Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Speaker 1: FBI is at the Gates Gates Beavis and Botox the
Speaker 1: Attorney General designate for the moment anyway, big pantiless Matt
Speaker 1: and thus are we reminded again why Democrats need to
Speaker 1: not compromise, to not compliment, to not look for the
Speaker 1: good things sideshow Bob Kennedy says, but just the murderous ones.
Speaker 1: Why they need to throw punches and to never become
Speaker 1: Jared Polis or Keem Jeffries or Joe Effing Scarborough and
Speaker 1: his wife missus VC MSNBC. Yesterday morning, the Democrats on
Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote to FBI Director Christopher Ray
Speaker 1: requesting a copy of the FBI file on the Gates
Speaker 1: sex scandal, especially the child sex trafficking part I mean
Speaker 1: even Chairman Dick Durbin signed the letter, and Chris Coons
Speaker 1: and by sundown the New York Times not only had
Speaker 1: the key details of that file, they had enough of
Speaker 1: the actual document to publish a copy of a diagram
Speaker 1: produced by federal investigators for the report by the House
Speaker 1: Ethics Committee. The report, the Republicans are still trying to
Speaker 1: bury it is a spectacular diagram suitable for framing, tracing
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars in Venmo payments from Gates to quoting
Speaker 1: The Times women, including some who testified he hired them
Speaker 1: for sex for drug fueled sex parties, sometimes directly to
Speaker 1: the women, sometimes to intermediaries. All in the records of
Speaker 1: Venmo there are at least one hundred lines spreading out
Speaker 1: from a thumbnail picture of Gates and that idiot's smile
Speaker 1: of his. The lines crisscross, the lines go sideways, they
Speaker 1: double back on themselves. They all have little arrows at
Speaker 1: their ends. The damn things looks like a cross between
Speaker 1: a gigantic spider's web and a map of the London
Speaker 1: subway system, a map which has then been put up
Speaker 1: with thumbtacks onto the wall of a conspiracy. Theorist's basement
Speaker 1: was the Senate Judiciary letter to Chris Ray and the
Speaker 1: tourist's guide and map to Matt Gates's sex City. Were
Speaker 1: they cause and effect? Maybe? Maybe not, but it emphasizes
Speaker 1: the point do not truck with the fascists. Do not
Speaker 1: Governor Polis praise Kennedy about vaccines as if he were
Speaker 1: not a demented sexual predator. Do not Leader Jeffries say
Speaker 1: that the nominations of Gates and Kennedy and that sack
Speaker 1: of crap Gabbard are quote distractions. Do not Senator Koon
Speaker 1: praise the money this fop friend of Putin Musk could
Speaker 1: save America. Do not Quizzling Scarborough borrow somebody else's soul
Speaker 1: and then sell it so Trump won't destroy you. In short,
Speaker 1: do not normalize them. Not only does in it help,
Speaker 1: it also doesn't work. The bully will not stop punching
Speaker 1: you just because you say nice things about them. The
Speaker 1: bully will stop punching you when you knock him out
Speaker 1: cold for the time being. The Democrats, the Liberals, the progressives,
Speaker 1: you know, the actual Americans can accomplish some things in
Speaker 1: small letters mostly, but our collective purpose is to send
Speaker 1: the Trump train hurtling off the track as often as possible,
Speaker 1: with as many metaphorical casualties as we can achieve. Sink
Speaker 1: his Attorney general a crook, Squeeze his HHS director a
Speaker 1: lunatic until his brain worms caused him to start speaking
Speaker 1: in tongues. Destroy his secretary of Education, who patted her
Speaker 1: educational resume about whether or not she'd gotten a degree
Speaker 1: in education. Enrage Trump, raise his blood pressure, cause him
Speaker 1: to dig in further, and demand Republican senators get Gates
Speaker 1: in anyway until the day comes when one Republican leader
Speaker 1: or another snaps and calls Trump what he is. Yes, please,
Speaker 1: Trump voters wanted to burn it all down. Let's burn
Speaker 1: it all the f down, and let's make sure first
Speaker 1: and above all else that it is trump Ism that
Speaker 1: is tied to the effing steak. Speaking of crumpling things
Speaker 1: up and lighting fires with them. Normally, I think newspaper
Speaker 1: editorials are useless, irrelevant, and badly written unless they are
Speaker 1: being written or not being written. Jeff bezos to do
Speaker 1: exactly the same thing Joe Scarborough just did. But let
Speaker 1: me read you highlights of two new ones bear with
Speaker 1: me quote first source, second quote. While most of the
Speaker 1: cabinet picks have been excellent and some of them risky
Speaker 1: but promising, Gates and Gabbard are dreadful. We plead that
Speaker 1: mister Trump rethink them. They are distracting chaos agents who
Speaker 1: won't accomplish what Trump wants them to and will most
Speaker 1: likely backfire on his agenda. Start with Gabbard. Trump's nominee
Speaker 1: for Director of National Intelligence. She's been sympathetic to dictators
Speaker 1: in Syria and Russia instead blaming the victims of violence
Speaker 1: like Ukraine and Israel. But even worse, the editorial continues,
Speaker 1: is Matt Gates, Trump's nominee for attorney General. We don't
Speaker 1: want Trump to be blown up by his own grenade.
Speaker 1: Gates may provide the disruption, but he has neither the
Speaker 1: ethics nor the discipline to rebuild a proper system that
Speaker 1: will pursue fair prosecutions. His own colleagues say he's a sleez.
Speaker 1: Both represent a bigger problem than their own faults. Reflect
Speaker 1: Trump is wasting important political capital pushing two mediocre nominees
Speaker 1: out of stubbornness, not necessity. Not only will Trump's opponents
Speaker 1: use this to argue that he can't govern, but it
Speaker 1: will provide ammunition for the twenty twenty six midterms. Signed
Speaker 1: the New York Post editorial board, seriously Murdoch. Murdoch's vanity
Speaker 1: newspaper written by and four people who may have gone
Speaker 1: to a high school but never actually went in. But wait,
Speaker 1: the other editor oriol is worse. This one notes that
Speaker 1: the Trump transition team insists it knew nothing about the
Speaker 1: sexual assault accusation against and payoff by Pentagon nominee Pete.
Speaker 1: Let's shoot the civilians, Hegseth. Somebody war gamed this and
Speaker 1: realize the implications again quote first source. Second, whoever leads
Speaker 1: the Pentagon needs to have the President's trust. If mister
Speaker 1: Trump wasn't informed about this political liability before announcing the nomination,
Speaker 1: he might reasonably wonder what else mister Hegseth hasn't told him?
Speaker 1: Signed the Wall Street Journal editorial board. So here are
Speaker 1: the two most fascist propaganda driven entities this side of
Speaker 1: Alex Jones and Charlie Kirk. And they want Trump to
Speaker 1: dump Gabbard Gates and Hegseth, And oh yeah, the New
Speaker 1: York Post also chastised him over recess appointments. And I
Speaker 1: hate everybody who works at all three of these places.
Speaker 1: But I have to say I see more backbone about
Speaker 1: these Trump nominees drawn from the wanted bulletins at the
Speaker 1: post Office in these newspapers than I do from Jeffreys
Speaker 1: and a boatload of other Democrats, and more backbone from
Speaker 1: Rand Paul, Like Rand Paul, Rand Paul, the runner up
Speaker 1: in his two man Neighborhood Boxing Division. Rand Paul. Rand
Speaker 1: Paul has slammed Trump for the whole premise that Hegseth
Speaker 1: is the nominee at DoD, Quoting him, I'm not in
Speaker 1: favor of sending the army in uniforms into our cities
Speaker 1: to collect people. I think it's a terrible image and
Speaker 1: that's not what we use our military for. We never
Speaker 1: have and it's actually been illegal for over one hundred
Speaker 1: years to bring the army into our cities. I will
Speaker 1: not support an emergency declaration to put the army into
Speaker 1: our cities. I think that's a huge mistake. I really
Speaker 1: think us as conservatives who are supportive of Trump, need
Speaker 1: to caution him about sending the army into our cities.
Speaker 1: Unquote Rand freaking fall. While Trump's team, for a series
Speaker 1: of reports not only plans round ups led by that military,
Speaker 1: it's figured out now away around the thirteenth Amendment. It
Speaker 1: for the Times, quote plans to stop issuing citizenship affirming
Speaker 1: documents like passports and Social Security cards to infants born
Speaker 1: on domestic soil to undocumented migrant parents in a bid
Speaker 1: to end birthright citizenship, slow walking the constitution while sending
Speaker 1: troops to the streets like Hitler did, and even Rand
Speaker 1: Paul recognizes this, But Jared Poulus sees merit in Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy rather than kicking Robert F. Kennedy in the nuts.
Speaker 1: Speaking of which, one of the lawyers for some of
Speaker 1: the women in the Matt Gaits scandal spells his last
Speaker 1: name l E p p A r d l E
Speaker 1: p p A r D. I just assumed he had
Speaker 1: to pronounce it leopard or something. Hi. Joel Laparde, attorney
Speaker 1: for his underage victim, damn glad to meet you. No, sir,
Speaker 1: his name is Leopard. Joel Leopard in the middle of
Speaker 1: the era of the face eating Leopard party, the lawyer
Speaker 1: who could do as much hurt to Trump as anybody
Speaker 1: else and to all the face eating leopards, that guy
Speaker 1: is named Leopard. Only in America, throw punches, throw punches,
Speaker 1: eat faces, And I don't care who you have to
Speaker 1: ally yourself with to make sure the punch hits or
Speaker 1: the face digests. Nate Silver yesterday suggested that President Joe
Speaker 1: Biden should resign because Nate, who is not exactly mister
Speaker 1: psychological stability his own self, is not sure Joe Biden
Speaker 1: is competent to be president. Two weeks ago, former Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris communications director Jamal Simmons called on President Biden to resign,
Speaker 1: not over some question of competence, I mean, good God,
Speaker 1: if we're going to go through this again, I want
Speaker 1: Trump to fulfill that promise and take another cognitive test
Speaker 1: before inauguration day. Pro tip take the under on his score. No.
Speaker 1: Simmons's idea is this would let the president fulfill his
Speaker 1: to become a transitional president, even if only for a
Speaker 1: few months. I agree with Nate Silver and Jamal Simmons,
Speaker 1: not with their reasons, and not because of any anger
Speaker 1: or doubt about my old friend Joe Biden, who I
Speaker 1: will love till the day I die. But I think
Speaker 1: Joe Biden should resign and have President Kamala Harris be
Speaker 1: president for an hour or a morning, or a week
Speaker 1: or a month, or starting this afternoon, because how many
Speaker 1: ways would this piss off America's white supremacists, how many
Speaker 1: misogynists would spontaneously combust, how much would that one vein
Speaker 1: feeding that one sell in Trump's brain bulge with extra
Speaker 1: insanity at the thought of President Kamala Harris. And even
Speaker 1: if somehow they all contained themselves. Joe Biden should do
Speaker 1: this anyway, because at the bare minimum, Biden resigning, even
Speaker 1: if it's on the morning of January twentieth, and Vice
Speaker 1: President Harris succeeding him, would make her the forty seventh
Speaker 1: president of the United States, and these goddamned Maga sons
Speaker 1: of bitches would have to burn every last piece of
Speaker 1: their worthless Trump forty seven merch, and just for their
Speaker 1: fury over that this would be worth it. Speaking of
Speaker 1: burning something to the ground like your own career. Back
Speaker 1: to Joe Scarborough for a moment, and I've got an
Speaker 1: entire segment on America's newest quizzling at the end of
Speaker 1: this podcast, if I can get through it without laughing
Speaker 1: too hard. My headline on this story is how on
Speaker 1: earth anybody could be surprised that this Marshall patan of
Speaker 1: American media sold out to save his own worthless ass.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing Joe Scarborough is good at. He's
Speaker 1: been doing it all twenty six years I've known him.
Speaker 1: And the only deviation from the norm here is Joe
Speaker 1: usually tries to sell somebody else out first. This time
Speaker 1: there was nobody else happily, I can state with some
Speaker 1: assurance that this time, finally, Joe Scarborough has ended his
Speaker 1: own career. Ratings for The Morning Joe Insincerity and Bullshit
Speaker 1: Musical Review were already down by a staggering percentage after
Speaker 1: the election. Then, as you know, he announced his mutual
Speaker 1: non Aggression pack with the Not at six am Monday,
Speaker 1: and the audience punished him and MSNBC in a way
Speaker 1: so impressive, so original, so startling that I have never
Speaker 1: heard of it happening before. Multi hour morning television shows
Speaker 1: always see their ratings go up the later it gets,
Speaker 1: simply because more people are awake at seven than are
Speaker 1: awake at six. The average growth from the six am
Speaker 1: ratings to the seven am ratings worldwide probably is twenty
Speaker 1: percent or so. If you are doing Alaska morning radio
Speaker 1: like Good Morning Sitka, and you have one hundred listeners
Speaker 1: at six AM, the seven o'clock edition of Good Morning
Speaker 1: Sitka is probably going to have one hundred and twenty listeners.
Speaker 1: On Monday, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzynski saw their seven
Speaker 1: am ratings drop by seventeen percent compared to their six
Speaker 1: AM ratings among viewers under the age of fifty five,
Speaker 1: the loss was thirty eight percent, So normally ratings go
Speaker 1: up twenty percent. In the second hour, they went down
Speaker 1: seventeen percent. That's a basic raw net loss of more
Speaker 1: than one third. On Tuesday, ratings for the whole show
Speaker 1: were down another eleven percent from Monday. Scarborough is now
Speaker 1: on the path we at MSNBC used to call the
Speaker 1: Rita Cosby. On Monday, the debut edition of Rita Cosby
Speaker 1: Live and Direct has the highest ratings on the entire network.
Speaker 1: On Tuesday, it's down the typical ten to twenty percent
Speaker 1: from the debut show. By Wednesday, half the audience is gone.
Speaker 1: By Thursday, it's a re broadcast of a previous edition
Speaker 1: of Rita Cosby Live and Direct. And on Friday it's
Speaker 1: what was the name of that show again? And we
Speaker 1: used to have that had Rita Cosby on it status reports.
Speaker 1: Oliver Darcy quotes a rival TV news executive who says
Speaker 1: that Scarborough, Prashinski and MSNBC president Rashida Jones quote need
Speaker 1: FEMA there at this point. That's the level of disaster
Speaker 1: they created unquote. Well happily they sold their souls to
Speaker 1: the correct devil Trump, So if they need FEMA. They
Speaker 1: can just call Trump and he can do what he
Speaker 1: always does when disaster aid is needed. Ignore the pleas
Speaker 1: of the drowning, or throw Joe a roll of bounty,
Speaker 1: the quicker picker upper, or in Scarborough's case, toilet paper used.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I'm in a good and generous
Speaker 1: mood towards everybody today, including Joe Scarborough. The heart surgery
Speaker 1: on my pup Kit went as good as it possibly
Speaker 1: could have. We are expecting him home and cured today.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to tell him the whole Scarborough backstory
Speaker 1: later in this podcast, the stuff from say two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight, nine and ten, when he spent nearly his
Speaker 1: entire day every day trying to get me fired. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to tell him that whole story. Because Kit
Speaker 1: is a dog. He's five months old, and he weighs
Speaker 1: three pounds, so even he knows Joe Scarborough is a
Speaker 1: pile of crap in an ill fitting suit. Also of
Speaker 1: interest here, speaking of self owns like the one of
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough's, have I mentioned Joe Scarborough yet? Speaking of
Speaker 1: self owns? Marjorie Taylor Green, has I swear to Jesus
Speaker 1: encouraged some transgendered woman somewhere to come up to her
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green and beat her senseless. I'll just repeat
Speaker 1: that Green has basically asked to get beaten up by
Speaker 1: a transgendered woman. Ladies, please do not rush the door.
Speaker 1: Everybody will get their chance. That's next. This is countdown.
Speaker 1: This is countdown. With Keith Olberman still ahead of us
Speaker 1: on this all new edition of The Big Show, I'm
Speaker 1: getting so much Shotenfreuder, I'm gonna have to go on
Speaker 1: a schadenfreude diet. Two months of hilarious stories about my
Speaker 1: ex and her ex and RFK Junior, and now Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough has self destructed so thoroughly that everybody on the
Speaker 1: left hates him and everybody on the right hates him.
Speaker 1: But do you know the origin story of the man
Speaker 1: we used to call Joey scars but now called Joe
Speaker 1: scared bro. The worst person I have ever worked with,
Speaker 1: I mean in TV and radio, online, in print, in sports,
Speaker 1: in news, in this century, in the last century, in
Speaker 1: college and high school, the worst person next at things
Speaker 1: I promised not to tell heyway always like chep. But
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots talk
Speaker 1: about the daily roundup of the other miscreants, morons and
Speaker 1: Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst versus.
Speaker 1: In your word, that's my Ja Scarby, I'm banking the
Speaker 1: bronze worse. To quote Chevy Chase from the original Weekend
Speaker 1: Update on the original Saturday Night Live, I don't want
Speaker 1: to kick him in when he's down. I want to
Speaker 1: kick him when he's down, then set fire to his face,
Speaker 1: and then put the fire out while wearing baseball cleats.
Speaker 1: Matt Gates the only man in the last half century
Speaker 1: who could be running the Justice Department next week or
Speaker 1: be put in jail by the Justice Department next week,
Speaker 1: on top of everything else going on with Attorney General
Speaker 1: wannabe Beavis and Botox. A quote from the Green Wire
Speaker 1: article on Gates's nomination quote, Luckily all of our environmental
Speaker 1: laws are older than eighteen years, so Representative Gates shouldn't
Speaker 1: have much interest in them, said Brett Hartole, governmental affairs
Speaker 1: director at the Center for Biological Diversity, a frequent litigant
Speaker 1: in environmental lawsuits. Brett Hardle, did you say that? What
Speaker 1: a guy? The runner up? Jd Vance Vice President elect,
Speaker 1: the man who has already made a nostalgic for the
Speaker 1: golden age of dan Quail. With Trump's amazing decision to
Speaker 1: burn his one and a half percent quote mandate unquote
Speaker 1: by appointing every confidence trickster and three card monte dealer
Speaker 1: to his cabinet, we forget the possibilities still represented by
Speaker 1: this idiot JD. Vance. Mike Pence was a holier than
Speaker 1: now fraud, a mediocre Midwest radio hate jockey, but he
Speaker 1: learned his new job well. He served as a kind
Speaker 1: of detached waxen, possibly intelligent, possibly fair counterpoint or foil
Speaker 1: to Trump. He really was pretty good as the stuffed suit,
Speaker 1: the seemingly not crazy guy who wasn't just doing what
Speaker 1: Trump wanted out of some political mass masochism, but who
Speaker 1: had thought about it and decided Trump was right, you know,
Speaker 1: up until dan Quayle read the Constitution to him and
Speaker 1: Pence said, oh crap, I'm out of here. Instead we
Speaker 1: have JV. Vance, who, if he wanted to, could turn
Speaker 1: pro in the Dunning Krueger League. The gap between how
Speaker 1: smart he is and how smart he thinks he is
Speaker 1: might be Olympic level. For instance, one of Steve Bannon's thugs.
Speaker 1: His CFO, Grace Chong, did a drive by tweet attacking
Speaker 1: various Republican senators for not showing up to a vote
Speaker 1: in which President Biden got some of his late judicial
Speaker 1: appointments approved. If you've forgotten Vance is a Republican senator,
Speaker 1: I mean at times clearly Vance had forgotten he was
Speaker 1: a senator, and one of the senators Chong attack was
Speaker 1: JV Vance, and JV Vank not happy he decided to
Speaker 1: try to flame her. Grace Chong, he wrote, is a
Speaker 1: mouth breathing imbecile who attacked those of us in the
Speaker 1: fight rather than make herself useful. If I had shown
Speaker 1: up to the vote in question, the nominee would have
Speaker 1: succeeded forty nine to forty six rather than forty nine
Speaker 1: to forty five. Guests who has deleted this tweet? Firstly,
Speaker 1: he attacked Steve Bannon's person bluntly. No matter what it
Speaker 1: looks like, Trump is programmed by Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller,
Speaker 1: So you don't attack Bannon's gun mall or whatever she is.
Speaker 1: Mouth breathing imbecile is also pretty rich from a guy
Speaker 1: with no achievements or accomplishments in life besides money and
Speaker 1: hate and sucking up to Trump. But more importantly was
Speaker 1: the start of that second paragraph and eight words about
Speaker 1: himself that will live in infamy. If I had shown
Speaker 1: up to the vote in question or the shorter version,
Speaker 1: if I had shown up, what's the cliche, ninety percent
Speaker 1: of success is just showing up. Put it on JV's tombstone.
Speaker 1: If I had shown up, but our winner, and she
Speaker 1: is still ahead of vance on the Dunning Kruger scoreboard.
Speaker 1: She's a Hall of Famer. Marjorie Taylor Barney rubble dead
Speaker 1: ringer for the Chro Magnon woman wax model that's been
Speaker 1: on display at a museum in France since twenty fourteen. Green,
Speaker 1: you may have heard the mask is now off on
Speaker 1: the whole. We don't hate transgendered people. We just don't
Speaker 1: want them playing in girls sports thing. No, no, they
Speaker 1: hate them, They hate them all and they refuse to
Speaker 1: recognize them, and next they'll be putting them in jail.
Speaker 1: Which was always true, because there are what fifty transitioned
Speaker 1: women or girls playing scholastic sports in this country, and
Speaker 1: your daughter the hoops star is far more likely to
Speaker 1: be hit by lightning during a game twice than she
Speaker 1: is to ever face a transitioned athlete. Speaker of the
Speaker 1: House Johnson flat out said a man cannot become a woman,
Speaker 1: and a woman cannot become a man, raising the interesting
Speaker 1: question of why they let Mike Johnson use the men's
Speaker 1: room at least around Trump. He has no balls of
Speaker 1: any kind. Congresswoman Nancy, sorry, I'm late for the prayer breakfast. Senator,
Speaker 1: let me tell you about the morning sexual advances. I
Speaker 1: fend it off in bed just now. Mace insisted on
Speaker 1: legislation to prevent the newly elected transgender Congresswoman Sarah McBride
Speaker 1: from using the women's bathrooms at the Capitol, because, as
Speaker 1: you know, the Republicans use up all their brain power
Speaker 1: on two topics, and two topics alone, One how can
Speaker 1: I suck up to Trump? And two I must concentrate
Speaker 1: on the genitalia of children and transgendered people. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, Marge Green as always took it a
Speaker 1: little further as far as personality disorders and sundry impairments
Speaker 1: could take her. Politico reported quote she made some remarks
Speaker 1: in conference about fighting a transgender woman if she comes
Speaker 1: across them in the bathroom, per two sources, I'll just
Speaker 1: say that again. She made some remarks in conference about
Speaker 1: fighting a transgender woman if she comes across them in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. When asked about this, she didn't explicitly confirm
Speaker 1: the remarks, but said, I shouldn't have to hate. It's
Speaker 1: pretty aggressive for biological men to be invading our spaces.
Speaker 1: Green added, and then added, my god, my god, my god,
Speaker 1: my god, Marge Green, who's going to try to physically
Speaker 1: attack a transgendered woman? And after years of insisting that
Speaker 1: they would all destroy biologically born girls playing girls' sports,
Speaker 1: Marge somehow thinks she isn't going to get the shit
Speaker 1: beaten out of her. Oh my god. You ever seen
Speaker 1: the movie The World According to gar Marge? Have you?
Speaker 1: Robin Williams, Glenn Close. It's got a lot of flaws,
Speaker 1: but John Lithgow's performance and it earned him an Oscar nomination.
Speaker 1: He plays ROBERTA. Muldoon, who becomes a protector for the
Speaker 1: feminist hero played by Glenn Close. Of course, Muldoon used
Speaker 1: to be Robert Muldoon, tight end to Philadelphia Eagles, who
Speaker 1: occasionally muses in the film about how she had a
Speaker 1: great set of hands. Let's go as spectacular in this
Speaker 1: role even forty years later, it's hilarious and touching and topical.
Speaker 1: Even when Glenn Close's character is threatened at Lithgo flies
Speaker 1: in with an illegal chop block right out of the
Speaker 1: National Football League that leaves the man unable to walk,
Speaker 1: and she gives a shrug. And after I read what
Speaker 1: this bigoted chromagnum Green set, I just thought, how great
Speaker 1: would it be for Marge Green to walk into the
Speaker 1: house women's bathroom and confront a tall, transgendered woman and
Speaker 1: threaten her, only to have the woman say, Hi, I'm ROBERTA. Muldoon.
Speaker 1: I used to be the tight end of the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: number ninety. Robert Muldoon I had a great set of hands.
Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green inviting herself to get the crap kicked
Speaker 1: out of her by other women in the bathroom. Two days,
Speaker 1: worst person and no monniest doggone thing. A week ago today,
Speaker 1: I began this podcast by quoting the line from The Simpsons,
Speaker 1: the satirical line from the newscaster Kent Brockman, I, for one,
Speaker 1: welcome our new insect overlords. Then this past Monday, Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough and his latest wife began their morning chat show
Speaker 1: on MSNBC with a simpering, cowardly transparent words salad that
Speaker 1: might as well have literally been we for two, welcome
Speaker 1: our new insect overlords. Only that would have been funny.
Speaker 1: Let me again mention that, in half a century of
Speaker 1: working in newsrooms ranging from international ones to high school ones,
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough is easily the worst person I have ever known. Easily.
Speaker 1: And I worked with David Letterman's blackmailer, and I worked
Speaker 1: with a guy who later extorted George Steinbrenner and threatened
Speaker 1: to break his legs. Joe Scarborough is better than either
Speaker 1: of them. He is unique the lack of morals, of principles,
Speaker 1: of scruples. That's not the result of a fractured brain
Speaker 1: like say Trump. It's not the result of money needs
Speaker 1: like the guy who blackmailed Letterman or the guy who
Speaker 1: extorted Steinbrenner. It's a tool Scarborough uses, and he has
Speaker 1: used for at least twenty five years. Joe Scarborough was
Speaker 1: a newt gangrich whore. Then he became a far right
Speaker 1: pro torture O'Reilly wannabee. Then he was the supply reasonable
Speaker 1: conservative who's on air persona covered up his endless internal
Speaker 1: sabotage of everybody who was better than him at NBC.
Speaker 1: Then he was the moderate political salon host in the mornings.
Speaker 1: Then he was the guy who tried to mainstream Trump
Speaker 1: and literally traveled to Trump to advise him, and was
Speaker 1: Trump's guy on real TV. And then when Trump didn't
Speaker 1: choose him to be vice president, Scarborough decided the real
Speaker 1: money was in bashing Trump, and so he turned on
Speaker 1: him and bashed him and bashed him and bashed him
Speaker 1: and called him hitler more than a year ago. And
Speaker 1: when he called him hitler, it was the first time
Speaker 1: I'd ever agreed with Joey scars But I knew in
Speaker 1: my god, he was just selling another product. See, there
Speaker 1: are people who went confronted in their lives by Nazis
Speaker 1: suddenly find themselves choosing to join the government of VC France.
Speaker 1: That's Jeff Bezos. That's not Joe Scarborough. Joe Scarborough has
Speaker 1: always been a VSHI in search of Nazis to serve.
Speaker 1: And after seven years, he'd actually managed to erase his past.
Speaker 1: He'd virtually erased from his audience's memory any sense that
Speaker 1: he tried to ram Trump down America's throat in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: and then suddenly Monday, he was announcing he and Mika
Speaker 1: Brazhinsky had gone to Mari Lago to try to open
Speaker 1: a dialogue with Trump, and he then produced an amazing,
Speaker 1: imaginary moronic dialogue in which somebody else asked him, why
Speaker 1: the hell would you do that? With the ludicrous answer,
Speaker 1: why the hell wouldn't you. The rhetorical answer to that,
Speaker 1: of course, was contained in Mika Brzhinsky's part of this speech,
Speaker 1: which was as close to an actual hostage video as
Speaker 1: I have ever seen on actual television. The practical answer is,
Speaker 1: of course, you don't do that, because then you have
Speaker 1: just turned your network into collaborators. If he's Hitler and
Speaker 1: you are an now saying we must make a deal
Speaker 1: with him, you are VC MSNBC, and everybody who works
Speaker 1: there who does not say this is VC MSNBC is
Speaker 1: just as guilty Rachel. Anyway, there are three plausible explanations
Speaker 1: I guess equal plausibility for this. I'm not sure which
Speaker 1: is true. I'm not sure it matters. One NBC and
Speaker 1: MSNBC looked at the post election Kamala Harris Saturday Night
Speaker 1: Live blowback and the post election ratings, and since the
Speaker 1: networks are run by people who do not understand news
Speaker 1: or political news, and barely understand television, they panicked and
Speaker 1: told him to do it. Or Scarborough looked at the
Speaker 1: ratings and being exactly as stupid as his bosses, he
Speaker 1: panicked and did it himself. Or as CNN reported Tuesday,
Speaker 1: he and the misses genuinely assessed the threats by Trump
Speaker 1: and decided they were vulnerable and they'd have to do
Speaker 1: something to assuage Trump. And of course just going there
Speaker 1: and saying zay, that would hardly do it. But if
Speaker 1: they also told Trump, we'll go back to sinewashing your presidency,
Speaker 1: only they didn't tell the audience that well that that
Speaker 1: would make more sense. That would be pure cowardice. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's the actual plot of George Orwell's nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 1: Maybe that last one makes slightly more sense now in
Speaker 1: light of Tuesday night's news that NBC is going to
Speaker 1: spin off its news cable operations, finally separating the dead
Speaker 1: weight of NBC News from what might still grow MSNBC
Speaker 1: and CNBC. I begged them to do this as far
Speaker 1: back as nineteen ninety seven. For God's sakes. Also, you're
Speaker 1: a listener to this podcast, and I'm the guy who
Speaker 1: writes it and reads it. The last few weeks, I
Speaker 1: haven't felt like writing it and reading it, and you
Speaker 1: haven't felt like listening to it, or at least not
Speaker 1: as much. We're in mourning, we're in husbanding your resources mode,
Speaker 1: we're in recovery. Of course, the ratings are going to
Speaker 1: be bad. Go look at Fox News' ratings at the
Speaker 1: end of twenty twenty and most of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: Did they fire everybody and suddenly wind up with a
Speaker 1: Joe Biden show in the morning? No, be professionals take
Speaker 1: the loss. Oh your NBC. Oh MSNBC's only going to
Speaker 1: make a quarter of a billion dollars. Oh, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1: People should be killed for that, right, isn't that the
Speaker 1: law now? Back at the Joey Scars level? The problem
Speaker 1: is the problems are Scarborough already burned down his anti
Speaker 1: Trump audience in twenty fifteen and early twenty sixteen. Then
Speaker 1: he burned down his new pro Trump audience in twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen and twenty seventeen and all the years since, and
Speaker 1: now he's gone back and burned down his anti Trump audience. Again,
Speaker 1: there's nobody left. The right never stopped hating him. The left,
Speaker 1: which had just started to forget he was in Trump's
Speaker 1: pocket for a year, hates him anew and now is
Speaker 1: seeing that picture of him and Trump's standing there with
Speaker 1: that idiotic thumb up their ass pose, which I keep
Speaker 1: tweeting every day. Just a coincidence. Joe resolved this dilemma,
Speaker 1: namely that nobody wants to watch him anymore or go
Speaker 1: on his show by simply pretending none of it is true,
Speaker 1: and that everybody supports him and anybody who disagrees with
Speaker 1: him is disconnected from reality. And we have always been
Speaker 1: at war with these dangsia. The other problem is Joe
Speaker 1: Scarborough is a terrible person who has always thought he
Speaker 1: could get away with it, often did, always thought he
Speaker 1: could blame somebody else, and has always done stuff exactly
Speaker 1: like this. And I'll get to that in a moment.
Speaker 1: First reminding you of the principal problem by having Nancy
Speaker 1: Faust remind you, just cause you call a guy hitler,
Speaker 1: maybe it didn't mean that hitler, Maybe it meant the
Speaker 1: other Hitler, the singing Hitler, the dancing Hitler, the Hitler
Speaker 1: with a song in his heart, Oh Nancy. Perhaps the
Speaker 1: most amazing thing about my ten years at MSNBC was
Speaker 1: the fact that Joe Scarborough and his producers, especially his
Speaker 1: chief henchman, ever got their own show on the air.
Speaker 1: Because nobody I have ever worked with in radio or television,
Speaker 1: in sports or news in the twentieth century or the
Speaker 1: twenty first ever spent more time trying to screw with
Speaker 1: other programs on the same network than did Joe Scarborough.
Speaker 1: And until just about the time I left in twenty eleven,
Speaker 1: the guy he sent in to do most of the
Speaker 1: sabotage for him was this henchman guy. The reason this
Speaker 1: should matter to you now is Scarborough's henchman was Chris Licked,
Speaker 1: the new president of CNN. And if they scoured the
Speaker 1: nation to find the worst person to run CNN in
Speaker 1: a time when democracy is threatened by one political party
Speaker 1: and tepidly defended by another, it's Chris Licked. I know,
Speaker 1: I know. You turn on the TV and you see
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough, and you see exactly what I see. A blank, dazed, darting, paranoid,
Speaker 1: no soul, stoopid bid check engine light. Look. But if
Speaker 1: you don't trust me, trust my scars. My Joey Scars
Speaker 1: behind that vapid face is a master saboteur. Early in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, the late Tim Russert called me
Speaker 1: and warned me that the GOP had upped its pressure
Speaker 1: on me. He said he had heard from somebody in
Speaker 1: New York that somebody in New York was going into
Speaker 1: the office of the president of NBC News saying that
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough couldn't get his friend John McCain to come
Speaker 1: on to his new Morning show because I was so
Speaker 1: critical of McCain on Countdown. Tim was not sure it
Speaker 1: was Scarborough, but if it wasn't, who else could have
Speaker 1: gotten in to see the president of NBC News other
Speaker 1: than Scarborough or his executive producer. The evidence for the
Speaker 1: new CNN president, mister Lickt, being directly involved in interfering
Speaker 1: with programming to benefit somebody else's friends or political cronies,
Speaker 1: was vague in two thousand and eight, but not at
Speaker 1: all two years later. Early in January twenty ten, the
Speaker 1: Republican candidate to fill the Senate seat of a late
Speaker 1: Ted Kennedy, Scott Brown, the former semi nude model, was
Speaker 1: at a rally when one of his supporters talked about
Speaker 1: quote shoving a curling iron up the backside of the
Speaker 1: Democratic Senate candidate Martha Cokeley. Scott Brown clearly heard the
Speaker 1: remark from the crowd and responded, quote, we could do that.
Speaker 1: On January eighteenth, on Countdown, I did a brief commentary
Speaker 1: about how unsuitable Brown was for public office. I said
Speaker 1: he was quote an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex nude model,
Speaker 1: t bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians
Speaker 1: with whom he disagrees unquote. I had quotes from Brown.
Speaker 1: I had videotape of him disparaging his minority opponent in
Speaker 1: a local election to her face at a debate. To
Speaker 1: back up what I said. An hour later, Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: commenced a sweet storm against me. Quote Lberman calls Brown
Speaker 1: a homophobic, racist reactionary who supports violence against women. How
Speaker 1: reckless and how sad It's no longer enough to simply
Speaker 1: disagree with someone. I'm sorry, I just fell into my
Speaker 1: Scarborough impression. Just as when Beck called a president racist,
Speaker 1: This sort of rhetorical extremism must be discouraged. It chapened
Speaker 1: the debate end, quote and impression. Now, there was a
Speaker 1: standing rule at MSNBC. You want to criticize another MSNBC personality,
Speaker 1: go ahead, have a blast, but it must be on
Speaker 1: the air on MSNBC, and the other person must have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to reply in real time, in the same show,
Speaker 1: or in some kind of face to face way. No
Speaker 1: hit and run, no Joe Scarborough tweet storms. If you
Speaker 1: criticize them by name or by inference in any other
Speaker 1: medium newspaper, interview, radio, social media, you were to receive
Speaker 1: an automatic suspension. The next day, January nineteenth, I called
Speaker 1: the president of MSNBC, Phil Griffin, and I asked how
Speaker 1: long Joe Scarborough's automatic suspension was going to be. Griffin
Speaker 1: asked me to come in to the office a little
Speaker 1: earlier than usual and to go see him. He said
Speaker 1: he had already had a meeting about the tweets that
Speaker 1: morning with Scarborough's executive producer, Chris licht. Griffin explained that Scarborough,
Speaker 1: according to Lickt, considered Scott Brown a friend. More importantly,
Speaker 1: Chris Lickt warned Griffin that if Griffin followed through and
Speaker 1: enforced the suspension rule, Scarborough would have no other option
Speaker 1: than to go to the press and tell reporters, especially
Speaker 1: reporters at right wing websites like Tucker Carlson's The Daily Caller,
Speaker 1: that he Scarborough had been suspended because he Scarborough was
Speaker 1: a conservative, but I was a liberal and that I
Speaker 1: and not Phil Griffin ran MSNBC. What can I do?
Speaker 1: Griffin was scared. I told him he could fire Scarborough
Speaker 1: and Licked because they had just tried to blackmail him,
Speaker 1: and eventually he was going to have to fire them
Speaker 1: both anyway, but that I knew he would not do this,
Speaker 1: and that I knew now that he would not suspend
Speaker 1: Scarborough either, And Griffin did not suspend him. Partial score
Speaker 1: Scarborough's friends two MSNBC's rules of behavior nothing, but Phil
Speaker 1: Griffin did send out a memo to the entire company
Speaker 1: insisting that anybody who criticized another MSNBC show or host
Speaker 1: in another medium would be suspended, except Scarborough, who had
Speaker 1: just done exactly that and then threatened his own employers.
Speaker 1: On January twenty fifth, Brian Stelter's old blog TV newser
Speaker 1: got a copy of Griffin's memo. They wondered why Scarborough
Speaker 1: had not been suspended, so they called the MSNBC president
Speaker 1: and they printed quote Griffin responds to TV news or
Speaker 1: quote an important rule was broken. I spoke to Keith
Speaker 1: and he said, in the spirit of teamwork and the
Speaker 1: free flow of ideas, he didn't think it warranted punishment
Speaker 1: or suspension. I also talked to Joe and he apologized
Speaker 1: to me. That's why I made the decision that this
Speaker 1: didn't rise to the level of punishment. But I felt
Speaker 1: it was necessary to reiterate my long standing policy one
Speaker 1: hundred percent bull crap. Reiterate my long standing policy which
Speaker 1: I just did not enforce against Joe Scarborough. The whole
Speaker 1: thing was totally fabricated. Lickt and Scarborough had threatened to
Speaker 1: smear their own bosses in the right wing echo chamber.
Speaker 1: Should have been both fired on the spot. In May
Speaker 1: twenty ten, Scarborough said something on the air about a
Speaker 1: Democrat getting away with not being investigated for something. I
Speaker 1: forget the details. I didn't bother to look it up.
Speaker 1: You can if you want. Then. Marcos Malitsus, the editor
Speaker 1: of the Daily Coast website, and not just a regular
Speaker 1: contributor to Countdown, but somebody who had been promoting the
Speaker 1: show and the MSNBC brand on that website every day
Speaker 1: for five years. Marcos sent a snarky but legitimate tweet
Speaker 1: questioning Scarborough's credentials to criticize others who had not been
Speaker 1: investigated for stuff, Marcos invoked the staffer who died in
Speaker 1: an accident in Joe Scarborough's congressional office. Scarborough then attacked
Speaker 1: Melitsus on Twitter inaccurately claiming Malitzus had accused Scarborough of murder.
Speaker 1: A few days after that, I got a phone call
Speaker 1: from the MSNBC president, Phil Griffin. And if he got
Speaker 1: a phone call rather than a call to come into
Speaker 1: his office, you know he was really scared. Griffin told me.
Speaker 1: Chris lickt has been in to see me. Joe won't
Speaker 1: put up with having Marcus Mlitzus on his network anymore.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but Lick says many of Joe's friends
Speaker 1: who also appear in Dayside and Primetime won't come on
Speaker 1: if Marcos Malitsus is permitted to continue here. Chris is
Speaker 1: insisting that Marcos be banned from MSNBC immediately. Chris says
Speaker 1: he's afraid that if we don't do that, Joe won't
Speaker 1: come into work tomorrow. Upon hearing that, I laughed and
Speaker 1: I congratulated Phil Griffin on the clear win win he'd
Speaker 1: just been given. But Phil was very bad at enforcing
Speaker 1: MSNBC's rules, but very good at creating new ones on
Speaker 1: the spot. To protect Joe Scarborough and Chris Lickt and
Speaker 1: their friends, I'm banning the Litzes from any further appearances
Speaker 1: on MSNBC, I said, Phil, he's a contributor to my show.
Speaker 1: You are suspending my contributor who has driven hundreds of
Speaker 1: thousands of viewers to count Down at MSNBC, and I
Speaker 1: don't have any say in it. You are owned by
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough and Chris Lickt. What you now have to
Speaker 1: worry about is whether I tell this story on the
Speaker 1: air tonight or I just wait and tell it later.
Speaker 1: Phil now got conciliatory because he was scared again and
Speaker 1: said it could be just a suspension if I cooperated,
Speaker 1: so I called Marcos. He said he enjoyed his contract
Speaker 1: abutions to Countdown. He also did occasional appearances on the
Speaker 1: old Ed Schultz MSNBC show, and he said if there
Speaker 1: were chants at resuming them, he'd preferred to at least
Speaker 1: try that so Marcus and I went along with Griffin's
Speaker 1: suspending Marcus Malitzus, and to my knowledge, Marcus Malitzus has
Speaker 1: not been seen on MSNBC since. I wish I had
Speaker 1: better notes on some of my conversations from the two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight, nine, ten eleven era about those conversations
Speaker 1: with the hosts and the producers of the other shows
Speaker 1: like Schultz and Rachel, Maddow's show and even Chris Matthews
Speaker 1: and Hardball. I must have heard a variation of this
Speaker 1: statement a dozen times from these people. Guess who was
Speaker 1: in Griffin's office explaining that such and such as Joe's
Speaker 1: friend and Phil really needs to make sure we lay
Speaker 1: off him. Chris licked It was usually an expletive in
Speaker 1: the middle between Chris and Lickt. I remember one of
Speaker 1: my producers at the MSNBC a version of Countdown telling
Speaker 1: me that one of the other producers told him that
Speaker 1: Lickt had gone to NBC News President Steve Kappus with
Speaker 1: an actual list of Republicans that Mattow and Olberman needed
Speaker 1: to stop criticizing because they were Joe's here's the word
Speaker 1: again friends, and we were hurting morning Joe that was
Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough before he tried to mainstream Trump then saw
Speaker 1: that the real money was in slamming. Trump then went
Speaker 1: back to his pro on Schlusch's side because the only
Speaker 1: constant in his life is this. Oh I'm Joe Scarborough
Speaker 1: and I think you're stupid. Anyway, I've done all the
Speaker 1: damage I can do here on the new Schadenfreude podcast.
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Speaker 1: just one five hundred and twenty eight days until the
Speaker 1: scheduled end of the term of lame duck President Trump.
Speaker 1: Probably the next schedule countdown is Monday. Still playing this
Speaker 1: by year, especially since now that the heart surgery for
Speaker 1: my rescue pop kit is complete, I basically have to
Speaker 1: carry him around and cuddle him sixteen hours a day.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's somebody's got to do it.
Speaker 1: I should let others do it and charge them for it. Anyway,
Speaker 1: As always, Boltons is the news warrants till the next one.
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