1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:21,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Harris 2 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:26,435 Speaker 1: fifty one, Trump forty five, Morning Consult, Harris fifty one, 3 00:00:26,555 --> 00:00:31,795 Speaker 1: Trump forty three, Big Village, Harris forty nine, Trump forty five, 4 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:37,355 Speaker 1: Monmouth University Harris fifty two Trump forty eighth, Harris Pohle, 5 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:41,995 Speaker 1: Harris is Mark Penn on July twenty six, Mark Penn, 6 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:46,995 Speaker 1: the Dick Morris of Bill Rasmussen's Only Bitterer, had it 7 00:00:47,035 --> 00:00:49,955 Speaker 1: Trump by two, Now he has it Harris by four. 8 00:00:51,155 --> 00:00:54,115 Speaker 1: This is the debate bounce, and maybe it is more 9 00:00:54,155 --> 00:00:59,355 Speaker 1: than that. She may repeat, may caveat may warning. Even 10 00:00:59,395 --> 00:01:03,115 Speaker 1: if so, keep your foot on the gas. May be 11 00:01:03,275 --> 00:01:07,835 Speaker 1: pulling away from Trump. There may be new polls today 12 00:01:07,875 --> 00:01:12,195 Speaker 1: reflecting Trump's Sunday, when a twenty sixteen Trump voter with 13 00:01:12,235 --> 00:01:15,115 Speaker 1: a gun tragically snuffed out the life of Trump's round 14 00:01:15,195 --> 00:01:18,515 Speaker 1: of golf. It was only five holes. 15 00:01:17,875 --> 00:01:19,915 Speaker 2: Old e. 16 00:01:20,235 --> 00:01:23,075 Speaker 1: He may get a bump. We don't have any of 17 00:01:23,115 --> 00:01:26,395 Speaker 1: those yet. And there could be a bounce, because Lord knows, 18 00:01:26,435 --> 00:01:28,635 Speaker 1: Trump and Vance and the louder and dumber of the 19 00:01:28,635 --> 00:01:31,755 Speaker 1: Trump surrogates are doing everything they can to milk this, 20 00:01:32,235 --> 00:01:35,475 Speaker 1: except for saying you better support Trump. Or we'll have 21 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:38,355 Speaker 1: to have somebody else from our own side try a 22 00:01:38,515 --> 00:01:42,795 Speaker 1: third time, even as the campaign leadership itself is reportedly 23 00:01:42,875 --> 00:01:47,115 Speaker 1: desperate to move on from the shooting attempts and try 24 00:01:47,115 --> 00:01:54,435 Speaker 1: to focus him on policy. You know, policy like mandatory childbirthing, 25 00:01:54,795 --> 00:01:58,795 Speaker 1: with Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacking the Vice president last night 26 00:01:59,475 --> 00:02:03,195 Speaker 1: for only being a stepmother, even though she Huckaby has 27 00:02:03,555 --> 00:02:09,155 Speaker 1: endowed her unfortun child with the name huck huck Huckabee, 28 00:02:09,915 --> 00:02:15,555 Speaker 1: although what a lectern he will inherit someday policies They 29 00:02:15,595 --> 00:02:19,555 Speaker 1: want to keep Trump on policies, killing off another Senate 30 00:02:19,555 --> 00:02:24,115 Speaker 1: attempt to protect in vitro fertilization yesterday, and Vance's clever 31 00:02:24,235 --> 00:02:28,915 Speaker 1: revelation that under Trump Bamacare, that would take people with 32 00:02:29,035 --> 00:02:31,955 Speaker 1: pre existing conditions and put them in their own insurance 33 00:02:32,035 --> 00:02:36,555 Speaker 1: pool so that they can't afford healthcare and the insurance 34 00:02:36,555 --> 00:02:39,995 Speaker 1: companies don't have to pay for healthcare, which is just 35 00:02:40,075 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: the old Monty Python joke about how they'd love to 36 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:45,555 Speaker 1: pay you your claim, but unfortunately you signed up for 37 00:02:45,675 --> 00:02:50,315 Speaker 1: their never pay policy. Back to the Vice President's polling, 38 00:02:50,355 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: and it is so good. Even Axios was forced to 39 00:02:52,955 --> 00:02:58,435 Speaker 1: write an article headlined Kamala Harris's polling renaissance and lead 40 00:02:58,515 --> 00:03:00,635 Speaker 1: with the fact that, according to the five thirty eight 41 00:03:00,715 --> 00:03:04,155 Speaker 1: average of polls yesterday, for the first time since July 42 00:03:04,235 --> 00:03:08,755 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one, her net favorability moved into positive 43 00:03:08,835 --> 00:03:14,075 Speaker 1: territory forty six point six percent approval to forty six 44 00:03:14,075 --> 00:03:19,035 Speaker 1: point five percent disapproval. Now that is about as not 45 00:03:19,355 --> 00:03:23,835 Speaker 1: a landslide as you could get. But I can't believe 46 00:03:23,835 --> 00:03:28,715 Speaker 1: I'm saying this. As Axios notes, it is an almost 47 00:03:28,995 --> 00:03:33,835 Speaker 1: unprecedented turnaround. Vice President Harris, whose net approval is plus 48 00:03:34,155 --> 00:03:40,355 Speaker 1: zero point one above water, was on July fourteenth at 49 00:03:40,435 --> 00:03:46,675 Speaker 1: minus seventeen, and again Axios is sticking to averages of 50 00:03:46,795 --> 00:03:50,075 Speaker 1: large numbers of poles. It also highlighted the five point 51 00:03:50,075 --> 00:03:53,395 Speaker 1: thirty eight polling average, where she's up by three, and 52 00:03:53,515 --> 00:03:56,835 Speaker 1: its electoral college model, in which Harris wins sixty one 53 00:03:56,875 --> 00:04:00,635 Speaker 1: times out of one hundred, and the Economist polling average, 54 00:04:00,675 --> 00:04:04,195 Speaker 1: which shows her up by four. And Nate Silver's Okay, 55 00:04:04,235 --> 00:04:07,235 Speaker 1: maybe I did pull this number out of my ass model, 56 00:04:07,515 --> 00:04:10,155 Speaker 1: which he acknowledges went from last week giving Trump a 57 00:04:10,315 --> 00:04:13,675 Speaker 1: two thirds chance of winning to Nate now saying to 58 00:04:13,715 --> 00:04:16,555 Speaker 1: Axios that Harris is quote moving up in the polls 59 00:04:16,675 --> 00:04:19,915 Speaker 1: enough that the model is converging back toward fifty to 60 00:04:19,955 --> 00:04:24,915 Speaker 1: fifty in the electoral college. There is one other number 61 00:04:24,995 --> 00:04:29,275 Speaker 1: of note inside the ABC poll from Sunday in that 62 00:04:29,915 --> 00:04:34,435 Speaker 1: Harris is at forty five percent among likely voters who 63 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:39,555 Speaker 1: are white. So what that's not a majority? Well, if accurate, 64 00:04:39,875 --> 00:04:43,435 Speaker 1: forty five percent would be the largest white support for 65 00:04:43,555 --> 00:04:48,235 Speaker 1: any Democratic nominee since Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six. 66 00:04:49,635 --> 00:04:53,875 Speaker 1: Is that number accurate? I don't know the five thirty 67 00:04:53,915 --> 00:04:57,875 Speaker 1: eight net approval number who knows Harris by six in 68 00:04:57,955 --> 00:05:01,355 Speaker 1: Morning consult seven to eight in Big Village got a 69 00:05:01,435 --> 00:05:04,755 Speaker 1: six point swing in the Mark Penn poll. I don't know. 70 00:05:04,675 --> 00:05:06,875 Speaker 1: You know what we need? We need some poll numbers 71 00:05:06,875 --> 00:05:09,435 Speaker 1: on whether or not the poll numbers are at all reliable. 72 00:05:10,595 --> 00:05:13,795 Speaker 1: I see them chiefly, not as some sort of guarantee, 73 00:05:14,075 --> 00:05:18,155 Speaker 1: nor even a disincentive to work harder, work harder than that. 74 00:05:18,875 --> 00:05:24,195 Speaker 1: I see them chiefly as everybody involved getting to sleep 75 00:05:24,555 --> 00:05:28,195 Speaker 1: more and spending more time trying to get her elected 76 00:05:28,315 --> 00:05:32,755 Speaker 1: and less time trying to choose move to Montreal or 77 00:05:32,875 --> 00:05:38,235 Speaker 1: move to Toronto. Oh Toronto, Because there's baseball no Montreal 78 00:05:38,315 --> 00:06:05,595 Speaker 1: because that baseball is the Blue Jays. Oh, there goes 79 00:06:05,675 --> 00:06:09,795 Speaker 1: the Canadian audience. Actually they know, they know about the 80 00:06:09,835 --> 00:06:12,915 Speaker 1: Blue Jays. They know. Meanwhile, I wish there were a 81 00:06:12,995 --> 00:06:16,715 Speaker 1: kind of all purpose omnibus polling number to indicate just 82 00:06:16,755 --> 00:06:20,155 Speaker 1: how much of a gift from a divine providence JD. 83 00:06:20,475 --> 00:06:25,035 Speaker 1: Vance really is. I mean, maybe his IQ plus the 84 00:06:25,075 --> 00:06:28,555 Speaker 1: number of points Harris has gained since Trump picked him. 85 00:06:29,035 --> 00:06:31,395 Speaker 1: I bet the number is like up to eighty seven 86 00:06:31,515 --> 00:06:35,115 Speaker 1: or eighty eight by now. Because JV is a freaking moron. 87 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:40,715 Speaker 1: I mean, he may be functionally dumber than Trump. He 88 00:06:40,915 --> 00:06:45,635 Speaker 1: certainly has an advantage on Trump of being generally aware 89 00:06:46,235 --> 00:06:48,475 Speaker 1: of what those sounds are that are coming out of 90 00:06:48,475 --> 00:06:53,595 Speaker 1: his mouth. Yet he is magnificently unaware that what is 91 00:06:53,595 --> 00:06:58,155 Speaker 1: coming out of his mouth is wildly unpopular, totally untrue, 92 00:06:58,675 --> 00:07:02,075 Speaker 1: and additionally far too complex for the idiots who are 93 00:07:02,075 --> 00:07:06,595 Speaker 1: going to vote dictatorship because they have convinced themselves it's freedom. 94 00:07:07,675 --> 00:07:13,115 Speaker 1: At Sparta, Michigan, yesterday, JV doubled down on the Republican 95 00:07:13,195 --> 00:07:16,795 Speaker 1: lies about the immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Never mind that 96 00:07:17,035 --> 00:07:23,795 Speaker 1: Senator Vance senator from Ohio is literally terrorizing residents of 97 00:07:23,835 --> 00:07:26,715 Speaker 1: his own state. And I don't even mean the immigrants here, 98 00:07:26,915 --> 00:07:34,315 Speaker 1: I mean the multi generational Springfield residents, Jebediah Springfield himself, 99 00:07:34,595 --> 00:07:38,835 Speaker 1: who have seen their city shut down over this nonsense. 100 00:07:39,795 --> 00:07:45,715 Speaker 1: Vance is insistent that the Democrats and the media owe 101 00:07:45,835 --> 00:07:52,395 Speaker 1: him and Trump apologies because all those bomb threats, not 102 00:07:52,635 --> 00:07:55,235 Speaker 1: one of them has turned out to be a bomb, 103 00:07:56,115 --> 00:07:56,635 Speaker 1: not yet. 104 00:07:56,675 --> 00:07:59,875 Speaker 3: Anyway, I've seen this from the American media, a lot 105 00:07:59,875 --> 00:08:01,395 Speaker 3: of people who pretend. 106 00:08:01,155 --> 00:08:02,155 Speaker 1: To be fair journalists. 107 00:08:02,195 --> 00:08:04,595 Speaker 3: You know what, they've been saying for the last few days, 108 00:08:04,835 --> 00:08:08,715 Speaker 3: Springfield has been experiencing an unbelievable number, something like thirty 109 00:08:08,755 --> 00:08:12,475 Speaker 3: five forty bomb threats in Springfield and the last and 110 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:14,915 Speaker 3: just the last few days. And you know what, the 111 00:08:14,955 --> 00:08:18,195 Speaker 3: governor of Ohio came out yesterday and said every single 112 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:20,195 Speaker 3: one of those bomb threats was a hoax. 113 00:08:20,755 --> 00:08:24,475 Speaker 1: Vance might as well have quoted sideshow Bob from the Simpsons. 114 00:08:24,475 --> 00:08:28,195 Speaker 1: There attempted murder. Now, honestly, what is that? Do they 115 00:08:28,235 --> 00:08:33,475 Speaker 1: give an Obel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they? Remarkably, 116 00:08:34,515 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: that was the highlight of Vance's day. Here he is 117 00:08:39,035 --> 00:08:43,995 Speaker 1: insisting that the Haitian immigrants there all there, legally, all 118 00:08:44,115 --> 00:08:47,915 Speaker 1: invited to work there by employers who had jobs that 119 00:08:48,235 --> 00:08:54,315 Speaker 1: the incumbent Ohioans wouldn't take. None of the Haitians eating pets. 120 00:08:55,075 --> 00:08:59,115 Speaker 1: Vance is insisting that the Haitians come from some foreign land, 121 00:08:59,755 --> 00:09:04,555 Speaker 1: a land that exists only in JV's mind, a land 122 00:09:04,875 --> 00:09:10,835 Speaker 1: called Haitia. Oh And then he has a surprise for 123 00:09:10,915 --> 00:09:13,515 Speaker 1: Trump prostitute Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 124 00:09:13,875 --> 00:09:19,475 Speaker 3: Twenty thousand migrants, primarily from Haitia have been dropped into Springfield, Ohio. 125 00:09:19,635 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 3: I mean, we're very proud on our side to have 126 00:09:21,595 --> 00:09:24,115 Speaker 3: the support of Bobby Kennedy Junior, and he's a great guy. 127 00:09:24,195 --> 00:09:30,475 Speaker 3: Have gotten known very well over the last few weeks. 128 00:09:32,035 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 3: But I think in many ways this country never healed 129 00:09:35,755 --> 00:09:37,995 Speaker 3: from the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. 130 00:09:39,235 --> 00:09:44,115 Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior has not been assassinated. In fact, 131 00:09:44,155 --> 00:09:49,795 Speaker 1: he's very much alive, if you call that living. I 132 00:09:49,875 --> 00:09:53,635 Speaker 1: wonder if JV has even noticed what he said, or 133 00:09:53,675 --> 00:09:57,075 Speaker 1: if after each speech he just asks his team to 134 00:09:57,315 --> 00:10:02,555 Speaker 1: rate his eyeliner game. And a quick note about where 135 00:10:02,675 --> 00:10:07,995 Speaker 1: Vance spoke. Sparta, Michigan, named for the almost legendary city 136 00:10:08,075 --> 00:10:11,835 Speaker 1: of ancient Greece. The original Sparta had a social structure, 137 00:10:11,835 --> 00:10:14,995 Speaker 1: at least as complicated as ancient Rome. The laws favored 138 00:10:14,995 --> 00:10:21,275 Speaker 1: the native citizens Spartiates, moth acts, other mixed heritage residents 139 00:10:21,315 --> 00:10:25,035 Speaker 1: with full rights, and then there were the Periacoy, who 140 00:10:25,115 --> 00:10:28,355 Speaker 1: were non Sparta natives of the town. And then there 141 00:10:28,355 --> 00:10:32,475 Speaker 1: were the slaves, the helots. The helots were made famous 142 00:10:32,515 --> 00:10:36,235 Speaker 1: again in the Frank Capra Gary Cooper film Meet John Doe, 143 00:10:36,475 --> 00:10:39,835 Speaker 1: in which Cooper's sidekick played by Walter Brennan, calls people 144 00:10:39,835 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: he doesn't like helots. When pressed for a definition, Brennan 145 00:10:44,635 --> 00:10:50,875 Speaker 1: finally explains helots a lot of heels, which brings us 146 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:57,475 Speaker 1: back to Vance and Trump helots a lot of heels. 147 00:11:04,075 --> 00:11:08,355 Speaker 1: The leads story tomorrow might yet be Trump's Arlington National 148 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:13,315 Speaker 1: Cemetery defilement. ABC News, which has been way ahead on 149 00:11:13,435 --> 00:11:18,595 Speaker 1: this story after NPR broke it, originally says the investigation 150 00:11:18,715 --> 00:11:22,315 Speaker 1: is still alive even though the Army considers the matter closed. 151 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:28,315 Speaker 1: Quote the investigation is ongoing at Joint Base Meyer Henderson 152 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:33,315 Speaker 1: Hall by base authorities, the Pentagon told ABC, which translates 153 00:11:33,355 --> 00:11:38,235 Speaker 1: as the police department at the base that has jurisdiction 154 00:11:38,395 --> 00:11:43,515 Speaker 1: over Arlington National Cemetery is still on the job. ABC 155 00:11:43,635 --> 00:11:46,755 Speaker 1: says it has yet to get hold of Trump campaign 156 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:54,315 Speaker 1: officials for necessary interviews. You will recall NPR identified two 157 00:11:54,515 --> 00:11:58,195 Speaker 1: of the key ones two weeks ago as the deputy 158 00:11:58,235 --> 00:12:03,075 Speaker 1: campaign manager, Justin Caparrale and Trump advance man Michelle Picard. 159 00:12:03,555 --> 00:12:07,435 Speaker 1: Picard was reported the one who shoved a female cemetery 160 00:12:07,435 --> 00:12:10,275 Speaker 1: staffer out of the way after she tried to tell 161 00:12:10,315 --> 00:12:14,555 Speaker 1: them it was against military rules to film while standing 162 00:12:14,595 --> 00:12:18,475 Speaker 1: atop the graves of our war dead. Meanwhile, the lead 163 00:12:18,555 --> 00:12:22,075 Speaker 1: story today might have been Trump Junior, but he deleted it. 164 00:12:22,715 --> 00:12:25,475 Speaker 1: You will recall the guy in charge of social media 165 00:12:25,515 --> 00:12:28,595 Speaker 1: for the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire who tweeted that 166 00:12:28,675 --> 00:12:32,915 Speaker 1: anybody who murdered Kamala Harris would be a hero. He 167 00:12:32,955 --> 00:12:36,875 Speaker 1: then deleted that. Then the FBI came to say hello 168 00:12:37,995 --> 00:12:42,235 Speaker 1: to him anyway yesterday. And Jeremy Kaufman, who turns out 169 00:12:42,235 --> 00:12:44,475 Speaker 1: to have some connection to that New Hampshire town of 170 00:12:44,555 --> 00:12:47,915 Speaker 1: Grafton that the Libertarians took over like twenty years ago, 171 00:12:48,395 --> 00:12:52,115 Speaker 1: until the lack of laws or rules, or the lack 172 00:12:52,155 --> 00:12:55,915 Speaker 1: of even a willingness to submit to organized garbage pickups 173 00:12:56,235 --> 00:12:59,595 Speaker 1: led all the humans to have to flee when the 174 00:12:59,635 --> 00:13:02,395 Speaker 1: bears came out of the woods and attacked them for 175 00:13:02,475 --> 00:13:08,955 Speaker 1: their food. Jeremy Hoffman posted video of the FBI explaining 176 00:13:09,475 --> 00:13:12,715 Speaker 1: assassination threats to him, and he wrote, you can see 177 00:13:12,715 --> 00:13:16,355 Speaker 1: the shame on their faces. You couldn't and this is 178 00:13:16,355 --> 00:13:24,275 Speaker 1: the democratic regime manifest It wasn't initially Trump, Junior Ouday retweeted. 179 00:13:24,355 --> 00:13:27,795 Speaker 1: Kaufman added quote a masterclass on how to handle what 180 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:31,955 Speaker 1: appears to be regime intimidation tactics. I don't know anything 181 00:13:31,995 --> 00:13:36,515 Speaker 1: about Jeremy, but everyone should take note and handle themselves 182 00:13:36,555 --> 00:13:41,475 Speaker 1: accordingly when they inevitably come knocking on your door. Junior 183 00:13:41,555 --> 00:13:44,075 Speaker 1: was real proud of this until somebody apparently pointed out 184 00:13:44,115 --> 00:13:46,195 Speaker 1: to him that he had just praised a guy who 185 00:13:46,275 --> 00:13:52,475 Speaker 1: had praised assassinating presidential candidates and sooner or later talking 186 00:13:52,515 --> 00:13:57,115 Speaker 1: about lead stories, the sheriff of Portage County, Ohio, which 187 00:13:57,155 --> 00:14:00,875 Speaker 1: is between Akron and Youngstown. He will be the lead story, 188 00:14:01,075 --> 00:14:05,875 Speaker 1: or somebody like him will be. Bruce Zakowski posted to 189 00:14:05,995 --> 00:14:09,275 Speaker 1: Facebook over the weekend quote, when people ask me what 190 00:14:09,395 --> 00:14:14,595 Speaker 1: will happen if the flip flopping laughing hyena wins, I say, 191 00:14:15,075 --> 00:14:18,115 Speaker 1: write down all the addresses of people who had her 192 00:14:18,275 --> 00:14:25,035 Speaker 1: signs in their yards. So multiple o's. When the illegal 193 00:14:25,235 --> 00:14:30,395 Speaker 1: human locust when which she supports, need places to live, 194 00:14:30,795 --> 00:14:34,115 Speaker 1: we'll already have the addresses of their new families who 195 00:14:34,235 --> 00:14:38,995 Speaker 1: supported their arrival. Mister Zukowski incidentally has a fu Man 196 00:14:39,075 --> 00:14:43,715 Speaker 1: chew mustache, a cowboy hat, badly dyed hair, and a 197 00:14:43,835 --> 00:14:48,475 Speaker 1: large collection of chins. His post included a close up 198 00:14:48,515 --> 00:14:52,475 Speaker 1: shot of this story being told by Laura Ingram on Fox. 199 00:14:53,915 --> 00:14:57,515 Speaker 1: He now says, you and I have gotten it all wrong. 200 00:14:58,155 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: His newest Facebook post quote, As the chief law enforcement 201 00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:05,435 Speaker 1: officer of Portage County, I have sworn to protect all 202 00:15:05,515 --> 00:15:08,755 Speaker 1: citizens of my county. Recently, I placed a post on 203 00:15:08,795 --> 00:15:13,515 Speaker 1: my personal Facebook page that may have been a little misinterpreted. I, 204 00:15:13,915 --> 00:15:17,115 Speaker 1: as the elected sheriff, do have a First Amendment right, 205 00:15:17,195 --> 00:15:20,515 Speaker 1: as do all citizens. If the citizens of Portage County 206 00:15:20,555 --> 00:15:23,795 Speaker 1: want to elect an individual who has supported open borders, 207 00:15:23,955 --> 00:15:27,915 Speaker 1: which I personally visited twice and neglected to enforce the 208 00:15:27,995 --> 00:15:31,995 Speaker 1: laws of our country, then that is their prerogative. With elections, 209 00:15:32,035 --> 00:15:35,195 Speaker 1: there are consequences. That being said, I believe that those 210 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:38,595 Speaker 1: who vote for individuals with liberal policies have to accept 211 00:15:38,675 --> 00:15:43,715 Speaker 1: responsibility for their actions. I am a lawman, not a politician. 212 00:15:45,075 --> 00:15:50,595 Speaker 1: So he made a veiled threat against Harris supporters. He 213 00:15:50,955 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: called legal immigrants into his own state quote locust unquote. 214 00:15:56,715 --> 00:15:59,675 Speaker 1: He insisted he had been misinterpreted, and then he said 215 00:15:59,715 --> 00:16:03,515 Speaker 1: all of it again. Good God. Maybe we shouldn't make 216 00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:07,155 Speaker 1: him the lead story, because if jd. Vance has to 217 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:10,515 Speaker 1: withdraw from Trump's ticket for some reason, they could put 218 00:16:10,515 --> 00:16:14,035 Speaker 1: this helot Zakowski in as the new running mate and 219 00:16:14,115 --> 00:16:22,835 Speaker 1: nobody would know the goddamned difference. Also of interest here, 220 00:16:22,835 --> 00:16:27,835 Speaker 1: if you're wondering why Elon Musk, I'm sorry Leon Leon Musk. 221 00:16:27,915 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 1: If you're wondering why Leon Musk has done the crazy 222 00:16:31,115 --> 00:16:35,275 Speaker 1: anti American things he's done lately. No, he's not running 223 00:16:35,275 --> 00:16:38,875 Speaker 1: for sheriff of Portage County, Ohio. But it turns out 224 00:16:39,355 --> 00:16:43,355 Speaker 1: one of his anti Ukraine memes, one that's been retweeted 225 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:48,595 Speaker 1: eighty six thousand times, it was designed by, according to 226 00:16:48,715 --> 00:16:56,715 Speaker 1: Radio Free Europe, the Kremlin. That's next this discountdown. This 227 00:16:57,355 --> 00:17:21,595 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Olberman Stella ahead of us on 228 00:17:21,715 --> 00:17:25,475 Speaker 1: this editiontive Countdown. I just told this story again at 229 00:17:25,515 --> 00:17:27,875 Speaker 1: lunch on Monday and the listener was somebody who is 230 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:31,795 Speaker 1: now in this business, who said he was just a kid, 231 00:17:31,835 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: just a nightly viewer fifteen years ago, and he had 232 00:17:35,435 --> 00:17:39,715 Speaker 1: absolutely no idea that this drama was playing out behind 233 00:17:39,715 --> 00:17:43,435 Speaker 1: the scenes as he watched that it consumed nearly the 234 00:17:43,595 --> 00:17:46,675 Speaker 1: entire summer of two thousand and nine at MSNBC. That 235 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:51,235 Speaker 1: was the year that the CEO of the International Monolith 236 00:17:51,315 --> 00:17:59,035 Speaker 1: Corporation ge General Electric nearly shut down MSNBC like he 237 00:17:59,155 --> 00:18:03,915 Speaker 1: was hitting the off button on a remote, simply because 238 00:18:05,275 --> 00:18:08,235 Speaker 1: his mother was a Bill O'Reilly cultist, and Billo had 239 00:18:08,235 --> 00:18:11,035 Speaker 1: said mean things about her boy, and she had called 240 00:18:11,115 --> 00:18:13,235 Speaker 1: him up and yelled at him. And for some reason, 241 00:18:13,595 --> 00:18:16,875 Speaker 1: the chairman did not like my idea, which was to 242 00:18:16,915 --> 00:18:19,395 Speaker 1: go over to his mom's house in Cincinnati and yank 243 00:18:19,475 --> 00:18:22,115 Speaker 1: the cable out of her wall so she would not 244 00:18:22,195 --> 00:18:24,955 Speaker 1: hear Bill O'Reilly say any more bad things about her 245 00:18:24,995 --> 00:18:28,835 Speaker 1: boy Jeff. Instead, he's wanted to fire all of us 246 00:18:29,515 --> 00:18:31,675 Speaker 1: and give back the two hundred million dollars a year 247 00:18:31,715 --> 00:18:35,035 Speaker 1: in profit coming up in things I promised not to tell. 248 00:18:35,835 --> 00:18:38,635 Speaker 1: Business is a matter of business. The business of America 249 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:45,355 Speaker 1: is business, except if my mom is upset. First, there 250 00:18:45,355 --> 00:18:49,195 Speaker 1: are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily 251 00:18:49,275 --> 00:18:51,835 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 252 00:18:51,835 --> 00:18:56,955 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days Mommy's really mad at me? 253 00:18:57,235 --> 00:19:01,475 Speaker 1: Worst persons in the world. I still can't get over it. 254 00:19:01,475 --> 00:19:04,395 Speaker 1: It's fifteen years ago. I still can't get I'm not 255 00:19:04,435 --> 00:19:07,715 Speaker 1: even near getting over it. The last things I say 256 00:19:07,755 --> 00:19:10,515 Speaker 1: on Earth may be can you believe this idiot, Jeff 257 00:19:10,555 --> 00:19:15,755 Speaker 1: imilt AnyWho speaking of idiocy at NBC The Bronze Worst. 258 00:19:15,875 --> 00:19:20,115 Speaker 1: Meghan Kelly, No, this is not about her ongoing death 259 00:19:20,235 --> 00:19:24,595 Speaker 1: struggle war against Carrie Lake. One of them will corner 260 00:19:24,635 --> 00:19:27,795 Speaker 1: the market on camera filters and the other will be 261 00:19:27,915 --> 00:19:32,675 Speaker 1: left unfiltered. God help us all. No, no, this is 262 00:19:32,755 --> 00:19:36,435 Speaker 1: about what she said this time. Megan Kelly was never 263 00:19:36,555 --> 00:19:41,035 Speaker 1: really talented. She used to have a somewhat icy allure 264 00:19:41,235 --> 00:19:45,835 Speaker 1: to her. Now she's just getting a little bit more 265 00:19:45,955 --> 00:19:51,915 Speaker 1: kareny everyfing day. I'm allowed to criticize Taylor Swift and 266 00:19:51,995 --> 00:19:54,715 Speaker 1: I don't give a s. I don't like putting the 267 00:19:54,755 --> 00:19:58,195 Speaker 1: word S in women's mouths like this. I don't give 268 00:19:58,235 --> 00:20:01,835 Speaker 1: a who gets upset this is disgusting. If she wants 269 00:20:01,875 --> 00:20:04,395 Speaker 1: to vote Harris Wallas. She can do it all she wants, 270 00:20:04,435 --> 00:20:06,715 Speaker 1: but say, the reason she's doing it is because of 271 00:20:06,835 --> 00:20:12,555 Speaker 1: Tim Walls's position on LGBTQ. F you, Taylor Swift, this 272 00:20:12,755 --> 00:20:18,875 Speaker 1: is unbelievable. Megan has a screw loose and i'd say 273 00:20:18,995 --> 00:20:21,955 Speaker 1: f you back, Megan Kelly. But Fox fired you and 274 00:20:22,195 --> 00:20:25,435 Speaker 1: NBC fired you, and your television careers over at age 275 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,155 Speaker 1: fifty three. So what's the point of saying FU two? 276 00:20:30,035 --> 00:20:34,275 Speaker 1: Life has already done that to you? The runner up worser. 277 00:20:34,955 --> 00:20:38,035 Speaker 1: Maybe she can get a job with this guy, Leon 278 00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:44,715 Speaker 1: Elon Musk to you Leon, Donald Trump per Julia Davis, 279 00:20:45,395 --> 00:20:48,995 Speaker 1: the invaluable columnist of The Daily Beast, creator of the 280 00:20:49,075 --> 00:20:54,075 Speaker 1: Russian media Monitor. She watches, as she says in her bio, 281 00:20:54,155 --> 00:20:57,915 Speaker 1: she watches Russian state TV, so you don't have to god. 282 00:20:58,035 --> 00:21:02,115 Speaker 1: Is that true? She's quoting Radio Free Europe. A trove 283 00:21:02,275 --> 00:21:06,435 Speaker 1: of leaked records from a Russian disinfo campaign reveals how 284 00:21:06,555 --> 00:21:11,155 Speaker 1: Moscow sought to discredit Ukraine and Western governments that support it, 285 00:21:11,315 --> 00:21:14,635 Speaker 1: while also trying to boost support for far right political 286 00:21:14,715 --> 00:21:18,515 Speaker 1: parties in the European Union. The documents highlight the internal 287 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:24,515 Speaker 1: operations of the Social Design Agency the Social Design Agency. Wow, 288 00:21:24,595 --> 00:21:27,915 Speaker 1: that sounds kind of twenty second century, doesn't it No, 289 00:21:28,075 --> 00:21:31,075 Speaker 1: it's just a Moscow based company that the United States 290 00:21:31,115 --> 00:21:34,955 Speaker 1: says has led the propaganda campaign at the Kremlins behest 291 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:41,115 Speaker 1: the design in the Moscow Social Design Agency its memes. 292 00:21:41,795 --> 00:21:46,115 Speaker 1: The campaign to continue Radio Free Europe includes a diverse 293 00:21:46,195 --> 00:21:50,035 Speaker 1: mix of memes, falsified videos, and government documents, and a 294 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:55,435 Speaker 1: network of websites impersonating legitimate news outlets to disseminate fake 295 00:21:55,515 --> 00:22:01,595 Speaker 1: stories aimed at undermining Western support for Ukraine. In the records, 296 00:22:01,795 --> 00:22:05,435 Speaker 1: there is the production trail kind of the a family 297 00:22:05,595 --> 00:22:09,395 Speaker 1: tree of one particular meme which shows President Zelenski of 298 00:22:09,475 --> 00:22:13,955 Speaker 1: Ukraine his face tense, he's sort of coiled, he's staring 299 00:22:14,075 --> 00:22:17,435 Speaker 1: as if angry, as if he's looking for an email 300 00:22:17,515 --> 00:22:19,715 Speaker 1: to come in on a computer screen, and the caption 301 00:22:19,875 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: reads when it's been five minutes and you haven't asked 302 00:22:23,515 --> 00:22:27,755 Speaker 1: for a billion dollars in aid. The meme was posted 303 00:22:27,755 --> 00:22:31,475 Speaker 1: by Elon Musk on October first, twenty twenty three, and 304 00:22:31,555 --> 00:22:34,875 Speaker 1: it has been retweeted eighty six thousand times since and 305 00:22:35,315 --> 00:22:39,995 Speaker 1: Julia Davis and Radio Free Year Report. It was created 306 00:22:40,035 --> 00:22:44,995 Speaker 1: by the Kremlin's own social design agency. I'm beginning to 307 00:22:45,035 --> 00:22:48,915 Speaker 1: think Musk was created by the Kremlin's own social design agency. 308 00:22:49,595 --> 00:22:52,475 Speaker 1: Musk might as well be Benny Johnson at this point, 309 00:22:52,595 --> 00:22:55,795 Speaker 1: Kremlinny Benny. He might as well be doing the work 310 00:22:55,835 --> 00:22:59,155 Speaker 1: of a Russian agent inside this country. And this is 311 00:22:59,195 --> 00:23:03,235 Speaker 1: forty eight hours after he asked on his own website 312 00:23:03,395 --> 00:23:06,635 Speaker 1: why nobody had yet tried to assassinate Joe Biden and 313 00:23:06,755 --> 00:23:10,235 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris and then deleted it without explanation except the 314 00:23:10,315 --> 00:23:14,035 Speaker 1: lame excuse that, oh, you didn't left at my joke. Well, 315 00:23:14,075 --> 00:23:16,675 Speaker 1: that's because we're not as stoned as you are. Elmo, 316 00:23:17,115 --> 00:23:19,955 Speaker 1: why do we permit Leon to stay in our country? 317 00:23:20,995 --> 00:23:23,035 Speaker 1: I'll compromise in this. I mean he can stay in 318 00:23:23,075 --> 00:23:28,115 Speaker 1: our country, but only in jail. Arrest Elon Musk today 319 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:32,035 Speaker 1: for threatening the lives of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 320 00:23:32,235 --> 00:23:38,355 Speaker 1: and investigate him just on this meme created by the Kremlins. Memesar, 321 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,555 Speaker 1: but our winner, And yes, somebody's worse than that. He's 322 00:23:43,595 --> 00:23:46,675 Speaker 1: the worst. But he's the worst because he always manages 323 00:23:46,715 --> 00:23:49,155 Speaker 1: to do something horrible, but to do it so badly, 324 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:54,035 Speaker 1: so self destructively, so self owningly that we all manage 325 00:23:54,075 --> 00:23:56,875 Speaker 1: to get enraged and then we get a great laugh 326 00:23:56,995 --> 00:23:59,915 Speaker 1: out of it and him and we are laughing at him. 327 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:05,475 Speaker 1: And that is none other than Bill Ackman. Bill Ackman 328 00:24:05,635 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: is the billionaire hedge clipper manufacturer. Oh I'm sorry, I 329 00:24:09,235 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: read that wrong, hedge fund manager. His company is called 330 00:24:12,715 --> 00:24:16,235 Speaker 1: Pershing Square. If you have money in Pershing Square, I'm 331 00:24:16,275 --> 00:24:18,875 Speaker 1: suggesting you get it out now. I know nothing about 332 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:20,995 Speaker 1: hedge funds, but all I know is this guy is 333 00:24:20,995 --> 00:24:24,155 Speaker 1: an idiot. And if he's decided to do what he's 334 00:24:24,235 --> 00:24:28,355 Speaker 1: done and he's managing money, I would when you put 335 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:30,355 Speaker 1: your money in, I'd give it a nice long kiss 336 00:24:30,395 --> 00:24:34,195 Speaker 1: goodbye and wish it a happy existence somewhere else. This 337 00:24:34,315 --> 00:24:38,555 Speaker 1: is the guy who remember trying to destroy his alma mater, Harvard, 338 00:24:38,995 --> 00:24:42,275 Speaker 1: because I forget exactly what he wanted, but it would 339 00:24:42,275 --> 00:24:45,435 Speaker 1: not make him king of Harvard or whatever he wanted. 340 00:24:46,235 --> 00:24:49,875 Speaker 1: I don't know. I went to Cornell. We're simple country folk. 341 00:24:50,675 --> 00:24:53,915 Speaker 1: We're the ones who helped prosecute the anti Semites on 342 00:24:53,955 --> 00:24:58,395 Speaker 1: our campus last year. We don't understand your city slicker, 343 00:24:58,595 --> 00:25:04,635 Speaker 1: Havid Yawd ways. Bill Ackman has now taken this pathetic, 344 00:25:04,995 --> 00:25:10,355 Speaker 1: obvious fake ABC whistleblower Affidavid about the debate. It's supposedly 345 00:25:10,355 --> 00:25:14,595 Speaker 1: from a technician or somebody at ABC, full of redactions 346 00:25:14,715 --> 00:25:18,275 Speaker 1: like the guy's name or his job or any facts 347 00:25:18,315 --> 00:25:20,995 Speaker 1: that he might have at his hands. And at one 348 00:25:20,995 --> 00:25:23,515 Speaker 1: point he says he's worked there ten years. No, it's 349 00:25:23,595 --> 00:25:26,755 Speaker 1: thirty years since Disney took over ABC. No, it's ten years. 350 00:25:27,635 --> 00:25:30,155 Speaker 1: And the deal, he says they made with Kamala Harris 351 00:25:30,315 --> 00:25:34,515 Speaker 1: was she was not to be asked any questions. This 352 00:25:34,715 --> 00:25:37,715 Speaker 1: was her deal breaker. You could not ask the vice 353 00:25:37,755 --> 00:25:41,635 Speaker 1: president in the ABC debate about when she was Attorney 354 00:25:41,675 --> 00:25:45,555 Speaker 1: General of San Francisco. Well, she never was the attorney 355 00:25:45,555 --> 00:25:48,355 Speaker 1: general of San Francisco, because there is no such job 356 00:25:48,715 --> 00:25:52,515 Speaker 1: as attorney general of San Francisco. Whoever made this thing 357 00:25:52,635 --> 00:25:56,075 Speaker 1: up didn't know the fundaments that the job she had 358 00:25:56,195 --> 00:26:00,915 Speaker 1: was was attorney general of the state of California. You'd 359 00:26:00,955 --> 00:26:03,315 Speaker 1: have a district attorney that was a different job in 360 00:26:03,395 --> 00:26:08,275 Speaker 1: San Francisco, a different controversy with a different person. Morons. 361 00:26:08,955 --> 00:26:12,595 Speaker 1: So Bill Ackman puts out half a dozen tweets about 362 00:26:12,635 --> 00:26:16,315 Speaker 1: a really badly done fake, clearly does not read any 363 00:26:16,355 --> 00:26:18,635 Speaker 1: of the replies, because the moment he put out this one. 364 00:26:18,675 --> 00:26:21,275 Speaker 1: Everybody jumped on and even the ones who supported him 365 00:26:21,275 --> 00:26:26,355 Speaker 1: and said, Bill, you've topped yourself. Here's here it is 366 00:26:26,395 --> 00:26:29,355 Speaker 1: it forbade him? Come to think of it, I am 367 00:26:29,395 --> 00:26:33,555 Speaker 1: going to alert the at SEC directly about at Disney, 368 00:26:33,635 --> 00:26:38,075 Speaker 1: at ABC and their misleading response to the whistleblowers accusations 369 00:26:38,235 --> 00:26:41,995 Speaker 1: about the presidential debate. Six fifty seven am, September seventeenth, 370 00:26:41,995 --> 00:26:45,435 Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, seven hundred and twenty three thousand views, 371 00:26:45,835 --> 00:26:51,275 Speaker 1: three point three thousand retweets, nineteen thousand likes. I'm going 372 00:26:51,275 --> 00:26:56,115 Speaker 1: to alert the at SEC. At SEC is the Twitter 373 00:26:56,315 --> 00:27:00,555 Speaker 1: x handle four No, not the Security Is and Exchange Commission, 374 00:27:01,195 --> 00:27:04,635 Speaker 1: which Bill seems to think. At SEC is the two 375 00:27:04,955 --> 00:27:10,515 Speaker 1: handle for the Southeastern Conference College Sports League, the sixteen 376 00:27:10,635 --> 00:27:15,835 Speaker 1: universities of the Southeastern Conference, the SEC most recent football champs, Alabama. 377 00:27:16,595 --> 00:27:19,675 Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll they'll say, thanks, Bill, we'll send some 378 00:27:19,795 --> 00:27:23,155 Speaker 1: refs right over and look into it. Ten yards for 379 00:27:23,275 --> 00:27:26,835 Speaker 1: getting the handle wrong, Say Bill, did you really go 380 00:27:26,915 --> 00:27:29,795 Speaker 1: to college and get to your current age of eighty 381 00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:32,235 Speaker 1: five or whatever you are without knowing that the Twitter 382 00:27:32,275 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: handle for the Securities and Exchange Commission is sec GUB 383 00:27:36,955 --> 00:27:40,395 Speaker 1: Did you even check Bill, where's all that money in 384 00:27:40,435 --> 00:27:44,035 Speaker 1: your hedge fund? Could you've asked your twenty year old 385 00:27:44,075 --> 00:27:47,275 Speaker 1: wife about it? Maybe I'm sorry for the Southern accent. 386 00:27:47,315 --> 00:27:51,235 Speaker 1: It just it went with the Southeastern Conference thing. Anyway. 387 00:27:51,835 --> 00:27:54,915 Speaker 1: I would bet professors Dunning and Krueger would pay millions 388 00:27:55,195 --> 00:27:59,475 Speaker 1: for the rights to study Bill Ackman. Two days. 389 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:07,195 Speaker 2: Worst person in the world received, we will receive Captain, 390 00:28:07,235 --> 00:28:12,995 Speaker 2: said Bo cap Custer, said Bo catgut a cc. 391 00:28:15,795 --> 00:28:22,475 Speaker 1: He went to Harvard. He attended Harvard. I don't know 392 00:28:22,515 --> 00:28:33,235 Speaker 1: if he went. The executive producer of our MSNBC newscast Countdown, 393 00:28:33,355 --> 00:28:36,435 Speaker 1: Isy Povich and I were on the grown up elevator 394 00:28:36,475 --> 00:28:39,555 Speaker 1: to the office of NBC President Jeff Zuocker on the 395 00:28:39,595 --> 00:28:42,835 Speaker 1: fifty second floor of thirty Rock in New York, Summoned 396 00:28:42,875 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: there by some garbled message from MSNBC president Phil Griffin 397 00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:52,115 Speaker 1: about MSNBC being taken off the air. I was mumbling 398 00:28:52,115 --> 00:28:56,915 Speaker 1: to Izzy, Sundry imprecations and reminiscences eight freaking months? Is 399 00:28:56,955 --> 00:29:00,035 Speaker 1: we spent twelve freaking months forcing them to create meadows 400 00:29:00,115 --> 00:29:04,235 Speaker 1: show It last eight months, all the crap prompter practice 401 00:29:04,275 --> 00:29:07,835 Speaker 1: getting her over her fears rockets past. CNN only eight 402 00:29:07,875 --> 00:29:11,835 Speaker 1: months of show, and now it's all gone. Izzy reminded 403 00:29:11,835 --> 00:29:13,995 Speaker 1: me it was not just Rachel's show that was threatened, 404 00:29:14,355 --> 00:29:18,475 Speaker 1: which was why poor Court Harson from Hardball was already upstairs, 405 00:29:18,595 --> 00:29:22,755 Speaker 1: along with poor Ed Schultz and Phil Griffin and Rachel's 406 00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:25,595 Speaker 1: executive producer, Bill Wolf and some clown from Morning Joe 407 00:29:25,795 --> 00:29:30,035 Speaker 1: and a couple of other MSNBC executives and us. I know, 408 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:33,155 Speaker 1: I know, I did the line from the drunken Irishman 409 00:29:33,195 --> 00:29:36,435 Speaker 1: from Hitchcock's The Birds, complete with the bad accent. It's 410 00:29:36,515 --> 00:29:40,435 Speaker 1: the end of the world, I said, Jeff Immelt is 411 00:29:40,435 --> 00:29:44,035 Speaker 1: going to take MSNBC off the air. I didn't need 412 00:29:44,075 --> 00:29:46,795 Speaker 1: any of my overwrought visions from two years earlier of 413 00:29:46,835 --> 00:29:50,435 Speaker 1: the future of liberal news commentary falling out the NBC 414 00:29:50,595 --> 00:29:53,235 Speaker 1: window to its death on the rink. This was the 415 00:29:53,235 --> 00:29:57,515 Speaker 1: real thing. The chairman of General Electric was threatening to 416 00:29:57,635 --> 00:30:01,395 Speaker 1: open the window himself, throw us out the window himself, 417 00:30:01,595 --> 00:30:04,315 Speaker 1: and then race down to the pavement to stomp on 418 00:30:04,395 --> 00:30:09,795 Speaker 1: our dying remains himself. Poor Ed Schultz heard Jeff Zucker 419 00:30:09,795 --> 00:30:12,995 Speaker 1: say those words, and he had screwed up his face 420 00:30:13,035 --> 00:30:16,395 Speaker 1: and tilted his head like a puppy hearing a car crash. 421 00:30:16,715 --> 00:30:19,035 Speaker 1: He had not believed it the first time. He had 422 00:30:19,075 --> 00:30:21,795 Speaker 1: not believed at the second time. Zucker said it a 423 00:30:21,835 --> 00:30:24,755 Speaker 1: third time. Immelt is going to take MSNBC off the 424 00:30:24,755 --> 00:30:30,075 Speaker 1: effing air at, Schultz groaned. After weeks of Griffin's coaxing, 425 00:30:30,115 --> 00:30:33,635 Speaker 1: he had finally just moved from Nebraska to New York 426 00:30:33,795 --> 00:30:37,555 Speaker 1: the preceding weekend. Yet he was still, somehow only the 427 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:41,515 Speaker 1: second most strung out person in the room. You, Zucker 428 00:30:41,555 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: shouted at me, You're the smartest one in the room. 429 00:30:44,515 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: What the f do we do now? I'll confess I 430 00:30:48,235 --> 00:30:50,475 Speaker 1: was shaken by this because it appeared for once that 431 00:30:50,595 --> 00:30:54,115 Speaker 1: Zucker was not being sarcastic. I had never before seen 432 00:30:54,195 --> 00:30:57,355 Speaker 1: him flush nor flustered. This was a guy who wore 433 00:30:57,475 --> 00:31:01,595 Speaker 1: fleece in July. Now he was beat red and sweating. 434 00:31:02,595 --> 00:31:04,715 Speaker 1: Sometimes he knew what he was doing, and, as his 435 00:31:04,755 --> 00:31:08,075 Speaker 1: opposition to hiring Matdow had proved, sometimes he didn't know 436 00:31:08,075 --> 00:31:10,555 Speaker 1: what he was doing. But he always acted as the 437 00:31:10,555 --> 00:31:14,235 Speaker 1: most confident man in the galaxy. But now he literally 438 00:31:14,275 --> 00:31:16,355 Speaker 1: had no clue what to do next. And he not 439 00:31:16,395 --> 00:31:19,835 Speaker 1: only could not ignore my advice, he desperately needed it. 440 00:31:20,435 --> 00:31:23,915 Speaker 1: This situation and that color on his face were almost 441 00:31:23,955 --> 00:31:29,035 Speaker 1: worth watching the corporate fascists nuke my network. I asked 442 00:31:29,075 --> 00:31:31,875 Speaker 1: Zucker to explain what happened? You got Dan, Well know 443 00:31:31,995 --> 00:31:35,155 Speaker 1: what happened. Zucker moved towards me, and I stood up 444 00:31:35,155 --> 00:31:37,795 Speaker 1: and I told him I would see myself out. He stopped, 445 00:31:38,355 --> 00:31:41,755 Speaker 1: remembering that he did indeed actually need my help. I'm sorry, 446 00:31:41,795 --> 00:31:45,275 Speaker 1: I apologize. This isn't Rachal, this is this is immelt. 447 00:31:45,955 --> 00:31:49,435 Speaker 1: Last week sometime Bill O'Reilly snapped. He told Murdoch he 448 00:31:49,475 --> 00:31:51,155 Speaker 1: wasn't gonna take any more of what you were saying 449 00:31:51,155 --> 00:31:52,995 Speaker 1: about him on the air. So he did a piece 450 00:31:53,115 --> 00:31:57,355 Speaker 1: last night accusing GE of manufacturing the components that been 451 00:31:57,475 --> 00:32:00,475 Speaker 1: used in roadside bombs that were built in a rand 452 00:32:00,555 --> 00:32:03,915 Speaker 1: to kill Americans in Iraq, which is which is true legally, 453 00:32:03,955 --> 00:32:07,595 Speaker 1: that's legally they found roadside bombs that had like thirty 454 00:32:07,675 --> 00:32:11,555 Speaker 1: year old GE transistors or TV tubes from nineteen fifty 455 00:32:11,555 --> 00:32:15,715 Speaker 1: four or is something in them. Legally, GE did manufacture 456 00:32:15,755 --> 00:32:18,235 Speaker 1: components that were used in roadside bombs that were built 457 00:32:18,235 --> 00:32:20,995 Speaker 1: in around to kill Americans in Iraq. So o'reiley puts 458 00:32:21,035 --> 00:32:24,035 Speaker 1: this on his effing show as a lead story and 459 00:32:24,515 --> 00:32:27,635 Speaker 1: then Fox sent two camera crews in this little crap 460 00:32:27,675 --> 00:32:31,835 Speaker 1: producer from a Riley show, Jesse Waters something to steak 461 00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:35,155 Speaker 1: Emmelt out and chase him around the GE shareholders meeting 462 00:32:35,235 --> 00:32:39,115 Speaker 1: in Charlotte. Zucker finally came up for air, and I 463 00:32:39,235 --> 00:32:42,955 Speaker 1: jumped in, Why didn't emmelt have six camera crews to 464 00:32:42,995 --> 00:32:45,635 Speaker 1: stake out the two Fox crews and chase them around 465 00:32:45,635 --> 00:32:47,675 Speaker 1: in Charlotte? I mean, isn't that one of our news 466 00:32:47,755 --> 00:32:51,435 Speaker 1: hubs Charlotte doesn't emmelt own like twenty camera crews? 467 00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:51,675 Speaker 2: There? 468 00:32:52,115 --> 00:32:55,155 Speaker 1: He bring a camera crew, you'll bring two camera crews. 469 00:32:55,995 --> 00:32:59,075 Speaker 1: Zucker started to not like me again. Now you suggest 470 00:32:59,075 --> 00:33:01,155 Speaker 1: that where were you in? All right, never mind, it 471 00:33:01,155 --> 00:33:04,315 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Emmel says. If there's one more story on 472 00:33:04,355 --> 00:33:08,635 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly about GE manufacturing components for roadside bombs in Iraq, 473 00:33:08,915 --> 00:33:13,515 Speaker 1: he's taking MSNBC off the air immediately. It'll just be 474 00:33:13,635 --> 00:33:16,675 Speaker 1: twenty four hours of lock up and I'm fired, and 475 00:33:16,715 --> 00:33:19,795 Speaker 1: you're fired. And then he pointed at Chris Matthews, producer, 476 00:33:19,795 --> 00:33:22,395 Speaker 1: and Matthews is fired. And he pointed at poor Ed 477 00:33:22,435 --> 00:33:26,115 Speaker 1: Schultz and you're fired, and Ed whimpered, So smart asked, 478 00:33:26,115 --> 00:33:29,355 Speaker 1: what the f do we do. I feigned all the 479 00:33:29,395 --> 00:33:32,475 Speaker 1: nonchalants I could feign. If I could have lit a 480 00:33:32,555 --> 00:33:35,955 Speaker 1: shroot by striking a match on the sole of my boot, 481 00:33:36,115 --> 00:33:41,755 Speaker 1: I would have. It's manageable. But Jeff, why is Emmelt 482 00:33:41,835 --> 00:33:44,795 Speaker 1: so worked up about what O'Reilly said about him? Only 483 00:33:44,835 --> 00:33:48,115 Speaker 1: O'Reilly's nutjob viewers actually believe any of that crap. Nobody 484 00:33:48,155 --> 00:33:52,315 Speaker 1: at GE, nobody investing in GE could possibly believe we're 485 00:33:52,355 --> 00:34:00,475 Speaker 1: building components for roadside bombs. Zucker inhaled deeply. Emmelt's mother 486 00:34:00,635 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: believes it. All the heads in the room turned toward 487 00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:08,195 Speaker 1: the press. In of NBC Missus. Emmelt back in Cincinnati 488 00:34:08,355 --> 00:34:12,755 Speaker 1: is a devoted Bill O'Reilly viewer watches him every night, 489 00:34:13,075 --> 00:34:16,995 Speaker 1: sees this, calls him, says, Sonny, why are you manufacturing 490 00:34:17,035 --> 00:34:19,635 Speaker 1: components that were used in roadside bombs built in Iran 491 00:34:19,715 --> 00:34:24,315 Speaker 1: to kill Americans in Iraq? I had not expected that, 492 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:29,315 Speaker 1: I said to Zucker, So so he'll really burn what 493 00:34:29,755 --> 00:34:33,115 Speaker 1: two hundred million a year in profits just between Rachel 494 00:34:33,155 --> 00:34:38,115 Speaker 1: and me? Because his mom watches Bill O'Reilly, Zucker got 495 00:34:38,155 --> 00:34:41,115 Speaker 1: angry again. You bet your effing ass he will now 496 00:34:41,195 --> 00:34:43,315 Speaker 1: you said it was manageable. How how the hef do 497 00:34:43,395 --> 00:34:47,755 Speaker 1: we manage it? Ulberman? Just a minute? How old is she? 498 00:34:48,755 --> 00:34:53,955 Speaker 1: Zucker summoned all his annoyance. How old is who Emmelt's mother? 499 00:34:54,955 --> 00:34:58,835 Speaker 1: How old is she? Jeff Zucker was really annoyed. How 500 00:34:58,875 --> 00:35:01,955 Speaker 1: the f should I know? You're missing the point? I 501 00:35:02,035 --> 00:35:04,475 Speaker 1: had him really worked up, nearly to the boiling point. 502 00:35:04,955 --> 00:35:10,115 Speaker 1: Great guess, Zucker spluttered, I don't know. He's in his 503 00:35:10,115 --> 00:35:13,915 Speaker 1: mid fifties. She's got to be eighty ninety something. I 504 00:35:14,035 --> 00:35:17,715 Speaker 1: stifled a fake yawn. Yeah, you're right, probably closer to 505 00:35:17,795 --> 00:35:20,035 Speaker 1: ninety now that I think of it. So the problem 506 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:25,195 Speaker 1: is she watches O'Reilly. She tells him what's on Fox? 507 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:29,195 Speaker 1: What O'Reilly's saying about ge? Well, I think you have 508 00:35:29,235 --> 00:35:31,075 Speaker 1: a simple solution. I'd say, the first thing you do 509 00:35:31,195 --> 00:35:32,915 Speaker 1: is you send over a couple of big guys to 510 00:35:32,955 --> 00:35:35,435 Speaker 1: her house and you pull the freaking cable out of 511 00:35:35,435 --> 00:35:41,155 Speaker 1: the wall. Zucker actually gasped. My producer is Hepovich unsuccessfully 512 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:44,115 Speaker 1: stifled a laugh, and I saw Rachel crack a smile. 513 00:35:44,675 --> 00:35:49,675 Speaker 1: Zucker regained himself. This isn't funny, Olderman. I crossed my legs. Oh, 514 00:35:49,675 --> 00:35:53,355 Speaker 1: it's a little funny, and anyway, it's not essential if 515 00:35:53,395 --> 00:35:55,715 Speaker 1: the problem is emailed is threatening to take the network 516 00:35:55,715 --> 00:35:58,675 Speaker 1: off the air because O'Reilly is avenging himself against me 517 00:35:59,235 --> 00:36:02,955 Speaker 1: by attacking him and attacking ge. The short term solution 518 00:36:03,115 --> 00:36:06,275 Speaker 1: is easy, and in fact it is manageable. The long 519 00:36:06,395 --> 00:36:09,395 Speaker 1: term solution that's not easy, and that's not manageable. But 520 00:36:09,435 --> 00:36:11,835 Speaker 1: the short term one that's simple. Rest of this week, 521 00:36:11,955 --> 00:36:14,635 Speaker 1: next week, maybe the week after that. Even we just 522 00:36:14,875 --> 00:36:21,515 Speaker 1: don't mention Fox News on MSNBC. Something resembling a smile 523 00:36:22,155 --> 00:36:25,315 Speaker 1: cross Zucker's face. It made him look a little less 524 00:36:25,395 --> 00:36:28,315 Speaker 1: like a lizard person and more like a monkey with glasses. 525 00:36:29,075 --> 00:36:34,275 Speaker 1: You do that forever? No, not forever. I would not 526 00:36:34,395 --> 00:36:38,635 Speaker 1: do that, I said to Bias time. Yes, but remember 527 00:36:38,835 --> 00:36:40,715 Speaker 1: who was it who was in my office last winter 528 00:36:40,795 --> 00:36:42,555 Speaker 1: telling me that I should go on the air and 529 00:36:43,235 --> 00:36:46,195 Speaker 1: just to f with Fox? I should ask why Rupert 530 00:36:46,275 --> 00:36:49,155 Speaker 1: Murdoch was still running a huge international media company like 531 00:36:49,275 --> 00:36:53,675 Speaker 1: News Corp, despite all the reports that he's suffering from dementia, 532 00:36:53,755 --> 00:36:55,915 Speaker 1: even though there haven't been any reports that he's suffering 533 00:36:55,955 --> 00:36:59,715 Speaker 1: from dementia. For everybody's sake, here, who was that again, 534 00:36:59,755 --> 00:37:03,795 Speaker 1: who told me to do that? Zuker's goodwill was gone again. 535 00:37:04,115 --> 00:37:07,755 Speaker 1: Obviously that was me. What's your point? My point is, 536 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:11,475 Speaker 1: we built this new brand of ours organically on a 537 00:37:11,475 --> 00:37:14,275 Speaker 1: couple of themes, a couple of statements of principle, and 538 00:37:14,355 --> 00:37:17,315 Speaker 1: one of them is to use your words just to 539 00:37:17,595 --> 00:37:21,155 Speaker 1: f with Fox. If we don't f with Fox for 540 00:37:21,195 --> 00:37:22,875 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks at the start of the summer, 541 00:37:22,875 --> 00:37:26,435 Speaker 1: who's going to care. Who's gonna notice? But like after 542 00:37:26,795 --> 00:37:30,195 Speaker 1: two weeks, three weeks, our viewers are gonna notice, and 543 00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:32,915 Speaker 1: the TV writers are gonna notice, and then the crap 544 00:37:32,955 --> 00:37:36,075 Speaker 1: we'll hit from every direction. You can think of temporary 545 00:37:36,155 --> 00:37:40,195 Speaker 1: freeze on mentioning Fox and mentioning O'Reilly and mentioning Murdoch. Fine, 546 00:37:40,355 --> 00:37:43,715 Speaker 1: permanent freeze. Might as well let Immelt turn us off 547 00:37:43,755 --> 00:37:47,715 Speaker 1: in the morning. After all, I don't think Zooker actually 548 00:37:47,755 --> 00:37:50,195 Speaker 1: heard the last part about em Milt turning us off. 549 00:37:50,235 --> 00:37:55,595 Speaker 1: After all, the lack of color was returning to his face. Okay, breathe, 550 00:37:55,755 --> 00:38:00,315 Speaker 1: he kept saying to himself. Breathe, breathe, Okay, breathe. He 551 00:38:00,355 --> 00:38:03,035 Speaker 1: looked at me and nodded. He pointed at Izzy and 552 00:38:03,115 --> 00:38:06,115 Speaker 1: at Phil Griffin and me. You you, and you and I. 553 00:38:06,475 --> 00:38:09,475 Speaker 1: We will talk tomorrow, maybe tonight, and we'll all meet 554 00:38:09,515 --> 00:38:12,715 Speaker 1: again next week. Until then, nothing about Fox, anybody, are 555 00:38:12,715 --> 00:38:16,915 Speaker 1: we clear? Nothing on the air about Fox. Silence in 556 00:38:16,955 --> 00:38:20,315 Speaker 1: the room. Then the assorted noises of people rising, mixed 557 00:38:20,315 --> 00:38:24,875 Speaker 1: with attempts to resuscitate poor Ed Schultz. Somebody Matthew's guy, 558 00:38:24,915 --> 00:38:27,715 Speaker 1: Harson I think, was almost at the door out of 559 00:38:27,795 --> 00:38:29,995 Speaker 1: Zucker's office, an office so big that it was to 560 00:38:30,035 --> 00:38:33,515 Speaker 1: steal the Ring Lardner line, the size of the Yale Bowl, 561 00:38:33,675 --> 00:38:37,675 Speaker 1: but with lamps. And then a voice spoke up, quietly 562 00:38:37,755 --> 00:38:43,315 Speaker 1: but firmly, Excuse me. It was Rachel Maddow. Excuse me. 563 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:46,835 Speaker 1: I will not have the content of my show dictated 564 00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:51,355 Speaker 1: by any corporations, including the one I work for. Remember 565 00:38:51,395 --> 00:38:53,275 Speaker 1: this is June two thousand and nine. She still felt 566 00:38:53,315 --> 00:38:56,355 Speaker 1: that way then, and especially one I don't work for. 567 00:38:56,435 --> 00:38:58,715 Speaker 1: I will walk out first. I cannot have the audience 568 00:38:58,795 --> 00:39:01,755 Speaker 1: wondering what else I have not told them. I don't 569 00:39:01,755 --> 00:39:03,555 Speaker 1: do a lot about Fox on my show. But if 570 00:39:03,555 --> 00:39:05,835 Speaker 1: there is a story about Fox, I will not honor 571 00:39:05,875 --> 00:39:08,195 Speaker 1: this freeze. I will report that story. And if I'm 572 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:12,355 Speaker 1: prevented from reporting that story, I will leave. Whereupon she left, 573 00:39:13,395 --> 00:39:18,435 Speaker 1: Zucker barked Phil Alderman, is he stay? When the rest 574 00:39:18,515 --> 00:39:21,475 Speaker 1: of the room had cleared, Zucker blew air out of 575 00:39:21,515 --> 00:39:24,715 Speaker 1: his mouth as if it were smoke. He gestured violently 576 00:39:24,755 --> 00:39:26,515 Speaker 1: at me with his right arm. I told you she 577 00:39:26,595 --> 00:39:28,115 Speaker 1: was a mistake. You didn't listen to me. 578 00:39:28,155 --> 00:39:28,715 Speaker 2: I told you. 579 00:39:28,955 --> 00:39:31,395 Speaker 1: Now, she's your problem. All of this is your problem. 580 00:39:31,395 --> 00:39:34,835 Speaker 1: Get her back on the reservation or else. Now I 581 00:39:35,035 --> 00:39:38,715 Speaker 1: had run out of goodwill and jokes. Oh, I'll get 582 00:39:38,715 --> 00:39:40,595 Speaker 1: her back on the reservation, Jeff. But if you think 583 00:39:40,635 --> 00:39:43,475 Speaker 1: this is my problem, just think about what happens if 584 00:39:43,515 --> 00:39:46,195 Speaker 1: he really does take us off the air, or if 585 00:39:46,195 --> 00:39:49,155 Speaker 1: it just gets out that he threatened to take us 586 00:39:49,235 --> 00:39:55,715 Speaker 1: off the air because his mother didn't like what Fox 587 00:39:56,195 --> 00:40:02,075 Speaker 1: said about him. That's my problem. Uh uh, that's your problem. 588 00:40:02,395 --> 00:40:05,315 Speaker 1: And it's the problem of the CEO of the fricking 589 00:40:05,555 --> 00:40:09,475 Speaker 1: sixth largest corporation in the world, who makes his business 590 00:40:09,515 --> 00:40:13,995 Speaker 1: decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars of profits based 591 00:40:14,035 --> 00:40:19,555 Speaker 1: on what his mother says. At this point, Phil Griffin 592 00:40:19,595 --> 00:40:22,395 Speaker 1: managed to pull Zucker away and Izzy and I made 593 00:40:22,435 --> 00:40:26,475 Speaker 1: for the door, saying nothing until we were in the elevator. Finally, 594 00:40:26,515 --> 00:40:29,275 Speaker 1: she asked, what are you going to do about Rachel? 595 00:40:30,155 --> 00:40:32,755 Speaker 1: I look straight ahead. I have depth perception issues while 596 00:40:32,795 --> 00:40:36,435 Speaker 1: traveling forward, backwards, up or down. Yeah, if I know 597 00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:38,155 Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do about her. But I got an idea. 598 00:40:38,635 --> 00:40:40,555 Speaker 1: I mean, the only person she was really talking to 599 00:40:40,635 --> 00:40:44,595 Speaker 1: in there was herself. This isn't a brand new surprise 600 00:40:44,715 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: success for her anymore. This is successful. This is what 601 00:40:48,435 --> 00:40:52,155 Speaker 1: nine ten months she's successful. She said she was once 602 00:40:52,195 --> 00:40:55,475 Speaker 1: a dancing cell phone outside of cell phone store outside 603 00:40:55,475 --> 00:40:59,275 Speaker 1: of Boston. She ain't going back to that. I went 604 00:40:59,315 --> 00:41:01,675 Speaker 1: to talk to Rachel about an hour later and reassured her. 605 00:41:02,395 --> 00:41:05,195 Speaker 1: I mentioned that powerful as Fox was, they were not 606 00:41:05,235 --> 00:41:07,795 Speaker 1: going to be able to re invade Iraq by themselves, 607 00:41:08,355 --> 00:41:11,275 Speaker 1: and unless she moved it way closer than it had been, 608 00:41:11,315 --> 00:41:14,635 Speaker 1: nobody would cross her censorship line. And I said, just 609 00:41:14,795 --> 00:41:17,315 Speaker 1: give me as much time as the French government took 610 00:41:17,595 --> 00:41:21,195 Speaker 1: before fleeing during the Nazi advance in nineteen forty. I said, 611 00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:23,515 Speaker 1: give me, what was it, thirty three days? Give me 612 00:41:23,555 --> 00:41:26,035 Speaker 1: thirty three days. If we aren't back where we were 613 00:41:26,075 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: this morning, we can both quit on the air. I 614 00:41:29,395 --> 00:41:30,235 Speaker 1: mean that'd be fun. 615 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:30,515 Speaker 2: Right. 616 00:41:31,675 --> 00:41:34,315 Speaker 1: Three nights later, well after midnight on a Friday, my 617 00:41:34,515 --> 00:41:39,955 Speaker 1: NBC issued BlackBerry buzzed with a quick email from Rachel Maddow. Hey, 618 00:41:40,195 --> 00:41:43,795 Speaker 1: she wrote, don't necessarily quote me because I'm really drunk, 619 00:41:44,115 --> 00:41:46,075 Speaker 1: but just make the best deal you can for us. 620 00:41:46,155 --> 00:41:48,435 Speaker 1: I trust you. We don't need to do Fox all 621 00:41:48,435 --> 00:41:50,915 Speaker 1: the time. I never do Fox stories anyway. I just 622 00:41:50,955 --> 00:41:53,555 Speaker 1: had to say that, and this is the best platform 623 00:41:53,555 --> 00:41:57,315 Speaker 1: we will ever have. Well she was right, at least 624 00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:59,395 Speaker 1: for the time being. A couple of weeks later, I 625 00:41:59,435 --> 00:42:01,835 Speaker 1: had to sneak in a script that blasted Fox, and 626 00:42:01,875 --> 00:42:03,915 Speaker 1: at ten thirty at home that night, I got a 627 00:42:03,955 --> 00:42:06,555 Speaker 1: call from a drunk can Phil Griffin shouting into the phone. 628 00:42:06,995 --> 00:42:10,915 Speaker 1: I of a family. Zucker had to go meet with 629 00:42:11,035 --> 00:42:16,195 Speaker 1: Roger Ayles secretly inside thirty Rock, and I hope they 630 00:42:16,195 --> 00:42:19,395 Speaker 1: remember to clean the room afterwards. And mlt even had 631 00:42:19,435 --> 00:42:23,035 Speaker 1: to meet with Murdoch. And then, happily, some idiot Ge 632 00:42:23,155 --> 00:42:26,275 Speaker 1: executive decided to boast to The New York Times about 633 00:42:26,275 --> 00:42:29,595 Speaker 1: getting us little talent children under control and a big 634 00:42:29,635 --> 00:42:32,515 Speaker 1: deal with the executives over at Fox and how they'd 635 00:42:32,515 --> 00:42:35,755 Speaker 1: settled everything, which blew up the whole deal instantly, because 636 00:42:35,795 --> 00:42:40,035 Speaker 1: the moment the deal went public, NBC looked so stupid, 637 00:42:40,235 --> 00:42:44,995 Speaker 1: and even NBC News was now risked. The only point 638 00:42:45,035 --> 00:42:46,955 Speaker 1: of the whole thing was to keep the Immelts and 639 00:42:47,035 --> 00:42:49,675 Speaker 1: the Zuckers and the Griffins and the ales Is from 640 00:42:49,715 --> 00:42:53,435 Speaker 1: throwing us and our little island of liberal commentary out 641 00:42:53,435 --> 00:42:57,395 Speaker 1: of that window at thirty Rock. But as Rachel Mattow 642 00:42:57,435 --> 00:43:00,075 Speaker 1: and I would be constantly reminded in the ensuing years, 643 00:43:00,795 --> 00:43:18,275 Speaker 1: thirty Rock has a lot of freaking windows. I've done 644 00:43:18,275 --> 00:43:20,995 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here as I await 645 00:43:21,035 --> 00:43:25,315 Speaker 1: Bill Ackman reporting me to the Southeastern Conference, thank you 646 00:43:25,395 --> 00:43:28,995 Speaker 1: for listening. We are now back to five episodes a week, 647 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,475 Speaker 1: posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is 648 00:43:32,515 --> 00:43:36,675 Speaker 1: a Monday Countdown. If I can do that, you can 649 00:43:36,675 --> 00:43:40,595 Speaker 1: send this to somebody who doesn't listen or subscribe. I 650 00:43:40,635 --> 00:43:43,435 Speaker 1: mean somebody who'd like it, or somebody who wouldn't like it. 651 00:43:43,475 --> 00:43:46,675 Speaker 1: That works too. Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel are 652 00:43:46,675 --> 00:43:50,035 Speaker 1: the musical directors of Countdown and they arranged, produced and 653 00:43:50,115 --> 00:43:54,235 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration in keyboards, 654 00:43:54,435 --> 00:43:56,715 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and 655 00:43:56,755 --> 00:44:01,115 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers, And yes, Jeff mL 656 00:44:01,635 --> 00:44:04,955 Speaker 1: really was going to take the network off the air, 657 00:44:05,675 --> 00:44:09,635 Speaker 1: and the guy who was stalking him really was Jesse Waters, 658 00:44:10,315 --> 00:44:13,715 Speaker 1: and they really were proud that they had made a 659 00:44:13,755 --> 00:44:16,915 Speaker 1: deal with Fox in which they let Fox decide what 660 00:44:17,035 --> 00:44:20,955 Speaker 1: NBC thought was news and what wasn't. And the moment 661 00:44:20,995 --> 00:44:24,715 Speaker 1: it hit the fresh air of the real world, half 662 00:44:24,755 --> 00:44:30,395 Speaker 1: a dozen NBC News executives threatened to quit anyway. Our 663 00:44:30,395 --> 00:44:32,995 Speaker 1: satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best baseball 664 00:44:33,035 --> 00:44:35,875 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, who had nothing to do 665 00:44:35,915 --> 00:44:38,875 Speaker 1: with ge. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 666 00:44:39,075 --> 00:44:42,515 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 667 00:44:44,155 --> 00:44:47,235 Speaker 1: And of course they're hearing about everything involved in this 668 00:44:47,275 --> 00:44:50,555 Speaker 1: show right now from the Southeastern Conference thanks to Bill Ackman. 669 00:44:50,755 --> 00:44:53,595 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 670 00:44:54,075 --> 00:44:57,075 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend John Dean. Everything else 671 00:44:57,195 --> 00:44:59,795 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this 672 00:44:59,875 --> 00:45:03,555 Speaker 1: the forty ninth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 673 00:45:04,155 --> 00:45:06,195 Speaker 1: counting a election day for those of you who say no, 674 00:45:06,275 --> 00:45:10,555 Speaker 1: it's the forty eighth and the forty fifth day since 675 00:45:10,675 --> 00:45:15,395 Speaker 1: convicted felon domestic jay terrorists first attempted coup against the 676 00:45:15,395 --> 00:45:18,955 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election, 677 00:45:19,635 --> 00:45:22,395 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if you 678 00:45:22,555 --> 00:45:26,515 Speaker 1: have to to keep him from doing it again while 679 00:45:26,595 --> 00:45:33,395 Speaker 1: we still can. And please, Maga nuts, please stop trying 680 00:45:33,435 --> 00:45:37,995 Speaker 1: to shoot at Trump. Please. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 681 00:45:38,235 --> 00:45:40,955 Speaker 1: Bulletin says that it requires until the next one on 682 00:45:41,035 --> 00:45:45,275 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 683 00:46:03,315 --> 00:46:07,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Oltram is a production of iHeartRadio. For 684 00:46:07,435 --> 00:46:12,515 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 685 00:46:12,635 --> 00:46:14,595 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.