Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For
Speaker 1: the first time in more than a decade, the far
Speaker 1: right and the far left and everybody in between is
Speaker 1: in full agreement. None of us knows what the hell
Speaker 1: is wrong with Trump, for sometimes when a cult leader
Speaker 1: goes crazy, it actually can be a negative for the cult,
Speaker 1: like oh now ish when the cult realizes that while
Speaker 1: they usually love it when Trump goes crazy, this time
Speaker 1: he's gone crazy for somebody else and crazy against them.
Speaker 1: Trump was so smitten with Mayor Elect Zoran Mamdani of
Speaker 1: New York that the disturbingly sincere looking grin on his
Speaker 1: face Friday and the tone of sure, call me a
Speaker 1: fascist friend in the Oval office was just the start
Speaker 1: of it. By Saturday, he was dressing like Mam Donnie,
Speaker 1: a neat black overcoat that fit him and a scarf
Speaker 1: that enveloped his neck, and hair combed with something other
Speaker 1: than a garden claw, and the overall appearance of somebody who,
Speaker 1: for the first time in his life, had actually asked
Speaker 1: somebody else for their advice about the overall appearance and
Speaker 1: actually listened to the advice. Mom Donnie was somehow so
Speaker 1: appealing to Trump that from Trump's point of view, he
Speaker 1: might as well have been I don't know, Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: Remember some far right commentators, not all, to be certain,
Speaker 1: but some as close to sanity as say the Newsmax
Speaker 1: level of Hell had almost expected that when Mayor elect
Speaker 1: mam Donni arrived at the White House, he would be
Speaker 1: greeted by Trump and Tom Homan and hooded ice Gestapo
Speaker 1: agents on horseback who would fabricate some story about Mam
Speaker 1: Donny lying on paperwork, and they would seize him, and
Speaker 1: they would expel him or at least put him in
Speaker 1: a prison somewhere. They are still all the way over
Speaker 1: there in a probably chemically induced fantasy, a world cobbled
Speaker 1: together from graphic novels and the worst streaming sci fi.
Speaker 1: Trump instead thought he was Nito. At the same hour,
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green was in a fact excommunicated by Trump.
Speaker 1: She announced her quote resignation unquote from Congress effective in
Speaker 1: January because a she realized Trump would not support her
Speaker 1: and therefore the cult would not support her, and she
Speaker 1: felt Trump had lost his way and done nothing but
Speaker 1: to make America worse. The role of Marjorie Taylor Green
Speaker 1: will now be played by Laura Lumer, and Laura Lumer
Speaker 1: was so aghast about Mam Donnie that she asked why
Speaker 1: she or any other maga should even bother to vote
Speaker 1: in the midterms next year, to which I reply with
Speaker 1: a manly supportive hurrah, you go girl. They do not
Speaker 1: know what's wrong with Trump. Trump's malfunctions are usually a delight.
Speaker 1: They are their joy, they are their reason debtre Yet
Speaker 1: this makes no sense to them. Big strong men coming
Speaker 1: up to Zorn Mamdanie and saying, sir, I like your coat.
Speaker 1: Where did you get that coat? You mean? They can
Speaker 1: actually make a coat bigger or smaller, so it doesn't
Speaker 1: look like it was dropped on you by a company
Speaker 1: that makes tents and bouncy houses. The fascists are so confused,
Speaker 1: so bereft, that not even the thrill of Trump advocating
Speaker 1: for the hanging of the Democratic senators and representatives who
Speaker 1: reminded the military they are obliged to not obey illegal orders,
Speaker 1: not even that, not even that warm glow could last.
Speaker 1: It's almost as if he never meant it. Where are
Speaker 1: the construction cranes with Democrats swinging from the hooks like
Speaker 1: the Taliban or the Iranian lunatics to it. The far
Speaker 1: right hates the Taliban and Iran, but they got to
Speaker 1: hand it to them. You and I should not forget
Speaker 1: the Trump threat. Representative Hulahan didn't forget the Trump threat.
Speaker 1: She told Greg Sergeant. She actually filed a threat report
Speaker 1: with the Capitol Police. And in the place where he's
Speaker 1: supposed to write who threatened you, Hulihan wrote, quote the President.
Speaker 1: She thinks some of her colleagues in that video, whom
Speaker 1: Trump then threatened with hanging for sedition, also filed complaints
Speaker 1: with the Capitol Police. On Trump and Trump, he just
Speaker 1: drifted off. He just drifted off from the whole topic again.
Speaker 1: He drifted off metaphorically to the edge of a river.
Speaker 1: It's a wide river, to be certain, there's no indication
Speaker 1: that there's any real way over to the other side.
Speaker 1: But on the other side of that river there is
Speaker 1: a land in which Trump resigns the presidency so he
Speaker 1: can join the Zoran Mamdani administration as the ninety seventh
Speaker 1: Building Commissioner of the City of New York, and they
Speaker 1: give him an office and legos and blocks and a
Speaker 1: big model of Manhattan, and you can move the buildings
Speaker 1: all around and shit. They thought Mamdanni would leave the
Speaker 1: Oval Office in chains. Instead Trump left the Oval Office
Speaker 1: in love. I am not suggesting for a moment Trump
Speaker 1: has been pacified, or he's mellowed, or he's not a
Speaker 1: danger to every living thing on this planet every moment
Speaker 1: of every day. I am, however, suggesting that between whatever
Speaker 1: is wrong with him and now accelerating into an active
Speaker 1: stage and this kind of second giddy childhood we saw
Speaker 1: Friday with Mamdanni and a slightly new strategy from some
Speaker 1: of his opponents, among all that there has been a
Speaker 1: noteworthy change in the vibe. Mamdani obviously played Trump like
Speaker 1: a two dollars ban Joe, and the sooner the Democrats
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what he did in there, and basically
Speaker 1: that was he flattered Trump by telling Trump that he
Speaker 1: was often right and insightful and even he's seeming enemies
Speaker 1: like many of Trump's ideas. The sooner the Democrats figure
Speaker 1: that out and bottle it, the better for them and
Speaker 1: for us. There was also a new strategy offered by
Speaker 1: ABC and Disney. He attacked their reporter Mary Bruce during
Speaker 1: the Mohammed Bin Salman photo op disaster dressing her down
Speaker 1: when he barely knew who the hell she was, made
Speaker 1: her the focus of his hatred of all media, and
Speaker 1: at that moment, of ABC, perhaps because they are first alphabetically.
Speaker 1: He then went on a series of tirades about Jimmy
Speaker 1: Kimmel again, even though the last time he did that
Speaker 1: he suffered one of the few, no doubt humiliations of
Speaker 1: his presidency of intimidation. ABC and Disney and Bob Eiger
Speaker 1: then tried something new. They ignored all of it. They
Speaker 1: made a bland statement defending their news but not Mary
Speaker 1: Bruce by name. She took the hit, and their network
Speaker 1: and their staate. They defended them, but not Kimmel. Kimmel
Speaker 1: then turned it into a joke Trump, I'll go when
Speaker 1: you go. Otherwise, ABC ignored Trump, and again Trump moved
Speaker 1: on while his cultists simmered where are the construction cranes?
Speaker 1: It can be argued correctly, I think that, of course
Speaker 1: ABC ignored Trump this time. Bob Iger had already tried
Speaker 1: everything else, Bribing that didn't work, capitulating that didn't work,
Speaker 1: Suspending Kimmel that didn't work, defying Trump that didn't work,
Speaker 1: and frankly, Iigers out of ideas. They were just too
Speaker 1: tired to actually try anything this time. Well, at least
Speaker 1: occasionally apparently that works. I cannot describe to you diving in,
Speaker 1: not wearing my best shoes as I have done this,
Speaker 1: diving into the right wing streams. I cannot describe to
Speaker 1: you how disoriented this has left his cult. Charles Gasparino,
Speaker 1: the Fox Business commentator with the shortest fuse in the world,
Speaker 1: watched the Mamdani event and wrote, I really think the
Speaker 1: wheels are coming off the Trump presidency. Wow. Countless right
Speaker 1: wingers were appalled when this Moscow composed twenty eight point
Speaker 1: plan for Ukrainian victory that merely requires Ukraine to give
Speaker 1: up everything turned out to be Moscow composed not just that,
Speaker 1: but composed in Russian clumsily translated into English, complete with
Speaker 1: backwards Russian conjugation, backwards conjugation. Rusky and then Marco Rubio
Speaker 1: first told some Republican senators that this was not the
Speaker 1: Trump plan at all, but the Putin plan written in
Speaker 1: Moscow suggested deliver by the Russians. And then he said, no,
Speaker 1: he didn't, he didn't say that when he called to
Speaker 1: tell these senators that, they say he literally said that,
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, he never did that. He
Speaker 1: meant it was a plan that recognized Russian desires. And then,
Speaker 1: and then, and then Marco might as well have paused
Speaker 1: for a moment and then run off camera again to
Speaker 1: chug a small water bottle of Poland spring or vodka.
Speaker 1: Apart from the implications heads Russia winds tails, Oh oops, no,
Speaker 1: it's a two headed coin. Tails is also heads Russia wins.
Speaker 1: Apart from the implications, the State Department and the entire
Speaker 1: Trump foreign policy and operation looked like idiots, not just
Speaker 1: internationally but within MAGA. And just to round it out,
Speaker 1: when MAGA thought Trump had finally destroyed Ukraine and this
Speaker 1: was final, he has come back with more of a stall,
Speaker 1: this appeasement of Putin, who can no longer afford to
Speaker 1: pay his own Russian troops. Trump says that's not his
Speaker 1: final answer. Shrug emoji. Meanwhile, while they wanted Trump to
Speaker 1: actually hang Mark Kelly or Chrissy Hulahan or the others,
Speaker 1: the US military apparently did issue illegal orders last week,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of military contractors went and put up
Speaker 1: keep out signs marked National Defense Area three where the
Speaker 1: Rio Grande River dumps into the Gulf of Mexico, and
Speaker 1: that's hardly like ordering Pete kaboom hegseth to blow up
Speaker 1: some mythical Antifa city Oregon. But it did become another
Speaker 1: problem for MAGA when it turned out the signs had
Speaker 1: been put up in Mexico, not in the United States.
Speaker 1: And once again the entire Trump foreign policy and military
Speaker 1: operation looks like idiots. Looks like idiots to MAGA. Could
Speaker 1: it get worse? Oh? Why yes, yes it could. Remember
Speaker 1: the outrageous twenty billion dollar bribe to Argentina. Re elect
Speaker 1: that FOP president Wolverine or whatever his name is, and
Speaker 1: we'll pay your way out of the financial collapse he created.
Speaker 1: That's gone. Now scaled it back a little, did we now?
Speaker 1: Maybe Trump will pay Malay maybe four billion to help
Speaker 1: him with his debt payment in January. Maybe even the
Speaker 1: domestic terrorism thing seems to have petered out. Cash Bettel
Speaker 1: is now the subject of more investigations than he is conducting.
Speaker 1: The latest The Times report that he sent SWAT teams
Speaker 1: to protect his girlfriend the country quote singer unquote, presumably
Speaker 1: to defend her against people who have heard her sing. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: a group of European has built a kind of Wikipedia
Speaker 1: of ice raids and tactics and agent identifications. It is
Speaker 1: in Europe. So who's Christyinome gonna arrest? The EU will
Speaker 1: simply tell her Fu and the horse you rode in
Speaker 1: on Christy. Moreover, the Guardian reports the FBI infiltrated a
Speaker 1: signal chat of anti ice organizers in this country, and
Speaker 1: nobody in Maga could object to that, except they got caught,
Speaker 1: and they had to shut down the infiltration because they
Speaker 1: got caught, and worst of all, worse than you can
Speaker 1: possibly imagine, worse from the Maga point of view. Their
Speaker 1: dream of dreams sending the military or ICE or Seal
Speaker 1: Team six or somebody into New York City to be
Speaker 1: the real rain that will come and wash all this
Speaker 1: come off the street. Yes, they're not getting that. No
Speaker 1: ice raids in New York, no military in New York. Maga,
Speaker 1: you are getting the undiscussed, too terrible to contemplate, but
Speaker 1: very real possibility that instead of the trumpest destruction of
Speaker 1: Sin City, you will be getting Trump Attending Zoraan Mamdani
Speaker 1: swearing in shortly after midnight on January first, Good to
Speaker 1: see you see do you mind. I wore one of
Speaker 1: your plain black suits and white shirts and them skinny
Speaker 1: black ties. You know that Olberman guy used to dress
Speaker 1: like that. Remember the wheels really are coming off. Charlie
Speaker 1: Gasperino better hitch. I keep harping on Trump and Mam
Speaker 1: Donnie's appearance, and this is not idle. Yes, Trump is
Speaker 1: an endless front run and kiss ass. And he really
Speaker 1: did even once write me a fan letter a year
Speaker 1: before he declared me an enemy of the people because
Speaker 1: I lived in one of his buildings and he used
Speaker 1: to watch me on ESPN. He does that. There's no
Speaker 1: such thing as time or consistency. Better still, for Mam Donnie,
Speaker 1: Mam Donnie is somebody who literally cannot become what Trump
Speaker 1: has become president, So he's no real threat to Trump.
Speaker 1: But there's something else, appearance wise that I noticed last week,
Speaker 1: and it's really weird. But I've been thinking a lot
Speaker 1: about this, Mam Donnie, Muhammad, Ben Salmon, jd Vance, guys
Speaker 1: with beards, beards. Trump defers to guys with beards, full
Speaker 1: prominent beards, big heavy beards. Think about this is not unanimous.
Speaker 1: He sure didn't defer to Jack Smith's beard, and it
Speaker 1: has to be a big beard. Not the beat Nick
Speaker 1: fringe style that President Zelensky favors. Looks good on him.
Speaker 1: But once you make a list of big beards that
Speaker 1: Trump defers to, it's kind of hard to unsee it.
Speaker 1: Vance Nbs, ma'm Donnie Howard Lutnick Russell, vote, Brad Barscale,
Speaker 1: Trump's crazy dead doctor, Harold Bornstein, ma'm donnie owen uh
Speaker 1: Beard's Donald Trump Junior. Which brings us back to the
Speaker 1: great MAGA disillusionment. Steve Bannon doesn't have a beard. He's tried,
Speaker 1: it didn't work, And right now Steve Bannon has the sads,
Speaker 1: and not just because he doesn't have the beards. Late
Speaker 1: Saturday night, Bannon reposted a screenshot from somebody calls themselves
Speaker 1: Free be Speaker. It is a creed tour. Creed to
Speaker 1: something Kerr means heart, ain't no heart in MAGA, and
Speaker 1: this thing, whatever it is, sums it up. Right now
Speaker 1: the Trump castle has collapsed and they know it. It is,
Speaker 1: in essence, a note to Steve Bannon from freeb Speaker. Steve,
Speaker 1: please let President Trump know what he must already know
Speaker 1: that many of US MAGA supporters are heartbroken these days
Speaker 1: watching him squander that powerful electoral mandate we gave him.
Speaker 1: He won forty nine percent of the vote freeb speaker,
Speaker 1: on which he executed so magnificently in the first months
Speaker 1: of his term. Those are the golden years, the first
Speaker 1: few months making nice with the vile Mandan. He is
Speaker 1: probably understandable at this stage, but don't think many of
Speaker 1: us fathom a Ukraine plan that puts the US on
Speaker 1: the hook for that corrupt country security and enforcement, a
Speaker 1: bizarre congratulatory meeting with the ISIS terrorist dictator of Syria,
Speaker 1: an executive order barring every American state from protecting its
Speaker 1: own citizens against the worst hours of AI, while he
Speaker 1: enthusiastically promotes AI freedoms and subsidies and cozies up to
Speaker 1: big tech CEOs who'll abandoned him in a nanosecond. His
Speaker 1: seeming blindness through remaining america destroying immigration flaws like the
Speaker 1: H one B VISUS scam you've exposed, and the flood
Speaker 1: of Chinese student workers still in the US, all to
Speaker 1: such cruel detriment to American workers. This guy's on a
Speaker 1: bridge somewhere, any not to mention the seemingly endless delays
Speaker 1: in justice for the worst the Deep State has done
Speaker 1: to him and this country, although we cling to remnants
Speaker 1: of trust in his overworked, understaffed DOJ. Yeah, overworked traveling
Speaker 1: to see cash Betel girlfriend the quote singer unquote, I
Speaker 1: doubt I'm alone after believing in his uniquely heroic intentions
Speaker 1: for this country and supporting him since twenty sixteen, struggling
Speaker 1: now to understand so much of what he's doing. It's
Speaker 1: like I said, now they don't know what he's doing.
Speaker 1: Without question, the political and social alternative is certain death
Speaker 1: for this country. Yeah, they've been predicting this since twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1: Hasn't even come close to happening yet. But go on,
Speaker 1: But how can he expect his average MAGA voter to
Speaker 1: stay warmly close to him when he appears to be
Speaker 1: pushing him farther and farther out into the cold. And
Speaker 1: if he doesn't remain the herculean mainstay of this country's
Speaker 1: MAGA reforms, how can the feckless, cowardly GOP expect to
Speaker 1: keep hold of Congress narrator? They couldn't. And how can
Speaker 1: we navigate our way through the nasty GOP MAGA infighting?
Speaker 1: Now Gurgley to the Service at the same time, we
Speaker 1: put not our trust in princes. By the way, that's
Speaker 1: a quote from Confederacy President Jefferson Davis. We put not
Speaker 1: our trust in princes, but we have trusted that Almighty
Speaker 1: God empowered Donald Trump to do the good, near impossible
Speaker 1: things this country needs to survive. Please, Lord continue to
Speaker 1: be with him. Well, they embraced Zamba and them zam
Speaker 1: DONI didn't that indicate the Lord is doing his miraculous
Speaker 1: works through Trump. Ah, that's where they are. They don't
Speaker 1: understand what's happening. It's their turn. May they live the
Speaker 1: rest of their lives not understanding what went wrong with Trump?
Speaker 1: And sorry about your last point, freeb speaker. The Lord
Speaker 1: cannot find Trump right now because Trump is busily trying
Speaker 1: to find out if Zorn Mamdani plays golf. Remember a
Speaker 1: couple of episodes back when I asked if it's actually
Speaker 1: possible that when Trump said he did not know what
Speaker 1: part of his body they had scanned in his MRI
Speaker 1: last month, that he wasn't lying that he wasn't not
Speaker 1: paying attention. I mean, how could you literally not know
Speaker 1: which part the MRI was for. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: were unconscious or sedated. Even after that, when they were
Speaker 1: telling you how great your score was on your MRI,
Speaker 1: like that's a thing, and how it was the greatest
Speaker 1: MRI ever recorded, you'd probably just figure out what party
Speaker 1: part it was, even unintentionally, How how how could that
Speaker 1: not have? I forgot entirely about anosognosia ironic because basically
Speaker 1: anopsygnosia is sophisticated, medically explained forgetting stuff. I have discussed
Speaker 1: this before. What if he doesn't know what the MRI
Speaker 1: was for, because whatever it was, he has anosgnosia about it.
Speaker 1: In brief, this is the disease that makes it impossible
Speaker 1: for you to recognize that you have a disease or
Speaker 1: an injury, or that you've had a stroke, or that
Speaker 1: you have, say just to pick one at random, Alzheimer's.
Speaker 1: It is a brain injury. It is caused by a
Speaker 1: variety of things, often by stroke, but other things cause
Speaker 1: it too. Trump may not have had any idea that
Speaker 1: he has some kind of cognitive illness and that they're
Speaker 1: testing him for it. And even if somebody around him
Speaker 1: had had the courage to tell him, he would a
Speaker 1: not believe them, or he would instantly forget that they
Speaker 1: had just told him, like if he had an MRI
Speaker 1: of his brain to see if new Alzheimer's drugs are working,
Speaker 1: he'd only remember the letter's MRI. The immortal David Dunning
Speaker 1: of Dunning Krueger Syndrome once wrote the easiest to digest
Speaker 1: example defining anosagnosia quote, an anosognosic patient who is paralyzed
Speaker 1: simply does not know that he is paralyzed. If you
Speaker 1: put a pencil in front of them and ask them
Speaker 1: to pick up the pencil in front of their left hand,
Speaker 1: they won't do it. And you ask them why, and
Speaker 1: they'll say, ah, I'm tired, or I don't need a pencil.
Speaker 1: And presidents have been studied for this exact behavior before
Speaker 1: presidents and their pencils as latter day experts used new
Speaker 1: medical knowledge a few decades ago to study the stroke
Speaker 1: that Woodrow Wilson suffered while on his cross country tour
Speaker 1: to try to sell the League of Nations to America
Speaker 1: over the heads of a disapproving Senate. While all of
Speaker 1: that has been studied and studied and studied, the conclusion
Speaker 1: has now become widespread that whether or not he'd had
Speaker 1: it earlier after the stroke in nineteen twenty, Wilson showed
Speaker 1: all of the signs of anosagnosia. In the nineteen seventies,
Speaker 1: the neuropsychiatrist Edwin Weinstein was granted access to Woodrow Wilson's papers,
Speaker 1: and he wrote quote, following his stroke, the outstanding feature
Speaker 1: of the president's behavior was his denial of his incapacity.
Speaker 1: Denial of illness or ANO literally lack of knowledge of disease,
Speaker 1: is a common sequel of the type of brain injury
Speaker 1: received by President Woodrow Wilson. In this condition, the patient
Speaker 1: denies or appears unaware of such deficits as paralysis or blindness.
Speaker 1: To casual observers, anosygnosiac patients may appear quite normal and
Speaker 1: even bright and witty when not on the subject of
Speaker 1: their disability. They are quite rational, and tests of their
Speaker 1: intelligence may show no deficit unquote, who in the hell
Speaker 1: does that sound like? I don't know why they gave
Speaker 1: me an MRI. Unfortunately, when on the subject of his disability,
Speaker 1: President Wilson was anything but rational. His Secretary of State,
Speaker 1: Robert Lansing, summoned the cabinet to a meeting to discuss
Speaker 1: the crisis in Wilson's illness. And Wilson, or more likely
Speaker 1: missus will Wilson forced the Secretary of State Lancing to resign.
Speaker 1: Doctors who challenged President Wilson were dismissed. People who knew
Speaker 1: Wilson before his stroke were eased out or denied access
Speaker 1: to him. Wilson insisted until his death that while he
Speaker 1: had had a stroke, it only affected his walking and
Speaker 1: only a little. How the hell could you not know
Speaker 1: what they stuck you in the mritube four? Well you
Speaker 1: did know, but whatever is wrong with your brain immediately
Speaker 1: erased it. Like a dream you try to remember as
Speaker 1: you wake up, and it slips away from you, like
Speaker 1: mercury on the floor, or like somebody was closing and
Speaker 1: locking a door, keeping your dream away from you. So,
Speaker 1: in addition to needing to worry about Trump having had
Speaker 1: a stroke or flew into phasia or Alzheimer's or god
Speaker 1: knows what, we also have to worry about him having
Speaker 1: an illness that makes it impossible for him to ac
Speaker 1: or even remember that he'd had a stroke, or fluent
Speaker 1: aphasia or Alzheimer's, or even just the MRI to test
Speaker 1: for it. No, the MRI was for my toenails. I
Speaker 1: have ingrown toenails and not really bad ones. I got
Speaker 1: a great score on my ingrown Toenail MRI and so
Speaker 1: now in some for the first time in his dictatorship,
Speaker 1: none of us haters, lovers, supporters, Mam Danny's, none of
Speaker 1: us know what the hell is wrong with this guy Trump,
Speaker 1: And if he has annosagnosia, he does know what's wrong
Speaker 1: with him. But he just forgot it again, and yet
Speaker 1: he remembers he likes Mom Daddy. I can also guess
Speaker 1: that he did not read this weekend's worth of Olivia Newsy,
Speaker 1: Ryan Lizza, Robert F. Kennedy Junior News, because if he had,
Speaker 1: even Trump would have fired Kennedy by now already today,
Speaker 1: because Kennedy is now a clear and present danger to
Speaker 1: Trump's presidency, because Kennedy is scandal plagued and sloppy and
Speaker 1: nuts and he is in some way involved with a
Speaker 1: woman who may be nuttier than he is. If you
Speaker 1: read the updates on my ex over the weekend, I
Speaker 1: hope your stomach has settled down. I am not going
Speaker 1: to even reference the Kennedy love poetry to Olivia about
Speaker 1: his uh, well, what was it? Sterling Hayden called it
Speaker 1: in Doctor Strangelove his life essence, Man Drake the purity
Speaker 1: of his life essence. I deny them my life essence.
Speaker 1: What I am going to reference, though, is the important part,
Speaker 1: which is Ryan Lizz's assertion no evidence yet presented that
Speaker 1: Olivia Newsey ran catch and kill operations to barry scandals
Speaker 1: about Robert F. Kennedy Junior while she was employed by
Speaker 1: New York Magazine for more than a year before the election,
Speaker 1: and Liz's further insistence that Newsy told him that if
Speaker 1: anybody found out about her and Kennedy quote, I'm afraid
Speaker 1: Bobby will kill me. You can skip this next half
Speaker 1: hour update after the break, you can proceed directly to
Speaker 1: the C block and Worse Persons. If not, get a
Speaker 1: drink and pull up a chair and join me. It's
Speaker 1: the news of Newsy and it's a doozy that's next.
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Speaker 2: Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV
Speaker 2: show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure I've
Speaker 2: seen that program, only I believe it's now called Countdown
Speaker 2: with Keith Overman.
Speaker 1: Still ahead, Worse Persons and Ted Turner's dream used to
Speaker 1: be when I worked for him one hundred and fifteen
Speaker 1: years ago was to buy CBS News, in fact, buy
Speaker 1: all of CBS and merge it into CNN to show
Speaker 1: television that in nineteen eighty two cable was already boss.
Speaker 1: Now it's Larry Ellison's dreamed by CNN and merge it
Speaker 1: into CBS to show the world that Trump is boss
Speaker 1: and decides who's on CNN and who isn't, holding anchors
Speaker 1: hostage ahead in Worse Persons, But first postscripts to the news,
Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snark, count down podcast, and
Speaker 1: these are the places where there's news. Dateline, the Department
Speaker 1: of Health and Human Services, The New York Times with
Speaker 1: bad timing Friday night, putting out a story that was
Speaker 1: at least a week in the making about Liza Newsy
Speaker 1: and RFK Junior and that character who gets killed in
Speaker 1: the first scene me and Liza getting up in Newsy's busy.
Speaker 1: And three hours after they posted the article, Ryan Liza
Speaker 1: dropped part two of his expose on his ex fiance,
Speaker 1: making the Times peace completely outdated and more importantly, turning
Speaker 1: this from a grotesque but tremendously entertaining saga of a
Speaker 1: disturbed woman I used to live with and the rapidly
Speaker 1: disappearing schmuck she used to live with and serially cheat
Speaker 1: on with politicians as old or older than I am
Speaker 1: transforming that lighthearted enterprise into something that should eventually put
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior in prison, and should more immediately
Speaker 1: precipitate an investigation of New York Magazine. If what Ryan
Speaker 1: Liza writes is true, don't worry. There's lots of gossip
Speaker 1: gold to review, and I will. And if this is
Speaker 1: not your cup of tea, feel free to hit stop
Speaker 1: or scoot forward. Worst persons is after the next break.
Speaker 1: But here's the real headline deep in part two of Liza,
Speaker 1: which you put behind a paywall. See if you hear
Speaker 1: the headline as it goes by quote. I have never
Speaker 1: been able to convey Olivia's near total obsession with Bobby properly.
Speaker 1: What I can say with authority is that it seeped
Speaker 1: into every corner of her life, affected every relationship she had,
Speaker 1: and drove every decision she made in late twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three and all of twenty twenty four, including her catch
Speaker 1: and kill operations on his behalf, the campaign strategy memos
Speaker 1: she wrote him and the other journalistic transgressions that have
Speaker 1: still not been disclosed. For me, it was like waking
Speaker 1: up and learning she was a heroin addict or had
Speaker 1: joy Way Way Wait wait wait wait wait.
Speaker 2: Wait wait.
Speaker 1: Say that part again, heroin addict? No no, no, no no.
Speaker 1: The part about catch and kill, Oh yeah, drove every
Speaker 1: decision she made in late twenty twenty three and all
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, including her catch and kill operations on
Speaker 1: his behalf. Catch and kill the way the Weekly World
Speaker 1: Pro Trump News or whatever it was called, used to
Speaker 1: buy stories to either use to blackmail on Trump's behalf
Speaker 1: or to keep Trump from getting bad publicity during the campaign.
Speaker 1: That kind of catch and kill. Olivia did this with
Speaker 1: whose money? She did catch and kill operations in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, late twenty twenty three, he says, and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, all of twenty twenty four, he emphasizes. All
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. She was still employed by New
Speaker 1: York Magazine until the story broke in September of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four. That's not good for New York Magazine. They were,
Speaker 1: at best an unknowing base of catch and kill operations
Speaker 1: on behalf of Robert F. Kennedy Juniors, presumably still his
Speaker 1: presidential campaign. They published an article which in retrospect is
Speaker 1: clearly designed to help him and authenticate him. We know
Speaker 1: that now just from reading it. You could see it then.
Speaker 1: And the other part of this is Ryan Lisen knew
Speaker 1: about this. I mean, he doesn't come out and say
Speaker 1: I knew about this, except he does say he did
Speaker 1: live with her, and it seeped into every corner of
Speaker 1: her life. And and he kept this secret for in
Speaker 1: some cases, let's seen late twenty twenty three, it's not
Speaker 1: late twenty twenty five, so some of this is two
Speaker 1: years old. Ryan, And and you kept this secret as
Speaker 1: he ran for president and and and affected some of
Speaker 1: the voting patterns as they developed in the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four election, and then was named to destroy a vaccine
Speaker 1: safety in this country and generally put as many crackpot
Speaker 1: ideas in an attempt to restore the medical stature of
Speaker 1: medieval barbers from the fifteenth century this Ky and you
Speaker 1: and you kept it secret so you could charge us
Speaker 1: eight dollars to read about it later. It's not good
Speaker 1: for you, Ryan Lizzon. My complaints about him actually have
Speaker 1: like are one percent to do with the fact that
Speaker 1: that relationship followed my relationship with her. I think that's human.
Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of it either precedes my knowing Olivia Newsy,
Speaker 1: and it's just about how bad and overrated a journalist
Speaker 1: he was. And I'm in a perverse way glad to
Speaker 1: see that it has been restored that my opinion of
Speaker 1: him was correct. No, I know about this terrible situation
Speaker 1: in which people are catching and killing bad stories about
Speaker 1: Robert F. Kennedy Junior. And I'm not going to tell
Speaker 1: anybody till after the election, a year into his role
Speaker 1: as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services,
Speaker 1: as he slashes millions of dollars from cancer research that
Speaker 1: is in fact going to lead probably to the death
Speaker 1: of his fatally ill cousin, the mother of two small children.
Speaker 1: And you apparently knew. Here's something else, a little bit
Speaker 1: lighter than that quote. As she left, I said something
Speaker 1: that would have enormous ramifications going forward. People are going
Speaker 1: to ask me what happen, I told Olivia, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell the truth. I was faced with a
Speaker 1: similar question, by the way, and I said, people are
Speaker 1: going to ask me what happened, And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say shit, and I didn't for nine years. There
Speaker 1: have been questions about my commenting at all about this story.
Speaker 1: You did not know that I had a relationship with
Speaker 1: olbya Newsy let alone that she lived with me from
Speaker 1: the time she was I think it's fair to say
Speaker 1: almost like within weeks of her nineteenth birthday was when
Speaker 1: she kind of started to move stuff in. She lived
Speaker 1: with me from ages nineteen through twenty three. You know
Speaker 1: she'd already turned twenty four. Yeah, twenty three. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I got that number wrong. Nineteen to twenty three and
Speaker 1: I didn't tell anybody anything until the New York Post
Speaker 1: called and said, we understand you used to date, at
Speaker 1: which point, well, I'm not going to let the New
Speaker 1: York Post scoop me on this story. The cat's out
Speaker 1: of the bag. I'm not going to let somebody else
Speaker 1: have the cat, as it were. And then I didn't
Speaker 1: bring myself into the Liza mix. He put me in
Speaker 1: his sub stack story. Anyway, people are going to ask
Speaker 1: me what happened I told Olivia, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say shit, that's not what Ryan Lizzie says here. People
Speaker 1: are going to ask me what happened, Ryan Liza told Olivia,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to tell the truth. She seemed paralyzed
Speaker 1: with fear, he writes, and frankly, I didn't understand why.
Speaker 1: It was only later, when we were deep into what
Speaker 1: would become weeks of conversations about every detail of what
Speaker 1: transpired between her and Bobby, who had told her that
Speaker 1: he demanded discipline and fearlessness and at times total submission,
Speaker 1: that she explained her terrified reaction that August morning. If
Speaker 1: anyone ever finds out, Olivia told me quote, I'm afraid
Speaker 1: Bobby will kill me unquote. Two things. I'll remind you
Speaker 1: that she told me in probably twenty fourteen, yes, maybe
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, that whenever she would go to Washington, this
Speaker 1: guy Ryan Wizza was stalking her. I don't think whatever
Speaker 1: he did actually qualified as stalking. She later clearly used
Speaker 1: the same term about me to him, and what I
Speaker 1: did to her did not come remotely close to stalking.
Speaker 1: So the idea that somehow Bobby Kennedy was going to
Speaker 1: kill her seems a little seems a little more consistent
Speaker 1: with her oh exaggeration and pitting herself in a physition
Speaker 1: in which her guy has to believe that she is
Speaker 1: in some sort of serious danger and must rescue her
Speaker 1: from this rather than Bobby Kennedy planned to have Olivia
Speaker 1: Newsy killed. But quote, if anyone ever finds out, Olivia
Speaker 1: told me, I'm afraid Bobby will kill me, which sets
Speaker 1: up part three, which he's hinted at before, in which
Speaker 1: he mentioned that there was a plot that he claims
Speaker 1: Newsy engaged with to send him to prison with the
Speaker 1: help of the Trump administration or with the help then
Speaker 1: of the Trump people. Last year, there was a story
Speaker 1: about her going to the FBI and trying to get
Speaker 1: Ryan Lizza arrested for accessing her phone. That's not the
Speaker 1: story that he tells. He claims he accessed stuff that
Speaker 1: fell out of her book bag on the floor. Now
Speaker 1: about the Mark Sandford story, quote, Olivia had written a
Speaker 1: tabloid style news story about how sources in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: And Charleston have been buzzing recently about an unexpected romance
Speaker 1: Mark Sandford and Olivia Newzy, who was described as one
Speaker 1: of the most famous political reporters in America, A blonde
Speaker 1: beauty who gained critical acclaim as a skilled profile writer,
Speaker 1: gaining access to the powerful and the mysterious, and turning
Speaker 1: it into pure journalistic gold. The Sanford story. When did
Speaker 1: she go see him? Did she have a long running
Speaker 1: affair with him? Was it one night's stand? Who knows?
Speaker 1: He writes about it in detail. It's about as interesting
Speaker 1: as my romantic life with her. You don't care, I
Speaker 1: guess I care. I don't care as much as I
Speaker 1: cared then In any event, she wrote a fake article
Speaker 1: that he found about herself in the third person and
Speaker 1: her I mean reading like something out of an eight
Speaker 1: year old diary, an eight year old's diary, Olivia told me,
Speaker 1: he goes on. She wrote the fake article as an
Speaker 1: exercise to think through what might be the worst that
Speaker 1: could be said publicly if the affair became known, though
Speaker 1: that didn't really make sense to me given the pieces tone.
Speaker 1: You think pure journalistic gold. I'm terrified someone might accuse
Speaker 1: me of being beautiful and skilled, the most skilled profile,
Speaker 1: the most famous political reporter in America. Her fantasizing about
Speaker 1: what it would be like when her secret relationship with
Speaker 1: a notorious politician finally became public would repeat itself during
Speaker 1: her affair with Bobby. So he's now setting up again
Speaker 1: the third episode, in which in which he reveals that
Speaker 1: she wrote something like this about what would happen when
Speaker 1: the Bobby Kennedy story came out again. I took some
Speaker 1: criticism for using the neo meme, the neo gif jiff,
Speaker 1: the gift jiff meme about what's his name Keanu Reeves
Speaker 1: dodging bullets? Oh no, you took plenty of bullets in
Speaker 1: that article. No no, no, no no. I meant in
Speaker 1: you know life on my tombstone, you can write avoided
Speaker 1: death by Olivia Newsy. Probably one thing I will say
Speaker 1: about reading this quote that he puts in here, describing
Speaker 1: herself as a blonde beauty, one of the most famous
Speaker 1: political reporters in America, gained critical acclaim as a skilled
Speaker 1: profile writer. Did you see online the links via the
Speaker 1: wayback machine, the Internet wayback machine to her career as
Speaker 1: a pop singer as a teenager under the name Livy
Speaker 1: with two v's. I had never seen this, although the
Speaker 1: photograph does look familiar. I think she showed it to
Speaker 1: me at one point. I knew she had a singing career.
Speaker 1: I didn't know it was pop bubblegum. I certainly didn't
Speaker 1: know there was a song called Jailbait, for God's sakes.
Speaker 1: But if you go and look at these captures of
Speaker 1: what was a MySpace location for her music, and I
Speaker 1: know I'm not going to listen to her music. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to listen to it, she erased, all
Speaker 1: this probably spent money to try to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: But what you need to go and see is the
Speaker 1: write up about Livy and what a force she was
Speaker 1: and the influences that caused this, and how so you
Speaker 1: know she had gained critical acclaim as a skilled pop singer,
Speaker 1: gaining access to the powerful and the mysterious and turning
Speaker 1: into pure upbeat disco gold or words to that effect.
Speaker 1: It's the same writing she was fantasizing about being the
Speaker 1: next what was what was the Tiffany? The next Tiffany
Speaker 1: when she was fifteen, and she was fantasizing about being
Speaker 1: missus Governor Mark Sandford in twenty twenty one more thing
Speaker 1: about Sandford that he writes in a text exchange. I
Speaker 1: also asked Olivia if she sent Mark Sandford any pictures
Speaker 1: that might embarrass us if they became public. She insisted
Speaker 1: that she only sent one inappropriate photo before or after
Speaker 1: you had sex with him. I asked, after, why did
Speaker 1: you send it? Honestly because I am, and then Olivia,
Speaker 1: as was her, wont drops an F bomb and the
Speaker 1: our word because I am fing rd all right, nudes
Speaker 1: to Sanford or one nude to Sandford? There's a dispute
Speaker 1: on that which we'll have to go to some sort
Speaker 1: of international by maybe the UN can hold a hearing
Speaker 1: as to whether or not she sent a nude or
Speaker 1: multiple nudes to Mark Sandford. Liza was the one who
Speaker 1: would originally let out the story. We believe, we believe
Speaker 1: it was him. We don't know who the hell else
Speaker 1: it could have been that said that there were nudes
Speaker 1: to RFK, but they were tasteful. I can tell you
Speaker 1: she sent me nudes and I said, look, they're great.
Speaker 1: You take a great photo. And I am all for
Speaker 1: freedom of expression. And you and I belong to different generations,
Speaker 1: and I know you don't really have a concept of privacy,
Speaker 1: and the photographs, the whole thing and the enginet is
Speaker 1: prep But here's what I would do if you really
Speaker 1: want to do this. I'm not going to discourage you
Speaker 1: from this. I am a male. There is such a
Speaker 1: thing as biology. Here's what you do. Take the photos
Speaker 1: and print them out, or buy a polaroid camera and
Speaker 1: take the pictures. I understand they're gonna have to be
Speaker 1: a little bit better. You can't delete so many, or
Speaker 1: you know, buy a little printer for your laptop or
Speaker 1: whatever you're using your phone, and then delete everything. Delete, delete, delete, delete.
Speaker 1: The delete button is your friend. I'm all for freedom
Speaker 1: of expression. I'm all for modern technology. I'm all for
Speaker 1: pictures of you that are salacious. That's great. But this
Speaker 1: is this is not appropriate to send to me, and
Speaker 1: it's certainly not appropriate to send to me over the internet.
Speaker 1: There are ways to do this without without sending me,
Speaker 1: you know, using the internet. Don't do that. They The
Speaker 1: most important part about this is I will survive if
Speaker 1: you send me nude photographs. I hate to tell you this,
Speaker 1: hon but I'm fifty whatever years old. This won't be
Speaker 1: the first time anybody sent me a nude phote photograph,
Speaker 1: even since when before we had an internet it happened.
Speaker 1: I have survived all this, and I've kept them all
Speaker 1: confidential or destroyed them, almost always destroyed them. In fact,
Speaker 1: I can't think of an occasion in which I didn't.
Speaker 1: But they're sent via the Internet. Guess what I think.
Speaker 1: Almost everything on the Internet, even the stuff you delete,
Speaker 1: exists somewhere. They will harm you. They will harm you later,
Speaker 1: as I said, I deleted the ones she sent as
Speaker 1: they came in. Well, a couple minutes Acada damit back
Speaker 1: to Ryan Liza already in progress eight dollars if you
Speaker 1: want to read it yourself. Olivia develops addictive light attachments
Speaker 1: to the men she loves, who are generally older and
Speaker 1: more powerful, and she pursues them until she conquers them.
Speaker 1: I can tell you, without fear of contradiction, it had
Speaker 1: never occurred to me until I read this and other
Speaker 1: things that were written in the last week that she
Speaker 1: might have pursued me. I didn't get that feeling at all.
Speaker 1: It's not to say that's not the case, particularly if
Speaker 1: she's adept at it or was developing skills like this,
Speaker 1: it would explain in any event. There's a quote, now,
Speaker 1: this is twenty twenty, so this is pre RFK Junior
Speaker 1: and after Mark Sandford and Liziit quotes her as saying,
Speaker 1: I'm three for three. She said to me in a
Speaker 1: moment of levity after the affair with Mark I'm not
Speaker 1: going to just assume that I am addictive like attachments
Speaker 1: to the men she loves. She didn't show any addictive
Speaker 1: like behavior towards me. It was really normal. She once
Speaker 1: got mad at me because I didn't say I love you.
Speaker 1: At the end of a conversation, she said, what about
Speaker 1: saying it? I'm sorry once. There was not addictive behavior.
Speaker 1: She didn't follow me around. She didn't place, you know,
Speaker 1: air pods or not air pods air tags on me
Speaker 1: to see where I was. She didn't call five minutes
Speaker 1: before the show to make sure I was in the studio.
Speaker 1: She didn't do that stuff others may have. So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that I'm three for three here, But I'm
Speaker 1: just interested if I'm not. If it's not three for
Speaker 1: three at the three here or not me Liza and
Speaker 1: former governor of North Carolina as of twenty twenty. I'm
Speaker 1: interested to him is there another politician besides RFK and
Speaker 1: Mark Sandford. I'm wondering what he's hinting. Now. This is
Speaker 1: a part that I don't really fully understand. Aside from
Speaker 1: that notable moment of bragging, Olivia was mostly deeply apologetic
Speaker 1: and ashamed. She offered to pay back our book advance
Speaker 1: because the affair had sabotaged the project. Okay, how in
Speaker 1: the hell did that happen? I mean, you're right. She
Speaker 1: spiraled into self loathing and self pity about what an
Speaker 1: f f up she was. Other times she unloaded on
Speaker 1: me and says, listing all the ways I had made
Speaker 1: mistakes in our relationship and insisting that she deserved another chance.
Speaker 1: By the fall of twenty twenty two, we were engaged.
Speaker 1: Excuse I have one. I have a series of small questions.
Speaker 1: We go from deeply apologetic, ashamed, offering to pay back
Speaker 1: the book advance, self loathing, self pity, unloading on him
Speaker 1: all the ways he made mistakes, insisting she deserved another check.
Speaker 1: By the fall of twenty twenty two, we were engaged.
Speaker 1: Couldn't there have at least been like a graphic in
Speaker 1: there that said later? What I mean, how do you
Speaker 1: go from that to we were engaged? I understand, becau,
Speaker 1: because I am one hundred and twenty seven years old
Speaker 1: that in a relationship, if you're going to continue after
Speaker 1: some crisis, especially the crisis of infidelity, you're going to
Speaker 1: have to buy in completely. I understand that. But the
Speaker 1: jump from unloading on me listing all the ways I
Speaker 1: had made mistakes. What an f up? She was, self loathing,
Speaker 1: self pity, insisting she deserved another chance. Jumping directly from
Speaker 1: that too, we're engaged, like what although one thing does
Speaker 1: does encourage me with this? I used to be sent
Speaker 1: by a friend of mine who liked to push a
Speaker 1: particular button posts that they would make on Facebook in
Speaker 1: which they would you report from being in Italy or something,
Speaker 1: and the showing the ring in such a way that
Speaker 1: it was larger than her head, and she has a
Speaker 1: pretty big head or his head, and he has a
Speaker 1: pretty big head photographing it. So just you saw the
Speaker 1: diamond on the ring. And my friend would send these
Speaker 1: two me and go, is this the most garish thing
Speaker 1: you've ever seen in your life? And I was like, yes, well,
Speaker 1: at least we know that all those gushing words I
Speaker 1: love you more every passing day. At least those things
Speaker 1: that looked too stupid to be real were too stupid
Speaker 1: to be real. Let me leave you with a lighter
Speaker 1: note from Ryan lizzb I asked her to remove her
Speaker 1: engagement ring. This is after he decided to throw her
Speaker 1: out in August twenty twenty four, and I was surprised
Speaker 1: by her stunned response. I'm not taking that off, she
Speaker 1: screamed as she began sobbing. I don't want to take
Speaker 1: it off. Well, of course not Ryan. Of course she
Speaker 1: wouldn't take it off. She was presumably planning to keep
Speaker 1: it and sell it, like the commitment ring that I
Speaker 1: had bought her, which somehow, Ryan, you knew the value
Speaker 1: of thirteen years after I bought it for her. Who knows?
Speaker 1: Maybe she and Ryan and split the money on the
Speaker 1: commitment ring. We're the engagement ring? Oh news? Anybody checked eBay?
Speaker 1: One last note from The New York Times, which I mentioned,
Speaker 1: which was the first to report that Vanity Fair was
Speaker 1: reviewing its relationship with Olivia News. I'll bet it is like,
Speaker 1: let's review how many people here should be fired because
Speaker 1: we hired Olivia Newsy without knowing that this is a
Speaker 1: serial thing and she has no value to us whatsoever,
Speaker 1: except possibly as a model if we can find her eyebrows.
Speaker 1: Is the Times reviewing its fawning profile of her a
Speaker 1: week ago today, in which Carl Bernstein's son missed every
Speaker 1: single news story that has dominated one corner of the
Speaker 1: news business since I mean, frankly, sir, you are over
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixteen their story after story after story,
Speaker 1: even if you're just doing what The Times is now doing,
Speaker 1: which is what I'm doing to some degree, aggregating and
Speaker 1: commenting on what this guy keeps putting on his substack
Speaker 1: eight dollars. Anyway, in the Times piece, which, as I said,
Speaker 1: nobody actually read because within three hours it was all
Speaker 1: Part two is up. It's all about Robert F. Kennedy
Speaker 1: and his rules about oral sex. Notice I skipped that anyway.
Speaker 1: I was in the Times article. I was quoted describing
Speaker 1: my relationship with her with the rings, with the dogs,
Speaker 1: with the tattoos as marriage e. It's not an elegant word,
Speaker 1: but it was apt, and in fact I was quoting Olivia.
Speaker 1: That was her word, what kind of marriage ee? This
Speaker 1: is the quote that they got from her. She actually
Speaker 1: responded to this. Ms Noozy apparently does not consider her
Speaker 1: relationship with mister Olderman to have been marriage ye quote.
Speaker 1: I have not ever before and will not now acknowledge
Speaker 1: any claims made by this person, she wrote in a text.
Speaker 1: By the way, this sums her all up. I have
Speaker 1: not ever before and will not now acknowledge any claims
Speaker 1: made by this person, she wrote in a text which
Speaker 1: was in itself an acknowledgment of claims made by this person,
Speaker 1: self defeating a little bit here, damn. Also, I will
Speaker 1: not acknowledge any claims man by this person. Not acknowledged
Speaker 1: the five hundred five thousand who knows photos and videos
Speaker 1: I never counted them of me with this person, or
Speaker 1: with this person and our dogs, or with this person
Speaker 1: and our tattoos as we got them, or with this
Speaker 1: person at events we went to, or the thousands of emails,
Speaker 1: or the list of this person's friends that we dined
Speaker 1: with and I got to meet, or a group of
Speaker 1: this person's friends whom she called up after the breakup,
Speaker 1: insisting that she hadn't broken up with them and she
Speaker 1: wanted to stay friends, particularly the ones who had political
Speaker 1: connections or television connections, how odd, occasionally calling them later
Speaker 1: as sources for her stories. I will not now acknowledge
Speaker 1: any claims lal Olivia, who may have peaked psychologically at
Speaker 1: twenty or maybe when she was writing the Livy copy
Speaker 1: about the pop music who Knows, I expect her to
Speaker 1: now issue a statement reading I have not ever before
Speaker 1: and will not now acknowledge that my journalism and writing
Speaker 1: careers are over, even though they sure as f R
Speaker 1: believe it or not. There are still more new idiots
Speaker 1: to talk about before I go the roundup of the miscrants,
Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other
Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. Runner up an unnamed rooky
Speaker 1: Chicago cop, and I would like to, if you'll permit me,
Speaker 1: read this from the Chicago Sun Times in my bad
Speaker 1: impression of Walter Cronkite Ready, the probationary Chicago cop accidentally
Speaker 1: shot himself in the groin Wednesday night because he headed
Speaker 1: into work at the Gresham District Station. Land twenty two.
Speaker 1: Was in the parking lot of the station seventy eighth
Speaker 1: eight South Halstead Street when the firearm in his waistband
Speaker 1: went off around ten oh five pm and grazed him
Speaker 1: in the groin. Police said he was quote wearing street
Speaker 1: clothes and heading for duty when the gun discharged, and
Speaker 1: he accidentally shot himself in the testicles. According to Office
Speaker 1: of Emergency Management and Communication records obtained by The Sun Times,
Speaker 1: an officer in distress call you bet was made around
Speaker 1: the time of the shooting. He was taken to the
Speaker 1: University of Chicago Medical Center and was listed in good condition.
Speaker 1: Lea said, the news apparently official. He shot himself in
Speaker 1: the testables. That's the way it is. Monday, November twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, Walter Cronkite CBS News, speaking of CBS
Speaker 1: News the runner up these Ellison assholes. The idea of
Speaker 1: them buying CNN and merging it into CBS is real
Speaker 1: enough that they are offering to essentially shoot CNN anchors.
Speaker 1: The White House doesn't like if Trump will let them
Speaker 1: buy the company that owns CNN and merge CNN into
Speaker 1: CBS News. From The Guardian, senior White House officials have
Speaker 1: discussed internally their preference for Paramount sky Dance. Those are
Speaker 1: the Ellisons to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery. One official has
Speaker 1: discussed potential programming changes at CNN with Larry Ellison. According
Speaker 1: to people familiar, they come as Paramount portrays itself as
Speaker 1: the best bid blah blah blah, because it'd be easier
Speaker 1: to get through regulatory review. Ellison often speaks to connections
Speaker 1: at the White House and in at least one phone call,
Speaker 1: according to the Guardian's Hugo Lowell engaged in a dialogue
Speaker 1: about possibly axing some of the CNN hosts whom Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is said to loathe, including Aaron Burnett and Brianna Keeler.
Speaker 1: The people said, now, I have no use for Aaron Burnett, who,
Speaker 1: if you remember, on her first day as a news anchor,
Speaker 1: after years doing business on CNBC, went on the air
Speaker 1: during the time of Occupy Wall Street and went to
Speaker 1: Wall Street and had herself videotaped sitting on Wall Street
Speaker 1: and saying, oh, look, I'm occupying Wall Street and mocked
Speaker 1: the entire concept of it, and thought she would get
Speaker 1: some sort of Emmy award for it, or perhaps a
Speaker 1: lifetime Emmy award for it. I have no use for
Speaker 1: her none. I have previously called for Brianna Keeler to
Speaker 1: be fired because she was serving the Trump interests. But
Speaker 1: this is something else. This is now advanced to the
Speaker 1: stage in which the White House would get to essentially
Speaker 1: pick the personnel lineup for primetime and other times on CNN.
Speaker 1: We have entered into a period of time in which
Speaker 1: the best thing that could happen for CNN, and maybe
Speaker 1: at this point for CBS News is for it to
Speaker 1: be sold for scrap, sell the cameras to some country
Speaker 1: that actually does the news, like Ecuador, and yet trying
Speaker 1: to get rid of all these terrible anchors at White
Speaker 1: House request. Jake Tapper is somehow safe. Jake Tapper tweeted
Speaker 1: after a woman reporter asked about President Trump's name being
Speaker 1: raised an email sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 1: Trump snaps at her quiet piggy Jenna Ellis, remember her
Speaker 1: the least competent besides the Kraken woman of all of
Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty deniers. Jenna Ellis, assistant to Rudy Giuliani.
Speaker 1: My god, actually retweeted this, then deleted. It isn't the
Speaker 1: reporter's name, Peggy. Come on, Jake, at least pretend harder
Speaker 1: to be a journalist. Yeah. I heard that too. To
Speaker 1: be fair, On the other hand, I didn't tweet it
Speaker 1: or say it on the air. You know, search engines
Speaker 1: are our friend, Peggy. Peggy Ellis, Catherine Lucy was her name.
Speaker 1: It's close close, Jenna Ellis close, speaking of close our
Speaker 1: winners Catterird and Laura Fruitcake of the Lumer They are
Speaker 1: not happy no matter how much Trump is happy. They
Speaker 1: are not happy with Mayor Elect Mamdani. They are not happy.
Speaker 1: Polymarket put out a tweet which was designed to get
Speaker 1: exactly this response. Somebody pointed it out it was an
Speaker 1: IQ test and guess who didn't pass. The tweet was
Speaker 1: breaking Zora and Mamdani to require all New York elementary
Speaker 1: school students to learn Arabic numerals. Catterd responded, that's not
Speaker 1: far enough. He should make every school kid in New
Speaker 1: York only speak Arabic, no English. The insane liberal Karens
Speaker 1: voted for this complete nut. Let them reap what they sow.
Speaker 1: And Laura Lumer, you know things are bad when you
Speaker 1: can't tell if this is real or a joke. Dear God,
Speaker 1: it's real, isn't it now? Laura Lumer is a child
Speaker 1: who wears a lot of makeup, so she can perhaps
Speaker 1: be excused for being this stupid for not knowing what
Speaker 1: Arabic numerals are. But this guy cat Turd is in
Speaker 1: like his like in his nineties, or he's one hundred
Speaker 1: and ten or something. He should have found out by now,
Speaker 1: even with the background that he has, that Arabic numerals
Speaker 1: are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
Speaker 1: I believe the zero originates elsewhere, but one through nine
Speaker 1: are Arabic numerals. Somebody added worse than all this, Madady
Speaker 1: is also going to make sure that the City of
Speaker 1: New York teaches non binary numbers. Lomer and cat turd
Speaker 1: morons today's other worst persons in the world. Once again,
Speaker 1: how could you just before you do that, how could
Speaker 1: you not check to see if you're being set up
Speaker 1: right next to wherever your Twitter is or your ex
Speaker 1: or your Blue Sky or your Blue Chew or whatever
Speaker 1: it is you're using. Isn't there another button that allows
Speaker 1: you to search the internet? Couldn't you just search quote
Speaker 1: mark Arabic numerals.
Speaker 3: Unquote just to see how much time does it add?
Speaker 3: How much time does it take away from your rage
Speaker 3: against the liberal bastards who are trying to institute Sharia
Speaker 3: shania law. They want Shania law in this country.
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