Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. While
Speaker 1: he's here, you know what, Let's arrest Putin. There's an
Speaker 1: arrest warrant for him from the International Criminal Court. Sure
Speaker 1: we're not a member country, because well, Trump and his
Speaker 1: co conspirator Dictatorship are criminals. That would be awkward. And
Speaker 1: whether you want to call it collusion or conspiracy or
Speaker 1: simple ownership, Putin still runs Trump. But while he's here,
Speaker 1: let's arrest Vladimir Putin. The one and twenty five member
Speaker 1: states of the International Criminal Court have been looking to
Speaker 1: put Putin away, most recently for kidnapping thousands of Ukrainian
Speaker 1: children and forcing them to speak Russian and pretending they
Speaker 1: are without homes or they've been abandoned or their refugees
Speaker 1: literally the sick joke about killing the parents and then
Speaker 1: claiming what's left over is orphans. The one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five member states that have a series of arrest
Speaker 1: warrants for Russia's monsters for all kinds of war crimes
Speaker 1: in Ukraine include the rest of our continent, Canada, and Mexico.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not gonna happen, but it sure would
Speaker 1: be nice to see the Canadian military move across its
Speaker 1: border into Alaska and take Putin. Who knows, maybe Vladimir
Speaker 1: would hide behind Trump is a human shield. You have
Speaker 1: to admit Trump would make a giant double XL human shield. Finally,
Speaker 1: something useful. Of course, Trump is already a giant double
Speaker 1: excel human shield for Putin. Figuratively, you will recall it
Speaker 1: was Trump who did nothing as Putin and Russia became
Speaker 1: ensconced in Crimea and the don Bas. During Trump's first junta.
Speaker 1: You will recall Trump's asinine campaign promise to settle Russia's
Speaker 1: invasion of Ukraine in one day. I believe we're at
Speaker 1: two hundred and four different one days since since seizing
Speaker 1: power again, Trump has given Putin two weeks to observe
Speaker 1: a ceasefire. When Putin ignored that, Trump gave him another
Speaker 1: two weeks. Then he said he was disappointed in Putin.
Speaker 1: Then he gave him fifty more days. Then he said
Speaker 1: he wondered if Putin was lying to him or what
Speaker 1: had happened to Putin. Then he gave him ten days.
Speaker 1: Then when those ten days ran out, he offered to
Speaker 1: meet with Putin. Not Putin, and Zelenski just Putin, and
Speaker 1: when the small problem of where to meet came up,
Speaker 1: Putin would be arrested in nearly all of those one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five ICC member nations. Trump volunteered our house, Alaska.
Speaker 1: This asshole lies to Trump about Ukraine five times that
Speaker 1: we know of, and Trump responds by inviting this butcher.
Speaker 1: This would be Stalin into our country unless you brought
Speaker 1: him here to drop twenty tons of shit on his head.
Speaker 1: Fu Trump. Also, Trump's special envoy dealing with Russia is
Speaker 1: either a moron or deliberately stalling for Putin, or both.
Speaker 1: This is that clown Witkof, not that clown Lutnik or
Speaker 1: that clown Huckabee or that clown Kellogg or that clown Vance.
Speaker 1: The German news outlet Build reports that Witkof is such
Speaker 1: a nitwit that, when he met with Putin, demanded as
Speaker 1: a starting point for any ceasefire negotiations the starting point
Speaker 1: that Ukrainian forces be withdrawn from those parts of Ukraine
Speaker 1: Putin falsely claims are his. Witkoff promptly decided that what
Speaker 1: Putin had said was he was offering to withdraw Russian
Speaker 1: forces from those parts of Ukraine. Honest to God life
Speaker 1: in prison. I thought you said life out of prison.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal has since confirmed this German report.
Speaker 1: In fact, Whitkof has now told at least three different
Speaker 1: versions of the phony Ukraine peace deal from Russia, one
Speaker 1: or two or all three of which are the nonsensical
Speaker 1: basis for inviting this scumbag Putin here to our country
Speaker 1: without a plan to detain him. Here's what Murdoch's paper wrote, quote.
Speaker 1: The European counterproposal concludes a week of frantic diplomacy triggered
Speaker 1: by Putin's overture to Whitkof. After the two men met
Speaker 1: at the Kremlin, Trump summoned a call with select European
Speaker 1: leaders and Zelensky to brief them on the proposal. On
Speaker 1: the call, Trump suggested that Russia would be ready to
Speaker 1: withdraw from the southern region of Zapparizia and Kherson in
Speaker 1: exchange for full control of Dunnetsk. That's the first version. However,
Speaker 1: here comes the second version. Witkoff walked back that claim
Speaker 1: the next day in a call with the chief aids
Speaker 1: of European leaders, suggesting that Russia would both withdraw and
Speaker 1: freeze the front line. It's two different things. The third one.
Speaker 1: On Friday, European officials demanded a third call with WITCOF
Speaker 1: to clarify the growing confusion about what Putin actually proposed.
Speaker 1: In that call, WITCOF clearly stated that the only offer
Speaker 1: on the table was for Ukraine to withdraw unilaterally from
Speaker 1: Donetsk in exchange for a ceasefire. Vance, Rubio, and Kellogg
Speaker 1: attended some of the calls, which is of course the
Speaker 1: same thing as Vance, Rubio, and Kellogg not attending any
Speaker 1: of the calls. There are a lot of stupid people
Speaker 1: working with Donald Trump. He surrounds himself with the best
Speaker 1: of the stupid people. In fact, he looks for people
Speaker 1: who are stupider than he is. To paraphrase Rodney Dangerfield,
Speaker 1: if you want to look smart, surround yourself with a
Speaker 1: bunch of wit Coffs, Vance's, Rubios and Kellogg's. But whit
Speaker 1: Cooff may be the stupidest outstanding work. Trump a moron
Speaker 1: actually found to negotiate for him, to negotiate for us,
Speaker 1: theoretically to negotiate for Ukraine an even bigger moron. And
Speaker 1: based on this guy's moronity, we are admitting Putin to
Speaker 1: this country. Hey call that hitler guy see if he
Speaker 1: wants to come to By the way, Putin actually did
Speaker 1: offer a concession in these negotiations, not to Ukraine, not
Speaker 1: to achieve peace, but he offered a concession to Trump.
Speaker 1: And what is that concession to meet him in Alaska?
Speaker 1: To go to Alaska? Going to Alaska? Is the concession Alaska?
Speaker 1: Or is the Russians call it Russian America. That's the
Speaker 1: win he's giving to Trump to condescend to come to
Speaker 1: our country and not get arrested, because he knows Trump
Speaker 1: desperately needs something he can pretend is a win, a triumph,
Speaker 1: a deal statesmanship, something other than Epstein. So when this
Speaker 1: meeting happens and Putin pitches something like who knows Ukraine
Speaker 1: is just erase from all maps tomorrow? And Trump endorses it.
Speaker 1: Because Trump so desperately wants a Nobel Peace Prize, or,
Speaker 1: as Caroline Levitt calls it, the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump
Speaker 1: will endorse anything that might get a Nobel Peace Prize
Speaker 1: for him. When Trump endorses it and Zelenski rejects it,
Speaker 1: Trump will start hating Zelensky again and blaming him, because
Speaker 1: this is about Trump getting a prize he hosted Azerbaijan
Speaker 1: and Armenia last week because he wants a prize. He
Speaker 1: didn't know what an Azerbaijan is. He just wants a prize,
Speaker 1: a major prize, a major prize. Like the father in
Speaker 1: the movie A Christmas Story wanted a major prize. He
Speaker 1: just wants a major prize, a nice glowing mesh stocking
Speaker 1: leg lamp to put in his window, A noble leg prize.
Speaker 1: I take back what I said about arresting Putin while
Speaker 1: he's here. Arrest Putin and Trump and this buffoon witcoff
Speaker 1: own Caroline Levitt to the idiot. So the Vice president
Speaker 1: is covering up a secret conspiracy meeting that was held
Speaker 1: to cover up the secret conspiracy Trump cover up of
Speaker 1: Trump Stein got it? You will recall that somebody leaked
Speaker 1: that Advance was supposed to host Vance evidently taking a
Speaker 1: day off from his exhausting schedule of back to back
Speaker 1: to back vacations. Vance was supposed to host for dinner
Speaker 1: at the Vice President's residence last Wednesday. White House Chief
Speaker 1: of Staff Susie Wiles, Attorney General Blondie FBI director Keep
Speaker 1: Your Eye on the Ball Patel, and Deputy Attorney General
Speaker 1: Todd Blanche visibly to discuss the ongoing Trump Epstein crisis,
Speaker 1: specifically what to do with the tape and the transcript
Speaker 1: of Trump's first deal with Glaine Maxwell, where he flew
Speaker 1: Todd Blanche to her prison cell and Blanche gave her
Speaker 1: immunity for two days and then Presto chaninjo she wound
Speaker 1: up being moved from that prison cell to a club
Speaker 1: fed jail camp in Texas. Release the tape, burn the tape,
Speaker 1: claim the tape is missing a minute, do something about
Speaker 1: whatever crisis it presented, depending on whatever it was that
Speaker 1: Maxwell revealed about Trump or threatened with or whatever during
Speaker 1: that meeting. Vance and the others immediately denied there was
Speaker 1: such a meeting. It was fake news. It was they lied.
Speaker 1: It now turns out that to make it technically not
Speaker 1: a lie, they had the dinner all right with all
Speaker 1: those people and talked about Epstein. They just did not
Speaker 1: have it at the Vice President's residence at the Naval Observatory.
Speaker 1: They moved it to the White House. That way. When
Speaker 1: they said they sure as hell were not meeting about
Speaker 1: Epstein Advance's residents, they weren't lying. They were meeting about
Speaker 1: Epstein at Trump's residence. We still don't know what happened,
Speaker 1: except for the fact that the lead has been buried
Speaker 1: by those who broke that story, and then those who
Speaker 1: broke that story that the venue was changed, and by
Speaker 1: those few news organizations that have brought it up since
Speaker 1: the lead is why we're vance Wiles, Bondi, Patel, and
Speaker 1: Blanche meeting about Epstein, about Gallaine Maxwell without Trump being there?
Speaker 1: Where was Trump? Why would they meet about Epstein and
Speaker 1: not have Trump there? Because whether there's a picture of
Speaker 1: Trump on every page if the Epstein files, or there's
Speaker 1: literally sworn testimony in them from every victim saying Trump
Speaker 1: was not involved, the Trump conspiratorial mob's interest in the
Speaker 1: Epstein case is Trump period. So it wasn't like he
Speaker 1: wasn't there because he was golfing at Sunset. We are
Speaker 1: all left speculating. Seems to me pretty clear they needed
Speaker 1: to figure out what to do about Trump whenever whatever
Speaker 1: was in the files or whatever was in Maxwell's conversations
Speaker 1: with Blanche got out, or how to keep it from
Speaker 1: getting out, or how to keep Trump from finding out,
Speaker 1: or who to get in as the new president of
Speaker 1: what was in there about Trump was really really bad.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a cover up. It's obviously a cover up.
Speaker 1: That's not a conclusion. Trump keeps saying it's a cover up.
Speaker 1: He keeps saying he has to protect people who would
Speaker 1: be hurt by the truth. He meanders around that basic line.
Speaker 1: But that's what he's saying, again and again. We can't
Speaker 1: release it because innocent people may be hurt. Innocent meaning
Speaker 1: him and his relatives. That is the definition of a
Speaker 1: cover up. We have the information, we're not going to
Speaker 1: tell you. Cover up. Let's talk cover up. Make sure
Speaker 1: Trump is not there? Why not? Well, the cover up
Speaker 1: is about him. Happily, just as those of us still
Speaker 1: paying attention to Trump's steen were worrying that it might
Speaker 1: be losing steam as a news story, here comes JV. Vance,
Speaker 1: not on vacation for the second time in a week.
Speaker 1: What is there an asteroid about to hit the earth? JV.
Speaker 1: Vance goes on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Fox Show. And by
Speaker 1: the way, he's wearing more makeup and eyeliner than she is,
Speaker 1: and she wears a lot. And how in the hell
Speaker 1: has he gotten away with this for a year as
Speaker 1: the number two person in the Let's kill all the
Speaker 1: drag Queens party. I mean, I'm opposed to this. I
Speaker 1: have nothing against drag queens, but at some point are
Speaker 1: any of these cultists going to come down from whatever
Speaker 1: drug they are all high on. We hate drag queens.
Speaker 1: What's that on Vance's face? Anyway? JV goes on with
Speaker 1: Bartiromo and says, quote, we know that Jeffrey Epstein had
Speaker 1: a lot of connections with left wing politicians and left
Speaker 1: wing billionaires. Democrat billionaires and Democrat political leaders went to
Speaker 1: Epstein Island all the time. Who knows what they did,
Speaker 1: which raises two points JV. One, if that's how you
Speaker 1: read it, boy, why haven't you released the files? If
Speaker 1: this is a treasure trove of details about Democrat billionaires
Speaker 1: and left wing billionaires and Democrat political leaders and left
Speaker 1: wing politicians going to Epstein Island and who knows what
Speaker 1: they did? Isn't this the kind of stuff you MAGA
Speaker 1: scum make sure goes public even when it doesn't really exist.
Speaker 1: Why are you suddenly covering up for them? The second point,
Speaker 1: of course, is that throughout the Epstein era, one of
Speaker 1: those left wing politician, left wing billionaire Democratic billionaire Democratic
Speaker 1: political leaders registered Democrats was Donald Trump. Oh, I get it.
Speaker 1: That second point I just made there that explains my
Speaker 1: first point. That's yeah, what we are seeing is clearly
Speaker 1: the outcome of dinner with JV and Susie Wiles. When
Speaker 1: Trump does something new, suddenly, irrationally. That's my next item
Speaker 1: about this nutso demand that the homeless move out of DC.
Speaker 1: Thank you for your attention to this matter, because all
Speaker 1: homeless people have the truth social app When he does
Speaker 1: something out of the blue, there's always something in the
Speaker 1: background that has actually just thrown him, something so big
Speaker 1: that it got through that haze of mirrors that he
Speaker 1: holds around his own face, so you can always see
Speaker 1: how handsome and beautiful he is. Now, this could be
Speaker 1: a Yugov poll for The Economist, showing that his approval
Speaker 1: among conservatives, while still wildly above water, is not as
Speaker 1: wildly above water as it was just a month ago.
Speaker 1: He was a net plus eighty among conservatives in July,
Speaker 1: and he's a net plus sixty five in August. Reading
Speaker 1: conservative poll numbers is always a risky business, but a
Speaker 1: lot of pole analysts look at the interior numbers in
Speaker 1: this Yugo of Economist poll and they see most of
Speaker 1: his slippage coming over the brutality of ice and much
Speaker 1: more significantly about how they're handling Epstein, Epstein, Epstein, Who
Speaker 1: mister katur, mister Katur, I know who net plus sixty
Speaker 1: five is net plus sixty five. But he loses that
Speaker 1: much support among conservatives every month, an admittedly crazy idea
Speaker 1: by itself, But if he loses fifteen points a month,
Speaker 1: by January, he would be underwater among conservatives at minus five.
Speaker 1: So dropping fifteen points in a month is not a
Speaker 1: big one, but it's an iceberg. That's what Susie and
Speaker 1: JV were meeting about, because if he drops five points
Speaker 1: among conservatives every month, by next November, he'll be at
Speaker 1: minus ten among conservatives. And guess what next November is
Speaker 1: now it rhymes with schmid schmerms. Trump is obviously in
Speaker 1: the Epstein files the way Gatsby is in The Great Gatsby.
Speaker 1: So you release none of it, but you keep saying
Speaker 1: maybe you will, and when you do, it'll implicate Nick
Speaker 1: Carraway and especially that meer wolfsheime guy. Trump tried to
Speaker 1: spend his weekend teasing a big press conference for today
Speaker 1: about seizing control of the district of Columbia. But of
Speaker 1: course he couldn't shut up. As I hinted earlier, that's
Speaker 1: his big surprise, to try to break your attention from
Speaker 1: Epstein and the disaster that is his mishandling of Ukraine.
Speaker 1: But by yesterday we knew it was going to be
Speaker 1: an attempt to sweep up the homeless and any suspected criminals,
Speaker 1: like the trash left over from the birthday parade Trump
Speaker 1: threw for himself in Washington. Speaking of which, you want
Speaker 1: to sweep up criminals in d C. Don hope you
Speaker 1: start with the Trump cabinet and your family. The first
Speaker 1: slime who should be rounded up is Howard Lutnik, the
Speaker 1: impossibly skilled Trump ass kisser. Howard used to be a
Speaker 1: sympathetic figure. Catter Fitzgerald was his firm. He was chairman.
Speaker 1: Six hundred and fifty eight of his employees died on
Speaker 1: nine to eleven and thereafter, including two of my college classmates.
Speaker 1: He helped organize fundraising recovery care for the families, treatment
Speaker 1: for the nine to eleven cancer victims. Now now what
Speaker 1: they're rite on his tombstone was he kissed the ass
Speaker 1: of a dictator who just cut sixty four million dollars
Speaker 1: in federal funding for terrorism prevention funding in New York City. Howard,
Speaker 1: you've apparently forgotten this now that you found a new
Speaker 1: life lying on television in service of the devil. But
Speaker 1: New York City is where Canter Fitzgerald and the World
Speaker 1: Trade Center was. I do have a practical suggestion about
Speaker 1: Trump's planned treatment of the homeless in DC, which may
Speaker 1: turn out to rival Putin's treatment of the stray dogs
Speaker 1: in Sochi during the twenty fourteen Winter Olympics. This monstrous
Speaker 1: ninety thousand square foot pile of shit Trump plants to
Speaker 1: put next to the White House, then spray it with
Speaker 1: gold plate and call it a ballroom. Move all homeless
Speaker 1: in there, although I can understand if they are reluctant
Speaker 1: to go in because of the rustolium seven seven one
Speaker 1: zero eight three zero. But Trump is now sprayed on
Speaker 1: everything in the area, including Milania. Just because one is
Speaker 1: homeless does not mean one ceases to have taste and standards,
Speaker 1: which would invariably be better than Donald Trump's. And then
Speaker 1: there's the most underrated story and most underrated villain of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Columbia University and my former friend and
Speaker 1: colleague gets co chair and Acting President Claire Neville chamberlainshipman
Speaker 1: her cowardice. Her university's cowardice has inspired cowardice copycats everywhere
Speaker 1: in academia. Everything you ever thought bad about a teacher
Speaker 1: or a professor turns out they went into the management
Speaker 1: of our major universities. Trump is now trying to find
Speaker 1: a way to invalidate patents held by Harvard because because
Speaker 1: this is a dictatorship, and he wants a billion dollars
Speaker 1: from UCLA, or he will cut off research grants to
Speaker 1: UCLA because this is a dictatorship. And he has now
Speaker 1: gotten pen to cancel its equal opportunity scholarships because this
Speaker 1: is a dictatorship. On the other hand, as usual, it
Speaker 1: is the students at these places showing most of the guts.
Speaker 1: The newspaper, The Stanford Daily is suing the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Stanford is not suing the newspaper run by the students.
Speaker 1: The Stanford Daily is suing the Trump administration over its
Speaker 1: use of immigration laws to target and deport pro Palestinian
Speaker 1: activists because international students on the staff of The Stanford
Speaker 1: Daily are turning down news assignments related to the War
Speaker 1: on Gaza or quote seeking removal of their previous articles
Speaker 1: about it. The lawyers for the student papers say the
Speaker 1: government is actively and retroactively violating the First Amendment. Unlike
Speaker 1: the people they pay their money to and are supposed
Speaker 1: to learn from, they are doing something. I'll say it again.
Speaker 1: You know what would have stopped this, this particular thing
Speaker 1: about academia if when Trump first aimed symbolic rocket launchers
Speaker 1: at Columbia and at his own alma mater, Penn, if
Speaker 1: Penn had said, you go girl, and then announced it
Speaker 1: was withdrawing Trump's degree from the Wharton School at the
Speaker 1: University of Pennsylvania. Or if Penn had merely announced that
Speaker 1: Trump's degree was now under review, a review that will
Speaker 1: take several years because of irregularities discovered in the admissions
Speaker 1: office records of the time, which they had just found
Speaker 1: while looking for DEI stuff at Penn. And you know
Speaker 1: what else, If Penn did that now we're reviewing Trump's degree,
Speaker 1: it will take till the year twenty thirty six. If
Speaker 1: Penn did that now, it would completely push Trump and
Speaker 1: his multiple assholes back on their heels today. Ultimately, of course,
Speaker 1: we're still going to have to defund the federal government.
Speaker 1: That might wait till after the midterms, but at minimum
Speaker 1: going to have to do it no later than January
Speaker 1: twenty one, twenty twenty six. We have to starve Trump out.
Speaker 1: We have to demand he pays a billion dollars or
Speaker 1: any of you guys know how to turn off all
Speaker 1: the electricity to the White House in mary Lago. Worst
Speaker 1: person's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown thirty seven
Speaker 1: years ago. Right now they were getting a press conference ready.
Speaker 1: They were putting it together for that night, the biggest
Speaker 1: one in the history of hockey in California, one of
Speaker 1: the five biggest press conferences in the history of sports
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and as a vice president of the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles King's hockey team said to me, it's all
Speaker 1: your fault, you bastard. He was smiling at me though
Speaker 1: when he said that. I think it was a smile.
Speaker 1: The story of the greatest story I ever broke, and
Speaker 1: how I did almost nothing to break it. I didn't
Speaker 1: even phone it in. The sources phoned it into me
Speaker 1: next in things I promised not to tell. It's Kretzky
Speaker 1: Day first. Believe it or not, there's still more new
Speaker 1: idiots to talk about, the roundup of the miss Grants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other
Speaker 1: worst persons in the world, the Brons worse. Why it's
Speaker 1: Secretary Christy Nome, Christie Garden, Gnome CHRISTI murder your daughter's dog, Gnome, Christy,
Speaker 1: I'm keeping an entire industry alive, Gnome, reacting to her
Speaker 1: portrayal on South Park. And I'd like to point out
Speaker 1: that the ball all the guardrails that have failed us,
Speaker 1: the one last remaining guardrail, the last line of defense
Speaker 1: surrounding democracy, maybe South Park, Parker and Stone, and that's it.
Speaker 1: Washington Post out the window, the Courts, out the e
Speaker 1: fing window, CBS News out the window, NBC, ABC, out
Speaker 1: the window. Appeasement after appeasement by the university system. The
Speaker 1: university's out the window. Everybody in it for themselves, Like
Speaker 1: this is France in February of nineteen thirty freaking nine,
Speaker 1: not South Park. She's not happy with the portrayal, in
Speaker 1: which I believe they kind of represented her as Michael
Speaker 1: Palin's movie or Terry Gilliams movie Brazil portrayed one of
Speaker 1: the characters who's facial work melted one day and they
Speaker 1: were having problems with facial work and the faces just
Speaker 1: melted or turned into goo. And they did that with
Speaker 1: the Secretary Nome, who among our Western monuments, the only
Speaker 1: faces that have had more work than Christy Nomes are
Speaker 1: the ones on Mount Rushmore. Anyway, she's complaining and thou
Speaker 1: anything constantly main fine of women for how they look.
Speaker 1: She said to Glenn Beck that's right, Glenn Beck. I
Speaker 1: didn't know either. Yeah, so she managed to make her
Speaker 1: lips move long enough to be able to say in
Speaker 1: thou lay John constantly make fun of women for how
Speaker 1: they look. Well, Secretary Nome, we don't just make fun
Speaker 1: of how you look. We make fun of how you talk,
Speaker 1: because you've had so much work done that you can't
Speaker 1: move your mouth anymore. And we make fun, Secretary Nome,
Speaker 1: of the fact that you are a sadist who kills
Speaker 1: animals for pleasure and shoots puppies. And we make fun
Speaker 1: of the fact that you're a clown. We make fun
Speaker 1: of the fact that that you wear a variety of
Speaker 1: action adventure dress up outfits. And pretend to be tough
Speaker 1: and go to jails in other countries and stand in
Speaker 1: front of bunches of nude men in cages like a
Speaker 1: poor an actress. That's what we make fun of, and
Speaker 1: particularly those dress up outfits. Corey Lewandowski doll sold separately,
Speaker 1: runner up worser. Oh, it's ambassador Mike Huckabee. What's interesting
Speaker 1: about Mike Huckabee is, of course his interest in Israel
Speaker 1: is that it be destroyed, but destroyed the right way.
Speaker 1: They want. The fundamentalists, like this lunatic Huckabee and his
Speaker 1: daughter Huckster Huckabee, and his grandson huck Huckabee, they want
Speaker 1: to see a rapture and for the rapture to happen
Speaker 1: in this screwball version of the Bible that they have.
Speaker 1: The Bible being somewhat dubious source to begin with, but
Speaker 1: their screwball version of the Bible, it ends with all
Speaker 1: of the Jews being forcibly converted to screwball Bible religion,
Speaker 1: whichever one it is, fundamental, episca, whatever it is. And
Speaker 1: you know what happens if you don't get converted, if
Speaker 1: you're Jewish. Yeah, the other way to forcibly convert them
Speaker 1: and make sure that they're all converted. Is that you
Speaker 1: don't have any on earth who aren't converted? And how
Speaker 1: do you do that? Yeah, well, we know how people
Speaker 1: have tried this before. That's Huckabee's interest in Israel. That's
Speaker 1: why he is the ambassador to Israel, to make sure
Speaker 1: that when Israel is destroyed, it meets with his biblical approval.
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister of Great Britain here Starmer, Sir here Starmer,
Speaker 1: of whom I have many doubts, but Sir Kir wrote
Speaker 1: that the Israeli government's decision to further escalate its offensive
Speaker 1: in Gaza is wrong and we urge it to reconsider immediately.
Speaker 1: He went on about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and
Speaker 1: made excellent points. He did not go so far as
Speaker 1: to pull the plug on Israel, as Germany seems to
Speaker 1: be about to Hukkabee, and again Hekabee wants to see
Speaker 1: Israel destroyed and all the Jews in the world forcibly
Speaker 1: converted one way or the other. Huckabee writes, with his
Speaker 1: false sincerity, so Israel is expected to surrender to Hamas
Speaker 1: and feed them, even though Israeli hostages are being starved.
Speaker 1: And by the way, remember Mike Khawkabee became famous by
Speaker 1: selling people weight loss cures that, ultimately, as he proved,
Speaker 1: don't effing work. Speaking of starving people, did UK surrender
Speaker 1: to Nazis and drop four to them? Ever heard of
Speaker 1: Dresden PM starmer? That wasn't food you dropped. If you
Speaker 1: had been PM, then UK would be speaking German. If
Speaker 1: you're not in the United States, I'd like to point
Speaker 1: out that I don't know how many of us at
Speaker 1: the moment are infected by this brainworm or the curse
Speaker 1: or whatever it is that's caused the mass lowering of
Speaker 1: IQ and morality in this nation. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's forty percent or twenty percent. They're just real loud.
Speaker 1: But for those of us who do not have this
Speaker 1: brainworm and or curse, I'd like to once again apologize
Speaker 1: on behalf of all of us in real America for
Speaker 1: things like my cuckaby, and we're guilty of not doing
Speaker 1: enough to stop Mi Kukabe because bluntly, we're just so
Speaker 1: goddamned happy he's not in the country at the moment.
Speaker 1: He's one of our greatest shames. The Charlton Mike Huckabee
Speaker 1: has any role in the United States government, and to
Speaker 1: use his phrasing there, he of course sought the residency
Speaker 1: ran for president in two thousand and eight. Had he
Speaker 1: gained the presidency, we in America, we would all already
Speaker 1: be speaking Russian. Those are the first two nominees, but
Speaker 1: the winner the worst, Pam Blondie, our Attorney general, who
Speaker 1: makes Mike Huckabee seem like Woodrow Wilson, who sounds like
Speaker 1: she has failed hundreds of auditions as the co host
Speaker 1: on late night TV infomercials. Tell me more about these vegetables. Doctor.
Speaker 1: Apparently for a long time, we've had a bounty out
Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars on the scumbag Maduro, the essentially
Speaker 1: dictator of Venezuela, and calls himself, I guess a socialist.
Speaker 1: He's a scumbag. Well, she's just doubled this. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'd just like to point out again she does not
Speaker 1: know how to read any thing allowed, nor does she
Speaker 1: have any ability to modulate or control.
Speaker 2: A volume of her voice. Today, the Department of Justice
Speaker 2: and State Department are announcing a historic fifty million dollar
Speaker 2: reward for information leading to the arrest of Nicholas Maduro.
Speaker 2: Cocaine is often laced with fentanyl, resulting in the loss
Speaker 2: and destruction of countless American lives.
Speaker 1: Boy oh boy, pambody makes Christy Gnomes sound like the
Speaker 1: vintage Kathleen Turner. Am I right, guys, Holy crap. But wait,
Speaker 1: there's a fifty million dollar reward for information leading to
Speaker 1: the arrest of Nicholas Maduro. Like like where he is?
Speaker 1: Oo oo ooh, mister cutteur, mister cutteur, information leading to
Speaker 1: the earth he's in. He's in Venezuela. So Pam Blondy
Speaker 1: sent me my fifty million Pambondy, No, really, she's Attorney
Speaker 1: General no, the of the United States. Hey, I got
Speaker 1: an idea, Blondie. Why don't you arrest Putin while he's here?
Speaker 1: Two days? Worst person in the world. Just after dinner,
Speaker 1: the phone rang in my office at Channel five in
Speaker 1: La I am a viewer. I took a deep breath.
Speaker 1: You never knew where a call that started like that
Speaker 1: was going to end up. I just wanted you to know.
Speaker 1: I was out golfing at Riviera at the Riviera Club
Speaker 1: this afternoon and Bruce McNall, the owner of the kings
Speaker 1: Well He just walked through the locker room saying, hey, guys,
Speaker 1: if you want to buy your seasoned Kings tickets, do
Speaker 1: it now. It just traded for Wayne Gretzky. The price
Speaker 1: is going to go up next week. To be polite
Speaker 1: to the viewer, I asked a few questions, but frankly,
Speaker 1: the story was pretty stupid. This was the second week
Speaker 1: of August nineteen eighty eight, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of talk that the Edmonton Oilers were going to trade
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, the most famous player in hockey, and there
Speaker 1: was nearly as much talk that that trade would send
Speaker 1: him to use in La. But the owner of the
Speaker 1: Kings just telling passers by at random in a golf
Speaker 1: clubhouse that he had just made the trade. I was
Speaker 1: suspicious that I was being pranked. Fifteen minutes later, my
Speaker 1: phone rang again. Hi, I'm a big fan of yours
Speaker 1: and I watch every night. Here we go again. I
Speaker 1: was just having lunch with a friend of mine out
Speaker 1: here at the golf course in bel Air, and like
Speaker 1: an hour later, freaking Bruce McNall shows up in the
Speaker 1: dining room and asks for everybody's attention, and he says
Speaker 1: he's just completed the deal for Wayne Gretzky, and now
Speaker 1: I was beginning to get actually worried. I was a
Speaker 1: lame duck as the sports director of Channel five in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and for months there had been rumors that
Speaker 1: I was moving down the street to Channel two in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. There had been these rumors, mostly because I
Speaker 1: was moving down the street to Channel two. The deal
Speaker 1: had been done months earlier. We were going to announce
Speaker 1: it that week. In fact, as these two guys called in,
Speaker 1: I had actually been busily packing up my Channel five office.
Speaker 1: My thought now was that the sportscaster at the local
Speaker 1: NBC station, who had a bit of a substance problem
Speaker 1: and a nasty temper and a real dislike for the
Speaker 1: fact that I was nearly as popular as he was,
Speaker 1: was setting me up. I had once managed to mislead
Speaker 1: him into thinking we were about to break a story
Speaker 1: about a big LA football trade. There was no breaking
Speaker 1: story because there was no trade, and he had actually
Speaker 1: mentioned it on the air, having clearly stolen it from
Speaker 1: me because I was the one who had made it up.
Speaker 1: And oh was he furious at me for all I
Speaker 1: knew he wanted to embarrass me. Three weeks before I
Speaker 1: moved into direct competition with him at five, six and eleven.
Speaker 1: This August eighth, nineteen eighty eight was in fact my
Speaker 1: first day back after I had burned all my Channel
Speaker 1: five vacation time, and for all I knew, this guy
Speaker 1: at NBC had been having his staffers call me for
Speaker 1: a week with made up sightings of McNall confirming a
Speaker 1: Gretzky trade that frankly, I never believed was going to happen.
Speaker 1: I mean not to get two sidetracked here, But one
Speaker 1: day my phone rang and it was a kid who said, Hi,
Speaker 1: mister Oberman, I'm sorry, but I'm a finalist to be
Speaker 1: an intern here at Channel four for Fred Rogan, and
Speaker 1: mister Rogan says I can have the spot, but only
Speaker 1: if I call you up right now and say I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: If I call you up and I tell you to
Speaker 1: go f your self, the kid did not say f
Speaker 1: To his credit, he used his real name, Bill Weir.
Speaker 1: He later became a sportscaster for the third Network station
Speaker 1: in LA, then a correspondent for ABC and now CNN,
Speaker 1: and I have not let a year go by since
Speaker 1: without reminding him of his f yourself internship phone call
Speaker 1: he said life paid him back by making him work
Speaker 1: with the guy for several months. Anyway, back to Gretzky night.
Speaker 1: Two supposed listeners have called to say that Bruce McNall,
Speaker 1: the owner of the La Kings, is apparently trapesing through
Speaker 1: golf locker rooms and dining rooms at country clubs to
Speaker 1: tell them he has completed a trade for the babe
Speaker 1: ruth of hockey, Wayne Gretzky. And they're calling me because
Speaker 1: they like me. I'm suspicious. And now the phone rings again.
Speaker 1: This guy was playing golf at the La country Club.
Speaker 1: Same story, McNall, by your Kings tickets, No, I just
Speaker 1: got Gretzky. The next caller had been a yet a
Speaker 1: fourth club, I think Wilshire or something. If this was
Speaker 1: a prankett was a big one, and bluntly I had
Speaker 1: begun to admire it. Finally came a fifth call. You
Speaker 1: don't know me, but I watch you every night. I
Speaker 1: stumbled onto a story. I think you'll want to run tonight.
Speaker 1: I said, which golf course were you at? And he said,
Speaker 1: excuse me. I was in my office all day, and
Speaker 1: so was my missus. She's on the phone with me.
Speaker 1: She works for Bruce McNall the Kings. This time, I
Speaker 1: grabbed a pencil, Honey, why don't you take it from here?
Speaker 1: And she did. She worked in the finance office and
Speaker 1: she had, literally, she said, just made out a check
Speaker 1: for fifteen million dollars to the owner of the Edmonton Oilers,
Speaker 1: Peter Pocklington. She said, and the note memo where you
Speaker 1: write what it's for, I was told to put in
Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky. She also had seen the trade contract identified
Speaker 1: the players the Kings were going to give up with
Speaker 1: the fifteen million to get Gretzky. They were Jimmy Carson
Speaker 1: and Martinez Jell. There were also draft choices, but she
Speaker 1: didn't know or didn't remember the specifics of which ones. Now, breathless,
Speaker 1: I asked her if I could call her back through
Speaker 1: the switchboard of the LA Forum where the Kings and
Speaker 1: McNall's offices were, just to confirm she was who she
Speaker 1: said she was. She said, I could, I did she was.
Speaker 1: I believe. In fact, she turned out to be the
Speaker 1: only person on the McNall financial team that did not
Speaker 1: get charged with something. So now I went in to
Speaker 1: talk to my news director and to the producer of
Speaker 1: our newscast we were not on until ten PM. It
Speaker 1: was now about seven. They were very excited, and they
Speaker 1: said that given that I had exact details from a
Speaker 1: King's source, plus the four witnesses to the owner of
Speaker 1: the team shooting off his big bazoo at every golf
Speaker 1: course he could reach, that we should run it, and
Speaker 1: that we should run it as the lead news story
Speaker 1: right at the start of the newscast that night, which
Speaker 1: we did. The Kings would not confirm it, obviously, but
Speaker 1: as soon as I got off the with my sports
Speaker 1: cast the second time I reported this story, a reporter
Speaker 1: from the Associated Press was on the phone asking me
Speaker 1: to read him my script, which he then quoted word
Speaker 1: for word and put out on their sports wire. It
Speaker 1: was on the back page of the New York Post.
Speaker 1: The next day. My friends called me from New York
Speaker 1: to say, hey, your sports cast is on the back
Speaker 1: page of the New York Post along with this big
Speaker 1: picture of Wayne Gretzky. The leak caused the Kings to
Speaker 1: move up the announcement of the deal from their original plan,
Speaker 1: which was Thursday the eleventh, to the next night, Tuesday
Speaker 1: the ninth, A King's vice president told me at the
Speaker 1: press conference that The Oilers were enraged because they had
Speaker 1: wanted to hold off until the eleventh, because the deadline
Speaker 1: for their season ticket holders to get their deposits back
Speaker 1: were Wednesday the tenth. The Kings were nice enough to
Speaker 1: let me of all the TV guys interview Gretzky first Live,
Speaker 1: and I congratulated Wayne on the move, and he actually
Speaker 1: congratulated me on the scoop, and I said I didn't
Speaker 1: do anything but answer the phone, and he thought about
Speaker 1: it for a second and said pretty much the same
Speaker 1: for me, and we've been friendly ever since. But the
Speaker 1: laziest scoop of all time did eventually come back with
Speaker 1: a sting for me and some payback. A year later,
Speaker 1: we all submitted our best stories for consideration for the
Speaker 1: local Emmy for Best TV Sports Reporting for the calendar
Speaker 1: year nineteen eighty eight. I submitted Surprise, Surprise, the Gretzky scoop.
Speaker 1: The Emmys were always judged by a committee of television
Speaker 1: types from a different city, so he didn't have that
Speaker 1: home La Bias and the guy from NBC, who I
Speaker 1: had first thought was pranking me about the Gretzky story,
Speaker 1: had somehow found out that the Emmys for nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: eight would be judged in nineteen eighty nine in Ohio.
Speaker 1: In Columbus, Ohio, I think so he managed to get
Speaker 1: an interview with Morgana the Kissing Bandit, who was this
Speaker 1: scantily clad, buxome woman you may remember, who in the
Speaker 1: old days of innocence, used to bribe her way on
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball fields and bounce out onto the plate
Speaker 1: or the mound, and she'd go and kiss stars like
Speaker 1: George Brent and Nolan Ryan during games. Morgana MORGANA. Roberts
Speaker 1: lived near Columbus, Ohio, so sure enough, at the Emmys
Speaker 1: the next year, my exclusive report of the trade of
Speaker 1: Hockey's greatest player, Wayne Gretzky was one of the finalists
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Best TV Sports Reporting Emmy. But
Speaker 1: in the ceremony, and it was at some old Landmark
Speaker 1: hotel in Pasadena, they showed clips of all the pieces
Speaker 1: that were finalists and then announced that the winner was
Speaker 1: Fred Rogan KNBC. For being chased by Morgana the Kissing Bandit,
Speaker 1: my agent stood up and bowed my girlfriend, punched me
Speaker 1: in the arm and said let's get out of here
Speaker 1: and go drinking. We left I've done all of the
Speaker 1: damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Most
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