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Speaker 1: Kilmead must be fired even by Fox even today, fired now.

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Speaker 1: The co host of the Fox News Morning program called

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Speaker 1: for America's homeless to be killed by quote involuntary, lethal

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Speaker 1: including America's thirty three thousand homeless veterans. He did not

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Speaker 1: exclude them. He called for this, and he got away

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Speaker 1: with it. Last Wednesday. He said this last Wednesday. Kill

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Speaker 1: the homeless, veterans, Kill the homeless children, Kill the six

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand homeless who are not veterans or children, lethal

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Speaker 1: injection or something. Just kill them. Fox News Rupert Murdoch,

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Speaker 1: same company as The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post.

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Speaker 1: Murdering the homeless, mass murdering the homeless took him four

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Speaker 1: days to apologize. Took Brian Killmead four days to apologize.

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Speaker 1: Four days. He apologized only because he got caught. Fraud

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Speaker 1: apology fraud host, FNC, fraud News Channel. He said what

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Speaker 1: he said because it's in his heart, and he got

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Speaker 1: the people who run fraud News Channel, and they got

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Speaker 1: away with it because it is in the heart of

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Speaker 1: the monster who has run that place and ruined this world,

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Speaker 1: Rupert Murdoch. Nothing has happened to Brian Killmead, nothing but

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Speaker 1: a couple of x Republicans who have a soft spot

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Speaker 1: for him personally and who are understandably shocked that anybody

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Speaker 1: Complimented him because while he got caught and then weekly

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Speaker 1: and briefly and fraudulently apologized, Brian Kilmead apologized, he said

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Speaker 1: calling for the homeless, or as he referred to them,

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Speaker 1: them to die by involuntary lethal injection or something, just

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Speaker 1: kill them, that was callous on his part. It went

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Speaker 1: out on their propaganda channel last Wednesday morning, hours before

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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was murdered, and the orgy of right wing

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Speaker 1: bullshit began that the left, and only the left, uses

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Speaker 1: or threatens violence, and kill Mead, who has been the

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Speaker 1: often literally unintelligible co host of the Fox News Morning

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Speaker 1: Show since nineteen ninety eight, agreed with another host that

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Speaker 1: kill mead added quote, or involuntary lethal injection. The other speaker,

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Speaker 1: mead finished this thought or something just kill them end quote.

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Speaker 1: do what Fox always does, the opportunity to turn everything

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Speaker 1: into an illegal campaign contribution. This time, he segued from

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Speaker 1: killing the homeless to advocating for Republican candidates in North Carolina,

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Speaker 1: the homeless should face arrest or institutionalization or quoting Brian killmead,

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Speaker 1: most widely accepted high end estimate of homelessness in this

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Speaker 1: And no kill Me did not say, let's submit seven

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Speaker 1: It didn't have to. If he meant seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy one people, is that somehow less horrific? Have you

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Speaker 1: Something horrific, something indefensible. And for four days that's almost

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Speaker 1: the real horrors of America twenty twenty five, like Brian Killmead,

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Speaker 1: of the genuine, invaluable components of social media, Aaron Rupar,

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Speaker 1: clipped the kill Mead involuntary lethal injection segment and put

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Speaker 1: in Hell, Charles Lindberg. The Kirk story not only reveals

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Speaker 1: finish off this Brian Kilmead story. The Fox defense, although

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Speaker 1: ill homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion. Unquote. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Countdown, the President of the United States continues to

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Speaker 1: user to be banned from all platforms in the real

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Speaker 1: world that we dream of. At that point, Clay higgins

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Speaker 1: account would have disappeared. I'm also going after their business

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Speaker 1: licenses and permitting their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively. They

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Speaker 1: should be kicked from every school, and their driver's licenses

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Speaker 1: should be revoked. I'm basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice.

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Speaker 1: Guy had a gun once he thinks he thinks he's Eastwood.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to cancel with extreme prejudice and Bronson. These evil,

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Speaker 1: sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination, I'm starting that today.

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Speaker 1: That is all. That's the same Clay Higgins, a sitting

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Speaker 1: congressman who responded to the terrorist attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband,

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Speaker 1: which was supposed to be an attack on her that

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Speaker 1: involved torture and then murder. Clay Higgins responded to that

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Speaker 1: by insisting the attack involved male prostitution. If Clay Higgins

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Speaker 1: is inbred inbread with oysters, sorry oysters. As Andrew Lawrence

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Speaker 1: of Media Matters succincly concluded, Charlie Kirk quote was a

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Speaker 1: champion of free speech, and if you disagree, you are

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Speaker 1: under arrest now unexpectedly. There is something useful in all

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Speaker 1: of this bullshit, in the Clay Higgins bullshit in that quote,

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Speaker 1: that beautiful young man armed only with a bible. I

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Speaker 1: don't get startled a lot. There was a startling post

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Speaker 1: on Facebook, which may hint at why the right is

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Speaker 1: so enraged, so it seems as genuine as they can get.

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Speaker 1: Genuinely enraged. Huge swaths of the right, as implied in

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Speaker 1: this Facebook post, saw only the Bible parts, the non

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Speaker 1: stop Charlie Kirk video machine, not the let's force kids

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Speaker 1: to watch public executions, let's kill Trump's adversaries parts. Literally

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Speaker 1: they had. They have no idea that Charlie Kirk marketed

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Speaker 1: to two different audiences. The reason they keep invoking Martin,

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Speaker 1: Luther King and Jesus with Charlie Kirk is because they

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Speaker 1: did not see the entire Charlie Kirk. They literally literally

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Speaker 1: never saw it. I'll explain that plus a little secret

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Speaker 1: on the right. The right wing influencers, like all terrorists,

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Speaker 1: had thought they were again literally untouchable, that God would

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Speaker 1: never let anything bad happen to Trump, not after last year.

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Speaker 1: We're cool now, and he wouldn't let anything bad happen

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Speaker 1: to Charlie Kirk, or or wait, wouldn't let anything bad

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Speaker 1: happen to themselves. Second segment today on Charlie Kirk and

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Speaker 1: the parallel universe in which he was just a sweet

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Speaker 1: Bible thumper. Next on this all new edition of Countdown.

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Speaker 1: Now to the meta stuff, the implications of the death

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk that may linger even as his story

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Speaker 1: gets pushed further and further off the page, And no

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Speaker 1: matter what your impression may be right now, it will

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Speaker 1: only epstein lingers. You doubt this. Anybody remember Andrew Breitbart? Quick?

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Speaker 1: What did he look like? I mean, his news outlet

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Speaker 1: is fading into obscurity a little more every week. Andrew

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Speaker 1: Breitbart was twenty five Charlie Kirk's. Well, the meta stuff

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Speaker 1: is there are additional factors here to the Kirk story.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure anybody's really registered. Firstly, I'll confess it

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Speaker 1: was evident to me that was an important conservative propagandist

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Speaker 1: and a tough guy, with the constant references to God's

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Speaker 1: will and killing people and why women like Taylor Swift

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Speaker 1: needed to submit to their husbands. But I will confess

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Speaker 1: now I had no clue they revered him to this degree.

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Speaker 1: I am not certain that I would have put him

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Speaker 1: in the top one hundred fascists list. And yet as

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Speaker 1: you see, he's now Saint Charlie of Kirk. Someone explained

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Speaker 1: that there was a widespread, seldom spoken belief that Kirk

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Speaker 1: would be president of the United States. The authoritarian movement

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Speaker 1: in this country is well aware that no matter the

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Speaker 1: absolute stone cold imbecility of JD. Vance, he's no Trump.

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Speaker 1: He does a nice job swearing online, but once you

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Speaker 1: get past two or at most three short sentences from him,

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Speaker 1: it's time for a quick nap. He's like the sidekick

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Speaker 1: from the Larry sand Your Show. Kind of funny. Then

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Speaker 1: is there anybody else around here we can get to

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Speaker 1: do the job. When you think of the dictatorial depth

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Speaker 1: chart in this country, the fascists know they have nobody

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Speaker 1: to lead the movement once Trump is gone, whether God

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Speaker 1: means deceased or jailed or incapable or whatever. His adult

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Speaker 1: sons are both imbeciles. One of them has such a

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Speaker 1: ham fist that in the middle of the Maudlin post

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Speaker 1: mortems about Charlie Kirk, this guy started to pitch his

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Speaker 1: new book. I mean not even his father tried that.

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Speaker 1: And then there's one of them who might have trouble

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Speaker 1: passing a drug screen and is so gone that he

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Speaker 1: tweeted quote one of our heroes was assinated. Oh, I'll

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Speaker 1: be damned if I'm going to psychoanalyze that aassinated ass

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Speaker 1: I NATed where's your spell check?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: That famous daughter checked out? The other daughter is unrecognizable.

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Speaker 1: The youngest son is the smartest of the group. He's

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Speaker 1: never said a word in public. It is quite possible

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Speaker 1: that Eric Trump's wife, the one with the lip implants,

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Speaker 1: is afterly the second most recognizable one in the family.

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Speaker 1: And she's awkward and insincere, and I mean in contrast

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Speaker 1: to Trump, she's awkward and insincere. They tried to get

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Speaker 1: another active politician to replace Trump after twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and none of them withstood the first strong breeze. DeSantis, Haley,

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Speaker 1: Ramaswami Bergham, Tim Scott, No who then RFK Junior, Well,

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Speaker 1: did you hey, You're gonna elect RFK Junior. He's gonna

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Speaker 1: give the State of the Union to dress shirtless. Stephen Miller.

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Speaker 1: Stephen Miller and the twenty four to seven vibe he

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Speaker 1: gives of a flaccid penis, Stephen Bannon and the twenty

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Speaker 1: four to seven vibe he gives of a refrigerator repair

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Speaker 1: man with his butt crack exposed. So the more you

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Speaker 1: analyze it, the more you can understand this. Kirk was

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Speaker 1: not just a smoother Ben Shapiro or a better Stephen Crowder.

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Speaker 1: If he was not next, he was soon he could

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Speaker 1: have been President of the United States or whatever they'll

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Speaker 1: call the dictator in those days. And they thought this because,

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Speaker 1: as I mentioned before the break, huge parts of Kirk's

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Speaker 1: world never saw the hate, literally never saw it. The

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Speaker 1: videos never came up on their feeds. This sounds insane,

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Speaker 1: but there it is Rick Pearlstein, history and the author

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Speaker 1: of Nixon Land, which I read to my father on

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Speaker 1: his deathbed. So maybe you should read it if you

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00:39:03,155 --> 00:39:07,035
Speaker 1: have not. Rick pearl Elstein posted this Saturday night. I

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Speaker 1: found it comes from Facebook, but I am a Luddite,

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Speaker 1: so to this day I have not had the patience

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Speaker 1: to try to find the author who wrote it on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: But it's amazing. I'm going to assume it's real. I

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Speaker 1: may be falling victim to an Internet hoax, but I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. I'd say the odds are only one

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Speaker 1: in one hundred.

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Speaker 3: Quote.

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Speaker 1: One thing that has become really clear is that we

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Speaker 1: live in at least two different realities. Talking to a

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Speaker 1: friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker

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Speaker 1: because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed

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Speaker 1: me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly

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Speaker 1: reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never

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Speaker 1: seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence

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Speaker 1: against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his

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Speaker 1: remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated

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Speaker 1: for his violent act. She was horrified by a number

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Speaker 1: of things that he said, but she had never seen

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Speaker 1: or heard them before, the same as I had never

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Speaker 1: seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like

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Speaker 1: a perfectly nice, loving man and father. Neither of us

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Speaker 1: had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he

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Speaker 1: was a known white supremacist, and she thought I was joking.

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Speaker 1: She talked about him giving a speech about finding your

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Speaker 1: purpose and doing good in the world, and I thought

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Speaker 1: she was joking. Oh, and my friend had never heard

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Speaker 1: and God helped me. I don't know how she escaped

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Speaker 1: the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife

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Speaker 1: and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over

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Speaker 1: their child to protect the child. The other couple who

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Speaker 1: somehow survived politically motivated attacks, specifically because they were Democrats.

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Speaker 1: She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because

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Speaker 1: I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them, The kidnapping

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Speaker 1: plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor, the assassination attempt

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Speaker 1: against Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, all things Charlie had plenty

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Speaker 1: to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing

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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party. She didn't know about any of it

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Speaker 1: because we are all living in two different worlds. And

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Speaker 1: the quote supplied by Rick Pearlstein, Facebook author unknown, it

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Speaker 1: boils down to this. In short, God knows how many

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk's mourners and those planning, plotting, exacting revenge

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Speaker 1: right now never ever have heard him say this.

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Speaker 3: I want to watch that execution. That'll make my day better.

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Speaker 3: I want to see him on a public block and

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Speaker 3: get him be publicly executed. And I think that would

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Speaker 3: be justice. You think children should have, you should see it.

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Speaker 3: What is the age? What age should you start to

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Speaker 3: see public execution? Sixteen?

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Speaker 1: I think I think you could do it earlier.

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Speaker 3: I think you maybe at age twelve.

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Speaker 1: Whenever it's great or so.

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Speaker 3: Kirk describes King as quote a bad guy. It's true,

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Speaker 3: and Kirk's self described very very radical view that the

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Speaker 3: country made a mistake when it passed the Civil Rights

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Speaker 3: Act also true.

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Speaker 1: As we note in.

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Speaker 3: The piece, Kirk has previously described Kirk as a hero

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Speaker 3: and a civil rights icon. It's true, I used to

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Speaker 3: be wrong. What inspired Kirk to shift his view on MLK?

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Speaker 3: Why does Kirk think that MLK is a bad guy?

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Speaker 3: When Kirk says that MLKA says quote one good thing,

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Speaker 3: he didn't believe, what does he mean by that? Why

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Speaker 3: does Kirk believe passing the Civil Rights Act was a mistake?

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Speaker 3: Now Again, apparently they don't listen to the show, because

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Speaker 3: we do it at least once a week, right, once

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Speaker 3: a week we talked about why the Civil Rights Act

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Speaker 3: was a mistake.

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Speaker 1: The second thing I think is in play that explains

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Speaker 1: the overreaction, the threats, the docks, and the promises of

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Speaker 1: vengeance unspoken because they're all King leering this. They'll threaten

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Speaker 1: you now and then figure out what they're threatening with later.

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Speaker 1: The right wing is suddenly and for the first time

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Speaker 1: in at least a decade, scared. I mean since Obama

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Speaker 1: chose not to prosecute or even expose anybody in the

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Speaker 1: Bush administration for an orchestrated campaign of torture and an

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Speaker 1: orchestrated campaign of manipulation of terror threats to use them

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Speaker 1: against the American public. The right wing, especially the unstable

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Speaker 1: end of the right wing, has known it will get

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Speaker 1: no blowback from the Democrats none. As I said the

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Speaker 1: night before Obama was inaugurated, if a president or those

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Speaker 1: working for him commit crimes and you specifically choose not

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Speaker 1: to prosecute him and them, the next president knows in

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Speaker 1: advance that those laws do not apply to him and them.

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Speaker 1: That was Trump's glideway. Biden, of course, made it worse,

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Speaker 1: assuming not just that the country was elastic and would

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Speaker 1: snap back to shape as soon as Trump was out,

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Speaker 1: but that he would be harming its recovery if he

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Speaker 1: puts somebody at justice who was willing to prosecute Trump.

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Speaker 1: As of twelve h one on January twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland will go down in history if there isn't

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Speaker 1: a history near James Buchanan for criminal negligence in public office. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: I suspect now Joe Biden will go with him, so

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Speaker 1: against that backdrop. Even during Trump's time as the crazed,

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Speaker 1: exiled dictator, his bonaparte days, the increasingly despotic rite has

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Speaker 1: pretty much gotten away with everything since Trump came down

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Speaker 1: that escalator, and the damn thing didn't open up and

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Speaker 1: swallow him in roote. I mean, Trump was even shot

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Speaker 1: and stalked with surprising and terrifying success. I will confess

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Speaker 1: I believe for quite a while that his involuntary ear

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Speaker 1: piercing was from glass shards and not bullets. But I

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Speaker 1: never doubted he was the victim of an assassination attempt.

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Speaker 1: The second one, the one at the golf course, was

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Speaker 1: far less serious, but still that guy got stunningly close

640
00:45:04,755 --> 00:45:11,475
Speaker 1: to doing something genuinely threatening. The religious lunatic wing of

641
00:45:11,515 --> 00:45:15,395
Speaker 1: the proverbial basket of deplorables quickly turned those episodes into

642
00:45:15,475 --> 00:45:21,035
Speaker 1: God preserving Trump, and once Trump saw the campaign value

643
00:45:21,035 --> 00:45:24,675
Speaker 1: of that, I have God's endorsement, to say nothing of

644
00:45:24,675 --> 00:45:27,195
Speaker 1: the license it gave him to complain about something else

645
00:45:27,275 --> 00:45:31,035
Speaker 1: all the damn time, all the goddamned time, he began

646
00:45:31,075 --> 00:45:32,835
Speaker 1: to adopt it too, And if you can remember back

647
00:45:32,835 --> 00:45:35,755
Speaker 1: to last month, he was still campaigning off this phony

648
00:45:35,795 --> 00:45:42,795
Speaker 1: religious awakening thing. When he went MIA and he put

649
00:45:42,795 --> 00:45:44,915
Speaker 1: out these I want to try to get to Heaven

650
00:45:44,995 --> 00:45:48,315
Speaker 1: fundraising email blasts. I'll say it again, don't let us

651
00:45:48,355 --> 00:45:53,675
Speaker 1: stop your pal. The problem with religious fervor and the

652
00:45:53,675 --> 00:45:56,835
Speaker 1: belief that you are ordained or imbued or protected or

653
00:45:56,875 --> 00:45:58,795
Speaker 1: something is that you soon begin to treat it as

654
00:45:58,795 --> 00:46:03,875
Speaker 1: an endless salad bowl. As the counter terrorism experts used

655
00:46:03,875 --> 00:46:05,515
Speaker 1: to tell me when the micro phones were off, we

656
00:46:05,595 --> 00:46:07,995
Speaker 1: have one hidden advantage over the terrorists that we don't

657
00:46:08,035 --> 00:46:12,275
Speaker 1: like to emphasize, just in case they're watching and they realize, hey,

658
00:46:12,315 --> 00:46:17,235
Speaker 1: they're right. A terrorist who mixes in belief in divine

659
00:46:17,355 --> 00:46:21,715
Speaker 1: protection and intervention and I'm doing God's plan or whoever's plan,

660
00:46:22,275 --> 00:46:25,155
Speaker 1: that person tends to put together the most meticulous and

661
00:46:25,315 --> 00:46:28,915
Speaker 1: intricate plan for the first eighty five to ninety percent

662
00:46:28,915 --> 00:46:31,875
Speaker 1: of the attack. The last ten percent, God will take

663
00:46:31,875 --> 00:46:35,795
Speaker 1: care of us. He's on our side. What do you

664
00:46:35,835 --> 00:46:40,355
Speaker 1: mean you didn't get an escape car. As a quick reminder,

665
00:46:40,555 --> 00:46:43,755
Speaker 1: I also don't think there has ever been a war, conventional,

666
00:46:43,795 --> 00:46:46,595
Speaker 1: guerrilla or terror based, in which the losing side was

667
00:46:46,595 --> 00:46:50,195
Speaker 1: not actually stunned when they lost, because wait, wait, wait,

668
00:46:50,275 --> 00:46:53,275
Speaker 1: did the Lord take the day off? He said we

669
00:46:53,275 --> 00:46:56,915
Speaker 1: were going to win? I heard him, What do you

670
00:46:56,955 --> 00:46:59,555
Speaker 1: mean that was a tumor? So Maga and the rest

671
00:46:59,595 --> 00:47:01,995
Speaker 1: have been operating all this time, not just convinced of

672
00:47:02,035 --> 00:47:08,475
Speaker 1: political invincibility, but of actual invincs ability, actual immortality until

673
00:47:08,555 --> 00:47:14,395
Speaker 1: last Wednesday. I am unafraid to say this. I don't

674
00:47:14,435 --> 00:47:18,755
Speaker 1: think it costs me credibility. I am against shooting political commentators,

675
00:47:19,435 --> 00:47:26,915
Speaker 1: mostly because I'm a political commentator. I am against shooting

676
00:47:26,955 --> 00:47:31,115
Speaker 1: people in general. But the commentator part is, you know personal.

677
00:47:33,435 --> 00:47:35,475
Speaker 1: Can you say that on the right and not get

678
00:47:35,475 --> 00:47:39,755
Speaker 1: thrown out of the macho or female macho club? And

679
00:47:39,835 --> 00:47:41,915
Speaker 1: if you can't say it, you not only have in

680
00:47:41,955 --> 00:47:44,235
Speaker 1: your mind that video of Charlie Kirk in an almost

681
00:47:44,235 --> 00:47:47,235
Speaker 1: exact frame for frame match of the assassination of the

682
00:47:47,555 --> 00:47:51,195
Speaker 1: fictional Senator John Yerki's Iceland from the Manchurian candidate, but

683
00:47:51,275 --> 00:47:55,355
Speaker 1: you naturally can envision that being you, and you can't

684
00:47:55,435 --> 00:48:00,435
Speaker 1: say that terrifies you, even though saying that terrifies me.

685
00:48:00,835 --> 00:48:02,635
Speaker 1: That would be the most human things most of these

686
00:48:02,715 --> 00:48:06,715
Speaker 1: Yaho's had done in the last decade. So for many

687
00:48:06,755 --> 00:48:09,195
Speaker 1: of the other mag assholes, who this time last week

688
00:48:09,235 --> 00:48:12,555
Speaker 1: were criticizing Charlie Kirk, or scheming behind his back to

689
00:48:12,555 --> 00:48:15,075
Speaker 1: take his online audience away from him, or trying to

690
00:48:15,075 --> 00:48:19,635
Speaker 1: get pasted him to Trump. Laura Lumer Kough cough the

691
00:48:19,675 --> 00:48:23,315
Speaker 1: current rage and vengeance tour is in part a cover

692
00:48:23,715 --> 00:48:29,155
Speaker 1: for their own fear. A British conservative columnist said he's

693
00:48:29,155 --> 00:48:32,475
Speaker 1: now for the first time in his life afraid. The

694
00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:35,955
Speaker 1: Times had six fascists write blurbs about why they were

695
00:48:36,035 --> 00:48:40,795
Speaker 1: running away. Peter McHugh, editor of a conservative student rag

696
00:48:40,795 --> 00:48:44,235
Speaker 1: at the University of Virginia, says, I'm out quote. Even

697
00:48:44,275 --> 00:48:46,675
Speaker 1: those committed to many of the things mister Kirk encouraged

698
00:48:46,715 --> 00:48:50,195
Speaker 1: conversation political engagement are questioning if it's worth the risk.

699
00:48:50,795 --> 00:48:54,555
Speaker 1: This morning, another writer at The Jefferson Independent confided that

700
00:48:54,595 --> 00:48:58,115
Speaker 1: they would never again attend a university sponsored political event.

701
00:48:58,675 --> 00:49:02,195
Speaker 1: The fear that controversial speech can provoke genuine violence is

702
00:49:02,235 --> 00:49:09,875
Speaker 1: no longer theoretical for students but real translation appropriate to Virginia.

703
00:49:10,515 --> 00:49:13,395
Speaker 1: When I quoted Patrick Henry saying give me liberty or

704
00:49:13,395 --> 00:49:19,515
Speaker 1: give me death, I meant your death. And I think

705
00:49:19,515 --> 00:49:22,475
Speaker 1: there's even a second level to this fear, as the

706
00:49:22,555 --> 00:49:26,075
Speaker 1: reverence for Kirk inside the authoritarian plot was a surprise

707
00:49:26,155 --> 00:49:28,675
Speaker 1: to most of us out here in the real world.

708
00:49:29,195 --> 00:49:32,075
Speaker 1: So too was what is now obviously a deep and

709
00:49:32,115 --> 00:49:38,555
Speaker 1: pervasive hatred of his influence and ubiquity. What if it's

710
00:49:38,555 --> 00:49:42,875
Speaker 1: true in Kirk really was oft by words from his

711
00:49:42,995 --> 00:49:46,835
Speaker 1: own side. Now they all have to worry about that.

712
00:49:48,795 --> 00:49:51,755
Speaker 1: It is part and parcel of all authoritarian movements, that

713
00:49:51,795 --> 00:49:55,755
Speaker 1: the bloodlust doesn't just emanate outwards, can't find an enemy

714
00:49:55,795 --> 00:50:00,075
Speaker 1: to destroy, try an ally, like the Loomer quote I

715
00:50:00,155 --> 00:50:03,195
Speaker 1: read and the Fuentes clip I played before the break

716
00:50:04,315 --> 00:50:09,315
Speaker 1: and the you know, the whole French Revolution, so long

717
00:50:09,355 --> 00:50:11,635
Speaker 1: before the rest of us found out about the groper

718
00:50:11,755 --> 00:50:14,875
Speaker 1: war against Kirk and the bitterness towards him within MAGA,

719
00:50:15,315 --> 00:50:18,275
Speaker 1: there was far more resentment of him, far more schism

720
00:50:18,435 --> 00:50:21,155
Speaker 1: than we could have possibly known or cared about. Frankly,

721
00:50:22,155 --> 00:50:24,875
Speaker 1: which head of the hydra is the worst? Who cares?

722
00:50:25,715 --> 00:50:31,675
Speaker 1: Just cut it off? Well they care. And then there's

723
00:50:31,715 --> 00:50:34,355
Speaker 1: the tertiary level of this fear, the one that combines

724
00:50:34,435 --> 00:50:38,955
Speaker 1: the realization that no God is protecting them and that

725
00:50:38,995 --> 00:50:42,635
Speaker 1: the call may be coming from inside the house since

726
00:50:42,715 --> 00:50:46,635
Speaker 1: Kirk's murder, through all the twists and roller coasters, and

727
00:50:46,715 --> 00:50:51,275
Speaker 1: trumpest lies and Ezra Kleine, inanities and assumptions and presumptions.

728
00:50:51,315 --> 00:50:53,755
Speaker 1: I have kept coming back to three words, the exact

729
00:50:53,795 --> 00:50:55,875
Speaker 1: relevance of which has not been immediately clear to me,

730
00:50:56,035 --> 00:50:59,795
Speaker 1: but which I was certain had some relevance. The three

731
00:50:59,835 --> 00:51:05,195
Speaker 1: words are Lee Harvey Oswald. I do not want to

732
00:51:05,195 --> 00:51:08,755
Speaker 1: make false equivalencies here. I'll repeat this. I am opposed

733
00:51:09,275 --> 00:51:14,995
Speaker 1: to shooting political commentators. I appreciate my main reason for

734
00:51:15,075 --> 00:51:17,475
Speaker 1: my opposition may seem self centered to you. I think

735
00:51:17,475 --> 00:51:20,395
Speaker 1: it's justifiable. I'm opposed to shooting political commentators because I'm

736
00:51:20,395 --> 00:51:24,315
Speaker 1: a political commentator. I am opposed to shooting anybody. I'm

737
00:51:24,315 --> 00:51:29,435
Speaker 1: opposed to shooting presidents, but that requires a longer explanation.

738
00:51:30,995 --> 00:51:34,155
Speaker 1: Invoking Oswald does not mean I am, for a moment,

739
00:51:34,195 --> 00:51:38,515
Speaker 1: equating Charlie Kirk and President Kennedy. I am, in the

740
00:51:38,515 --> 00:51:44,275
Speaker 1: most preliminary way possible, equating this suspect Tyler Robinson to Oswald. Obviously,

741
00:51:44,315 --> 00:51:48,035
Speaker 1: the shot itself continues to inspire disbelief. On the other hand,

742
00:51:48,075 --> 00:51:50,275
Speaker 1: if people could not hit a target at such distance,

743
00:51:50,475 --> 00:51:52,555
Speaker 1: guns would be far less of a threat, wouldn't they.

744
00:51:53,675 --> 00:51:57,515
Speaker 1: Guns make idiots? Into agents of historical change, and guns

745
00:51:57,555 --> 00:52:01,795
Speaker 1: make cowards into legends. But more importantly, the further you

746
00:52:01,835 --> 00:52:04,115
Speaker 1: dig down into Robinson, the more you discover it's just

747
00:52:04,195 --> 00:52:08,235
Speaker 1: one leg level of nihilism. It was hiding another level

748
00:52:08,235 --> 00:52:13,955
Speaker 1: of nihilism. One high school classmate summed up what he

749
00:52:14,035 --> 00:52:16,275
Speaker 1: knew of Robinson and said, he probably just shot Kirk

750
00:52:16,395 --> 00:52:20,555
Speaker 1: just to impress his friends. And if it is the

751
00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:24,155
Speaker 1: Groper thing, what do they believe in anyway? Nominally they

752
00:52:24,155 --> 00:52:28,195
Speaker 1: are ultra fascists, ultra white supremacists, ultra arians, and they're

753
00:52:28,275 --> 00:52:31,555
Speaker 1: led by a guy named Fuentes, who, by definition is

754
00:52:31,635 --> 00:52:34,035
Speaker 1: viewed by a large percentage of the less murderous MAGA

755
00:52:34,195 --> 00:52:39,795
Speaker 1: as not being uh totally white. The groper belief system

756
00:52:39,875 --> 00:52:43,435
Speaker 1: is less we hate them than it is you over there,

757
00:52:43,475 --> 00:52:47,155
Speaker 1: we hate you. It is an excuse to bond with

758
00:52:47,195 --> 00:52:49,355
Speaker 1: other people who want to threaten or shoot or kill,

759
00:52:49,395 --> 00:52:51,355
Speaker 1: but need to believe they're doing it for a reason,

760
00:52:53,475 --> 00:52:55,955
Speaker 1: which is where there is cause to consider this Tyler

761
00:52:56,035 --> 00:53:01,155
Speaker 1: Robinson a possible twenty first century version of Oswalt. Even

762
00:53:01,435 --> 00:53:03,755
Speaker 1: at the time, and I was old enough then to

763
00:53:03,795 --> 00:53:08,275
Speaker 1: remember it vaguely, even at the time of the shooting,

764
00:53:10,315 --> 00:53:14,475
Speaker 1: this was out there? What the hell happened here? I

765
00:53:14,675 --> 00:53:16,955
Speaker 1: was old enough to see the first public showings of

766
00:53:16,995 --> 00:53:19,395
Speaker 1: the Supruder film in school in nineteen seventy. I was

767
00:53:19,435 --> 00:53:22,195
Speaker 1: old enough to see the tail end of the first

768
00:53:22,235 --> 00:53:24,555
Speaker 1: backlash to the war and commission, and of course the

769
00:53:24,595 --> 00:53:28,675
Speaker 1: one hundred backlashes since, and even at the time, One

770
00:53:28,675 --> 00:53:31,155
Speaker 1: of the most confounding and panic inducing parts of the

771
00:53:31,155 --> 00:53:35,715
Speaker 1: assassination of President Kennedy was why which group was behind this?

772
00:53:36,995 --> 00:53:39,395
Speaker 1: Even if it really was a lone gunman, which group's

773
00:53:39,395 --> 00:53:44,795
Speaker 1: beliefs was he turning into such horrible action? Having studied

774
00:53:44,795 --> 00:53:47,715
Speaker 1: and analyzed and contemplated this for more than sixty years now,

775
00:53:47,715 --> 00:53:50,475
Speaker 1: I think the correct answer is Lee Harvey Oswald believed

776
00:53:50,475 --> 00:53:54,235
Speaker 1: in nothing except in his murderous rage that he was

777
00:53:54,275 --> 00:53:59,715
Speaker 1: not famous for something. Yet the confusion after the assassination

778
00:53:59,835 --> 00:54:01,755
Speaker 1: only grew as we learned about what he had done

779
00:54:01,755 --> 00:54:06,475
Speaker 1: in life. He'd been in the Marines, a military dictatorship.

780
00:54:06,995 --> 00:54:09,075
Speaker 1: Then he moved to the Soviet Union. Who did that

781
00:54:09,115 --> 00:54:11,435
Speaker 1: in the fifties? Oh, no, I know, it's the Communist

782
00:54:11,955 --> 00:54:14,835
Speaker 1: Besides defactors and spies, he had expected to be a

783
00:54:14,915 --> 00:54:17,755
Speaker 1: king there. An American convert to Communism. Instead, he got

784
00:54:17,795 --> 00:54:20,755
Speaker 1: a wife who he didn't really like that much and

785
00:54:20,835 --> 00:54:23,035
Speaker 1: a crap job in a crap country, and he moved

786
00:54:23,035 --> 00:54:27,515
Speaker 1: back and renounced Russia and communism. Okay, so now he's

787
00:54:27,555 --> 00:54:30,675
Speaker 1: some sort of Russian plant. And in the same year

788
00:54:30,675 --> 00:54:34,875
Speaker 1: that he shot Kennedy, and yeah, he shoined Kennedy. In

789
00:54:34,915 --> 00:54:37,435
Speaker 1: April of nineteen sixty three, tried to kill the rabid

790
00:54:37,515 --> 00:54:42,435
Speaker 1: right wing racist army General Edwin Walker in Dallas. Then

791
00:54:42,475 --> 00:54:44,475
Speaker 1: in August nineteen sixty three, he was on the streets

792
00:54:44,475 --> 00:54:47,915
Speaker 1: of New Orleans handing out leaflets defending the Castro communist

793
00:54:47,915 --> 00:54:54,795
Speaker 1: dictatorship in Cuba. Pick a side if you want to

794
00:54:54,835 --> 00:54:58,675
Speaker 1: do some amateur psychoanalysis. By this point, all politics was

795
00:54:58,795 --> 00:55:01,635
Speaker 1: just one thing to him. He wanted to become famous

796
00:55:01,675 --> 00:55:09,675
Speaker 1: by shooting somebody else famous. You can construct a more

797
00:55:09,715 --> 00:55:12,555
Speaker 1: complicated explanation for all of that. You can construct a

798
00:55:12,595 --> 00:55:15,355
Speaker 1: thousand of them, men, Lord knows, in the last six days,

799
00:55:15,715 --> 00:55:19,395
Speaker 1: six decades. In each case, we have constructed all the

800
00:55:19,435 --> 00:55:24,395
Speaker 1: complicated explanations for the Kennedy and kirk assassinations. But they

801
00:55:24,475 --> 00:55:27,955
Speaker 1: all hit at least one immovable factual problem or another.

802
00:55:28,075 --> 00:55:30,195
Speaker 1: In the Kennedy case, and they all fail to leap

803
00:55:30,235 --> 00:55:34,595
Speaker 1: over Akham's razor. A guy in a gun filled society fails,

804
00:55:35,115 --> 00:55:39,035
Speaker 1: fails again, fails again, repeats, retraces, keeps failing, goes nuts,

805
00:55:39,115 --> 00:55:43,075
Speaker 1: is given an opportunity and a gun and a nightmare ensues.

806
00:55:44,275 --> 00:55:52,115
Speaker 1: That's Oswald parts of it right now, that's Robinson. That's

807
00:55:52,155 --> 00:55:55,795
Speaker 1: the worst. That's the most destabilizing fear of them all.

808
00:55:56,515 --> 00:56:04,955
Speaker 1: The realizingization that no, it's not not them the other side. No,

809
00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:09,595
Speaker 1: you're not divinely protected. To know nothing is permanent, nothing

810
00:56:09,675 --> 00:56:14,395
Speaker 1: in Saane is safe, that it's all to some degree

811
00:56:14,435 --> 00:56:19,795
Speaker 1: from partly to totally, that it's all, including the cliched

812
00:56:19,875 --> 00:56:31,835
Speaker 1: bullet with your name on it, that it is all random.

813
00:56:32,035 --> 00:56:59,715
Speaker 1: Worst persons. Next, this is countdown with Keith Olberman. Believe

814
00:56:59,755 --> 00:57:02,355
Speaker 1: it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.

815
00:57:02,395 --> 00:57:05,555
Speaker 1: The roundup of the miscreants, morons and uning Kruger effects

816
00:57:05,555 --> 00:57:12,195
Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's other worst persons.

817
00:57:13,395 --> 00:57:14,155
Speaker 2: In the world.

818
00:57:16,115 --> 00:57:20,875
Speaker 1: The Bronze Worse Ezra Kleine. You've heard about this already.

819
00:57:21,995 --> 00:57:28,355
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk was practicing politics the right way. Next week,

820
00:57:28,915 --> 00:57:33,915
Speaker 1: Brian Kilmead was practicing television the right way. You can

821
00:57:33,955 --> 00:57:37,075
Speaker 1: dislike much of what Kirk believed, and the following statement

822
00:57:37,155 --> 00:57:41,595
Speaker 1: is still true. Kirk was practicing politics in exactly the

823
00:57:41,675 --> 00:57:45,275
Speaker 1: right way. He was showing up to campuses and talking

824
00:57:45,315 --> 00:57:47,915
Speaker 1: with anyone who would talk to him. He was one

825
00:57:47,955 --> 00:57:52,275
Speaker 1: of the era's most effective practitioners of persuasion. When the

826
00:57:52,395 --> 00:57:54,475
Speaker 1: Left thought its hold on the hearts and minds of

827
00:57:54,675 --> 00:57:58,115
Speaker 1: college students was nearly absolute, Kirk showed up again and

828
00:57:58,155 --> 00:58:02,275
Speaker 1: again to break it, slowly, then all at once. He did.

829
00:58:04,715 --> 00:58:07,515
Speaker 1: You know how he did it? He never bothered to

830
00:58:07,555 --> 00:58:11,235
Speaker 1: worry about telling the truth. It's like Fox News. How

831
00:58:11,275 --> 00:58:14,435
Speaker 1: could they possibly produce that much garbage all the time.

832
00:58:15,035 --> 00:58:19,075
Speaker 1: It's lies. It's lies for an audience that never asks,

833
00:58:19,395 --> 00:58:23,315
Speaker 1: is this lies? Never asks how come these lies don't

834
00:58:23,315 --> 00:58:29,675
Speaker 1: match last week's lies. Charlie Kirk was a gifted bullshit artist.

835
00:58:30,715 --> 00:58:35,275
Speaker 1: I'll give him proper credit for that. As they all are.

836
00:58:35,915 --> 00:58:42,435
Speaker 1: They are sophists, They are perpetrators of circular logic, and

837
00:58:42,795 --> 00:58:45,675
Speaker 1: they have an audience that just wants to have their

838
00:58:45,755 --> 00:58:52,875
Speaker 1: own prejudices and beliefs reinforced. They never criticize their own people.

839
00:58:53,395 --> 00:58:56,395
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, they do. There was that little problem

840
00:58:56,435 --> 00:59:01,155
Speaker 1: with Charlie and everybody farther to the right than him.

841
00:59:01,355 --> 00:59:03,315
Speaker 1: In any event, that's not the point. The point here

842
00:59:03,355 --> 00:59:06,915
Speaker 1: is Ezra Kleine. You know, when they told me Ezra

843
00:59:06,995 --> 00:59:09,315
Speaker 1: Kline had been hired as a columnist by The New

844
00:59:09,395 --> 00:59:12,715
Speaker 1: York Times, I thought it was a gag. Now I'm

845
00:59:12,835 --> 00:59:16,755
Speaker 1: just gagging. Years ago, one of our segment producers who

846
00:59:16,795 --> 00:59:19,795
Speaker 1: once pitched us on a segment that she had read

847
00:59:19,915 --> 00:59:22,795
Speaker 1: a story about She wanted to do this segment about

848
00:59:22,835 --> 00:59:26,755
Speaker 1: how you lost two IQ points for every child you had.

849
00:59:27,635 --> 00:59:30,635
Speaker 1: And I didn't have time to vet every one of

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Speaker 1: it wasn't just a political show, I said, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: don't have children. I guess it's true. We got Carl Reiner,

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Speaker 1: mel Brooks comedic partner father of Rob, to come on

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Speaker 1: as the guest, and in the middle of my interview

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Speaker 1: with Carl Reiner, he said, Keith, I love the show,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think this is a real story. And

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Speaker 1: you know what it wasn't. The producer had not noticed

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Speaker 1: she had been reading this story on a satirical site.

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Speaker 1: Then she had two more pet projects. He kept pushing people.

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Speaker 1: She wanted on as guests. They'll improve the show so

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Speaker 1: much you have to put them on. The first one

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Speaker 1: was Ezra Kleine, so we did. I forget where he

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Speaker 1: was working. Then he was so boring. His insights were

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Speaker 1: so superficial that I actually ended the interview early and

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Speaker 1: I said off camera, never again. Then they booked her

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Speaker 1: second grade idea. That was Ryan Liza. He was so

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Speaker 1: used car salesman ish. I actually ended that interview early

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Speaker 1: and I said never again. And I said to my

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Speaker 1: show producers about the segment producer, maybe she needs to

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Speaker 1: work elsewhere. She then went to work for Glenn Beck.

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Speaker 1: I'm hoping she works with Ezra Kleine. Now. The enconiums

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Speaker 1: for Charlie Kirk in the New York Times, somebody said,

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Speaker 1: well he's dead, we better say something nice about him.

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Speaker 1: Who can we say something nice about? Who's good at

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Speaker 1: writing nonsensical things that don't hold together in praise of

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Speaker 1: stupid thing. Oh that's why we hired Ezra Kline. Runner

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Speaker 1: up worser Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Uh, here we

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Speaker 1: go from Britain's Daily Mail headline quote, Texas Attorney General's

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Speaker 1: caught in shocking sex scandal as details of secret affair

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Speaker 1: with married Christian influencer mom of seven are exposed, define

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Speaker 1: shocking Texas's controversial attorney general the story began, has been

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Speaker 1: caught in a shocking sex scandal less than two years

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Speaker 1: after cheating on his wife with his mistress. The Daily

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Speaker 1: Mail can exclusively reveal Ken Paxton, sixty two, was secretly

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Speaker 1: seeing a married Christian influencer behind the backs of both

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Speaker 1: their partners. Sounds entertaining, at least behind the backs. Multiple

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Speaker 1: sources confirm mother of seven, Tracy Douhan fifty seven, who

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Speaker 1: is also an author, is the reason the politician's relationship

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Speaker 1: crumbled earlier this summer. Texas State Senator Angela Paxton announced

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Speaker 1: in July their thirty eight year old marriage was over

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Speaker 1: in a stinging tweet, citing biblical grounds. She hit him

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Speaker 1: in the nuts for the Bible. It is not the

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Speaker 1: first time Ken Paxton has been rocked by scandal, having

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Speaker 1: been caught cheating on Angela in twenty twenty three with

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Speaker 1: his former mistress Laura Olsen. Oh no, what a shock,

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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton screwing around? Ken's trying to become the senator

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Speaker 1: from Texas. I'm sure he'll win. I mean, after all,

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Speaker 1: Texas have all known for a long time that Ken

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Speaker 1: Paxton has a wandering eye, so to speak. But the

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Speaker 1: worst Rachel Madow, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell, and Everybo nobody

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Speaker 1: else at MSNBC with any sway or heft there except

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Speaker 1: in an irony. I would call it an irony except

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Speaker 1: Katie term. Katie actually comes out at the top of

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Speaker 1: this list in the correct behavior. I was never a

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Speaker 1: Matthew Dowd fan. Matt presented himself as the reasonable Republican.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, he was a key perpetrator in

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Speaker 1: Bush's two thousand and four re election campaign. He was

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Speaker 1: one of them who pretended the swift voting of John Kerry,

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Speaker 1: or the sudden release of the bin Laden video the

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Speaker 1: weekend before the election, or the other terror manipulations were

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Speaker 1: not really part of the campaign. He and I I did,

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Speaker 1: I think, did one panel together later on this week

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Speaker 1: with George Stephanopolis one Sunday morning on ABC. I would

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Speaker 1: not have put him on a list of the one

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Speaker 1: hundred worst Conservatives, but I wouldn't have put him on

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Speaker 1: a list of the one hundred best either. Until last

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Speaker 1: week in the hours after Charlie Kirk shot. He said

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Speaker 1: some tough truth. He said it somberly, he said it solemnly,

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Speaker 1: And to Katie Ur's credit, she didn't back away from him.

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Speaker 1: She didn't tut him, she didn't tell the principle on him.

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Speaker 1: To Doud, it did not matter what was presumed about

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Speaker 1: the shooter. It mattered to that Charlie Kirk trafficked in

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Speaker 1: hate and violence and political threat and intimidation and an

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Speaker 1: effort to undermine our democracy. It needed to be said.

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Speaker 1: Katie asked him about the overall environment in which indefensible

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Speaker 1: events like his assassination happened, and Matt Dowd told the

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Speaker 1: truth quote, He's been one of the most divisive, especially

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Speaker 1: divisive younger figures in this who was constantly sort of

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Speaker 1: pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed

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Speaker 1: at certain groups. And I always go back to hateful

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Speaker 1: thoughts lead to hateful words, which lead to hateful actions.

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Speaker 1: And I think that is the environment we are in.

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Speaker 1: You can't stop with these sort of awful thoughts you

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Speaker 1: have and then saying these awful words and not expect

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Speaker 1: awful actions to take place. And that's the unfortunate environment

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Speaker 1: we are in. Unquote that's true, not cheering the assassination

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Speaker 1: nor ignoring the shock. It wasn't too soon, it wasn't unfair.

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Speaker 1: It didn't blame Charlie Kirk for his own shooting. It

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Speaker 1: did not say it was justified. It did not say

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Speaker 1: shooting was justified. It was saying that eventually, if you

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Speaker 1: play with a gun, your odds of shooting yourself do

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Speaker 1: increase metaphorically speaking. And MSNBC fired him before the day

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Speaker 1: was over. The right wingers who now own and run

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Speaker 1: MSNBC or whatever they're calling it this week, the Comcast CEO,

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Speaker 1: a cowardly money monkey named Brian Roberts, somebody named Mike

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Speaker 1: Cabanaugh who assumed power after they had to fire Jeff

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Speaker 1: Shell for lying, and the chairman of the new company

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Speaker 1: they created to put distance between NBC and Comcast and MSNBC.

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01:06:03,035 --> 01:06:08,355
Speaker 1: This thing versan't Spinco is a better name, Mark Lazarus.

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Speaker 1: They then warned the staff of MSNBC about dialogue with

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Speaker 1: respect and we need to do better, and the usual

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Speaker 1: language of executives who were worried about losing three dollars

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Speaker 1: who have lost already all sense that they're not laying

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Speaker 1: cable anymore for a living. But they are handling journalism

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Speaker 1: in a time when democracy is under threat and journalism

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Speaker 1: is one of the last weapons we have to protect it,

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Speaker 1: including their ability to make money off of it, including

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Speaker 1: their ability to make money without tithing Donald Trump, including

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Speaker 1: their freedoms, not just the freedoms of the people out

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Speaker 1: on the front lines. Dowd later explained what happened that day,

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Speaker 1: quoting him, the right wing media mob ginned up, went

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Speaker 1: after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted

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Speaker 1: to that mob, even though most at MSNBC knew my

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Speaker 1: words were being misconstrued, the timing of my words forgotten.

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Speaker 1: Remember I said this for anyone knew was a target,

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Speaker 1: and then I apologized for any miscommunication on my part.

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Speaker 1: I was terminated by the end of the day. Ordinarily

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Speaker 1: I would make a big deal about the irony. Here

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Speaker 1: a former member of what twenty years ago we thought

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Speaker 1: was the worst right wing media mob imaginable being taken

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Speaker 1: down by what turns out to be truly the worst

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Speaker 1: right wing media mob imaginable, including agents inside MSNBC's own house,

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Speaker 1: like Joe Scarborough and his wife, the one who used

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Speaker 1: to be somebody else's wife. But my point here is,

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Speaker 1: once again, MSNBC still makes a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: its primetime stars make lots of money, and they've all

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Speaker 1: been on their jobs since their shows were spun off

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Speaker 1: from mine. And the most recent of those spin offs

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Speaker 1: was Hayes. And now that's like fourteen years ago. And

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Speaker 1: I have to tell you this simply as somebody who

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Speaker 1: stopped making that kind of money thirteen years ago. If

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Speaker 1: Madow and O'Donnell and hay do not now have enough

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Speaker 1: money by now to cover them and the next six

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Speaker 1: or seven generations of their families for the rest of

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Speaker 1: their lives, they have really left up so exactly, why

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Speaker 1: would they not say something anything about Matt Dowd being

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Speaker 1: thrown overboard when he was right, But even if he

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Speaker 1: wasn't right or could have been better timed, even if

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Speaker 1: the new MSNBC is supposed to be about dialogue at worst,

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Speaker 1: they should have suspended him if that much. Why haven't

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Speaker 1: they said anything about this? Why haven't they defended the

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Speaker 1: freedom of speech they are now complaining the far right

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Speaker 1: is trying to cancel. We are living in a time

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Speaker 1: in which there is a president who says he is

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Speaker 1: going to stop free speech because of Charlie Kirk. He

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Speaker 1: is going to stop it. He is going to use

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Speaker 1: the weapons of government against you and me and Rachel

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Speaker 1: Maddow and MSNBC and Chris Hayes and O'Donnell and the

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Speaker 1: place that O'Donnell and Hayes and Mattow and the rest

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Speaker 1: of them, the place they work obeys in advance. In fact,

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Speaker 1: MSNBC was the first place, the first place to punish

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Speaker 1: an employee for not being sufficiently phony about the death

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk, the first By Friday, it had turned out,

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Speaker 1: of course that in the black and white world that

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Speaker 1: scumbags like Brian Roberts and Mike Kavanaugh and Mark Lazarus

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Speaker 1: live in, that Kirk had been shot, if not directly

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Speaker 1: by his own side, then certainly under the influence of

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Speaker 1: somebody who was under the influence of their own side.

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Speaker 1: And MSNBC helped legitimize the entire clamp down on criticism

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Speaker 1: of Charlie Kirk by firing Matt Dowd, and Mattow and

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Speaker 1: Hayes and O'Donnell helped legitimize out's firing by their cowardice.

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Speaker 1: Rachel Meadow is a coward. Chris Hayes is a coward.

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Speaker 1: Lawrence O'Donnell is in fact two or three cowards. Their

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Speaker 1: cowardice in not speaking up in some way, shape or form.

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Speaker 1: Because what would Rachel Meadow do without another twenty five

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Speaker 1: million dollars this year? I used to look for opportunities

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Speaker 1: to reveal management hypocrisy or malpractice. I used to look

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Speaker 1: at ESPN, at KCBS in La, at my college radio station.

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Speaker 1: I used to look for executives who really screwed up,

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Speaker 1: or who really were doing bad things. I like to

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Speaker 1: try to humiliate them in some way, or at least

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Speaker 1: let people know what they were doing. He used to

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Speaker 1: look for this. It's a dangerous hobby, but one I

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Speaker 1: thought was part of my duty my career. I was

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Speaker 1: paid back with a reputation as a troublemaker. You bet

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Speaker 1: your ass, I'm a troublemaker. Rachel Maddow a fake troublemaker.

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Speaker 1: Chris Hayes, who once refused to go on Countdown as

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Speaker 1: the host because MSNBC had breached my contract by suspending me.

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Speaker 1: They asked him to anchor in my place, and he went, no,

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Speaker 1: you're wrong, I'm not going to do it, and he

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Speaker 1: was making I don't know fifty thousand dollars a year

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Speaker 1: from MSNBC at that point, if that much, and risked

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Speaker 1: all of it and everything he could ever possibly make,

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Speaker 1: including all the money he has made. He risked all that.

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Speaker 1: Then he wouldn't risk something now And then O'Donnell well,

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Speaker 1: and he was a fake in twenty eleven. He's a

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Speaker 1: fake today. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes, Laurence O'Donnell silent as

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Speaker 1: they were when MSNBC fired Mehdi Hassan, and when MSNBC

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Speaker 1: fired Joy Read, and when MSNBC fired Katie Fang, and

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Speaker 1: when m SNBC fired Melissa Harris Perry, and when MSNBC

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Speaker 1: fired Tiffany Cross. Oh, and when MSNBC fired all of

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Speaker 1: Rachel meadows staff silent Now sure why not? I mean

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Speaker 1: they still get their money, right, Today's other worst persons

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Speaker 1: in the world. I've done all the damage I can

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Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our Countdown

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Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Range, John

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Speaker 1: Phillip Schaneil. Our musical directors of Countdown was produced by

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Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums.

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Speaker 1: Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our satirical and pithy

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Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,

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Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The Old Woman theme from ESPN two, written

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Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is our

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Speaker 1: sports music. Other music arranged and performed by the group

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Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my friend Larry David.

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

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Speaker 1: Day two hundred and forty of America held hostage, just

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Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty three days until the scheduled end

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Speaker 1: of his lame duck and lame brain term unless he

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Speaker 1: is removed sooner by Maga, Jeffrey Epstein, or the pavement

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Speaker 1: on his hand, or hey, anybody notice he's been silent

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Speaker 1: again recently. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Until then,

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Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and

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Speaker 1: wait for it, good luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is

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