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Speaker 1: Trump choose to lose to Iran because the war was

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Speaker 1: escalating too quickly for him? Firstly, great ceasefire? Trump? Oh,

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Speaker 1: we didn't mention it doesn't include Lebanon, but it does

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Speaker 1: include Iran closing the strait of horror movez on day

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Speaker 1: one Ceaspire. This is way more fire than cease How

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Speaker 1: do you lose a ceaspire? El Presidente? But the bigger question,

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Speaker 1: did Trump call off his genocide? Did he? As a

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Speaker 1: Twitter wag suggested, play both Hitler and Chamberlain here because

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Speaker 1: he didn't need the missiles flying this week, because this

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Speaker 1: is way too early to precipitate some kind of security

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Speaker 1: crisis here in America? Did he give the Iranians control

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Speaker 1: get them out from under the sanctions? Because while the

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Speaker 1: first reason for this pointless brinksmanship was a distraction from

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Speaker 1: the Epstein files, the second reason was to have a

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Speaker 1: a domestic emergency here and mess with the elections. Is

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Speaker 1: this not about nukes and Israel and oil in forty

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Speaker 1: seven years this and regime changed that, and I already

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Speaker 1: killed their civilization, so now I'm going to kill it again?

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Speaker 1: Is this instead about the chance that in his fascist

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Speaker 1: completely screwed up the timing. He didn't need retaliation from

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Speaker 1: up on April ninth. He needs it on October ninth.

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Speaker 1: So this was all not only postponed, but it was

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Speaker 1: when he needs to lie and say Iran is a

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Speaker 1: Toronto last year, But why paraphrase? Let me quote? On Twitter,

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Speaker 1: Tim Snyder invoked Hungary and victor Orbon and his false

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Speaker 1: flag fake terror scam there, which was made as JV

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Speaker 1: Vance was arriving there. And to that, Tim Snyder added

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Speaker 1: this quote, we are seven months away from the most

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Speaker 1: nulli FI elections and take permanent power as a dictator. Unquote.

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Speaker 1: On his substack, Professor Snyder fleshed out this nightmare, and again,

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Speaker 1: out of respect, I'm just quoting this. Trump tells us

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Speaker 1: that he is chiefly concerned with the permanence of his

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Speaker 1: own comfort and power. Think about ballroom and bunker, much

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Speaker 1: decisively in the midterms. He regularly declares his intention to

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Speaker 1: increase the defense budget by nearly fifty percent without any

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Speaker 1: review of what the money is for. This is strategic

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Speaker 1: nonsense and has to be understood as a payoff for

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Speaker 1: throwing out the elections. That's me theorizing, not Snyder. I

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Speaker 1: will again add that the ceasefire is not the end

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Speaker 1: Or should we remove Trump as president because he's stupid?

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Speaker 1: The only outcome of this his version of the Cuban

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Speaker 1: in the tolls reportedly two million dollars. A ship spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: make billions. And remember, on March twenty second, Trump declared

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Speaker 1: unconditional surrender. This is unconditional surrender. He gets to share

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Speaker 1: in his amazing and escalating idiocy, calling it a double

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Speaker 1: Unquote shut your fucking mouth, you half wit president. The

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Speaker 1: So this is going to be very embarrassing. All right,

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Speaker 1: one more time to quote Billy Connolly, Jesus suffering five

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Speaker 1: on another topic, we had a theme from at Reggie Harget.

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Speaker 1: It's intellectually dishonest. Quote tweeting. It's called tweeting again, mister

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Speaker 1: as they said yesterday, I don't think you really did,

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Speaker 1: but the correspondence. These are people, even the young ones,

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Speaker 1: who grew up watching and reading of Woodward and Bernstein

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Speaker 1: and saw all the president's men and I mean watched

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Speaker 1: all the presidents men in two thousand and seven and

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00:30:45,835 --> 00:30:48,755
Speaker 1: wanted to be like that, and instead they came out

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00:30:48,795 --> 00:30:55,235
Speaker 1: like this, not just whores, but ineffectual whoes who then

432
00:30:55,275 --> 00:31:00,195
Speaker 1: didn't charge. The failure of the media is the greatest

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Speaker 1: of any institution in this country. And the failure of

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Speaker 1: those covering our government and particularly of this White House,

435
00:31:08,435 --> 00:31:12,195
Speaker 1: that's the greatest failure of them all. This week alone,

436
00:31:12,355 --> 00:31:17,155
Speaker 1: Donald Trump a fascist dictator waiting for his opportunity to

437
00:31:17,155 --> 00:31:20,635
Speaker 1: cancel the elections. It may come. It may not demanded

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00:31:20,635 --> 00:31:24,995
Speaker 1: that Fox News fire its token liberal, Jessica Tarlov, because

439
00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:29,915
Speaker 1: she's liberal. Now, remember, Fox listens to Trump, and many

440
00:31:29,995 --> 00:31:32,515
Speaker 1: of the people who run the place do not appreciate

441
00:31:32,715 --> 00:31:36,075
Speaker 1: that Trump is crazy, and others there who think he's

442
00:31:36,155 --> 00:31:39,555
Speaker 1: crazy believe that everything he says has already been approved

443
00:31:39,995 --> 00:31:43,195
Speaker 1: by Rupert Murdoch. They could listen to that and take

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00:31:43,235 --> 00:31:46,715
Speaker 1: it as an instruction from Rupert Murdoch. Jessica Tarlov could

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00:31:46,795 --> 00:31:49,915
Speaker 1: get fired. It wouldn't probably happen at anywhere else except

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00:31:50,475 --> 00:31:54,435
Speaker 1: the network owned by the government, CBS. It wouldn't happen

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00:31:54,475 --> 00:31:57,595
Speaker 1: anywhere else, but it could happen at Fox Now. To

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00:31:57,675 --> 00:32:01,035
Speaker 1: be fair, it would probably increase Jessica Tarlov's health and

449
00:32:01,075 --> 00:32:04,915
Speaker 1: she could get paid much more somewhere else. But he

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00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,555
Speaker 1: threatened jail for whoever reported that there was a missing

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00:32:08,675 --> 00:32:11,155
Speaker 1: airman in Iran. He said, We're going to go to

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00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:13,275
Speaker 1: the media company that released it, and we're going to

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00:32:13,275 --> 00:32:15,755
Speaker 1: say national security, give it up or go to jail.

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Speaker 1: And it appears there that one of his targets of

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Speaker 1: CBS News, his government owns CBS News. You're gonna put

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00:32:21,635 --> 00:32:23,915
Speaker 1: one of your own employees in jail? Well, you probably would.

457
00:32:25,195 --> 00:32:29,235
Speaker 1: Trump is still menacing the free press in this country,

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00:32:29,555 --> 00:32:32,595
Speaker 1: still trying to get people in it killed, still calling

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Speaker 1: them enemies of the people, still publicly berating them, especially

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Speaker 1: the women. And two weeks from Saturday night, all the

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00:32:40,355 --> 00:32:46,355
Speaker 1: White House correspondents will still have Trump at their annual dinner.

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Speaker 1: There's no comedian, there's no critic at the dinner. There's

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Speaker 1: no Stephen Colbert. I have mentioned a few times. Stephen

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00:32:56,115 --> 00:32:59,395
Speaker 1: Colbert and I have politely and sometimes not so politely,

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00:32:59,475 --> 00:33:01,995
Speaker 1: loathed each other since about two minutes after we met

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six or seven. How much money

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Speaker 1: would you pay to watch Stephen Colbert at the White

468
00:33:09,435 --> 00:33:13,875
Speaker 1: House Correspondent's Dinner on pay per view with Trump sitting

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00:33:13,875 --> 00:33:16,315
Speaker 1: next to him, even if he was only allowed to

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Speaker 1: talk for ninety seconds. I'd pay one thousand dollars. And

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Speaker 1: I hate Stephen Colbert. No, there will not be a

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Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert. There won't even be a Byron Allen there.

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Speaker 1: The only speaker will be a mentalist called Oz Pearlman,

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Speaker 1: the only person the White House Correspondents Association has had

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00:33:35,235 --> 00:33:40,755
Speaker 1: the courage to invite to speak between the terrible salad

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00:33:40,915 --> 00:33:44,715
Speaker 1: and the terrible chicken or what might be fish or

477
00:33:44,755 --> 00:33:47,955
Speaker 1: could be meatloaf, The only person who will speak will

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Speaker 1: be mentalist Oz Pearlman, who I guess will be there

479
00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:57,115
Speaker 1: using his psychic powers and his superior mind to see

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Speaker 1: if he can find among the thousand attendees one scruple

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00:34:03,715 --> 00:34:08,555
Speaker 1: nobody who could possibly criticize fewer Trump will be speaking

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Speaker 1: at the White House Correspondence Dinner. Trump, though, will be there.

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00:34:15,835 --> 00:34:21,675
Speaker 1: Trump who would like to see them all garrotted. How

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00:34:21,755 --> 00:34:25,275
Speaker 1: are America's news organizations responding to this? How are the

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Speaker 1: ones who still have a pulse? How are they responding

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Speaker 1: to this? Are they boycotting? Are they refusing to attend

487
00:34:31,435 --> 00:34:35,675
Speaker 1: in the first place? Well, huff Poe formerly Huffington Posts,

488
00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:38,235
Speaker 1: they have announced they are boycotting, and good for them.

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00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:46,915
Speaker 1: Anybody else crickets, MS NOW, MSNBC the place basically I invented.

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00:34:47,795 --> 00:34:50,635
Speaker 1: Now they're going to show up, probably have another party

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00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:53,795
Speaker 1: with Rachel Maddow mixing drinks for people, because that certainly

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00:34:53,875 --> 00:35:04,075
Speaker 1: is dignified. CBS, WE, CBS, NOW, NBC, NBC, PBS. What

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00:35:04,155 --> 00:35:08,195
Speaker 1: will the rest of them due to protest this insult,

494
00:35:08,515 --> 00:35:15,355
Speaker 1: this potentially lethal insult to American media, this farcical obey

495
00:35:15,515 --> 00:35:19,435
Speaker 1: in advanced decision to let Donald fucking Trump attend the

496
00:35:19,435 --> 00:35:24,235
Speaker 1: White House Correspondence dinner but not Stephen Colbert or Byron

497
00:35:24,315 --> 00:35:29,035
Speaker 1: Allen or carrot Top. What will they do to protest?

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00:35:29,915 --> 00:35:39,115
Speaker 1: We have an answer. They will wear pocket squares, pocket squares.

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00:35:39,235 --> 00:35:47,635
Speaker 1: Protest pocket squares. Jake Tapper protest pocket squares. I read

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00:35:47,675 --> 00:35:51,835
Speaker 1: from status from the usual reliable Oliver Darcy, who comes

501
00:35:51,915 --> 00:35:55,235
Speaker 1: up a little short this time pocket squares and pins

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00:35:55,235 --> 00:35:57,875
Speaker 1: with the words of the First Amendment and a subversive

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00:35:58,035 --> 00:36:01,675
Speaker 1: gesture supporting press freedom, reflecting the news media's consciousness of

504
00:36:01,715 --> 00:36:05,115
Speaker 1: the perilous moment it's in and why. The First Amendment

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00:36:05,195 --> 00:36:09,195
Speaker 1: merchandise is part of a campaign from the Reporters Committee

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00:36:09,275 --> 00:36:11,995
Speaker 1: for Freedom of the Press designed to provide the press

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00:36:12,035 --> 00:36:15,435
Speaker 1: corps with a visible way of signaling support for press

508
00:36:15,475 --> 00:36:17,595
Speaker 1: freedom on the one night of the year when the

509
00:36:17,635 --> 00:36:24,995
Speaker 1: industry gathers in full force. Basically a handkerchief something Trump

510
00:36:25,075 --> 00:36:28,515
Speaker 1: can grab from them and blow his nose on or

511
00:36:28,555 --> 00:36:32,595
Speaker 1: some other part of his wretched body. Like members of

512
00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:37,155
Speaker 1: Congress coordinating colors status rights to make a political statement

513
00:36:37,235 --> 00:36:41,075
Speaker 1: during the State of the Union address? What oh, yeah,

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00:36:41,115 --> 00:36:44,515
Speaker 1: they did do that? Now, like me, When you heard that,

515
00:36:44,555 --> 00:36:47,035
Speaker 1: like members of Congress coordinating colors to make a political

516
00:36:47,075 --> 00:36:49,875
Speaker 1: statement during the State of the Union address, did you say, hmm,

517
00:36:50,515 --> 00:36:56,715
Speaker 1: when was that two thousand and fifteen, nineteen twenty seven,

518
00:36:57,475 --> 00:36:59,955
Speaker 1: and which party was it? And what was the issue?

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00:37:00,355 --> 00:37:02,875
Speaker 1: I bet you don't remember any of that, because I

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00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:06,635
Speaker 1: sure as hell don't, because because that was oh oh,

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00:37:06,635 --> 00:37:11,435
Speaker 1: the display will be subtle like that. According to this statement, No,

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00:37:11,515 --> 00:37:15,195
Speaker 1: the words you were looking for there was invisible. Not

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00:37:15,315 --> 00:37:18,435
Speaker 1: to take away from the purpose of the event, the

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00:37:18,475 --> 00:37:21,915
Speaker 1: White House Correspondent Thinner, but it serves as a symbolic

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00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:25,235
Speaker 1: demonstration that Trump won't be able to miss from his

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00:37:25,355 --> 00:37:29,155
Speaker 1: seat on the stage. I'm sorry Trump won't be able

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00:37:29,195 --> 00:37:31,395
Speaker 1: to miss it from his seat on the stage. He

528
00:37:31,475 --> 00:37:34,755
Speaker 1: has such bad vision that he wears glasses almost all

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Speaker 1: of the time when he's not on camera, and he's

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00:37:36,955 --> 00:37:38,995
Speaker 1: so vain that he will not wear them when anybody

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00:37:38,995 --> 00:37:42,155
Speaker 1: can see him. But he's not going to miss something

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00:37:42,195 --> 00:37:46,355
Speaker 1: written in small print on an effing pocket square at

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Speaker 1: a distance of twenty or thirty feet in an audience

534
00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:52,515
Speaker 1: that he doesn't even want to see. And it's quote

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00:37:52,515 --> 00:37:55,675
Speaker 1: from the Constitution, which he doesn't really believe exists and

536
00:37:55,755 --> 00:38:00,395
Speaker 1: has been immunized from its consequences. And he's going to

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00:38:00,475 --> 00:38:03,755
Speaker 1: read something from a pocket square in the audience of

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Speaker 1: a thousand feet people. If the entire city of Syracuse,

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00:38:07,435 --> 00:38:09,475
Speaker 1: New York we're in the audience at the White House

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00:38:09,515 --> 00:38:13,395
Speaker 1: Correspondents Dinner, Trump wouldn't see them. Besides, which, wherever he looks,

541
00:38:13,435 --> 00:38:18,275
Speaker 1: whenever he looks, all he sees are different images of himself.

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00:38:19,075 --> 00:38:22,515
Speaker 1: But he's going to recognize a quote from the Constitution

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00:38:23,835 --> 00:38:29,675
Speaker 1: on a piece of cloth roughly three inches square. Oh,

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00:38:29,835 --> 00:38:35,115
Speaker 1: this won't quote take away from the purpose of the event. Well,

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00:38:35,195 --> 00:38:37,955
Speaker 1: forgive me for asking this, but what the fuck is

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00:38:37,995 --> 00:38:42,195
Speaker 1: the purpose of the White House Correspondence dinner? Is the

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00:38:42,195 --> 00:38:44,515
Speaker 1: purpose of the White House Correspondent's dinner to celebrate the

548
00:38:44,555 --> 00:38:49,115
Speaker 1: total failure of its membership over the last decade? Is

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00:38:49,155 --> 00:38:51,635
Speaker 1: the purpose of this dinner to put the focus on

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00:38:51,795 --> 00:38:57,475
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper's patriotic pocket squares of protest? Jake Tapper, who

551
00:38:57,515 --> 00:39:01,115
Speaker 1: was too afraid to fact check Trump at the presidential debate,

552
00:39:01,235 --> 00:39:06,035
Speaker 1: Who so needs his paycheck even though he has enough

553
00:39:06,035 --> 00:39:07,875
Speaker 1: money to cover him for the rest of his life,

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00:39:07,955 --> 00:39:11,435
Speaker 1: Who so covets the money that he was afraid to

555
00:39:11,555 --> 00:39:16,075
Speaker 1: fact check Trump on behalf of you know, democracy and

556
00:39:16,155 --> 00:39:20,915
Speaker 1: not bombing Iran and blowing up schoolgirls. No, no, he

557
00:39:20,995 --> 00:39:24,875
Speaker 1: has to keep that job. He has to have that job, because, frankly,

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00:39:25,115 --> 00:39:27,355
Speaker 1: what else could Jake Tapper do for a living. He

559
00:39:27,515 --> 00:39:31,475
Speaker 1: sucks at television and he has no journalistic ethics, but

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00:39:31,955 --> 00:39:37,435
Speaker 1: he makes a hell of a pocket square. This is

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00:39:37,475 --> 00:39:42,555
Speaker 1: all to put focus on Jake Tapper too afraid to

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00:39:42,635 --> 00:39:45,395
Speaker 1: fact check Trump at a presidential debate, but still trying

563
00:39:45,395 --> 00:39:49,035
Speaker 1: to sell books about Biden's brain, while still not mentioning

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00:39:49,035 --> 00:39:51,315
Speaker 1: the truth about Trump's brain, which is he doesn't have

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00:39:51,395 --> 00:39:56,275
Speaker 1: a brain. Because these are not this isn't me. I'm

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00:39:56,275 --> 00:40:01,555
Speaker 1: not being hyperbolic. These are literally Jake tappert Tapper pocket squares.

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Speaker 1: I'm again quoting Oliver Darcy, items like pocket squares, tote bags,

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Speaker 1: and phone. While it's bearing the text Congress shall make

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Speaker 1: no law bridging the freedom of speech or of the press.

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00:40:12,795 --> 00:40:16,915
Speaker 1: A hand drawn designed by CNN's Jake Tapper rise to

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Speaker 1: the occasion. Whether or not it rises to the occasion

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00:40:21,315 --> 00:40:25,075
Speaker 1: while rubbing elbows with a president regularly labels journalists enemies

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Speaker 1: of the people, will surely be debated. Well, frankly, why

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00:40:30,875 --> 00:40:32,875
Speaker 1: do we have to worry about the law that says

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Speaker 1: Congress shall make no law of bridging the freedom of

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Speaker 1: speech or of the press. When the American press is

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00:40:39,035 --> 00:40:42,995
Speaker 1: so busy volunteering to abridge its own freedoms of speech

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00:40:43,115 --> 00:40:47,315
Speaker 1: and the press, you don't need a law if everybody

579
00:40:47,355 --> 00:40:50,915
Speaker 1: lines up to be marched off to the camps anyway.

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Speaker 1: To resume Darcy, the effort speaks to the elephant in

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Speaker 1: the room. This is no ordinary WHC do give them

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00:40:59,715 --> 00:41:03,355
Speaker 1: the Trump's administration over it attempts to discredit and undermine

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00:41:03,395 --> 00:41:08,435
Speaker 1: the press. That's right, it is no ordinary WHCD. The

584
00:41:08,595 --> 00:41:12,275
Speaker 1: ordinary White House Correspondence dinner was once timelessly dismissed as

585
00:41:12,435 --> 00:41:16,515
Speaker 1: the oscars for ugly people, and this dinner is not

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00:41:16,595 --> 00:41:21,475
Speaker 1: even up to that standard. One more quote from Darcy.

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00:41:22,395 --> 00:41:27,195
Speaker 1: Top journalists have also embraced the effort quote, I am

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00:41:27,315 --> 00:41:31,475
Speaker 1: so excited to wear this pocket square, the quote you

589
00:41:31,475 --> 00:41:36,555
Speaker 1: could only get from a reporter or a mannequin. I

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00:41:36,595 --> 00:41:39,675
Speaker 1: am so excited to wear this pocket square, especially at

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Speaker 1: events in DC where there are many people who know

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00:41:43,515 --> 00:41:46,635
Speaker 1: how vital the First Amendment is, and also quite a

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00:41:46,675 --> 00:41:50,515
Speaker 1: few who might need to be reminded of its importance. Oo.

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00:41:52,595 --> 00:41:54,755
Speaker 1: I'll bet Trump has to go to the hospital after

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00:41:54,755 --> 00:41:59,355
Speaker 1: he hears that quote. Oh, what a stinging insult, What

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00:41:59,475 --> 00:42:03,635
Speaker 1: a vivisection of Donald Trump's ego? That that is also

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00:42:03,755 --> 00:42:06,395
Speaker 1: quite a few who might need to be reminded of

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00:42:06,435 --> 00:42:14,435
Speaker 1: its importance. Who said that? Who verbalized that pablem grade

599
00:42:14,595 --> 00:42:19,995
Speaker 1: press release? Right there? That's right, that was Jake Tapper

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00:42:20,315 --> 00:42:25,915
Speaker 1: talking about Jake Tapper's pocket squares made by Jake Tapper.

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00:42:26,475 --> 00:42:31,795
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper, who is fighting for America's survival with pocket squares.

602
00:42:32,075 --> 00:42:34,355
Speaker 1: The only possible use pocket squares could have in this

603
00:42:34,395 --> 00:42:37,835
Speaker 1: scenario is if is if Trump finally gets reporters to

604
00:42:37,915 --> 00:42:39,835
Speaker 1: bleed in front of him, and you get all the

605
00:42:39,875 --> 00:42:43,515
Speaker 1: pocket squares together to mop it up with pocket squares.

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00:42:43,755 --> 00:42:47,395
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper making Susan Collins look like a decisive radical

607
00:42:47,515 --> 00:42:53,315
Speaker 1: and Chuck Schumer look like a wartime consolieri. Pocket squares.

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00:42:53,875 --> 00:43:00,675
Speaker 1: Holy shit. What members of the White House Correspondence Association

609
00:43:00,915 --> 00:43:05,555
Speaker 1: should do is this. They should coordinate in advances and

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00:43:05,595 --> 00:43:08,755
Speaker 1: when Trump is introduced or when he enters the room

611
00:43:09,315 --> 00:43:11,875
Speaker 1: at the Hilton in Washington, I assume they still have

612
00:43:11,955 --> 00:43:16,395
Speaker 1: it there. If not, they've moved to some other rats nest.

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00:43:16,875 --> 00:43:20,275
Speaker 1: When Trump comes in, they should go out. They should

614
00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:24,395
Speaker 1: storm out, They should rise as one and leave in protest.

615
00:43:24,675 --> 00:43:30,275
Speaker 1: They should jeer and swear and chant impeach Trump now,

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00:43:31,115 --> 00:43:35,515
Speaker 1: or at least freedom of the effing press, swear a

617
00:43:35,555 --> 00:43:39,675
Speaker 1: little boys, and they should all walk out in protest.

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00:43:39,915 --> 00:43:42,595
Speaker 1: And if they don't think, they should let them ask

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Speaker 1: their female colleagues who are the particular victims of Trump's abuse,

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Speaker 1: and for whom no male member of the White House

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Speaker 1: Correspondence Association has set up, said anything in the last year,

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Speaker 1: or done anything of consequence. Shame on you. You are

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Speaker 1: humiliating our gender, You are humiliating our speedees. They should

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00:44:07,235 --> 00:44:10,875
Speaker 1: all walk out in protest. They should all march out

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00:44:10,915 --> 00:44:15,475
Speaker 1: in protest. And I understand the real problem here. If

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00:44:15,515 --> 00:44:18,515
Speaker 1: a reporter has paid more than three dollars for a meal,

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00:44:18,795 --> 00:44:22,075
Speaker 1: he expects the food. Take your piece of chicken or

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00:44:22,115 --> 00:44:25,515
Speaker 1: your fish and your salad and stuff them in your

629
00:44:25,515 --> 00:44:28,675
Speaker 1: coat pockets, like you do at every other event with food.

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00:44:28,995 --> 00:44:31,795
Speaker 1: Take them with you. If that's the problem here, it's

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Speaker 1: the meal that you come for. Never mind Trump or

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00:44:34,355 --> 00:44:38,035
Speaker 1: the communal gathering of reporters. Take the food with you,

633
00:44:38,115 --> 00:44:43,435
Speaker 1: stuff it in your pants. But do something. Pretend you

634
00:44:43,595 --> 00:44:47,355
Speaker 1: live here too. Remember that Trump has isolated himself from

635
00:44:47,355 --> 00:44:50,915
Speaker 1: the slightest criticism and has no earthly clue how much

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00:44:50,955 --> 00:44:54,595
Speaker 1: he is hated and how much of this country spends

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00:44:54,635 --> 00:44:57,955
Speaker 1: all its time talking about one topic only, and we

638
00:44:58,075 --> 00:45:02,155
Speaker 1: know what that topic is. He knows nothing of this.

639
00:45:03,155 --> 00:45:05,435
Speaker 1: Somebody stand up in in the middle of the White

640
00:45:05,435 --> 00:45:08,875
Speaker 1: House correspondence dinner and shout out, hey Trump, do you

641
00:45:08,915 --> 00:45:12,475
Speaker 1: know what everybody talks about online? They talk about when

642
00:45:12,635 --> 00:45:18,315
Speaker 1: the hell you are going to They don't have to

643
00:45:18,355 --> 00:45:26,595
Speaker 1: do that. They have Jake Tapper pocket squares. For God's sake,

644
00:45:28,435 --> 00:45:33,635
Speaker 1: you haven't failed enough. When I said that the media

645
00:45:33,835 --> 00:45:37,115
Speaker 1: failure was the greatest in the last decade of failure,

646
00:45:38,075 --> 00:45:41,155
Speaker 1: you decided I hadn't proven my case sufficiently, so you

647
00:45:41,195 --> 00:45:45,235
Speaker 1: did it more. You're gonna just sit there and obey

648
00:45:45,355 --> 00:45:49,715
Speaker 1: in advance for a man who literally wants you all dead,

649
00:45:50,555 --> 00:45:54,035
Speaker 1: who has called on his cult to try to kill

650
00:45:54,035 --> 00:45:58,235
Speaker 1: you in stochastic terrorist terms, tried to inspire them to

651
00:45:58,315 --> 00:46:02,555
Speaker 1: assault you, and in many cases have assaulted you and

652
00:46:02,635 --> 00:46:04,955
Speaker 1: gotten away with it because he has He's the thing

653
00:46:04,995 --> 00:46:07,555
Speaker 1: he's good at is carefully phrasing things so you can't

654
00:46:07,675 --> 00:46:09,955
Speaker 1: pin it on him. And you're just gonna sit there

655
00:46:09,995 --> 00:46:15,195
Speaker 1: in the same room with this scumbag so you can

656
00:46:15,235 --> 00:46:22,115
Speaker 1: get your pictures on c SPAN, and you can get

657
00:46:22,995 --> 00:46:33,875
Speaker 1: your Jake Tapper protest pocket squares. The White House correspondents

658
00:46:33,995 --> 00:46:36,795
Speaker 1: all but Jake Tapper. Jake Tapper should not walk out.

659
00:46:36,875 --> 00:46:39,515
Speaker 1: He should be left there alone with Trump so he

660
00:46:39,555 --> 00:46:43,315
Speaker 1: can take advantage of the situation and sell Trump of

661
00:46:43,395 --> 00:46:54,195
Speaker 1: Pocket Square, Today's worst Persons in the World to the

662
00:46:54,275 --> 00:46:56,955
Speaker 1: number one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic,

663
00:46:57,115 --> 00:46:59,915
Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. And somebody

664
00:46:59,955 --> 00:47:01,595
Speaker 1: sent me a video of him the other day and

665
00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:04,475
Speaker 1: I laughed again, and I flashed back again, and now

666
00:47:04,995 --> 00:47:07,715
Speaker 1: you get to hear about him too. From the desert

667
00:47:07,795 --> 00:47:10,075
Speaker 1: to the sea to all of Southern California. Good evening,

668
00:47:11,315 --> 00:47:14,395
Speaker 1: you may or may not have ever heard of Jerry Dunfie.

669
00:47:15,435 --> 00:47:17,355
Speaker 1: That statement that you may or may not have ever

670
00:47:17,395 --> 00:47:20,235
Speaker 1: heard of Jerry dunfee Jess sent anybody from southern California

671
00:47:20,315 --> 00:47:22,795
Speaker 1: who was more than thirty five years old into a deep,

672
00:47:23,235 --> 00:47:28,275
Speaker 1: stunned silence. Because Jerry dunfe was ubiquitous on TV news

673
00:47:28,355 --> 00:47:32,275
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles from nineteen sixty until two thousand and two.

674
00:47:33,275 --> 00:47:35,875
Speaker 1: He died a week after his last newscast, and there

675
00:47:35,875 --> 00:47:38,235
Speaker 1: are some in the business who have seriously believed he

676
00:47:38,275 --> 00:47:41,635
Speaker 1: may show up again sooner or later on TV, even

677
00:47:41,675 --> 00:47:45,995
Speaker 1: though he's dead. He worked for Channel two, and he

678
00:47:46,075 --> 00:47:49,555
Speaker 1: and his team won all the ratings wars for fifteen years,

679
00:47:50,115 --> 00:47:53,835
Speaker 1: and then one year the station finished only tied for

680
00:47:53,915 --> 00:47:56,915
Speaker 1: first in the Spring LA ratings of nineteen seventy five,

681
00:47:57,155 --> 00:48:00,555
Speaker 1: so the CBS corporate geniuses in New York fired him,

682
00:48:00,955 --> 00:48:04,115
Speaker 1: and he went to Channel seven like thirty six hours later,

683
00:48:04,675 --> 00:48:07,155
Speaker 1: and then Channel seven won nearly all the ratings periods

684
00:48:07,155 --> 00:48:10,355
Speaker 1: there over fourteen years. And then after six years at

685
00:48:10,395 --> 00:48:13,195
Speaker 1: Channel nine, he was hired back at Channel two, where

686
00:48:13,235 --> 00:48:16,755
Speaker 1: he started where they fired him. Hired back at Channel

687
00:48:16,755 --> 00:48:18,875
Speaker 1: two for a couple million more than he was making

688
00:48:18,875 --> 00:48:20,915
Speaker 1: when they fired him twenty years earlier, and then he

689
00:48:20,955 --> 00:48:22,715
Speaker 1: went back to Channel nine and he was still on

690
00:48:22,795 --> 00:48:25,235
Speaker 1: every night at the age of eighty and oh, by

691
00:48:25,275 --> 00:48:28,635
Speaker 1: the way, he worked for twenty nine years after he

692
00:48:28,715 --> 00:48:30,995
Speaker 1: came out of the KABC studios. On the night of

693
00:48:31,035 --> 00:48:33,955
Speaker 1: October twenty fourth, nineteen eighty three, hopped into his Rolls

694
00:48:34,035 --> 00:48:36,795
Speaker 1: Royce with the station makeup lady by his side, and

695
00:48:36,995 --> 00:48:43,715
Speaker 1: was ambushed and shot in the neck by four assailants,

696
00:48:43,835 --> 00:48:47,635
Speaker 1: leading him to issue the memorable statements they said, don't move,

697
00:48:47,795 --> 00:48:52,675
Speaker 1: and I didn't, but they shot anyway, unquote, and they

698
00:48:52,715 --> 00:48:55,675
Speaker 1: never figured out who shot him or why. But Jerry

699
00:48:55,715 --> 00:48:58,915
Speaker 1: Dunfey was back on the air three weeks later. Anyway,

700
00:48:58,955 --> 00:49:03,435
Speaker 1: and you cannot imagine how many different guesses there were

701
00:49:03,595 --> 00:49:06,515
Speaker 1: about that in the LA news industry when I was

702
00:49:06,555 --> 00:49:08,755
Speaker 1: on the air there from nineteen eighty five through nineteen

703
00:49:08,795 --> 00:49:13,835
Speaker 1: ninety one. There is no question that in creating the

704
00:49:13,875 --> 00:49:18,675
Speaker 1: fictional newscasters Ted Baxter and Kent Brockman and maybe even

705
00:49:18,795 --> 00:49:23,315
Speaker 1: Ron Burgundy, much was stolen from Jerry dunfe Jerry Dunfey

706
00:49:23,315 --> 00:49:26,475
Speaker 1: had a huge shock of white hair, a craggy face,

707
00:49:26,515 --> 00:49:29,995
Speaker 1: and a rich baritone voice. He was in twenty one

708
00:49:30,115 --> 00:49:34,755
Speaker 1: different movies, including Oh God and the Amazing and Margaret

709
00:49:34,795 --> 00:49:38,235
Speaker 1: Flick Kitten with a Whip. Now, really, there is an

710
00:49:38,235 --> 00:49:41,915
Speaker 1: Ann Margaret film called Kitten with a Whip. Anyway, I

711
00:49:41,995 --> 00:49:45,035
Speaker 1: knew Jerry Dunfey. He was a smart man, and a

712
00:49:45,155 --> 00:49:48,195
Speaker 1: nice and a welcoming man, and obviously quite a business man.

713
00:49:48,355 --> 00:49:50,835
Speaker 1: But he did have a tendency on the air to become,

714
00:49:50,915 --> 00:49:55,275
Speaker 1: in his own words, a teleprompter reading machine. He said,

715
00:49:55,315 --> 00:49:57,835
Speaker 1: you put it up there, and I'm going to say

716
00:49:57,835 --> 00:50:01,875
Speaker 1: it down here, and that's what this story is about.

717
00:50:02,635 --> 00:50:04,555
Speaker 1: When I got to Los Angeles at the age of

718
00:50:04,675 --> 00:50:08,355
Speaker 1: twenty six in nineteen eighty five, our newscast Channel five

719
00:50:08,475 --> 00:50:11,395
Speaker 1: News at ten was like something out of the nineteen sixties.

720
00:50:11,435 --> 00:50:15,275
Speaker 1: The studio had carpeting on the walls. There were no

721
00:50:15,395 --> 00:50:19,315
Speaker 1: graphics to speak of, just a big rear screen projection device.

722
00:50:20,035 --> 00:50:24,195
Speaker 1: Our best reporter, the lovely stand Chambers, had literally worked

723
00:50:24,235 --> 00:50:27,515
Speaker 1: there since the station had signed on the air for

724
00:50:27,595 --> 00:50:30,515
Speaker 1: the first time thirty eight years before, and he would

725
00:50:30,635 --> 00:50:35,635
Speaker 1: keep working there for another twenty five years. Our inimitable anchorman,

726
00:50:35,715 --> 00:50:39,715
Speaker 1: Hal Fishman, would not wear an IFB and earpiece because

727
00:50:39,755 --> 00:50:42,875
Speaker 1: he thought viewers might think that if he did, it

728
00:50:42,915 --> 00:50:46,155
Speaker 1: was because he needed a hearing aid. He did, however,

729
00:50:46,235 --> 00:50:49,875
Speaker 1: where one of a series of two pays of different

730
00:50:49,995 --> 00:50:54,675
Speaker 1: length to simulate the need for a haircut. Until the

731
00:50:54,715 --> 00:50:57,915
Speaker 1: first commercial break was over on news at ten, only

732
00:50:58,035 --> 00:51:01,955
Speaker 1: Hal spoke. His female co anchor just sat there adoringly.

733
00:51:02,675 --> 00:51:06,595
Speaker 1: And the producer was a marvelously grantic character named Jerry Rubin,

734
00:51:06,995 --> 00:51:09,395
Speaker 1: who every night at nine PM, an hour to airtime,

735
00:51:09,435 --> 00:51:14,515
Speaker 1: would run around the newsroom screaming battle stations, battle stations,

736
00:51:15,395 --> 00:51:17,955
Speaker 1: and who took me seriously only when I could figure

737
00:51:17,995 --> 00:51:22,315
Speaker 1: out what his as Jerry phrased it, invisible thread was

738
00:51:22,875 --> 00:51:26,315
Speaker 1: running through his nightly ordering of the stories the rundown,

739
00:51:27,035 --> 00:51:29,035
Speaker 1: he would ask me to come into the newsroom and

740
00:51:29,155 --> 00:51:32,115
Speaker 1: look at the rundown and say, all right, Olderman, you're

741
00:51:32,115 --> 00:51:36,275
Speaker 1: so smart, what's the invisible thread? And he only began

742
00:51:36,315 --> 00:51:38,715
Speaker 1: to like me when I could recite to him from

743
00:51:38,795 --> 00:51:41,715
Speaker 1: memory the starting lineup of his beloved nineteen forty five

744
00:51:41,795 --> 00:51:45,755
Speaker 1: Chicago Cubs. But he stayed liking me. We remained friends

745
00:51:45,755 --> 00:51:50,115
Speaker 1: for thirty years. Anyway. Jerry had come to Los Angeles

746
00:51:50,235 --> 00:51:54,275
Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine, hired away from WGN in Chicago

747
00:51:54,355 --> 00:51:57,155
Speaker 1: to become the lead writer for This is where the

748
00:51:57,315 --> 00:52:01,315
Speaker 1: story comes together. You guessed it. The Jerry Dunfee newscasts

749
00:52:01,355 --> 00:52:05,875
Speaker 1: on KNXT, the CBS station in Los Angeles. In fact,

750
00:52:05,915 --> 00:52:09,395
Speaker 1: after winning every sweeps period for nine years, the newscast

751
00:52:09,435 --> 00:52:13,715
Speaker 1: had rightly become the Big News with Jerry Dunfie. And

752
00:52:13,835 --> 00:52:17,195
Speaker 1: it began with an unseen announcer intoning the Big News

753
00:52:17,515 --> 00:52:22,475
Speaker 1: with Jerry Dunfee. Now here is Jerry Dunfie, And then

754
00:52:22,555 --> 00:52:27,915
Speaker 1: Jerry Dunvee said his catchphrase, the catchphrase of all catchphrases.

755
00:52:28,155 --> 00:52:30,075
Speaker 1: Unlike the guy I worked with in New York when

756
00:52:30,075 --> 00:52:32,475
Speaker 1: I was an intern, Bill Jorgenson, thank you for your

757
00:52:32,515 --> 00:52:35,835
Speaker 1: time this time until next time, Jerry Dunfeye said, from

758
00:52:35,875 --> 00:52:39,875
Speaker 1: the desert to the sea to all of Southern California,

759
00:52:40,675 --> 00:52:46,235
Speaker 1: the good evening. Nonsense, of course, but boy it sounded good.

760
00:52:46,315 --> 00:52:49,715
Speaker 1: From the desert to the sea to all of Southern California,

761
00:52:49,995 --> 00:52:54,035
Speaker 1: good evening. He said this so often that it is

762
00:52:54,155 --> 00:52:59,555
Speaker 1: still used in some promotional announcements by Channel nine News

763
00:52:59,555 --> 00:53:02,155
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and Channel seven News in Los Angeles

764
00:53:02,195 --> 00:53:04,555
Speaker 1: and Channel two in Los Angeles. From the desert to

765
00:53:04,795 --> 00:53:07,795
Speaker 1: the sie to all of Southern California, good evening. I'm

766
00:53:07,835 --> 00:53:11,435
Speaker 1: dead well. No, they don't actually say that, but that's

767
00:53:11,435 --> 00:53:14,355
Speaker 1: pretty much what it means. The only joke about the

768
00:53:14,475 --> 00:53:17,875
Speaker 1: night he got shot outside the parking lot that I

769
00:53:17,915 --> 00:53:21,235
Speaker 1: can tell is that when the cops arrived, Dunfey said

770
00:53:21,235 --> 00:53:23,275
Speaker 1: to them, from the desert to the sea to all

771
00:53:23,315 --> 00:53:26,675
Speaker 1: of Southern California, good evening. I've been shot in the neck.

772
00:53:29,515 --> 00:53:31,955
Speaker 1: The first night, my friend Jerry Rubin sat down to

773
00:53:31,955 --> 00:53:36,155
Speaker 1: write the Big News with Jerry Dunfy. Jerry Rubin was

774
00:53:36,195 --> 00:53:38,915
Speaker 1: a little nervous. He got there early, he said. He

775
00:53:38,955 --> 00:53:42,035
Speaker 1: wrote some stories a dozen times each trying to get

776
00:53:42,075 --> 00:53:45,715
Speaker 1: it perfect. Finally, for the lead story, which if memory serves,

777
00:53:45,755 --> 00:53:48,715
Speaker 1: was about a bank robbery in Pasadena. Jerry got it

778
00:53:48,915 --> 00:53:51,995
Speaker 1: just right. And on that nineteen sixty nine evening at

779
00:53:52,035 --> 00:53:54,755
Speaker 1: six pm, viewers of the Big News on Channel two

780
00:53:54,795 --> 00:53:57,475
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, those for whom from the desert to

781
00:53:57,515 --> 00:53:59,675
Speaker 1: the sea to all of southern California was not a

782
00:53:59,675 --> 00:54:03,595
Speaker 1: cliche but mantra. They heard the familiar Channel two screeching

783
00:54:03,715 --> 00:54:06,755
Speaker 1: theme music, and then the Big News with Jerry Dunfee.

784
00:54:06,795 --> 00:54:11,315
Speaker 1: Now here is Jerry dunfe And up popped Jerry Dunfey's

785
00:54:11,355 --> 00:54:14,795
Speaker 1: face and he said, three armed and very dangerous modern

786
00:54:14,835 --> 00:54:18,315
Speaker 1: day desperadoes are still loose in Pasadena tonight. After blah

787
00:54:18,355 --> 00:54:22,395
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah, the newscast ended an hour later.

788
00:54:23,075 --> 00:54:26,435
Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin was very relieved. Jerry Dunfee strode back to

789
00:54:26,475 --> 00:54:28,835
Speaker 1: his desk before presumably going out to warm up the

790
00:54:28,955 --> 00:54:32,195
Speaker 1: rolls Royce and avoid the gunmen who would finally get

791
00:54:32,275 --> 00:54:34,995
Speaker 1: him fourteen years later and not even slow him down.

792
00:54:35,715 --> 00:54:38,075
Speaker 1: And that's when the station's news director leaned out of

793
00:54:38,075 --> 00:54:42,035
Speaker 1: his office and waved the two Jerry's inside, What the

794
00:54:42,075 --> 00:54:45,435
Speaker 1: hell happened? Dunfee? Did you retire it? You can't retire it.

795
00:54:45,435 --> 00:54:49,475
Speaker 1: It's in the contract, you have to stay it. According

796
00:54:49,515 --> 00:54:53,395
Speaker 1: to Jerry Rubin. Dunfey looked blankly at his boss. Jerry

797
00:54:53,435 --> 00:54:56,675
Speaker 1: Rubin said he was even more confused himself. From the

798
00:54:56,715 --> 00:54:59,155
Speaker 1: desert to the sea, he didn't say, from the desert

799
00:54:59,195 --> 00:55:01,115
Speaker 1: to the sea at the start of the big news

800
00:55:01,395 --> 00:55:03,635
Speaker 1: you say, from the desert to the sea to all

801
00:55:03,675 --> 00:55:06,675
Speaker 1: of southern California, good evening. Only to you, you didn't

802
00:55:06,715 --> 00:55:08,195
Speaker 1: say from the desert to the seat to wall of

803
00:55:08,235 --> 00:55:10,835
Speaker 1: southern California, good evening. You said something about a bank.

804
00:55:11,555 --> 00:55:14,635
Speaker 1: What the hell, Jerry, we got two hundred and fifty

805
00:55:14,675 --> 00:55:20,155
Speaker 1: phone calls. Jerry Dunfey now pursed his lips and turned

806
00:55:20,235 --> 00:55:23,355
Speaker 1: to the new writer. What the hell, Ruben, didn't you

807
00:55:23,395 --> 00:55:27,955
Speaker 1: put it in the script? Jerry Rubin kept this part

808
00:55:27,995 --> 00:55:30,315
Speaker 1: to himself, but frankly, he said, he couldn't believe what

809
00:55:30,355 --> 00:55:32,515
Speaker 1: he was hearing. For nine years, this man Dunfee had

810
00:55:32,515 --> 00:55:35,115
Speaker 1: signed on virtually every one of his news broadcasts every

811
00:55:35,195 --> 00:55:37,515
Speaker 1: night at six and then again every night at eleven

812
00:55:37,515 --> 00:55:38,915
Speaker 1: by saying, from the desert to the seat to wall

813
00:55:38,995 --> 00:55:41,515
Speaker 1: southern California, good evening. But apparently, if you did not

814
00:55:41,635 --> 00:55:43,355
Speaker 1: write it in the script, and did not put it

815
00:55:43,395 --> 00:55:48,435
Speaker 1: on the telepropter for him. He would forget it before

816
00:55:48,515 --> 00:55:52,435
Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin could say anything. Jerry Dunfe barked at him

817
00:55:52,675 --> 00:55:56,595
Speaker 1: with some understanding. Don't you understand when I'm out there,

818
00:55:56,635 --> 00:55:59,955
Speaker 1: I'm a teleprompter reading machine. You put it up there,

819
00:56:00,595 --> 00:56:03,475
Speaker 1: I'm going to say it down here. You don't put

820
00:56:03,475 --> 00:56:05,475
Speaker 1: it up there. I'm I'm not going to say it

821
00:56:05,515 --> 00:56:10,355
Speaker 1: down here. The news director looked sternly at Jerry Rubin.

822
00:56:11,075 --> 00:56:15,235
Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin did not burst into uncontrollable laughter, race from

823
00:56:15,235 --> 00:56:18,475
Speaker 1: the building KNXT was in on Sunset Boulevard, and get

824
00:56:18,515 --> 00:56:21,475
Speaker 1: on the first plane back to Chicago. He just said yes, sir,

825
00:56:22,035 --> 00:56:24,755
Speaker 1: and the news director said good and everybody left. And

826
00:56:24,795 --> 00:56:27,755
Speaker 1: from that night, at eleven o'clock onwards, Jerry Rubin always

827
00:56:27,755 --> 00:56:30,475
Speaker 1: started his script for the lead story by typing out,

828
00:56:30,475 --> 00:56:33,035
Speaker 1: from the desert to the Sea to all of Southern California,

829
00:56:33,115 --> 00:56:35,635
Speaker 1: good evening, there's a twenty six car pile up on

830
00:56:35,635 --> 00:56:38,715
Speaker 1: the Santa Monica Freeway after another mattress has been dumped

831
00:56:38,715 --> 00:56:42,155
Speaker 1: in the left lane. Or from the desert to the

832
00:56:42,195 --> 00:56:44,915
Speaker 1: Sea to all of Southern California, Good evening, Burbank, bank

833
00:56:44,955 --> 00:56:50,235
Speaker 1: burgled or whatever, Over the next few weeks, the lead

834
00:56:50,315 --> 00:56:52,995
Speaker 1: story on the Big News with Jerry Dunfey would change,

835
00:56:53,035 --> 00:56:56,875
Speaker 1: as lead stories do. At five m or five thirty

836
00:56:56,955 --> 00:57:00,395
Speaker 1: or five fifty, something big er would happen, and it

837
00:57:00,595 --> 00:57:03,835
Speaker 1: was the big News. So Jerry Rubin would often have

838
00:57:03,955 --> 00:57:06,795
Speaker 1: to rewrite page one of the script, and every time

839
00:57:06,875 --> 00:57:10,035
Speaker 1: he rewrote it, and every time he re rewrote it,

840
00:57:10,075 --> 00:57:12,115
Speaker 1: and the one time he told me that he re

841
00:57:12,115 --> 00:57:16,195
Speaker 1: re rewrote it, Jerry remembered to start page one with

842
00:57:16,555 --> 00:57:19,475
Speaker 1: from the desert to the sea to all southern California,

843
00:57:19,595 --> 00:57:25,115
Speaker 1: Good evening. All was well, The teleprompter reading machine was happy,

844
00:57:25,315 --> 00:57:28,875
Speaker 1: the news director was happy. Jerry Rubin was happy. And

845
00:57:28,955 --> 00:57:34,675
Speaker 1: then calamity struck. At about five point fifty eight one night,

846
00:57:34,715 --> 00:57:38,195
Speaker 1: Jerry Rubin was told there is a refinery fire in Torrance.

847
00:57:38,275 --> 00:57:40,555
Speaker 1: It is the new lead story. Just say we're rushing

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Speaker 1: Big News with Jerry Dunfee. Now here's Jerry Dunfie from

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Speaker 1: Rick Davis before this newscast is over. Jerry Dunfey dramatically

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Speaker 1: From a Desert to the Sea to all of southern California.

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Speaker 1: Good evening, our top story tonight, Mayor Sam, you're he said,

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Speaker 1: all who saw him. They said, don't move, and I didn't,

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Speaker 1: news for this Tuesday night. I'm Jerry Dunfey reminding you.

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Speaker 1: damage I can do here? Thank you for listening, Pocket Squares.

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Speaker 1: group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer today is my

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Speaker 1: late friend George Carlin. That program was produced by Ted.

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Speaker 1: Everything else was as always my fault. Let's countdown for today,

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Speaker 1: Day four hundred and forty five of America held hostage

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Speaker 1: The next scheduled countdown is Monday Bulletins as the news

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