1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,515 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. After 2 00:00:21,635 --> 00:00:27,155 Speaker 1: his demented, prejudiced heroxism at the National Association of Black 3 00:00:27,235 --> 00:00:31,235 Speaker 1: Journalists event in Chicago yesterday, as he signaled the start 4 00:00:31,355 --> 00:00:36,955 Speaker 1: of his full on, hateful, disgusting, apartheid and slavery level 5 00:00:37,035 --> 00:00:42,715 Speaker 1: appalling campaign of birtherism and racism, Donald Trump must withdraw 6 00:00:42,875 --> 00:00:48,315 Speaker 1: from the presidential election and be committed for psychiatric institutionalization, 7 00:00:49,835 --> 00:00:53,875 Speaker 1: or be compelled to. There is no longer any room 8 00:00:54,395 --> 00:00:57,835 Speaker 1: in the political discourse of the United States of America 9 00:00:58,155 --> 00:01:03,435 Speaker 1: for anyone both so deeply disturbed and so deeply possessed 10 00:01:03,715 --> 00:01:07,275 Speaker 1: by a hate of people of color that it reaches 11 00:01:07,395 --> 00:01:11,595 Speaker 1: the levels of insanity and prejudice Trump not only displayed 12 00:01:11,675 --> 00:01:17,235 Speaker 1: yesterday in Chicago, but gloried in Moreover, there is no 13 00:01:17,395 --> 00:01:21,675 Speaker 1: room in American society for anyone with such an immeasurably 14 00:01:21,995 --> 00:01:26,435 Speaker 1: dysfunctional and dangerous mental illness as that which Trump showed 15 00:01:26,475 --> 00:01:32,155 Speaker 1: again and again and again at the NABJ event. If 16 00:01:32,155 --> 00:01:36,715 Speaker 1: he will not seek hospitalization for his countless psychoses and 17 00:01:36,955 --> 00:01:43,315 Speaker 1: delusions and persecution complexes, he must be forced to. This 18 00:01:43,475 --> 00:01:47,675 Speaker 1: country is not safe if Donald Trump is free to 19 00:01:47,835 --> 00:01:52,355 Speaker 1: walk on its streets. This country is not safe if 20 00:01:52,395 --> 00:01:57,155 Speaker 1: those who have mistaken him for sane or rational, or 21 00:01:57,195 --> 00:02:02,675 Speaker 1: patriotic or merely American are not shown in no uncertain 22 00:02:02,875 --> 00:02:07,875 Speaker 1: terms that what he raise yesterday on that stage is 23 00:02:07,955 --> 00:02:16,755 Speaker 1: a disease, and it is unacceptable to this nation. Psychiatric 24 00:02:16,795 --> 00:02:19,475 Speaker 1: experts may be able to help Trump, they may not. Frankly, 25 00:02:19,515 --> 00:02:24,035 Speaker 1: I no longer care. Literally, almost every day since I 26 00:02:24,075 --> 00:02:27,275 Speaker 1: wrote could Trump Pass a Sanity Test? For Vanity Fair 27 00:02:27,355 --> 00:02:31,595 Speaker 1: Magazine in twenty sixteen, I have been repeating that apart 28 00:02:31,635 --> 00:02:35,395 Speaker 1: from his neanderthal policies, apart from his inability to grasp 29 00:02:35,555 --> 00:02:39,315 Speaker 1: that he is not intelligent, apart from his simpleton's perception 30 00:02:39,515 --> 00:02:42,755 Speaker 1: of the world, there is a baseline danger that we 31 00:02:42,915 --> 00:02:48,515 Speaker 1: cannot assess that clearly from which advisors or party leaders 32 00:02:48,715 --> 00:02:53,955 Speaker 1: or generals cannot save him or save us. And that 33 00:02:54,115 --> 00:03:01,155 Speaker 1: is this. He is manifestly broken. His brain does not 34 00:03:01,475 --> 00:03:06,875 Speaker 1: work correctly, and thus what we see now may ultimately 35 00:03:06,915 --> 00:03:11,435 Speaker 1: be only the tip of an unstable iceberg. The risk 36 00:03:11,955 --> 00:03:15,315 Speaker 1: the world is at is not just the Trump we 37 00:03:15,435 --> 00:03:20,035 Speaker 1: see failing every test of that which makes one human 38 00:03:20,435 --> 00:03:24,555 Speaker 1: every day of his life. It is the risk that 39 00:03:24,715 --> 00:03:34,315 Speaker 1: from here he will get worse. Yesterday here I criticize 40 00:03:34,355 --> 00:03:37,995 Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Journalists for platforming Trump, and 41 00:03:38,035 --> 00:03:41,355 Speaker 1: I would like to retract that criticism, apologize for it, 42 00:03:41,595 --> 00:03:45,755 Speaker 1: and bless that organization for arranging. However, it was arranged 43 00:03:45,915 --> 00:03:49,395 Speaker 1: to put the Trump you and I already know on 44 00:03:49,595 --> 00:03:53,395 Speaker 1: display for at least some people who had not seen 45 00:03:53,435 --> 00:03:57,315 Speaker 1: it or would not believe it was true. It was 46 00:03:57,355 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: Trump's first genuinely unfriendly, not passive interview in years, revealed 47 00:04:05,235 --> 00:04:09,075 Speaker 1: both his madness and the madness of his beliefs, and 48 00:04:09,155 --> 00:04:13,155 Speaker 1: his racial animus, and his willingness to invent any excuse 49 00:04:13,555 --> 00:04:16,915 Speaker 1: to suppress anybody who is not a white man of 50 00:04:17,035 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 1: European heritage. He went full birther again, and now his 51 00:04:24,595 --> 00:04:30,395 Speaker 1: campaign is full birther again. He went full racist again, 52 00:04:31,635 --> 00:04:37,435 Speaker 1: and now his campaign is full racist again. He not 53 00:04:37,555 --> 00:04:42,195 Speaker 1: only questioned the ethnic history and heritage of the Vice 54 00:04:42,355 --> 00:04:47,475 Speaker 1: President of the United States, but he accused her of 55 00:04:47,515 --> 00:04:52,035 Speaker 1: either changing that history or changing her statements about her 56 00:04:52,115 --> 00:04:56,795 Speaker 1: own heritage. Trump's insanity permits him to be vague even 57 00:04:56,835 --> 00:05:02,275 Speaker 1: in his apartheid level racist accusations. One hundred and sixty 58 00:05:02,275 --> 00:05:05,555 Speaker 1: three years ago, this nation took up arms to silence 59 00:05:05,795 --> 00:05:10,555 Speaker 1: and disempower hateful, deranged creatures like Donald Trump. We now 60 00:05:10,635 --> 00:05:14,675 Speaker 1: think seven hundred and fifty thousand Americans died to stop 61 00:05:14,755 --> 00:05:18,595 Speaker 1: what Donald Trump believes in today, with as many more 62 00:05:18,635 --> 00:05:23,995 Speaker 1: wounded and or captured. That we continue to tolerate Donald Trump, 63 00:05:25,115 --> 00:05:28,675 Speaker 1: that we continue to normalize Donald Trump, that we continue 64 00:05:28,715 --> 00:05:33,555 Speaker 1: to let Donald Trump lead a national political party and 65 00:05:33,715 --> 00:05:37,755 Speaker 1: serve as its presidential nominee. Is among the top two 66 00:05:37,915 --> 00:05:41,395 Speaker 1: or three failures in the history of the United States 67 00:05:41,395 --> 00:05:45,915 Speaker 1: of America that an American news organization could summarize in 68 00:05:45,955 --> 00:05:49,475 Speaker 1: its daily news round up, the disaster that was Donald 69 00:05:49,515 --> 00:05:53,555 Speaker 1: Trump in Chicago yesterday, the existential threat to all of 70 00:05:53,635 --> 00:05:57,355 Speaker 1: our lives that is Donald Trump every day, to summarize 71 00:05:57,395 --> 00:06:01,115 Speaker 1: it in two hundred and thirty four words, headlined Trump 72 00:06:01,235 --> 00:06:04,835 Speaker 1: questions Harris's race, as if that were a legitimate question 73 00:06:05,115 --> 00:06:08,835 Speaker 1: in a society that is not itself deeply disturbed, and 74 00:06:08,875 --> 00:06:12,955 Speaker 1: then move on from that to its off lead story, 75 00:06:13,395 --> 00:06:18,475 Speaker 1: Taco Bell to test AI drive throughs that suggests that 76 00:06:18,555 --> 00:06:22,875 Speaker 1: we are all stunningly comfortable lying here with our next 77 00:06:22,915 --> 00:06:25,595 Speaker 1: on the railroad tracks that we have reached if we 78 00:06:25,635 --> 00:06:29,435 Speaker 1: had not reached it before the point Patty Chayevsky described 79 00:06:29,475 --> 00:06:32,235 Speaker 1: in the mad as Hell speech Peter Finch recites in 80 00:06:32,275 --> 00:06:35,675 Speaker 1: the movie Network, we sit watching our TVs while some 81 00:06:35,875 --> 00:06:40,155 Speaker 1: newscast here plays clips of this asshole Trump accusing the 82 00:06:40,235 --> 00:06:43,675 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States of changing her color 83 00:06:45,075 --> 00:06:49,075 Speaker 1: at the exact moment his minions begin full on bertherism, 84 00:06:49,555 --> 00:06:53,115 Speaker 1: as if that's the way it's supposed to be. 85 00:06:56,795 --> 00:06:57,875 Speaker 2: Aaron Rupar. 86 00:06:59,115 --> 00:07:02,115 Speaker 1: Of the website Public Notice, whose newsletter you should sign 87 00:07:02,235 --> 00:07:08,115 Speaker 1: up for, produced a super cut of the disqualifying Trump 88 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:11,795 Speaker 1: attacks on Harris on black people on his hosts on America, 89 00:07:12,595 --> 00:07:15,875 Speaker 1: which I have edited down here only slightly for time, 90 00:07:16,595 --> 00:07:19,915 Speaker 1: and I would add that as Aaron posted this to 91 00:07:19,955 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 1: social media, the Trump stooge Jesse Waters was going on 92 00:07:24,115 --> 00:07:29,475 Speaker 1: Fox and claiming Vice President Harris's quote not African American technically, 93 00:07:30,315 --> 00:07:34,435 Speaker 1: and the Trump fabricator and liar Laura Lumer was disseminating 94 00:07:34,475 --> 00:07:39,555 Speaker 1: a falsified harris birth certificate, and the gutter trash congresswoman 95 00:07:39,675 --> 00:07:44,075 Speaker 1: from Colorado Lauren Bobert wrote quote she switched, and the 96 00:07:44,075 --> 00:07:48,155 Speaker 1: Trump parking lot attorney Alina Habas said quote, unlike you, Kamala, 97 00:07:48,475 --> 00:07:51,115 Speaker 1: I know who my roots are and where I come 98 00:07:51,195 --> 00:07:58,075 Speaker 1: from and Trump's pet Fox host Harris Faulkner, who was 99 00:07:58,235 --> 00:08:01,915 Speaker 1: on stage as this unfolded in Chicago yesterday, dismissed the 100 00:08:01,915 --> 00:08:07,435 Speaker 1: events there as things got chippy. As you listen to this, 101 00:08:08,595 --> 00:08:12,915 Speaker 1: remember that this from Trump is not hyperbole, not politics, 102 00:08:12,955 --> 00:08:15,915 Speaker 1: not even the standard Trump hatred and insanity that the 103 00:08:15,915 --> 00:08:18,515 Speaker 1: cowardice of the media has allowed him to get away 104 00:08:18,555 --> 00:08:24,755 Speaker 1: with for nine disastrous years. This is the start of 105 00:08:24,915 --> 00:08:30,395 Speaker 1: his presidential campaign in which the psychopathic fascist Republican who 106 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:34,035 Speaker 1: hates black people and has always hated black people and 107 00:08:34,115 --> 00:08:37,155 Speaker 1: will suppress black people, will insist that he is the 108 00:08:37,195 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: real victim here because he will also insist the vice 109 00:08:40,835 --> 00:08:44,235 Speaker 1: president of the United States is lying about being a 110 00:08:44,275 --> 00:08:48,035 Speaker 1: black person. Or, as Mother Jones put it in its 111 00:08:48,075 --> 00:08:53,635 Speaker 1: headline far more succinctly, white man tells black journalists that 112 00:08:53,755 --> 00:08:58,115 Speaker 1: his black opponent is not Black people. 113 00:08:58,195 --> 00:09:00,635 Speaker 3: Did not think it was appropriate for you to be 114 00:09:00,715 --> 00:09:04,355 Speaker 3: here today. You have pushed false claims about some of 115 00:09:04,395 --> 00:09:08,355 Speaker 3: your from Nicki Hayley to former President Barack Obama, saying 116 00:09:08,355 --> 00:09:10,635 Speaker 3: that they were not born in the United States, which 117 00:09:10,675 --> 00:09:13,475 Speaker 3: is not true. You have told four congressmen women of 118 00:09:13,555 --> 00:09:16,195 Speaker 3: color who are American citizens, to go back to where 119 00:09:16,195 --> 00:09:19,555 Speaker 3: they came from. You have used words like animal and 120 00:09:19,715 --> 00:09:24,035 Speaker 3: rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists, 121 00:09:24,035 --> 00:09:26,795 Speaker 3: calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask 122 00:09:26,915 --> 00:09:30,035 Speaker 3: are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a 123 00:09:30,035 --> 00:09:34,035 Speaker 3: white supremacist at your maraologue resort. So my question, sir, 124 00:09:34,675 --> 00:09:37,635 Speaker 3: now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you, 125 00:09:38,395 --> 00:09:41,555 Speaker 3: why should black voters trust you after you have used 126 00:09:41,635 --> 00:09:42,435 Speaker 3: language like that. 127 00:09:43,875 --> 00:09:45,795 Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been 128 00:09:45,995 --> 00:09:50,515 Speaker 2: asked a question so in such a horrible manner. A 129 00:09:50,555 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 2: first question, you don't even say, hello, how are you? 130 00:09:55,235 --> 00:09:57,755 Speaker 2: Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake 131 00:09:57,835 --> 00:10:03,755 Speaker 2: news network a terrible level. And I think it's disgraceful 132 00:10:03,795 --> 00:10:08,235 Speaker 2: that I can aim here in good spirit. I love 133 00:10:08,315 --> 00:10:11,235 Speaker 2: the black population of this country. I've done so much 134 00:10:11,275 --> 00:10:14,715 Speaker 2: for the black population of this country. I think it's 135 00:10:14,715 --> 00:10:18,795 Speaker 2: a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you 136 00:10:18,835 --> 00:10:21,155 Speaker 2: would do something like that. And let me go a 137 00:10:21,195 --> 00:10:24,275 Speaker 2: step further. I was invited here, and I was told 138 00:10:24,275 --> 00:10:28,235 Speaker 2: my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, I was 139 00:10:28,275 --> 00:10:31,075 Speaker 2: told my opponent was going to be here. It turned 140 00:10:31,115 --> 00:10:34,675 Speaker 2: out my opponent isn't here. You invited me under false pretense, 141 00:10:34,995 --> 00:10:37,555 Speaker 2: and then you said you can't do it with zoom. 142 00:10:37,915 --> 00:10:40,755 Speaker 2: Well you know where's zoom. She's going to do it 143 00:10:40,795 --> 00:10:43,115 Speaker 2: with zoom and she's not coming. And then you were 144 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:45,315 Speaker 2: half an hour a Just so we understand, I have 145 00:10:45,355 --> 00:10:47,555 Speaker 2: too much respect for you to be late. They couldn't 146 00:10:47,595 --> 00:10:50,395 Speaker 2: get their equipment work in or something I would. I 147 00:10:50,435 --> 00:10:54,195 Speaker 2: think it's a very nasty question. I have answered the question. 148 00:10:55,075 --> 00:10:59,115 Speaker 2: I have been the best president for the black population 149 00:10:59,675 --> 00:11:03,955 Speaker 2: since Abraham Lincoln. That is my answer, only President Johnston's. 150 00:11:03,995 --> 00:11:06,155 Speaker 2: I'm voting right now. Ask you to start off a 151 00:11:06,315 --> 00:11:09,235 Speaker 2: question and answer period, especially when you're thirty five minutes 152 00:11:09,355 --> 00:11:12,075 Speaker 2: late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in 153 00:11:12,195 --> 00:11:14,955 Speaker 2: such a hostile manner. I think it's a disgrace. I 154 00:11:14,995 --> 00:11:15,355 Speaker 2: really do it. 155 00:11:15,435 --> 00:11:18,075 Speaker 3: Let me just ask upond to other questions here. Some 156 00:11:18,195 --> 00:11:21,595 Speaker 3: of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have 157 00:11:21,755 --> 00:11:25,075 Speaker 3: labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first black 158 00:11:25,115 --> 00:11:27,395 Speaker 3: and Asian American woman to serve as vice president and 159 00:11:27,395 --> 00:11:30,395 Speaker 3: be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire. 160 00:11:31,075 --> 00:11:32,875 Speaker 2: Is that acceptable language to you? 161 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:36,235 Speaker 3: And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to 162 00:11:36,275 --> 00:11:36,755 Speaker 3: stop it. 163 00:11:36,915 --> 00:11:39,675 Speaker 2: How do you how do you define DEI? Go ahead? 164 00:11:39,995 --> 00:11:41,075 Speaker 2: How do you define diversity? 165 00:11:41,115 --> 00:11:41,995 Speaker 3: Equity inclusion? 166 00:11:42,075 --> 00:11:44,875 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, go ahead? Is that what your definition? That is? 167 00:11:45,075 --> 00:11:45,115 Speaker 4: That? 168 00:11:45,235 --> 00:11:45,475 Speaker 5: That is? 169 00:11:45,595 --> 00:11:48,275 Speaker 2: Give me a definition? Then would you give me a definition? Yeah? Yeah, 170 00:11:48,595 --> 00:11:49,515 Speaker 2: give me a definition. 171 00:11:49,595 --> 00:11:51,675 Speaker 3: Soar' I'm asking you, am are you had to direct. 172 00:11:51,475 --> 00:11:53,955 Speaker 2: Find it, define the define it for me if I 173 00:11:53,995 --> 00:11:54,755 Speaker 2: just defined it? Sir? 174 00:11:54,755 --> 00:11:57,435 Speaker 3: Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only 175 00:11:57,475 --> 00:11:59,035 Speaker 3: on the ticket because she is a black woman? 176 00:11:59,155 --> 00:12:01,315 Speaker 2: Well, I can say no. I think it's maybe a 177 00:12:01,395 --> 00:12:05,715 Speaker 2: little bit different. So I've known a long time, indirectly, 178 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:11,235 Speaker 2: not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage, 179 00:12:11,275 --> 00:12:14,635 Speaker 2: and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know 180 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:17,435 Speaker 2: she was black until a number of years ago when 181 00:12:17,475 --> 00:12:19,675 Speaker 2: she happened to turn black. And now she wants to 182 00:12:19,715 --> 00:12:21,955 Speaker 2: be known as black. So I don't know is she 183 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:25,435 Speaker 2: Indian or is she black? She is always I respect 184 00:12:25,635 --> 00:12:28,755 Speaker 2: other black college. I respect either one, but she obviously 185 00:12:28,795 --> 00:12:31,595 Speaker 2: doesn't because she was Indian all the way, and then 186 00:12:31,635 --> 00:12:33,395 Speaker 2: all of a sudden she made a turn and she 187 00:12:33,515 --> 00:12:36,395 Speaker 2: went she became a black part just to be clear, 188 00:12:37,475 --> 00:12:39,715 Speaker 2: I think somebody should look into that too. When you 189 00:12:39,795 --> 00:12:43,475 Speaker 2: ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty town, why 190 00:12:43,595 --> 00:12:44,235 Speaker 2: come here? 191 00:12:44,315 --> 00:12:45,755 Speaker 1: What is your message today? 192 00:12:47,155 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 2: My message is to stop people from invading our country 193 00:12:52,875 --> 00:12:55,955 Speaker 2: that are taking frankly, a lot of problems with it. 194 00:12:56,035 --> 00:12:57,795 Speaker 2: But one of the big problems and a lot of 195 00:12:57,835 --> 00:13:00,035 Speaker 2: the journalists in this room I know, and I have 196 00:13:00,115 --> 00:13:02,995 Speaker 2: great respect for a lot of the journalists in this 197 00:13:03,115 --> 00:13:08,395 Speaker 2: room are black. I will tell you that coming from 198 00:13:08,435 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 2: the border are millions and millions of people that happen 199 00:13:12,275 --> 00:13:14,795 Speaker 2: to be taking black jobs. You had the. 200 00:13:14,715 --> 00:13:16,915 Speaker 3: Best what exactly the black job, sir? 201 00:13:17,115 --> 00:13:20,235 Speaker 2: A black job is anybody that has a job. How 202 00:13:20,235 --> 00:13:22,435 Speaker 2: do you turn it around? What's your plan for the 203 00:13:22,435 --> 00:13:25,235 Speaker 2: black community when it comes to Monchy? So, first of all, 204 00:13:25,595 --> 00:13:28,115 Speaker 2: it's very hard to hear for whatever reason, because of 205 00:13:28,155 --> 00:13:30,355 Speaker 2: the fact that they have bad equipment, because I guess 206 00:13:30,475 --> 00:13:32,955 Speaker 2: you know, this woman was unable to get the right equipment. 207 00:13:33,275 --> 00:13:34,915 Speaker 2: But it's very hard for me to hear you, but 208 00:13:34,955 --> 00:13:38,755 Speaker 2: I can hear every other word. It's very difficult, actually, 209 00:13:39,155 --> 00:13:40,835 Speaker 2: But so I don't know if they can fix it 210 00:13:40,955 --> 00:13:43,115 Speaker 2: or do something with it, but I'll do the best 211 00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:45,715 Speaker 2: I can with it. If I came onto a stage 212 00:13:45,715 --> 00:13:47,875 Speaker 2: like this and I got treated so rudely, is this 213 00:13:47,915 --> 00:13:52,195 Speaker 2: woman true? My goodness? And I'm fine with it because 214 00:13:52,235 --> 00:13:55,915 Speaker 2: she it does it. She was very rude, sir, very rude. 215 00:13:56,035 --> 00:13:58,515 Speaker 2: That was a nasty That wasn't a question. She hadn't 216 00:13:58,515 --> 00:14:03,355 Speaker 2: asked me a question. She gave a statement that wasn't a question. Actually, 217 00:14:04,435 --> 00:14:07,315 Speaker 2: you and you wait, you would absolutely if I thought 218 00:14:07,315 --> 00:14:10,915 Speaker 2: that I was failing in some way, I want people 219 00:14:10,955 --> 00:14:13,355 Speaker 2: to be shopping. I'll go a step further. I want 220 00:14:13,795 --> 00:14:17,075 Speaker 2: anybody running for president to take an aptitude test, to 221 00:14:17,115 --> 00:14:19,875 Speaker 2: take a cognitive test. I think it's a great idea. 222 00:14:20,395 --> 00:14:22,435 Speaker 2: And I took two of them, and I aced them. 223 00:14:23,355 --> 00:14:24,995 Speaker 2: I took two of them. But let me ask you, 224 00:14:25,755 --> 00:14:27,755 Speaker 2: I would like to have what's going to happen to 225 00:14:27,795 --> 00:14:29,715 Speaker 2: those people? What's going to happen to the people in 226 00:14:29,795 --> 00:14:30,915 Speaker 2: Portland that destroyed? 227 00:14:30,915 --> 00:14:33,115 Speaker 3: My question is on those going to happen my people 228 00:14:33,755 --> 00:14:35,515 Speaker 3: ride those assault officers. 229 00:14:35,555 --> 00:14:37,635 Speaker 2: You have to you what's going to happen? 230 00:14:37,835 --> 00:14:37,995 Speaker 1: Oh? 231 00:14:38,035 --> 00:14:41,235 Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would. You would run. If they're innocent, I 232 00:14:41,235 --> 00:14:43,235 Speaker 2: would pardon them. Be' been convicted by the way the 233 00:14:43,275 --> 00:14:48,595 Speaker 2: Supreme Court just under well, they were convicted by a very, 234 00:14:49,235 --> 00:14:52,515 Speaker 2: very tough system they were. How come the people that 235 00:14:52,595 --> 00:14:56,315 Speaker 2: tried to burn down Minneapolis, how come the Purple that 236 00:14:56,715 --> 00:15:00,955 Speaker 2: took over a large percentage of Seattle? How come nothing 237 00:15:01,035 --> 00:15:02,435 Speaker 2: happened to them? How come to. 238 00:15:02,435 --> 00:15:06,035 Speaker 3: People talking about people that were seen, we're talking about 239 00:15:06,155 --> 00:15:08,995 Speaker 3: Laurel Fields dragging them down the stairs they're on Have 240 00:15:09,075 --> 00:15:10,075 Speaker 3: you seen that videos? 241 00:15:10,115 --> 00:15:10,395 Speaker 2: Early? 242 00:15:10,555 --> 00:15:13,115 Speaker 3: Well they parted those you a pardon those rioters. 243 00:15:13,315 --> 00:15:18,835 Speaker 2: They shot a young lady in the face who was protesting. 244 00:15:19,115 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 2: They shot her. The You know, nobody died that day, 245 00:15:21,635 --> 00:15:24,995 Speaker 2: you do know that. But people died in Seattle. Nobody died, 246 00:15:25,075 --> 00:15:27,355 Speaker 2: But people died in the opposite You know, people died. 247 00:15:27,355 --> 00:15:30,835 Speaker 2: They're taking your jobs. These people coming in are taking 248 00:15:30,915 --> 00:15:31,275 Speaker 2: your job. 249 00:15:32,755 --> 00:15:35,035 Speaker 3: I think we have to leave it there, Bible Team, 250 00:15:35,315 --> 00:15:36,475 Speaker 3: all right, so leave it well. 251 00:15:36,835 --> 00:15:40,355 Speaker 1: That is the last word, And that, of course, was 252 00:15:40,475 --> 00:15:47,075 Speaker 1: prelude from Chicago. Trump went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and spoke 253 00:15:47,195 --> 00:15:50,355 Speaker 1: last night after the NABJ event. 254 00:15:51,035 --> 00:15:54,515 Speaker 4: The contrast could not be more stark. On the one hand, 255 00:15:54,595 --> 00:15:58,955 Speaker 4: you have a radical left puppet candidate who is fake, fake, fake, 256 00:15:59,675 --> 00:16:02,955 Speaker 4: and on the other hand, you have a president who. 257 00:16:02,555 --> 00:16:06,715 Speaker 1: Fight fight fight is their betting? Yet is there betting 258 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:11,795 Speaker 1: on when Trump calls her the N word or something 259 00:16:11,795 --> 00:16:16,395 Speaker 1: awfully close to it. I mean, his henchman Sebastian Gorka 260 00:16:16,475 --> 00:16:21,715 Speaker 1: already called her the C word. She's a DEI higher right, 261 00:16:21,875 --> 00:16:23,875 Speaker 1: She's a woman, She's colored. 262 00:16:23,915 --> 00:16:25,315 Speaker 2: Therefore she's got to be good. 263 00:16:25,635 --> 00:16:29,715 Speaker 1: As a PostScript, as a reminder, as an incentive to 264 00:16:29,795 --> 00:16:32,315 Speaker 1: fight this creature Trump and his movement of hatred and 265 00:16:32,395 --> 00:16:39,555 Speaker 1: deceit and gaslighting and pure unadulterated biblical evil, As a 266 00:16:39,595 --> 00:16:43,235 Speaker 1: reminder that he will say anything at any time and 267 00:16:43,355 --> 00:16:47,795 Speaker 1: contradict reality or a past version of his own self 268 00:16:48,235 --> 00:16:54,155 Speaker 1: to any degree he finds necessary. Two points. A spokesperson, 269 00:16:54,435 --> 00:16:59,355 Speaker 1: an advisor named Lynn Patten now says that in Chicago, 270 00:16:59,435 --> 00:17:03,195 Speaker 1: Trump quote continually said that, unlike Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden, 271 00:17:03,475 --> 00:17:06,995 Speaker 1: he's running to be present for all Americans, and if 272 00:17:07,035 --> 00:17:10,795 Speaker 1: you're running to unite the entire country, you have to 273 00:17:10,955 --> 00:17:17,275 Speaker 1: back it up with action like he did today unquote, Yes, 274 00:17:18,155 --> 00:17:22,835 Speaker 1: unite all Americans. Unite them just like they were united 275 00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:27,075 Speaker 1: when we all had slavery, or just as Trump has 276 00:17:27,115 --> 00:17:31,555 Speaker 1: always thought. The united in United States means united under 277 00:17:31,555 --> 00:17:38,595 Speaker 1: a Trump dictatorship, and maybe more startlingly. There is also 278 00:17:38,715 --> 00:17:43,955 Speaker 1: this Four years ago, next week, August eleventh, twenty twenty, 279 00:17:44,435 --> 00:17:48,715 Speaker 1: actor Joe Biden had selected Kamala Harris as his vice 280 00:17:48,755 --> 00:17:52,915 Speaker 1: presidential running mate, and Trump and his team of scumbag 281 00:17:53,035 --> 00:17:56,875 Speaker 1: rivals unrolled the standard attacks on women of color who 282 00:17:57,275 --> 00:17:59,915 Speaker 1: have not shown sufficient deference to the white men like 283 00:17:59,995 --> 00:18:07,155 Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, unrolled all the insanity tropes about black women, 284 00:18:07,395 --> 00:18:11,555 Speaker 1: called Harris quote a mad woman, quote, a nasty woman quote, 285 00:18:11,595 --> 00:18:17,955 Speaker 1: seriously ill. After that, Trump's spokesperson Katrina Pearson defended him 286 00:18:18,595 --> 00:18:22,995 Speaker 1: against charges that he was being racist and anti black 287 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:28,835 Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris, confirming that when Harris ran for attorney 288 00:18:28,835 --> 00:18:32,835 Speaker 1: general in California, Trump and his daughter Ivanka donated to 289 00:18:32,955 --> 00:18:38,155 Speaker 1: her campaign eight thousand dollars in total from the Trumps 290 00:18:38,995 --> 00:18:45,235 Speaker 1: to the Harris for Attorney General campaign. I'll note, miss Pearson, said, 291 00:18:45,715 --> 00:18:49,555 Speaker 1: Miss Pearson being African American and now a Trumpist candidate 292 00:18:49,595 --> 00:18:53,315 Speaker 1: for the Texas State House. Miss Pearson told a media 293 00:18:53,395 --> 00:18:58,355 Speaker 1: conference call, I'll note that Kamala Harris is a black 294 00:18:58,395 --> 00:19:02,755 Speaker 1: woman and he donated to her campaign, So I hope 295 00:19:02,795 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 1: we can squash this racism argument. Now. We are fighting evil, 296 00:19:13,955 --> 00:19:19,435 Speaker 1: evil for whom reality and justice and even their own 297 00:19:19,755 --> 00:19:25,435 Speaker 1: past versions of themselves do not exist if they are inconvenient. 298 00:19:25,995 --> 00:19:30,315 Speaker 1: At the present moment, we are fighting evil that is 299 00:19:30,395 --> 00:19:38,595 Speaker 1: centered around a manifestly insane, dangerous, delusional, committable madman. We must, 300 00:19:39,315 --> 00:19:43,875 Speaker 1: by the law, by the ballot box by both destroy 301 00:19:44,075 --> 00:19:49,795 Speaker 1: him and everything he stands for, or we, the United 302 00:19:49,835 --> 00:19:57,195 Speaker 1: States of America, we will surely be destroyed instead. As 303 00:19:57,555 --> 00:20:07,195 Speaker 1: Trump unleashes Birtherism, I we must metaphorically bury him and 304 00:20:07,315 --> 00:20:11,075 Speaker 1: his movement under its rubble. 305 00:20:11,715 --> 00:20:23,955 Speaker 5: Well, Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me 306 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:33,755 Speaker 5: on the debate stage, because, as the saying goes, if 307 00:20:33,795 --> 00:20:47,835 Speaker 5: you've got something to say. 308 00:20:41,755 --> 00:20:42,755 Speaker 2: This is countdown. 309 00:20:43,595 --> 00:21:06,995 Speaker 1: With Keith Oberman still ahead of us on this edition 310 00:21:07,035 --> 00:21:10,715 Speaker 1: of Countdown. I need a break from this crap. Friend 311 00:21:10,715 --> 00:21:14,675 Speaker 1: of mine asked me yesterday, for the thousandth time this year, 312 00:21:15,275 --> 00:21:19,115 Speaker 1: how I deal with this every day? And I said, well, 313 00:21:19,515 --> 00:21:21,715 Speaker 1: whenever I can, I try to go to my past 314 00:21:21,835 --> 00:21:24,675 Speaker 1: and live there for a few minutes and visit the 315 00:21:24,715 --> 00:21:28,115 Speaker 1: simpler times when all I worried about was things like 316 00:21:28,155 --> 00:21:32,155 Speaker 1: whether or not my brand new seersucker suit would get 317 00:21:32,195 --> 00:21:35,715 Speaker 1: dirty while I took the subway up to my internship 318 00:21:35,755 --> 00:21:39,915 Speaker 1: at Channel five News here in New York, and somebody 319 00:21:39,995 --> 00:21:44,075 Speaker 1: else yesterday mentioned the name of the sportscaster I happened 320 00:21:44,115 --> 00:21:47,355 Speaker 1: to work for at that very internship, and so come 321 00:21:47,435 --> 00:21:49,715 Speaker 1: with me now for a few minutes to the far 322 00:21:49,915 --> 00:21:54,075 Speaker 1: less thrilling days of yesteryear. In things I promised not 323 00:21:54,195 --> 00:22:00,275 Speaker 1: to tell Keith the intern First, there are still more 324 00:22:00,315 --> 00:22:02,475 Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the 325 00:22:02,515 --> 00:22:06,115 Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects, bestmans who constitute 326 00:22:06,155 --> 00:22:12,035 Speaker 1: two days worst persons in the world, Lebrons, the Trump factotum, 327 00:22:12,235 --> 00:22:16,555 Speaker 1: Dan Scabino, the media guy. This is from New York 328 00:22:16,635 --> 00:22:20,035 Speaker 1: Magazine and it's a story about funding Trump media. I'm 329 00:22:20,115 --> 00:22:22,835 Speaker 1: just going to read part of this. The most promising 330 00:22:22,875 --> 00:22:27,435 Speaker 1: person they reached was Patrick Orlando, former Deutsche Bank derivatives 331 00:22:27,475 --> 00:22:31,995 Speaker 1: trader who had started an investment firm called Benisseri Capital. 332 00:22:32,955 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: For Trump's birthday in June, New York Magazine writes, Orlando 333 00:22:36,795 --> 00:22:39,955 Speaker 1: wrote a letter appealing to his ego. I was unaware 334 00:22:39,955 --> 00:22:42,315 Speaker 1: of the extent of your brilliance, he wrote, According to 335 00:22:42,355 --> 00:22:45,275 Speaker 1: the post on your birthday, my only wish is that 336 00:22:45,315 --> 00:22:48,035 Speaker 1: you realize how proud we are of your success is 337 00:22:48,075 --> 00:22:52,755 Speaker 1: to date. Mister Moss and mister Litinsky, other funders of 338 00:22:52,795 --> 00:22:56,435 Speaker 1: this outfit, persuaded Orlando not to send this in part 339 00:22:56,515 --> 00:23:01,435 Speaker 1: because the sycophancy was over the top, even by Trump standards. 340 00:23:02,715 --> 00:23:05,195 Speaker 1: I just want to protest for a second, and suggests 341 00:23:05,435 --> 00:23:09,355 Speaker 1: that there is no such point that sycophancy cannot be 342 00:23:09,875 --> 00:23:13,995 Speaker 1: over the top when it comes to Trump. However, the 343 00:23:14,115 --> 00:23:18,395 Speaker 1: real issue is included in the next phrase. The sycofancy 344 00:23:18,475 --> 00:23:20,755 Speaker 1: was over the top even by Trump's standards, and in 345 00:23:20,835 --> 00:23:26,395 Speaker 1: part because they knew Trump hated the idea of getting older. 346 00:23:27,075 --> 00:23:31,915 Speaker 1: He did not wish to be reminded of his birthday. Also, 347 00:23:32,035 --> 00:23:34,915 Speaker 1: New York Magazine writes, and here's the Scavino part. Marri 348 00:23:35,035 --> 00:23:39,755 Speaker 1: Lago has a microeconomy in which such intel is sold 349 00:23:40,355 --> 00:23:44,475 Speaker 1: to supplicants by people with proximity to Trump. The truth 350 00:23:44,635 --> 00:23:49,835 Speaker 1: Social executives paid fifteen thousand dollars to Will Russell, a 351 00:23:49,915 --> 00:23:54,395 Speaker 1: Trump bodyman whose name came up in the Florida Documents investigation, 352 00:23:54,875 --> 00:23:59,715 Speaker 1: and twenty thousand dollars to Dan Scavino, Trump's social media director, 353 00:23:59,955 --> 00:24:02,315 Speaker 1: who were in a position to find out things like 354 00:24:02,795 --> 00:24:06,235 Speaker 1: his mood when he'd be coming off the golf course 355 00:24:06,715 --> 00:24:12,515 Speaker 1: and when was the best time to call Dan Scavino corrupt? 356 00:24:12,795 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: Maitre d the runners up two of our favorite people online, 357 00:24:18,155 --> 00:24:23,315 Speaker 1: the utter frauds, Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk. And Elon 358 00:24:23,435 --> 00:24:28,155 Speaker 1: Musk is gone yet another day without overdosing. Congratulations Elon. 359 00:24:29,115 --> 00:24:33,315 Speaker 1: America's declining birth rate, Vivek Ramaswami wrote, is a far 360 00:24:33,395 --> 00:24:36,875 Speaker 1: greater risk to our future than say climate change. Well, 361 00:24:36,875 --> 00:24:39,555 Speaker 1: of course that's not true. But why would Vivek know 362 00:24:39,675 --> 00:24:42,515 Speaker 1: that he has an IQ of seven He believes he 363 00:24:42,515 --> 00:24:45,555 Speaker 1: has an IQ of seven hundred, Yet most politicians are 364 00:24:45,595 --> 00:24:48,675 Speaker 1: too scared to talk about it, and now it's apparently taboo. 365 00:24:49,115 --> 00:24:52,795 Speaker 1: It's neither too scary nor taboo. It's just stupid. But 366 00:24:52,875 --> 00:24:55,315 Speaker 1: here are the facts. Our nation's birth rate is now 367 00:24:55,355 --> 00:24:58,075 Speaker 1: down to one point six to two berths per woman, 368 00:24:58,275 --> 00:25:02,395 Speaker 1: the lowest in history, and well below replacement rate. I 369 00:25:02,435 --> 00:25:07,635 Speaker 1: could make a joke here about baseball and replacement level offspring, 370 00:25:07,715 --> 00:25:10,515 Speaker 1: but I won't. It's not even that people don't want kids. 371 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:13,555 Speaker 1: In fact, American women on average have fewer children than 372 00:25:13,555 --> 00:25:16,475 Speaker 1: they say they'd hoped for. The graining of America means 373 00:25:16,475 --> 00:25:19,795 Speaker 1: an overloaded healthcare system and eventually higher taxes for all. 374 00:25:20,155 --> 00:25:23,635 Speaker 1: Today they're only about three workers for every retireel blah 375 00:25:23,635 --> 00:25:26,115 Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, on and on and on. 376 00:25:26,155 --> 00:25:28,515 Speaker 1: The birth rate crisis is a symptom of a deeper 377 00:25:28,555 --> 00:25:32,475 Speaker 1: economic malaise. The right answer is simple. Slash the oppressive 378 00:25:32,515 --> 00:25:38,035 Speaker 1: regulatory stage. Drill frack, end dumb occupational licensing laws and 379 00:25:38,115 --> 00:25:41,875 Speaker 1: restrictions on new housing to unleash the supply of everything. 380 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:46,435 Speaker 1: What part of that is about having kids? Fracking? Somebody 381 00:25:46,475 --> 00:25:49,915 Speaker 1: has to explain to Vivet Gramaswami the difference between fracking 382 00:25:49,995 --> 00:25:55,515 Speaker 1: and the other effing word. Musk's reply to this is priceless. 383 00:25:56,155 --> 00:25:59,115 Speaker 6: A declining birth rate happens towards the end of every 384 00:25:59,155 --> 00:26:04,275 Speaker 6: civilization and is a function of extended prosperity caesochiede and 385 00:26:04,955 --> 00:26:07,075 Speaker 6: to succeeded, et cetera, et cetera. 386 00:26:08,395 --> 00:26:12,275 Speaker 1: You mean Sid Caesar. It's just too bad that this 387 00:26:12,475 --> 00:26:14,915 Speaker 1: problem that both of them perceive that there are not 388 00:26:15,315 --> 00:26:20,395 Speaker 1: enough new working age and youthful Americans kids, that there 389 00:26:20,435 --> 00:26:22,915 Speaker 1: aren't more of them here. It's too bad this could 390 00:26:22,955 --> 00:26:26,715 Speaker 1: not be addressed in some other way than say, eliminating abortion, 391 00:26:27,115 --> 00:26:31,035 Speaker 1: forcing women to have children, trying to marginalize those who 392 00:26:31,075 --> 00:26:34,555 Speaker 1: do not have children, and actually run an idiot for 393 00:26:34,675 --> 00:26:37,635 Speaker 1: vice president who's made a career out of mocking people 394 00:26:37,635 --> 00:26:41,315 Speaker 1: who don't have kids when his own sexuality is in question. 395 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:45,635 Speaker 1: It's just too bad. There isn't some sort of alternate 396 00:26:45,715 --> 00:26:48,875 Speaker 1: to that, an alternate to a declining birth rate. I 397 00:26:48,915 --> 00:26:52,715 Speaker 1: don't know. Are there other people in overcrowded parts of 398 00:26:52,755 --> 00:26:54,595 Speaker 1: the country in the world who would want to come 399 00:26:54,635 --> 00:26:57,035 Speaker 1: here to the United States? Has anybody ever come here? 400 00:26:57,155 --> 00:26:59,715 Speaker 1: Wasn't born here? I don't know. I mean, I don't 401 00:26:59,755 --> 00:27:03,075 Speaker 1: know of anybody like that. I mean, I just don't 402 00:27:03,555 --> 00:27:07,115 Speaker 1: Could we have horror working people, you know, just to 403 00:27:07,115 --> 00:27:10,155 Speaker 1: pick a phrase out of the air, yearning to breathe free, 404 00:27:10,835 --> 00:27:14,315 Speaker 1: come here and fill those roles that Ramaswami is so 405 00:27:14,435 --> 00:27:17,795 Speaker 1: worried about. And Elon Musk says it's the end of 406 00:27:17,835 --> 00:27:21,035 Speaker 1: civilization because there aren't enough young people here. Could we 407 00:27:21,115 --> 00:27:23,675 Speaker 1: bring them in from other countries to help us out? 408 00:27:24,435 --> 00:27:28,475 Speaker 1: Other people too? What's the word immigrate here or if 409 00:27:28,475 --> 00:27:30,835 Speaker 1: you like, the other version of the verb immigrate here? 410 00:27:31,515 --> 00:27:34,555 Speaker 1: You know, like the parents of Elon Musk and vivek 411 00:27:34,635 --> 00:27:44,315 Speaker 1: Ramaswami and Trump's grandparents. It will never surprise me, never 412 00:27:44,395 --> 00:27:47,315 Speaker 1: stop surprising me. I should say that these people, the 413 00:27:47,435 --> 00:27:51,035 Speaker 1: children of immigrants, have already forgotten that they are the 414 00:27:51,115 --> 00:27:54,755 Speaker 1: children of immigrants. The first Olderman arrived here in the 415 00:27:54,835 --> 00:27:58,795 Speaker 1: year eighteen forty seven, and I think of myself as 416 00:27:58,835 --> 00:28:01,515 Speaker 1: the child of an immigrant, and I have great pride 417 00:28:01,515 --> 00:28:04,435 Speaker 1: in it. There aren't enough people here, now, why are 418 00:28:04,435 --> 00:28:08,755 Speaker 1: you stopping them from coming here? But our winner one 419 00:28:08,755 --> 00:28:10,715 Speaker 1: of the people we should have stopped from coming here. 420 00:28:11,115 --> 00:28:15,755 Speaker 1: Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Schools of the State of Oklahoma, 421 00:28:16,435 --> 00:28:23,715 Speaker 1: religious nut bastard. Ryan Walters announces he is using libs 422 00:28:23,955 --> 00:28:31,955 Speaker 1: of TikTok, the hateful prejudiced website account, to hunt down 423 00:28:32,395 --> 00:28:37,395 Speaker 1: Oklahoma school employees who made jokes about the fact that 424 00:28:37,435 --> 00:28:40,955 Speaker 1: Trump's ear got nicked, so that they can be fired 425 00:28:41,315 --> 00:28:47,275 Speaker 1: from the Oklahoma State and City school systems. Quote. We 426 00:28:47,315 --> 00:28:49,835 Speaker 1: cannot allow these individuals to continue to teach in the 427 00:28:49,835 --> 00:28:54,075 Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma. I want to thank Chaia Rachik. That's 428 00:28:54,155 --> 00:28:59,075 Speaker 1: the libs of TikTok, which who brought this first to 429 00:28:59,115 --> 00:29:02,235 Speaker 1: my attention of what she found online to show this hateful, 430 00:29:02,555 --> 00:29:05,715 Speaker 1: nasty rhetoric. He then said he would fire them all 431 00:29:05,835 --> 00:29:10,155 Speaker 1: using her data. And of course Raychik has been connected 432 00:29:10,235 --> 00:29:13,355 Speaker 1: via libs of TikTok to more than twenty bomb threats 433 00:29:13,355 --> 00:29:17,275 Speaker 1: across the country because whoever she targets, somebody threatens to kill. 434 00:29:17,795 --> 00:29:20,355 Speaker 1: There is a simple solution to this and this idiot 435 00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:24,835 Speaker 1: Ryan Walters and this behavior in Oklahoma. Boycott all products 436 00:29:24,875 --> 00:29:29,435 Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. They export six billion, one hundred million dollars 437 00:29:29,715 --> 00:29:35,075 Speaker 1: every year in stuff, mostly aircraft parts. I know neither 438 00:29:35,115 --> 00:29:38,315 Speaker 1: you nor I are buying any aircraft parts in the 439 00:29:38,355 --> 00:29:42,835 Speaker 1: immediate future. Major companies are stop buying them from Oklahoma. 440 00:29:43,195 --> 00:29:45,835 Speaker 1: Oh and the other thing. And this is legitimately the 441 00:29:45,955 --> 00:29:50,675 Speaker 1: number one agricultural export in the state of Oklahoma, pork. 442 00:29:52,075 --> 00:29:56,395 Speaker 1: One in fifty jobs in Oklahoma is supported by the 443 00:29:56,475 --> 00:30:02,515 Speaker 1: pork industry. I would discuss briefly with you the merits 444 00:30:02,595 --> 00:30:06,275 Speaker 1: of not eating pork, of how much healthier you will 445 00:30:06,315 --> 00:30:11,395 Speaker 1: be and how much greater your conscience will thrive if 446 00:30:11,395 --> 00:30:14,835 Speaker 1: you don't do it, particularly if any of the religions 447 00:30:14,915 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: like this religious not Ryan Walters, are correct. And how 448 00:30:19,355 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: you treat the weakest and most troubled of the beings 449 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:27,955 Speaker 1: of this planet determines whether or not you get some 450 00:30:28,075 --> 00:30:31,915 Speaker 1: sort of reward afterward. If that's true, guess who is 451 00:30:31,955 --> 00:30:36,915 Speaker 1: not getting a reward afterwards. That's right State Superintendent of Schools, 452 00:30:37,035 --> 00:30:40,835 Speaker 1: Ryan Walters of Oklahoma, who we already know. We're not 453 00:30:40,915 --> 00:30:44,115 Speaker 1: sure exactly how smart pigs are compared to human beings, 454 00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:47,435 Speaker 1: maybe three year olds, four year olds, but we do 455 00:30:47,595 --> 00:30:51,715 Speaker 1: know that every single pig on this planet is smarter 456 00:30:51,875 --> 00:30:59,715 Speaker 1: than Ryan Walters, two days worse person and the world why, 457 00:31:00,075 --> 00:31:14,155 Speaker 1: God don't know how. And now to the number one 458 00:31:14,195 --> 00:31:16,995 Speaker 1: story on the countdown. And I was literally asked about 459 00:31:17,075 --> 00:31:19,795 Speaker 1: him the other day by somebody who did not know 460 00:31:20,035 --> 00:31:22,555 Speaker 1: I knew him, and basically I had one of those 461 00:31:22,715 --> 00:31:27,355 Speaker 1: instantaneous moments that proved that Marcel Proust was right. If 462 00:31:27,395 --> 00:31:31,275 Speaker 1: you try to remember something or someone from your youth, 463 00:31:32,075 --> 00:31:35,515 Speaker 1: good luck, you might get a vague image. It might 464 00:31:35,555 --> 00:31:37,795 Speaker 1: be right, it might be wrong. But if you are 465 00:31:37,915 --> 00:31:42,155 Speaker 1: unexpectedly reminded of the moment or the person, you can, 466 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:46,435 Speaker 1: for at least a brief instant be transported back to 467 00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:49,995 Speaker 1: them and to that time, as certainly as if you 468 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:54,515 Speaker 1: had a time machine. The man's name was spoken, and 469 00:31:54,635 --> 00:31:57,235 Speaker 1: suddenly I was nineteen years old, again in a brand 470 00:31:57,315 --> 00:32:02,355 Speaker 1: new seersucker suit, stepping in from the always broiling midday 471 00:32:02,395 --> 00:32:07,795 Speaker 1: sun of midtown Manhattan before the subways had air conditioners, 472 00:32:08,075 --> 00:32:11,835 Speaker 1: and into the seductive cool of a television newsroom, seven 473 00:32:11,915 --> 00:32:14,875 Speaker 1: long hours before the broadcast was to begin, when all 474 00:32:14,915 --> 00:32:17,835 Speaker 1: the elements are in place except the panic and the 475 00:32:17,915 --> 00:32:22,155 Speaker 1: rushing and the shouting, when you can still quietly discuss 476 00:32:22,355 --> 00:32:25,675 Speaker 1: which story should be the lead on the newscast, rather 477 00:32:25,755 --> 00:32:29,475 Speaker 1: than threatening to kill somebody who tried to stop you 478 00:32:29,555 --> 00:32:32,315 Speaker 1: from going with the fire, instead of a boating accident, 479 00:32:33,195 --> 00:32:37,795 Speaker 1: when the film hasn't even been shot, let alone developed yet. 480 00:32:38,755 --> 00:32:41,835 Speaker 1: And yes, in nineteen seventy eight, it was still film. 481 00:32:42,115 --> 00:32:45,035 Speaker 1: They were just making the conversion from film to videotape, 482 00:32:45,355 --> 00:32:48,315 Speaker 1: and they were using both, and half the stories could 483 00:32:48,355 --> 00:32:52,555 Speaker 1: be instantly assembled videotape, but the other half were maddeningly 484 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:55,355 Speaker 1: delayed until the kid ran the film to the lab 485 00:32:55,435 --> 00:32:58,035 Speaker 1: in the basement and waited for it to be developed. 486 00:32:58,035 --> 00:33:00,395 Speaker 1: And yeah, I was often that kid, And I think 487 00:33:00,435 --> 00:33:03,435 Speaker 1: I might be the youngest person in this country who 488 00:33:03,475 --> 00:33:05,675 Speaker 1: can say he ran the new the news film to 489 00:33:05,795 --> 00:33:11,315 Speaker 1: the lab to be developed. Anyway, the man whose name 490 00:33:11,395 --> 00:33:13,715 Speaker 1: was mentioned to me, was the first to succeed on 491 00:33:13,835 --> 00:33:16,315 Speaker 1: radio in a big city in this country by simply 492 00:33:16,435 --> 00:33:21,395 Speaker 1: talking sports with listeners who phoned in. This was in Buffalo, 493 00:33:21,435 --> 00:33:23,955 Speaker 1: New York in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and 494 00:33:24,075 --> 00:33:27,755 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, though he was not from there, born in Kiev, 495 00:33:28,235 --> 00:33:31,395 Speaker 1: emigrated to Brooklyn as an infant pre med at Michigan, 496 00:33:31,715 --> 00:33:34,715 Speaker 1: a quick radio stint in Grand Rapids and the apt 497 00:33:34,755 --> 00:33:38,835 Speaker 1: decision to not go by his given name of Morris Maser, 498 00:33:39,555 --> 00:33:41,555 Speaker 1: then to the war, then to Buffalo and the role 499 00:33:41,595 --> 00:33:44,995 Speaker 1: of the sportscaster in town on TV, on radio, on 500 00:33:45,035 --> 00:33:47,835 Speaker 1: the newscasts of the original Buffalo Bills of the Minor 501 00:33:47,915 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: League Baseball Buffalo Bisons and the Minor League Hockey Buffalo Bisons. 502 00:33:51,715 --> 00:33:58,475 Speaker 1: Bill not Morris Bill Maser. Bill Maser came home to 503 00:33:58,555 --> 00:34:00,755 Speaker 1: New York City in the early sixties, and whether you 504 00:34:00,915 --> 00:34:05,275 Speaker 1: like it or hate it, sports talk started with him, 505 00:34:05,515 --> 00:34:08,115 Speaker 1: and it did not get much better than him. And 506 00:34:08,195 --> 00:34:09,955 Speaker 1: what he did was not what you see now, where 507 00:34:09,995 --> 00:34:12,395 Speaker 1: people like Steven A. Smith and Chris Russo are paid 508 00:34:12,755 --> 00:34:16,035 Speaker 1: to kill as much time as possible, where people like 509 00:34:16,115 --> 00:34:19,075 Speaker 1: Skip Bayliss are paid to turn anything into a controversy, 510 00:34:19,195 --> 00:34:23,875 Speaker 1: and anything good into something bad. Bill Maser talked to 511 00:34:24,035 --> 00:34:32,355 Speaker 1: people knowledgeably, pleasantly, rarely raising his voice. He talked to athletes, 512 00:34:32,435 --> 00:34:37,275 Speaker 1: other reporters, fans, and he had a singular advantage. Before Internet, 513 00:34:37,315 --> 00:34:40,715 Speaker 1: before the sports history industry, hell, before the first edition 514 00:34:40,755 --> 00:34:46,035 Speaker 1: of the Baseball Encyclopedia came out, Bill Maser knew everything. 515 00:34:46,995 --> 00:34:50,675 Speaker 1: This was largely because he had a virtually photographic memory. 516 00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:53,075 Speaker 1: Bill could of an instant tell you who won the 517 00:34:53,075 --> 00:34:55,595 Speaker 1: one hundred meter dash at the nineteen thirty two Olympics 518 00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:58,995 Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, because he knew how all six finishers 519 00:34:58,995 --> 00:35:02,355 Speaker 1: did that. It was Eddie Tolan, then Ralph Metcalf, then 520 00:35:02,555 --> 00:35:05,715 Speaker 1: Jonath of Germany, then George Simps, and then Danny Joubert, 521 00:35:06,115 --> 00:35:08,995 Speaker 1: and then the Japanese Yoshioka. And then he mentioned that 522 00:35:09,075 --> 00:35:11,515 Speaker 1: Eddie Tolan's cousin was the outfielder Bobby Tolan of the 523 00:35:11,515 --> 00:35:13,915 Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds. And before you knew it, he was asking 524 00:35:13,955 --> 00:35:16,995 Speaker 1: you who had the greatest outfield arm ever? And I 525 00:35:17,075 --> 00:35:21,675 Speaker 1: mentioned this because I can remember parts of the conversation 526 00:35:21,755 --> 00:35:24,315 Speaker 1: I had with him that followed that question about the 527 00:35:24,395 --> 00:35:28,715 Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two Olympic one hundred meters Bill Maser saw 528 00:35:28,755 --> 00:35:32,275 Speaker 1: the list of finishers once and remembered it for the 529 00:35:32,275 --> 00:35:37,435 Speaker 1: rest of his life. Bill also did television network stuff. 530 00:35:37,475 --> 00:35:40,955 Speaker 1: He worked NFL football for CBS, sidelines in the studio, 531 00:35:41,035 --> 00:35:43,875 Speaker 1: and the scoreboard shows. He did hockey, He did color 532 00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:46,435 Speaker 1: he did play by play, did local games of the 533 00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:49,235 Speaker 1: New York Rangers. He did the network broadcast on CBS. 534 00:35:49,755 --> 00:35:52,355 Speaker 1: He did the Knicks, the Rangers, the Nets, the Islanders, 535 00:35:52,475 --> 00:35:55,315 Speaker 1: the local sports on Channel five here. And he had 536 00:35:55,395 --> 00:35:58,235 Speaker 1: interns and in the summer of nineteen seventy eight at 537 00:35:58,315 --> 00:36:02,715 Speaker 1: Channel five in my seersucker suit, I was one of them. 538 00:36:03,235 --> 00:36:07,395 Speaker 1: Did he take me on his wing? Nah, that wasn't 539 00:36:07,395 --> 00:36:10,875 Speaker 1: his style. Did he let me essentially produce his show, 540 00:36:11,915 --> 00:36:15,155 Speaker 1: choose the highlights for him, Watch as he showed me 541 00:36:15,235 --> 00:36:20,395 Speaker 1: tricks on how to narrate those highlights. Ask me why 542 00:36:21,075 --> 00:36:25,035 Speaker 1: he was including some stories and not others. Explain that 543 00:36:25,075 --> 00:36:26,715 Speaker 1: it was okay to make a mistake as long as 544 00:36:26,715 --> 00:36:30,075 Speaker 1: you corrected yourself as soon as you found out. Nod 545 00:36:30,195 --> 00:36:32,755 Speaker 1: with amusement but approval. When the actual producer said that 546 00:36:32,795 --> 00:36:35,035 Speaker 1: one night that Bill was going to take off, they 547 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:38,835 Speaker 1: should let me fill in for him. Yes to all 548 00:36:38,915 --> 00:36:45,275 Speaker 1: that he treated his interns like equals. And then there 549 00:36:45,355 --> 00:36:47,795 Speaker 1: was that memory thing. He used to ask him a 550 00:36:47,795 --> 00:36:50,395 Speaker 1: trivia question on the air every night, a question sent 551 00:36:50,435 --> 00:36:53,435 Speaker 1: in by a viewer Stump the Amazing Maser in the 552 00:36:53,435 --> 00:36:56,475 Speaker 1: commercial before the sports on the ten o'clock news on 553 00:36:56,555 --> 00:37:00,915 Speaker 1: Channel five, And usually he'd start to actually answer it reflexively, 554 00:37:00,955 --> 00:37:02,835 Speaker 1: and the news anchor John Rowland would say, what are 555 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: you doing. We want them to stay through the commercial 556 00:37:04,475 --> 00:37:05,995 Speaker 1: to find out if you know the answer, and they'd 557 00:37:06,035 --> 00:37:08,555 Speaker 1: both laugh, and it was obvious that Bill had started 558 00:37:08,555 --> 00:37:10,675 Speaker 1: to answer so that nobody would ever think he was 559 00:37:10,755 --> 00:37:12,915 Speaker 1: dashing off during the commercial to find the answer in 560 00:37:12,955 --> 00:37:17,195 Speaker 1: a book somewhere. The newscaster Roland even mocked the whole 561 00:37:17,235 --> 00:37:21,955 Speaker 1: thing one night. This is from Eddie Spaghetti of Sheepshead 562 00:37:21,995 --> 00:37:25,835 Speaker 1: Bay Amazing. On Sunday, April twenty second, nineteen seventy nine, 563 00:37:25,915 --> 00:37:28,595 Speaker 1: the Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers six nothing at the 564 00:37:28,635 --> 00:37:32,275 Speaker 1: Garden behind John Davidson shutout to take a commanding three 565 00:37:32,315 --> 00:37:36,195 Speaker 1: games to one lead in the Stanley Cup Semifinals. By 566 00:37:36,235 --> 00:37:39,315 Speaker 1: this point Bill looked somewhere between amused and be mused. 567 00:37:39,395 --> 00:37:41,955 Speaker 1: The question included the key details, what on earth could 568 00:37:41,995 --> 00:37:47,955 Speaker 1: the question be John Rowland resumed seventeen thousand, three hundred 569 00:37:47,955 --> 00:37:50,635 Speaker 1: and eighty fans were at Madison Square Garden that night. 570 00:37:51,435 --> 00:37:57,675 Speaker 1: Give their names and addresses. Bill Mazer did not even laugh. 571 00:37:58,435 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: Aaron Albert A. One hundred and twenty five Bedford Avenue, 572 00:38:01,555 --> 00:38:05,835 Speaker 1: Apartment four L, Brooklyn, New York. Aaron Albert's see seventeen 573 00:38:05,875 --> 00:38:10,075 Speaker 1: Golf Course Way, Nutley, New Jersey. Aaron Albert V. The 574 00:38:10,155 --> 00:38:16,435 Speaker 1: director faded to black. I saw him last around two 575 00:38:16,435 --> 00:38:19,475 Speaker 1: thousand and eight in the old Yankee Stadium. He was 576 00:38:19,515 --> 00:38:23,195 Speaker 1: alone in the clubhouse and shaking his head slowly. I 577 00:38:23,235 --> 00:38:27,115 Speaker 1: went up and said, hello, my god, Keith. He said, 578 00:38:27,235 --> 00:38:32,115 Speaker 1: very quietly, other than Jeter, I don't know anybody here anymore. 579 00:38:33,315 --> 00:38:34,795 Speaker 1: I told him the hell he didn't, he knew me. 580 00:38:36,035 --> 00:38:39,155 Speaker 1: We talked for half an hour. I was his intern 581 00:38:39,195 --> 00:38:41,155 Speaker 1: one summer, and the next July I was covering the 582 00:38:41,155 --> 00:38:43,595 Speaker 1: same games and press conferences he was, And not once 583 00:38:43,635 --> 00:38:47,155 Speaker 1: did he claim he discovered me. He introduced me to 584 00:38:47,195 --> 00:38:50,355 Speaker 1: everybody I did not know. I had the good fortune 585 00:38:50,395 --> 00:38:52,115 Speaker 1: to have this young man as my intern last year. 586 00:38:52,155 --> 00:38:55,595 Speaker 1: I'm very proud of him. It was always like that, 587 00:38:55,595 --> 00:38:58,635 Speaker 1: that conversation about the nineteen thirty two Olympic one hundred meters. 588 00:38:59,115 --> 00:39:02,435 Speaker 1: That was at his desk in the seductively cool newsroom 589 00:39:02,475 --> 00:39:05,395 Speaker 1: at Channel five one evening when I was his intern, 590 00:39:06,275 --> 00:39:09,875 Speaker 1: And it ended with me saying Dwight Evans of the 591 00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:12,195 Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox had as good an outfield arm as 592 00:39:12,235 --> 00:39:14,035 Speaker 1: I had ever seen, for whatever that was worth. And 593 00:39:14,115 --> 00:39:16,475 Speaker 1: Bill said that was a good choice, but he didn't 594 00:39:16,555 --> 00:39:19,875 Speaker 1: quite measure up to Meryl Hogue. Meryl Hogue in the 595 00:39:19,875 --> 00:39:25,955 Speaker 1: thirties with the Yankees, I added, and the Browns, No, 596 00:39:26,475 --> 00:39:30,315 Speaker 1: corrected Bill, just the Yankees. He played only for the Yankees. 597 00:39:31,875 --> 00:39:35,915 Speaker 1: I was in a pickle. Bill Mazer was wrong, I 598 00:39:36,035 --> 00:39:39,875 Speaker 1: stated my evidence, Bill, I have a nineteen forty baseball 599 00:39:39,915 --> 00:39:44,155 Speaker 1: card of Merril Hogue with the Saint Louis Browns. Bill 600 00:39:44,195 --> 00:39:48,715 Speaker 1: Maser's side must be a misprint, he said quietly. He 601 00:39:48,795 --> 00:39:51,715 Speaker 1: then rose dramatically from his chair, cleared his throat, and 602 00:39:51,755 --> 00:39:54,795 Speaker 1: as he reached to unlock the drawer that contained his 603 00:39:54,955 --> 00:39:58,315 Speaker 1: copy of the finally published Baseball Encyclopedia. He was always 604 00:39:58,315 --> 00:40:00,795 Speaker 1: an early adopter of new tech, he said to one 605 00:40:00,835 --> 00:40:04,235 Speaker 1: of the producers. It's always like this with these kids. 606 00:40:05,435 --> 00:40:10,475 Speaker 1: He thumbed through the book Hogue. Here it is nineteen 607 00:40:10,475 --> 00:40:13,395 Speaker 1: thirty six, Yankees, nineteen thirty seven, Yankees, nineteen thirty eight, 608 00:40:13,475 --> 00:40:22,595 Speaker 1: Yankees nineteen thirty nine Browns. Bill went silent. He replaced 609 00:40:22,675 --> 00:40:25,355 Speaker 1: his copy of the Baseball Encyclopedia and sat down, slowly 610 00:40:25,475 --> 00:40:29,115 Speaker 1: and silently. He did not look at me, but rather 611 00:40:29,275 --> 00:40:33,875 Speaker 1: at the news producer Stanley Pinsley was his name, and 612 00:40:33,955 --> 00:40:37,995 Speaker 1: as he had taught me, Bill corrected himself this in turn. 613 00:40:38,315 --> 00:40:43,715 Speaker 1: He finally said, this one is almost as good as me. 614 00:40:46,355 --> 00:40:51,115 Speaker 1: That's all I really wanted. I had unintentionally stumped the 615 00:40:51,155 --> 00:40:56,595 Speaker 1: amazing Maser. Bill Maser died at Danbury, Connecticut, in October 616 00:40:56,635 --> 00:40:59,755 Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen, at the age of ninety two, and 617 00:40:59,875 --> 00:41:07,155 Speaker 1: people are still asking me about him. Congratulations Bill, and 618 00:41:07,555 --> 00:41:22,795 Speaker 1: thank you. I've done all the damage I can do here. 619 00:41:22,835 --> 00:41:25,675 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and 620 00:41:25,715 --> 00:41:29,875 Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music. 621 00:41:30,315 --> 00:41:32,755 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, Mister 622 00:41:32,835 --> 00:41:35,995 Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by 623 00:41:35,995 --> 00:41:39,635 Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 624 00:41:39,875 --> 00:41:42,715 Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 625 00:41:43,235 --> 00:41:46,275 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two. 626 00:41:46,715 --> 00:41:49,035 Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis and a Peers 627 00:41:49,035 --> 00:41:53,315 Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are 628 00:41:53,355 --> 00:41:56,355 Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. My 629 00:41:56,395 --> 00:41:59,395 Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Larry David. Everything else was 630 00:41:59,435 --> 00:42:03,475 Speaker 1: pretty much my fault as usual. So that's countdown for 631 00:42:03,515 --> 00:42:06,675 Speaker 1: this the ninety seventh day until the twenty twenty four 632 00:42:06,755 --> 00:42:12,435 Speaker 1: presidential election. They three second day since convicted feldon Donald 633 00:42:12,475 --> 00:42:16,195 Speaker 1: Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of 634 00:42:16,195 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing, use 635 00:42:21,035 --> 00:42:25,675 Speaker 1: the mental health system and involuntary commitment. You've got it, 636 00:42:25,755 --> 00:42:30,355 Speaker 1: President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him from doing 637 00:42:30,395 --> 00:42:36,675 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. And anti Semitic, anti 638 00:42:36,755 --> 00:42:41,555 Speaker 1: immigration Republicans, please stop shooting at Trump. The next scheduled 639 00:42:41,555 --> 00:42:45,555 Speaker 1: countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires till the 640 00:42:45,555 --> 00:42:48,515 Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Oldraman good morning, good afternoon, good night, 641 00:42:49,155 --> 00:42:58,755 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 642 00:42:58,955 --> 00:43:04,275 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 643 00:43:04,315 --> 00:43:07,715 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.