Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Make
Speaker 1: no mistake about what this is. This is Donald Trump's
Speaker 1: terrorist attack on Los Angeles and with its undercurrent of
Speaker 1: warning and preview to and against all the other metropolitan
Speaker 1: areas still free of MAGA fascism. It is also Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's terrorist threat against all of America. What else do
Speaker 1: you call it? What else can you call it? When
Speaker 1: you send in an unknown number of massed gestapo, fired
Speaker 1: with authoritarian and racist fervor, their consciences muted by decades
Speaker 1: of hateful rainwashing to seize, violate, and disappear civilians largely
Speaker 1: from one ethnic group, from their homes, from their streets,
Speaker 1: from their children's high school graduation ceremonies, and then send
Speaker 1: them to anywhere. Send them to torture camps in lethally
Speaker 1: dangerous foreign countries. Send them to the basements of the
Speaker 1: ice facility in La overnight without water or food or electricity.
Speaker 1: Send them to wherever you want to keep them, while
Speaker 1: often farcical legal cases are manufactured against them, as in
Speaker 1: the story of kilmar Abrego Garcia. What else do you
Speaker 1: call it? When, on top of this preliminary stage of
Speaker 1: ethnic cleansing, you begin to beat and threaten and seize
Speaker 1: those patriotic Americans protesting Donald Trump's use of the Constitution
Speaker 1: as something with which he can wipe his ass. What
Speaker 1: else do you call it when, after these unforgivable, disqualifying acts,
Speaker 1: you bypass the Police Department of Los Angeles, and you
Speaker 1: bypass the Mayor of Los Angeles, and you bypass the
Speaker 1: Governor of California, all of whom correctly describe the proportions
Speaker 1: of the clashes over the Nazi like raids as minor events.
Speaker 1: When you bypass these clear and sober conclusions, and you
Speaker 1: nationalize two thousand California National Guardsmen and pit them against
Speaker 1: their fellow residents, and pit them against perhaps their own relatives,
Speaker 1: and then you get the unstable, hallucinating Secretary of Defense
Speaker 1: ready to send in active duty Marines because people tried
Speaker 1: to save their neighbors and their relatives from existential life
Speaker 1: and death kidnapping by ice. What else do you call it?
Speaker 1: When the fiendish, demented, Hispanic hated advisor and Bigot refers
Speaker 1: to all of this as quote an insurrection against the
Speaker 1: laws and sovereignty of the United States, when it is
Speaker 1: in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional
Speaker 1: rights in the parking lot of a goddamned home depot.
Speaker 1: It is terrorism. It is designed to cause terror and panic.
Speaker 1: It is designed to either use violence or the threat
Speaker 1: of violence to effect political change, extra legally performed by
Speaker 1: masked and helmeted, faceless men and women with weapons of
Speaker 1: war on the streets of America's second largest city, to
Speaker 1: stage an ice riot and then show what are literally
Speaker 1: seconds of self defense by civilians, again and again on
Speaker 1: what are nominally teleb news channels now subverted and perverted
Speaker 1: into propaganda machines, to warn with vague, unstated menace that
Speaker 1: this will be re enacted every day for the next
Speaker 1: month in southern California and then where New York, Chicago, Washington, DC,
Speaker 1: where by coincidence, there will be a parade of military
Speaker 1: hardware at the end of this week, of parade that
Speaker 1: would have made Stalin and the Kremlin blush, to celebrate
Speaker 1: the birthday of the quote commander in chief unquote, the
Speaker 1: one who did everything he could five times to avoid
Speaker 1: serving in the military, to avoid even the kind of
Speaker 1: lip service service completed by the George W. Bushes of
Speaker 1: this world it is terrorism. It is Donald Trump's terrorism.
Speaker 1: It is Donald Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles on
Speaker 1: all of us call it what it is. The reality
Speaker 1: of the events on the ground in southern California is
Speaker 1: something altogether different. The LAPD, fantastically fascist and reliably racist,
Speaker 1: almost without interruption for nearly a century and a half,
Speaker 1: says there is no threat, No National Guard is required,
Speaker 1: no goddamn marines. They have it covered. The news in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, used to true disaster and threat as recently
Speaker 1: as the wildfires, and as far back as the Watts
Speaker 1: riot and the Rodney King Riot and the zoot Suit riots,
Speaker 1: gave as much coverage yesterday to the Pride Parade in
Speaker 1: West Hollywood, largely because there were more people on the
Speaker 1: streets at the Pride parade. The all news radio station,
Speaker 1: which we'll switch to wall to wall disaster coverage anytime
Speaker 1: an earthquake hits more than four point five on the
Speaker 1: Richter scale, moved quickly yesterday from the clashes and the
Speaker 1: calls from liberal government officials for calm and non violence,
Speaker 1: from the trumpest deliberate escalation to the Stephen Miller wet
Speaker 1: dream of using the American military to shoot American civilians
Speaker 1: on the streets of American cities. They moved from their
Speaker 1: coverage of all that to reporting instead on a true
Speaker 1: urgent threat in the community. It is graduation season and
Speaker 1: forty six hundred customers lost power in Westminster, California, over
Speaker 1: the weekend because too many people lost control of too
Speaker 1: many metallic congratulations balloons and they shorted out overhead power lines.
Speaker 1: That is the reality of what it's like in southern
Speaker 1: California right now. It's pretty much like every other day.
Speaker 1: Send in the Marines to deal with that. Pete Hegseth.
Speaker 1: Let's see your warrior ethos applied to the fight against shiny,
Speaker 1: unidentified flying objects that might be an attack because they're
Speaker 1: going first for the infrastructure. Let's see heg Seth against
Speaker 1: the balloons, the warrior ethos embodied by an idiotic Secretary
Speaker 1: of Defense who uses more hair product than Lady Gaga.
Speaker 1: Make no mistake about what this is. I first warned
Speaker 1: about this sequence of events early in two thousand goddamned sixteen.
Speaker 1: First Trump activates racism against Hispanic people, or against any people,
Speaker 1: then he invents an excuse to demonize them. Then he
Speaker 1: starts to round them up. Then his cronies profit off
Speaker 1: the private concentration camps that have to be built for them.
Speaker 1: Then he starts to round up anybody who tries to
Speaker 1: defend the rights of his victims. Then he cuts to
Speaker 1: the chase and sends in the National Guard and finally
Speaker 1: the Army, and hopefully shoots them all. Then he declares
Speaker 1: there's an invasion, and he says the threat, the threat
Speaker 1: he manufactured and the prostitutes in his bureaucracy would nurture
Speaker 1: and escalate. He says, the threat is now national, and
Speaker 1: everyone is now at risk, and your constitution will have
Speaker 1: to be suspended one right at a time. Trump's attack
Speaker 1: on southern California, his invasion of Southern California, means we
Speaker 1: are at about square two of this sequence. Even the
Speaker 1: usually hapless Politico made no mistake about what this is
Speaker 1: Trump's Rubicon moment. It wrote, well, it is essential Trump
Speaker 1: and his dreams of dictatorship do not make it to
Speaker 1: the other side of that river. But believe it or not,
Speaker 1: almost miraculously, there is a way to stop Trump here
Speaker 1: and now and to destroy his plans and perhaps his
Speaker 1: presidency immediately. And by chance, this way was voiced before
Speaker 1: Trump began down the path that will end with either
Speaker 1: America or Trump here, but not both. This literally came
Speaker 1: out the day before. It was on Friday. It was
Speaker 1: in Gavin Newsom's unexpected spine growth at his embracing something
Speaker 1: else I have been talking about since two thousand goddamn sixteen.
Speaker 1: There is one certain, nonviolent, unstoppable way to undo everything
Speaker 1: imposed upon the people of this long suffering nation by
Speaker 1: this dictatorial, fascist, minority bullshit regime. Gavin Newsom and the
Speaker 1: state government of California have now threatened to lead a
Speaker 1: tax strike. Newsom and California's State Assembly are ready to
Speaker 1: defund the Trump dictatorship.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is threatening to defund California, but it's econ
Speaker 2: one oh one. California is a donor state. We provide
Speaker 2: over eighty billion dollars more in tax revenue to the
Speaker 2: federal government than the federal government provides to the people
Speaker 2: of the state of California. We help pay federal bills.
Speaker 2: So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten forty
Speaker 2: million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider
Speaker 2: it withholding those resources.
Speaker 1: God yes, especially after the Iice Gestapo riots in La
Speaker 1: there's more. Quote. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool
Speaker 1: available to defend California, says the State Assembly Speaker Robert
Speaker 1: Reebos in the wake of the Trump threat to cut
Speaker 1: off any federal money that he can that is owed
Speaker 1: to California, quoting again, we must look at every option,
Speaker 1: including withholding federal r taxes. That's six hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: two billion dollars in federal taxes paid by California and
Speaker 1: its residents per year. The figure that Newsom quoted there
Speaker 1: the eighty billion. That's the gap. Eighty billion is what
Speaker 1: California donates to the Red States or has stolen from
Speaker 1: it by the Red States. The actual figure paid every
Speaker 1: year into the federal government by the state of California
Speaker 1: is six hundred and ninety two billion dollars. Doje this, Trump,
Speaker 1: Governor do it? Do it now? Do it in every
Speaker 1: Blue state. The gap is bigger in New York. Do it,
Speaker 1: and they will be metaphorically starving in the streets of
Speaker 1: the Red States by this Friday. I have been saying
Speaker 1: for eight years that ultimately it will come down to this,
Speaker 1: that the last line of defense of this country and
Speaker 1: its future and its democracy is not civil war or
Speaker 1: mass protest or judicial resurrection, but rather shutting down the
Speaker 1: Blue state ATM I have said that ultimately, if this
Speaker 1: means you and I have to stop paying our federal
Speaker 1: taxes and run those risks, so be it. Of course,
Speaker 1: there is an obvious problem with that. If one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of US stop paying our federal taxes, the administration
Speaker 1: falls and Trump flees the country by the end of
Speaker 1: the week. If one percent of us stop paying our
Speaker 1: federal taxes, you and I will get arrested and prosecuted.
Speaker 1: I hate to break this to you, but this is
Speaker 1: not the greatest generation. And the number of us who
Speaker 1: would actually take that risk now in this America, well,
Speaker 1: that one percent figure I just quoted my be wildly optimistic,
Speaker 1: to say nothing of the increasingly automatic nature of federal
Speaker 1: tax deductions. How many of us can actually stop paying
Speaker 1: our federal taxes. But what Newsom and California speaker Rivas
Speaker 1: are talking about is way different, and way better, and
Speaker 1: way more deadly. It is not you and I taking
Speaker 1: the risk now. It is the state of California taking
Speaker 1: the lead. It is not a consumer tax strike. It
Speaker 1: is a declaration of economic war by the most economically
Speaker 1: powerful state in the nation, the fourth biggest economy in
Speaker 1: the world, against Donald Trump and the leech states that
Speaker 1: put him in power and currently control the country as
Speaker 1: a minority and control us the majority, and are endeavoring
Speaker 1: at this moment to make slaves out of us. But
Speaker 1: here it is Gavin Newsom taking the risk, California taking
Speaker 1: the risk, leaders leading. Damn governor. If you do this,
Speaker 1: if you just carry this threat out far enough and
Speaker 1: long enough to break Trump, I'll not only forgive you
Speaker 1: your sillery pandering to the fascists on that podcast, I'll
Speaker 1: work for your presidential campaign. I'll nominate you myself. I'll
Speaker 1: carry you to the convention. This is the best option
Speaker 1: to defeat Trump and restore the vaguely fair of America
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen that we have seen since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 1: Biden and Garland screwed the pooch on convicting Trump, and
Speaker 1: he might have run out the clock anyway, And even
Speaker 1: if he didn't, he would have run from prison. And
Speaker 1: even if he didn't do that, somebody else would have
Speaker 1: run on a promise to pardon him and restore him.
Speaker 1: In many ways, but especially this one, Donald Trump is
Speaker 1: a cockroach but this, this is gold gold, because there
Speaker 1: are no nuclear options left to Trump with which he
Speaker 1: can get withheld taxes out of the hands of California.
Speaker 1: You can't do it with the National Guard. You can't
Speaker 1: do it with marines. You can't do it with Pete
Speaker 1: Hegseth's hair moose. You can't do it with court orders.
Speaker 1: You can't do it without the state's cooperation. And even
Speaker 1: though I am sitting here looking at New York's key Democrats,
Speaker 1: likely being not just Kathy Hochel but also Andrew Cuomo,
Speaker 1: it could even inspire the other Blue states in the
Speaker 1: same boat to reassert economic control of this nation and
Speaker 1: break the Red states tomorrow. That economic disparity is extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Calculating it is extraordinarily difficult. Newsom's number. California pays in
Speaker 1: eighty billion a year more than it gets out in
Speaker 1: the federal funds Trump has threatened to cut off. That's
Speaker 1: almost certainly better and more accurate than anything I could
Speaker 1: come up with. A decade ago, Business Insider produced a
Speaker 1: startling number. The twenty two reddest states in the country
Speaker 1: were taking out four hundred and twenty five billion a
Speaker 1: year from the federal government, more than they were putting
Speaker 1: in New York's figure as a so called donor state,
Speaker 1: essentially by itself kept the state of South Carolina alive. Texas,
Speaker 1: where fully a quarter of state revenue comes from the
Speaker 1: federal government, does not go bankrupt every year only because
Speaker 1: that money that the taxpayers in California and Illinois and
Speaker 1: Minnesota put in never see again and goes to Texas
Speaker 1: goes to Texas. And on top of the pure economics,
Speaker 1: there is the unmitigated hypocritical gall of the Maga states.
Speaker 1: They survive because of that part of our nation that
Speaker 1: has always been socialist share the wealth. Florida is socialist.
Speaker 1: Florida gets a kind of state to state social security
Speaker 1: or medicare. Perhaps is the more accurate comp socialist hell socialist?
Speaker 1: From each according to his ability, to each according to
Speaker 1: his needs. Florida is communist. As a worthwhile aside. Search
Speaker 1: that phrase and you will see that a lot of
Speaker 1: people seem to think from each according to his ability
Speaker 1: comes from the Bible. Back to the point, Newsome, we
Speaker 1: pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we
Speaker 1: get back. Maybe it's time to cut that off, Speaker Revas.
Speaker 1: We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.
Speaker 1: Oh hellelujah. This is the Manhattan Project of the war
Speaker 1: against Trump. This and maybe just the threat of this,
Speaker 1: maybe just the first steps towards this. They are enough
Speaker 1: to get almost any concession needed from the Red States,
Speaker 1: because the government in those states would literally run out
Speaker 1: of money within months at most. The Rockefeller Institute of
Speaker 1: Government has the stark numbers, and they will amaze you.
Speaker 1: Nearly a third of the budget in Montana is federal money,
Speaker 1: yours mine, California's thirty percent, in Kentucky, thirty percent in Louisiana,
Speaker 1: twenty nine percent in Alaska and Wyoming, twenty seven in
Speaker 1: West Virginia. The entire framework of Republican deceit and the
Speaker 1: maga cloud of cult worship would crumble before the economic
Speaker 1: reality of everything suddenly tomorrow shutting off in Louisiana. But
Speaker 1: the Blue States, wouldn't the federal funds stop arriving in
Speaker 1: the Blue States? Too? Sure? They would, too bad. There
Speaker 1: wouldn't be any handy pot of you know, say, money
Speaker 1: California did not send to Trump, which would be eighty
Speaker 1: billion dollars larger than it would have been otherwise. Seven
Speaker 1: hundred billion, probably just sitting there because the Blue states
Speaker 1: keep the Red ones alive out of patriotism and goodwill.
Speaker 1: And if Trump really wants to f with our generosity,
Speaker 1: he will find out, and he will find out so
Speaker 1: fast that I think historians will never find any trace
Speaker 1: or record of him or his presidency. Let's circle back
Speaker 1: to Ice and Los Angeles and the man who is
Speaker 1: rapidly becoming the Colonel Dreyfus of our twenty first century. Prejudiced,
Speaker 1: morally bankrupt, racist prosecution, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There are two
Speaker 1: remarkable things about this persecution. One is that Trump and
Speaker 1: Trump's whores spent weeks insisting that even if he was
Speaker 1: kidnapped without cause, there was now no way to ever
Speaker 1: get him back from El Salvador. Oh wait, there he is.
Speaker 1: He's in Nashville now. The second is how have his
Speaker 1: attorneys not yet filed a suit charging the government with
Speaker 1: what Trump and his idiots are almost boasting about that
Speaker 1: they have now maliciously prosecuted him. This is a crime.
Speaker 1: People must go to jail for this. Pam Bondi would
Speaker 1: be an excellent choice, and mister a Brigo Garcia must
Speaker 1: receive millions in damages period, traffic stop years ago, no evidence,
Speaker 1: no case, no charges, no nothing. You may leave. He's
Speaker 1: then kidnapped by Ice disappeared out of our country. Even
Speaker 1: the Trump lawyer admits to the court that they grabbed
Speaker 1: a man not deserving of prosecution, let alone rendition, and
Speaker 1: while they try to keep him in a torture chamber
Speaker 1: for the rest of his life, they manufacture a case
Speaker 1: for him based on the traffic stop which produced the
Speaker 1: conclusion of his innocence. Sue them, Sue them now. Also,
Speaker 1: you're not paying him his money with any of California's money.
Speaker 1: As the weekend in La underscored so brutally, Ice is
Speaker 1: out of control. Its brown shirts are out of control.
Speaker 1: The fiends directing them directing Ice are out of control
Speaker 1: and making it all worse. They are all incompetent morons.
Speaker 1: They are simultaneously insisting that protesters cannot wear masks nor
Speaker 1: shield their identities, while insisting that their own agents must
Speaker 1: wear masks and shield their identities, a violation of every
Speaker 1: tenet of law enforcement in this country's history. Not protective helmets,
Speaker 1: not life preserving vests, masks, masks for one purpose, masks
Speaker 1: so they can be masked and unidentifiable men with guns
Speaker 1: who say they are from the government and operating lawfully,
Speaker 1: except they are dressed as terrorists dress. Online, Trump congratulated
Speaker 1: these his stormtroopers on how well they had done in LA.
Speaker 1: He posted this hours before they got there. Naturally, because
Speaker 1: Trump is effing crazy and Trump unilaterally declared as dictators
Speaker 1: do that masks cannot be worn anymore by US civilians
Speaker 1: at protests. What do these people have to hide and why?
Speaker 1: He asked, ask that of Ice, shithead. Happily Trump and
Speaker 1: Ice are so bad at this. Tom Holman said he
Speaker 1: thinks somebody is going to lose their life during this
Speaker 1: stuff in LA. If you want to volunteer, Tom, it's
Speaker 1: over there. The US Marshal Service has now confirmed it.
Speaker 1: Last month, while raiding the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona,
Speaker 1: as cynical and diseased a tactic, as could be imagined,
Speaker 1: Ice seized a US marshal. He quote fit the general
Speaker 1: description of a subject being sought by Ice the Marshal's Service,
Speaker 1: and I'll translate that he was Hispanic. Then there is
Speaker 1: this buffoon Lions who runs the Gestapo, who is complaining
Speaker 1: about the risks that his bullies and racists are subjected
Speaker 1: to because they are doing the same thing terrorists do,
Speaker 1: because they are enforcing a laws that are not laws,
Speaker 1: or be in the best possible interpretation, they are enforcing
Speaker 1: laws that are not just, that are not American. This
Speaker 1: guy went on Fox News and tried to martyr himself
Speaker 1: over the comments by the mayor of Boston. Quote what
Speaker 1: Mayor Wu said was disgusting. She actually compared us to
Speaker 1: a neo Nazi group. Here I am on January sixth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was June sixth, and he said January sixth. Here
Speaker 1: I am on January sixth. The comparison to a neo
Speaker 1: Nazi group immediately threw todd Lyons into a form of
Speaker 1: Freudian slip in which he thought of January sixth and
Speaker 1: Trump's other neo Nazi group on that subject, it has
Speaker 1: noted that Trump's main defense for his deliberate inactivity on
Speaker 1: January sixth was that he had no means of knowing
Speaker 1: how to call in the National Guard for something that
Speaker 1: was blocks away from where he was sitting on his fat,
Speaker 1: useless ass eating cheeseburgers. And yet he just called in
Speaker 1: the National Guard from where he sat on his fat,
Speaker 1: useless ass eating cheeseburgers for something twenty seven hundred miles away.
Speaker 1: And we've been saying Trump can't learn. And of course
Speaker 1: then there is the mondanity of hypocrisy on the personal level,
Speaker 1: the individual bankruptcy of those involved in this. The mobilization
Speaker 1: of the California Guard had to go through Homeland Security
Speaker 1: Secretary Christy shoot 'em Upnome now with eight new action
Speaker 1: dress up outfits. It had to go over the head
Speaker 1: of the individual actually in charge of the California National Guard,
Speaker 1: Governor Newsom. Secretary Nome was all four riding roughshot over
Speaker 1: the States. Here's Secretary Nome while Governor February first of
Speaker 1: last year, quote, South Dakota is united in our support
Speaker 1: of our state's constitutional rights to defend itself. Democrats are
Speaker 1: encouraging Biden to federalize the National Guard to take that
Speaker 1: power away from the states. I will always stand to
Speaker 1: defend states rights. Christinome eight forty one a m. Two
Speaker 1: one twenty four. Well, now we know exactly how long
Speaker 1: forever is the time between two to one twenty four
Speaker 1: and six eight twenty five. I would suggest Christy nom
Speaker 1: has sold her soul. But Obviously that happened long ago.
Speaker 1: Presumably they removed it last time she went in for
Speaker 1: a touch up. And lastly, on the subject of personal
Speaker 1: failure and the mundanity of hypocrisy, there is the chairman
Speaker 1: of Disney, my former friend, Bob Iiger. You will recall
Speaker 1: Bob sold his soul months ago when he turned Trump's
Speaker 1: idiotic lawsuit against ABC News over a George Stephanoppolis interview
Speaker 1: into an opportunity to wipe the illegality off of a bribe.
Speaker 1: And this is what Bob bought with that. Terry Moran,
Speaker 1: the reporter the White House agreed to after Eiger seated
Speaker 1: even more of ABC's independence in arranging an interview with
Speaker 1: the dementia patient in chief. Terry Moran wrote a sober, clear,
Speaker 1: cool headed, accurate analysis of the emotional disturbance inside Stephen
Speaker 1: Miller that is suggested daily by Miller's public hysteria about LA.
Speaker 1: In about a thousand matters before LA, but of course
Speaker 1: Miller is from LA. Moran posted this, then deleted it.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why Terry did that. Miller went on
Speaker 1: and on online about this Sunday, insisting it proved media
Speaker 1: bias and blah, blah blah, we get it, your nuts
Speaker 1: and it'sisted. The most important part was blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: we get it. The Hispanic girl at Santa Monica High
Speaker 1: School wouldn't go out with you. What Miller did not
Speaker 1: do was deny anything that Terry Moran wrote about him. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: all the White House and its resident nitwit Caroline his
Speaker 1: name was Hilter Levitt wanted to talk about yesterday was
Speaker 1: how ABC better punished Terry Moran, and it did. Bob
Speaker 1: Eiger's company suspended him. Time frame undecided, pending further evaluation.
Speaker 1: A reporter reporting the truth gets suspended by Bob fing Iiger.
Speaker 1: Jesus H. Christ. Bob, the people of ABC News and
Speaker 1: the people in every ABC newsroom in America, and the
Speaker 1: people at ESPN and at every other Disney property dealing
Speaker 1: in the coverage of the world should walk out in protests,
Speaker 1: should walk off their shows today because guess what. My
Speaker 1: old friends in both shops, guess what. Robin Roberts, guess what,
Speaker 1: Chris Berman, guess what? Everybody You'll be next. Bob has
Speaker 1: no choice but to sell you all out. Now he
Speaker 1: is a Trump whore. Now, when I met Bob forty
Speaker 1: seven years ago, he told me his dream was to
Speaker 1: be on the air sportscaster. Circumstances, he said, led him
Speaker 1: instead into management, and he would have had no complaints
Speaker 1: about the life he expected he would then lead, but
Speaker 1: it would still be his second choice. He would still
Speaker 1: die still wanting to be a sportscaster or a newscaster
Speaker 1: and having never done so. Well, here's a chance, Bob
Speaker 1: really whore yourself out. Bob, take everybody at ABC off
Speaker 1: the air whom Trump doesn't like, and Bob, that would
Speaker 1: be everybody, and Bob just go on the air and
Speaker 1: do all the effing newscasts yourself. By the way, for
Speaker 1: thirty odd years, from nineteen seventy nine to like twelve thirteen,
Speaker 1: I believed what Bob had told me in his office
Speaker 1: at Wide World of Sports about why he stopped being
Speaker 1: on air and went into the business and budgeting end
Speaker 1: instead and what would happen to him as a result.
Speaker 1: And then I met his longtime assistant, Pat Philly when
Speaker 1: Pat was president of News for Comcast, and I told
Speaker 1: her that story and how much I admired Bob because
Speaker 1: he gave a great piece of advice with that, and
Speaker 1: Pat Philly laughed and said, oh, Bob Keith, he told
Speaker 1: you that he stopped being a sportscaster because he sucked.
Speaker 1: Also of interest, here, what do you mean? Jake Tapper
Speaker 1: claims his Biden book sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
Speaker 1: but the official Nielsen book scan data says it's less
Speaker 1: than half of that. What could have caused that kind
Speaker 1: of discrepancy? You don't think a former newscaster who sold
Speaker 1: his soul to please Trump would would No, it's unthinkable.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I saw
Speaker 1: him the other day, a videotape of him. It may
Speaker 1: not have the biggest audience on YouTube, but my god,
Speaker 1: if you ever wanted to see one out of every
Speaker 1: newscast from say, the year nineteen seventy eight, you now can.
Speaker 1: And there he was anchoring the Channel five ten o'clock news.
Speaker 1: And if I didn't find myself on this videotape of
Speaker 1: that edition of the Channel five ten o'clock news, often
Speaker 1: that year, if you looked in the background of the
Speaker 1: news room shots during the Channel five ten o'clock news,
Speaker 1: you would see me Keith the nineteen year old intern.
Speaker 1: His name was Bill Jorgensen, and in a matter of speaking,
Speaker 1: he was my first anchor. Man. Boy, was he terrific
Speaker 1: and over the top and an inspiration to every one
Speaker 1: of us who was ever anti management, you know, like
Speaker 1: I have been once or twice a week for half
Speaker 1: a century. Anyway, let me tell you about my summer
Speaker 1: as an intern for Bill Jorgenson, including the story of
Speaker 1: the day they fired him and he allegedly said, if
Speaker 1: I have to go, I'm taking all of you with me.
Speaker 1: Next in things I promised not to tell first, believe
Speaker 1: it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.
Speaker 1: The roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects
Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two Day's other worst person in the
Speaker 1: world Lebron's worse. Some leftover takes from those with Maga
Speaker 1: disease who could not process the musk Trump crap just
Speaker 1: too good to ignore, two of them from denesh De'suza,
Speaker 1: and a troll account with four hundred or so followers
Speaker 1: that got amplified when Alex Jones replied to this the
Speaker 1: troll first Buck millions, that's the name of the account
Speaker 1: buck millions. Now you understand the pain in Dan Bungino's
Speaker 1: eyes when you see him on any public media. He knows,
Speaker 1: he knows the reasons the Epstein list won't drop. He
Speaker 1: knows the assassination was faked. He knows the level of
Speaker 1: the grift with foreign money in Middle Eastern countries. Sad
Speaker 1: to see, to which Alex Jones replied, maybe two words, maybe,
Speaker 1: oh my god, though that phrase. The pain in Dan
Speaker 1: Bung's eyes, The pain in Dan Bongino's eyes comes from
Speaker 1: a having to work for a living for the first time,
Speaker 1: and b when, just like Rudy Giuliani, the mascara he
Speaker 1: uses to draw in his hair begins to run and
Speaker 1: runs into his eyes. The pain in Dan Bungino's eyes.
Speaker 1: Then quit, Go back to whatever the hell was you
Speaker 1: were doing before Christ The Decusan one was even wilder.
Speaker 1: Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the
Speaker 1: release of the Epstein files? How great it would be
Speaker 1: to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed? Then
Speaker 1: Trump and Elon break out the Champagne. Elon says, told
Speaker 1: you I could get Democrats to screen for that list. Laughter,
Speaker 1: exclamation point The confidence from this idiot that that was
Speaker 1: four d chess by Trump and Musk to publicly expose
Speaker 1: a horde of bad guys when Trump and Musk are
Speaker 1: the bad guys lasted only ten minutes. Even Desuza came
Speaker 1: back to announce literally ten minutes later, five forty one
Speaker 1: pm five to fifty one pm. Keeping your team together
Speaker 1: is one of the great challenges of leadership. Is it
Speaker 1: even conceivable the Democrats would alienate George and Alex Soros
Speaker 1: the way the GOP has alienated Elon Musk. Doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whose fault it is, this is an unmitigated disaster for
Speaker 1: our side. So okay, first off, you've just compared your
Speaker 1: man Musk to George Soros. Still, the best part of
Speaker 1: this is Desuz's first tweet and his conclusion that this
Speaker 1: was some sort of wrestling, fake fight move, ending with
Speaker 1: the quote laughter the runner up worser good old Jake
Speaker 1: Tapper and Alex Thompson and their BBB Bullshit Biden Book.
Speaker 1: I'll read what Lachlan Cartwright wrote about this in breaker quote.
Speaker 1: Despite claims it has sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Biden book, Original Sin has
Speaker 1: sold seventy thousand copies through the end of May. Per
Speaker 1: Nielsen Book Scan data, the duo sold seventeen thousand books
Speaker 1: last week, down fifty three thousand copies from the first week,
Speaker 1: thanks in large part to NonStop promotion on CNN. There
Speaker 1: wasn't the promotion on CNN that caused the drop. It
Speaker 1: was the promotion. You know what he means now, you know,
Speaker 1: an exaggeration of book sales by more than say, fifty percent.
Speaker 1: That makes Jake Tapper and that gossip columnist Alex Thompson
Speaker 1: look pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing
Speaker 1: actually nefarious here. Maybe Jake Tapper is just beginning to
Speaker 1: have mental acuity problems. Anyway, I'm sure the book will
Speaker 1: sell so much better when to steal the old Chevy
Speaker 1: Chase joke from Saturday Night Live. When it will sell
Speaker 1: so much better because they bypassed the traditional paperback version
Speaker 1: and the publishers go straight to confetti. The runner up
Speaker 1: worser New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and disgraced ex
Speaker 1: governor but still Sleezbag Andrew Cuomo, both of them candidates
Speaker 1: for mayor here in fun City. They are also reprehensible
Speaker 1: political reptiles. Friday Ramos endorsed Cuomo. She has the right
Speaker 1: to do that. It of course means you are dead
Speaker 1: in the Democratic Party, even here in New York with
Speaker 1: the worst Democratic party in a blue state in world history.
Speaker 1: But you go right into the garbage disposal politically in
Speaker 1: this one for doing this. But you can do it.
Speaker 1: It's okay, go ahead, endorse him. But Ramos's perfidy is
Speaker 1: special because there were reports that her campaign has not
Speaker 1: been paying its bills, and then suddenly, right after this endorsement,
Speaker 1: rumors that she'd been promised to spots in a Cuomo
Speaker 1: administration if the Democrat in name only, hell human in
Speaker 1: name only wins city Hall. To continue our lovely streak
Speaker 1: of finding the worst possible people to run big town,
Speaker 1: Jessica Ramo said, with Trump threatening to bulldoze New York
Speaker 1: and take us backward, we need someone in city Hall
Speaker 1: who knows how to hold the line and deliver under pressure.
Speaker 1: Even that is kind of normal, even though Cuomo is
Speaker 1: clearly Trump's choice in this election here and Trump opened
Speaker 1: an investigation of Cuomo, but not charges, so he can
Speaker 1: always blackmail Mayor Cuomo with charges into selling the city
Speaker 1: out to save his own worthless ass. But there's more
Speaker 1: here about Ramos the idea that she endorsed Cuomo on
Speaker 1: June sixth as the best person to defend New York
Speaker 1: City against Trump. Politico New York for Jeff Colton posted this.
Speaker 1: It was a fundraiser email from Jessica Ramos. That's the
Speaker 1: same Jessica Ramos about Cuomo. That's the same Cuomo. On
Speaker 1: May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos, Cuomo is the Democratic Party's Trump
Speaker 1: full stop. So on May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos describes Cuomo
Speaker 1: correctly as the Democratics Party's Trump full stop. June sixth,
Speaker 1: twenty two days later, twenty two she endorses him as
Speaker 1: the only candidate to save New York from Trump. That's
Speaker 1: the kind of total moral nihilism, total corruption, total hypocrisy
Speaker 1: that is so rare in today's world. Bravo, Jessica Ramos.
Speaker 1: You may be too unprincipled even to be a republican.
Speaker 1: Jessica Ramos and Andrew, don't worry. I'm not too unprincipled
Speaker 1: even to be a Republican Cuomo. Today's other worse Bison's
Speaker 1: It's ten pm. Do you know where your children are?
Speaker 3: The tragedy on twenty eighth Street with nine Nixon talks
Speaker 3: about the dumping of Spiro Agnew Money lives still on
Speaker 3: the line in Holland Tonight, I'm for the Gossips, Jackies,
Speaker 3: German Friends, Sanville Jorgensen's this is the ten o'clock News.
Speaker 1: That was who anchored the newscast on which I was
Speaker 1: an intern when I was nineteen years old, And you
Speaker 1: can probably understand my uncertainty that I had the skills,
Speaker 1: or the voice, or the shock of white hair to last, say,
Speaker 1: one hour in the business. Thankfully, they did not all
Speaker 1: sound like Bill Jorgenson. He was a news anchorman in Columbus,
Speaker 1: Ohio in the fifties, Cleveland starting in nineteen sixty one,
Speaker 1: and New York from nineteen sixty seven through nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1: He pioneered the concept of the ten o'clock news here,
Speaker 1: when all the other stations had network dramas on or reruns,
Speaker 1: The newscast aimed to tell you everything that happened that
Speaker 1: day in one hour, seriously everything. This was made more
Speaker 1: plausible by the fact that Bill Jorgenson kinda sounded like God.
Speaker 1: He did not suffer fools gladly, and he thought all
Speaker 1: television executives were fools. I'd like to say I got
Speaker 1: that from him, but I doubt it. By nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: year twelve for him in New York, he had pretty
Speaker 1: much run out of patience with the executives at Channel five,
Speaker 1: and he was beginning to lash out, and everybody agreed
Speaker 1: a month or two off would be a good idea.
Speaker 1: So he bought a win of Bago and he and
Speaker 1: the wife took off to see America on a sabbatical.
Speaker 1: They laughed about a week or ten days before my
Speaker 1: internship at Channel five started. My story with Bill Jorgensen
Speaker 1: can be summarized in four phone calls. My first week
Speaker 1: at the news assignment desk. The phone rings. I am
Speaker 1: a clank call for anyone from Kansas City, Missouri, from
Speaker 1: Bill Jorgensen. Will you accept the charges impulsively? I made
Speaker 1: an executive decision, we will operator. The next voice seemed
Speaker 1: to be coming not from the phone, not from Kansas City,
Speaker 1: but from some sort of pa system vibrating above the city,
Speaker 1: from way above my head, this is Jorgensen. Get me Monsky, please, Monsky,
Speaker 1: Mark Monsky, or as it said in the credits to
Speaker 1: our newscast, Mark bvs Monsky, Director of News, Mark B
Speaker 1: von Summer Monsky, the boss, the news director. The bad
Speaker 1: news was Mark Bee von Summer Monsky carried a gun.
Speaker 1: The good news was he liked me. I told his secretary.
Speaker 1: His secretary handled the call got Monsky. Three minutes later,
Speaker 1: Monsky came out and said to all of us at
Speaker 1: the desk, me included for God's sake, Jorgenson just called
Speaker 1: from Kansas City. They were having breakfast at the International
Speaker 1: House of Pancakes. They come out, he and the wife
Speaker 1: to the parking lot, and somebody has stolen the winebago.
Speaker 1: We got to get them out of there. They have nothing.
Speaker 1: Wire them some cash or something. Hereupon, the news director
Speaker 1: reached into his pocket and grabbed a stack of bills.
Speaker 1: Here's five hundred bucks. The sabbatical had not started all
Speaker 1: that well. On the other hand, only once before in
Speaker 1: my life had I seen five hundred dollars in cash.
Speaker 1: The sabbatical had been noticed. However, We interns were given
Speaker 1: instructions on what to do when we got phone calls
Speaker 1: like well, like phone call number two. What happened to
Speaker 1: Belle Jargenson asked the woman who said she was from Booton,
Speaker 1: New Jersey. He's on assignment, ma'am, I said, we expect
Speaker 1: him back in I believe two weeks, perhaps sooner. She
Speaker 1: laughed at me, Yeah, sabbatical like you bastards assigned George
Speaker 1: Sharmon to a sabbatical. There had been three primary anchors
Speaker 1: of the Channel five ten o'clock news, Jorgensen, his deputy
Speaker 1: George Sharmon, who also had a shock of white hair,
Speaker 1: and their deputy, Bill McCreery. And then one day George
Speaker 1: Sharmon was gone and a new kid from California had
Speaker 1: replaced him. They did this to the assignment desk one
Speaker 1: weekend as well. I was interning for Steve, the assignment editor,
Speaker 1: on Friday and said goodbye and have a nice weekend
Speaker 1: to him, and he said the same to me. And
Speaker 1: then on Monday, I was working for Joe, the new
Speaker 1: assignment editor. I said to my first mentor at Channel five,
Speaker 1: a researcher named Stanley Pinsley, as as quick as death.
Speaker 1: And Stanley paused and he congratulated me. You figured out
Speaker 1: the entire news business and you're only nineteen Bill Jorgensen
Speaker 1: came back to the newsroom soon after. I had not
Speaker 1: known him before, I didn't really know him now. He
Speaker 1: came out of his office only occasionally, might as well
Speaker 1: have won to worn a hood over his head, no
Speaker 1: eye contact. He ducked out a side door one night
Speaker 1: that they didn't fire the assignment editors. So at nine
Speaker 1: forty five we all sat back and prepared to finally
Speaker 1: exhale after a crazy day and watch the actual newscast
Speaker 1: in progress. And now comes phone call number three Channel
Speaker 1: five News. This is Jorgenson. Who's this? I thought quickly,
Speaker 1: I'm an intern. You wouldn't know me, he thought quickly.
Speaker 1: Fair enough. Tell Gary, Kay and Trophy and Jay tell
Speaker 1: them the elevator to the studio is stuck. Use the stairs. Goodbye.
Speaker 1: Told I went back to producer's row. Hey, Bill just
Speaker 1: called to tell you the elevator to the studio is stuck,
Speaker 1: so use the stairs. Jay, who I believe was the
Speaker 1: director that night, looked up optimistically. Is he on it?
Speaker 1: When I shook my head no. The look of disappointment
Speaker 1: verging on tears on Jay's face remains to this day indescribable.
Speaker 1: Towards the end of my internship, things went south with
Speaker 1: Bill Jorgenson and he took another sabbatical. Now the newscast
Speaker 1: was anchored by the kid from California whose name was
Speaker 1: John Rowland and Bill McCreary, and they were great to me,
Speaker 1: as was Bill Mazer, the sportscaster for whom I interned
Speaker 1: half the time. They were all great to me. My
Speaker 1: friend Stanley Pinsley was the writer, Bobby Campbell, all of them.
Speaker 1: Bill McCreary also did the sports on Fridays, and one Friday,
Speaker 1: he and Bill Maser were going to both be off
Speaker 1: and their backup was to and they and the sports
Speaker 1: producer Cliff Gelb decided I should do the sports cast,
Speaker 1: and they were serious. Mark bvs Monsky told them, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're not serious. Even he said, soon enough, kid, you'll
Speaker 1: do it. Soon enough. I went back to Cornell for
Speaker 1: my senior year, and I realized our newscasts, which were
Speaker 1: unsurpassed for a college radio station, We're running at about
Speaker 1: nine miles an hour, while Bill Jorgenson's ten o'clock news
Speaker 1: was doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty sometimes two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty miles an hour. I thought to myself
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to step it up a little. Anyway.
Speaker 1: One night the next March, there's a ring in my
Speaker 1: apartment at two oh seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York,
Speaker 1: and it's a phone call, phone call number four, and
Speaker 1: it's my friend Stanley Pinsley calling from channel five. And
Speaker 1: I'm going to emphasize this is what he told me
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy nine. It was only later confirmed for
Speaker 1: me by one other source. So who knows, Uh, you
Speaker 1: missed it, Bubby Stanley said, Jargonson's back. Well, he was back.
Speaker 1: He comes in, he does a week, he's shaky as hell.
Speaker 1: Monsky and the general manager take him to lunch. They
Speaker 1: tell him we're letting you go, and he's like, okay
Speaker 1: with it. He's very calm. He has a little meeting
Speaker 1: with the senior staff and he thanks everybody and he
Speaker 1: apologizes and everybody does, ah great, But you know, he
Speaker 1: just wasn't right, even for him. So today, evidently before
Speaker 1: I got in, he's got a little practical joke to
Speaker 1: play on everybody. And from what he said as they
Speaker 1: took him out of the building, he thought this would
Speaker 1: show everybody he was handling his firing. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: guess about five, he comes out of his office carrying
Speaker 1: this big box and on each side of the box
Speaker 1: it's got one word stenciled on it, Dynamite. And he
Speaker 1: stands by producer's row and he says, if I have
Speaker 1: to go, I'm taking all ues with me. And the
Speaker 1: box doesn't look real, but who knows with Jorgensen. So
Speaker 1: Choffey hits him high and Gary Kay hits him low,
Speaker 1: and Jay grabs the boxes. It falls, and that's the
Speaker 1: last we've seen at Jorgenson. I understand when he's resting somewhere.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you missed it. On March fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: Channel five in New York announced that Bill Jorgensen had resigned,
Speaker 1: and his lawyer told The New York Times he had
Speaker 1: quit to go do something better. And I just assumed, well,
Speaker 1: even as crazy as I found television news in my
Speaker 1: slice of my internship, that would be the end of him.
Speaker 1: And then on April sixth, Stanley calls me again, Bobby,
Speaker 1: guess who's the new anchor guy at Channel eleven? Jargonson?
Speaker 1: What a business? You sure you want those job referrals?
Speaker 1: He started on the Channel eleven news at ten on
Speaker 1: April twenty third, nineteen seventy nine. He'd barely been off
Speaker 1: the air one month. He lasted four years. He was
Speaker 1: ninety six when he died, according to his daughter, on
Speaker 1: March thirteenth. Nobody noted this, but March thirteenth. This March
Speaker 1: thirteenth was the fifty seventh anniversary of the first edition
Speaker 1: of Channel five to ten o'clock News with Bill Jorgenson.
Speaker 1: Even his obituary in The New York Times said, quote,
Speaker 1: mister Jorgenson struggled with station management. Clearly he did not
Speaker 1: struggle enough, however, to outweigh his skill and his drive,
Speaker 1: and his brilliance and his dedication to journalism, and his voice,
Speaker 1: and especially his sign off. He was, now that I
Speaker 1: think of it, the last newscaster I knew who had
Speaker 1: his own sign off.
Speaker 3: There's our report for tonight, Bill Jorgenson, for Channel five News.
Speaker 3: Thanking you for your time this time until next time.
Speaker 1: I've done all all the damage I can do here.
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Speaker 1: friend Larry David. Everything else was as ever my fault.
Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and forty one
Speaker 1: of America held hostage just twenty three days until the
Speaker 1: scheduled end of Trump's leafy duck and lame brained term
Speaker 1: unless putin or Musk remove him sooner, where the actuarial
Speaker 1: tables do, or we do, or a bluestate tax boycott
Speaker 1: and strike do. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow for
Speaker 1: the latest on LA and on a subject that went
Speaker 1: from a ten on everybody's radar to a zero. Remember
Speaker 1: Trump versus Musk Till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman.
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