1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Imagine 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:26,355 Speaker 1: being such a schmuck that all the other people in 3 00:00:26,475 --> 00:00:30,675 Speaker 1: the Schmuck Party not only hate you and are trying 4 00:00:30,715 --> 00:00:34,475 Speaker 1: to defeat you, but that they have coordinated their hatred 5 00:00:34,595 --> 00:00:37,595 Speaker 1: so that the votes against you keep growing and you 6 00:00:37,675 --> 00:00:41,715 Speaker 1: get more humiliated each time you step out there. Imagine 7 00:00:42,035 --> 00:00:49,995 Speaker 1: that's you. That would mean you are Jim Jordan, Hi schmuck. 8 00:00:51,275 --> 00:00:53,955 Speaker 1: We've had two rounds of floor votes, writes Congress and 9 00:00:54,035 --> 00:00:56,955 Speaker 1: Rutherford of Florida, and the vote against Jordan has only 10 00:00:56,995 --> 00:01:01,235 Speaker 1: gotten stronger. The hardball tactics haven't worked. If we move 11 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:03,875 Speaker 1: to a third round, we already know the opposition is 12 00:01:03,915 --> 00:01:07,035 Speaker 1: on track to grow. Oh, it's time for Representative Jordan 13 00:01:07,115 --> 00:01:10,515 Speaker 1: to understand this race is over tonight. I suggest we 14 00:01:10,595 --> 00:01:13,075 Speaker 1: either go to conference to show him in private, or 15 00:01:13,155 --> 00:01:16,275 Speaker 1: back to the floor to show him in public. Representative 16 00:01:16,355 --> 00:01:21,355 Speaker 1: Jordan is fiddling while the world is on fire. Hot 17 00:01:21,435 --> 00:01:23,995 Speaker 1: damn the Republicans. Hey Jim Jordan more than we do. 18 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:30,155 Speaker 1: I'll get to what Rutherford referred to there as hardball tactics. 19 00:01:31,315 --> 00:01:33,715 Speaker 1: He ain't talking about the show Chris Matthews now does 20 00:01:33,755 --> 00:01:37,555 Speaker 1: for passers by and invisible friends. But first, there is 21 00:01:37,675 --> 00:01:41,555 Speaker 1: more reporting that the vote total against Jordan didn't just 22 00:01:41,955 --> 00:01:45,995 Speaker 1: increase from twenty on the first ballot to twenty two 23 00:01:46,035 --> 00:01:50,435 Speaker 1: on the second, but it was increased deliberately. Quote. Some 24 00:01:50,475 --> 00:01:53,995 Speaker 1: of Jim Jordan's opponents tell me they have been purposely 25 00:01:54,475 --> 00:01:59,235 Speaker 1: staggering their no votes over multiple ballots, wrote a CNN reporter, 26 00:01:59,555 --> 00:02:03,875 Speaker 1: a strategy designed to show Jordan's speakership. Opposition is only growing, 27 00:02:04,115 --> 00:02:07,315 Speaker 1: and that's why they tell me Jordan will bleed even 28 00:02:07,395 --> 00:02:11,915 Speaker 1: more support on a third ballot. Reporting by other outlets 29 00:02:11,995 --> 00:02:14,555 Speaker 1: late last night, including that of the Washington Post, implies 30 00:02:14,635 --> 00:02:20,635 Speaker 1: the same thing. Why why, as the Republican brand, we 31 00:02:20,715 --> 00:02:23,955 Speaker 1: may not be smart or honest or patriotic, but at 32 00:02:24,035 --> 00:02:28,195 Speaker 1: least we're organized crime. Why as the Republican brand is 33 00:02:28,355 --> 00:02:31,595 Speaker 1: melting around them, why are key members of the caucus 34 00:02:31,875 --> 00:02:35,715 Speaker 1: seemingly making it worse by not just trying to beat Jordan, 35 00:02:36,275 --> 00:02:41,035 Speaker 1: but by trying to beat him up because he started it. 36 00:02:41,955 --> 00:02:45,875 Speaker 1: Congressman Rutherford there says Jordan has been bullying people for 37 00:02:45,955 --> 00:02:49,955 Speaker 1: votes and is personally to blame for threats and doxing 38 00:02:49,955 --> 00:02:53,755 Speaker 1: against those who have not supported him. He's absolutely responsible. 39 00:02:53,795 --> 00:02:56,395 Speaker 1: For it, Rutherford says, and it doesn't work. Nobody likes 40 00:02:56,435 --> 00:03:00,395 Speaker 1: to have their arm twisted. Congresswoman Miller Meeks says she 41 00:03:00,475 --> 00:03:05,235 Speaker 1: has gotten quote credible death threats after abandoning her support 42 00:03:05,275 --> 00:03:08,395 Speaker 1: for Jordan. Congressman Womack says, based on what I've been 43 00:03:08,435 --> 00:03:10,795 Speaker 1: through and what my staff has been through, it's obvious 44 00:03:10,835 --> 00:03:15,155 Speaker 1: what the strategy is. Attack attack attack. Congressman Jimenez of 45 00:03:15,195 --> 00:03:17,675 Speaker 1: Florida says he went to Jordan directly and told him 46 00:03:17,875 --> 00:03:22,115 Speaker 1: I don't really take well to threats. Congresswoman Jen Keggins 47 00:03:22,155 --> 00:03:26,435 Speaker 1: says threats and intimidation tactics will not change my principles 48 00:03:26,435 --> 00:03:29,555 Speaker 1: and values. But on the other hand, Congresswoman Kay Granger 49 00:03:29,555 --> 00:03:33,555 Speaker 1: of Texas says she's been the victim of intimidation and 50 00:03:33,875 --> 00:03:40,835 Speaker 1: threats rather than threats and intimidation. Lastly, Congressman Don Bacon's 51 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:45,715 Speaker 1: wife got threatening anonymous texts on her personal cell. Why 52 00:03:45,835 --> 00:03:49,515 Speaker 1: is your husband causing chaos by not supporting Jim Jordan. 53 00:03:49,835 --> 00:03:52,915 Speaker 1: I thought he was a team player, and your husband 54 00:03:52,915 --> 00:03:56,915 Speaker 1: will not hold any political office ever. Again, what a 55 00:03:57,115 --> 00:04:02,955 Speaker 1: disappoint and failure he is that semi literate misuse of 56 00:04:03,075 --> 00:04:07,755 Speaker 1: disappoint instead of disappointment suggests, of course, that the text 57 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:11,355 Speaker 1: could easily have been personally sent by the boneheaded Jim 58 00:04:11,435 --> 00:04:16,875 Speaker 1: Jordan himself. So what next? There is the likeliest answer, Jordan, 59 00:04:16,915 --> 00:04:18,995 Speaker 1: who liked most of the Republicans, has never thought for 60 00:04:19,075 --> 00:04:21,475 Speaker 1: a moment that if you base a political career on 61 00:04:21,555 --> 00:04:24,275 Speaker 1: our party on threats and hate, that eventually somebody on 62 00:04:24,315 --> 00:04:27,075 Speaker 1: your own side will threaten and hate you more than 63 00:04:27,075 --> 00:04:29,755 Speaker 1: you can threaten and hate them. Jim Jordan will stage 64 00:04:29,755 --> 00:04:31,675 Speaker 1: a third vote anyway, and he will lose this one 65 00:04:31,715 --> 00:04:34,555 Speaker 1: by at least twenty four. There is the very low 66 00:04:34,675 --> 00:04:38,875 Speaker 1: chance that there's a surprise twist here, like there's a 67 00:04:38,915 --> 00:04:44,715 Speaker 1: big reveal sometime today that Matt Gates actually works for 68 00:04:45,075 --> 00:04:49,555 Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries or something. And since Gates propelled this snowball 69 00:04:49,635 --> 00:04:53,955 Speaker 1: down the hill right into Republican World headquarters, the Akham's 70 00:04:54,075 --> 00:05:00,195 Speaker 1: razor explanation of this would be that he did it deliberately, 71 00:05:18,235 --> 00:05:22,355 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust twist indeed, or if you want 72 00:05:22,435 --> 00:05:26,115 Speaker 1: the fantasy land version of how this turns out, for 73 00:05:26,155 --> 00:05:29,115 Speaker 1: a long time now, whenever I have seen this phony 74 00:05:29,235 --> 00:05:33,075 Speaker 1: Jim Jordan walking around in his shirt sleeves, because that's 75 00:05:33,115 --> 00:05:36,395 Speaker 1: his blue collar pitch that he's got his jacket off 76 00:05:36,835 --> 00:05:39,875 Speaker 1: and that means he's working hard for you, mister missus 77 00:05:39,955 --> 00:05:44,355 Speaker 1: Joe Ohio, as opposed to just implying that he's taken 78 00:05:44,395 --> 00:05:46,555 Speaker 1: his jacket off and can't remember where he put it. 79 00:05:47,275 --> 00:05:50,075 Speaker 1: Every time I have seen Jordan do this stick, I 80 00:05:50,115 --> 00:05:53,155 Speaker 1: have thought of one character in the most jam packed 81 00:05:53,155 --> 00:05:55,915 Speaker 1: piece of political fiction of the nineteen sixties, the Auto 82 00:05:56,035 --> 00:06:00,635 Speaker 1: Premeiinger film Advise and Consent. In it, there is a 83 00:06:00,795 --> 00:06:05,795 Speaker 1: character called Senator Fred van Ackerman, supposedly of Wyoming, a smarmy, 84 00:06:05,835 --> 00:06:08,475 Speaker 1: little bug eyed fascist played to the hilt by the 85 00:06:08,515 --> 00:06:12,795 Speaker 1: great George Grizzard. Van Ackerman is a climber, and when 86 00:06:12,835 --> 00:06:15,555 Speaker 1: it appears that one of his senate colleagues is blocking 87 00:06:15,635 --> 00:06:19,035 Speaker 1: the dying president's controversial pick for Secretary of State, Van 88 00:06:19,115 --> 00:06:24,435 Speaker 1: Ackerman blackmails that senator over his gay dalliances during the war. 89 00:06:25,195 --> 00:06:29,795 Speaker 1: I mean this was some startling content for nineteen sixty two. Anyway, 90 00:06:29,835 --> 00:06:34,355 Speaker 1: the senior senators eventually find out about Van Ackerman's perfidy, 91 00:06:34,995 --> 00:06:37,075 Speaker 1: and they confront him, and they confront him during a 92 00:06:37,195 --> 00:06:41,475 Speaker 1: vote on the floor, and they bury him alive. Fortunately, 93 00:06:42,155 --> 00:06:45,595 Speaker 1: says the majority leader. Our country always manages to survive 94 00:06:46,155 --> 00:06:50,195 Speaker 1: patriots like you. We could introduce a resolution to censure 95 00:06:50,275 --> 00:06:53,675 Speaker 1: and expel you, but we don't want brig Anderson's tired 96 00:06:53,715 --> 00:06:58,515 Speaker 1: old sin made public, whatever it was, So we'll let 97 00:06:58,555 --> 00:07:04,155 Speaker 1: you stay if you want to. And as the blood 98 00:07:04,235 --> 00:07:07,955 Speaker 1: drains from Van Ackerman's face, the Majority leader's deputy then 99 00:07:08,035 --> 00:07:13,315 Speaker 1: croaks if you want to, and you realize Van Ackerman 100 00:07:13,395 --> 00:07:17,475 Speaker 1: has the choice between resigning or spending the rest of 101 00:07:17,515 --> 00:07:24,315 Speaker 1: his life as Senator Susan Collins Jim Jordan is about 102 00:07:24,315 --> 00:07:28,635 Speaker 1: one plot twist away from being Fred van Ackerman. In 103 00:07:28,715 --> 00:07:32,315 Speaker 1: Advice and Consent, He's not only not going to be 104 00:07:32,475 --> 00:07:35,915 Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, he's going to be damn lucky 105 00:07:36,075 --> 00:07:40,235 Speaker 1: at this rate if he winds up just serving out 106 00:07:40,395 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: his term. 107 00:07:41,395 --> 00:07:43,795 Speaker 2: Fortunately, our country always manages to. 108 00:07:45,475 --> 00:07:45,555 Speaker 3: You. 109 00:07:46,835 --> 00:07:50,635 Speaker 2: Yes, you could introduce a resolution to censor if they 110 00:07:50,715 --> 00:07:53,475 Speaker 2: don't want to bring in his hold's tired old simm 111 00:07:53,675 --> 00:07:58,235 Speaker 2: pummissus bishop, whatever it was. Yes, so we let you stay, mister, 112 00:08:00,035 --> 00:08:00,755 Speaker 2: if you want to. 113 00:08:05,195 --> 00:08:08,955 Speaker 1: Well, the Gaza hospital scam didn't last twenty four hours, 114 00:08:08,995 --> 00:08:11,755 Speaker 1: did it? I mean, I am not prepared to say 115 00:08:11,835 --> 00:08:14,635 Speaker 1: case closed, but when it proves that whatever hit the 116 00:08:14,715 --> 00:08:18,955 Speaker 1: hospital did not actually hit the hospital, but only hit 117 00:08:18,995 --> 00:08:24,915 Speaker 1: the parking lot. All subsequent claims about almost anything become 118 00:08:25,035 --> 00:08:30,555 Speaker 1: exponentially more unbelievable. The thing is, I was watching BBC 119 00:08:30,755 --> 00:08:33,795 Speaker 1: World as it unfolded, and they had an interview with 120 00:08:33,835 --> 00:08:37,955 Speaker 1: a doctor who was inside the hospital, and this was 121 00:08:38,195 --> 00:08:41,355 Speaker 1: half an hour, an hour after the explosion, and he 122 00:08:41,395 --> 00:08:43,515 Speaker 1: said he heard the explosion. He said he ran down 123 00:08:43,515 --> 00:08:45,835 Speaker 1: a hallway and saw the fire, and he saw the wounded, 124 00:08:45,875 --> 00:08:48,035 Speaker 1: and he didn't know if the er was still intact 125 00:08:48,195 --> 00:08:50,315 Speaker 1: or the operating theaters were. And for a moment, a 126 00:08:50,315 --> 00:08:52,795 Speaker 1: little thankful bell went off inside my head that at 127 00:08:52,875 --> 00:08:55,155 Speaker 1: least the entire hospital had not been destroyed. And then 128 00:08:55,275 --> 00:08:57,355 Speaker 1: that little bell got drowned out by a lot of 129 00:08:57,395 --> 00:09:00,635 Speaker 1: subsequent noise, and I never came back to it. A 130 00:09:00,715 --> 00:09:03,875 Speaker 1: reminder why I usually keep a whole book of postits 131 00:09:03,915 --> 00:09:09,915 Speaker 1: next to me. Now, after the scene at the hospital 132 00:09:10,035 --> 00:09:13,795 Speaker 1: was recorded in daylight, it became obvious there was no 133 00:09:13,995 --> 00:09:19,715 Speaker 1: giant missile strike. There is a crater about one thousandth 134 00:09:19,795 --> 00:09:23,675 Speaker 1: the size of what one would have produced. The hospital 135 00:09:23,715 --> 00:09:27,955 Speaker 1: itself is almost untouched. It certainly was not hit by 136 00:09:27,995 --> 00:09:31,235 Speaker 1: a missile, and I suppose the allegation that it was 137 00:09:31,315 --> 00:09:35,715 Speaker 1: an Israeli attack could have been made sincerely, albeit falsely, 138 00:09:35,795 --> 00:09:39,395 Speaker 1: in real time. But once again there are outsized events 139 00:09:39,395 --> 00:09:42,635 Speaker 1: that just render the rest of an allegation ludicrous. They 140 00:09:42,715 --> 00:09:46,995 Speaker 1: blew up the hospital, well, not the hospital, they blew 141 00:09:47,035 --> 00:09:51,155 Speaker 1: up the parking lot. And then a Hamas spokesman goes 142 00:09:51,155 --> 00:09:54,795 Speaker 1: on Britain's Channel four news yesterday and denies there was 143 00:09:54,835 --> 00:09:58,475 Speaker 1: any kind of Hamas terrorism or attack on October seventh, 144 00:09:59,435 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: and there were no hostages taken, and that all the 145 00:10:02,235 --> 00:10:05,515 Speaker 1: Israelis are just prisoners of war. And I think I 146 00:10:05,555 --> 00:10:08,635 Speaker 1: think we are giving Hamas too much credit as liars. 147 00:10:10,835 --> 00:10:13,555 Speaker 1: I will suggest there may yet be more to this 148 00:10:13,595 --> 00:10:16,395 Speaker 1: than meets the eye. The authenticity of that Israeli Defense 149 00:10:16,475 --> 00:10:19,955 Speaker 1: Forces audio of a supposed call between two terrorists is 150 00:10:19,995 --> 00:10:22,795 Speaker 1: also in doubt in some quarters. Anyway, the act censor 151 00:10:22,875 --> 00:10:25,275 Speaker 1: said not to match those of Gosens, and for Gosens, 152 00:10:25,275 --> 00:10:27,475 Speaker 1: the two men clearly do not have any idea of 153 00:10:27,555 --> 00:10:32,275 Speaker 1: street and building locations, or that claim is just another 154 00:10:32,395 --> 00:10:37,275 Speaker 1: Hamas lie as well. It may merit more investigation, but 155 00:10:37,395 --> 00:10:44,995 Speaker 1: the principal one doesn't. But this underscores the importance of 156 00:10:45,195 --> 00:10:48,715 Speaker 1: the rhetorical question which is given in response now to 157 00:10:48,755 --> 00:10:51,475 Speaker 1: the claim that Joe Biden is too old to be president, 158 00:10:53,155 --> 00:10:59,115 Speaker 1: too old to do what to fly to Israel overnight 159 00:10:59,355 --> 00:11:03,395 Speaker 1: anyway after the Arab leaders suddenly all got too scared 160 00:11:03,395 --> 00:11:05,355 Speaker 1: of their own people to meet with him, him and 161 00:11:05,475 --> 00:11:08,595 Speaker 1: to devote ninety eight percent of his time in Israel 162 00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:12,755 Speaker 1: to support for an ally and especially its people, and 163 00:11:12,795 --> 00:11:14,915 Speaker 1: then use the other two percent of the time to 164 00:11:15,395 --> 00:11:19,315 Speaker 1: matter of factly state that what he had seen from 165 00:11:19,435 --> 00:11:23,555 Speaker 1: intelligence indicated Israel did not bomb a hospital, and to 166 00:11:23,875 --> 00:11:27,235 Speaker 1: without fanfare or drama, simply lend the authenticity of the 167 00:11:27,315 --> 00:11:30,475 Speaker 1: United States of America to the truth at a time 168 00:11:30,515 --> 00:11:34,275 Speaker 1: when truth is on the run worldwide, and get a 169 00:11:34,275 --> 00:11:37,555 Speaker 1: symbolic but important concession out of all parties to let 170 00:11:38,075 --> 00:11:43,155 Speaker 1: twenty trucks of humanitarian aid in through Egypt. Can your 171 00:11:43,275 --> 00:11:47,675 Speaker 1: eighty year old do that, your seventy year old, your 172 00:11:47,715 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: fifty year old, For f's sake, Trump would have tried 173 00:11:51,515 --> 00:11:54,715 Speaker 1: to bomb somebody by now, while promoting the Saudis as 174 00:11:54,755 --> 00:12:01,475 Speaker 1: great people, great friends of the game of golf, President 175 00:12:01,475 --> 00:12:03,875 Speaker 1: Biden is fighting three opponents in the twenty twenty four 176 00:12:03,955 --> 00:12:08,035 Speaker 1: presidential race. The Republicans, the unlimited money produced by the 177 00:12:08,035 --> 00:12:11,515 Speaker 1: Pandoras box. That was Citizens United, which is not just 178 00:12:11,555 --> 00:12:15,035 Speaker 1: supporting Republicans, but supporting a push to end representative government 179 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:18,275 Speaker 1: in this country. More on that in a moment. And 180 00:12:18,675 --> 00:12:23,395 Speaker 1: the third opponent the mainstream media, which likes nothing better 181 00:12:23,435 --> 00:12:25,515 Speaker 1: than and this was true even in two thousand and 182 00:12:25,555 --> 00:12:28,635 Speaker 1: four with Bush at least until the Osama bin Laden 183 00:12:28,755 --> 00:12:31,395 Speaker 1: tape dropped the week before the election, which likes nothing 184 00:12:31,395 --> 00:12:34,395 Speaker 1: better than the narrative of the incumbent president is in trouble. 185 00:12:36,475 --> 00:12:39,155 Speaker 1: You know what was going on forty years ago? This morning, 186 00:12:40,035 --> 00:12:44,995 Speaker 1: October nineteenth, nineteen eighty three, I just picked this out 187 00:12:44,995 --> 00:12:48,195 Speaker 1: of newspapers dot Com as I was writing today's script. 188 00:12:49,875 --> 00:12:53,795 Speaker 1: Throughout American newspapers of October nineteenth, nineteen eighty three, there 189 00:12:53,835 --> 00:12:57,235 Speaker 1: are a lot of references to Ronald Reagan, nearly seventy 190 00:12:57,275 --> 00:13:00,075 Speaker 1: three years old, being way too old to take a 191 00:13:00,115 --> 00:13:05,715 Speaker 1: second term or even to stand for reelection. This was 192 00:13:05,755 --> 00:13:08,715 Speaker 1: in literally three hundred or so American newspapers on this 193 00:13:08,795 --> 00:13:12,595 Speaker 1: date in nineteen eighty three. It's David Broder's column out 194 00:13:12,595 --> 00:13:16,395 Speaker 1: of the Washington Post, the high priest of both sides 195 00:13:16,555 --> 00:13:22,235 Speaker 1: ism at the full blossom of his finding some middle 196 00:13:22,595 --> 00:13:27,355 Speaker 1: road that leads nowhere you're ready quote. The people who 197 00:13:27,355 --> 00:13:30,275 Speaker 1: are opening the Reagan Bush headquarters this week are operating 198 00:13:30,315 --> 00:13:34,075 Speaker 1: on two assumptions that Ronald Reagan is a candidate for 199 00:13:34,115 --> 00:13:36,715 Speaker 1: a second term and that he will face a tough 200 00:13:36,795 --> 00:13:40,155 Speaker 1: fight for reelection. The campaign plan is based on the 201 00:13:40,155 --> 00:13:44,915 Speaker 1: assumption that Reagan will face a united and determine Democratic Party, 202 00:13:45,195 --> 00:13:48,555 Speaker 1: probably with Walter F. Mondale at the head of the ticket, 203 00:13:48,795 --> 00:13:54,275 Speaker 1: but possibly topped by John Glenn. In the view of 204 00:13:54,275 --> 00:14:00,315 Speaker 1: the president's strategists, Mondale would be tough, Glen even tougher. 205 00:14:02,235 --> 00:14:08,675 Speaker 1: Quote headlines of that Reagan too old, too old. Reagan 206 00:14:08,755 --> 00:14:11,715 Speaker 1: might not run for a second term. Too old Reagan 207 00:14:11,795 --> 00:14:16,195 Speaker 1: might be primaried. And if he's not, he's very, very 208 00:14:16,275 --> 00:14:19,195 Speaker 1: worried about how tough the Democrats will be, especially if 209 00:14:19,235 --> 00:14:23,915 Speaker 1: Walter Mondale is the candidate. Outcome three hundred and eighty 210 00:14:23,995 --> 00:14:29,315 Speaker 1: five days later, Reagan five hundred and twenty five electoral votes, 211 00:14:29,635 --> 00:14:40,035 Speaker 1: Mondale thirteen one three. Biden is running against the media 212 00:14:40,155 --> 00:14:42,835 Speaker 1: that will turn or it will at least neutralize as 213 00:14:42,835 --> 00:14:45,955 Speaker 1: soon as there is a pro Biden narrative, simple and 214 00:14:46,035 --> 00:14:49,155 Speaker 1: catchy enough for even today's David Brothers to understand it 215 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:52,755 Speaker 1: and to then write the same thing about it once 216 00:14:52,795 --> 00:14:57,995 Speaker 1: a week for the next fifty four weeks. Keep it simple, stupid. 217 00:14:58,155 --> 00:15:03,995 Speaker 1: You're talking to political reporters, Well, maybe that same thing 218 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:07,235 Speaker 1: that they can write about for the next fifty four weeks. 219 00:15:07,395 --> 00:15:12,155 Speaker 1: Is this. Not only is Cornell West not the Green 220 00:15:12,235 --> 00:15:15,595 Speaker 1: Party candidate, and not only is he not anything except 221 00:15:15,595 --> 00:15:18,555 Speaker 1: a spoiler designed to steal votes away from Biden. And 222 00:15:18,595 --> 00:15:23,355 Speaker 1: not only is he a utter phony, he's not even 223 00:15:23,395 --> 00:15:28,275 Speaker 1: a progressive. NBC News reporting that West's last set of 224 00:15:28,315 --> 00:15:31,035 Speaker 1: fundraising reports before the Greens kicked him out and he 225 00:15:31,075 --> 00:15:35,555 Speaker 1: went utterly independent, notes the maximum campaign donation of thirty 226 00:15:35,555 --> 00:15:45,235 Speaker 1: three hundred dollars from Harlan Crowe. You know Harlan Crowe. 227 00:15:45,315 --> 00:15:50,035 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe is the owner and operator of Justice Clarence Thomas, 228 00:15:50,715 --> 00:15:56,195 Speaker 1: Clarence Thomas of your Supreme Religious Court. Harlan Crowe, owner operator. 229 00:15:58,515 --> 00:16:01,915 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe explains his donation simply. He says that Cornell 230 00:16:01,955 --> 00:16:07,755 Speaker 1: West is quote a good friend of his. If the 231 00:16:07,835 --> 00:16:12,035 Speaker 1: continuing efforts by Trumpists to poison the presidential campaign with 232 00:16:12,155 --> 00:16:15,915 Speaker 1: a series of trojan horse Republicans dressed up as independents, 233 00:16:15,915 --> 00:16:21,115 Speaker 1: the Joe Lieberman no labels con artists, the hilariously backfiring 234 00:16:21,235 --> 00:16:25,155 Speaker 1: RFK Junior campaign, and now this fiasco with Cornell Freaking 235 00:16:25,275 --> 00:16:30,755 Speaker 1: West Harlan Crow's thirty three hundred dollars more. If that's 236 00:16:30,835 --> 00:16:33,315 Speaker 1: not something for the media to turn into a running 237 00:16:33,395 --> 00:16:37,315 Speaker 1: campaign twenty twenty four story, how about this other idea 238 00:16:37,355 --> 00:16:42,635 Speaker 1: that I came across, this little effort to destroy the 239 00:16:43,435 --> 00:16:48,915 Speaker 1: you know, democracy. The Center for Politics at the University 240 00:16:48,915 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: of Virginia polled Americans on getting rid of representative government. 241 00:16:55,315 --> 00:16:59,955 Speaker 1: Thirty one percent of trumps supporters agree that democracy is 242 00:17:00,035 --> 00:17:03,475 Speaker 1: no longer a viable system and America should explore alternate 243 00:17:03,555 --> 00:17:09,235 Speaker 1: forms of government to insure stability and progress. I don't 244 00:17:09,275 --> 00:17:13,875 Speaker 1: know if they asked Harlan Crowe. Thirty percent of Trump 245 00:17:13,955 --> 00:17:17,835 Speaker 1: supporters believe elections should be suspended during times of crisis. 246 00:17:20,795 --> 00:17:22,915 Speaker 1: At a time of crisis last week, we could have 247 00:17:22,915 --> 00:17:24,075 Speaker 1: suspended all the elections. 248 00:17:24,115 --> 00:17:24,315 Speaker 2: Then. 249 00:17:25,195 --> 00:17:29,195 Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent believe laws should be enacted to limit 250 00:17:29,195 --> 00:17:35,715 Speaker 1: the expression of views considered unpatriotic or disloyal. Forty one 251 00:17:35,795 --> 00:17:40,875 Speaker 1: percent of Trump supporters believe Red states should secede. Thirty 252 00:17:40,915 --> 00:17:44,955 Speaker 1: one percent say the ends justify the means, and any 253 00:17:45,035 --> 00:17:49,235 Speaker 1: action taken by the Republican Party is acceptable if it 254 00:17:49,355 --> 00:17:56,555 Speaker 1: achieves our goals. You think there might be a story 255 00:17:56,595 --> 00:18:01,755 Speaker 1: in that. Now, to be fair, in none of those categories, 256 00:18:02,315 --> 00:18:06,395 Speaker 1: none did Democrats turn in as z zero. In fact, 257 00:18:06,915 --> 00:18:10,515 Speaker 1: the percentage of Trump's supporters who said Democrats have become 258 00:18:10,555 --> 00:18:14,235 Speaker 1: so extreme that it is acceptable to use violence to 259 00:18:14,275 --> 00:18:18,795 Speaker 1: stop them is thirty eight percent. But the percentage of 260 00:18:18,835 --> 00:18:22,435 Speaker 1: Biden supporters who said Republicans have become so extreme that 261 00:18:22,635 --> 00:18:26,395 Speaker 1: it is acceptable to use violence to stop them is 262 00:18:28,115 --> 00:18:31,475 Speaker 1: forty one percent. And if you will let me pretend 263 00:18:31,475 --> 00:18:34,555 Speaker 1: that I'm upset that we won that one and that 264 00:18:34,595 --> 00:18:37,355 Speaker 1: the Democrats are readier if it comes to a fight, 265 00:18:37,875 --> 00:18:41,635 Speaker 1: If you'll let me pretend that, I'll let you pretend 266 00:18:41,675 --> 00:18:46,995 Speaker 1: the same thing. The funniest thing about this UVA poll 267 00:18:47,155 --> 00:18:50,915 Speaker 1: pretending the end of the democracy is the money question 268 00:18:50,995 --> 00:18:54,595 Speaker 1: of the whole thing. It's Biden versus Trump. Who you 269 00:18:54,675 --> 00:19:00,635 Speaker 1: got and the answer? The answer is fifty two forty 270 00:19:00,675 --> 00:19:10,115 Speaker 1: eight Joe Biden. All right, y'all want to end democracy, 271 00:19:10,155 --> 00:19:16,115 Speaker 1: but first we need to re elect President Biden. Okay. 272 00:19:16,995 --> 00:19:20,435 Speaker 1: Also of interest, here there were pro Palestinian protests at 273 00:19:20,435 --> 00:19:23,515 Speaker 1: the US Capitol, and they were peaceful, and the protesters 274 00:19:24,075 --> 00:19:27,915 Speaker 1: went and got themselves screened by security before they went in. 275 00:19:28,875 --> 00:19:32,355 Speaker 1: Yet one member of Congress compared it to January sixth 276 00:19:32,355 --> 00:19:35,475 Speaker 1: and insisted they must all be arrested and it's an insurrection. 277 00:19:36,315 --> 00:19:41,275 Speaker 1: And then that member of Congress published the Intifada's group chat, 278 00:19:41,595 --> 00:19:48,035 Speaker 1: and the Intefadas group chat is about hot dogs. One 279 00:19:48,235 --> 00:19:53,435 Speaker 1: guess who that dumbest member of Congress is who has 280 00:19:53,475 --> 00:20:01,875 Speaker 1: done this? That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown 281 00:20:02,115 --> 00:20:26,675 Speaker 1: with Keith Overman still ahead on countdown. Not a big deal, 282 00:20:26,915 --> 00:20:30,195 Speaker 1: just the most venerable disc jockey in New York promising 283 00:20:30,275 --> 00:20:33,635 Speaker 1: to get me the twenty one year old backup morning 284 00:20:33,675 --> 00:20:38,835 Speaker 1: sportscaster fired, and then one hour later promising to get 285 00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:43,395 Speaker 1: me the twenty one year old backup sportscaster signed to 286 00:20:43,515 --> 00:20:48,115 Speaker 1: a multi year contract on his show Things I promised 287 00:20:48,195 --> 00:20:51,795 Speaker 1: not to tell. Next first time for the daily roundup 288 00:20:51,835 --> 00:20:54,755 Speaker 1: of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who 289 00:20:54,795 --> 00:21:01,555 Speaker 1: constitute today's worst persons in the the Brons Georgia congresson 290 00:21:01,675 --> 00:21:05,955 Speaker 1: Mike Collins. Gotta give him credit He's trying to make 291 00:21:06,075 --> 00:21:10,355 Speaker 1: chicken salad out of the Republican chicken spit caucus clown 292 00:21:10,475 --> 00:21:13,875 Speaker 1: show in the House. As Jim Jordan pulled out of 293 00:21:13,875 --> 00:21:17,515 Speaker 1: his tie with Steve Scalise for most times not elected 294 00:21:17,555 --> 00:21:20,835 Speaker 1: Speaker even though his party has the majority, Collins looked 295 00:21:20,875 --> 00:21:24,035 Speaker 1: on the bright side of things. He tweeted, quote breaking, 296 00:21:24,675 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: Hakeem Jeffries just lost his seventeenth straight vote for Speaker. Collins, 297 00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:33,315 Speaker 1: of course, missing the starker reality that Jeffries has now 298 00:21:33,355 --> 00:21:37,115 Speaker 1: had the most votes in three straight votes for speaker. 299 00:21:37,995 --> 00:21:42,275 Speaker 1: The runner up also from congress Barney Rubbell herself, congress 300 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:47,795 Speaker 1: Woman Marjorie Taylor Green, Douglas Mackeye, who in twenty sixteen 301 00:21:47,875 --> 00:21:51,715 Speaker 1: ran a campaign to prevent minority voters from voting by 302 00:21:51,835 --> 00:21:55,435 Speaker 1: convincing them online they could vote by text. That is 303 00:21:55,515 --> 00:21:57,675 Speaker 1: a federal crime, doesn't matter who they might have been 304 00:21:57,755 --> 00:22:01,395 Speaker 1: voting for. Douglas Mackie was sentenced to a token jail 305 00:22:01,475 --> 00:22:04,675 Speaker 1: term yesterday seven months. He will not serve nearly that long. 306 00:22:05,195 --> 00:22:10,675 Speaker 1: Green's response, quote, the communist gulags are here at America. 307 00:22:10,875 --> 00:22:14,875 Speaker 1: She learned a new word, goulog. The communist gulags are 308 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:18,555 Speaker 1: here in America. Douglas Mackie was just sentenced to seven 309 00:22:18,555 --> 00:22:22,635 Speaker 1: months in federal prison for the crime of posting memes 310 00:22:23,715 --> 00:22:30,875 Speaker 1: Who's next you unquote well, first to answer your rhetorical question. Actually, Marge, 311 00:22:30,875 --> 00:22:35,315 Speaker 1: hopefully it's you, but our winner. Oh look it's Marjorie 312 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:39,635 Speaker 1: Taylor Green. Again, from that Douglas Mackie tweet, you might 313 00:22:39,675 --> 00:22:43,635 Speaker 1: think she's just acting stupid, that she's using her simpleton 314 00:22:43,795 --> 00:22:48,835 Speaker 1: mind to please her simpleton supporters, leaving out inconvenient facts 315 00:22:48,875 --> 00:22:51,515 Speaker 1: like the memes where we're part of an election fraud 316 00:22:51,555 --> 00:22:55,355 Speaker 1: campaign that violated the federal laws. But just when you 317 00:22:55,395 --> 00:22:58,995 Speaker 1: start thinking she's not really dumb, she's just playing dumb, 318 00:22:59,835 --> 00:23:06,555 Speaker 1: she roars back into show. Now she's really dumb, really 319 00:23:07,035 --> 00:23:11,875 Speaker 1: really dumb. There was a pro Palestine protest at the 320 00:23:11,915 --> 00:23:16,035 Speaker 1: Capitol yesterday. Protesters went through security to get in. There 321 00:23:16,115 --> 00:23:21,235 Speaker 1: was no violence, Nobody bought or brought bear spray. There 322 00:23:21,275 --> 00:23:24,795 Speaker 1: were arrests, all of them peaceful, like nearly all the 323 00:23:24,835 --> 00:23:27,715 Speaker 1: protests at the Capitol and all the planned arrests they've 324 00:23:27,715 --> 00:23:32,515 Speaker 1: ever had there. Green compared this to the one protest 325 00:23:32,555 --> 00:23:35,595 Speaker 1: at the Capitol that was not peaceful. To January sixth, 326 00:23:36,275 --> 00:23:40,155 Speaker 1: global into Fada. She tweeted over a photo. It's an 327 00:23:40,195 --> 00:23:44,555 Speaker 1: Arabic rebellion and uprising photo of one of the insurrectionist phones. 328 00:23:44,795 --> 00:23:49,555 Speaker 1: These people are not for peace. The photo, which Green 329 00:23:49,755 --> 00:23:54,435 Speaker 1: says she took herself, shows a phone and on the 330 00:23:54,435 --> 00:23:57,595 Speaker 1: phone there is a group chat, and the group chat 331 00:23:57,635 --> 00:24:00,915 Speaker 1: and the messages are readable, and the heading is Global 332 00:24:00,995 --> 00:24:05,075 Speaker 1: into Fada, and the messages read in order quote trying 333 00:24:05,155 --> 00:24:08,435 Speaker 1: to find you. The next one says back right if 334 00:24:08,475 --> 00:24:11,635 Speaker 1: you face rally, and the third one says back of 335 00:24:11,675 --> 00:24:15,355 Speaker 1: the rally next to the dirt path, walks straight back 336 00:24:15,475 --> 00:24:21,435 Speaker 1: from Polish hot dog stand. Yes, there, it is the 337 00:24:21,595 --> 00:24:25,555 Speaker 1: terrifying message of the Washington d C. Global into Fada, 338 00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:33,275 Speaker 1: walk straight back from Polish hot dog stand. Marjorie Taylor 339 00:24:34,075 --> 00:24:38,515 Speaker 1: also she misspelled global in her tweet. She wrote goldball, 340 00:24:40,075 --> 00:24:47,395 Speaker 1: gold Ball into Fada, Goldball into Fada. Green moron two 341 00:24:47,475 --> 00:25:03,275 Speaker 1: days worst person in the world to the number one 342 00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:05,835 Speaker 1: story on the countdown and my favorite topic, me and 343 00:25:05,915 --> 00:25:10,555 Speaker 1: today's things I promised not to tell. This remains, in short, 344 00:25:10,995 --> 00:25:15,835 Speaker 1: as terrifying as anything else in my career. Death threats, 345 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:20,315 Speaker 1: fake anthrax, What New York felt like Post nine to eleven, 346 00:25:20,675 --> 00:25:23,995 Speaker 1: The frozen feeling of realizing you've made a terrible, damaging 347 00:25:24,035 --> 00:25:28,235 Speaker 1: mistake on a story, even working for Rupert Murdoch, worse 348 00:25:28,315 --> 00:25:32,715 Speaker 1: than that. Forty two years have passed since this event, 349 00:25:33,155 --> 00:25:36,595 Speaker 1: and nothing has dimmed the memory, nothing has reduced the 350 00:25:36,675 --> 00:25:40,475 Speaker 1: palpable sense of anxiety in every joint in my body. 351 00:25:41,755 --> 00:25:46,315 Speaker 1: On Sunday, December twenty first, nineteen eighty, the Oakland Raiders 352 00:25:46,315 --> 00:25:48,835 Speaker 1: defeated the New York Giants thirty three to seventeen to 353 00:25:49,035 --> 00:25:51,875 Speaker 1: end the Giant season at four wins and twelve losses, 354 00:25:52,275 --> 00:25:54,315 Speaker 1: with the most points they had given up in one 355 00:25:54,395 --> 00:25:59,515 Speaker 1: year since nineteen sixty six. I was the backup sportscaster 356 00:25:59,635 --> 00:26:02,875 Speaker 1: at w NEW Radio in New York. We carried the 357 00:26:02,915 --> 00:26:06,475 Speaker 1: Giants game broadcast. In fact, we had carried them since 358 00:26:06,555 --> 00:26:09,235 Speaker 1: I was two years old. I was now a month 359 00:26:09,275 --> 00:26:12,355 Speaker 1: shy of twenty two, and it being Christmas week. I 360 00:26:12,435 --> 00:26:14,995 Speaker 1: reported bright and early to the studios at forty first 361 00:26:15,035 --> 00:26:18,755 Speaker 1: Street and Third Avenue on Monday, December twenty second. My 362 00:26:18,875 --> 00:26:22,835 Speaker 1: first sports cast was at five thirty am. There was 363 00:26:22,875 --> 00:26:26,075 Speaker 1: a theme song which invoked the name of the regular sportscaster, 364 00:26:26,235 --> 00:26:30,235 Speaker 1: John Kennelly. It said sports and Commentary and my first 365 00:26:30,275 --> 00:26:32,355 Speaker 1: few weeks filling in that year, I stuck mostly to 366 00:26:32,395 --> 00:26:35,515 Speaker 1: the sports, with just an occasional commentary, but mostly a 367 00:26:35,635 --> 00:26:40,155 Speaker 1: joke or pithy observation. Well kind of pithy. But that 368 00:26:40,235 --> 00:26:43,555 Speaker 1: first weekend of winter, the giant stink was all that 369 00:26:43,595 --> 00:26:45,395 Speaker 1: we could smell in New York, and I felt I 370 00:26:45,435 --> 00:26:49,035 Speaker 1: had to point it out, pointed Lee, and so while 371 00:26:49,075 --> 00:26:51,595 Speaker 1: I observed that there was a positive they had started 372 00:26:51,595 --> 00:26:54,115 Speaker 1: one in eight but then had actually won three of 373 00:26:54,155 --> 00:26:59,035 Speaker 1: their last seven games, the rest of my commentary was cynical, acerbic, dissatisfied, 374 00:26:59,395 --> 00:27:02,155 Speaker 1: in other words, the average day of the typical New 375 00:27:02,235 --> 00:27:05,675 Speaker 1: York sports fan. I ended my show right on time 376 00:27:05,715 --> 00:27:07,955 Speaker 1: at five point thirty five AM, and to my surprise, 377 00:27:08,435 --> 00:27:12,115 Speaker 1: I heard the disc jockey skip his usual post sportscast 378 00:27:12,155 --> 00:27:15,115 Speaker 1: remarks and instead simply play the next record, which I 379 00:27:15,115 --> 00:27:18,715 Speaker 1: think was Frank Sinatra's The Way You Look Tonight. We 380 00:27:18,715 --> 00:27:21,835 Speaker 1: were a big band station. I stepped out of the 381 00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:24,795 Speaker 1: booth and took the dozen strides through the newsroom, busy 382 00:27:24,835 --> 00:27:27,155 Speaker 1: even at that hour with eight or ten staffers, and 383 00:27:27,195 --> 00:27:29,395 Speaker 1: I was sitting down at my desk when the door 384 00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:34,115 Speaker 1: from the main air studio slammed open. In the doorway 385 00:27:34,195 --> 00:27:36,395 Speaker 1: stood the disc jockey and he had a message for me. 386 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:42,035 Speaker 1: The message was you punk. The disc jockey's name was 387 00:27:42,115 --> 00:27:45,235 Speaker 1: Ted Brown. On the air, he was You're morning Man, 388 00:27:45,355 --> 00:27:49,875 Speaker 1: Ted Brown, speaking upbeat drivel, mostly to women who loved 389 00:27:49,915 --> 00:27:54,075 Speaker 1: the mellow sound of his voice. Off the air, WNW 390 00:27:54,275 --> 00:27:57,635 Speaker 1: was his station and the morning show was his show. 391 00:27:58,235 --> 00:28:00,995 Speaker 1: He would fight for it. In fact, he had fought 392 00:28:01,315 --> 00:28:03,795 Speaker 1: at least two news reporters in his time in the 393 00:28:03,835 --> 00:28:07,915 Speaker 1: studio while Frank Sinatra records played on a turntable thirty 394 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:10,995 Speaker 1: feet away. Ted Brown was a big man, sixty three 395 00:28:11,075 --> 00:28:13,795 Speaker 1: six ' four maybe by this point I don't know, 396 00:28:13,875 --> 00:28:18,675 Speaker 1: two thirty forty two fifty thick tortoise shell glasses. He 397 00:28:18,755 --> 00:28:22,035 Speaker 1: was a sports fan, a huge gambler racetracks mostly the 398 00:28:22,075 --> 00:28:25,075 Speaker 1: Giants had begun on WNW in nineteen sixty one. Ted 399 00:28:25,115 --> 00:28:28,435 Speaker 1: Brown had begun on WNW in nineteen forty nine. And 400 00:28:28,555 --> 00:28:31,155 Speaker 1: he was tough, and it was not even the New 401 00:28:31,235 --> 00:28:33,555 Speaker 1: York tough I had grown up with. This guy had 402 00:28:33,595 --> 00:28:36,395 Speaker 1: been a tail gunner on a B seventeen during the 403 00:28:36,395 --> 00:28:39,395 Speaker 1: Second World War, and the Nazi shot him down and 404 00:28:39,435 --> 00:28:42,675 Speaker 1: they took him to Stalog nine see near Leipzig, and 405 00:28:42,715 --> 00:28:46,035 Speaker 1: they kept him there for eighteen months, and basically he 406 00:28:46,235 --> 00:28:49,075 Speaker 1: chewed up and spit out guys like me for breakfast. 407 00:28:49,795 --> 00:28:53,875 Speaker 1: And I respected him. You punk say you don't like 408 00:28:53,915 --> 00:28:56,195 Speaker 1: how the Giants. Did you think any of us do? 409 00:28:57,075 --> 00:29:00,635 Speaker 1: He gestured towards the newscasters and staffers. Nobody looked up. 410 00:29:00,875 --> 00:29:02,955 Speaker 1: You know how easy it is to sit there in 411 00:29:02,995 --> 00:29:08,515 Speaker 1: a nice, heated, dry, comfortable newsroom. I was in Stalog ninec. 412 00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:13,875 Speaker 1: His contempt for the idea of the newsroom was amazing. 413 00:29:14,155 --> 00:29:18,555 Speaker 1: You sit here in your newsroom and pontificate while men, 414 00:29:19,275 --> 00:29:23,555 Speaker 1: men in helmets with mud on them, they're bones, breaking, 415 00:29:23,755 --> 00:29:28,075 Speaker 1: their hearts pounding. They are out on the field, fighting 416 00:29:28,355 --> 00:29:31,915 Speaker 1: and tackling and working on the field of battle. So 417 00:29:32,235 --> 00:29:39,475 Speaker 1: you can sit here in your news room. It was 418 00:29:39,515 --> 00:29:41,275 Speaker 1: at this point that I remembered where I had first 419 00:29:41,355 --> 00:29:43,875 Speaker 1: seen a photograph of Ted Brown. He was in a 420 00:29:43,875 --> 00:29:47,035 Speaker 1: booth at Yankee Stadium, where the Giants played in the 421 00:29:47,115 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. He was the third man, a combination color 422 00:29:50,715 --> 00:29:56,235 Speaker 1: announcer and host on Giants radio broadcasts on WNW. He 423 00:29:56,435 --> 00:29:59,435 Speaker 1: was the worst possible person to have heard me rip 424 00:29:59,475 --> 00:30:02,875 Speaker 1: the New York Giants. Even the four and twelve nineteen 425 00:30:02,915 --> 00:30:05,395 Speaker 1: eighty New York Giants. Even if edit satorially, I was 426 00:30:05,435 --> 00:30:08,475 Speaker 1: completely correct and not nearly as hard on the team 427 00:30:08,475 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: as its own announcers had been on our station the 428 00:30:11,595 --> 00:30:16,355 Speaker 1: day before. What did you do to earn your spot? Here? 429 00:30:16,635 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 1: Punk Ted Brown was turning red. One of his fists 430 00:30:20,875 --> 00:30:23,675 Speaker 1: was already clenched, while the other arm cut through the 431 00:30:23,715 --> 00:30:28,675 Speaker 1: air to emphasize how much I sucked. I truly believed 432 00:30:28,715 --> 00:30:31,595 Speaker 1: he was about to take a swing at me. Then 433 00:30:31,635 --> 00:30:34,755 Speaker 1: from behind him, the door from his studio swung open again, 434 00:30:34,995 --> 00:30:37,595 Speaker 1: and the elderly engineer, the man who actually spun the 435 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:41,515 Speaker 1: records on Ted's show, came through it. Ted I just 436 00:30:41,555 --> 00:30:44,555 Speaker 1: had to segue out of Sinatra to Jimmy Cagney singing 437 00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: Yankee Doodle Dandy. And the general manager called and he said, 438 00:30:48,635 --> 00:30:52,115 Speaker 1: I should tell you wnew does not segue no records. 439 00:30:52,435 --> 00:30:54,555 Speaker 1: Don't do it again. You better get back in here. 440 00:30:54,995 --> 00:30:59,195 Speaker 1: The Cagnes almost finish. The engineer then vanished silently back 441 00:30:59,195 --> 00:31:02,475 Speaker 1: through the door. This warning did nothing but make Ted 442 00:31:02,515 --> 00:31:05,795 Speaker 1: Brown even angrier. The general amount, have you met the 443 00:31:05,875 --> 00:31:11,595 Speaker 1: general manager? Punk Jack Fair and Jack Thayer gets in 444 00:31:11,635 --> 00:31:16,155 Speaker 1: here at eight twenty every morning on dot clockwork. Punk, 445 00:31:16,755 --> 00:31:20,875 Speaker 1: when you finish your eight thirty sports cast, I'm dragging 446 00:31:20,915 --> 00:31:26,115 Speaker 1: you in to meet Jack Thayer, the general manager, And 447 00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:31,755 Speaker 1: that punk is when your career at WNW Radio will 448 00:31:31,795 --> 00:31:35,915 Speaker 1: come to an abrupt end. You think the New York 449 00:31:35,995 --> 00:31:38,915 Speaker 1: Giants had a bad nineteen eighty, how about your nineteen 450 00:31:38,915 --> 00:31:42,875 Speaker 1: eighty Punk when your career ended? Because the real men, 451 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:45,635 Speaker 1: the real men, are out there on the playing field, 452 00:31:45,955 --> 00:31:53,235 Speaker 1: not sitting inside a noseroom in a sweater. Miscontinued for 453 00:31:53,315 --> 00:31:57,955 Speaker 1: some time. The engineer returned, Tennant's there again. I just 454 00:31:57,995 --> 00:32:01,635 Speaker 1: segued to Samel Tormat. Ted Thayer wants to talk to you. 455 00:32:01,675 --> 00:32:04,675 Speaker 1: He thinks maybe you're not here, and I'm covering for you. 456 00:32:05,315 --> 00:32:08,675 Speaker 1: Ted Brown turned and swore dark oaths against the engineer, 457 00:32:08,715 --> 00:32:11,075 Speaker 1: and for that matter, against the general manager, Jack Thayer, 458 00:32:11,155 --> 00:32:14,515 Speaker 1: and for that matter, against mel Tourmae, You and me, 459 00:32:14,675 --> 00:32:18,555 Speaker 1: Punk eight thirty five, the end of your career, Punk. 460 00:32:19,075 --> 00:32:21,395 Speaker 1: He lunged at me. Suddenly the engineer grabbed him and 461 00:32:21,435 --> 00:32:27,035 Speaker 1: pulled him back through the door. In the newsroom, there 462 00:32:27,075 --> 00:32:31,355 Speaker 1: were only two sounds, one my heart, which I suspect 463 00:32:31,435 --> 00:32:36,755 Speaker 1: was audible perhaps the next block. The other typing. Nobody 464 00:32:36,755 --> 00:32:39,675 Speaker 1: said a word, Nobody looked at me. A phone rang, 465 00:32:40,275 --> 00:32:44,635 Speaker 1: the production assistant sang out WNW news. I went over 466 00:32:44,715 --> 00:32:47,195 Speaker 1: to the newscaster who had been the most supportive of 467 00:32:47,195 --> 00:32:50,475 Speaker 1: me to that point, Bob Hagen, and through my shaking, 468 00:32:50,515 --> 00:32:54,035 Speaker 1: I said, thanks for to help Bob. Bob did not 469 00:32:54,155 --> 00:32:58,275 Speaker 1: look up from his typewriter. What he said matter of factly? Brown? 470 00:32:58,675 --> 00:33:01,035 Speaker 1: I said, yes, Brown, he's gonna get me fired in 471 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:05,355 Speaker 1: three hours. Bob Hagen laughed, No, he's not. I said, 472 00:33:05,395 --> 00:33:07,955 Speaker 1: he just spent how many minutes he spent three records 473 00:33:07,995 --> 00:33:11,195 Speaker 1: screaming at me. Didn't you hear him? I heard him, 474 00:33:11,675 --> 00:33:14,435 Speaker 1: We all heard him. We've all heard him every time 475 00:33:14,475 --> 00:33:16,915 Speaker 1: he said that. He said that to every one of 476 00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:19,515 Speaker 1: us out here. He said that about every one of 477 00:33:19,595 --> 00:33:21,675 Speaker 1: us out here. He took a swing at eyes grow 478 00:33:21,755 --> 00:33:24,795 Speaker 1: over there. What was it, Jimmy two months ago? Ignore him? 479 00:33:26,075 --> 00:33:27,955 Speaker 1: I said, I failed to see why any of what 480 00:33:28,035 --> 00:33:30,915 Speaker 1: he had told me should encourage me to ignore ted Brown. 481 00:33:31,235 --> 00:33:33,315 Speaker 1: When we had a meeting with the general manager at 482 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:38,915 Speaker 1: eight thirty five, Bob Hagen now stopped typhing and smiled 483 00:33:38,995 --> 00:33:44,195 Speaker 1: up at me reassuringly from his chair. Keith, you do 484 00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:49,355 Speaker 1: a good job. Ted is nuts, Ted is mean, Ted 485 00:33:49,435 --> 00:33:52,755 Speaker 1: is a crazy Giants fan. Ted is also still bitter 486 00:33:52,755 --> 00:33:55,075 Speaker 1: that he's not on the radio broadcast of the Giants games. 487 00:33:55,555 --> 00:33:58,835 Speaker 1: But Ted has also been doing morning radio almost every 488 00:33:58,915 --> 00:34:03,835 Speaker 1: day since nineteen forty five. Keith, that's thirty five years 489 00:34:03,915 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: of getting up in the mad the night, and many 490 00:34:06,755 --> 00:34:12,555 Speaker 1: many years ago, Keith, Ted stopped remembering things like what 491 00:34:12,675 --> 00:34:16,795 Speaker 1: somebody said on his show. He doesn't remember, he won't remember. 492 00:34:17,235 --> 00:34:20,635 Speaker 1: Just finish off the next sportscast with one of your clever, 493 00:34:20,835 --> 00:34:23,995 Speaker 1: funny little kicker stories. And even if he somehow remembers 494 00:34:23,995 --> 00:34:25,675 Speaker 1: what you said about the Giants, when he hears a 495 00:34:25,675 --> 00:34:30,955 Speaker 1: good laugh, all he'll remember is the laugh. I tried 496 00:34:30,995 --> 00:34:33,195 Speaker 1: to be respectful of Bob, but I told him I 497 00:34:33,235 --> 00:34:36,755 Speaker 1: found all this hard to believe. Keith. He also drinks, 498 00:34:37,075 --> 00:34:41,315 Speaker 1: he has nightmares, he has pow nightmares, and he gets 499 00:34:41,395 --> 00:34:45,395 Speaker 1: up at three am every day. He does not imprint 500 00:34:45,555 --> 00:34:49,915 Speaker 1: new memories anymore. But no, why should you listen to me. 501 00:34:49,955 --> 00:34:52,235 Speaker 1: I've only been on his show for ten years? Why 502 00:34:52,315 --> 00:34:55,955 Speaker 1: would I know? I'm telling you, get a good funny 503 00:34:56,035 --> 00:34:59,395 Speaker 1: kicker for the six thirty and he'll love you. I 504 00:34:59,475 --> 00:35:03,315 Speaker 1: nodded grimly. I did not believe Bob Hagen, but I 505 00:35:03,355 --> 00:35:06,395 Speaker 1: knew he meant well, and anyway, he had started to 506 00:35:06,435 --> 00:35:11,955 Speaker 1: type again. The clock now moved impossibly quickly, Incredibly, I 507 00:35:11,995 --> 00:35:15,155 Speaker 1: did find just the kind of funny, clever kicker story 508 00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:18,035 Speaker 1: Bob suggested I should use to close the six thirty 509 00:35:18,075 --> 00:35:21,115 Speaker 1: sports cast. I minimized my assault on the Giants and 510 00:35:21,115 --> 00:35:23,475 Speaker 1: then finished off my report with some story that shed 511 00:35:23,635 --> 00:35:26,555 Speaker 1: a good light on Montclair State College in New Jersey. 512 00:35:27,635 --> 00:35:30,635 Speaker 1: I could not have known, and I swear I did 513 00:35:30,715 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: not know, that Ted Brown's sister had graduated from Montclair 514 00:35:36,635 --> 00:35:40,115 Speaker 1: State College in New Jersey. I finished off the sports 515 00:35:40,115 --> 00:35:43,155 Speaker 1: cast with the story something that made Montclair State look 516 00:35:43,195 --> 00:35:45,435 Speaker 1: good a little chuckle, and then Keith ol Rimman for 517 00:35:45,595 --> 00:35:50,795 Speaker 1: John Kennelly on the Ted Brown Show ominously again to 518 00:35:50,875 --> 00:35:53,955 Speaker 1: my terror, Ted Brown now said nothing on the air. 519 00:35:54,075 --> 00:35:55,995 Speaker 1: I could not see him through the window into the 520 00:35:56,035 --> 00:35:59,115 Speaker 1: main air studio. The engineer played a record instead. It 521 00:35:59,155 --> 00:36:03,155 Speaker 1: may have been the Montavannie Strings play the Beatles. I 522 00:36:03,195 --> 00:36:06,075 Speaker 1: opened the door back to the newsrooms slowly and with trepidation. 523 00:36:06,555 --> 00:36:09,275 Speaker 1: I crouched as I moved back towards my desk and 524 00:36:09,395 --> 00:36:11,835 Speaker 1: That's when it happened. The door from the main air 525 00:36:11,875 --> 00:36:15,195 Speaker 1: studio slammed open again. It was Ted Brown again. Where 526 00:36:15,275 --> 00:36:20,115 Speaker 1: is he? Where is he? Montclair State? My sister went 527 00:36:20,195 --> 00:36:23,075 Speaker 1: to Montclair State. What a story, what a great laugh, 528 00:36:23,235 --> 00:36:26,635 Speaker 1: perfectly delivered. My God, that was the best sports cast 529 00:36:26,795 --> 00:36:29,395 Speaker 1: we have ever had on this station. Don't you think so? Prely? 530 00:36:29,995 --> 00:36:33,075 Speaker 1: God love you? Kid? Wanna tell it? I laughed out loud, Kid, 531 00:36:33,115 --> 00:36:38,275 Speaker 1: I don't laugh out loud. It was the same Ted Brown. 532 00:36:39,115 --> 00:36:41,035 Speaker 1: I stole a quick glance at the newsroom to see 533 00:36:41,035 --> 00:36:43,435 Speaker 1: if this whole thing was some kind of act being 534 00:36:43,475 --> 00:36:47,835 Speaker 1: filmed for a hidden camera TV series. Nobody looked up again. 535 00:36:47,955 --> 00:36:51,515 Speaker 1: Nobody looked up Ted Brown, the man who an hour 536 00:36:51,555 --> 00:36:54,755 Speaker 1: before was ready to beat me up and get me fired, 537 00:36:54,955 --> 00:36:57,355 Speaker 1: was now repeating again and again that I had just 538 00:36:57,435 --> 00:37:03,315 Speaker 1: delivered the best sports cast in the history of WNW Radio. 539 00:37:03,515 --> 00:37:05,835 Speaker 1: That's when his engineer came in. He had segwayed from 540 00:37:05,875 --> 00:37:08,755 Speaker 1: Montavani to Perry Como, and the general manager had called, 541 00:37:08,795 --> 00:37:12,115 Speaker 1: And now Ted Brown's eyes widened behind the thick glasses. 542 00:37:12,155 --> 00:37:16,715 Speaker 1: The general manager, Jack Thayer, say, Keith, have you ever 543 00:37:16,835 --> 00:37:19,435 Speaker 1: met Jack Thayer? This gives me a great idea. Jack 544 00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:22,795 Speaker 1: Thayer comes in here every morning at eight twenty like clockwork. Look. 545 00:37:22,995 --> 00:37:26,435 Speaker 1: I love John Kennelly, he's great, but you were exactly 546 00:37:26,475 --> 00:37:29,395 Speaker 1: the kind of new, fresh young voice we need on 547 00:37:29,435 --> 00:37:32,595 Speaker 1: this radio station. Dammit, I need on my show. When 548 00:37:32,675 --> 00:37:34,635 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer comes in here at eight twenty this morning, 549 00:37:34,675 --> 00:37:36,355 Speaker 1: you and I are going right into his office and 550 00:37:36,395 --> 00:37:38,995 Speaker 1: we're gonna get you your own sports cast on my show. 551 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:41,075 Speaker 1: We can do two sports casts an hour. We'll take 552 00:37:41,115 --> 00:37:44,315 Speaker 1: it out of the stock report Montclair stage. I'll get 553 00:37:44,315 --> 00:37:47,435 Speaker 1: you a contract. You and Kennelly will seventy five grand 554 00:37:47,475 --> 00:37:49,355 Speaker 1: being up for you. Kid. You're gonna hit the big 555 00:37:49,355 --> 00:37:53,755 Speaker 1: time here, my friend, and out the engineer came again. 556 00:37:54,555 --> 00:37:57,395 Speaker 1: Jack Thayer had again called in fourth time that I 557 00:37:57,475 --> 00:38:00,395 Speaker 1: knew of. He really needed Ted Mack in the studio 558 00:38:00,955 --> 00:38:05,835 Speaker 1: to talk to the women. Ted Brown happily shouted okay, okay, 559 00:38:06,235 --> 00:38:09,635 Speaker 1: and began to back up into the doorway. The look 560 00:38:09,635 --> 00:38:14,435 Speaker 1: in his eyes towards me was one of unimaginable love. 561 00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:19,635 Speaker 1: Come wait, come here, wait, come here, come here, come here, 562 00:38:19,715 --> 00:38:21,795 Speaker 1: and he lunged at me and grabbed me into a 563 00:38:21,835 --> 00:38:25,755 Speaker 1: bear hug. Just brilliant, Montclair State. I gotta call my 564 00:38:25,915 --> 00:38:28,875 Speaker 1: sister and tell you see in Jack's office at eight 565 00:38:28,995 --> 00:38:36,755 Speaker 1: thirty five, I stood there, having now been pummeled by 566 00:38:36,875 --> 00:38:40,515 Speaker 1: two hurricanes, arriving from different directions in the span of 567 00:38:40,835 --> 00:38:45,755 Speaker 1: one hour. All was silent in the WNEW newsroom again 568 00:38:46,875 --> 00:38:49,915 Speaker 1: but for the typing. But it was silent only for 569 00:38:49,955 --> 00:38:53,955 Speaker 1: a moment. That's when Bob Hagen addressed me again. He 570 00:38:53,995 --> 00:38:59,635 Speaker 1: did not look up. All he said was Keith. He 571 00:38:59,675 --> 00:39:15,995 Speaker 1: won't remember that either. I've done all the damage I 572 00:39:15,995 --> 00:39:18,395 Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown has come 573 00:39:18,435 --> 00:39:21,235 Speaker 1: to you from the Vin Scully Studio at the Olderman 574 00:39:21,275 --> 00:39:24,995 Speaker 1: Broadcasting Empire in New York. The music you heard was 575 00:39:25,075 --> 00:39:28,235 Speaker 1: for the most part, arranged, produced, and performed by the 576 00:39:28,235 --> 00:39:31,715 Speaker 1: Countdown musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schanel. 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Everything else was 586 00:40:02,915 --> 00:40:05,875 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault. Countdown for this the one thy 587 00:40:06,235 --> 00:40:09,675 Speaker 1: seventeenth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against the 588 00:40:09,715 --> 00:40:13,715 Speaker 1: democratically elected government of the United States. Convict him now 589 00:40:14,155 --> 00:40:17,715 Speaker 1: while we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 590 00:40:17,755 --> 00:40:20,875 Speaker 1: Bulletins has the news warrants till then. I'm Keith Olderman. 591 00:40:20,915 --> 00:40:29,515 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 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