1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,115 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I 2 00:00:23,195 --> 00:00:27,515 Speaker 1: wanted to say that, just like American democracy, I too, 3 00:00:27,835 --> 00:00:30,955 Speaker 1: am available for sale for seven hundred and eighty seven million, 4 00:00:31,035 --> 00:00:36,955 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars. That, of course, is somewhat hyperbolic, 5 00:00:38,715 --> 00:00:43,395 Speaker 1: but sadly today it is not sufficiently hyperbolic. We are 6 00:00:44,115 --> 00:00:46,435 Speaker 1: as we have been since January twenty ten, when the 7 00:00:46,435 --> 00:00:50,515 Speaker 1: Supreme Court decided citizens united against the citizens living in 8 00:00:50,515 --> 00:00:53,395 Speaker 1: a country where we live or we die, and our 9 00:00:53,515 --> 00:00:55,715 Speaker 1: devices tell us the truth or lie to us with 10 00:00:55,755 --> 00:01:01,235 Speaker 1: impunity at the whims of the corporations and corporation's going 11 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:06,675 Speaker 1: to corporate. In twenty eighteen, a small New York based 12 00:01:06,675 --> 00:01:11,635 Speaker 1: private equity firm called Staple Street Capitol Group LLLC bought 13 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:14,075 Speaker 1: a three quarter stake in a company for thirty eight million, 14 00:01:14,115 --> 00:01:18,635 Speaker 1: three hundred thousand dollars. That company is called Dominion Voting Systems. 15 00:01:18,795 --> 00:01:22,195 Speaker 1: And the settlement of the Fox suit yesterday means Staple 16 00:01:22,235 --> 00:01:24,675 Speaker 1: Street just got a one thousand, five hundred and sixty 17 00:01:24,715 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: seven percent return on its investment, and only in America. Baby, Sorry, 18 00:01:29,115 --> 00:01:31,715 Speaker 1: you thought our truth bombs about what Tucker Carlson said 19 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:33,795 Speaker 1: about Trump with some sort of prelude to the end 20 00:01:33,835 --> 00:01:36,955 Speaker 1: of Rupert Murdoch and Fox. But dude, ask mister smart 21 00:01:36,995 --> 00:01:39,915 Speaker 1: madeck over there, maybe he will put America ahead of 22 00:01:39,955 --> 00:01:43,715 Speaker 1: corporate profits. We just got six hundred million dollars. Baby, 23 00:01:43,835 --> 00:01:46,755 Speaker 1: You know how many fleeces with Staples Street on them 24 00:01:46,795 --> 00:01:55,075 Speaker 1: we can buy with six hundred million dollars. Money is accountability, 25 00:01:55,395 --> 00:01:59,755 Speaker 1: said Dominion's lawyer. Sure, if you get the money, the 26 00:01:59,795 --> 00:02:03,315 Speaker 1: rest of us we get. Tucker Carlson on TV last 27 00:02:03,395 --> 00:02:05,955 Speaker 1: night insisting there is about to be a race war. 28 00:02:07,195 --> 00:02:11,235 Speaker 1: Money is not accountability. You know what accountability is. Accountability 29 00:02:11,275 --> 00:02:16,155 Speaker 1: is accountability. And at the other end of this, if 30 00:02:16,195 --> 00:02:19,235 Speaker 1: I see one more explanation, Oh, you don't pay anybody 31 00:02:19,315 --> 00:02:21,555 Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty seven and a half million dollars 32 00:02:21,635 --> 00:02:26,715 Speaker 1: if you're not guilty of something, I'm gonna take hostages. Yeah. Sure, 33 00:02:27,195 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: Fox feels great shame. Seven hundred and eighty seven million dollars. 34 00:02:33,515 --> 00:02:36,955 Speaker 1: Why that's half of their annual profits for a year, 35 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:43,515 Speaker 1: half of one year's profits before the carriage rate increases. 36 00:02:43,515 --> 00:02:46,355 Speaker 1: They get from Xfinity Cable and Charter Cable and Cox 37 00:02:46,395 --> 00:02:48,675 Speaker 1: Cable next year, and Rupert wants to milk them for 38 00:02:48,675 --> 00:02:51,715 Speaker 1: another thirty five percent, and that would make Fox's profits 39 00:02:51,835 --> 00:02:54,955 Speaker 1: next year about two point two billion. So the practical 40 00:02:54,995 --> 00:02:57,795 Speaker 1: impact of the Dominion settlement is instead of making two 41 00:02:57,875 --> 00:03:00,155 Speaker 1: point two billion next year, Fox only gonna make about 42 00:03:00,195 --> 00:03:05,435 Speaker 1: a million. Four time for belt tightening kids. Sorry, there 43 00:03:05,515 --> 00:03:09,075 Speaker 1: goes your staff of ball tanners. You'll have to share 44 00:03:09,155 --> 00:03:15,475 Speaker 1: with Gutfeld. As a practical matter, I will reiterate what 45 00:03:15,555 --> 00:03:18,635 Speaker 1: I guessed at yesterday had made Rupert Murdoch up the 46 00:03:18,715 --> 00:03:22,315 Speaker 1: anti Sunday night on a settlement deal, negotiations for which 47 00:03:22,395 --> 00:03:25,395 Speaker 1: postponed the start of the trial until yesterday and ultimately 48 00:03:25,435 --> 00:03:28,755 Speaker 1: shut it down right after the jury was seated. Somewhere 49 00:03:28,835 --> 00:03:31,915 Speaker 1: there was something else in the pile of items produced 50 00:03:31,955 --> 00:03:35,995 Speaker 1: in Discovery, something Dominion knew it had, or something Dominion 51 00:03:36,195 --> 00:03:40,235 Speaker 1: did not know it had. But Fox suddenly realized Dominion 52 00:03:40,275 --> 00:03:44,315 Speaker 1: had something worse than Carlson saying he hated Chump, something 53 00:03:44,355 --> 00:03:47,275 Speaker 1: worse than all the executives threatening all the reporters who 54 00:03:47,315 --> 00:03:50,395 Speaker 1: tried to tell the truth, something that might have destroyed, 55 00:03:50,795 --> 00:03:54,155 Speaker 1: if not Fox itself, then a significant chunk of the 56 00:03:54,195 --> 00:03:58,675 Speaker 1: Fox franchise in one fell swoop. In any event, I 57 00:03:58,715 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 1: still think there is some fatal there there, and we 58 00:04:02,795 --> 00:04:08,155 Speaker 1: may never see it. Who's it about? Hannity is hateful garbage, 59 00:04:08,995 --> 00:04:11,155 Speaker 1: and Ingram hasn't been all there since nine to eleven. 60 00:04:11,195 --> 00:04:13,755 Speaker 1: But I can't imagine there's anything by them or about 61 00:04:13,795 --> 00:04:17,155 Speaker 1: them that could sink Fox quote News unquote, or Murdoch 62 00:04:17,435 --> 00:04:22,995 Speaker 1: or just their own shows. Tucker Carlson. Every night that 63 00:04:23,195 --> 00:04:26,395 Speaker 1: eight o'clock comes around and we don't hear a voiceover 64 00:04:26,475 --> 00:04:29,675 Speaker 1: on Fox say Tucker Carlson tonight won't be seen ever 65 00:04:29,715 --> 00:04:33,355 Speaker 1: again because of the you know, we know, welcome back 66 00:04:33,715 --> 00:04:39,675 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly. Every night that doesn't happen. I'm surprised any 67 00:04:39,715 --> 00:04:41,995 Speaker 1: of us who ever worked with Tucker Carlson believed he 68 00:04:42,035 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: did not have skeletons in his closet. He had a 69 00:04:45,195 --> 00:04:50,635 Speaker 1: whole house made of nothing butt closets. So if that's true, 70 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:53,195 Speaker 1: every time you say seven hundred and eighty seven and 71 00:04:53,235 --> 00:04:58,235 Speaker 1: a half million, it seems smaller and smaller and smaller, 72 00:04:58,315 --> 00:05:02,475 Speaker 1: and kind of like something you wouldn't pick up off 73 00:05:02,475 --> 00:05:06,275 Speaker 1: the floor if you'd dropped it. Seven hundred and eighty 74 00:05:06,275 --> 00:05:12,715 Speaker 1: seven and a half million, that's all. Remember the story 75 00:05:12,755 --> 00:05:14,795 Speaker 1: I always tell you about the day the mother of 76 00:05:14,835 --> 00:05:18,475 Speaker 1: the chairman of General Electric GE called up and yelled 77 00:05:18,475 --> 00:05:21,395 Speaker 1: at her son because she was a Bill O'Reilly fan, 78 00:05:21,835 --> 00:05:25,355 Speaker 1: and her dear Bill had just said that GE had 79 00:05:25,395 --> 00:05:30,075 Speaker 1: manufactured components used in roadside bombs to kill Americans in Iraq, 80 00:05:32,355 --> 00:05:35,835 Speaker 1: and she called her son and the chairman of GE. 81 00:05:35,875 --> 00:05:39,555 Speaker 1: Her son knew this was Murdoch's revenge for me attacking 82 00:05:39,555 --> 00:05:41,995 Speaker 1: O'Reilly and Fox for six years, and he just didn't 83 00:05:41,995 --> 00:05:43,995 Speaker 1: need another minute of it, thank you. So he called 84 00:05:44,075 --> 00:05:47,115 Speaker 1: up Jeff Zucker and he said, you know, if MSNBC 85 00:05:47,315 --> 00:05:51,755 Speaker 1: mentions Fox ever again, I'm shutting it down. At that point, 86 00:05:52,035 --> 00:05:54,835 Speaker 1: after years of losing tens of millions of dollars annually, 87 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:58,875 Speaker 1: sometimes hundreds of millions, MSNBC was making an annual profit 88 00:05:59,155 --> 00:06:01,875 Speaker 1: of about two hundred, two hundred and fifty million dollars, 89 00:06:02,275 --> 00:06:04,035 Speaker 1: and in the next three years it would make a 90 00:06:04,075 --> 00:06:07,475 Speaker 1: total profit of around just to pick a number that's 91 00:06:07,515 --> 00:06:10,475 Speaker 1: close to the actual number, seven hundred and eighty seven million, 92 00:06:10,555 --> 00:06:13,795 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars. And the chairman of GE said, 93 00:06:13,955 --> 00:06:18,155 Speaker 1: screw it, not worth my mommy yelling at me, and 94 00:06:18,355 --> 00:06:22,155 Speaker 1: he was just gonna give that money back. Heevene hundred 95 00:06:22,155 --> 00:06:25,075 Speaker 1: and eighty seven million, five hundred thousand dollars. You know 96 00:06:25,115 --> 00:06:27,635 Speaker 1: what seven hundred and eighty seven million, five hundred thousand 97 00:06:27,635 --> 00:06:31,555 Speaker 1: dollars is That will only cover the payroll of the 98 00:06:31,595 --> 00:06:34,835 Speaker 1: New York Mets for this season and the next two. 99 00:06:35,115 --> 00:06:36,835 Speaker 1: You know what's seven hundred and eighty seven million, five 100 00:06:36,875 --> 00:06:40,515 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars is it's the Washington football team just 101 00:06:40,555 --> 00:06:46,515 Speaker 1: sold for six billion. Dominions Litigation exposed some of the 102 00:06:46,595 --> 00:06:51,355 Speaker 1: misconduct and damage caused by Fox's disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will 103 00:06:51,395 --> 00:06:56,275 Speaker 1: expose the rest, said Smartmatic attorney Eric Connolly. Smartmatic remains 104 00:06:56,275 --> 00:06:59,555 Speaker 1: committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage to 105 00:06:59,595 --> 00:07:02,355 Speaker 1: the company in more than fifty countries, and holding Fox 106 00:07:02,395 --> 00:07:10,395 Speaker 1: accountable for undermining democracy. See unquote nice touch referencing democracy 107 00:07:10,395 --> 00:07:12,875 Speaker 1: there at the end. But it's not like they or 108 00:07:12,915 --> 00:07:16,275 Speaker 1: any other corporation ever, or Dominion for that matter, just 109 00:07:16,315 --> 00:07:19,995 Speaker 1: said they would demand an apology or just a token 110 00:07:20,075 --> 00:07:23,355 Speaker 1: firing of a Bartiromo or Janine Piro or one of 111 00:07:23,355 --> 00:07:28,915 Speaker 1: those losers. It's not like Smartmatic pledge not to settle. Look, 112 00:07:28,995 --> 00:07:30,915 Speaker 1: my friends, there are plenty of ways to hold Fox 113 00:07:30,915 --> 00:07:33,915 Speaker 1: accountable for undermining democracy without doing anything that might limit 114 00:07:33,915 --> 00:07:36,355 Speaker 1: the money we get out of it. We aren't gonna 115 00:07:36,355 --> 00:07:38,835 Speaker 1: die on the hill of something like making one Fox 116 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: anchor read one retraction one night in primetime. I mean, 117 00:07:43,755 --> 00:07:47,555 Speaker 1: never mind an apology. Dominion didn't even get a retraction. 118 00:07:48,995 --> 00:07:51,555 Speaker 1: They got a guy on Fox reading it with the 119 00:07:51,595 --> 00:07:55,355 Speaker 1: sincerity of the woman who anchors the news in North Korea. Quote. 120 00:07:55,835 --> 00:07:59,395 Speaker 1: We acknowledge that court's rulings finding certain claims about Dominion 121 00:07:59,475 --> 00:08:04,915 Speaker 1: to be false. Yeah, boy, they've learned their lesson. I mean, 122 00:08:04,915 --> 00:08:08,315 Speaker 1: they're already lying about the settlement with Dominion, about lying 123 00:08:08,355 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 1: about Dominion. Howard Kurtz, who used to be a media 124 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:15,875 Speaker 1: reporter at CNN and the Washington Freaking Post and then 125 00:08:15,915 --> 00:08:19,475 Speaker 1: one day became a street walker on Fox. Howard Kurtz 126 00:08:19,595 --> 00:08:22,635 Speaker 1: was reporting on the case from the courtroom, and he 127 00:08:22,675 --> 00:08:25,315 Speaker 1: would not say how much money Fox had agreed to 128 00:08:25,315 --> 00:08:31,155 Speaker 1: pay because he said he couldn't independently verify the figure. Yeah, 129 00:08:31,275 --> 00:08:36,715 Speaker 1: they've learned their lesson. We acknowledged the court's rulings finding 130 00:08:36,755 --> 00:08:41,075 Speaker 1: certain claims about Dominion to be false. Christ Susan Collins 131 00:08:41,115 --> 00:08:44,675 Speaker 1: would be embarrassed by this highest possible grade weak sauce. 132 00:08:46,835 --> 00:08:50,235 Speaker 1: The White Star Line acknowledges that RMS Titanic missed its 133 00:08:50,355 --> 00:08:53,235 Speaker 1: estimated time of arrival at Peer fifty four in New York. 134 00:08:58,155 --> 00:09:00,835 Speaker 1: All right, since you have not yet hit the stop 135 00:09:00,915 --> 00:09:04,315 Speaker 1: button and crawled back into or under your bed, more 136 00:09:04,355 --> 00:09:09,955 Speaker 1: good news everyone. The Democrats are using the incapacitation of 137 00:09:09,995 --> 00:09:15,115 Speaker 1: Dianne Feinstein as an excuse to not subpoena Clarence Thomas. 138 00:09:17,395 --> 00:09:19,555 Speaker 1: I'll just read that again for you, shall I The 139 00:09:19,675 --> 00:09:25,315 Speaker 1: Democrats are using the incapacitation of Dianne Feinstein as an 140 00:09:25,355 --> 00:09:32,835 Speaker 1: excuse to not subpoena Clarence Thomas. Chairman Dick Durbin of 141 00:09:32,835 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee, who I used to like and respect, 142 00:09:35,795 --> 00:09:39,475 Speaker 1: is so pissed that he and his fellow Democrats on 143 00:09:39,475 --> 00:09:43,315 Speaker 1: the committee are considering asking Clarence Thomas if he would 144 00:09:43,595 --> 00:09:46,915 Speaker 1: like to be invited to an upcoming hearing on the 145 00:09:46,915 --> 00:09:51,995 Speaker 1: ethical standards of scotis gonna be a brief hearing, Clarence 146 00:09:52,675 --> 00:09:59,475 Speaker 1: honest to God from Politico Senator Blumenthal, Connecticut quote. Rather 147 00:09:59,555 --> 00:10:02,875 Speaker 1: than making the politically explosive move of subpoena and Thomas, 148 00:10:03,075 --> 00:10:06,955 Speaker 1: Blumenthal said he hoped that just would answer committee members 149 00:10:07,075 --> 00:10:14,355 Speaker 1: questions voluntarily. That's keeping Clarence awake at night. Ooh, did 150 00:10:14,355 --> 00:10:16,515 Speaker 1: you see what they said about me? They use the 151 00:10:16,635 --> 00:10:24,395 Speaker 1: V word voluntarily. Seriously, mister Kierman, you think this could work, 152 00:10:24,795 --> 00:10:30,875 Speaker 1: that you'll hear from him voluntarily, this crook Durban quote. 153 00:10:31,035 --> 00:10:32,955 Speaker 1: Of course I would like to, but I don't think 154 00:10:32,955 --> 00:10:40,475 Speaker 1: it's going to happen. So subpoena from NBC. I swear 155 00:10:40,635 --> 00:10:43,555 Speaker 1: I'm ready to primary Dick Durbin right now. Quote. A 156 00:10:43,635 --> 00:10:46,515 Speaker 1: Democratic aid noted that issuing a subpoena would require a 157 00:10:46,555 --> 00:10:49,155 Speaker 1: majority vote by the committee, which the party doesn't have 158 00:10:50,475 --> 00:10:55,555 Speaker 1: with Senator Dianne Feinstein out indefinitely on medical leave. Quote, 159 00:10:55,995 --> 00:11:00,315 Speaker 1: so that option is out of the question. Unquote. So 160 00:11:00,435 --> 00:11:03,515 Speaker 1: that option of bringing to justice a corrupt Supreme Court 161 00:11:03,715 --> 00:11:07,035 Speaker 1: justice who looks like he's been selling his vote to 162 00:11:07,115 --> 00:11:12,155 Speaker 1: this fascist legal activist, mega donor and Hitler collector, hate him, 163 00:11:12,235 --> 00:11:15,635 Speaker 1: love his landscapes, selling this guy his vote for twenty 164 00:11:15,675 --> 00:11:18,675 Speaker 1: seven years, that option is off the table. Because nobody 165 00:11:18,755 --> 00:11:22,555 Speaker 1: has the guts to say we're getting Ruth Ginsberg again. 166 00:11:23,635 --> 00:11:26,595 Speaker 1: We are pretending this is a tenured job on the 167 00:11:26,675 --> 00:11:30,795 Speaker 1: faculty at Vassar or Williams. We are pretending that if 168 00:11:30,835 --> 00:11:35,355 Speaker 1: they needed one vote to subpoena Sonya sodomayor Republicans would 169 00:11:35,355 --> 00:11:39,755 Speaker 1: not push their feinstein down a flight of stairs. We're 170 00:11:39,795 --> 00:11:42,875 Speaker 1: playing by flag football rules and the Republicans are all 171 00:11:42,875 --> 00:11:46,515 Speaker 1: carrying guns. But no, for God's sake, we can't get 172 00:11:46,555 --> 00:11:50,155 Speaker 1: a senator to resign twenty months early. So maybe we 173 00:11:50,195 --> 00:11:52,915 Speaker 1: have a chance at preventing Clarence Thomas from handing the 174 00:11:52,955 --> 00:11:56,675 Speaker 1: next election to Trump or whoever pays him the most. 175 00:11:57,995 --> 00:12:00,315 Speaker 1: Maybe somebody can make a settlement with Clarence Thomas and 176 00:12:00,355 --> 00:12:02,835 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe. I mean seven hundred and eighty seven million, 177 00:12:02,915 --> 00:12:05,835 Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars would crush Charlan crawl right, he's 178 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:06,555 Speaker 1: worth two billion. 179 00:12:11,555 --> 00:12:15,835 Speaker 2: The White Star Line acknowledges that RMS Titanic missed its 180 00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:26,835 Speaker 2: estimated time of arrival at peer fifty far in New York. 181 00:12:35,315 --> 00:12:42,195 Speaker 1: I mean Jesus H. Christ On hockey skates still ahead 182 00:12:42,195 --> 00:12:45,155 Speaker 1: on this edition of Countdown. Well, the news gets much 183 00:12:45,195 --> 00:12:48,635 Speaker 1: better the lesson from Topeka. If you are going to 184 00:12:48,715 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: destroy several cases of Anheuser Bush beer at a Walmart, 185 00:12:52,755 --> 00:12:56,555 Speaker 1: please remember keep your pants on. Do not also expose 186 00:12:56,595 --> 00:13:00,795 Speaker 1: your can opener to the cops. This is the worst 187 00:13:00,875 --> 00:13:05,315 Speaker 1: question I have ever heard anybody ask of any MSNB host, 188 00:13:05,435 --> 00:13:08,755 Speaker 1: including questions asked of me. It was about her guests. 189 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:12,835 Speaker 1: The question was, quote, those are all Democrats. Do you 190 00:13:12,875 --> 00:13:16,075 Speaker 1: think about putting more Republicans on? And then later, Okay, 191 00:13:16,075 --> 00:13:20,075 Speaker 1: what's the problem? Four shows and no Republicans. The person 192 00:13:20,115 --> 00:13:24,315 Speaker 1: who asked that question is Kars Swisher, and spoiler alert, 193 00:13:24,635 --> 00:13:27,235 Speaker 1: She's the worst person in the world, maybe for the 194 00:13:27,235 --> 00:13:30,595 Speaker 1: next several months. That question is at the heart of 195 00:13:30,675 --> 00:13:35,035 Speaker 1: the disaster that is American media at American politics. I'm 196 00:13:35,155 --> 00:13:37,755 Speaker 1: so mad. I'm going to turn the music off as 197 00:13:37,755 --> 00:13:42,915 Speaker 1: I read the script and then evidence that power corrupts. Absolute, 198 00:13:42,915 --> 00:13:48,635 Speaker 1: power corrupts absolutely and absolutely Cable news corrupts. Worst of all, 199 00:13:49,395 --> 00:14:00,475 Speaker 1: that's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith 200 00:14:00,515 --> 00:14:07,515 Speaker 1: Oberman coming up an extra special edition of the Worst 201 00:14:07,595 --> 00:14:12,235 Speaker 1: Persons in the World. A spoiler alert, it's Caris Swisher. 202 00:14:12,875 --> 00:14:15,275 Speaker 1: First postscripts to the news, some updates, some insights, some 203 00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:20,235 Speaker 1: snarks and predictions. Dateline, Washington, the Republican Party summarized in 204 00:14:20,315 --> 00:14:23,715 Speaker 1: two sound clips from yesterday, Mitch McConnell returned to the Senate. 205 00:14:24,035 --> 00:14:26,715 Speaker 1: My new Raju of CNN hit him with a solid 206 00:14:26,795 --> 00:14:29,075 Speaker 1: question are you comforable with the fact that your party's 207 00:14:29,195 --> 00:14:33,235 Speaker 1: leading candid for president is facing criminal charges and could 208 00:14:33,235 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: have to be facing the trial in the middle of 209 00:14:34,955 --> 00:14:38,835 Speaker 1: the selection. Well, let me put it this way. I 210 00:14:38,915 --> 00:14:41,435 Speaker 1: may have hit my head, but I didn't hit it 211 00:14:41,475 --> 00:14:46,035 Speaker 1: that hard. Good try now McConnell's scoring off me. That 212 00:14:46,235 --> 00:14:51,155 Speaker 1: is it funny line fascist and still dateline Washington, Barney 213 00:14:51,235 --> 00:14:55,435 Speaker 1: Rubble cleaning up Trump's language of racism and h with 214 00:14:55,555 --> 00:14:58,635 Speaker 1: her bottomless paint can of stupidity. 215 00:14:58,795 --> 00:15:01,995 Speaker 3: I would like for the record to address something that 216 00:15:02,075 --> 00:15:04,515 Speaker 3: one of our colleagues across aisle was talking about, which 217 00:15:04,555 --> 00:15:09,075 Speaker 3: was Asian hate and reference to President Trump. President Trump 218 00:15:09,235 --> 00:15:14,715 Speaker 3: never spoke any language of racism or hate. He did, however, 219 00:15:15,395 --> 00:15:18,435 Speaker 3: call and many of us have called the COVID nineteen 220 00:15:18,515 --> 00:15:22,715 Speaker 3: virus the Wuhan flu, the Chin China virus because we 221 00:15:22,755 --> 00:15:24,475 Speaker 3: feel it originated from China. 222 00:15:24,755 --> 00:15:27,475 Speaker 1: How about when Jump called it kung flu? How about 223 00:15:27,475 --> 00:15:31,155 Speaker 1: then I'd say she was trolling us there, but that 224 00:15:31,155 --> 00:15:34,515 Speaker 1: would take effort. I will note Midge was wearing glasses 225 00:15:34,555 --> 00:15:38,275 Speaker 1: as she said that, presumably to keep her brain from 226 00:15:38,315 --> 00:16:01,515 Speaker 1: slipping out through her pupils. Thank you, Barney Rubble, and 227 00:16:01,595 --> 00:16:17,115 Speaker 1: thank you, Nancy Faust and dateline to destroy everything. Ruh. 228 00:16:21,995 --> 00:16:26,195 Speaker 1: You are listening live to carnage at the Walmart. A 229 00:16:26,275 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: man went to the beer aisle, the very large beer 230 00:16:29,075 --> 00:16:32,435 Speaker 1: ale at the Walmart, the one on Southwest Wannamaker, and 231 00:16:32,515 --> 00:16:35,395 Speaker 1: somebody filmed him and he done through a six pack 232 00:16:35,435 --> 00:16:37,835 Speaker 1: after a six pack, and a twenty four pack after 233 00:16:37,915 --> 00:16:40,755 Speaker 1: twenty four pack on the floor of the Walmart, and 234 00:16:40,795 --> 00:16:43,675 Speaker 1: a couple of cans directly at people who were filming him. 235 00:16:43,715 --> 00:16:45,955 Speaker 1: Do that, And that's what you heard. And no, police 236 00:16:45,955 --> 00:16:47,755 Speaker 1: are not saying this was because of the right wing 237 00:16:47,795 --> 00:16:51,475 Speaker 1: echo chambers obsession with Budweiser giving some free beer to 238 00:16:51,555 --> 00:16:55,995 Speaker 1: a trans influencer for a video. But that's what it was. 239 00:16:56,555 --> 00:17:00,195 Speaker 1: What Topeka police are saying is that j. Dustin D. 240 00:17:00,715 --> 00:17:05,795 Speaker 1: Kine was arrested and charged with felony battery, assault, and 241 00:17:05,955 --> 00:17:10,675 Speaker 1: exposing his genitals in public, although I'm hearing the exposure 242 00:17:10,715 --> 00:17:14,355 Speaker 1: of genital's charge may be dismissed because of insufficient evidence. 243 00:17:15,235 --> 00:17:18,675 Speaker 1: Stateline Mary Lago, Speaking of which, the second round of 244 00:17:18,675 --> 00:17:22,115 Speaker 1: Donald J. Chump NFT trading cards is out, each showing 245 00:17:22,195 --> 00:17:25,435 Speaker 1: him carrying things he could not lift while wearing clothes 246 00:17:25,475 --> 00:17:27,915 Speaker 1: he could never fit into while most of us are 247 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:31,315 Speaker 1: just laughing at this point with the faithful DJ chump 248 00:17:31,355 --> 00:17:34,075 Speaker 1: may have just jumped the shark, not that he could 249 00:17:34,115 --> 00:17:38,235 Speaker 1: actually jump. Tommy Laren writes, I am a Trump supporter, 250 00:17:38,275 --> 00:17:41,435 Speaker 1: but these NFTs are just too much. Thank you, Timmy 251 00:17:41,795 --> 00:17:46,475 Speaker 1: better line from alt right lunatic Tim Giannette aka Baked Alaska. 252 00:17:46,995 --> 00:17:52,235 Speaker 1: I can't believe I went to prison for an NFT salesman. Yeah, 253 00:17:52,315 --> 00:18:10,155 Speaker 1: mister Baked, the rest of us, Yeah, we can stella 254 00:18:10,115 --> 00:18:12,875 Speaker 1: ahead on countdown the sad wake of the sad settlement 255 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:15,515 Speaker 1: of dominion v Fox is the right time to address 256 00:18:15,555 --> 00:18:20,395 Speaker 1: a sad reality. Cable news eventually corrupts everybody it touches. 257 00:18:21,115 --> 00:18:26,715 Speaker 1: Hell News media eventually corrupts everybody at touches of Rachel 258 00:18:26,715 --> 00:18:29,955 Speaker 1: Maddow and Paul Harvey in Things I Promised Not to Tell. 259 00:18:30,715 --> 00:18:33,715 Speaker 1: Good Day first time for the daily round up of 260 00:18:33,755 --> 00:18:36,595 Speaker 1: the miscreants, morons, and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 261 00:18:36,635 --> 00:18:41,595 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world, The Brons. Jimmy Patronis 262 00:18:42,155 --> 00:18:45,515 Speaker 1: runs a fish restaurant in Panama City, Florida, also the 263 00:18:45,595 --> 00:18:49,075 Speaker 1: chief financial officer for the state. He's one of ron 264 00:18:49,075 --> 00:18:51,675 Speaker 1: Desanti's flunk. He's there in the Wokie Fanoki swamp, and 265 00:18:51,715 --> 00:18:54,075 Speaker 1: he wants Corporate America to know it is pissed off 266 00:18:54,315 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: two of our greatest living Americans, and it should do 267 00:18:56,795 --> 00:19:00,795 Speaker 1: something about that. Quote. If I'm Bob Iger, I'm working 268 00:19:00,835 --> 00:19:02,675 Speaker 1: around the clock to try to figure out how to 269 00:19:02,675 --> 00:19:06,475 Speaker 1: make amends with Ron DeSantis, just like Bud Light should 270 00:19:06,515 --> 00:19:09,555 Speaker 1: be working around the clock to go kiss Kid Rock's ass. 271 00:19:10,275 --> 00:19:15,155 Speaker 1: This is a problem needs to be addressed. Unquote this 272 00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: patronas said everything, but you got a nice amusement park. 273 00:19:18,435 --> 00:19:22,475 Speaker 1: Here be shame something happens to it. The runner up, 274 00:19:22,475 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: Congressman Jim Jordan, only heard about this yesterday. Remember is 275 00:19:26,715 --> 00:19:30,315 Speaker 1: Manhattan Crime Hellscape hearing on Monday in New York, the 276 00:19:30,355 --> 00:19:33,515 Speaker 1: one designed to beat up Manhattan da Alvin bragg On 277 00:19:33,635 --> 00:19:36,835 Speaker 1: behalf of Donald J. Chump. One of his key witnesses 278 00:19:36,915 --> 00:19:40,275 Speaker 1: was a woman named Jennifer Harrison, whom he introduced as 279 00:19:40,275 --> 00:19:44,155 Speaker 1: the founder of Victim Wright's New York. She was at 280 00:19:44,155 --> 00:19:46,435 Speaker 1: the hearing, then she went on Fox. They told her 281 00:19:46,635 --> 00:19:49,955 Speaker 1: sad past her boyfriend was stabbed to death at a club, 282 00:19:49,955 --> 00:19:53,235 Speaker 1: and not to dismiss this murderer's murder and grief is grief. 283 00:19:53,755 --> 00:19:56,355 Speaker 1: But Jim Jordan and Jennifer Harrison left a little something 284 00:19:56,395 --> 00:19:59,795 Speaker 1: out of the New York story. Her boyfriend was stabbed 285 00:19:59,835 --> 00:20:02,075 Speaker 1: to death at a club in two thousand and five 286 00:20:02,755 --> 00:20:05,755 Speaker 1: at what newspapers described as a a go go bar 287 00:20:06,635 --> 00:20:09,955 Speaker 1: called Lookers, in an argument over a woman and the 288 00:20:09,955 --> 00:20:12,395 Speaker 1: go go bar. And this is the relevant part. Where 289 00:20:12,395 --> 00:20:18,035 Speaker 1: he died was located in Elizabeth, New Jersey, which, as 290 00:20:18,075 --> 00:20:21,915 Speaker 1: they will tell you, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, ain't Manhattan. 291 00:20:23,675 --> 00:20:25,875 Speaker 1: But the winner and I'm going to kill the music 292 00:20:25,915 --> 00:20:27,875 Speaker 1: for this one as it comes to an end anyway, 293 00:20:27,955 --> 00:20:30,275 Speaker 1: because it's going to take a while and the music 294 00:20:30,315 --> 00:20:34,715 Speaker 1: will get real annoying. The winner is Kars Swisher, who 295 00:20:34,755 --> 00:20:37,555 Speaker 1: is an Internet reporter and commentator. It is a rather 296 00:20:37,635 --> 00:20:40,795 Speaker 1: remarkable thing that people can rise to prominence in allied 297 00:20:40,835 --> 00:20:45,755 Speaker 1: media fields simultaneously over decades and never know about each other. 298 00:20:45,795 --> 00:20:49,475 Speaker 1: But I swear until sometime last fall, I had never 299 00:20:49,515 --> 00:20:52,635 Speaker 1: heard of Karas Swisher. Then I heard a few podcasts 300 00:20:52,675 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: and I read a few stories, and I thought, oh, 301 00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:56,875 Speaker 1: I know how I missed her. She's just one of 302 00:20:56,915 --> 00:20:59,915 Speaker 1: those I know everybody in this field, so it doesn't 303 00:20:59,915 --> 00:21:02,435 Speaker 1: matter if I don't know what I'm talking about kind 304 00:21:02,435 --> 00:21:05,635 Speaker 1: of people. Here's the first example I have thought was 305 00:21:05,675 --> 00:21:08,915 Speaker 1: worth mentioning to you. Ms Swisher had the former Biden 306 00:21:08,995 --> 00:21:12,515 Speaker 1: Press secretary and new MSNBC weekend host Jen Saki on 307 00:21:12,595 --> 00:21:16,115 Speaker 1: her podcast, and she made a big deal of let 308 00:21:16,115 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: me just quote the transcript more or less. I think 309 00:21:18,435 --> 00:21:21,995 Speaker 1: this is correct, Swisher. Hakeem Jeffries was your first guest. 310 00:21:22,075 --> 00:21:24,275 Speaker 1: You spoke with New York City Mayor Eric Adams and 311 00:21:24,315 --> 00:21:27,595 Speaker 1: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in your first episode. Those are 312 00:21:27,635 --> 00:21:34,115 Speaker 1: all Democrats. Do you think about putting more Republicans on? Saki? Yes, 313 00:21:34,195 --> 00:21:38,795 Speaker 1: I'm all for it, Governors, members of Congress. Swisher, Okay, 314 00:21:38,795 --> 00:21:42,995 Speaker 1: what's the problem. Saki then says there's no problem, and 315 00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:46,155 Speaker 1: Swisher answers, all right, but four shows and no republicans 316 00:21:46,275 --> 00:21:48,995 Speaker 1: is and then she made a kind of dismissive sound. 317 00:21:50,115 --> 00:21:52,315 Speaker 1: First of all, if you had Mayor Adams on, that's 318 00:21:52,355 --> 00:21:55,155 Speaker 1: three Democrats and one Republican because he ain't no Democrat. 319 00:21:55,635 --> 00:21:59,555 Speaker 1: But that question, which I heard repeatedly when I started 320 00:21:59,555 --> 00:22:03,395 Speaker 1: the current version of MSNBC and hosted Countdown there, that question, 321 00:22:04,915 --> 00:22:07,675 Speaker 1: were you thinking of putting more Republicans on. That is 322 00:22:07,715 --> 00:22:11,635 Speaker 1: one of the things desperately wrong with this country. You 323 00:22:11,675 --> 00:22:15,395 Speaker 1: know what, four shows and no Republicans is Kara Swisher 324 00:22:15,875 --> 00:22:19,395 Speaker 1: way less lying. You know what, four shows and no 325 00:22:19,515 --> 00:22:23,075 Speaker 1: Republicans is Kara Swisher beginning to correct the imbalance in 326 00:22:23,115 --> 00:22:26,155 Speaker 1: the media that began in the nineteen eighties, when demons 327 00:22:26,235 --> 00:22:29,675 Speaker 1: like Rush Limbaugh and Roger Ayles and Bill O'Reilly began 328 00:22:29,715 --> 00:22:32,995 Speaker 1: to plant in the thin minds of the gullible people 329 00:22:33,035 --> 00:22:35,635 Speaker 1: of this country like you, Kara Swisher, that the only 330 00:22:35,715 --> 00:22:38,835 Speaker 1: way to fairly cover a political story is if you 331 00:22:38,915 --> 00:22:42,075 Speaker 1: have a Democrat on, you have to have a Republican 332 00:22:42,155 --> 00:22:45,715 Speaker 1: on as well. And the people who fail for that crap, 333 00:22:45,995 --> 00:22:48,955 Speaker 1: the people who fail for the fair and balanced both 334 00:22:49,075 --> 00:22:52,875 Speaker 1: sides brainwashing, the people like you, Kara Swisher, are the 335 00:22:52,955 --> 00:22:56,355 Speaker 1: reason we got Trump as president because week after week, 336 00:22:56,475 --> 00:23:00,555 Speaker 1: and year after year and decade after decade, actual journalistic 337 00:23:00,555 --> 00:23:03,555 Speaker 1: outlets running from NBC News to the New York Times 338 00:23:03,675 --> 00:23:07,035 Speaker 1: have lived in a subject terror that somebody like you, 339 00:23:07,315 --> 00:23:10,595 Speaker 1: Kara Swisher would say, do you think about putting more 340 00:23:10,595 --> 00:23:15,635 Speaker 1: Republicans on? Four Shows and no Republicans is with ever 341 00:23:15,915 --> 00:23:20,235 Speaker 1: increasing certainty, the Republican Party has devolved into a fascistic 342 00:23:20,395 --> 00:23:25,555 Speaker 1: organization that will tell any lie, poison any well, and 343 00:23:25,715 --> 00:23:31,395 Speaker 1: exploit any seeming fairness or balance, or constitutional right or 344 00:23:31,475 --> 00:23:35,595 Speaker 1: moronic both sidesism like yours, Kara Swisher, to push its 345 00:23:35,635 --> 00:23:40,355 Speaker 1: propaganda and gaslighting and hatred and perversion upon this country 346 00:23:40,515 --> 00:23:44,195 Speaker 1: on any channel it can hold for ten seconds. It 347 00:23:44,275 --> 00:23:47,515 Speaker 1: is how we get The New York Times prostituting itself 348 00:23:47,515 --> 00:23:51,115 Speaker 1: on a weekly basis, fulfilling the but in this Ohio 349 00:23:51,275 --> 00:23:56,755 Speaker 1: Diner cliche. For thirty goddamned years, this country's largely fair 350 00:23:56,915 --> 00:24:01,835 Speaker 1: and certainly earnest news media has been slowly strangling itself 351 00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:05,835 Speaker 1: to death and strangling the country with it, with dispatches 352 00:24:06,075 --> 00:24:12,035 Speaker 1: from this Ohio diner. To hell with this Ohio diner 353 00:24:12,315 --> 00:24:15,715 Speaker 1: and anybody who thinks we need another story from it. 354 00:24:16,995 --> 00:24:21,475 Speaker 1: Do you think about putting more Republicans on? No, I don't, Karroswisher. 355 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:24,235 Speaker 1: I think I'm going to have to meet my maker 356 00:24:24,315 --> 00:24:26,755 Speaker 1: someday and explain my life to him. So I do 357 00:24:26,875 --> 00:24:29,715 Speaker 1: not think about putting more Republicans on. And when MSNBC 358 00:24:30,275 --> 00:24:31,995 Speaker 1: began to make it clear to me I was going 359 00:24:32,035 --> 00:24:35,315 Speaker 1: to have to put more Republicans on in twenty eleven, 360 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:39,995 Speaker 1: I found the first exit and I left because Republicans 361 00:24:40,075 --> 00:24:43,675 Speaker 1: have a dozen television channels running twenty four to seven, 362 00:24:43,835 --> 00:24:47,275 Speaker 1: on which they can say anything with no reply, with 363 00:24:47,395 --> 00:24:50,755 Speaker 1: no balance, with nobody saying do you think about putting 364 00:24:50,755 --> 00:24:55,355 Speaker 1: more Democrats on? Because, Karswisher, the premise of being a 365 00:24:55,395 --> 00:25:00,835 Speaker 1: Republican today is you are a victim. You are the victim. 366 00:25:01,155 --> 00:25:04,355 Speaker 1: Christ had nothing on you. Whatever it is, it is 367 00:25:04,435 --> 00:25:09,355 Speaker 1: way against you, It is crooked, it is unfair. There 368 00:25:09,395 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: are hundreds and hundreds of not just Republican media outlets 369 00:25:13,595 --> 00:25:17,635 Speaker 1: which never ever offer a platform for a meaningful debate 370 00:25:18,075 --> 00:25:22,195 Speaker 1: or anything but a cartoon liberal or democrat. The entire 371 00:25:22,555 --> 00:25:28,115 Speaker 1: political media marketplace barely has any room for any Democrats. 372 00:25:28,195 --> 00:25:32,395 Speaker 1: As it is, with literally just one or two exceptions, 373 00:25:32,755 --> 00:25:39,835 Speaker 1: every network, every distributor, every publisher, every corporate overlord is conservative. 374 00:25:40,595 --> 00:25:44,555 Speaker 1: And what media outlets are democratic just in the way 375 00:25:44,715 --> 00:25:47,715 Speaker 1: Fox is is a question I would like to ask you, 376 00:25:47,835 --> 00:25:52,235 Speaker 1: Kara Swisher, what media outlets are democratic in the way 377 00:25:52,555 --> 00:25:57,195 Speaker 1: Fox is? And the answer is none, not one, not 378 00:25:57,435 --> 00:26:00,315 Speaker 1: one of them lies for the Democratic Party twenty four 379 00:26:00,355 --> 00:26:05,555 Speaker 1: to seven, endlessly, shamelessly murderously. There isn't a democratic version 380 00:26:05,595 --> 00:26:09,595 Speaker 1: of the George Soros bogeyman. There isn't a democratic target 381 00:26:09,715 --> 00:26:13,315 Speaker 1: like dominion. There isn't a democratic equivalent to seth Rich 382 00:26:13,835 --> 00:26:17,515 Speaker 1: or Pizzagate or Trump and a chance to actually push 383 00:26:17,635 --> 00:26:21,715 Speaker 1: back some of the tide yesterday was sold for seven 384 00:26:21,835 --> 00:26:24,595 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven and a half million dollars because 385 00:26:24,675 --> 00:26:28,235 Speaker 1: Republicans have that kind of money with which to cover 386 00:26:28,395 --> 00:26:33,995 Speaker 1: up their lives. Do you think about putting more Republicans on? 387 00:26:34,595 --> 00:26:38,515 Speaker 1: The answer is no, Kara Swisher. The answer is hell no, 388 00:26:39,035 --> 00:26:41,635 Speaker 1: And I hope Jen Psaki never does either. I hope 389 00:26:41,635 --> 00:26:45,275 Speaker 1: what's left of MSNBC never does. I hope I never do. 390 00:26:45,275 --> 00:26:48,515 Speaker 1: Do you think about putting more Republicans on? No, Kara Swisher? 391 00:26:48,675 --> 00:26:54,155 Speaker 1: Because I think Karas Swisher today's worst person in the world, 392 00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:03,635 Speaker 1: still a head on countdown cable news. Even when it's good, 393 00:27:03,675 --> 00:27:06,475 Speaker 1: it's bad because if you stay in it long enough, 394 00:27:06,515 --> 00:27:09,915 Speaker 1: it will destroy the goodness in you. This, of course, 395 00:27:09,955 --> 00:27:13,475 Speaker 1: assume as there was goodness in you. A dark tale 396 00:27:13,595 --> 00:27:16,315 Speaker 1: of the likes of Rachel Maddow and an old radio 397 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:20,115 Speaker 1: star named Paul Harvey next first in each tradition of 398 00:27:20,115 --> 00:27:21,955 Speaker 1: Countdown to feature a dog in need you can help. 399 00:27:21,995 --> 00:27:23,795 Speaker 1: Every dog has its day. In this case, there are 400 00:27:23,835 --> 00:27:27,155 Speaker 1: four of them, the last of two litters of seventeen, 401 00:27:27,955 --> 00:27:31,955 Speaker 1: brown and white and cream and gray, regular mutts hounds 402 00:27:31,955 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: of some kind, and the man in charge of them 403 00:27:34,595 --> 00:27:36,795 Speaker 1: at Nassau in the Bahamas had to leave them with 404 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:39,715 Speaker 1: a friend and he fed them rotting food for a 405 00:27:39,715 --> 00:27:43,155 Speaker 1: week because they're just dogs. One has already died of parvo. 406 00:27:43,995 --> 00:27:46,515 Speaker 1: The other four are fighting for their lives with parvo, 407 00:27:46,595 --> 00:27:49,035 Speaker 1: looking after by Pawty Cake Refuge of New York, and 408 00:27:49,075 --> 00:27:50,995 Speaker 1: they need whatever help you can give them. You can 409 00:27:50,995 --> 00:27:55,395 Speaker 1: find them for donations at givinggrid dot com. They're listed 410 00:27:55,475 --> 00:27:59,315 Speaker 1: as Parvo Stinks Puppies. They will also be on my 411 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:03,515 Speaker 1: Twitter feeds I thank you and the puppies thank you. 412 00:28:21,155 --> 00:28:23,355 Speaker 1: I have noted on Twitter and in this venue that 413 00:28:23,435 --> 00:28:26,475 Speaker 1: for two years I negotiated with MSNBC to bring count 414 00:28:26,515 --> 00:28:29,275 Speaker 1: Down back there, and unfortunately, ultimately the thing was killed 415 00:28:29,315 --> 00:28:32,555 Speaker 1: off by the word of Rachel Maddow. At least that's 416 00:28:32,555 --> 00:28:35,515 Speaker 1: what the president of NBC News told my rep The 417 00:28:35,635 --> 00:28:38,315 Speaker 1: response among those who remember has largely been about what 418 00:28:38,355 --> 00:28:40,555 Speaker 1: a startling end this is to a story that began 419 00:28:41,235 --> 00:28:44,995 Speaker 1: with MSNBC firing her, me bringing her back as a 420 00:28:45,035 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: guest on my show, then hiring her out of my 421 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:50,555 Speaker 1: own pocket to keep her from going to CNN, then 422 00:28:50,595 --> 00:28:54,715 Speaker 1: spending a year and all of my political capital agitating 423 00:28:54,795 --> 00:28:58,235 Speaker 1: to get her her own show on MSNBC following my 424 00:28:58,315 --> 00:29:02,435 Speaker 1: own The response among those who don't remember is that 425 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:04,955 Speaker 1: I once did the news or something there, and I 426 00:29:04,955 --> 00:29:09,035 Speaker 1: have a lot of nerve besmirching her blessed name. It 427 00:29:09,115 --> 00:29:11,515 Speaker 1: is a common thread in the careers of people in 428 00:29:11,635 --> 00:29:14,235 Speaker 1: media that they come this close to thinking that the 429 00:29:14,315 --> 00:29:17,715 Speaker 1: viewers or listeners or fans or whoever, actually keep some 430 00:29:17,835 --> 00:29:21,395 Speaker 1: sort of notebook at home in which they jomp down 431 00:29:21,515 --> 00:29:25,315 Speaker 1: all the career moves of their favorite announcers and TV people. 432 00:29:26,075 --> 00:29:29,635 Speaker 1: Whenever Bill O'Reilly was criticized, whether for white supremacism or 433 00:29:29,715 --> 00:29:33,435 Speaker 1: just bad pronunciation, right you are, mister morohoffer, his go 434 00:29:33,595 --> 00:29:36,115 Speaker 1: to your response was to claim that the critic did 435 00:29:36,115 --> 00:29:38,915 Speaker 1: not watch his show every night or know his history. 436 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:42,795 Speaker 1: You're not supposed to know his history. You're not supposed 437 00:29:42,835 --> 00:29:46,475 Speaker 1: to know my history. I'm supposed to say when you 438 00:29:46,515 --> 00:29:49,195 Speaker 1: say you saw me on Sports Center last week, when 439 00:29:49,195 --> 00:29:50,995 Speaker 1: it's actually been like two and a half years, or 440 00:29:51,035 --> 00:29:55,315 Speaker 1: maybe twenty I'm supposed to say, thank you. That's the 441 00:29:55,355 --> 00:29:58,955 Speaker 1: whole deal. People do not keep notebooks at home with 442 00:29:58,995 --> 00:30:00,995 Speaker 1: the start and end dates of all the jobs of 443 00:30:01,035 --> 00:30:05,435 Speaker 1: their favorite or least favorite TV figures. You'd be surprised 444 00:30:05,515 --> 00:30:09,835 Speaker 1: how many people on TV think you do keep those notebooks. 445 00:30:10,115 --> 00:30:14,475 Speaker 1: And just consider the expense required for such notebooks that 446 00:30:14,515 --> 00:30:17,395 Speaker 1: would be needed just to write down only all of 447 00:30:17,515 --> 00:30:23,435 Speaker 1: my jobs. This allows for one of the most interesting 448 00:30:23,515 --> 00:30:27,555 Speaker 1: phenomena of I was going to say of television or politics, 449 00:30:27,555 --> 00:30:29,715 Speaker 1: but in fact it's one of the most interesting phenomena 450 00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:33,835 Speaker 1: of life. To really flourish in media, the startling number 451 00:30:33,955 --> 00:30:39,515 Speaker 1: of very very successful people have changed their origin stories. 452 00:30:41,075 --> 00:30:43,635 Speaker 1: For two years, I was the primary backup host for 453 00:30:43,675 --> 00:30:46,835 Speaker 1: a radio news commentator named Paul Harvey. You are not 454 00:30:46,915 --> 00:30:49,275 Speaker 1: required to know who he was, but in his time, 455 00:30:49,875 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: there was him doing news and commentary on the radio, 456 00:30:52,995 --> 00:30:58,835 Speaker 1: and then there was everybody else combined, who combined had 457 00:30:58,915 --> 00:31:02,595 Speaker 1: nearly all the influence that Paul Harvey had by himself. 458 00:31:03,475 --> 00:31:06,195 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey appeared six days a week on the ABC 459 00:31:06,435 --> 00:31:10,075 Speaker 1: Radio network from nineteen fifty one through two thousand and eight. 460 00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:12,995 Speaker 1: The years. I backed him up two thousand and one 461 00:31:13,035 --> 00:31:15,915 Speaker 1: and two thousand and two, my bosses at ABC told 462 00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:18,715 Speaker 1: me that the net profit for his Paul Harvey News 463 00:31:18,755 --> 00:31:22,475 Speaker 1: and Comment and the rest of the story series was 464 00:31:22,555 --> 00:31:26,475 Speaker 1: forty four million dollars a year AH on network radio. 465 00:31:27,155 --> 00:31:30,795 Speaker 1: He split it with ABC, and ABC was damned happy 466 00:31:30,835 --> 00:31:34,475 Speaker 1: with the split. Thank you Paul was the standard greeting. 467 00:31:35,755 --> 00:31:40,395 Speaker 1: He was famous for those long pauses. The sign offs 468 00:31:40,435 --> 00:31:47,275 Speaker 1: were all Harvey, good day, or and now you know 469 00:31:48,275 --> 00:31:53,515 Speaker 1: the rest of the story. But the rest of the 470 00:31:53,555 --> 00:31:56,515 Speaker 1: story really was that Paul Harvey had what he believed 471 00:31:56,555 --> 00:32:03,155 Speaker 1: was a terrible, dark, evil secret. No one could mention this, 472 00:32:03,835 --> 00:32:07,195 Speaker 1: nor the name of the other person involved, nor the 473 00:32:07,315 --> 00:32:10,035 Speaker 1: nature of the terrible thing that had happened, on fear 474 00:32:10,275 --> 00:32:16,715 Speaker 1: of absolute banishment from the world of Paul Harvey. The 475 00:32:16,755 --> 00:32:19,515 Speaker 1: ABC executive who told me this story would not even 476 00:32:19,555 --> 00:32:23,115 Speaker 1: tell it to me inside ABC Radio News headquarters. We 477 00:32:23,195 --> 00:32:26,155 Speaker 1: went and had coffee at a diner, and he kept 478 00:32:26,195 --> 00:32:28,715 Speaker 1: looking around to make sure nobody else was there from 479 00:32:28,715 --> 00:32:34,115 Speaker 1: the network. The story goes like this. In nineteen fifty one, 480 00:32:34,195 --> 00:32:38,515 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey was a young newscaster in Chicago. ABC Radio 481 00:32:38,715 --> 00:32:41,355 Speaker 1: liked him, had helped him move to Chicago from his 482 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:44,995 Speaker 1: hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it would periodically use him 483 00:32:45,035 --> 00:32:47,875 Speaker 1: on the network as a backup host, just as I 484 00:32:47,915 --> 00:32:50,235 Speaker 1: would be a backup host for him in two thousand 485 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:52,675 Speaker 1: and one and two thousand and two. The guy that 486 00:32:52,795 --> 00:32:55,395 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey backed up in the late forties and early 487 00:32:55,435 --> 00:33:02,115 Speaker 1: fifties was named H. R. Backage ba uk Hage. He 488 00:33:02,155 --> 00:33:05,155 Speaker 1: called himself just Bockage on the air, and he was 489 00:33:05,195 --> 00:33:08,595 Speaker 1: already a star news reporter in this country when they 490 00:33:08,715 --> 00:33:13,435 Speaker 1: invented radio. He had covered World War One for several newspapers. 491 00:33:13,675 --> 00:33:17,275 Speaker 1: He'd gone to work for ABC Radio's predecessor, the NBC 492 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:21,235 Speaker 1: Blue Network in nineteen thirty two. It was just a distinction, 493 00:33:21,395 --> 00:33:24,435 Speaker 1: to keep you clear that it wasn't the NBC Red network. 494 00:33:24,555 --> 00:33:28,915 Speaker 1: They didn't talk blue or anything. Unfortunately, by nineteen fifty one, 495 00:33:28,955 --> 00:33:31,915 Speaker 1: Backage was on ABC's TV News and he did this 496 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:35,555 Speaker 1: daily fifteen minute news round up on ABC Radio, and 497 00:33:35,635 --> 00:33:41,755 Speaker 1: then he went on vacation, so they asked that kid 498 00:33:41,755 --> 00:33:46,755 Speaker 1: from Chicago, Paul Harvey, to fill in for Backage. Bawckage 499 00:33:46,835 --> 00:33:49,355 Speaker 1: was sixty two, and it was sure great that he 500 00:33:49,395 --> 00:33:52,755 Speaker 1: had covered World War One, but that was literally an 501 00:33:52,955 --> 00:33:56,955 Speaker 1: entire world war before the one everybody was still talking 502 00:33:56,955 --> 00:34:00,915 Speaker 1: about in nineteen fifty one. ABC executives liked the young, brash, 503 00:34:00,995 --> 00:34:05,675 Speaker 1: dramatic Paul Harvey, and so when Backage came back, they 504 00:34:05,715 --> 00:34:12,595 Speaker 1: fired him. They gave Paul Harvey Backage's show, but you 505 00:34:12,715 --> 00:34:16,635 Speaker 1: weren't allowed to know that. It's not on the web 506 00:34:17,035 --> 00:34:19,715 Speaker 1: except in a transcript of the oh bit I did 507 00:34:19,795 --> 00:34:22,875 Speaker 1: when Paul Harvey died. It's not in his Wikipedia page. 508 00:34:22,995 --> 00:34:25,635 Speaker 1: Although here's another secret. Every couple of years, I put 509 00:34:25,715 --> 00:34:28,955 Speaker 1: it in there just to see how quickly somebody else 510 00:34:29,115 --> 00:34:36,715 Speaker 1: removes it. This was Paul Harvey's terrible, dark, evil secret. 511 00:34:37,115 --> 00:34:40,955 Speaker 1: His big break was the guy he was filling in 512 00:34:41,075 --> 00:34:47,435 Speaker 1: for got fired. I don't think, having studied this as 513 00:34:47,475 --> 00:34:52,115 Speaker 1: best I could, that Paul Harvey got hr Backage fired, 514 00:34:53,275 --> 00:34:55,835 Speaker 1: nor did my boss at ABC think that. But over 515 00:34:55,915 --> 00:34:59,235 Speaker 1: fifty years, Paul Harvey began to believe not only that 516 00:34:59,715 --> 00:35:03,475 Speaker 1: people would believe he got Bawckage fired, but that someday 517 00:35:04,195 --> 00:35:08,035 Speaker 1: God would avenge poor Bawckage, and on that one day, 518 00:35:08,075 --> 00:35:10,435 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey would get fired and be replaced by some 519 00:35:10,675 --> 00:35:17,035 Speaker 1: guy who filled in for him while he was on vacation, convinced, 520 00:35:17,635 --> 00:35:20,955 Speaker 1: convinced they would fire him from a show that made 521 00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:25,235 Speaker 1: forty four million dollars a year and would be lucky 522 00:35:25,275 --> 00:35:31,115 Speaker 1: to make four million a year with anybody else, even me. Thus, 523 00:35:31,955 --> 00:35:36,035 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey never took all the vacation time ABC owed him, 524 00:35:36,675 --> 00:35:39,475 Speaker 1: not even in year fifty eight of his tenure at 525 00:35:39,475 --> 00:35:41,955 Speaker 1: the network, And he got up at three point thirty 526 00:35:42,075 --> 00:35:45,395 Speaker 1: every morning to get to the studio or one thirty 527 00:35:45,435 --> 00:35:47,995 Speaker 1: when he was broadcasting from his other home in Arizona, 528 00:35:48,195 --> 00:35:54,715 Speaker 1: because he was convinced that ABC would someday backage him. Thus, 529 00:35:54,755 --> 00:35:56,715 Speaker 1: there were a lot of us who filled in for him, 530 00:35:56,715 --> 00:35:59,475 Speaker 1: no one for very long. I believe I may have 531 00:35:59,555 --> 00:36:03,355 Speaker 1: been the only liberal to do so. I know Paul 532 00:36:03,355 --> 00:36:06,035 Speaker 1: Harvey liked my style and was worried more about that 533 00:36:06,155 --> 00:36:08,715 Speaker 1: than any political point of view. But we never really 534 00:36:08,755 --> 00:36:11,875 Speaker 1: confirmed that because one day, the same boss who told 535 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:15,635 Speaker 1: me the story about bawkage had a great idea, if 536 00:36:15,675 --> 00:36:19,795 Speaker 1: they gave it enough lead time, maybe somebody could succeed 537 00:36:19,875 --> 00:36:24,995 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey whenever he went. However he left the show, 538 00:36:25,035 --> 00:36:29,835 Speaker 1: maybe they could make four million a year, or god 539 00:36:29,875 --> 00:36:33,195 Speaker 1: willing four and a half million a year. But The 540 00:36:33,275 --> 00:36:35,955 Speaker 1: key to the plan was the replacement had to become 541 00:36:36,395 --> 00:36:39,475 Speaker 1: a familiar voice to Paul Harvey listeners. Well, how to 542 00:36:39,515 --> 00:36:42,155 Speaker 1: do that? Paul did five days a week live and 543 00:36:42,235 --> 00:36:47,115 Speaker 1: a sixth day on tape. The solution a Sunday edition 544 00:36:47,155 --> 00:36:51,075 Speaker 1: of his show called You Ready Paul Harvey News and 545 00:36:51,195 --> 00:36:57,155 Speaker 1: Comment with Keith Alderman. Just like that seems reasonable. I mean, 546 00:36:57,195 --> 00:36:59,475 Speaker 1: I wasn't even sure I wanted to succeed Paul Harvey, 547 00:36:59,555 --> 00:37:02,115 Speaker 1: or that succeeding him would mean very much as short 548 00:37:02,155 --> 00:37:05,235 Speaker 1: form terrestrial radio was vanishing before our eyes. But what 549 00:37:05,315 --> 00:37:10,715 Speaker 1: the hell? All was going well until they decided it 550 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:15,595 Speaker 1: was time to mention it to Paul Harvey. As the 551 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:18,435 Speaker 1: ABC executive recounted it to me, there was a long 552 00:37:18,595 --> 00:37:21,435 Speaker 1: pause on the phone, and then Paul Harvey said, in 553 00:37:21,435 --> 00:37:24,995 Speaker 1: that staccato voice, this is what will now happen. You 554 00:37:25,075 --> 00:37:29,315 Speaker 1: will fly to Chicago tomorrow with a new contract for me, 555 00:37:29,595 --> 00:37:33,435 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey. This contract will be for the same terms 556 00:37:33,435 --> 00:37:35,835 Speaker 1: and length as the current one, but it will include 557 00:37:35,875 --> 00:37:40,995 Speaker 1: one paragraph spelling out that Keith Olberman will never again 558 00:37:41,035 --> 00:37:46,635 Speaker 1: appear on Paul Harvey News and Comment, and another paragraph 559 00:37:46,635 --> 00:37:49,195 Speaker 1: spelling out that there will never be a seventh day 560 00:37:49,275 --> 00:37:52,675 Speaker 1: of Paul Harvey News and Comment, with or without Paul 561 00:37:52,915 --> 00:37:57,035 Speaker 1: Harvey or I resign. 562 00:37:58,155 --> 00:38:00,315 Speaker 2: Good Day. 563 00:38:00,955 --> 00:38:04,595 Speaker 1: Paul knew in his heart his time had come Backage's revenge, 564 00:38:04,755 --> 00:38:08,275 Speaker 1: Paul Harvey's Paul Harvey was at the door, so he 565 00:38:08,355 --> 00:38:12,635 Speaker 1: had to kill him. You gotta control your origin stories, 566 00:38:14,475 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: which brings me back to Madow and the time that 567 00:38:17,235 --> 00:38:21,235 Speaker 1: The New York Times interviewed me twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen 568 00:38:22,315 --> 00:38:25,795 Speaker 1: about getting her started on her own show. They were 569 00:38:25,835 --> 00:38:27,755 Speaker 1: clear on that, and then a day or two later 570 00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:31,115 Speaker 1: the reporter called me back and was astonishingly sorry. But 571 00:38:31,195 --> 00:38:34,835 Speaker 1: they had mentioned some of this to Madow, and she 572 00:38:34,915 --> 00:38:37,475 Speaker 1: had said she would not do the interview with them. 573 00:38:37,555 --> 00:38:42,555 Speaker 1: Were I to be mentioned in the story, period, no mado, 574 00:38:43,035 --> 00:38:45,875 Speaker 1: no real point to the story. So out went my 575 00:38:46,035 --> 00:38:49,995 Speaker 1: quotes and all references to me. And by the way, 576 00:38:50,035 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: the quotes were all positive because I was still gullible 577 00:38:53,315 --> 00:38:57,155 Speaker 1: back then. I was only fifty eight years old. The 578 00:38:57,195 --> 00:38:59,395 Speaker 1: irony is that one of the people who prevented Rachel 579 00:38:59,395 --> 00:39:01,715 Speaker 1: Mattow from getting her own show for a year was 580 00:39:01,835 --> 00:39:04,955 Speaker 1: named Phil Griffin. He was the NBC execit I could 581 00:39:04,955 --> 00:39:08,115 Speaker 1: have been charge of MSNBC, first as vice president or 582 00:39:08,275 --> 00:39:11,235 Speaker 1: vice executive something I don't know, then as president from 583 00:39:11,275 --> 00:39:13,715 Speaker 1: two thousand and six to twenty twenty one. He had 584 00:39:13,715 --> 00:39:16,515 Speaker 1: formerly been the executive producer of my first show on 585 00:39:16,635 --> 00:39:20,395 Speaker 1: MSNBC in nineteen ninety seven. Even more amazingly, he had 586 00:39:20,435 --> 00:39:23,715 Speaker 1: been my first producer on my first day in my 587 00:39:23,955 --> 00:39:28,035 Speaker 1: first job in TV at CNN in nineteen eighty one 588 00:39:28,835 --> 00:39:31,235 Speaker 1: through nineteen eighty two through nineteen eighty three through nineteen 589 00:39:31,275 --> 00:39:34,435 Speaker 1: eighty four. We had a joint going away party when 590 00:39:34,475 --> 00:39:36,555 Speaker 1: he left for NBC and I left for local news 591 00:39:36,595 --> 00:39:40,555 Speaker 1: in Boston on March thirtieth, nineteen eighty four, Well, March thirtieth, 592 00:39:40,595 --> 00:39:44,115 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, in the first eight or ten hours 593 00:39:44,235 --> 00:39:47,035 Speaker 1: or so of March thirty first, nineteen eighty four. It's 594 00:39:47,155 --> 00:39:51,075 Speaker 1: kind of hard for me to remember. Anyway, it was 595 00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:54,235 Speaker 1: Griffin who eventually, after a year, got behind the idea 596 00:39:54,275 --> 00:39:57,675 Speaker 1: and took the corporate rap for putting Matdow on MSNBC 597 00:39:57,795 --> 00:40:00,875 Speaker 1: after network had fired her as a contributor two years earlier. 598 00:40:01,435 --> 00:40:03,835 Speaker 1: But it was also Phil Griffin when I originally pitched 599 00:40:03,915 --> 00:40:07,315 Speaker 1: him on the idea of a Rachel Meadow show at 600 00:40:07,475 --> 00:40:11,075 Speaker 1: nine pm following my own show July August two thousand 601 00:40:11,115 --> 00:40:14,155 Speaker 1: and seven. This was it was Griffin who said, quote, Buddy, 602 00:40:14,435 --> 00:40:17,515 Speaker 1: no way, who's going to watch her do the news? 603 00:40:18,155 --> 00:40:22,555 Speaker 1: Unquote the president of Rachel Matdow's new production company, which 604 00:40:22,555 --> 00:40:24,515 Speaker 1: I offered the chance to own the new version of 605 00:40:24,515 --> 00:40:28,275 Speaker 1: Countdown on MSNBC, is Phil Buddy, Who's going to watch 606 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:33,035 Speaker 1: her do the news? Griffin? He, like Rachel, like Paul Harvey, 607 00:40:33,715 --> 00:40:38,995 Speaker 1: is very good at managing his origin story, believe it 608 00:40:39,115 --> 00:40:41,195 Speaker 1: or not. All that was the preface to what I 609 00:40:41,195 --> 00:40:42,995 Speaker 1: wanted to say here, because what I got out of 610 00:40:43,075 --> 00:40:45,675 Speaker 1: MSNBC for hiring Rachel Mattow out of my own pocket 611 00:40:45,715 --> 00:40:47,715 Speaker 1: and beating them all over the head for a year 612 00:40:47,835 --> 00:40:49,955 Speaker 1: trying to convince them to give her own show, was 613 00:40:49,995 --> 00:40:53,435 Speaker 1: the privilege of announcing her hiring. I did so on 614 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:56,275 Speaker 1: my show, and a few hours earlier, I had done 615 00:40:56,275 --> 00:40:58,755 Speaker 1: it on the liberal website Daily Coast, and I did 616 00:40:58,835 --> 00:41:03,595 Speaker 1: it at exactly fiveh five pm Eastern daylight time, Tuesday, 617 00:41:03,715 --> 00:41:08,395 Speaker 1: August nineteen, two thousand and eight, fourteen years ago Friday. 618 00:41:08,475 --> 00:41:10,635 Speaker 1: It is still there on the Daily Coast website. You 619 00:41:10,635 --> 00:41:12,755 Speaker 1: can find it. This is part of what I wrote 620 00:41:13,075 --> 00:41:15,835 Speaker 1: Rachel gets her own MSNBC show was the headline, and 621 00:41:15,875 --> 00:41:21,395 Speaker 1: then happy now quoting myself. The network will be formally 622 00:41:21,395 --> 00:41:23,755 Speaker 1: announcing this tomorrow, but I am pleased to inform you 623 00:41:23,835 --> 00:41:26,995 Speaker 1: in this fully authorized leak that as of Monday, September eighth, 624 00:41:27,275 --> 00:41:29,755 Speaker 1: our mutual friend, miss Mattow will become host of her 625 00:41:29,795 --> 00:41:32,595 Speaker 1: own show on MSNBC at nine pm Eastern Time. And yes, 626 00:41:32,875 --> 00:41:35,235 Speaker 1: we will be making another unofficial announcement of this on 627 00:41:35,275 --> 00:41:38,675 Speaker 1: tonight's edition of Countdown. My guest to analyze the Rachel 628 00:41:38,715 --> 00:41:41,795 Speaker 1: Matdow news will be Rachel Matdow. Let me answer the 629 00:41:41,875 --> 00:41:44,835 Speaker 1: key questions in advance. Then there's some giddy jokes wrapped 630 00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:48,715 Speaker 1: around a couple of salient truths. Quoting again four Yes 631 00:41:48,875 --> 00:41:50,795 Speaker 1: I had something to do with it. Five, Yes you 632 00:41:50,835 --> 00:41:52,595 Speaker 1: had something to do with at six Yes. This is 633 00:41:52,595 --> 00:41:55,035 Speaker 1: why I never really responded to any of the forty one, 634 00:41:55,515 --> 00:41:57,675 Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty four comments that all pretty much 635 00:41:57,675 --> 00:42:02,675 Speaker 1: read and get Rachel her own show. Netwent eleven. No, 636 00:42:02,835 --> 00:42:05,475 Speaker 1: I have no idea who will start guesting. I'm hosting 637 00:42:05,515 --> 00:42:08,435 Speaker 1: a countdown. Took me five years to find here, damn it. 638 00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:10,115 Speaker 1: Why didn't I think of this? She can't be the 639 00:42:10,155 --> 00:42:14,395 Speaker 1: guest host anymore. I know I'd forgotten something. End quote 640 00:42:16,035 --> 00:42:20,755 Speaker 1: August nineteenth, two thousand and eight, one hundred and ninety 641 00:42:20,835 --> 00:42:26,915 Speaker 1: three days later, Paul Harvey died, and now you'll know 642 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:43,595 Speaker 1: my arrest of little Sorry, I've done all the damage 643 00:42:43,595 --> 00:42:45,395 Speaker 1: I can do here. Thank you for listening. Here are 644 00:42:45,395 --> 00:42:48,115 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music arranged, produced and performed 645 00:42:48,115 --> 00:42:50,635 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel, who are the 646 00:42:50,635 --> 00:42:55,835 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Phillip Chanel, Guitars, 647 00:42:55,875 --> 00:42:59,235 Speaker 1: bass and drums by Brian Ray, produced by Tko Brothers. 648 00:42:59,595 --> 00:43:02,355 Speaker 1: Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed by the 649 00:43:02,355 --> 00:43:05,675 Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. Sports music is the Oberman theme 650 00:43:05,715 --> 00:43:08,315 Speaker 1: from ESPN two. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis 651 00:43:08,475 --> 00:43:13,115 Speaker 1: appears here courtesy of ESPN INC. Musical comments from Nancy Faust, 652 00:43:13,195 --> 00:43:16,355 Speaker 1: the best baseball stadium organist ever had our announcer today 653 00:43:16,795 --> 00:43:20,115 Speaker 1: since I mentioned Elizabeth New Jersey with Stevie van zandt 654 00:43:20,515 --> 00:43:23,115 Speaker 1: everything else is pretty much my fault. So that's countdown 655 00:43:23,115 --> 00:43:25,075 Speaker 1: for this the eight hundred and thirty fourth day since 656 00:43:25,075 --> 00:43:28,835 Speaker 1: Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government 657 00:43:28,875 --> 00:43:31,995 Speaker 1: of the United States. Do not forget to keep arresting 658 00:43:32,075 --> 00:43:35,715 Speaker 1: him while we still can. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow. 659 00:43:35,875 --> 00:43:38,595 Speaker 1: Until then, I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 660 00:43:39,035 --> 00:43:50,435 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 661 00:43:50,635 --> 00:43:55,955 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 662 00:43:56,035 --> 00:43:59,395 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.