Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: and Musk are at this moment overthrowing our form of government,
Speaker 1: and this is how to stop them. Yell and keep yelling.
Speaker 1: Government data about religious charities, private, if not necessarily secret
Speaker 1: data has wound up in the hands of Mike Flynn,
Speaker 1: the foreign asset, you know, general scumbag, and he has
Speaker 1: posted it online and mocked the Lutheran Church in doing
Speaker 1: so and called it money laundering. Musk's hatchetmen are literally
Speaker 1: inside the government right now demanding that leaders of the
Speaker 1: US Agency for International Development turnover classified documents inside restricted areas,
Speaker 1: and those that have refused have been placed on leave
Speaker 1: by Elon effing Musk. Quote it's a coup. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: is running a palace coup. Elon Musk is taking classified information.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk has taken your social Security number. Everybody involved
Speaker 1: should be arrested by local das if that's all we
Speaker 1: can do, and denied bail. Unquote a Democratic senator, representative, governor,
Speaker 1: mayor somebody needs to stand in front of microphones today
Speaker 1: and say that quote today, and say that that bluntly
Speaker 1: today and quote Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump might as
Speaker 1: well have killed those teenage skaters on American five three
Speaker 1: four to two themselves. The DC crash was their fault,
Speaker 1: period unquote, some other Democratic leader, maybe the new head
Speaker 1: of the Democratic National Committee, Ken Martin, elected Saturday's got
Speaker 1: to say that. What he has said is we're taking
Speaker 1: the gloves off. I've always viewed my role as a
Speaker 1: chair of the Democratic Party to take the low road
Speaker 1: so my candidates, an elected official can take the high road,
Speaker 1: meaning I'm going to throw a punch unquote. Good start swinging, Kenny,
Speaker 1: because the first step towards stopping wrong is by publicly
Speaker 1: and loudly yelling this is wrong. A Minnesota colleague described
Speaker 1: the new DNC chair quote, Ken will cut you if
Speaker 1: he has to. Well, I'll bring the metaphorical ginsu set
Speaker 1: because right now where we actually are is the nominal
Speaker 1: leading Democratic office holder is Senator Chuck Schumer. And as
Speaker 1: Trump and Musk began to ransack your Social Security number
Speaker 1: and starting trade wars with our literally closest allies, Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer social media Saturday afternoon was You're worried about tomato prices,
Speaker 1: and ten minutes later you're watching the Super Bowl. Wait,
Speaker 1: old Trump's tariffs, raise your guacamole and beer prices. Useless,
Speaker 1: utterly useless. I need one thousand Ken Martins throwing punches
Speaker 1: today and metaphorically cutting a maggi today. I need them
Speaker 1: saying this is a coup. We will stop it. It
Speaker 1: will take time, we will beat them and jail them though,
Speaker 1: because bottom line is they are lazy and they leave
Speaker 1: half their lives to chance. Just look at their goddamned haircuts.
Speaker 1: And those thousand Ken Martins must also say. The crash
Speaker 1: of the US Army helicopter and the death of the
Speaker 1: service personnel on a continuity of government training exercise in
Speaker 1: public space Thursday night was Defense Secretary Pete Hegsett's responsibility.
Speaker 1: The crash of a medical flight in East Philadelphia Friday
Speaker 1: night was Acting FAA Chief Chris Rochelo's responsibility. The FAA
Speaker 1: warning system went down over the weekend, and that is
Speaker 1: Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy's responsibility. The cancelation of care
Speaker 1: for two teenage transgender patients in New York was Health
Speaker 1: and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Junior's responsibility.
Speaker 1: Musk has been given access to your tax dollars and
Speaker 1: your records, no supervision, no accountability. We don't even know
Speaker 1: what he's taken. The deal maker did this. Your money
Speaker 1: has been given away, Your privacy has been given away.
Speaker 1: That is Trump's fault. And hegseeth incompetent, unstable, useless. Your
Speaker 1: typical Trump employee is Trump's fault. And Rochalo plucked out
Speaker 1: of an aviation industry lobbying firm because Trump hadn't put
Speaker 1: anybody in charge of the FAA after Musk forced out
Speaker 1: the last chief of the FAA. Rochlo is Trump's fault.
Speaker 1: And Kennedy burned out by drugs, faithless, perverted, probably not
Speaker 1: wearing pants is Trump's fault. And if you find holes
Speaker 1: in any of these conclusions, if you see inconsistencies in
Speaker 1: the assignment of blame like this, if you flinch it
Speaker 1: saying heg sith might as well have killed the servicemen
Speaker 1: and the ice skaters, bury all of your flinching, drop
Speaker 1: the details, and negate the nuance. View all events as
Speaker 1: Trump has viewed them, View them only in black and white,
Speaker 1: as events he can falsely take credit for and exploit,
Speaker 1: or as events he can falsely blame on others and
Speaker 1: still exploit because that whatever form of government that is blameocracy, conspiratory, gotcha, authoritarian.
Speaker 1: That is how the United States of America runs at
Speaker 1: the moment, and the battle to restore democracy or at
Speaker 1: least representative government with one or two checks and maybe
Speaker 1: balances for an hour or two a week, that battle
Speaker 1: begins in a symbolic knife fight for the simplest, most raw,
Speaker 1: lowest common denominator discourse. Trump must be blamed every day
Speaker 1: for everything, by every Democrat, by every still rational Republican,
Speaker 1: by every patriotic American, With Trump dismantling the government as
Speaker 1: we speak, with the actual bureaucrats who know how to
Speaker 1: run the Office of Management and Budget being locked out
Speaker 1: of their computers by Elon Musk's minions in a blatantly
Speaker 1: illegal internal push, with the National Transportation Safety Board privatizing
Speaker 1: its media interactions by putting them exclusively on the pro
Speaker 1: Nazi social media site x and with Trump unilaterally flooding
Speaker 1: central California so he can say he stopped the next
Speaker 1: wildfires in southern California, hundreds of miles away, and with
Speaker 1: all of them firing career prosecutors at dj and career
Speaker 1: investigators at the FBI because they dared to investigate Trump
Speaker 1: and Trump's criminals. With Trump's institution of tariffs so that
Speaker 1: American manufacturers can take more money out of your pocket,
Speaker 1: either at the cash register or in their irs returns,
Speaker 1: with Trump's metaphorical serial killing spree against America in full swing,
Speaker 1: he has declared war on us, and we must win
Speaker 1: it by being more successful, more ruthless, more destructive towards
Speaker 1: him than he is towards us. And it starts with yelling.
Speaker 1: I want a dozen leading Democrats calling news conferences to
Speaker 1: day around the country. I want them talking about the coup.
Speaker 1: I want them talking about how Mike Flynn got sensitive
Speaker 1: data about Lutheran charities. I want them stating Trump is
Speaker 1: responsible for the sixty seven deaths on American Eagle five
Speaker 1: three four to two and the Army Blackhawk. And I
Speaker 1: want them saying heg Seth didn't announce the helicopter was
Speaker 1: on a continuity of government training mission. He confessed it.
Speaker 1: Heg Seth confessed that he put a chopper with trainees
Speaker 1: in the path of a jet full of teenage girls
Speaker 1: flying back from Kansas unqualified trainees under heg Set's own
Speaker 1: umbrella and flying on behalf of the Trump administration. Heg
Speaker 1: Seth put that helicopter above the busiest civilian runway in
Speaker 1: the nation. That is Pete Hegsath's accident. And those are
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's deaths. And if that seems brutal or cold,
Speaker 1: or low or exploitative, just remind yourself what Trump tried
Speaker 1: to do in the hours after the crash. He blamed Dei,
Speaker 1: he blamed Biden, he blamed Obama. The Democrats have to
Speaker 1: not just answer in kind, they have to symbolically break
Speaker 1: Trump in half as they answer, this wasn't DEEI, it
Speaker 1: was Doge, This wasn't Biden, This wasn't Lloyd Austin's helicopter,
Speaker 1: it was Pete Hegseet's. I apologize to the families. You
Speaker 1: are already being exploited in this. Then again, you have
Speaker 1: been exploited by Trump before many of you were notified
Speaker 1: of this tragedy. This is Donald Trump's America. We are
Speaker 1: trying to stop him because this will become permanent and
Speaker 1: uncontrollably evil if we do not stop him now. And
Speaker 1: for further clarification, when I say Democrats have to do
Speaker 1: and say these things. I mean individual democrats. I do
Speaker 1: not mean leadership in the House and the Senate if any,
Speaker 1: I mean Alexandria Acossio Cortez, I mean Adam Schiff, I
Speaker 1: mean Gavin Newsom, I mean JB. Pritzker, I mean anybody
Speaker 1: thinking of running for any office ever again. Because Chuck
Speaker 1: Schumer and a Keen Jeffries had their chance, their response
Speaker 1: as Trump strafes and carpet bombs America with American weapons
Speaker 1: was to see him pardon his insurrectionist terrorists on the
Speaker 1: night of his inauguration and to gather their rapid response
Speaker 1: team and hold an emergency Senate Democrats news conference literally
Speaker 1: only six effing days later. We need a Democrat with
Speaker 1: name recognition to step up and take over. Appear online,
Speaker 1: mega statement, take media questions within minutes of the next
Speaker 1: atrocity Trumps off, call news conferences for an hour from now,
Speaker 1: schedule a news conference weekly, preferably on Sunday, and then
Speaker 1: find something to blame on Trump or Musk or both
Speaker 1: of them, or all of them. I mean, how in
Speaker 1: the hell do you think Chuck Schumer rose to prominence
Speaker 1: in the first place. Chuck Schumer used to hold a
Speaker 1: news conference every Sunday in New York on the street,
Speaker 1: whether there was any news to conference about or not,
Speaker 1: because he knew there was not enough news to fill
Speaker 1: the local newscasts in New York or to put in
Speaker 1: the local newspapers in New York every Monday. So every
Speaker 1: Sunday there's Congressman Schumer, who said, there's Senator Schumer, who
Speaker 1: said there's Leader Schumer, who said, there's Schumer who thought
Speaker 1: guacamole was more important than a coup, which is why
Speaker 1: we got rid of him. But use the early Schumer
Speaker 1: as a template the twenty first century version of this.
Speaker 1: Have you ever seen anything on one of the Sunday
Speaker 1: shows that happened that day? Occasionally an interview of well
Speaker 1: stenography of a fascist will take over the news cycle,
Speaker 1: but usually it's Saturday's news on the Sunday shows or
Speaker 1: Friday's news. It's almost as slow as the Democratic response
Speaker 1: to anything. But the Democrat who begins to hold eight
Speaker 1: am news conferences every Sunday morning, who metaphorically shives Trump
Speaker 1: or the fascist of the week and metaphorically, like Ken
Speaker 1: Martin cuts them, that would lead every Sunday show. It
Speaker 1: would be carried live on the cable networks at least,
Speaker 1: but it would lead every Sunday network show. It would
Speaker 1: blow Trump right out of the tub in terms of
Speaker 1: media attention. And it would not just lead the Sunday shows.
Speaker 1: It would lead most of the Monday shows. It would
Speaker 1: be most of the Monday columns. Columnists, and the Sunday
Speaker 1: shows are still viable. They still drive the agenda, at
Speaker 1: least for Sunday and Monday, because they operate in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: Steal the goddamn vacuum from them. There is in life
Speaker 1: nothing worse than getting up early on Sunday morning. But
Speaker 1: I have faith in you, AOC. Get a good night's sleep,
Speaker 1: get up early and nuke Trump every Sunday morning, live
Speaker 1: at eight am, and help save the nation and help
Speaker 1: get yourself a presidential nomination Democrats. Judgment cometh and that
Speaker 1: right soon. Of course, it cannot stop there, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be AOC. Anybody willing to do this.
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom live at five am Pacific time, eight am
Speaker 1: Eastern every Sunday with a news conference about whatever Trump
Speaker 1: just did. Take over the news cycle. Force your way
Speaker 1: past Trump, make him stand in back of you, make
Speaker 1: him respond to you every Sunday. And it can't stop there,
Speaker 1: whoever's doing it. It must be extended into the Senate
Speaker 1: and into the House, and it requires an attitude adjustment
Speaker 1: that the Democratic Party may or may not be able
Speaker 1: to sustain. Senator Shift, showing signs of life, aptly declared
Speaker 1: the purge at the DOJ and FBI the Friday Night massacre,
Speaker 1: whereupon norm Ornstein told Schiff to have Senate Democrats unleash
Speaker 1: the weapons in their arsenal blanket holds, no committee hearings.
Speaker 1: When the Senate is in session, every bill read in
Speaker 1: its entirety on the floor, denial of unanimous consent and
Speaker 1: more the Senate hold. The Senate hold can create more
Speaker 1: chaos than anything else currently in the Democrats quiver. The
Speaker 1: standing rules of the Senate require unanimous consent before anything
Speaker 1: comes to the floor. One senator or a small group
Speaker 1: of them, or a bunch of them can literally stall
Speaker 1: anything for years. The senator tells party leadership of intent
Speaker 1: to object to a motion to consider a bill. They
Speaker 1: don't even have to make it public. They can do
Speaker 1: it anonymously. Republicans do it all the time, and it
Speaker 1: works and it's wrong and it's evil, but it works,
Speaker 1: and right now we need what works. In December twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two, after Trump's Supreme Court killed Roe v. Wade,
Speaker 1: the Pentagon guaranteed that pregnant service members would get leave
Speaker 1: and reimbursement of travel for abortions where they were still
Speaker 1: protected by law. The Dumbo, the elephant of the Senate,
Speaker 1: Tubberville tantrumed. On February sixteenth, twenty twenty three, Tuberville announced
Speaker 1: he was putting a hold on all new Pentagon nominees,
Speaker 1: even as the Democratic majority railed against how much Tubby
Speaker 1: was endangering the nation doing so, he dug in. On
Speaker 1: only a few occasions could the majority overcome Tubberville. Via
Speaker 1: cloture motions, one senator holding up every promotion inside the Pentagon,
Speaker 1: three hundred nominations were blocked. One of the few that
Speaker 1: was not, the Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith, was confirmed,
Speaker 1: but Tuberville blocked the nomination of his deputy, and five
Speaker 1: weeks later Commandant Smith had a heart attack. Tuberville still
Speaker 1: would not relent. Days later, Democrats, now with the help
Speaker 1: of the Republicans, nominated sixty one more officers. Tuberville blocked
Speaker 1: them all by partisan opposition, and the hold could not
Speaker 1: be broken. Not until December did Tuberville give up, and
Speaker 1: he still in giving up block the promotion of eleven
Speaker 1: four star officers. One asshole did this. One asshole, failed
Speaker 1: football coach, white supremacist, misogynistic moron bastard did this. There
Speaker 1: are forty five Democratic Senators, plus Bernie Sanders and Angus King.
Speaker 1: They all have pairs of shoes that are smarter than
Speaker 1: Tommy Tuberville. They should be meeting today to decide if
Speaker 1: they want to assign who puts the holds on what
Speaker 1: based on their our own specific interests in a topic
Speaker 1: or topics, or whether it should go rotational, or whether
Speaker 1: it should go by seniority. But they must all put
Speaker 1: a Senate hold on something all the effing time. Shut
Speaker 1: the effing Senate down. Trump gets nothing through without pain
Speaker 1: and grief and something to enrage him, something to slow
Speaker 1: down the momentum of his mechanism of despotism. Nothing you
Speaker 1: want to grind the government to a halt, Trump, you
Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing yet. Our terms are give us musk
Speaker 1: and then we will stop holding everything. The other elements
Speaker 1: Ornstein mentioned to shift for just icing every bill read
Speaker 1: in full, no committee hearings, no unanimous consent, no Democratic
Speaker 1: support of anything, and inside the Democratic Senate Caucus, no bipartisanship.
Speaker 1: The death penalty. If Fetterman wants to collaborate with the Nazis,
Speaker 1: have fun. Senator Cannimate, you are expelled from the party.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are down fifty three to forty seven
Speaker 1: in the Senate right now. Fifty four forty six. Ain't
Speaker 1: that much worse? And if Fetterman does not get the message.
Speaker 1: If you think Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is pretty popular,
Speaker 1: how popular do you think Democratic Senate primary challenger Josh
Speaker 1: Shapiro would be. As to the House, the assignment is
Speaker 1: much simpler and easier. A. Is the House in session?
Speaker 1: If so, then B is it a day of the
Speaker 1: week ending in why? If so? Then C. Trump has
Speaker 1: just done something impeachable. Introduce a motion to impeach, or inquire,
Speaker 1: or inquire and impeach. He gave Musk, who is not
Speaker 1: a government official, has been voted for by no one,
Speaker 1: not even Republicans. He gave Musk, who is responsible to
Speaker 1: no one, least of all himself, veto power over all
Speaker 1: government payments and the computers with which to effect this.
Speaker 1: There should be people arrested over this in the interim
Speaker 1: move to impeach Trump because of what Musk is doing.
Speaker 1: There are ninety nine weeks left until New Year's Day
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven. Give Trump ninety nine impeachment problems, and
Speaker 1: publicity about his latest violation of his oath of office
Speaker 1: should be one of them every week. The Democrats don't
Speaker 1: like to use these weapons. One Congressional aid, carrying on
Speaker 1: a valiant fight on social media, says a clenched fist
Speaker 1: approach will firm up support for Trump in the Senate
Speaker 1: among Republicans and drive away any Republicans in the House
Speaker 1: looking for a way out. And who would they be?
Speaker 1: Trump already killed them all off, all but a handful
Speaker 1: in unique safe circumstances, like Senator Murkowski. I don't know
Speaker 1: if there are any in the House. What is the
Speaker 1: House doing? The House is trying to get Trump a
Speaker 1: third term. Who is it that you are going to
Speaker 1: negotiate with? Who is it that you expect is going
Speaker 1: to stop Trump? It's been ten years. None of them
Speaker 1: have had the balls to even stand up to him.
Speaker 1: The Democrats need to understand that Trump is running not
Speaker 1: just another January sixth right now, but a whole series
Speaker 1: of them, only without the intermediaries and without hitting the
Speaker 1: Capitol police with stun guns and bike racks. Democrats have
Speaker 1: to understand and state Trump is the enemy. Trump is
Speaker 1: the fifth column. Trump is destroying America. Trump has stolen
Speaker 1: your Social Security number. Trump maybe next steal your Social
Speaker 1: Security money. Apocalyptic terms, because it's an apocalypse. Trump is
Speaker 1: the enemy. Republicans are his brown shirts, and the Democrats
Speaker 1: are America's only chance. And if you are not willing
Speaker 1: to accept this reality, Democrats, and accept this responsibility and
Speaker 1: act in defense of the nation, Democrats, guess what we
Speaker 1: are going to need? New Democrats and god damned fast.
Speaker 1: One thing we must not have, not now, certainly, not immediately,
Speaker 1: certainly though, is public protest. That is more than likely
Speaker 1: what Trump is trying to instigate. The flood, the zone stuff,
Speaker 1: in addition to overwhelming the media, have to try to
Speaker 1: do that. He wants protests preferably large, preferably menacing, preferably
Speaker 1: full of non white people warde protest he can either
Speaker 1: incite to violence or if they remain peaceful, that he
Speaker 1: can lie about and tell his gang that they were violent.
Speaker 1: He wants to gas civilians. You you listening to this
Speaker 1: right now. He wants to hit you with tear gas
Speaker 1: to start with, he wants to do it the way
Speaker 1: he did it on June first, twenty twenty outside of
Speaker 1: the church. And then he wants to shoot you. And
Speaker 1: then he wants over your prostrate body to help use
Speaker 1: your carcass to invent an organized internal enemy. Because he
Speaker 1: is following Hitler's playbook, there's no question of it. Now
Speaker 1: threatened to invade your neighboring countries, the idea of his
Speaker 1: opponents turning out to be part of a vast conspiracy
Speaker 1: to burn down whatever his reichs dog is going to be.
Speaker 1: That's the excuse he needs to convince any remaining reluctant
Speaker 1: Republicans in government or out to embrace him as the
Speaker 1: dictator saving white people from a manufactured threat. Trump's Goebbels
Speaker 1: and Hesses and Borman's want nothing more than a new
Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter movement to hit the streets, regardless of
Speaker 1: the rightness of the cause, regardless of the peacefulness of
Speaker 1: the protests. It would be a gift to Trump, and
Speaker 1: it would accelerate the full implementation of his dictatorship. There
Speaker 1: may be a time, and it may come soon when
Speaker 1: we have nothing left but to take to the streets
Speaker 1: and let the chips fall where there may. That is
Speaker 1: not the time right now. This is, in fact, probably
Speaker 1: the worst time right now. This is not even yet
Speaker 1: the right time for the ten strike. This is not
Speaker 1: yet the time for consumer goods boycott. This is not
Speaker 1: yet the time to fully abandon the mechanisms available to
Speaker 1: the Democrats within government and with media platforms. If we
Speaker 1: want to protest, if we want to take to the streets,
Speaker 1: we are better served right now going to Chuck Schumer's
Speaker 1: office and protesting there in one desperate bid to see
Speaker 1: if we can get him and Jeffries and others to
Speaker 1: deal with today's crises today, And to start by declaring
Speaker 1: that Musk and Trump are running another coup right now,
Speaker 1: or a dozen of them, and that heg Seth and
Speaker 1: Trump and the Republican Party killed the service members on
Speaker 1: the black Hawk and killed the passengers on the American
Speaker 1: Eagle flight. And I make no attempt to hide my
Speaker 1: feeling of disgust just saying that, nor my sense of
Speaker 1: it all being disgustingly unclean, and I wish there were
Speaker 1: another way, but we have got to win this war.
Speaker 1: And the other side it has all of these weapons,
Speaker 1: and the only ones we have are those they have
Speaker 1: stupidly handed us. Use them, and use them now, and
Speaker 1: they begin with yelling. Also have interest here in an
Speaker 1: all new edition because the other way is collaboration. And
Speaker 1: five of the news organizations that did their best to
Speaker 1: be VC media have gotten their reward. Trump has thrown
Speaker 1: them all under the bus. Anyway. That and the sports
Speaker 1: trade deals so bad it must have been ordered by Trump.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Olberman coming up on an all new edition of Countdown
Speaker 1: Worst Persons. Some listeners thought I was being hyperbolic when
Speaker 1: I said Press Secretary Caroline Levitt had called Hitler hilter
Speaker 1: like an amany Python sketch. I was not being hyperbolic.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the videotape next. First, in an all
Speaker 1: new edition of Countdown. Some headlines, some updates, some snark,
Speaker 1: and some postscripts to the news. This is the Countdown podcast,
Speaker 1: and these are the places where there's news, dateline capitulation nation.
Speaker 1: So here's how it's going with all those erstwhile news
Speaker 1: organizations that bent over backwards to try to appease Trump.
Speaker 1: And remember that to truly bend over backwards, you have
Speaker 1: to have no spine. CBS began internal discussions to settle
Speaker 1: a bullshit lawsuit by Trump over the editing of an
Speaker 1: interview with Kamala Harris, because if the point was to
Speaker 1: chill journalism, CBS was the exact right spot to find
Speaker 1: scaredy pat owners. So they began to talk at CBS
Speaker 1: about paying fifteen million dollars to quote settle the lawsuit
Speaker 1: and the goggles that Trump then appointed to run the
Speaker 1: FCC decided to begin his tenure by announcing that he
Speaker 1: wants the transcripts of the CBS Harris interview and is
Speaker 1: investigating CBS because the Trump monsters are going to use
Speaker 1: the laws to punish people who don't advocate for Trump,
Speaker 1: and those monsters must be stopped. Next, the guy will
Speaker 1: want the video of the CBS Harris interview turned over
Speaker 1: to the FCC, and of course, way down there at
Speaker 1: the end of this path to hell, this guy will
Speaker 1: want Kamala Harris herself turned over to the FCC. Dateline
Speaker 1: the Pentagon On Friday, Zach Stanton, writing the Politico Playbook
Speaker 1: newsletter after Ryan Liza got the heave ho after the
Speaker 1: whole thing with Miviy Muzi, wrote one of the suckiest
Speaker 1: suck up things yet written about Trump. Quote. The prevailing
Speaker 1: sense at the end of week one was that Trump
Speaker 1: two point oh was altogether more polished and professional than
Speaker 1: Trump one point oh. This time around, so the thinking went,
Speaker 1: the administration would be able to execute on its goals
Speaker 1: with strategic precision, an impression bolstered by the blitz of
Speaker 1: well prepared executive actions that defined his initial days back
Speaker 1: on the job. That's the long version of and thus
Speaker 1: Donald Trump finally became president. Nice try Zack Stanton of Politico.
Speaker 1: Later the same day, the Pentagon announced that there would
Speaker 1: be some changes made in the press. Cubby holes provided
Speaker 1: in the building for correspondence to work out of. The
Speaker 1: TV ones even have little TV cameras in them. The
Speaker 1: New York Post, breitbarta NN, and huff Post will be
Speaker 1: getting spaces in the Pentagon. Huff Post really gonna move
Speaker 1: a gossip columnist into the Pentagon. I mean, it's as
Speaker 1: silly as oh Ann. Anyway, the spaces they will be
Speaker 1: getting were the press spaces occupied by NPR, which has
Speaker 1: been desperately trying to curry favor with the right for
Speaker 1: at least a year, and the New York Times. That's
Speaker 1: the New York Times. As in the New York Times,
Speaker 1: we can both sides anything in our headlines department. And
Speaker 1: NBC good call on giving Trump the free pass throughout
Speaker 1: the campaign and that lightweight interview on Meet the Press,
Speaker 1: and of course Politico. Politico space is now going to
Speaker 1: like Breitbart. All four ousted news organizations tried to appease.
Speaker 1: Politico tried three hours before they were thrown out. Do
Speaker 1: not appease, Never appease, Do not bring a bouquet of
Speaker 1: roses to a flame thrower fight. And Dateline Washington next up,
Speaker 1: trying to prove it can be good little propagandists Semaphore News.
Speaker 1: I'm going to read you it's very colorful, very unbelievable
Speaker 1: press release as written at Semaphore. I beg you to
Speaker 1: believe me. I beg you. This is not satire. I
Speaker 1: am not that talented. I could never write nor conceive
Speaker 1: of anything this tone death obviously wrong and completely stupid.
Speaker 1: Semaphore innovating to restore trust in news a national summit.
Speaker 1: Semaphore has set plans for a National Trust in News
Speaker 1: Summit next month, with the focus on how the media
Speaker 1: rebuilds public trust amid a Gallop poll showing record low approval.
Speaker 1: The event to be held on February twenty seventh that
Speaker 1: Gallup's headquarters in Washington, DC, is hosted by co founder
Speaker 1: and CEO Justin Smith if that is your real name,
Speaker 1: and co founder and editor in chief Ben Smith, if
Speaker 1: that is your real name. Those confirmed to participate so far,
Speaker 1: let me exit reading this press release to just remind
Speaker 1: you I did not write this. This is not satire.
Speaker 1: This is not somebody trying to write the dumbest thing
Speaker 1: ever in terms of restoring trust in news. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is this is real. Those confirmed to participate so far
Speaker 1: include Mecckelly, CNN Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Mark Thompson, NBC
Speaker 1: Universal Newsgroup Chairman, Sesar Conde. Fox News is Brettbear and
Speaker 1: and he guesses it's worse than you think. It's really
Speaker 1: worse than you think. Worse than Megan Kelly, worse than
Speaker 1: Mark Thompson, who many people at CNN do not believe
Speaker 1: actually exist, They've never seen him. Worse than Megan Kelly,
Speaker 1: worse than Mark Thompson, worse than, saysar Conde, worse than
Speaker 1: Brett Bhar. The last person participating in the Innovating to
Speaker 1: Restore Trust in News national Summit, Joe Kahn, Executive editor
Speaker 1: of The New York Times. Does he have to bring
Speaker 1: somebody with him to offer a counterpoint to each of
Speaker 1: his statements? Others participating will come from the worlds of news, entertainment,
Speaker 1: technology and new media. Probably should add somebody from the
Speaker 1: waterboarding division of the new administration. Megan Kelly, Mark Thompson,
Speaker 1: says our Conte Brett Behar, Joe Kahn on restoring trust
Speaker 1: in news, And you didn't invite Joe and Mika, Oh
Speaker 1: my god? Are we f't go ahead on countdown the
Speaker 1: Terrible Trade plus Hockey's Original Six. The term came up
Speaker 1: again over the weekend. The original six. They're not original
Speaker 1: and there aren't six of them. How this erroneous nonsense
Speaker 1: has become the number one marketing device in the National
Speaker 1: Hockey League, and how it is factually completely wrong and
Speaker 1: has been now for eighty three years. Coming up next
Speaker 1: in Sports First, Believe It or Not? There's still more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the
Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who co
Speaker 1: constitute two Day's other worst persons in the world, the
Speaker 1: bronze worse Chuck Todd. Friday, Chuck announced he's leaving NBC
Speaker 1: News for once. I'm not going to focus here on
Speaker 1: how Chuck once made up a quote and attributed it
Speaker 1: to AOC. She said concentration camps, he said, she said
Speaker 1: Nazi death camps. He still doesn't think he did anything wrong,
Speaker 1: even though she never said Nazi, she didn't say death
Speaker 1: and concentration camps began forty years before the Nazis used them.
Speaker 1: They began in the Boer War in the nineteenth century. Also,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to zoom in on Chuck saying more
Speaker 1: recently that the Trump nominee confirmation hearings could just save
Speaker 1: cable news in the short term, because obviously that's what
Speaker 1: Chuck thinks the point of these confirmation hearings are. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to mention any of that. I'm just going
Speaker 1: to point out that about three weeks ago, each media
Speaker 1: reporter and each political newsletter, including some done by high
Speaker 1: school students reported that Chuck Todd was leaving NBC News.
Speaker 1: Chuck reported it on Friday, Chuck was scooped on his
Speaker 1: own firing, runner up worser, former chief CNN saboteur Chris Licked.
Speaker 1: That's old timer's day here on worse persons Chris lickt
Speaker 1: Chuck Todd. One of the media guys who scooped Chuck
Speaker 1: Todd on his own firing was Oliver Darcy of Status
Speaker 1: about my old MSNBC buddy lickt Darcy writes quote. When
Speaker 1: wildfires tore through the Los Angeles area earlier this month,
Speaker 1: Chris Lick found himself in the city, eager to lend
Speaker 1: the hand for or against the wildfires. Licked. According to
Speaker 1: a tipster, the former CNN boss reached out to knbct
Speaker 1: TV chief Todd Muktari to see if the local station
Speaker 1: needed any support with its coverage. As circumstances would have it,
Speaker 1: Muktari did said he could use an extra field producer. Licked,
Speaker 1: I'm told, volunteered his time to assist taking on field
Speaker 1: producing duties for KNBC, the station where he launched his
Speaker 1: career years ago. I would argue about the use of
Speaker 1: the word career relative to Chris licked Krene is probably closer.
Speaker 1: Darcy ads licked volunteered. His time volunteered implies he did
Speaker 1: this for free, which is highly unlikely even under the
Speaker 1: circumstances in a union shop like NBCLA. But he certainly
Speaker 1: did work for the minimum, meaning Chris Lickt has finally
Speaker 1: found a job and especially a salary commensurate with his
Speaker 1: skills bought our winner. Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, who makes
Speaker 1: Kaylee mcananey and Sarah Huckabee and Sean Spicer look like
Speaker 1: they aren't morons. Levitt is not only stupid, but she
Speaker 1: has swallowed all the kool aid and whatever else was
Speaker 1: on the food table with the White House. Listen to
Speaker 1: this exchange with Peter Doucey of Fox, another rocket scientist,
Speaker 1: back when they were still trying to sell the Potomac
Speaker 1: disaster as the fault of DEI instead of Pete. Hegsat's
Speaker 1: DoD was the air traffic controller in the DCA tower
Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, hired or not fired at some point
Speaker 1: because of his or her race.
Speaker 2: That investigation is ongoing, and so when we have updates
Speaker 2: on the exact individuals who were involved in the collision,
Speaker 2: including the air traffic controller, also the pilots of the
Speaker 2: helicopter and others. We will confirm those. I don't want
Speaker 2: to confirm names from this podium today, We're not in
Speaker 2: a position to do that, but I will say the
Speaker 2: President has still rightfully pointed out that there has been
Speaker 2: problems with the aviation industry over the past several years,
Speaker 2: and this started under Barack Obama in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 1: So wait, Caroline, the DEI stuff you're whining about started
Speaker 1: under Obama. And who is the president after Obama who
Speaker 1: didn't do anything about it? Oh yeah, that's right, Trump,
Speaker 1: and whose presidency was the one in which the helicopter
Speaker 1: pilot was commissioned. Oh right, Trumps. The people talking, DEEI waited,
Speaker 1: if you will, hiring practices unfair to white dudes, hiring
Speaker 1: practices in that little clip there, those people are Peter Doocey,
Speaker 1: whose dad just coincidentally has worked at Fox News since
Speaker 1: it was created, born courtesy of Satan and Roger Ayles,
Speaker 1: Peter Deucey, NEPO baby, and Caroline Levitt, who literally got
Speaker 1: into college on a softball scholarship. The press secretary is
Speaker 1: there to catch softballs from the NEPO babies only in America. Man,
Speaker 1: while we are here on this topic, I mentioned last
Speaker 1: week the just last summer, Caroline Levitt not revealed as
Speaker 1: a Trump spokesperson that she thinks the word damming is
Speaker 1: pronounced dammining, but that she at least once on the
Speaker 1: air live on CNN, revealed she thought the Nazi monster's
Speaker 1: name was Kilter. There was blowback to that. People who
Speaker 1: believed everything else that I've said all this time believe
Speaker 1: that was impossible. Nobody is that stupid. Nobody has gone
Speaker 1: through life only reading a name and getting it wrong
Speaker 1: all their lives, no matter if they're ten years old,
Speaker 1: reading the name Hitler wrong and never being corrected on it.
Speaker 1: It's not possible. Never Mind, somebody rose to the position
Speaker 1: of I don't know, street sweeper outside the White House,
Speaker 1: never mind Press secretary to the President of the United States.
Speaker 1: But then again, we are living in a real time,
Speaker 1: real life version of idiocracy in a time when Bobby
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior is not escorted out of the Senate and
Speaker 1: directly into a straight jacket and some pants, it is
Speaker 1: not only possible, it turns out it's likely that this
Speaker 1: is what happens at the risk of pissing off CNN
Speaker 1: like they care anymore. On June twenty fourth, last year,
Speaker 1: on CNN This Morning with Casey Hunt, here's the clip
Speaker 1: Levitt got Hitler's name wrong. It is late in this clip.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of crosstalk at the end, but you
Speaker 1: can play it again if you don't hear it the
Speaker 1: first time. Levitt is bashing Jake Tapper, Casey Hunt is
Speaker 1: defending Jake Tapper, and then boom goes the Hilter. Courtesy
Speaker 1: and copyright CNN. And my justification is this is really
Speaker 1: news that a lot of people didn't notice at the time,
Speaker 1: courtesy CNN. And just one more time, this is courtesy CNN.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's it takes someone five minutes
Speaker 2: to google Jake Tapper Donald Trump to see that Jake
Speaker 2: Tapper has Sam canist Is offer his interview. Want to
Speaker 2: call it ADELF.
Speaker 1: Hilter, He'll ter. I assume as she said that Caroline
Speaker 1: Levitt thought his name was Rodolfo Hilter, Ladolf Hilter, Caroline.
Speaker 1: I want to know if the four thousand sports books
Speaker 1: and other legal gambling companies that have sprung up in
Speaker 1: Trump's America. Will let me bet on when she mispronounces
Speaker 1: Trump's name like Chuck Grassley mispronounced Trump's name the other
Speaker 1: day and called him dump Levitt two days other worse
Speaker 1: person and the world. This is sports Senate. Wait check
Speaker 1: that not anymore.
Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Ulberman from the sports Ball
Speaker 3: Central Center news desk tonight dateline, Dallas, Texas, Hello, Dallas
Speaker 3: Mavericks did indeed send superstar Luka Doncic to the Los
Speaker 3: Angeles Lakers at the basketball swap deadline yesterday in and yes,
Speaker 3: I am repeating this line because I like it that much.
Speaker 3: A trade deal so bad it must have been ordered
Speaker 3: by Trump. Doncic turns twenty six at the end of
Speaker 3: this month, and in the worst of his six full
Speaker 3: seasons in the league thus far, he finished only eighth
Speaker 3: in the balloting for most Valuable Player. He was third
Speaker 3: last year. He's been a first team All Star each
Speaker 3: of the last five seasons. Dallas sent La Doncic and
Speaker 3: well other guys for the Lakers first round draft choice
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty nine. Max Christy, who has scored eight
Speaker 3: hundred and two points over the entire arc of his career,
Speaker 3: that is, and Anthony Davis, a thirty two year old,
Speaker 3: much beligned, much injured player whose name you may recognize
Speaker 3: from such headlines as Anthony Davis demands New Orleans trades him.
Speaker 3: Anthony Davis will not return to Kentucky. Anthony Davis will
Speaker 3: miss several games with another foot injury. Anthony Davis will
Speaker 3: not play tonight due to load maintenance. Anthony Davis demands
Speaker 3: Lakers trade him, and of course somebody needs to talk
Speaker 3: to Anthony Davis about the brows. Congratulations to my friend
Speaker 3: and one time date literally Lakers only earner Jeanie buss
Speaker 3: on getting rid of this guy in exchange for one
Speaker 3: of the greatest players in modern basketball history. It would
Speaker 3: be like trading me for Babe Ruth. The trade is
Speaker 3: so bad that several NBA insider reporters who reported it
Speaker 3: on social media were contacted by fans and other reporters
Speaker 3: and their their editors and employers to ask if their
Speaker 3: computers had been hacked.
Speaker 1: No, only the governments. By the way, the best part
Speaker 1: of the joke about the bad trade deal being Trump's
Speaker 1: thing is that while most people who vaguely know sports
Speaker 1: think that Mark Cuban still owns the Dallas Mavericks. They're
Speaker 1: the idiots who made this deal. Even NBA fans think this.
Speaker 1: Even some Mavericks fans think this. He has long since
Speaker 1: sold the team to the Adelson family Miriam Addelson. Miriam
Speaker 1: Addelson who got all of her late husband's fascist money
Speaker 1: and gave most of it to Trump. Because well, now
Speaker 1: they've gone and traded Luka Doncic because et TD state line, Vancouver,
Speaker 1: British Columbia. While we're talking trades, please give a thought
Speaker 1: today for my pal John Shorthouse, who does the Vancouver
Speaker 1: Cannots hockey games on television and is very possibly the
Speaker 1: best play by play man in sports, despite being a
Speaker 1: total goofball. But even he will be challenged by the
Speaker 1: new state of things in Vancouver. Friday night, the Canucks
Speaker 1: solved a long standing problem by dumping center J. T. Miller,
Speaker 1: a player of whom you could quote the Monty Python line,
Speaker 1: it's people like you what causes unrest. He had been
Speaker 1: unresting his own teammate, Elias Petterson. Miller was finally traded
Speaker 1: to the New York Rangers, the third time in less
Speaker 1: than seven years he has been traded, and how he
Speaker 1: treated his teammates was part of the trade. Anyway, Elias
Speaker 1: Petterson continues in Vancouver, which means Shorthouse's problem continues. The
Speaker 1: Canucks recently promoted a defenseman from the Miners named Elias Petterson.
Speaker 1: He spells his name exactly the same way Elias Petterson does,
Speaker 1: but he pronounces it differently. Near as I can tell,
Speaker 1: this is the first time any sports team has had this.
Speaker 1: Two guys Elias Petterson and Elias Petterson with exactly the
Speaker 1: same name, but they pronounce it differently. But after the
Speaker 1: Canucks traded Miller, they made another deal for a deaf
Speaker 1: veteran defenseman named Marcus Petterson. So it's Elias, Elias and
Speaker 1: Marcus Petterson on the same team, conceivably on the ice
Speaker 1: at the same time. Good Luck Shorty, on the other hand.
Speaker 1: In September, the Canucks replaced their rinkside in game reporter.
Speaker 1: The new person in the job is named Olivia McDonald.
Speaker 1: The previous reporter was named Kate Peterson and dateline headquarters
Speaker 1: of the New York Americans fan Club. I don't do
Speaker 1: a lot of hockey, but while we're here, you may
Speaker 1: enjoy this. At least you'll understand why marketing is not
Speaker 1: what it could be. In the NHL, the traded J. T.
Speaker 1: Millers first came back with the New York Rangers was
Speaker 1: against the Boston Bruins Saturday afternoon. They will play again Wednesday.
Speaker 1: The Bruins and the Rangers were in the National Hockey
Speaker 1: League between nineteen forty two and nineteen sixty, the quarter
Speaker 1: century when the whole league had only six teams and
Speaker 1: none of them moved and none of them changed names,
Speaker 1: and it was just the six of them. And then
Speaker 1: they started doing the expansion thing. Starting in the early seventies,
Speaker 1: hockey people began to refer to those half dozen clubs
Speaker 1: in that twenty five year span erroneously as the original six.
Speaker 1: You will hear this now every time Boston plays the Rangers,
Speaker 1: or Montreal plays Detroit, or Toronto plays Chicago, or any
Speaker 1: other mix of these six teams. Announcers say it, coaches
Speaker 1: say it, players say it, The commissioner of the league
Speaker 1: says it, and they are all wrong. For some of
Speaker 1: us fans, the day will come when we will have
Speaker 1: heard this ridiculously inaccurate phrase original fixth one time too many,
Speaker 1: and we will either barricade ourselves somewhere, or we will
Speaker 1: take hostages. The National Hockey League officially originated in nineteen seventeen,
Speaker 1: although it was the direct successor to the National Hockey Association,
Speaker 1: which started in nineteen oh nine. Each of those leagues
Speaker 1: had in their first season their original season four original teams.
Speaker 1: Each of them, the NHL and the NHL had an
Speaker 1: original four. The number of the teams in the NHL
Speaker 1: has varied. It's gone from four to six in nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty four, to seven in nineteen twenty five, to ten
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty six, and then the Depression really took
Speaker 1: its toll. The Ottawa Senators suspended operations and the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: Pirates went belly up, then moved to Philadelphia, then folded,
Speaker 1: so in nineteen thirty one, the NHL was back down
Speaker 1: to eight teams. Ottawa tried again, resumed operations in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty two, so they were back up to nine teams.
Speaker 1: That didn't work, so Ottawa moved to Saint Louis in
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty four, and that really didn't work, so Saint
Speaker 1: Louis folded and in nineteen thirty five it was back
Speaker 1: to eight teams again. By nineteen thirty eight, things were
Speaker 1: so bad in the city of Montreal that the fabled
Speaker 1: Montreal Canadians were going to move to Cleveland. Instead, they
Speaker 1: bought out the other Montreal team, the Canadians bought the
Speaker 1: Montreal Maroons. The Montreal Maroons, who had won the Stanley
Speaker 1: Cup just three years earlier, folded went out of business,
Speaker 1: So we're down to seven teams nineteen thirty eight, when
Speaker 1: the war came, the original team in New York that
Speaker 1: preceded the Rangers, the New York Americans, suspended operations when
Speaker 1: the war ended. They never came back, and that's why
Speaker 1: there were six NHL teams. There's nothing original about the
Speaker 1: original six. They were just the ones that didn't go bankrupt. Moreover,
Speaker 1: of the actual original four teams from the NHL of
Speaker 1: nineteen seventeen, only the Montreal Canadians are still in the league.
Speaker 1: The Toronto team of nineteen seventeen Sorda. They're sorta the
Speaker 1: Maple Leafs. The original business went bankrupt, new owners took over,
Speaker 1: changed the name of the team. Was a very shady deal.
Speaker 1: But even if you consider the Toronto Maple Leafs as original,
Speaker 1: THENA does not have an original six. It has an
Speaker 1: original two. If the Canadians are playing the Maple Leafs
Speaker 1: and you want to say it's an original two matchup,
Speaker 1: go right ahead. I have no complaint with that. The
Speaker 1: rest of it is bullshit. The Boston Bruins, the Chicago Blackhawks,
Speaker 1: Detroit Red Wings, New York Rangers. Nominally, the other four
Speaker 1: of the original six are like every other one of
Speaker 1: the thirty teams that are not Montreal or Toronto. They
Speaker 1: are expansion franchises. There is no original six. Why do
Speaker 1: I care about this? Why have I assumed that you
Speaker 1: would care about this for you nine and a half
Speaker 1: minutes of your day. I am the son of a
Speaker 1: woman who attended National Hockey League games at Madison Square
Speaker 1: Garden in New York, games of the NHL team called
Speaker 1: the New York Americans. She and particularly her uncle Willie
Speaker 1: were New York Americans. Fans own a replica New York
Speaker 1: Americans jacket. If there is an original six teams nineteen
Speaker 1: forty two to nineteen sixty seven, what were the New
Speaker 1: York Americans who played in nineteen forty one forty two?
Speaker 1: What are they? Chopped? Liver? More importantly, as I said,
Speaker 1: the NHL Montreal Maroons won the Stanley Cup in nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty five, then disappeared in nineteen thirty eight. Does that
Speaker 1: Stanley Cup win not count if the Montreal Maroons are
Speaker 1: not original or part of some sort of legacy that
Speaker 1: you call the Original six who won the Stanley Cup
Speaker 1: in nineteen thirty five. In fact, the Maroons won two
Speaker 1: Stanley Cups, and the NHL Ottawa Senators the original ones
Speaker 1: they won four Stanley Cups. If there is an NHL
Speaker 1: Original six, what about those six Stanley Cup Championship NHL
Speaker 1: winning teams that don't exist anymore. And lastly, just to
Speaker 1: tie the whole thing together once again, just to make
Speaker 1: this clear, the Stanley Cup has never been won by
Speaker 1: a team with anybody on it who was named Peterson.
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening, and for the record, I may or
Speaker 1: may not be an Original six, but I was once traded.
Speaker 1: At least I was sold by NBC News to Fox
Speaker 1: Sports late in nineteen ninety eight for a flat one dollars. Seriously,
Speaker 1: not even draft choices, not even Anthony Davis, just cash.
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanel. The musical directors have
Speaker 1: countdown Arrange produced and performed most of our music. Mister
Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars,
Speaker 1: bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers.
Speaker 1: Our set here Glen Fifthy. Musical comments are by the
Speaker 1: best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music
Speaker 1: is the Olberman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch
Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Other music arranged and
Speaker 1: performed by No Horns Aloud. Did I mention that clip
Speaker 1: of Caroline Levitt was from CNN? My announswer today was
Speaker 1: my friend Dennis Leary. Everything else was, as ever my fault.
Speaker 1: That's countdown for today, just four and forty eight days
Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck, lame brained term.
Speaker 1: Unless Musk removes him sooner. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday.
Speaker 1: As always, boltons, as the news warrants remember in peach
Speaker 1: trumpet will not work now. It will, however, win the
Speaker 1: Democrats the mid terms until next time. I'm Keith Olberman.
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