1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Make 2 00:00:25,755 --> 00:00:31,115 Speaker 1: no mistake about what this is. This is Donald Trump's 3 00:00:31,955 --> 00:00:37,555 Speaker 1: terrorist attack on Los Angeles and with its undercurrent of 4 00:00:37,595 --> 00:00:41,995 Speaker 1: warning and preview to and against all the other metropolitan 5 00:00:41,995 --> 00:00:45,835 Speaker 1: areas still free of MAGA fascism. It is also Donald 6 00:00:45,915 --> 00:00:53,355 Speaker 1: Trump's terrorist threat against all of America. What else do 7 00:00:53,395 --> 00:00:56,075 Speaker 1: you call it? What else can you call it? When 8 00:00:56,115 --> 00:00:59,395 Speaker 1: you send in an unknown number of massed gestapo, fired 9 00:00:59,435 --> 00:01:03,915 Speaker 1: with authoritarian and racist fervor, their consciences muted by decades 10 00:01:04,035 --> 00:01:10,275 Speaker 1: of hateful rainwashing to seize, violate, and disappear civilians largely 11 00:01:10,475 --> 00:01:13,875 Speaker 1: from one ethnic group, from their homes, from their streets, 12 00:01:13,915 --> 00:01:17,635 Speaker 1: from their children's high school graduation ceremonies, and then send 13 00:01:17,675 --> 00:01:22,635 Speaker 1: them to anywhere. Send them to torture camps in lethally 14 00:01:22,755 --> 00:01:26,475 Speaker 1: dangerous foreign countries. Send them to the basements of the 15 00:01:26,515 --> 00:01:31,115 Speaker 1: ice facility in La overnight without water or food or electricity. 16 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:35,275 Speaker 1: Send them to wherever you want to keep them, while 17 00:01:36,235 --> 00:01:41,395 Speaker 1: often farcical legal cases are manufactured against them, as in 18 00:01:41,435 --> 00:01:45,715 Speaker 1: the story of kilmar Abrego Garcia. What else do you 19 00:01:45,915 --> 00:01:49,635 Speaker 1: call it? When, on top of this preliminary stage of 20 00:01:49,675 --> 00:01:53,595 Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing, you begin to beat and threaten and seize 21 00:01:54,195 --> 00:01:58,275 Speaker 1: those patriotic Americans protesting Donald Trump's use of the Constitution 22 00:01:58,515 --> 00:02:02,835 Speaker 1: as something with which he can wipe his ass. What 23 00:02:02,875 --> 00:02:08,435 Speaker 1: else do you call it when, after these unforgivable, disqualifying acts, 24 00:02:09,635 --> 00:02:12,875 Speaker 1: you bypass the Police Department of Los Angeles, and you 25 00:02:12,995 --> 00:02:16,195 Speaker 1: bypass the Mayor of Los Angeles, and you bypass the 26 00:02:16,235 --> 00:02:19,835 Speaker 1: Governor of California, all of whom correctly describe the proportions 27 00:02:20,035 --> 00:02:24,715 Speaker 1: of the clashes over the Nazi like raids as minor events. 28 00:02:25,035 --> 00:02:29,915 Speaker 1: When you bypass these clear and sober conclusions, and you 29 00:02:30,115 --> 00:02:35,875 Speaker 1: nationalize two thousand California National Guardsmen and pit them against 30 00:02:35,915 --> 00:02:40,235 Speaker 1: their fellow residents, and pit them against perhaps their own relatives, 31 00:02:40,515 --> 00:02:44,195 Speaker 1: and then you get the unstable, hallucinating Secretary of Defense 32 00:02:44,395 --> 00:02:49,235 Speaker 1: ready to send in active duty Marines because people tried 33 00:02:49,275 --> 00:02:54,355 Speaker 1: to save their neighbors and their relatives from existential life 34 00:02:54,475 --> 00:02:59,315 Speaker 1: and death kidnapping by ice. What else do you call it? 35 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:07,155 Speaker 1: When the fiendish, demented, Hispanic hated advisor and Bigot refers 36 00:03:07,195 --> 00:03:09,795 Speaker 1: to all of this as quote an insurrection against the 37 00:03:09,915 --> 00:03:12,635 Speaker 1: laws and sovereignty of the United States, when it is 38 00:03:12,675 --> 00:03:16,395 Speaker 1: in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional 39 00:03:16,475 --> 00:03:19,915 Speaker 1: rights in the parking lot of a goddamned home depot. 40 00:03:22,715 --> 00:03:31,035 Speaker 1: It is terrorism. It is designed to cause terror and panic. 41 00:03:32,195 --> 00:03:35,595 Speaker 1: It is designed to either use violence or the threat 42 00:03:35,635 --> 00:03:42,395 Speaker 1: of violence to effect political change, extra legally performed by 43 00:03:42,555 --> 00:03:47,435 Speaker 1: masked and helmeted, faceless men and women with weapons of 44 00:03:47,515 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: war on the streets of America's second largest city, to 45 00:03:53,875 --> 00:03:58,835 Speaker 1: stage an ice riot and then show what are literally 46 00:03:59,075 --> 00:04:03,435 Speaker 1: seconds of self defense by civilians, again and again on 47 00:04:03,475 --> 00:04:07,555 Speaker 1: what are nominally teleb news channels now subverted and perverted 48 00:04:07,555 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: into propaganda machines, to warn with vague, unstated menace that 49 00:04:13,275 --> 00:04:15,995 Speaker 1: this will be re enacted every day for the next 50 00:04:15,995 --> 00:04:25,275 Speaker 1: month in southern California and then where New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, 51 00:04:26,795 --> 00:04:31,035 Speaker 1: where by coincidence, there will be a parade of military 52 00:04:31,035 --> 00:04:33,235 Speaker 1: hardware at the end of this week, of parade that 53 00:04:33,275 --> 00:04:37,075 Speaker 1: would have made Stalin and the Kremlin blush, to celebrate 54 00:04:37,115 --> 00:04:40,955 Speaker 1: the birthday of the quote commander in chief unquote, the 55 00:04:40,955 --> 00:04:43,435 Speaker 1: one who did everything he could five times to avoid 56 00:04:43,475 --> 00:04:45,955 Speaker 1: serving in the military, to avoid even the kind of 57 00:04:46,035 --> 00:04:50,995 Speaker 1: lip service service completed by the George W. Bushes of 58 00:04:51,035 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: this world it is terrorism. It is Donald Trump's terrorism. 59 00:04:56,195 --> 00:04:59,995 Speaker 1: It is Donald Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles on 60 00:05:00,275 --> 00:05:07,955 Speaker 1: all of us call it what it is. The reality 61 00:05:08,035 --> 00:05:10,875 Speaker 1: of the events on the ground in southern California is 62 00:05:10,915 --> 00:05:18,875 Speaker 1: something altogether different. The LAPD, fantastically fascist and reliably racist, 63 00:05:19,035 --> 00:05:22,515 Speaker 1: almost without interruption for nearly a century and a half, 64 00:05:22,755 --> 00:05:26,875 Speaker 1: says there is no threat, No National Guard is required, 65 00:05:26,915 --> 00:05:32,955 Speaker 1: no goddamn marines. They have it covered. The news in 66 00:05:32,995 --> 00:05:36,155 Speaker 1: Los Angeles, used to true disaster and threat as recently 67 00:05:36,195 --> 00:05:38,675 Speaker 1: as the wildfires, and as far back as the Watts 68 00:05:38,755 --> 00:05:42,675 Speaker 1: riot and the Rodney King Riot and the zoot Suit riots, 69 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:46,475 Speaker 1: gave as much coverage yesterday to the Pride Parade in 70 00:05:46,515 --> 00:05:49,075 Speaker 1: West Hollywood, largely because there were more people on the 71 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:53,715 Speaker 1: streets at the Pride parade. The all news radio station, 72 00:05:53,755 --> 00:05:56,635 Speaker 1: which we'll switch to wall to wall disaster coverage anytime 73 00:05:56,675 --> 00:05:58,755 Speaker 1: an earthquake hits more than four point five on the 74 00:05:58,835 --> 00:06:03,675 Speaker 1: Richter scale, moved quickly yesterday from the clashes and the 75 00:06:03,715 --> 00:06:06,995 Speaker 1: calls from liberal government officials for calm and non violence, 76 00:06:07,195 --> 00:06:11,275 Speaker 1: from the trumpest deliberate escalation to the Stephen Miller wet 77 00:06:11,315 --> 00:06:14,195 Speaker 1: dream of using the American military to shoot American civilians 78 00:06:14,235 --> 00:06:17,915 Speaker 1: on the streets of American cities. They moved from their 79 00:06:17,955 --> 00:06:22,475 Speaker 1: coverage of all that to reporting instead on a true 80 00:06:22,635 --> 00:06:27,435 Speaker 1: urgent threat in the community. It is graduation season and 81 00:06:27,515 --> 00:06:30,715 Speaker 1: forty six hundred customers lost power in Westminster, California, over 82 00:06:30,715 --> 00:06:34,915 Speaker 1: the weekend because too many people lost control of too 83 00:06:34,955 --> 00:06:40,715 Speaker 1: many metallic congratulations balloons and they shorted out overhead power lines. 84 00:06:43,635 --> 00:06:46,355 Speaker 1: That is the reality of what it's like in southern 85 00:06:46,355 --> 00:06:53,395 Speaker 1: California right now. It's pretty much like every other day. 86 00:06:53,995 --> 00:06:56,155 Speaker 1: Send in the Marines to deal with that. Pete Hegseth. 87 00:06:56,235 --> 00:07:00,955 Speaker 1: Let's see your warrior ethos applied to the fight against shiny, 88 00:07:01,035 --> 00:07:05,115 Speaker 1: unidentified flying objects that might be an attack because they're 89 00:07:05,115 --> 00:07:09,715 Speaker 1: going first for the infrastructure. Let's see heg Seth against 90 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:16,475 Speaker 1: the balloons, the warrior ethos embodied by an idiotic Secretary 91 00:07:16,515 --> 00:07:19,955 Speaker 1: of Defense who uses more hair product than Lady Gaga. 92 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:28,315 Speaker 1: Make no mistake about what this is. I first warned 93 00:07:28,395 --> 00:07:33,075 Speaker 1: about this sequence of events early in two thousand goddamned sixteen. 94 00:07:35,435 --> 00:07:39,755 Speaker 1: First Trump activates racism against Hispanic people, or against any people, 95 00:07:40,435 --> 00:07:43,995 Speaker 1: then he invents an excuse to demonize them. Then he 96 00:07:44,035 --> 00:07:46,795 Speaker 1: starts to round them up. Then his cronies profit off 97 00:07:46,795 --> 00:07:49,275 Speaker 1: the private concentration camps that have to be built for them. 98 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:51,555 Speaker 1: Then he starts to round up anybody who tries to 99 00:07:51,595 --> 00:07:53,795 Speaker 1: defend the rights of his victims. Then he cuts to 100 00:07:53,835 --> 00:07:56,955 Speaker 1: the chase and sends in the National Guard and finally 101 00:07:56,995 --> 00:08:02,675 Speaker 1: the Army, and hopefully shoots them all. Then he declares 102 00:08:02,715 --> 00:08:06,315 Speaker 1: there's an invasion, and he says the threat, the threat 103 00:08:06,395 --> 00:08:10,395 Speaker 1: he manufactured and the prostitutes in his bureaucracy would nurture 104 00:08:10,395 --> 00:08:13,035 Speaker 1: and escalate. He says, the threat is now national, and 105 00:08:13,115 --> 00:08:15,955 Speaker 1: everyone is now at risk, and your constitution will have 106 00:08:15,995 --> 00:08:24,235 Speaker 1: to be suspended one right at a time. Trump's attack 107 00:08:24,475 --> 00:08:30,435 Speaker 1: on southern California, his invasion of Southern California, means we 108 00:08:30,515 --> 00:08:35,075 Speaker 1: are at about square two of this sequence. Even the 109 00:08:35,195 --> 00:08:38,115 Speaker 1: usually hapless Politico made no mistake about what this is 110 00:08:38,315 --> 00:08:44,235 Speaker 1: Trump's Rubicon moment. It wrote, well, it is essential Trump 111 00:08:44,315 --> 00:08:46,315 Speaker 1: and his dreams of dictatorship do not make it to 112 00:08:46,395 --> 00:08:52,395 Speaker 1: the other side of that river. But believe it or not, 113 00:08:54,555 --> 00:08:59,835 Speaker 1: almost miraculously, there is a way to stop Trump here 114 00:09:00,235 --> 00:09:04,875 Speaker 1: and now and to destroy his plans and perhaps his 115 00:09:04,955 --> 00:09:13,515 Speaker 1: presidency immediately. And by chance, this way was voiced before 116 00:09:13,675 --> 00:09:16,435 Speaker 1: Trump began down the path that will end with either 117 00:09:16,475 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: America or Trump here, but not both. This literally came 118 00:09:21,635 --> 00:09:27,275 Speaker 1: out the day before. It was on Friday. It was 119 00:09:27,315 --> 00:09:32,035 Speaker 1: in Gavin Newsom's unexpected spine growth at his embracing something 120 00:09:32,075 --> 00:09:35,315 Speaker 1: else I have been talking about since two thousand goddamn sixteen. 121 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:42,875 Speaker 1: There is one certain, nonviolent, unstoppable way to undo everything 122 00:09:42,995 --> 00:09:47,035 Speaker 1: imposed upon the people of this long suffering nation by 123 00:09:47,075 --> 00:09:54,755 Speaker 1: this dictatorial, fascist, minority bullshit regime. Gavin Newsom and the 124 00:09:54,795 --> 00:10:00,195 Speaker 1: state government of California have now threatened to lead a 125 00:10:00,395 --> 00:10:08,995 Speaker 1: tax strike. Newsom and California's State Assembly are ready to 126 00:10:09,315 --> 00:10:12,115 Speaker 1: defund the Trump dictatorship. 127 00:10:12,395 --> 00:10:15,915 Speaker 2: Donald Trump is threatening to defund California, but it's econ 128 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:18,675 Speaker 2: one oh one. California is a donor state. We provide 129 00:10:18,715 --> 00:10:21,995 Speaker 2: over eighty billion dollars more in tax revenue to the 130 00:10:22,035 --> 00:10:24,875 Speaker 2: federal government than the federal government provides to the people 131 00:10:25,115 --> 00:10:29,235 Speaker 2: of the state of California. We help pay federal bills. 132 00:10:29,755 --> 00:10:32,635 Speaker 2: So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten forty 133 00:10:32,675 --> 00:10:36,075 Speaker 2: million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider 134 00:10:36,115 --> 00:10:37,995 Speaker 2: it withholding those resources. 135 00:10:38,555 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: God yes, especially after the Iice Gestapo riots in La 136 00:10:45,275 --> 00:10:49,155 Speaker 1: there's more. Quote. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool 137 00:10:49,515 --> 00:10:53,635 Speaker 1: available to defend California, says the State Assembly Speaker Robert 138 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,075 Speaker 1: Reebos in the wake of the Trump threat to cut 139 00:10:56,075 --> 00:10:59,075 Speaker 1: off any federal money that he can that is owed 140 00:10:59,115 --> 00:11:02,595 Speaker 1: to California, quoting again, we must look at every option, 141 00:11:02,795 --> 00:11:10,275 Speaker 1: including withholding federal r taxes. That's six hundred and ninety 142 00:11:10,315 --> 00:11:14,595 Speaker 1: two billion dollars in federal taxes paid by California and 143 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:20,595 Speaker 1: its residents per year. The figure that Newsom quoted there 144 00:11:20,715 --> 00:11:23,995 Speaker 1: the eighty billion. That's the gap. Eighty billion is what 145 00:11:24,075 --> 00:11:28,115 Speaker 1: California donates to the Red States or has stolen from 146 00:11:28,155 --> 00:11:33,115 Speaker 1: it by the Red States. The actual figure paid every 147 00:11:33,195 --> 00:11:35,955 Speaker 1: year into the federal government by the state of California 148 00:11:36,035 --> 00:11:43,315 Speaker 1: is six hundred and ninety two billion dollars. Doje this, Trump, 149 00:11:45,875 --> 00:11:49,155 Speaker 1: Governor do it? Do it now? Do it in every 150 00:11:49,275 --> 00:11:53,635 Speaker 1: Blue state. The gap is bigger in New York. Do it, 151 00:11:53,795 --> 00:11:57,555 Speaker 1: and they will be metaphorically starving in the streets of 152 00:11:57,635 --> 00:12:04,555 Speaker 1: the Red States by this Friday. I have been saying 153 00:12:04,675 --> 00:12:07,035 Speaker 1: for eight years that ultimately it will come down to this, 154 00:12:07,235 --> 00:12:09,795 Speaker 1: that the last line of defense of this country and 155 00:12:09,835 --> 00:12:13,155 Speaker 1: its future and its democracy is not civil war or 156 00:12:13,275 --> 00:12:18,275 Speaker 1: mass protest or judicial resurrection, but rather shutting down the 157 00:12:18,315 --> 00:12:22,435 Speaker 1: Blue state ATM I have said that ultimately, if this 158 00:12:22,515 --> 00:12:25,195 Speaker 1: means you and I have to stop paying our federal 159 00:12:25,235 --> 00:12:30,475 Speaker 1: taxes and run those risks, so be it. Of course, 160 00:12:30,515 --> 00:12:34,395 Speaker 1: there is an obvious problem with that. If one hundred 161 00:12:34,395 --> 00:12:37,875 Speaker 1: percent of US stop paying our federal taxes, the administration 162 00:12:38,035 --> 00:12:40,955 Speaker 1: falls and Trump flees the country by the end of 163 00:12:40,955 --> 00:12:45,315 Speaker 1: the week. If one percent of us stop paying our 164 00:12:45,315 --> 00:12:49,115 Speaker 1: federal taxes, you and I will get arrested and prosecuted. 165 00:12:51,075 --> 00:12:53,715 Speaker 1: I hate to break this to you, but this is 166 00:12:53,835 --> 00:12:57,755 Speaker 1: not the greatest generation. And the number of us who 167 00:12:57,755 --> 00:13:02,635 Speaker 1: would actually take that risk now in this America, well, 168 00:13:02,675 --> 00:13:06,635 Speaker 1: that one percent figure I just quoted my be wildly optimistic, 169 00:13:07,195 --> 00:13:10,675 Speaker 1: to say nothing of the increasingly automatic nature of federal 170 00:13:10,755 --> 00:13:14,075 Speaker 1: tax deductions. How many of us can actually stop paying 171 00:13:14,155 --> 00:13:20,515 Speaker 1: our federal taxes. But what Newsom and California speaker Rivas 172 00:13:20,595 --> 00:13:23,475 Speaker 1: are talking about is way different, and way better, and 173 00:13:23,555 --> 00:13:26,435 Speaker 1: way more deadly. It is not you and I taking 174 00:13:26,475 --> 00:13:29,275 Speaker 1: the risk now. It is the state of California taking 175 00:13:29,315 --> 00:13:32,075 Speaker 1: the lead. It is not a consumer tax strike. It 176 00:13:32,155 --> 00:13:35,635 Speaker 1: is a declaration of economic war by the most economically 177 00:13:35,675 --> 00:13:38,395 Speaker 1: powerful state in the nation, the fourth biggest economy in 178 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:42,835 Speaker 1: the world, against Donald Trump and the leech states that 179 00:13:42,955 --> 00:13:46,995 Speaker 1: put him in power and currently control the country as 180 00:13:47,075 --> 00:13:52,315 Speaker 1: a minority and control us the majority, and are endeavoring 181 00:13:52,395 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 1: at this moment to make slaves out of us. But 182 00:13:58,595 --> 00:14:01,275 Speaker 1: here it is Gavin Newsom taking the risk, California taking 183 00:14:01,315 --> 00:14:07,715 Speaker 1: the risk, leaders leading. Damn governor. If you do this, 184 00:14:07,835 --> 00:14:10,395 Speaker 1: if you just carry this threat out far enough and 185 00:14:10,435 --> 00:14:12,675 Speaker 1: long enough to break Trump, I'll not only forgive you 186 00:14:12,675 --> 00:14:17,515 Speaker 1: your sillery pandering to the fascists on that podcast, I'll 187 00:14:17,555 --> 00:14:21,275 Speaker 1: work for your presidential campaign. I'll nominate you myself. I'll 188 00:14:21,315 --> 00:14:25,755 Speaker 1: carry you to the convention. This is the best option 189 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:29,715 Speaker 1: to defeat Trump and restore the vaguely fair of America 190 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:34,675 Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen that we have seen since twenty sixteen. 191 00:14:34,875 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: Biden and Garland screwed the pooch on convicting Trump, and 192 00:14:38,475 --> 00:14:41,115 Speaker 1: he might have run out the clock anyway, And even 193 00:14:41,115 --> 00:14:42,995 Speaker 1: if he didn't, he would have run from prison. And 194 00:14:43,075 --> 00:14:44,955 Speaker 1: even if he didn't do that, somebody else would have 195 00:14:44,995 --> 00:14:46,915 Speaker 1: run on a promise to pardon him and restore him. 196 00:14:46,995 --> 00:14:49,475 Speaker 1: In many ways, but especially this one, Donald Trump is 197 00:14:49,475 --> 00:14:57,875 Speaker 1: a cockroach but this, this is gold gold, because there 198 00:14:57,915 --> 00:15:03,115 Speaker 1: are no nuclear options left to Trump with which he 199 00:15:03,155 --> 00:15:08,435 Speaker 1: can get withheld taxes out of the hands of California. 200 00:15:10,115 --> 00:15:13,155 Speaker 1: You can't do it with the National Guard. You can't 201 00:15:13,195 --> 00:15:16,955 Speaker 1: do it with marines. You can't do it with Pete 202 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:21,955 Speaker 1: Hegseth's hair moose. You can't do it with court orders. 203 00:15:21,955 --> 00:15:27,435 Speaker 1: You can't do it without the state's cooperation. And even 204 00:15:27,475 --> 00:15:30,195 Speaker 1: though I am sitting here looking at New York's key Democrats, 205 00:15:30,355 --> 00:15:34,635 Speaker 1: likely being not just Kathy Hochel but also Andrew Cuomo, 206 00:15:35,715 --> 00:15:38,475 Speaker 1: it could even inspire the other Blue states in the 207 00:15:38,595 --> 00:15:42,995 Speaker 1: same boat to reassert economic control of this nation and 208 00:15:43,155 --> 00:15:50,515 Speaker 1: break the Red states tomorrow. That economic disparity is extraordinary. 209 00:15:51,035 --> 00:15:55,315 Speaker 1: Calculating it is extraordinarily difficult. Newsom's number. California pays in 210 00:15:55,395 --> 00:15:57,275 Speaker 1: eighty billion a year more than it gets out in 211 00:15:57,315 --> 00:16:00,475 Speaker 1: the federal funds Trump has threatened to cut off. That's 212 00:16:00,515 --> 00:16:03,275 Speaker 1: almost certainly better and more accurate than anything I could 213 00:16:03,315 --> 00:16:07,635 Speaker 1: come up with. A decade ago, Business Insider produced a 214 00:16:07,675 --> 00:16:11,995 Speaker 1: startling number. The twenty two reddest states in the country 215 00:16:12,155 --> 00:16:15,875 Speaker 1: were taking out four hundred and twenty five billion a 216 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:18,995 Speaker 1: year from the federal government, more than they were putting 217 00:16:19,035 --> 00:16:22,555 Speaker 1: in New York's figure as a so called donor state, 218 00:16:22,755 --> 00:16:29,435 Speaker 1: essentially by itself kept the state of South Carolina alive. Texas, 219 00:16:29,715 --> 00:16:32,355 Speaker 1: where fully a quarter of state revenue comes from the 220 00:16:32,395 --> 00:16:37,195 Speaker 1: federal government, does not go bankrupt every year only because 221 00:16:37,755 --> 00:16:40,595 Speaker 1: that money that the taxpayers in California and Illinois and 222 00:16:40,595 --> 00:16:46,195 Speaker 1: Minnesota put in never see again and goes to Texas 223 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:52,235 Speaker 1: goes to Texas. And on top of the pure economics, 224 00:16:52,275 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: there is the unmitigated hypocritical gall of the Maga states. 225 00:16:55,475 --> 00:16:58,995 Speaker 1: They survive because of that part of our nation that 226 00:16:59,035 --> 00:17:10,675 Speaker 1: has always been socialist share the wealth. Florida is socialist. 227 00:17:12,555 --> 00:17:17,795 Speaker 1: Florida gets a kind of state to state social security 228 00:17:18,635 --> 00:17:25,155 Speaker 1: or medicare. Perhaps is the more accurate comp socialist hell socialist? 229 00:17:25,635 --> 00:17:28,435 Speaker 1: From each according to his ability, to each according to 230 00:17:28,475 --> 00:17:35,555 Speaker 1: his needs. Florida is communist. As a worthwhile aside. Search 231 00:17:35,675 --> 00:17:37,915 Speaker 1: that phrase and you will see that a lot of 232 00:17:37,955 --> 00:17:40,715 Speaker 1: people seem to think from each according to his ability 233 00:17:40,955 --> 00:17:47,435 Speaker 1: comes from the Bible. Back to the point, Newsome, we 234 00:17:47,475 --> 00:17:49,595 Speaker 1: pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we 235 00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:53,275 Speaker 1: get back. Maybe it's time to cut that off, Speaker Revas. 236 00:17:53,355 --> 00:17:56,515 Speaker 1: We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes. 237 00:17:59,035 --> 00:18:02,595 Speaker 1: Oh hellelujah. This is the Manhattan Project of the war 238 00:18:02,635 --> 00:18:06,475 Speaker 1: against Trump. This and maybe just the threat of this, 239 00:18:06,675 --> 00:18:12,235 Speaker 1: maybe just the first steps towards this. They are enough 240 00:18:12,275 --> 00:18:14,715 Speaker 1: to get almost any concession needed from the Red States, 241 00:18:14,715 --> 00:18:17,395 Speaker 1: because the government in those states would literally run out 242 00:18:17,435 --> 00:18:22,555 Speaker 1: of money within months at most. The Rockefeller Institute of 243 00:18:22,595 --> 00:18:25,315 Speaker 1: Government has the stark numbers, and they will amaze you. 244 00:18:25,715 --> 00:18:29,155 Speaker 1: Nearly a third of the budget in Montana is federal money, 245 00:18:29,515 --> 00:18:35,635 Speaker 1: yours mine, California's thirty percent, in Kentucky, thirty percent in Louisiana, 246 00:18:35,875 --> 00:18:39,275 Speaker 1: twenty nine percent in Alaska and Wyoming, twenty seven in 247 00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:45,155 Speaker 1: West Virginia. The entire framework of Republican deceit and the 248 00:18:45,155 --> 00:18:49,595 Speaker 1: maga cloud of cult worship would crumble before the economic 249 00:18:49,635 --> 00:18:58,715 Speaker 1: reality of everything suddenly tomorrow shutting off in Louisiana. But 250 00:18:58,795 --> 00:19:01,915 Speaker 1: the Blue States, wouldn't the federal funds stop arriving in 251 00:19:01,955 --> 00:19:05,435 Speaker 1: the Blue States? Too? Sure? They would, too bad. There 252 00:19:05,435 --> 00:19:09,395 Speaker 1: wouldn't be any handy pot of you know, say, money 253 00:19:09,435 --> 00:19:13,755 Speaker 1: California did not send to Trump, which would be eighty 254 00:19:14,155 --> 00:19:18,555 Speaker 1: billion dollars larger than it would have been otherwise. Seven 255 00:19:18,635 --> 00:19:23,435 Speaker 1: hundred billion, probably just sitting there because the Blue states 256 00:19:23,755 --> 00:19:27,515 Speaker 1: keep the Red ones alive out of patriotism and goodwill. 257 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:31,595 Speaker 1: And if Trump really wants to f with our generosity, 258 00:19:32,395 --> 00:19:36,635 Speaker 1: he will find out, and he will find out so 259 00:19:36,875 --> 00:19:42,875 Speaker 1: fast that I think historians will never find any trace 260 00:19:43,075 --> 00:20:14,675 Speaker 1: or record of him or his presidency. Let's circle back 261 00:20:14,715 --> 00:20:16,835 Speaker 1: to Ice and Los Angeles and the man who is 262 00:20:16,915 --> 00:20:21,315 Speaker 1: rapidly becoming the Colonel Dreyfus of our twenty first century. Prejudiced, 263 00:20:21,395 --> 00:20:28,915 Speaker 1: morally bankrupt, racist prosecution, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There are two 264 00:20:28,955 --> 00:20:33,595 Speaker 1: remarkable things about this persecution. One is that Trump and 265 00:20:33,675 --> 00:20:37,235 Speaker 1: Trump's whores spent weeks insisting that even if he was 266 00:20:37,435 --> 00:20:39,715 Speaker 1: kidnapped without cause, there was now no way to ever 267 00:20:39,755 --> 00:20:42,235 Speaker 1: get him back from El Salvador. Oh wait, there he is. 268 00:20:42,315 --> 00:20:48,275 Speaker 1: He's in Nashville now. The second is how have his 269 00:20:48,315 --> 00:20:51,555 Speaker 1: attorneys not yet filed a suit charging the government with 270 00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:54,315 Speaker 1: what Trump and his idiots are almost boasting about that 271 00:20:54,355 --> 00:20:58,995 Speaker 1: they have now maliciously prosecuted him. This is a crime. 272 00:20:59,595 --> 00:21:02,635 Speaker 1: People must go to jail for this. Pam Bondi would 273 00:21:02,635 --> 00:21:05,675 Speaker 1: be an excellent choice, and mister a Brigo Garcia must 274 00:21:05,675 --> 00:21:11,515 Speaker 1: receive millions in damages period, traffic stop years ago, no evidence, 275 00:21:11,555 --> 00:21:15,635 Speaker 1: no case, no charges, no nothing. You may leave. He's 276 00:21:15,635 --> 00:21:19,875 Speaker 1: then kidnapped by Ice disappeared out of our country. Even 277 00:21:19,915 --> 00:21:22,675 Speaker 1: the Trump lawyer admits to the court that they grabbed 278 00:21:22,675 --> 00:21:26,235 Speaker 1: a man not deserving of prosecution, let alone rendition, and 279 00:21:26,275 --> 00:21:28,715 Speaker 1: while they try to keep him in a torture chamber 280 00:21:28,955 --> 00:21:31,555 Speaker 1: for the rest of his life, they manufacture a case 281 00:21:31,595 --> 00:21:34,795 Speaker 1: for him based on the traffic stop which produced the 282 00:21:34,835 --> 00:21:42,355 Speaker 1: conclusion of his innocence. Sue them, Sue them now. Also, 283 00:21:42,395 --> 00:21:45,995 Speaker 1: you're not paying him his money with any of California's money. 284 00:21:47,315 --> 00:21:49,995 Speaker 1: As the weekend in La underscored so brutally, Ice is 285 00:21:50,035 --> 00:21:56,315 Speaker 1: out of control. Its brown shirts are out of control. 286 00:21:57,275 --> 00:22:01,675 Speaker 1: The fiends directing them directing Ice are out of control 287 00:22:02,035 --> 00:22:06,995 Speaker 1: and making it all worse. They are all incompetent morons. 288 00:22:07,835 --> 00:22:11,955 Speaker 1: They are simultaneously insisting that protesters cannot wear masks nor 289 00:22:12,075 --> 00:22:16,435 Speaker 1: shield their identities, while insisting that their own agents must 290 00:22:16,475 --> 00:22:19,875 Speaker 1: wear masks and shield their identities, a violation of every 291 00:22:19,995 --> 00:22:24,675 Speaker 1: tenet of law enforcement in this country's history. Not protective helmets, 292 00:22:24,915 --> 00:22:31,555 Speaker 1: not life preserving vests, masks, masks for one purpose, masks 293 00:22:31,635 --> 00:22:34,795 Speaker 1: so they can be masked and unidentifiable men with guns 294 00:22:34,995 --> 00:22:37,675 Speaker 1: who say they are from the government and operating lawfully, 295 00:22:37,755 --> 00:22:45,195 Speaker 1: except they are dressed as terrorists dress. Online, Trump congratulated 296 00:22:45,275 --> 00:22:49,035 Speaker 1: these his stormtroopers on how well they had done in LA. 297 00:22:49,435 --> 00:22:52,875 Speaker 1: He posted this hours before they got there. Naturally, because 298 00:22:52,915 --> 00:22:58,315 Speaker 1: Trump is effing crazy and Trump unilaterally declared as dictators 299 00:22:58,355 --> 00:23:01,435 Speaker 1: do that masks cannot be worn anymore by US civilians 300 00:23:01,515 --> 00:23:04,835 Speaker 1: at protests. What do these people have to hide and why? 301 00:23:04,675 --> 00:23:12,315 Speaker 1: He asked, ask that of Ice, shithead. Happily Trump and 302 00:23:12,395 --> 00:23:18,235 Speaker 1: Ice are so bad at this. Tom Holman said he 303 00:23:18,315 --> 00:23:20,435 Speaker 1: thinks somebody is going to lose their life during this 304 00:23:20,475 --> 00:23:24,715 Speaker 1: stuff in LA. If you want to volunteer, Tom, it's 305 00:23:24,715 --> 00:23:31,155 Speaker 1: over there. The US Marshal Service has now confirmed it. 306 00:23:31,475 --> 00:23:34,915 Speaker 1: Last month, while raiding the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona, 307 00:23:35,595 --> 00:23:38,715 Speaker 1: as cynical and diseased a tactic, as could be imagined, 308 00:23:39,275 --> 00:23:45,115 Speaker 1: Ice seized a US marshal. He quote fit the general 309 00:23:45,155 --> 00:23:49,395 Speaker 1: description of a subject being sought by Ice the Marshal's Service, 310 00:23:49,435 --> 00:23:53,675 Speaker 1: and I'll translate that he was Hispanic. Then there is 311 00:23:53,715 --> 00:23:57,795 Speaker 1: this buffoon Lions who runs the Gestapo, who is complaining 312 00:23:57,835 --> 00:24:01,595 Speaker 1: about the risks that his bullies and racists are subjected 313 00:24:01,635 --> 00:24:06,475 Speaker 1: to because they are doing the same thing terrorists do, 314 00:24:07,195 --> 00:24:10,595 Speaker 1: because they are enforcing a laws that are not laws, 315 00:24:10,955 --> 00:24:13,595 Speaker 1: or be in the best possible interpretation, they are enforcing 316 00:24:13,675 --> 00:24:19,595 Speaker 1: laws that are not just, that are not American. This 317 00:24:19,635 --> 00:24:21,955 Speaker 1: guy went on Fox News and tried to martyr himself 318 00:24:21,995 --> 00:24:24,555 Speaker 1: over the comments by the mayor of Boston. Quote what 319 00:24:24,675 --> 00:24:27,715 Speaker 1: Mayor Wu said was disgusting. She actually compared us to 320 00:24:27,755 --> 00:24:33,115 Speaker 1: a neo Nazi group. Here I am on January sixth. Yeah, 321 00:24:33,275 --> 00:24:37,035 Speaker 1: it was June sixth, and he said January sixth. Here 322 00:24:37,115 --> 00:24:41,155 Speaker 1: I am on January sixth. The comparison to a neo 323 00:24:41,275 --> 00:24:45,875 Speaker 1: Nazi group immediately threw todd Lyons into a form of 324 00:24:45,955 --> 00:24:50,275 Speaker 1: Freudian slip in which he thought of January sixth and 325 00:24:50,315 --> 00:24:56,195 Speaker 1: Trump's other neo Nazi group on that subject, it has 326 00:24:56,275 --> 00:24:59,075 Speaker 1: noted that Trump's main defense for his deliberate inactivity on 327 00:24:59,155 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: January sixth was that he had no means of knowing 328 00:25:01,115 --> 00:25:04,955 Speaker 1: how to call in the National Guard for something that 329 00:25:05,075 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: was blocks away from where he was sitting on his fat, 330 00:25:07,795 --> 00:25:14,475 Speaker 1: useless ass eating cheeseburgers. And yet he just called in 331 00:25:14,515 --> 00:25:18,155 Speaker 1: the National Guard from where he sat on his fat, 332 00:25:18,235 --> 00:25:24,355 Speaker 1: useless ass eating cheeseburgers for something twenty seven hundred miles away. 333 00:25:25,115 --> 00:25:30,435 Speaker 1: And we've been saying Trump can't learn. And of course 334 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:34,355 Speaker 1: then there is the mondanity of hypocrisy on the personal level, 335 00:25:34,475 --> 00:25:38,195 Speaker 1: the individual bankruptcy of those involved in this. The mobilization 336 00:25:38,315 --> 00:25:41,955 Speaker 1: of the California Guard had to go through Homeland Security 337 00:25:41,995 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: Secretary Christy shoot 'em Upnome now with eight new action 338 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:49,635 Speaker 1: dress up outfits. It had to go over the head 339 00:25:49,635 --> 00:25:52,355 Speaker 1: of the individual actually in charge of the California National Guard, 340 00:25:52,395 --> 00:25:56,835 Speaker 1: Governor Newsom. Secretary Nome was all four riding roughshot over 341 00:25:56,875 --> 00:26:01,555 Speaker 1: the States. Here's Secretary Nome while Governor February first of 342 00:26:01,635 --> 00:26:04,435 Speaker 1: last year, quote, South Dakota is united in our support 343 00:26:04,435 --> 00:26:08,675 Speaker 1: of our state's constitutional rights to defend itself. Democrats are 344 00:26:08,755 --> 00:26:12,035 Speaker 1: encouraging Biden to federalize the National Guard to take that 345 00:26:12,155 --> 00:26:14,875 Speaker 1: power away from the states. I will always stand to 346 00:26:14,915 --> 00:26:18,675 Speaker 1: defend states rights. Christinome eight forty one a m. Two 347 00:26:18,875 --> 00:26:21,875 Speaker 1: one twenty four. Well, now we know exactly how long 348 00:26:21,915 --> 00:26:25,115 Speaker 1: forever is the time between two to one twenty four 349 00:26:27,435 --> 00:26:33,475 Speaker 1: and six eight twenty five. I would suggest Christy nom 350 00:26:33,515 --> 00:26:36,995 Speaker 1: has sold her soul. But Obviously that happened long ago. 351 00:26:37,715 --> 00:26:40,755 Speaker 1: Presumably they removed it last time she went in for 352 00:26:40,795 --> 00:26:45,755 Speaker 1: a touch up. And lastly, on the subject of personal 353 00:26:45,755 --> 00:26:48,315 Speaker 1: failure and the mundanity of hypocrisy, there is the chairman 354 00:26:48,395 --> 00:26:52,835 Speaker 1: of Disney, my former friend, Bob Iiger. You will recall 355 00:26:53,675 --> 00:26:56,715 Speaker 1: Bob sold his soul months ago when he turned Trump's 356 00:26:56,795 --> 00:27:00,675 Speaker 1: idiotic lawsuit against ABC News over a George Stephanoppolis interview 357 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:05,555 Speaker 1: into an opportunity to wipe the illegality off of a bribe. 358 00:27:06,275 --> 00:27:10,395 Speaker 1: And this is what Bob bought with that. Terry Moran, 359 00:27:11,075 --> 00:27:15,395 Speaker 1: the reporter the White House agreed to after Eiger seated 360 00:27:15,475 --> 00:27:18,795 Speaker 1: even more of ABC's independence in arranging an interview with 361 00:27:18,835 --> 00:27:23,155 Speaker 1: the dementia patient in chief. Terry Moran wrote a sober, clear, 362 00:27:23,555 --> 00:27:27,955 Speaker 1: cool headed, accurate analysis of the emotional disturbance inside Stephen 363 00:27:27,995 --> 00:27:33,395 Speaker 1: Miller that is suggested daily by Miller's public hysteria about LA. 364 00:27:33,435 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: In about a thousand matters before LA, but of course 365 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:41,555 Speaker 1: Miller is from LA. Moran posted this, then deleted it. 366 00:27:42,715 --> 00:27:47,035 Speaker 1: I'm not sure why Terry did that. Miller went on 367 00:27:47,155 --> 00:27:50,715 Speaker 1: and on online about this Sunday, insisting it proved media 368 00:27:50,755 --> 00:27:52,555 Speaker 1: bias and blah, blah blah, we get it, your nuts 369 00:27:52,715 --> 00:27:54,875 Speaker 1: and it'sisted. The most important part was blah blah blah, 370 00:27:54,915 --> 00:27:56,955 Speaker 1: we get it. The Hispanic girl at Santa Monica High 371 00:27:56,955 --> 00:27:59,435 Speaker 1: School wouldn't go out with you. What Miller did not 372 00:27:59,635 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: do was deny anything that Terry Moran wrote about him. Meanwhile, 373 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:09,995 Speaker 1: all the White House and its resident nitwit Caroline his 374 00:28:10,195 --> 00:28:13,355 Speaker 1: name was Hilter Levitt wanted to talk about yesterday was 375 00:28:13,395 --> 00:28:17,515 Speaker 1: how ABC better punished Terry Moran, and it did. Bob 376 00:28:17,555 --> 00:28:23,235 Speaker 1: Eiger's company suspended him. Time frame undecided, pending further evaluation. 377 00:28:24,275 --> 00:28:31,195 Speaker 1: A reporter reporting the truth gets suspended by Bob fing Iiger. 378 00:28:34,315 --> 00:28:40,875 Speaker 1: Jesus H. Christ. Bob, the people of ABC News and 379 00:28:40,955 --> 00:28:44,195 Speaker 1: the people in every ABC newsroom in America, and the 380 00:28:44,235 --> 00:28:48,355 Speaker 1: people at ESPN and at every other Disney property dealing 381 00:28:48,435 --> 00:28:51,955 Speaker 1: in the coverage of the world should walk out in protests, 382 00:28:52,075 --> 00:28:56,555 Speaker 1: should walk off their shows today because guess what. My 383 00:28:56,675 --> 00:29:03,195 Speaker 1: old friends in both shops, guess what. Robin Roberts, guess what, 384 00:29:03,315 --> 00:29:10,955 Speaker 1: Chris Berman, guess what? Everybody You'll be next. Bob has 385 00:29:10,995 --> 00:29:13,395 Speaker 1: no choice but to sell you all out. Now he 386 00:29:13,555 --> 00:29:19,435 Speaker 1: is a Trump whore. Now, when I met Bob forty 387 00:29:19,475 --> 00:29:22,675 Speaker 1: seven years ago, he told me his dream was to 388 00:29:22,675 --> 00:29:26,355 Speaker 1: be on the air sportscaster. Circumstances, he said, led him 389 00:29:26,395 --> 00:29:28,875 Speaker 1: instead into management, and he would have had no complaints 390 00:29:28,875 --> 00:29:31,515 Speaker 1: about the life he expected he would then lead, but 391 00:29:31,635 --> 00:29:34,115 Speaker 1: it would still be his second choice. He would still 392 00:29:34,195 --> 00:29:37,995 Speaker 1: die still wanting to be a sportscaster or a newscaster 393 00:29:38,075 --> 00:29:41,995 Speaker 1: and having never done so. Well, here's a chance, Bob 394 00:29:42,595 --> 00:29:46,355 Speaker 1: really whore yourself out. Bob, take everybody at ABC off 395 00:29:46,395 --> 00:29:48,715 Speaker 1: the air whom Trump doesn't like, and Bob, that would 396 00:29:48,715 --> 00:29:52,795 Speaker 1: be everybody, and Bob just go on the air and 397 00:29:52,835 --> 00:30:00,835 Speaker 1: do all the effing newscasts yourself. By the way, for 398 00:30:00,955 --> 00:30:06,195 Speaker 1: thirty odd years, from nineteen seventy nine to like twelve thirteen, 399 00:30:06,675 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: I believed what Bob had told me in his office 400 00:30:09,915 --> 00:30:13,595 Speaker 1: at Wide World of Sports about why he stopped being 401 00:30:13,675 --> 00:30:16,715 Speaker 1: on air and went into the business and budgeting end 402 00:30:16,955 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: instead and what would happen to him as a result. 403 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:22,995 Speaker 1: And then I met his longtime assistant, Pat Philly when 404 00:30:22,995 --> 00:30:26,155 Speaker 1: Pat was president of News for Comcast, and I told 405 00:30:26,155 --> 00:30:28,355 Speaker 1: her that story and how much I admired Bob because 406 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:30,235 Speaker 1: he gave a great piece of advice with that, and 407 00:30:30,275 --> 00:30:34,395 Speaker 1: Pat Philly laughed and said, oh, Bob Keith, he told 408 00:30:34,435 --> 00:30:38,755 Speaker 1: you that he stopped being a sportscaster because he sucked. 409 00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:43,595 Speaker 1: Also of interest, here, what do you mean? Jake Tapper 410 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,275 Speaker 1: claims his Biden book sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies, 411 00:30:46,275 --> 00:30:49,075 Speaker 1: but the official Nielsen book scan data says it's less 412 00:30:49,115 --> 00:30:51,835 Speaker 1: than half of that. What could have caused that kind 413 00:30:51,835 --> 00:30:55,235 Speaker 1: of discrepancy? You don't think a former newscaster who sold 414 00:30:55,275 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: his soul to please Trump would would No, it's unthinkable. 415 00:31:00,395 --> 00:31:05,955 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 416 00:31:06,035 --> 00:31:29,675 Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I saw 417 00:31:29,755 --> 00:31:34,515 Speaker 1: him the other day, a videotape of him. It may 418 00:31:34,555 --> 00:31:37,595 Speaker 1: not have the biggest audience on YouTube, but my god, 419 00:31:37,635 --> 00:31:42,115 Speaker 1: if you ever wanted to see one out of every 420 00:31:42,435 --> 00:31:48,435 Speaker 1: newscast from say, the year nineteen seventy eight, you now can. 421 00:31:49,715 --> 00:31:55,555 Speaker 1: And there he was anchoring the Channel five ten o'clock news. 422 00:31:56,195 --> 00:31:59,075 Speaker 1: And if I didn't find myself on this videotape of 423 00:31:59,115 --> 00:32:02,195 Speaker 1: that edition of the Channel five ten o'clock news, often 424 00:32:02,235 --> 00:32:04,275 Speaker 1: that year, if you looked in the background of the 425 00:32:04,315 --> 00:32:06,755 Speaker 1: news room shots during the Channel five ten o'clock news, 426 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:10,915 Speaker 1: you would see me Keith the nineteen year old intern. 427 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:16,035 Speaker 1: His name was Bill Jorgensen, and in a matter of speaking, 428 00:32:16,075 --> 00:32:21,635 Speaker 1: he was my first anchor. Man. Boy, was he terrific 429 00:32:21,795 --> 00:32:24,555 Speaker 1: and over the top and an inspiration to every one 430 00:32:24,595 --> 00:32:28,675 Speaker 1: of us who was ever anti management, you know, like 431 00:32:28,755 --> 00:32:33,235 Speaker 1: I have been once or twice a week for half 432 00:32:33,235 --> 00:32:36,435 Speaker 1: a century. Anyway, let me tell you about my summer 433 00:32:36,435 --> 00:32:39,035 Speaker 1: as an intern for Bill Jorgenson, including the story of 434 00:32:39,035 --> 00:32:42,355 Speaker 1: the day they fired him and he allegedly said, if 435 00:32:42,395 --> 00:32:44,235 Speaker 1: I have to go, I'm taking all of you with me. 436 00:32:45,155 --> 00:32:49,155 Speaker 1: Next in things I promised not to tell first, believe 437 00:32:49,195 --> 00:32:51,595 Speaker 1: it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about. 438 00:32:51,715 --> 00:32:54,555 Speaker 1: The roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects 439 00:32:54,595 --> 00:33:01,315 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two Day's other worst person in the 440 00:33:01,395 --> 00:33:08,115 Speaker 1: world Lebron's worse. Some leftover takes from those with Maga 441 00:33:08,155 --> 00:33:13,195 Speaker 1: disease who could not process the musk Trump crap just 442 00:33:13,235 --> 00:33:16,355 Speaker 1: too good to ignore, two of them from denesh De'suza, 443 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:19,595 Speaker 1: and a troll account with four hundred or so followers 444 00:33:19,835 --> 00:33:23,475 Speaker 1: that got amplified when Alex Jones replied to this the 445 00:33:23,515 --> 00:33:29,035 Speaker 1: troll first Buck millions, that's the name of the account 446 00:33:29,315 --> 00:33:35,075 Speaker 1: buck millions. Now you understand the pain in Dan Bungino's 447 00:33:35,115 --> 00:33:38,675 Speaker 1: eyes when you see him on any public media. He knows, 448 00:33:39,435 --> 00:33:42,955 Speaker 1: he knows the reasons the Epstein list won't drop. He 449 00:33:43,075 --> 00:33:46,355 Speaker 1: knows the assassination was faked. He knows the level of 450 00:33:46,595 --> 00:33:51,075 Speaker 1: the grift with foreign money in Middle Eastern countries. Sad 451 00:33:51,155 --> 00:34:01,275 Speaker 1: to see, to which Alex Jones replied, maybe two words, maybe, 452 00:34:01,515 --> 00:34:04,235 Speaker 1: oh my god, though that phrase. The pain in Dan 453 00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:09,355 Speaker 1: Bung's eyes, The pain in Dan Bongino's eyes comes from 454 00:34:09,435 --> 00:34:12,475 Speaker 1: a having to work for a living for the first time, 455 00:34:12,755 --> 00:34:16,315 Speaker 1: and b when, just like Rudy Giuliani, the mascara he 456 00:34:16,435 --> 00:34:19,355 Speaker 1: uses to draw in his hair begins to run and 457 00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:24,075 Speaker 1: runs into his eyes. The pain in Dan Bungino's eyes. 458 00:34:24,115 --> 00:34:26,715 Speaker 1: Then quit, Go back to whatever the hell was you 459 00:34:26,715 --> 00:34:32,115 Speaker 1: were doing before Christ The Decusan one was even wilder. 460 00:34:33,795 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the 461 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:39,715 Speaker 1: release of the Epstein files? How great it would be 462 00:34:39,755 --> 00:34:43,595 Speaker 1: to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed? Then 463 00:34:43,715 --> 00:34:47,595 Speaker 1: Trump and Elon break out the Champagne. Elon says, told 464 00:34:47,635 --> 00:34:51,555 Speaker 1: you I could get Democrats to screen for that list. Laughter, 465 00:34:52,315 --> 00:34:59,355 Speaker 1: exclamation point The confidence from this idiot that that was 466 00:35:00,315 --> 00:35:04,675 Speaker 1: four d chess by Trump and Musk to publicly expose 467 00:35:04,955 --> 00:35:07,995 Speaker 1: a horde of bad guys when Trump and Musk are 468 00:35:08,035 --> 00:35:12,955 Speaker 1: the bad guys lasted only ten minutes. Even Desuza came 469 00:35:12,995 --> 00:35:16,875 Speaker 1: back to announce literally ten minutes later, five forty one 470 00:35:16,875 --> 00:35:20,115 Speaker 1: pm five to fifty one pm. Keeping your team together 471 00:35:20,275 --> 00:35:22,795 Speaker 1: is one of the great challenges of leadership. Is it 472 00:35:22,835 --> 00:35:26,875 Speaker 1: even conceivable the Democrats would alienate George and Alex Soros 473 00:35:27,075 --> 00:35:31,435 Speaker 1: the way the GOP has alienated Elon Musk. Doesn't matter 474 00:35:31,475 --> 00:35:34,155 Speaker 1: whose fault it is, this is an unmitigated disaster for 475 00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:41,835 Speaker 1: our side. So okay, first off, you've just compared your 476 00:35:41,875 --> 00:35:46,235 Speaker 1: man Musk to George Soros. Still, the best part of 477 00:35:46,235 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: this is Desuz's first tweet and his conclusion that this 478 00:35:49,355 --> 00:35:52,715 Speaker 1: was some sort of wrestling, fake fight move, ending with 479 00:35:52,795 --> 00:35:57,555 Speaker 1: the quote laughter the runner up worser good old Jake 480 00:35:57,635 --> 00:36:02,875 Speaker 1: Tapper and Alex Thompson and their BBB Bullshit Biden Book. 481 00:36:04,195 --> 00:36:08,675 Speaker 1: I'll read what Lachlan Cartwright wrote about this in breaker quote. 482 00:36:08,955 --> 00:36:12,515 Speaker 1: Despite claims it has sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies, 483 00:36:12,795 --> 00:36:16,795 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Biden book, Original Sin has 484 00:36:16,875 --> 00:36:20,635 Speaker 1: sold seventy thousand copies through the end of May. Per 485 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:25,435 Speaker 1: Nielsen Book Scan data, the duo sold seventeen thousand books 486 00:36:25,555 --> 00:36:29,955 Speaker 1: last week, down fifty three thousand copies from the first week, 487 00:36:30,155 --> 00:36:34,315 Speaker 1: thanks in large part to NonStop promotion on CNN. There 488 00:36:34,395 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: wasn't the promotion on CNN that caused the drop. It 489 00:36:37,115 --> 00:36:40,075 Speaker 1: was the promotion. You know what he means now, you know, 490 00:36:40,395 --> 00:36:44,835 Speaker 1: an exaggeration of book sales by more than say, fifty percent. 491 00:36:45,555 --> 00:36:49,235 Speaker 1: That makes Jake Tapper and that gossip columnist Alex Thompson 492 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:52,035 Speaker 1: look pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing 493 00:36:52,075 --> 00:36:56,595 Speaker 1: actually nefarious here. Maybe Jake Tapper is just beginning to 494 00:36:56,675 --> 00:37:01,555 Speaker 1: have mental acuity problems. Anyway, I'm sure the book will 495 00:37:01,595 --> 00:37:04,675 Speaker 1: sell so much better when to steal the old Chevy 496 00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: Chase joke from Saturday Night Live. When it will sell 497 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:11,715 Speaker 1: so much better because they bypassed the traditional paperback version 498 00:37:11,955 --> 00:37:17,195 Speaker 1: and the publishers go straight to confetti. The runner up 499 00:37:17,195 --> 00:37:21,915 Speaker 1: worser New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and disgraced ex 500 00:37:21,955 --> 00:37:26,395 Speaker 1: governor but still Sleezbag Andrew Cuomo, both of them candidates 501 00:37:26,395 --> 00:37:29,955 Speaker 1: for mayor here in fun City. They are also reprehensible 502 00:37:29,995 --> 00:37:36,515 Speaker 1: political reptiles. Friday Ramos endorsed Cuomo. She has the right 503 00:37:36,595 --> 00:37:39,035 Speaker 1: to do that. It of course means you are dead 504 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:42,195 Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party, even here in New York with 505 00:37:42,315 --> 00:37:48,875 Speaker 1: the worst Democratic party in a blue state in world history. 506 00:37:49,075 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: But you go right into the garbage disposal politically in 507 00:37:52,275 --> 00:37:54,715 Speaker 1: this one for doing this. But you can do it. 508 00:37:54,715 --> 00:37:58,515 Speaker 1: It's okay, go ahead, endorse him. But Ramos's perfidy is 509 00:37:58,635 --> 00:38:01,915 Speaker 1: special because there were reports that her campaign has not 510 00:38:01,995 --> 00:38:06,715 Speaker 1: been paying its bills, and then suddenly, right after this endorsement, 511 00:38:06,835 --> 00:38:09,715 Speaker 1: rumors that she'd been promised to spots in a Cuomo 512 00:38:09,835 --> 00:38:14,195 Speaker 1: administration if the Democrat in name only, hell human in 513 00:38:14,275 --> 00:38:18,995 Speaker 1: name only wins city Hall. To continue our lovely streak 514 00:38:19,035 --> 00:38:22,555 Speaker 1: of finding the worst possible people to run big town, 515 00:38:23,475 --> 00:38:27,395 Speaker 1: Jessica Ramo said, with Trump threatening to bulldoze New York 516 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:30,435 Speaker 1: and take us backward, we need someone in city Hall 517 00:38:30,675 --> 00:38:34,035 Speaker 1: who knows how to hold the line and deliver under pressure. 518 00:38:35,395 --> 00:38:38,875 Speaker 1: Even that is kind of normal, even though Cuomo is 519 00:38:38,915 --> 00:38:42,515 Speaker 1: clearly Trump's choice in this election here and Trump opened 520 00:38:42,515 --> 00:38:46,555 Speaker 1: an investigation of Cuomo, but not charges, so he can 521 00:38:46,635 --> 00:38:51,555 Speaker 1: always blackmail Mayor Cuomo with charges into selling the city 522 00:38:51,555 --> 00:38:55,395 Speaker 1: out to save his own worthless ass. But there's more 523 00:38:55,395 --> 00:38:58,515 Speaker 1: here about Ramos the idea that she endorsed Cuomo on 524 00:38:58,635 --> 00:39:02,035 Speaker 1: June sixth as the best person to defend New York 525 00:39:02,075 --> 00:39:06,235 Speaker 1: City against Trump. Politico New York for Jeff Colton posted this. 526 00:39:06,555 --> 00:39:10,475 Speaker 1: It was a fundraiser email from Jessica Ramos. That's the 527 00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:14,235 Speaker 1: same Jessica Ramos about Cuomo. That's the same Cuomo. On 528 00:39:14,395 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos, Cuomo is the Democratic Party's Trump 529 00:39:20,875 --> 00:39:26,955 Speaker 1: full stop. So on May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos describes Cuomo 530 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:30,715 Speaker 1: correctly as the Democratics Party's Trump full stop. June sixth, 531 00:39:30,715 --> 00:39:34,075 Speaker 1: twenty two days later, twenty two she endorses him as 532 00:39:34,115 --> 00:39:38,515 Speaker 1: the only candidate to save New York from Trump. That's 533 00:39:38,835 --> 00:39:45,355 Speaker 1: the kind of total moral nihilism, total corruption, total hypocrisy 534 00:39:45,755 --> 00:39:49,955 Speaker 1: that is so rare in today's world. Bravo, Jessica Ramos. 535 00:39:50,435 --> 00:39:54,475 Speaker 1: You may be too unprincipled even to be a republican. 536 00:39:55,435 --> 00:39:59,595 Speaker 1: Jessica Ramos and Andrew, don't worry. I'm not too unprincipled 537 00:39:59,635 --> 00:40:05,915 Speaker 1: even to be a Republican Cuomo. Today's other worse Bison's 538 00:40:27,715 --> 00:40:31,515 Speaker 1: It's ten pm. Do you know where your children are? 539 00:40:35,435 --> 00:40:38,675 Speaker 3: The tragedy on twenty eighth Street with nine Nixon talks 540 00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:41,795 Speaker 3: about the dumping of Spiro Agnew Money lives still on 541 00:40:41,835 --> 00:40:45,075 Speaker 3: the line in Holland Tonight, I'm for the Gossips, Jackies, 542 00:40:45,155 --> 00:40:48,595 Speaker 3: German Friends, Sanville Jorgensen's this is the ten o'clock News. 543 00:40:49,315 --> 00:40:52,915 Speaker 1: That was who anchored the newscast on which I was 544 00:40:52,955 --> 00:40:55,075 Speaker 1: an intern when I was nineteen years old, And you 545 00:40:55,075 --> 00:40:58,035 Speaker 1: can probably understand my uncertainty that I had the skills, 546 00:40:58,875 --> 00:41:03,795 Speaker 1: or the voice, or the shock of white hair to last, say, 547 00:41:04,155 --> 00:41:08,155 Speaker 1: one hour in the business. Thankfully, they did not all 548 00:41:08,195 --> 00:41:11,995 Speaker 1: sound like Bill Jorgenson. He was a news anchorman in Columbus, 549 00:41:12,035 --> 00:41:15,395 Speaker 1: Ohio in the fifties, Cleveland starting in nineteen sixty one, 550 00:41:16,035 --> 00:41:19,595 Speaker 1: and New York from nineteen sixty seven through nineteen eighty three. 551 00:41:19,675 --> 00:41:22,675 Speaker 1: He pioneered the concept of the ten o'clock news here, 552 00:41:22,755 --> 00:41:26,795 Speaker 1: when all the other stations had network dramas on or reruns, 553 00:41:27,555 --> 00:41:30,755 Speaker 1: The newscast aimed to tell you everything that happened that 554 00:41:30,875 --> 00:41:37,195 Speaker 1: day in one hour, seriously everything. This was made more 555 00:41:37,275 --> 00:41:41,235 Speaker 1: plausible by the fact that Bill Jorgenson kinda sounded like God. 556 00:41:43,075 --> 00:41:45,515 Speaker 1: He did not suffer fools gladly, and he thought all 557 00:41:45,555 --> 00:41:48,715 Speaker 1: television executives were fools. I'd like to say I got 558 00:41:48,715 --> 00:41:52,475 Speaker 1: that from him, but I doubt it. By nineteen seventy eight, 559 00:41:52,595 --> 00:41:54,795 Speaker 1: year twelve for him in New York, he had pretty 560 00:41:54,875 --> 00:41:57,315 Speaker 1: much run out of patience with the executives at Channel five, 561 00:41:57,715 --> 00:42:00,955 Speaker 1: and he was beginning to lash out, and everybody agreed 562 00:42:01,035 --> 00:42:04,635 Speaker 1: a month or two off would be a good idea. 563 00:42:04,315 --> 00:42:06,595 Speaker 1: So he bought a win of Bago and he and 564 00:42:06,635 --> 00:42:09,835 Speaker 1: the wife took off to see America on a sabbatical. 565 00:42:10,115 --> 00:42:12,755 Speaker 1: They laughed about a week or ten days before my 566 00:42:12,915 --> 00:42:17,395 Speaker 1: internship at Channel five started. My story with Bill Jorgensen 567 00:42:17,395 --> 00:42:20,915 Speaker 1: can be summarized in four phone calls. My first week 568 00:42:20,955 --> 00:42:23,755 Speaker 1: at the news assignment desk. The phone rings. I am 569 00:42:23,755 --> 00:42:26,675 Speaker 1: a clank call for anyone from Kansas City, Missouri, from 570 00:42:26,715 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: Bill Jorgensen. Will you accept the charges impulsively? I made 571 00:42:32,915 --> 00:42:37,595 Speaker 1: an executive decision, we will operator. The next voice seemed 572 00:42:37,595 --> 00:42:40,315 Speaker 1: to be coming not from the phone, not from Kansas City, 573 00:42:40,315 --> 00:42:44,515 Speaker 1: but from some sort of pa system vibrating above the city, 574 00:42:44,555 --> 00:42:52,155 Speaker 1: from way above my head, this is Jorgensen. Get me Monsky, please, Monsky, 575 00:42:52,875 --> 00:42:55,915 Speaker 1: Mark Monsky, or as it said in the credits to 576 00:42:55,955 --> 00:43:01,355 Speaker 1: our newscast, Mark bvs Monsky, Director of News, Mark B 577 00:43:01,755 --> 00:43:07,675 Speaker 1: von Summer Monsky, the boss, the news director. The bad 578 00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:11,115 Speaker 1: news was Mark Bee von Summer Monsky carried a gun. 579 00:43:12,115 --> 00:43:15,675 Speaker 1: The good news was he liked me. I told his secretary. 580 00:43:15,755 --> 00:43:19,195 Speaker 1: His secretary handled the call got Monsky. Three minutes later, 581 00:43:19,235 --> 00:43:21,435 Speaker 1: Monsky came out and said to all of us at 582 00:43:21,475 --> 00:43:24,635 Speaker 1: the desk, me included for God's sake, Jorgenson just called 583 00:43:24,675 --> 00:43:27,555 Speaker 1: from Kansas City. They were having breakfast at the International 584 00:43:27,635 --> 00:43:29,875 Speaker 1: House of Pancakes. They come out, he and the wife 585 00:43:29,875 --> 00:43:33,795 Speaker 1: to the parking lot, and somebody has stolen the winebago. 586 00:43:34,355 --> 00:43:36,595 Speaker 1: We got to get them out of there. They have nothing. 587 00:43:36,875 --> 00:43:41,235 Speaker 1: Wire them some cash or something. Hereupon, the news director 588 00:43:41,275 --> 00:43:44,035 Speaker 1: reached into his pocket and grabbed a stack of bills. 589 00:43:44,275 --> 00:43:49,195 Speaker 1: Here's five hundred bucks. The sabbatical had not started all 590 00:43:49,235 --> 00:43:52,035 Speaker 1: that well. On the other hand, only once before in 591 00:43:52,075 --> 00:43:57,555 Speaker 1: my life had I seen five hundred dollars in cash. 592 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:01,035 Speaker 1: The sabbatical had been noticed. However, We interns were given 593 00:44:01,035 --> 00:44:03,355 Speaker 1: instructions on what to do when we got phone calls 594 00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:07,235 Speaker 1: like well, like phone call number two. What happened to 595 00:44:07,275 --> 00:44:10,795 Speaker 1: Belle Jargenson asked the woman who said she was from Booton, 596 00:44:10,835 --> 00:44:15,155 Speaker 1: New Jersey. He's on assignment, ma'am, I said, we expect 597 00:44:15,235 --> 00:44:19,115 Speaker 1: him back in I believe two weeks, perhaps sooner. She 598 00:44:19,355 --> 00:44:25,155 Speaker 1: laughed at me, Yeah, sabbatical like you bastards assigned George 599 00:44:25,155 --> 00:44:30,075 Speaker 1: Sharmon to a sabbatical. There had been three primary anchors 600 00:44:30,115 --> 00:44:33,395 Speaker 1: of the Channel five ten o'clock news, Jorgensen, his deputy 601 00:44:33,475 --> 00:44:35,715 Speaker 1: George Sharmon, who also had a shock of white hair, 602 00:44:36,155 --> 00:44:39,515 Speaker 1: and their deputy, Bill McCreery. And then one day George 603 00:44:39,515 --> 00:44:42,755 Speaker 1: Sharmon was gone and a new kid from California had 604 00:44:42,835 --> 00:44:46,075 Speaker 1: replaced him. They did this to the assignment desk one 605 00:44:46,075 --> 00:44:49,315 Speaker 1: weekend as well. I was interning for Steve, the assignment editor, 606 00:44:49,315 --> 00:44:52,675 Speaker 1: on Friday and said goodbye and have a nice weekend 607 00:44:52,715 --> 00:44:53,915 Speaker 1: to him, and he said the same to me. And 608 00:44:54,555 --> 00:44:57,755 Speaker 1: then on Monday, I was working for Joe, the new 609 00:44:57,795 --> 00:45:01,875 Speaker 1: assignment editor. I said to my first mentor at Channel five, 610 00:45:01,915 --> 00:45:05,955 Speaker 1: a researcher named Stanley Pinsley, as as quick as death. 611 00:45:06,675 --> 00:45:11,075 Speaker 1: And Stanley paused and he congratulated me. You figured out 612 00:45:11,075 --> 00:45:16,475 Speaker 1: the entire news business and you're only nineteen Bill Jorgensen 613 00:45:16,515 --> 00:45:18,915 Speaker 1: came back to the newsroom soon after. I had not 614 00:45:19,075 --> 00:45:22,115 Speaker 1: known him before, I didn't really know him now. He 615 00:45:22,195 --> 00:45:24,635 Speaker 1: came out of his office only occasionally, might as well 616 00:45:24,635 --> 00:45:27,875 Speaker 1: have won to worn a hood over his head, no 617 00:45:28,115 --> 00:45:32,235 Speaker 1: eye contact. He ducked out a side door one night 618 00:45:32,275 --> 00:45:34,595 Speaker 1: that they didn't fire the assignment editors. So at nine 619 00:45:34,675 --> 00:45:37,075 Speaker 1: forty five we all sat back and prepared to finally 620 00:45:37,115 --> 00:45:40,555 Speaker 1: exhale after a crazy day and watch the actual newscast 621 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:44,555 Speaker 1: in progress. And now comes phone call number three Channel 622 00:45:44,595 --> 00:45:49,355 Speaker 1: five News. This is Jorgenson. Who's this? I thought quickly, 623 00:45:49,795 --> 00:45:52,515 Speaker 1: I'm an intern. You wouldn't know me, he thought quickly. 624 00:45:52,795 --> 00:45:57,315 Speaker 1: Fair enough. Tell Gary, Kay and Trophy and Jay tell 625 00:45:57,355 --> 00:46:03,515 Speaker 1: them the elevator to the studio is stuck. Use the stairs. Goodbye. 626 00:46:04,915 --> 00:46:08,675 Speaker 1: Told I went back to producer's row. Hey, Bill just 627 00:46:08,715 --> 00:46:10,995 Speaker 1: called to tell you the elevator to the studio is stuck, 628 00:46:11,035 --> 00:46:14,635 Speaker 1: so use the stairs. Jay, who I believe was the 629 00:46:14,795 --> 00:46:20,315 Speaker 1: director that night, looked up optimistically. Is he on it? 630 00:46:20,955 --> 00:46:24,315 Speaker 1: When I shook my head no. The look of disappointment 631 00:46:24,395 --> 00:46:30,315 Speaker 1: verging on tears on Jay's face remains to this day indescribable. 632 00:46:31,915 --> 00:46:34,395 Speaker 1: Towards the end of my internship, things went south with 633 00:46:34,515 --> 00:46:38,115 Speaker 1: Bill Jorgenson and he took another sabbatical. Now the newscast 634 00:46:38,195 --> 00:46:40,235 Speaker 1: was anchored by the kid from California whose name was 635 00:46:40,315 --> 00:46:43,875 Speaker 1: John Rowland and Bill McCreary, and they were great to me, 636 00:46:44,315 --> 00:46:47,075 Speaker 1: as was Bill Mazer, the sportscaster for whom I interned 637 00:46:47,075 --> 00:46:49,355 Speaker 1: half the time. They were all great to me. My 638 00:46:49,395 --> 00:46:52,915 Speaker 1: friend Stanley Pinsley was the writer, Bobby Campbell, all of them. 639 00:46:53,875 --> 00:46:57,515 Speaker 1: Bill McCreary also did the sports on Fridays, and one Friday, 640 00:46:57,555 --> 00:46:59,715 Speaker 1: he and Bill Maser were going to both be off 641 00:46:59,835 --> 00:47:02,395 Speaker 1: and their backup was to and they and the sports 642 00:47:02,395 --> 00:47:06,315 Speaker 1: producer Cliff Gelb decided I should do the sports cast, 643 00:47:06,395 --> 00:47:11,715 Speaker 1: and they were serious. Mark bvs Monsky told them, no, no, 644 00:47:11,795 --> 00:47:15,115 Speaker 1: you're not serious. Even he said, soon enough, kid, you'll 645 00:47:15,115 --> 00:47:19,035 Speaker 1: do it. Soon enough. I went back to Cornell for 646 00:47:19,115 --> 00:47:21,875 Speaker 1: my senior year, and I realized our newscasts, which were 647 00:47:21,995 --> 00:47:25,835 Speaker 1: unsurpassed for a college radio station, We're running at about 648 00:47:27,115 --> 00:47:30,795 Speaker 1: nine miles an hour, while Bill Jorgenson's ten o'clock news 649 00:47:30,875 --> 00:47:33,795 Speaker 1: was doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty sometimes two 650 00:47:33,915 --> 00:47:38,115 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles an hour. I thought to myself 651 00:47:38,155 --> 00:47:41,675 Speaker 1: you're gonna have to step it up a little. Anyway. 652 00:47:41,675 --> 00:47:43,595 Speaker 1: One night the next March, there's a ring in my 653 00:47:43,635 --> 00:47:46,435 Speaker 1: apartment at two oh seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York, 654 00:47:46,475 --> 00:47:48,395 Speaker 1: and it's a phone call, phone call number four, and 655 00:47:48,435 --> 00:47:51,275 Speaker 1: it's my friend Stanley Pinsley calling from channel five. And 656 00:47:51,315 --> 00:47:53,595 Speaker 1: I'm going to emphasize this is what he told me 657 00:47:54,035 --> 00:47:57,435 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. It was only later confirmed for 658 00:47:57,475 --> 00:48:01,275 Speaker 1: me by one other source. So who knows, Uh, you 659 00:48:01,395 --> 00:48:06,235 Speaker 1: missed it, Bubby Stanley said, Jargonson's back. Well, he was back. 660 00:48:06,515 --> 00:48:08,915 Speaker 1: He comes in, he does a week, he's shaky as hell. 661 00:48:09,435 --> 00:48:12,115 Speaker 1: Monsky and the general manager take him to lunch. They 662 00:48:12,115 --> 00:48:14,795 Speaker 1: tell him we're letting you go, and he's like, okay 663 00:48:14,835 --> 00:48:17,075 Speaker 1: with it. He's very calm. He has a little meeting 664 00:48:17,075 --> 00:48:19,515 Speaker 1: with the senior staff and he thanks everybody and he 665 00:48:19,595 --> 00:48:23,475 Speaker 1: apologizes and everybody does, ah great, But you know, he 666 00:48:23,675 --> 00:48:27,555 Speaker 1: just wasn't right, even for him. So today, evidently before 667 00:48:27,595 --> 00:48:29,595 Speaker 1: I got in, he's got a little practical joke to 668 00:48:29,595 --> 00:48:31,595 Speaker 1: play on everybody. And from what he said as they 669 00:48:31,595 --> 00:48:34,115 Speaker 1: took him out of the building, he thought this would 670 00:48:34,155 --> 00:48:37,275 Speaker 1: show everybody he was handling his firing. Okay, so I 671 00:48:37,315 --> 00:48:40,195 Speaker 1: guess about five, he comes out of his office carrying 672 00:48:40,195 --> 00:48:42,955 Speaker 1: this big box and on each side of the box 673 00:48:42,995 --> 00:48:47,195 Speaker 1: it's got one word stenciled on it, Dynamite. And he 674 00:48:47,235 --> 00:48:50,475 Speaker 1: stands by producer's row and he says, if I have 675 00:48:50,635 --> 00:48:53,755 Speaker 1: to go, I'm taking all ues with me. And the 676 00:48:53,795 --> 00:48:56,315 Speaker 1: box doesn't look real, but who knows with Jorgensen. So 677 00:48:56,395 --> 00:48:58,995 Speaker 1: Choffey hits him high and Gary Kay hits him low, 678 00:48:59,235 --> 00:49:01,915 Speaker 1: and Jay grabs the boxes. It falls, and that's the 679 00:49:01,995 --> 00:49:07,235 Speaker 1: last we've seen at Jorgenson. I understand when he's resting somewhere. 680 00:49:08,155 --> 00:49:13,915 Speaker 1: I'm sorry you missed it. On March fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine, 681 00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:17,275 Speaker 1: Channel five in New York announced that Bill Jorgensen had resigned, 682 00:49:17,955 --> 00:49:20,235 Speaker 1: and his lawyer told The New York Times he had 683 00:49:20,315 --> 00:49:25,075 Speaker 1: quit to go do something better. And I just assumed, well, 684 00:49:25,155 --> 00:49:27,595 Speaker 1: even as crazy as I found television news in my 685 00:49:27,715 --> 00:49:30,395 Speaker 1: slice of my internship, that would be the end of him. 686 00:49:31,155 --> 00:49:35,075 Speaker 1: And then on April sixth, Stanley calls me again, Bobby, 687 00:49:35,155 --> 00:49:39,235 Speaker 1: guess who's the new anchor guy at Channel eleven? Jargonson? 688 00:49:39,595 --> 00:49:43,195 Speaker 1: What a business? You sure you want those job referrals? 689 00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:47,995 Speaker 1: He started on the Channel eleven news at ten on 690 00:49:48,035 --> 00:49:51,835 Speaker 1: April twenty third, nineteen seventy nine. He'd barely been off 691 00:49:51,835 --> 00:49:57,275 Speaker 1: the air one month. He lasted four years. He was 692 00:49:57,355 --> 00:49:59,995 Speaker 1: ninety six when he died, according to his daughter, on 693 00:50:00,035 --> 00:50:04,555 Speaker 1: March thirteenth. Nobody noted this, but March thirteenth. This March 694 00:50:04,755 --> 00:50:10,235 Speaker 1: thirteenth was the fifty seventh anniversary of the first edition 695 00:50:10,435 --> 00:50:14,075 Speaker 1: of Channel five to ten o'clock News with Bill Jorgenson. 696 00:50:15,515 --> 00:50:18,595 Speaker 1: Even his obituary in The New York Times said, quote, 697 00:50:18,595 --> 00:50:24,075 Speaker 1: mister Jorgenson struggled with station management. Clearly he did not 698 00:50:24,195 --> 00:50:27,275 Speaker 1: struggle enough, however, to outweigh his skill and his drive, 699 00:50:27,395 --> 00:50:31,675 Speaker 1: and his brilliance and his dedication to journalism, and his voice, 700 00:50:32,515 --> 00:50:36,915 Speaker 1: and especially his sign off. He was, now that I 701 00:50:36,955 --> 00:50:41,315 Speaker 1: think of it, the last newscaster I knew who had 702 00:50:41,675 --> 00:50:44,115 Speaker 1: his own sign off. 703 00:50:44,515 --> 00:50:47,355 Speaker 3: There's our report for tonight, Bill Jorgenson, for Channel five News. 704 00:50:47,555 --> 00:50:49,475 Speaker 3: Thanking you for your time this time until next time. 705 00:51:04,195 --> 00:51:05,955 Speaker 1: I've done all all the damage I can do here. 706 00:51:06,195 --> 00:51:10,995 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. He was the best, and in 707 00:51:11,035 --> 00:51:14,955 Speaker 1: retrospect he was the most fun. Most of our countdown 708 00:51:15,035 --> 00:51:17,595 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and 709 00:51:17,675 --> 00:51:21,035 Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanel, our musical directors of Countdown, also a 710 00:51:21,035 --> 00:51:24,115 Speaker 1: couple of fun guys. It was produced by Tko Brothers. 711 00:51:24,355 --> 00:51:27,075 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister 712 00:51:27,155 --> 00:51:31,435 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy musical 713 00:51:31,475 --> 00:51:35,515 Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 714 00:51:35,635 --> 00:51:39,115 Speaker 1: The Olberman theme for me ESPN two, which was written 715 00:51:39,115 --> 00:51:41,995 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis A Piers courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 716 00:51:42,395 --> 00:51:45,875 Speaker 1: That's our sports music. Other music arranged and performed by 717 00:51:45,915 --> 00:51:48,555 Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my 718 00:51:48,635 --> 00:51:54,275 Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was as ever my fault. 719 00:51:54,835 --> 00:51:57,555 Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and forty one 720 00:51:58,115 --> 00:52:03,235 Speaker 1: of America held hostage just twenty three days until the 721 00:52:03,275 --> 00:52:06,595 Speaker 1: scheduled end of Trump's leafy duck and lame brained term 722 00:52:07,315 --> 00:52:11,515 Speaker 1: unless putin or Musk remove him sooner, where the actuarial 723 00:52:11,595 --> 00:52:18,435 Speaker 1: tables do, or we do, or a bluestate tax boycott 724 00:52:18,475 --> 00:52:24,755 Speaker 1: and strike do. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow for 725 00:52:24,835 --> 00:52:27,595 Speaker 1: the latest on LA and on a subject that went 726 00:52:27,675 --> 00:52:32,995 Speaker 1: from a ten on everybody's radar to a zero. Remember 727 00:52:33,835 --> 00:52:38,235 Speaker 1: Trump versus Musk Till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman. 728 00:52:38,315 --> 00:52:40,835 Speaker 1: Thank you for your time, this time until next Time. 729 00:52:59,795 --> 00:53:03,715 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oulderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 730 00:53:03,915 --> 00:53:08,835 Speaker 1: more podcast from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 731 00:53:09,075 --> 00:53:11,035 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.