1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio Today 2 00:00:21,555 --> 00:00:30,835 Speaker 1: in January sixth, Conspiracy Land, It's quiet, It's two quiet. No, 3 00:00:31,035 --> 00:00:34,715 Speaker 1: the DJ has not arrested Tucker Carlson for obstruction of justice, 4 00:00:34,755 --> 00:00:37,955 Speaker 1: nor is it likely to. But it is clear somebody 5 00:00:38,075 --> 00:00:41,235 Speaker 1: in there is out to contradict him, humiliate him, and 6 00:00:41,275 --> 00:00:45,075 Speaker 1: get him fired by Fox. And whatever the plan is, 7 00:00:46,115 --> 00:00:51,235 Speaker 1: it may be working. Something certainly has worked. Tucker Carlson 8 00:00:51,275 --> 00:00:56,675 Speaker 1: has completely punted on the January sixth story. Did not 9 00:00:56,875 --> 00:01:00,755 Speaker 1: mention it once last night. No Q Shaman, no conspiracy, 10 00:01:00,835 --> 00:01:03,915 Speaker 1: no withheld, no fire Liz Cheney, No, we demand immediate 11 00:01:03,915 --> 00:01:08,995 Speaker 1: action like it never happened. Tucker Carlson offered no explanation 12 00:01:09,635 --> 00:01:13,435 Speaker 1: as he ran away as to why he ran away. 13 00:01:13,955 --> 00:01:18,275 Speaker 1: The Department of Justice, it offered lots of explanations. Sunday 14 00:01:18,315 --> 00:01:21,275 Speaker 1: it was the release of memorandum six eighty nine confirming 15 00:01:21,275 --> 00:01:24,555 Speaker 1: that Carlson was lying on television, that the Q Shaman 16 00:01:24,595 --> 00:01:28,115 Speaker 1: had access to all the video Carlson showed and all 17 00:01:28,155 --> 00:01:30,955 Speaker 1: the video Carlson did not show because it would have 18 00:01:30,995 --> 00:01:35,235 Speaker 1: destroyed his lie while he was lying it. Yesterday the 19 00:01:35,355 --> 00:01:40,035 Speaker 1: release came of some of that video Carlson is hiding again. 20 00:01:40,795 --> 00:01:44,355 Speaker 1: This release was in answer to Dominic Pozzola's motion to 21 00:01:44,395 --> 00:01:47,835 Speaker 1: dismiss the January six charges against him quote due to 22 00:01:47,995 --> 00:01:52,795 Speaker 1: recent revelations on the Tucker Carlson Show. This is the 23 00:01:52,915 --> 00:01:55,835 Speaker 1: audio track from the body cam of one of dozens 24 00:01:55,835 --> 00:01:59,315 Speaker 1: of officers summoned to the Senate Chamber when Jacob Chancelly 25 00:01:59,395 --> 00:02:01,875 Speaker 1: was told to leave, and he refused, and he and 26 00:02:01,875 --> 00:02:05,435 Speaker 1: the other insurrectionist had to be boxed out by Capital police. 27 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:08,555 Speaker 1: And the voice you will hear is that of Tucker 28 00:02:08,595 --> 00:02:14,675 Speaker 1: Carlson's mild mannered, railroaded sightseer Chansley, screaming as police adroitly 29 00:02:14,795 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 1: force him and the other terrorists out of the Capitol 30 00:02:18,635 --> 00:02:35,835 Speaker 1: without somehow shooting any of them. Let's go, Let's go, 31 00:02:37,795 --> 00:02:48,795 Speaker 1: Let's go, let's go. Another video, one of three the 32 00:02:48,835 --> 00:02:53,195 Speaker 1: Department of Justice released yesterday, is less audibly gaudy, to 33 00:02:53,275 --> 00:02:57,035 Speaker 1: use that word, but it is far more harrowing. This 34 00:02:57,115 --> 00:03:00,675 Speaker 1: is from the exact moment Jacob Chansley aka the real 35 00:03:00,995 --> 00:03:03,995 Speaker 1: victim here Shaman and the rest of the mob came 36 00:03:03,995 --> 00:03:07,915 Speaker 1: within perhaps thirty feet of a senator being evacuated. We 37 00:03:08,035 --> 00:03:11,355 Speaker 1: think it's Chuck Grassley nobody can be certain, and in 38 00:03:11,395 --> 00:03:14,035 Speaker 1: the video there is only one officer standing in an 39 00:03:14,035 --> 00:03:27,435 Speaker 1: open vestibule blocking them from attacking that senator. The Department 40 00:03:27,435 --> 00:03:30,275 Speaker 1: of Justice is going to prove that Jacob Chanceley, the 41 00:03:30,355 --> 00:03:33,275 Speaker 1: Q shaman, was as guilty as he said he was 42 00:03:33,435 --> 00:03:36,595 Speaker 1: in the plea bargain he signed and the sentence he 43 00:03:36,755 --> 00:03:40,835 Speaker 1: accepted fifty five days after his lawyer received the last 44 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:44,075 Speaker 1: of all of the January sixth video. And while it 45 00:03:44,275 --> 00:03:46,755 Speaker 1: is not doing as good a job as say dominion 46 00:03:46,835 --> 00:03:51,275 Speaker 1: voting systems is at destroying Fox Quote News and destroying 47 00:03:51,315 --> 00:03:54,795 Speaker 1: Rupert Murdock and destroying Sean Hannity, and destroying Laura Ingram 48 00:03:54,915 --> 00:03:59,515 Speaker 1: and destroying Susanne Scott and destroying Tucker Carlson, the DOJ 49 00:03:59,835 --> 00:04:03,435 Speaker 1: certainly is doing the best that it can, considering it's 50 00:04:03,435 --> 00:04:07,675 Speaker 1: a government bureaucracy. So far it has proved Tucker Carlson 51 00:04:07,755 --> 00:04:12,595 Speaker 1: lied about Chansley, lied about Chansley's access to exculpatory video 52 00:04:12,715 --> 00:04:16,755 Speaker 1: that wasn't the least bit exculpatory lied about January sixth 53 00:04:16,755 --> 00:04:21,315 Speaker 1: in Toto, and committed with Speaker McCarthy obstruction of justice, 54 00:04:21,355 --> 00:04:24,635 Speaker 1: if not legally, then certainly ethically. And now with the 55 00:04:24,675 --> 00:04:28,035 Speaker 1: release of Bees videos, the DOJ is clearly bolstering that 56 00:04:28,235 --> 00:04:32,875 Speaker 1: latest question, why is Tucker Carlson hiding the January sixth 57 00:04:32,915 --> 00:04:38,155 Speaker 1: video that implicates Jacob Chansley and by extension, implicates Tucker 58 00:04:38,195 --> 00:04:45,075 Speaker 1: Carlson and speaker McCarthy. Carlson's silence on this subject last 59 00:04:45,155 --> 00:04:49,235 Speaker 1: night underscores the bizarre reality that Fox is getting hammered 60 00:04:49,755 --> 00:04:53,995 Speaker 1: on its January sixth video coverage by the right wing. 61 00:04:54,875 --> 00:04:58,675 Speaker 1: It was calculated that the Newsmax channel has covered Fox's 62 00:04:58,675 --> 00:05:04,035 Speaker 1: coverage at seven times the frequency Fox has. Newsmax has 63 00:05:04,075 --> 00:05:08,635 Speaker 1: accused Fox of a cover up. Twitter was full last 64 00:05:08,715 --> 00:05:12,035 Speaker 1: night with confused Tucker Carlson viewers who do not understand 65 00:05:12,115 --> 00:05:16,115 Speaker 1: they are Tuckers, suckers in the manipulation game that is 66 00:05:16,315 --> 00:05:21,315 Speaker 1: Fox quote news unquote, They wrote with almost pitiable confusion 67 00:05:21,435 --> 00:05:23,915 Speaker 1: to him, asking where the rest of the video is. 68 00:05:24,835 --> 00:05:27,395 Speaker 1: These are the people, after all, whom a former Tucker 69 00:05:27,435 --> 00:05:31,595 Speaker 1: Carlson producer named Alex Feiffer compared dealing with to quote 70 00:05:31,995 --> 00:05:37,075 Speaker 1: like negotiating with terrorists, but especially dumb ones, cousin effing 71 00:05:37,235 --> 00:05:43,475 Speaker 1: types unquote absent a reliable source inside an organization that 72 00:05:43,515 --> 00:05:47,915 Speaker 1: always fires, reliable sources to say what has happened inside 73 00:05:47,915 --> 00:05:52,595 Speaker 1: Fox is speculative at best. You and I would probably 74 00:05:52,595 --> 00:05:54,875 Speaker 1: look at the new videos released by the Department of 75 00:05:54,915 --> 00:05:59,315 Speaker 1: Justice and flinch and maybe hope, oh never mentioning any 76 00:05:59,355 --> 00:06:02,555 Speaker 1: of it ever again might make the DOJ also stop 77 00:06:02,635 --> 00:06:08,235 Speaker 1: mentioning how dishonest we were ever again. Tucker Carlson could 78 00:06:08,275 --> 00:06:10,915 Speaker 1: be showing self restraint, I suppose, but that would be 79 00:06:10,955 --> 00:06:14,115 Speaker 1: a first. This is a guy who, as late as 80 00:06:14,155 --> 00:06:18,595 Speaker 1: two ten opened a website using my name and personally 81 00:06:18,635 --> 00:06:21,755 Speaker 1: took my name as his email address at that website, 82 00:06:21,955 --> 00:06:24,795 Speaker 1: and when a not too bright columnist from the Philadelphia 83 00:06:24,875 --> 00:06:27,595 Speaker 1: Daily News sent an email full of questions to me 84 00:06:27,955 --> 00:06:32,795 Speaker 1: to that address, Carlson posed as me, answered the questions 85 00:06:32,835 --> 00:06:35,075 Speaker 1: in a way designed to get my boss to fire 86 00:06:35,115 --> 00:06:37,515 Speaker 1: me and insult my boss, whom he did not like, 87 00:06:38,155 --> 00:06:41,595 Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia guy printed the answers as if they 88 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,875 Speaker 1: had been from me. Chucker Carlson congratulated himself on the 89 00:06:45,955 --> 00:06:49,675 Speaker 1: identity theft, never once stopping to think that to do so, 90 00:06:50,355 --> 00:06:52,235 Speaker 1: he had to admit that he went to the trouble 91 00:06:52,235 --> 00:06:54,795 Speaker 1: of setting up an entire website so he could pretend 92 00:06:54,835 --> 00:06:58,395 Speaker 1: for just a few fleeting minutes. But he was not 93 00:06:58,715 --> 00:07:04,355 Speaker 1: merely Tucker Carlson, but that he was me. I mean, 94 00:07:04,715 --> 00:07:09,035 Speaker 1: wouldn't even do that anyway. Other factors could have caused 95 00:07:09,075 --> 00:07:12,315 Speaker 1: Carlson to turntail and run about January sixth, That's clearly 96 00:07:12,355 --> 00:07:15,675 Speaker 1: he has the non Fox reaction to his video. Gas 97 00:07:15,715 --> 00:07:18,915 Speaker 1: Lighting is the last thing Rupert Murdoch needs. With the 98 00:07:19,035 --> 00:07:22,075 Speaker 1: Dominion lawsuits still in full flower, we do not know 99 00:07:22,675 --> 00:07:25,835 Speaker 1: if there is a fourth tranch of Fox texts and 100 00:07:25,995 --> 00:07:29,875 Speaker 1: emails and other self owns being sorted right now by 101 00:07:29,915 --> 00:07:33,915 Speaker 1: the best damned defamation attorneys in the world. But even 102 00:07:33,915 --> 00:07:37,115 Speaker 1: if there isn't, there is an ongoing legal fight over 103 00:07:37,155 --> 00:07:41,835 Speaker 1: the Fox redactions from the first three tranches. If Dominion 104 00:07:41,875 --> 00:07:44,835 Speaker 1: gets a judge to order all of those transcripts released 105 00:07:44,835 --> 00:07:49,515 Speaker 1: again without those black boxes, it'll be like having three 106 00:07:49,635 --> 00:07:52,995 Speaker 1: Christmases in two weeks and then surprise, you give back 107 00:07:53,035 --> 00:07:56,275 Speaker 1: all the gifts and Satah hands you upgrades on every 108 00:07:56,475 --> 00:08:02,115 Speaker 1: single one of them. The answer may actually be legal action, 109 00:08:02,235 --> 00:08:06,395 Speaker 1: but not directed against Carlson for obstruction of justice dammit, 110 00:08:06,675 --> 00:08:10,475 Speaker 1: nor Murdock for defaming Dominion. But late last week, to 111 00:08:10,635 --> 00:08:14,355 Speaker 1: little fanfare, the New York State Supreme Court refused to 112 00:08:14,555 --> 00:08:18,315 Speaker 1: throw out the second defamation suit against Fox by a 113 00:08:18,435 --> 00:08:20,955 Speaker 1: voting machine company, and believe it or not, the one 114 00:08:21,035 --> 00:08:24,715 Speaker 1: by dominion was considered the lesser of the two. It 115 00:08:25,195 --> 00:08:30,635 Speaker 1: merely asked for a billion six in damages. Smartmadock Sgo 116 00:08:30,795 --> 00:08:34,315 Speaker 1: Group is suing for two point seven, and it is 117 00:08:34,315 --> 00:08:39,035 Speaker 1: suing Fox and Maria Barterromo by name and lou Dobbs 118 00:08:39,115 --> 00:08:42,315 Speaker 1: by name and Rudy Giuliani by name, because not only 119 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:45,755 Speaker 1: did they accuse Smartmadoc of altering votes in twenty twenty, 120 00:08:45,955 --> 00:08:50,835 Speaker 1: but Fox regularly said Smart Maddock was a Venezuelan company 121 00:08:51,155 --> 00:08:54,475 Speaker 1: in coots with various foreign governments, when in fact Smartmadock 122 00:08:54,555 --> 00:08:59,475 Speaker 1: was created in that far off exotic land, Boca Ratone, Florida. 123 00:09:01,195 --> 00:09:04,555 Speaker 1: As with any sudden dead stop like this, Carlson and 124 00:09:04,755 --> 00:09:07,195 Speaker 1: Hannity and Ingram and who knows, maybe the Department of 125 00:09:07,235 --> 00:09:10,915 Speaker 1: Justice may have seen it coming and buckled up, but 126 00:09:11,075 --> 00:09:15,195 Speaker 1: lots of other people didn't. And there is windshield trinkle 127 00:09:15,315 --> 00:09:18,595 Speaker 1: all over the country. There are still some people fully 128 00:09:18,635 --> 00:09:21,395 Speaker 1: invested in the Carlson McCarthy video scam, and the next 129 00:09:21,435 --> 00:09:24,035 Speaker 1: question needs to be what, if anything, can be done 130 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: about those outside of Fox who were or are still 131 00:09:27,835 --> 00:09:31,835 Speaker 1: promulgating and spreading Tucker Carlson's attempt to interfere with the 132 00:09:31,915 --> 00:09:36,635 Speaker 1: prosecution of insurrectionists and terrorists, those who informally or otherwise 133 00:09:36,995 --> 00:09:43,475 Speaker 1: joined Tucker Carlson's obstruction of justice brigade. After four days 134 00:09:43,515 --> 00:09:48,315 Speaker 1: of non stop bleeding about this, virtually every Republican congressman 135 00:09:48,395 --> 00:09:50,955 Speaker 1: who had picked up the Carlson videos and ran with 136 00:09:51,035 --> 00:09:55,235 Speaker 1: them punted on it faster than he did. Kevin McCarthy 137 00:09:55,235 --> 00:09:58,155 Speaker 1: said on Fox Sunday morning that the January sixth committee 138 00:09:58,235 --> 00:10:02,315 Speaker 1: was not truthful. That was it. He has said nothing since. 139 00:10:02,875 --> 00:10:04,995 Speaker 1: You may have seen that. After a series of Elon 140 00:10:05,155 --> 00:10:09,195 Speaker 1: Musk tweets reading free Jacob Chansley and insisting January sixth, 141 00:10:09,195 --> 00:10:12,595 Speaker 1: who was just a guided tour, I retweeted him and 142 00:10:12,715 --> 00:10:15,835 Speaker 1: asked readers to report one of those tweets as the 143 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:20,475 Speaker 1: denial of a violent act. Musk escalated by replying to me, 144 00:10:20,875 --> 00:10:24,755 Speaker 1: have you considered a career in comedy? I escalated again 145 00:10:24,795 --> 00:10:28,315 Speaker 1: by answering, have you ever considered a career in business? 146 00:10:29,195 --> 00:10:33,355 Speaker 1: Saturday night came Musk's reply on Twitter. I do hope 147 00:10:33,395 --> 00:10:37,155 Speaker 1: to succeed in business with a fingers crossed emoji, which 148 00:10:37,275 --> 00:10:42,115 Speaker 1: was not only not about Jacob Chansley or January sixth 149 00:10:42,155 --> 00:10:46,115 Speaker 1: in the slightest, but was definitely a d escalation was 150 00:10:46,195 --> 00:10:51,435 Speaker 1: almost endearing and was kind of funny. And Musk hasn't 151 00:10:51,435 --> 00:10:58,715 Speaker 1: tweeted a thing about January sixth since only doctor Paul Gozar, 152 00:10:59,355 --> 00:11:03,875 Speaker 1: the Arizona congressman, vibrating with who knows what neurological disease 153 00:11:03,955 --> 00:11:08,475 Speaker 1: delirium amends too much? Meth who knows? Only doctor Paul 154 00:11:08,595 --> 00:11:11,595 Speaker 1: Gozar is still carrying this banner. He got up in 155 00:11:11,635 --> 00:11:14,035 Speaker 1: front of some kids microphone and said he expects the 156 00:11:14,075 --> 00:11:18,875 Speaker 1: House will make criminal referrals for the prosecution of Bizz Cheney, 157 00:11:18,955 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 1: other members of the January sixth committee, some members of 158 00:11:21,955 --> 00:11:28,155 Speaker 1: the military about the investigation. Doctor Gozar's gelatinous stance reminded 159 00:11:28,195 --> 00:11:31,195 Speaker 1: me again of my friend George Carlin's greatest simple joke 160 00:11:31,555 --> 00:11:35,555 Speaker 1: that mathematically, somebody on this planet is the world's worst doctor. 161 00:11:36,515 --> 00:11:39,515 Speaker 1: George would pause and then add, and somebody has an 162 00:11:39,555 --> 00:11:44,675 Speaker 1: appointment to see him tomorrow morning. Doctor Gozar will see 163 00:11:44,675 --> 00:11:49,195 Speaker 1: you soon. It could very well be that tonight at 164 00:11:49,235 --> 00:11:52,115 Speaker 1: eight o'clock, Tucker Carlson goes back to the January six 165 00:11:52,195 --> 00:11:55,475 Speaker 1: tapes and has all three of Jacob Chansley's lawyers on, 166 00:11:56,115 --> 00:11:59,835 Speaker 1: along with Jacob Zuma, Jacob deGrom, and the ghost of 167 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:05,315 Speaker 1: Jacob Marley. But barring that, I had two more flashbacks. Yeah, 168 00:12:05,355 --> 00:12:08,075 Speaker 1: I have a lot of flashbacks. I've told you, add 169 00:12:08,155 --> 00:12:10,875 Speaker 1: nauseum here about the day the chairman of General Electric 170 00:12:11,155 --> 00:12:15,155 Speaker 1: threatened to shut down MSNBC if we mentioned Fox again, 171 00:12:15,275 --> 00:12:21,035 Speaker 1: and Fox mentioned him again. So we simply didn't mention 172 00:12:21,155 --> 00:12:25,835 Speaker 1: Fox again four weeks in hopes that nobody would notice, 173 00:12:26,515 --> 00:12:31,635 Speaker 1: and largely nobody noticed until I broke the truth. Sorry, 174 00:12:32,515 --> 00:12:36,955 Speaker 1: and even more relevantly, this popped into my head. I 175 00:12:37,075 --> 00:12:39,555 Speaker 1: happened to be at the nineteen eighty Winter Olympics in 176 00:12:39,635 --> 00:12:41,675 Speaker 1: Lake Placid, at the height of the Cold War with 177 00:12:41,715 --> 00:12:45,635 Speaker 1: the Soviet Union, at perhaps the hour where it seemed 178 00:12:45,755 --> 00:12:48,395 Speaker 1: the most like we were not winning the Cold War. 179 00:12:49,315 --> 00:12:52,435 Speaker 1: The world's media had been housed rather well, I thought. 180 00:12:52,795 --> 00:12:56,915 Speaker 1: In Lake Placid High School. My employers, United Press International 181 00:12:56,995 --> 00:12:59,155 Speaker 1: took over the chemistry lab, which was great because if 182 00:12:59,155 --> 00:13:02,355 Speaker 1: you opened the window of our little sub office for 183 00:13:02,395 --> 00:13:06,035 Speaker 1: the radio network, you were literally leading over the Olympic 184 00:13:06,115 --> 00:13:09,235 Speaker 1: skating oval on which Eric Hayden won his five gold 185 00:13:09,275 --> 00:13:14,795 Speaker 1: medals in nine days. The Soviet news agency Tasks had 186 00:13:14,835 --> 00:13:19,075 Speaker 1: perhaps a better location in the media center. Still, Tasks 187 00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:24,235 Speaker 1: was next to the school lunch room. The cafeteria turned 188 00:13:24,275 --> 00:13:27,475 Speaker 1: into the media dining room with some of the best 189 00:13:27,595 --> 00:13:31,555 Speaker 1: food I have had in my life. If you were hungry, 190 00:13:31,955 --> 00:13:34,755 Speaker 1: and we were all hungry because the food was that good, 191 00:13:35,075 --> 00:13:38,435 Speaker 1: you necessarily had to walk right past the Task Bureau, 192 00:13:38,715 --> 00:13:44,715 Speaker 1: a beehive of dozens of journalists. I guess. Then the 193 00:13:44,835 --> 00:13:48,075 Speaker 1: United States Olympic hockey team beat the Russians on Friday 194 00:13:48,155 --> 00:13:51,275 Speaker 1: February twenty second. When we all got back to the 195 00:13:51,315 --> 00:13:54,315 Speaker 1: media Center for the great dining room breakfast of Saturday 196 00:13:54,355 --> 00:13:58,075 Speaker 1: February twenty third, there was a crowd outside the now 197 00:13:58,235 --> 00:14:03,915 Speaker 1: locked door of the now unlit Task newsroom. Everybody was 198 00:14:03,995 --> 00:14:08,835 Speaker 1: reading this sign, handmade and taped on the door by 199 00:14:08,875 --> 00:14:16,635 Speaker 1: the handle. It read closed are we? Witnesses reported that 200 00:14:16,675 --> 00:14:20,235 Speaker 1: the Task team, every last one of them, and every 201 00:14:20,275 --> 00:14:22,995 Speaker 1: Soviet athlete not competing in the last two days of 202 00:14:23,035 --> 00:14:26,555 Speaker 1: the Olympics, had been trundled away in the middle of 203 00:14:26,555 --> 00:14:31,035 Speaker 1: the night back to Russia. Russia, where today they happen 204 00:14:31,115 --> 00:14:33,515 Speaker 1: to love Tucker Carlson, and where today it may be 205 00:14:33,595 --> 00:14:36,635 Speaker 1: the case that, as far as any more, January sixth 206 00:14:36,635 --> 00:14:40,795 Speaker 1: gas lighting or January sixth dire threats are just January 207 00:14:40,795 --> 00:14:44,275 Speaker 1: sixth box coverage that may all be summed up by 208 00:14:44,275 --> 00:15:03,795 Speaker 1: those same three words closed. Are we still ahead of us? 209 00:15:03,795 --> 00:15:05,915 Speaker 1: In this edition? Account down? You heard it correctly? A 210 00:15:05,995 --> 00:15:10,635 Speaker 1: South Carolina state legislator and twenty one co sponsors have 211 00:15:10,835 --> 00:15:15,395 Speaker 1: taken their madness to the final inevitable step for women 212 00:15:15,435 --> 00:15:19,995 Speaker 1: who get an abortion. They want the death penalty. That's right. 213 00:15:20,115 --> 00:15:24,395 Speaker 1: If you're not pro life, we will kill you. Credit 214 00:15:24,435 --> 00:15:27,235 Speaker 1: where credit is due. An obscure pitcher from an obscure 215 00:15:27,275 --> 00:15:30,195 Speaker 1: team does so well at the World Baseball Classic he 216 00:15:30,235 --> 00:15:33,715 Speaker 1: gets a contract from a big league club on his 217 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:36,995 Speaker 1: way to the locker room. This is the World Baseball 218 00:15:37,035 --> 00:15:39,475 Speaker 1: Classic where one of the players from Great Britain saw 219 00:15:39,475 --> 00:15:45,515 Speaker 1: the first t fall off his uniform. Yesterday literally, speaking 220 00:15:45,515 --> 00:15:47,835 Speaker 1: of Great Britain, the BBC came down like a ton 221 00:15:47,875 --> 00:15:50,995 Speaker 1: of bricks on its star sportscaster Gary Lineker for having 222 00:15:50,995 --> 00:15:54,875 Speaker 1: had the nerve to call fascists in the British government fascists. 223 00:15:55,675 --> 00:15:58,115 Speaker 1: Three days later, they had to remove each of those 224 00:15:58,155 --> 00:16:01,075 Speaker 1: bricks one by one hit themselves in the head with 225 00:16:01,155 --> 00:16:05,475 Speaker 1: them and reinstate the sportscaster and once again, and I 226 00:16:05,555 --> 00:16:08,195 Speaker 1: have a lot of flashbacks. I flash back to the 227 00:16:08,195 --> 00:16:12,395 Speaker 1: weekend that MSNBC tried that stunt with me, wound up 228 00:16:12,435 --> 00:16:17,035 Speaker 1: having to unsuspend me, just like Linaker, things I promised 229 00:16:17,035 --> 00:16:20,355 Speaker 1: not to tell. Coming up. That's next. This is countdown, 230 00:16:27,475 --> 00:16:30,915 Speaker 1: you know, this is countdown with you know, Keith Olberman, 231 00:16:33,835 --> 00:16:37,155 Speaker 1: poet scripts to the news, some headlines, some updates, some snarks, 232 00:16:37,155 --> 00:16:40,995 Speaker 1: some prediction. Stateline, Columbia, South Carolina, Well this was inevitable, 233 00:16:40,995 --> 00:16:44,675 Speaker 1: but death penalty for women who have abortions. That is 234 00:16:44,715 --> 00:16:48,675 Speaker 1: in the bill proposed by South Carolina State Representative Rob Harris, 235 00:16:49,075 --> 00:16:54,395 Speaker 1: the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of twenty twenty three. 236 00:16:54,675 --> 00:16:59,115 Speaker 1: Representative Harris is a registered nurse, better check on his 237 00:16:59,155 --> 00:17:02,675 Speaker 1: patients and a member of the State Freedom Caucus, and 238 00:17:02,755 --> 00:17:06,715 Speaker 1: he's not alone on this bill has twenty one co sponsors. 239 00:17:07,275 --> 00:17:11,795 Speaker 1: The South Carolina National Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mace, who says 240 00:17:11,795 --> 00:17:14,835 Speaker 1: she was raped at sixteen, has slammed this bill as 241 00:17:14,915 --> 00:17:17,835 Speaker 1: quote deeply disturbing and goes on to blame it on 242 00:17:17,875 --> 00:17:22,915 Speaker 1: a lack of bipartisan leadership from Washington. No, Congresswoman, this 243 00:17:22,995 --> 00:17:26,315 Speaker 1: is the fault of the Republican Party, your party, and 244 00:17:26,395 --> 00:17:31,475 Speaker 1: the corruption of the Supreme Court. Congratulations, Congresswoman Mace, You're 245 00:17:31,515 --> 00:17:33,915 Speaker 1: part of the group that has now made the ultimate 246 00:17:34,075 --> 00:17:42,235 Speaker 1: all lives matter, pro life statement. Kill women and date 247 00:17:42,275 --> 00:17:45,115 Speaker 1: line Hudson Yards, New York, taking anything you read in 248 00:17:45,155 --> 00:17:47,915 Speaker 1: the New York Post with a carload of salt, especially 249 00:17:47,915 --> 00:17:51,555 Speaker 1: anything in the page six gossip column. It reports there 250 00:17:51,635 --> 00:17:55,675 Speaker 1: is quote already chatter unquote that CNN chairman and former 251 00:17:55,755 --> 00:18:00,155 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough henchman Chris Licht will be quote out by 252 00:18:00,315 --> 00:18:05,075 Speaker 1: labor Day. The paper, which again does make up quotes, 253 00:18:05,715 --> 00:18:09,595 Speaker 1: quotes an insider as saying he hates the job and 254 00:18:09,795 --> 00:18:14,835 Speaker 1: can't do it well. Last part's obviously true. It also 255 00:18:14,915 --> 00:18:17,755 Speaker 1: covers its ass by saying that Licked may not be 256 00:18:17,875 --> 00:18:20,675 Speaker 1: fired because it would make his boss, David zas Laugh 257 00:18:20,795 --> 00:18:23,995 Speaker 1: look bad for hiring him. But of course Zaslav looks 258 00:18:23,995 --> 00:18:28,315 Speaker 1: bad now anyway, How could he fire Licked? He fired Licked, 259 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:31,435 Speaker 1: how would lickt be able to afford paste? And of 260 00:18:31,435 --> 00:18:35,595 Speaker 1: course we're leaving out one other option. Lit could turn 261 00:18:35,635 --> 00:18:39,515 Speaker 1: around his year of unparalleled failure and make CNN into 262 00:18:39,595 --> 00:19:14,875 Speaker 1: a success. Thank you, Nancy Faust. This is Sports Center. 263 00:19:15,315 --> 00:19:22,155 Speaker 1: Wait check that in not anymore. This is Countdown with 264 00:19:22,435 --> 00:19:26,115 Speaker 1: Keith Alberman in sports first big move of the NFL 265 00:19:26,235 --> 00:19:29,635 Speaker 1: free agent off season, ESPN is reporting that the Raiders 266 00:19:29,915 --> 00:19:33,275 Speaker 1: have signed away quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo from the forty nine Ers. 267 00:19:33,275 --> 00:19:37,155 Speaker 1: It's three years, sixty seven and a half million dollars. Now, 268 00:19:37,155 --> 00:19:40,035 Speaker 1: the way contracts work in the National Football League, the 269 00:19:40,075 --> 00:19:42,795 Speaker 1: actual guaranteed part of that sixty seven and a half 270 00:19:42,835 --> 00:19:46,075 Speaker 1: million could be as low as three dollars and ninety 271 00:19:46,115 --> 00:19:50,235 Speaker 1: eight cents. Trevor Bauer, cut loose by Baseball's LA Dodgers 272 00:19:50,235 --> 00:19:53,795 Speaker 1: after accusations of assault ranging up to fracturing a woman's 273 00:19:53,835 --> 00:19:57,915 Speaker 1: skull during violent sex as reportedly signed with the Yokohama 274 00:19:57,995 --> 00:20:02,315 Speaker 1: Bass Stars of Japan's Central League for three million dollars 275 00:20:02,315 --> 00:20:04,875 Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty three season. The Dodgers will I'll 276 00:20:04,875 --> 00:20:08,635 Speaker 1: have to pay him twenty two million dollars this season anyway. Bauer, 277 00:20:08,675 --> 00:20:12,635 Speaker 1: who apart from the grotesque accusations, is behaving here like 278 00:20:12,715 --> 00:20:16,515 Speaker 1: a profoundly unstable individual, was the National League Cy Young 279 00:20:16,555 --> 00:20:19,075 Speaker 1: Award winner in twenty twenty, but has not pitched since 280 00:20:19,075 --> 00:20:22,035 Speaker 1: he was suspended at the end of June twenty twenty one. 281 00:20:22,395 --> 00:20:25,795 Speaker 1: It is flatly hard to believe that the Japanese will 282 00:20:25,875 --> 00:20:29,195 Speaker 1: let him pitch there either. I'm still hoping for the 283 00:20:29,235 --> 00:20:31,795 Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic to go away, but this is a 284 00:20:31,875 --> 00:20:35,275 Speaker 1: nice story. Twenty one year old pitcher Duque Aber of 285 00:20:35,435 --> 00:20:41,235 Speaker 1: Nicaragua struck out Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, and Raphael Devers 286 00:20:41,275 --> 00:20:43,955 Speaker 1: of the Dominican Republic in one inning in the game 287 00:20:43,995 --> 00:20:48,195 Speaker 1: at Miami yesterday. Abear's never pitched in American professional baseball. 288 00:20:48,435 --> 00:20:51,235 Speaker 1: That's now going to change. Right after that game, a 289 00:20:51,235 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: Detroit Tiger's scout offered a Bear a contract, and he 290 00:20:54,755 --> 00:20:58,555 Speaker 1: signed it. And one of the first and only characters 291 00:20:58,635 --> 00:21:00,675 Speaker 1: ever to play for the New York Yankees first baseman 292 00:21:00,715 --> 00:21:04,435 Speaker 1: outfielder Joe peppettone, has died. A Brooklyn native, he took 293 00:21:04,435 --> 00:21:07,475 Speaker 1: over the Yankees first base job in nineteen sixty three 294 00:21:07,515 --> 00:21:09,835 Speaker 1: and hit one hundred and four homers over the next 295 00:21:09,835 --> 00:21:13,595 Speaker 1: four seasons, making three All Star teams and winning two 296 00:21:13,675 --> 00:21:16,435 Speaker 1: Gold Glove Awards at first base. But in nineteen sixty 297 00:21:16,435 --> 00:21:19,075 Speaker 1: eight he agreed to move to center field so that 298 00:21:19,115 --> 00:21:22,835 Speaker 1: the aging Yankee immortal Mickey Mantle could switch to first 299 00:21:22,835 --> 00:21:26,155 Speaker 1: base to save his knees. He promptly won a Gold 300 00:21:26,195 --> 00:21:29,715 Speaker 1: Glove in the outfield in nineteen sixty nine. But Pepperton's 301 00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:32,355 Speaker 1: immortality came from stories told about him in the book 302 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:34,875 Speaker 1: written by his Yankee team mate Jim Boughton. Ball four 303 00:21:35,555 --> 00:21:38,195 Speaker 1: how terrified of losing the ball in the glare of 304 00:21:38,235 --> 00:21:41,635 Speaker 1: the October's sun at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. He 305 00:21:41,715 --> 00:21:45,235 Speaker 1: actually once shook off a pickoff throw during the nineteen 306 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:49,235 Speaker 1: sixty three World Series. Bouton also insisted Peppertone may have 307 00:21:49,315 --> 00:21:52,035 Speaker 1: been the first major league player to wear a two 308 00:21:52,115 --> 00:21:58,235 Speaker 1: pay during games, and moreover, Peppertone continued to pretend it 309 00:21:58,275 --> 00:22:00,515 Speaker 1: was his real hair, going to the extreme of using 310 00:22:00,555 --> 00:22:03,915 Speaker 1: a hair dryer on it in the Yankee Clubhouse. Bouton 311 00:22:03,995 --> 00:22:06,435 Speaker 1: wrote that his teammates had enough of that and pranked 312 00:22:06,475 --> 00:22:11,475 Speaker 1: Peppy once by filling the hair dryer with Talcolm powder. 313 00:22:11,995 --> 00:22:15,235 Speaker 1: And the next thing you knew, it was Christmas. Joe 314 00:22:15,235 --> 00:22:32,915 Speaker 1: Peppertone was eighty two piece. Joe pep I had Gary 315 00:22:32,995 --> 00:22:37,435 Speaker 1: Lennaker beats. The BBC gets himself unsuspended, and I flashed 316 00:22:37,435 --> 00:22:41,595 Speaker 1: back to the day. MSNBC suspended me indefinitely without pay, 317 00:22:41,995 --> 00:22:44,315 Speaker 1: and four days later I was back on the air 318 00:22:45,315 --> 00:22:48,715 Speaker 1: with pay, in fact, more money than they had originally 319 00:22:48,715 --> 00:22:50,955 Speaker 1: intended to pay me things I promised not to tell. 320 00:22:50,995 --> 00:22:53,275 Speaker 1: Coming up first time for the daily roundup of the 321 00:22:53,275 --> 00:22:56,355 Speaker 1: miss grints, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 322 00:22:56,395 --> 00:23:01,475 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world lebrons. Andy Kessler, who 323 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:05,115 Speaker 1: writes for the deplorable Wall Street Journal, playing to his 324 00:23:05,155 --> 00:23:08,755 Speaker 1: readers why the Silicon Valley Bank went under. Quote in 325 00:23:08,875 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: its proxy statement, SVB notes that besides ninety one percent 326 00:23:12,595 --> 00:23:15,915 Speaker 1: of their board being independent and forty five percent women, 327 00:23:15,955 --> 00:23:20,875 Speaker 1: they also have quote one black, quote one LGBTQ plus 328 00:23:20,875 --> 00:23:24,835 Speaker 1: and quote two veterans. I'm not saying twelve white men 329 00:23:24,955 --> 00:23:27,355 Speaker 1: would have avoided this mess, but the company may have 330 00:23:27,355 --> 00:23:33,115 Speaker 1: been distracted by diversity demands unquote. Guess what, jerk wad. 331 00:23:33,755 --> 00:23:36,475 Speaker 1: In fact, you are saying twelve white men would have 332 00:23:36,475 --> 00:23:39,595 Speaker 1: avoided this mess. And you're an idiot for saying that. 333 00:23:40,235 --> 00:23:43,795 Speaker 1: Oink runner up Trump, who came out of his cave 334 00:23:43,875 --> 00:23:49,995 Speaker 1: last night to go give a speech in Iowa about education, education, 335 00:23:50,515 --> 00:23:53,235 Speaker 1: the guy who faked his way through Penn and Wharton, 336 00:23:53,915 --> 00:23:56,635 Speaker 1: who was expelled from public school at age thirteen and 337 00:23:56,715 --> 00:23:59,835 Speaker 1: forced to go to the New York Military Academy NIMA. 338 00:24:00,555 --> 00:24:02,915 Speaker 1: What would Trump know about education other than how to 339 00:24:02,995 --> 00:24:08,395 Speaker 1: avoid going to class? But our winners Brian kill Meade 340 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:12,835 Speaker 1: of Fox Quote News on Quote and Florida Governor Ron 341 00:24:13,275 --> 00:24:16,515 Speaker 1: the Fascist. Kill Mead has now been pretending to be 342 00:24:16,555 --> 00:24:20,635 Speaker 1: a journalist for twenty five years. Yesterday he interviewed de Santis, 343 00:24:21,115 --> 00:24:23,875 Speaker 1: who cannot be an actual presidential candidate because to run 344 00:24:23,955 --> 00:24:26,155 Speaker 1: he would have to resign as governor of Florida. He 345 00:24:26,235 --> 00:24:29,355 Speaker 1: hasn't gotten around to repealing that law yet. The two 346 00:24:29,395 --> 00:24:36,595 Speaker 1: did their interview while playing catch, Brian kill me a 347 00:24:36,755 --> 00:24:40,795 Speaker 1: Fox and Ron. To be fair, it is impressive that 348 00:24:40,915 --> 00:24:43,475 Speaker 1: the Santists could do that while wearing his high heels. 349 00:24:43,595 --> 00:25:02,675 Speaker 1: De Santists two days worst Persons and still ahead on countdown. 350 00:25:02,715 --> 00:25:05,835 Speaker 1: Gary Linaker beat the BBC. He preserved his right to 351 00:25:05,875 --> 00:25:09,635 Speaker 1: tweet his political opinions while doing sports, and the BBC 352 00:25:09,835 --> 00:25:12,475 Speaker 1: climbed down was it's going to now review its social 353 00:25:12,515 --> 00:25:15,195 Speaker 1: media policies, and of course, the longer that takes the 354 00:25:15,275 --> 00:25:18,915 Speaker 1: less you will remember they suspended the guy and boy, 355 00:25:19,035 --> 00:25:21,795 Speaker 1: is this deja vu for me? This is exactly what 356 00:25:21,915 --> 00:25:26,075 Speaker 1: happened to me at MSNBC in two ten, except with 357 00:25:26,115 --> 00:25:29,315 Speaker 1: different accents, and they wound up having to apologize to 358 00:25:29,355 --> 00:25:31,395 Speaker 1: me things I promised not to tell. Coming up first 359 00:25:31,395 --> 00:25:33,875 Speaker 1: in each tradition of Countdown, we feature a dog in 360 00:25:33,875 --> 00:25:36,395 Speaker 1: need you can help. Every dog has its day to 361 00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:40,195 Speaker 1: devour California and Sloan, a five year old Great Dane. 362 00:25:40,515 --> 00:25:43,035 Speaker 1: Sloan is a big dog who has a black coat, 363 00:25:43,115 --> 00:25:45,795 Speaker 1: and that is a death warrant. Even though she's docile, 364 00:25:46,115 --> 00:25:48,515 Speaker 1: she's not aggressive. In fact, she's terrified and curled up 365 00:25:48,515 --> 00:25:51,275 Speaker 1: into the fetal position. They'll kill her as fast as 366 00:25:51,275 --> 00:25:54,195 Speaker 1: they can, and she only got there five days ago. 367 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,395 Speaker 1: Our pledges to help defray the costs of a rescue 368 00:25:57,755 --> 00:26:00,155 Speaker 1: to pull her out are her best and maybe her 369 00:26:00,195 --> 00:26:03,195 Speaker 1: only chance to live. If you can pledge, you can 370 00:26:03,235 --> 00:26:06,715 Speaker 1: find Sloan on my Twitter feeds, and your retweets alone 371 00:26:06,795 --> 00:26:10,235 Speaker 1: will also help. I thank you, and Sloan thanks you 372 00:26:23,075 --> 00:26:25,315 Speaker 1: to the number one story on the Countdown Now and 373 00:26:25,395 --> 00:26:27,915 Speaker 1: things I promised not to tell in my favorite topic, 374 00:26:27,995 --> 00:26:31,355 Speaker 1: me and there is no deja vu, like the deja 375 00:26:31,475 --> 00:26:34,155 Speaker 1: vu of seeing something that played out in your public 376 00:26:34,235 --> 00:26:37,955 Speaker 1: life playing out in the public life of a man 377 00:26:38,155 --> 00:26:41,435 Speaker 1: in a similar job, in a similar business, in a 378 00:26:41,555 --> 00:26:46,515 Speaker 1: different country. As I mentioned here yesterday a week ago, today, 379 00:26:46,515 --> 00:26:51,275 Speaker 1: the Home Secretary of the United Kingdom, Suella Braverman, capped 380 00:26:51,315 --> 00:26:56,315 Speaker 1: a decade of increasing British insensitivity to desperate migrants dying 381 00:26:56,395 --> 00:27:00,595 Speaker 1: at their figurative doorstep. Braverman made the stark announcement about 382 00:27:00,595 --> 00:27:04,155 Speaker 1: people trying to cross the English Channel quote enough is enough. 383 00:27:04,715 --> 00:27:07,995 Speaker 1: We must stop the boats. Well actually was going to 384 00:27:08,075 --> 00:27:12,315 Speaker 1: blow them out of the water with torpedoes. Gary Lineker, 385 00:27:12,395 --> 00:27:14,795 Speaker 1: the former British Football World Cup star and now host 386 00:27:14,835 --> 00:27:18,235 Speaker 1: of the Lynchpin BBC Sports telecast Match of the Day, 387 00:27:18,475 --> 00:27:23,435 Speaker 1: retweeted Braverman, adding quote this is awful, and then in 388 00:27:23,475 --> 00:27:27,035 Speaker 1: a second tweet, quote this is just an immeasurably cruel 389 00:27:27,075 --> 00:27:30,035 Speaker 1: policy directed to the most vulnerable people, in language that 390 00:27:30,195 --> 00:27:34,755 Speaker 1: is not dissimilar to that used by Germany in the thirties. Well, 391 00:27:34,755 --> 00:27:38,155 Speaker 1: of course he's right. The BBC, though has been lurching 392 00:27:38,195 --> 00:27:42,155 Speaker 1: to the right for several years or several decades. It 393 00:27:42,235 --> 00:27:44,675 Speaker 1: has a new right wing chairman who is accused of 394 00:27:44,715 --> 00:27:47,955 Speaker 1: helping to arrange a family loan for the former Prime 395 00:27:47,955 --> 00:27:52,115 Speaker 1: Minister Boris Johnson. It lives in mortal daily terror of 396 00:27:52,195 --> 00:27:55,835 Speaker 1: the Conservative Party, which itself desperately wants to eliminate the 397 00:27:55,875 --> 00:27:59,315 Speaker 1: license feed the taxpayers there are charged to keep the 398 00:27:59,355 --> 00:28:02,755 Speaker 1: BBC going. In fact, the Conservative Party wants to eliminate 399 00:28:02,755 --> 00:28:06,835 Speaker 1: the BBC itself or sell it because their conservatives and 400 00:28:06,915 --> 00:28:12,595 Speaker 1: therefore they are fascists. Management immediately responded to this bruhaha 401 00:28:12,715 --> 00:28:16,355 Speaker 1: by announcing Gary Lineker would be stepping back from his 402 00:28:16,475 --> 00:28:18,515 Speaker 1: duties as the host of the Match of the Day 403 00:28:18,555 --> 00:28:22,355 Speaker 1: this past Saturday. And that's TV management speak worldwide for 404 00:28:23,195 --> 00:28:27,955 Speaker 1: a suspended mate. Linaker is not only the highest paid 405 00:28:28,075 --> 00:28:31,995 Speaker 1: sports broadcaster at the BBC, he is its highest paid 406 00:28:31,995 --> 00:28:36,955 Speaker 1: broadcaster of any type. Yet the government somehow thought, despite 407 00:28:36,955 --> 00:28:41,195 Speaker 1: his obvious popularity and being in demand, and then the 408 00:28:41,235 --> 00:28:44,835 Speaker 1: BBC went along with the government, that they could attack Linaker. 409 00:28:44,835 --> 00:28:48,075 Speaker 1: They could claim Linaker made remarks insensitive to Jewish people 410 00:28:48,315 --> 00:28:50,635 Speaker 1: and how dare you call us Nazis even though he 411 00:28:50,675 --> 00:28:53,595 Speaker 1: never mentioned that word, and that Linaker would just fold. 412 00:28:54,875 --> 00:28:58,035 Speaker 1: There is no real comparison to Linaker in this country. 413 00:28:58,355 --> 00:29:01,995 Speaker 1: He's not just a popular commentator or color announcer. He's 414 00:29:02,035 --> 00:29:04,635 Speaker 1: the host. He's the host who used to be the 415 00:29:04,795 --> 00:29:09,635 Speaker 1: star player. I don't know, maybe if Tony Romo was 416 00:29:09,715 --> 00:29:13,555 Speaker 1: the studio host of the NFL on CBS and the 417 00:29:13,595 --> 00:29:17,435 Speaker 1: face of the network Sports division at CBS. When the 418 00:29:17,435 --> 00:29:21,195 Speaker 1: BBC suspended Linacer last Tuesday, it expected he would cave, 419 00:29:21,755 --> 00:29:23,835 Speaker 1: or at worst they would fire him and the government 420 00:29:23,835 --> 00:29:26,875 Speaker 1: would give them, I don't know, an extra ten pounds 421 00:29:26,875 --> 00:29:30,875 Speaker 1: in the budget next year. Instead, all of Gary Lineker's 422 00:29:31,035 --> 00:29:35,435 Speaker 1: on air colleagues, all the other sportscasters covering football for 423 00:29:35,475 --> 00:29:38,275 Speaker 1: the BBC, none of whom makes even a quarter of 424 00:29:38,275 --> 00:29:41,035 Speaker 1: what he does, refused to go on the air without him. 425 00:29:41,235 --> 00:29:44,395 Speaker 1: There were no commentators on Saturday's BBC Match of the 426 00:29:44,435 --> 00:29:49,915 Speaker 1: Day and Sunday's women's broadcasts, and radio broadcasters, no announcers. Moreover, 427 00:29:50,715 --> 00:29:53,315 Speaker 1: Linaker made it clear he was not going to apologize 428 00:29:53,475 --> 00:29:59,355 Speaker 1: or kill the tweet. Yesterday, the BBC unsuspended Linaker. The 429 00:29:59,515 --> 00:30:03,235 Speaker 1: Director General of the BBC, what is this the Pirates 430 00:30:03,235 --> 00:30:06,795 Speaker 1: of Penzance? I am the very model of the modern 431 00:30:06,835 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: director general. The Director General of the BBC said, quote, 432 00:30:11,435 --> 00:30:16,315 Speaker 1: everyone recognizes this has been a difficult period for staff, contributors, presenters, 433 00:30:16,315 --> 00:30:20,755 Speaker 1: and most importantly, our audiences. I apologize for this, Well 434 00:30:20,795 --> 00:30:24,395 Speaker 1: you should. It's your fault to continue the quote. The 435 00:30:24,475 --> 00:30:28,795 Speaker 1: potential confusion caused by the gray areas of the BBC 436 00:30:28,995 --> 00:30:32,995 Speaker 1: social media guidance that was introduced in twenty twenty is recognized. 437 00:30:33,675 --> 00:30:37,435 Speaker 1: I want to get matters resolved at our sport content 438 00:30:37,715 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: back on air. In other words, we're going to take 439 00:30:40,995 --> 00:30:44,635 Speaker 1: this social media rule which we screwed up, and we're 440 00:30:44,635 --> 00:30:47,235 Speaker 1: gonna blame that for all the things we screwed up 441 00:30:47,235 --> 00:30:49,995 Speaker 1: about Gary Lineker, which could have been fixed in about 442 00:30:50,035 --> 00:30:52,595 Speaker 1: an hour and which can now be fixed in about 443 00:30:52,635 --> 00:30:54,755 Speaker 1: an hour, and we're going to make the whole process 444 00:30:54,795 --> 00:30:59,395 Speaker 1: take six or eight weeks, or thirty weeks, or two 445 00:30:59,515 --> 00:31:03,515 Speaker 1: years or a decade, in hopes you'll forget all about this. 446 00:31:04,875 --> 00:31:07,635 Speaker 1: Needless to say, the BBC was promptly attacked by all 447 00:31:07,795 --> 00:31:11,555 Speaker 1: British political parties. Among the main ones, one of them 448 00:31:11,555 --> 00:31:14,555 Speaker 1: complained that they had suspended Linacer and the other one 449 00:31:14,595 --> 00:31:19,715 Speaker 1: complained that they had unsuspended Lineker suspended on Friday. Outrage 450 00:31:19,755 --> 00:31:25,675 Speaker 1: that day worldwide yelling and threats all weekend colleagues refusing 451 00:31:25,675 --> 00:31:28,475 Speaker 1: to go on without him back on the air next Saturday. 452 00:31:28,515 --> 00:31:33,635 Speaker 1: No punishment, no fine, no suspension, just a review. Exactly 453 00:31:33,675 --> 00:31:37,155 Speaker 1: the way it worked out for me and MSNBC more 454 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:39,875 Speaker 1: than a dozen years ago, right down to NBC having 455 00:31:39,915 --> 00:31:43,075 Speaker 1: to do the climb down on a Monday. The only 456 00:31:43,115 --> 00:31:45,915 Speaker 1: difference is I went back on the air not on Saturday, 457 00:31:45,915 --> 00:31:49,555 Speaker 1: but on Tuesday. In November twenty ten, for the third 458 00:31:49,555 --> 00:31:53,915 Speaker 1: consecutive time I anchored the elections for MSNBC. We were 459 00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:57,635 Speaker 1: focused that year entirely on the Senate and the governor's races. 460 00:31:58,075 --> 00:31:59,875 Speaker 1: That made no sense to me, but I didn't make 461 00:31:59,915 --> 00:32:02,515 Speaker 1: that call, but it had been the plan also since 462 00:32:02,515 --> 00:32:05,435 Speaker 1: our first meeting about election night, which happened in August 463 00:32:05,515 --> 00:32:08,395 Speaker 1: or September. Don't discuss the House, or for that matter, 464 00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:12,075 Speaker 1: the Rand Paul blowout win for the Senate in Kentucky. 465 00:32:12,155 --> 00:32:14,315 Speaker 1: So I was at the anchor desk for the mid terms, 466 00:32:14,955 --> 00:32:16,955 Speaker 1: and in seven or eight hours on the year, I 467 00:32:16,955 --> 00:32:21,075 Speaker 1: did not mention one House race or candidate. Everything was fine. 468 00:32:21,395 --> 00:32:25,275 Speaker 1: MSNBC had its best election night ratings ever. And then 469 00:32:25,355 --> 00:32:27,875 Speaker 1: somebody called one of the political websites to say who 470 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:31,475 Speaker 1: Alverman made campaign donations? To some Democrats in the House 471 00:32:31,555 --> 00:32:35,355 Speaker 1: races and did that Democratic senator race in Kentucky, and 472 00:32:35,475 --> 00:32:38,715 Speaker 1: they called NBC public Relations, and NBC public Relations called 473 00:32:38,715 --> 00:32:41,475 Speaker 1: the president of MSNBC, and he called me in my 474 00:32:41,595 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: car on the way home from the show, and I said, yeah, 475 00:32:43,915 --> 00:32:46,195 Speaker 1: it's true. Friend of mine asked me to donate to 476 00:32:46,235 --> 00:32:49,915 Speaker 1: those three campaigns because their candidates had received death threats 477 00:32:49,955 --> 00:32:51,795 Speaker 1: a lot of them, and each of them had gone 478 00:32:51,795 --> 00:32:56,275 Speaker 1: into debt buying extra security. One of them was the 479 00:32:56,355 --> 00:33:00,195 Speaker 1: campaign of Congresswoman Gabby Gifford's and the friend who convinced 480 00:33:00,195 --> 00:33:03,235 Speaker 1: me to donate to her campaign and to try to 481 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:07,275 Speaker 1: buy off some of her security debts was Arizona State 482 00:33:07,355 --> 00:33:12,875 Speaker 1: Representative Kirsten Cinema. So the MSNBC president, who didn't know 483 00:33:12,915 --> 00:33:15,475 Speaker 1: those details, said, this looks bad. I know it's your 484 00:33:15,555 --> 00:33:16,755 Speaker 1: right to do it. It's not like we're going to 485 00:33:16,795 --> 00:33:19,475 Speaker 1: suspend you or anything stupid like that. And this is 486 00:33:19,515 --> 00:33:21,755 Speaker 1: sort of our fault too, but it just looks bad. 487 00:33:21,795 --> 00:33:26,555 Speaker 1: Can you say something, anything you can do? And I said, yeah, 488 00:33:26,595 --> 00:33:29,875 Speaker 1: it does look bad. You're right. I'll apologize on the 489 00:33:29,915 --> 00:33:33,115 Speaker 1: show tomorrow, and I know I don't have to. I'll 490 00:33:33,195 --> 00:33:36,795 Speaker 1: voluntarily stop any campaign contributions as long as I'm doing 491 00:33:37,075 --> 00:33:39,915 Speaker 1: the newscast or the show, or the anchoring of the 492 00:33:39,995 --> 00:33:42,675 Speaker 1: elections or whatever. Let me think about it. And he 493 00:33:42,715 --> 00:33:45,995 Speaker 1: said great, and I said great. And he asked me 494 00:33:45,995 --> 00:33:48,315 Speaker 1: about the Mets. And I went home and wrote the 495 00:33:48,355 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 1: apology that night and I sent it to him and 496 00:33:50,155 --> 00:33:53,395 Speaker 1: he said, that's great, and I said great. And I said, also, 497 00:33:53,395 --> 00:33:55,475 Speaker 1: it's great. I already have part of tomorrow show written. 498 00:33:55,515 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: And that was it. The next morning, without a hearing, 499 00:33:59,675 --> 00:34:02,995 Speaker 1: without a phone call, without an email, without any warning, 500 00:34:03,435 --> 00:34:08,555 Speaker 1: his boss, the president of NBC News, this hysterical teenager 501 00:34:08,675 --> 00:34:13,315 Speaker 1: disguised as an adult named Steve Cappus. Steve Cappus puts 502 00:34:13,315 --> 00:34:16,755 Speaker 1: out a press release in which he angrily suspends me 503 00:34:17,075 --> 00:34:22,715 Speaker 1: indefinitely without pay and specifies it is for violations of 504 00:34:22,795 --> 00:34:27,835 Speaker 1: the NBC News Employee rule Book. The NBC News employee 505 00:34:27,875 --> 00:34:31,875 Speaker 1: rule book says NBC News employees cannot make donations to 506 00:34:32,075 --> 00:34:38,515 Speaker 1: political campaigns. NBC had a huge problem that Steve Cappus 507 00:34:38,595 --> 00:34:42,995 Speaker 1: did not know or intentionally had forgotten number one. Within hours, 508 00:34:42,995 --> 00:34:46,075 Speaker 1: there was a petition on social media demanding my reinstatement. 509 00:34:46,155 --> 00:34:50,915 Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty thousand signatures. Then NBC tried to 510 00:34:50,915 --> 00:34:53,075 Speaker 1: get Chris Hayes to fill in for me that night. 511 00:34:53,475 --> 00:34:55,795 Speaker 1: I have a lot of problems with Chris's work since then, 512 00:34:55,835 --> 00:34:59,075 Speaker 1: but to his eternal credit in my book, he refused 513 00:34:59,115 --> 00:35:01,955 Speaker 1: to sit in for me. He was not under contract then, 514 00:35:02,195 --> 00:35:05,075 Speaker 1: and he told the MSNBC management that suspended me was 515 00:35:05,115 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: stupid and unjustified. Even people at Fox News went on 516 00:35:09,995 --> 00:35:13,075 Speaker 1: the air that night and said this is absurd. I 517 00:35:13,155 --> 00:35:15,875 Speaker 1: believe one of the quotes was, are we supposed to 518 00:35:15,875 --> 00:35:19,675 Speaker 1: be surprised Keith Ulderman is a Democrat? And is he 519 00:35:19,795 --> 00:35:23,155 Speaker 1: not allowed to donate because he does a liberal commentary 520 00:35:23,155 --> 00:35:27,635 Speaker 1: show on a liberal network. Well what they didn't know, though, 521 00:35:27,835 --> 00:35:29,795 Speaker 1: was at NBC there was a lot of shushing and 522 00:35:29,875 --> 00:35:34,875 Speaker 1: worrying because everybody at NBC News made political donations. They 523 00:35:34,995 --> 00:35:38,915 Speaker 1: just hid them by donating in their wife's name or 524 00:35:38,955 --> 00:35:41,475 Speaker 1: the kid's name or whoever. I was the only one 525 00:35:41,475 --> 00:35:45,635 Speaker 1: who'd ever been honest about it. But this guy Cappus 526 00:35:45,755 --> 00:35:48,115 Speaker 1: dug in and demanded that I'd be suspended for a 527 00:35:48,195 --> 00:35:51,755 Speaker 1: month without pay at least. And all this was public 528 00:35:51,795 --> 00:35:54,595 Speaker 1: and well documented, and the next thing I knew that 529 00:35:54,715 --> 00:35:58,715 Speaker 1: petition was disseminated on of all places, Twitter, two hundred 530 00:35:58,715 --> 00:36:03,315 Speaker 1: and fifty thousand signatures before nightfall. What everybody did not 531 00:36:03,515 --> 00:36:07,515 Speaker 1: know was the part that occurred inside thirty Rock. That afternoon, 532 00:36:08,315 --> 00:36:11,635 Speaker 1: NBC lawyers called up this kid, Steve Cappus, and said, 533 00:36:12,035 --> 00:36:15,795 Speaker 1: as I was told you, idiot, have you ever read 534 00:36:15,835 --> 00:36:19,875 Speaker 1: his contract? You suspended him for violating the NBC News 535 00:36:19,955 --> 00:36:25,555 Speaker 1: employee rule book. Listen, Moron Alderman is not an NBC 536 00:36:25,595 --> 00:36:30,315 Speaker 1: News employee. We wrote the contract, so it specifically declares 537 00:36:30,555 --> 00:36:34,795 Speaker 1: several different times, on several different pages, that he is 538 00:36:34,955 --> 00:36:39,995 Speaker 1: not an employee, that he's an independent contractor. Remember, and 539 00:36:40,115 --> 00:36:43,275 Speaker 1: now Cappus screams at the lawyers and he says, why 540 00:36:43,315 --> 00:36:46,915 Speaker 1: did you do that? And the lawyers say, we did 541 00:36:46,955 --> 00:36:51,155 Speaker 1: that us, and you remember you told us that we 542 00:36:51,195 --> 00:36:54,195 Speaker 1: should do that so you could save money from your 543 00:36:54,275 --> 00:36:58,555 Speaker 1: news budget, because if Keith wasn't an NBC News employee, 544 00:36:58,995 --> 00:37:05,275 Speaker 1: you would not have to pay him health insurance and dental. Apparently. 545 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:09,235 Speaker 1: There was then a very long silence, followed by the 546 00:37:09,315 --> 00:37:13,635 Speaker 1: repeated use of the phrase breached the contract, and the 547 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:17,795 Speaker 1: lawyers saying there were now four options for Cappus, one reinstate, 548 00:37:17,835 --> 00:37:21,275 Speaker 1: the non employee immediately and hope we don't get sued 549 00:37:21,275 --> 00:37:25,995 Speaker 1: by him to reinstate the non employee, immediately, apologize and 550 00:37:26,115 --> 00:37:30,435 Speaker 1: write a new contract. Three end the show, pay the 551 00:37:30,515 --> 00:37:34,155 Speaker 1: non employee the fifteen or sixteen million dollars you owe 552 00:37:34,235 --> 00:37:36,755 Speaker 1: him for the remainder of the contract, and hope we 553 00:37:36,795 --> 00:37:40,435 Speaker 1: don't get sued for damages beyond that. Or four, throw 554 00:37:40,475 --> 00:37:43,115 Speaker 1: a lot of money in the air at him and 555 00:37:43,195 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: negotiate a settlement and end the show in the short term. 556 00:37:47,835 --> 00:37:50,035 Speaker 1: What happened was they told me on a Friday I 557 00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:53,715 Speaker 1: was suspended. On Tuesday, I was back on the air, 558 00:37:53,995 --> 00:37:57,635 Speaker 1: and just like at UPI, they couldn't even dock my 559 00:37:57,835 --> 00:38:01,355 Speaker 1: pay or charge me days off for Friday or Monday. 560 00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:07,595 Speaker 1: I got a four day weekend WRONS, making this even wilder. 561 00:38:07,995 --> 00:38:13,315 Speaker 1: Hours after I was non suspended, Al Gore called me. 562 00:38:13,835 --> 00:38:17,195 Speaker 1: Al owned a struggling TV network called Current and he said, 563 00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:20,395 Speaker 1: what NBC doing is illegal, and if you sue them, 564 00:38:20,435 --> 00:38:22,115 Speaker 1: you could own the place. But I think I have 565 00:38:22,155 --> 00:38:24,235 Speaker 1: a better idea that can be the start of something big. 566 00:38:24,515 --> 00:38:28,395 Speaker 1: Bring countdown to Current TV. We'll give you fifty million 567 00:38:28,435 --> 00:38:32,155 Speaker 1: dollars plus bonuses, plus a piece of the network you'll 568 00:38:32,395 --> 00:38:38,195 Speaker 1: be an owner. Well, that didn't work out from a 569 00:38:38,235 --> 00:38:41,875 Speaker 1: programming sense, kind of worked out from a money sense. 570 00:38:56,395 --> 00:38:58,395 Speaker 1: I don't know where campus is now. Wait a minute, 571 00:38:58,475 --> 00:38:59,795 Speaker 1: let me open the door here and see if I 572 00:38:59,835 --> 00:39:06,955 Speaker 1: can hear some shrill girl like screaming nothing. He's probably 573 00:39:06,955 --> 00:39:10,475 Speaker 1: a professor somewhere. I hope it's at a free school. 574 00:39:10,675 --> 00:39:12,635 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 575 00:39:12,675 --> 00:39:14,755 Speaker 1: you for listening. Countdown has come to you from the 576 00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:18,755 Speaker 1: studios of the Olderman Broadcasting Empire, high atop its headquarters 577 00:39:18,795 --> 00:39:23,035 Speaker 1: in the Sports Capsule Building here in New York. Here 578 00:39:23,075 --> 00:39:26,635 Speaker 1: are our credits. Most of the music you've heard was arranged, 579 00:39:26,675 --> 00:39:29,555 Speaker 1: produced and performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, 580 00:39:29,795 --> 00:39:33,515 Speaker 1: who are the Countdown musical directors. Produced by Tko Brothers. 581 00:39:33,835 --> 00:39:37,795 Speaker 1: All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Channel, guitars, bass 582 00:39:37,835 --> 00:39:41,315 Speaker 1: and drums by Brian Ray. Other Beethoven selections have been 583 00:39:41,395 --> 00:39:45,075 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The 584 00:39:45,155 --> 00:39:48,595 Speaker 1: sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. It 585 00:39:48,635 --> 00:39:51,555 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 586 00:39:51,715 --> 00:39:53,795 Speaker 1: Though I should call the BBC and ask them if 587 00:39:53,795 --> 00:39:55,635 Speaker 1: they'll let me use the match of the day theme, 588 00:39:56,515 --> 00:40:00,075 Speaker 1: musical comments from Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. 589 00:40:00,395 --> 00:40:03,555 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was Richard Lewis. Everything else is pretty 590 00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:06,395 Speaker 1: much my fault. So that's countdown for this the seven 591 00:40:06,635 --> 00:40:10,595 Speaker 1: ninety eighth day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against 592 00:40:10,595 --> 00:40:13,835 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government at the United States. Arrest him 593 00:40:13,875 --> 00:40:18,235 Speaker 1: now while we still can. The next schedule countdown is tomorrow, 594 00:40:18,275 --> 00:40:20,875 Speaker 1: So until then, on Keith Alderman, good morning, good afternoon, 595 00:40:20,915 --> 00:40:35,315 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Alderman is 596 00:40:35,315 --> 00:40:40,155 Speaker 1: a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit 597 00:40:40,195 --> 00:40:44,835 Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.