1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:21,475 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:21,755 --> 00:00:28,355 Speaker 1: FBI is at the Gates Gates Beavis and Botox the 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:33,275 Speaker 1: Attorney General designate for the moment anyway, big pantiless Matt 4 00:00:34,195 --> 00:00:37,395 Speaker 1: and thus are we reminded again why Democrats need to 5 00:00:37,435 --> 00:00:42,555 Speaker 1: not compromise, to not compliment, to not look for the 6 00:00:42,595 --> 00:00:47,075 Speaker 1: good things sideshow Bob Kennedy says, but just the murderous ones. 7 00:00:47,435 --> 00:00:50,755 Speaker 1: Why they need to throw punches and to never become 8 00:00:50,995 --> 00:00:56,235 Speaker 1: Jared Polis or Keem Jeffries or Joe Effing Scarborough and 9 00:00:56,355 --> 00:01:02,595 Speaker 1: his wife missus VC MSNBC. Yesterday morning, the Democrats on 10 00:01:02,635 --> 00:01:06,715 Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to FBI Director Christopher Ray 11 00:01:06,835 --> 00:01:10,715 Speaker 1: requesting a copy of the FBI file on the Gates 12 00:01:10,755 --> 00:01:15,715 Speaker 1: sex scandal, especially the child sex trafficking part I mean 13 00:01:15,835 --> 00:01:20,115 Speaker 1: even Chairman Dick Durbin signed the letter, and Chris Coons 14 00:01:20,395 --> 00:01:23,115 Speaker 1: and by sundown the New York Times not only had 15 00:01:23,115 --> 00:01:25,555 Speaker 1: the key details of that file, they had enough of 16 00:01:25,555 --> 00:01:29,875 Speaker 1: the actual document to publish a copy of a diagram 17 00:01:30,315 --> 00:01:33,555 Speaker 1: produced by federal investigators for the report by the House 18 00:01:33,595 --> 00:01:37,195 Speaker 1: Ethics Committee. The report, the Republicans are still trying to 19 00:01:37,235 --> 00:01:43,995 Speaker 1: bury it is a spectacular diagram suitable for framing, tracing 20 00:01:44,155 --> 00:01:48,475 Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in Venmo payments from Gates to quoting 21 00:01:48,515 --> 00:01:52,475 Speaker 1: The Times women, including some who testified he hired them 22 00:01:52,835 --> 00:01:58,395 Speaker 1: for sex for drug fueled sex parties, sometimes directly to 23 00:01:58,475 --> 00:02:02,515 Speaker 1: the women, sometimes to intermediaries. All in the records of 24 00:02:02,635 --> 00:02:07,235 Speaker 1: Venmo there are at least one hundred lines spreading out 25 00:02:07,275 --> 00:02:10,435 Speaker 1: from a thumbnail picture of Gates and that idiot's smile 26 00:02:10,515 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: of his. The lines crisscross, the lines go sideways, they 27 00:02:13,875 --> 00:02:16,395 Speaker 1: double back on themselves. They all have little arrows at 28 00:02:16,435 --> 00:02:18,915 Speaker 1: their ends. The damn things looks like a cross between 29 00:02:18,915 --> 00:02:21,915 Speaker 1: a gigantic spider's web and a map of the London 30 00:02:22,115 --> 00:02:25,515 Speaker 1: subway system, a map which has then been put up 31 00:02:25,515 --> 00:02:28,755 Speaker 1: with thumbtacks onto the wall of a conspiracy. Theorist's basement 32 00:02:30,195 --> 00:02:33,475 Speaker 1: was the Senate Judiciary letter to Chris Ray and the 33 00:02:33,515 --> 00:02:37,835 Speaker 1: tourist's guide and map to Matt Gates's sex City. Were 34 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:43,475 Speaker 1: they cause and effect? Maybe? Maybe not, but it emphasizes 35 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:48,555 Speaker 1: the point do not truck with the fascists. Do not 36 00:02:49,115 --> 00:02:54,075 Speaker 1: Governor Polis praise Kennedy about vaccines as if he were 37 00:02:54,115 --> 00:02:57,995 Speaker 1: not a demented sexual predator. Do not Leader Jeffries say 38 00:02:57,995 --> 00:03:00,475 Speaker 1: that the nominations of Gates and Kennedy and that sack 39 00:03:00,515 --> 00:03:04,875 Speaker 1: of crap Gabbard are quote distractions. Do not Senator Koon 40 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:08,915 Speaker 1: praise the money this fop friend of Putin Musk could 41 00:03:08,955 --> 00:03:14,635 Speaker 1: save America. Do not Quizzling Scarborough borrow somebody else's soul 42 00:03:14,995 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: and then sell it so Trump won't destroy you. In short, 43 00:03:19,475 --> 00:03:23,035 Speaker 1: do not normalize them. Not only does in it help, 44 00:03:23,315 --> 00:03:27,115 Speaker 1: it also doesn't work. The bully will not stop punching 45 00:03:27,155 --> 00:03:29,835 Speaker 1: you just because you say nice things about them. The 46 00:03:29,875 --> 00:03:32,795 Speaker 1: bully will stop punching you when you knock him out 47 00:03:33,035 --> 00:03:39,035 Speaker 1: cold for the time being. The Democrats, the Liberals, the progressives, 48 00:03:39,075 --> 00:03:43,635 Speaker 1: you know, the actual Americans can accomplish some things in 49 00:03:43,755 --> 00:03:48,115 Speaker 1: small letters mostly, but our collective purpose is to send 50 00:03:48,355 --> 00:03:53,755 Speaker 1: the Trump train hurtling off the track as often as possible, 51 00:03:53,955 --> 00:03:59,835 Speaker 1: with as many metaphorical casualties as we can achieve. Sink 52 00:03:59,995 --> 00:04:05,475 Speaker 1: his Attorney general a crook, Squeeze his HHS director a 53 00:04:05,555 --> 00:04:08,595 Speaker 1: lunatic until his brain worms caused him to start speaking 54 00:04:08,635 --> 00:04:13,035 Speaker 1: in tongues. Destroy his secretary of Education, who patted her 55 00:04:13,355 --> 00:04:16,315 Speaker 1: educational resume about whether or not she'd gotten a degree 56 00:04:16,315 --> 00:04:21,755 Speaker 1: in education. Enrage Trump, raise his blood pressure, cause him 57 00:04:21,755 --> 00:04:25,075 Speaker 1: to dig in further, and demand Republican senators get Gates 58 00:04:25,115 --> 00:04:28,715 Speaker 1: in anyway until the day comes when one Republican leader 59 00:04:28,795 --> 00:04:33,515 Speaker 1: or another snaps and calls Trump what he is. Yes, please, 60 00:04:35,475 --> 00:04:41,755 Speaker 1: Trump voters wanted to burn it all down. Let's burn 61 00:04:41,835 --> 00:04:46,555 Speaker 1: it all the f down, and let's make sure first 62 00:04:46,595 --> 00:04:50,155 Speaker 1: and above all else that it is trump Ism that 63 00:04:50,315 --> 00:05:16,555 Speaker 1: is tied to the effing steak. Speaking of crumpling things 64 00:05:16,635 --> 00:05:19,595 Speaker 1: up and lighting fires with them. Normally, I think newspaper 65 00:05:19,755 --> 00:05:24,235 Speaker 1: editorials are useless, irrelevant, and badly written unless they are 66 00:05:24,315 --> 00:05:27,635 Speaker 1: being written or not being written. Jeff bezos to do 67 00:05:27,755 --> 00:05:30,995 Speaker 1: exactly the same thing Joe Scarborough just did. But let 68 00:05:30,995 --> 00:05:34,115 Speaker 1: me read you highlights of two new ones bear with 69 00:05:34,195 --> 00:05:38,835 Speaker 1: me quote first source, second quote. While most of the 70 00:05:38,875 --> 00:05:41,515 Speaker 1: cabinet picks have been excellent and some of them risky 71 00:05:41,595 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: but promising, Gates and Gabbard are dreadful. We plead that 72 00:05:45,715 --> 00:05:49,875 Speaker 1: mister Trump rethink them. They are distracting chaos agents who 73 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:52,635 Speaker 1: won't accomplish what Trump wants them to and will most 74 00:05:52,715 --> 00:05:56,675 Speaker 1: likely backfire on his agenda. Start with Gabbard. Trump's nominee 75 00:05:56,675 --> 00:06:00,395 Speaker 1: for Director of National Intelligence. She's been sympathetic to dictators 76 00:06:00,435 --> 00:06:03,835 Speaker 1: in Syria and Russia instead blaming the victims of violence 77 00:06:03,875 --> 00:06:08,115 Speaker 1: like Ukraine and Israel. But even worse, the editorial continues, 78 00:06:08,315 --> 00:06:12,115 Speaker 1: is Matt Gates, Trump's nominee for attorney General. We don't 79 00:06:12,155 --> 00:06:14,995 Speaker 1: want Trump to be blown up by his own grenade. 80 00:06:15,515 --> 00:06:18,395 Speaker 1: Gates may provide the disruption, but he has neither the 81 00:06:18,435 --> 00:06:21,595 Speaker 1: ethics nor the discipline to rebuild a proper system that 82 00:06:21,675 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: will pursue fair prosecutions. His own colleagues say he's a sleez. 83 00:06:27,435 --> 00:06:30,555 Speaker 1: Both represent a bigger problem than their own faults. Reflect 84 00:06:30,835 --> 00:06:35,355 Speaker 1: Trump is wasting important political capital pushing two mediocre nominees 85 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:39,395 Speaker 1: out of stubbornness, not necessity. Not only will Trump's opponents 86 00:06:39,515 --> 00:06:41,995 Speaker 1: use this to argue that he can't govern, but it 87 00:06:42,035 --> 00:06:47,475 Speaker 1: will provide ammunition for the twenty twenty six midterms. Signed 88 00:06:48,355 --> 00:06:55,315 Speaker 1: the New York Post editorial board, seriously Murdoch. Murdoch's vanity 89 00:06:55,395 --> 00:06:59,435 Speaker 1: newspaper written by and four people who may have gone 90 00:06:59,555 --> 00:07:03,995 Speaker 1: to a high school but never actually went in. But wait, 91 00:07:04,035 --> 00:07:07,035 Speaker 1: the other editor oriol is worse. This one notes that 92 00:07:07,075 --> 00:07:10,195 Speaker 1: the Trump transition team insists it knew nothing about the 93 00:07:10,235 --> 00:07:15,315 Speaker 1: sexual assault accusation against and payoff by Pentagon nominee Pete. 94 00:07:15,435 --> 00:07:20,035 Speaker 1: Let's shoot the civilians, Hegseth. Somebody war gamed this and 95 00:07:20,155 --> 00:07:27,035 Speaker 1: realize the implications again quote first source. Second, whoever leads 96 00:07:27,035 --> 00:07:30,395 Speaker 1: the Pentagon needs to have the President's trust. If mister 97 00:07:30,435 --> 00:07:34,995 Speaker 1: Trump wasn't informed about this political liability before announcing the nomination, 98 00:07:35,355 --> 00:07:39,915 Speaker 1: he might reasonably wonder what else mister Hegseth hasn't told him? 99 00:07:40,435 --> 00:07:46,195 Speaker 1: Signed the Wall Street Journal editorial board. So here are 100 00:07:46,235 --> 00:07:51,595 Speaker 1: the two most fascist propaganda driven entities this side of 101 00:07:51,715 --> 00:07:55,995 Speaker 1: Alex Jones and Charlie Kirk. And they want Trump to 102 00:07:56,235 --> 00:08:00,275 Speaker 1: dump Gabbard Gates and Hegseth, And oh yeah, the New 103 00:08:00,355 --> 00:08:04,035 Speaker 1: York Post also chastised him over recess appointments. And I 104 00:08:04,075 --> 00:08:07,915 Speaker 1: hate everybody who works at all three of these places. 105 00:08:08,075 --> 00:08:10,515 Speaker 1: But I have to say I see more backbone about 106 00:08:10,555 --> 00:08:13,755 Speaker 1: these Trump nominees drawn from the wanted bulletins at the 107 00:08:13,755 --> 00:08:17,235 Speaker 1: post Office in these newspapers than I do from Jeffreys 108 00:08:17,275 --> 00:08:21,315 Speaker 1: and a boatload of other Democrats, and more backbone from 109 00:08:22,795 --> 00:08:28,115 Speaker 1: Rand Paul, Like Rand Paul, Rand Paul, the runner up 110 00:08:28,115 --> 00:08:32,275 Speaker 1: in his two man Neighborhood Boxing Division. Rand Paul. Rand 111 00:08:32,395 --> 00:08:37,315 Speaker 1: Paul has slammed Trump for the whole premise that Hegseth 112 00:08:37,435 --> 00:08:41,995 Speaker 1: is the nominee at DoD, Quoting him, I'm not in 113 00:08:42,035 --> 00:08:45,235 Speaker 1: favor of sending the army in uniforms into our cities 114 00:08:45,235 --> 00:08:49,075 Speaker 1: to collect people. I think it's a terrible image and 115 00:08:49,115 --> 00:08:52,275 Speaker 1: that's not what we use our military for. We never 116 00:08:52,355 --> 00:08:55,155 Speaker 1: have and it's actually been illegal for over one hundred 117 00:08:55,235 --> 00:08:58,755 Speaker 1: years to bring the army into our cities. I will 118 00:08:58,795 --> 00:09:02,675 Speaker 1: not support an emergency declaration to put the army into 119 00:09:02,715 --> 00:09:06,075 Speaker 1: our cities. I think that's a huge mistake. I really 120 00:09:06,115 --> 00:09:09,675 Speaker 1: think us as conservatives who are supportive of Trump, need 121 00:09:09,755 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: to caution him about sending the army into our cities. 122 00:09:14,955 --> 00:09:24,035 Speaker 1: Unquote Rand freaking fall. While Trump's team, for a series 123 00:09:24,075 --> 00:09:27,595 Speaker 1: of reports not only plans round ups led by that military, 124 00:09:27,995 --> 00:09:31,475 Speaker 1: it's figured out now away around the thirteenth Amendment. It 125 00:09:31,755 --> 00:09:36,195 Speaker 1: for the Times, quote plans to stop issuing citizenship affirming 126 00:09:36,315 --> 00:09:41,875 Speaker 1: documents like passports and Social Security cards to infants born 127 00:09:41,995 --> 00:09:46,035 Speaker 1: on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid 128 00:09:46,075 --> 00:09:52,835 Speaker 1: to end birthright citizenship, slow walking the constitution while sending 129 00:09:52,875 --> 00:09:56,715 Speaker 1: troops to the streets like Hitler did, and even Rand 130 00:09:56,875 --> 00:10:01,795 Speaker 1: Paul recognizes this, But Jared Poulus sees merit in Robert F. 131 00:10:01,915 --> 00:10:06,275 Speaker 1: Kennedy rather than kicking Robert F. Kennedy in the nuts. 132 00:10:07,715 --> 00:10:11,515 Speaker 1: Speaking of which, one of the lawyers for some of 133 00:10:11,555 --> 00:10:15,795 Speaker 1: the women in the Matt Gaits scandal spells his last 134 00:10:15,875 --> 00:10:22,395 Speaker 1: name l E p p A r d l E 135 00:10:22,475 --> 00:10:26,355 Speaker 1: p p A r D. I just assumed he had 136 00:10:26,395 --> 00:10:32,315 Speaker 1: to pronounce it leopard or something. Hi. Joel Laparde, attorney 137 00:10:32,355 --> 00:10:35,755 Speaker 1: for his underage victim, damn glad to meet you. No, sir, 138 00:10:36,475 --> 00:10:40,995 Speaker 1: his name is Leopard. Joel Leopard in the middle of 139 00:10:41,035 --> 00:10:44,155 Speaker 1: the era of the face eating Leopard party, the lawyer 140 00:10:44,195 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: who could do as much hurt to Trump as anybody 141 00:10:47,795 --> 00:10:51,555 Speaker 1: else and to all the face eating leopards, that guy 142 00:10:52,195 --> 00:11:11,795 Speaker 1: is named Leopard. Only in America, throw punches, throw punches, 143 00:11:12,955 --> 00:11:17,155 Speaker 1: eat faces, And I don't care who you have to 144 00:11:17,195 --> 00:11:20,755 Speaker 1: ally yourself with to make sure the punch hits or 145 00:11:20,795 --> 00:11:28,475 Speaker 1: the face digests. Nate Silver yesterday suggested that President Joe 146 00:11:28,515 --> 00:11:33,715 Speaker 1: Biden should resign because Nate, who is not exactly mister 147 00:11:33,795 --> 00:11:37,995 Speaker 1: psychological stability his own self, is not sure Joe Biden 148 00:11:38,115 --> 00:11:42,635 Speaker 1: is competent to be president. Two weeks ago, former Kamala 149 00:11:42,635 --> 00:11:46,755 Speaker 1: Harris communications director Jamal Simmons called on President Biden to resign, 150 00:11:46,795 --> 00:11:49,955 Speaker 1: not over some question of competence, I mean, good God, 151 00:11:49,955 --> 00:11:51,635 Speaker 1: if we're going to go through this again, I want 152 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 1: Trump to fulfill that promise and take another cognitive test 153 00:11:55,275 --> 00:12:00,315 Speaker 1: before inauguration day. Pro tip take the under on his score. No. 154 00:12:00,515 --> 00:12:04,435 Speaker 1: Simmons's idea is this would let the president fulfill his 155 00:12:05,195 --> 00:12:09,475 Speaker 1: to become a transitional president, even if only for a 156 00:12:09,475 --> 00:12:15,155 Speaker 1: few months. I agree with Nate Silver and Jamal Simmons, 157 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:19,635 Speaker 1: not with their reasons, and not because of any anger 158 00:12:19,795 --> 00:12:22,315 Speaker 1: or doubt about my old friend Joe Biden, who I 159 00:12:22,355 --> 00:12:25,115 Speaker 1: will love till the day I die. But I think 160 00:12:25,195 --> 00:12:30,035 Speaker 1: Joe Biden should resign and have President Kamala Harris be 161 00:12:30,235 --> 00:12:34,395 Speaker 1: president for an hour or a morning, or a week 162 00:12:34,475 --> 00:12:39,235 Speaker 1: or a month, or starting this afternoon, because how many 163 00:12:39,355 --> 00:12:44,715 Speaker 1: ways would this piss off America's white supremacists, how many 164 00:12:44,755 --> 00:12:52,355 Speaker 1: misogynists would spontaneously combust, how much would that one vein 165 00:12:53,595 --> 00:12:59,075 Speaker 1: feeding that one sell in Trump's brain bulge with extra 166 00:12:59,235 --> 00:13:06,115 Speaker 1: insanity at the thought of President Kamala Harris. And even 167 00:13:06,235 --> 00:13:11,875 Speaker 1: if somehow they all contained themselves. Joe Biden should do 168 00:13:11,915 --> 00:13:16,835 Speaker 1: this anyway, because at the bare minimum, Biden resigning, even 169 00:13:16,835 --> 00:13:19,715 Speaker 1: if it's on the morning of January twentieth, and Vice 170 00:13:19,755 --> 00:13:25,195 Speaker 1: President Harris succeeding him, would make her the forty seventh 171 00:13:25,315 --> 00:13:30,395 Speaker 1: president of the United States, and these goddamned Maga sons 172 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:35,075 Speaker 1: of bitches would have to burn every last piece of 173 00:13:35,155 --> 00:13:40,035 Speaker 1: their worthless Trump forty seven merch, and just for their 174 00:13:40,195 --> 00:13:53,315 Speaker 1: fury over that this would be worth it. Speaking of 175 00:13:53,395 --> 00:13:57,675 Speaker 1: burning something to the ground like your own career. Back 176 00:13:57,715 --> 00:14:00,675 Speaker 1: to Joe Scarborough for a moment, and I've got an 177 00:14:00,835 --> 00:14:05,235 Speaker 1: entire segment on America's newest quizzling at the end of 178 00:14:05,275 --> 00:14:09,115 Speaker 1: this podcast, if I can get through it without laughing 179 00:14:09,195 --> 00:14:13,835 Speaker 1: too hard. My headline on this story is how on 180 00:14:13,875 --> 00:14:18,555 Speaker 1: earth anybody could be surprised that this Marshall patan of 181 00:14:18,595 --> 00:14:23,115 Speaker 1: American media sold out to save his own worthless ass. 182 00:14:23,915 --> 00:14:27,395 Speaker 1: It's the only thing Joe Scarborough is good at. He's 183 00:14:27,435 --> 00:14:30,755 Speaker 1: been doing it all twenty six years I've known him. 184 00:14:30,995 --> 00:14:34,875 Speaker 1: And the only deviation from the norm here is Joe 185 00:14:35,035 --> 00:14:40,075 Speaker 1: usually tries to sell somebody else out first. This time 186 00:14:40,315 --> 00:14:44,315 Speaker 1: there was nobody else happily, I can state with some 187 00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:48,635 Speaker 1: assurance that this time, finally, Joe Scarborough has ended his 188 00:14:48,795 --> 00:14:54,755 Speaker 1: own career. Ratings for The Morning Joe Insincerity and Bullshit 189 00:14:54,915 --> 00:14:59,155 Speaker 1: Musical Review were already down by a staggering percentage after 190 00:14:59,195 --> 00:15:03,195 Speaker 1: the election. Then, as you know, he announced his mutual 191 00:15:03,275 --> 00:15:06,035 Speaker 1: non Aggression pack with the Not at six am Monday, 192 00:15:06,715 --> 00:15:11,675 Speaker 1: and the audience punished him and MSNBC in a way 193 00:15:12,475 --> 00:15:18,075 Speaker 1: so impressive, so original, so startling that I have never 194 00:15:18,195 --> 00:15:24,195 Speaker 1: heard of it happening before. Multi hour morning television shows 195 00:15:24,235 --> 00:15:28,515 Speaker 1: always see their ratings go up the later it gets, 196 00:15:28,875 --> 00:15:33,235 Speaker 1: simply because more people are awake at seven than are 197 00:15:33,355 --> 00:15:37,915 Speaker 1: awake at six. The average growth from the six am 198 00:15:38,035 --> 00:15:43,835 Speaker 1: ratings to the seven am ratings worldwide probably is twenty 199 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:49,795 Speaker 1: percent or so. If you are doing Alaska morning radio 200 00:15:50,275 --> 00:15:54,595 Speaker 1: like Good Morning Sitka, and you have one hundred listeners 201 00:15:54,635 --> 00:15:58,155 Speaker 1: at six AM, the seven o'clock edition of Good Morning 202 00:15:58,235 --> 00:16:01,995 Speaker 1: Sitka is probably going to have one hundred and twenty listeners. 203 00:16:03,315 --> 00:16:08,875 Speaker 1: On Monday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzynski saw their seven 204 00:16:08,995 --> 00:16:14,235 Speaker 1: am ratings drop by seventeen percent compared to their six 205 00:16:14,275 --> 00:16:18,035 Speaker 1: AM ratings among viewers under the age of fifty five, 206 00:16:18,115 --> 00:16:23,595 Speaker 1: the loss was thirty eight percent, So normally ratings go 207 00:16:23,795 --> 00:16:26,555 Speaker 1: up twenty percent. In the second hour, they went down 208 00:16:26,715 --> 00:16:31,635 Speaker 1: seventeen percent. That's a basic raw net loss of more 209 00:16:32,035 --> 00:16:37,275 Speaker 1: than one third. On Tuesday, ratings for the whole show 210 00:16:37,755 --> 00:16:41,955 Speaker 1: were down another eleven percent from Monday. Scarborough is now 211 00:16:41,995 --> 00:16:44,995 Speaker 1: on the path we at MSNBC used to call the 212 00:16:45,155 --> 00:16:50,195 Speaker 1: Rita Cosby. On Monday, the debut edition of Rita Cosby 213 00:16:50,235 --> 00:16:53,595 Speaker 1: Live and Direct has the highest ratings on the entire network. 214 00:16:54,195 --> 00:16:57,795 Speaker 1: On Tuesday, it's down the typical ten to twenty percent 215 00:16:57,875 --> 00:17:02,635 Speaker 1: from the debut show. By Wednesday, half the audience is gone. 216 00:17:03,315 --> 00:17:06,595 Speaker 1: By Thursday, it's a re broadcast of a previous edition 217 00:17:06,715 --> 00:17:09,995 Speaker 1: of Rita Cosby Live and Direct. And on Friday it's 218 00:17:11,035 --> 00:17:12,795 Speaker 1: what was the name of that show again? And we 219 00:17:12,875 --> 00:17:17,555 Speaker 1: used to have that had Rita Cosby on it status reports. 220 00:17:17,635 --> 00:17:21,795 Speaker 1: Oliver Darcy quotes a rival TV news executive who says 221 00:17:22,315 --> 00:17:27,395 Speaker 1: that Scarborough, Prashinski and MSNBC president Rashida Jones quote need 222 00:17:27,635 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: FEMA there at this point. That's the level of disaster 223 00:17:31,915 --> 00:17:38,115 Speaker 1: they created unquote. Well happily they sold their souls to 224 00:17:38,195 --> 00:17:42,795 Speaker 1: the correct devil Trump, So if they need FEMA. They 225 00:17:42,795 --> 00:17:45,355 Speaker 1: can just call Trump and he can do what he 226 00:17:45,435 --> 00:17:49,995 Speaker 1: always does when disaster aid is needed. Ignore the pleas 227 00:17:50,075 --> 00:17:54,875 Speaker 1: of the drowning, or throw Joe a roll of bounty, 228 00:17:55,235 --> 00:18:08,715 Speaker 1: the quicker picker upper, or in Scarborough's case, toilet paper used. 229 00:18:09,915 --> 00:18:12,195 Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm in a good and generous 230 00:18:12,235 --> 00:18:15,835 Speaker 1: mood towards everybody today, including Joe Scarborough. The heart surgery 231 00:18:15,835 --> 00:18:17,835 Speaker 1: on my pup Kit went as good as it possibly 232 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:21,515 Speaker 1: could have. We are expecting him home and cured today. 233 00:18:22,955 --> 00:18:25,515 Speaker 1: I can't wait to tell him the whole Scarborough backstory 234 00:18:26,395 --> 00:18:29,435 Speaker 1: later in this podcast, the stuff from say two thousand 235 00:18:29,435 --> 00:18:31,515 Speaker 1: and eight, nine and ten, when he spent nearly his 236 00:18:31,675 --> 00:18:34,075 Speaker 1: entire day every day trying to get me fired. I 237 00:18:34,115 --> 00:18:37,315 Speaker 1: can't wait to tell him that whole story. Because Kit 238 00:18:37,715 --> 00:18:41,315 Speaker 1: is a dog. He's five months old, and he weighs 239 00:18:41,315 --> 00:18:45,475 Speaker 1: three pounds, so even he knows Joe Scarborough is a 240 00:18:45,475 --> 00:18:50,395 Speaker 1: pile of crap in an ill fitting suit. Also of 241 00:18:50,435 --> 00:18:53,595 Speaker 1: interest here, speaking of self owns like the one of 242 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:58,755 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's, have I mentioned Joe Scarborough yet? Speaking of 243 00:18:58,795 --> 00:19:05,075 Speaker 1: self owns? Marjorie Taylor Green, has I swear to Jesus 244 00:19:06,035 --> 00:19:11,315 Speaker 1: encouraged some transgendered woman somewhere to come up to her 245 00:19:11,475 --> 00:19:16,275 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green and beat her senseless. I'll just repeat 246 00:19:16,315 --> 00:19:20,675 Speaker 1: that Green has basically asked to get beaten up by 247 00:19:20,715 --> 00:19:25,915 Speaker 1: a transgendered woman. Ladies, please do not rush the door. 248 00:19:26,795 --> 00:19:32,995 Speaker 1: Everybody will get their chance. That's next. This is countdown. 249 00:19:35,675 --> 00:20:00,155 Speaker 1: This is countdown. With Keith Olberman still ahead of us 250 00:20:00,155 --> 00:20:02,075 Speaker 1: on this all new edition of The Big Show, I'm 251 00:20:02,115 --> 00:20:05,795 Speaker 1: getting so much Shotenfreuder, I'm gonna have to go on 252 00:20:05,875 --> 00:20:11,315 Speaker 1: a schadenfreude diet. Two months of hilarious stories about my 253 00:20:11,475 --> 00:20:15,435 Speaker 1: ex and her ex and RFK Junior, and now Joe 254 00:20:15,475 --> 00:20:20,875 Speaker 1: Scarborough has self destructed so thoroughly that everybody on the 255 00:20:20,955 --> 00:20:24,035 Speaker 1: left hates him and everybody on the right hates him. 256 00:20:25,555 --> 00:20:27,875 Speaker 1: But do you know the origin story of the man 257 00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:31,235 Speaker 1: we used to call Joey scars but now called Joe 258 00:20:31,835 --> 00:20:37,635 Speaker 1: scared bro. The worst person I have ever worked with, 259 00:20:38,355 --> 00:20:41,315 Speaker 1: I mean in TV and radio, online, in print, in sports, 260 00:20:41,315 --> 00:20:43,835 Speaker 1: in news, in this century, in the last century, in 261 00:20:43,915 --> 00:20:49,595 Speaker 1: college and high school, the worst person next at things 262 00:20:49,635 --> 00:20:54,035 Speaker 1: I promised not to tell heyway always like chep. But 263 00:20:54,275 --> 00:20:56,755 Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots talk 264 00:20:56,795 --> 00:20:59,555 Speaker 1: about the daily roundup of the other miscreants, morons and 265 00:20:59,635 --> 00:21:04,595 Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst versus. 266 00:21:05,635 --> 00:21:11,115 Speaker 1: In your word, that's my Ja Scarby, I'm banking the 267 00:21:11,155 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: bronze worse. To quote Chevy Chase from the original Weekend 268 00:21:14,155 --> 00:21:16,755 Speaker 1: Update on the original Saturday Night Live, I don't want 269 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:18,635 Speaker 1: to kick him in when he's down. I want to 270 00:21:18,715 --> 00:21:20,955 Speaker 1: kick him when he's down, then set fire to his face, 271 00:21:20,995 --> 00:21:23,675 Speaker 1: and then put the fire out while wearing baseball cleats. 272 00:21:24,275 --> 00:21:27,555 Speaker 1: Matt Gates the only man in the last half century 273 00:21:27,555 --> 00:21:30,635 Speaker 1: who could be running the Justice Department next week or 274 00:21:30,715 --> 00:21:33,595 Speaker 1: be put in jail by the Justice Department next week, 275 00:21:34,155 --> 00:21:37,475 Speaker 1: on top of everything else going on with Attorney General 276 00:21:37,755 --> 00:21:42,635 Speaker 1: wannabe Beavis and Botox. A quote from the Green Wire 277 00:21:42,835 --> 00:21:48,475 Speaker 1: article on Gates's nomination quote, Luckily all of our environmental 278 00:21:48,555 --> 00:21:53,635 Speaker 1: laws are older than eighteen years, so Representative Gates shouldn't 279 00:21:53,635 --> 00:21:58,795 Speaker 1: have much interest in them, said Brett Hartole, governmental affairs 280 00:21:58,835 --> 00:22:02,475 Speaker 1: director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant 281 00:22:03,035 --> 00:22:08,355 Speaker 1: in environmental lawsuits. Brett Hardle, did you say that? What 282 00:22:08,475 --> 00:22:13,555 Speaker 1: a guy? The runner up? Jd Vance Vice President elect, 283 00:22:13,915 --> 00:22:15,995 Speaker 1: the man who has already made a nostalgic for the 284 00:22:16,035 --> 00:22:21,835 Speaker 1: golden age of dan Quail. With Trump's amazing decision to 285 00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:25,595 Speaker 1: burn his one and a half percent quote mandate unquote 286 00:22:25,595 --> 00:22:30,235 Speaker 1: by appointing every confidence trickster and three card monte dealer 287 00:22:30,275 --> 00:22:34,395 Speaker 1: to his cabinet, we forget the possibilities still represented by 288 00:22:34,395 --> 00:22:38,595 Speaker 1: this idiot JD. Vance. Mike Pence was a holier than 289 00:22:38,595 --> 00:22:43,635 Speaker 1: now fraud, a mediocre Midwest radio hate jockey, but he 290 00:22:43,795 --> 00:22:47,115 Speaker 1: learned his new job well. He served as a kind 291 00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:54,795 Speaker 1: of detached waxen, possibly intelligent, possibly fair counterpoint or foil 292 00:22:55,075 --> 00:22:59,075 Speaker 1: to Trump. He really was pretty good as the stuffed suit, 293 00:22:59,355 --> 00:23:02,275 Speaker 1: the seemingly not crazy guy who wasn't just doing what 294 00:23:02,275 --> 00:23:05,715 Speaker 1: Trump wanted out of some political mass masochism, but who 295 00:23:05,795 --> 00:23:09,395 Speaker 1: had thought about it and decided Trump was right, you know, 296 00:23:09,955 --> 00:23:12,435 Speaker 1: up until dan Quayle read the Constitution to him and 297 00:23:12,475 --> 00:23:17,155 Speaker 1: Pence said, oh crap, I'm out of here. Instead we 298 00:23:17,235 --> 00:23:20,515 Speaker 1: have JV. Vance, who, if he wanted to, could turn 299 00:23:20,755 --> 00:23:25,075 Speaker 1: pro in the Dunning Krueger League. The gap between how 300 00:23:25,075 --> 00:23:28,795 Speaker 1: smart he is and how smart he thinks he is 301 00:23:29,155 --> 00:23:34,795 Speaker 1: might be Olympic level. For instance, one of Steve Bannon's thugs. 302 00:23:34,915 --> 00:23:39,155 Speaker 1: His CFO, Grace Chong, did a drive by tweet attacking 303 00:23:39,195 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: various Republican senators for not showing up to a vote 304 00:23:42,315 --> 00:23:44,955 Speaker 1: in which President Biden got some of his late judicial 305 00:23:44,955 --> 00:23:49,355 Speaker 1: appointments approved. If you've forgotten Vance is a Republican senator, 306 00:23:49,595 --> 00:23:51,875 Speaker 1: I mean at times clearly Vance had forgotten he was 307 00:23:51,915 --> 00:23:55,395 Speaker 1: a senator, and one of the senators Chong attack was 308 00:23:55,475 --> 00:23:58,555 Speaker 1: JV Vance, and JV Vank not happy he decided to 309 00:23:58,595 --> 00:24:02,035 Speaker 1: try to flame her. Grace Chong, he wrote, is a 310 00:24:02,115 --> 00:24:05,755 Speaker 1: mouth breathing imbecile who attacked those of us in the 311 00:24:05,795 --> 00:24:09,395 Speaker 1: fight rather than make herself useful. If I had shown 312 00:24:09,475 --> 00:24:11,555 Speaker 1: up to the vote in question, the nominee would have 313 00:24:11,595 --> 00:24:14,275 Speaker 1: succeeded forty nine to forty six rather than forty nine 314 00:24:14,315 --> 00:24:19,075 Speaker 1: to forty five. Guests who has deleted this tweet? Firstly, 315 00:24:19,155 --> 00:24:22,155 Speaker 1: he attacked Steve Bannon's person bluntly. No matter what it 316 00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:26,475 Speaker 1: looks like, Trump is programmed by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, 317 00:24:26,955 --> 00:24:29,875 Speaker 1: So you don't attack Bannon's gun mall or whatever she is. 318 00:24:30,435 --> 00:24:33,395 Speaker 1: Mouth breathing imbecile is also pretty rich from a guy 319 00:24:33,675 --> 00:24:37,355 Speaker 1: with no achievements or accomplishments in life besides money and 320 00:24:37,435 --> 00:24:41,395 Speaker 1: hate and sucking up to Trump. But more importantly was 321 00:24:41,435 --> 00:24:44,075 Speaker 1: the start of that second paragraph and eight words about 322 00:24:44,155 --> 00:24:48,315 Speaker 1: himself that will live in infamy. If I had shown 323 00:24:48,435 --> 00:24:51,275 Speaker 1: up to the vote in question or the shorter version, 324 00:24:51,595 --> 00:24:55,875 Speaker 1: if I had shown up, what's the cliche, ninety percent 325 00:24:55,915 --> 00:24:59,675 Speaker 1: of success is just showing up. Put it on JV's tombstone. 326 00:25:00,195 --> 00:25:04,475 Speaker 1: If I had shown up, but our winner, and she 327 00:25:04,795 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: is still ahead of vance on the Dunning Kruger scoreboard. 328 00:25:07,595 --> 00:25:12,875 Speaker 1: She's a Hall of Famer. Marjorie Taylor Barney rubble dead 329 00:25:12,955 --> 00:25:16,115 Speaker 1: ringer for the Chro Magnon woman wax model that's been 330 00:25:16,155 --> 00:25:20,155 Speaker 1: on display at a museum in France since twenty fourteen. Green, 331 00:25:21,595 --> 00:25:23,515 Speaker 1: you may have heard the mask is now off on 332 00:25:23,595 --> 00:25:26,155 Speaker 1: the whole. We don't hate transgendered people. We just don't 333 00:25:26,195 --> 00:25:29,635 Speaker 1: want them playing in girls sports thing. No, no, they 334 00:25:29,715 --> 00:25:32,555 Speaker 1: hate them, They hate them all and they refuse to 335 00:25:32,555 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: recognize them, and next they'll be putting them in jail. 336 00:25:35,915 --> 00:25:41,155 Speaker 1: Which was always true, because there are what fifty transitioned 337 00:25:41,195 --> 00:25:44,755 Speaker 1: women or girls playing scholastic sports in this country, and 338 00:25:44,875 --> 00:25:47,955 Speaker 1: your daughter the hoops star is far more likely to 339 00:25:47,995 --> 00:25:52,075 Speaker 1: be hit by lightning during a game twice than she 340 00:25:52,235 --> 00:25:56,355 Speaker 1: is to ever face a transitioned athlete. Speaker of the 341 00:25:56,395 --> 00:25:59,075 Speaker 1: House Johnson flat out said a man cannot become a woman, 342 00:25:59,075 --> 00:26:01,155 Speaker 1: and a woman cannot become a man, raising the interesting 343 00:26:01,235 --> 00:26:03,635 Speaker 1: question of why they let Mike Johnson use the men's 344 00:26:03,675 --> 00:26:06,515 Speaker 1: room at least around Trump. He has no balls of 345 00:26:06,515 --> 00:26:12,115 Speaker 1: any kind. Congresswoman Nancy, sorry, I'm late for the prayer breakfast. Senator, 346 00:26:12,195 --> 00:26:14,355 Speaker 1: let me tell you about the morning sexual advances. I 347 00:26:14,395 --> 00:26:17,955 Speaker 1: fend it off in bed just now. Mace insisted on 348 00:26:18,075 --> 00:26:22,755 Speaker 1: legislation to prevent the newly elected transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride 349 00:26:22,995 --> 00:26:25,995 Speaker 1: from using the women's bathrooms at the Capitol, because, as 350 00:26:26,075 --> 00:26:28,875 Speaker 1: you know, the Republicans use up all their brain power 351 00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:32,595 Speaker 1: on two topics, and two topics alone, One how can 352 00:26:32,635 --> 00:26:35,915 Speaker 1: I suck up to Trump? And two I must concentrate 353 00:26:36,315 --> 00:26:42,395 Speaker 1: on the genitalia of children and transgendered people. But at 354 00:26:42,395 --> 00:26:46,555 Speaker 1: the same time, Marge Green as always took it a 355 00:26:46,595 --> 00:26:51,755 Speaker 1: little further as far as personality disorders and sundry impairments 356 00:26:51,835 --> 00:26:56,435 Speaker 1: could take her. Politico reported quote she made some remarks 357 00:26:56,475 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: in conference about fighting a transgender woman if she comes 358 00:27:00,635 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: across them in the bathroom, per two sources, I'll just 359 00:27:04,275 --> 00:27:08,595 Speaker 1: say that again. She made some remarks in conference about 360 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:12,195 Speaker 1: fighting a transgender woman if she comes across them in 361 00:27:12,235 --> 00:27:16,635 Speaker 1: the bathroom. When asked about this, she didn't explicitly confirm 362 00:27:16,675 --> 00:27:20,715 Speaker 1: the remarks, but said, I shouldn't have to hate. It's 363 00:27:20,715 --> 00:27:24,075 Speaker 1: pretty aggressive for biological men to be invading our spaces. 364 00:27:24,715 --> 00:27:30,035 Speaker 1: Green added, and then added, my god, my god, my god, 365 00:27:30,075 --> 00:27:31,875 Speaker 1: my god, Marge Green, who's going to try to physically 366 00:27:31,875 --> 00:27:35,515 Speaker 1: attack a transgendered woman? And after years of insisting that 367 00:27:35,595 --> 00:27:40,595 Speaker 1: they would all destroy biologically born girls playing girls' sports, 368 00:27:40,635 --> 00:27:43,675 Speaker 1: Marge somehow thinks she isn't going to get the shit 369 00:27:43,755 --> 00:27:46,355 Speaker 1: beaten out of her. Oh my god. You ever seen 370 00:27:46,355 --> 00:27:49,115 Speaker 1: the movie The World According to gar Marge? Have you? 371 00:27:49,955 --> 00:27:52,595 Speaker 1: Robin Williams, Glenn Close. It's got a lot of flaws, 372 00:27:52,835 --> 00:27:55,835 Speaker 1: but John Lithgow's performance and it earned him an Oscar nomination. 373 00:27:56,035 --> 00:27:59,955 Speaker 1: He plays ROBERTA. Muldoon, who becomes a protector for the 374 00:27:59,995 --> 00:28:04,075 Speaker 1: feminist hero played by Glenn Close. Of course, Muldoon used 375 00:28:04,075 --> 00:28:07,435 Speaker 1: to be Robert Muldoon, tight end to Philadelphia Eagles, who 376 00:28:07,435 --> 00:28:10,755 Speaker 1: occasionally muses in the film about how she had a 377 00:28:10,795 --> 00:28:14,435 Speaker 1: great set of hands. Let's go as spectacular in this 378 00:28:14,595 --> 00:28:19,195 Speaker 1: role even forty years later, it's hilarious and touching and topical. 379 00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:23,595 Speaker 1: Even when Glenn Close's character is threatened at Lithgo flies 380 00:28:23,635 --> 00:28:25,955 Speaker 1: in with an illegal chop block right out of the 381 00:28:26,035 --> 00:28:29,035 Speaker 1: National Football League that leaves the man unable to walk, 382 00:28:29,475 --> 00:28:32,835 Speaker 1: and she gives a shrug. And after I read what 383 00:28:32,955 --> 00:28:36,075 Speaker 1: this bigoted chromagnum Green set, I just thought, how great 384 00:28:36,075 --> 00:28:39,075 Speaker 1: would it be for Marge Green to walk into the 385 00:28:39,075 --> 00:28:42,635 Speaker 1: house women's bathroom and confront a tall, transgendered woman and 386 00:28:42,715 --> 00:28:46,995 Speaker 1: threaten her, only to have the woman say, Hi, I'm ROBERTA. Muldoon. 387 00:28:47,035 --> 00:28:48,995 Speaker 1: I used to be the tight end of the Philadelphia Eagles, 388 00:28:49,075 --> 00:28:53,235 Speaker 1: number ninety. Robert Muldoon I had a great set of hands. 389 00:28:54,835 --> 00:28:59,915 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green inviting herself to get the crap kicked 390 00:28:59,955 --> 00:29:04,115 Speaker 1: out of her by other women in the bathroom. Two days, 391 00:29:05,195 --> 00:29:28,635 Speaker 1: worst person and no monniest doggone thing. A week ago today, 392 00:29:28,795 --> 00:29:31,955 Speaker 1: I began this podcast by quoting the line from The Simpsons, 393 00:29:32,115 --> 00:29:36,635 Speaker 1: the satirical line from the newscaster Kent Brockman, I, for one, 394 00:29:36,715 --> 00:29:42,995 Speaker 1: welcome our new insect overlords. Then this past Monday, Joe 395 00:29:43,035 --> 00:29:46,995 Speaker 1: Scarborough and his latest wife began their morning chat show 396 00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:52,435 Speaker 1: on MSNBC with a simpering, cowardly transparent words salad that 397 00:29:52,515 --> 00:29:55,995 Speaker 1: might as well have literally been we for two, welcome 398 00:29:56,035 --> 00:30:01,115 Speaker 1: our new insect overlords. Only that would have been funny. 399 00:30:03,555 --> 00:30:05,635 Speaker 1: Let me again mention that, in half a century of 400 00:30:05,715 --> 00:30:09,555 Speaker 1: working in newsrooms ranging from international ones to high school ones, 401 00:30:09,755 --> 00:30:16,635 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough is easily the worst person I have ever known. Easily. 402 00:30:17,355 --> 00:30:20,915 Speaker 1: And I worked with David Letterman's blackmailer, and I worked 403 00:30:20,915 --> 00:30:25,235 Speaker 1: with a guy who later extorted George Steinbrenner and threatened 404 00:30:25,275 --> 00:30:30,555 Speaker 1: to break his legs. Joe Scarborough is better than either 405 00:30:30,595 --> 00:30:36,235 Speaker 1: of them. He is unique the lack of morals, of principles, 406 00:30:36,235 --> 00:30:39,715 Speaker 1: of scruples. That's not the result of a fractured brain 407 00:30:40,515 --> 00:30:44,475 Speaker 1: like say Trump. It's not the result of money needs 408 00:30:44,555 --> 00:30:47,315 Speaker 1: like the guy who blackmailed Letterman or the guy who 409 00:30:47,355 --> 00:30:52,555 Speaker 1: extorted Steinbrenner. It's a tool Scarborough uses, and he has 410 00:30:52,715 --> 00:30:56,195 Speaker 1: used for at least twenty five years. Joe Scarborough was 411 00:30:56,235 --> 00:31:00,155 Speaker 1: a newt gangrich whore. Then he became a far right 412 00:31:00,315 --> 00:31:05,795 Speaker 1: pro torture O'Reilly wannabee. Then he was the supply reasonable 413 00:31:05,795 --> 00:31:10,115 Speaker 1: conservative who's on air persona covered up his endless internal 414 00:31:10,195 --> 00:31:13,075 Speaker 1: sabotage of everybody who was better than him at NBC. 415 00:31:13,955 --> 00:31:17,595 Speaker 1: Then he was the moderate political salon host in the mornings. 416 00:31:17,675 --> 00:31:20,115 Speaker 1: Then he was the guy who tried to mainstream Trump 417 00:31:20,395 --> 00:31:24,515 Speaker 1: and literally traveled to Trump to advise him, and was 418 00:31:24,555 --> 00:31:29,475 Speaker 1: Trump's guy on real TV. And then when Trump didn't 419 00:31:29,555 --> 00:31:32,835 Speaker 1: choose him to be vice president, Scarborough decided the real 420 00:31:32,915 --> 00:31:35,715 Speaker 1: money was in bashing Trump, and so he turned on 421 00:31:35,795 --> 00:31:37,675 Speaker 1: him and bashed him and bashed him and bashed him 422 00:31:37,715 --> 00:31:41,435 Speaker 1: and called him hitler more than a year ago. And 423 00:31:41,515 --> 00:31:42,915 Speaker 1: when he called him hitler, it was the first time 424 00:31:42,915 --> 00:31:45,115 Speaker 1: I'd ever agreed with Joey scars But I knew in 425 00:31:45,155 --> 00:31:48,555 Speaker 1: my god, he was just selling another product. See, there 426 00:31:48,595 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: are people who went confronted in their lives by Nazis 427 00:31:52,755 --> 00:31:58,355 Speaker 1: suddenly find themselves choosing to join the government of VC France. 428 00:31:59,315 --> 00:32:05,755 Speaker 1: That's Jeff Bezos. That's not Joe Scarborough. Joe Scarborough has 429 00:32:05,795 --> 00:32:10,315 Speaker 1: always been a VSHI in search of Nazis to serve. 430 00:32:11,915 --> 00:32:17,155 Speaker 1: And after seven years, he'd actually managed to erase his past. 431 00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:20,555 Speaker 1: He'd virtually erased from his audience's memory any sense that 432 00:32:20,635 --> 00:32:24,355 Speaker 1: he tried to ram Trump down America's throat in twenty sixteen, 433 00:32:25,155 --> 00:32:27,515 Speaker 1: and then suddenly Monday, he was announcing he and Mika 434 00:32:27,555 --> 00:32:31,035 Speaker 1: Brazhinsky had gone to Mari Lago to try to open 435 00:32:31,075 --> 00:32:33,795 Speaker 1: a dialogue with Trump, and he then produced an amazing, 436 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:38,835 Speaker 1: imaginary moronic dialogue in which somebody else asked him, why 437 00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:41,835 Speaker 1: the hell would you do that? With the ludicrous answer, 438 00:32:42,075 --> 00:32:45,875 Speaker 1: why the hell wouldn't you. The rhetorical answer to that, 439 00:32:45,915 --> 00:32:48,955 Speaker 1: of course, was contained in Mika Brzhinsky's part of this speech, 440 00:32:49,235 --> 00:32:52,155 Speaker 1: which was as close to an actual hostage video as 441 00:32:52,195 --> 00:32:56,595 Speaker 1: I have ever seen on actual television. The practical answer is, 442 00:32:56,635 --> 00:32:58,635 Speaker 1: of course, you don't do that, because then you have 443 00:32:58,755 --> 00:33:04,235 Speaker 1: just turned your network into collaborators. If he's Hitler and 444 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:06,515 Speaker 1: you are an now saying we must make a deal 445 00:33:06,555 --> 00:33:11,235 Speaker 1: with him, you are VC MSNBC, and everybody who works 446 00:33:11,275 --> 00:33:17,155 Speaker 1: there who does not say this is VC MSNBC is 447 00:33:17,395 --> 00:33:24,755 Speaker 1: just as guilty Rachel. Anyway, there are three plausible explanations 448 00:33:25,035 --> 00:33:29,595 Speaker 1: I guess equal plausibility for this. I'm not sure which 449 00:33:29,635 --> 00:33:32,515 Speaker 1: is true. I'm not sure it matters. One NBC and 450 00:33:32,675 --> 00:33:36,235 Speaker 1: MSNBC looked at the post election Kamala Harris Saturday Night 451 00:33:36,275 --> 00:33:39,995 Speaker 1: Live blowback and the post election ratings, and since the 452 00:33:40,035 --> 00:33:42,595 Speaker 1: networks are run by people who do not understand news 453 00:33:42,635 --> 00:33:46,435 Speaker 1: or political news, and barely understand television, they panicked and 454 00:33:46,515 --> 00:33:50,795 Speaker 1: told him to do it. Or Scarborough looked at the 455 00:33:50,915 --> 00:33:53,675 Speaker 1: ratings and being exactly as stupid as his bosses, he 456 00:33:53,795 --> 00:33:58,155 Speaker 1: panicked and did it himself. Or as CNN reported Tuesday, 457 00:33:58,195 --> 00:34:01,195 Speaker 1: he and the misses genuinely assessed the threats by Trump 458 00:34:01,195 --> 00:34:03,555 Speaker 1: and decided they were vulnerable and they'd have to do 459 00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:06,995 Speaker 1: something to assuage Trump. And of course just going there 460 00:34:06,995 --> 00:34:12,355 Speaker 1: and saying zay, that would hardly do it. But if 461 00:34:12,395 --> 00:34:16,195 Speaker 1: they also told Trump, we'll go back to sinewashing your presidency, 462 00:34:16,435 --> 00:34:19,515 Speaker 1: only they didn't tell the audience that well that that 463 00:34:19,555 --> 00:34:22,675 Speaker 1: would make more sense. That would be pure cowardice. Of course, 464 00:34:22,755 --> 00:34:26,035 Speaker 1: it's the actual plot of George Orwell's nineteen eighty four. 465 00:34:26,955 --> 00:34:29,715 Speaker 1: Maybe that last one makes slightly more sense now in 466 00:34:29,795 --> 00:34:32,115 Speaker 1: light of Tuesday night's news that NBC is going to 467 00:34:32,155 --> 00:34:36,955 Speaker 1: spin off its news cable operations, finally separating the dead 468 00:34:36,995 --> 00:34:41,195 Speaker 1: weight of NBC News from what might still grow MSNBC 469 00:34:41,355 --> 00:34:44,195 Speaker 1: and CNBC. I begged them to do this as far 470 00:34:44,275 --> 00:34:49,035 Speaker 1: back as nineteen ninety seven. For God's sakes. Also, you're 471 00:34:49,075 --> 00:34:51,355 Speaker 1: a listener to this podcast, and I'm the guy who 472 00:34:51,395 --> 00:34:54,235 Speaker 1: writes it and reads it. The last few weeks, I 473 00:34:54,235 --> 00:34:56,315 Speaker 1: haven't felt like writing it and reading it, and you 474 00:34:56,355 --> 00:34:58,435 Speaker 1: haven't felt like listening to it, or at least not 475 00:34:58,515 --> 00:35:04,315 Speaker 1: as much. We're in mourning, we're in husbanding your resources mode, 476 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:07,115 Speaker 1: we're in recovery. Of course, the ratings are going to 477 00:35:07,195 --> 00:35:09,915 Speaker 1: be bad. Go look at Fox News' ratings at the 478 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:13,515 Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty and most of twenty twenty one. 479 00:35:13,555 --> 00:35:16,035 Speaker 1: Did they fire everybody and suddenly wind up with a 480 00:35:16,115 --> 00:35:21,675 Speaker 1: Joe Biden show in the morning? No, be professionals take 481 00:35:21,715 --> 00:35:25,155 Speaker 1: the loss. Oh your NBC. Oh MSNBC's only going to 482 00:35:25,195 --> 00:35:29,315 Speaker 1: make a quarter of a billion dollars. Oh, I'm so sorry. 483 00:35:30,195 --> 00:35:32,275 Speaker 1: People should be killed for that, right, isn't that the 484 00:35:32,355 --> 00:35:39,035 Speaker 1: law now? Back at the Joey Scars level? The problem 485 00:35:39,195 --> 00:35:44,395 Speaker 1: is the problems are Scarborough already burned down his anti 486 00:35:44,435 --> 00:35:49,115 Speaker 1: Trump audience in twenty fifteen and early twenty sixteen. Then 487 00:35:49,555 --> 00:35:53,155 Speaker 1: he burned down his new pro Trump audience in twenty 488 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:56,795 Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty seventeen and all the years since, and 489 00:35:56,875 --> 00:36:01,635 Speaker 1: now he's gone back and burned down his anti Trump audience. Again, 490 00:36:03,075 --> 00:36:07,995 Speaker 1: there's nobody left. The right never stopped hating him. The left, 491 00:36:07,995 --> 00:36:11,035 Speaker 1: which had just started to forget he was in Trump's 492 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:14,235 Speaker 1: pocket for a year, hates him anew and now is 493 00:36:14,275 --> 00:36:17,195 Speaker 1: seeing that picture of him and Trump's standing there with 494 00:36:17,235 --> 00:36:21,275 Speaker 1: that idiotic thumb up their ass pose, which I keep 495 00:36:21,355 --> 00:36:26,875 Speaker 1: tweeting every day. Just a coincidence. Joe resolved this dilemma, 496 00:36:27,315 --> 00:36:30,915 Speaker 1: namely that nobody wants to watch him anymore or go 497 00:36:30,995 --> 00:36:33,835 Speaker 1: on his show by simply pretending none of it is true, 498 00:36:34,155 --> 00:36:37,235 Speaker 1: and that everybody supports him and anybody who disagrees with 499 00:36:37,315 --> 00:36:41,195 Speaker 1: him is disconnected from reality. And we have always been 500 00:36:41,235 --> 00:36:45,435 Speaker 1: at war with these dangsia. The other problem is Joe 501 00:36:45,475 --> 00:36:48,795 Speaker 1: Scarborough is a terrible person who has always thought he 502 00:36:48,835 --> 00:36:52,355 Speaker 1: could get away with it, often did, always thought he 503 00:36:52,355 --> 00:36:56,635 Speaker 1: could blame somebody else, and has always done stuff exactly 504 00:36:56,875 --> 00:36:59,835 Speaker 1: like this. And I'll get to that in a moment. 505 00:37:00,355 --> 00:37:03,195 Speaker 1: First reminding you of the principal problem by having Nancy 506 00:37:03,235 --> 00:37:07,795 Speaker 1: Faust remind you, just cause you call a guy hitler, 507 00:37:09,195 --> 00:37:12,195 Speaker 1: maybe it didn't mean that hitler, Maybe it meant the 508 00:37:12,395 --> 00:37:17,315 Speaker 1: other Hitler, the singing Hitler, the dancing Hitler, the Hitler 509 00:37:17,355 --> 00:37:54,795 Speaker 1: with a song in his heart, Oh Nancy. Perhaps the 510 00:37:54,835 --> 00:37:58,195 Speaker 1: most amazing thing about my ten years at MSNBC was 511 00:37:58,235 --> 00:38:02,475 Speaker 1: the fact that Joe Scarborough and his producers, especially his 512 00:38:02,635 --> 00:38:06,555 Speaker 1: chief henchman, ever got their own show on the air. 513 00:38:06,875 --> 00:38:11,035 Speaker 1: Because nobody I have ever worked with in radio or television, 514 00:38:11,395 --> 00:38:14,595 Speaker 1: in sports or news in the twentieth century or the 515 00:38:14,635 --> 00:38:19,155 Speaker 1: twenty first ever spent more time trying to screw with 516 00:38:19,315 --> 00:38:23,195 Speaker 1: other programs on the same network than did Joe Scarborough. 517 00:38:23,995 --> 00:38:27,075 Speaker 1: And until just about the time I left in twenty eleven, 518 00:38:27,435 --> 00:38:29,595 Speaker 1: the guy he sent in to do most of the 519 00:38:29,635 --> 00:38:34,355 Speaker 1: sabotage for him was this henchman guy. The reason this 520 00:38:34,355 --> 00:38:39,035 Speaker 1: should matter to you now is Scarborough's henchman was Chris Licked, 521 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:42,315 Speaker 1: the new president of CNN. And if they scoured the 522 00:38:42,395 --> 00:38:46,675 Speaker 1: nation to find the worst person to run CNN in 523 00:38:46,755 --> 00:38:50,195 Speaker 1: a time when democracy is threatened by one political party 524 00:38:50,435 --> 00:38:55,595 Speaker 1: and tepidly defended by another, it's Chris Licked. I know, 525 00:38:55,755 --> 00:38:57,635 Speaker 1: I know. You turn on the TV and you see 526 00:38:57,675 --> 00:39:02,995 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, and you see exactly what I see. A blank, dazed, darting, paranoid, 527 00:39:03,195 --> 00:39:08,315 Speaker 1: no soul, stoopid bid check engine light. Look. But if 528 00:39:08,315 --> 00:39:12,075 Speaker 1: you don't trust me, trust my scars. My Joey Scars 529 00:39:12,875 --> 00:39:19,515 Speaker 1: behind that vapid face is a master saboteur. Early in 530 00:39:19,515 --> 00:39:21,595 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, the late Tim Russert called me 531 00:39:21,635 --> 00:39:24,235 Speaker 1: and warned me that the GOP had upped its pressure 532 00:39:24,315 --> 00:39:26,755 Speaker 1: on me. He said he had heard from somebody in 533 00:39:26,795 --> 00:39:29,995 Speaker 1: New York that somebody in New York was going into 534 00:39:30,035 --> 00:39:32,195 Speaker 1: the office of the president of NBC News saying that 535 00:39:32,275 --> 00:39:35,835 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough couldn't get his friend John McCain to come 536 00:39:35,875 --> 00:39:39,155 Speaker 1: on to his new Morning show because I was so 537 00:39:39,275 --> 00:39:42,795 Speaker 1: critical of McCain on Countdown. Tim was not sure it 538 00:39:42,835 --> 00:39:46,155 Speaker 1: was Scarborough, but if it wasn't, who else could have 539 00:39:46,195 --> 00:39:49,435 Speaker 1: gotten in to see the president of NBC News other 540 00:39:49,515 --> 00:39:54,395 Speaker 1: than Scarborough or his executive producer. The evidence for the 541 00:39:54,435 --> 00:39:57,955 Speaker 1: new CNN president, mister Lickt, being directly involved in interfering 542 00:39:57,995 --> 00:40:01,475 Speaker 1: with programming to benefit somebody else's friends or political cronies, 543 00:40:01,955 --> 00:40:04,475 Speaker 1: was vague in two thousand and eight, but not at 544 00:40:04,475 --> 00:40:09,115 Speaker 1: all two years later. Early in January twenty ten, the 545 00:40:09,155 --> 00:40:11,715 Speaker 1: Republican candidate to fill the Senate seat of a late 546 00:40:11,835 --> 00:40:16,915 Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown, the former semi nude model, was 547 00:40:16,955 --> 00:40:19,835 Speaker 1: at a rally when one of his supporters talked about 548 00:40:19,955 --> 00:40:23,675 Speaker 1: quote shoving a curling iron up the backside of the 549 00:40:23,675 --> 00:40:28,315 Speaker 1: Democratic Senate candidate Martha Cokeley. Scott Brown clearly heard the 550 00:40:28,355 --> 00:40:31,355 Speaker 1: remark from the crowd and responded, quote, we could do that. 551 00:40:32,555 --> 00:40:35,475 Speaker 1: On January eighteenth, on Countdown, I did a brief commentary 552 00:40:35,515 --> 00:40:38,315 Speaker 1: about how unsuitable Brown was for public office. I said 553 00:40:38,355 --> 00:40:43,875 Speaker 1: he was quote an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex nude model, 554 00:40:44,155 --> 00:40:48,115 Speaker 1: t bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians 555 00:40:48,155 --> 00:40:52,235 Speaker 1: with whom he disagrees unquote. I had quotes from Brown. 556 00:40:52,675 --> 00:40:55,875 Speaker 1: I had videotape of him disparaging his minority opponent in 557 00:40:55,955 --> 00:40:59,315 Speaker 1: a local election to her face at a debate. To 558 00:40:59,435 --> 00:41:03,875 Speaker 1: back up what I said. An hour later, Joe Scarborough 559 00:41:03,875 --> 00:41:07,915 Speaker 1: commenced a sweet storm against me. Quote Lberman calls Brown 560 00:41:07,955 --> 00:41:12,515 Speaker 1: a homophobic, racist reactionary who supports violence against women. How 561 00:41:12,635 --> 00:41:16,635 Speaker 1: reckless and how sad It's no longer enough to simply 562 00:41:16,675 --> 00:41:19,435 Speaker 1: disagree with someone. I'm sorry, I just fell into my 563 00:41:19,475 --> 00:41:22,995 Speaker 1: Scarborough impression. Just as when Beck called a president racist, 564 00:41:23,515 --> 00:41:27,915 Speaker 1: This sort of rhetorical extremism must be discouraged. It chapened 565 00:41:27,955 --> 00:41:33,275 Speaker 1: the debate end, quote and impression. Now, there was a 566 00:41:33,275 --> 00:41:37,275 Speaker 1: standing rule at MSNBC. You want to criticize another MSNBC personality, 567 00:41:37,715 --> 00:41:42,475 Speaker 1: go ahead, have a blast, but it must be on 568 00:41:42,635 --> 00:41:45,355 Speaker 1: the air on MSNBC, and the other person must have 569 00:41:45,395 --> 00:41:49,155 Speaker 1: an opportunity to reply in real time, in the same show, 570 00:41:49,315 --> 00:41:51,755 Speaker 1: or in some kind of face to face way. No 571 00:41:52,515 --> 00:41:57,795 Speaker 1: hit and run, no Joe Scarborough tweet storms. If you 572 00:41:57,875 --> 00:42:00,395 Speaker 1: criticize them by name or by inference in any other 573 00:42:00,475 --> 00:42:03,995 Speaker 1: medium newspaper, interview, radio, social media, you were to receive 574 00:42:04,035 --> 00:42:08,475 Speaker 1: an automatic suspension. The next day, January nineteenth, I called 575 00:42:08,475 --> 00:42:11,235 Speaker 1: the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, and I asked how 576 00:42:11,315 --> 00:42:15,995 Speaker 1: long Joe Scarborough's automatic suspension was going to be. Griffin 577 00:42:16,315 --> 00:42:18,395 Speaker 1: asked me to come in to the office a little 578 00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:21,955 Speaker 1: earlier than usual and to go see him. He said 579 00:42:21,995 --> 00:42:23,835 Speaker 1: he had already had a meeting about the tweets that 580 00:42:23,875 --> 00:42:29,955 Speaker 1: morning with Scarborough's executive producer, Chris licht. Griffin explained that Scarborough, 581 00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:36,275 Speaker 1: according to Lickt, considered Scott Brown a friend. More importantly, 582 00:42:36,355 --> 00:42:38,915 Speaker 1: Chris Lickt warned Griffin that if Griffin followed through and 583 00:42:39,035 --> 00:42:43,075 Speaker 1: enforced the suspension rule, Scarborough would have no other option 584 00:42:43,195 --> 00:42:46,915 Speaker 1: than to go to the press and tell reporters, especially 585 00:42:46,995 --> 00:42:51,155 Speaker 1: reporters at right wing websites like Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller, 586 00:42:52,235 --> 00:42:55,355 Speaker 1: that he Scarborough had been suspended because he Scarborough was 587 00:42:55,395 --> 00:43:00,515 Speaker 1: a conservative, but I was a liberal and that I 588 00:43:00,555 --> 00:43:06,355 Speaker 1: and not Phil Griffin ran MSNBC. What can I do? 589 00:43:07,235 --> 00:43:10,915 Speaker 1: Griffin was scared. I told him he could fire Scarborough 590 00:43:10,915 --> 00:43:13,555 Speaker 1: and Licked because they had just tried to blackmail him, 591 00:43:13,675 --> 00:43:15,635 Speaker 1: and eventually he was going to have to fire them 592 00:43:15,635 --> 00:43:17,995 Speaker 1: both anyway, but that I knew he would not do this, 593 00:43:18,315 --> 00:43:20,395 Speaker 1: and that I knew now that he would not suspend 594 00:43:20,435 --> 00:43:24,675 Speaker 1: Scarborough either, And Griffin did not suspend him. Partial score 595 00:43:24,755 --> 00:43:32,075 Speaker 1: Scarborough's friends two MSNBC's rules of behavior nothing, but Phil 596 00:43:32,075 --> 00:43:35,355 Speaker 1: Griffin did send out a memo to the entire company 597 00:43:35,395 --> 00:43:39,395 Speaker 1: insisting that anybody who criticized another MSNBC show or host 598 00:43:39,675 --> 00:43:43,995 Speaker 1: in another medium would be suspended, except Scarborough, who had 599 00:43:44,035 --> 00:43:47,195 Speaker 1: just done exactly that and then threatened his own employers. 600 00:43:48,515 --> 00:43:52,515 Speaker 1: On January twenty fifth, Brian Stelter's old blog TV newser 601 00:43:52,555 --> 00:43:55,875 Speaker 1: got a copy of Griffin's memo. They wondered why Scarborough 602 00:43:55,915 --> 00:43:59,195 Speaker 1: had not been suspended, so they called the MSNBC president 603 00:43:59,235 --> 00:44:02,555 Speaker 1: and they printed quote Griffin responds to TV news or 604 00:44:02,675 --> 00:44:06,515 Speaker 1: quote an important rule was broken. I spoke to Keith 605 00:44:06,555 --> 00:44:09,155 Speaker 1: and he said, in the spirit of teamwork and the 606 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:12,875 Speaker 1: free flow of ideas, he didn't think it warranted punishment 607 00:44:12,955 --> 00:44:16,395 Speaker 1: or suspension. I also talked to Joe and he apologized 608 00:44:16,555 --> 00:44:19,915 Speaker 1: to me. That's why I made the decision that this 609 00:44:19,955 --> 00:44:22,195 Speaker 1: didn't rise to the level of punishment. But I felt 610 00:44:22,195 --> 00:44:26,195 Speaker 1: it was necessary to reiterate my long standing policy one 611 00:44:26,235 --> 00:44:29,555 Speaker 1: hundred percent bull crap. Reiterate my long standing policy which 612 00:44:29,555 --> 00:44:32,195 Speaker 1: I just did not enforce against Joe Scarborough. The whole 613 00:44:32,195 --> 00:44:35,675 Speaker 1: thing was totally fabricated. Lickt and Scarborough had threatened to 614 00:44:35,755 --> 00:44:39,555 Speaker 1: smear their own bosses in the right wing echo chamber. 615 00:44:40,635 --> 00:44:43,795 Speaker 1: Should have been both fired on the spot. In May 616 00:44:43,795 --> 00:44:46,955 Speaker 1: twenty ten, Scarborough said something on the air about a 617 00:44:46,995 --> 00:44:50,595 Speaker 1: Democrat getting away with not being investigated for something. I 618 00:44:50,715 --> 00:44:52,875 Speaker 1: forget the details. I didn't bother to look it up. 619 00:44:52,915 --> 00:44:56,875 Speaker 1: You can if you want. Then. Marcos Malitsus, the editor 620 00:44:56,875 --> 00:44:59,275 Speaker 1: of the Daily Coast website, and not just a regular 621 00:44:59,315 --> 00:45:02,355 Speaker 1: contributor to Countdown, but somebody who had been promoting the 622 00:45:02,435 --> 00:45:05,955 Speaker 1: show and the MSNBC brand on that website every day 623 00:45:05,995 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: for five years. Marcos sent a snarky but legitimate tweet 624 00:45:10,795 --> 00:45:14,355 Speaker 1: questioning Scarborough's credentials to criticize others who had not been 625 00:45:14,395 --> 00:45:18,555 Speaker 1: investigated for stuff, Marcos invoked the staffer who died in 626 00:45:18,595 --> 00:45:23,635 Speaker 1: an accident in Joe Scarborough's congressional office. Scarborough then attacked 627 00:45:23,715 --> 00:45:28,995 Speaker 1: Melitsus on Twitter inaccurately claiming Malitzus had accused Scarborough of murder. 628 00:45:30,555 --> 00:45:32,395 Speaker 1: A few days after that, I got a phone call 629 00:45:32,435 --> 00:45:34,795 Speaker 1: from the MSNBC president, Phil Griffin. And if he got 630 00:45:34,795 --> 00:45:36,595 Speaker 1: a phone call rather than a call to come into 631 00:45:36,675 --> 00:45:40,195 Speaker 1: his office, you know he was really scared. Griffin told me. 632 00:45:40,595 --> 00:45:42,915 Speaker 1: Chris lickt has been in to see me. Joe won't 633 00:45:42,915 --> 00:45:45,995 Speaker 1: put up with having Marcus Mlitzus on his network anymore. 634 00:45:46,555 --> 00:45:49,275 Speaker 1: Not only that, but Lick says many of Joe's friends 635 00:45:49,915 --> 00:45:53,355 Speaker 1: who also appear in Dayside and Primetime won't come on 636 00:45:53,835 --> 00:45:59,515 Speaker 1: if Marcos Malitsus is permitted to continue here. Chris is 637 00:45:59,595 --> 00:46:04,035 Speaker 1: insisting that Marcos be banned from MSNBC immediately. Chris says 638 00:46:04,035 --> 00:46:06,275 Speaker 1: he's afraid that if we don't do that, Joe won't 639 00:46:06,315 --> 00:46:10,115 Speaker 1: come into work tomorrow. Upon hearing that, I laughed and 640 00:46:10,155 --> 00:46:13,315 Speaker 1: I congratulated Phil Griffin on the clear win win he'd 641 00:46:13,395 --> 00:46:17,755 Speaker 1: just been given. But Phil was very bad at enforcing 642 00:46:17,915 --> 00:46:21,675 Speaker 1: MSNBC's rules, but very good at creating new ones on 643 00:46:21,755 --> 00:46:25,315 Speaker 1: the spot. To protect Joe Scarborough and Chris Lickt and 644 00:46:25,395 --> 00:46:29,595 Speaker 1: their friends, I'm banning the Litzes from any further appearances 645 00:46:29,595 --> 00:46:33,155 Speaker 1: on MSNBC, I said, Phil, he's a contributor to my show. 646 00:46:33,835 --> 00:46:37,955 Speaker 1: You are suspending my contributor who has driven hundreds of 647 00:46:38,035 --> 00:46:41,595 Speaker 1: thousands of viewers to count Down at MSNBC, and I 648 00:46:41,635 --> 00:46:44,995 Speaker 1: don't have any say in it. You are owned by 649 00:46:45,075 --> 00:46:48,035 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and Chris Lickt. What you now have to 650 00:46:48,035 --> 00:46:49,675 Speaker 1: worry about is whether I tell this story on the 651 00:46:49,675 --> 00:46:52,035 Speaker 1: air tonight or I just wait and tell it later. 652 00:46:53,635 --> 00:46:57,075 Speaker 1: Phil now got conciliatory because he was scared again and 653 00:46:57,195 --> 00:47:00,955 Speaker 1: said it could be just a suspension if I cooperated, 654 00:47:01,875 --> 00:47:04,675 Speaker 1: so I called Marcos. He said he enjoyed his contract 655 00:47:04,675 --> 00:47:07,635 Speaker 1: abutions to Countdown. He also did occasional appearances on the 656 00:47:07,675 --> 00:47:11,075 Speaker 1: old Ed Schultz MSNBC show, and he said if there 657 00:47:11,115 --> 00:47:13,875 Speaker 1: were chants at resuming them, he'd preferred to at least 658 00:47:13,915 --> 00:47:17,795 Speaker 1: try that so Marcus and I went along with Griffin's 659 00:47:17,795 --> 00:47:21,475 Speaker 1: suspending Marcus Malitzus, and to my knowledge, Marcus Malitzus has 660 00:47:21,515 --> 00:47:26,715 Speaker 1: not been seen on MSNBC since. I wish I had 661 00:47:26,715 --> 00:47:29,115 Speaker 1: better notes on some of my conversations from the two 662 00:47:29,155 --> 00:47:34,635 Speaker 1: thousand and eight, nine, ten eleven era about those conversations 663 00:47:34,635 --> 00:47:36,635 Speaker 1: with the hosts and the producers of the other shows 664 00:47:36,675 --> 00:47:39,395 Speaker 1: like Schultz and Rachel, Maddow's show and even Chris Matthews 665 00:47:39,395 --> 00:47:41,755 Speaker 1: and Hardball. I must have heard a variation of this 666 00:47:41,835 --> 00:47:44,475 Speaker 1: statement a dozen times from these people. Guess who was 667 00:47:44,475 --> 00:47:47,315 Speaker 1: in Griffin's office explaining that such and such as Joe's 668 00:47:47,315 --> 00:47:49,275 Speaker 1: friend and Phil really needs to make sure we lay 669 00:47:49,275 --> 00:47:52,755 Speaker 1: off him. Chris licked It was usually an expletive in 670 00:47:52,755 --> 00:47:55,835 Speaker 1: the middle between Chris and Lickt. I remember one of 671 00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:58,675 Speaker 1: my producers at the MSNBC a version of Countdown telling 672 00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:00,675 Speaker 1: me that one of the other producers told him that 673 00:48:00,755 --> 00:48:05,035 Speaker 1: Lickt had gone to NBC News President Steve Kappus with 674 00:48:05,155 --> 00:48:09,275 Speaker 1: an actual list of Republicans that Mattow and Olberman needed 675 00:48:09,315 --> 00:48:13,035 Speaker 1: to stop criticizing because they were Joe's here's the word 676 00:48:13,075 --> 00:48:32,075 Speaker 1: again friends, and we were hurting morning Joe that was 677 00:48:32,155 --> 00:48:36,315 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough before he tried to mainstream Trump then saw 678 00:48:36,395 --> 00:48:40,755 Speaker 1: that the real money was in slamming. Trump then went 679 00:48:40,835 --> 00:48:44,755 Speaker 1: back to his pro on Schlusch's side because the only 680 00:48:44,875 --> 00:48:48,915 Speaker 1: constant in his life is this. Oh I'm Joe Scarborough 681 00:48:48,915 --> 00:48:52,835 Speaker 1: and I think you're stupid. Anyway, I've done all the 682 00:48:52,915 --> 00:48:57,755 Speaker 1: damage I can do here on the new Schadenfreude podcast. 683 00:48:58,795 --> 00:49:02,435 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, Follow me for the podcast. Promo 684 00:49:02,555 --> 00:49:05,675 Speaker 1: videos on Blue Sky, YouTube, Face this book, Twitter x, 685 00:49:05,715 --> 00:49:11,835 Speaker 1: Instagram threads, and you face no longer on TikTok. I 686 00:49:11,875 --> 00:49:14,995 Speaker 1: got banned by TikTok. Brian Ray and John Phillip Shanelle. 687 00:49:14,995 --> 00:49:18,515 Speaker 1: The musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced and performed most 688 00:49:18,515 --> 00:49:21,675 Speaker 1: of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the orchestration and keyboards, 689 00:49:21,675 --> 00:49:24,075 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and 690 00:49:24,115 --> 00:49:27,195 Speaker 1: it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and fifthy 691 00:49:27,275 --> 00:49:30,275 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 692 00:49:30,395 --> 00:49:33,595 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 693 00:49:33,835 --> 00:49:38,155 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 694 00:49:38,715 --> 00:49:41,755 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns. Allowed. 695 00:49:42,115 --> 00:49:44,795 Speaker 1: My announcer was my friend Stevie van Zandt and everything 696 00:49:44,795 --> 00:49:50,075 Speaker 1: else was as ever, my fault. That's countdown for today, 697 00:49:50,195 --> 00:49:55,035 Speaker 1: just one five hundred and twenty eight days until the 698 00:49:55,075 --> 00:49:58,355 Speaker 1: scheduled end of the term of lame duck President Trump. 699 00:49:59,275 --> 00:50:03,315 Speaker 1: Probably the next schedule countdown is Monday. Still playing this 700 00:50:03,395 --> 00:50:05,675 Speaker 1: by year, especially since now that the heart surgery for 701 00:50:05,795 --> 00:50:09,475 Speaker 1: my rescue pop kit is complete, I basically have to 702 00:50:09,515 --> 00:50:12,435 Speaker 1: carry him around and cuddle him sixteen hours a day. 703 00:50:12,995 --> 00:50:15,635 Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's somebody's got to do it. 704 00:50:15,835 --> 00:50:19,435 Speaker 1: I should let others do it and charge them for it. Anyway, 705 00:50:19,435 --> 00:50:22,675 Speaker 1: As always, Boltons is the news warrants till the next one. 706 00:50:22,675 --> 00:50:25,755 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 707 00:50:26,515 --> 00:50:47,115 Speaker 1: good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 708 00:50:47,395 --> 00:50:52,555 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 709 00:50:52,795 --> 00:50:54,795 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.