Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. After
Speaker 1: his demented, prejudiced heroxism at the National Association of Black
Speaker 1: Journalists event in Chicago yesterday, as he signaled the start
Speaker 1: of his full on, hateful, disgusting, apartheid and slavery level
Speaker 1: appalling campaign of birtherism and racism, Donald Trump must withdraw
Speaker 1: from the presidential election and be committed for psychiatric institutionalization,
Speaker 1: or be compelled to. There is no longer any room
Speaker 1: in the political discourse of the United States of America
Speaker 1: for anyone both so deeply disturbed and so deeply possessed
Speaker 1: by a hate of people of color that it reaches
Speaker 1: the levels of insanity and prejudice Trump not only displayed
Speaker 1: yesterday in Chicago, but gloried in Moreover, there is no
Speaker 1: room in American society for anyone with such an immeasurably
Speaker 1: dysfunctional and dangerous mental illness as that which Trump showed
Speaker 1: again and again and again at the NABJ event. If
Speaker 1: he will not seek hospitalization for his countless psychoses and
Speaker 1: delusions and persecution complexes, he must be forced to. This
Speaker 1: country is not safe if Donald Trump is free to
Speaker 1: walk on its streets. This country is not safe if
Speaker 1: those who have mistaken him for sane or rational, or
Speaker 1: patriotic or merely American are not shown in no uncertain
Speaker 1: terms that what he raise yesterday on that stage is
Speaker 1: a disease, and it is unacceptable to this nation. Psychiatric
Speaker 1: experts may be able to help Trump, they may not. Frankly,
Speaker 1: I no longer care. Literally, almost every day since I
Speaker 1: wrote could Trump Pass a Sanity Test? For Vanity Fair
Speaker 1: Magazine in twenty sixteen, I have been repeating that apart
Speaker 1: from his neanderthal policies, apart from his inability to grasp
Speaker 1: that he is not intelligent, apart from his simpleton's perception
Speaker 1: of the world, there is a baseline danger that we
Speaker 1: cannot assess that clearly from which advisors or party leaders
Speaker 1: or generals cannot save him or save us. And that
Speaker 1: is this. He is manifestly broken. His brain does not
Speaker 1: work correctly, and thus what we see now may ultimately
Speaker 1: be only the tip of an unstable iceberg. The risk
Speaker 1: the world is at is not just the Trump we
Speaker 1: see failing every test of that which makes one human
Speaker 1: every day of his life. It is the risk that
Speaker 1: from here he will get worse. Yesterday here I criticize
Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Journalists for platforming Trump, and
Speaker 1: I would like to retract that criticism, apologize for it,
Speaker 1: and bless that organization for arranging. However, it was arranged
Speaker 1: to put the Trump you and I already know on
Speaker 1: display for at least some people who had not seen
Speaker 1: it or would not believe it was true. It was
Speaker 1: Trump's first genuinely unfriendly, not passive interview in years, revealed
Speaker 1: both his madness and the madness of his beliefs, and
Speaker 1: his racial animus, and his willingness to invent any excuse
Speaker 1: to suppress anybody who is not a white man of
Speaker 1: European heritage. He went full birther again, and now his
Speaker 1: campaign is full birther again. He went full racist again,
Speaker 1: and now his campaign is full racist again. He not
Speaker 1: only questioned the ethnic history and heritage of the Vice
Speaker 1: President of the United States, but he accused her of
Speaker 1: either changing that history or changing her statements about her
Speaker 1: own heritage. Trump's insanity permits him to be vague even
Speaker 1: in his apartheid level racist accusations. One hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: three years ago, this nation took up arms to silence
Speaker 1: and disempower hateful, deranged creatures like Donald Trump. We now
Speaker 1: think seven hundred and fifty thousand Americans died to stop
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump believes in today, with as many more
Speaker 1: wounded and or captured. That we continue to tolerate Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: that we continue to normalize Donald Trump, that we continue
Speaker 1: to let Donald Trump lead a national political party and
Speaker 1: serve as its presidential nominee. Is among the top two
Speaker 1: or three failures in the history of the United States
Speaker 1: of America that an American news organization could summarize in
Speaker 1: its daily news round up, the disaster that was Donald
Speaker 1: Trump in Chicago yesterday, the existential threat to all of
Speaker 1: our lives that is Donald Trump every day, to summarize
Speaker 1: it in two hundred and thirty four words, headlined Trump
Speaker 1: questions Harris's race, as if that were a legitimate question
Speaker 1: in a society that is not itself deeply disturbed, and
Speaker 1: then move on from that to its off lead story,
Speaker 1: Taco Bell to test AI drive throughs that suggests that
Speaker 1: we are all stunningly comfortable lying here with our next
Speaker 1: on the railroad tracks that we have reached if we
Speaker 1: had not reached it before the point Patty Chayevsky described
Speaker 1: in the mad as Hell speech Peter Finch recites in
Speaker 1: the movie Network, we sit watching our TVs while some
Speaker 1: newscast here plays clips of this asshole Trump accusing the
Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States of changing her color
Speaker 1: at the exact moment his minions begin full on bertherism,
Speaker 1: as if that's the way it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: Aaron Rupar.
Speaker 1: Of the website Public Notice, whose newsletter you should sign
Speaker 1: up for, produced a super cut of the disqualifying Trump
Speaker 1: attacks on Harris on black people on his hosts on America,
Speaker 1: which I have edited down here only slightly for time,
Speaker 1: and I would add that as Aaron posted this to
Speaker 1: social media, the Trump stooge Jesse Waters was going on
Speaker 1: Fox and claiming Vice President Harris's quote not African American technically,
Speaker 1: and the Trump fabricator and liar Laura Lumer was disseminating
Speaker 1: a falsified harris birth certificate, and the gutter trash congresswoman
Speaker 1: from Colorado Lauren Bobert wrote quote she switched, and the
Speaker 1: Trump parking lot attorney Alina Habas said quote, unlike you, Kamala,
Speaker 1: I know who my roots are and where I come
Speaker 1: from and Trump's pet Fox host Harris Faulkner, who was
Speaker 1: on stage as this unfolded in Chicago yesterday, dismissed the
Speaker 1: events there as things got chippy. As you listen to this,
Speaker 1: remember that this from Trump is not hyperbole, not politics,
Speaker 1: not even the standard Trump hatred and insanity that the
Speaker 1: cowardice of the media has allowed him to get away
Speaker 1: with for nine disastrous years. This is the start of
Speaker 1: his presidential campaign in which the psychopathic fascist Republican who
Speaker 1: hates black people and has always hated black people and
Speaker 1: will suppress black people, will insist that he is the
Speaker 1: real victim here because he will also insist the vice
Speaker 1: president of the United States is lying about being a
Speaker 1: black person. Or, as Mother Jones put it in its
Speaker 1: headline far more succinctly, white man tells black journalists that
Speaker 1: his black opponent is not Black people.
Speaker 3: Did not think it was appropriate for you to be
Speaker 3: here today. You have pushed false claims about some of
Speaker 3: your from Nicki Hayley to former President Barack Obama, saying
Speaker 3: that they were not born in the United States, which
Speaker 3: is not true. You have told four congressmen women of
Speaker 3: color who are American citizens, to go back to where
Speaker 3: they came from. You have used words like animal and
Speaker 3: rabbit to describe black district attorneys. You've attacked black journalists,
Speaker 3: calling them a loser, saying the questions that they ask
Speaker 3: are quote stupid and racist. You've had dinner with a
Speaker 3: white supremacist at your maraologue resort. So my question, sir,
Speaker 3: now that you are asking black supporters to vote for you,
Speaker 3: why should black voters trust you after you have used
Speaker 3: language like that.
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I don't think I've ever been
Speaker 2: asked a question so in such a horrible manner. A
Speaker 2: first question, you don't even say, hello, how are you?
Speaker 2: Are you with ABC? Because I think they're a fake
Speaker 2: news network a terrible level. And I think it's disgraceful
Speaker 2: that I can aim here in good spirit. I love
Speaker 2: the black population of this country. I've done so much
Speaker 2: for the black population of this country. I think it's
Speaker 2: a very rude introduction. I don't know exactly why you
Speaker 2: would do something like that. And let me go a
Speaker 2: step further. I was invited here, and I was told
Speaker 2: my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, I was
Speaker 2: told my opponent was going to be here. It turned
Speaker 2: out my opponent isn't here. You invited me under false pretense,
Speaker 2: and then you said you can't do it with zoom.
Speaker 2: Well you know where's zoom. She's going to do it
Speaker 2: with zoom and she's not coming. And then you were
Speaker 2: half an hour a Just so we understand, I have
Speaker 2: too much respect for you to be late. They couldn't
Speaker 2: get their equipment work in or something I would. I
Speaker 2: think it's a very nasty question. I have answered the question.
Speaker 2: I have been the best president for the black population
Speaker 2: since Abraham Lincoln. That is my answer, only President Johnston's.
Speaker 2: I'm voting right now. Ask you to start off a
Speaker 2: question and answer period, especially when you're thirty five minutes
Speaker 2: late because you couldn't get your equipment to work in
Speaker 2: such a hostile manner. I think it's a disgrace. I
Speaker 2: really do it.
Speaker 3: Let me just ask upond to other questions here. Some
Speaker 3: of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have
Speaker 3: labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who was the first black
Speaker 3: and Asian American woman to serve as vice president and
Speaker 3: be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire.
Speaker 2: Is that acceptable language to you?
Speaker 3: And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to
Speaker 3: stop it.
Speaker 2: How do you how do you define DEI? Go ahead?
Speaker 2: How do you define diversity?
Speaker 3: Equity inclusion?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, go ahead? Is that what your definition? That is?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 5: That is?
Speaker 2: Give me a definition? Then would you give me a definition? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: give me a definition.
Speaker 3: Soar' I'm asking you, am are you had to direct.
Speaker 2: Find it, define the define it for me if I
Speaker 2: just defined it? Sir?
Speaker 3: Do you believe that Vice President Kamala Harris is only
Speaker 3: on the ticket because she is a black woman?
Speaker 2: Well, I can say no. I think it's maybe a
Speaker 2: little bit different. So I've known a long time, indirectly,
Speaker 2: not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage,
Speaker 2: and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn't know
Speaker 2: she was black until a number of years ago when
Speaker 2: she happened to turn black. And now she wants to
Speaker 2: be known as black. So I don't know is she
Speaker 2: Indian or is she black? She is always I respect
Speaker 2: other black college. I respect either one, but she obviously
Speaker 2: doesn't because she was Indian all the way, and then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden she made a turn and she
Speaker 2: went she became a black part just to be clear,
Speaker 2: I think somebody should look into that too. When you
Speaker 2: ask a continue in a very hostile, nasty town, why
Speaker 2: come here?
Speaker 1: What is your message today?
Speaker 2: My message is to stop people from invading our country
Speaker 2: that are taking frankly, a lot of problems with it.
Speaker 2: But one of the big problems and a lot of
Speaker 2: the journalists in this room I know, and I have
Speaker 2: great respect for a lot of the journalists in this
Speaker 2: room are black. I will tell you that coming from
Speaker 2: the border are millions and millions of people that happen
Speaker 2: to be taking black jobs. You had the.
Speaker 3: Best what exactly the black job, sir?
Speaker 2: A black job is anybody that has a job. How
Speaker 2: do you turn it around? What's your plan for the
Speaker 2: black community when it comes to Monchy? So, first of all,
Speaker 2: it's very hard to hear for whatever reason, because of
Speaker 2: the fact that they have bad equipment, because I guess
Speaker 2: you know, this woman was unable to get the right equipment.
Speaker 2: But it's very hard for me to hear you, but
Speaker 2: I can hear every other word. It's very difficult, actually,
Speaker 2: But so I don't know if they can fix it
Speaker 2: or do something with it, but I'll do the best
Speaker 2: I can with it. If I came onto a stage
Speaker 2: like this and I got treated so rudely, is this
Speaker 2: woman true? My goodness? And I'm fine with it because
Speaker 2: she it does it. She was very rude, sir, very rude.
Speaker 2: That was a nasty That wasn't a question. She hadn't
Speaker 2: asked me a question. She gave a statement that wasn't a question. Actually,
Speaker 2: you and you wait, you would absolutely if I thought
Speaker 2: that I was failing in some way, I want people
Speaker 2: to be shopping. I'll go a step further. I want
Speaker 2: anybody running for president to take an aptitude test, to
Speaker 2: take a cognitive test. I think it's a great idea.
Speaker 2: And I took two of them, and I aced them.
Speaker 2: I took two of them. But let me ask you,
Speaker 2: I would like to have what's going to happen to
Speaker 2: those people? What's going to happen to the people in
Speaker 2: Portland that destroyed?
Speaker 3: My question is on those going to happen my people
Speaker 3: ride those assault officers.
Speaker 2: You have to you what's going to happen?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I would. You would run. If they're innocent, I
Speaker 2: would pardon them. Be' been convicted by the way the
Speaker 2: Supreme Court just under well, they were convicted by a very,
Speaker 2: very tough system they were. How come the people that
Speaker 2: tried to burn down Minneapolis, how come the Purple that
Speaker 2: took over a large percentage of Seattle? How come nothing
Speaker 2: happened to them? How come to.
Speaker 3: People talking about people that were seen, we're talking about
Speaker 3: Laurel Fields dragging them down the stairs they're on Have
Speaker 3: you seen that videos?
Speaker 2: Early?
Speaker 3: Well they parted those you a pardon those rioters.
Speaker 2: They shot a young lady in the face who was protesting.
Speaker 2: They shot her. The You know, nobody died that day,
Speaker 2: you do know that. But people died in Seattle. Nobody died,
Speaker 2: But people died in the opposite You know, people died.
Speaker 2: They're taking your jobs. These people coming in are taking
Speaker 2: your job.
Speaker 3: I think we have to leave it there, Bible Team,
Speaker 3: all right, so leave it well.
Speaker 1: That is the last word, And that, of course, was
Speaker 1: prelude from Chicago. Trump went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and spoke
Speaker 1: last night after the NABJ event.
Speaker 4: The contrast could not be more stark. On the one hand,
Speaker 4: you have a radical left puppet candidate who is fake, fake, fake,
Speaker 4: and on the other hand, you have a president who.
Speaker 1: Fight fight fight is their betting? Yet is there betting
Speaker 1: on when Trump calls her the N word or something
Speaker 1: awfully close to it. I mean, his henchman Sebastian Gorka
Speaker 1: already called her the C word. She's a DEI higher right,
Speaker 1: She's a woman, She's colored.
Speaker 2: Therefore she's got to be good.
Speaker 1: As a PostScript, as a reminder, as an incentive to
Speaker 1: fight this creature Trump and his movement of hatred and
Speaker 1: deceit and gaslighting and pure unadulterated biblical evil, As a
Speaker 1: reminder that he will say anything at any time and
Speaker 1: contradict reality or a past version of his own self
Speaker 1: to any degree he finds necessary. Two points. A spokesperson,
Speaker 1: an advisor named Lynn Patten now says that in Chicago,
Speaker 1: Trump quote continually said that, unlike Kamala Harrison, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: he's running to be present for all Americans, and if
Speaker 1: you're running to unite the entire country, you have to
Speaker 1: back it up with action like he did today unquote, Yes,
Speaker 1: unite all Americans. Unite them just like they were united
Speaker 1: when we all had slavery, or just as Trump has
Speaker 1: always thought. The united in United States means united under
Speaker 1: a Trump dictatorship, and maybe more startlingly. There is also
Speaker 1: this Four years ago, next week, August eleventh, twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: actor Joe Biden had selected Kamala Harris as his vice
Speaker 1: presidential running mate, and Trump and his team of scumbag
Speaker 1: rivals unrolled the standard attacks on women of color who
Speaker 1: have not shown sufficient deference to the white men like
Speaker 1: Brett Kavanaugh, unrolled all the insanity tropes about black women,
Speaker 1: called Harris quote a mad woman, quote, a nasty woman quote,
Speaker 1: seriously ill. After that, Trump's spokesperson Katrina Pearson defended him
Speaker 1: against charges that he was being racist and anti black
Speaker 1: about Kamala Harris, confirming that when Harris ran for attorney
Speaker 1: general in California, Trump and his daughter Ivanka donated to
Speaker 1: her campaign eight thousand dollars in total from the Trumps
Speaker 1: to the Harris for Attorney General campaign. I'll note, miss Pearson, said,
Speaker 1: Miss Pearson being African American and now a Trumpist candidate
Speaker 1: for the Texas State House. Miss Pearson told a media
Speaker 1: conference call, I'll note that Kamala Harris is a black
Speaker 1: woman and he donated to her campaign, So I hope
Speaker 1: we can squash this racism argument. Now. We are fighting evil,
Speaker 1: evil for whom reality and justice and even their own
Speaker 1: past versions of themselves do not exist if they are inconvenient.
Speaker 1: At the present moment, we are fighting evil that is
Speaker 1: centered around a manifestly insane, dangerous, delusional, committable madman. We must,
Speaker 1: by the law, by the ballot box by both destroy
Speaker 1: him and everything he stands for, or we, the United
Speaker 1: States of America, we will surely be destroyed instead. As
Speaker 1: Trump unleashes Birtherism, I we must metaphorically bury him and
Speaker 1: his movement under its rubble.
Speaker 5: Well, Donald, I do hope you'll reconsider to meet me
Speaker 5: on the debate stage, because, as the saying goes, if
Speaker 5: you've got something to say.
Speaker 2: This is countdown.
Speaker 1: With Keith Oberman still ahead of us on this edition
Speaker 1: of Countdown. I need a break from this crap. Friend
Speaker 1: of mine asked me yesterday, for the thousandth time this year,
Speaker 1: how I deal with this every day? And I said, well,
Speaker 1: whenever I can, I try to go to my past
Speaker 1: and live there for a few minutes and visit the
Speaker 1: simpler times when all I worried about was things like
Speaker 1: whether or not my brand new seersucker suit would get
Speaker 1: dirty while I took the subway up to my internship
Speaker 1: at Channel five News here in New York, and somebody
Speaker 1: else yesterday mentioned the name of the sportscaster I happened
Speaker 1: to work for at that very internship, and so come
Speaker 1: with me now for a few minutes to the far
Speaker 1: less thrilling days of yesteryear. In things I promised not
Speaker 1: to tell Keith the intern First, there are still more
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the
Speaker 1: miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects, bestmans who constitute
Speaker 1: two days worst persons in the world, Lebrons, the Trump factotum,
Speaker 1: Dan Scabino, the media guy. This is from New York
Speaker 1: Magazine and it's a story about funding Trump media. I'm
Speaker 1: just going to read part of this. The most promising
Speaker 1: person they reached was Patrick Orlando, former Deutsche Bank derivatives
Speaker 1: trader who had started an investment firm called Benisseri Capital.
Speaker 1: For Trump's birthday in June, New York Magazine writes, Orlando
Speaker 1: wrote a letter appealing to his ego. I was unaware
Speaker 1: of the extent of your brilliance, he wrote, According to
Speaker 1: the post on your birthday, my only wish is that
Speaker 1: you realize how proud we are of your success is
Speaker 1: to date. Mister Moss and mister Litinsky, other funders of
Speaker 1: this outfit, persuaded Orlando not to send this in part
Speaker 1: because the sycophancy was over the top, even by Trump standards.
Speaker 1: I just want to protest for a second, and suggests
Speaker 1: that there is no such point that sycophancy cannot be
Speaker 1: over the top when it comes to Trump. However, the
Speaker 1: real issue is included in the next phrase. The sycofancy
Speaker 1: was over the top even by Trump's standards, and in
Speaker 1: part because they knew Trump hated the idea of getting older.
Speaker 1: He did not wish to be reminded of his birthday. Also,
Speaker 1: New York Magazine writes, and here's the Scavino part. Marri
Speaker 1: Lago has a microeconomy in which such intel is sold
Speaker 1: to supplicants by people with proximity to Trump. The truth
Speaker 1: Social executives paid fifteen thousand dollars to Will Russell, a
Speaker 1: Trump bodyman whose name came up in the Florida Documents investigation,
Speaker 1: and twenty thousand dollars to Dan Scavino, Trump's social media director,
Speaker 1: who were in a position to find out things like
Speaker 1: his mood when he'd be coming off the golf course
Speaker 1: and when was the best time to call Dan Scavino corrupt?
Speaker 1: Maitre d the runners up two of our favorite people online,
Speaker 1: the utter frauds, Vivek Ramaswami and Elon Musk. And Elon
Speaker 1: Musk is gone yet another day without overdosing. Congratulations Elon.
Speaker 1: America's declining birth rate, Vivek Ramaswami wrote, is a far
Speaker 1: greater risk to our future than say climate change. Well,
Speaker 1: of course that's not true. But why would Vivek know
Speaker 1: that he has an IQ of seven He believes he
Speaker 1: has an IQ of seven hundred, Yet most politicians are
Speaker 1: too scared to talk about it, and now it's apparently taboo.
Speaker 1: It's neither too scary nor taboo. It's just stupid. But
Speaker 1: here are the facts. Our nation's birth rate is now
Speaker 1: down to one point six to two berths per woman,
Speaker 1: the lowest in history, and well below replacement rate. I
Speaker 1: could make a joke here about baseball and replacement level offspring,
Speaker 1: but I won't. It's not even that people don't want kids.
Speaker 1: In fact, American women on average have fewer children than
Speaker 1: they say they'd hoped for. The graining of America means
Speaker 1: an overloaded healthcare system and eventually higher taxes for all.
Speaker 1: Today they're only about three workers for every retireel blah
Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah, on and on and on.
Speaker 1: The birth rate crisis is a symptom of a deeper
Speaker 1: economic malaise. The right answer is simple. Slash the oppressive
Speaker 1: regulatory stage. Drill frack, end dumb occupational licensing laws and
Speaker 1: restrictions on new housing to unleash the supply of everything.
Speaker 1: What part of that is about having kids? Fracking? Somebody
Speaker 1: has to explain to Vivet Gramaswami the difference between fracking
Speaker 1: and the other effing word. Musk's reply to this is priceless.
Speaker 6: A declining birth rate happens towards the end of every
Speaker 6: civilization and is a function of extended prosperity caesochiede and
Speaker 6: to succeeded, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 1: You mean Sid Caesar. It's just too bad that this
Speaker 1: problem that both of them perceive that there are not
Speaker 1: enough new working age and youthful Americans kids, that there
Speaker 1: aren't more of them here. It's too bad this could
Speaker 1: not be addressed in some other way than say, eliminating abortion,
Speaker 1: forcing women to have children, trying to marginalize those who
Speaker 1: do not have children, and actually run an idiot for
Speaker 1: vice president who's made a career out of mocking people
Speaker 1: who don't have kids when his own sexuality is in question.
Speaker 1: It's just too bad. There isn't some sort of alternate
Speaker 1: to that, an alternate to a declining birth rate. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Are there other people in overcrowded parts of
Speaker 1: the country in the world who would want to come
Speaker 1: here to the United States? Has anybody ever come here?
Speaker 1: Wasn't born here? I don't know. I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know of anybody like that. I mean, I just don't
Speaker 1: Could we have horror working people, you know, just to
Speaker 1: pick a phrase out of the air, yearning to breathe free,
Speaker 1: come here and fill those roles that Ramaswami is so
Speaker 1: worried about. And Elon Musk says it's the end of
Speaker 1: civilization because there aren't enough young people here. Could we
Speaker 1: bring them in from other countries to help us out?
Speaker 1: Other people too? What's the word immigrate here or if
Speaker 1: you like, the other version of the verb immigrate here?
Speaker 1: You know, like the parents of Elon Musk and vivek
Speaker 1: Ramaswami and Trump's grandparents. It will never surprise me, never
Speaker 1: stop surprising me. I should say that these people, the
Speaker 1: children of immigrants, have already forgotten that they are the
Speaker 1: children of immigrants. The first Olderman arrived here in the
Speaker 1: year eighteen forty seven, and I think of myself as
Speaker 1: the child of an immigrant, and I have great pride
Speaker 1: in it. There aren't enough people here, now, why are
Speaker 1: you stopping them from coming here? But our winner one
Speaker 1: of the people we should have stopped from coming here.
Speaker 1: Ryan Walters, Superintendent of Schools of the State of Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: religious nut bastard. Ryan Walters announces he is using libs
Speaker 1: of TikTok, the hateful prejudiced website account, to hunt down
Speaker 1: Oklahoma school employees who made jokes about the fact that
Speaker 1: Trump's ear got nicked, so that they can be fired
Speaker 1: from the Oklahoma State and City school systems. Quote. We
Speaker 1: cannot allow these individuals to continue to teach in the
Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma. I want to thank Chaia Rachik. That's
Speaker 1: the libs of TikTok, which who brought this first to
Speaker 1: my attention of what she found online to show this hateful,
Speaker 1: nasty rhetoric. He then said he would fire them all
Speaker 1: using her data. And of course Raychik has been connected
Speaker 1: via libs of TikTok to more than twenty bomb threats
Speaker 1: across the country because whoever she targets, somebody threatens to kill.
Speaker 1: There is a simple solution to this and this idiot
Speaker 1: Ryan Walters and this behavior in Oklahoma. Boycott all products
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma. They export six billion, one hundred million dollars
Speaker 1: every year in stuff, mostly aircraft parts. I know neither
Speaker 1: you nor I are buying any aircraft parts in the
Speaker 1: immediate future. Major companies are stop buying them from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Oh and the other thing. And this is legitimately the
Speaker 1: number one agricultural export in the state of Oklahoma, pork.
Speaker 1: One in fifty jobs in Oklahoma is supported by the
Speaker 1: pork industry. I would discuss briefly with you the merits
Speaker 1: of not eating pork, of how much healthier you will
Speaker 1: be and how much greater your conscience will thrive if
Speaker 1: you don't do it, particularly if any of the religions
Speaker 1: like this religious not Ryan Walters, are correct. And how
Speaker 1: you treat the weakest and most troubled of the beings
Speaker 1: of this planet determines whether or not you get some
Speaker 1: sort of reward afterward. If that's true, guess who is
Speaker 1: not getting a reward afterwards. That's right State Superintendent of Schools,
Speaker 1: Ryan Walters of Oklahoma, who we already know. We're not
Speaker 1: sure exactly how smart pigs are compared to human beings,
Speaker 1: maybe three year olds, four year olds, but we do
Speaker 1: know that every single pig on this planet is smarter
Speaker 1: than Ryan Walters, two days worse person and the world why,
Speaker 1: God don't know how. And now to the number one
Speaker 1: story on the countdown. And I was literally asked about
Speaker 1: him the other day by somebody who did not know
Speaker 1: I knew him, and basically I had one of those
Speaker 1: instantaneous moments that proved that Marcel Proust was right. If
Speaker 1: you try to remember something or someone from your youth,
Speaker 1: good luck, you might get a vague image. It might
Speaker 1: be right, it might be wrong. But if you are
Speaker 1: unexpectedly reminded of the moment or the person, you can,
Speaker 1: for at least a brief instant be transported back to
Speaker 1: them and to that time, as certainly as if you
Speaker 1: had a time machine. The man's name was spoken, and
Speaker 1: suddenly I was nineteen years old, again in a brand
Speaker 1: new seersucker suit, stepping in from the always broiling midday
Speaker 1: sun of midtown Manhattan before the subways had air conditioners,
Speaker 1: and into the seductive cool of a television newsroom, seven
Speaker 1: long hours before the broadcast was to begin, when all
Speaker 1: the elements are in place except the panic and the
Speaker 1: rushing and the shouting, when you can still quietly discuss
Speaker 1: which story should be the lead on the newscast, rather
Speaker 1: than threatening to kill somebody who tried to stop you
Speaker 1: from going with the fire, instead of a boating accident,
Speaker 1: when the film hasn't even been shot, let alone developed yet.
Speaker 1: And yes, in nineteen seventy eight, it was still film.
Speaker 1: They were just making the conversion from film to videotape,
Speaker 1: and they were using both, and half the stories could
Speaker 1: be instantly assembled videotape, but the other half were maddeningly
Speaker 1: delayed until the kid ran the film to the lab
Speaker 1: in the basement and waited for it to be developed.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was often that kid, And I think
Speaker 1: I might be the youngest person in this country who
Speaker 1: can say he ran the new the news film to
Speaker 1: the lab to be developed. Anyway, the man whose name
Speaker 1: was mentioned to me, was the first to succeed on
Speaker 1: radio in a big city in this country by simply
Speaker 1: talking sports with listeners who phoned in. This was in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: New York in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties and
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, though he was not from there, born in Kiev,
Speaker 1: emigrated to Brooklyn as an infant pre med at Michigan,
Speaker 1: a quick radio stint in Grand Rapids and the apt
Speaker 1: decision to not go by his given name of Morris Maser,
Speaker 1: then to the war, then to Buffalo and the role
Speaker 1: of the sportscaster in town on TV, on radio, on
Speaker 1: the newscasts of the original Buffalo Bills of the Minor
Speaker 1: League Baseball Buffalo Bisons and the Minor League Hockey Buffalo Bisons.
Speaker 1: Bill not Morris Bill Maser. Bill Maser came home to
Speaker 1: New York City in the early sixties, and whether you
Speaker 1: like it or hate it, sports talk started with him,
Speaker 1: and it did not get much better than him. And
Speaker 1: what he did was not what you see now, where
Speaker 1: people like Steven A. Smith and Chris Russo are paid
Speaker 1: to kill as much time as possible, where people like
Speaker 1: Skip Bayliss are paid to turn anything into a controversy,
Speaker 1: and anything good into something bad. Bill Maser talked to
Speaker 1: people knowledgeably, pleasantly, rarely raising his voice. He talked to athletes,
Speaker 1: other reporters, fans, and he had a singular advantage. Before Internet,
Speaker 1: before the sports history industry, hell, before the first edition
Speaker 1: of the Baseball Encyclopedia came out, Bill Maser knew everything.
Speaker 1: This was largely because he had a virtually photographic memory.
Speaker 1: Bill could of an instant tell you who won the
Speaker 1: one hundred meter dash at the nineteen thirty two Olympics
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, because he knew how all six finishers
Speaker 1: did that. It was Eddie Tolan, then Ralph Metcalf, then
Speaker 1: Jonath of Germany, then George Simps, and then Danny Joubert,
Speaker 1: and then the Japanese Yoshioka. And then he mentioned that
Speaker 1: Eddie Tolan's cousin was the outfielder Bobby Tolan of the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Reds. And before you knew it, he was asking
Speaker 1: you who had the greatest outfield arm ever? And I
Speaker 1: mentioned this because I can remember parts of the conversation
Speaker 1: I had with him that followed that question about the
Speaker 1: nineteen thirty two Olympic one hundred meters Bill Maser saw
Speaker 1: the list of finishers once and remembered it for the
Speaker 1: rest of his life. Bill also did television network stuff.
Speaker 1: He worked NFL football for CBS, sidelines in the studio,
Speaker 1: and the scoreboard shows. He did hockey, He did color
Speaker 1: he did play by play, did local games of the
Speaker 1: New York Rangers. He did the network broadcast on CBS.
Speaker 1: He did the Knicks, the Rangers, the Nets, the Islanders,
Speaker 1: the local sports on Channel five here. And he had
Speaker 1: interns and in the summer of nineteen seventy eight at
Speaker 1: Channel five in my seersucker suit, I was one of them.
Speaker 1: Did he take me on his wing? Nah, that wasn't
Speaker 1: his style. Did he let me essentially produce his show,
Speaker 1: choose the highlights for him, Watch as he showed me
Speaker 1: tricks on how to narrate those highlights. Ask me why
Speaker 1: he was including some stories and not others. Explain that
Speaker 1: it was okay to make a mistake as long as
Speaker 1: you corrected yourself as soon as you found out. Nod
Speaker 1: with amusement but approval. When the actual producer said that
Speaker 1: one night that Bill was going to take off, they
Speaker 1: should let me fill in for him. Yes to all
Speaker 1: that he treated his interns like equals. And then there
Speaker 1: was that memory thing. He used to ask him a
Speaker 1: trivia question on the air every night, a question sent
Speaker 1: in by a viewer Stump the Amazing Maser in the
Speaker 1: commercial before the sports on the ten o'clock news on
Speaker 1: Channel five, And usually he'd start to actually answer it reflexively,
Speaker 1: and the news anchor John Rowland would say, what are
Speaker 1: you doing. We want them to stay through the commercial
Speaker 1: to find out if you know the answer, and they'd
Speaker 1: both laugh, and it was obvious that Bill had started
Speaker 1: to answer so that nobody would ever think he was
Speaker 1: dashing off during the commercial to find the answer in
Speaker 1: a book somewhere. The newscaster Roland even mocked the whole
Speaker 1: thing one night. This is from Eddie Spaghetti of Sheepshead
Speaker 1: Bay Amazing. On Sunday, April twenty second, nineteen seventy nine,
Speaker 1: the Rangers defeated the Philadelphia Flyers six nothing at the
Speaker 1: Garden behind John Davidson shutout to take a commanding three
Speaker 1: games to one lead in the Stanley Cup Semifinals. By
Speaker 1: this point Bill looked somewhere between amused and be mused.
Speaker 1: The question included the key details, what on earth could
Speaker 1: the question be John Rowland resumed seventeen thousand, three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty fans were at Madison Square Garden that night.
Speaker 1: Give their names and addresses. Bill Mazer did not even laugh.
Speaker 1: Aaron Albert A. One hundred and twenty five Bedford Avenue,
Speaker 1: Apartment four L, Brooklyn, New York. Aaron Albert's see seventeen
Speaker 1: Golf Course Way, Nutley, New Jersey. Aaron Albert V. The
Speaker 1: director faded to black. I saw him last around two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight in the old Yankee Stadium. He was
Speaker 1: alone in the clubhouse and shaking his head slowly. I
Speaker 1: went up and said, hello, my god, Keith. He said,
Speaker 1: very quietly, other than Jeter, I don't know anybody here anymore.
Speaker 1: I told him the hell he didn't, he knew me.
Speaker 1: We talked for half an hour. I was his intern
Speaker 1: one summer, and the next July I was covering the
Speaker 1: same games and press conferences he was, And not once
Speaker 1: did he claim he discovered me. He introduced me to
Speaker 1: everybody I did not know. I had the good fortune
Speaker 1: to have this young man as my intern last year.
Speaker 1: I'm very proud of him. It was always like that,
Speaker 1: that conversation about the nineteen thirty two Olympic one hundred meters.
Speaker 1: That was at his desk in the seductively cool newsroom
Speaker 1: at Channel five one evening when I was his intern,
Speaker 1: And it ended with me saying Dwight Evans of the
Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox had as good an outfield arm as
Speaker 1: I had ever seen, for whatever that was worth. And
Speaker 1: Bill said that was a good choice, but he didn't
Speaker 1: quite measure up to Meryl Hogue. Meryl Hogue in the
Speaker 1: thirties with the Yankees, I added, and the Browns, No,
Speaker 1: corrected Bill, just the Yankees. He played only for the Yankees.
Speaker 1: I was in a pickle. Bill Mazer was wrong, I
Speaker 1: stated my evidence, Bill, I have a nineteen forty baseball
Speaker 1: card of Merril Hogue with the Saint Louis Browns. Bill
Speaker 1: Maser's side must be a misprint, he said quietly. He
Speaker 1: then rose dramatically from his chair, cleared his throat, and
Speaker 1: as he reached to unlock the drawer that contained his
Speaker 1: copy of the finally published Baseball Encyclopedia. He was always
Speaker 1: an early adopter of new tech, he said to one
Speaker 1: of the producers. It's always like this with these kids.
Speaker 1: He thumbed through the book Hogue. Here it is nineteen
Speaker 1: thirty six, Yankees, nineteen thirty seven, Yankees, nineteen thirty eight,
Speaker 1: Yankees nineteen thirty nine Browns. Bill went silent. He replaced
Speaker 1: his copy of the Baseball Encyclopedia and sat down, slowly
Speaker 1: and silently. He did not look at me, but rather
Speaker 1: at the news producer Stanley Pinsley was his name, and
Speaker 1: as he had taught me, Bill corrected himself this in turn.
Speaker 1: He finally said, this one is almost as good as me.
Speaker 1: That's all I really wanted. I had unintentionally stumped the
Speaker 1: amazing Maser. Bill Maser died at Danbury, Connecticut, in October
Speaker 1: of twenty thirteen, at the age of ninety two, and
Speaker 1: people are still asking me about him. Congratulations Bill, and
Speaker 1: thank you. I've done all the damage I can do here.
Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors Brian Ray and
Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanelle arranged, produced, and performed most of our music.
Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, Mister
Speaker 1: Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards, and it was produced by
Speaker 1: Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions,
Speaker 1: were arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.
Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two.
Speaker 1: It was written by Mitch Warren Davis and a Peers
Speaker 1: courtesy of ESPN. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are
Speaker 1: by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever. My
Speaker 1: announcer today was my friend Larry David. Everything else was
Speaker 1: pretty much my fault as usual. So that's countdown for
Speaker 1: this the ninety seventh day until the twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing, use
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