1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:16,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:16,395 --> 00:00:19,435 Speaker 1: is a Bulletin Countdown update after the Wall Street Journal's 3 00:00:19,435 --> 00:00:22,395 Speaker 1: stunning story. It is no longer feasible nor safe for 4 00:00:22,475 --> 00:00:25,995 Speaker 1: this country to permit Elon Musk to continue to have 5 00:00:26,035 --> 00:00:29,515 Speaker 1: access to any project involving the government of the United States, 6 00:00:29,875 --> 00:00:32,675 Speaker 1: nor for Musk to remain at large in this country. 7 00:00:32,915 --> 00:00:36,715 Speaker 1: The government must sever all connections with him, immediately, seize 8 00:00:36,755 --> 00:00:41,635 Speaker 1: all his technological assets, including SpaceX, Starlink and Twitter X, 9 00:00:42,155 --> 00:00:44,875 Speaker 1: and if need be, detain him, to port him, or 10 00:00:44,915 --> 00:00:47,995 Speaker 1: if it comes to that level, arrest him. The safety 11 00:00:48,155 --> 00:00:51,275 Speaker 1: of the nation may depend upon it. A team of 12 00:00:51,315 --> 00:00:54,675 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal writers led by Thomas Grove has now 13 00:00:54,715 --> 00:00:58,755 Speaker 1: reported to quote them. Elon Musk, the world's richest man 14 00:00:58,835 --> 00:01:01,955 Speaker 1: and a lynchpin of US space efforts, has been in 15 00:01:02,035 --> 00:01:07,195 Speaker 1: regular contact with Russian President Vlatnerin since late twenty twenty two. 16 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:12,235 Speaker 1: The discussions, confirmed by several current and former US, European 17 00:01:12,355 --> 00:01:17,915 Speaker 1: and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business, and geopolitical tensions. 18 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:22,555 Speaker 1: The Journal cites two sources who say that Musk's relationship 19 00:01:22,715 --> 00:01:26,715 Speaker 1: was far more than just conversational. They claimed putin asked 20 00:01:26,835 --> 00:01:31,595 Speaker 1: Musk to not activate his Starlink satellite internet service over 21 00:01:31,715 --> 00:01:36,755 Speaker 1: Taiwan as quote a favor to Chinese leader shi Jinping 22 00:01:37,595 --> 00:01:42,035 Speaker 1: that the journal reports happened late last year. The journal source, 23 00:01:42,115 --> 00:01:47,075 Speaker 1: it says, is a former Russian intelligence officer. Starlink, part 24 00:01:47,075 --> 00:01:51,235 Speaker 1: of Musk's SpaceX, won a classified contract with the American 25 00:01:51,315 --> 00:01:55,235 Speaker 1: Space Program in twenty twenty one that was worth one billion, 26 00:01:55,515 --> 00:02:01,515 Speaker 1: eight hundred million dollars our government taxpayer dollars fund elon Musk, 27 00:02:02,075 --> 00:02:06,955 Speaker 1: you will recall that after initially deploying fifteen thousand Starlink 28 00:02:07,115 --> 00:02:11,035 Speaker 1: units at no cost to Ukraine, after Russia's invasion of 29 00:02:11,075 --> 00:02:17,435 Speaker 1: that nation, some of the starlinks there suddenly became inoperative. Quote. 30 00:02:17,715 --> 00:02:21,035 Speaker 1: Later in twenty twenty two, the journal rights Musk was 31 00:02:21,075 --> 00:02:25,395 Speaker 1: having regular conversations with high level Russians. According to a 32 00:02:25,435 --> 00:02:28,715 Speaker 1: person familiar with the interactions, at the same time, there 33 00:02:28,795 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: was pressure from the Kremlin on Musk's businesses and quote 34 00:02:33,395 --> 00:02:39,875 Speaker 1: implicit threats against him, the person said, unquote. Ukraine has 35 00:02:39,955 --> 00:02:42,995 Speaker 1: asserted this year that it is now the Russians using 36 00:02:43,035 --> 00:02:47,755 Speaker 1: Starlink in eastern and southern Ukraine. The journal says that 37 00:02:47,795 --> 00:02:51,235 Speaker 1: since Musk has quote a security clearance that allows him 38 00:02:51,275 --> 00:02:55,835 Speaker 1: access to certain classified information. His continuing contact with Putin 39 00:02:55,915 --> 00:03:00,715 Speaker 1: triggers quote potential national security concerns among some in the 40 00:03:00,755 --> 00:03:05,875 Speaker 1: current administration. That is putting it mildly, Musk's fingers reach 41 00:03:05,915 --> 00:03:10,195 Speaker 1: into almost every aspect of American security, and particularly its 42 00:03:10,195 --> 00:03:15,035 Speaker 1: communications and space programs. If he is now accepting requests 43 00:03:15,395 --> 00:03:18,635 Speaker 1: from the dictator of Russia, if he is entertaining doing 44 00:03:18,715 --> 00:03:22,475 Speaker 1: favors for the dictator of China, Elon Musk can no 45 00:03:22,595 --> 00:03:27,915 Speaker 1: longer be trusted to be anywhere near these extraordinarily important 46 00:03:27,955 --> 00:03:32,475 Speaker 1: aspects of our national defense. The Wall Street Journal team 47 00:03:32,515 --> 00:03:35,395 Speaker 1: also reports the disheartening news that while some in the 48 00:03:35,395 --> 00:03:38,915 Speaker 1: Biden administration appear to have been aware of Musk's connection 49 00:03:39,035 --> 00:03:43,075 Speaker 1: to Russia and Putin, many, maybe most, have not been aware. 50 00:03:43,555 --> 00:03:47,515 Speaker 1: Several White House officials said they weren't aware of them, 51 00:03:47,635 --> 00:03:51,595 Speaker 1: per the Journal. The journal also quotes a Kremlin spokesman 52 00:03:51,635 --> 00:03:55,275 Speaker 1: who says Putin has spoken just once to Musk. That 53 00:03:55,435 --> 00:03:59,395 Speaker 1: appears to match Musk's denial, as the Journal rights. In 54 00:03:59,475 --> 00:04:02,395 Speaker 1: October twenty twenty two, Musk said publicly that he had 55 00:04:02,435 --> 00:04:05,395 Speaker 1: spoken only once to Putin. He said on x that 56 00:04:05,435 --> 00:04:08,835 Speaker 1: the conversation was about space, and that it occurred around 57 00:04:08,875 --> 00:04:14,155 Speaker 1: April twenty twenty one. The journal contends that is not true. 58 00:04:14,715 --> 00:04:18,395 Speaker 1: It reports Musk has engaged in quote dialogues with other 59 00:04:18,475 --> 00:04:22,035 Speaker 1: high ranking Russian officials path twenty twenty two and into 60 00:04:22,155 --> 00:04:26,635 Speaker 1: this year. One of the officials was Sergey Kiriyenko, Putin's 61 00:04:26,755 --> 00:04:31,835 Speaker 1: first deputy chief of staff. Un quote. The journal identifies 62 00:04:31,995 --> 00:04:36,195 Speaker 1: Sergei Kiriyenko as the same man named in a Justice 63 00:04:36,195 --> 00:04:40,435 Speaker 1: Department Affidavid as the Russian agent who had created thirty 64 00:04:40,555 --> 00:04:45,195 Speaker 1: Internet domains with which to spread Russian disinformation, some of 65 00:04:45,235 --> 00:04:50,115 Speaker 1: them via Musk's Twitter x platform designed to quote, erode 66 00:04:50,235 --> 00:04:55,435 Speaker 1: support for Ukraine and manipulate American voters ahead of the 67 00:04:55,475 --> 00:04:59,515 Speaker 1: presidential election. And that, of course, is where the Journal's 68 00:04:59,635 --> 00:05:03,475 Speaker 1: Musk Putin story turns into an even more terrifying nightmare. 69 00:05:03,915 --> 00:05:07,875 Speaker 1: One current and one former intelligence source. The journal writer's 70 00:05:07,955 --> 00:05:11,435 Speaker 1: conclude said that Musk and Putin have continued to have 71 00:05:11,555 --> 00:05:16,075 Speaker 1: contact since then and into this year, as Musk began 72 00:05:16,435 --> 00:05:19,515 Speaker 1: stepping up his criticism of the US military aid to 73 00:05:19,675 --> 00:05:24,835 Speaker 1: Ukraine and became involved in Trump's election campaign. Musk is 74 00:05:24,875 --> 00:05:28,355 Speaker 1: in bed with Trump with a platform he has purchased 75 00:05:28,435 --> 00:05:32,595 Speaker 1: since he began to exchange ideas and who knows what 76 00:05:32,835 --> 00:05:36,835 Speaker 1: else with putin a platform, he has gradually transformed into 77 00:05:36,915 --> 00:05:42,195 Speaker 1: propaganda and disinformation and conspiracy theories for the direct benefit 78 00:05:42,275 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: of the Trump campaign. There are few more dangerous combinations 79 00:05:46,755 --> 00:05:52,715 Speaker 1: of money, politics, dishonesty, and foreign influence imaginable, and President 80 00:05:52,755 --> 00:05:58,475 Speaker 1: Biden must act against Musk and do so immediately. Due 81 00:05:58,475 --> 00:06:00,995 Speaker 1: to production deadlines, the rest of this edition of Countdown, 82 00:06:01,075 --> 00:06:04,315 Speaker 1: recorded before the Wall Street Journal Musk story broke, now 83 00:06:04,315 --> 00:06:19,995 Speaker 1: followed as originally planned. Texas What the f is Vice 84 00:06:20,035 --> 00:06:24,555 Speaker 1: President Harris doing in Texas? Eleven days before the election? Texas, 85 00:06:25,195 --> 00:06:27,315 Speaker 1: where the five point thirty eight average of polls is 86 00:06:27,315 --> 00:06:29,915 Speaker 1: Trump by six and a half and has only briefly 87 00:06:29,995 --> 00:06:32,755 Speaker 1: dropped down into the fives. Where the best of the 88 00:06:32,795 --> 00:06:35,995 Speaker 1: polls this month is Trump by four and the most 89 00:06:35,995 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: recent was Emerson and it closed Monday with her down 90 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:44,555 Speaker 1: by seven. I think she may know more than we 91 00:06:44,595 --> 00:06:48,475 Speaker 1: do now I get it. That same Emerson poll has 92 00:06:48,595 --> 00:06:52,435 Speaker 1: Colin Allred within two of Ted Cruz for the Texas 93 00:06:52,475 --> 00:06:55,515 Speaker 1: Senate seat. A week before that it was within one. 94 00:06:55,595 --> 00:06:58,795 Speaker 1: In Morning consult the average remains cruised by three and 95 00:06:58,795 --> 00:07:01,475 Speaker 1: a half. That's still a long shot for an upset 96 00:07:02,355 --> 00:07:05,835 Speaker 1: in a medicense. You may also well ask that even 97 00:07:05,875 --> 00:07:09,875 Speaker 1: if one rally, even one rally with Beyonce, actually were 98 00:07:09,995 --> 00:07:13,475 Speaker 1: to get you that Senate seat, is it worth it 99 00:07:13,515 --> 00:07:16,675 Speaker 1: if it contributes to losing the presidency to a guy 100 00:07:16,715 --> 00:07:19,475 Speaker 1: who will at some point at least try to arrest 101 00:07:19,875 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: all the Democratic senators, including potential Senator Allread Because people 102 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:26,795 Speaker 1: really haven't thought through just how far Trump would go 103 00:07:26,875 --> 00:07:32,955 Speaker 1: to stay in power. Still, maybe she knows more than 104 00:07:32,995 --> 00:07:36,835 Speaker 1: we do. I'm beginning to think so, because if you 105 00:07:36,915 --> 00:07:40,435 Speaker 1: were calculating this mathematically, you could put together a formula 106 00:07:40,555 --> 00:07:43,395 Speaker 1: of some kind in which you recognize that in the 107 00:07:43,435 --> 00:07:48,115 Speaker 1: Internet age, all campaigning is national, and a Friday night 108 00:07:48,195 --> 00:07:52,315 Speaker 1: Democratic infomercial carried by god knows how many networks and 109 00:07:52,395 --> 00:07:58,395 Speaker 1: streaming outlets starring Beyonce with Kamala Harris is valuable enough 110 00:07:58,435 --> 00:08:01,155 Speaker 1: to take the day and go to Texas or Toronto 111 00:08:01,275 --> 00:08:06,075 Speaker 1: or timbuck too, because a Beyonce Aamala event maybe as 112 00:08:06,155 --> 00:08:11,795 Speaker 1: valuable in Pennsylvania as a Kamala event in Pennsylvania, although 113 00:08:11,835 --> 00:08:13,675 Speaker 1: I still don't know how she has not done one 114 00:08:13,675 --> 00:08:18,595 Speaker 1: at four seasons total landscaping. Yet add in those slim 115 00:08:18,715 --> 00:08:22,835 Speaker 1: senate upset prospects and the underrated importance of giving the 116 00:08:22,875 --> 00:08:27,075 Speaker 1: candidate and energy producing thrill justice, things begin to get 117 00:08:27,155 --> 00:08:32,115 Speaker 1: unbearably tense. And maybe it makes sense. It sure as 118 00:08:32,115 --> 00:08:35,395 Speaker 1: hell beats going to Scranton and hearing from somebody in 119 00:08:35,475 --> 00:08:39,155 Speaker 1: Scranton about how they have more funeral homes per capita 120 00:08:39,195 --> 00:08:41,795 Speaker 1: than any other city in the country, even if one 121 00:08:41,835 --> 00:08:45,075 Speaker 1: of them is the dissentist funeral home out in the 122 00:08:45,115 --> 00:08:50,435 Speaker 1: suburbs of Scranton. If you're paying attention to the forces 123 00:08:50,475 --> 00:08:54,195 Speaker 1: of evil and death Party weekend Schedule two, you may 124 00:08:54,235 --> 00:08:57,675 Speaker 1: remember Trump is also in a state he cannot win, 125 00:08:58,755 --> 00:09:02,715 Speaker 1: New York Sunday night. At first, I thought this was 126 00:09:02,755 --> 00:09:05,675 Speaker 1: a comp and I thought it entered the Harris trip 127 00:09:05,675 --> 00:09:12,355 Speaker 1: to Texas even less explicable and defensible and meaningful. Then again, 128 00:09:12,355 --> 00:09:15,555 Speaker 1: Trump is not doing a campaign event Sunday with Beyonce 129 00:09:15,755 --> 00:09:17,915 Speaker 1: or anybody else you'd care to hear from. He's doing 130 00:09:17,955 --> 00:09:23,195 Speaker 1: a combination worship me and fundraising org. All the Republican 131 00:09:23,315 --> 00:09:27,475 Speaker 1: leadership will be there bowing, and some seats will cost 132 00:09:27,555 --> 00:09:30,315 Speaker 1: nine hundred and twenty four thousand, six hundred dollars a 133 00:09:30,435 --> 00:09:34,715 Speaker 1: peace almost as much as a freakin' Knicks ticket. And 134 00:09:34,795 --> 00:09:37,395 Speaker 1: Trump can talk about how much he hates New York 135 00:09:37,435 --> 00:09:41,635 Speaker 1: City now, but he's always wanted a headline Madison Square Garden. 136 00:09:42,435 --> 00:09:45,155 Speaker 1: His real issue going into this thing is he's so 137 00:09:45,355 --> 00:09:48,275 Speaker 1: old he may go to the wrong address, because he 138 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:51,635 Speaker 1: may not remember that the garden moved to thirty third 139 00:09:51,675 --> 00:10:00,635 Speaker 1: and seventh from fiftieth and eighth fifty six years ago. Still, 140 00:10:00,755 --> 00:10:06,435 Speaker 1: I quiver a little at Kamala Harris's Texas trip, unless, 141 00:10:07,835 --> 00:10:11,435 Speaker 1: unless she knows more than we do, Unless the internal 142 00:10:11,555 --> 00:10:17,115 Speaker 1: polls the Harris campaign has are way better than the 143 00:10:17,115 --> 00:10:20,875 Speaker 1: ones we mere civilians get to see. I mean, I hope, 144 00:10:20,915 --> 00:10:23,235 Speaker 1: for the sake of human existence that there are better 145 00:10:23,395 --> 00:10:26,355 Speaker 1: quality wise, But I also mean I hope their numbers 146 00:10:26,395 --> 00:10:32,195 Speaker 1: show the shapes of a win. And I suspect this 147 00:10:32,355 --> 00:10:35,635 Speaker 1: is the case. I don't mean Texas, though I think 148 00:10:35,675 --> 00:10:38,635 Speaker 1: Trump is wobblier there than the numbers suggests. I mean, 149 00:10:39,875 --> 00:10:45,715 Speaker 1: I mean, I think, I think the swing stains, I 150 00:10:45,755 --> 00:10:48,875 Speaker 1: think the I think the independence in the swing swing 151 00:10:48,875 --> 00:10:52,875 Speaker 1: States is going to go for her. I have mentioned 152 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:55,115 Speaker 1: already two numbers we have seen that hint at this 153 00:10:55,515 --> 00:10:58,595 Speaker 1: the late deciders, those who have chosen between them in 154 00:10:58,635 --> 00:11:00,995 Speaker 1: the last week or the last month are breaking per 155 00:11:01,035 --> 00:11:06,595 Speaker 1: that same Emerson poll sixty to thirty seven Mars, we 156 00:11:06,675 --> 00:11:10,155 Speaker 1: have seen voters under thirty five go from supporting Harris 157 00:11:10,155 --> 00:11:12,955 Speaker 1: by just forty six percent to now favoring her by 158 00:11:13,075 --> 00:11:18,635 Speaker 1: sixty percent. Now we have three more sets of numbers. Again, 159 00:11:18,835 --> 00:11:23,875 Speaker 1: they are glimmers, they're hints. There are something smaller than returns, 160 00:11:23,955 --> 00:11:28,115 Speaker 1: but bigger than vibes. There is early voting data, and 161 00:11:28,715 --> 00:11:31,195 Speaker 1: it is like trying to read an eye chart through 162 00:11:31,195 --> 00:11:34,195 Speaker 1: a fog bank. But follow me here. The University of 163 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:38,675 Speaker 1: Florida Elections Lab reports that the early vote in the 164 00:11:38,675 --> 00:11:42,915 Speaker 1: state of North Carolina is basically split three ways. That 165 00:11:43,035 --> 00:11:46,875 Speaker 1: in North Carolina more Republicans have voted early than Democrats 166 00:11:47,355 --> 00:11:50,715 Speaker 1: thirty four point two percent to thirty four percent, with 167 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:54,675 Speaker 1: unaffiliateds and third party registrations making up the other thirty 168 00:11:54,715 --> 00:11:58,995 Speaker 1: one percent of the voters, a three way split that 169 00:11:59,035 --> 00:12:02,755 Speaker 1: blows one cliche out of the water. But despite the 170 00:12:02,835 --> 00:12:06,155 Speaker 1: parody of the registrations of those vote early, Republicans actually 171 00:12:06,195 --> 00:12:10,635 Speaker 1: in a slight lead. Maris Polling says in North Carolina, 172 00:12:10,675 --> 00:12:15,035 Speaker 1: Harris is ahead of Trump among early voters by fifty 173 00:12:15,075 --> 00:12:18,995 Speaker 1: five to forty three. Among those who have already voted, 174 00:12:19,555 --> 00:12:23,115 Speaker 1: the polling is Harris fifty five forty three in North Carolina, 175 00:12:23,515 --> 00:12:27,195 Speaker 1: but the registrations are Republicans thirty four point two to 176 00:12:27,275 --> 00:12:33,995 Speaker 1: thirty four. In Arizona, Republican early voters outnumber Democratic early 177 00:12:34,075 --> 00:12:37,035 Speaker 1: voters forty two percent to thirty six. Yet in the 178 00:12:37,035 --> 00:12:40,675 Speaker 1: Maris poll of Arizona early voters, Harris leads Trump fifty 179 00:12:40,715 --> 00:12:46,235 Speaker 1: five to forty four. In Nevada, again, Republican early voters 180 00:12:46,275 --> 00:12:49,355 Speaker 1: outnumbered Democrats forty to thirty five and a half, and 181 00:12:49,395 --> 00:12:52,075 Speaker 1: the Marist polling of early voters in Nevada is a 182 00:12:52,155 --> 00:12:56,435 Speaker 1: toss up. The national Marist polling of early voters is 183 00:12:56,515 --> 00:13:00,035 Speaker 1: fifty five forty three Harris, meaning she is running ahead 184 00:13:00,315 --> 00:13:03,355 Speaker 1: of state affiliations where we know them. That is an 185 00:13:03,355 --> 00:13:07,915 Speaker 1: important caveat. Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin do not release the 186 00:13:07,955 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: party affiliation of the early voters in those states, and Pennsylvania, 187 00:13:12,315 --> 00:13:16,675 Speaker 1: which does, is useless as a predictive because early voters 188 00:13:16,715 --> 00:13:22,315 Speaker 1: there are sixty percent Democratic. There is a micro poll 189 00:13:22,795 --> 00:13:26,435 Speaker 1: of just the Pennsylvania seventh that is a little bit 190 00:13:26,475 --> 00:13:29,435 Speaker 1: bigger for Harris than expected. She is ahead by four 191 00:13:29,835 --> 00:13:32,835 Speaker 1: in Northampton County. She is a head by seven in 192 00:13:32,955 --> 00:13:37,115 Speaker 1: Lehigh and those margins are bigger than those by which 193 00:13:37,195 --> 00:13:50,435 Speaker 1: Biden beat Trump in those counties in twenty twenty. No 194 00:13:50,515 --> 00:13:52,395 Speaker 1: reason to play the theme there. I just wanted to 195 00:13:52,395 --> 00:13:54,675 Speaker 1: give you a second to catch your breath amid all 196 00:13:54,755 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: these numbers. Any of it decisive? No, any of it 197 00:13:59,235 --> 00:14:05,675 Speaker 1: enough to cut school to go sing with Beyonce. Maybe, 198 00:14:05,835 --> 00:14:10,315 Speaker 1: But there's something else from that Florida vote lab before 199 00:14:10,355 --> 00:14:12,715 Speaker 1: we weighed completely out of the numbers, hopefully with our 200 00:14:12,835 --> 00:14:18,435 Speaker 1: limbs intact, that you should listen to. Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, 201 00:14:18,475 --> 00:14:22,995 Speaker 1: North Carolina, and Virginia report the early voters identities by 202 00:14:23,155 --> 00:14:26,915 Speaker 1: gender and put together. Out of more than eight million 203 00:14:26,995 --> 00:14:29,875 Speaker 1: votes cast just in those states, fifty four point forty 204 00:14:29,915 --> 00:14:33,355 Speaker 1: three percent of the early votes have been cast by women, 205 00:14:34,995 --> 00:14:39,195 Speaker 1: just forty four percent by men. And as you of Florida, 206 00:14:39,275 --> 00:14:42,835 Speaker 1: election lab professor Michael McDonald concludes, if this is what 207 00:14:42,955 --> 00:14:45,435 Speaker 1: is happening elsewhere and the polling is right about the 208 00:14:45,435 --> 00:14:49,795 Speaker 1: big gender gap, Trump is going to need the world's 209 00:14:50,035 --> 00:14:56,875 Speaker 1: largest sausage party on election Day, somewhere the late Arnold 210 00:14:56,955 --> 00:15:03,355 Speaker 1: Palmer is saying, did someone mention the world's largest sausage? Okay, 211 00:15:03,435 --> 00:15:08,115 Speaker 1: last pole thing. This is a vibe. As tight as 212 00:15:08,155 --> 00:15:12,155 Speaker 1: the polling is and the campaign seems to be, there 213 00:15:12,235 --> 00:15:16,195 Speaker 1: also is the start of an emerging consensus that the 214 00:15:16,235 --> 00:15:21,795 Speaker 1: electoral college will not be close. Who wins in the 215 00:15:21,795 --> 00:15:26,195 Speaker 1: electoral college that is far from clear, but Nate Silver, 216 00:15:26,355 --> 00:15:30,435 Speaker 1: who remains reliable as long as all he says is. 217 00:15:30,955 --> 00:15:34,675 Speaker 1: Here are the numbers the computer printed out. Sir Nate 218 00:15:34,755 --> 00:15:38,755 Speaker 1: Silver reported something bizarre from their simulations of the swing 219 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: state electional votes. There are one hundred and twenty eight 220 00:15:43,115 --> 00:15:47,195 Speaker 1: different possible combinations in the seven swing states. She wins Pennsylvania, 221 00:15:47,275 --> 00:15:49,475 Speaker 1: he wins the other six, she wins the other six. 222 00:15:49,595 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: He wins Pennsylvani, she wins three, he wins four, she 223 00:15:51,835 --> 00:15:55,955 Speaker 1: wins a different, et cetera. The likeliest of all the 224 00:15:56,035 --> 00:16:00,795 Speaker 1: simulations twenty four percent of the time, Trump swept all 225 00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:04,395 Speaker 1: seven swing states. The second likeliest of all the simulations 226 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:08,915 Speaker 1: fifteen percent of the time, Harris swept all seven swing states. 227 00:16:10,115 --> 00:16:13,955 Speaker 1: So that's Nate Silver. Then. CNN's Harry Enton said his 228 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:17,755 Speaker 1: outfits computer simulations have concluded that there is a sixty 229 00:16:17,795 --> 00:16:20,795 Speaker 1: percent chance that the winner gets at least three hundred 230 00:16:20,875 --> 00:16:23,435 Speaker 1: votes in the electoral College. Well, how in the hell 231 00:16:23,435 --> 00:16:26,795 Speaker 1: would you do that by sweeping or nearly sweeping the 232 00:16:26,835 --> 00:16:30,635 Speaker 1: Swing states? Again, who is the winner in that equation? 233 00:16:30,795 --> 00:16:33,195 Speaker 1: He doesn't know that, But what he does, though, is 234 00:16:33,235 --> 00:16:36,755 Speaker 1: actually kind of valuable. Twenty twelve, Enton pointed out ninety 235 00:16:36,795 --> 00:16:39,475 Speaker 1: two percent of the polling averages in the Swing States 236 00:16:39,675 --> 00:16:44,635 Speaker 1: underestimated Obama's vote in those states twenty sixteen, eighty three 237 00:16:44,675 --> 00:16:47,995 Speaker 1: percent of them underestimated Trump's vote in those states in 238 00:16:48,075 --> 00:16:51,995 Speaker 1: twenty twenty, one hundred percent underestimated Trumps. So this breath 239 00:16:52,115 --> 00:16:55,275 Speaker 1: taking data from the swing states too close to call 240 00:16:55,555 --> 00:16:58,475 Speaker 1: half a point between them that could take weeks, is 241 00:16:58,675 --> 00:17:06,675 Speaker 1: probably totally incorrect. Somebody the figure Phil suggest is going 242 00:17:06,715 --> 00:17:11,355 Speaker 1: to win big if you put that prediction together with 243 00:17:11,435 --> 00:17:14,555 Speaker 1: those little nuggets of data from the early voting, plus 244 00:17:14,595 --> 00:17:18,315 Speaker 1: whatever the Harris campaign has locked away in its polling 245 00:17:18,435 --> 00:17:25,715 Speaker 1: safe while it travels around. Maybe you two would take 246 00:17:25,835 --> 00:17:29,675 Speaker 1: Friday night off to go to a state you aren't 247 00:17:29,715 --> 00:17:45,115 Speaker 1: going to win and go party with Beyonce the other news. 248 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:48,355 Speaker 1: Trump says he'd fire Jack Smith in the first few hours, 249 00:17:48,515 --> 00:17:52,155 Speaker 1: and he'd eliminate all taxes on January twentieth, So stand 250 00:17:52,195 --> 00:17:55,155 Speaker 1: by for a stock market crash on January twenty first, 251 00:17:55,475 --> 00:17:58,515 Speaker 1: add an even greater depression on January twenty second, and 252 00:17:58,595 --> 00:18:02,635 Speaker 1: starvation in the Red States on January twenty third. Oh, 253 00:18:02,675 --> 00:18:06,355 Speaker 1: and Trump again said Obama is currently president. Right, it's 254 00:18:06,395 --> 00:18:09,835 Speaker 1: all coming through Iran, and Obama wants to He doesn't 255 00:18:09,875 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 1: want to talk about it. He doesn't want to mention. 256 00:18:12,035 --> 00:18:14,835 Speaker 1: He doesn't even mention them in a statement. It's all 257 00:18:14,875 --> 00:18:20,275 Speaker 1: coming through Iran. Well, you mean President Biden. So Trump's 258 00:18:20,395 --> 00:18:24,915 Speaker 1: accelerating brain problem as heard again, there will not move 259 00:18:24,955 --> 00:18:28,315 Speaker 1: the needle or the arrow. Even though the arrow is 260 00:18:28,355 --> 00:18:30,755 Speaker 1: one of those props Steve Martin used to use, and 261 00:18:30,755 --> 00:18:33,235 Speaker 1: it goes in one side of Trump's head and comes 262 00:18:33,275 --> 00:18:38,435 Speaker 1: out the other. The latest model groping accusation is not 263 00:18:38,475 --> 00:18:41,155 Speaker 1: going to move the needle. John Kelly has not called 264 00:18:41,155 --> 00:18:44,035 Speaker 1: the Hitler news conference to move the needle, and so 265 00:18:44,115 --> 00:18:46,355 Speaker 1: I think we can pretty much discount the October or 266 00:18:46,435 --> 00:18:51,875 Speaker 1: really early November surprise. I usually bashed the website Axios, 267 00:18:51,915 --> 00:18:54,635 Speaker 1: but I give them credit. They actually listed the top 268 00:18:54,715 --> 00:18:58,035 Speaker 1: ten Trump scandals and contextualize them, and I want to 269 00:18:58,075 --> 00:19:01,835 Speaker 1: read it just as they published it. Quote. Pull any 270 00:19:01,875 --> 00:19:04,515 Speaker 1: one of these ten Trump scandals out of a hat 271 00:19:04,835 --> 00:19:08,115 Speaker 1: and apply it to any other politician, or even just 272 00:19:08,155 --> 00:19:11,715 Speaker 1: a typical American. More likely than not it would end 273 00:19:11,955 --> 00:19:15,515 Speaker 1: their career. Good evening, and welcome to the end of 274 00:19:15,515 --> 00:19:18,395 Speaker 1: our careers. Number one. Trump was found guilty on thirty 275 00:19:18,395 --> 00:19:20,875 Speaker 1: four felon accounts in New York for paying illegal hush 276 00:19:20,915 --> 00:19:24,955 Speaker 1: money to a porn star. Two he refused to concede 277 00:19:24,995 --> 00:19:27,995 Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election and spread baseless claims of voter 278 00:19:28,115 --> 00:19:31,075 Speaker 1: fraud that inspired a violent mob to attack the capitol 279 00:19:31,115 --> 00:19:35,155 Speaker 1: On January sixth, twenty twenty one. Three, he was indicted 280 00:19:35,155 --> 00:19:39,315 Speaker 1: on federal charges of illegally retaining classified documents that included 281 00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:42,795 Speaker 1: nuclear secrets. The case was dismissed, but could be reinstated 282 00:19:42,875 --> 00:19:49,715 Speaker 1: upon appeal. Four. He was impeached twice. I'd forgotten that. Four. 283 00:19:49,795 --> 00:19:53,515 Speaker 1: He was impeached twice, once for his actions on January sixth, 284 00:19:53,555 --> 00:19:57,075 Speaker 1: and once for withholding military aid to pressure Ukraine's government 285 00:19:57,235 --> 00:20:01,675 Speaker 1: to investigate his political opponents. Five he has publicly praised 286 00:20:01,755 --> 00:20:06,075 Speaker 1: dictators and sided with Vladimir Putin over US intelligence agencies 287 00:20:06,155 --> 00:20:09,595 Speaker 1: that assessed that Russia had interfered in the twenty sixteen election. 288 00:20:10,835 --> 00:20:14,515 Speaker 1: Six he was found liable for sexually abusing writer E. 289 00:20:14,715 --> 00:20:17,635 Speaker 1: Gen Caron has been accused of sexual misconduct by at 290 00:20:17,715 --> 00:20:20,555 Speaker 1: least twenty five other women. He was caught on tape 291 00:20:20,555 --> 00:20:23,475 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five bragging about grabbing women by 292 00:20:23,555 --> 00:20:28,155 Speaker 1: their genitals. Seven He and his company were ordered to 293 00:20:28,155 --> 00:20:30,475 Speaker 1: pay three hundred and fifty million dollars in a New 294 00:20:30,555 --> 00:20:34,075 Speaker 1: York Civiyl fraud trial for artificially inflating his net worths 295 00:20:34,115 --> 00:20:39,075 Speaker 1: to secure favorable loan terms. Eight he placed full page 296 00:20:39,155 --> 00:20:41,395 Speaker 1: ads in the New York Times in nineteen eighty nine 297 00:20:41,795 --> 00:20:44,675 Speaker 1: calling for the death penalty for five black and Latino 298 00:20:44,755 --> 00:20:48,115 Speaker 1: teenagers who were wrongfully convicted of raping the jogger in 299 00:20:48,155 --> 00:20:53,955 Speaker 1: Central Park. He has refused to apologize. Nine he promoted 300 00:20:53,955 --> 00:20:57,715 Speaker 1: the racist conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn't born in 301 00:20:57,755 --> 00:21:01,715 Speaker 1: the United States. And ten he made more than thirty 302 00:21:02,075 --> 00:21:06,475 Speaker 1: thousand false or misleading claim during his four years in office, 303 00:21:06,795 --> 00:21:14,675 Speaker 1: according to Washington Post factcheckers. Finally, Axios is showing some 304 00:21:16,195 --> 00:21:22,755 Speaker 1: astonishment at all of this, though sadly no recognition that 305 00:21:22,875 --> 00:21:24,995 Speaker 1: part of the reason none of these things have ended 306 00:21:25,035 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: Trump's candidacy or his career is axios and ninety nine 307 00:21:29,795 --> 00:21:32,875 Speaker 1: percent of the rest of the American political media industrial 308 00:21:32,915 --> 00:21:37,235 Speaker 1: complex have never portrayed these corruptions as things that should 309 00:21:37,275 --> 00:22:01,715 Speaker 1: have ended Trump's candidacy. All Right, something different here. The 310 00:22:01,795 --> 00:22:05,595 Speaker 1: regular edition of Worse Persons is still to come. It's 311 00:22:05,715 --> 00:22:08,915 Speaker 1: double Worst Person's Day. It will be complete with the 312 00:22:08,915 --> 00:22:11,075 Speaker 1: general manager of the New York Yankees trying to blame 313 00:22:11,155 --> 00:22:15,635 Speaker 1: his failure on cheaters on other teams. But for a change, 314 00:22:15,675 --> 00:22:20,155 Speaker 1: here is a special edition of the Worst Journalists in 315 00:22:20,195 --> 00:22:25,315 Speaker 1: the World, number three. And yes, the term journalists is 316 00:22:25,315 --> 00:22:28,755 Speaker 1: being applied kind of loosely in two of these three 317 00:22:28,795 --> 00:22:33,235 Speaker 1: of these three cases Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon Schong, 318 00:22:33,835 --> 00:22:37,155 Speaker 1: who is one typo away from being known as Patrick 319 00:22:37,315 --> 00:22:42,595 Speaker 1: Soon Schlong. He killed the LA Times editorial sections planned 320 00:22:42,675 --> 00:22:46,675 Speaker 1: endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. The editorial's editor of 321 00:22:46,715 --> 00:22:53,675 Speaker 1: The Times, Mariel Garza, quit on the spot. Good for her. 322 00:22:53,795 --> 00:22:56,235 Speaker 1: That is the kind of ethical rage that is almost 323 00:22:56,275 --> 00:22:59,955 Speaker 1: extinct today. They should put her in charge of CNN 324 00:23:00,635 --> 00:23:04,555 Speaker 1: or the Washington Post, not just bring in another recycled 325 00:23:04,515 --> 00:23:08,475 Speaker 1: British loser. I am resigning because I want to make 326 00:23:08,515 --> 00:23:10,955 Speaker 1: it clear that I am not okay with us being silent. 327 00:23:11,395 --> 00:23:15,035 Speaker 1: Garza says in dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. 328 00:23:15,235 --> 00:23:18,995 Speaker 1: This is how I'm standing up. The crazy thing about this, 329 00:23:19,075 --> 00:23:21,195 Speaker 1: of course, quoting her again. I didn't think we were 330 00:23:21,235 --> 00:23:23,275 Speaker 1: going to change our reader's minds. Our readers, for the 331 00:23:23,275 --> 00:23:27,035 Speaker 1: most part, are Harris supporters. We're a very liberal paper. 332 00:23:27,035 --> 00:23:28,555 Speaker 1: I didn't think we're going to change the outcome of 333 00:23:28,555 --> 00:23:32,795 Speaker 1: the election in California. And this idiot who owns The 334 00:23:32,835 --> 00:23:36,475 Speaker 1: Times killed the editorial. We should run him out of 335 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:41,035 Speaker 1: the country. Number two. Dana Bash of CNN, speaking of 336 00:23:41,075 --> 00:23:44,435 Speaker 1: being run out, she should change her name to hapless 337 00:23:45,075 --> 00:23:48,395 Speaker 1: because she is, in fact hapless Dana Bash. Maybe you 338 00:23:48,475 --> 00:23:53,715 Speaker 1: could hyphenate it hapless Dana or hapless Dana hyphen Bash. 339 00:23:54,395 --> 00:23:57,635 Speaker 1: Immediately after the Harris town hall on CNN Wednesday night, 340 00:23:57,715 --> 00:24:00,315 Speaker 1: I mean immediately, the Vice President was still on the 341 00:24:00,395 --> 00:24:03,955 Speaker 1: stage when Bash blurted, I'll just tell you what I'm 342 00:24:03,955 --> 00:24:06,435 Speaker 1: hearing from people that I've been talking to. If her 343 00:24:06,435 --> 00:24:09,275 Speaker 1: goal was to close the deal, they're not sure she 344 00:24:09,355 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: did that. Ah well, there you have it. Call off 345 00:24:13,915 --> 00:24:17,675 Speaker 1: the election. So people Dana Bash had been talking to 346 00:24:18,155 --> 00:24:21,555 Speaker 1: what kind of people Republicans, Democrats, ones who only had 347 00:24:21,555 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: three or four fingers, Trump family members, CNN executives, whoever 348 00:24:26,275 --> 00:24:29,155 Speaker 1: was stupid enough to have not fired her after CNN's 349 00:24:29,155 --> 00:24:33,195 Speaker 1: credibility destroying Biden Trump debate that she co moderated. I mean, 350 00:24:33,235 --> 00:24:36,355 Speaker 1: not even characterizing your sources here, I'll just tell you 351 00:24:36,355 --> 00:24:37,955 Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from people that I've been talking to. 352 00:24:38,195 --> 00:24:39,835 Speaker 1: Her goal was to close the deal. They're not sure 353 00:24:39,875 --> 00:24:43,195 Speaker 1: that she did that. Relatives, christ Bash, you might as 354 00:24:43,195 --> 00:24:45,875 Speaker 1: well have been quoting the voices in your head. You 355 00:24:46,475 --> 00:24:53,195 Speaker 1: you hapless Dana Bash. Maybe she was. I mean, it's 356 00:24:53,195 --> 00:24:57,755 Speaker 1: empty enough. But the winner, the even more hapless. Eric Erickson. 357 00:24:58,315 --> 00:25:03,595 Speaker 1: The man was two erics and forty two necks. Say 358 00:25:03,635 --> 00:25:07,715 Speaker 1: what you will about but he has a type blonde. 359 00:25:08,115 --> 00:25:12,435 Speaker 1: This lady who waited until now, meaning the latest assertion 360 00:25:12,555 --> 00:25:15,475 Speaker 1: of being groped by Trump in the nineties, This lady 361 00:25:15,515 --> 00:25:20,235 Speaker 1: who waited until now does not fit Trump's type. He 362 00:25:20,315 --> 00:25:22,835 Speaker 1: is a type blonde. This lady who waited until now 363 00:25:22,875 --> 00:25:25,555 Speaker 1: does not fit Trump's type meaning blonde. No, I do 364 00:25:25,635 --> 00:25:28,155 Speaker 1: not believe it. Thirteen days before the twenty twenty four election. 365 00:25:28,555 --> 00:25:31,395 Speaker 1: My surprise is that her last name is not Ford 366 00:25:31,755 --> 00:25:38,875 Speaker 1: nor her first name Christine. Uh? Eric, what's uh? What's 367 00:25:38,915 --> 00:25:42,955 Speaker 1: the name of Trump's current missus or you know, the 368 00:25:42,995 --> 00:25:46,395 Speaker 1: woman he hired to portray his wife in public? And 369 00:25:46,755 --> 00:25:51,395 Speaker 1: what's her hair color? She a blonde? She's not a blonde. 370 00:25:52,235 --> 00:25:55,835 Speaker 1: You didn't notice this, You haven't deleted the tweet or anything. 371 00:25:56,475 --> 00:25:58,075 Speaker 1: Did you hate a column on it? Did you do 372 00:25:58,155 --> 00:25:59,955 Speaker 1: his show on it? I mean, if you want to 373 00:25:59,995 --> 00:26:02,915 Speaker 1: be a Trump whore, Eric, that's fine. Could you at 374 00:26:03,035 --> 00:26:07,555 Speaker 1: least fact check something as easy as the hair color 375 00:26:08,075 --> 00:26:12,835 Speaker 1: of the previous contractually obligated First Lady of the United States? 376 00:26:14,155 --> 00:26:31,035 Speaker 1: Eric Erickson, Today's worst journalist in the world. Christ also 377 00:26:31,075 --> 00:26:34,635 Speaker 1: of interest here if you think that's bad. Hey, Lara Trump, 378 00:26:35,115 --> 00:26:39,675 Speaker 1: how many states are there? I mean in the United States, 379 00:26:40,755 --> 00:26:45,115 Speaker 1: United United States where you are at the moment. Are 380 00:26:45,115 --> 00:26:48,915 Speaker 1: there forty eight? Are there? Fifty? More than fifty? More 381 00:26:48,955 --> 00:26:51,835 Speaker 1: than seventy? My young pup, Kit who you hear in 382 00:26:51,875 --> 00:26:55,555 Speaker 1: the background, Kit knows is it more than eighty? Are 383 00:26:55,595 --> 00:26:59,635 Speaker 1: there more than eighty states? Lara Trump? Is the correct number? 384 00:26:59,635 --> 00:27:02,635 Speaker 1: On number so high it cannot be measured by Man 385 00:27:03,355 --> 00:27:11,955 Speaker 1: only by puppy. That's next. This is countdown. This is 386 00:27:12,035 --> 00:27:38,675 Speaker 1: countdown with Keith Oberman. Oberman still ahead of us on 387 00:27:38,715 --> 00:27:42,395 Speaker 1: this edition of Countdown. So you're an artist Therefore, as F. 388 00:27:42,435 --> 00:27:45,475 Speaker 1: Scott Fitzgerald said, an artist is someone who can hold 389 00:27:45,475 --> 00:27:51,515 Speaker 1: two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional. You want 390 00:27:51,555 --> 00:27:55,235 Speaker 1: to stop hearing about politics, yet you need to keep 391 00:27:55,275 --> 00:28:00,315 Speaker 1: hearing about politics. I understand. So I have an ideal compromise. 392 00:28:00,995 --> 00:28:05,195 Speaker 1: The collection of the best political fables from the fast 393 00:28:05,315 --> 00:28:09,475 Speaker 1: Collection of the Master Fridays with Thurber the political fables 394 00:28:09,675 --> 00:28:12,915 Speaker 1: coming up first. There are still more new idiots to 395 00:28:12,955 --> 00:28:15,235 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons 396 00:28:15,275 --> 00:28:21,275 Speaker 1: and Dunning kruegriff X specimens who constitute today's non journalistic 397 00:28:21,315 --> 00:28:26,635 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world to the bronze worse. Brian Cashman, 398 00:28:27,195 --> 00:28:30,075 Speaker 1: general manager of Larry David's New York Yankees, who you 399 00:28:30,115 --> 00:28:33,835 Speaker 1: heard Larry doing an impression of Bob Sheppard, the late 400 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:38,275 Speaker 1: Great Pa announcer at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees who have 401 00:28:38,395 --> 00:28:43,755 Speaker 1: won one Worlds Championship in the twenty four years since 402 00:28:43,795 --> 00:28:46,875 Speaker 1: Brian Cashman squeezed out the real architects of the last 403 00:28:46,955 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: Yankee dynasty of the nineties, Geen Michael, and Bob Watson. 404 00:28:51,035 --> 00:28:54,075 Speaker 1: Somebody interviewed Cashman on the eve of the Yankees first 405 00:28:54,075 --> 00:28:57,475 Speaker 1: World Series since two thousand and nine and mentioned that 406 00:28:57,555 --> 00:28:59,995 Speaker 1: it was the Yankees first World Series since two thousand 407 00:28:59,995 --> 00:29:02,875 Speaker 1: and nine, and he's not happy with the reality that 408 00:29:02,875 --> 00:29:07,115 Speaker 1: that represents. Quote. I hate the fifteen year thing because 409 00:29:07,115 --> 00:29:11,795 Speaker 1: it completely forgets and discounts that some other organization cheated 410 00:29:11,835 --> 00:29:14,355 Speaker 1: us when we were already in the end. If you 411 00:29:14,435 --> 00:29:16,955 Speaker 1: knew what was going on, I don't think they would 412 00:29:16,995 --> 00:29:20,435 Speaker 1: be advancing during that time thing. I think we would 413 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:23,675 Speaker 1: have been advancing. I hate that fifteen year thing because 414 00:29:23,715 --> 00:29:28,915 Speaker 1: I don't think it accurately reflects history. The thing Cashman 415 00:29:29,035 --> 00:29:32,995 Speaker 1: is referring to is the Houston Astros sign stealing scandal 416 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:36,235 Speaker 1: of the preceding decade, which is a valid point, but 417 00:29:36,355 --> 00:29:38,915 Speaker 1: which does assume that the Astros would not have beaten 418 00:29:38,915 --> 00:29:42,235 Speaker 1: the Yankees without the cheating, which is just an assumption, 419 00:29:42,675 --> 00:29:46,275 Speaker 1: and which also assumes that the Yankees never cheated in 420 00:29:46,315 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: that span, which is inaccurate. The last time the Yankees 421 00:29:51,475 --> 00:29:53,555 Speaker 1: won the World Series, in two thousand and nine, they 422 00:29:53,555 --> 00:29:57,515 Speaker 1: were led by Alex Rodriguez, who, while publicly denying for 423 00:29:57,555 --> 00:30:01,115 Speaker 1: the next decade that he ever used steroids, in fact 424 00:30:01,515 --> 00:30:05,755 Speaker 1: publicly staging protests with protesters he had high to carry 425 00:30:05,915 --> 00:30:10,275 Speaker 1: signs supporting him. Rodriguez in fact testified under oath to 426 00:30:10,315 --> 00:30:13,795 Speaker 1: federal drug agents and prosecutors that actually he was using 427 00:30:14,035 --> 00:30:19,155 Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars worth of steroids per month. Also in 428 00:30:19,235 --> 00:30:22,635 Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, after I published a series of 429 00:30:22,675 --> 00:30:26,675 Speaker 1: photographs of Alex Rodriguez looking sort of at me but 430 00:30:26,835 --> 00:30:29,555 Speaker 1: actually behind me to a guy in a Yankee coat 431 00:30:29,755 --> 00:30:33,275 Speaker 1: wearing a headset who was flashing him signs with fingers 432 00:30:33,315 --> 00:30:37,875 Speaker 1: and cards, the Yankees were reprimanded by Baseball for a 433 00:30:37,875 --> 00:30:40,555 Speaker 1: form of cheating in which a guy, an employee in 434 00:30:40,595 --> 00:30:44,355 Speaker 1: the stands, was giving Alex Rodriguez information about the pitches. 435 00:30:45,555 --> 00:30:48,355 Speaker 1: You can't contact a player from the stands if you 436 00:30:48,395 --> 00:30:51,715 Speaker 1: are a team employee. But that's not cheating, is it. 437 00:30:52,115 --> 00:30:55,435 Speaker 1: Prior to that, the Yankees' last World Series wins had 438 00:30:55,475 --> 00:30:58,155 Speaker 1: been in nineteen ninety nine and two thousand, when noted, 439 00:30:58,155 --> 00:31:02,715 Speaker 1: Performance enhancing drug and stimulants enthusiast Roger Clemens was the 440 00:31:02,715 --> 00:31:05,115 Speaker 1: winning pitcher in two of the World Series these games. 441 00:31:05,155 --> 00:31:07,795 Speaker 1: Those two years, and he won two other games in 442 00:31:07,915 --> 00:31:10,955 Speaker 1: preliminary rounds those two years, and he later won three 443 00:31:10,995 --> 00:31:13,555 Speaker 1: more games for the Yankees in the postseasons, during which 444 00:31:13,595 --> 00:31:17,235 Speaker 1: Cashman implies the Yankees didn't cheat because if we're going 445 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:20,315 Speaker 1: to go on a this completely forgets and discounts that 446 00:31:20,395 --> 00:31:24,755 Speaker 1: some other organization cheated us. Ride the nineteen ninety nine 447 00:31:24,795 --> 00:31:27,235 Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves and the two thousand Mets in the two 448 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:29,515 Speaker 1: thousand and nine Phillies would like to have a word, 449 00:31:29,675 --> 00:31:34,195 Speaker 1: mister Cashman, say nothing of the nineteen ninety six Braves 450 00:31:34,195 --> 00:31:37,355 Speaker 1: and maybe the nineteen ninety eight Padres as well. Mister Cashman, 451 00:31:38,315 --> 00:31:41,515 Speaker 1: We we cheated. That's why we suck. The runner up 452 00:31:41,595 --> 00:31:45,275 Speaker 1: worser Nicole Shanahan, who apparently believes she's still a candidate 453 00:31:45,355 --> 00:31:50,475 Speaker 1: for vice president with the JFK junior ticket of the 454 00:31:51,035 --> 00:31:54,795 Speaker 1: I Don't Know Pantsiless Party. The Washington posted a long 455 00:31:54,955 --> 00:31:57,555 Speaker 1: piece on her nit wittedness and how it has led 456 00:31:57,595 --> 00:31:59,435 Speaker 1: her from getting a lot of money after a failed 457 00:31:59,475 --> 00:32:03,195 Speaker 1: marriage to being a Trump stooge. One segment in it 458 00:32:03,315 --> 00:32:08,115 Speaker 1: jumps out Elizabeth with Dwaskin, Ashley Parker, Merrill Cornfield, and 459 00:32:08,195 --> 00:32:12,355 Speaker 1: Aaron Schaeffer write quote, Shanahan became aware of reporting for 460 00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:16,435 Speaker 1: this article when she and Kennedy were still campaigning. In June, 461 00:32:16,475 --> 00:32:19,435 Speaker 1: she texted an associate who had been contacted by the 462 00:32:19,475 --> 00:32:23,915 Speaker 1: Post to suggest a deal. Shanahan said, she would pay 463 00:32:24,075 --> 00:32:27,595 Speaker 1: your friend that would be the Post reporter quote half 464 00:32:27,635 --> 00:32:31,275 Speaker 1: a million dollars to be a whistleblower to expose people 465 00:32:31,315 --> 00:32:37,235 Speaker 1: Shanahan claimed were spreading false information about her unquote. See now, 466 00:32:37,275 --> 00:32:41,795 Speaker 1: the failure here is not just about Shanahan's morals. The 467 00:32:41,835 --> 00:32:47,875 Speaker 1: Post reporters they missed a golden opportunity. Five hundred thousand ridiculous, 468 00:32:47,955 --> 00:32:50,915 Speaker 1: especially since Shanahan got a reported one billion in her 469 00:32:50,955 --> 00:32:55,355 Speaker 1: divorce from Sergey Brinn, the Google co founder. That's a 470 00:32:55,395 --> 00:32:58,475 Speaker 1: lot of money, even for having to cope with seeing 471 00:32:58,515 --> 00:33:02,635 Speaker 1: Elon Musk naked and stoned. What the Post reporter should 472 00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:07,035 Speaker 1: have done was say five hundreds are you crazy? Try 473 00:33:07,115 --> 00:33:09,595 Speaker 1: five hundred million and you got a deal, and then 474 00:33:09,755 --> 00:33:11,795 Speaker 1: use the five hundred million to buy the Post from 475 00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:14,835 Speaker 1: Jeff Bezos so the Post would have an actual journalist 476 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:17,475 Speaker 1: in charge and not be sitting there two fridays before 477 00:33:17,515 --> 00:33:21,195 Speaker 1: the efing election without having endorsed a presidential candidate like 478 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:24,875 Speaker 1: the Washington Post was just the goddamned useless La Times, 479 00:33:26,115 --> 00:33:30,755 Speaker 1: but the winner the worst Lara Trump. One looks at 480 00:33:30,755 --> 00:33:34,235 Speaker 1: her marriage to Qusa Trump and wonders which of them 481 00:33:34,315 --> 00:33:38,115 Speaker 1: is the NEPO baby. Did Lara or her hubby who 482 00:33:38,115 --> 00:33:40,795 Speaker 1: goes by the name Eric get the job with the 483 00:33:40,835 --> 00:33:43,675 Speaker 1: campaign based on being related to the other, Which one 484 00:33:43,675 --> 00:33:46,435 Speaker 1: of them is the I mean, Eric is an idiot, 485 00:33:46,915 --> 00:33:50,915 Speaker 1: an amazingly shallow guy, even in that family, who apparently 486 00:33:50,955 --> 00:33:54,595 Speaker 1: thought that the word charity meant raising money, taking a 487 00:33:54,595 --> 00:33:57,595 Speaker 1: percentage of it for himself and letting other people have 488 00:33:57,675 --> 00:34:00,955 Speaker 1: what was left over. Years ago, when I pointed out 489 00:34:00,955 --> 00:34:04,515 Speaker 1: to him that the word charity actually meant giving something 490 00:34:04,915 --> 00:34:09,475 Speaker 1: value you had to somebody else who did not have 491 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:12,635 Speaker 1: it because they needed it and you had too much, 492 00:34:13,395 --> 00:34:18,115 Speaker 1: he blocked me on all social media platforms. Still Lara 493 00:34:18,195 --> 00:34:21,355 Speaker 1: Trump his wife and co chair of the RNC, just 494 00:34:21,515 --> 00:34:24,795 Speaker 1: eight years after she was still a producer on Inside Edition. 495 00:34:25,315 --> 00:34:28,395 Speaker 1: Lara really is a dim bulb. Here she is on 496 00:34:28,555 --> 00:34:32,915 Speaker 1: Newsmax with Coincidentally enough, somebody else Fox News also fired 497 00:34:33,355 --> 00:34:38,555 Speaker 1: Eric Puffy Dad bowling to these poll workers, We're gonna 498 00:34:38,555 --> 00:34:42,115 Speaker 1: have lawyers in all the major polling locations across the country. 499 00:34:42,275 --> 00:34:44,515 Speaker 1: We have lawsuits in eighty one states right now. We 500 00:34:44,555 --> 00:34:47,435 Speaker 1: won about a week and a half ago. As Democratic 501 00:34:47,515 --> 00:34:51,115 Speaker 1: voting legal eagle Mark Elias notes, the Republican National Committee 502 00:34:51,155 --> 00:34:55,675 Speaker 1: actually has voting suppression lawsuits in nineteen states. In the 503 00:34:55,715 --> 00:34:59,195 Speaker 1: week preceding that interview with Lyarra Trump, eight cases were 504 00:34:59,195 --> 00:35:03,355 Speaker 1: decided by the courts and the Trump campaign lost all eight. 505 00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:06,715 Speaker 1: And oh yeah, yeah, by the way, there aren't eighty 506 00:35:06,755 --> 00:35:11,115 Speaker 1: one states in this country. The Republicans are still talking 507 00:35:11,115 --> 00:35:14,635 Speaker 1: about Obama slipping in May two thousand and eight and 508 00:35:14,675 --> 00:35:16,995 Speaker 1: saying he'd been to fifty seven states when he meant 509 00:35:17,035 --> 00:35:20,355 Speaker 1: he'd been to forty seven states. But Trump's co chairman 510 00:35:20,795 --> 00:35:23,715 Speaker 1: and double NEPO baby can say eighty one states. And 511 00:35:23,795 --> 00:35:28,315 Speaker 1: that's fine, Lara, unless she was including the state of depression, 512 00:35:28,475 --> 00:35:31,195 Speaker 1: the state of anxiety, the state of obliviousness, the state 513 00:35:31,235 --> 00:35:36,035 Speaker 1: of denial, the state of lip botox overdose, the fugue state, or, 514 00:35:36,075 --> 00:35:39,715 Speaker 1: since we are talking Trump, the state of incontinence. Trump 515 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:45,955 Speaker 1: two days worst person. I like that one in the world. 516 00:36:06,195 --> 00:36:09,235 Speaker 1: Fridays with Thurber and I have not done a bunch 517 00:36:09,275 --> 00:36:14,035 Speaker 1: of the political fables lately, So let's dive right in. 518 00:36:14,915 --> 00:36:17,315 Speaker 1: Some of these got him into huge trouble in the 519 00:36:17,395 --> 00:36:20,155 Speaker 1: nineteen fifties, and I'm happy to think that they would 520 00:36:20,155 --> 00:36:23,635 Speaker 1: get him into huge trouble in the twenty twenties. We 521 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:27,155 Speaker 1: start with the least political of them, just the fun one. 522 00:36:27,515 --> 00:36:30,835 Speaker 1: The Mouse who Went to the Country by James Thurber. 523 00:36:32,835 --> 00:36:35,315 Speaker 1: Once upon a Sunday there was a city mouse who 524 00:36:35,395 --> 00:36:37,955 Speaker 1: went to visit a country mouse. He hit away on 525 00:36:37,995 --> 00:36:40,115 Speaker 1: a train the country mouse had told him to take, 526 00:36:40,355 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: only to find that on Sundays it did not stop 527 00:36:43,075 --> 00:36:46,275 Speaker 1: at Beddington. Hence the city mouse could not get off 528 00:36:46,275 --> 00:36:49,475 Speaker 1: at Beddington and catch a bus for Siebert's Junction, where 529 00:36:49,475 --> 00:36:51,755 Speaker 1: he was to be met by the country mouse. The 530 00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:55,075 Speaker 1: city mouse, in fact, was carried on to Middelburg, where 531 00:36:55,075 --> 00:36:57,835 Speaker 1: he waited three hours for a train to take him back. 532 00:36:58,355 --> 00:37:00,395 Speaker 1: When he got back to Beddington, he found out that 533 00:37:00,475 --> 00:37:03,355 Speaker 1: the last bus for Seebirch Junction had just left, so 534 00:37:03,395 --> 00:37:05,755 Speaker 1: he ran, and he ran, and he ran, and he 535 00:37:05,795 --> 00:37:08,675 Speaker 1: finally caught the bus and crept aboard, only to find 536 00:37:08,715 --> 00:37:10,995 Speaker 1: out that it was not the bus for Siebert's Junction 537 00:37:11,075 --> 00:37:14,115 Speaker 1: at all, but was going in the opposite direction through 538 00:37:14,195 --> 00:37:19,635 Speaker 1: Pell's hollow and grum to a place called Whimberbee. When 539 00:37:19,675 --> 00:37:21,875 Speaker 1: the bus finally stopped, the city mouse got out in 540 00:37:21,915 --> 00:37:24,115 Speaker 1: a heavy rain and found that there were no more 541 00:37:24,155 --> 00:37:28,395 Speaker 1: buses that night going anywhere. To the hell with it, 542 00:37:28,795 --> 00:37:31,075 Speaker 1: said the city mouse, and he walked back to the 543 00:37:31,075 --> 00:37:40,275 Speaker 1: city moral. Stay where you are, you're sitting pretty. The 544 00:37:40,435 --> 00:37:45,755 Speaker 1: Very Proper Gander by James Thurber. Not so very long ago, 545 00:37:45,835 --> 00:37:48,635 Speaker 1: there was a very fine gander. He was strong and 546 00:37:48,755 --> 00:37:51,315 Speaker 1: smooth and beautiful, and he spent most of his time 547 00:37:51,795 --> 00:37:56,035 Speaker 1: singing to his wife and children. One day somebody who 548 00:37:56,075 --> 00:37:59,555 Speaker 1: saw him strutting up and down in his yard and singing, remarked, 549 00:38:00,115 --> 00:38:04,515 Speaker 1: there is a very proper gander. An old hen over 550 00:38:04,955 --> 00:38:07,195 Speaker 1: this and told her husband about it. That night in 551 00:38:07,235 --> 00:38:12,315 Speaker 1: the roost they said something about propaganda. She said, I 552 00:38:12,355 --> 00:38:15,635 Speaker 1: have always suspected that, said the rooster, And he went 553 00:38:15,675 --> 00:38:18,315 Speaker 1: around the barnyard next day telling everybody that the very 554 00:38:18,355 --> 00:38:21,515 Speaker 1: fine gander was a dangerous bird, more than likely a 555 00:38:21,675 --> 00:38:27,235 Speaker 1: hawk in gander's clothing. A small brown hen remembered a 556 00:38:27,315 --> 00:38:30,235 Speaker 1: time when, at a great distance she had seen the 557 00:38:30,275 --> 00:38:35,155 Speaker 1: gander talking with some hawks in the forest. They were 558 00:38:35,195 --> 00:38:39,475 Speaker 1: apt to no good, she said, A duck remembered that 559 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:41,595 Speaker 1: the gander had once told him he did not believe 560 00:38:41,675 --> 00:38:45,235 Speaker 1: in anything. He said, to hell with the flag too, 561 00:38:45,275 --> 00:38:49,115 Speaker 1: said the duck. A guinea hen recalled that she had 562 00:38:49,155 --> 00:38:52,555 Speaker 1: once seen somebody who looked very much like the gander 563 00:38:53,075 --> 00:38:57,915 Speaker 1: throw something that looked a great deal like a bomb. Finally, 564 00:38:58,115 --> 00:39:01,395 Speaker 1: everybody snatched up sticks and stones and descended on the 565 00:39:01,435 --> 00:39:04,755 Speaker 1: gander's house. He was strutting in his front yard, singing 566 00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:07,875 Speaker 1: to his children and his wife. There he is, everybody cried, 567 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:15,755 Speaker 1: hawk lover, unbeliever, flag hater, bomb thrower. So they set 568 00:39:15,835 --> 00:39:19,275 Speaker 1: upon him and drove him out of the country. Moral 569 00:39:19,955 --> 00:39:22,435 Speaker 1: anybody who you or your wife thinks is going to 570 00:39:22,475 --> 00:39:25,475 Speaker 1: overthrow the government by violence must be driven out of 571 00:39:25,475 --> 00:39:33,075 Speaker 1: the country. The very proper Gander by James Thurber. The 572 00:39:33,155 --> 00:39:37,235 Speaker 1: Moth and the Star, and I have a tattoo pertaining 573 00:39:37,235 --> 00:39:42,195 Speaker 1: to this one by James Thurber. A young and impressionable 574 00:39:42,395 --> 00:39:46,355 Speaker 1: moth once set his heart on a certain star. He 575 00:39:46,435 --> 00:39:49,355 Speaker 1: told his mother about this, and she counseled him to 576 00:39:49,395 --> 00:39:53,075 Speaker 1: set his heart on a bridge lamp instead. Stars aren't 577 00:39:53,075 --> 00:39:56,475 Speaker 1: the thing to hang around, she said. Lamps say the 578 00:39:56,515 --> 00:40:01,075 Speaker 1: thing to hang around. You get somewhere that way, said 579 00:40:01,115 --> 00:40:05,635 Speaker 1: the moth's father. You don't get anywhere chasing stars. But 580 00:40:05,875 --> 00:40:08,035 Speaker 1: the moth would not heed the words of either parent. 581 00:40:08,675 --> 00:40:11,395 Speaker 1: Every evening, at dusk, when the star came out, he 582 00:40:11,435 --> 00:40:14,235 Speaker 1: would start flying toward it, and every morning at dawn 583 00:40:14,235 --> 00:40:17,595 Speaker 1: he would crawl back home, worn out with his vein endeavor. 584 00:40:18,435 --> 00:40:21,115 Speaker 1: One day his father said to him, you haven't burned 585 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:23,915 Speaker 1: a wing in months, boy, and it looks to me 586 00:40:23,955 --> 00:40:26,795 Speaker 1: as if you're never going to. All your brothers have 587 00:40:26,875 --> 00:40:30,355 Speaker 1: been badly burned flying around street lamps, all your sisters 588 00:40:30,355 --> 00:40:34,635 Speaker 1: have been terribly singed flying around house lamps. Come on, now, 589 00:40:34,675 --> 00:40:38,395 Speaker 1: get out there and get yourself scorched. Big strip and 590 00:40:38,515 --> 00:40:41,795 Speaker 1: moth like you without a muck on him. The moth 591 00:40:41,915 --> 00:40:44,715 Speaker 1: left his father's house, but he would not fly around 592 00:40:44,755 --> 00:40:47,555 Speaker 1: street lamps, and he would not fly around house lamps. 593 00:40:47,675 --> 00:40:50,875 Speaker 1: He went right on trying to reach the star, which 594 00:40:50,995 --> 00:40:54,395 Speaker 1: was four and one third light years or twenty five 595 00:40:54,635 --> 00:40:58,675 Speaker 1: trillion miles away. The moth thought it was just caught 596 00:40:58,715 --> 00:41:02,595 Speaker 1: in the top branches of an elm. He never did 597 00:41:02,635 --> 00:41:04,955 Speaker 1: reach the star, but he went right on trying night 598 00:41:04,995 --> 00:41:07,555 Speaker 1: after night, and when he was a very very old 599 00:41:07,755 --> 00:41:11,395 Speaker 1: moth he began to think that he really had reached 600 00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:14,715 Speaker 1: the star, and he went around saying so. This gave 601 00:41:14,795 --> 00:41:17,515 Speaker 1: him a deep and lasting pleasure, and he lived to 602 00:41:17,555 --> 00:41:21,115 Speaker 1: a great old age. His parents, and his brothers and 603 00:41:21,155 --> 00:41:23,995 Speaker 1: his sisters had all been burned to death when they 604 00:41:23,995 --> 00:41:29,475 Speaker 1: were quite young. Moral who flies afar from the sphere 605 00:41:29,515 --> 00:41:36,675 Speaker 1: of our sorrow is here today and here tomorrow. The 606 00:41:36,715 --> 00:41:42,675 Speaker 1: Moth and the Star by James Thurber. Another one, the 607 00:41:42,755 --> 00:41:47,995 Speaker 1: owl who was God. Once upon a starless midnight, there 608 00:41:48,035 --> 00:41:49,675 Speaker 1: was an owl who sat on the branch of an 609 00:41:49,675 --> 00:41:54,395 Speaker 1: oak tree. Two ground moles tried to slip quietly by unnoticed, 610 00:41:54,675 --> 00:42:00,475 Speaker 1: You said the owl. Who They quavered in fear and astonishment, 611 00:42:00,755 --> 00:42:02,715 Speaker 1: for they could not believe it was possible for anyone 612 00:42:02,715 --> 00:42:07,035 Speaker 1: to see them in that thick darkness, You too, said 613 00:42:07,035 --> 00:42:10,595 Speaker 1: the owl. The moles hurried away and told the other 614 00:42:10,635 --> 00:42:12,995 Speaker 1: creatures of the field and forest that the owl was 615 00:42:13,035 --> 00:42:15,635 Speaker 1: the greatest and wisest of all animals, because he could 616 00:42:15,675 --> 00:42:18,475 Speaker 1: see in the dark, and because he could answer any question. 617 00:42:19,715 --> 00:42:22,875 Speaker 1: I'll see about that, said a secretary bird, And he 618 00:42:22,955 --> 00:42:24,955 Speaker 1: called on the owl one night, when it was again 619 00:42:25,115 --> 00:42:28,315 Speaker 1: very dark. How many claws am I houlding? Up, said 620 00:42:28,355 --> 00:42:32,475 Speaker 1: the secretary bird, too, said the owl, and he was right. 621 00:42:33,515 --> 00:42:35,875 Speaker 1: Can you give me another expression, for that is to 622 00:42:35,955 --> 00:42:41,515 Speaker 1: say or namely? Asked the secretary bird, to wit, said 623 00:42:41,515 --> 00:42:44,835 Speaker 1: the owl. Why does a lover call on his love? 624 00:42:45,155 --> 00:42:51,675 Speaker 1: Asked the secretary bird to woo, said the owl. The 625 00:42:51,715 --> 00:42:54,675 Speaker 1: secretary bird hastened back to the other creatures and reported 626 00:42:54,675 --> 00:42:57,315 Speaker 1: that the owl was indeed the greatest and wisest animal 627 00:42:57,315 --> 00:42:58,915 Speaker 1: in the world, because he could see in the dark, 628 00:42:58,955 --> 00:43:03,515 Speaker 1: and because he could answer any question. Can he see 629 00:43:03,515 --> 00:43:08,515 Speaker 1: in the daytime? Asked a red fox, Yes, echoed a 630 00:43:08,515 --> 00:43:12,915 Speaker 1: dormouse and a French poodle. Can he see in the daytime? Too? 631 00:43:13,195 --> 00:43:16,715 Speaker 1: All the other creatures laughed loudly at this silly question, 632 00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:19,075 Speaker 1: and they set upon the red fox and his friends 633 00:43:19,115 --> 00:43:21,675 Speaker 1: and drove them out of the region. Then they sent 634 00:43:21,755 --> 00:43:23,915 Speaker 1: a messenger to the owl and asked him to be 635 00:43:24,475 --> 00:43:28,995 Speaker 1: their leader. When the owl appeared among the animals, it 636 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,115 Speaker 1: was high noon and the sun was shining brightly. He 637 00:43:32,155 --> 00:43:35,595 Speaker 1: walked very slowly, which gave him an appearance of great dignity, 638 00:43:35,915 --> 00:43:40,035 Speaker 1: and he peered about him with large, staring eyes, which 639 00:43:40,035 --> 00:43:44,955 Speaker 1: gave him an air of tremendous importance. He's God, screamed 640 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:48,155 Speaker 1: a Plymouth rockhand, and the others took up the cry 641 00:43:48,235 --> 00:43:51,835 Speaker 1: He's God, He's God. So they followed him wherever he went, 642 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:54,955 Speaker 1: and when he began to bump into things, they began 643 00:43:55,035 --> 00:43:58,435 Speaker 1: to bump into things too. Finally, he came to a 644 00:43:58,515 --> 00:44:01,115 Speaker 1: concrete highway, and he started up the middle of it, 645 00:44:01,315 --> 00:44:04,435 Speaker 1: and all the other creatures followed him. Presently, a hawk, 646 00:44:04,435 --> 00:44:07,515 Speaker 1: who was acting as an outrider, observed a truck coming 647 00:44:07,515 --> 00:44:10,475 Speaker 1: toward them at fifty miles an hour, and he reported 648 00:44:10,515 --> 00:44:13,155 Speaker 1: to the secretary bird, and the secretary bird reported to 649 00:44:13,155 --> 00:44:18,275 Speaker 1: the owl. There's danger ahead, said the secretary bird. Too. Wit, 650 00:44:18,755 --> 00:44:23,035 Speaker 1: said the owl. The secretary bird told him, aren't you afraid, 651 00:44:23,235 --> 00:44:28,315 Speaker 1: he asked, woo, said the owl calmly, for he could 652 00:44:28,315 --> 00:44:31,755 Speaker 1: not see the truck. He's God, cried all the creatures again, 653 00:44:31,915 --> 00:44:34,835 Speaker 1: and they were still crying, He's God, He's God, when 654 00:44:34,875 --> 00:44:37,915 Speaker 1: the truck hit them and ran them down. Some of 655 00:44:37,915 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: the animals were merely injured, but most of them, including 656 00:44:40,235 --> 00:44:45,795 Speaker 1: the owl, were killed. Moral you can fool too many 657 00:44:45,915 --> 00:44:51,875 Speaker 1: of the people too much of the time. The owl 658 00:44:52,435 --> 00:44:58,395 Speaker 1: who was God by James thurberd two more of Thurber's fables, 659 00:44:58,555 --> 00:45:04,475 Speaker 1: Political of nature, the birds and the foxes. Once upon 660 00:45:04,515 --> 00:45:07,195 Speaker 1: a there was a bird sanctuary in which hundreds of 661 00:45:07,235 --> 00:45:11,835 Speaker 1: Baltimore orioles lived together happily. The refuge consisted of a 662 00:45:12,035 --> 00:45:16,315 Speaker 1: forest entirely surrounded by a high wire fence. When it 663 00:45:16,395 --> 00:45:19,395 Speaker 1: was put up, a pack of foxes who lived nearby 664 00:45:19,515 --> 00:45:23,955 Speaker 1: protested that it was an arbitrary and unnatural boundary. However, 665 00:45:24,035 --> 00:45:26,155 Speaker 1: they did nothing about it at the time because they 666 00:45:26,195 --> 00:45:29,555 Speaker 1: were interested in civilizing the geese and ducks on the 667 00:45:29,555 --> 00:45:32,995 Speaker 1: neighboring farms. When all the geese and ducks had been 668 00:45:33,075 --> 00:45:36,835 Speaker 1: civilized and there was nothing left to eat, the foxes 669 00:45:36,915 --> 00:45:40,035 Speaker 1: once more turned their attention to the bird sanctuary. Their 670 00:45:40,115 --> 00:45:43,635 Speaker 1: leader announced that there had been foxes once in the sanctuary, 671 00:45:43,675 --> 00:45:46,395 Speaker 1: but that they had been driven out. He proclaimed that 672 00:45:46,435 --> 00:45:50,795 Speaker 1: Baltimore orioles belonged in Baltimore. He said furthermore that the 673 00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:54,155 Speaker 1: orioles in the sanctuary were a continuous menace to the 674 00:45:54,195 --> 00:45:57,995 Speaker 1: peace of the world. The other animals cautioned the foxes 675 00:45:58,235 --> 00:46:02,275 Speaker 1: not to disturb the birds in their sanctuary, So the 676 00:46:02,315 --> 00:46:05,115 Speaker 1: foxes attacked the sanctuary one night and tore down the 677 00:46:05,115 --> 00:46:07,755 Speaker 1: fence that surrounded it. The orioles rushed out and were 678 00:46:07,795 --> 00:46:11,555 Speaker 1: instantly killed and eaten by the foxes. The next day, 679 00:46:11,635 --> 00:46:14,635 Speaker 1: the leader of the foxes, a fox from whom God 680 00:46:14,715 --> 00:46:18,915 Speaker 1: was receiving daily guidance, got under the rostrum and addressed 681 00:46:18,955 --> 00:46:22,435 Speaker 1: the other foxes from it. His message was simple and sublime. 682 00:46:23,155 --> 00:46:27,275 Speaker 1: You see before you, he said another Lincoln, we have 683 00:46:27,395 --> 00:46:34,435 Speaker 1: liberated all them birds. Moral government of the orioles by 684 00:46:34,475 --> 00:46:40,755 Speaker 1: the foxes, and for the foxes must perish from the earth. 685 00:46:43,595 --> 00:46:51,635 Speaker 1: And lastly, the peace like mongoose by James Thurber. In 686 00:46:51,795 --> 00:46:55,515 Speaker 1: cobra country, a mongoose was born one day who did 687 00:46:55,595 --> 00:46:59,635 Speaker 1: not want to fight cobras or anything else. The words 688 00:46:59,635 --> 00:47:02,035 Speaker 1: spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose 689 00:47:02,035 --> 00:47:04,035 Speaker 1: who didn't want to fight cobras. If he didn't want 690 00:47:04,035 --> 00:47:06,115 Speaker 1: to fight anything else, it was his own business, But 691 00:47:06,195 --> 00:47:10,515 Speaker 1: it was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobras 692 00:47:11,315 --> 00:47:17,555 Speaker 1: or be killed by cobras. Why, asked the peace like mongoose, 693 00:47:17,875 --> 00:47:20,635 Speaker 1: And the word went around that the strange new mongoose 694 00:47:20,715 --> 00:47:27,555 Speaker 1: was not only pro cobra and anti mongoose, but intellectually 695 00:47:27,715 --> 00:47:32,755 Speaker 1: curious and against the ideals and traditions of Mongoosism. He 696 00:47:32,915 --> 00:47:37,115 Speaker 1: is crazy, cried the young mongoose's father. Hey is sick, 697 00:47:37,675 --> 00:47:42,275 Speaker 1: said his mother. He's a coward, shouted his brothers. He 698 00:47:42,435 --> 00:47:47,795 Speaker 1: is a mongoose sexual, whispered his sisters. Strangers who had 699 00:47:47,835 --> 00:47:50,595 Speaker 1: never laid eyes on the piece like mongoose, remembered that 700 00:47:50,635 --> 00:47:53,995 Speaker 1: they had seen him crawling on his stomach, or trying 701 00:47:54,035 --> 00:48:01,435 Speaker 1: on cobra hoods, or plotting the violent overthrow of Mongoosia. 702 00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:07,235 Speaker 1: I'm trying to use reason and intelligence, said the strange 703 00:48:07,355 --> 00:48:13,715 Speaker 1: new mongoose. Reason is six sevenths of treason, said one 704 00:48:13,755 --> 00:48:20,075 Speaker 1: of his neighbors. Intelligence is what the enemy uses, said another. Finally, 705 00:48:20,155 --> 00:48:22,355 Speaker 1: the rumor spread that the mongoose had venom in his 706 00:48:22,475 --> 00:48:26,155 Speaker 1: sting like a cobra, and he was tried, convicted by 707 00:48:26,155 --> 00:48:32,515 Speaker 1: a show of pause, and condemned to banishment. Moral ashes 708 00:48:32,555 --> 00:48:36,475 Speaker 1: to ashes, and clay to clay. If the enemy doesn't 709 00:48:36,475 --> 00:48:42,395 Speaker 1: get you your own folks, may the peace. Like mongoose 710 00:48:44,075 --> 00:48:59,995 Speaker 1: by James Thurber, I've done all the damage I can 711 00:49:00,035 --> 00:49:02,035 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. We're now back to 712 00:49:02,075 --> 00:49:05,395 Speaker 1: five episodes a week, posting nightly just after mid night Eastern. 713 00:49:05,755 --> 00:49:08,435 Speaker 1: Follow me for the podcast promo videos as well, which 714 00:49:08,475 --> 00:49:14,395 Speaker 1: appear on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, and you face. 715 00:49:15,875 --> 00:49:21,675 Speaker 1: Once again, there is a Monday countdown. Please listen to it. 716 00:49:22,955 --> 00:49:25,635 Speaker 1: Also send this podcast or the link to it to 717 00:49:25,715 --> 00:49:28,755 Speaker 1: somebody who does not know that they really need to listen. 718 00:49:29,515 --> 00:49:33,315 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil, the musical directors of Countdown, arranged, produced, 719 00:49:33,315 --> 00:49:36,635 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanel handled orchestration 720 00:49:36,675 --> 00:49:40,075 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, 721 00:49:40,235 --> 00:49:43,475 Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and 722 00:49:43,475 --> 00:49:46,515 Speaker 1: pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 723 00:49:46,635 --> 00:49:50,715 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. Sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 724 00:49:50,995 --> 00:49:54,595 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other 725 00:49:54,715 --> 00:49:57,595 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 726 00:49:57,955 --> 00:50:03,515 Speaker 1: My announcer today is my friend Larry David, Yankees fan fan. 727 00:50:04,675 --> 00:50:09,115 Speaker 1: Everything else was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today. 728 00:50:09,195 --> 00:50:13,395 Speaker 1: One weekend, four days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, 729 00:50:13,755 --> 00:50:18,275 Speaker 1: the one and eighty ninth day since convicted felon associated 730 00:50:18,355 --> 00:50:22,755 Speaker 1: fugue Jay Trump's first attempted coo against the democratically elected 731 00:50:22,795 --> 00:50:25,995 Speaker 1: government of the United States, use the election, use the 732 00:50:25,995 --> 00:50:29,035 Speaker 1: mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from 733 00:50:29,075 --> 00:50:37,435 Speaker 1: doing it again while we still can. The next scheduled 734 00:50:37,475 --> 00:50:40,795 Speaker 1: countdown is Monday. Bulletin says the news requires till then, 735 00:50:40,795 --> 00:50:44,515 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Oulberman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. 736 00:51:05,075 --> 00:51:09,035 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 737 00:51:09,195 --> 00:51:14,275 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 738 00:51:14,395 --> 00:51:16,355 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.