1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:22,675 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. Okay, 2 00:00:22,795 --> 00:00:26,875 Speaker 1: if this all ends with George Santos turning out to 3 00:00:27,075 --> 00:00:31,835 Speaker 1: also be Lindsay Graham, I wouldn't be a bit surprised 4 00:00:32,915 --> 00:00:38,475 Speaker 1: if somehow you missed it. Seven days ago, while America slept, 5 00:00:39,075 --> 00:00:44,835 Speaker 1: a Brazilian drag performer named Euler Rochard went on Instagram 6 00:00:44,835 --> 00:00:47,915 Speaker 1: and posted an old photograph of herself standing with another 7 00:00:47,995 --> 00:00:52,155 Speaker 1: drag performer in address very nice dress, and wrote, as 8 00:00:52,195 --> 00:00:56,235 Speaker 1: it translates from the Portuguese me with the American Republican 9 00:00:56,315 --> 00:01:00,315 Speaker 1: deputy at the Niche Roy parade, with whom I spoke, 10 00:01:00,555 --> 00:01:03,355 Speaker 1: he wouldn't leave my house. There's the proof for those 11 00:01:03,395 --> 00:01:08,235 Speaker 1: who called me a liar, u Le Rochard says. Standing 12 00:01:08,275 --> 00:01:12,555 Speaker 1: next to her in that photograph is George Santos in 13 00:01:12,555 --> 00:01:17,235 Speaker 1: an address the Republican Party, which has turned itself into 14 00:01:17,275 --> 00:01:21,275 Speaker 1: an arm of persecution against drag performers, which has insisted 15 00:01:21,315 --> 00:01:23,675 Speaker 1: every one of them and every one of us who 16 00:01:23,715 --> 00:01:27,755 Speaker 1: supports them or refuses to target them or ascribe terrible 17 00:01:27,795 --> 00:01:31,515 Speaker 1: motives to them, is a quote groomer, which has tried 18 00:01:31,555 --> 00:01:35,075 Speaker 1: to break up their performances with everything from armed vigilantes 19 00:01:35,355 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 1: to panicked legislation which has put the lives of every 20 00:01:39,515 --> 00:01:42,635 Speaker 1: one of them at risk, which has revived Pizza Gate 21 00:01:42,755 --> 00:01:47,955 Speaker 1: and every other transparently ludicrous, paranoid conspiracy and centered it 22 00:01:48,075 --> 00:01:52,835 Speaker 1: on them. The drag phobic Republican Party has twisted itself 23 00:01:52,875 --> 00:01:57,115 Speaker 1: into knots to defend and maintain in his new ill 24 00:01:57,275 --> 00:02:06,075 Speaker 1: gotten House seat a drag queen named Katara Ravascha, Tara George, 25 00:02:06,475 --> 00:02:17,035 Speaker 1: Anthony Devolder, Zabrovsky, Santos Ravasha. This, this will be why 26 00:02:17,195 --> 00:02:22,875 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy ousts him. The GOP anti drag their groomers, 27 00:02:22,955 --> 00:02:26,915 Speaker 1: You'll burn in hell. Panic mob has too much momentum, 28 00:02:26,955 --> 00:02:31,235 Speaker 1: too much attention, too much power, too much invested in 29 00:02:31,315 --> 00:02:33,795 Speaker 1: it for any of them to drop it or to 30 00:02:34,035 --> 00:02:39,315 Speaker 1: turn back. Yet, if Kevin McCarthy and House Republican leadership 31 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:43,955 Speaker 1: try to finesse this, the pitchforks and torches they unleashed 32 00:02:44,155 --> 00:02:50,675 Speaker 1: will be turned on them. Kevin McCarthy groomer. Even if 33 00:02:50,675 --> 00:02:53,755 Speaker 1: there is no further photographic evidence beyond that one old 34 00:02:53,835 --> 00:02:58,675 Speaker 1: shot on Instagram, it's over and ask yourself, what is 35 00:02:58,715 --> 00:03:04,555 Speaker 1: the point of somebody dressing in drag besides leaving photographic 36 00:03:04,715 --> 00:03:08,755 Speaker 1: evidence of it. Oh, and there may be a YouTube 37 00:03:08,835 --> 00:03:12,715 Speaker 1: video of Qatara Ravasch in a dress, just a little 38 00:03:12,715 --> 00:03:14,995 Speaker 1: black dress, and then they go in for a close 39 00:03:15,115 --> 00:03:19,115 Speaker 1: up and the face looks like George Santos, and Juela 40 00:03:19,195 --> 00:03:24,315 Speaker 1: Rochard says, yeah, that's her. For the record, there isn't 41 00:03:24,355 --> 00:03:26,955 Speaker 1: a damn thing wrong with drag queens, and there isn't 42 00:03:26,955 --> 00:03:30,635 Speaker 1: a damn thing wrong with kids seeing drag queens. And 43 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:33,195 Speaker 1: if you have any qualms about that conclusion, I have 44 00:03:33,275 --> 00:03:38,435 Speaker 1: only two words for you, Mrs doubt fire. Also, for 45 00:03:38,475 --> 00:03:42,115 Speaker 1: the record, it appears Qatara Ravasch was named for an 46 00:03:42,275 --> 00:03:46,875 Speaker 1: enduring Brazilian actress named Irene Ravasch. And also for the record, 47 00:03:46,875 --> 00:03:49,195 Speaker 1: it appears the first American to find the Euler Richard 48 00:03:49,315 --> 00:03:53,235 Speaker 1: Instagram post was writer producer Rachel Wolfe, and the first 49 00:03:53,275 --> 00:03:56,875 Speaker 1: to interview Euler Rochard was Marissa Kabas, who does a 50 00:03:56,955 --> 00:04:01,155 Speaker 1: Santos newsletter. And for the record, last April, candidate George 51 00:04:01,155 --> 00:04:05,315 Speaker 1: Santos posted a video to Facebook endorsing Florida's Don't Say 52 00:04:05,395 --> 00:04:07,915 Speaker 1: Gay law, and, as The New York Times put it, 53 00:04:08,035 --> 00:04:11,195 Speaker 1: quote Mr Santos in a caption for the video, accused 54 00:04:11,195 --> 00:04:15,275 Speaker 1: Democrats and wanting to groom our kids, repeating a conservative 55 00:04:15,315 --> 00:04:19,275 Speaker 1: talking point that associates any discussion of sexual orientation or 56 00:04:19,355 --> 00:04:23,755 Speaker 1: gender identity with children to sexual abuse. Hey, everyone, Mr 57 00:04:23,835 --> 00:04:27,195 Speaker 1: Santos said at the beginning of the video, George Santos 58 00:04:27,275 --> 00:04:35,515 Speaker 1: here end quote. That's the point. The hypocrisy is the point. Meanwhile, 59 00:04:35,635 --> 00:04:39,515 Speaker 1: back at the ranch, Euler Richard told Marissa Kabas that 60 00:04:39,595 --> 00:04:43,515 Speaker 1: she met Katara. That's what she says. Santos called himself 61 00:04:43,555 --> 00:04:48,075 Speaker 1: almost exclusively when Katara was sixteen or seventeen years old. Quote. 62 00:04:48,315 --> 00:04:51,115 Speaker 1: The picture was taken in two thousand and eight at 63 00:04:51,115 --> 00:04:55,875 Speaker 1: the Pride parade at Kari Beach in Nitroy. George had 64 00:04:55,915 --> 00:04:59,115 Speaker 1: disappeared for a little while and then returned to Brazil 65 00:04:59,195 --> 00:05:01,395 Speaker 1: with a lot of money, and that was about the 66 00:05:01,515 --> 00:05:05,555 Speaker 1: same time when the picture was taken. George always lied 67 00:05:05,595 --> 00:05:10,435 Speaker 1: about everything. He used to create stories, usually involving money. 68 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:13,915 Speaker 1: She says she saw congress in Santos on TV recently 69 00:05:13,955 --> 00:05:17,475 Speaker 1: and couldn't believe it. Knew it was him, checked with 70 00:05:17,555 --> 00:05:22,395 Speaker 1: friends and it's him. Quote. He used to hang out 71 00:05:22,395 --> 00:05:29,915 Speaker 1: in my house while his mom was playing Bingo ban Go. 72 00:05:33,275 --> 00:05:35,355 Speaker 1: I don't know what's next, and I'm not sure I 73 00:05:35,395 --> 00:05:40,035 Speaker 1: want to know what's next. He's a furry. He dated 74 00:05:40,075 --> 00:05:46,755 Speaker 1: Madison Clothorne. He's actually three short liars stacked in one raincoat. 75 00:05:47,755 --> 00:05:52,315 Speaker 1: He's planning to vote for raising the debt limit. I 76 00:05:52,355 --> 00:05:54,555 Speaker 1: don't know what's next, but I do know that since 77 00:05:54,595 --> 00:05:57,315 Speaker 1: this latest one broke, this latest in the series, the 78 00:05:57,395 --> 00:06:00,115 Speaker 1: daily series of jaw droppers, I have seen in my 79 00:06:00,155 --> 00:06:03,275 Speaker 1: mind's I one thing and one thing only, one of 80 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:05,915 Speaker 1: my favorite James Thurbert our tuns in which a lawyer 81 00:06:06,355 --> 00:06:10,115 Speaker 1: is holding a kangaroo and confronting a clearly shocked and 82 00:06:10,235 --> 00:06:14,275 Speaker 1: shaken witness on the stand, and the caption reads, perhaps 83 00:06:14,275 --> 00:06:21,155 Speaker 1: this will refresh your memory the irony of all ironies 84 00:06:21,315 --> 00:06:24,195 Speaker 1: and the sadness of all sadnesses in this is that 85 00:06:24,275 --> 00:06:29,795 Speaker 1: George Santos as Katara Ravasha is probably the most human, 86 00:06:30,395 --> 00:06:34,275 Speaker 1: most endearing thing he has done yet, in fact, it's 87 00:06:34,275 --> 00:06:37,995 Speaker 1: probably the only human, only endearing thing he's done. Yet. 88 00:06:39,555 --> 00:06:42,955 Speaker 1: This is still the creature who at best let the disabled, 89 00:06:43,035 --> 00:06:48,115 Speaker 1: homeless Navy Vets service dog Sapphire die and redirected the 90 00:06:48,115 --> 00:06:51,715 Speaker 1: money raised for her somewhere else. This is still the 91 00:06:51,795 --> 00:06:54,435 Speaker 1: creature who has lied about every aspect of his life, 92 00:06:54,715 --> 00:06:57,635 Speaker 1: and lied about the Holocaust, and lied about nine eleven, 93 00:06:57,835 --> 00:07:01,395 Speaker 1: and lied about the Pulse nightclub shooting. This is still 94 00:07:01,435 --> 00:07:04,755 Speaker 1: the albatross around the neck of nearly every Republican who 95 00:07:04,755 --> 00:07:09,675 Speaker 1: has reduced them now to trying to defend deflect by 96 00:07:09,715 --> 00:07:14,235 Speaker 1: attacking a Democratic Congressional aid who mentioned that his office 97 00:07:14,315 --> 00:07:17,235 Speaker 1: was located in just the right spot to be able 98 00:07:17,275 --> 00:07:20,195 Speaker 1: to point to reporters looking for Santos by saying he 99 00:07:20,275 --> 00:07:24,395 Speaker 1: went that way. And the Republicans have come this close 100 00:07:24,435 --> 00:07:28,755 Speaker 1: to saying that the real victim here is George Santos. 101 00:07:31,115 --> 00:07:32,955 Speaker 1: I would go out on a limb and predict that 102 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:37,675 Speaker 1: this one blame it on. Rio has to be the 103 00:07:37,755 --> 00:07:39,915 Speaker 1: last of the George Santos scandals, or at least the 104 00:07:39,995 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: last of the George Santos scandals while he's still in Congress. 105 00:07:43,435 --> 00:07:46,395 Speaker 1: But we have all learned our lesson here that this 106 00:07:46,475 --> 00:07:49,435 Speaker 1: is a man who in his closet does not merely 107 00:07:49,475 --> 00:07:54,315 Speaker 1: have skeletons. He in fact has dozens more closets, each 108 00:07:54,315 --> 00:07:59,875 Speaker 1: containing dozens more skeletons. And the Republican Party of Three 109 00:07:59,915 --> 00:08:03,515 Speaker 1: has as its lack of moral center as it's organizing 110 00:08:03,715 --> 00:08:09,475 Speaker 1: unprincipled the lie. But this is the first lie or 111 00:08:09,475 --> 00:08:13,235 Speaker 1: the first story anyway that in this moment threatens Kevin 112 00:08:13,355 --> 00:08:17,235 Speaker 1: McCarthy more than does santos is resignation and a new 113 00:08:17,275 --> 00:08:20,195 Speaker 1: special election in the New York third. If it was 114 00:08:20,275 --> 00:08:23,795 Speaker 1: not clear before, it is now. McCarthy can risk an 115 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:27,675 Speaker 1: eight seat majority, or he can keep what he has now, 116 00:08:27,995 --> 00:08:31,715 Speaker 1: but he has to spend every second of every minute 117 00:08:32,115 --> 00:08:36,715 Speaker 1: of every day of the next two years defending George 118 00:08:36,755 --> 00:08:43,635 Speaker 1: Santos's choice of dresses. There are a couple of other 119 00:08:43,675 --> 00:08:46,875 Speaker 1: things to mention. A small follow up to the Nightmare 120 00:08:46,875 --> 00:08:50,675 Speaker 1: of rich Austoff and Sapphire. Santos first said the story 121 00:08:50,715 --> 00:08:52,195 Speaker 1: was fake and he did not know any of the 122 00:08:52,235 --> 00:08:56,075 Speaker 1: people claiming he in effect killed lost offs poor dog. 123 00:08:57,035 --> 00:08:59,275 Speaker 1: Then he issued a statement to CNN quote, I have 124 00:08:59,395 --> 00:09:02,315 Speaker 1: no clue what he's talking about. And the crazy part 125 00:09:02,435 --> 00:09:05,115 Speaker 1: is that anyone that knows me knows I'd go to 126 00:09:05,195 --> 00:09:07,955 Speaker 1: hell and back for a dog, and especially a veteran. 127 00:09:08,435 --> 00:09:11,075 Speaker 1: I have dozens of people reaching out to me and support, 128 00:09:11,315 --> 00:09:14,155 Speaker 1: sharing their stories about the dogs and cats that I 129 00:09:14,195 --> 00:09:18,875 Speaker 1: helped save and rescue. Unquote yes, Congressman, Yes, they're all 130 00:09:18,995 --> 00:09:21,995 Speaker 1: laughing and smiling, just out of frame in that picture, 131 00:09:23,475 --> 00:09:25,995 Speaker 1: and of course a tweet from two thousand sixteen referring 132 00:09:26,035 --> 00:09:29,395 Speaker 1: to Sapphire and Divolder and go fund me is still 133 00:09:29,555 --> 00:09:33,715 Speaker 1: live on Twitter. Go fund me also issued a statement. 134 00:09:33,875 --> 00:09:36,355 Speaker 1: They said they shut down the fundraiser in two thousand 135 00:09:36,435 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: sixteen after complaints and that it's quote trust and safety 136 00:09:40,315 --> 00:09:44,115 Speaker 1: teams sought proof of the delivery of funds from the organizer. 137 00:09:44,355 --> 00:09:48,155 Speaker 1: The organizer failed to respond. The organizer, of course, would 138 00:09:48,155 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: be Santos uh Ramanche uh Devolder. Oh and speaking of 139 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:59,075 Speaker 1: compulsive liars, Trump was good enough yesterday to injure himself 140 00:09:59,115 --> 00:10:02,915 Speaker 1: on two different fronts. He made a slight mistake. During 141 00:10:02,955 --> 00:10:06,275 Speaker 1: the deposition in the rape loss suit by E. Gene Carroll, 142 00:10:06,875 --> 00:10:10,875 Speaker 1: shown a photo of himself and a woman, Trump identified 143 00:10:10,915 --> 00:10:15,675 Speaker 1: the woman as his second wife, Marla Maples. Quote that's Marla, Yeah, 144 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:18,395 Speaker 1: that's my wife. In fact, the woman in the photo 145 00:10:18,435 --> 00:10:23,595 Speaker 1: he identified as Marla Maples is E Gene Carroll. And 146 00:10:24,075 --> 00:10:27,555 Speaker 1: Trump also handed the Department of Justice evidence of intent 147 00:10:28,075 --> 00:10:31,635 Speaker 1: in the Documents and or Espionage case. He posted that 148 00:10:31,915 --> 00:10:34,755 Speaker 1: when I was in the Oval office, papers would often 149 00:10:34,795 --> 00:10:38,715 Speaker 1: be an ascribed paper folder with classified or confidential or 150 00:10:38,755 --> 00:10:41,875 Speaker 1: another word on them. When the session was over, they 151 00:10:41,875 --> 00:10:45,235 Speaker 1: would collect the papers but not the folders, and I 152 00:10:45,475 --> 00:10:50,635 Speaker 1: saved hundreds of them. They were a quote cool unquote keepsake. 153 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:57,115 Speaker 1: That's intent and a confession and a warning for George 154 00:10:57,155 --> 00:11:02,715 Speaker 1: Santos and every other Republican. Eventually you do run out 155 00:11:02,755 --> 00:11:06,075 Speaker 1: of lies, or at lea to run out of good lies. 156 00:11:07,595 --> 00:11:10,955 Speaker 1: And lastly, just to call back to the beginning of 157 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:13,915 Speaker 1: this and to skip ahead, this does not all end 158 00:11:13,955 --> 00:11:19,035 Speaker 1: with George Santos turning out to also be Lindsay Graham. 159 00:11:19,035 --> 00:11:37,675 Speaker 1: Maybe Marjorie Taylor Green, but definitely not Lindsay Graham. Still ahead. 160 00:11:37,715 --> 00:11:41,715 Speaker 1: Speaking of pride events, Hockey's Philadelphia Flyers had one Tuesday. 161 00:11:41,795 --> 00:11:44,115 Speaker 1: It could not have gone worse if Santos had been 162 00:11:44,115 --> 00:11:47,515 Speaker 1: there pretending to be a left wing And then yesterday 163 00:11:47,555 --> 00:11:51,435 Speaker 1: the league itself through its pride night and its own 164 00:11:51,595 --> 00:11:56,355 Speaker 1: hollow catchphrase, hockey is for everyone. Under the bus Hockey 165 00:11:56,435 --> 00:12:01,115 Speaker 1: is for everyone except the famous Elon Musk two thousand sixteen, 166 00:12:01,395 --> 00:12:05,915 Speaker 1: The Tesla X drives Itself video. A Tesla engineer testifies 167 00:12:06,515 --> 00:12:09,995 Speaker 1: they faked it, and the Republicans are willing to are 168 00:12:10,035 --> 00:12:14,755 Speaker 1: negotiating putting some of this year's presidential primary debates on 169 00:12:14,955 --> 00:12:18,795 Speaker 1: CNN and or NBC. Do you know how much CNN 170 00:12:18,955 --> 00:12:23,075 Speaker 1: and or NBC have to have already prostituted themselves just 171 00:12:23,195 --> 00:12:27,195 Speaker 1: to get that chance? I do, because in two thousand 172 00:12:27,235 --> 00:12:29,875 Speaker 1: and eight, one of the GOP demands for debates to 173 00:12:30,075 --> 00:12:35,155 Speaker 1: NBC was fire Olderman. Things I promised not to tell 174 00:12:35,235 --> 00:12:46,955 Speaker 1: coming up. That's next, this discountdown. This is countdown with 175 00:12:47,155 --> 00:12:54,115 Speaker 1: Keith Oberman still ahead on countdown. Hockey is for everyone, 176 00:12:54,555 --> 00:12:58,115 Speaker 1: they say, except if you're in the Russian church that 177 00:12:58,235 --> 00:13:01,755 Speaker 1: says Pride Night is a good enough reason to bomb 178 00:13:01,955 --> 00:13:07,075 Speaker 1: Ukraine and kill its civilians. The NHL has a thoroughly 179 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:11,075 Speaker 1: botched up disaster coming up, and the Republicans ready to 180 00:13:11,115 --> 00:13:14,915 Speaker 1: put their debates on CNN or NBC. So what did 181 00:13:14,995 --> 00:13:20,715 Speaker 1: CNN or NBC due to whore themselves out sufficiently for that? Because, 182 00:13:20,755 --> 00:13:22,715 Speaker 1: as I will tell you in things I promised not 183 00:13:22,795 --> 00:13:25,835 Speaker 1: to tell, I know from bitter personal experience that the 184 00:13:25,875 --> 00:13:29,915 Speaker 1: Republicans expect CNN or NBC or any other network to 185 00:13:30,235 --> 00:13:34,675 Speaker 1: whore itself out completely first. In each addition of Countdown, 186 00:13:34,675 --> 00:13:36,955 Speaker 1: we feature a dog in need you can help. Every 187 00:13:36,995 --> 00:13:40,715 Speaker 1: dog has its day to Texas and a beautiful stray 188 00:13:40,835 --> 00:13:46,635 Speaker 1: shepherd rescued by the Big Dog Haven Rescue. He doesn't 189 00:13:46,675 --> 00:13:49,475 Speaker 1: have a name. They have listed him all too aptly 190 00:13:49,675 --> 00:13:53,795 Speaker 1: as Critical Boy. They found him coated in fleas. He 191 00:13:53,835 --> 00:13:56,955 Speaker 1: has a small sister. He has heartworm and most urgently 192 00:13:57,115 --> 00:14:00,195 Speaker 1: is bleeding profusely from what turns out to be as 193 00:14:00,315 --> 00:14:02,755 Speaker 1: large a bladder stone as the VET has ever seen. 194 00:14:03,315 --> 00:14:06,555 Speaker 1: For all this, his ignosis is still great. If Big 195 00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:09,755 Speaker 1: Dog Haven can raise another eleven bucks or so for 196 00:14:09,795 --> 00:14:12,675 Speaker 1: the vet bills. He's just a stray dog. He's just 197 00:14:12,715 --> 00:14:16,195 Speaker 1: another soul like the rest of us, in pain, pain 198 00:14:16,275 --> 00:14:19,075 Speaker 1: which we can help to quickly relieve. If you can donate, 199 00:14:19,155 --> 00:14:22,435 Speaker 1: look up Critical Boy on the fundraising site Cuddly, or 200 00:14:22,515 --> 00:14:25,515 Speaker 1: just check my tweets and retweets will help too. I 201 00:14:25,635 --> 00:14:29,075 Speaker 1: thank you, and the shepherd called Critical Boy thanks you 202 00:14:29,115 --> 00:14:55,595 Speaker 1: as well. This is Sports Center. Wait check that not anymore. 203 00:14:56,435 --> 00:15:02,835 Speaker 1: This is Countdown with Keith in Sports. The New York 204 00:15:02,875 --> 00:15:05,835 Speaker 1: Mets have signed free agent outfielder Tom me Fam for 205 00:15:05,955 --> 00:15:08,515 Speaker 1: the Gifted Fam. The Mets will be his sixth different 206 00:15:08,515 --> 00:15:11,475 Speaker 1: team in six seasons that he actually placed the eleventh 207 00:15:11,475 --> 00:15:14,595 Speaker 1: in the two thousand seventeen National League Most Valuable Player voting. 208 00:15:14,835 --> 00:15:17,315 Speaker 1: Fam is best known for having walked up to a 209 00:15:17,355 --> 00:15:20,835 Speaker 1: Giant's outfielder Jock Peterson before a game last year and 210 00:15:21,035 --> 00:15:24,555 Speaker 1: slapped him because Fam was mad at how Peterson had 211 00:15:24,555 --> 00:15:28,915 Speaker 1: manipulated his own player roster in the fantasy football league 212 00:15:29,315 --> 00:15:32,995 Speaker 1: in which they had played together the year before. Reportedly, 213 00:15:33,075 --> 00:15:35,155 Speaker 1: Fam got a one year deal from the Mets worth 214 00:15:35,235 --> 00:15:39,115 Speaker 1: six million dollars, including two million in incentives, possibly as 215 00:15:39,195 --> 00:15:41,595 Speaker 1: much as a million I hear if he wins the 216 00:15:41,635 --> 00:15:45,035 Speaker 1: Mets Fantasy football League, and another million if he don't 217 00:15:45,115 --> 00:15:49,475 Speaker 1: slap anybody. More seriously, Sports illustrated his reporting that the 218 00:15:49,555 --> 00:15:52,995 Speaker 1: c W TV network is about to hop into bed 219 00:15:53,075 --> 00:15:57,835 Speaker 1: with Saudi Prince MBS and announced a deal to televise 220 00:15:57,955 --> 00:16:01,955 Speaker 1: the Live Blood Money Golf League on TV stations in 221 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:04,915 Speaker 1: two and twenty u S markets this year. The yell 222 00:16:05,035 --> 00:16:08,675 Speaker 1: was hinted at by Live publicist and lackey David Ferity, 223 00:16:09,035 --> 00:16:13,275 Speaker 1: the disgraced x CBS commentator who once joked about assassinating 224 00:16:13,395 --> 00:16:17,035 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Charity will fit right in 225 00:16:17,195 --> 00:16:20,395 Speaker 1: at Live and by the way, yes, the name Live 226 00:16:20,755 --> 00:16:38,115 Speaker 1: is meant ironically. More seriously still, the National Hockey league 227 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:42,035 Speaker 1: has shamed itself again. Tuesday was Pride Night at the 228 00:16:42,035 --> 00:16:46,915 Speaker 1: Philadelphia Flyers game. The players all wore uniforms just during warmups, 229 00:16:47,195 --> 00:16:50,955 Speaker 1: the only difference from their regular uniforms being rainbow numbers 230 00:16:51,035 --> 00:16:54,275 Speaker 1: and letters. There were no speeches, there were no patches, 231 00:16:54,475 --> 00:16:58,035 Speaker 1: there were no players asked to endorse this or support that. 232 00:16:58,155 --> 00:17:02,435 Speaker 1: Just where your Flyers uniform for fifteen minutes, just like 233 00:17:02,515 --> 00:17:04,835 Speaker 1: all the other players and all the other teams and 234 00:17:04,955 --> 00:17:08,995 Speaker 1: all the other ten thousand Pride Nights in the last 235 00:17:09,075 --> 00:17:13,195 Speaker 1: decade in hockey. But just before the pregame skate, Flyers 236 00:17:13,235 --> 00:17:17,435 Speaker 1: defenseman Evan Provaroff refused to go on the ice wearing 237 00:17:17,475 --> 00:17:21,995 Speaker 1: the uniform that didn't have I'm pro gay or anything 238 00:17:22,075 --> 00:17:26,315 Speaker 1: else on it, just a rainbow colored numerals and his name, 239 00:17:26,715 --> 00:17:32,115 Speaker 1: otherwise his regular uniform. Afterwards, Provorov said, quote, I respect 240 00:17:32,235 --> 00:17:36,035 Speaker 1: everybody's choices. My choice is to stay true to myself 241 00:17:36,355 --> 00:17:40,195 Speaker 1: and my religion. That's all I'm going to say. The 242 00:17:40,275 --> 00:17:43,515 Speaker 1: Flyers coach John Tortorella, who once proudly announced that if 243 00:17:43,515 --> 00:17:46,795 Speaker 1: any of his players ever took a knee during the anthem, 244 00:17:46,835 --> 00:17:49,755 Speaker 1: he would bench them, though he said four years later 245 00:17:49,795 --> 00:17:51,955 Speaker 1: he was wrong about that, and he had changed his mind. 246 00:17:52,195 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: Tortorella responded to Provorov's refusal to where his own uniform 247 00:17:57,755 --> 00:18:01,075 Speaker 1: only in rainbow numbers and letters by having provorofs sit 248 00:18:01,235 --> 00:18:04,435 Speaker 1: out the pregame skate, but he played in the game. 249 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:08,315 Speaker 1: Tortorella later said of Provoff's quote, It's one thing I 250 00:18:08,395 --> 00:18:11,995 Speaker 1: respect about pro v He's always true to himself. He 251 00:18:12,075 --> 00:18:16,155 Speaker 1: was true to himself and his religion. Prover Off his 252 00:18:16,235 --> 00:18:18,995 Speaker 1: Russian Orthodox and that is a religion whose leaders have 253 00:18:19,115 --> 00:18:23,875 Speaker 1: supported Russia's war on Ukraine because for the head patriarch 254 00:18:24,275 --> 00:18:28,195 Speaker 1: they have pride parades in Ukraine and quote, pride parades 255 00:18:28,235 --> 00:18:32,075 Speaker 1: are designed to demonstrate that sin is one variation of 256 00:18:32,155 --> 00:18:35,755 Speaker 1: human behavior. He added that homosexuality is a sin that 257 00:18:35,795 --> 00:18:39,115 Speaker 1: will lead to the end of the world. That's Ivan 258 00:18:39,235 --> 00:18:43,915 Speaker 1: Provarov's religion. So that's what his coach was praising and 259 00:18:43,955 --> 00:18:47,475 Speaker 1: what the team did not punish, an excuse for Russia's 260 00:18:47,675 --> 00:18:53,675 Speaker 1: slaughter of innocent civilians based on homophobia. If this could 261 00:18:53,755 --> 00:18:57,595 Speaker 1: somehow get worse, yesterday, the National Hockey League made it worse. 262 00:18:58,035 --> 00:19:01,555 Speaker 1: It issued a word salad statement in response to the 263 00:19:01,595 --> 00:19:05,115 Speaker 1: disaster in Philly Tuesday night, in which basically it's through 264 00:19:05,155 --> 00:19:09,075 Speaker 1: its own pride nights under the bus Hockey is for 265 00:19:09,195 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: Everyone is the umbrella initiative under which blah blah blahlah 266 00:19:12,835 --> 00:19:16,995 Speaker 1: blah clubs decide whom to celebrate when and how with 267 00:19:17,155 --> 00:19:20,395 Speaker 1: lead counsel and support, and we continue to encourage their 268 00:19:20,475 --> 00:19:26,315 Speaker 1: voices and perspectives on social and cultural issues. It's pride 269 00:19:26,435 --> 00:19:30,715 Speaker 1: night for homophobes in Philadelphia. I just added that last part. 270 00:19:31,155 --> 00:19:33,755 Speaker 1: In point of fact, Ivan Proveroff refused to wear his 271 00:19:33,795 --> 00:19:37,955 Speaker 1: own uniform that did not bear any endorsement or change 272 00:19:38,435 --> 00:19:41,435 Speaker 1: stronger than letters and numbers in different colors than usual. 273 00:19:42,155 --> 00:19:45,195 Speaker 1: He should have been suspended on the spot for insubordination 274 00:19:45,275 --> 00:19:48,795 Speaker 1: and possibly had his contract voided. And as to coach Tortorella, 275 00:19:48,835 --> 00:19:51,635 Speaker 1: who not only did nothing to prover Off but applauded 276 00:19:51,715 --> 00:19:54,955 Speaker 1: his being true to himself, John Tortorella should have been 277 00:19:55,195 --> 00:20:00,835 Speaker 1: should be today fired. And Provoff's action and the NHL's 278 00:20:01,035 --> 00:20:04,955 Speaker 1: measly mouthed weak need statement that reminds us its claim 279 00:20:04,995 --> 00:20:09,075 Speaker 1: hockey is for Everyone is just a brand name. The 280 00:20:09,235 --> 00:20:11,915 Speaker 1: NHL needs to be asked why it continues to permit 281 00:20:11,995 --> 00:20:15,355 Speaker 1: players from Russia who subscribe to a religion that states 282 00:20:15,395 --> 00:20:18,435 Speaker 1: that war against the country friendly to the United States 283 00:20:19,395 --> 00:20:24,155 Speaker 1: is not only justified, but necessary because that country has 284 00:20:24,235 --> 00:20:27,555 Speaker 1: pride parades. The NHL needs to be asked why it 285 00:20:27,635 --> 00:20:32,035 Speaker 1: continues to permit these pro war, homophobic Russian slobs to 286 00:20:32,195 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: play in North America and take our money from us 287 00:20:35,555 --> 00:20:40,155 Speaker 1: while they hide behind their barbaric religion. Probarof was not 288 00:20:40,195 --> 00:20:44,595 Speaker 1: asked to do anything endorsing lgbt Q nor denying his 289 00:20:44,675 --> 00:20:48,555 Speaker 1: own religion, as barbaric as it might be. He lied 290 00:20:48,635 --> 00:20:53,435 Speaker 1: about his own actions. He mischaracterized sexual orientation as a choice. 291 00:20:53,915 --> 00:20:57,555 Speaker 1: His coach defended the lie and praised the insubordination. The 292 00:20:57,675 --> 00:21:01,555 Speaker 1: league then defended both of them. If the NHL really 293 00:21:01,595 --> 00:21:05,595 Speaker 1: gave a damn, or really gave something else about this cause, 294 00:21:05,875 --> 00:21:10,075 Speaker 1: or any of the causes it continually congratulates itself unquote 295 00:21:10,075 --> 00:21:13,635 Speaker 1: celebrating unquote, prover Off should have been kicked out of 296 00:21:13,635 --> 00:21:17,475 Speaker 1: the NHL, Tortorella should have been suspended and fired, and 297 00:21:17,555 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: the Flyers should be fine something notable like five or 298 00:21:20,995 --> 00:21:25,275 Speaker 1: ten million dollars for screwing this up so badly. None 299 00:21:25,275 --> 00:21:27,275 Speaker 1: of that will happen, though, because the NHL does not 300 00:21:27,435 --> 00:21:31,035 Speaker 1: give a damn about this cause and hockey is for everyone. 301 00:21:32,035 --> 00:21:34,995 Speaker 1: That doesn't mean anything unless you want to change it 302 00:21:35,035 --> 00:21:38,035 Speaker 1: to read hockey is for everyone unless this one guy 303 00:21:38,115 --> 00:21:42,315 Speaker 1: over here believes countries should be invaded and people killed 304 00:21:42,315 --> 00:21:53,835 Speaker 1: there in their homes because some of them are gay. 305 00:21:59,595 --> 00:22:02,835 Speaker 1: Coming up something that pertains to a cable network buckling 306 00:22:02,955 --> 00:22:06,675 Speaker 1: under two Republican demands, which also features in the latest 307 00:22:06,755 --> 00:22:09,595 Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miscrants, morons, and Dunning Kruger Effi 308 00:22:09,715 --> 00:22:16,315 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. Lebron's 309 00:22:16,475 --> 00:22:20,835 Speaker 1: shared by NBC News chairman says our Conde and CNN's 310 00:22:20,915 --> 00:22:24,595 Speaker 1: chief president and become death destroyer of worlds. And when 311 00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:27,115 Speaker 1: we work together at MSNBC, we thought he used to 312 00:22:27,155 --> 00:22:31,675 Speaker 1: eat paste. Chris Lick The New York Times reports at 313 00:22:31,675 --> 00:22:35,355 Speaker 1: the Republican Party is currently negotiating its schedule of televised 314 00:22:35,395 --> 00:22:39,155 Speaker 1: presidential primary debates beginning late this year, and that its 315 00:22:39,195 --> 00:22:44,595 Speaker 1: Debate Committee chairman David Bossi from the Arkansas Project and 316 00:22:44,675 --> 00:22:49,355 Speaker 1: Citizens United, David Bossi one of the great anti democracy 317 00:22:49,515 --> 00:22:54,035 Speaker 1: scumbags in this nation's history. David Bossi is willing to 318 00:22:54,115 --> 00:22:57,915 Speaker 1: put one or more of these debates on NBC and 319 00:22:58,195 --> 00:23:02,475 Speaker 1: or CNN. This means obviously that Cenn NBC sees are 320 00:23:02,515 --> 00:23:05,275 Speaker 1: Conde and CNN s Chris Lick to have so instituted 321 00:23:05,315 --> 00:23:09,195 Speaker 1: themselves and prostituted their journalism that they have agreed to 322 00:23:09,275 --> 00:23:13,235 Speaker 1: the Republicans preliminary demands and things I promised not to tell. 323 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:16,395 Speaker 1: You will hear what Republican demands were like in two 324 00:23:16,435 --> 00:23:20,595 Speaker 1: thousand eight. Many of US civilians would call it blackmail, 325 00:23:21,115 --> 00:23:23,715 Speaker 1: and the Republicans got Tom Brokaw to be their in 326 00:23:23,835 --> 00:23:27,595 Speaker 1: house rep for it at NBC anyway. The runner up 327 00:23:27,595 --> 00:23:30,435 Speaker 1: former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who had to quit 328 00:23:30,475 --> 00:23:34,435 Speaker 1: in Shane last summer over a minor scandal well over 329 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:38,755 Speaker 1: three seventy seven minor scandals, and also his participation in 330 00:23:38,755 --> 00:23:42,155 Speaker 1: the fraud that was Brexit, but he was railroaded. Boris 331 00:23:42,235 --> 00:23:44,435 Speaker 1: Johnson has signed a deal with Harper Collins to write 332 00:23:44,435 --> 00:23:47,595 Speaker 1: a memoir of his premiership. No title yet, no word 333 00:23:47,635 --> 00:23:50,475 Speaker 1: on the advance he got. My sources indicate the book 334 00:23:50,515 --> 00:23:54,395 Speaker 1: will be unique. If you read Boris Johnson's autobiography and 335 00:23:54,395 --> 00:23:56,715 Speaker 1: then go back and read it a second time, you 336 00:23:56,755 --> 00:24:00,955 Speaker 1: will be surprised to find it, says exactly the opposite 337 00:24:00,955 --> 00:24:05,315 Speaker 1: of what you read the first time. But our winner 338 00:24:05,355 --> 00:24:09,395 Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Tesla remember that two thousand sixteen video 339 00:24:09,515 --> 00:24:13,555 Speaker 1: Tesla showed off of its self driving Model X car 340 00:24:13,835 --> 00:24:17,155 Speaker 1: stopping at a red light accelerating at a green light, 341 00:24:17,195 --> 00:24:21,995 Speaker 1: all by itself staged. That is according to a sworn 342 00:24:22,115 --> 00:24:27,075 Speaker 1: deposition by the director of autopilots software at Tesla, ash 343 00:24:27,075 --> 00:24:31,235 Speaker 1: shock Elliswamy. He testified in a lawsuit against Tesla over 344 00:24:31,275 --> 00:24:34,155 Speaker 1: a fatal crash in two thousand eighteen, and quoting the 345 00:24:34,195 --> 00:24:38,395 Speaker 1: engineer's testimony, Reuters quotes him as confirming media reports that 346 00:24:38,475 --> 00:24:42,115 Speaker 1: to fake the video, Tesla used a predetermined route from 347 00:24:42,115 --> 00:24:45,475 Speaker 1: a house in Menlo Park, California, to its then headquarters 348 00:24:45,515 --> 00:24:48,515 Speaker 1: in Palo Alto, and it used three D mapping. In 349 00:24:48,555 --> 00:24:51,795 Speaker 1: other words, they rehearsed the route and when they tried 350 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:55,075 Speaker 1: to have the damn thing park itself at headquarters, the 351 00:24:55,115 --> 00:25:01,115 Speaker 1: engineer said, it crashed into a fence. Elon, next thing, 352 00:25:01,155 --> 00:25:03,115 Speaker 1: you'll be telling me the Model X was once a 353 00:25:03,195 --> 00:25:23,315 Speaker 1: drag performer in Brazil Old Musque, Today's worse person and work. Finally, 354 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:25,755 Speaker 1: our number one story on the countdown in my favorite 355 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:29,435 Speaker 1: topic me I missed the exact anniversary by day, but 356 00:25:29,835 --> 00:25:33,835 Speaker 1: it's close enough. The demand for spots in the Shafe 357 00:25:33,835 --> 00:25:36,075 Speaker 1: Stadium press box that night was so great that there 358 00:25:36,155 --> 00:25:39,075 Speaker 1: was a signed seating. I had no real reason to 359 00:25:39,115 --> 00:25:41,355 Speaker 1: be there, but as usual, the New York Mets took 360 00:25:41,355 --> 00:25:44,035 Speaker 1: care of me, and so on Friday, the fifth, September 361 00:25:44,075 --> 00:25:47,475 Speaker 1: two thight, I was shoulder to shoulder with reporter friends 362 00:25:47,915 --> 00:25:50,635 Speaker 1: watching the Mets begin to blow their three game Pennant 363 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,195 Speaker 1: Race lead against the Philadelphia Philly Sorry Mets fans for 364 00:25:53,275 --> 00:25:56,675 Speaker 1: bringing this up again. Brett Myers had just struck out 365 00:25:56,755 --> 00:26:00,235 Speaker 1: New York's David Wright looking when my phone rang. It 366 00:26:00,315 --> 00:26:04,235 Speaker 1: was my agent, Gean Sage. They just called. She said, flatly, 367 00:26:04,675 --> 00:26:07,595 Speaker 1: you and Matthews have been fired from anchoring the presidential 368 00:26:07,595 --> 00:26:11,195 Speaker 1: debates because of what you said. What I had said 369 00:26:11,795 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: had been said. Three nights previously, Chris Matthews and I 370 00:26:15,835 --> 00:26:19,355 Speaker 1: were co anchoring the Republican Convention on MSNBC. He was 371 00:26:19,395 --> 00:26:22,795 Speaker 1: there in Minneapolis. I was in the studios in New York, 372 00:26:22,915 --> 00:26:26,595 Speaker 1: ostensibly so I could also anchor hurricane coverage, although it 373 00:26:26,675 --> 00:26:28,435 Speaker 1: was pretty clear that at least half the reason I 374 00:26:28,475 --> 00:26:31,835 Speaker 1: was not in Minneapolis was because the Republicans had threatened 375 00:26:31,915 --> 00:26:35,675 Speaker 1: NBC or said they couldn't guarantee my safety or something 376 00:26:35,715 --> 00:26:39,435 Speaker 1: like that, and NBC folded. So I was the one 377 00:26:39,795 --> 00:26:43,195 Speaker 1: during MSNBC's coverage of the two thousand eight Republican Convention 378 00:26:43,355 --> 00:26:45,555 Speaker 1: who had to throw it to a video they were 379 00:26:45,595 --> 00:26:49,115 Speaker 1: introducing that we had been told by the Republicans was 380 00:26:49,195 --> 00:26:53,235 Speaker 1: a quote tribute to the dead of nine eleven. It was, 381 00:26:53,475 --> 00:26:57,475 Speaker 1: in fact a snuff film. All of the images that 382 00:26:57,595 --> 00:27:00,435 Speaker 1: all of the networks had stopped showing within weeks or 383 00:27:00,475 --> 00:27:04,275 Speaker 1: even days of the attacks, all of those images were 384 00:27:04,355 --> 00:27:07,715 Speaker 1: in the video. People jumping and falling to their deaths 385 00:27:07,795 --> 00:27:11,755 Speaker 1: from the World Trade Center on nine eleven, endless replays 386 00:27:11,795 --> 00:27:16,035 Speaker 1: of the planes hitting the towers, dismembered bodies in the plaza, 387 00:27:16,355 --> 00:27:20,075 Speaker 1: the building collapses, the equally terrifying scenes at the Pentagon, 388 00:27:20,395 --> 00:27:25,315 Speaker 1: and all with a grotesque Robert Davy voiceover emphasizing that 389 00:27:25,355 --> 00:27:29,035 Speaker 1: this was all the Democrats fault. The message was simple, 390 00:27:29,475 --> 00:27:35,035 Speaker 1: elect Obama and you will die like this. I was angry, 391 00:27:35,555 --> 00:27:37,835 Speaker 1: just on that base level. For the five and a 392 00:27:37,835 --> 00:27:40,035 Speaker 1: half years I had been back at MSNBC, we had 393 00:27:40,075 --> 00:27:43,435 Speaker 1: been rigorous about not showing any of that video. There 394 00:27:43,475 --> 00:27:46,075 Speaker 1: were rules that if we had to for some reason, 395 00:27:46,355 --> 00:27:49,075 Speaker 1: we should show only the skill images, and even then 396 00:27:49,155 --> 00:27:52,635 Speaker 1: only with extensive warnings to the viewers. But I knew 397 00:27:52,675 --> 00:27:55,555 Speaker 1: from my conversations with the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, 398 00:27:55,555 --> 00:27:57,715 Speaker 1: who had only known for twenty eight years at that point, 399 00:27:58,155 --> 00:28:00,675 Speaker 1: that he would insist that on the scene in Minneapolis, 400 00:28:00,755 --> 00:28:03,755 Speaker 1: Matthews and Tom broke Off, whose career at NBC I 401 00:28:03,795 --> 00:28:07,675 Speaker 1: had resurrected Bryan Williams had buried him alive two years earlier, 402 00:28:07,915 --> 00:28:11,795 Speaker 1: that one or both of them would rebuke the GOP 403 00:28:12,035 --> 00:28:14,515 Speaker 1: for showing not a nine eleven tribute, but, as I 404 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:18,675 Speaker 1: just said, a nine eleven snuff film. The video ended, 405 00:28:18,715 --> 00:28:21,715 Speaker 1: and we came out to Brokaw with Matthews, and Brokaw 406 00:28:21,995 --> 00:28:27,035 Speaker 1: kind of coughed, and Matthews said wow. And he turned 407 00:28:27,035 --> 00:28:30,075 Speaker 1: to Brokaw and said, in that loose fire hose delivery 408 00:28:30,115 --> 00:28:33,755 Speaker 1: of his Tom, the kind of underscoring terrorism big thing 409 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: with Republicans as they triestop Obama. Brokaw droned on approvingly 410 00:28:40,435 --> 00:28:44,675 Speaker 1: the Republicans sneaking a snuff film a band video onto 411 00:28:44,795 --> 00:28:48,155 Speaker 1: MSNBC and by the way, also onto CNN, onto NBC 412 00:28:48,275 --> 00:28:52,155 Speaker 1: onto CBS, onto ABC without any warning. That was not 413 00:28:52,315 --> 00:28:56,715 Speaker 1: mentioned by Brokaw or Matthews. Back to New York and Keith. 414 00:28:57,835 --> 00:29:00,035 Speaker 1: I was supposed to add libertase about what we were 415 00:29:00,035 --> 00:29:02,395 Speaker 1: expecting from the Republican convention for the rest of the 416 00:29:02,475 --> 00:29:05,075 Speaker 1: night and then throw to a commercial instead, I said, 417 00:29:05,075 --> 00:29:08,155 Speaker 1: and this is a paraphrase, the original tape disappeared that 418 00:29:08,275 --> 00:29:11,115 Speaker 1: night that before we moved on, I felt I needed 419 00:29:11,115 --> 00:29:14,155 Speaker 1: to apologize that we at MSNBC and for that matter, 420 00:29:14,235 --> 00:29:18,755 Speaker 1: NBC News, had extremely strict rules about not showing that video. 421 00:29:18,795 --> 00:29:22,155 Speaker 1: The Republicans had just shown you without any warning, without 422 00:29:22,195 --> 00:29:25,195 Speaker 1: any context, and we certainly would not have shown the 423 00:29:25,275 --> 00:29:28,355 Speaker 1: horror and death and blamed it on the Democrats, or 424 00:29:28,355 --> 00:29:30,195 Speaker 1: for that matter, blamed it on on the Republicans. I said. 425 00:29:30,195 --> 00:29:32,435 Speaker 1: If we had done such a thing ourselves, there would 426 00:29:32,435 --> 00:29:36,635 Speaker 1: have been people fired at NBC News. The public program 427 00:29:36,675 --> 00:29:38,915 Speaker 1: the GOP provided said that was going to be a 428 00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:41,795 Speaker 1: nine eleven tribute film, I said, and so did the 429 00:29:41,835 --> 00:29:44,835 Speaker 1: private conversations with the network, which included the reminder from 430 00:29:44,915 --> 00:29:47,875 Speaker 1: NBC and MSNBC that we had rules against showing the 431 00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: scenes of the horrible death and mutilation and destruction. So 432 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:54,875 Speaker 1: I apologized on behalf of whoever trusted the Republicans to 433 00:29:54,915 --> 00:29:58,235 Speaker 1: live up to their word that MSNBC viewers were forced 434 00:29:58,235 --> 00:30:01,555 Speaker 1: to see the video our network had long before vowed 435 00:30:01,635 --> 00:30:06,675 Speaker 1: never to show again. So three nights later, without as 436 00:30:06,755 --> 00:30:10,155 Speaker 1: much as an email, this Griffin guy had called my 437 00:30:10,235 --> 00:30:14,315 Speaker 1: agent and told her I was fired Matthews two from 438 00:30:14,355 --> 00:30:19,275 Speaker 1: our further coverage of the upcoming McGain Obama debates. She 439 00:30:19,435 --> 00:30:21,635 Speaker 1: related these details to me as I walked down the 440 00:30:21,675 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: many ramps in the back of Shasee Stadium towards the subway. 441 00:30:24,995 --> 00:30:27,035 Speaker 1: I told her to call Griffin back and tell him 442 00:30:27,275 --> 00:30:29,995 Speaker 1: I had quit on the spot right then and he 443 00:30:30,035 --> 00:30:33,195 Speaker 1: could work his way out of the ensuing disaster. Liberal 444 00:30:33,235 --> 00:30:37,315 Speaker 1: network MSNBC fires liberal host Lberman for criticizing conservatives for 445 00:30:37,355 --> 00:30:40,755 Speaker 1: sneaking nine eleven snuff film onto MSNBC. He could figure 446 00:30:40,755 --> 00:30:43,035 Speaker 1: that out any way he wanted, and he could hear 447 00:30:43,035 --> 00:30:46,355 Speaker 1: my response on I don't know, Good Morning America, CBS, 448 00:30:46,435 --> 00:30:49,395 Speaker 1: This Morning, the PBS News Hour, and any other news 449 00:30:49,475 --> 00:30:52,475 Speaker 1: program that bothered to ask me to stop by and talk. 450 00:30:54,075 --> 00:30:56,475 Speaker 1: I phoned my live in girlfriend, Katie turn and told 451 00:30:56,475 --> 00:30:58,355 Speaker 1: her I was on my way home and I made 452 00:30:58,355 --> 00:31:00,915 Speaker 1: a few phone calls to friendly voices within the NBC 453 00:31:01,035 --> 00:31:03,675 Speaker 1: management structure and got from them a clear picture of 454 00:31:03,675 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: what had happened. And despite the spotty cell service along 455 00:31:07,115 --> 00:31:09,915 Speaker 1: the elevated line heading back to Manhattan, I got a 456 00:31:09,915 --> 00:31:13,475 Speaker 1: message from a newspaper reporter friend who neatly tied together 457 00:31:13,555 --> 00:31:17,035 Speaker 1: all that I was hearing elsewhere. Tom Brokeaw is going 458 00:31:17,075 --> 00:31:20,795 Speaker 1: around NBC saying he got you fired from the debates 459 00:31:20,835 --> 00:31:26,315 Speaker 1: because the Republicans told him to. Nine maybe ten months earlier, 460 00:31:26,755 --> 00:31:28,635 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin had come to me and asked me if 461 00:31:28,635 --> 00:31:32,035 Speaker 1: I would be okay with this guy who had been 462 00:31:32,115 --> 00:31:35,875 Speaker 1: kind of disappeared by the network. Tom broke All was 463 00:31:35,995 --> 00:31:39,315 Speaker 1: his name appearing during our weekly coverage of the Democratic 464 00:31:39,355 --> 00:31:42,515 Speaker 1: and Republican primaries, just a couple of minutes, like from 465 00:31:42,515 --> 00:31:45,675 Speaker 1: a perspective desk. That's all he wants to do. He's 466 00:31:45,755 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 1: really Tom's really unhappy. Brian has frozen him out of everything. 467 00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:54,155 Speaker 1: Brian Williams. Of course, I was appalled, but not surprised. 468 00:31:54,555 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: The power had gone to Brian's head, and of course 469 00:31:57,555 --> 00:32:01,315 Speaker 1: there it had not met much resistance. Plus, as I 470 00:32:01,315 --> 00:32:03,235 Speaker 1: said to Griffin, you're asking me if i'd like to 471 00:32:03,275 --> 00:32:06,795 Speaker 1: add Tom Broke aus at experience and Tom Broke caused 472 00:32:06,795 --> 00:32:10,275 Speaker 1: gravitas two stuff. I'm anchoring when I'm not sure I 473 00:32:10,315 --> 00:32:11,915 Speaker 1: know as much as I really need to know to 474 00:32:11,995 --> 00:32:16,595 Speaker 1: do this right. You're asking me this. Tom fit in beautifully. 475 00:32:16,635 --> 00:32:19,955 Speaker 1: And twice after those long Tuesday evenings in the primary season, 476 00:32:20,195 --> 00:32:23,035 Speaker 1: he sent me brief emails awarding me what he called 477 00:32:23,315 --> 00:32:26,915 Speaker 1: the game ball, because he was so impressed by my 478 00:32:26,955 --> 00:32:30,835 Speaker 1: ability to balance the roles of political anchor and political commentator, 479 00:32:31,275 --> 00:32:34,155 Speaker 1: having tried this myself. One of them read, I know 480 00:32:34,235 --> 00:32:38,315 Speaker 1: what a perilous tight rupless is. Game ball to Caro, 481 00:32:39,755 --> 00:32:42,355 Speaker 1: I'm mocking him now, but these meant so much to me. 482 00:32:42,475 --> 00:32:45,675 Speaker 1: I printed the emails out and carried them in my wallet. 483 00:32:47,075 --> 00:32:50,475 Speaker 1: And now he was claiming he had gotten me fired because, 484 00:32:50,515 --> 00:32:53,755 Speaker 1: as my newspaper friends said, the Republicans told him to. 485 00:32:55,195 --> 00:32:58,355 Speaker 1: That was not hard to unpack either. Tim Russer had 486 00:32:58,395 --> 00:33:01,275 Speaker 1: died on June three of that year. I anchored that 487 00:33:01,355 --> 00:33:03,155 Speaker 1: night until two in the morning. It was still an 488 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:06,795 Speaker 1: open wound. There were still tears. We didn't know it then, 489 00:33:07,115 --> 00:33:10,395 Speaker 1: but the structure of NBC News and the perilous tight 490 00:33:10,475 --> 00:33:14,795 Speaker 1: group balancing NBC and MSNBC had died with Tim Russers, 491 00:33:15,275 --> 00:33:17,675 Speaker 1: so did the role of moderator of the second debate 492 00:33:17,715 --> 00:33:20,795 Speaker 1: between John McCain and Barack Obama, scheduled for about a 493 00:33:20,835 --> 00:33:24,315 Speaker 1: month after my subway ride on October seven in Nashville. 494 00:33:24,955 --> 00:33:27,635 Speaker 1: Tim had not even been buried yet when Brokaw began 495 00:33:27,675 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: to angle to get that assignment, along with brushing away 496 00:33:30,795 --> 00:33:33,795 Speaker 1: the dirt of his Penny Anti role on the MSNBC 497 00:33:33,955 --> 00:33:37,275 Speaker 1: Prospective Desk. We never saw him again in order that 498 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:40,955 Speaker 1: he could take Tim's spot as Brian Williams sidekick on 499 00:33:41,075 --> 00:33:45,355 Speaker 1: Big NBC. The month before August, there was a story 500 00:33:45,395 --> 00:33:47,195 Speaker 1: coming out of the east end of the third floor 501 00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:49,835 Speaker 1: at thirty Rock, where NBC News management sat around not 502 00:33:49,875 --> 00:33:53,235 Speaker 1: doing much of anything, that a Republican goon named Ed 503 00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:56,835 Speaker 1: Gillespie had been in there with Griffin and the NBC 504 00:33:56,875 --> 00:34:00,155 Speaker 1: News president, Steve Cappus, trying to get me silenced or 505 00:34:00,195 --> 00:34:03,795 Speaker 1: fired or off the convention coverage or something. And that's 506 00:34:03,835 --> 00:34:07,115 Speaker 1: somebody prominent within NBC News was in there with Gillespie 507 00:34:07,955 --> 00:34:11,755 Speaker 1: or was invoked by Gillespie. The rumor mill wasn't certain. 508 00:34:12,755 --> 00:34:15,075 Speaker 1: As I switched from the elevated seven train to the 509 00:34:15,155 --> 00:34:18,995 Speaker 1: underground f train. The whole thing came together before my 510 00:34:19,115 --> 00:34:22,795 Speaker 1: comments about the GOP Convention nine eleven snuff film. Ed 511 00:34:22,835 --> 00:34:26,235 Speaker 1: Gillespie had come in and had somehow vaguely threatened Cappus 512 00:34:26,235 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: and Griffin about me using as leverage the debate which 513 00:34:30,315 --> 00:34:34,155 Speaker 1: Tom Brokaw was now supposed to moderate, And when I 514 00:34:34,275 --> 00:34:38,635 Speaker 1: apologized for their video on our air, Gillespie must have 515 00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:41,315 Speaker 1: turned it into an either or get rid of me 516 00:34:41,515 --> 00:34:45,875 Speaker 1: or McCain would refuse to participate in any debate moderated 517 00:34:45,915 --> 00:34:51,035 Speaker 1: by Brokaw or anybody from NBC News, and Brokaw had 518 00:34:51,075 --> 00:34:53,715 Speaker 1: already come back from the dead once in two thousand eight, 519 00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:55,955 Speaker 1: and he would be damned if he would be forced 520 00:34:55,955 --> 00:34:59,675 Speaker 1: to do it a second time. But as the train 521 00:34:59,755 --> 00:35:01,715 Speaker 1: took me home to an apartment I was now going 522 00:35:01,755 --> 00:35:04,395 Speaker 1: to have to sell since I had just quit MSNBC 523 00:35:04,675 --> 00:35:07,675 Speaker 1: on the spot for folding to such obvious Republican blackmail, 524 00:35:08,155 --> 00:35:12,275 Speaker 1: something else now occurred to me. Why would MSNBC or 525 00:35:12,395 --> 00:35:16,875 Speaker 1: NBC or our parent corporation at the time, ge actually 526 00:35:16,995 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 1: think that they could remove me from the debate coverage 527 00:35:20,235 --> 00:35:23,835 Speaker 1: on MSNBC, where the Rachel Meadows Show had yet to 528 00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:26,515 Speaker 1: be born and the three times a night my show 529 00:35:26,595 --> 00:35:29,795 Speaker 1: ran accounted for something like six of the entire day's 530 00:35:29,835 --> 00:35:33,835 Speaker 1: network audience and do that without getting a really bad 531 00:35:33,915 --> 00:35:38,875 Speaker 1: reaction from our audience. Plus, if a newspaperman already knew 532 00:35:38,915 --> 00:35:44,835 Speaker 1: the Brokaw part, how could this story be avoided. MSNBC 533 00:35:44,915 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: announced it had removed its liberal star Keith Alderman from 534 00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:51,875 Speaker 1: coverage of the McCain Obama presidential debates. Sources confirmed former 535 00:35:51,995 --> 00:35:56,355 Speaker 1: NBC News anchorman Tom Brokaw, now an MSNBC commentator on 536 00:35:56,395 --> 00:36:00,755 Speaker 1: Alderman's coverage, had helped Republican Party to blackmail NBC into 537 00:36:00,795 --> 00:36:05,195 Speaker 1: the decision. Alderman immediately resigned, saying, quote in succumbing to 538 00:36:05,235 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: this coercion on behalf of John McCain, NBC has now 539 00:36:07,995 --> 00:36:11,475 Speaker 1: forfeited any right to further be called a news organization. 540 00:36:11,555 --> 00:36:13,955 Speaker 1: And I'm sad to say MSNBC, which I built, is 541 00:36:13,995 --> 00:36:20,355 Speaker 1: now dead. My god, MSNBC and NBC News for that matter, 542 00:36:20,555 --> 00:36:23,635 Speaker 1: would have committed corporate suicide before the weekend was over. 543 00:36:24,915 --> 00:36:26,795 Speaker 1: At that point, it dawned on me that the only 544 00:36:26,835 --> 00:36:29,235 Speaker 1: thing that could save the credibility of the whole news 545 00:36:29,275 --> 00:36:32,835 Speaker 1: division and the careers of Griffin and Cappus and NBC 546 00:36:32,955 --> 00:36:37,035 Speaker 1: network president Jeff Zucker, and especially the career of Tom Brokaw. 547 00:36:37,635 --> 00:36:41,715 Speaker 1: Was for me to publicly state that I had asked 548 00:36:42,275 --> 00:36:45,915 Speaker 1: to be removed from anchoring the debates because the whatever 549 00:36:46,435 --> 00:36:49,115 Speaker 1: was just too much blah blah blah for me, and 550 00:36:49,155 --> 00:36:51,715 Speaker 1: I felt I should stick to the post debate analysis 551 00:36:51,755 --> 00:36:56,075 Speaker 1: and commentary. NBC would now have a choice. They could 552 00:36:56,075 --> 00:36:59,155 Speaker 1: fire me from the debates and destroy everything, including the 553 00:36:59,475 --> 00:37:01,795 Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a year or so in profit that 554 00:37:01,915 --> 00:37:07,675 Speaker 1: NBC made off MSNBC, or I could and you know why, 555 00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:11,275 Speaker 1: and claim it was my idea and save everybody's ass, 556 00:37:11,315 --> 00:37:15,155 Speaker 1: including my own. I got out of the subway and 557 00:37:15,235 --> 00:37:17,275 Speaker 1: raced home. Katie met me at the door with a 558 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:19,995 Speaker 1: big hug. She had been crying. Relax, I said, I'm 559 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:22,915 Speaker 1: not quitting. In fact, I'm going to get a huge raise. Now, 560 00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:27,035 Speaker 1: listen carefully. I called my agent and I explained the 561 00:37:27,155 --> 00:37:29,755 Speaker 1: idea that had lit over my head on the subway 562 00:37:29,875 --> 00:37:33,315 Speaker 1: like a lightbulb to both of them. I said, you 563 00:37:33,435 --> 00:37:35,595 Speaker 1: call Phil Griffin back and explained to him that I 564 00:37:35,635 --> 00:37:39,995 Speaker 1: will personally save his job and Steve Campuses and Jeff 565 00:37:40,035 --> 00:37:43,715 Speaker 1: Suckers and Tom broke Aus and everybody else's I'll take 566 00:37:43,835 --> 00:37:47,275 Speaker 1: the fall instead of letting them all get fired by 567 00:37:47,275 --> 00:37:51,675 Speaker 1: the MSNBC audience. I'll say this was my idea, and 568 00:37:51,795 --> 00:37:55,995 Speaker 1: all it will cost Phil is twelve million dollars. And 569 00:37:56,195 --> 00:37:58,555 Speaker 1: he has to leak the terms so everybody knows it 570 00:37:58,595 --> 00:38:01,715 Speaker 1: costs him twelve million dollars. And she paused for a 571 00:38:01,755 --> 00:38:05,515 Speaker 1: second and said it's genius. It might not quite twelve million, 572 00:38:05,755 --> 00:38:08,315 Speaker 1: but I bet, I bet they'll pay you at least nine. 573 00:38:09,795 --> 00:38:13,315 Speaker 1: On Sunday, several news organizations reported I had asked to 574 00:38:13,395 --> 00:38:16,715 Speaker 1: be taken off the anchor desk two months and one 575 00:38:16,715 --> 00:38:19,955 Speaker 1: week later, The New York Times wrote, quote, Keith Olberman, 576 00:38:20,035 --> 00:38:23,875 Speaker 1: the anchor of Countdown on MSNBC, has extended his contract 577 00:38:23,955 --> 00:38:28,155 Speaker 1: through the next presidential election season. The network announced Mr 578 00:38:28,155 --> 00:38:31,915 Speaker 1: Alderman and MSNBC essentially tore up the four year, four 579 00:38:31,955 --> 00:38:34,955 Speaker 1: million dollar year contract they signed last year and replaced 580 00:38:34,955 --> 00:38:37,675 Speaker 1: it with one worth about seven and a half million 581 00:38:37,715 --> 00:38:41,715 Speaker 1: a year. On that was a three and a half 582 00:38:41,755 --> 00:38:46,635 Speaker 1: million dollar raise for four years for a total of 583 00:38:48,035 --> 00:38:52,475 Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars, except the new contract added two years 584 00:38:52,475 --> 00:38:55,075 Speaker 1: to my old deal, so the race was actually twenty 585 00:38:55,075 --> 00:39:00,835 Speaker 1: two million dollars. All stories have a punchline. This punch 586 00:39:00,875 --> 00:39:03,995 Speaker 1: line is about Tom Brokaw. We would have gotten away 587 00:39:04,035 --> 00:39:07,595 Speaker 1: with this cleanly. NBC would have gotten its money's worth 588 00:39:07,635 --> 00:39:09,515 Speaker 1: for the twenty two million in hush money, which is 589 00:39:09,555 --> 00:39:11,395 Speaker 1: what it was that it had to pay me because 590 00:39:11,435 --> 00:39:14,475 Speaker 1: I had agreed with them rolling over for the Republican 591 00:39:14,515 --> 00:39:18,115 Speaker 1: Party blackmail. Except Brokaw could not keep his mouth shut. 592 00:39:18,795 --> 00:39:22,155 Speaker 1: So proud was he of preserving his role as the 593 00:39:22,195 --> 00:39:25,835 Speaker 1: moderator of the October seven NBC debate that he had 594 00:39:25,875 --> 00:39:31,035 Speaker 1: to explain in explicit detail in public how he went 595 00:39:31,075 --> 00:39:34,075 Speaker 1: to his bosses at NBC News and threatened them on 596 00:39:34,155 --> 00:39:38,835 Speaker 1: behalf of the GOP. On September twenty nine, two eight, 597 00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:41,915 Speaker 1: a lengthy and glowing broke Off profile appeared in The 598 00:39:41,915 --> 00:39:45,275 Speaker 1: New York Times. Quote Mr Brokaw said that over the 599 00:39:45,315 --> 00:39:49,795 Speaker 1: summer he had quote advocated within the executive suite of 600 00:39:49,875 --> 00:39:53,155 Speaker 1: NBC News to modify the anchor duties of the MSNBC 601 00:39:53,275 --> 00:39:56,035 Speaker 1: hosts Keith all Woman and Chris Matthews on election night 602 00:39:56,115 --> 00:39:59,795 Speaker 1: and on nights when there were presidential debates. Mr Brokaw 603 00:39:59,875 --> 00:40:02,835 Speaker 1: said he had also conducted some shuttle diplomacy in recent 604 00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:07,195 Speaker 1: weeks between NBC and the McCain campaign. His mission, he said, 605 00:40:07,235 --> 00:40:11,235 Speaker 1: was to assure the candidates aids that despite some negative 606 00:40:11,315 --> 00:40:14,995 Speaker 1: on air commentary by Mr Olberman in particular, Mr McCain 607 00:40:15,115 --> 00:40:19,835 Speaker 1: could still get a fair shake from NBC News. Unquote, 608 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:25,195 Speaker 1: Oh that was his mission. The hell it was. Happily, 609 00:40:26,155 --> 00:40:29,755 Speaker 1: Brokaw just could not resist boasting even further. The next 610 00:40:29,915 --> 00:40:34,795 Speaker 1: sentence actually reads quote. Mr Brokaw said he had been 611 00:40:34,835 --> 00:40:38,075 Speaker 1: told by a senior McCain aide whom he did not name, 612 00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:41,675 Speaker 1: that the campaign had been reluctant to accept an NBC 613 00:40:41,755 --> 00:40:45,075 Speaker 1: representative as one of the moderators of the three presidential 614 00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:50,875 Speaker 1: debates until his name was invoked. Quote. One of the 615 00:40:50,955 --> 00:40:54,435 Speaker 1: things I was told by this person was that they 616 00:40:54,435 --> 00:40:58,555 Speaker 1: were so irritated. They said, if it's an NBC moderator 617 00:40:58,595 --> 00:41:02,275 Speaker 1: for any of these debates, we won't go, Mr Brokaw said, 618 00:41:03,035 --> 00:41:06,875 Speaker 1: quoting him again. My my name came up, and they said, oh, hell, 619 00:41:07,395 --> 00:41:11,035 Speaker 1: we have to do it because it's going to be Brokaw. 620 00:41:13,275 --> 00:41:16,715 Speaker 1: There is a second punchline after all this, when the 621 00:41:16,715 --> 00:41:19,795 Speaker 1: new format came out and I was sitting there counting 622 00:41:19,835 --> 00:41:23,955 Speaker 1: my money MSNBC had David Gregory quote anchor unquote the 623 00:41:23,995 --> 00:41:28,795 Speaker 1: debate coverage. David was terrific during this. Practically all this meant, anyway, 624 00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:31,395 Speaker 1: was that I was on the er until literally nine 625 00:41:31,635 --> 00:41:34,755 Speaker 1: seconds before each debate began, which is when I said, 626 00:41:34,955 --> 00:41:37,635 Speaker 1: now here's David Gregory. And he was then on for 627 00:41:37,715 --> 00:41:40,195 Speaker 1: four or five minutes after the debate ended, which is 628 00:41:40,235 --> 00:41:43,835 Speaker 1: when he said, now here's Keith Olberman. And on Election 629 00:41:43,955 --> 00:41:48,235 Speaker 1: Night itself with David again formally anchoring, per the Republican 630 00:41:48,275 --> 00:41:51,715 Speaker 1: blackmail at ten PM, to his great credit and to 631 00:41:51,755 --> 00:41:55,995 Speaker 1: my eternal gratitude, David Gregory said, with the last voting 632 00:41:56,035 --> 00:41:58,915 Speaker 1: booth closing at eleven PM, NBC News can now project 633 00:41:58,955 --> 00:42:01,275 Speaker 1: the winner of the two thousand and eight presidential election, 634 00:42:02,155 --> 00:42:19,875 Speaker 1: Keith Bless him. Plus I still have all the money. 635 00:42:21,195 --> 00:42:24,275 Speaker 1: And now the great Chris Licked John Malone destruction of 636 00:42:24,315 --> 00:42:29,635 Speaker 1: CNN and the Great Jeff shell says Our Conde destruction 637 00:42:29,675 --> 00:42:32,915 Speaker 1: of NBC have so progressed that the Republicans are willing 638 00:42:32,955 --> 00:42:37,955 Speaker 1: to put some of their debates on CNN and NBC. Congratulations, boys, 639 00:42:38,915 --> 00:42:40,995 Speaker 1: Countdown has come to you from the studios of All 640 00:42:41,035 --> 00:42:45,395 Speaker 1: Women Broadcasting Empire World headquarters in the Sports Capsule Building 641 00:42:45,395 --> 00:42:48,395 Speaker 1: here in New York. Thank you for listening. Here are 642 00:42:48,395 --> 00:42:50,675 Speaker 1: the credits. 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The next scheduled countdown tomorrow Till then, I'm 658 00:43:45,155 --> 00:43:48,915 Speaker 1: Keith ol Reman, good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 659 00:43:58,955 --> 00:44:02,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olman is a production of I heart Radio. 660 00:44:02,835 --> 00:44:05,755 Speaker 1: For more podcast from I heart Radio, visit the i 661 00:44:05,875 --> 00:44:10,235 Speaker 1: heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.