1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,875 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This 2 00:00:24,235 --> 00:00:27,395 Speaker 1: is by no stretch the most important atrocity of the 3 00:00:27,435 --> 00:00:32,035 Speaker 1: self destroying regime of the insane dictator Trump. It's not 4 00:00:32,075 --> 00:00:36,555 Speaker 1: even the most important right now, but it may be 5 00:00:37,115 --> 00:00:44,195 Speaker 1: the most symbolic. Trump, again repeatedly, is still trying to 6 00:00:44,395 --> 00:00:53,275 Speaker 1: disappear Jackie Robinson, to erase Jackie Robinson, to memory hole 7 00:00:54,115 --> 00:01:00,115 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, to relegate him using those hated letters Trump 8 00:01:00,195 --> 00:01:03,875 Speaker 1: does not understand and can barely spell, but which in 9 00:01:03,955 --> 00:01:07,315 Speaker 1: his animal instinct way, he has used to exploit and 10 00:01:07,475 --> 00:01:11,995 Speaker 1: manipulate and use to rebuild segregation and begin to build 11 00:01:12,035 --> 00:01:19,475 Speaker 1: apartheid in this nation. DI, which if you did not notice, 12 00:01:19,555 --> 00:01:26,395 Speaker 1: replaced CRT, probably because DEI was easier for Trump to say. 13 00:01:27,755 --> 00:01:32,235 Speaker 1: And the scum who work for Trump are boasting about 14 00:01:32,275 --> 00:01:37,515 Speaker 1: trying to disappear Jackie Robinson again in a new way, 15 00:01:37,915 --> 00:01:40,395 Speaker 1: newer than the one they were trying to disappear him 16 00:01:40,435 --> 00:01:46,155 Speaker 1: with yesterday, and even when caught and forced finally to 17 00:01:46,315 --> 00:01:52,315 Speaker 1: retreat from their racism, to restore the page honoring Jackie 18 00:01:52,395 --> 00:01:55,795 Speaker 1: Robinson at the Department of Defense website that they erased, 19 00:01:56,435 --> 00:02:01,555 Speaker 1: even after they were forced by public outrage to restore 20 00:02:01,635 --> 00:02:08,595 Speaker 1: that page. They are still boasting about erasing Jackie Robinson 21 00:02:09,035 --> 00:02:12,475 Speaker 1: in a new way, and boasting about it in a 22 00:02:12,515 --> 00:02:15,875 Speaker 1: way that is even more racist than their original white 23 00:02:16,115 --> 00:02:24,195 Speaker 1: supremacist trash racism, boasting about first disappearing Jackie Robinson, and 24 00:02:24,235 --> 00:02:29,075 Speaker 1: then when they restored him, demeaning his memory and diminishing 25 00:02:29,315 --> 00:02:36,835 Speaker 1: the meaning of his life and his sacrifice. The page 26 00:02:36,955 --> 00:02:40,435 Speaker 1: on the Department of Defense website that drily recounted Robinson's 27 00:02:40,475 --> 00:02:47,195 Speaker 1: military service for this country during World War Two was broken, eliminated, erased. 28 00:02:47,475 --> 00:02:52,355 Speaker 1: The page was among those detailing sports heroes who served 29 00:02:52,715 --> 00:02:57,315 Speaker 1: this nation. The page, as discovered by the digital editor 30 00:02:57,355 --> 00:03:01,035 Speaker 1: of the New Mexico News, Matthew Reichbach, then amplified by 31 00:03:01,035 --> 00:03:04,635 Speaker 1: the baseball writer Craig Calcaterra, finally written up by ESPN 32 00:03:04,835 --> 00:03:08,195 Speaker 1: and NBC News and others. It was deleted and the 33 00:03:08,355 --> 00:03:14,275 Speaker 1: link redirected you to Defense dot govslash news, slash features Stories, 34 00:03:14,355 --> 00:03:24,595 Speaker 1: slashdi Sports. It actually read DEI sports, and it produced 35 00:03:24,715 --> 00:03:28,275 Speaker 1: when you clicked on it, a four oh four page 36 00:03:28,355 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: not found Jackie Robinson memory hold as surely as it 37 00:03:34,995 --> 00:03:40,715 Speaker 1: was an example in George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and 38 00:03:40,835 --> 00:03:44,155 Speaker 1: worse yet, they went about boasting about it. John Oldyacht 39 00:03:44,515 --> 00:03:47,755 Speaker 1: another right wing press spokesman who has chosen a photo 40 00:03:47,795 --> 00:03:51,715 Speaker 1: of himself that suggests that during the military part of 41 00:03:51,715 --> 00:03:55,115 Speaker 1: his career he had what we used to call shell 42 00:03:55,235 --> 00:04:00,155 Speaker 1: shock behind the eyes. A former columnist at the disgraced 43 00:04:00,275 --> 00:04:05,755 Speaker 1: Town Hall and the federalist John Ullacht now Pentagon Press scretary. Finally, 44 00:04:06,995 --> 00:04:10,675 Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, gave NBC News a comment about the disappearing 45 00:04:10,675 --> 00:04:15,595 Speaker 1: of Jackie Robinson quote as Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI 46 00:04:15,715 --> 00:04:20,675 Speaker 1: is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ieology is 47 00:04:20,715 --> 00:04:23,915 Speaker 1: a form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place 48 00:04:23,955 --> 00:04:28,555 Speaker 1: in our military. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion, 49 00:04:28,675 --> 00:04:33,715 Speaker 1: and interferes. Cleverly divides eroads and interferes are capitalized with 50 00:04:33,835 --> 00:04:38,515 Speaker 1: the service's Corps war fighting mission. We are pleased by 51 00:04:38,595 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing 52 00:04:42,955 --> 00:04:49,475 Speaker 1: DEI content from all platforms. A reminder that the DEI 53 00:04:49,635 --> 00:04:54,075 Speaker 1: content that this bastard u Yacht is referring to is 54 00:04:54,115 --> 00:04:58,315 Speaker 1: the story as dryly told as imaginable of when Jackie 55 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:02,715 Speaker 1: Robinson served in the US Army before he summoned the 56 00:05:02,755 --> 00:05:05,795 Speaker 1: courage to go ahead and break through what was then 57 00:05:05,915 --> 00:05:11,955 Speaker 1: all white baseball, all white sports, essentially all white America. 58 00:05:14,075 --> 00:05:17,155 Speaker 1: We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department 59 00:05:17,195 --> 00:05:25,075 Speaker 1: with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. This 60 00:05:25,395 --> 00:05:28,395 Speaker 1: oly yacht continued. In the rare cases that content is 61 00:05:28,435 --> 00:05:31,475 Speaker 1: removed either deliberately or by mistake that is out of 62 00:05:31,515 --> 00:05:34,835 Speaker 1: the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the 63 00:05:34,875 --> 00:05:39,235 Speaker 1: components and they correct the content accordingly. That is a 64 00:05:39,275 --> 00:05:41,995 Speaker 1: long way from mister Olliot of saying that America is 65 00:05:42,035 --> 00:05:46,115 Speaker 1: a white nationalist country. Now Jackie Robinson didn't count anymore 66 00:05:46,355 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: and they had gotten rid of Jackie Robinson's memory. Happily, 67 00:05:52,675 --> 00:05:57,075 Speaker 1: this country is not dead yet. All hell broke loose. 68 00:05:57,155 --> 00:05:59,515 Speaker 1: It broke loose when Donald Trump decided to throw Jackie 69 00:05:59,595 --> 00:06:03,475 Speaker 1: Robinson to the white supremacist mob and the racists and 70 00:06:03,515 --> 00:06:06,235 Speaker 1: the other white garbage who must find an excuse for 71 00:06:06,275 --> 00:06:10,875 Speaker 1: the failures of their own existences on this planet. Trump, 72 00:06:12,235 --> 00:06:15,675 Speaker 1: through his minions memory, hold Jackie Robinson. Less than a 73 00:06:15,675 --> 00:06:19,315 Speaker 1: month before Jackie Robinson Day, the celebration of the integration 74 00:06:19,435 --> 00:06:22,755 Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, probably the most important event in 75 00:06:22,795 --> 00:06:26,155 Speaker 1: this country in the lifetime of this emperor with no soul. 76 00:06:26,915 --> 00:06:30,755 Speaker 1: When he dies and his years are reviewed, the most 77 00:06:30,835 --> 00:06:36,995 Speaker 1: important event during the lifespan of Trump will be Jackie Robinson. 78 00:06:38,195 --> 00:06:41,675 Speaker 1: So much hell broke loose about the memory holding of 79 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:47,035 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson and the Navajo code talkers whose page was 80 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:51,395 Speaker 1: also taken down at DoD and the Tuskegee Airmen whose 81 00:06:51,435 --> 00:06:54,715 Speaker 1: page was also taken down, and the Marines at Ewojima, 82 00:06:55,515 --> 00:06:59,355 Speaker 1: that late yesterday the Trumpsts had to back off. Eighty 83 00:06:59,435 --> 00:07:05,275 Speaker 1: two minutes after that first boastful, dirty ku klucks clannish 84 00:07:05,475 --> 00:07:12,355 Speaker 1: statement from this olyyacht, this thug alyyacht. Eighty two minutes later, 85 00:07:13,035 --> 00:07:16,075 Speaker 1: enough hell had broken loose over the life of Alyat 86 00:07:16,515 --> 00:07:19,435 Speaker 1: that a second statement from him came, and I would 87 00:07:19,515 --> 00:07:23,195 Speaker 1: argue he managed to make it more racist than the first. 88 00:07:23,595 --> 00:07:28,315 Speaker 1: This is the second statement. Everyone at the Defense Department 89 00:07:28,515 --> 00:07:32,595 Speaker 1: loves Jackie Robinson as well as the Navajo code talkers, 90 00:07:32,835 --> 00:07:36,275 Speaker 1: the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at ewo Jima, and so 91 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:40,155 Speaker 1: many others. We salute them for their strong, end in 92 00:07:40,235 --> 00:07:45,955 Speaker 1: many cases, heroic service to our country. Full stop. We 93 00:07:46,115 --> 00:07:49,315 Speaker 1: do not view or highlight them through the prism of 94 00:07:49,555 --> 00:07:55,235 Speaker 1: immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex. We do 95 00:07:55,395 --> 00:08:01,795 Speaker 1: so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the 96 00:08:01,995 --> 00:08:06,635 Speaker 1: war fighting mission, like every other American who has worn 97 00:08:07,235 --> 00:08:14,595 Speaker 1: the uniform. This scum all Yacht then repeats the smear 98 00:08:14,795 --> 00:08:19,875 Speaker 1: against the concept of DEI, calling it discriminatory equity ideology, 99 00:08:20,195 --> 00:08:23,195 Speaker 1: which I read you previously, which of course is Trump 100 00:08:23,235 --> 00:08:27,355 Speaker 1: thinking he's clever by making the acronym mean something else, 101 00:08:27,955 --> 00:08:30,835 Speaker 1: and also a way of Trump stopping himself and others 102 00:08:30,835 --> 00:08:35,675 Speaker 1: in his administration from using the N word. Olyyacht boasts 103 00:08:35,715 --> 00:08:39,155 Speaker 1: about the speed with which DEI was removed from government 104 00:08:39,155 --> 00:08:44,595 Speaker 1: websites again and by terrified corporations and the other cowards 105 00:08:44,635 --> 00:08:49,355 Speaker 1: of American life today, when money means everything and dignity 106 00:08:49,395 --> 00:08:53,675 Speaker 1: and self respect mean nothing, to say nothing of reality 107 00:08:54,155 --> 00:08:59,275 Speaker 1: meaning nothing. His statement concludes, in the rare cases that 108 00:08:59,435 --> 00:09:02,755 Speaker 1: content is removed either deliberately or by mistake that is 109 00:09:02,795 --> 00:09:05,675 Speaker 1: out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we 110 00:09:05,755 --> 00:09:08,795 Speaker 1: instruct the components and they correct the content, which he 111 00:09:08,835 --> 00:09:12,235 Speaker 1: said in the first statement, then adds, so it recognizes 112 00:09:12,355 --> 00:09:18,795 Speaker 1: our heroes for their dedicated service alongside the Farloh Americans period. 113 00:09:21,595 --> 00:09:25,235 Speaker 1: So the new message is, it is not enough for 114 00:09:25,395 --> 00:09:28,835 Speaker 1: us to try to disappear Jackie Robinson. And since you 115 00:09:28,995 --> 00:09:33,115 Speaker 1: stopped us, we will make it worse. We must deny 116 00:09:33,275 --> 00:09:36,955 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson his role as the most courageous man in 117 00:09:37,035 --> 00:09:42,715 Speaker 1: sports history, perhaps in American history, or among them. At least. 118 00:09:43,835 --> 00:09:47,315 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson cannot be viewed any longer through quote the 119 00:09:47,355 --> 00:09:52,995 Speaker 1: prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex, 120 00:09:54,955 --> 00:10:00,355 Speaker 1: even though race is a human invention and nothing scientific, 121 00:10:00,555 --> 00:10:06,715 Speaker 1: and ethnicity changes as the maps do, and sex is 122 00:10:06,755 --> 00:10:13,795 Speaker 1: one of fifty different genders. The prism of immutable characteristics 123 00:10:13,795 --> 00:10:21,355 Speaker 1: such as race, ethnicity, or sex only by recognizing their 124 00:10:21,395 --> 00:10:26,075 Speaker 1: patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. You heard 125 00:10:26,115 --> 00:10:31,675 Speaker 1: that Jackie Robinson is no longer black. He's just part 126 00:10:31,715 --> 00:10:36,195 Speaker 1: of the war fighting mission. He's just another sort of 127 00:10:36,315 --> 00:10:43,635 Speaker 1: human robot without identity or meaning who once served, because 128 00:10:43,675 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: all that matters is the uniform. And the Navajo code 129 00:10:47,875 --> 00:10:51,875 Speaker 1: talkers aren't Navajo, and the soldier at Eojima Ira Hayes 130 00:10:51,955 --> 00:10:55,755 Speaker 1: isn't Native American, and the Tuskegee airmen are just airmen, 131 00:10:56,275 --> 00:10:59,915 Speaker 1: and the page at the Arlington National Cemetery website for 132 00:11:00,035 --> 00:11:04,155 Speaker 1: Technical Sergeant Medgar Evers still isn't back up because Medgar 133 00:11:04,155 --> 00:11:08,795 Speaker 1: Evers is just gone. At this rate, they will be 134 00:11:08,875 --> 00:11:14,915 Speaker 1: digging Medgar Evers up and moving him somewhere else. Because 135 00:11:14,955 --> 00:11:19,235 Speaker 1: if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black, 136 00:11:20,595 --> 00:11:26,955 Speaker 1: for overcoming, or being native, or being transgender, or being 137 00:11:27,195 --> 00:11:31,555 Speaker 1: any of a thousand other things that have caused people 138 00:11:32,635 --> 00:11:38,115 Speaker 1: lifetimes and generations and histories of pain in this country 139 00:11:38,715 --> 00:11:43,955 Speaker 1: at the hands of white people, white people like Donald Trump, 140 00:11:45,795 --> 00:11:48,835 Speaker 1: if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black 141 00:11:49,115 --> 00:11:53,195 Speaker 1: and single handedly, in this case, integrating a racist white world, 142 00:11:54,955 --> 00:11:59,315 Speaker 1: then there can be no further racism. The problem is solved. 143 00:12:00,395 --> 00:12:04,315 Speaker 1: If Jackie Robinson isn't officially black, you don't have to 144 00:12:04,355 --> 00:12:08,275 Speaker 1: ask why there are fewer blacks in Major League Baseball 145 00:12:08,315 --> 00:12:12,635 Speaker 1: today when there are nearly twice as many teams than 146 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:16,995 Speaker 1: there were in nineteen sixty, or why in his fourth 147 00:12:17,075 --> 00:12:21,435 Speaker 1: year on the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson already had two black teammates, 148 00:12:21,635 --> 00:12:26,835 Speaker 1: but today's Dodgers star Mookie Betts is the only African 149 00:12:26,875 --> 00:12:34,315 Speaker 1: American on his Dodger team. Did Trump do this himself. No, 150 00:12:35,315 --> 00:12:38,555 Speaker 1: he can barely operate a toilet, let alone a computer 151 00:12:38,755 --> 00:12:42,955 Speaker 1: or a website. But he put an unstable creature at 152 00:12:42,995 --> 00:12:45,235 Speaker 1: the head of the Pentagon named heg Seth, and heg 153 00:12:45,315 --> 00:12:47,995 Speaker 1: Seth either ordered this or put the people in place 154 00:12:48,035 --> 00:12:51,755 Speaker 1: who did and if they did not do it manually, 155 00:12:51,795 --> 00:12:58,315 Speaker 1: they did it using oh Elon Musk's computer systems. Elon 156 00:12:58,475 --> 00:13:04,315 Speaker 1: Musk Apartheid. Clyde tries to erase or help in the 157 00:13:04,355 --> 00:13:12,675 Speaker 1: erase of Jackie Robinson. Trump and those around him are 158 00:13:12,715 --> 00:13:15,915 Speaker 1: memory holding Jackie Robinson. They are still doing it, even 159 00:13:15,955 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: after getting caught doing it and pretending to stop doing it. 160 00:13:19,995 --> 00:13:23,715 Speaker 1: And with him all he represents, especially the end of 161 00:13:23,755 --> 00:13:26,795 Speaker 1: the codified Jim Crow world of the twentieth century and 162 00:13:26,875 --> 00:13:30,435 Speaker 1: the racism without which people like say Donald Trump's father 163 00:13:30,515 --> 00:13:33,875 Speaker 1: and Donald Trump and Donald Trump's children might have starved. 164 00:13:34,955 --> 00:13:39,795 Speaker 1: Metaphorically or literally. The playing field is not level. The 165 00:13:39,795 --> 00:13:43,555 Speaker 1: playing field is tilted. It always has been. It has 166 00:13:43,595 --> 00:13:48,275 Speaker 1: been tilted for me. I like to think I would 167 00:13:48,315 --> 00:13:54,715 Speaker 1: have succeeded anyway. I don't know. I know Jackie Robinson 168 00:13:54,755 --> 00:14:02,075 Speaker 1: succeeded anyway. There are two final ironic notes to this 169 00:14:03,595 --> 00:14:07,755 Speaker 1: last month in his announcement of his moronic idea about 170 00:14:07,795 --> 00:14:13,915 Speaker 1: the National Garden of Heroes, Trump said one of the 171 00:14:13,995 --> 00:14:21,275 Speaker 1: statues had to be of Jackie Robinson and another had 172 00:14:21,275 --> 00:14:28,835 Speaker 1: to be of Medgar Evers. Makes no sense at first 173 00:14:28,915 --> 00:14:34,195 Speaker 1: until you remember that statues tend not to be more 174 00:14:34,235 --> 00:14:36,955 Speaker 1: than one color. They tend to be monochrome, don't they. 175 00:14:37,315 --> 00:14:43,115 Speaker 1: And the statues would be all light gray perhaps, and 176 00:14:43,235 --> 00:14:48,155 Speaker 1: all the white guys would look white, and all the 177 00:14:48,195 --> 00:14:54,355 Speaker 1: black guys would look white. The National Garden of Heroes, 178 00:14:56,835 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: they would all look white. The second irony is that 179 00:15:03,915 --> 00:15:07,035 Speaker 1: there is a private firm obviously taking its queue from Trump, 180 00:15:07,075 --> 00:15:11,275 Speaker 1: as so many have taking its queue from Trump, and 181 00:15:11,315 --> 00:15:14,595 Speaker 1: things like the attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson yesterday twice, 182 00:15:15,235 --> 00:15:18,995 Speaker 1: the ongoing attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson, to memory old 183 00:15:19,075 --> 00:15:24,315 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, to whitewash Jackie Robinson. This private firm has 184 00:15:24,515 --> 00:15:29,995 Speaker 1: changed the wording of its mission statement under workplace inclusivity. 185 00:15:30,075 --> 00:15:32,675 Speaker 1: At its web page. It used to have its logo 186 00:15:32,875 --> 00:15:38,155 Speaker 1: next to a nicely graphically matching reference to diversity, equity 187 00:15:38,195 --> 00:15:43,075 Speaker 1: and inclusion, and then it read mission and vision to 188 00:15:43,195 --> 00:15:46,715 Speaker 1: support and sustain a diverse and inclusive culture for a 189 00:15:46,795 --> 00:15:54,115 Speaker 1: diverse and growing base. That message has now dropped. The 190 00:15:54,195 --> 00:15:57,195 Speaker 1: reference to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the top of 191 00:15:57,195 --> 00:16:00,595 Speaker 1: the page. The heading simply reads now mission and vision 192 00:16:01,995 --> 00:16:06,835 Speaker 1: and the content to support and sustain and inclusive culture. 193 00:16:06,875 --> 00:16:12,035 Speaker 1: The word diverse is gone for a growing base, no 194 00:16:12,115 --> 00:16:18,155 Speaker 1: longer diverse and growing base. Who beat Trump to the 195 00:16:18,195 --> 00:16:23,115 Speaker 1: punch and self censored? Who did not correct or even 196 00:16:23,235 --> 00:16:28,955 Speaker 1: try to correct the whitewashing of African Americans in its 197 00:16:28,955 --> 00:16:32,915 Speaker 1: own field? Who dropped diversity in the time of the 198 00:16:32,955 --> 00:16:37,635 Speaker 1: failed trumpest full whitewashing of Jackie Robinson. The company in 199 00:16:37,715 --> 00:16:41,755 Speaker 1: question that did that at its own website is Major 200 00:16:41,875 --> 00:17:11,355 Speaker 1: League Baseball. Sports racism stories actually came in bunches this week. 201 00:17:12,555 --> 00:17:15,835 Speaker 1: Insane Dictator Trump has just paused one hundred and seventy 202 00:17:15,835 --> 00:17:19,275 Speaker 1: five million dollars in federal funding to the University of 203 00:17:19,275 --> 00:17:25,315 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania because one of Penn's swimmers was Leah Thomas, a 204 00:17:25,435 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: transgender woman. And we all know the only reason Riley 205 00:17:31,555 --> 00:17:34,995 Speaker 1: Gains is a bad swimmer is Leah Thomas was once 206 00:17:35,035 --> 00:17:41,075 Speaker 1: a man. But more importantly, Penn is, of course Trump's 207 00:17:41,995 --> 00:17:47,195 Speaker 1: alma mater. I think the response at the university should 208 00:17:47,235 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: be obvious, Penn should now pause Trump's degree, unless, of course, 209 00:17:53,395 --> 00:17:58,835 Speaker 1: he never really earned it in the first place, and 210 00:17:58,875 --> 00:18:01,555 Speaker 1: there was a second sports story. You may have heard 211 00:18:01,555 --> 00:18:04,115 Speaker 1: this too when he got on the phone with Putin. 212 00:18:04,115 --> 00:18:07,275 Speaker 1: Among the instru productions from Putin, I'm sorry. Among the 213 00:18:07,355 --> 00:18:12,355 Speaker 1: topics of conversations between the two deer leaders was a 214 00:18:12,395 --> 00:18:17,315 Speaker 1: proposed tournament between the Russian Stars of the KHL, the 215 00:18:17,475 --> 00:18:23,195 Speaker 1: Continental Hockey League, and the American Stars of North America's 216 00:18:23,475 --> 00:18:29,715 Speaker 1: National Hockey League. I'm just guessing here, but I'm assuming, 217 00:18:30,075 --> 00:18:34,195 Speaker 1: like everything else involving Russia and America, Putin has told 218 00:18:34,235 --> 00:18:46,035 Speaker 1: Trump to make sure to fix it so Russia wins. 219 00:18:47,475 --> 00:18:50,115 Speaker 1: You will have noticed this episode is a little ragged. 220 00:18:50,315 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: There were no second takes. I apologize for the stumbles, 221 00:18:53,875 --> 00:18:56,515 Speaker 1: and it will be a little briefer today. I'm afraid 222 00:18:56,555 --> 00:18:59,275 Speaker 1: the throat problem that I referenced on Sunday and Monday 223 00:18:59,315 --> 00:19:01,795 Speaker 1: took a turn for the worse. Although it is finally 224 00:19:01,835 --> 00:19:04,115 Speaker 1: improving and we know what it is and it's not serious. 225 00:19:04,795 --> 00:19:10,235 Speaker 1: It's just I'd like to stop talking now. I expect 226 00:19:10,235 --> 00:19:13,475 Speaker 1: a full episode Monday, when perhaps we can analyze the 227 00:19:13,675 --> 00:19:17,595 Speaker 1: other and larger facts, including the one that knows. Since 228 00:19:17,635 --> 00:19:20,315 Speaker 1: Trump and his mad men are ignoring court orders and 229 00:19:20,435 --> 00:19:25,235 Speaker 1: judges now and ignoring court orders about the court orders 230 00:19:25,275 --> 00:19:28,595 Speaker 1: they had already ignored. No, we are not facing a 231 00:19:28,675 --> 00:19:38,995 Speaker 1: constitutional crisis. We are already in one. But for now, 232 00:19:39,115 --> 00:19:41,835 Speaker 1: still of interest here in an all new edition of Countdown. Yes, 233 00:19:41,875 --> 00:19:46,315 Speaker 1: there is an actual mainstream newscaster who has already swallowed 234 00:19:46,355 --> 00:19:50,315 Speaker 1: the cool aid his third complete picture of the cool aid. 235 00:19:50,395 --> 00:19:54,875 Speaker 1: If I count correctly, he is the one on CNN gladly, willingly, 236 00:19:55,115 --> 00:20:00,595 Speaker 1: voluntarily calling it the Gulf of America because I know 237 00:20:00,755 --> 00:20:04,395 Speaker 1: this guy. This guy is not giving up the money 238 00:20:05,075 --> 00:20:09,675 Speaker 1: just for the principle of journalistic ethics or the preservation 239 00:20:10,355 --> 00:20:14,715 Speaker 1: of freedom in the United States of America, not with 240 00:20:14,835 --> 00:20:21,115 Speaker 1: the money he's making and he never has before his identity. Next, 241 00:20:21,675 --> 00:20:48,595 Speaker 1: this is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Believe 242 00:20:48,595 --> 00:20:51,315 Speaker 1: it or not, There's still more new idiots to talk about, 243 00:20:51,595 --> 00:20:54,955 Speaker 1: and uh apparently still enough of my voice to talk 244 00:20:54,995 --> 00:20:59,275 Speaker 1: about them. With the daily roundup of the misgrints, morons 245 00:20:59,275 --> 00:21:04,675 Speaker 1: and dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other world. 246 00:21:04,675 --> 00:21:08,275 Speaker 1: The worst persons in the world, I might add to 247 00:21:08,275 --> 00:21:11,795 Speaker 1: have an excellent ear nosen throat doctor who, I believe 248 00:21:11,835 --> 00:21:16,315 Speaker 1: it or not, sound seventy five percent better than I 249 00:21:16,395 --> 00:21:20,995 Speaker 1: did before I went to see her yesterday morning. Any Who, 250 00:21:21,235 --> 00:21:23,155 Speaker 1: she'll never be on this list. Here the nominees the 251 00:21:23,195 --> 00:21:28,115 Speaker 1: bronze worst. Anna R. Mattson self described as a market 252 00:21:28,155 --> 00:21:32,515 Speaker 1: researcher and political researcher. I don't know what that is, 253 00:21:33,355 --> 00:21:38,755 Speaker 1: but if it produces content like this, keep going. I'm 254 00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:42,195 Speaker 1: just going to say it. She wrote, Oh what is 255 00:21:42,275 --> 00:21:45,155 Speaker 1: that about. I'm just going to say it. What is 256 00:21:45,195 --> 00:21:50,395 Speaker 1: happening to Tesla slash Tesla owners right now is ten 257 00:21:50,515 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: times worse than January sixth. Okay, we could probably bail 258 00:21:56,155 --> 00:22:00,395 Speaker 1: out there. Actually, remember it could have been worse. She 259 00:22:00,435 --> 00:22:03,115 Speaker 1: could have said it's ten times worse than nine to eleven, 260 00:22:03,235 --> 00:22:08,235 Speaker 1: because people have said that ten times worse than Nagasaki. 261 00:22:09,075 --> 00:22:12,235 Speaker 1: Shortly after posting about a Tesla protest I saw while 262 00:22:12,315 --> 00:22:18,355 Speaker 1: driving mine, I was called a quote yatzi and then docks. 263 00:22:22,715 --> 00:22:24,835 Speaker 1: I'm going to have to, when I feel a little better, 264 00:22:25,035 --> 00:22:28,555 Speaker 1: research this to discover whether or not people are actually 265 00:22:28,835 --> 00:22:33,675 Speaker 1: using the noun yatsi as some kind of insult, or 266 00:22:33,755 --> 00:22:38,355 Speaker 1: if simply somebody saw her describe herself as a Tesla 267 00:22:38,435 --> 00:22:42,755 Speaker 1: driver and went yatsi, as in, you know you win 268 00:22:43,475 --> 00:22:47,155 Speaker 1: that you identify the Okay. Also, I talked to someone 269 00:22:47,195 --> 00:22:49,715 Speaker 1: today about doing an interview in Detroit and I was 270 00:22:49,755 --> 00:22:53,795 Speaker 1: told not to bring my car because Tesla's are being 271 00:22:53,835 --> 00:22:57,955 Speaker 1: set on fire and vandalized. Yes, as you know, the 272 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:02,955 Speaker 1: entirety of the nation is a blaze with tesla's. This 273 00:23:02,995 --> 00:23:06,395 Speaker 1: is happening on literally re straet. And when I say literally, 274 00:23:07,035 --> 00:23:13,635 Speaker 1: I mean not even figuratively. Millions and millions of Americans 275 00:23:13,675 --> 00:23:19,155 Speaker 1: have lost their lives to blazing teslas being set on 276 00:23:19,235 --> 00:23:23,515 Speaker 1: fire and vandalized. When somebody think of the teslas, this 277 00:23:23,715 --> 00:23:28,635 Speaker 1: is absolutely unacceptable behavior. Many elected Democrats are inciting this violence. 278 00:23:29,355 --> 00:23:34,395 Speaker 1: Name one, name one, Anna R. Matson, whoever the f 279 00:23:34,475 --> 00:23:42,635 Speaker 1: you are, I was called a yatzi. Okay, every one 280 00:23:42,675 --> 00:23:45,715 Speaker 1: of them should denounce this behavior immediately. You are putting 281 00:23:45,755 --> 00:23:49,915 Speaker 1: all of us in danger. I'm going to make an 282 00:23:49,915 --> 00:23:52,635 Speaker 1: effort here. I hope you appreciate it. I hope Anna R. 283 00:23:52,675 --> 00:23:58,915 Speaker 1: Mattson appreciates it. All of us in danger. The world 284 00:23:58,995 --> 00:24:04,115 Speaker 1: has been endangered by people yelling yatsi at Tesla owners 285 00:24:04,115 --> 00:24:07,435 Speaker 1: and then them and then lighting their cars on fire. 286 00:24:07,915 --> 00:24:11,515 Speaker 1: She was docked. Her bio links to her website. Her 287 00:24:11,515 --> 00:24:14,595 Speaker 1: website gives you a form to use to send her 288 00:24:14,675 --> 00:24:18,355 Speaker 1: messages and to apply to be a guest on her podcast. 289 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:22,315 Speaker 1: Exactly how non docksed were you living your life? Anyway? 290 00:24:22,595 --> 00:24:27,995 Speaker 1: Anna R. Mattson, And it's ten times worse than January sixth. 291 00:24:28,795 --> 00:24:32,155 Speaker 1: I would like to point this fact out. Tesla owners, 292 00:24:32,715 --> 00:24:38,315 Speaker 1: and especially Tesla cybertruck owners, and especially the guy who 293 00:24:38,395 --> 00:24:42,275 Speaker 1: makes all of them. They all fall apart faster than 294 00:24:42,395 --> 00:24:49,475 Speaker 1: do Tesla cyber trucks. The runner up worser. Justin Icorn, 295 00:24:49,715 --> 00:24:54,955 Speaker 1: Minnesota State Senator. He introduced to Bill last Friday, I 296 00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:59,755 Speaker 1: think saying Trump derangement syndrome is an actual mental illness 297 00:24:59,795 --> 00:25:02,795 Speaker 1: now in the state of Minnesota. Last Friday, he's addressing 298 00:25:02,875 --> 00:25:06,835 Speaker 1: mental illnesses, and presumably, I don't know, you can be 299 00:25:07,435 --> 00:25:10,355 Speaker 1: I don't know you can be officially diagnosed with it, 300 00:25:10,795 --> 00:25:14,635 Speaker 1: you can be I don't know, forcibly institutionalized with it. 301 00:25:14,755 --> 00:25:19,915 Speaker 1: And while the next thing that happened to him has 302 00:25:19,955 --> 00:25:22,355 Speaker 1: been going on, I guess he's been given a lot 303 00:25:22,395 --> 00:25:24,435 Speaker 1: of time to think about the implications of what he 304 00:25:24,515 --> 00:25:27,875 Speaker 1: meant by that, because on Monday, per the NBC account, 305 00:25:28,475 --> 00:25:32,275 Speaker 1: a Minnesota state senator is facing calls to resign after 306 00:25:32,315 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: he was arrested and accused of arranging to solicit a 307 00:25:34,955 --> 00:25:38,955 Speaker 1: teenage girl for prostitution. What does that say? Does that 308 00:25:39,075 --> 00:25:46,115 Speaker 1: say illegal immigrant? Unhere? Does that say Democrat? On here? 309 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: Does that say athlete? On here? It is it? No, 310 00:25:51,155 --> 00:25:54,155 Speaker 1: it says a Minnesota state senator, forty year old Republican. 311 00:25:54,355 --> 00:25:58,155 Speaker 1: Here it is Justin Ekorn, a Republican thought he was 312 00:25:58,195 --> 00:26:01,315 Speaker 1: talking to a seventeen year old girl when he arranged 313 00:26:01,315 --> 00:26:04,675 Speaker 1: a meet up in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Please, 314 00:26:04,755 --> 00:26:08,315 Speaker 1: he said, But he was actually communicating with an undercover detective. 315 00:26:08,875 --> 00:26:11,315 Speaker 1: I Corn arrived at the location in a pickup truck. 316 00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:16,635 Speaker 1: This is a man of romance, and was arrested Monday 317 00:26:16,715 --> 00:26:22,755 Speaker 1: quote without incident. Bloomington police said unclear if he'd retained 318 00:26:22,755 --> 00:26:25,875 Speaker 1: an attorney. I mean, if you're going to retain an 319 00:26:25,915 --> 00:26:27,875 Speaker 1: attorney at this point, you better meet them in person. 320 00:26:28,155 --> 00:26:32,875 Speaker 1: Justin Senate office did not immediately respond to a request 321 00:26:32,915 --> 00:26:38,075 Speaker 1: for comment. I don't know. Maybe maybe he can get 322 00:26:38,075 --> 00:26:42,035 Speaker 1: Elon Musk's peons to erase his web page for him. 323 00:26:43,155 --> 00:26:46,395 Speaker 1: Imagine Justin's surprise when the woman he tried to solicit 324 00:26:46,715 --> 00:26:51,675 Speaker 1: prostitution from, which, however you feel about it, is illegal, 325 00:26:52,795 --> 00:26:55,835 Speaker 1: and he thought she was seventeen, which is much more illegal, 326 00:26:56,115 --> 00:26:58,435 Speaker 1: when it turned out no, no, she was a cop. 327 00:26:59,955 --> 00:27:02,635 Speaker 1: Is it Trump derangement syndrome you want to make an 328 00:27:02,675 --> 00:27:06,395 Speaker 1: actual mental illness? Or is it Trump is deranged syndrome 329 00:27:06,595 --> 00:27:12,395 Speaker 1: and taking all of you bastards with him syndrome? Justin 330 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:15,995 Speaker 1: By the way, who do you think is laughing loudest 331 00:27:16,035 --> 00:27:20,155 Speaker 1: in this story? I'm guessing it is the incumbent Minnesota 332 00:27:20,195 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: state senator that Icorn defeated for his District five Senate seat, 333 00:27:24,155 --> 00:27:27,315 Speaker 1: which he's now going to obviously lose soon or late. 334 00:27:28,035 --> 00:27:31,915 Speaker 1: The incumbent mister Icorn defeated in twenty sixteen was named 335 00:27:31,995 --> 00:27:44,275 Speaker 1: Tom sas Hog sax Haug sas Hog. He probably has 336 00:27:44,315 --> 00:27:49,115 Speaker 1: not stopped laughing since Monday. But the winner the worst 337 00:27:49,795 --> 00:27:58,035 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper. There are times when television networks turn into 338 00:27:58,155 --> 00:28:02,635 Speaker 1: the Cambodia of modern American media, where everything goes wrong 339 00:28:02,795 --> 00:28:06,675 Speaker 1: in a if not idyllic, then at least functional operation, 340 00:28:06,875 --> 00:28:11,595 Speaker 1: and that turns into hell and you're eating the bark 341 00:28:11,635 --> 00:28:14,835 Speaker 1: off of trees and you're, you know, moving millions of 342 00:28:14,835 --> 00:28:17,995 Speaker 1: people to places where they can't live, and you're piling 343 00:28:18,075 --> 00:28:22,675 Speaker 1: up the skulls of the dead. That's CNN. MSNBC is 344 00:28:22,715 --> 00:28:26,315 Speaker 1: a mess. It's not nearly as big of a mess 345 00:28:26,315 --> 00:28:32,395 Speaker 1: as CNN is. CNN is on its second worst president 346 00:28:32,715 --> 00:28:36,195 Speaker 1: in a row, and the ones before them they weren't 347 00:28:36,195 --> 00:28:41,235 Speaker 1: that hot either. The winner of this award Jake Tapper, 348 00:28:41,995 --> 00:28:48,315 Speaker 1: according to Oliver Darcy in his superb newsletter Status, he 349 00:28:48,355 --> 00:28:51,635 Speaker 1: wrote it this way, as CNN was covering the return 350 00:28:51,675 --> 00:28:54,675 Speaker 1: of the stranded astronauts, you know the ones who were 351 00:28:54,715 --> 00:28:58,955 Speaker 1: docks docks because they were writing in a Tesla spacecraft. 352 00:28:59,715 --> 00:29:02,835 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper repeatedly referred to the body of the water 353 00:29:02,915 --> 00:29:07,595 Speaker 1: they touched down in as the Gulf of America, while 354 00:29:07,635 --> 00:29:12,275 Speaker 1: also saying others refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico. Yep, 355 00:29:13,195 --> 00:29:16,275 Speaker 1: I checked Jake Tapper talking about the Gulf of America 356 00:29:17,195 --> 00:29:20,035 Speaker 1: as if that were a thing. Why did he do this? 357 00:29:20,195 --> 00:29:22,355 Speaker 1: Why did he go on CNN and announce it's the 358 00:29:22,355 --> 00:29:27,355 Speaker 1: Gulf of America like a good little Trump whore? Well, 359 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:31,195 Speaker 1: why did he go on CNN and announce after the election. 360 00:29:31,795 --> 00:29:33,755 Speaker 1: I think it's important to point out that the Trump 361 00:29:33,795 --> 00:29:36,395 Speaker 1: dvance campaign in twenty twenty four was a very disciplined 362 00:29:36,435 --> 00:29:39,715 Speaker 1: campaign and did a decent job of depicting Trump as 363 00:29:39,715 --> 00:29:43,075 Speaker 1: somebody who was within the realm of normalcy. Why would 364 00:29:43,075 --> 00:29:46,795 Speaker 1: you say that, especially since we were still talking then 365 00:29:47,475 --> 00:29:50,995 Speaker 1: three thousand Trump scandals ago about how they had lied 366 00:29:51,035 --> 00:29:54,475 Speaker 1: and made up the story of Haitian immigrants eating pets 367 00:29:54,715 --> 00:30:00,275 Speaker 1: in Ohio. Why would you do that after they made 368 00:30:00,355 --> 00:30:03,075 Speaker 1: up the story about the Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio, 369 00:30:03,115 --> 00:30:05,715 Speaker 1: and after Trump lied about private twenty twenty five, and 370 00:30:05,755 --> 00:30:08,755 Speaker 1: he lied about Musk, he lied about deporting Americans who 371 00:30:08,755 --> 00:30:11,795 Speaker 1: are here illegally. He lied about solving the Ukraine War 372 00:30:11,915 --> 00:30:14,435 Speaker 1: on day one. He lied about the economy, He lied 373 00:30:14,475 --> 00:30:16,955 Speaker 1: about bringing down prices, He lied about bringing down the 374 00:30:16,955 --> 00:30:20,115 Speaker 1: prices of eggs, He lied about musk. He lied about 375 00:30:20,515 --> 00:30:23,715 Speaker 1: about everything that he could possibly lie about. And this 376 00:30:23,835 --> 00:30:28,155 Speaker 1: is all in one morning. Why why would you say 377 00:30:28,155 --> 00:30:32,035 Speaker 1: something like that? Well? Why didn't he fact check Trump 378 00:30:32,035 --> 00:30:34,555 Speaker 1: at the debate last summer? Do you remember that? Anybody 379 00:30:34,595 --> 00:30:37,355 Speaker 1: remember that? They just let Trump lie for an hour 380 00:30:37,395 --> 00:30:39,675 Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, the Biden part of it 381 00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:43,475 Speaker 1: was bad enough, but the real headline there remains. They 382 00:30:43,595 --> 00:30:45,955 Speaker 1: gave an hour and a half of airtime for Donald 383 00:30:45,995 --> 00:30:48,715 Speaker 1: Trump to just lie, and not the complicated ones like 384 00:30:48,755 --> 00:30:50,675 Speaker 1: what he's going to do in the future, but lie 385 00:30:50,715 --> 00:30:54,715 Speaker 1: about facts that were easily disprovable the way ABC did it. 386 00:30:55,915 --> 00:31:01,955 Speaker 1: Why didn't he do that well, sir? Cause the Ankler, 387 00:31:02,075 --> 00:31:04,035 Speaker 1: which is a Hollywood website that you may or may 388 00:31:04,035 --> 00:31:07,035 Speaker 1: not have heard of, I've reported that last October. After 389 00:31:07,075 --> 00:31:11,915 Speaker 1: the cutbacks at CNN, the three hundred this Century, I 390 00:31:11,915 --> 00:31:14,835 Speaker 1: think that's right. Cut back at CNN they told poor 391 00:31:14,955 --> 00:31:17,715 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper that he could not get a raise, that 392 00:31:17,755 --> 00:31:19,275 Speaker 1: if he wanted to stay, they'd give him a new 393 00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: three year contract, but he'd have to scrape by on 394 00:31:22,595 --> 00:31:26,435 Speaker 1: the pittance they were giving him then seven million dollars 395 00:31:26,515 --> 00:31:31,275 Speaker 1: a year, but not a penny more. Seven million dollars 396 00:31:31,275 --> 00:31:33,275 Speaker 1: for a show that's not even in primetime and doesn't 397 00:31:33,275 --> 00:31:35,075 Speaker 1: have much of an audience at a network that does 398 00:31:35,115 --> 00:31:38,115 Speaker 1: not make very much money off of its television product anymore, 399 00:31:39,595 --> 00:31:42,035 Speaker 1: and could use that money to hire I don't know, 400 00:31:42,395 --> 00:31:44,795 Speaker 1: probably three or four people who could do as badly 401 00:31:44,835 --> 00:31:46,355 Speaker 1: at night as the people they have on the air 402 00:31:46,355 --> 00:31:51,115 Speaker 1: at night now. Seven million a year, but not a 403 00:31:51,115 --> 00:31:53,835 Speaker 1: penny more. Oh, we're not going to be a cut. 404 00:31:54,155 --> 00:31:57,635 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not as well to suggest demanding you 405 00:31:57,635 --> 00:32:01,075 Speaker 1: you fact check people. Let me explain what it means 406 00:32:01,155 --> 00:32:04,315 Speaker 1: to make money like that. Jake Tapper has been at 407 00:32:04,355 --> 00:32:07,675 Speaker 1: CNN since he came back from ABC in twenty thirteen. 408 00:32:07,915 --> 00:32:09,795 Speaker 1: I don't know what he was making at ABC, but 409 00:32:09,875 --> 00:32:12,395 Speaker 1: let's say he was making a million or two million 410 00:32:12,435 --> 00:32:16,235 Speaker 1: dollars a year. But he's been making more than that 411 00:32:16,275 --> 00:32:18,635 Speaker 1: since he went back to CNN in twenty thirteen, and 412 00:32:18,675 --> 00:32:20,835 Speaker 1: certainly the last three or four years, he's been making 413 00:32:20,955 --> 00:32:23,075 Speaker 1: seven million or roughly, and he's going to do that 414 00:32:23,115 --> 00:32:27,035 Speaker 1: for the next three years. So that's like forty nine 415 00:32:27,115 --> 00:32:31,435 Speaker 1: or fifty million dollars right there. Let me explain this 416 00:32:31,555 --> 00:32:35,635 Speaker 1: to you. When Bill O'Reilly got fired by Fox, somebody 417 00:32:35,635 --> 00:32:37,275 Speaker 1: asked me, well, what does he do? Now? Where's he 418 00:32:37,315 --> 00:32:38,795 Speaker 1: going to make that kind of money doing? I said, 419 00:32:38,795 --> 00:32:41,075 Speaker 1: he didn't have to make that kind of money. If 420 00:32:41,075 --> 00:32:43,595 Speaker 1: you've been at that job making that kind of money, 421 00:32:43,875 --> 00:32:47,155 Speaker 1: lesser amounts in previous years, but proportionately that kind of money, 422 00:32:47,475 --> 00:32:49,955 Speaker 1: and if you reach your twentieth year in an organization 423 00:32:50,075 --> 00:32:52,115 Speaker 1: making eighteen million dollars a year. If you don't have 424 00:32:52,195 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: enough money to last year the rest of your life, 425 00:32:54,635 --> 00:32:58,795 Speaker 1: you've done it completely wrong. You must have been burning cash, 426 00:32:59,875 --> 00:33:04,595 Speaker 1: you know, to light scandals with. And the same is truth, 427 00:33:04,795 --> 00:33:07,915 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper. If you're sitting on forty nine million dollars 428 00:33:07,955 --> 00:33:11,075 Speaker 1: over the last four years, in the next three years, 429 00:33:11,435 --> 00:33:14,755 Speaker 1: that is enough for the rest of your lifetime and 430 00:33:14,795 --> 00:33:18,355 Speaker 1: your family's lifetime, and your at least next generation of 431 00:33:18,355 --> 00:33:22,635 Speaker 1: your family's lifetime. A little investment here or there makes 432 00:33:22,635 --> 00:33:25,195 Speaker 1: it even easier. But unless you're planning to be you know, 433 00:33:25,515 --> 00:33:28,715 Speaker 1: a three thousand year old man. I mean, I had 434 00:33:28,755 --> 00:33:32,195 Speaker 1: one day in twenty eleven, one twenty four hour period 435 00:33:32,235 --> 00:33:34,635 Speaker 1: of time, where I signed the deal to leave NBC 436 00:33:35,675 --> 00:33:38,675 Speaker 1: after they breached my contract. And then the next day 437 00:33:38,715 --> 00:33:40,755 Speaker 1: I signed the contract to go to Current TV, which 438 00:33:40,755 --> 00:33:43,755 Speaker 1: we've been negotiating all that time. And those two contracts 439 00:33:43,755 --> 00:33:49,475 Speaker 1: were worth sixty seven million dollars. Guess what, I was 440 00:33:49,515 --> 00:33:51,555 Speaker 1: fifty two years old. I didn't need to make another 441 00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:54,795 Speaker 1: dollar in my lifetime. Doesn't mean you have to stop, 442 00:33:54,875 --> 00:33:56,955 Speaker 1: but it does mean you no longer have to say, well, 443 00:33:56,955 --> 00:33:59,875 Speaker 1: I better make every dollar I can. No, you don't 444 00:33:59,915 --> 00:34:02,755 Speaker 1: have to make every dollar you can. You have already. 445 00:34:03,195 --> 00:34:05,355 Speaker 1: You can go back to your own print if you 446 00:34:05,355 --> 00:34:09,555 Speaker 1: remember what they are. So Jake Tapper has enough money 447 00:34:09,595 --> 00:34:11,835 Speaker 1: to last him the rest of his life comfortably, enough 448 00:34:11,835 --> 00:34:14,995 Speaker 1: to get a job somewhere else. If they're demanding that 449 00:34:15,035 --> 00:34:17,435 Speaker 1: he do things like caught the Gulf of America or 450 00:34:17,475 --> 00:34:21,835 Speaker 1: other things that would please the Trump whars if you're 451 00:34:21,875 --> 00:34:25,755 Speaker 1: doing that, if you're if you're willing to sell yourself 452 00:34:25,915 --> 00:34:30,275 Speaker 1: like a hooker, you know, call that Minnesota state senator, 453 00:34:30,275 --> 00:34:36,715 Speaker 1: for God's sakes, do something honorable. TV News seven million 454 00:34:36,755 --> 00:34:39,795 Speaker 1: dollars a year to call it the Gulf of Borshed, 455 00:34:41,315 --> 00:34:43,835 Speaker 1: seven million dollars a year to not fact check Donald 456 00:34:43,875 --> 00:34:46,315 Speaker 1: Trump when he lies for an hour and a half 457 00:34:46,355 --> 00:34:51,995 Speaker 1: on your air. But here's the problem. Many people making 458 00:34:52,115 --> 00:34:55,115 Speaker 1: that much money, or not even that much money, get 459 00:34:55,155 --> 00:34:58,035 Speaker 1: addicted to the idea of making the money, and suddenly 460 00:34:58,115 --> 00:35:01,195 Speaker 1: it's never enough. I want more. I must have more, 461 00:35:01,475 --> 00:35:05,075 Speaker 1: because I've discovered it is my only identity. If I 462 00:35:05,075 --> 00:35:07,315 Speaker 1: don't make seven million dollars a year, if I only 463 00:35:07,355 --> 00:35:10,115 Speaker 1: make five million dollars a year, am I still a man? 464 00:35:12,715 --> 00:35:15,035 Speaker 1: This is the way many of them think, and the 465 00:35:15,075 --> 00:35:17,795 Speaker 1: women making that kind of money too, only they would 466 00:35:17,795 --> 00:35:19,915 Speaker 1: presumably say, am I still a woman? That's I think 467 00:35:19,915 --> 00:35:23,755 Speaker 1: the only change, the only difference. Soon, seven million dollars 468 00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:28,555 Speaker 1: is not enough. It's never enough, and you never get comfortable, 469 00:35:28,555 --> 00:35:30,275 Speaker 1: and you never say, well, I'm going to make decisions 470 00:35:30,315 --> 00:35:36,555 Speaker 1: based on what's right, and you stop thinking what's the 471 00:35:36,635 --> 00:35:41,235 Speaker 1: right thing here? And you start thinking well, you stop 472 00:35:41,275 --> 00:35:44,715 Speaker 1: thinking not what would what? What? What would Murrow do here? 473 00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:48,275 Speaker 1: Or what would George Clooney playing Murrow do here? You 474 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:52,195 Speaker 1: stop even asking yourself what would I do here? Or 475 00:35:52,195 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: what would I in an earlier form of my life, 476 00:35:55,315 --> 00:35:57,875 Speaker 1: when I was a kid trying to get into this business, 477 00:35:57,955 --> 00:36:00,595 Speaker 1: what would I do here? You stop asking it that way. 478 00:36:00,875 --> 00:36:05,355 Speaker 1: You simply ask what do my bosses want me to 479 00:36:05,395 --> 00:36:08,515 Speaker 1: do here in order for them to keep giving me 480 00:36:08,595 --> 00:36:13,395 Speaker 1: the seven million dollars? And then you're crossed off the 481 00:36:13,435 --> 00:36:16,515 Speaker 1: journalism list. There is no amount of sackcloth and or 482 00:36:16,595 --> 00:36:19,595 Speaker 1: ashes available to make it possible for you to ever 483 00:36:19,635 --> 00:36:22,515 Speaker 1: be considered a journalist again. You are then moved into 484 00:36:22,515 --> 00:36:28,555 Speaker 1: a category called seven million dollar whore because the next 485 00:36:28,595 --> 00:36:34,235 Speaker 1: thing you know, you're not fact checking Trump, You're crediting 486 00:36:34,275 --> 00:36:39,435 Speaker 1: Trump's campaign for making him look honest. You're calling it 487 00:36:39,555 --> 00:36:42,995 Speaker 1: the Gulf of America because you know Trump will find 488 00:36:43,035 --> 00:36:45,035 Speaker 1: out about it and be pleased, and the message will 489 00:36:45,075 --> 00:36:47,755 Speaker 1: get back to your boss, and your boss the cockney 490 00:36:47,835 --> 00:36:50,075 Speaker 1: that they brought in to replace the non cockney who 491 00:36:50,155 --> 00:36:54,275 Speaker 1: cocked up the whole place. He will say, that's very good, Jake, 492 00:36:54,275 --> 00:36:57,995 Speaker 1: here's another seven million dollars. GUVNA. They won't take your 493 00:36:58,035 --> 00:36:59,915 Speaker 1: seven million dollars away, and you will not be a 494 00:36:59,955 --> 00:37:03,835 Speaker 1: little standing there naked saying I make no money. All 495 00:37:03,955 --> 00:37:07,675 Speaker 1: they do is a guessed I supposed by the way. 496 00:37:07,675 --> 00:37:10,195 Speaker 1: I might add to the alternate feeling when you stop 497 00:37:10,235 --> 00:37:12,675 Speaker 1: making that kind of money, or I might add more 498 00:37:13,315 --> 00:37:15,315 Speaker 1: when you stop making that kind of money and you 499 00:37:15,355 --> 00:37:22,355 Speaker 1: suddenly go nobody owns me. I can say what I want, 500 00:37:23,275 --> 00:37:25,515 Speaker 1: and if they don't for some reason, let me keep 501 00:37:25,555 --> 00:37:28,755 Speaker 1: doing it here. I can go over there to some 502 00:37:28,875 --> 00:37:37,555 Speaker 1: other room and do it there too instead. Jake's lost, 503 00:37:39,355 --> 00:37:42,315 Speaker 1: but at least CNN is wasting seven million. I look 504 00:37:42,355 --> 00:37:49,115 Speaker 1: at it positively, as you know, Jake Tapper, Gulf of America. 505 00:37:49,235 --> 00:37:51,675 Speaker 1: So we can just change proper names now whenever we 506 00:37:51,755 --> 00:37:53,675 Speaker 1: feel like it, so I don't have to call you 507 00:37:53,835 --> 00:37:58,275 Speaker 1: Jake Tapper anymore, I can just call you Jake schmuck, 508 00:37:59,915 --> 00:38:08,355 Speaker 1: Jake schmuck two days other wars person and the word 509 00:38:38,715 --> 00:38:41,115 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here That 510 00:38:41,235 --> 00:38:45,715 Speaker 1: is quite literally true. Thank you for listening. Brian Ray 511 00:38:45,715 --> 00:38:48,995 Speaker 1: and John Phillips Chanel, the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, 512 00:38:49,035 --> 00:38:52,395 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration 513 00:38:52,435 --> 00:38:55,195 Speaker 1: and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. 514 00:38:55,475 --> 00:38:58,675 Speaker 1: It was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifty 515 00:38:58,795 --> 00:39:01,435 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 516 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:04,915 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Oberman theme from 517 00:39:05,075 --> 00:39:08,755 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 518 00:39:09,395 --> 00:39:12,555 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 519 00:39:12,955 --> 00:39:16,115 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zat. I 520 00:39:16,155 --> 00:39:20,075 Speaker 1: asked Stevie to do this for a particular reason. You 521 00:39:20,115 --> 00:39:25,235 Speaker 1: know what his voice sounds like, That's how my voice feels. 522 00:39:25,835 --> 00:39:29,515 Speaker 1: Everything else was, as ever, my fault, including my complaining 523 00:39:29,555 --> 00:39:33,595 Speaker 1: about myself. That's countdown for today, just four hundred and 524 00:39:33,635 --> 00:39:36,355 Speaker 1: three days until the scheduled end of his lame duck 525 00:39:36,395 --> 00:39:41,155 Speaker 1: and lame brained term unless Musk removes Trump sooner where 526 00:39:41,155 --> 00:39:44,915 Speaker 1: the actuarial tables do. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. 527 00:39:45,195 --> 00:39:48,795 Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants, remember impeach Trump. 528 00:39:48,915 --> 00:39:52,275 Speaker 1: It won't work now. It will, however, win the Democrats 529 00:39:52,315 --> 00:39:55,555 Speaker 1: the mid terms if there are midterms, and get rid 530 00:39:55,835 --> 00:39:59,155 Speaker 1: of Schumer. N Till next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, 531 00:39:59,195 --> 00:40:19,435 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman 532 00:40:19,595 --> 00:40:24,075 Speaker 1: is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 533 00:40:24,235 --> 00:40:28,275 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 534 00:40:28,315 --> 00:40:29,195 Speaker 1: your podcasts.