Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is by no stretch the most important atrocity of the
Speaker 1: self destroying regime of the insane dictator Trump. It's not
Speaker 1: even the most important right now, but it may be
Speaker 1: the most symbolic. Trump, again repeatedly, is still trying to
Speaker 1: disappear Jackie Robinson, to erase Jackie Robinson, to memory hole
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, to relegate him using those hated letters Trump
Speaker 1: does not understand and can barely spell, but which in
Speaker 1: his animal instinct way, he has used to exploit and
Speaker 1: manipulate and use to rebuild segregation and begin to build
Speaker 1: apartheid in this nation. DI, which if you did not notice,
Speaker 1: replaced CRT, probably because DEI was easier for Trump to say.
Speaker 1: And the scum who work for Trump are boasting about
Speaker 1: trying to disappear Jackie Robinson again in a new way,
Speaker 1: newer than the one they were trying to disappear him
Speaker 1: with yesterday, and even when caught and forced finally to
Speaker 1: retreat from their racism, to restore the page honoring Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson at the Department of Defense website that they erased,
Speaker 1: even after they were forced by public outrage to restore
Speaker 1: that page. They are still boasting about erasing Jackie Robinson
Speaker 1: in a new way, and boasting about it in a
Speaker 1: way that is even more racist than their original white
Speaker 1: supremacist trash racism, boasting about first disappearing Jackie Robinson, and
Speaker 1: then when they restored him, demeaning his memory and diminishing
Speaker 1: the meaning of his life and his sacrifice. The page
Speaker 1: on the Department of Defense website that drily recounted Robinson's
Speaker 1: military service for this country during World War Two was broken, eliminated, erased.
Speaker 1: The page was among those detailing sports heroes who served
Speaker 1: this nation. The page, as discovered by the digital editor
Speaker 1: of the New Mexico News, Matthew Reichbach, then amplified by
Speaker 1: the baseball writer Craig Calcaterra, finally written up by ESPN
Speaker 1: and NBC News and others. It was deleted and the
Speaker 1: link redirected you to Defense dot govslash news, slash features Stories,
Speaker 1: slashdi Sports. It actually read DEI sports, and it produced
Speaker 1: when you clicked on it, a four oh four page
Speaker 1: not found Jackie Robinson memory hold as surely as it
Speaker 1: was an example in George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and
Speaker 1: worse yet, they went about boasting about it. John Oldyacht
Speaker 1: another right wing press spokesman who has chosen a photo
Speaker 1: of himself that suggests that during the military part of
Speaker 1: his career he had what we used to call shell
Speaker 1: shock behind the eyes. A former columnist at the disgraced
Speaker 1: Town Hall and the federalist John Ullacht now Pentagon Press scretary. Finally,
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, gave NBC News a comment about the disappearing
Speaker 1: of Jackie Robinson quote as Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI
Speaker 1: is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ieology is
Speaker 1: a form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place
Speaker 1: in our military. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion,
Speaker 1: and interferes. Cleverly divides eroads and interferes are capitalized with
Speaker 1: the service's Corps war fighting mission. We are pleased by
Speaker 1: the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing
Speaker 1: DEI content from all platforms. A reminder that the DEI
Speaker 1: content that this bastard u Yacht is referring to is
Speaker 1: the story as dryly told as imaginable of when Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson served in the US Army before he summoned the
Speaker 1: courage to go ahead and break through what was then
Speaker 1: all white baseball, all white sports, essentially all white America.
Speaker 1: We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department
Speaker 1: with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. This
Speaker 1: oly yacht continued. In the rare cases that content is
Speaker 1: removed either deliberately or by mistake that is out of
Speaker 1: the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the
Speaker 1: components and they correct the content accordingly. That is a
Speaker 1: long way from mister Olliot of saying that America is
Speaker 1: a white nationalist country. Now Jackie Robinson didn't count anymore
Speaker 1: and they had gotten rid of Jackie Robinson's memory. Happily,
Speaker 1: this country is not dead yet. All hell broke loose.
Speaker 1: It broke loose when Donald Trump decided to throw Jackie
Speaker 1: Robinson to the white supremacist mob and the racists and
Speaker 1: the other white garbage who must find an excuse for
Speaker 1: the failures of their own existences on this planet. Trump,
Speaker 1: through his minions memory, hold Jackie Robinson. Less than a
Speaker 1: month before Jackie Robinson Day, the celebration of the integration
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, probably the most important event in
Speaker 1: this country in the lifetime of this emperor with no soul.
Speaker 1: When he dies and his years are reviewed, the most
Speaker 1: important event during the lifespan of Trump will be Jackie Robinson.
Speaker 1: So much hell broke loose about the memory holding of
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson and the Navajo code talkers whose page was
Speaker 1: also taken down at DoD and the Tuskegee Airmen whose
Speaker 1: page was also taken down, and the Marines at Ewojima,
Speaker 1: that late yesterday the Trumpsts had to back off. Eighty
Speaker 1: two minutes after that first boastful, dirty ku klucks clannish
Speaker 1: statement from this olyyacht, this thug alyyacht. Eighty two minutes later,
Speaker 1: enough hell had broken loose over the life of Alyat
Speaker 1: that a second statement from him came, and I would
Speaker 1: argue he managed to make it more racist than the first.
Speaker 1: This is the second statement. Everyone at the Defense Department
Speaker 1: loves Jackie Robinson as well as the Navajo code talkers,
Speaker 1: the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at ewo Jima, and so
Speaker 1: many others. We salute them for their strong, end in
Speaker 1: many cases, heroic service to our country. Full stop. We
Speaker 1: do not view or highlight them through the prism of
Speaker 1: immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex. We do
Speaker 1: so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the
Speaker 1: war fighting mission, like every other American who has worn
Speaker 1: the uniform. This scum all Yacht then repeats the smear
Speaker 1: against the concept of DEI, calling it discriminatory equity ideology,
Speaker 1: which I read you previously, which of course is Trump
Speaker 1: thinking he's clever by making the acronym mean something else,
Speaker 1: and also a way of Trump stopping himself and others
Speaker 1: in his administration from using the N word. Olyyacht boasts
Speaker 1: about the speed with which DEI was removed from government
Speaker 1: websites again and by terrified corporations and the other cowards
Speaker 1: of American life today, when money means everything and dignity
Speaker 1: and self respect mean nothing, to say nothing of reality
Speaker 1: meaning nothing. His statement concludes, in the rare cases that
Speaker 1: content is removed either deliberately or by mistake that is
Speaker 1: out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we
Speaker 1: instruct the components and they correct the content, which he
Speaker 1: said in the first statement, then adds, so it recognizes
Speaker 1: our heroes for their dedicated service alongside the Farloh Americans period.
Speaker 1: So the new message is, it is not enough for
Speaker 1: us to try to disappear Jackie Robinson. And since you
Speaker 1: stopped us, we will make it worse. We must deny
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson his role as the most courageous man in
Speaker 1: sports history, perhaps in American history, or among them. At least.
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson cannot be viewed any longer through quote the
Speaker 1: prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex,
Speaker 1: even though race is a human invention and nothing scientific,
Speaker 1: and ethnicity changes as the maps do, and sex is
Speaker 1: one of fifty different genders. The prism of immutable characteristics
Speaker 1: such as race, ethnicity, or sex only by recognizing their
Speaker 1: patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. You heard
Speaker 1: that Jackie Robinson is no longer black. He's just part
Speaker 1: of the war fighting mission. He's just another sort of
Speaker 1: human robot without identity or meaning who once served, because
Speaker 1: all that matters is the uniform. And the Navajo code
Speaker 1: talkers aren't Navajo, and the soldier at Eojima Ira Hayes
Speaker 1: isn't Native American, and the Tuskegee airmen are just airmen,
Speaker 1: and the page at the Arlington National Cemetery website for
Speaker 1: Technical Sergeant Medgar Evers still isn't back up because Medgar
Speaker 1: Evers is just gone. At this rate, they will be
Speaker 1: digging Medgar Evers up and moving him somewhere else. Because
Speaker 1: if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black,
Speaker 1: for overcoming, or being native, or being transgender, or being
Speaker 1: any of a thousand other things that have caused people
Speaker 1: lifetimes and generations and histories of pain in this country
Speaker 1: at the hands of white people, white people like Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black
Speaker 1: and single handedly, in this case, integrating a racist white world,
Speaker 1: then there can be no further racism. The problem is solved.
Speaker 1: If Jackie Robinson isn't officially black, you don't have to
Speaker 1: ask why there are fewer blacks in Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: today when there are nearly twice as many teams than
Speaker 1: there were in nineteen sixty, or why in his fourth
Speaker 1: year on the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson already had two black teammates,
Speaker 1: but today's Dodgers star Mookie Betts is the only African
Speaker 1: American on his Dodger team. Did Trump do this himself. No,
Speaker 1: he can barely operate a toilet, let alone a computer
Speaker 1: or a website. But he put an unstable creature at
Speaker 1: the head of the Pentagon named heg Seth, and heg
Speaker 1: Seth either ordered this or put the people in place
Speaker 1: who did and if they did not do it manually,
Speaker 1: they did it using oh Elon Musk's computer systems. Elon
Speaker 1: Musk Apartheid. Clyde tries to erase or help in the
Speaker 1: erase of Jackie Robinson. Trump and those around him are
Speaker 1: memory holding Jackie Robinson. They are still doing it, even
Speaker 1: after getting caught doing it and pretending to stop doing it.
Speaker 1: And with him all he represents, especially the end of
Speaker 1: the codified Jim Crow world of the twentieth century and
Speaker 1: the racism without which people like say Donald Trump's father
Speaker 1: and Donald Trump and Donald Trump's children might have starved.
Speaker 1: Metaphorically or literally. The playing field is not level. The
Speaker 1: playing field is tilted. It always has been. It has
Speaker 1: been tilted for me. I like to think I would
Speaker 1: have succeeded anyway. I don't know. I know Jackie Robinson
Speaker 1: succeeded anyway. There are two final ironic notes to this
Speaker 1: last month in his announcement of his moronic idea about
Speaker 1: the National Garden of Heroes, Trump said one of the
Speaker 1: statues had to be of Jackie Robinson and another had
Speaker 1: to be of Medgar Evers. Makes no sense at first
Speaker 1: until you remember that statues tend not to be more
Speaker 1: than one color. They tend to be monochrome, don't they.
Speaker 1: And the statues would be all light gray perhaps, and
Speaker 1: all the white guys would look white, and all the
Speaker 1: black guys would look white. The National Garden of Heroes,
Speaker 1: they would all look white. The second irony is that
Speaker 1: there is a private firm obviously taking its queue from Trump,
Speaker 1: as so many have taking its queue from Trump, and
Speaker 1: things like the attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson yesterday twice,
Speaker 1: the ongoing attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson, to memory old
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson, to whitewash Jackie Robinson. This private firm has
Speaker 1: changed the wording of its mission statement under workplace inclusivity.
Speaker 1: At its web page. It used to have its logo
Speaker 1: next to a nicely graphically matching reference to diversity, equity
Speaker 1: and inclusion, and then it read mission and vision to
Speaker 1: support and sustain a diverse and inclusive culture for a
Speaker 1: diverse and growing base. That message has now dropped. The
Speaker 1: reference to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the top of
Speaker 1: the page. The heading simply reads now mission and vision
Speaker 1: and the content to support and sustain and inclusive culture.
Speaker 1: The word diverse is gone for a growing base, no
Speaker 1: longer diverse and growing base. Who beat Trump to the
Speaker 1: punch and self censored? Who did not correct or even
Speaker 1: try to correct the whitewashing of African Americans in its
Speaker 1: own field? Who dropped diversity in the time of the
Speaker 1: failed trumpest full whitewashing of Jackie Robinson. The company in
Speaker 1: question that did that at its own website is Major
Speaker 1: League Baseball. Sports racism stories actually came in bunches this week.
Speaker 1: Insane Dictator Trump has just paused one hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: five million dollars in federal funding to the University of
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania because one of Penn's swimmers was Leah Thomas, a
Speaker 1: transgender woman. And we all know the only reason Riley
Speaker 1: Gains is a bad swimmer is Leah Thomas was once
Speaker 1: a man. But more importantly, Penn is, of course Trump's
Speaker 1: alma mater. I think the response at the university should
Speaker 1: be obvious, Penn should now pause Trump's degree, unless, of course,
Speaker 1: he never really earned it in the first place, and
Speaker 1: there was a second sports story. You may have heard
Speaker 1: this too when he got on the phone with Putin.
Speaker 1: Among the instru productions from Putin, I'm sorry. Among the
Speaker 1: topics of conversations between the two deer leaders was a
Speaker 1: proposed tournament between the Russian Stars of the KHL, the
Speaker 1: Continental Hockey League, and the American Stars of North America's
Speaker 1: National Hockey League. I'm just guessing here, but I'm assuming,
Speaker 1: like everything else involving Russia and America, Putin has told
Speaker 1: Trump to make sure to fix it so Russia wins.
Speaker 1: You will have noticed this episode is a little ragged.
Speaker 1: There were no second takes. I apologize for the stumbles,
Speaker 1: and it will be a little briefer today. I'm afraid
Speaker 1: the throat problem that I referenced on Sunday and Monday
Speaker 1: took a turn for the worse. Although it is finally
Speaker 1: improving and we know what it is and it's not serious.
Speaker 1: It's just I'd like to stop talking now. I expect
Speaker 1: a full episode Monday, when perhaps we can analyze the
Speaker 1: other and larger facts, including the one that knows. Since
Speaker 1: Trump and his mad men are ignoring court orders and
Speaker 1: judges now and ignoring court orders about the court orders
Speaker 1: they had already ignored. No, we are not facing a
Speaker 1: constitutional crisis. We are already in one. But for now,
Speaker 1: still of interest here in an all new edition of Countdown. Yes,
Speaker 1: there is an actual mainstream newscaster who has already swallowed
Speaker 1: the cool aid his third complete picture of the cool aid.
Speaker 1: If I count correctly, he is the one on CNN gladly, willingly,
Speaker 1: voluntarily calling it the Gulf of America because I know
Speaker 1: this guy. This guy is not giving up the money
Speaker 1: just for the principle of journalistic ethics or the preservation
Speaker 1: of freedom in the United States of America, not with
Speaker 1: the money he's making and he never has before his identity. Next,
Speaker 1: this is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Believe
Speaker 1: it or not, There's still more new idiots to talk about,
Speaker 1: and uh apparently still enough of my voice to talk
Speaker 1: about them. With the daily roundup of the misgrints, morons
Speaker 1: and dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other world.
Speaker 1: The worst persons in the world, I might add to
Speaker 1: have an excellent ear nosen throat doctor who, I believe
Speaker 1: it or not, sound seventy five percent better than I
Speaker 1: did before I went to see her yesterday morning. Any Who,
Speaker 1: she'll never be on this list. Here the nominees the
Speaker 1: bronze worst. Anna R. Mattson self described as a market
Speaker 1: researcher and political researcher. I don't know what that is,
Speaker 1: but if it produces content like this, keep going. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to say it. She wrote, Oh what is
Speaker 1: that about. I'm just going to say it. What is
Speaker 1: happening to Tesla slash Tesla owners right now is ten
Speaker 1: times worse than January sixth. Okay, we could probably bail
Speaker 1: out there. Actually, remember it could have been worse. She
Speaker 1: could have said it's ten times worse than nine to eleven,
Speaker 1: because people have said that ten times worse than Nagasaki.
Speaker 1: Shortly after posting about a Tesla protest I saw while
Speaker 1: driving mine, I was called a quote yatzi and then docks.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have to, when I feel a little better,
Speaker 1: research this to discover whether or not people are actually
Speaker 1: using the noun yatsi as some kind of insult, or
Speaker 1: if simply somebody saw her describe herself as a Tesla
Speaker 1: driver and went yatsi, as in, you know you win
Speaker 1: that you identify the Okay. Also, I talked to someone
Speaker 1: today about doing an interview in Detroit and I was
Speaker 1: told not to bring my car because Tesla's are being
Speaker 1: set on fire and vandalized. Yes, as you know, the
Speaker 1: entirety of the nation is a blaze with tesla's. This
Speaker 1: is happening on literally re straet. And when I say literally,
Speaker 1: I mean not even figuratively. Millions and millions of Americans
Speaker 1: have lost their lives to blazing teslas being set on
Speaker 1: fire and vandalized. When somebody think of the teslas, this
Speaker 1: is absolutely unacceptable behavior. Many elected Democrats are inciting this violence.
Speaker 1: Name one, name one, Anna R. Matson, whoever the f
Speaker 1: you are, I was called a yatzi. Okay, every one
Speaker 1: of them should denounce this behavior immediately. You are putting
Speaker 1: all of us in danger. I'm going to make an
Speaker 1: effort here. I hope you appreciate it. I hope Anna R.
Speaker 1: Mattson appreciates it. All of us in danger. The world
Speaker 1: has been endangered by people yelling yatsi at Tesla owners
Speaker 1: and then them and then lighting their cars on fire.
Speaker 1: She was docked. Her bio links to her website. Her
Speaker 1: website gives you a form to use to send her
Speaker 1: messages and to apply to be a guest on her podcast.
Speaker 1: Exactly how non docksed were you living your life? Anyway?
Speaker 1: Anna R. Mattson, And it's ten times worse than January sixth.
Speaker 1: I would like to point this fact out. Tesla owners,
Speaker 1: and especially Tesla cybertruck owners, and especially the guy who
Speaker 1: makes all of them. They all fall apart faster than
Speaker 1: do Tesla cyber trucks. The runner up worser. Justin Icorn,
Speaker 1: Minnesota State Senator. He introduced to Bill last Friday, I
Speaker 1: think saying Trump derangement syndrome is an actual mental illness
Speaker 1: now in the state of Minnesota. Last Friday, he's addressing
Speaker 1: mental illnesses, and presumably, I don't know, you can be
Speaker 1: I don't know you can be officially diagnosed with it,
Speaker 1: you can be I don't know, forcibly institutionalized with it.
Speaker 1: And while the next thing that happened to him has
Speaker 1: been going on, I guess he's been given a lot
Speaker 1: of time to think about the implications of what he
Speaker 1: meant by that, because on Monday, per the NBC account,
Speaker 1: a Minnesota state senator is facing calls to resign after
Speaker 1: he was arrested and accused of arranging to solicit a
Speaker 1: teenage girl for prostitution. What does that say? Does that
Speaker 1: say illegal immigrant? Unhere? Does that say Democrat? On here?
Speaker 1: Does that say athlete? On here? It is it? No,
Speaker 1: it says a Minnesota state senator, forty year old Republican.
Speaker 1: Here it is Justin Ekorn, a Republican thought he was
Speaker 1: talking to a seventeen year old girl when he arranged
Speaker 1: a meet up in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Please,
Speaker 1: he said, But he was actually communicating with an undercover detective.
Speaker 1: I Corn arrived at the location in a pickup truck.
Speaker 1: This is a man of romance, and was arrested Monday
Speaker 1: quote without incident. Bloomington police said unclear if he'd retained
Speaker 1: an attorney. I mean, if you're going to retain an
Speaker 1: attorney at this point, you better meet them in person.
Speaker 1: Justin Senate office did not immediately respond to a request
Speaker 1: for comment. I don't know. Maybe maybe he can get
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's peons to erase his web page for him.
Speaker 1: Imagine Justin's surprise when the woman he tried to solicit
Speaker 1: prostitution from, which, however you feel about it, is illegal,
Speaker 1: and he thought she was seventeen, which is much more illegal,
Speaker 1: when it turned out no, no, she was a cop.
Speaker 1: Is it Trump derangement syndrome you want to make an
Speaker 1: actual mental illness? Or is it Trump is deranged syndrome
Speaker 1: and taking all of you bastards with him syndrome? Justin
Speaker 1: By the way, who do you think is laughing loudest
Speaker 1: in this story? I'm guessing it is the incumbent Minnesota
Speaker 1: state senator that Icorn defeated for his District five Senate seat,
Speaker 1: which he's now going to obviously lose soon or late.
Speaker 1: The incumbent mister Icorn defeated in twenty sixteen was named
Speaker 1: Tom sas Hog sax Haug sas Hog. He probably has
Speaker 1: not stopped laughing since Monday. But the winner the worst
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper. There are times when television networks turn into
Speaker 1: the Cambodia of modern American media, where everything goes wrong
Speaker 1: in a if not idyllic, then at least functional operation,
Speaker 1: and that turns into hell and you're eating the bark
Speaker 1: off of trees and you're, you know, moving millions of
Speaker 1: people to places where they can't live, and you're piling
Speaker 1: up the skulls of the dead. That's CNN. MSNBC is
Speaker 1: a mess. It's not nearly as big of a mess
Speaker 1: as CNN is. CNN is on its second worst president
Speaker 1: in a row, and the ones before them they weren't
Speaker 1: that hot either. The winner of this award Jake Tapper,
Speaker 1: according to Oliver Darcy in his superb newsletter Status, he
Speaker 1: wrote it this way, as CNN was covering the return
Speaker 1: of the stranded astronauts, you know the ones who were
Speaker 1: docks docks because they were writing in a Tesla spacecraft.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper repeatedly referred to the body of the water
Speaker 1: they touched down in as the Gulf of America, while
Speaker 1: also saying others refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico. Yep,
Speaker 1: I checked Jake Tapper talking about the Gulf of America
Speaker 1: as if that were a thing. Why did he do this?
Speaker 1: Why did he go on CNN and announce it's the
Speaker 1: Gulf of America like a good little Trump whore? Well,
Speaker 1: why did he go on CNN and announce after the election.
Speaker 1: I think it's important to point out that the Trump
Speaker 1: dvance campaign in twenty twenty four was a very disciplined
Speaker 1: campaign and did a decent job of depicting Trump as
Speaker 1: somebody who was within the realm of normalcy. Why would
Speaker 1: you say that, especially since we were still talking then
Speaker 1: three thousand Trump scandals ago about how they had lied
Speaker 1: and made up the story of Haitian immigrants eating pets
Speaker 1: in Ohio. Why would you do that after they made
Speaker 1: up the story about the Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio,
Speaker 1: and after Trump lied about private twenty twenty five, and
Speaker 1: he lied about Musk, he lied about deporting Americans who
Speaker 1: are here illegally. He lied about solving the Ukraine War
Speaker 1: on day one. He lied about the economy, He lied
Speaker 1: about bringing down prices, He lied about bringing down the
Speaker 1: prices of eggs, He lied about musk. He lied about
Speaker 1: about everything that he could possibly lie about. And this
Speaker 1: is all in one morning. Why why would you say
Speaker 1: something like that? Well? Why didn't he fact check Trump
Speaker 1: at the debate last summer? Do you remember that? Anybody
Speaker 1: remember that? They just let Trump lie for an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. I mean, the Biden part of it
Speaker 1: was bad enough, but the real headline there remains. They
Speaker 1: gave an hour and a half of airtime for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump to just lie, and not the complicated ones like
Speaker 1: what he's going to do in the future, but lie
Speaker 1: about facts that were easily disprovable the way ABC did it.
Speaker 1: Why didn't he do that well, sir? Cause the Ankler,
Speaker 1: which is a Hollywood website that you may or may
Speaker 1: not have heard of, I've reported that last October. After
Speaker 1: the cutbacks at CNN, the three hundred this Century, I
Speaker 1: think that's right. Cut back at CNN they told poor
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper that he could not get a raise, that
Speaker 1: if he wanted to stay, they'd give him a new
Speaker 1: three year contract, but he'd have to scrape by on
Speaker 1: the pittance they were giving him then seven million dollars
Speaker 1: a year, but not a penny more. Seven million dollars
Speaker 1: for a show that's not even in primetime and doesn't
Speaker 1: have much of an audience at a network that does
Speaker 1: not make very much money off of its television product anymore,
Speaker 1: and could use that money to hire I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably three or four people who could do as badly
Speaker 1: at night as the people they have on the air
Speaker 1: at night now. Seven million a year, but not a
Speaker 1: penny more. Oh, we're not going to be a cut.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not as well to suggest demanding you
Speaker 1: you fact check people. Let me explain what it means
Speaker 1: to make money like that. Jake Tapper has been at
Speaker 1: CNN since he came back from ABC in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was making at ABC, but
Speaker 1: let's say he was making a million or two million
Speaker 1: dollars a year. But he's been making more than that
Speaker 1: since he went back to CNN in twenty thirteen, and
Speaker 1: certainly the last three or four years, he's been making
Speaker 1: seven million or roughly, and he's going to do that
Speaker 1: for the next three years. So that's like forty nine
Speaker 1: or fifty million dollars right there. Let me explain this
Speaker 1: to you. When Bill O'Reilly got fired by Fox, somebody
Speaker 1: asked me, well, what does he do? Now? Where's he
Speaker 1: going to make that kind of money doing? I said,
Speaker 1: he didn't have to make that kind of money. If
Speaker 1: you've been at that job making that kind of money,
Speaker 1: lesser amounts in previous years, but proportionately that kind of money,
Speaker 1: and if you reach your twentieth year in an organization
Speaker 1: making eighteen million dollars a year. If you don't have
Speaker 1: enough money to last year the rest of your life,
Speaker 1: you've done it completely wrong. You must have been burning cash,
Speaker 1: you know, to light scandals with. And the same is truth,
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper. If you're sitting on forty nine million dollars
Speaker 1: over the last four years, in the next three years,
Speaker 1: that is enough for the rest of your lifetime and
Speaker 1: your family's lifetime, and your at least next generation of
Speaker 1: your family's lifetime. A little investment here or there makes
Speaker 1: it even easier. But unless you're planning to be you know,
Speaker 1: a three thousand year old man. I mean, I had
Speaker 1: one day in twenty eleven, one twenty four hour period
Speaker 1: of time, where I signed the deal to leave NBC
Speaker 1: after they breached my contract. And then the next day
Speaker 1: I signed the contract to go to Current TV, which
Speaker 1: we've been negotiating all that time. And those two contracts
Speaker 1: were worth sixty seven million dollars. Guess what, I was
Speaker 1: fifty two years old. I didn't need to make another
Speaker 1: dollar in my lifetime. Doesn't mean you have to stop,
Speaker 1: but it does mean you no longer have to say, well,
Speaker 1: I better make every dollar I can. No, you don't
Speaker 1: have to make every dollar you can. You have already.
Speaker 1: You can go back to your own print if you
Speaker 1: remember what they are. So Jake Tapper has enough money
Speaker 1: to last him the rest of his life comfortably, enough
Speaker 1: to get a job somewhere else. If they're demanding that
Speaker 1: he do things like caught the Gulf of America or
Speaker 1: other things that would please the Trump whars if you're
Speaker 1: doing that, if you're if you're willing to sell yourself
Speaker 1: like a hooker, you know, call that Minnesota state senator,
Speaker 1: for God's sakes, do something honorable. TV News seven million
Speaker 1: dollars a year to call it the Gulf of Borshed,
Speaker 1: seven million dollars a year to not fact check Donald
Speaker 1: Trump when he lies for an hour and a half
Speaker 1: on your air. But here's the problem. Many people making
Speaker 1: that much money, or not even that much money, get
Speaker 1: addicted to the idea of making the money, and suddenly
Speaker 1: it's never enough. I want more. I must have more,
Speaker 1: because I've discovered it is my only identity. If I
Speaker 1: don't make seven million dollars a year, if I only
Speaker 1: make five million dollars a year, am I still a man?
Speaker 1: This is the way many of them think, and the
Speaker 1: women making that kind of money too, only they would
Speaker 1: presumably say, am I still a woman? That's I think
Speaker 1: the only change, the only difference. Soon, seven million dollars
Speaker 1: is not enough. It's never enough, and you never get comfortable,
Speaker 1: and you never say, well, I'm going to make decisions
Speaker 1: based on what's right, and you stop thinking what's the
Speaker 1: right thing here? And you start thinking well, you stop
Speaker 1: thinking not what would what? What? What would Murrow do here?
Speaker 1: Or what would George Clooney playing Murrow do here? You
Speaker 1: stop even asking yourself what would I do here? Or
Speaker 1: what would I in an earlier form of my life,
Speaker 1: when I was a kid trying to get into this business,
Speaker 1: what would I do here? You stop asking it that way.
Speaker 1: You simply ask what do my bosses want me to
Speaker 1: do here in order for them to keep giving me
Speaker 1: the seven million dollars? And then you're crossed off the
Speaker 1: journalism list. There is no amount of sackcloth and or
Speaker 1: ashes available to make it possible for you to ever
Speaker 1: be considered a journalist again. You are then moved into
Speaker 1: a category called seven million dollar whore because the next
Speaker 1: thing you know, you're not fact checking Trump, You're crediting
Speaker 1: Trump's campaign for making him look honest. You're calling it
Speaker 1: the Gulf of America because you know Trump will find
Speaker 1: out about it and be pleased, and the message will
Speaker 1: get back to your boss, and your boss the cockney
Speaker 1: that they brought in to replace the non cockney who
Speaker 1: cocked up the whole place. He will say, that's very good, Jake,
Speaker 1: here's another seven million dollars. GUVNA. They won't take your
Speaker 1: seven million dollars away, and you will not be a
Speaker 1: little standing there naked saying I make no money. All
Speaker 1: they do is a guessed I supposed by the way.
Speaker 1: I might add to the alternate feeling when you stop
Speaker 1: making that kind of money, or I might add more
Speaker 1: when you stop making that kind of money and you
Speaker 1: suddenly go nobody owns me. I can say what I want,
Speaker 1: and if they don't for some reason, let me keep
Speaker 1: doing it here. I can go over there to some
Speaker 1: other room and do it there too instead. Jake's lost,
Speaker 1: but at least CNN is wasting seven million. I look
Speaker 1: at it positively, as you know, Jake Tapper, Gulf of America.
Speaker 1: So we can just change proper names now whenever we
Speaker 1: feel like it, so I don't have to call you
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper anymore, I can just call you Jake schmuck,
Speaker 1: Jake schmuck two days other wars person and the word
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here That
Speaker 1: is quite literally true. Thank you for listening. Brian Ray
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Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Stevie van Zat. I
Speaker 1: asked Stevie to do this for a particular reason. You
Speaker 1: know what his voice sounds like, That's how my voice feels.
Speaker 1: Everything else was, as ever, my fault, including my complaining
Speaker 1: about myself. That's countdown for today, just four hundred and
Speaker 1: three days until the scheduled end of his lame duck
Speaker 1: and lame brained term unless Musk removes Trump sooner where
Speaker 1: the actuarial tables do. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday.
Speaker 1: As always, bulletins as the news warrants, remember impeach Trump.
Speaker 1: It won't work now. It will, however, win the Democrats
Speaker 1: the mid terms if there are midterms, and get rid
Speaker 1: of Schumer. N Till next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman
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