Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
Speaker 1: keeps digging as he continues to refuse to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: racist disaster at Madison Square Garden and his rally there Sunday.
Speaker 1: One of his surrogates has now doubled down in a
Speaker 1: bitter and almost indescribably racist and foul mouthed attack against
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans, a Trump surrogate named Brendan Dilly.
Speaker 1: I quote him because the tape is too vile to play.
Speaker 1: There is a concern among many mega regarding Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: I have no efing idea. Why if there are Puerto
Speaker 1: Ricans who are willing to surrender America to Communism over
Speaker 1: a comedian making a joke, F you right back to
Speaker 1: efing Puerto Rico. If you are in the fing United
Speaker 1: States of America right now, and you're on the actual fing,
Speaker 1: the lower forty eight, you're there, You're not on your
Speaker 1: sass island. You have no right to complain about how
Speaker 1: people perceive your dirty ass island. Period. To continue quoting
Speaker 1: Brendan Dilly, the Trump surrogate. And if you're willing to
Speaker 1: vote against Donald Trump because he accurately, or because a
Speaker 1: comedian rather not even Donald Trump, because a comedian accurately
Speaker 1: made a joke about the fact that your country, fing,
Speaker 1: nation state, whatever the f you guys are, territory is
Speaker 1: overrun with trash. Fu more from Trump surrogate Brendan Dilly.
Speaker 1: I expect more from Puerto Rican Americans. So, yes, there
Speaker 1: was a joke made at your efing expense, and it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be funny if your island wasn't actually a floating
Speaker 1: trash heap. So you're not going to actually impact this
Speaker 1: election in a negative way, no matter how much you
Speaker 1: virtue signal about this stupid ass story. Unquote Brendan Dilly. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: Trump says he quote loves Brendan Dilly. The campaign gives
Speaker 1: Brendan Dilly credentials and access and video for online propaganda
Speaker 1: for Trump. By the way, I cleaned that quote up.
Speaker 1: The math is simple. There are five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five thousand Latino voters in Pennsylvania, more than half of
Speaker 1: them are of Puerto Rican descent. Four years ago, the
Speaker 1: state's twenty electoral College votes were decided by just eighty thousand,
Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty five of Pennsylvania's voters, and there
Speaker 1: are seven million of them in total, and Trump seems
Speaker 1: determined to keep pissing off as many of them as possible.
Speaker 1: At another quote news conference unquote, which he has streamlined
Speaker 1: by eliminating all questions and exhausted listless, Trump pretended there
Speaker 1: was nothing wrong with the disastrous racist garbage performance at
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, which has been blasted by everybody, from
Speaker 1: the Archbishop of San Juan to the singer Bad Bunny
Speaker 1: and his forty five million followers on Instagram to Megan Kelly.
Speaker 1: He ignored the advice of the archbishop to personally apologize
Speaker 1: for Tony Hinchcliffe. He ignored the advice of the chairman
Speaker 1: of the Puerto Rico GOP, who now says he will
Speaker 1: not vote for Trump in the island's presidential beauty contest vote.
Speaker 1: He claimed, I don't know Hinchecliff. Someone put him up there.
Speaker 1: I don't know who he is. And then he went
Speaker 1: and campaigned in the majority Hispanic city of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: He spent yesterday insisting he was the greatest president Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico has ever seen, and that Sunday at Madison Square
Speaker 1: Garden was a love fest. And of course it was
Speaker 1: a love fest for people like that Brendan Dilly, for
Speaker 1: people who are prejudiced against Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Cubans and
Speaker 1: other Hispanic people.
Speaker 2: I don't think anybody has ever seen anything like what
Speaker 2: happened the other night at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1: The love, the love in that room.
Speaker 2: And I want you to know that Puerto Rico stands
Speaker 2: behind you, and Puerto Rico well Field, well, we love it,
Speaker 2: I know it very well, and we help you through
Speaker 2: a lot of bad storms. I'll tell you we had
Speaker 2: some really bad ones. You remember you were there when
Speaker 2: I brought the hospital ship against everyone's advice, and we
Speaker 2: got it in there and took care of a lot
Speaker 2: of people. But I think no presidents done more for
Speaker 2: Puerto Rico than I have.
Speaker 1: It is hard to conceive that a disturbed entertainer whose
Speaker 1: resume consists of all the clubs, shows, networks and talent
Speaker 1: agencies that dropped him, rather than you know, anything about
Speaker 1: any actual talent he might have, could actually decide or
Speaker 1: at least influence the election. But then again, that description
Speaker 1: fits not just this idiot Hinchcliff, but Trump himself and
Speaker 1: the Hinchcliff story continues to expand. NBC News put a
Speaker 1: hole in the Trump camp implication that they had no
Speaker 1: idea he was going to say any of that by
Speaker 1: reporting that the night before he uttered the Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: line at the Garden, Hinchecliff quote workshopped it at the
Speaker 1: comedy club The Stand on East sixteenth Street in Manhattan,
Speaker 1: where it got no laughs, and he told the audience
Speaker 1: several times not to worry that he would be getting
Speaker 1: a better reaction quote tomorrow at the rally. Unquote Trump's
Speaker 1: inability to keep this thing from growing, let alone actually
Speaker 1: stopping it in some way, making up for it, in
Speaker 1: some way, making up for it to the community. The
Speaker 1: alleged comedian smeared, and this guy Dilly has doubled down
Speaker 1: on that may literally cinch the presidency for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: Even Politico noticed, actually creating a non cringe pun headline,
Speaker 1: Trump faces a pr disaster like a wildfire. The story
Speaker 1: has also jumped a road and touched off a separate
Speaker 1: controversy involving other ethnic groups whose unexpected support for Trump
Speaker 1: is now shaky at best. More on that in a second,
Speaker 1: and then a conservative commentator got as close to bashing
Speaker 1: Trump for this as anybody in the cult could conceivably
Speaker 1: dare when a frantic Megan Kelly not so mad at
Speaker 1: his campaign staff.
Speaker 3: You're trying to win an election in which you're hemorrhaging
Speaker 3: female voters. Maybe when you present in front of hundreds
Speaker 3: of thousands, at least at Madison Square Garden, you clean
Speaker 3: up the bro talk just a little so you don't
Speaker 3: alienate women in the middle of America who are already
Speaker 3: on the fence about Republicans. Do they have no women
Speaker 3: advising their campaign? Is there no actual woman sitting behind
Speaker 3: the scenes coming up with a guest lineup and saying,
Speaker 3: let's just have a word with the g who are
Speaker 3: going to be speaking about. This isn't the bar, this
Speaker 3: isn't their living room. This is a campaign. This is politics.
Speaker 3: We're trying to get him elected. We don't need to
Speaker 3: rally the base or guys anymore. And it's not helpful
Speaker 3: even if we do want to rally the base or guys,
Speaker 3: to go full off color insults to different racial groups
Speaker 3: and so on. I get it, trust me, nothing that
Speaker 3: was said offended me. I'm almost unoffendable, but I understand
Speaker 3: how this plays, especially with women, and it was an
Speaker 3: eft up choice.
Speaker 1: The others still growing tendril of this calamity that only
Speaker 1: Trump could have let fester came on CNN, which has
Speaker 1: turned its ten PM Abby Phillip Auer into a kind
Speaker 1: of Jerry Springer's Show of Politics, which is itself kind
Speaker 1: of ironic, since Jerry Springer was first a newscaster, then
Speaker 1: a Cincinnati politician, and only lastly the host of the
Speaker 1: original wrestling style talk show. In any event, as four
Speaker 1: or five or thirty or however many pundits they could
Speaker 1: squeeze around a table ill designed for the purpose yelled
Speaker 1: at each other over the trumpest shots at Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: and Latinos. The man MSNBC fired a year ago without
Speaker 1: a peep out of its millionaire primetime hosts. Made Hassan
Speaker 1: stated in passing that yes, he supported Palestinians, whereupon a
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and JD. Vance bro named Ryan Gurdusky snapped,
Speaker 1: I hope your beeper doesn't go off. You will recall
Speaker 1: Israel managed to sabotage thousands of pages carried not by
Speaker 1: Palestinians but by the terrorist gang Hesblah in Lebanon last month.
Speaker 1: Hassan replied with astonishment, did your guests just say I
Speaker 1: should be killed? On live TV? And Gurdusky wound up
Speaker 1: making a tepid apology before they threw him off the
Speaker 1: show and presumably returned his place at the fight table
Speaker 1: to its regular occupant, the Trump sycophant, Scott Jennings. It
Speaker 1: was nauseating television, beneath even CNN in its desperation to
Speaker 1: continue to outrate this podcast. But for once, that's not
Speaker 1: the point. Trump's opening acts racism towards Hispanics could not
Speaker 1: only cost in Pennsylvania and maybe North Carolina, where one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand Puerto Ricans reside, or Wisconsin sixty five thousand,
Speaker 1: or Michigan fifty thousand, where By the way, the Susquehanna
Speaker 1: poll that closed Sunday has her up by five. The
Speaker 1: latest nationally is Mourning Consult Harris by three. But they
Speaker 1: like to look at what voters are hearing. Morning Consults
Speaker 1: says forty five percent of likely voters say they have
Speaker 1: heard something positive about Harris recently, and forty nine percent
Speaker 1: said they have heard something negative about Trump recently, and
Speaker 1: that's before the stuff at the Garden or Brendan Dilly.
Speaker 1: But the garden thing has now also replicated itself Trump
Speaker 1: versus Latino's crisis into a Trump versus Latino's crisis and
Speaker 1: a Trump versus Arab American crisis, in part because of
Speaker 1: the Beefer line, and in part because of a letter
Speaker 1: signed by one hundred Palestinian, Arab and Muslim leaders in
Speaker 1: Arizona urging those in their communities to vote for Harris
Speaker 1: no matter what misgivings they may have about the Biden
Speaker 1: administration position on the conflict in the Middle East, ostensibly
Speaker 1: because Trump's position on that conflict is even more hardline. Plus,
Speaker 1: Trump also wants this little Muslim ban and those camps
Speaker 1: he's planning for the Hispanics. They were originally designed in
Speaker 1: Trump's disease mind for the Muslims. The question facing Trump
Speaker 1: six days out from the election is is there anybody
Speaker 1: left to offend? As the proverbial scales seemed to fall
Speaker 1: from the eyes of groups who had somehow convinced themselves
Speaker 1: he was less fatal to them than he was last time.
Speaker 1: What else could go wrong? How about Elon Musk, Trump,
Speaker 1: commissioner of tax breaks for stoned megabillionaires and friend of Putin,
Speaker 1: saying that to save money, Trump will have to crash
Speaker 1: the economy and there'll be haircuts and hardships for everybody
Speaker 1: except him, because what kind of hardships could he get?
Speaker 1: And also what kind of haircuts could he get given
Speaker 1: that he buys his in the lawn and garden department
Speaker 1: at Minards. Also, speaker Mike Johnson chose now to attack
Speaker 1: Obamacare at a private event in Pennsylvania, insisting Trump would
Speaker 1: make massive changes to the wildly popular Affordable Care Act
Speaker 1: because of how mean it is to the insurance industry.
Speaker 1: No Obamacare, one attendee asked Johnson, incredulously, No Obamacare. Johnson
Speaker 1: jauntily replied, and yes, of course, that's sent off yet
Speaker 1: another problem for Trump, a reminder that when he asked
Speaker 1: for details of his health plan during his debate with
Speaker 1: Vice President Harris, Trump had come back with what was
Speaker 1: even for him a moronic answer that he didn't have
Speaker 1: a plan yet, but he quote has concepts of a plan.
Speaker 1: Oh and options options of concepts of a plan in
Speaker 1: the not too distant future. Oh and the Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: insults revived interest in a little noticed snippet from one
Speaker 1: of the endless books about the Trump administration, the Peter
Speaker 1: Baker Susan Glasser Effort, The Divider that when in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty twenty, Trump became obsessed with buying Greenland
Speaker 1: from Denmark, one of his ideas was to trade a
Speaker 1: US asset for Greenland, a US asset he had just
Speaker 1: called quote dirty, a US asset called Puerto Rico. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dana Bash says, it's exactly what the Harris camp wanted.
Speaker 1: So I guess the Vice president's speech on the ellipse worked,
Speaker 1: where she was perfectly framed by countless American flags and
Speaker 1: the White House portico in one of a thousand photographs
Speaker 1: you can find with a two second Google search. She
Speaker 1: had a bigger crowd last night than Trump did on
Speaker 1: January sixth, then don't think he hasn't heard about that,
Speaker 1: and she actually did sell her closing argument last night.
Speaker 4: America. For too long we have been consumed with too
Speaker 4: much division, chaos, and mutual distrust, and it can be easy,
Speaker 4: then to forget a simple truth. It doesn't have to
Speaker 4: be this way. It doesn't have to be this way.
Speaker 4: It is time to stop pointing figures, to stop pointing
Speaker 4: fingers and start locking arms. It is time to turn
Speaker 4: the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear
Speaker 4: and division. It is time for a new generation of
Speaker 4: leadership in America, and I am ready to offer that
Speaker 4: leadership as the next president of the United America.
Speaker 1: I could play much more of the Harris speech, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't know when to stop. We are now at
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty thousand canceled Washington Post subscriptions for
Speaker 1: David fulcnflict of NPR. The numbers shot up by one
Speaker 1: quarter after Post owner Jeff Bezos's self stroking article explaining
Speaker 1: why he decided to suddenly stop endorsements of all political
Speaker 1: candidates just before the presidential election. Well not him, of course.
Speaker 1: He didn't do this. His people, well not his people,
Speaker 1: the Post's people and those people who met with Trump
Speaker 1: on behalf of his people at the rocket ship company
Speaker 1: Bezos owns. According to NPR, those weren't his people either.
Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand cancelations, which according to the
Speaker 1: NPR calculation, represents ten percent of all of the Post's
Speaker 1: readership income. Semaphore News as the La Times, had around
Speaker 1: four hundred thousand subscriptions lost eighteen thousand, that'd be a
Speaker 1: little less than five percent of its incoming and seeing
Speaker 1: an opportunity to slip stream behind the big scared names.
Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Times revealed that it didn't endorse in
Speaker 1: the presidential race either, but it had decided that in July.
Speaker 1: It was just that nobody noticed. Andrew Mitchell says she
Speaker 1: is retiring from her midday show on MSNBC after the inauguration.
Speaker 1: Two points, how could anybody tell? Secondly, she is doing so,
Speaker 1: presumably to devote more time to falling asleep off the
Speaker 1: air rather than on it. Mitchell says she'll do more
Speaker 1: reporting now. The Reporter's Club from Washington hailed her as
Speaker 1: one of the all time greats. In point of fact,
Speaker 1: even when I was still at NBC, which is now
Speaker 1: more than thirteen years ago, producers were warned to check
Speaker 1: her scripts, that she viewed all news stories almost exclusively
Speaker 1: through one lens and one lens only. What did it
Speaker 1: mean for the economy, what did it mean for the investors?
Speaker 1: And speaking of leaving MSNBC, I have to tell you
Speaker 1: this story. I think if I tell it to you, though,
Speaker 1: I should just quote it verbatim. At least a couple
Speaker 1: of paragraphs of a very interesting piece and a very
Speaker 1: long one from former investigative at Gawker, Gizmodo insider and
Speaker 1: business insider JK. Trotter, now writing at Interesting Mysteries dot com.
Speaker 1: I hope you're sitting down quote. Eight years ago. In
Speaker 1: the spring of twenty sixteen, reporters in New York City
Speaker 1: began to hear whispers about a drama unfolding at the
Speaker 1: Midtown headquarters of NBC. Sources, colleagues, friends, and acquaintances. All
Speaker 1: of them had heard something about the relationship between Today's
Speaker 1: Show co host Tamaron Hall and presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: The rumor went like this. In the latter half of
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, NBC journalists unearthed evidence that Hall and Trump
Speaker 1: conducted an affair in the years before he declared his candidacy.
Speaker 1: Some of the evidence, mister Trotter goes on, indicated that
Speaker 1: Hall became pregnant by Trump and later obtained an abortion.
Speaker 1: Says mister Trotter, the whispers appeared to be leaking out
Speaker 1: of thirty Rockefeller Plaza because NBC officials were unsure of
Speaker 1: how to address the situation. Continuing the quote. Eager to
Speaker 1: scoop a competitor on its own turf, Reporters outside of
Speaker 1: NBC swarmed their sources within the network for information, but
Speaker 1: they struggled to find a path to publication. Important details
Speaker 1: were fuzzy or disputed, and sources knowledge was often third
Speaker 1: or fourth hand. The gravity of the allegation and the
Speaker 1: visibility of its subjects provided little margin for error. Any
Speaker 1: story would require nearly perfect sourcing. No news outlet published
Speaker 1: a single word about the rumor to continue from JKA here,
Speaker 1: but there was in fact some truth to it, according
Speaker 1: to people familiar with the matter. NBC journalists did indeed
Speaker 1: investigate Hall and Trump's relationship in the fall of twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: and says JK. Trotter, found evidence that supported the existence
Speaker 1: of an affair that led to Hall's pregnancy and subsequent abortion.
Speaker 1: They had gathered this material as part of a larger
Speaker 1: reporting project about Trump's past girlfriends. The evidence was compelling
Speaker 1: enough to continue investigating as Trump's campaign gained steam. To
Speaker 1: finish up the long quote from mister Trotter. However, nothing ever,
Speaker 1: came of the reporting project. NBC never published a story
Speaker 1: about Trump's ex girlfriends or his relationship with Hall, and
Speaker 1: less than two weeks after Trump's inauguration, Hall abruptly left
Speaker 1: the network. These events created a mystery that has never
Speaker 1: been solved what exactly happened between Trump, Hall and NBC.
Speaker 1: For the rest of it, I'm just going to go
Speaker 1: over and stand out of the traffic lanes. I refer
Speaker 1: you to Interesting Mysteries dot com. Do you need me
Speaker 1: to spell it? I notice there is nothing in there
Speaker 1: about Prince and the endless rumors about my old friend
Speaker 1: Tamarn and Prince, most of which did, in fact seem
Speaker 1: to be fueled by Tamarn. I never did figure her out.
Speaker 1: In point of fact, I asked her out. She said, yes,
Speaker 1: we had one dinner planned which I had to cancel
Speaker 1: when my dad got sick. Then a few months later
Speaker 1: she asked me why we hadn't gone out yet, And
Speaker 1: then I left NBC and that was the last of that.
Speaker 1: So who knows. Maybe the answer is it Interesting Mysteries
Speaker 1: dot com? Are you the daddy.
Speaker 4: Not me?
Speaker 1: Pell? Also of interest here, in an all new edition
Speaker 1: of Countdown, somebody prominent has defended the racist remarks by
Speaker 1: this guy. Hinchcliff compared it to Tony Hinchcliff's performance at
Speaker 1: a roast of the football player Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: man who defended it is the most overrated person in
Speaker 1: the history of political television commentary. No, not me, somebody else.
Speaker 1: That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Speaker 1: Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I am
Speaker 1: so old that I went with Trump news conference where
Speaker 1: he actually didn't give a speech and sort of fell
Speaker 1: asleep while standing up, but instead of answered questions and
Speaker 1: did interviews. And it was just the other day. Well, no,
Speaker 1: forty one years ago. Things I promised not to tell.
Speaker 1: I met Donald Trump when I was twenty four years old,
Speaker 1: and even then I knew he was nuts. Oh, and
Speaker 1: he later wrote me a fan letter. Coming up first,
Speaker 1: So my guest announcer you heard there was Tony Kornheiser
Speaker 1: from ESPN, because six years ago I was in DC
Speaker 1: co hosting Pardon the Interruption with him there for ESPN,
Speaker 1: having a great time doing it. And I was sitting
Speaker 1: in the executive producer's office at the middle of the
Speaker 1: day and he had three TVs on his wall. One
Speaker 1: had CNN, one had MSNBC, one had Fox. It was midday,
Speaker 1: so The MSNBC anchor was Katie turry. Hey, the producer said,
Speaker 1: it's your ex Then I looked at the CNN monitor.
Speaker 1: Their guest was Olivia Newsy heard too, I said, sort
Speaker 1: of quietly. He didn't quite understand what I meant. Fox
Speaker 1: was in a commercial break, and I said to him,
Speaker 1: you know, if when they come back from break, Laura
Speaker 1: Ingram is somehow on the air on Fox right now,
Speaker 1: I expect silver dollars or gold bullion to start pouring
Speaker 1: out of your television because I hit the X jackpot.
Speaker 1: On that note, Let's put more coins in the machine
Speaker 1: and pull the one armed bandits lever and see how
Speaker 1: we do as we look at the latest new idiots
Speaker 1: to talk about the daily roundup of the misgrants morons
Speaker 1: undone and krugrif x specimens who constitute two days worse
Speaker 1: persons in the world. Come on, baby, the bronze were
Speaker 1: Olivia Newsy. I have stayed out of the substance of
Speaker 1: this perfect soap opera because they're all wrong. They're all idiots,
Speaker 1: they're all behaving like children. They're all behaving immorally and
Speaker 1: amorlly and self destructively. It's a if you were to
Speaker 1: offer this up to the nation's psychiatrists, there'd be a
Speaker 1: bidding war for each of them. New Zy, her badly haired,
Speaker 1: dyed ex fiancee, whom she used to call a stalker,
Speaker 1: Ryan Lizza, And of course my ex friend RFK Junior,
Speaker 1: who is slightly more in my favor maybe is sort
Speaker 1: of number one in the rankings in my mind, because,
Speaker 1: as I've noted previously, he's five years older than I am.
Speaker 1: So when Olivia and I broke up nearly a decade ago,
Speaker 1: turns out I was actually too young for her. AnyWho
Speaker 1: The Daily Beast, where Olivia used to work and with
Speaker 1: whom I secretly negotiated her contract. I mean, why not
Speaker 1: I've negotiated and signed like one hundred and seventeen contracts
Speaker 1: she had signed. Why shouldn't I do the bargaining behind
Speaker 1: the scenes for her? And I charged her way lower
Speaker 1: than my usual rates. I did it for free reports
Speaker 1: that Liza. The Daily Beast reports that Liza has filed
Speaker 1: outrage paperwork fighting Olivia Newzy's attempt to put her entire
Speaker 1: lawsuit against him under seal, in which she has accused
Speaker 1: him of blackmail, phone hacking, attempting to force her into
Speaker 1: sex and back into their engagement, and all sorts of
Speaker 1: other stuff about their Trump book that will be coming
Speaker 1: out in Check's notes the year twenty twenty. She wants
Speaker 1: this case, which at one point she let leak she
Speaker 1: was turning over to the FBI, which meant she hoped
Speaker 1: to get him arrested. She wants it conducted out of
Speaker 1: the public view. I hate to agree with Liza on anything,
Speaker 1: and this predates my knowing that he even knew her,
Speaker 1: or that I even knew her. But as the Daily
Speaker 1: Beast notes quote, the crucial point liza a lawyers make
Speaker 1: is that Newsy made no attempt to seal coverage of
Speaker 1: the case or her initial filing for two weeks and
Speaker 1: after her filing on September twenty ninth. He only did
Speaker 1: so after Liza lodged his counter filing on October eleventh,
Speaker 1: filing first reported exclusively by The Beast at the time.
Speaker 1: Mister Lizza's answer to the petition should be just as
Speaker 1: public as her Newsy's self serving and self publicized allegations.
Speaker 1: Liz's lawyers argue the petition was available on the public
Speaker 1: docket for a full two weeks after September twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: Yet Miss Newsy did not move to seal. To the contrary,
Speaker 1: why do I keep seeing a seal? Why do I
Speaker 1: keep seeing a Thurber seal? I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: still there, By the way, but Olivia got the moral
Speaker 1: to one of Thurber's fables that I read you periodically.
Speaker 1: She got a tattooed on her shoulders across her shoulders
Speaker 1: when we were together. I forget which one. It may
Speaker 1: have been, the Moth and the Star. I'll have to
Speaker 1: figure that one out anyway, because I had the moth
Speaker 1: done on my arm anyway. Yet Ms Newzy did not
Speaker 1: move to seal. To the contrary, she affirmatively stoked press coverage. Then,
Speaker 1: mere hours after Miss Newsy's council received mister Lizza's answer,
Speaker 1: and the day before the public hearing on her petition,
Speaker 1: Miss Newzy suddenly moved to seal everything Ms Newsy cannot
Speaker 1: provide and discuss her petition and its allegations with news organizations,
Speaker 1: and then seek to seal the very record she created
Speaker 1: so as to silence mister Lizza in this litigation. By god,
Speaker 1: I can't argue against him. Plus, what fun will this
Speaker 1: be if it's under seal, because if you think this
Speaker 1: is going away, it isn't. There's another detail that has
Speaker 1: come out now. He's hired a former Bill Clinton attorney,
Speaker 1: Bob Barnett. She's hired a guy who charges five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for the first meeting and then eight hundred dollars
Speaker 1: an hour. And trust me, if there's one thing I'm
Speaker 1: an authority on, it's how Olivia handles money. And the
Speaker 1: summary of that is she doesn't. I wonder if there's
Speaker 1: a secret bankroll involved in this? Who in this scenario
Speaker 1: with two ink stained, poorly paid wretches and Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior, maybe somebody else might have money?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: I wonder is that possible? Is he bankrolling her in this?
Speaker 1: Just like wiring her the money or sending it to
Speaker 1: her from Venmo? Never in person? Obviously? Okay, the runner up?
Speaker 1: Why look? Look who it is? The runner up? Wor
Speaker 1: Sir Laura Ingram? Did you know that? In addition to
Speaker 1: her nightly Fascism Hour on Fox, she has a website
Speaker 1: in which she writes about herself in the third person,
Speaker 1: Can I pick them?
Speaker 3: Or what?
Speaker 1: Two worse persons? And they're both my exes? Although to
Speaker 1: be fair. Laura was only one date, and that time
Speaker 1: she took me hostage quote. In her recent appearance on
Speaker 1: Fox and Friends, Laura shared a powerful message with hosts
Speaker 1: and viewers, underscoring the undeniable momentum building across the country.
Speaker 1: She addressed the enthusiasm for former President Donald Trump, enthusiasms,
Speaker 1: and the broader populist movement, painting a vivid picture of
Speaker 1: a nation that is ready to embrace change and restore
Speaker 1: American values she meets white people. Reflecting on the scene
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, Laura noted the palpable excitement the
Speaker 1: crowd proudly sported red hats and pro Trump attire a
Speaker 1: courageous statement in New York City. Well, they were in
Speaker 1: the Jim Dolans building. He's a fascist. What was brave
Speaker 1: about that? You've got James Dolan, owner of the garden,
Speaker 1: the Rangers, the Knicks, fascist who bans people who criticize
Speaker 1: the team? I mean fan and not media. You want
Speaker 1: to ban the media, I guess ban fans who criticize
Speaker 1: him or the teams, and install facial recognition systems so
Speaker 1: that anybody who works for a company that's suing one
Speaker 1: of his companies. They don't get admission to Radio City
Speaker 1: Musical or a Knick game or a Rangers game. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was dangerous to be in Madison Square Garden. If
Speaker 1: you're a Nazi, you feel the energy in the room,
Speaker 1: Laura observed, emphasizing that the atmosphere was not overstated. There
Speaker 1: was a happiness in there. I'm sorry I haven't done
Speaker 1: my accent now when the happiness in there, she added,
Speaker 1: countering the often negative narratives portrayed in the media. Yes,
Speaker 1: I would agree with her here the people who hate
Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans, Latinos and Hispanics were extremely happy on Sunday. Moreover,
Speaker 1: Laura suggested that this visible support reflects a shift in
Speaker 1: attitude nationwide the days of heine who you're supporting our owner,
Speaker 1: she asserted. She recalled her recent visit to Texas A
Speaker 1: and M, noting that even on college campuses, Trump supporters
Speaker 1: are beginning to express their beliefs openly. Laura emphasized that
Speaker 1: Americans deserve the right to voice their views freely, whether
Speaker 1: backing Trump or Harris on college campuses. At the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I think a lot of kids have
Speaker 1: been afraid to be who they are she said, this
Speaker 1: is true. The racists have been afraid. There's been a
Speaker 1: sheet shortage at most colleges. Think about it, until people
Speaker 1: like Laura and Fox enabled the racists, they were afraid,
Speaker 1: suitably afraid, permanently afraid. You know who else Laura has enabled,
Speaker 1: based on the photo on her website, people who get
Speaker 1: serial plastic surgery. If you go look at this, don't
Speaker 1: say I didn't warn you. All right, So here we
Speaker 1: are in a podcast version of that scene I described
Speaker 1: in the Pardon the Interruption offices Ingram on one screen,
Speaker 1: Newsy on another. Could the third one b Katie Turr
Speaker 1: or any of my other exes who names I never
Speaker 1: mentioned because they're not in the media, and I would
Speaker 1: have had to bring them up and sort of expose
Speaker 1: them to public comment. No, I don't do that. The
Speaker 1: winner the worst, Ah, Sorry, it's John Stewart. John Stewart,
Speaker 1: the all time third best host of the Daily Show
Speaker 1: after Kilbourne and Noah. Kilbourne and I last spoke in
Speaker 1: two thousand when he retracted an apology on me. It's
Speaker 1: not like we're still buddies or anything. And I was
Speaker 1: probably his best friend at ESPN. I have to say this.
Speaker 1: The only Katie Terr connection is. Katie Turrer agreed that
Speaker 1: Kilbourne was much better on the Daily Show than Stuart was.
Speaker 1: I don't get John Stuart. I didn't get him in
Speaker 1: the nineties when he was the host of Comedy Central's
Speaker 1: Short Attention Span Theater. I didn't get him when he
Speaker 1: only got the Daily Show assignment because somebody at CBA
Speaker 1: got stoned and thought Kilbourne was the ideal follow up
Speaker 1: to Letterman and they gave him the Late Late Show.
Speaker 1: During the Bush years, I thought John did some brave stuff,
Speaker 1: but it was amazingly formulaic and stopped being funny very fast,
Speaker 1: and he had this weird grudge against me and anybody
Speaker 1: else who criticized Bush on TV with just occasional humor,
Speaker 1: because I don't know, he was the only one allowed
Speaker 1: to do that. I don't get John Stuart. Well, now
Speaker 1: I don't get him even more than I used to
Speaker 1: not get him. John Stuart has defended Tony Hinchcliffe, the
Speaker 1: racist who posing as a comedian, got up at Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden and called Puerto Rico garbage and compared Latino's
Speaker 1: moving here to a cheap method of birth control, and
Speaker 1: did so so he could get cheap laughs from the
Speaker 1: cheap racists at Trump's cheap Nazi rally at Madison Square,
Speaker 1: cheap Garden, And as we found out, he workshopped the
Speaker 1: jokes the night for at a New York comedy club
Speaker 1: and he got no laughs, and he did the jokes anyway,
Speaker 1: And anybody who's ever done comedy knows that is the
Speaker 1: surest sign that the point is not to get a
Speaker 1: laugh with your material, but to wear your racism like
Speaker 1: an emblem or symbol. I don't know emblem or symbol.
Speaker 1: I just read random emblems, like a swastika maybe. Anyway,
Speaker 1: John Stewart defended this guy Hinchcliff quote. Obviously in retrospect,
Speaker 1: having a roast comedian come to a political rally a
Speaker 1: week before election day and roasting a key demographic probably
Speaker 1: not the best decision by the campaign politically, But to
Speaker 1: be fair, the guy's just really doing what he does.
Speaker 1: First off, the misunderstanding here that the issue is how
Speaker 1: this affects this idiot nobody ever heard of before and
Speaker 1: now we'll never hear of again, except in this context, Hinchcliff,
Speaker 1: that's not the issue. That's like, you know, blaming the
Speaker 1: bullet but saying that it's fair here. It's okay because
Speaker 1: the guy's just really doing what he does his job,
Speaker 1: his job as being a racist in public on behalf
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump. Well, then why isn't he in the
Speaker 1: House Republican leadership Because they're not funny either, they're just
Speaker 1: racist bastards like this guy. Everything is fine as long
Speaker 1: as you're just really doing what you do. Is that
Speaker 1: true for a bank robber? John or Ted Bundy? I'm
Speaker 1: just doing what I do. John Stewart was not done.
Speaker 1: He continued to defend Tony Hinchcliffe by showing highlights of
Speaker 1: Hingecliffe at a similar event to the German American Bunned
Speaker 1: eighty fifth anniversary Roast of Minorities at Madison Square Garden
Speaker 1: on Sunday. John Stewart played video of Hingecliff making jokes
Speaker 1: at exactly the same kind of thing, a roast of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, the football player, the most vanilla man in
Speaker 1: the history of sports. And then John Stewart played these
Speaker 1: clips and laughed, Yes, yes, of course, terrible boo. There's
Speaker 1: something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know what to tell you. I mean,
Speaker 1: bringing him to a rally and having him not do
Speaker 1: roast jokes. That'd be like bringing Beyonce to a rally
Speaker 1: and not and then he gave the patented oops stare
Speaker 1: that John Stewart has used only seventeen thousand times so
Speaker 1: far this decade. The implication is here that being a
Speaker 1: Beyonce not singing at a Kamala Harris event is the
Speaker 1: same as it would be if Tony Hinchcliffe went to
Speaker 1: a Trump fascist rally and was not a racist bastard
Speaker 1: and did not slander Puerto Ricans and Hispanics, And that
Speaker 1: slandering Puerto Ricans and Hispanics at a political rally a
Speaker 1: week before an election is exactly the same as making
Speaker 1: a few jokes about Tom effing Brady because I guess
Speaker 1: what I finally get, John Stewart. John Stewart is a
Speaker 1: freaking idiot. Somewhere long ago, John Stewart decided that comedians
Speaker 1: were always to be defended, no matter if they harmed
Speaker 1: individuals or groups of people, and that jokes were just jokes,
Speaker 1: and if you have a problem with jokes, it's your problem.
Speaker 1: Tony Hinchcliffe was just doing his job. Of course, you
Speaker 1: should make sick racist jokes about a minority group that
Speaker 1: is already under attack a minority group, jokes about them
Speaker 1: that will encourage violence against them and aid the effort
Speaker 1: of a madman who wants to become dictator, and then
Speaker 1: put people like John Stewart in a concentration camp. Because
Speaker 1: that's the same as saying Tom Brady has banged too
Speaker 1: many supermodels. Because we should all be good sports about comedy,
Speaker 1: and we should laugh whenever it helps a comedian, even
Speaker 1: if it leads to death threats against the people the
Speaker 1: comedian clearly hates. Comedy Central has just announced John Stewart
Speaker 1: will continue to do one episode of The Daily Show
Speaker 1: per week into next year, unless Tony Hinchcliff's demented racism
Speaker 1: helps Trump get elected, in which case John will be
Speaker 1: busy living in the cell next to mine in the camp,
Speaker 1: insisting but they were just jokes. I mean, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: didn't put us in a camp, right, Let me go, John,
Speaker 1: People don't matter. Racism doesn't matter. Only laughs matter. Stuart
Speaker 1: two days worst person. I'm sorry it wasn't Katie Turr
Speaker 1: in the world to the number one story on the
Speaker 1: Countdown and the Things You Never Know and the things
Speaker 1: you'll never realize at the time that someday you will
Speaker 1: need to promise not to tell. I met Trump when
Speaker 1: I was twenty four years old. It's a pretty good story.
Speaker 1: His hair was still its original color. Then more or
Speaker 1: less it was thinning. He'd done something to it. It
Speaker 1: was combed strangely. He was weird, unsettling, unnatural. But it
Speaker 1: was New York in nineteen eighty three. Everybody had done
Speaker 1: somebody of their hair. I had a perm everybody was
Speaker 1: weird and unsettling. But if you had said this this
Speaker 1: in the future, this is how this will end up.
Speaker 1: I would never have believed you. The president thing, the
Speaker 1: coop thing, the dictatorship thing, the violence thing, the burying
Speaker 1: the wife on the golf course thing. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I would have believed all that. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: really weird. I meant the President mccheese thing.
Speaker 2: I like China and I like President Cheese.
Speaker 1: And here's another clip that slipped through the cracks, but
Speaker 1: only for a moment. This was Newsmax. This was the
Speaker 1: interview where Trump just kept talking and talking and talking,
Speaker 1: and even poor dumb Greg Kelly glazed over as he listened,
Speaker 1: and Trump said his big takeaway from the New York
Speaker 1: trial was that none of the jurors smiled at him.
Speaker 1: The light bulb went off over my head. This is
Speaker 1: far more important than it could possibly seem at first. Blush.
Speaker 1: There's no way. You heard me say, you're long before
Speaker 1: the verdict that mother Teresa couldn't get a fair trial here.
Speaker 1: I said that, and no, you couldn't. I never saw
Speaker 1: a glimmer of a smile from the jury. No, this
Speaker 1: was a venue that was very unfair. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: did I have a flashback there. I have had the
Speaker 1: misfortune to meet Trump in person four times, the first
Speaker 1: late in nineteen eighty three, and each time I saw
Speaker 1: the exact moment that his face went from an emotionless,
Speaker 1: almost lifeless, certainly non human mask to a beaming, phony smile.
Speaker 1: That's who he is, That's what he thinks is his asset,
Speaker 1: an irresistible smile. You and I look at him and
Speaker 1: see a face of evil and debauchery, and mostly a
Speaker 1: guy who claims to be rich and yet clearly buys
Speaker 1: his makeup at the cheap end of the notions department
Speaker 1: at Filein's basement. But he really thinks he can sell
Speaker 1: anybody anything and somewhere early in life he decided his
Speaker 1: means of doing that was to mimic a human smile
Speaker 1: and really make it as big and as preposterous as possible.
Speaker 1: And he's done this now for at least seventy years,
Speaker 1: from his childhood dementia to this dementia. And the way
Speaker 1: he registers a sail with people, his receipt for convincing
Speaker 1: them to do his bidding is their smile in return.
Speaker 1: So the jury didn't smile at him, so the jury
Speaker 1: was biased against him, so the jury was corrupt, so
Speaker 1: the trial was rigged. So when he it has these
Speaker 1: crazy things, there is a part of him that truly
Speaker 1: believes it is ridge, because they are, as the kids say,
Speaker 1: not buying what he's selling. He believes life is a transaction,
Speaker 1: and when he gives you his smile, you have to
Speaker 1: give him yours, and then he owns you. I met
Speaker 1: him in the lobby of the apartment building I used
Speaker 1: to live at here, the no longer Trump Palace. I
Speaker 1: saw him first, then he saw me. Then he whispered
Speaker 1: to one of his flunkies. I'm guessing he was double
Speaker 1: checking it was me. Then he stared at me for
Speaker 1: a moment. Then when he thought I was first looking
Speaker 1: at him, his dead face turned immediately into that fake smile.
Speaker 1: Remember the Senko de Mayo Taco Bowl tweet from twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen where he says, I love Hispanics, like there were
Speaker 1: actual Hispanics in the taco bowl and he was eating
Speaker 1: them that fake smile. But his eyesight is not as
Speaker 1: good as he lets on, so he doesn't know that
Speaker 1: you have seen him from He had done the same
Speaker 1: thing twice in the lobbies of thirty Rock at NBC,
Speaker 1: once stopping just to shake hands, once actually stopping to
Speaker 1: tell me how good countdown was and how pissed off
Speaker 1: his buddy Bill O'Reilly would get whenever he told him
Speaker 1: how good countdown was, and then striding off. And I
Speaker 1: watched to see if I could see that fake smile
Speaker 1: that had appeared so suddenly vanished just as suddenly, but
Speaker 1: his back was turned to me. However, December fifteenth, nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three, CNN sends me to cover a New York
Speaker 1: Post sports forum where owner George Steinbrenner of the New
Speaker 1: York Yankees, owner Fred Wilpond of the New York Mets,
Speaker 1: Sonny Werblin of the New York Rangers, and Nixon, this
Speaker 1: real estate hump Trump who owned the sort of pro
Speaker 1: football team in New Jersey. They would speak and do
Speaker 1: interviews and meet fans and whatever, and I interviewed them
Speaker 1: all briefly, and when it came time to interview this
Speaker 1: Trump guy, he stood there and looked at me like
Speaker 1: he was trying to guess my weight. Then we put
Speaker 1: the camera light on and there it was, this big
Speaker 1: fake smile out of nowhere. And I asked some questions
Speaker 1: about the New Jersey Generals, and he boasted he was
Speaker 1: hiring a new name coach who used to coach the Jets.
Speaker 1: Only turned out he hadn't hired him yet, and he
Speaker 1: spent a week cleaning up that mess. And when I
Speaker 1: said thank you, when we turned the light off, he
Speaker 1: turned off the big fake smile zap, it was gone,
Speaker 1: and the blank look repeated in his eyes. A couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, on a cold night, I turned a
Speaker 1: corner here and a familiar but older face shouted Keith,
Speaker 1: And suddenly I realized, it's a CNN cameraman I haven't
Speaker 1: seen in thirty years. Remember when we covered Trumpet that
Speaker 1: sports thing? He says, and I realized he was the
Speaker 1: cameraman that day at the post thing. Remember what you
Speaker 1: said about him? And I didn't And he laughs, and
Speaker 1: he says, we were walking back to the truck and
Speaker 1: you didn't say anything, and that worried us, because when
Speaker 1: have you ever shut up for five minutes? And so
Speaker 1: finally I say, what's bothering you? And you stopped and
Speaker 1: you turning, you looked at me and Jimmy, and you
Speaker 1: said that last guy we interviewed Trump, What the f
Speaker 1: is wrong with that guy? I think back often to
Speaker 1: that day in nineteen eighty three. I know I'm not
Speaker 1: going to say what I'm thinking. Thanks for listening. I've
Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Five episodes
Speaker 1: a week. Again, we're posting nightly just after midnight Eastern.
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Speaker 1: there is a Monday countdown, and please forward this podcast
Speaker 1: to anybody. Forward it to John Stewart, I don't care,
Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Phillips, Shanelle musical directors of Countdown arranged, produced,
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration
Speaker 1: and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and
Speaker 1: fifthy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever,
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from
Speaker 1: ESPN two. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy
Speaker 1: of the ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by
Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer today has
Speaker 1: mentioned was my friend Tony Kornheiser. Everything else was pretty
Speaker 1: much my fault. That's countdown for today. Six days until
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four presidential election. How's the breathing going
Speaker 1: out there. It's also the three hundred and ninety fourth
Speaker 1: day since convicted felon dissociative fugue Jade Trump got away
Speaker 1: with his first attempted coup against the democratically elected government
Speaker 1: of the United States. Use the election, use the metal
Speaker 1: health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from doing
Speaker 1: it again while we still have chance. The next scheduled
Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news requires till the
Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight,
Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production
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