker 1: your shirt, to sex with your own gender or somebody 384 00:26:31,515 --> 00:26:35,075 Speaker 1: dressed as the other gender, or just it works on 385 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:41,075 Speaker 1: failure and embarrassment. Pam Bondy, Kelly Ann Conway, Roger Stone, 386 00:26:41,915 --> 00:26:48,435 Speaker 1: you name them. They were punchlines. Failure works though. Secret 387 00:26:48,475 --> 00:26:52,555 Speaker 1: sex lives give Trump more to work with. If Trump says, 388 00:26:52,635 --> 00:26:54,915 Speaker 1: I know you're gay, but your public self is so 389 00:26:55,075 --> 00:26:58,195 Speaker 1: homophobic that it erases all that. So you're not gay, 390 00:26:58,915 --> 00:27:03,155 Speaker 1: you are his for life. Which brings us back to 391 00:27:03,195 --> 00:27:06,075 Speaker 1: the idea that the threats and the pardons may not 392 00:27:06,315 --> 00:27:11,355 Speaker 1: actually be coming from Trump. This is a very sophisticated idea. 393 00:27:12,035 --> 00:27:14,675 Speaker 1: Even if Trump did figure it out years ago when 394 00:27:14,675 --> 00:27:17,035 Speaker 1: he still had a lot of his brains to work with, 395 00:27:17,515 --> 00:27:21,595 Speaker 1: it just sounds really too complicated from him. And then 396 00:27:21,755 --> 00:27:26,075 Speaker 1: if it's not him, who are these ideas coming from. 397 00:27:26,315 --> 00:27:31,275 Speaker 1: Who is this rather complicated and kind of clever exploitation 398 00:27:31,435 --> 00:27:35,315 Speaker 1: of people's weaknesses. Who is this coming from? Not from 399 00:27:35,355 --> 00:27:39,315 Speaker 1: Trump but from somebody above him? The threats and the 400 00:27:39,355 --> 00:27:42,675 Speaker 1: pardons may be coming from somebody who is right now, 401 00:27:43,235 --> 00:27:47,675 Speaker 1: still forever, not only blackmailing the Christy Gnomes of this 402 00:27:47,755 --> 00:27:51,635 Speaker 1: world and the Lindsey Grahams, but somebody who is right 403 00:27:51,675 --> 00:28:03,355 Speaker 1: now still blackmailing Trump. Also of interest here in all time. First, 404 00:28:03,435 --> 00:28:07,355 Speaker 1: a married couple may worst persons. I'll give you a 405 00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:09,915 Speaker 1: hint as to their identities. One of them anchors the 406 00:28:09,955 --> 00:28:14,115 Speaker 1: CBS Evening News, and the other one asked me to 407 00:28:14,275 --> 00:28:20,715 Speaker 1: marry her. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown 408 00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:44,315 Speaker 1: with Keith old woman so go ahead on this all 409 00:28:44,355 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. Since I am about to trash 410 00:28:46,715 --> 00:28:49,355 Speaker 1: her again, I will tell you a story of how 411 00:28:49,395 --> 00:28:52,995 Speaker 1: my one time girlfriend Katie Turr actually took good care 412 00:28:53,075 --> 00:28:57,875 Speaker 1: of me, maybe even above and beyond girlfriend Duty's good 413 00:28:57,995 --> 00:29:01,715 Speaker 1: care of me. I had a twinge in the general 414 00:29:01,755 --> 00:29:04,475 Speaker 1: physical area that I'm going to describe the other day, 415 00:29:04,515 --> 00:29:07,195 Speaker 1: So I'm going to tell you the saga of the day. 416 00:29:07,315 --> 00:29:12,195 Speaker 1: My appendix exploded and I thought it was just a 417 00:29:12,235 --> 00:29:15,755 Speaker 1: little indigestion. I was a youth of just forty eight. 418 00:29:16,635 --> 00:29:20,795 Speaker 1: Yet another thing I promised not to tell. Next in 419 00:29:20,875 --> 00:29:23,515 Speaker 1: the interim, we always have new idiots to talk about. 420 00:29:23,915 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Krueger fact 421 00:29:26,875 --> 00:29:31,355 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, 422 00:29:32,315 --> 00:29:38,075 Speaker 1: Bronze Worse Mister and missus news Tony de koppole and 423 00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:41,915 Speaker 1: missed her herself her first again with the caveat that 424 00:29:41,995 --> 00:29:45,515 Speaker 1: she was not only living with me and proposed marriage, 425 00:29:45,915 --> 00:29:49,515 Speaker 1: but I declined. Well. Katie did a segment on MS 426 00:29:49,595 --> 00:29:51,995 Speaker 1: the other day in which she asked, is Donald Trump 427 00:29:52,035 --> 00:29:54,835 Speaker 1: well is his head in the presidency? Does he have 428 00:29:54,875 --> 00:29:59,595 Speaker 1: the mental acuity to lead this country. Why didn't I 429 00:29:59,755 --> 00:30:04,875 Speaker 1: think of any of those questions? Actually I did two 430 00:30:04,915 --> 00:30:09,195 Speaker 1: thy sixteen, in a very long article for Vanity Fair 431 00:30:09,195 --> 00:30:13,835 Speaker 1: and an even longer video for GQ. But Katie terrrist 432 00:30:13,835 --> 00:30:16,675 Speaker 1: segment on Trump's insanity was treated in some quarters as 433 00:30:16,675 --> 00:30:20,355 Speaker 1: some sort of burst of revelation, something new and daring 434 00:30:20,435 --> 00:30:23,915 Speaker 1: and insightful. I mean, hundreds of people, including a bunch 435 00:30:23,955 --> 00:30:28,155 Speaker 1: of psychological professionals, have written about Trump's insanity as long 436 00:30:28,195 --> 00:30:31,675 Speaker 1: ago as twenty fifteen. Hell George Conway wrote an article 437 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:34,875 Speaker 1: for it. I in The Atlantic, So long ago he 438 00:30:34,915 --> 00:30:39,835 Speaker 1: was still a Republican. It's like twenty nineteen. Now. Let 439 00:30:39,835 --> 00:30:42,315 Speaker 1: me just be clear here. It's annoying to me, But 440 00:30:42,355 --> 00:30:45,915 Speaker 1: I'm not complaining about the segment nor the credit Katie 441 00:30:45,915 --> 00:30:50,355 Speaker 1: got for it. I'm mentioning those things for context when 442 00:30:50,355 --> 00:30:52,395 Speaker 1: she and I were still talking, when she and I 443 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:55,475 Speaker 1: were still very good friends, before she deliberately lied to 444 00:30:55,515 --> 00:30:57,395 Speaker 1: me about the articles in the Washington Post and the 445 00:30:57,395 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: New York Times, and then she lied to the Washington 446 00:30:59,795 --> 00:31:02,315 Speaker 1: Post and the New York Times about me, claiming she 447 00:31:02,315 --> 00:31:04,915 Speaker 1: had asked me to talk to them about her, but 448 00:31:05,035 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 1: I had refused. Wildly untrue before I dropped her as 449 00:31:09,355 --> 00:31:12,035 Speaker 1: a friend and ghosted her. TERR and I talked about 450 00:31:12,075 --> 00:31:17,915 Speaker 1: Trump's mental instability starting in twenty fifteen, before I even 451 00:31:17,955 --> 00:31:21,115 Speaker 1: went public with it. I mean, every time we talked 452 00:31:21,235 --> 00:31:24,235 Speaker 1: or texted, this was one of the topics. And we 453 00:31:24,315 --> 00:31:27,755 Speaker 1: talked her texted about once a week, which included the 454 00:31:27,795 --> 00:31:30,995 Speaker 1: seven or eight months at NBC had her covering Trump's 455 00:31:30,995 --> 00:31:34,955 Speaker 1: campaign during nearly all of which Trump spent the time 456 00:31:35,075 --> 00:31:41,795 Speaker 1: trying to stochastically get somebody to kill her. Gosh, Katie, 457 00:31:41,835 --> 00:31:44,875 Speaker 1: is Donald Trump? Well? I don't know, Katie. Was he 458 00:31:44,955 --> 00:31:47,395 Speaker 1: well when he used to point at you at his 459 00:31:47,595 --> 00:31:51,475 Speaker 1: bund rallies and encourage his fascist mob to attack you 460 00:31:51,515 --> 00:31:55,555 Speaker 1: and you had to get Secret Service protection? And I 461 00:31:55,635 --> 00:31:58,595 Speaker 1: used to get those midnight emails and texts and phone 462 00:31:58,635 --> 00:32:00,915 Speaker 1: calls about this, And is there a reason you waited 463 00:32:00,955 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 1: ten years to do a segment on his insanity. Then 464 00:32:05,915 --> 00:32:10,315 Speaker 1: there's her husband, Tony Dacoppel, still defying the odds and 465 00:32:10,715 --> 00:32:14,155 Speaker 1: still remaining as the anchor of the CBS Evening News, 466 00:32:15,395 --> 00:32:18,355 Speaker 1: I mean, probably the last anchor of the CBS Evening 467 00:32:18,395 --> 00:32:21,435 Speaker 1: News before the Ellisons and Barry Weiss kill it off altogether. 468 00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:24,995 Speaker 1: Unless she fires him and puts in Sage Steel to 469 00:32:25,075 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: replace him. If you think I don't like Tony Dacoppel, 470 00:32:29,195 --> 00:32:33,315 Speaker 1: read the Columbia Journalism Review article on him. Man named 471 00:32:33,355 --> 00:32:36,355 Speaker 1: Amos Barshad is the writer, and he seems to do 472 00:32:36,435 --> 00:32:38,915 Speaker 1: a great job of keeping his own feelings out of this. 473 00:32:39,355 --> 00:32:43,235 Speaker 1: But the several dozen people he quotes pretty much don't. 474 00:32:43,675 --> 00:32:46,715 Speaker 1: I will spare you most of the gory details they provide, 475 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,995 Speaker 1: but I am indebted to mister Barshad for including a 476 00:32:50,035 --> 00:32:52,195 Speaker 1: fact that I have known for a while, but I 477 00:32:52,235 --> 00:32:55,635 Speaker 1: have felt uneasy about bringing up myself, namely that Tonyda 478 00:32:55,635 --> 00:32:58,715 Speaker 1: Coppel has two kids from a previous marriage and those 479 00:32:58,835 --> 00:33:04,675 Speaker 1: kids live in Israel. Now, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, obviously, 480 00:33:05,675 --> 00:33:09,835 Speaker 1: unless your boss, Barry Wise selected you for your job 481 00:33:10,315 --> 00:33:13,555 Speaker 1: because you have kids who live in Israel, or because 482 00:33:13,675 --> 00:33:16,875 Speaker 1: she believes you have tailored your approach to news on 483 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: American television to make it more supportive of the Israeli government, 484 00:33:22,355 --> 00:33:24,955 Speaker 1: then it's a problem. Whether they're a kids or an 485 00:33:24,955 --> 00:33:29,315 Speaker 1: ex wife or not. Anyway, the second fact is just 486 00:33:29,355 --> 00:33:32,395 Speaker 1: way more fun. I didn't know this. I don't know 487 00:33:32,435 --> 00:33:35,515 Speaker 1: why I didn't know this. I'm ashamed. Let me. Quote 488 00:33:35,515 --> 00:33:39,315 Speaker 1: from the piece. Jessica Bennett, now a contributing writer at 489 00:33:39,395 --> 00:33:43,595 Speaker 1: New York Magazine, worked there alongside to Koppel. Tony has 490 00:33:43,635 --> 00:33:46,275 Speaker 1: a great head of hair, she said. We used to 491 00:33:46,315 --> 00:33:49,475 Speaker 1: mock him for being too pretty for print. In fact, 492 00:33:49,595 --> 00:33:53,315 Speaker 1: prior to his professional journalism career, to Copol head stints 493 00:33:53,835 --> 00:33:59,555 Speaker 1: as a part time hair model. First of all, I 494 00:33:59,675 --> 00:34:05,475 Speaker 1: do have a question about sentence construction. Part time hair model? 495 00:34:05,955 --> 00:34:09,235 Speaker 1: Is that someone who occasionally models hair? Or is that 496 00:34:09,275 --> 00:34:14,595 Speaker 1: somebody whose hair is only their part time? Mister Trump, 497 00:34:15,915 --> 00:34:18,915 Speaker 1: what's shocking here? Isn't that a TV figure? My friend 498 00:34:18,955 --> 00:34:21,555 Speaker 1: John Madden, the late John Madden from football, used to 499 00:34:21,595 --> 00:34:24,755 Speaker 1: derisively refer to the ones he didn't like, especially a 500 00:34:24,795 --> 00:34:30,675 Speaker 1: primary CBS sports anchor. As quote Hairdooes, It's not shocking 501 00:34:30,715 --> 00:34:33,235 Speaker 1: that a TV figure has had stints as a part 502 00:34:33,315 --> 00:34:37,595 Speaker 1: time hair model. So what Tony Diacoppel was a hair model? 503 00:34:38,195 --> 00:34:40,395 Speaker 1: My shock comes from the use of the past tense. 504 00:34:40,555 --> 00:34:44,595 Speaker 1: What do you mean he was a hair model? The 505 00:34:44,675 --> 00:34:48,755 Speaker 1: runner up worser a Navy commander Commander Tim Parlatry, special 506 00:34:48,795 --> 00:34:52,795 Speaker 1: advisor to Secretary of Gambling on wars. He started brill Cream. 507 00:34:52,915 --> 00:34:56,555 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. You will recall. The New York Times and 508 00:34:56,675 --> 00:34:59,875 Speaker 1: other news outlets sued Pete Hegseth and the Department of 509 00:34:59,915 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 1: the All New Spanish Inquisition for censoring news reporting on 510 00:35:04,795 --> 00:35:09,275 Speaker 1: to Gani type stuff, and the court ruled against Crusader Rabbit. 511 00:35:09,315 --> 00:35:13,915 Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. Commander Parlatory then whined to Eric Wemple of 512 00:35:13,915 --> 00:35:17,115 Speaker 1: The New York Times about this. Parlatory said the Times 513 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:22,075 Speaker 1: had prevailed in the lawsuit because of quote creative misinterpretations 514 00:35:22,155 --> 00:35:25,875 Speaker 1: by the New York Times lawyers. Wemple said that to him, 515 00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: it sounded like the Pentagon was trying to throttle investigative reporting. 516 00:35:29,715 --> 00:35:34,195 Speaker 1: Parlatori responded, quote asking somebody to provide top secret information 517 00:35:34,515 --> 00:35:37,635 Speaker 1: is the way I see it now. If his name 518 00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:44,715 Speaker 1: sounds familiar, Tim Parlatory, Commander Tim Parlatory, it should. He's 519 00:35:44,755 --> 00:35:47,595 Speaker 1: back in the Navy now that permits him to work 520 00:35:47,635 --> 00:35:51,115 Speaker 1: for Hegseth at the Bar. I'm sorry work for Hegseth 521 00:35:51,195 --> 00:35:55,035 Speaker 1: at the Pentagon. But four years ago, Parlatori was Trump's 522 00:35:55,315 --> 00:35:59,635 Speaker 1: first lawyer handling the FBI search at marri Lago after 523 00:35:59,675 --> 00:36:03,035 Speaker 1: Trump got himself charged under the Espionage Act for taking 524 00:36:03,075 --> 00:36:06,115 Speaker 1: and keeping classified documents that we now learn may have 525 00:36:06,155 --> 00:36:10,155 Speaker 1: been useful to him in business. Then Parlatory quit. He 526 00:36:10,275 --> 00:36:13,595 Speaker 1: briefly was a CNN analyst, and now he's in the Navy. 527 00:36:14,515 --> 00:36:16,755 Speaker 1: But I'm sure that in the CNN post and in 528 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:21,915 Speaker 1: the Navy job, he's not lying for Trump again. But 529 00:36:22,035 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: the winner Ronda White anyway, that's the name on a 530 00:36:25,435 --> 00:36:28,035 Speaker 1: thread's account with the handle at a New Day twenty 531 00:36:28,075 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: twenty six, Ronda White has a placeholder gray avatar the 532 00:36:32,715 --> 00:36:35,995 Speaker 1: large circle with the small circle sitting above it representing 533 00:36:36,035 --> 00:36:39,595 Speaker 1: the head. However, based on what Ronda wrote, it is 534 00:36:39,635 --> 00:36:42,235 Speaker 1: possible this is not a placeholder avatar, but in fact 535 00:36:42,395 --> 00:36:46,035 Speaker 1: an actual photo of her. One other note as preface, 536 00:36:46,315 --> 00:36:50,355 Speaker 1: whether sock puppet or shill or foreign clickbait farmer or bot. 537 00:36:50,795 --> 00:36:55,355 Speaker 1: Ronda doesn't try very hard permit me to read this 538 00:36:55,435 --> 00:36:59,395 Speaker 1: in its entirety from threads. I just listened to Corey 539 00:36:59,435 --> 00:37:02,275 Speaker 1: Booker speak on Meet the Press. He has such a 540 00:37:02,315 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: positive attitude ad diitude that the left and right can 541 00:37:07,755 --> 00:37:11,035 Speaker 1: come together and form new ideas to move our country forward. 542 00:37:11,515 --> 00:37:14,395 Speaker 1: He just wrote his second book. His new book out 543 00:37:14,475 --> 00:37:18,875 Speaker 1: is called Stand. I researched his education in political science 544 00:37:18,875 --> 00:37:23,555 Speaker 1: from Strafford and a master's in sociology. Am I the 545 00:37:23,595 --> 00:37:29,115 Speaker 1: only one out there that is impressed with Corey Booker Ronda? 546 00:37:29,315 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: Short answer yes. Also in addition to that word attitude, 547 00:37:36,075 --> 00:37:42,995 Speaker 1: starting with add his education at Strafford, you say Striford. 548 00:37:43,395 --> 00:37:49,235 Speaker 1: In this country we call that university Stanford. Now that 549 00:37:49,395 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: Ronda has been found out, watch her dump Corey book 550 00:37:52,315 --> 00:37:58,315 Speaker 1: tour and move on to instead support Ram am Manuel, Ronda, 551 00:37:58,675 --> 00:38:01,715 Speaker 1: you may be impressed with Corey Booker, Ronda, but not 552 00:38:01,795 --> 00:38:05,435 Speaker 1: as impressed as Corey Booker is impressed with Corey book White. 553 00:38:05,715 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: Two Days Worst person in the World h Sometime on Wednesday, 554 00:38:34,075 --> 00:38:37,515 Speaker 1: September twelfth, two thousand and seven, I began to feel bad, 555 00:38:38,675 --> 00:38:42,475 Speaker 1: all strained on my right side. But my girlfriend at 556 00:38:42,475 --> 00:38:45,035 Speaker 1: the time, Katie Turr, and I had just moved only 557 00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:47,115 Speaker 1: a few weeks before into our new apartment, and I 558 00:38:47,195 --> 00:38:49,475 Speaker 1: was still pushing boxes around and I thought I'd just 559 00:38:49,515 --> 00:38:53,955 Speaker 1: strained something. The next morning, the thirteenth, I was still 560 00:38:53,995 --> 00:38:56,635 Speaker 1: feeling like crap, but now my stomach also hurt, and 561 00:38:56,675 --> 00:39:00,155 Speaker 1: I thought I was bloated or constipated or something, and 562 00:39:00,395 --> 00:39:02,475 Speaker 1: maybe some sit ups would help. And actually they felt 563 00:39:02,515 --> 00:39:05,595 Speaker 1: like they had relieved some of the pressure, and Katie's father, 564 00:39:05,635 --> 00:39:08,715 Speaker 1: who was among many many things in EMT, happened to 565 00:39:08,715 --> 00:39:10,595 Speaker 1: be in town. He gave me a vicot in or something, 566 00:39:10,595 --> 00:39:12,115 Speaker 1: and I took a nap and went into work a 567 00:39:12,115 --> 00:39:14,795 Speaker 1: little later than usual at MSNBC, which I could get 568 00:39:14,835 --> 00:39:18,355 Speaker 1: away with that day because President Bush was speaking that night, 569 00:39:18,395 --> 00:39:20,515 Speaker 1: and almost all of my work that night would be 570 00:39:20,555 --> 00:39:23,955 Speaker 1: ad libbed before his speech, and then after his speech. 571 00:39:24,755 --> 00:39:26,795 Speaker 1: I wrote what I needed to write quickly, and at 572 00:39:26,835 --> 00:39:29,515 Speaker 1: about seven fifteen I went out to the show line 573 00:39:29,555 --> 00:39:32,755 Speaker 1: producer Greg Kordick, who sat in exactly the right place 574 00:39:33,155 --> 00:39:34,875 Speaker 1: that he could make certain that I had left for 575 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:37,835 Speaker 1: makeup and was going to the studio on time. I 576 00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:40,795 Speaker 1: had to walk right past him, and I said, I'm exhausted. 577 00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:42,355 Speaker 1: I'm just going to close my eyes at my desk 578 00:39:42,395 --> 00:39:44,035 Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. If you don't see me 579 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:46,595 Speaker 1: go pass by like seven forty, come in and wake 580 00:39:46,715 --> 00:39:49,315 Speaker 1: me up. And I sat down and put my legs 581 00:39:49,395 --> 00:39:51,675 Speaker 1: up on my desk. I folded my hands behind my 582 00:39:51,755 --> 00:39:53,995 Speaker 1: head and I just closed my eyes, more to rest 583 00:39:54,075 --> 00:39:56,315 Speaker 1: my eyes than in any real hope of sleeping. I 584 00:39:56,355 --> 00:39:58,795 Speaker 1: am a fickle sleeper. There's not a chance I could 585 00:39:58,795 --> 00:40:01,915 Speaker 1: snooze like that. Next day, I know, it's seven forty 586 00:40:01,955 --> 00:40:05,555 Speaker 1: and I'm feeling somebody shaking me and seriously a hand 587 00:40:05,595 --> 00:40:08,835 Speaker 1: on each shoulder. Apparently it took mister Cordick a little 588 00:40:08,835 --> 00:40:10,875 Speaker 1: while to wake me up, and I thanked Greg and 589 00:40:10,875 --> 00:40:12,755 Speaker 1: staggered to the makeup room and I realized now I 590 00:40:12,755 --> 00:40:14,875 Speaker 1: had a little fever, but it was too late to 591 00:40:14,915 --> 00:40:17,595 Speaker 1: do anything about it. So I got my makeup, went 592 00:40:17,635 --> 00:40:19,955 Speaker 1: to the set, did the lead into Bush's speech, took 593 00:40:19,995 --> 00:40:22,115 Speaker 1: some notes during it, did the post speech wrap up 594 00:40:22,155 --> 00:40:24,115 Speaker 1: with the analysts, and after two hours on the air, 595 00:40:24,355 --> 00:40:25,995 Speaker 1: I got in the car that they sent for me 596 00:40:26,035 --> 00:40:29,435 Speaker 1: to go home to New York from New Jersey, and 597 00:40:29,475 --> 00:40:32,915 Speaker 1: I fell asleep again in the car. I still thought, 598 00:40:32,915 --> 00:40:37,275 Speaker 1: this is some weird stomach flu and I'm bloated beyond belief, 599 00:40:37,315 --> 00:40:39,075 Speaker 1: and I really don't feel good. But I bet that's 600 00:40:39,115 --> 00:40:41,715 Speaker 1: just from listening to George W. Bush one time too many. 601 00:40:42,595 --> 00:40:45,835 Speaker 1: I'll just go to bed. I found it was too 602 00:40:45,835 --> 00:40:48,755 Speaker 1: difficult to lie on my stomach or my side, which 603 00:40:48,755 --> 00:40:51,515 Speaker 1: presented a problem because rarely can I fall asleep on 604 00:40:51,555 --> 00:40:54,875 Speaker 1: my back. But I had to try, and the next 605 00:40:54,915 --> 00:40:59,475 Speaker 1: thing I knew it was morning. I slept like a stone, 606 00:41:00,035 --> 00:41:02,435 Speaker 1: but I still felt really bad, in fact, a little 607 00:41:02,435 --> 00:41:06,635 Speaker 1: bit worse. On top of all which Katie was yelling 608 00:41:06,675 --> 00:41:09,395 Speaker 1: at me about something. And I had a check up 609 00:41:09,395 --> 00:41:11,835 Speaker 1: for something unrelated at my doctor's office, and I left 610 00:41:12,195 --> 00:41:14,635 Speaker 1: early so I could go buy something for the constipation. 611 00:41:15,115 --> 00:41:17,115 Speaker 1: And then when my doctor called me and he said, 612 00:41:17,315 --> 00:41:19,755 Speaker 1: you look terrible. Are you okay? And I said, n 613 00:41:19,875 --> 00:41:22,715 Speaker 1: I got this really sore stomach and the last time 614 00:41:22,715 --> 00:41:24,355 Speaker 1: I had this fever for a while, and he kind 615 00:41:24,395 --> 00:41:26,955 Speaker 1: of gasped, and now he looked terrible, and he said, 616 00:41:27,515 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: when was the last time you ate? I said, you know, funny, 617 00:41:31,395 --> 00:41:34,155 Speaker 1: I haven't thought about food for a couple of days. 618 00:41:34,355 --> 00:41:36,155 Speaker 1: And then he asked me when was the last time 619 00:41:36,195 --> 00:41:38,395 Speaker 1: that happened? And I said when I was in the womb, 620 00:41:39,635 --> 00:41:41,195 Speaker 1: and he had me stand up and he pushed his 621 00:41:41,195 --> 00:41:43,755 Speaker 1: finger into my stomach about five inches to the right 622 00:41:43,795 --> 00:41:46,875 Speaker 1: of my navel, and holding the finger there, he said, 623 00:41:46,915 --> 00:41:49,875 Speaker 1: does this hurt? And I said not at all? And 624 00:41:49,915 --> 00:41:51,715 Speaker 1: then he said does it hurt now? As I take 625 00:41:51,755 --> 00:41:53,835 Speaker 1: my finger away. And I don't remember if I said 626 00:41:53,875 --> 00:41:56,275 Speaker 1: anything or not, because I saw the proverbial stars in 627 00:41:56,275 --> 00:41:58,275 Speaker 1: front of my eyes, and I let out a scream. 628 00:41:58,955 --> 00:42:01,275 Speaker 1: So he said, get back in your car, and you 629 00:42:01,355 --> 00:42:03,395 Speaker 1: go to our other office at fifty ninth and tenth 630 00:42:03,435 --> 00:42:05,995 Speaker 1: and go see our gastrosp And I said, sure, just 631 00:42:05,995 --> 00:42:07,755 Speaker 1: don't poke me again. And when I got there, they 632 00:42:07,755 --> 00:42:09,875 Speaker 1: showed me right in and she taps me and she says, 633 00:42:09,915 --> 00:42:12,275 Speaker 1: why are you hunched over like that? And I said 634 00:42:12,315 --> 00:42:14,755 Speaker 1: I'm hunched over And she says, if you haven't eaten 635 00:42:14,755 --> 00:42:16,755 Speaker 1: in two days, how come your stomach is hard? Is 636 00:42:16,795 --> 00:42:20,075 Speaker 1: a rock? And I said, is this a medical quiz? 637 00:42:20,115 --> 00:42:22,595 Speaker 1: Because you're the doctor, And she says, I want you 638 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:24,995 Speaker 1: to go across the street to the hospital emergency room. 639 00:42:25,275 --> 00:42:28,195 Speaker 1: I'll call them while you're walking. Just go right in 640 00:42:28,235 --> 00:42:30,915 Speaker 1: and tell them you're the one doctor Lou called about, 641 00:42:30,955 --> 00:42:34,315 Speaker 1: because boy, your appendix burst. And although I think you'll 642 00:42:34,355 --> 00:42:38,675 Speaker 1: be fine, technically you've got about oh eight, ten twelve 643 00:42:38,755 --> 00:42:43,275 Speaker 1: hours to live. Well, that got my attention, and as 644 00:42:43,315 --> 00:42:46,435 Speaker 1: I'm grabbing my jacket my bag, I say, wait, if 645 00:42:46,435 --> 00:42:48,875 Speaker 1: this isn't just constipation, how come it felt better when 646 00:42:48,915 --> 00:42:50,955 Speaker 1: I did the sit ups? And she says, because when 647 00:42:50,955 --> 00:42:53,755 Speaker 1: you did the sit ups, you only had an infected 648 00:42:53,795 --> 00:42:56,995 Speaker 1: appendix that was going to burst when you did the 649 00:42:56,995 --> 00:43:01,955 Speaker 1: sit ups, dummy, that's when the appendix burst. You burst it. 650 00:43:02,075 --> 00:43:05,355 Speaker 1: So I said, wait, I went on t for two 651 00:43:05,355 --> 00:43:11,435 Speaker 1: hours after my appendix first shut up. She explained she 652 00:43:11,555 --> 00:43:13,835 Speaker 1: was right. The r people saw me immediately. They ran 653 00:43:13,875 --> 00:43:15,595 Speaker 1: a bunch of tests and reminded me that if I 654 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:17,635 Speaker 1: hadn't already, I should probably call him sick for a 655 00:43:17,675 --> 00:43:20,435 Speaker 1: couple of days. And I said, wait, what day is today? 656 00:43:20,675 --> 00:43:23,275 Speaker 1: And they helped out and they said Friday. So I 657 00:43:23,315 --> 00:43:25,755 Speaker 1: called MSNBC, and I called the producer of Football Night 658 00:43:25,795 --> 00:43:27,995 Speaker 1: in America, which I was doing for NBC on Sundays, 659 00:43:28,035 --> 00:43:30,995 Speaker 1: and I said, hey, sorry, looks like I'm technically dying 660 00:43:31,195 --> 00:43:34,515 Speaker 1: from a burst appendix. And they're going to operate on 661 00:43:34,555 --> 00:43:36,315 Speaker 1: me as soon as they can get a surgeon in here. 662 00:43:36,315 --> 00:43:38,435 Speaker 1: And they say it's real unlikely I'll be out of 663 00:43:38,475 --> 00:43:41,195 Speaker 1: the hospital by Sunday or Monday. Have a nice day. 664 00:43:42,155 --> 00:43:44,075 Speaker 1: I called Katie, who had already gotten to her job 665 00:43:44,115 --> 00:43:46,875 Speaker 1: in local cable news in Brooklyn, and she turned around 666 00:43:46,875 --> 00:43:48,835 Speaker 1: to come help me out at the hospital. And then 667 00:43:48,875 --> 00:43:52,875 Speaker 1: I just waited and got Goofyer and Goofier and Goofier 668 00:43:53,595 --> 00:43:57,675 Speaker 1: and Goofier I think they operated around seven or eight PM. 669 00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:00,755 Speaker 1: The surgeon introduced himself. He was a big sports fan, 670 00:44:01,155 --> 00:44:06,155 Speaker 1: Fred Kimmelsteele, the surgeon named by prophetic parent. Yes. And 671 00:44:06,235 --> 00:44:08,635 Speaker 1: I went to the anesthesiologist and I warned him. I 672 00:44:08,675 --> 00:44:11,595 Speaker 1: said I'd once woken up from anesthesia during an endoscopy 673 00:44:11,635 --> 00:44:13,675 Speaker 1: and could he make sure that that didn't happen again. 674 00:44:15,315 --> 00:44:16,795 Speaker 1: In fact, I said that the other day when I 675 00:44:16,795 --> 00:44:19,115 Speaker 1: had my knee operated on, and this guy did the 676 00:44:19,115 --> 00:44:21,995 Speaker 1: same thing. They both of these anesthesiologists just laughed when 677 00:44:22,035 --> 00:44:24,155 Speaker 1: I challenged them to knock me out a little bit harder. 678 00:44:25,035 --> 00:44:28,515 Speaker 1: So doctor Kimmelsteele asked me about the latest met choke job. 679 00:44:28,635 --> 00:44:30,235 Speaker 1: Miss is the one in two thousand and seven, not 680 00:44:30,275 --> 00:44:32,235 Speaker 1: the one in twenty twenty two, And I started to 681 00:44:32,275 --> 00:44:33,995 Speaker 1: talk about David Wright, and the next thing I knew, 682 00:44:33,995 --> 00:44:36,115 Speaker 1: I was freezing cold and trying to open my eyes. 683 00:44:36,195 --> 00:44:38,515 Speaker 1: And it was three hours later and the surgery was over. 684 00:44:38,715 --> 00:44:41,075 Speaker 1: What a mess, said Doctor kimmel Steel. Never had one 685 00:44:41,075 --> 00:44:43,915 Speaker 1: that bad before. Thank God, it absesss. You'll be here 686 00:44:43,955 --> 00:44:47,955 Speaker 1: all weekend And I was the next day. They made 687 00:44:47,955 --> 00:44:49,235 Speaker 1: me get out of bed, and I think it took 688 00:44:49,235 --> 00:44:52,235 Speaker 1: me half an hour to walk about twenty feet down 689 00:44:52,275 --> 00:44:55,355 Speaker 1: the hallway and back, and there was a morphine drip 690 00:44:55,755 --> 00:44:58,795 Speaker 1: and a new bag of intravenous antibiotics every two hours, 691 00:44:58,795 --> 00:45:01,475 Speaker 1: and at one point the phone rang and I really 692 00:45:01,475 --> 00:45:03,675 Speaker 1: did have to go back the following weekend ask the 693 00:45:03,715 --> 00:45:06,795 Speaker 1: producer of this actually happened or I merely hallucinated it. 694 00:45:07,475 --> 00:45:09,275 Speaker 1: But the phone rang, and it was the football night 695 00:45:09,275 --> 00:45:10,755 Speaker 1: in America people, and they said they were going to 696 00:45:10,795 --> 00:45:14,115 Speaker 1: shoot video of the hospital I was in and I said, 697 00:45:14,155 --> 00:45:15,955 Speaker 1: I don't think you can see me from the street, 698 00:45:16,275 --> 00:45:18,315 Speaker 1: and they said, right, we know that we're just pretty 699 00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:20,675 Speaker 1: much doing this for a laugh at your expense while 700 00:45:20,675 --> 00:45:23,355 Speaker 1: you're in the hospital and we're on TV. And then 701 00:45:23,395 --> 00:45:25,635 Speaker 1: finally my appetite came back on Monday and I was 702 00:45:25,675 --> 00:45:27,635 Speaker 1: able to eat some pancakes and they sent me home 703 00:45:27,635 --> 00:45:30,275 Speaker 1: in the afternoon. And for two days after that, I 704 00:45:30,315 --> 00:45:32,835 Speaker 1: was still sweating out the poisons and the antibiotics and 705 00:45:32,835 --> 00:45:34,995 Speaker 1: the painkillers, and I mean I was so warm I 706 00:45:35,075 --> 00:45:38,955 Speaker 1: could not bear to have a shirt on. But by Thursday, 707 00:45:38,995 --> 00:45:40,475 Speaker 1: I was able to go back to work, and just 708 00:45:40,515 --> 00:45:43,875 Speaker 1: to show off, I wrote a special comment about Bush 709 00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:47,595 Speaker 1: from my first show back. I was extremely pleased with myself. 710 00:45:48,835 --> 00:45:52,435 Speaker 1: Now there are three postscripts to this. Now, obviously I learned, 711 00:45:52,435 --> 00:45:55,435 Speaker 1: and I've just taught you the test for appendicitis or 712 00:45:55,475 --> 00:45:58,555 Speaker 1: a burst appendix. If you poke it and it doesn't 713 00:45:58,595 --> 00:46:03,835 Speaker 1: hurt until you stop poking it, it's your appendix. Fat 714 00:46:03,875 --> 00:46:05,915 Speaker 1: lot of good that'll do me. Now I don't have 715 00:46:05,955 --> 00:46:10,555 Speaker 1: an appendix. Second weeks later, I was at dinner with 716 00:46:10,595 --> 00:46:13,355 Speaker 1: my friend John Clees from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and 717 00:46:13,395 --> 00:46:16,195 Speaker 1: he said he'd heard the story about my appendix and 718 00:46:16,235 --> 00:46:18,995 Speaker 1: he was very upset with me. I did the exact 719 00:46:19,035 --> 00:46:21,795 Speaker 1: same thing. John said, it blew up, and for two 720 00:46:21,915 --> 00:46:24,235 Speaker 1: days I had no idea how serious it was. Thought 721 00:46:24,275 --> 00:46:27,275 Speaker 1: it was a cold. But don't kill people that don't 722 00:46:27,395 --> 00:46:30,555 Speaker 1: undersell it and call it a burst appendix. You and 723 00:46:30,635 --> 00:46:36,755 Speaker 1: I we were both dying of septaceemia. Never let anybody 724 00:46:36,795 --> 00:46:43,155 Speaker 1: forget that, and I haven't. And the last and best 725 00:46:43,195 --> 00:46:46,235 Speaker 1: PostScript was, while I'm lying there recovering after the surgery, 726 00:46:46,275 --> 00:46:48,595 Speaker 1: the phone rings and it's my executive producer and she says, 727 00:46:48,635 --> 00:46:51,955 Speaker 1: good news. When you anchored before and after Bush's speech 728 00:46:53,155 --> 00:46:57,195 Speaker 1: and you got sick, or after you got sick, you 729 00:46:57,275 --> 00:46:59,915 Speaker 1: beat CNN in the ratings by like twenty five percent, 730 00:47:00,835 --> 00:47:03,555 Speaker 1: and as Stone on them painkillers. As I might have been, 731 00:47:03,635 --> 00:47:06,875 Speaker 1: I was still able to say I beat CNN. I 732 00:47:06,995 --> 00:47:23,715 Speaker 1: beat CNN with one appendix tide behind my back. I've 733 00:47:23,715 --> 00:47:25,515 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 734 00:47:25,555 --> 00:47:32,195 Speaker 1: for listening. I swear to God EPs PM. Our musical 735 00:47:32,195 --> 00:47:34,995 Speaker 1: directors have Countdown or John Phillips Chanel on keyboards and 736 00:47:35,035 --> 00:47:38,195 Speaker 1: handling the orchestration, and Brian Ray on the guitars, bass 737 00:47:38,235 --> 00:47:42,635 Speaker 1: and drums. Their work is produced by Tko Brothers. Nancy Faust, 738 00:47:42,635 --> 00:47:45,715 Speaker 1: who is the best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible 739 00:47:45,755 --> 00:47:49,795 Speaker 1: for the satirical and pithy musical comments when we play 740 00:47:49,835 --> 00:47:52,835 Speaker 1: the sports music. It's from the old Olberman Show on 741 00:47:53,115 --> 00:47:56,275 Speaker 1: ESPN two. The theme was written by Mitch Warren Davis 742 00:47:56,355 --> 00:47:59,955 Speaker 1: and at appears Curtisy VESPN Inc. Other music arranged and 743 00:48:00,035 --> 00:48:02,715 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer 744 00:48:02,715 --> 00:48:07,155 Speaker 1: today is my friend Johnny Banks. This program was produced 745 00:48:07,155 --> 00:48:13,275 Speaker 1: by Ted and Stevie and Rose and Kit. Everything else 746 00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:16,635 Speaker 1: was is always my fault. That's Countdown for today, Day 747 00:48:16,635 --> 00:48:19,515 Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty eight. If America held hostage again 748 00:48:20,115 --> 00:48:23,395 Speaker 1: just one and twenty five days until the scheduled end 749 00:48:23,435 --> 00:48:26,475 Speaker 1: of his lame duck and lame brained term, unless he's 750 00:48:26,515 --> 00:48:33,395 Speaker 1: removed sooner by Epstein and all balloons everywhere. The next 751 00:48:33,435 --> 00:48:37,035 Speaker 1: scheduled countdown is Monday. Bulletins is the news merits until 752 00:48:37,035 --> 00:48:39,555 Speaker 1: the next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, 753 00:48:39,875 --> 00:48:44,475 Speaker 1: good night, and also I might have hit the post 754 00:48:44,555 --> 00:49:10,315 Speaker 1: hit the post. Good Luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is 755 00:49:10,355 --> 00:49:15,155 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 756 00:49:15,195 --> 00:49:19,875 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.