1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:26,555 Speaker 1: has already violated Judge Arthur Angern's gag order. And if 3 00:00:26,595 --> 00:00:29,955 Speaker 1: anger On actually was contemplating finding him in contempt and 4 00:00:29,995 --> 00:00:32,755 Speaker 1: putting him in jail for thirty days, he should damn 5 00:00:32,795 --> 00:00:35,675 Speaker 1: well do it and do it now. And if he wasn't, 6 00:00:36,035 --> 00:00:39,075 Speaker 1: he ought to now expand the gag order and specify 7 00:00:39,115 --> 00:00:41,115 Speaker 1: that if Trump breaks it again, he will spend a 8 00:00:41,155 --> 00:00:44,835 Speaker 1: month behind bars. This is not complicated. It only takes 9 00:00:45,155 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: four steps. One Monday, the judge warned Trump's lawyers that 10 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:53,715 Speaker 1: if he didn't lay off the attacks, he would impose 11 00:00:53,755 --> 00:00:57,595 Speaker 1: a gag order. Two Tuesday, a troll account on Twitter 12 00:00:57,795 --> 00:01:00,755 Speaker 1: attacked anger On's court clerk because she once took a 13 00:01:00,875 --> 00:01:04,475 Speaker 1: selfie with Senator Chuck Schumer. Somebody showed it to Trump. 14 00:01:04,755 --> 00:01:07,115 Speaker 1: He took the photo and lied that the clerk was 15 00:01:07,115 --> 00:01:11,515 Speaker 1: Schumer's girlfriend and that she was running the trial. Thus 16 00:01:11,555 --> 00:01:16,075 Speaker 1: the case had to be immediately dismissed. Three Within hours 17 00:01:16,115 --> 00:01:19,435 Speaker 1: of that, anger On ordered Trump's post to be deleted. 18 00:01:19,715 --> 00:01:23,795 Speaker 1: He gagged Trump and forbade him from quote, posting, emailing, 19 00:01:23,915 --> 00:01:27,195 Speaker 1: or speaking publicly about any members of my staff and added, 20 00:01:27,475 --> 00:01:31,035 Speaker 1: failure to abide by this order will result in serious sanctions. 21 00:01:31,675 --> 00:01:38,155 Speaker 1: And four yesterday, Trump posted quote, the judge fraudulently reduced 22 00:01:38,195 --> 00:01:40,955 Speaker 1: the value of Mari Lago and other assets in order 23 00:01:41,035 --> 00:01:44,755 Speaker 1: to make their fake case more viable. And during the 24 00:01:44,835 --> 00:01:48,395 Speaker 1: lunch break, Trump said of anger on he's a Democrat judge. 25 00:01:48,435 --> 00:01:51,915 Speaker 1: He has no choice. He's run by the Democrats, thus 26 00:01:52,035 --> 00:01:56,635 Speaker 1: accusing the judge both of fraud and of political corruption. 27 00:01:57,595 --> 00:02:02,435 Speaker 1: The gag order precludes Trump from public comments about quote 28 00:02:02,475 --> 00:02:05,795 Speaker 1: any members of my staff on quote. And it is 29 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:10,035 Speaker 1: not twisting logic nor semantics too strongly to note that 30 00:02:10,075 --> 00:02:14,595 Speaker 1: the judge would count as a member of his own staff. 31 00:02:16,435 --> 00:02:20,235 Speaker 1: So step five quite clearly is this judge imposing those 32 00:02:20,355 --> 00:02:24,955 Speaker 1: serious sanctions. By statutes, they could be contempt of court. 33 00:02:25,435 --> 00:02:28,395 Speaker 1: And under New York State law Article nineteen, section seven 34 00:02:28,555 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: fifty one, contempt of court is punishable by I regret 35 00:02:33,315 --> 00:02:36,315 Speaker 1: to tell you. Capital punishment does not apply. Under Article nineteen, 36 00:02:36,315 --> 00:02:40,835 Speaker 1: section seven fifty one. It's punishable by fine not exceeding 37 00:02:40,835 --> 00:02:45,115 Speaker 1: one thousand dollars or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, 38 00:02:45,275 --> 00:02:48,835 Speaker 1: or both, at the discretion of the judge. And if 39 00:02:48,915 --> 00:02:51,315 Speaker 1: judge Enngarn really wants to make the argument that he 40 00:02:51,395 --> 00:02:55,675 Speaker 1: is not a member of his own staff. He would 41 00:02:55,715 --> 00:02:59,435 Speaker 1: therefore need to broaden the gag order immediately, because you 42 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:04,515 Speaker 1: or I, or Hunter Biden or Joe Biden or j 43 00:03:04,755 --> 00:03:09,155 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ fresh off the cross, would have already amassed 44 00:03:09,435 --> 00:03:14,235 Speaker 1: one thousand thirty day sentences for the kind of contemptuous 45 00:03:14,515 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: shit Donald Trump has gotten away with abusing and degrading 46 00:03:18,435 --> 00:03:23,195 Speaker 1: and insulting and harassing and threatening and undermining and sabotaging 47 00:03:23,275 --> 00:03:28,235 Speaker 1: and lying about our judicial system. And I am the 48 00:03:28,515 --> 00:03:32,435 Speaker 1: last person on this planet to give any judicial system 49 00:03:32,555 --> 00:03:36,355 Speaker 1: carte blanche over anyone or anything. But it is time 50 00:03:36,835 --> 00:03:41,715 Speaker 1: that our judicial system gets off its ass and puts 51 00:03:41,755 --> 00:03:48,195 Speaker 1: this narcissistic, delusional, destructive, deranged quasi human behind bars so 52 00:03:48,235 --> 00:03:50,995 Speaker 1: he can get busy rotting behind them and then going 53 00:03:51,035 --> 00:03:54,155 Speaker 1: directly to Hell. And I would love to see him 54 00:03:54,195 --> 00:03:56,595 Speaker 1: convicted for the crimes for which he's been indicted by 55 00:03:56,635 --> 00:03:59,915 Speaker 1: Jack Smith in Washington and Florida, and by Fanie Willis 56 00:03:59,955 --> 00:04:02,515 Speaker 1: in Georgia, and by Letitia James here in New York. 57 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:05,755 Speaker 1: But frankly, as long as it is lawful, I do 58 00:04:05,875 --> 00:04:08,475 Speaker 1: not care if Trump spends the rest of his life 59 00:04:08,515 --> 00:04:13,115 Speaker 1: in prison only because he insulted Judge Arthur anger On's 60 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:18,195 Speaker 1: justifiably anonymous courtroom clerk and Judge anger On himself. Any 61 00:04:18,515 --> 00:04:23,675 Speaker 1: port in a storm enough break Trump in half. The 62 00:04:23,795 --> 00:04:28,115 Speaker 1: law tells you to and leave the metaphorical carcass to 63 00:04:28,315 --> 00:04:39,515 Speaker 1: figuratively decompose in the gutter. Lock the bastard up. By 64 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:45,515 Speaker 1: the way, these are two clips from Trump's swirling, murderous, 65 00:04:45,555 --> 00:04:49,475 Speaker 1: insane rages outside the courtroom, the first in which he 66 00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:52,315 Speaker 1: made the comment about anger On which I quoted earlier, 67 00:04:52,715 --> 00:04:55,675 Speaker 1: the second in which he attacks the Attorney General in 68 00:04:55,715 --> 00:04:59,675 Speaker 1: the most egregious way yet and by the way, in 69 00:04:59,715 --> 00:05:04,675 Speaker 1: the video accompanying these audio clips, Trump is lighted exactly 70 00:05:04,995 --> 00:05:09,955 Speaker 1: the way they lighted Norma Desmond in the last scene 71 00:05:10,115 --> 00:05:14,515 Speaker 1: of the movie Sunset Boulevard. What He's gonna do? 72 00:05:14,675 --> 00:05:19,915 Speaker 2: He's a Democratic judge choice, he has no choice. 73 00:05:20,155 --> 00:05:21,875 Speaker 1: He's run by the Democrats, and. 74 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:22,915 Speaker 2: He gets sued by. 75 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:28,155 Speaker 1: A political animal. Trump did not pick political animal with 76 00:05:28,275 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: his verbal emphasis on the word animal. By accident. Most assuredly, 77 00:05:33,235 --> 00:05:36,395 Speaker 1: the Attorney General is not covered by the judges gag order. 78 00:05:36,795 --> 00:05:38,915 Speaker 1: He may be a part of his own staff, she 79 00:05:39,075 --> 00:05:41,635 Speaker 1: most certainly is not. So Trump will get away with 80 00:05:41,755 --> 00:05:46,155 Speaker 1: calling her an animal with the word political added as prefix, 81 00:05:46,235 --> 00:05:50,715 Speaker 1: because it reduces the grotesqueness and the racism of him 82 00:05:50,755 --> 00:05:54,235 Speaker 1: calling a black woman a quote animal. It reduces it, 83 00:05:54,235 --> 00:05:58,315 Speaker 1: It dials it back to a common political cliche. But 84 00:05:58,435 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: in light of the brutality of that and Trump's constant racism, 85 00:06:02,835 --> 00:06:05,995 Speaker 1: Judge anger On should expel and that gag order a 86 00:06:06,035 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: second time, and hereafter include Letitia James and her staff too. 87 00:06:12,795 --> 00:06:22,595 Speaker 1: Lock him up. By the way, Trump has also now 88 00:06:22,795 --> 00:06:26,155 Speaker 1: lied twice about his presence at the New York trial, 89 00:06:26,555 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: and not just by his continuing fabrication that he has 90 00:06:29,235 --> 00:06:31,955 Speaker 1: been denied a jury trial. He has been denied a 91 00:06:31,995 --> 00:06:35,755 Speaker 1: jury trial because he denied himself professional legal representation. They 92 00:06:35,795 --> 00:06:39,715 Speaker 1: literally checked the box saying no jury. Trump literally checked 93 00:06:39,715 --> 00:06:41,795 Speaker 1: the box saying I'm not going to pay a lot 94 00:06:41,795 --> 00:06:45,675 Speaker 1: for this lawyer. Trump has done something else. He's now 95 00:06:45,755 --> 00:06:49,155 Speaker 1: done the murder your parents demand pity because you're an 96 00:06:49,235 --> 00:06:52,075 Speaker 1: orphan quick step. He told the media that though he 97 00:06:52,195 --> 00:06:55,035 Speaker 1: is not expected to testify for weeks yet, he is 98 00:06:55,115 --> 00:06:57,355 Speaker 1: at the trial in New York because he was quote 99 00:06:57,435 --> 00:07:00,875 Speaker 1: stuck here as if he had been compelled to attend. 100 00:07:01,555 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: This was a lie, so agreed just that even a 101 00:07:03,515 --> 00:07:06,715 Speaker 1: reporter actually noticed and pushed back and said, but you 102 00:07:06,755 --> 00:07:09,075 Speaker 1: don't have to be here, And he immediately changed his 103 00:07:09,155 --> 00:07:11,795 Speaker 1: story and said he was there quote because I want 104 00:07:11,915 --> 00:07:14,515 Speaker 1: to point out to the press how corrupt it is. 105 00:07:15,155 --> 00:07:18,755 Speaker 1: And if this real time demonstration of the limitless volume 106 00:07:18,995 --> 00:07:22,515 Speaker 1: that the fountain of verbal diarrhea that is Donald Trump's 107 00:07:22,515 --> 00:07:27,115 Speaker 1: brain can handle. If that were not enough, he promptly 108 00:07:27,155 --> 00:07:30,155 Speaker 1: reportedly left the court to fly back to Florida, even 109 00:07:30,195 --> 00:07:33,155 Speaker 1: though he's stuck in New York, compelled forced by the 110 00:07:33,235 --> 00:07:37,355 Speaker 1: Democratic judge who's guilty of fraud. Ever, the martyr can't leave, 111 00:07:37,435 --> 00:07:39,235 Speaker 1: can't get back to where, can't get back to the 112 00:07:39,235 --> 00:07:43,155 Speaker 1: campaign trail, can't where is he? Oh? He left for 113 00:07:43,155 --> 00:07:49,475 Speaker 1: Florida happily. In so doing, Trump may have committed contempt 114 00:07:49,795 --> 00:07:53,315 Speaker 1: in a second court. He was supposed to sit for 115 00:07:53,395 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: his deposition two days ago in his own suit against 116 00:07:56,835 --> 00:08:00,475 Speaker 1: his former fixer Michael Cohen in South Florida, but he 117 00:08:00,555 --> 00:08:02,435 Speaker 1: told the judge there a week ago that he had 118 00:08:02,475 --> 00:08:05,555 Speaker 1: to postpone the deposition because he was going to spend 119 00:08:05,595 --> 00:08:07,595 Speaker 1: at least the first week of the New York fraud 120 00:08:07,675 --> 00:08:11,835 Speaker 1: trial in that courtroom. According to Cohen's lawyer's motion to 121 00:08:11,875 --> 00:08:15,355 Speaker 1: the Florida court, Trump quote also stated that because of 122 00:08:15,395 --> 00:08:19,195 Speaker 1: the trial, he would be unavailable any business day between 123 00:08:19,195 --> 00:08:25,035 Speaker 1: October two, twenty twenty three, and the end of his trial. Thus, 124 00:08:25,075 --> 00:08:27,555 Speaker 1: there is the gathering and looming evidence that Trump is 125 00:08:27,635 --> 00:08:32,315 Speaker 1: in so many courtrooms because of so many lawsuits and 126 00:08:32,395 --> 00:08:35,715 Speaker 1: so many criminal indictments, that his court appearances and his 127 00:08:35,915 --> 00:08:41,195 Speaker 1: lies about them are now crashing into each other. And 128 00:08:41,275 --> 00:08:46,035 Speaker 1: once again a week from Monday, the hearing in Judge 129 00:08:46,355 --> 00:08:50,755 Speaker 1: Chutkins courtroom about Jack Smith's request for a gag order, 130 00:08:51,195 --> 00:08:55,715 Speaker 1: and the pile of other outside threats and other outside 131 00:08:55,755 --> 00:08:59,475 Speaker 1: abuses by Trump, of other outside judges and other outside 132 00:08:59,475 --> 00:09:02,635 Speaker 1: prosecutors and other outside key players, it just keeps getting 133 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:06,035 Speaker 1: higher and higher and more and more damning and honest 134 00:09:06,035 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: to God, after listening to eight years of this public 135 00:09:10,035 --> 00:09:13,555 Speaker 1: crap from him, and privately listening to forty years of 136 00:09:13,555 --> 00:09:16,195 Speaker 1: it as of this December fifteenth, as somebody who met 137 00:09:16,235 --> 00:09:20,515 Speaker 1: him that long ago, the thought that we might still 138 00:09:20,595 --> 00:09:25,715 Speaker 1: have a chance to save democracy from him is obviously 139 00:09:25,875 --> 00:09:30,755 Speaker 1: first on my list of prayers, But second place does 140 00:09:30,795 --> 00:09:36,075 Speaker 1: not belong to punishing Trump or avenging ourselves against him. 141 00:09:36,115 --> 00:09:42,075 Speaker 1: That's third. The second best thing about all this would 142 00:09:42,115 --> 00:09:47,875 Speaker 1: be to see him hamstrung and pinioned by a series 143 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:52,475 Speaker 1: of gag orders, and to know that, metaphorically and literally, 144 00:09:53,075 --> 00:09:59,555 Speaker 1: America will finally make Donald Trump shut the f up 145 00:10:04,675 --> 00:10:08,675 Speaker 1: speaking of dreams potentially coming true. If you have missed this, 146 00:10:09,155 --> 00:10:12,315 Speaker 1: the other guy I was saying was nuts at least 147 00:10:12,595 --> 00:10:16,715 Speaker 1: ten years before everybody else noticed, is coming apart at 148 00:10:16,715 --> 00:10:21,635 Speaker 1: the seams, in public and fast, and it couldn't happen 149 00:10:21,715 --> 00:10:28,715 Speaker 1: to a nicer guy. You will recall Rudy Giuliani. He's 150 00:10:28,835 --> 00:10:34,075 Speaker 1: being sued by his most loyal lapdog lawyer Robert Costello, 151 00:10:34,515 --> 00:10:37,595 Speaker 1: and Costello's partners for nearly a million and a half 152 00:10:37,635 --> 00:10:40,555 Speaker 1: dollars in unpaid legal fees. But you may not have 153 00:10:40,595 --> 00:10:43,715 Speaker 1: heard that last week. One of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia, 154 00:10:44,115 --> 00:10:47,595 Speaker 1: David Wolfe, told the court a week ago today he 155 00:10:47,795 --> 00:10:50,875 Speaker 1: is no longer one of Giuliani's local attorneys in Georgia, 156 00:10:50,995 --> 00:10:54,715 Speaker 1: and he offered no explanation for that. But wait, there's more. 157 00:10:54,955 --> 00:10:58,315 Speaker 1: Tuesday night, Brian Tevis told the Georgia judge he is 158 00:10:58,435 --> 00:11:02,595 Speaker 1: also withdrawing from representing Rudy so Giuliani's legal team and 159 00:11:02,595 --> 00:11:07,955 Speaker 1: the Fawnie Willis case, is now himself that if anybody 160 00:11:07,955 --> 00:11:10,795 Speaker 1: in this country could bring that most cliche of cliches 161 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:15,555 Speaker 1: to brilliant life, it's Rudy Giuliani, a man who is 162 00:11:15,595 --> 00:11:20,275 Speaker 1: his own lawyer, has a fool for a client, and 163 00:11:20,355 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: apparently he has a drunk for a client as well. 164 00:11:24,555 --> 00:11:28,715 Speaker 1: Yesterday The New York Times published thirty one hundred and 165 00:11:28,955 --> 00:11:35,355 Speaker 1: nine devastating words over Maggie Haberman's byline and under the 166 00:11:35,395 --> 00:11:42,475 Speaker 1: headline Giuliani's drinking long a fraught subject? Has Trump Prosecutor's attention? 167 00:11:44,115 --> 00:11:47,315 Speaker 1: Of those thirty one hundred and nine words, eighteen of 168 00:11:47,315 --> 00:11:52,595 Speaker 1: them are drinking, five of them are drunk, and four 169 00:11:52,595 --> 00:11:57,315 Speaker 1: of them are problem Yet the real relevance of the 170 00:11:57,355 --> 00:12:01,555 Speaker 1: piece is that part about Trump Prosecutors. The Times Rights, 171 00:12:02,195 --> 00:12:06,675 Speaker 1: the Jack Smith's Office and its members quote have shown 172 00:12:06,715 --> 00:12:10,355 Speaker 1: an interest in the drinking habits of mister Giuliani. They've 173 00:12:10,475 --> 00:12:15,235 Speaker 1: questioned witnesses about mister Giuliani's alcohol consumption as he was 174 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:21,475 Speaker 1: advising mister Trump, including on election night. Mister Smith's investigators 175 00:12:21,475 --> 00:12:24,715 Speaker 1: have also asked about mister Trump's level of awareness of 176 00:12:24,795 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: his lawyer's drinking as they worked to overturn the election. 177 00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:32,555 Speaker 1: The answers to those prompts could complicate any efforts by 178 00:12:32,555 --> 00:12:35,835 Speaker 1: mister Trump's team to lean on a so called advice 179 00:12:36,075 --> 00:12:40,115 Speaker 1: of council defense if such guidance came from someone whom 180 00:12:40,115 --> 00:12:43,515 Speaker 1: mister Trump knew to be compromised by alcohol, especially when 181 00:12:43,515 --> 00:12:46,155 Speaker 1: many others told mister Trump definitively that he had lost, 182 00:12:46,515 --> 00:12:50,715 Speaker 1: his argument, could weaken Several people at the White House 183 00:12:50,795 --> 00:12:54,115 Speaker 1: on election night. The evening when mister Giuliani urged mister 184 00:12:54,115 --> 00:12:57,315 Speaker 1: Trump to declare victory despite the results, have said that 185 00:12:57,355 --> 00:13:01,155 Speaker 1: the former mayor appeared to be drunk, slurring and carrying 186 00:13:01,275 --> 00:13:06,795 Speaker 1: an odor of alcohol. Quote the mayor was definitely intoxicated, 187 00:13:07,315 --> 00:13:13,395 Speaker 1: Jason Miller said, whew. The Times was also good enough 188 00:13:13,395 --> 00:13:16,595 Speaker 1: to remind us that Giuliani first claimed quote they stole 189 00:13:16,675 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: that election unquote in nineteen eighty nine, when he lost 190 00:13:21,395 --> 00:13:24,475 Speaker 1: to David Dinkins, the first time he ran for mayor 191 00:13:24,555 --> 00:13:27,035 Speaker 1: of New York City. The Times notes that he started 192 00:13:27,115 --> 00:13:29,155 Speaker 1: drinking heavily after he went from the front runner in 193 00:13:29,155 --> 00:13:31,395 Speaker 1: the race for the two thousand and eight Republican presidential 194 00:13:31,435 --> 00:13:35,555 Speaker 1: nomination to the guy who won exactly one delegate. I'll 195 00:13:35,595 --> 00:13:39,275 Speaker 1: note again that Giuliani still believes his demise in that 196 00:13:39,435 --> 00:13:42,315 Speaker 1: race was caused by the man who told America that 197 00:13:42,435 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 1: everything Giuliani said at the time was quote a noun, 198 00:13:45,955 --> 00:13:48,635 Speaker 1: a verb and nine to eleven, And of course that 199 00:13:48,715 --> 00:13:55,195 Speaker 1: man was Joe Biden. Explains everything there. The Times quotes 200 00:13:55,235 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: a Giuliani bilographer recounting the number of times Giuliani has 201 00:13:59,075 --> 00:14:03,475 Speaker 1: been quote literally falling down drunk, and how he would 202 00:14:03,515 --> 00:14:08,355 Speaker 1: lapse then into Islamophobia or just lapse into collisions with 203 00:14:08,635 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: walls and other objects. I will let the Times retain 204 00:14:14,675 --> 00:14:16,875 Speaker 1: the rest of its own thunder, and I will leave 205 00:14:16,915 --> 00:14:18,515 Speaker 1: you the option of whether or not you want to 206 00:14:18,515 --> 00:14:21,235 Speaker 1: hear any more of this. But let's put it this way, 207 00:14:21,595 --> 00:14:25,515 Speaker 1: if Rudy Giuliani still had a reputation, the Times piece 208 00:14:25,715 --> 00:14:29,395 Speaker 1: would have just destroyed it. And again, the real import 209 00:14:29,515 --> 00:14:33,195 Speaker 1: of what The Times produced yesterday is not about Giuliani 210 00:14:33,915 --> 00:14:37,035 Speaker 1: but about how his drinking may become part of the 211 00:14:37,075 --> 00:14:41,995 Speaker 1: prosecution of Donald Trump, because apparently you cannot use an 212 00:14:42,075 --> 00:14:46,915 Speaker 1: advice of council defense if your counsel is so drunk 213 00:14:47,355 --> 00:14:59,075 Speaker 1: he could be considered at risk for spontaneous combustion. Okay, 214 00:14:59,195 --> 00:15:02,435 Speaker 1: I'll put away the buttons with the music attached to them. 215 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:05,795 Speaker 1: Also of interest here, a major new quote news unquote 216 00:15:05,835 --> 00:15:10,995 Speaker 1: website has turned to artificial intelligence to assess the reliability 217 00:15:11,035 --> 00:15:14,195 Speaker 1: and the honesty of news coverage. And it has determined 218 00:15:14,195 --> 00:15:18,635 Speaker 1: that the least reliable stories about Kevin McCarthy, the partisan 219 00:15:18,715 --> 00:15:23,035 Speaker 1: clickbait about Kevin McCarthy, were produced by the New York 220 00:15:23,075 --> 00:15:26,395 Speaker 1: Times and the BBC ah but the most reliable stories 221 00:15:26,435 --> 00:15:32,675 Speaker 1: about McCarthy were produced by the New York Post and Breitbart. 222 00:15:33,075 --> 00:15:36,355 Speaker 1: And yes, there is a good chance that this artificial 223 00:15:36,395 --> 00:15:42,115 Speaker 1: intelligence is actually just Tucker Carlson stuffed inside a computer costume. 224 00:15:42,635 --> 00:15:44,915 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. 225 00:15:46,555 --> 00:15:49,195 Speaker 2: This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 226 00:16:10,275 --> 00:16:13,195 Speaker 1: Still ahead on countdown. The anniversary is day after Tomorrow, 227 00:16:13,315 --> 00:16:17,435 Speaker 1: Saturday night, eleven, fifteen pm Eastern. The first time I 228 00:16:17,475 --> 00:16:21,475 Speaker 1: actually went on radio where there were people listening and 229 00:16:21,555 --> 00:16:25,195 Speaker 1: a sponsor you ever wanted to hear the sixteen year 230 00:16:25,235 --> 00:16:29,955 Speaker 1: old version of me stand by first time for the 231 00:16:29,995 --> 00:16:32,755 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 232 00:16:32,755 --> 00:16:37,915 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world The 233 00:16:37,955 --> 00:16:43,595 Speaker 1: Bronze the Institute of Economic Affairs i EA, which proclaims 234 00:16:43,595 --> 00:16:47,795 Speaker 1: itself to be Britain's original free market think tank. Actually 235 00:16:48,195 --> 00:16:52,915 Speaker 1: they are misogynistic fascists. They have earned international condemnation after 236 00:16:52,955 --> 00:16:57,835 Speaker 1: conducting a live panel called the Future of Journalism, and 237 00:16:57,955 --> 00:17:00,475 Speaker 1: the people in it are all British media types or 238 00:17:00,555 --> 00:17:03,195 Speaker 1: fringe members of the government, so you will not recognize 239 00:17:03,235 --> 00:17:06,355 Speaker 1: the names. But the panel on the future of journalism 240 00:17:06,435 --> 00:17:13,595 Speaker 1: were Sir John Whittingdale, Owen, Meredith, Matthew Lesh, Matt Warman, 241 00:17:14,275 --> 00:17:20,155 Speaker 1: Matthew Sinclair and David Matthew. As one wag noted, the 242 00:17:20,155 --> 00:17:24,835 Speaker 1: future of journalism is for Matthews, but no women. As 243 00:17:24,875 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: another one observed, maybe they'll invent journalism for girls someday. 244 00:17:31,675 --> 00:17:33,715 Speaker 2: Future of Journalism myfe the. 245 00:17:33,755 --> 00:17:36,875 Speaker 1: Runner up, Jonathan Turley, or as my spell check continually 246 00:17:36,915 --> 00:17:40,475 Speaker 1: tries to rename him across all my devices, Jonathan Turkey. 247 00:17:41,355 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: When I have posited here that the one time countdown 248 00:17:43,995 --> 00:17:48,275 Speaker 1: regular and constitutional interpreters being blackmailed, it is not just 249 00:17:48,355 --> 00:17:50,835 Speaker 1: that he's gone from a liberal leaning umpire with a 250 00:17:50,835 --> 00:17:54,235 Speaker 1: pretty fair strike zone to a lunatic that only Fox 251 00:17:54,315 --> 00:17:57,235 Speaker 1: News and the House Committee to Obstruct Justice could respect. 252 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:01,395 Speaker 1: It's also little things like this. He's posted a piece 253 00:18:01,635 --> 00:18:05,115 Speaker 1: slamming the Palace Coup against Kevin McCarthy byting that a 254 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:08,115 Speaker 1: comedian quote once said chaos in the middle of chaos 255 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:11,155 Speaker 1: isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. 256 00:18:11,995 --> 00:18:19,115 Speaker 1: He then attributed that quote to Stephen Martin Stephen ste 257 00:18:19,435 --> 00:18:24,235 Speaker 1: Ve n Since the observation was actually made by Steve Martin, 258 00:18:24,315 --> 00:18:27,475 Speaker 1: one assumes that's who Turley meant. But something is really 259 00:18:27,595 --> 00:18:31,675 Speaker 1: wrong with John Turley. Nobody, but nobody has called Steve 260 00:18:31,755 --> 00:18:36,635 Speaker 1: Martin Stephen. I don't think even his parents called him Stephen. 261 00:18:37,595 --> 00:18:40,715 Speaker 1: Steve Martin's first full name is Stephen with a pH. 262 00:18:42,315 --> 00:18:46,635 Speaker 1: But our Winners. The Messenger this weird trojan horse site 263 00:18:46,835 --> 00:18:50,275 Speaker 1: that claims to be a cutting edge venue for quote balanced, objective, 264 00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:54,115 Speaker 1: nonpartisan journalism, but is in fact just another right wing 265 00:18:54,195 --> 00:18:58,115 Speaker 1: propaganda outlet that mixed in the added crime of clickbait. 266 00:18:59,075 --> 00:19:02,595 Speaker 1: Most of the media world figured the Messenger out pretty quickly, 267 00:19:02,915 --> 00:19:05,515 Speaker 1: but eyebrows were still raised when and It announced that 268 00:19:05,555 --> 00:19:08,195 Speaker 1: it had made a deal with an artificial intelligence company 269 00:19:08,195 --> 00:19:11,875 Speaker 1: called Seeker. Seeker claims to be able to use AI 270 00:19:12,475 --> 00:19:16,595 Speaker 1: to evaluate the reliability and fairness of reporting quote by 271 00:19:16,595 --> 00:19:19,475 Speaker 1: applying the same standards of journalism universally accepted by the 272 00:19:19,475 --> 00:19:24,195 Speaker 1: responsible free press, its spots, instances of clickbait, title exaggeration, 273 00:19:24,355 --> 00:19:28,955 Speaker 1: subjectivity and personal attacks, the absence of a byline, inferior 274 00:19:29,035 --> 00:19:33,355 Speaker 1: sourcing and attribution, and whether website ownership information is transparent 275 00:19:33,435 --> 00:19:38,675 Speaker 1: and credible. It will generate a list Seeker will of 276 00:19:38,715 --> 00:19:42,595 Speaker 1: which news organizations have published quote reliable stories on a 277 00:19:42,635 --> 00:19:47,155 Speaker 1: given topic and which ones have published unreliable ones. Okay, so, 278 00:19:47,315 --> 00:19:50,675 Speaker 1: Joshua Benton of the Nieman Media Lab decided to give 279 00:19:50,715 --> 00:19:54,635 Speaker 1: the Messengers Seeker partnership a spin to see which news 280 00:19:54,675 --> 00:19:58,275 Speaker 1: outlets its AI had determined had come in very high 281 00:19:58,595 --> 00:20:03,035 Speaker 1: and very low on the Seeker reliability scale on stories 282 00:20:03,075 --> 00:20:07,395 Speaker 1: about the ouster of Kevin McCarthy. The very low unreliable 283 00:20:07,395 --> 00:20:12,875 Speaker 1: stories they were the ones produced by ABC, BBC, NBC, Bloomberg, 284 00:20:13,155 --> 00:20:17,555 Speaker 1: La Times, Politico, Guardian, The Atlantic, Daily, Beast, Time, and 285 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:22,435 Speaker 1: The New York Times. The very high, most reliable stories 286 00:20:22,955 --> 00:20:27,835 Speaker 1: they were the ones produced by Zero Hedge by Glenn Becks, 287 00:20:28,155 --> 00:20:35,875 Speaker 1: The Blaze by Montana, RightNow dot Com by The Washington Times, 288 00:20:35,995 --> 00:20:41,075 Speaker 1: The Daily Mail of londonan network, Breitbart and The New 289 00:20:41,195 --> 00:20:47,715 Speaker 1: York Post. What no love for the Daily Stormer, the 290 00:20:47,795 --> 00:20:51,675 Speaker 1: New Crapsite, The Messenger, where they've already managed to hire 291 00:20:51,795 --> 00:20:58,035 Speaker 1: new right wing robot overlords two days. Worst person in 292 00:20:58,235 --> 00:21:13,155 Speaker 1: the world. I was sixteen years old. I was in 293 00:21:13,235 --> 00:21:15,875 Speaker 1: my seventh or eighth week at Cornell University, and in 294 00:21:15,955 --> 00:21:18,075 Speaker 1: my second week or so of training at the student 295 00:21:18,115 --> 00:21:23,915 Speaker 1: owned radio station WVBRFM, and they all played me. They 296 00:21:23,955 --> 00:21:28,875 Speaker 1: all had a big joke on Keith's expense. The premise 297 00:21:29,075 --> 00:21:33,315 Speaker 1: of that evening of October seventh, nineteen seventy five, was 298 00:21:33,355 --> 00:21:35,755 Speaker 1: that I was going to shadow a senior sportscaster named 299 00:21:35,755 --> 00:21:37,835 Speaker 1: Gary Davis, and I would sit with him in Studio 300 00:21:38,035 --> 00:21:42,075 Speaker 1: B at two twenty seven Lynden Avenue during his sportscast, 301 00:21:42,075 --> 00:21:44,075 Speaker 1: and he would give me one, maybe two stories that 302 00:21:44,115 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: I would read so that my first real broadcast would 303 00:21:47,075 --> 00:21:50,275 Speaker 1: not be quite so traumatic. It was all a lie. 304 00:21:50,435 --> 00:21:54,235 Speaker 1: It was a damned lie. I was standing at the 305 00:21:54,355 --> 00:21:58,435 Speaker 1: edges of the newsroom, periodically summoning the courage to look 306 00:21:58,475 --> 00:22:02,755 Speaker 1: at the copy, continually and furiously and noisily disgorging itself 307 00:22:02,795 --> 00:22:06,315 Speaker 1: from the United Press International teletype, wondering where this Gary 308 00:22:06,395 --> 00:22:10,435 Speaker 1: Davis guy was. When somebody I did not know, and 309 00:22:10,555 --> 00:22:12,755 Speaker 1: they were all somebody I did not know there that 310 00:22:12,875 --> 00:22:16,075 Speaker 1: night came over and asked you Keith, and I nodded 311 00:22:16,195 --> 00:22:21,075 Speaker 1: phone for you. Hey, kid, it's Jerry Goldberg. Jerry was 312 00:22:21,115 --> 00:22:23,515 Speaker 1: the sports director of the commercial radio station run by 313 00:22:23,555 --> 00:22:27,595 Speaker 1: Cornell students. He sounded exactly that laconic. He was one 314 00:22:27,595 --> 00:22:29,675 Speaker 1: of the ten seniors on the staff. I was one 315 00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:32,635 Speaker 1: of the two freshmen. Listen, he said, find the newscaster 316 00:22:32,835 --> 00:22:35,275 Speaker 1: Kathy and get her to give you all the sports 317 00:22:35,275 --> 00:22:37,955 Speaker 1: stories from the UPI wire, and start picking which ones 318 00:22:38,075 --> 00:22:40,715 Speaker 1: you're going to do at eleven fifteen. Gary Davis will 319 00:22:40,755 --> 00:22:43,675 Speaker 1: be there around a quarter to eleven. Now, I know 320 00:22:43,755 --> 00:22:45,555 Speaker 1: I told you that Gary was going to do the 321 00:22:45,595 --> 00:22:47,515 Speaker 1: sports cast and you were only going to do a 322 00:22:47,555 --> 00:22:50,435 Speaker 1: story or two. But that was just because I didn't 323 00:22:50,475 --> 00:22:55,035 Speaker 1: want you to get all nervous, so I lied. It 324 00:22:55,115 --> 00:22:58,995 Speaker 1: was all a lie, a damned lie. I didn't want 325 00:22:59,035 --> 00:23:02,435 Speaker 1: you to get all nervous. I wondered what Jerry Goldberg 326 00:23:02,475 --> 00:23:05,795 Speaker 1: thought I would be. Now as the clocks towards ten PM, 327 00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:07,595 Speaker 1: and I had about seventy five minutes to get the 328 00:23:07,595 --> 00:23:10,515 Speaker 1: wire copy I had not seen from the newscaster I 329 00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:13,635 Speaker 1: had not met, turn it into a five minute sportscast 330 00:23:13,675 --> 00:23:16,315 Speaker 1: in a manner I did not know, find the studio, 331 00:23:16,395 --> 00:23:18,675 Speaker 1: the whereabouts of which I did not know, with the 332 00:23:18,675 --> 00:23:20,715 Speaker 1: help of a guy named Gary Davis, whom I would 333 00:23:20,795 --> 00:23:24,355 Speaker 1: not recognize when he came in. Oh And although my 334 00:23:24,435 --> 00:23:26,315 Speaker 1: voice was pretty deep, and I had been on my 335 00:23:26,435 --> 00:23:30,475 Speaker 1: high school's radio station with my mentor, Chris Berman, I 336 00:23:30,595 --> 00:23:33,355 Speaker 1: was still only sixteen, and I was the youngest of 337 00:23:33,435 --> 00:23:37,155 Speaker 1: the twenty thousand or so students at Cornell University right 338 00:23:37,235 --> 00:23:40,795 Speaker 1: that night, and my voice was still periodically breaking, and 339 00:23:40,835 --> 00:23:43,635 Speaker 1: it would continue to periodically break through my senior year, 340 00:23:43,795 --> 00:23:48,115 Speaker 1: often with disastrous and hilarious consequences. And now I had 341 00:23:48,115 --> 00:23:51,355 Speaker 1: been though we did not use that term, then played 342 00:23:51,955 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: it was a lie, a damned lie. I was prepared 343 00:23:55,435 --> 00:23:58,155 Speaker 1: to watch, to learn, to make a cameo, even maybe thirty, 344 00:23:58,195 --> 00:24:01,715 Speaker 1: maybe forty five seconds of terror reading something this guy 345 00:24:01,835 --> 00:24:04,315 Speaker 1: Davis had selected for me. Instead, I was at the 346 00:24:04,355 --> 00:24:08,435 Speaker 1: deep end of the pool. This newscast that the sportscast 347 00:24:08,555 --> 00:24:13,115 Speaker 1: was part of. Late addition, had listeners and not just commercials. 348 00:24:13,195 --> 00:24:16,635 Speaker 1: It had a sponsor. The sponsor was a prominent local 349 00:24:16,795 --> 00:24:23,075 Speaker 1: insurance agency, the Robertus Boothroyd Agency. Your protection is their profession. 350 00:24:23,675 --> 00:24:27,195 Speaker 1: This was a hybrid, this WVVVR. It was training station 351 00:24:27,275 --> 00:24:29,035 Speaker 1: for students, but it was also one of the eight 352 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:32,635 Speaker 1: experimental licenses granted by the FCC in the nineteen thirties. 353 00:24:32,755 --> 00:24:35,395 Speaker 1: We were not public radio, We were not non commercial. 354 00:24:35,715 --> 00:24:39,955 Speaker 1: We sold, produced, and ran advertising. Before I was done there, 355 00:24:39,995 --> 00:24:42,715 Speaker 1: I did the local commercials for the JC Pennett Penny 356 00:24:42,755 --> 00:24:46,435 Speaker 1: Department stores. Anyway, I remember little of the rest of 357 00:24:46,475 --> 00:24:49,395 Speaker 1: that night. Gary Davis finally showed up, said I'd made 358 00:24:49,435 --> 00:24:53,435 Speaker 1: good story selections. Another veteran sportscaster showed up, and they 359 00:24:53,515 --> 00:24:56,035 Speaker 1: escorted me into the studio exactly like I'd seen them 360 00:24:56,275 --> 00:25:00,515 Speaker 1: escort every prisoner down every final mile in every prison movie. 361 00:25:01,075 --> 00:25:03,395 Speaker 1: The room was so quiet that I could literally hear 362 00:25:03,435 --> 00:25:07,755 Speaker 1: the second hand moving on the big clock. I think 363 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:09,915 Speaker 1: I had an out of body experience. I think I 364 00:25:09,955 --> 00:25:13,355 Speaker 1: could see myself from about the perspective of that big 365 00:25:13,435 --> 00:25:16,315 Speaker 1: clock up on the wall. I know for certain that 366 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:19,475 Speaker 1: Gary Davis had encouraged me to place one arm around 367 00:25:19,515 --> 00:25:22,795 Speaker 1: the microphone stand and hold the ten small pieces of 368 00:25:22,835 --> 00:25:26,075 Speaker 1: canary yellow wire copy with the thumb and forefinger of 369 00:25:26,275 --> 00:25:28,635 Speaker 1: both hands, so that when I was finished reading the 370 00:25:28,675 --> 00:25:31,635 Speaker 1: first page. Only then did it occur to me that 371 00:25:31,675 --> 00:25:34,795 Speaker 1: I had to move my hands, which were frozen with fright, 372 00:25:35,195 --> 00:25:38,315 Speaker 1: remove the top page out of that stack of ten pages, 373 00:25:38,755 --> 00:25:42,355 Speaker 1: not drop the other ones, and not knock the microphone over. 374 00:25:43,075 --> 00:25:46,675 Speaker 1: And while I was thinking of this, a red light 375 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:48,275 Speaker 1: went on and. 376 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:50,035 Speaker 2: Light edition sports. 377 00:25:50,675 --> 00:25:52,595 Speaker 3: Ken Griffy has scored the go ahead run on a 378 00:25:52,635 --> 00:25:54,835 Speaker 3: sacrifice fly on the top of the ten thing to 379 00:25:54,875 --> 00:25:55,995 Speaker 3: give Cincinnati at four. 380 00:25:55,875 --> 00:25:58,795 Speaker 2: To threeweight over Pittsburgh. A Red victory would clinch the 381 00:25:58,875 --> 00:25:59,355 Speaker 2: National League. 382 00:25:59,355 --> 00:26:01,995 Speaker 3: Pennant Tonight, Pete Rose had a two run homer in 383 00:26:02,035 --> 00:26:06,035 Speaker 3: the eighth inning off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, 384 00:26:06,155 --> 00:26:08,915 Speaker 3: had allowed only one hit and struck out fourteen. 385 00:26:08,555 --> 00:26:09,315 Speaker 2: Through seven inns. 386 00:26:09,355 --> 00:26:12,755 Speaker 1: I mentioned some names that any fan would recognize even now, 387 00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:16,475 Speaker 1: Ken Griffy, Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Tom Sever Terry Bradshaw. 388 00:26:16,835 --> 00:26:19,515 Speaker 1: But the first non baseball story was about last ditch 389 00:26:19,515 --> 00:26:23,395 Speaker 1: efforts to save the World Football League. I did not 390 00:26:23,595 --> 00:26:26,515 Speaker 1: write a word of it except my own name at 391 00:26:26,515 --> 00:26:29,195 Speaker 1: the beginning and the end, and I was so scared 392 00:26:30,515 --> 00:26:34,275 Speaker 1: that when it came to my own name, I mispronounced 393 00:26:34,275 --> 00:26:35,635 Speaker 1: it twice. 394 00:26:36,475 --> 00:26:39,915 Speaker 3: Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges remain the top small college football 395 00:26:39,995 --> 00:26:43,595 Speaker 3: teams in the nation, and the latest NCAA pole that's 396 00:26:43,715 --> 00:26:44,715 Speaker 3: late edition sports. 397 00:26:44,875 --> 00:26:45,715 Speaker 2: I'm Keith Oberman. 398 00:26:45,875 --> 00:26:51,275 Speaker 1: Good Night, Yes Oberman. That's what it said on the paper. 399 00:26:51,395 --> 00:26:54,355 Speaker 1: If it had said I'm Keith green Cheese, I would 400 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:58,635 Speaker 1: have said, I'm Keith green Cheese. Now, obviously I still 401 00:26:58,635 --> 00:27:00,955 Speaker 1: have this tape, but basically it's sixteen year old Keith 402 00:27:00,995 --> 00:27:03,835 Speaker 1: whispers like that for nearly five minutes. The guy in 403 00:27:03,875 --> 00:27:05,875 Speaker 1: the next dorm room was good enough to record it 404 00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:09,235 Speaker 1: to me or for me. Jeff Holling said, I'm not 405 00:27:09,275 --> 00:27:11,755 Speaker 1: gonna subject you to it here, but since I have it, 406 00:27:11,915 --> 00:27:13,515 Speaker 1: I will play the whole thing at the end of 407 00:27:13,515 --> 00:27:15,955 Speaker 1: this program, literally after the credits. I mean, why not. 408 00:27:16,915 --> 00:27:19,835 Speaker 1: What amazes me in retrospect is that nearly four years 409 00:27:19,915 --> 00:27:24,035 Speaker 1: and certainly two thousand sportscasts later, on July tenth, nineteen 410 00:27:24,115 --> 00:27:28,035 Speaker 1: seventy nine, I fell victim to the exact same trick 411 00:27:28,195 --> 00:27:31,635 Speaker 1: again when I got my first full time job at 412 00:27:31,715 --> 00:27:35,115 Speaker 1: United Press Internationals Radio Network in nineteen seventy nine, my boss, 413 00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:37,435 Speaker 1: Sam Rosen, the one who still does the New York 414 00:27:37,515 --> 00:27:40,355 Speaker 1: Rangers hockey games on TV, told me to come in 415 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:42,595 Speaker 1: at five am one morning to watch him do the 416 00:27:42,635 --> 00:27:45,555 Speaker 1: morning shift. I sat in the studio as he barked 417 00:27:45,595 --> 00:27:48,395 Speaker 1: out the sportscasts at six forty five and seven forty 418 00:27:48,395 --> 00:27:50,275 Speaker 1: five and eight forty five, and as soon as he 419 00:27:50,395 --> 00:27:53,595 Speaker 1: signed off with Rammo Sports task of the United Press International, 420 00:27:53,675 --> 00:27:56,155 Speaker 1: I'm Sam Rosen. He looked at me and said, you 421 00:27:56,195 --> 00:27:58,755 Speaker 1: got it. I sure hope you do, because you're doing 422 00:27:58,795 --> 00:28:01,835 Speaker 1: the nine forty five. It was all a lie, another 423 00:28:01,955 --> 00:28:05,475 Speaker 1: damned lie back at my college ledge station, one of 424 00:28:05,475 --> 00:28:08,195 Speaker 1: my former trainees doing the midday news shift, who had 425 00:28:08,195 --> 00:28:10,475 Speaker 1: had no idea I had even gotten the job. At 426 00:28:10,555 --> 00:28:13,355 Speaker 1: UPI went over to check the wire machine and saw 427 00:28:13,395 --> 00:28:17,275 Speaker 1: an advisory from UPI Audio which read, Keith Olderman will 428 00:28:17,315 --> 00:28:19,875 Speaker 1: do the nine to forty five AM sports cast today. 429 00:28:20,515 --> 00:28:24,395 Speaker 1: She let out a scream, and so that ancient artifact, 430 00:28:24,435 --> 00:28:26,795 Speaker 1: that piece of yellow wire copy printed out on the 431 00:28:26,795 --> 00:28:28,875 Speaker 1: same machine from which I pulled the stories from my 432 00:28:28,915 --> 00:28:33,275 Speaker 1: first sports cast four years before, still exists framed on 433 00:28:33,395 --> 00:28:35,995 Speaker 1: my wall. It was yellow when it was new. So 434 00:28:36,035 --> 00:28:38,475 Speaker 1: you can't really say it's yellowed with age. I may 435 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:42,755 Speaker 1: have yellowed with age. UPI is basically gone now. WVBR 436 00:28:42,835 --> 00:28:44,875 Speaker 1: is still going strong. I mean, I'm proud to say 437 00:28:44,915 --> 00:28:49,355 Speaker 1: the Olderman Cornelius Studios in Ithaca, New York, and in 438 00:28:49,395 --> 00:28:53,555 Speaker 1: an oddity that I still enjoy. My college debut was 439 00:28:53,595 --> 00:28:58,235 Speaker 1: on ten to seven, and my network debut was on 440 00:28:58,355 --> 00:29:13,795 Speaker 1: seven to ten. I've done all the damage I can 441 00:29:13,835 --> 00:29:15,995 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come to 442 00:29:16,035 --> 00:29:19,315 Speaker 1: you from the Vin Scully Studios at the Olderman Broadcasting 443 00:29:19,355 --> 00:29:22,915 Speaker 1: Empire in New York. The music you've heard was, for 444 00:29:22,955 --> 00:29:25,715 Speaker 1: the most part arrange produced and performed by Countdown musical 445 00:29:25,715 --> 00:29:29,515 Speaker 1: directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneale. Brian Ray handled 446 00:29:29,515 --> 00:29:32,075 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. John Phillip Shanelle did the 447 00:29:32,155 --> 00:29:34,955 Speaker 1: orchestration and the keyboards, and it was all produced by 448 00:29:35,115 --> 00:29:39,835 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other music, including other Beethoven tunes, arranged and 449 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:44,155 Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Allowed. Sports music is courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 450 00:29:44,195 --> 00:29:46,475 Speaker 1: And it was written by Mitch Warren Davis. We caught 451 00:29:46,515 --> 00:29:50,435 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two. Our satirical and pithy 452 00:29:50,635 --> 00:29:54,035 Speaker 1: musical comments are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium 453 00:29:54,075 --> 00:29:56,835 Speaker 1: organist ever. I announced you today was my friend Richard Lewis, 454 00:29:56,875 --> 00:29:59,995 Speaker 1: and everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's 455 00:29:59,995 --> 00:30:03,595 Speaker 1: countdown for this, the one thousandth and third day since 456 00:30:03,595 --> 00:30:06,835 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first emptied coup against the democratically elected government 457 00:30:06,875 --> 00:30:10,195 Speaker 1: of the United States. Convict him now while we still can. 458 00:30:11,035 --> 00:30:13,675 Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says the news 459 00:30:13,715 --> 00:30:18,315 Speaker 1: warrants till then, I'm Keith Oberman. Good morning, in the afternoon, 460 00:30:18,355 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. 461 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:26,795 Speaker 2: Late edition sports. 462 00:30:27,635 --> 00:30:29,595 Speaker 3: Ken Griffey has scored the go ahead run on a 463 00:30:29,635 --> 00:30:31,835 Speaker 3: sacrifice fly in the top of the tenth inning to 464 00:30:31,875 --> 00:30:34,555 Speaker 3: give Cincinnati at four to three wheel over Pittsburgh. A 465 00:30:34,635 --> 00:30:37,715 Speaker 3: red victory would clinch the National League Pennant. Tonight, Pete 466 00:30:37,795 --> 00:30:39,515 Speaker 3: Rose hit a two run homer in the eighth inning 467 00:30:39,515 --> 00:30:43,635 Speaker 3: off Pirates starter John Candelaria. Candelaria, a rookie, had allowed 468 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,715 Speaker 3: only one hit and struck out fourteen through seven innings. 469 00:30:47,275 --> 00:30:49,835 Speaker 3: Cincinnati has just added another run in the tenth. The 470 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:54,755 Speaker 3: scoring out stands Cincinnati five, Pittsburgh three. Dick Drego came 471 00:30:54,795 --> 00:30:56,475 Speaker 3: on in the eighth inning to get an inning inning 472 00:30:56,515 --> 00:30:59,195 Speaker 3: double play to secure the Boston Red Sox their first 473 00:30:59,195 --> 00:31:02,915 Speaker 3: American League pennant since nineteen sixty seven. Oakland scored two 474 00:31:02,995 --> 00:31:05,435 Speaker 3: runs in the bottom of the eighth, but we're leaving 475 00:31:05,435 --> 00:31:07,955 Speaker 3: starter Rick Wise induced Joe Rudy to hit into a 476 00:31:07,955 --> 00:31:11,355 Speaker 3: double play with two men on the Red Sox five 477 00:31:11,475 --> 00:31:14,355 Speaker 3: Oakland three. The Red Sox go to the World Series. 478 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:18,115 Speaker 3: Joe Morgan of Cincinnati and Tom sever of the New 479 00:31:18,195 --> 00:31:20,435 Speaker 3: York Mets have been voted National League Player and Pitcher 480 00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 3: of the Year in a poll of National League players 481 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:25,675 Speaker 3: by The Sporting News. It's the third such honor for Siver, 482 00:31:25,755 --> 00:31:27,515 Speaker 3: who was Pitcher of the Year in nineteen sixty nine 483 00:31:27,555 --> 00:31:30,515 Speaker 3: and nineteen seventy three. He led the league this season 484 00:31:30,555 --> 00:31:33,555 Speaker 3: with twenty two victories and with strikeouts with two hundred 485 00:31:33,555 --> 00:31:36,755 Speaker 3: and forty three. Morgan, a second baseman, was so honored 486 00:31:36,835 --> 00:31:39,275 Speaker 3: for the first time. He batted three twenty seven, with 487 00:31:39,315 --> 00:31:41,875 Speaker 3: seventeen home runs, ninety four runs betted. 488 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:43,275 Speaker 2: In, and sixty seven stolen bases. 489 00:31:44,475 --> 00:31:47,435 Speaker 3: Turning to football, Chris Hemitur says the World Football League 490 00:31:47,475 --> 00:31:49,955 Speaker 3: will begin a national marketing program in an effort to 491 00:31:49,995 --> 00:31:53,035 Speaker 3: boost sagging attendance figures in the ten franchise cities. 492 00:31:53,515 --> 00:31:55,875 Speaker 2: Haimitter says, quote, we're going to try something new. 493 00:31:56,195 --> 00:31:58,955 Speaker 3: Up until this point, the ultimate responsibility for attendance has 494 00:31:58,995 --> 00:32:01,395 Speaker 3: been at the franchise level. The league will now act 495 00:32:01,435 --> 00:32:05,075 Speaker 3: as a coordinator unquote. Haimmeitter met yesterday with John Bassett, 496 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:07,595 Speaker 3: the owner of the Memphis Southman, and John Bessaco, owner 497 00:32:07,595 --> 00:32:10,795 Speaker 3: of the Philadelphia Bell. Himitter says attendance is quote the 498 00:32:10,835 --> 00:32:13,555 Speaker 3: most challenging question in our minds unquote. 499 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:17,075 Speaker 2: Quarterback Joe Gilliam is listed as a doubtful. 500 00:32:16,715 --> 00:32:20,075 Speaker 3: Starter for Pittsburgh's game on Sunday against Denver, but Terry 501 00:32:20,115 --> 00:32:22,475 Speaker 3: Bradshaw feels he'll be able to quote throw again by then. 502 00:32:23,315 --> 00:32:26,155 Speaker 3: Both quarterbacks were injured in Sunday's victory over Cleveland. 503 00:32:26,435 --> 00:32:27,555 Speaker 2: Bradshaw received a. 504 00:32:27,515 --> 00:32:29,995 Speaker 3: Deep cut on his right hand, while Gilliam dislocated the 505 00:32:29,995 --> 00:32:33,555 Speaker 3: index finger on his throwing hand. Bradshaw worked out for 506 00:32:33,595 --> 00:32:36,395 Speaker 3: fifteen minutes today admitted there was a little pain, but 507 00:32:36,475 --> 00:32:38,235 Speaker 3: he said he'll be able to hold the ball normally 508 00:32:38,235 --> 00:32:41,715 Speaker 3: with a smaller bandage. Gilliam and Bradshaw ranked as the 509 00:32:41,755 --> 00:32:45,195 Speaker 3: AFC's number two and three passers behind Cincinnati's Ken Anderson. 510 00:32:46,395 --> 00:32:49,155 Speaker 3: Also in football, defensive back Ken Stone of the Washington 511 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:53,155 Speaker 3: Redskins underwent knee surgery today for torn ligaments. The club's 512 00:32:53,155 --> 00:32:55,395 Speaker 3: physician says it'll be at least six weeks before the 513 00:32:55,395 --> 00:32:58,075 Speaker 3: fourth year pro from Vanderbilt will be able to run again. 514 00:32:59,755 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 3: On the eve of the new season, the NHL Players 515 00:33:02,115 --> 00:33:04,835 Speaker 3: Association and the club owners agreed on a new five 516 00:33:04,915 --> 00:33:08,235 Speaker 3: year collective bargaining agreement. The contract gives a team the 517 00:33:08,315 --> 00:33:10,635 Speaker 3: right to gain compensation for a player who plays out 518 00:33:10,635 --> 00:33:14,035 Speaker 3: his option and signs with another club. The same regulation, 519 00:33:14,155 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 3: called the Rizzel rule in the NFL, has been the 520 00:33:16,395 --> 00:33:19,315 Speaker 3: major stumbling block to a labor settlement in pro football. 521 00:33:20,555 --> 00:33:23,235 Speaker 3: Third period goals by Colan Campbell and Still Apps gave 522 00:33:23,275 --> 00:33:26,155 Speaker 3: the Pittsburgh Penguins a forty two victory over the Washington 523 00:33:26,155 --> 00:33:28,275 Speaker 3: Capitols tonight in the opening game of the National Hockey 524 00:33:28,355 --> 00:33:32,275 Speaker 3: League season. Campbell's thirty five foot slap shot snapped a 525 00:33:32,355 --> 00:33:34,155 Speaker 3: two to two tie at the five to forty one 526 00:33:34,195 --> 00:33:36,515 Speaker 3: mark of the final period, and Apps clinched. 527 00:33:36,195 --> 00:33:39,595 Speaker 2: The trium with its tally with eighty four seconds left. 528 00:33:40,035 --> 00:33:42,635 Speaker 3: Rookie goalie Gord Wlaxton went the distance for Pittsburgh to 529 00:33:42,635 --> 00:33:46,835 Speaker 3: collect his first NHL victory. The United States is expected 530 00:33:46,875 --> 00:33:48,835 Speaker 3: to dominate the track and field program at the Pan 531 00:33:48,835 --> 00:33:51,755 Speaker 3: American Games in Mexico City next week, despite a number 532 00:33:51,755 --> 00:33:52,875 Speaker 3: of notable absentees. 533 00:33:53,475 --> 00:33:55,275 Speaker 2: Among the headliners skipping the event. 534 00:33:55,115 --> 00:33:58,795 Speaker 3: Are Olympic Marathon champion Frank Shorter and world record holders 535 00:33:58,835 --> 00:34:02,355 Speaker 3: Steve Williams, Rick Wall Huter, Dwight Stones, Dave Roberts, and 536 00:34:02,355 --> 00:34:06,795 Speaker 3: Al Fureback. The NCUBA announced today it will send eight 537 00:34:06,835 --> 00:34:09,675 Speaker 3: of America's top college golfers to Tokyo later this year 538 00:34:09,955 --> 00:34:15,795 Speaker 3: to compete against Japan's best collegiates. Rambling in Wittenberg Colleges 539 00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:18,635 Speaker 3: remain the top small college football teams in the nation, 540 00:34:18,795 --> 00:34:22,475 Speaker 3: and the latest NCUBA poll that's Late Edition Sports. 541 00:34:22,635 --> 00:34:23,475 Speaker 2: I'm Keith Overman. 542 00:34:23,635 --> 00:34:27,995 Speaker 1: Goodnight Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 543 00:34:28,275 --> 00:34:33,595 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 544 00:34:33,715 --> 00:34:35,675 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.