1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:20,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:20,515 --> 00:00:23,915 Speaker 1: obvious problem with General John Kelly going on the record 3 00:00:23,955 --> 00:00:27,475 Speaker 1: and saying, yes, I heard Trump say quote I need 4 00:00:27,515 --> 00:00:30,315 Speaker 1: the kind of generals that Hitler had is that a 5 00:00:30,475 --> 00:00:35,195 Speaker 1: huge number of his supporters will applaud this. And the 6 00:00:35,235 --> 00:00:38,115 Speaker 1: obvious problem with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic quoting those 7 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:41,075 Speaker 1: who were there and notes taken at the meeting as 8 00:00:41,075 --> 00:00:43,715 Speaker 1: Trump was told the cost of the funeral he had 9 00:00:43,715 --> 00:00:46,715 Speaker 1: offered to pay for for a murdered US soldier named 10 00:00:46,795 --> 00:00:51,235 Speaker 1: Vanessa Gien, and Trump screamed, quote, it doesn't cost sixty 11 00:00:51,315 --> 00:00:55,235 Speaker 1: thousand bucks to bury an e fing Mexican, don't pay 12 00:00:55,275 --> 00:00:59,035 Speaker 1: it is that even more of Trump's supporters will applaud that, 13 00:01:00,315 --> 00:01:05,795 Speaker 1: because the real disgusting, nauseating truth behind the revelations in 14 00:01:05,835 --> 00:01:08,915 Speaker 1: the Goldberg Atlantic piece is that it touches the third 15 00:01:08,955 --> 00:01:13,315 Speaker 1: and fourth rails of Donald Trump's America. Many of his 16 00:01:13,475 --> 00:01:17,795 Speaker 1: people believe whoever is in charge should be supported by 17 00:01:18,155 --> 00:01:21,075 Speaker 1: and in fact kept in power by the kind of 18 00:01:21,195 --> 00:01:25,435 Speaker 1: generals Hitler had. The anti Semites and the Trump cult 19 00:01:25,475 --> 00:01:29,155 Speaker 1: love it, obviously, and the ones who aren't anti Semites 20 00:01:29,275 --> 00:01:32,955 Speaker 1: just authoritarians love it, obviously, even if they're queasy about 21 00:01:32,955 --> 00:01:36,195 Speaker 1: the anti Semitism and the ones who aren't anti Semites 22 00:01:36,755 --> 00:01:40,475 Speaker 1: and aren't authoritarians but have always just secretly believed the 23 00:01:40,475 --> 00:01:45,715 Speaker 1: word democracy was merely another brand name or flavor of government. 24 00:01:45,955 --> 00:01:48,555 Speaker 1: They love it because it posits a kind of America 25 00:01:48,675 --> 00:01:52,715 Speaker 1: not just where might makes right, but where only might 26 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: makes right, and where only whites have might. And if 27 00:01:58,435 --> 00:02:01,995 Speaker 1: there is anybody missing from the Trump coalition of evil, 28 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:06,115 Speaker 1: anybody who isn't inspired by the kind of generals that 29 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: Hitler had, they are certainly covered by It doesn't cost 30 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:14,795 Speaker 1: sixty thousand bucks to bury an effing Mexican. Because if 31 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:19,915 Speaker 1: violence and militarism are the Trumpian third rail, racism and 32 00:02:19,955 --> 00:02:25,475 Speaker 1: specifically anti Hispanic racism are the Trumpian fourth rail. The 33 00:02:25,515 --> 00:02:28,355 Speaker 1: rest of us have danced around this reality because the 34 00:02:28,395 --> 00:02:32,115 Speaker 1: alternative is to recognize just how much larger it is 35 00:02:32,355 --> 00:02:35,355 Speaker 1: than we want to believe in our worst moments, just 36 00:02:35,435 --> 00:02:39,395 Speaker 1: how much racism still seeps into the brains not just 37 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:42,475 Speaker 1: of the Trumpsts, but of some of the moderates we know, 38 00:02:42,835 --> 00:02:46,315 Speaker 1: and even some of the liberals we know. But since 39 00:02:46,395 --> 00:02:50,715 Speaker 1: Trump came down that escalator so excited by what he 40 00:02:50,875 --> 00:02:54,355 Speaker 1: was about to say, denigrating immigrants and Mexicans, that he 41 00:02:54,555 --> 00:02:59,475 Speaker 1: almost bothered to move and walk rather than just stand 42 00:02:59,555 --> 00:03:04,835 Speaker 1: there in gelatinous pride and ride down the escalator. That's 43 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: that moment. This has not been about undocumented immigration or 44 00:03:09,115 --> 00:03:14,595 Speaker 1: even illegal aliens. It's been entirely about Hispanics. In exactly 45 00:03:14,635 --> 00:03:17,235 Speaker 1: the same way the first two hundred years of our 46 00:03:17,315 --> 00:03:21,395 Speaker 1: history was at route entirely about African Americans. And the 47 00:03:21,475 --> 00:03:26,395 Speaker 1: reason we have never solved this Hispanic immigration crisis, the 48 00:03:26,475 --> 00:03:31,155 Speaker 1: reason the Republicans have made sure for forty goddamned years 49 00:03:31,395 --> 00:03:34,795 Speaker 1: that there always has been an immigration crisis and always 50 00:03:34,835 --> 00:03:38,755 Speaker 1: will be an immigration crisis, was to give their people 51 00:03:39,235 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: somebody to hate. Only Trump, after a life in which 52 00:03:44,835 --> 00:03:49,115 Speaker 1: he inexplicably was not killed by some kid at NIMA, 53 00:03:49,195 --> 00:03:52,635 Speaker 1: the New York Military Academy who snapped after being dangled 54 00:03:52,635 --> 00:03:55,955 Speaker 1: out a window by Trump one time too many, or 55 00:03:55,955 --> 00:03:59,755 Speaker 1: he wasn't killed by somebody else's husband, or he wasn't 56 00:03:59,835 --> 00:04:03,915 Speaker 1: killed by drugs or disco or whatever in the seventies, 57 00:04:04,235 --> 00:04:06,875 Speaker 1: a life in which he started by believing he was 58 00:04:07,035 --> 00:04:10,835 Speaker 1: immortal and untouchable and that there were no consequences, but 59 00:04:10,915 --> 00:04:14,155 Speaker 1: he got worse from there. Only Trump would have been 60 00:04:14,315 --> 00:04:19,195 Speaker 1: stupid enough to tear up this exquisite stitching of the 61 00:04:19,315 --> 00:04:24,955 Speaker 1: quilt of excuses for why the immigration crisis wasn't actually 62 00:04:25,035 --> 00:04:28,315 Speaker 1: an immigration crisis, but just an excuse to let the 63 00:04:28,355 --> 00:04:32,435 Speaker 1: pasty white folks hate the brown people and blame them 64 00:04:32,715 --> 00:04:35,315 Speaker 1: and abuse them, and all the while make sure that 65 00:04:35,355 --> 00:04:39,315 Speaker 1: there never really was any significant change to the importation 66 00:04:39,475 --> 00:04:43,195 Speaker 1: of migrant labor from Mexico and Latin America. Hell, let's 67 00:04:43,275 --> 00:04:46,595 Speaker 1: drop the euphemisms. There never really was any significant change 68 00:04:46,675 --> 00:04:50,275 Speaker 1: to the importation of virtual slave labor from Mexico and 69 00:04:50,395 --> 00:04:53,275 Speaker 1: Latin America and Puerto Rico for that matter, because they 70 00:04:53,355 --> 00:04:57,955 Speaker 1: actually tried that once in the state of Georgia thirteen 71 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:02,595 Speaker 1: years ago. They promised roundups, they did some deportations, and 72 00:05:02,635 --> 00:05:07,795 Speaker 1: guess what, all the the people in this country in Georgia, 73 00:05:07,835 --> 00:05:11,355 Speaker 1: without documentation, got the hell out of Georgia before the 74 00:05:11,355 --> 00:05:14,035 Speaker 1: deadline and went and worked the farms in other states, 75 00:05:14,195 --> 00:05:17,635 Speaker 1: and something like three hundred million dollars worth of Georgia 76 00:05:17,675 --> 00:05:21,555 Speaker 1: crops rotted in the fields because guess who would not 77 00:05:21,715 --> 00:05:24,915 Speaker 1: harvest it? The fat, stupid white people in Georgia who 78 00:05:24,915 --> 00:05:29,995 Speaker 1: had kicked out all the immigrants. The new problem, of course, 79 00:05:30,235 --> 00:05:33,475 Speaker 1: the new twist in this, the new reason his supporters 80 00:05:33,515 --> 00:05:38,075 Speaker 1: will cheer Trump insulting this poor woman, Private Vanessa Gien, 81 00:05:38,675 --> 00:05:42,395 Speaker 1: murdered at her army base, and cheer his use of 82 00:05:42,435 --> 00:05:45,195 Speaker 1: the phrase it doesn't cost sixty thousand bucks to bury 83 00:05:45,235 --> 00:05:48,275 Speaker 1: an effing Mexican and the follow up, don't pay it? 84 00:05:48,315 --> 00:05:50,995 Speaker 1: Can you believe it? Effing people trying to rip me off? 85 00:05:52,075 --> 00:05:56,115 Speaker 1: Is that Trump, of course, is insane. Somewhere along the 86 00:05:56,195 --> 00:05:59,275 Speaker 1: line he forgot that the only way you can keep 87 00:05:59,315 --> 00:06:02,915 Speaker 1: the machine going harvest the crops, keep the restaurant open, 88 00:06:03,475 --> 00:06:07,155 Speaker 1: not pay the fry cook, and make sure they are 89 00:06:07,275 --> 00:06:10,555 Speaker 1: all here so that the fat, stupid white people get 90 00:06:10,595 --> 00:06:14,635 Speaker 1: away with hating them. Because what are these immigrants going 91 00:06:14,675 --> 00:06:17,475 Speaker 1: to do? Complain? We've made sure they are here illegally, 92 00:06:17,475 --> 00:06:20,275 Speaker 1: and if they complain they can and are deported daily. 93 00:06:20,595 --> 00:06:22,835 Speaker 1: The only way you keep that machine going is to 94 00:06:22,875 --> 00:06:26,555 Speaker 1: not let somebody insane like Trump tell the truth that 95 00:06:26,635 --> 00:06:28,675 Speaker 1: what you see now is the way it has been 96 00:06:28,675 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: carefully crafted, mostly by Republicans, for forty goddamned years, in 97 00:06:34,315 --> 00:06:37,275 Speaker 1: a way that even Eric Blair, writing as George Orwell 98 00:06:37,395 --> 00:06:40,475 Speaker 1: never foresaw, not the two minutes hate from the novel 99 00:06:40,515 --> 00:06:45,235 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, but the endless hate, the perpetual hate. 100 00:06:45,355 --> 00:06:48,355 Speaker 1: You can't have Trump tell the truth that this is 101 00:06:48,435 --> 00:06:52,475 Speaker 1: built into the American economy and cannot be altered unless 102 00:06:52,475 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: the Republicans stop hating, or unless, like he wants, they 103 00:06:56,915 --> 00:06:59,595 Speaker 1: start hating more and actually try to round up all 104 00:06:59,595 --> 00:07:03,075 Speaker 1: the Hispanics and put them in concentration camps and deport 105 00:07:03,155 --> 00:07:06,795 Speaker 1: some and probably kill way more, which is what Trump 106 00:07:06,955 --> 00:07:12,995 Speaker 1: is going to do, which over the course of his 107 00:07:13,115 --> 00:07:16,075 Speaker 1: decade poisoning the United States of America, he has spread 108 00:07:16,115 --> 00:07:18,355 Speaker 1: to his cult. So now they have no concept, no 109 00:07:18,475 --> 00:07:21,355 Speaker 1: moment's thought that without the people he has told them 110 00:07:21,355 --> 00:07:24,515 Speaker 1: it is okay to despise and blame for everything and 111 00:07:24,675 --> 00:07:29,995 Speaker 1: probably kill America, particularly red state America, will fall apart. 112 00:07:30,595 --> 00:07:34,035 Speaker 1: They don't understand this. They don't understand that because the 113 00:07:34,075 --> 00:07:37,795 Speaker 1: quote effing Mexicans, Trump thinks it costs him too much 114 00:07:37,875 --> 00:07:41,955 Speaker 1: to bury. They keep the nation running, and to think 115 00:07:42,035 --> 00:07:45,075 Speaker 1: like Trump for a second, they help the productive parts 116 00:07:45,115 --> 00:07:48,755 Speaker 1: of this country underwrite the money losing states and permit 117 00:07:48,835 --> 00:07:52,515 Speaker 1: them the fat wi pasty white people to go to 118 00:07:52,555 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: their beloved McDonald's, which is now just another symbol for 119 00:07:56,955 --> 00:08:01,155 Speaker 1: more corporate hoaring and stunt staging for fascism. After that 120 00:08:01,235 --> 00:08:05,475 Speaker 1: pathetic Trump immorality play over the weekend, and now these 121 00:08:05,595 --> 00:08:10,115 Speaker 1: people can go to goddamned McDonald's and get a goddamn 122 00:08:10,275 --> 00:08:14,275 Speaker 1: big mac made of crap that would cost them otherwise 123 00:08:14,635 --> 00:08:20,315 Speaker 1: thirty seven dollars and ninety eight cents. Have a happy meal. 124 00:08:21,115 --> 00:08:26,435 Speaker 1: Here's change. Back on your one hundred. But back to Hitler. 125 00:08:27,235 --> 00:08:29,795 Speaker 1: If you have not read mister Goldberg's piece in The Atlantic, 126 00:08:29,795 --> 00:08:32,275 Speaker 1: I urge you to do so. I won't further steal 127 00:08:32,315 --> 00:08:35,595 Speaker 1: his thunder except to quote three long passages and to 128 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:39,595 Speaker 1: underscore one truly new and disturbing bit of information in 129 00:08:39,675 --> 00:08:43,075 Speaker 1: the context of another news development unrelated to the story. 130 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:47,435 Speaker 1: Let me quote him about General Kelly. This week, I 131 00:08:47,475 --> 00:08:50,875 Speaker 1: asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when 132 00:08:50,915 --> 00:08:55,555 Speaker 1: Trump raised the subject of German generals, Kelly responded by asking, 133 00:08:56,275 --> 00:09:00,235 Speaker 1: do you mean Bismarck's generals? He went on, I mean, 134 00:09:00,755 --> 00:09:03,315 Speaker 1: I knew he didn't know who Bismarck was or about 135 00:09:03,355 --> 00:09:05,875 Speaker 1: the Franco Prussian War. I said, do you mean the 136 00:09:05,955 --> 00:09:12,555 Speaker 1: Kaiser's generals? Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals, and he said, yeah, yeah, 137 00:09:12,875 --> 00:09:16,475 Speaker 1: Hitler's generals. I explained to him that Rommel had to 138 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:20,395 Speaker 1: commit suicide after taking part in a plot against Hitler. 139 00:09:21,515 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel. This 140 00:09:25,475 --> 00:09:29,075 Speaker 1: wasn't the only time, Goldberg writes Kelly felt compelled to 141 00:09:29,115 --> 00:09:32,795 Speaker 1: instruct Trump on military history. In twenty eighteen, Trump asked 142 00:09:32,835 --> 00:09:35,675 Speaker 1: Kelly to explain who the good guys were in World 143 00:09:35,755 --> 00:09:40,835 Speaker 1: War One. Kelly responded by explaining simple rule, presidents should, 144 00:09:40,875 --> 00:09:43,635 Speaker 1: as a matter of politics and policy, remember that the 145 00:09:43,795 --> 00:09:48,515 Speaker 1: good guys in any given conflict are the country's allied 146 00:09:48,915 --> 00:09:54,835 Speaker 1: with the United States. There is a sketch by the 147 00:09:54,875 --> 00:09:58,315 Speaker 1: group Kids in the Hall in which an actress played 148 00:09:58,355 --> 00:10:01,235 Speaker 1: by the Great Dave Foley gets up to accept an 149 00:10:01,275 --> 00:10:04,475 Speaker 1: award and thanks her manager and thanks the audience, and 150 00:10:04,675 --> 00:10:07,875 Speaker 1: thanks her director, and thanks her agent adds oh, and 151 00:10:07,955 --> 00:10:11,115 Speaker 1: thank Hitler and waits for the applause, and instead it's 152 00:10:11,115 --> 00:10:13,995 Speaker 1: her manager played by the great Kevin MacDonald, dragging her 153 00:10:13,995 --> 00:10:16,355 Speaker 1: off the stage while she complains that they did an 154 00:10:16,395 --> 00:10:18,875 Speaker 1: applaud and he says, with terror in his voice, do 155 00:10:18,915 --> 00:10:22,555 Speaker 1: you think Hitler? And she matter factly says, oh, I 156 00:10:22,635 --> 00:10:26,075 Speaker 1: never did no, And half the time I read something 157 00:10:26,075 --> 00:10:29,635 Speaker 1: about Trump and Hitler, I am waiting for Trump's Dave 158 00:10:29,795 --> 00:10:33,915 Speaker 1: Foley moment when Trump gets up there and literally thanks Hitler. 159 00:10:34,795 --> 00:10:38,475 Speaker 1: And now reading all of this, I realize it's already happened. 160 00:10:39,355 --> 00:10:43,795 Speaker 1: It was just in private. Let me cutting out of 161 00:10:43,835 --> 00:10:47,275 Speaker 1: Goldberger's conclusion because it circles back to my starting point here, 162 00:10:47,275 --> 00:10:50,595 Speaker 1: and then I'll drop the new info he broke. One day, 163 00:10:50,715 --> 00:10:53,275 Speaker 1: he writes, in the first year of Trump's presidency, I 164 00:10:53,355 --> 00:10:56,115 Speaker 1: had lunch with Jared Kushner, Trump's son in law, in 165 00:10:56,195 --> 00:10:59,075 Speaker 1: his White House office. I turned the discussion as soon 166 00:10:59,075 --> 00:11:01,115 Speaker 1: as I could, to the subject of his father in 167 00:11:01,155 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: law's character. I mentioned one of Trump's recent outbursts and 168 00:11:04,795 --> 00:11:07,835 Speaker 1: told Kushner that, in my opinion, the president's behavior was 169 00:11:07,915 --> 00:11:10,835 Speaker 1: damaging to the country. I cited as I tend to 170 00:11:10,835 --> 00:11:13,955 Speaker 1: do what is in my view, Trump's original sin, his 171 00:11:14,035 --> 00:11:18,075 Speaker 1: mockery of John McCain's heroism. This is where our conversation 172 00:11:18,195 --> 00:11:21,675 Speaker 1: got strange and noteworthy. Kushner answered in a way that 173 00:11:21,755 --> 00:11:24,835 Speaker 1: made it seem as though he agreed with me. Quote, 174 00:11:24,875 --> 00:11:27,675 Speaker 1: no one can go as low as the president. He said, 175 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:32,235 Speaker 1: you shouldn't even try. I found this baffling for a moment, 176 00:11:32,555 --> 00:11:36,555 Speaker 1: he writes, But then I understood Kushner wasn't insulting his 177 00:11:36,675 --> 00:11:39,755 Speaker 1: father in law. He was paying him a compliment. In 178 00:11:39,835 --> 00:11:43,915 Speaker 1: Trump's mind, traditional values, values, including those embraced by the 179 00:11:44,035 --> 00:11:46,675 Speaker 1: armed forces of the United States, having to do with honor, 180 00:11:46,995 --> 00:11:52,195 Speaker 1: self sacrifice, and integrity, have no merit, no relevance, and 181 00:11:52,275 --> 00:11:58,155 Speaker 1: no meaning. Unquote. See you and I are appalled by 182 00:11:58,195 --> 00:12:02,035 Speaker 1: the Hitler's general's quote and the effing Mexican quote. And 183 00:12:02,115 --> 00:12:06,115 Speaker 1: by next week Trump will be selling mrch or soliciting 184 00:12:06,155 --> 00:12:10,995 Speaker 1: donations based on those quotes. In any event, here is 185 00:12:11,035 --> 00:12:15,035 Speaker 1: the new stuff about Trump's other role models, not the 186 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:20,675 Speaker 1: old Nazis, but the current Chinese quoting him again on 187 00:12:20,715 --> 00:12:24,195 Speaker 1: separate occasions. In twenty twenty, Trump held private conversations in 188 00:12:24,235 --> 00:12:27,435 Speaker 1: the White House with National security officials about the George 189 00:12:27,515 --> 00:12:31,955 Speaker 1: Floyd protests quote. The Chinese generals would know what to do, 190 00:12:32,235 --> 00:12:35,235 Speaker 1: he said, according to former officials who described the conversations 191 00:12:35,235 --> 00:12:38,275 Speaker 1: to me, referring to the leaders of the People's Liberation Army, 192 00:12:38,395 --> 00:12:42,675 Speaker 1: which carried out the Tiananmen Square massacre in nineteen eighty nine, 193 00:12:42,795 --> 00:12:46,795 Speaker 1: Trump's desire to deploy US troops against American citizens is 194 00:12:46,835 --> 00:12:50,555 Speaker 1: well documented. During the nerve racking period of social unrest 195 00:12:50,595 --> 00:12:54,515 Speaker 1: following Floyd's death, Trump asked Milly and Esper, a West 196 00:12:54,515 --> 00:12:57,675 Speaker 1: Point graduate and former infantry officer, if the army could 197 00:12:57,755 --> 00:13:02,195 Speaker 1: shoot protesters. Trump seen unable to think straight and calmly, 198 00:13:02,435 --> 00:13:05,595 Speaker 1: Esper wrote in his memoir, the protest and violence had 199 00:13:05,635 --> 00:13:08,235 Speaker 1: him so enraged that he was willing to send in 200 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:12,715 Speaker 1: active duty forces to put down the protesters. Worse yet, 201 00:13:12,755 --> 00:13:15,995 Speaker 1: he suggested we shoot them. I wondered about his sense 202 00:13:16,035 --> 00:13:19,395 Speaker 1: of history, of propriety and of his oath to the constitution. 203 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:22,795 Speaker 1: As pertold National Public Radio in twenty twenty two, we 204 00:13:22,835 --> 00:13:25,515 Speaker 1: reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly 205 00:13:25,515 --> 00:13:28,355 Speaker 1: at General Milly and said, can't you just shoot them? 206 00:13:28,675 --> 00:13:32,035 Speaker 1: Just shoot them in the legs or something. When defense 207 00:13:32,075 --> 00:13:36,835 Speaker 1: officials argued against Trump's desire, the president screamed, according to witnesses, 208 00:13:37,435 --> 00:13:51,555 Speaker 1: you are all efing losers. Now Here's why that's a problem, 209 00:13:52,195 --> 00:13:55,035 Speaker 1: Because Trump and his cults are not only ready for 210 00:13:55,115 --> 00:13:58,595 Speaker 1: a fight like that, they are spoiling for one, and 211 00:13:58,635 --> 00:14:03,635 Speaker 1: they are spoiling for one next month. Polling by the 212 00:14:03,795 --> 00:14:08,515 Speaker 1: Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution suggests that 213 00:14:08,515 --> 00:14:11,875 Speaker 1: if Trump loses two weeks from now, just slightly less 214 00:14:11,875 --> 00:14:15,315 Speaker 1: than one in five Republicans thinks he should declare the 215 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:19,395 Speaker 1: results invalid and do whatever it takes to seize power. 216 00:14:20,475 --> 00:14:23,635 Speaker 1: The actual number is nineteen percent, but among those who 217 00:14:23,675 --> 00:14:27,195 Speaker 1: trust Fox News the most of all news outlets, it's 218 00:14:27,355 --> 00:14:30,675 Speaker 1: thirty percent who think Trump should do this. For those 219 00:14:30,675 --> 00:14:34,835 Speaker 1: who trust Fox and or the even more extreme propaganda channels, 220 00:14:35,155 --> 00:14:40,115 Speaker 1: it's forty one percent. Also, thirty percent of Republicans quote 221 00:14:40,355 --> 00:14:43,235 Speaker 1: believe that true American patriots may have to resort to 222 00:14:43,355 --> 00:14:48,195 Speaker 1: violence to save the country. This poll being commissioned by 223 00:14:48,235 --> 00:14:51,275 Speaker 1: a religious group. After all, they broke it down by religion. 224 00:14:51,675 --> 00:14:55,515 Speaker 1: Twenty eight percent of Evangelical Protestant Republicans think violence may 225 00:14:55,555 --> 00:14:59,635 Speaker 1: be needed, as do and this may surprise you twenty 226 00:14:59,715 --> 00:15:04,995 Speaker 1: eight percent of Mormons, sorry, Mitt Low. The end of 227 00:15:05,035 --> 00:15:08,435 Speaker 1: the religious pro violence scale is ten percent, and that 228 00:15:08,475 --> 00:15:13,715 Speaker 1: would be Jewish Republicans. Happily, there does seem to be 229 00:15:13,875 --> 00:15:17,475 Speaker 1: a growing consensus on this front. Forty nine percent of 230 00:15:17,515 --> 00:15:22,195 Speaker 1: Americans in this survey, Americans of all political parties, faiths, 231 00:15:22,235 --> 00:15:25,315 Speaker 1: and heritage agree there is a real danger Trump will 232 00:15:25,435 --> 00:15:31,155 Speaker 1: use the presidency to become a dictator. Do I think 233 00:15:31,195 --> 00:15:34,955 Speaker 1: the nation will erupt in organized, sustained violence after the election, 234 00:15:35,315 --> 00:15:43,475 Speaker 1: I do not sporadic violence terrorism or terrorism adjacent violence. Yes, yes, 235 00:15:44,635 --> 00:15:48,155 Speaker 1: I would prepare yourself for that. And I hate to 236 00:15:48,195 --> 00:15:50,795 Speaker 1: sound anything like one of the people in that poll 237 00:15:50,875 --> 00:15:53,435 Speaker 1: I just quoted by Nay. I am comforted at night 238 00:15:53,675 --> 00:15:57,315 Speaker 1: by reminding myself that Trump and the Trump cult dreams 239 00:15:57,315 --> 00:16:01,675 Speaker 1: of seeing tanks on the streets. And forgive me for this, 240 00:16:02,195 --> 00:16:04,955 Speaker 1: but I'm comforted by the realization that if if it 241 00:16:04,995 --> 00:16:07,955 Speaker 1: comes to that, if it comes to that next month, 242 00:16:08,435 --> 00:16:11,635 Speaker 1: or in December or in January, it'll be grim, and 243 00:16:11,675 --> 00:16:17,755 Speaker 1: it will be tragic, and it will be satisfying to 244 00:16:17,955 --> 00:16:22,115 Speaker 1: see all the trumpe Ists suddenly realize that the tanks 245 00:16:22,275 --> 00:16:27,795 Speaker 1: in the streets aren't theirs. The tanks in the streets 246 00:16:28,675 --> 00:16:41,715 Speaker 1: are Americas. A couple of poll notes as breaking news yesterday, 247 00:16:41,755 --> 00:16:44,515 Speaker 1: I told you the Emerson poll found that around twenty 248 00:16:44,555 --> 00:16:47,555 Speaker 1: percent of voters had chosen Harris or Trump in the 249 00:16:47,675 --> 00:16:51,795 Speaker 1: last month. So late deciders were breaking sixty to thirty 250 00:16:51,835 --> 00:16:54,435 Speaker 1: seven for the vice president. And how much that could 251 00:16:54,475 --> 00:16:58,395 Speaker 1: mean in net vote gain. It could give her twenty 252 00:16:58,435 --> 00:17:02,435 Speaker 1: five twenty seven thousand net votes her votes minus his 253 00:17:02,595 --> 00:17:07,635 Speaker 1: votes just in Pennsylvania, eb. Seven hundred thousand nationwide. Now, 254 00:17:08,115 --> 00:17:12,355 Speaker 1: CNBC reports from its polling that young voters are also 255 00:17:12,555 --> 00:17:16,595 Speaker 1: breaking late for Kamala Harris. In similar numbers, voters under 256 00:17:16,595 --> 00:17:20,795 Speaker 1: thirty five are now sixty to forty for Harris over Trump, 257 00:17:21,115 --> 00:17:23,915 Speaker 1: and that was not the way it was in July. 258 00:17:24,195 --> 00:17:27,835 Speaker 1: It was Harris forty six, Trump thirty four, with twenty 259 00:17:27,875 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: one percent favoring a third party candidate like the Secretary 260 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:34,875 Speaker 1: of Phone Sex. In other words, voters under thirty five 261 00:17:34,955 --> 00:17:39,195 Speaker 1: grew up. So Harris leads Trump by twenty points in 262 00:17:39,275 --> 00:17:42,475 Speaker 1: voters under thirty five, and in twenty twenty Joe Biden 263 00:17:42,515 --> 00:17:48,515 Speaker 1: won by twenty points with voters under thirty five. If you, 264 00:17:48,635 --> 00:17:52,595 Speaker 1: for some reason, like the less reliable metapolling, you gov 265 00:17:52,675 --> 00:17:56,475 Speaker 1: for the Times of London and Reuter's ipsos have Harris 266 00:17:56,475 --> 00:18:00,315 Speaker 1: by three. In new polls, Morning Consult has Harris by four. 267 00:18:00,595 --> 00:18:04,075 Speaker 1: There's also a rash of junk polls showing Trump tied 268 00:18:04,235 --> 00:18:06,595 Speaker 1: or head. One of them showing him ahead in New 269 00:18:06,595 --> 00:18:10,715 Speaker 1: Mexico was literally made up by one of his crazier 270 00:18:10,835 --> 00:18:14,755 Speaker 1: ex ambassadors. She has been ahead of him by seven 271 00:18:14,795 --> 00:18:17,315 Speaker 1: and a half points or more in New Mexico with 272 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:21,155 Speaker 1: virtually no change, a solid series of straight lines across 273 00:18:21,195 --> 00:18:24,595 Speaker 1: the bar graph for more than a month, and a 274 00:18:24,635 --> 00:18:28,875 Speaker 1: reminder from weeks ago that this was planned because when 275 00:18:28,915 --> 00:18:31,955 Speaker 1: he declares on election night that he won, or he 276 00:18:31,995 --> 00:18:35,435 Speaker 1: declares afterwards that he must have been robbed, because otherwise, 277 00:18:35,435 --> 00:18:38,435 Speaker 1: why would these polls I'm holding have said he was winning. 278 00:18:38,955 --> 00:18:42,595 Speaker 1: These chunk poles, the ones that are coming out right now, 279 00:18:42,915 --> 00:18:46,635 Speaker 1: will give him something to hold in his hand besides 280 00:18:47,275 --> 00:19:00,275 Speaker 1: his Arnold Palmer. One more. ABC News reported last night 281 00:19:00,315 --> 00:19:04,635 Speaker 1: that a quote proposed personnel roster circulating within Trump's can 282 00:19:04,675 --> 00:19:10,195 Speaker 1: campaign and transition operation lists Aileen Cannon, the federal judge 283 00:19:10,195 --> 00:19:14,315 Speaker 1: who threw out Trump's classified documents case, Eileen Cannon as 284 00:19:14,355 --> 00:19:21,715 Speaker 1: a possible candidate for Attorney General. No in this country. 285 00:19:22,675 --> 00:19:27,675 Speaker 1: Two things, how could she possibly be worse than Merrick Garland? 286 00:19:28,355 --> 00:19:31,995 Speaker 1: And how could she possibly wind up doing more for 287 00:19:32,075 --> 00:19:38,515 Speaker 1: Trump than Merrick Garland? Secondly, Cannon the former yoga and 288 00:19:38,555 --> 00:19:41,755 Speaker 1: flamenco correspondent of the Miami Nuevo Herald, and I wish 289 00:19:41,835 --> 00:19:45,195 Speaker 1: I were making that up. Is clearly more qualified to 290 00:19:45,275 --> 00:19:50,555 Speaker 1: be Attorney general than she is a federal judge. LEBC 291 00:19:50,755 --> 00:19:53,275 Speaker 1: says she is the second name on the list out 292 00:19:53,275 --> 00:19:57,435 Speaker 1: of nearly a dozen ages led by j Clayton, former 293 00:19:57,515 --> 00:20:00,475 Speaker 1: Chairman of the SEC. Trump's expert on how to make 294 00:20:00,555 --> 00:20:03,635 Speaker 1: illegal legal, Mike Davis, is on the list, as is 295 00:20:03,715 --> 00:20:06,875 Speaker 1: Jeffrey Can I p on my pants now Clark, who 296 00:20:06,915 --> 00:20:10,035 Speaker 1: tried to freelance a coup during the transition and was 297 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:12,195 Speaker 1: then the victim of a putdown that will never die 298 00:20:12,275 --> 00:20:15,955 Speaker 1: down from the Justice Department exec. Richard Donahue. You're an 299 00:20:16,035 --> 00:20:19,075 Speaker 1: environmental lawyer. How about you go back to your office 300 00:20:19,115 --> 00:20:23,195 Speaker 1: and we'll call you when there's an oil spill. I'm 301 00:20:23,195 --> 00:20:25,715 Speaker 1: not sure what to make of this story because it 302 00:20:25,795 --> 00:20:29,915 Speaker 1: is literally too bad to be true. I mean, what 303 00:20:30,475 --> 00:20:34,875 Speaker 1: kind of leak could cut through the noise and actually 304 00:20:35,115 --> 00:20:40,275 Speaker 1: look too corrupt, too quid pro quo even for Trump. 305 00:20:40,635 --> 00:20:44,955 Speaker 1: What against the background of his utter corruption, his Dorian 306 00:20:45,195 --> 00:20:50,795 Speaker 1: Gray's portrait life, what could look worse than that? It's 307 00:20:50,875 --> 00:20:53,955 Speaker 1: possible the Democrats made this up or got this out 308 00:20:54,355 --> 00:20:59,355 Speaker 1: and it's true. On the other hand, like I said, 309 00:21:01,475 --> 00:21:08,475 Speaker 1: how could she ever be worse than Merrick Garland also 310 00:21:08,515 --> 00:21:11,395 Speaker 1: of interest here well in news about my exes Olivia. 311 00:21:11,515 --> 00:21:14,475 Speaker 1: Newsy had no events scheduled last night, so it'll be 312 00:21:14,675 --> 00:21:18,995 Speaker 1: Katie Turr news instead, And I, of course, will continue 313 00:21:19,035 --> 00:21:22,755 Speaker 1: to pretend to be weary of all this and broken 314 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:28,235 Speaker 1: inside and beyond the reach of its implications now, while 315 00:21:28,275 --> 00:21:35,195 Speaker 1: in fact I'm enjoying the absolute emmer effing hell out 316 00:21:35,195 --> 00:21:45,835 Speaker 1: of all of it. That's next, This is countdown. This 317 00:21:46,195 --> 00:22:10,795 Speaker 1: is countdown, with Keith Olberman still ahead on this initiative countdown. 318 00:22:10,835 --> 00:22:13,155 Speaker 1: Maybe the idea and ending the Baseball playoffs on a 319 00:22:13,235 --> 00:22:16,555 Speaker 1: Sunday but not starting the World Series until Friday is 320 00:22:16,595 --> 00:22:21,875 Speaker 1: to force sportscasters and even ex sportscasters to continue to 321 00:22:21,955 --> 00:22:26,155 Speaker 1: do more and more World Series previews. Well, you guys 322 00:22:26,235 --> 00:22:29,955 Speaker 1: asked for it. Another World Series preview of a different nature. 323 00:22:30,435 --> 00:22:32,755 Speaker 1: The New York Yankees host game one Friday night, and 324 00:22:32,755 --> 00:22:35,595 Speaker 1: I'm as always rooting against them, which is rather amazing 325 00:22:35,675 --> 00:22:38,355 Speaker 1: because from the age of seven through the start of 326 00:22:38,395 --> 00:22:41,275 Speaker 1: my professional career, and again in my thirties and forties, 327 00:22:41,435 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: when one friend of mine from my childhood was the 328 00:22:43,715 --> 00:22:46,475 Speaker 1: PR director and another friend of mine from my early 329 00:22:46,515 --> 00:22:49,115 Speaker 1: career was the team manager. I was as big a 330 00:22:49,235 --> 00:22:52,635 Speaker 1: Yankee fan as there was. I worked for the Yankees 331 00:22:52,715 --> 00:22:55,075 Speaker 1: once a year. George Steinbrenner wanted me to be the 332 00:22:55,195 --> 00:22:57,795 Speaker 1: voice of the Yankees on TV. I used to announce 333 00:22:57,795 --> 00:23:01,075 Speaker 1: their old timers game like my dad before me. I 334 00:23:01,155 --> 00:23:04,435 Speaker 1: was a season ticket holder at Yankee Stadium. Our combined 335 00:23:04,475 --> 00:23:07,635 Speaker 1: run one was forty one years. And then, to quote 336 00:23:07,675 --> 00:23:09,515 Speaker 1: the man who was manager of the team when I 337 00:23:09,635 --> 00:23:12,755 Speaker 1: was a kid, Ralph Hauke. When I introduced myself to 338 00:23:12,875 --> 00:23:14,875 Speaker 1: him in nineteen eighty three and told him he was 339 00:23:15,275 --> 00:23:19,035 Speaker 1: my Yankee manager and always would be, he said, thank you. 340 00:23:19,635 --> 00:23:25,395 Speaker 1: Nothing personal but piss on the Yankees. The World Series 341 00:23:25,435 --> 00:23:27,635 Speaker 1: preview and the day the Yankees got me fired from 342 00:23:27,635 --> 00:23:31,275 Speaker 1: a job at Baseball state run television MLB network that 343 00:23:31,355 --> 00:23:34,475 Speaker 1: I hadn't even agreed to take yet, piss on the 344 00:23:34,555 --> 00:23:38,275 Speaker 1: Yankees coming up in things I promised not to tell first. 345 00:23:38,315 --> 00:23:40,395 Speaker 1: There are still more new idiots to talk about. The 346 00:23:40,475 --> 00:23:42,915 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger 347 00:23:42,915 --> 00:23:45,435 Speaker 1: effects specimens who don't work for the Yankees and who 348 00:23:45,475 --> 00:23:51,715 Speaker 1: constitute todays worse persons in the Brons worse. Jeremy Peters 349 00:23:51,755 --> 00:23:56,435 Speaker 1: of the New York Times, the Yankees of newspapers, working 350 00:23:56,475 --> 00:24:00,115 Speaker 1: with that little fascist Midday on Clay at MSNBC as 351 00:24:00,115 --> 00:24:03,595 Speaker 1: well does mister Peters. This was actually said on MSNBC, 352 00:24:03,715 --> 00:24:06,435 Speaker 1: And I will save until the end the identity of 353 00:24:06,475 --> 00:24:11,755 Speaker 1: the news model whose question provoked this amazing, condensed, compromised 354 00:24:11,795 --> 00:24:15,715 Speaker 1: partisan stupidity on the part of this guy Peters question, 355 00:24:16,395 --> 00:24:19,795 Speaker 1: do you think she that would be Vice President Kamala Harris, 356 00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:22,995 Speaker 1: Democratic nominee for president if you hadn't heard Do you 357 00:24:23,035 --> 00:24:27,475 Speaker 1: think she's being clear enough? Peters answers. I think in 358 00:24:27,555 --> 00:24:30,115 Speaker 1: some of these interviews you and I have both heard it. 359 00:24:30,235 --> 00:24:33,075 Speaker 1: But clarity is not always her strong suit. When you 360 00:24:33,155 --> 00:24:36,675 Speaker 1: contrast her with somebody with Donald Trump, who you pretty 361 00:24:36,755 --> 00:24:40,235 Speaker 1: much know what he's saying every time he opens his mouth, 362 00:24:40,555 --> 00:24:44,275 Speaker 1: for better or worse, she does have a messaging problem. 363 00:24:45,715 --> 00:24:48,035 Speaker 1: This man Peters is employed by the New York Times, 364 00:24:48,275 --> 00:24:51,395 Speaker 1: brought onto what is in theory a television news network, 365 00:24:51,675 --> 00:24:54,795 Speaker 1: insisting that you pretty much know what Trump's saying every 366 00:24:54,795 --> 00:24:58,915 Speaker 1: time he opens his mouth, But Kamala Harris isn't clear enough. 367 00:24:59,475 --> 00:25:04,115 Speaker 1: Trump is this close to speaking in tongues. Well, I 368 00:25:04,195 --> 00:25:05,915 Speaker 1: like the other Hey, when Trump was asked what is 369 00:25:05,955 --> 00:25:10,475 Speaker 1: your plan to ban artificial foods? And he answered Bobby Kennedy. Right, 370 00:25:10,755 --> 00:25:13,435 Speaker 1: everybody likes Bobby Kennedy and he's so big into the 371 00:25:13,435 --> 00:25:21,275 Speaker 1: healthy food and women things, everything he wants to do things. Yes, 372 00:25:21,355 --> 00:25:24,835 Speaker 1: that's clear. That's much more clear than Kamala Harris. Question, 373 00:25:24,915 --> 00:25:27,715 Speaker 1: what is your plan to ban artificial foods? Answer? Bobby 374 00:25:27,795 --> 00:25:29,995 Speaker 1: Kennedy is big into the healthy food and women. Yeah, 375 00:25:29,995 --> 00:25:32,635 Speaker 1: I've heard that. I mean, I know Kennedy will be 376 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:36,355 Speaker 1: boosting FaceTime usage, but any idea what that has to 377 00:25:36,395 --> 00:25:41,635 Speaker 1: do with banning artificial food mister Kennedy, the Secretary of 378 00:25:41,795 --> 00:25:46,395 Speaker 1: Phone Sex said today. It was mister Peters, who, after 379 00:25:46,475 --> 00:25:49,035 Speaker 1: the debate, had argued that Kamala Harris had failed to 380 00:25:49,035 --> 00:25:52,595 Speaker 1: give undecided voters what they really wanted, the fine print, 381 00:25:53,155 --> 00:25:58,035 Speaker 1: specific policy details at length at a debate on TV, 382 00:25:59,595 --> 00:26:03,155 Speaker 1: owned his promise, which MSNBC talking head hosted Peters that 383 00:26:03,235 --> 00:26:05,195 Speaker 1: day and asked that question that let him lie about 384 00:26:05,195 --> 00:26:07,755 Speaker 1: Trump being clear and Harris not being clear enough. Why 385 00:26:07,755 --> 00:26:12,275 Speaker 1: it's Katie Turr who with Kirsten Cinema slowly disappearing from 386 00:26:12,315 --> 00:26:15,275 Speaker 1: the Senate like the cheshire Cat and Olivia Newsy, now 387 00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:17,755 Speaker 1: being fired at New York Magazine and unlikely to ever 388 00:26:17,795 --> 00:26:21,075 Speaker 1: get any job requiring, you know, trust her honesty ever 389 00:26:21,155 --> 00:26:24,195 Speaker 1: again while she sues the creepy guy at Politico, she 390 00:26:24,315 --> 00:26:26,595 Speaker 1: was planning to marry and write a book with With 391 00:26:26,755 --> 00:26:28,555 Speaker 1: them out of the picture, it is Katie who has 392 00:26:28,635 --> 00:26:32,235 Speaker 1: vaulted back into the position of which of my exes 393 00:26:32,595 --> 00:26:37,275 Speaker 1: I am currently the most ashamed of. You can depend 394 00:26:37,315 --> 00:26:39,595 Speaker 1: on Keith about women. He always gets them wrong. The 395 00:26:39,675 --> 00:26:43,915 Speaker 1: runner up worser Newsweek magazine. Years ago, my late friend 396 00:26:43,915 --> 00:26:47,715 Speaker 1: Howard Feineman left his lead role at Newsweek to go 397 00:26:47,795 --> 00:26:51,315 Speaker 1: work for the Huffington Post, which then and I guess 398 00:26:51,355 --> 00:26:54,395 Speaker 1: now too, but then certainly sounded like a website for 399 00:26:54,435 --> 00:26:57,355 Speaker 1: people who like to inhale paint. And it was the 400 00:26:57,355 --> 00:27:00,515 Speaker 1: first time I realized that all the established news brands 401 00:27:00,555 --> 00:27:04,395 Speaker 1: of my youth were in desperate, desperate trouble long term. 402 00:27:04,675 --> 00:27:08,035 Speaker 1: I mean, Newsweek wasn't the first to succumb my first 403 00:27:08,035 --> 00:27:11,315 Speaker 1: home UPI even by then two thousand and six seven 404 00:27:11,395 --> 00:27:15,795 Speaker 1: eight was putting out other people's press releases, and like 405 00:27:15,875 --> 00:27:18,955 Speaker 1: only one or two a week, Sports illustrated as a 406 00:27:19,035 --> 00:27:24,195 Speaker 1: betting site. Others are just expiring URLs. But if there 407 00:27:24,235 --> 00:27:28,395 Speaker 1: was any doubt, Newsweek is done. This was its post 408 00:27:28,435 --> 00:27:32,075 Speaker 1: at midday Monday, a photo of Trump at a sports stadium, 409 00:27:32,355 --> 00:27:36,755 Speaker 1: presumably one in Pittsburgh somewhere, with the caption Donald Trump 410 00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:40,995 Speaker 1: has shared what is likely an AI generated image on 411 00:27:41,075 --> 00:27:44,475 Speaker 1: his truth social account showing him as a player for 412 00:27:44,475 --> 00:27:51,115 Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Steelers. Wait, what makes you think that? Just 413 00:27:51,195 --> 00:27:54,875 Speaker 1: because the image showed Trump in football pads, wearing a Steelers' uniform, 414 00:27:54,875 --> 00:27:57,515 Speaker 1: weighing maybe one hundred pounds less than he does, about 415 00:27:57,555 --> 00:27:59,835 Speaker 1: forty years younger than he is, and not looking like 416 00:27:59,875 --> 00:28:02,355 Speaker 1: he was about to succumb to a disease or something. 417 00:28:03,955 --> 00:28:06,355 Speaker 1: Didn't Donald try to play quarterback for the Steelers in 418 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:09,755 Speaker 1: the late sixties? Oh no, no, I'm thinking the other 419 00:28:09,795 --> 00:28:13,315 Speaker 1: guy reminds me always of Donald Trump's name. His name 420 00:28:13,355 --> 00:28:19,315 Speaker 1: was Dick Shiner. I think I'm kidding. Dick Shiner Shi 421 00:28:19,555 --> 00:28:23,115 Speaker 1: n e Er look him up. Also played for the 422 00:28:23,115 --> 00:28:26,875 Speaker 1: New York Giants for a while. Giants Get Dick Shiner 423 00:28:27,195 --> 00:28:31,515 Speaker 1: was the headline anyway. So, nine hours after posting this 424 00:28:31,635 --> 00:28:35,075 Speaker 1: idea that maybe that image of Trump wearing the forty 425 00:28:35,115 --> 00:28:38,995 Speaker 1: seven on a Steelers uniform maybe that was ai. Nine 426 00:28:38,995 --> 00:28:41,275 Speaker 1: hours later, one of the three or four people at 427 00:28:41,275 --> 00:28:45,955 Speaker 1: Newsweek finally saw the social media blowback to their incredibly 428 00:28:46,195 --> 00:28:49,155 Speaker 1: stupid posts, and they changed the article. So as of 429 00:28:49,195 --> 00:28:52,115 Speaker 1: Monday night, the headline on the story itself, but not 430 00:28:52,235 --> 00:28:56,155 Speaker 1: the tweet, had been changed to quote Trump posts fake 431 00:28:56,275 --> 00:29:00,555 Speaker 1: image of himself as a star NFL player. You think, oh, 432 00:29:00,675 --> 00:29:03,475 Speaker 1: wait to go out on a limb there, Newsweek. On 433 00:29:03,515 --> 00:29:05,315 Speaker 1: the other hand, if The New York Times and Jeremy 434 00:29:05,315 --> 00:29:07,555 Speaker 1: Peters had done the story, it would have been Trump 435 00:29:07,635 --> 00:29:12,635 Speaker 1: shows his athletic side in creative post, but our winner 436 00:29:12,795 --> 00:29:18,995 Speaker 1: the worst, same topic, same football team, and the Trump campaign. 437 00:29:19,035 --> 00:29:20,915 Speaker 1: It is a little over a week since the Trump 438 00:29:20,955 --> 00:29:23,755 Speaker 1: candidate for the Senate in Pennsylvania, David McCormick, had his 439 00:29:23,795 --> 00:29:27,435 Speaker 1: own problem with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He posted what red like. 440 00:29:27,475 --> 00:29:29,115 Speaker 1: Whether or not he was really too dumb to tell 441 00:29:29,155 --> 00:29:33,595 Speaker 1: the difference between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles. 442 00:29:33,635 --> 00:29:35,955 Speaker 1: Whether or not he's really that stupid is unclear, but 443 00:29:36,115 --> 00:29:40,035 Speaker 1: it reads like he's that stupid, quoting it pictures of 444 00:29:40,075 --> 00:29:43,035 Speaker 1: him four different pictures of him in Eagles green with 445 00:29:43,155 --> 00:29:47,315 Speaker 1: Eagles fans outside the Eagles stadium. Fun tailgate in Philly. 446 00:29:47,355 --> 00:29:54,395 Speaker 1: Today football emoji excited to watch the Steelers throttle the Raiders, 447 00:29:55,235 --> 00:30:00,835 Speaker 1: Republican senate candidate in Pennsylvania. Why the Steelers should prove 448 00:30:00,915 --> 00:30:03,675 Speaker 1: so troubling for Republicans or Newsweek or anybody else is 449 00:30:03,675 --> 00:30:05,555 Speaker 1: hard to say. They have been in the National Football 450 00:30:05,635 --> 00:30:08,195 Speaker 1: League since the Rooney family got a franchise in nineteen 451 00:30:08,235 --> 00:30:11,595 Speaker 1: thirty three and named it the Pittsburgh Football Pirates. Then 452 00:30:11,635 --> 00:30:14,315 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty they said enough of this confusion, and 453 00:30:14,315 --> 00:30:18,315 Speaker 1: they paid tribute to the city steel industry by renaming 454 00:30:18,315 --> 00:30:23,555 Speaker 1: the team the Steelers, named for Steel Steel with two 455 00:30:23,675 --> 00:30:27,915 Speaker 1: e's and then an R and an S added at 456 00:30:27,955 --> 00:30:35,115 Speaker 1: the end. There stee L E R S Stealers. They're 457 00:30:35,155 --> 00:30:38,035 Speaker 1: the sixth oldest franchise in the NFL. They're a pretty 458 00:30:38,155 --> 00:30:42,675 Speaker 1: big fing deal. The Trump campaign does not know how 459 00:30:42,675 --> 00:30:46,355 Speaker 1: to spell the team name. It has sent out one 460 00:30:46,355 --> 00:30:49,275 Speaker 1: of its forty four million daily fundraising emails focusing on 461 00:30:49,315 --> 00:30:52,755 Speaker 1: Trump's most important campaign finish line statements, his stunt not 462 00:30:52,795 --> 00:30:55,595 Speaker 1: actually working, serving French fries to people who weren't really 463 00:30:55,635 --> 00:30:58,235 Speaker 1: customers and weren't really surprised to see him there at 464 00:30:58,275 --> 00:31:01,875 Speaker 1: a fascist McDonald's that wasn't really open, and the other 465 00:31:01,915 --> 00:31:05,595 Speaker 1: one was going to a Pittsburgh Steelers game. The fundraising 466 00:31:05,635 --> 00:31:08,675 Speaker 1: email in full, Trump Vance twenty twenty four. The little 467 00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:12,555 Speaker 1: button in the corner that says shop can't stop, won't 468 00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:17,635 Speaker 1: stop working at McDonald's a town hall, a Stealers game. 469 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:21,275 Speaker 1: No one is working harder than President Trump to better 470 00:31:22,235 --> 00:31:25,795 Speaker 1: I'm not paying a lot for this funeral a Steelers game. 471 00:31:25,875 --> 00:31:31,115 Speaker 1: It reads s t e a l e r s. 472 00:31:31,195 --> 00:31:34,515 Speaker 1: Why that has the word steal in it? S t 473 00:31:34,715 --> 00:31:40,395 Speaker 1: e a l as in thief, as in Trump, Donald 474 00:31:40,555 --> 00:31:44,075 Speaker 1: Trump of the Steelers, s t e a l e 475 00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:49,155 Speaker 1: r s Steelers, Steelers. Sometimes the jokes just right themselves. 476 00:31:49,555 --> 00:32:10,635 Speaker 1: Two days worst Fars sending and the annually at this 477 00:32:10,715 --> 00:32:13,315 Speaker 1: time of year, somebody asks me, why aren't you at 478 00:32:13,355 --> 00:32:16,075 Speaker 1: that All Baseball network? Seems like you'd be a natural, 479 00:32:16,115 --> 00:32:19,995 Speaker 1: And I say you mean MLB Network and they say yeah, 480 00:32:19,995 --> 00:32:22,275 Speaker 1: and I say sit down. You got to hear this story. 481 00:32:23,195 --> 00:32:26,675 Speaker 1: The owners of at least five different Major League Baseball 482 00:32:26,715 --> 00:32:28,995 Speaker 1: teams have tried to get me fired over the years, 483 00:32:29,035 --> 00:32:33,475 Speaker 1: and one, the New York Yankees, kind of succeeded. On 484 00:32:33,515 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: November twenty six, twenty twelve, why agent followed the instructions 485 00:32:37,635 --> 00:32:40,835 Speaker 1: of Tony Petiti, then the president of the TV publicity 486 00:32:40,915 --> 00:32:44,235 Speaker 1: channel owned by Major League Baseball MLB Network, and called 487 00:32:44,235 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: Petiti to finalize a deal by which I would join 488 00:32:46,835 --> 00:32:50,275 Speaker 1: the channel to do a daily show, probably at five 489 00:32:50,435 --> 00:32:52,795 Speaker 1: thirty at night. It was going to be weird. MLB 490 00:32:52,915 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: Network and its sister hockey channel, NHL Network originate in 491 00:32:56,595 --> 00:33:00,715 Speaker 1: the same studios in Caucus, New Jersey, that MSNBC used 492 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:03,555 Speaker 1: every day from the day I started there in October 493 00:33:03,635 --> 00:33:07,115 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven through the day in October two thousand 494 00:33:07,115 --> 00:33:09,635 Speaker 1: and seven when NBC finally moved us to New York City. 495 00:33:10,395 --> 00:33:13,435 Speaker 1: I had been asked to do something for MLB Network 496 00:33:13,515 --> 00:33:15,515 Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, 497 00:33:15,555 --> 00:33:18,075 Speaker 1: before it ever got on the air. The request came 498 00:33:18,115 --> 00:33:21,475 Speaker 1: directly from the then Commissioner of Baseball, Bud Ceilig. He 499 00:33:21,555 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: also asked me to write for Baseball's website MLB dot Com. 500 00:33:24,835 --> 00:33:27,755 Speaker 1: We actually got that done, but the TV show was 501 00:33:27,795 --> 00:33:30,955 Speaker 1: impossible because of my schedule until I was a free 502 00:33:30,955 --> 00:33:34,435 Speaker 1: agent in the fall of twenty twelve. So I was 503 00:33:34,475 --> 00:33:36,555 Speaker 1: invited in the fall of twenty twelve to do a 504 00:33:36,555 --> 00:33:39,755 Speaker 1: couple of guest appearances at MLB Network, and they went well, 505 00:33:40,435 --> 00:33:43,315 Speaker 1: except for this crazy deja vu kind of thing that 506 00:33:43,395 --> 00:33:45,235 Speaker 1: hit me when I went into the building and found 507 00:33:45,395 --> 00:33:49,075 Speaker 1: that while Baseball had spent sixty million dollars to upgrade 508 00:33:49,155 --> 00:33:52,515 Speaker 1: all the technical stuff in the studio designs, they had 509 00:33:52,555 --> 00:33:58,035 Speaker 1: not touched anything else from the MSNBC era. The carpet 510 00:33:58,115 --> 00:34:02,035 Speaker 1: tiles were the same, the ping pong table in the 511 00:34:02,035 --> 00:34:05,555 Speaker 1: break croom was the same. The sign on the back 512 00:34:05,595 --> 00:34:08,395 Speaker 1: of the bathroom door telling you who to call if 513 00:34:08,435 --> 00:34:13,195 Speaker 1: the John overflows were the same. It was like having 514 00:34:13,275 --> 00:34:15,995 Speaker 1: a dream where you're back in your childhood home and 515 00:34:16,035 --> 00:34:18,995 Speaker 1: everything is exactly the way it was, including the creeks 516 00:34:19,035 --> 00:34:21,755 Speaker 1: and the floorboards, except oh, by the way, there's a 517 00:34:21,835 --> 00:34:24,155 Speaker 1: nuclear reactor in the middle of your den, and you 518 00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:28,955 Speaker 1: keep saying, where did that come from? Anyway, the guest 519 00:34:28,955 --> 00:34:32,435 Speaker 1: appearances on MLB Network went well, and this guy Petit, 520 00:34:32,635 --> 00:34:35,115 Speaker 1: the president, asked if I would fill in for two 521 00:34:35,155 --> 00:34:37,595 Speaker 1: days on their new morning show the week of Thanksgiving 522 00:34:37,595 --> 00:34:39,795 Speaker 1: twenty twelve. I certainly knew how to get to the building. 523 00:34:40,235 --> 00:34:43,035 Speaker 1: I did the shows with Brian Kenny and Ken Rosenthal 524 00:34:43,355 --> 00:34:46,555 Speaker 1: and Bob Costas's son, Keith and Alana Rizzo, and we 525 00:34:46,595 --> 00:34:49,875 Speaker 1: had a good time. And Tony Pettiti, the president of 526 00:34:49,915 --> 00:34:52,675 Speaker 1: MLB Network, attended the meetings that we would have before 527 00:34:52,715 --> 00:34:56,595 Speaker 1: and after each show. I mean full staff meetings, fifteen 528 00:34:56,715 --> 00:35:00,035 Speaker 1: or so people standing around a bunch of cubicles, and 529 00:35:00,155 --> 00:35:03,595 Speaker 1: in front of all of them, Tony Pettiti began asking 530 00:35:03,635 --> 00:35:05,755 Speaker 1: me if I thought my new sh for MLB Network 531 00:35:05,755 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: would do better at five or five thirty, and if 532 00:35:08,115 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: I agreed with him that I should work only during 533 00:35:09,955 --> 00:35:13,355 Speaker 1: the baseball season and spring training and playoffs and winter 534 00:35:13,475 --> 00:35:16,275 Speaker 1: meetings and then stay fresh by taking the rest of 535 00:35:16,315 --> 00:35:19,155 Speaker 1: the year off. He asked me if there were people 536 00:35:19,235 --> 00:35:21,555 Speaker 1: on the staff of the morning show who I would 537 00:35:21,595 --> 00:35:23,355 Speaker 1: like to work with. I mean, this is in front 538 00:35:23,395 --> 00:35:26,435 Speaker 1: of all of the staff of the morning show. He 539 00:35:26,515 --> 00:35:28,475 Speaker 1: warned me they couldn't pay me the kind of salary 540 00:35:28,515 --> 00:35:30,035 Speaker 1: I was used to, and I said that happily, the 541 00:35:30,115 --> 00:35:32,395 Speaker 1: kind of salary I was used to meant I did 542 00:35:32,475 --> 00:35:34,395 Speaker 1: not need the kind of salary I was used to. 543 00:35:35,115 --> 00:35:37,195 Speaker 1: He told me to remind my agent to call him 544 00:35:37,235 --> 00:35:40,155 Speaker 1: the monday after Thanksgiving. He wished me a happy Turkey, 545 00:35:40,435 --> 00:35:43,635 Speaker 1: and everybody left, and everybody heard his plans, and a 546 00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:46,315 Speaker 1: couple of the producers asked me if I was recommending 547 00:35:46,315 --> 00:35:51,795 Speaker 1: them to be on my new show on MLB network. So, 548 00:35:51,835 --> 00:35:54,075 Speaker 1: how come I don't have a new show on MLB Networker, 549 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:56,235 Speaker 1: how come we're not celebrating the tenth anniversary of my 550 00:35:56,315 --> 00:36:00,995 Speaker 1: new show on MLB Network. Well, on Monday afternoon, my 551 00:36:01,115 --> 00:36:03,515 Speaker 1: agent calls me and says he's just gotten off the 552 00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:07,155 Speaker 1: phone with Tony Pettiti and it was the strangest conversation 553 00:36:07,275 --> 00:36:10,715 Speaker 1: he had had since he became an agent. No let 554 00:36:10,715 --> 00:36:13,795 Speaker 1: me rephrase that, he said, because it wasn't a conversation, 555 00:36:13,875 --> 00:36:16,715 Speaker 1: it was an attempted conversation. I kept asking him what 556 00:36:16,795 --> 00:36:19,115 Speaker 1: he told me to call him about, and he would 557 00:36:19,195 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: then say nothing. Initially I did not understand what you 558 00:36:24,195 --> 00:36:27,835 Speaker 1: mean he said nothing, My agent said he meant literally that. 559 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:30,915 Speaker 1: I say, so, Tony, what's your offer to Keith? And 560 00:36:30,915 --> 00:36:33,635 Speaker 1: then there was silence, and I thought the phone call 561 00:36:33,675 --> 00:36:36,035 Speaker 1: had dropped out. So I said, Tony, are you there? 562 00:36:36,435 --> 00:36:39,515 Speaker 1: And he say sure, I am so Again I asked him, 563 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:42,795 Speaker 1: you know, what's your offer to Keith? And again literally silence, 564 00:36:43,475 --> 00:36:46,075 Speaker 1: only this time I can hear him breathing. I tried 565 00:36:46,155 --> 00:36:50,795 Speaker 1: like ten different ways. Are we talking about Keith now silence? 566 00:36:51,155 --> 00:36:54,555 Speaker 1: Is there a reason you're being silent about Keith? Tony silence? 567 00:36:54,795 --> 00:36:57,515 Speaker 1: If I changed the subject, talked about somebody else, he 568 00:36:57,675 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: was his normal self. If I mentioned your name, he 569 00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:04,395 Speaker 1: went silent. The next day, the agent calls me back. 570 00:37:05,675 --> 00:37:07,435 Speaker 1: Petiti just did this again with me on the phone. 571 00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:09,795 Speaker 1: He wouldn't speak, literally, wouldn't say any words in any 572 00:37:09,915 --> 00:37:15,675 Speaker 1: language if I mentioned your name. Took me a long 573 00:37:15,955 --> 00:37:19,835 Speaker 1: time to find out what had actually happened. The next 574 00:37:19,835 --> 00:37:22,435 Speaker 1: baseball season, after I'd gone back to work at ESPN, 575 00:37:22,835 --> 00:37:25,635 Speaker 1: I'm at a game. There's one of the MLB network 576 00:37:25,675 --> 00:37:28,315 Speaker 1: officials whom I'd met on my two days before Thanksgiving 577 00:37:28,355 --> 00:37:31,955 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, and this person comes up to me and apologizes. 578 00:37:32,715 --> 00:37:35,635 Speaker 1: We all heard what happened. It's so embarrassing. Petiti is 579 00:37:35,635 --> 00:37:39,075 Speaker 1: such a coward. The Yankees got to him and another club, 580 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:41,275 Speaker 1: I never found out which one. There was some kind 581 00:37:41,275 --> 00:37:44,155 Speaker 1: of conference call a Monday after Thanksgiving to tell the 582 00:37:44,195 --> 00:37:46,155 Speaker 1: teams about your new show, and whoever was on the 583 00:37:46,155 --> 00:37:49,235 Speaker 1: call for the Yankees went ballistic. They said something like, 584 00:37:49,235 --> 00:37:51,395 Speaker 1: if you put him on MLB Network, we will disable 585 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:54,115 Speaker 1: your cameras. At Yankee Stadium and never let any of 586 00:37:54,155 --> 00:37:59,235 Speaker 1: you inside the building again. Instantly I knew why the 587 00:37:59,315 --> 00:38:03,635 Speaker 1: Yankees would have done that. I was, and my father 588 00:38:03,715 --> 00:38:06,395 Speaker 1: before me, ac He's and ticket holder for forty two 589 00:38:06,555 --> 00:38:09,395 Speaker 1: years for Yankee games, and for ten of those years, 590 00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:12,115 Speaker 1: I was also one of the two announcers who did 591 00:38:12,115 --> 00:38:15,035 Speaker 1: a kind of play by play over the public address 592 00:38:15,075 --> 00:38:18,635 Speaker 1: system at Yankee Stadium on Old Timer's Day. And then 593 00:38:18,675 --> 00:38:22,435 Speaker 1: one day in twenty eleven, I tweeted a photo of 594 00:38:22,475 --> 00:38:25,355 Speaker 1: a Yankee employee in the stands giving some sort of 595 00:38:25,435 --> 00:38:29,395 Speaker 1: hand signals to Alex Rodriguez in the on deck circle. 596 00:38:30,115 --> 00:38:33,355 Speaker 1: The guy was clearly telling Alex Rodriguez what the last 597 00:38:33,635 --> 00:38:37,675 Speaker 1: pitch had been. It wasn't cheating, it was helping a 598 00:38:37,795 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 1: supposed superstar who apparently could not figure out for himself 599 00:38:42,315 --> 00:38:45,675 Speaker 1: from on the field what the last pitch had been. 600 00:38:46,915 --> 00:38:50,035 Speaker 1: I tweeted the photo. Major League Baseball called the Yankees 601 00:38:50,075 --> 00:38:52,115 Speaker 1: and told them to cut it out. The Yankees and 602 00:38:52,195 --> 00:38:55,555 Speaker 1: a Rod looked stupid in the newspapers, and the Yankees' 603 00:38:55,555 --> 00:38:57,675 Speaker 1: management said they were not mad at me. And then 604 00:38:57,755 --> 00:39:00,675 Speaker 1: three months later, days before Old Timer's Day, they leaked 605 00:39:00,715 --> 00:39:03,835 Speaker 1: to the papers that I had been fired as Old 606 00:39:03,875 --> 00:39:06,875 Speaker 1: Timer's Day play by play man because I had tweeted 607 00:39:06,875 --> 00:39:09,555 Speaker 1: that photo of Alex Rodriguez and the guy in the stands, 608 00:39:10,315 --> 00:39:14,275 Speaker 1: so rather naturally, my response was to not renew my 609 00:39:14,355 --> 00:39:16,755 Speaker 1: season tickets. And my tickets were right behind home plate 610 00:39:16,995 --> 00:39:19,555 Speaker 1: and they cost like four hundred thousand dollars a year, 611 00:39:19,835 --> 00:39:22,875 Speaker 1: and relax, I gave about seventy percent of them to 612 00:39:22,915 --> 00:39:26,315 Speaker 1: make a wish. But the Yankees, being the Yankees, were 613 00:39:26,395 --> 00:39:28,955 Speaker 1: furious that I would not give them four hundred thousand 614 00:39:28,955 --> 00:39:32,635 Speaker 1: dollars a year anyway, so they told MLB Network if 615 00:39:32,715 --> 00:39:35,155 Speaker 1: MLB Network gave me a show, they would unplug MLB 616 00:39:35,275 --> 00:39:40,155 Speaker 1: Networks cameras. Actually they did more than that. I asked 617 00:39:40,155 --> 00:39:43,435 Speaker 1: my friend, the MLB network official, the real puzzler of 618 00:39:43,475 --> 00:39:48,155 Speaker 1: the saga, why this MLB Network president Tony Petiti, literally 619 00:39:48,595 --> 00:39:52,155 Speaker 1: would not speak, would not say anything, not even deals 620 00:39:52,315 --> 00:39:56,915 Speaker 1: off to my agent. Oh. The official said, the Yankees 621 00:39:56,955 --> 00:39:59,835 Speaker 1: were specific about that if you say anything to him 622 00:39:59,955 --> 00:40:03,235 Speaker 1: or his people, we will get you fired. So Fetiti 623 00:40:03,275 --> 00:40:06,355 Speaker 1: took it literally. He said, if you or your agent called, 624 00:40:06,635 --> 00:40:11,475 Speaker 1: to just give you the silent treatment. These are adults, 625 00:40:11,755 --> 00:40:15,315 Speaker 1: mind you, and they say that on air talent are 626 00:40:15,315 --> 00:40:19,275 Speaker 1: the Prima Donnas. As I said, the Yankees are the 627 00:40:19,355 --> 00:40:22,675 Speaker 1: closest of five different teams who tried to have actually 628 00:40:22,715 --> 00:40:25,595 Speaker 1: gotten me fired sort of. When I was in local 629 00:40:25,635 --> 00:40:28,475 Speaker 1: news in Los Angeles, Jackie Autrey, the woman who went 630 00:40:28,555 --> 00:40:31,515 Speaker 1: from being Gene Autry's banker to being his second wife, 631 00:40:31,875 --> 00:40:33,995 Speaker 1: tried to get me fired from my station in LA 632 00:40:34,115 --> 00:40:37,475 Speaker 1: because I had criticized their team, the California Angels. She 633 00:40:37,595 --> 00:40:40,075 Speaker 1: tried again a few years later after I got to ESPN. 634 00:40:40,955 --> 00:40:43,795 Speaker 1: Then there were the Tampa Bay Rays, well, the Devil 635 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:46,795 Speaker 1: Rays at that point, whose first owner, Vince Namoli, was 636 00:40:46,835 --> 00:40:49,315 Speaker 1: convinced I had a vendetta against his team and was 637 00:40:49,355 --> 00:40:53,475 Speaker 1: making up stories about them that were accidentally true. He 638 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:57,915 Speaker 1: could not conceive that somebody in his organization who he paid, 639 00:40:58,315 --> 00:41:01,355 Speaker 1: actually hated him so much that this person called me 640 00:41:01,435 --> 00:41:04,555 Speaker 1: up and volunteered to feed me anything bad that went 641 00:41:04,795 --> 00:41:08,515 Speaker 1: on there. But that is exactly what happened. So that's 642 00:41:08,515 --> 00:41:10,795 Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Angels, and the Rays, and there's a 643 00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:14,315 Speaker 1: mystery fifth team that was also involved in the MLB 644 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:17,115 Speaker 1: network thing. And then there were the Chicago White Sox. 645 00:41:17,835 --> 00:41:20,915 Speaker 1: One of their co owners, Eddie Einhorn, was a big 646 00:41:20,955 --> 00:41:23,595 Speaker 1: fan of mine, But for forty four years the team 647 00:41:23,635 --> 00:41:26,755 Speaker 1: has been run by the other co owner, Jerry Reinsdorf. 648 00:41:27,475 --> 00:41:30,115 Speaker 1: And Jerry Reinsdorf was one of the key figures in 649 00:41:30,155 --> 00:41:32,955 Speaker 1: the strike that killed the nineteen ninety four baseball season. 650 00:41:33,555 --> 00:41:36,995 Speaker 1: During that terrible winter that followed, my sources in the 651 00:41:36,995 --> 00:41:40,555 Speaker 1: Baseball Players Association showed me a copy of their offer 652 00:41:40,635 --> 00:41:43,715 Speaker 1: to the owners. The owners were led by Rhinsdorf, and 653 00:41:43,835 --> 00:41:47,275 Speaker 1: in the player's offer, they were willing to actually negotiate 654 00:41:47,355 --> 00:41:52,675 Speaker 1: one of the players Union's sacred cows, salary arbitration. They 655 00:41:52,675 --> 00:41:56,075 Speaker 1: were willing to cut it or maybe eliminate it outright. 656 00:41:56,715 --> 00:42:00,475 Speaker 1: But after complaining about salary arbitration for twenty years, the 657 00:42:00,515 --> 00:42:04,955 Speaker 1: owners committee, led by this Reinsdorf idiot, turned the players down. 658 00:42:06,115 --> 00:42:09,155 Speaker 1: Apparently most of the owners did not know that Rhinsdorff 659 00:42:09,195 --> 00:42:13,035 Speaker 1: had passed on a chance to eliminate salary arbitration, a 660 00:42:13,155 --> 00:42:17,755 Speaker 1: kind of automatic inflation thing within baseball contracts. And they 661 00:42:17,795 --> 00:42:20,075 Speaker 1: came down on Hinsdorff like a ton of bricks. What 662 00:42:20,115 --> 00:42:23,035 Speaker 1: do you mean you turned down the chance to stop 663 00:42:23,275 --> 00:42:28,195 Speaker 1: salary arbitration. So naturally he blamed me, and he called 664 00:42:28,275 --> 00:42:30,715 Speaker 1: up ESPN and he demanded they fire me, which, to 665 00:42:30,795 --> 00:42:35,635 Speaker 1: their credit, they never did do. Revenge is a dish 666 00:42:35,715 --> 00:42:38,675 Speaker 1: which people of taste prefer to eat cold, goes the 667 00:42:38,755 --> 00:42:43,395 Speaker 1: old Italian proverb. Reinsdorf is today despised within baseball. He 668 00:42:43,435 --> 00:42:47,035 Speaker 1: has once again ruined the Chicago White Sox. The Tampa 669 00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:51,195 Speaker 1: Bay Ray's owner, name Oli, sold the team unknowingly, obviously 670 00:42:51,515 --> 00:42:54,355 Speaker 1: to a man named Stuart Sternberg, who turned out to 671 00:42:54,435 --> 00:42:56,435 Speaker 1: be married to a friend of mine from college. So 672 00:42:56,515 --> 00:42:58,275 Speaker 1: whenever the Rays would come into New York, I would 673 00:42:58,315 --> 00:43:00,595 Speaker 1: sit with Stu and his wife Lisa in their box. 674 00:43:00,875 --> 00:43:05,475 Speaker 1: Their eldest son interned for me. MLB Network, which started 675 00:43:05,515 --> 00:43:08,435 Speaker 1: out pretty good, is now just a propaganda machine in 676 00:43:08,475 --> 00:43:10,835 Speaker 1: which every team is unbeaten and every player is the 677 00:43:10,875 --> 00:43:14,355 Speaker 1: greatest ever. And they fired their best reporter, Ken Rosenthal 678 00:43:14,595 --> 00:43:17,555 Speaker 1: because he dared to write something critical of the idiot 679 00:43:17,555 --> 00:43:36,755 Speaker 1: commissioner Robert Manfred. So go Dodgers. I mean, you know, 680 00:43:37,035 --> 00:43:41,915 Speaker 1: my late friend and hero, Vin Scully Dodgers. Dodgers. Dodgers 681 00:43:41,915 --> 00:43:43,435 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 682 00:43:43,515 --> 00:43:45,435 Speaker 1: for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, 683 00:43:45,435 --> 00:43:50,435 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern nine Pacific. Follow me 684 00:43:50,475 --> 00:43:54,115 Speaker 1: for the podcast promo videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, 685 00:43:54,115 --> 00:43:59,115 Speaker 1: Instagram and instau. Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. 686 00:43:59,795 --> 00:44:03,195 Speaker 1: Please send this podcast or tell somebody about it. Send 687 00:44:03,235 --> 00:44:06,035 Speaker 1: it to them. Does not know they need to listen 688 00:44:06,115 --> 00:44:11,555 Speaker 1: to this podcast, but should. It's called Countdown. We've discussed 689 00:44:11,555 --> 00:44:13,755 Speaker 1: how my late hero and friend mister Scully told me 690 00:44:13,755 --> 00:44:16,755 Speaker 1: he was offered the Yankees announcing job in nineteen sixty four, 691 00:44:18,075 --> 00:44:20,675 Speaker 1: offered the chance to go home again to the Metropot 692 00:44:20,755 --> 00:44:24,835 Speaker 1: New York area, and again in nineteen sixty seven. He said, no, thanks, 693 00:44:24,915 --> 00:44:27,515 Speaker 1: I'll stay here. Thank you very much. I mentioned that 694 00:44:27,555 --> 00:44:32,315 Speaker 1: once on the air and Southern California erupted, Oh we 695 00:44:32,475 --> 00:44:37,715 Speaker 1: almost lost been fifty years ago. Brian Ray and John 696 00:44:37,755 --> 00:44:40,755 Speaker 1: Phillip Schanel, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced and 697 00:44:40,795 --> 00:44:43,515 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle had little orchestration 698 00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:46,315 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. 699 00:44:46,955 --> 00:44:50,515 Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy 700 00:44:50,595 --> 00:44:53,235 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 701 00:44:53,355 --> 00:44:57,515 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Sports Music is the Overman theme from ESPN two, 702 00:44:57,835 --> 00:45:01,595 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other 703 00:45:01,715 --> 00:45:04,635 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 704 00:45:05,395 --> 00:45:09,755 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend John Deane, Dodgers fan. 705 00:45:10,795 --> 00:45:14,475 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today, 706 00:45:14,515 --> 00:45:18,395 Speaker 1: one weekend, six days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 707 00:45:18,755 --> 00:45:23,595 Speaker 1: the three and eighty seventh day since convicted felon dissociative 708 00:45:23,715 --> 00:45:28,475 Speaker 1: fugue Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected 709 00:45:28,515 --> 00:45:31,195 Speaker 1: government of the United States. Use the election, use the 710 00:45:31,195 --> 00:45:34,315 Speaker 1: mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from 711 00:45:34,355 --> 00:45:37,995 Speaker 1: doing it again while we still have a chance. The 712 00:45:38,075 --> 00:45:41,715 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires 713 00:45:41,995 --> 00:45:44,995 Speaker 1: until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman. Good Morning, good afternoon, 714 00:45:45,035 --> 00:46:04,115 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Oulderman is 715 00:46:04,115 --> 00:46:08,955 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 716 00:46:08,995 --> 00:46:13,675 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.