1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,595 --> 00:00:26,715 Speaker 1: had already single handedly reignited his Arlington National Cemetery scandal 3 00:00:26,835 --> 00:00:30,395 Speaker 1: yesterday by implying that the VA and the Department of 4 00:00:30,435 --> 00:00:35,875 Speaker 1: Defense are lying about it entirely when Fox News doubled 5 00:00:35,915 --> 00:00:39,475 Speaker 1: down on the lie, and Trump had suddenly basically put 6 00:00:39,515 --> 00:00:43,235 Speaker 1: the entirety of the military establishment in the same position 7 00:00:43,315 --> 00:00:46,035 Speaker 1: Senator Joe McCarthy tried to put it in in nineteen 8 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:51,515 Speaker 1: fifty four. The mistake deciding you and your lies are 9 00:00:51,635 --> 00:00:55,875 Speaker 1: more important and will be more successful than the military's 10 00:00:55,915 --> 00:01:02,395 Speaker 1: truth that destroyed Joe McCarthy. It could conceivably destroy Donald Trump. Quote. 11 00:01:02,915 --> 00:01:07,755 Speaker 1: There was no conflict or fighting at Arlington National Cemetery 12 00:01:07,835 --> 00:01:12,675 Speaker 1: last week. It was a made up story by Comrade 13 00:01:12,795 --> 00:01:18,275 Speaker 1: Kamala and her misinformation squad. She made it all up 14 00:01:18,675 --> 00:01:22,235 Speaker 1: to make up for the fact that she and Joe, etc. 15 00:01:22,675 --> 00:01:27,875 Speaker 1: Et cetera. Before that, the Trump position had been that 16 00:01:27,955 --> 00:01:31,875 Speaker 1: there was an incident that a woman staffer having per 17 00:01:32,035 --> 00:01:36,715 Speaker 1: spokesclown Stephen Chung a quote mental health episode had caused 18 00:01:36,715 --> 00:01:40,595 Speaker 1: the incident. A staffer who for Chris Losavita, the one 19 00:01:40,595 --> 00:01:44,075 Speaker 1: who does not know its hallowed ground is a quote 20 00:01:44,115 --> 00:01:49,075 Speaker 1: disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds 21 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:53,835 Speaker 1: of Arlington National Cemetery. Chung had also insisted nine days 22 00:01:53,835 --> 00:01:58,755 Speaker 1: ago that exculpatory video existed and the Trump campaign had 23 00:01:58,795 --> 00:02:01,475 Speaker 1: it and was prepared to release it if the quote 24 00:02:01,475 --> 00:02:05,755 Speaker 1: defamatory claims continued. There has been no release video. There's 25 00:02:05,795 --> 00:02:10,115 Speaker 1: been no evidence provided that any video exists, except, of course, 26 00:02:10,515 --> 00:02:14,275 Speaker 1: the video that Trump's campaign illegally recorded at the grave 27 00:02:14,355 --> 00:02:18,155 Speaker 1: sites of other dead American war heroes whose families did 28 00:02:18,195 --> 00:02:21,275 Speaker 1: not give permission for such filming, and which in any 29 00:02:21,315 --> 00:02:24,635 Speaker 1: case cannot legally be used for political purposes, which is 30 00:02:24,715 --> 00:02:29,635 Speaker 1: exactly what Trump's gang promptly did. But this from Trump, 31 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:34,595 Speaker 1: this is an escalation. Regardless of how crazy he is 32 00:02:35,035 --> 00:02:38,315 Speaker 1: or how crazy what he wrote sounds, Trump has now 33 00:02:38,355 --> 00:02:43,275 Speaker 1: painted himself into a corner. He has entirely changed his 34 00:02:43,595 --> 00:02:47,995 Speaker 1: version of this story. This is no longer a staffer 35 00:02:48,315 --> 00:02:52,955 Speaker 1: overreacting or worse, this is a story quote made up 36 00:02:53,035 --> 00:02:57,355 Speaker 1: by Kamala Harris that in turn implies that there is 37 00:02:57,395 --> 00:03:01,635 Speaker 1: not any Trump videotape, exonerating the Trump team of what 38 00:03:01,755 --> 00:03:05,115 Speaker 1: the Army has previously stated was an incident which at 39 00:03:05,195 --> 00:03:10,515 Speaker 1: least one Trumpist at least put hands on the woman employee. 40 00:03:10,555 --> 00:03:14,195 Speaker 1: This was already enough to put the two Secretaries of Defense, 41 00:03:14,315 --> 00:03:17,755 Speaker 1: Lloyd Austin at the Veterans' Affairs Dennis McDonough in a 42 00:03:17,795 --> 00:03:21,035 Speaker 1: position of no longer just having to defend a cemetery 43 00:03:21,075 --> 00:03:25,715 Speaker 1: staffer who is justifiably terrified of retribution from Trump's psychotic 44 00:03:25,835 --> 00:03:29,435 Speaker 1: cult and from Trump himself. Trump has now just said 45 00:03:29,795 --> 00:03:32,915 Speaker 1: the whole thing was made up, made up by the 46 00:03:32,955 --> 00:03:37,395 Speaker 1: Vice President, that implies that all statements from the military 47 00:03:37,675 --> 00:03:41,395 Speaker 1: are fictional, that the army's public support for the employee 48 00:03:41,675 --> 00:03:44,555 Speaker 1: is part of some kind of smear campaign against Trump. 49 00:03:44,795 --> 00:03:48,435 Speaker 1: In some that the staff at Arlington National Cemetery, that 50 00:03:48,515 --> 00:03:51,795 Speaker 1: the executives at the VA, that the Pentagon, that the 51 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:56,635 Speaker 1: military itself, that all of them are lying. And then 52 00:03:57,195 --> 00:04:01,155 Speaker 1: the Fox Nickel Dime bullies chimed in and somehow made 53 00:04:01,195 --> 00:04:04,555 Speaker 1: this worse for Trump. In terms of the incident, said 54 00:04:04,755 --> 00:04:08,555 Speaker 1: Jesse Waters, the one who stalked a Think Progress writer 55 00:04:08,755 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: on orders from Bill O'Reilly years ago, there was no 56 00:04:11,915 --> 00:04:16,475 Speaker 1: incident from what I understand. A woman had a mental issue, 57 00:04:16,515 --> 00:04:19,955 Speaker 1: and I don't know if it was TDS or something else, 58 00:04:20,275 --> 00:04:24,795 Speaker 1: but it was handled if there was an altercation, said 59 00:04:24,915 --> 00:04:28,395 Speaker 1: Janine Piro, the one who was charged with driving one 60 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:30,995 Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen miles an hour in a sixty five 61 00:04:31,075 --> 00:04:34,475 Speaker 1: mile an hour zone. Get yourself an affidavit that's sworn 62 00:04:34,515 --> 00:04:38,555 Speaker 1: to file yourself some criminal charges, or shut the f up, 63 00:04:39,115 --> 00:04:44,835 Speaker 1: unquote advice. Miss Piro has never taken herself. At this point, 64 00:04:45,355 --> 00:04:49,315 Speaker 1: the Pentagon does not have much choice. Trump has called 65 00:04:49,355 --> 00:04:53,475 Speaker 1: everybody from the unnamed staffer at Arlington through the Pentagon 66 00:04:54,075 --> 00:04:59,435 Speaker 1: to the Vice President not just liars but fabricators, part 67 00:04:59,435 --> 00:05:04,355 Speaker 1: of a conspiracy against him. I am not usually big 68 00:05:04,435 --> 00:05:07,195 Speaker 1: on in the honor of the military, but I do 69 00:05:07,355 --> 00:05:11,395 Speaker 1: come from a line of veterans, literally stretching back to 70 00:05:11,555 --> 00:05:16,235 Speaker 1: Ferdinand Lewis Jacob, my second great grand uncle on my 71 00:05:16,355 --> 00:05:20,355 Speaker 1: mother's side. He fought in the Civil War, he survived 72 00:05:20,355 --> 00:05:23,515 Speaker 1: three months as a pow at the Confederate death camp 73 00:05:23,675 --> 00:05:28,275 Speaker 1: at Andersonville. And all those related veterans I knew, including 74 00:05:28,315 --> 00:05:32,555 Speaker 1: my father and for all I know great grand uncle Ferdinand, 75 00:05:32,955 --> 00:05:35,595 Speaker 1: were proud of their work in the military, but they 76 00:05:35,635 --> 00:05:38,595 Speaker 1: all warned about the dangers of worshiping the military for 77 00:05:38,635 --> 00:05:45,955 Speaker 1: its own sake, but Trump's pattern, sequence series compulsion to 78 00:05:46,315 --> 00:05:51,675 Speaker 1: smear those who sacrificed anything for this country, whether it 79 00:05:51,755 --> 00:05:54,755 Speaker 1: was voluntarily or because they were drafted, whether it was 80 00:05:54,875 --> 00:05:57,795 Speaker 1: just a few months of annoyance at Fort Dix, or 81 00:05:57,795 --> 00:06:00,795 Speaker 1: it was managing to not starve to death at Andersonville 82 00:06:00,795 --> 00:06:04,275 Speaker 1: because he found a hidden onion bush like Ferdinand Jacob, 83 00:06:04,515 --> 00:06:07,755 Speaker 1: or like getting shot down over Hanoi like John McCain, 84 00:06:08,075 --> 00:06:11,275 Speaker 1: or it was dying like those Trump literally walked all 85 00:06:11,355 --> 00:06:14,955 Speaker 1: over to take a campaign photo. There is a line here, 86 00:06:15,795 --> 00:06:18,435 Speaker 1: even for the most cynical among us. There is a 87 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:24,835 Speaker 1: line here, and Trump has once again crossed it. There 88 00:06:24,835 --> 00:06:27,795 Speaker 1: are means to protect the actual reputation of the military 89 00:06:28,195 --> 00:06:31,595 Speaker 1: while also protecting the staffer, the woman who was verbally 90 00:06:31,635 --> 00:06:34,635 Speaker 1: and physically abused in some way in real time and 91 00:06:34,795 --> 00:06:39,155 Speaker 1: was then immediately slandered in acts of unvarnished misogyny by 92 00:06:39,195 --> 00:06:42,515 Speaker 1: Stephen Chung and Chris los Avida. And if the orders 93 00:06:42,555 --> 00:06:44,915 Speaker 1: have to come from the commander in chief, President Biden 94 00:06:44,955 --> 00:06:47,795 Speaker 1: should give them. There is a woman here, the latest 95 00:06:47,795 --> 00:06:51,875 Speaker 1: among thousands physically and or emotionally abused by Trump and 96 00:06:51,955 --> 00:06:56,235 Speaker 1: his thugs. There is an American institution here, however flawed 97 00:06:56,315 --> 00:06:59,115 Speaker 1: it has been at many times which Trump has suddenly 98 00:06:59,155 --> 00:07:04,915 Speaker 1: decided and yet another episode of delusional paranoia he must break. 99 00:07:05,635 --> 00:07:10,235 Speaker 1: They all deserve to be defended. The fundamental decency of 100 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:16,955 Speaker 1: this country demands they be defended. There needs to be 101 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:20,875 Speaker 1: a Senate hearing on this event. Start it immediately. If 102 00:07:20,915 --> 00:07:23,595 Speaker 1: the VA or the Department of Defense have to investigate 103 00:07:23,635 --> 00:07:26,075 Speaker 1: and report, do it, and do it now. If there 104 00:07:26,155 --> 00:07:30,835 Speaker 1: is security video at Arlington, and one cannot imagine there 105 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:33,835 Speaker 1: is not, it must be released with the woman's image 106 00:07:33,835 --> 00:07:37,955 Speaker 1: blurred and her identity otherwise protected. And the idea that 107 00:07:38,155 --> 00:07:43,315 Speaker 1: just leaving this alone now will protect her is naive 108 00:07:43,475 --> 00:07:47,275 Speaker 1: at best. These are Trumpsts. They have the selfishness and 109 00:07:47,435 --> 00:07:52,915 Speaker 1: amorality and animal cunning of stalkers. They will identify her 110 00:07:53,035 --> 00:07:58,035 Speaker 1: sooner or later, or maybe worse still, they will identify 111 00:07:58,435 --> 00:08:02,955 Speaker 1: the wrong woman sooner or later. And the most certain 112 00:08:03,075 --> 00:08:06,835 Speaker 1: and most complete way of defending this employee and the 113 00:08:06,955 --> 00:08:10,795 Speaker 1: VA and the Department of Defense and the nation is 114 00:08:10,835 --> 00:08:14,875 Speaker 1: to once again prove that Donald Trump's entire Patriotism Act 115 00:08:15,235 --> 00:08:19,635 Speaker 1: is a bitterly cynical and corrupt confidence trick. That the 116 00:08:19,755 --> 00:08:22,435 Speaker 1: last man in this country who should be able to 117 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:25,355 Speaker 1: pretend to be the victim of some sort of complex 118 00:08:25,475 --> 00:08:30,235 Speaker 1: scheme concocted by the Vice president and the army. Is 119 00:08:30,275 --> 00:08:35,515 Speaker 1: this creature Trump who evaded military service with bone spurs 120 00:08:35,875 --> 00:08:39,315 Speaker 1: that go on and off like a bad Neon sign. 121 00:08:41,555 --> 00:08:43,915 Speaker 1: The incident alone was enough to make a seventeen year 122 00:08:43,995 --> 00:08:47,755 Speaker 1: service veteran, a first lieutenant erupt in righteous indignation. Yesterday 123 00:08:48,155 --> 00:08:51,715 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign event at Arlington, was the first lieutenant 124 00:08:51,715 --> 00:08:55,795 Speaker 1: told CNN a quote violation. It just blows me away. 125 00:08:56,275 --> 00:08:58,355 Speaker 1: These men and women that are laying in the ground 126 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:01,875 Speaker 1: there have no choice unquote whether or not to be 127 00:09:02,035 --> 00:09:06,235 Speaker 1: extras in yet another Trump sales video. The first Lieutenant's 128 00:09:06,275 --> 00:09:09,355 Speaker 1: name is Jimmy McCain. He is the son of the 129 00:09:09,435 --> 00:09:12,715 Speaker 1: late Senator John McCain. He says he has changed voter 130 00:09:12,795 --> 00:09:16,955 Speaker 1: registrations and is now because of Trump, a Democrat who 131 00:09:16,995 --> 00:09:22,195 Speaker 1: will vote for Kamala Harris. It was seventy years ago 132 00:09:22,235 --> 00:09:25,155 Speaker 1: this past March, the last time a cheap, mentally ill 133 00:09:25,235 --> 00:09:29,515 Speaker 1: politician tried to take on the American military, Even though 134 00:09:30,155 --> 00:09:32,515 Speaker 1: it was one of those rare occasions when the military 135 00:09:32,635 --> 00:09:36,515 Speaker 1: was entirely right and the civilian was entirely wrong. On 136 00:09:36,555 --> 00:09:39,075 Speaker 1: that occasion, it was Senator Joseph McCarthy, at the height 137 00:09:39,115 --> 00:09:42,875 Speaker 1: of his perversion of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, the 138 00:09:42,915 --> 00:09:46,955 Speaker 1: pinnacle of that edition of the Red Scare, and McCarthy 139 00:09:46,995 --> 00:09:50,915 Speaker 1: began to accuse the military of subversion by communists. He 140 00:09:50,955 --> 00:09:54,435 Speaker 1: started it in nineteen fifty three, and as nineteen fifty 141 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:58,275 Speaker 1: four loomed, he had his Chief Council imply that the 142 00:09:58,435 --> 00:10:01,915 Speaker 1: Army had drafted a McCarthy staffer, a man named G. 143 00:10:02,355 --> 00:10:07,515 Speaker 1: David Shine, to try to hamstring McCarthy's investigation of the Army. 144 00:10:08,155 --> 00:10:10,955 Speaker 1: The Secretary of the Army, in turn said that McCarthy 145 00:10:11,195 --> 00:10:13,755 Speaker 1: and his lawyer had pressured the Army to give this 146 00:10:14,115 --> 00:10:17,675 Speaker 1: Shine guy preferential treatment, even a commission, even it was 147 00:10:17,755 --> 00:10:21,995 Speaker 1: rumored a deal by which McCarthy would slow walk its 148 00:10:22,035 --> 00:10:26,035 Speaker 1: investigation of the Army if the Army gave Shine better treatment. 149 00:10:26,755 --> 00:10:30,235 Speaker 1: McCarthy then insisted the Army had made that accusation in 150 00:10:30,355 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: bad faith and as retaliation for his investigations. The next 151 00:10:34,875 --> 00:10:38,355 Speaker 1: thing you knew, the Senate called hearings the Army. McCarthy. 152 00:10:38,355 --> 00:10:43,155 Speaker 1: Hearings began on March sixteenth, nineteen fifty four. Soon they 153 00:10:43,155 --> 00:10:46,715 Speaker 1: were being televised, gabbled to gabble all day on multiple 154 00:10:46,715 --> 00:10:50,675 Speaker 1: television networks when there were only four of them. By 155 00:10:50,795 --> 00:10:55,355 Speaker 1: June ninth, the army's civilian lawyer, Joe Welch was famously 156 00:10:55,435 --> 00:11:00,635 Speaker 1: asking McCarthy, have you no sense of decency? Sir? By 157 00:11:00,635 --> 00:11:05,475 Speaker 1: December second, the Senate had censured McCarthy. By nineteen fifty seven, 158 00:11:05,755 --> 00:11:11,515 Speaker 1: hopelessly broken by alcoholism and almost forgotten, Joe McCarthy was dead. 159 00:11:13,195 --> 00:11:15,835 Speaker 1: I go into such detail not to suggest that is 160 00:11:15,875 --> 00:11:19,675 Speaker 1: what will or should happen to Trump just because of this, 161 00:11:20,195 --> 00:11:23,155 Speaker 1: but because you would think Trump would remember that it 162 00:11:23,475 --> 00:11:27,875 Speaker 1: was what happened to Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy's chief counsel, 163 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:30,355 Speaker 1: the man at the center of all this was, after all, 164 00:11:31,315 --> 00:11:37,555 Speaker 1: the future Trump mentor Roy Cone. Roy Cone, venomous as 165 00:11:37,595 --> 00:11:40,515 Speaker 1: he was, would have probably told Trump to make sure 166 00:11:41,235 --> 00:11:44,995 Speaker 1: that there weren't security cameras at Arlington before implying that 167 00:11:45,035 --> 00:11:48,915 Speaker 1: the entirety of the Army was lying about this. There 168 00:11:48,955 --> 00:11:52,115 Speaker 1: probably was some point in Trump's life when he would 169 00:11:52,155 --> 00:11:56,755 Speaker 1: have listened to roy Cone telling him that. However, I 170 00:11:56,795 --> 00:12:01,995 Speaker 1: believe that today we are many decades removed from that moment. 171 00:12:21,635 --> 00:12:25,755 Speaker 1: The other investigation I urged here yesterday has begun, albeit 172 00:12:25,835 --> 00:12:28,395 Speaker 1: in the wrong chamber, with little hope of a meaningful 173 00:12:28,435 --> 00:12:31,835 Speaker 1: outcome unless the Democrats take the House. But at least 174 00:12:32,315 --> 00:12:35,955 Speaker 1: Congressman Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, representing the minority on 175 00:12:35,995 --> 00:12:39,635 Speaker 1: the House Oversight Committee and the National Security Subcommittee, have 176 00:12:39,795 --> 00:12:42,795 Speaker 1: launched an investigation into the report by The Washington Post 177 00:12:42,835 --> 00:12:45,795 Speaker 1: that Trump may have been bribed with ten million dollars 178 00:12:46,155 --> 00:12:49,275 Speaker 1: by the Egyptian president ELCSI in the waning weeks of 179 00:12:49,315 --> 00:12:52,475 Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen campaign, and that his own Department of 180 00:12:52,675 --> 00:12:57,035 Speaker 1: Justice covered it up. The Democrats could very well take 181 00:12:57,075 --> 00:12:59,315 Speaker 1: the House, in which case this will not be some 182 00:12:59,395 --> 00:13:03,915 Speaker 1: sort of Jamie Comer stage show with Marjorie Barney rubble 183 00:13:03,955 --> 00:13:08,035 Speaker 1: Green holding up enlarged porn. Right now, it is a 184 00:13:08,075 --> 00:13:11,235 Speaker 1: stake hammered into the ground, the way an announcement from 185 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:14,115 Speaker 1: the Defense Department or a Senate committee about releasing Arlington's 186 00:13:14,115 --> 00:13:17,435 Speaker 1: security video would be a stake hammered into the ground. 187 00:13:18,395 --> 00:13:22,315 Speaker 1: But as an aside, it is fascinating to contemplate just 188 00:13:22,675 --> 00:13:27,755 Speaker 1: how much will rain down on Trump's head legally if 189 00:13:27,755 --> 00:13:32,635 Speaker 1: he loses on November fifth. Add Egypt to that list. 190 00:13:32,675 --> 00:13:36,075 Speaker 1: And now we must make sure somebody adds the Trump 191 00:13:36,235 --> 00:13:42,555 Speaker 1: Arlington Cemetery scandals to that list. And as to the 192 00:13:42,555 --> 00:13:45,355 Speaker 1: event central to the trials of Donald Trump, polling news 193 00:13:45,395 --> 00:13:48,995 Speaker 1: continues consistent and strong but hardly conclusive. USA Today and 194 00:13:49,075 --> 00:13:52,795 Speaker 1: Suffolk University Harris now leads Trump forty eight to forty three. 195 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:58,155 Speaker 1: That is, within their margin of error. One in ten 196 00:13:58,275 --> 00:14:02,315 Speaker 1: voters say the televised debate next Tuesday might lead them 197 00:14:02,315 --> 00:14:07,195 Speaker 1: to change their mind or they are undecided. The booze 198 00:14:07,195 --> 00:14:10,555 Speaker 1: for Democrats USA Today concludes has extended down the ballot. 199 00:14:10,835 --> 00:14:13,915 Speaker 1: In June, registered voters said they supported their local Republican 200 00:14:13,995 --> 00:14:17,795 Speaker 1: congressional candidate over the Democrat by forty seven forty five. 201 00:14:17,955 --> 00:14:21,555 Speaker 1: Now it's the local Democrat over the Republican by forty 202 00:14:21,595 --> 00:14:25,395 Speaker 1: eight forty three, a swing of seven points for the 203 00:14:25,435 --> 00:14:31,275 Speaker 1: House candidates. In the vote poll in June by USA 204 00:14:31,315 --> 00:14:34,355 Speaker 1: Today and Suffolk, Trump supporters were twice as likely as 205 00:14:34,435 --> 00:14:37,355 Speaker 1: Joe Biden supporters to report being very excited about voting 206 00:14:37,355 --> 00:14:40,715 Speaker 1: for their candidate. The enthusiasm score was Trump fifty nine, 207 00:14:40,795 --> 00:14:46,475 Speaker 1: Biden thirty now, while Trump's enthusiasm remains at sixty percent 208 00:14:47,315 --> 00:14:50,835 Speaker 1: In the new poll of likely voters, Enthusiasm among Harris 209 00:14:50,835 --> 00:14:55,755 Speaker 1: supporters is at sixty eight percent. Biden was a thirty percent. 210 00:14:57,475 --> 00:15:00,435 Speaker 1: Some other interior numbers of importance. Voters favored Trump on 211 00:15:00,475 --> 00:15:05,275 Speaker 1: the economy by six, it was fourteen. They favor him 212 00:15:05,315 --> 00:15:09,395 Speaker 1: on immigration by three. It was thirteen. On national security 213 00:15:09,435 --> 00:15:12,515 Speaker 1: and China, they favor him by four. That was ten. 214 00:15:14,115 --> 00:15:16,995 Speaker 1: There is something of a scare from Michigan polling yesterday, 215 00:15:16,995 --> 00:15:18,635 Speaker 1: but it is safe to take it with a grain 216 00:15:18,715 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: of salt. The Detroit News and Channel four there did 217 00:15:21,595 --> 00:15:25,835 Speaker 1: a Michigan pole with Glen Gariff Group. It's Trump forty 218 00:15:25,835 --> 00:15:29,155 Speaker 1: four point seven Harris forty three point five, or, as 219 00:15:29,195 --> 00:15:33,475 Speaker 1: the newspaper headlined it, presidential race a toss up in Michigan. 220 00:15:34,155 --> 00:15:37,235 Speaker 1: The same polster had found Harris ahead by three tenths 221 00:15:37,235 --> 00:15:39,675 Speaker 1: of one point in July, and that two needed a 222 00:15:39,715 --> 00:15:42,675 Speaker 1: grain of salt because at the five thirty eight rankings 223 00:15:42,715 --> 00:15:46,195 Speaker 1: of pollsters, Glen Garriff Group, which did the Michigan Pole, 224 00:15:46,915 --> 00:15:51,595 Speaker 1: got a poll score of minus zero point two. It 225 00:15:51,755 --> 00:15:54,755 Speaker 1: ranks one hundred and seventy fifth out of your top 226 00:15:55,755 --> 00:15:59,915 Speaker 1: fifty polsters, and on a scale of one to three stars, 227 00:16:00,355 --> 00:16:03,875 Speaker 1: it gets one and a half. There is also the 228 00:16:03,915 --> 00:16:06,955 Speaker 1: other kind of number, and I'll just read this from Politico. 229 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:10,675 Speaker 1: The leader of House Republicans' biggest super pac told donors 230 00:16:10,715 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: last month he needed thirty five million dollars more to 231 00:16:14,635 --> 00:16:19,155 Speaker 1: compete with Democrats in the fall. Senate GOP campaign chair 232 00:16:19,435 --> 00:16:23,075 Speaker 1: Steve Danes used his primetime speaking slot at the Republican 233 00:16:23,115 --> 00:16:26,475 Speaker 1: convention to lament that massive spending from Democrats was keeping 234 00:16:26,515 --> 00:16:29,755 Speaker 1: him awake at night, and his House GOP counterpart warned 235 00:16:29,915 --> 00:16:33,555 Speaker 1: that their party's challengers trailed Democratic incumbents by a collective 236 00:16:33,875 --> 00:16:38,155 Speaker 1: thirty seven million dollars at the end of June. The 237 00:16:38,155 --> 00:16:45,075 Speaker 1: money quote panic is starting to set in. Oh no, 238 00:16:45,155 --> 00:16:52,315 Speaker 1: not panic, Not panic by the Republicans. Oh damn well, 239 00:16:52,355 --> 00:16:54,515 Speaker 1: at least for the sake of fairness. The Republicans and 240 00:16:54,515 --> 00:16:57,795 Speaker 1: their propaganda channels have the game plan to win back 241 00:16:57,875 --> 00:17:01,435 Speaker 1: the White House. The searing attacks on Kamala Harris's record 242 00:17:01,595 --> 00:17:05,155 Speaker 1: and personal integrity that come day after day and week 243 00:17:05,195 --> 00:17:09,115 Speaker 1: after week, that absolutely, under no circumstances make anybody an 244 00:17:09,155 --> 00:17:12,675 Speaker 1: authority erupt in rage at them, nor anybody at home 245 00:17:12,755 --> 00:17:18,955 Speaker 1: burst out into uncontrollable laughter. Fox White House quote correspondent 246 00:17:19,435 --> 00:17:24,195 Speaker 1: quote Peter Doucy to Press Secretary of Karine Jean Pierre. 247 00:17:24,475 --> 00:17:27,435 Speaker 1: Since when does the vice president have what sounds like 248 00:17:27,515 --> 00:17:31,835 Speaker 1: a Southern accent? I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, 249 00:17:32,155 --> 00:17:35,315 Speaker 1: I mean this is she was talking about unions in 250 00:17:35,555 --> 00:17:41,115 Speaker 1: Detroit using one tone of voice. Is this same line, okay, Peter? 251 00:17:41,235 --> 00:17:44,235 Speaker 1: Did she She's the same line in Pittsburgh, And it 252 00:17:44,275 --> 00:17:45,835 Speaker 1: sounded like she at least had some kind of a 253 00:17:45,915 --> 00:17:48,115 Speaker 1: southern at all. I mean, do you hear the question 254 00:17:48,195 --> 00:17:50,875 Speaker 1: that I mean, do you think Americans seriously think that 255 00:17:50,955 --> 00:17:53,955 Speaker 1: this is an important question? Yeah, she used a Southern 256 00:17:53,995 --> 00:17:57,675 Speaker 1: accent in Detroit. You say Detroit, which I believe was 257 00:17:57,715 --> 00:18:02,275 Speaker 1: the capital of the Confederacy, if my second great granduncle 258 00:18:02,715 --> 00:18:07,915 Speaker 1: remembers correct. Peter Doocey, son of Fox's Steve Doocy, Peter Doocy, 259 00:18:07,915 --> 00:18:12,835 Speaker 1: whose pre Fox resume consisted of work at Polestra dot 260 00:18:12,875 --> 00:18:17,515 Speaker 1: net and of course other places. Well, no, no other places, 261 00:18:17,675 --> 00:18:21,235 Speaker 1: just Polestra dot net. Then right to take your son 262 00:18:21,315 --> 00:18:24,875 Speaker 1: to work day at Fox. What we need is Peter 263 00:18:25,075 --> 00:18:28,795 Speaker 1: Doocey at the White House podium being asked why Fox 264 00:18:28,835 --> 00:18:32,195 Speaker 1: has a NEPO baby covering the White House, to which 265 00:18:32,355 --> 00:18:46,755 Speaker 1: his best answer would be day. I use the phrase 266 00:18:46,915 --> 00:18:50,195 Speaker 1: money quote earlier, I will use it again here in 267 00:18:50,235 --> 00:18:54,115 Speaker 1: an entirely different context. There is this for those of 268 00:18:54,155 --> 00:18:58,675 Speaker 1: you so into campaigns and elections at politics might as 269 00:18:58,675 --> 00:19:06,035 Speaker 1: well be porn. Mark Robinson is the sometimes out loud, stupid, 270 00:19:06,435 --> 00:19:10,635 Speaker 1: sometimes dangerous Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina. The 271 00:19:10,995 --> 00:19:14,875 Speaker 1: some folks need killing guy, a born again who is 272 00:19:14,955 --> 00:19:19,195 Speaker 1: already lieutenant governor. There the North Carolina News outlet. The 273 00:19:19,235 --> 00:19:25,835 Speaker 1: Assembly reports, according to Lewis Money, who worked in several 274 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:30,875 Speaker 1: of Greensboro's window list twenty four hour video pornography stores, 275 00:19:32,035 --> 00:19:36,035 Speaker 1: Mark Robinson was a frequent customer in the nineteen nineties 276 00:19:36,115 --> 00:19:40,875 Speaker 1: and early two thousands. As an asidal note it's a 277 00:19:40,875 --> 00:19:45,195 Speaker 1: free country, resuming the quote, Money fifty two told the 278 00:19:45,195 --> 00:19:48,395 Speaker 1: Assembly that Robinson came in as often as five nights 279 00:19:48,435 --> 00:19:53,515 Speaker 1: a week to watch porn videos in a private booth. 280 00:19:58,035 --> 00:20:02,075 Speaker 1: Never shake this man's hand. Five other men who said 281 00:20:02,115 --> 00:20:05,515 Speaker 1: they were former employees or customers during this period also 282 00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: told the Assembly that Robinson visited two of these stores, 283 00:20:09,355 --> 00:20:16,395 Speaker 1: Gents Video and News and I forty Video and News. 284 00:20:18,795 --> 00:20:25,395 Speaker 1: In addition, in addition Money said, Robinson purchased hundreds of 285 00:20:25,515 --> 00:20:29,675 Speaker 1: bootleg porn videos that Money sold on the side. Quote, 286 00:20:29,915 --> 00:20:32,555 Speaker 1: he was good for at least one a week, Money said. 287 00:20:33,435 --> 00:20:36,995 Speaker 1: The last one he described as a compilation of super 288 00:20:37,075 --> 00:20:40,315 Speaker 1: hardcore films he acquired in New York City that were 289 00:20:40,355 --> 00:20:47,755 Speaker 1: too risk to be sold in North Carolina. To risk 290 00:20:47,995 --> 00:20:51,835 Speaker 1: to be sold in North Carolina, you say, but sold 291 00:20:51,915 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: in New York and then brought back to North Carolina. 292 00:20:54,995 --> 00:21:00,275 Speaker 1: Sold in New York. Well, just for the sake of argument, 293 00:21:00,315 --> 00:21:02,715 Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that he means the ones that were 294 00:21:02,715 --> 00:21:12,635 Speaker 1: shot at Trump Tower. Just a guess. A spokesman for 295 00:21:12,755 --> 00:21:15,755 Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Robinson called that whole thing fiction, and the 296 00:21:15,795 --> 00:21:24,315 Speaker 1: reporters quote degenerates, Oh, degenerate, reporter's gone wild, save a 297 00:21:24,355 --> 00:21:28,435 Speaker 1: copy for Mark Robinson. And there is a punchline upon punchline, 298 00:21:28,915 --> 00:21:32,995 Speaker 1: mister money. That's mister money, presumably of gents video and 299 00:21:33,155 --> 00:21:38,195 Speaker 1: news says that the final super hardcore compilation video, the 300 00:21:38,355 --> 00:21:43,035 Speaker 1: Sizzle Reel, the New York stuff. He charged Robinson twenty 301 00:21:43,035 --> 00:21:50,715 Speaker 1: five dollars for it, and Robinson still hasn't paid him. 302 00:21:50,915 --> 00:21:57,555 Speaker 1: Also of interest, here, Tommy Timmy Tammy Laren steps into 303 00:21:57,555 --> 00:22:00,035 Speaker 1: the worst persons Spotlight. They can't figure out why the 304 00:22:00,115 --> 00:22:02,155 Speaker 1: Vice President of the United States can't take a phone 305 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:06,875 Speaker 1: call while on wireless earbuds like everybody else. And Elon 306 00:22:07,035 --> 00:22:10,955 Speaker 1: Musk believes the world should be run only by high 307 00:22:11,075 --> 00:22:14,315 Speaker 1: status males. Now, why would he want to exclude himself 308 00:22:14,355 --> 00:22:21,635 Speaker 1: like that? That's next, This just countdown. George Carlin, pleasure 309 00:22:21,675 --> 00:22:23,195 Speaker 1: to have you here. Thank you. This is the best 310 00:22:23,275 --> 00:22:25,635 Speaker 1: news show ever. I toilet to one of your producers, 311 00:22:25,795 --> 00:22:27,555 Speaker 1: and I want you to know that I've seen them 312 00:22:27,595 --> 00:22:31,035 Speaker 1: all and it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. 313 00:22:31,115 --> 00:22:34,075 Speaker 1: Thank you. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between 314 00:22:34,115 --> 00:22:35,955 Speaker 1: you and I. We got six minutes to completely still 315 00:22:35,995 --> 00:22:58,115 Speaker 1: that in. Yeah, that's good. Tell ahead of us on 316 00:22:58,155 --> 00:23:03,515 Speaker 1: this initiative. Countdown. Football starts tomorrow night to continue a 317 00:23:03,515 --> 00:23:05,955 Speaker 1: week long celebration of the beginning of yet another season 318 00:23:05,995 --> 00:23:09,795 Speaker 1: in the National Football League. Permit me, the former host 319 00:23:09,795 --> 00:23:13,275 Speaker 1: of Football Night in America, to tell you the saga 320 00:23:13,315 --> 00:23:17,275 Speaker 1: of the year. The season started and then suddenly stopped 321 00:23:17,595 --> 00:23:22,115 Speaker 1: because the players' union walked out on strike, and I 322 00:23:22,235 --> 00:23:25,155 Speaker 1: went with them, and I got to go get drunk 323 00:23:25,195 --> 00:23:28,555 Speaker 1: with all of them. The impossible sagas of Me the 324 00:23:28,635 --> 00:23:32,755 Speaker 1: Rookie Reporter, and the nineteen eighty two NFL strike. Next 325 00:23:32,755 --> 00:23:35,755 Speaker 1: in Things I Promised not to tell first, there are 326 00:23:35,755 --> 00:23:38,395 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup 327 00:23:38,515 --> 00:23:41,475 Speaker 1: of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens 328 00:23:41,555 --> 00:23:46,475 Speaker 1: who constitute today's worst persons in the world. He could 329 00:23:46,515 --> 00:23:49,155 Speaker 1: go all the way, the brons, he could go all 330 00:23:49,195 --> 00:23:52,555 Speaker 1: the way. We'd be satisfied if he just went away. Elon, 331 00:23:53,995 --> 00:23:58,715 Speaker 1: Elon Musk, you remember Elon Musk. This one would be higher, 332 00:23:58,755 --> 00:24:01,755 Speaker 1: but for two reasons. First of all, it's from Sunday, 333 00:24:01,795 --> 00:24:03,875 Speaker 1: so it's getting a little stale. I mean, it's stunk 334 00:24:03,915 --> 00:24:06,155 Speaker 1: to begin with it. It's not stinking that much more 335 00:24:06,315 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: than it was Sunday, it's just old. The second reason, 336 00:24:09,275 --> 00:24:12,515 Speaker 1: I'll note in a moment, you'll notice that Elon Musk 337 00:24:12,595 --> 00:24:14,675 Speaker 1: turns out not to have been very bright, just very 338 00:24:14,755 --> 00:24:18,115 Speaker 1: lucky with other people's ideas. He's made billions of dollars, 339 00:24:18,275 --> 00:24:20,955 Speaker 1: and now he's burning through billions of dollars at a 340 00:24:21,035 --> 00:24:23,475 Speaker 1: rate that will leave him on a fixed income by 341 00:24:23,515 --> 00:24:25,995 Speaker 1: some time in the year twenty thirty one. If there 342 00:24:26,035 --> 00:24:28,315 Speaker 1: is a year twenty thirty one, and if Elon has 343 00:24:28,355 --> 00:24:30,595 Speaker 1: his way, there probably won't be a year twenty thirty one. 344 00:24:30,955 --> 00:24:33,395 Speaker 1: His rockets don't work, his cars don't work, and his 345 00:24:33,435 --> 00:24:36,515 Speaker 1: website doesn't work, but that's not stopping him because all 346 00:24:36,555 --> 00:24:39,875 Speaker 1: he has is people around him telling him everything's better 347 00:24:39,915 --> 00:24:43,595 Speaker 1: than ever, and he's now reduced to the level of 348 00:24:43,635 --> 00:24:47,755 Speaker 1: a mediocre QAnon person online. Now we know why he 349 00:24:47,875 --> 00:24:51,475 Speaker 1: bought Twitter to turn it into a right wing website 350 00:24:51,515 --> 00:24:54,475 Speaker 1: that would argue that rich right wingers should be allowed 351 00:24:54,515 --> 00:24:57,355 Speaker 1: to rule the world, and if we don't let them, 352 00:24:57,515 --> 00:25:00,715 Speaker 1: they'll simply buy the world from us and rule it anyway. 353 00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:06,195 Speaker 1: Somebody with the account titled autism Capital put this out 354 00:25:07,035 --> 00:25:11,675 Speaker 1: and added also known as the Reich effect, and Elon 355 00:25:11,915 --> 00:25:18,595 Speaker 1: retweeted it with the number three of his thirty observations 356 00:25:18,635 --> 00:25:24,515 Speaker 1: on all tweets that's interesting or deserves thought or very interesting. 357 00:25:24,555 --> 00:25:28,915 Speaker 1: This is interesting observation. Elon says, people who can't defend 358 00:25:28,955 --> 00:25:33,915 Speaker 1: themselves physically, women and low team men parse information through 359 00:25:33,955 --> 00:25:39,035 Speaker 1: a consensus filter as a safety mechanism, writes autism Capital. 360 00:25:39,275 --> 00:25:42,195 Speaker 1: They literally do not ask is this true? They ask, 361 00:25:42,275 --> 00:25:46,275 Speaker 1: will others be okay? With me? Thinking this is true? Well, 362 00:25:46,315 --> 00:25:49,675 Speaker 1: this is provably false. The number of people who actually 363 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:53,155 Speaker 1: do this I don't know, but they're all Trump supporters. 364 00:25:53,795 --> 00:25:57,835 Speaker 1: This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus. 365 00:25:57,955 --> 00:26:00,515 Speaker 1: If every screen they look at says the same thing, 366 00:26:00,795 --> 00:26:03,675 Speaker 1: they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it 367 00:26:03,835 --> 00:26:07,235 Speaker 1: as everyone in the tribe believing it. Well, that's the 368 00:26:07,275 --> 00:26:11,795 Speaker 1: premise of Elon Musk's website. Anyway. The conclusion here is 369 00:26:11,835 --> 00:26:17,555 Speaker 1: only high t alpha males and a neurotypical people hey, autists, 370 00:26:17,875 --> 00:26:21,875 Speaker 1: are actually free to parse new information with an objection objective. 371 00:26:21,955 --> 00:26:26,635 Speaker 1: Rather is this true filter that's also provably untrue. This 372 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:29,795 Speaker 1: is why a republic, here's the punchline. This is why 373 00:26:29,835 --> 00:26:35,035 Speaker 1: a republic of high status males is best for decision 374 00:26:35,075 --> 00:26:38,355 Speaker 1: making democratic, but a democracy only for those who are 375 00:26:38,395 --> 00:26:42,075 Speaker 1: free to think. Well, first of all, what a novel idea, Elon, 376 00:26:42,955 --> 00:26:47,475 Speaker 1: a republic of high status males only because we've never 377 00:26:47,555 --> 00:26:50,795 Speaker 1: had any government in this world. No country in the 378 00:26:50,835 --> 00:26:54,755 Speaker 1: history of civilization has been run only by men who 379 00:26:54,835 --> 00:26:58,475 Speaker 1: thought they were high status, usually erroneously. We've never had 380 00:26:58,475 --> 00:27:01,075 Speaker 1: that before, even though there's never been up to this 381 00:27:01,155 --> 00:27:04,955 Speaker 1: point a woman president of the United States, or see 382 00:27:04,995 --> 00:27:08,355 Speaker 1: there's only been what three women prime minister is in 383 00:27:08,395 --> 00:27:10,915 Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, and one of them didn't last as 384 00:27:10,955 --> 00:27:12,675 Speaker 1: long as the head of Lettuce and that you know 385 00:27:12,755 --> 00:27:16,155 Speaker 1: that whole thing. Yeah, I'm sure what a novel idea. 386 00:27:16,275 --> 00:27:20,115 Speaker 1: Let's have some Let's have some high status males who 387 00:27:20,155 --> 00:27:23,315 Speaker 1: are wrong about that too, being the ones making all 388 00:27:23,355 --> 00:27:26,155 Speaker 1: the decisions. So not only is it stupid, not only 389 00:27:26,195 --> 00:27:29,275 Speaker 1: does it go right into Elon Musk's ego, but the 390 00:27:29,355 --> 00:27:34,155 Speaker 1: second issue is this guy autism capital is on four Chan, 391 00:27:35,475 --> 00:27:38,275 Speaker 1: which is for people who are not smart enough nor 392 00:27:38,435 --> 00:27:43,035 Speaker 1: discerning enough to be in QAnon. They want a democracy 393 00:27:43,075 --> 00:27:46,955 Speaker 1: to exist solely of high status males because that would 394 00:27:46,995 --> 00:27:50,275 Speaker 1: be best. Well, what on earth would that have to 395 00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:54,275 Speaker 1: do with Elon Musk high status male? Does Elon Musk 396 00:27:54,315 --> 00:28:00,075 Speaker 1: really consider himself a high status male with that haircut? Anyway? 397 00:28:00,075 --> 00:28:03,835 Speaker 1: The runner up the Silver Act devote and alleged polster. 398 00:28:04,315 --> 00:28:06,835 Speaker 1: We can thank for this a former poster named Adam 399 00:28:06,915 --> 00:28:09,955 Speaker 1: Carlson who says he has signed up for Active Vote 400 00:28:10,075 --> 00:28:12,515 Speaker 1: via their app. He said he said his name was 401 00:28:12,555 --> 00:28:16,035 Speaker 1: Gregor Mendel and that he lives in Arizona and he 402 00:28:16,155 --> 00:28:20,675 Speaker 1: put as his home address city Hall Phoenix, Arizona. There 403 00:28:20,795 --> 00:28:23,915 Speaker 1: was zero verification of any of these things. He adds, 404 00:28:24,315 --> 00:28:28,795 Speaker 1: my candidate preferences will be reflected in their next Arizona poll. 405 00:28:29,275 --> 00:28:32,155 Speaker 1: He says, he then deleted all of the information. He 406 00:28:32,275 --> 00:28:35,795 Speaker 1: was just doing this to prove a point. The activision 407 00:28:35,875 --> 00:28:38,835 Speaker 1: folks are active vote folks, not activision. That was a 408 00:28:38,875 --> 00:28:42,115 Speaker 1: game console, if I remember correctly. The active vote folks 409 00:28:42,235 --> 00:28:45,715 Speaker 1: say that this is all part of the process and 410 00:28:46,075 --> 00:28:49,155 Speaker 1: it allows the full range of voters, the real ones 411 00:28:49,195 --> 00:28:52,555 Speaker 1: and the fake ones, to express their opinions. And I 412 00:28:52,595 --> 00:28:55,835 Speaker 1: want to just thank Adam Carlson for revealing that we 413 00:28:55,875 --> 00:29:00,435 Speaker 1: don't need to take seriously Active vote any further. Congratulations also, 414 00:29:00,595 --> 00:29:04,955 Speaker 1: mister Carlson on supporting Reuben Diego for Senator. I guess 415 00:29:04,995 --> 00:29:08,395 Speaker 1: we should call you Abbot Mendel, not Adam Carlson. And 416 00:29:08,555 --> 00:29:13,955 Speaker 1: congratulations Abbot Mendel on your work with peas and heredity. Sadly, 417 00:29:13,995 --> 00:29:16,515 Speaker 1: some of those recessive genes that you discovered all those 418 00:29:16,595 --> 00:29:20,915 Speaker 1: years ago apparently gathered together to form Active Vote. But 419 00:29:21,035 --> 00:29:25,795 Speaker 1: our winner, right wing troll Tommy larn you know her, 420 00:29:26,035 --> 00:29:28,635 Speaker 1: blonde number three hundred and eighty nine on the right, 421 00:29:29,275 --> 00:29:32,475 Speaker 1: I really can't get over Kamala using old school Apple 422 00:29:32,555 --> 00:29:36,915 Speaker 1: headphones to avoid talking to the press. Tommy's life is 423 00:29:36,955 --> 00:29:40,075 Speaker 1: in one long assumption. She's got a photo off c 424 00:29:40,235 --> 00:29:42,675 Speaker 1: Span in which the Vice President of the United States 425 00:29:42,715 --> 00:29:47,155 Speaker 1: is being escorted either to the helicopter or off the helicopter, 426 00:29:47,315 --> 00:29:51,915 Speaker 1: while wearing attached to a phone, a pair of Apple 427 00:29:52,115 --> 00:29:56,995 Speaker 1: iPad phones or iPod phones, or just Apple iPhones, but 428 00:29:57,155 --> 00:30:00,235 Speaker 1: with the wire not the buds. We've seen a lot 429 00:30:00,275 --> 00:30:04,115 Speaker 1: of shenanigans from this lady, Tommy writes, but this might 430 00:30:04,195 --> 00:30:07,755 Speaker 1: be the most pathetic to date. Feels like her campaign 431 00:30:07,835 --> 00:30:11,715 Speaker 1: specifically had her use those old school headphones instead to 432 00:30:11,755 --> 00:30:13,835 Speaker 1: make the point she was on the phone and that's 433 00:30:13,875 --> 00:30:17,835 Speaker 1: why she couldn't interact. Well, she did interact number one. 434 00:30:17,915 --> 00:30:21,595 Speaker 1: Number two Tommy again is assuming several things that she's 435 00:30:21,635 --> 00:30:25,475 Speaker 1: already stating as facts because she's assuming them, Which sends 436 00:30:25,515 --> 00:30:28,195 Speaker 1: me back to that first group, that guy who said 437 00:30:28,195 --> 00:30:30,155 Speaker 1: that we should be run by a bunch of high 438 00:30:30,155 --> 00:30:33,755 Speaker 1: functioning something or others. In any event, the photo just 439 00:30:33,835 --> 00:30:37,155 Speaker 1: has Kamala Harris waving to the press and not stopping 440 00:30:37,155 --> 00:30:41,115 Speaker 1: for questions. You know, the headphones, Timmy, are there because 441 00:30:41,155 --> 00:30:43,275 Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States is on a 442 00:30:43,355 --> 00:30:47,675 Speaker 1: phone call, which is presumably not about dry cleaning. It's 443 00:30:47,715 --> 00:30:51,115 Speaker 1: presumably about something you know important, and that's a secure 444 00:30:51,195 --> 00:30:55,435 Speaker 1: mobile device that the phones are attached to. And if 445 00:30:55,435 --> 00:30:59,275 Speaker 1: you were to wear earbuds or other wireless connections, Tammy, 446 00:30:59,715 --> 00:31:04,355 Speaker 1: the conversation could be intercepted electronically, and you'd know that, Tony, 447 00:31:04,835 --> 00:31:08,395 Speaker 1: if you'd ever had an important phone conversation or any 448 00:31:08,515 --> 00:31:11,875 Speaker 1: kind of important conversation in the entirety of your worthless, 449 00:31:12,195 --> 00:31:19,155 Speaker 1: useless life. Tommy Laren just not right. Two days worst 450 00:31:19,355 --> 00:31:35,195 Speaker 1: person in the world. I thought I could see it 451 00:31:35,275 --> 00:31:38,755 Speaker 1: through the swinging kitchen door of the Il Vagabondo restaurant 452 00:31:38,835 --> 00:31:42,395 Speaker 1: on East sixty second Street in New York. What I 453 00:31:42,515 --> 00:31:46,315 Speaker 1: thought I saw seemed to be an extraordinarily large man 454 00:31:46,875 --> 00:31:51,075 Speaker 1: standing over one of the large kitchen sinks, holding one 455 00:31:51,075 --> 00:31:55,955 Speaker 1: of the kitchen's big, flexible rubber water hoses and drinking 456 00:31:55,995 --> 00:32:00,035 Speaker 1: from it. It was an unusual enough sight, but there 457 00:32:00,075 --> 00:32:03,915 Speaker 1: was also a complication. That extraordinarily large man was one 458 00:32:03,955 --> 00:32:07,355 Speaker 1: of my dinner guests, and his name was Gene Upshaw, 459 00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:11,155 Speaker 1: the just retired offensive guard of the Oakland Raiders and 460 00:32:11,275 --> 00:32:16,315 Speaker 1: president of the National Football League Players Association. Jean was 461 00:32:16,395 --> 00:32:19,515 Speaker 1: six foot five, two hundred and sixty pounds, but he 462 00:32:19,635 --> 00:32:22,995 Speaker 1: seemed much larger than that. If he wanted to drink 463 00:32:23,035 --> 00:32:25,435 Speaker 1: out of one of the giant kitchen hoses, I wasn't 464 00:32:25,475 --> 00:32:28,235 Speaker 1: going to stop him, Nor was anybody in the kitchen, 465 00:32:28,515 --> 00:32:32,235 Speaker 1: nor was everybody combined on East sixty second Street, nor 466 00:32:32,315 --> 00:32:34,675 Speaker 1: was anybody in the city on that Saturday night so 467 00:32:34,795 --> 00:32:39,955 Speaker 1: long ago. Two nights later, Jean and the executive director 468 00:32:39,995 --> 00:32:43,195 Speaker 1: of the National Football League Players Association Ed Garvey and 469 00:32:43,275 --> 00:32:47,275 Speaker 1: its outside council Chip Yablonski, would officially take their union 470 00:32:47,315 --> 00:32:51,675 Speaker 1: out on the last successful strike in pro football and 471 00:32:51,835 --> 00:32:54,355 Speaker 1: introduced to the entire world of sports what was then 472 00:32:54,395 --> 00:32:57,555 Speaker 1: and I literally mean then that evening on CNN, just 473 00:32:57,595 --> 00:32:59,675 Speaker 1: before our trip to the restaurant whose kitchen hose Jen 474 00:32:59,755 --> 00:33:03,035 Speaker 1: was now drinking out him would then introduced to sports 475 00:33:03,075 --> 00:33:06,315 Speaker 1: what was then described by an nationally prominent sports writer 476 00:33:06,715 --> 00:33:12,435 Speaker 1: live on TV as quote communism. Executive director Garvey had 477 00:33:12,435 --> 00:33:14,875 Speaker 1: proposed a deal with the owners that would be based 478 00:33:14,915 --> 00:33:18,755 Speaker 1: on giving the players a percentage of gross income fifty 479 00:33:18,795 --> 00:33:22,955 Speaker 1: five cents out of every dollar taken in by football. 480 00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:25,835 Speaker 1: It would be given to the players and within a 481 00:33:25,835 --> 00:33:29,715 Speaker 1: structure allowing for individual players to negotiate individual contracts. The 482 00:33:29,755 --> 00:33:32,395 Speaker 1: players would basically figure out how the rest of their 483 00:33:32,435 --> 00:33:35,315 Speaker 1: fifty five percent would be divvied up among them. The 484 00:33:35,355 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: owners would keep forty five percent and divvy it up 485 00:33:37,955 --> 00:33:41,995 Speaker 1: any way they wanted to. Today, this is the basis 486 00:33:42,075 --> 00:33:46,315 Speaker 1: of the contract offers made by the sports owners to 487 00:33:46,475 --> 00:33:50,395 Speaker 1: the players' union. But in nineteen eighty two, on September eighteenth, 488 00:33:50,475 --> 00:33:53,195 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty two, live on CNN with me as host, 489 00:33:53,475 --> 00:33:58,595 Speaker 1: this was called communism by the Atlanta Journal Constitution sports 490 00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:01,435 Speaker 1: writer Furman Bisher, whom I had been reading since I 491 00:34:01,515 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: was a kid. Bisher was one of the guests in 492 00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:07,035 Speaker 1: a space show which I anchored from New York with 493 00:34:07,115 --> 00:34:10,755 Speaker 1: Garvey and Upshaw in the studio with me, Bisher went further. 494 00:34:11,235 --> 00:34:15,635 Speaker 1: He called Garvy a communist, and I apologized, and Garby said, 495 00:34:16,035 --> 00:34:19,915 Speaker 1: I have been called worse today. This was why we 496 00:34:19,915 --> 00:34:22,755 Speaker 1: were all out to dinner at Il Vagabondo, an Italian 497 00:34:22,795 --> 00:34:26,595 Speaker 1: restaurant so Italian that there was a BATCHI ball court 498 00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:30,555 Speaker 1: in the middle of the main dining room. Our CNN 499 00:34:30,635 --> 00:34:32,995 Speaker 1: executive sports producer Rick Davis had said that if I 500 00:34:32,995 --> 00:34:35,635 Speaker 1: could talk Garvey and upshaw into going on our show 501 00:34:35,675 --> 00:34:37,995 Speaker 1: on a Saturday. I could take them out to dinner, 502 00:34:38,515 --> 00:34:41,395 Speaker 1: he added, no, and I mean it a nice restaurant. 503 00:34:42,195 --> 00:34:44,395 Speaker 1: Garvey had already turned into a great source and a 504 00:34:44,395 --> 00:34:46,195 Speaker 1: great friend with whom I would stay in touch for 505 00:34:46,195 --> 00:34:48,875 Speaker 1: thirty five years. The day before, he had matter of 506 00:34:48,915 --> 00:34:53,595 Speaker 1: factly told me, and only me, a sports reporter from 507 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:57,475 Speaker 1: an obscure TV cable network called CNN, that when the 508 00:34:57,595 --> 00:35:00,795 Speaker 1: union's executive council met the following Monday, that there was 509 00:35:00,835 --> 00:35:04,875 Speaker 1: only one option on its table, a strike. It was 510 00:35:04,915 --> 00:35:07,955 Speaker 1: a huge scoop. Later, Garvey would tell me that the 511 00:35:08,035 --> 00:35:10,275 Speaker 1: union had made a deal with Ted Turner, who happened 512 00:35:10,315 --> 00:35:12,555 Speaker 1: to own my network. If the union could get the 513 00:35:12,635 --> 00:35:15,035 Speaker 1: National Labor Relations Board to rule that the owners had 514 00:35:15,115 --> 00:35:18,235 Speaker 1: forced that strike, the union would be entitled to break 515 00:35:18,355 --> 00:35:21,675 Speaker 1: all its contracts with the National Football League and sign 516 00:35:21,755 --> 00:35:24,795 Speaker 1: a new deal where the players and Ted Turner would 517 00:35:24,795 --> 00:35:29,435 Speaker 1: co own all of professional football in this country. What 518 00:35:29,635 --> 00:35:32,715 Speaker 1: you like to do? Play by play? Ed said, It 519 00:35:32,795 --> 00:35:35,635 Speaker 1: didn't happen, obviously, but that also was a great scoop, 520 00:35:35,835 --> 00:35:37,915 Speaker 1: and they tried it out in miniature. They played two 521 00:35:38,035 --> 00:35:41,835 Speaker 1: glorified pickup games, one at the LA Coliseum one at 522 00:35:41,915 --> 00:35:46,115 Speaker 1: RFK Stadium in Washington under the greatest sports league acronym 523 00:35:46,155 --> 00:35:54,115 Speaker 1: of all time, All Star Season yep ass. It was 524 00:35:54,155 --> 00:35:56,115 Speaker 1: also Ed Garvey. A month later, in the middle of 525 00:35:56,155 --> 00:35:59,075 Speaker 1: a press blackout imposed by the National Labor Relations Board 526 00:35:59,115 --> 00:36:02,635 Speaker 1: mediator who sneaked into my hotel room outside of Baltimore 527 00:36:02,715 --> 00:36:06,675 Speaker 1: and gave me an exclusive interview. Anyway, Garvy arrived just 528 00:36:06,795 --> 00:36:09,875 Speaker 1: after a housekeeper had knocked on my room door, and 529 00:36:09,955 --> 00:36:13,795 Speaker 1: without waiting for an answer, had entered. That housekeeper saw 530 00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:17,515 Speaker 1: the following scene, me in a suit sitting on a chair, 531 00:36:18,035 --> 00:36:20,915 Speaker 1: the CNN cameraman sitting at a table with his big 532 00:36:20,995 --> 00:36:25,195 Speaker 1: bulky camera and tripod, and the videotape deck operator who 533 00:36:25,275 --> 00:36:29,155 Speaker 1: happened to be a woman lounging atop my still unmade 534 00:36:29,195 --> 00:36:33,955 Speaker 1: bed watching her favorite soap opera on TV. The housekeeper 535 00:36:33,995 --> 00:36:38,875 Speaker 1: took one look, literally shouted Lordie, and she backed out 536 00:36:38,875 --> 00:36:42,315 Speaker 1: of the room, nearly knocking down ed Garvey in the process. 537 00:36:43,595 --> 00:36:46,315 Speaker 1: Later in the strike, the mediator quit the talks one night, 538 00:36:46,755 --> 00:36:49,355 Speaker 1: then the owner's guy also walked out, leaving Ed Garvey 539 00:36:49,355 --> 00:36:52,755 Speaker 1: and the players by themselves. I sat Garvey down for 540 00:36:52,835 --> 00:36:55,595 Speaker 1: another interview and I asked him, will the absence of 541 00:36:55,635 --> 00:36:59,355 Speaker 1: the media and the league's negotiator make any tangible difference 542 00:36:59,355 --> 00:37:04,395 Speaker 1: in the negotiations? And Garvey laughed without interruption for ninety seconds. 543 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:08,235 Speaker 1: Gene Upshaw, who in telling this story, I have left 544 00:37:08,235 --> 00:37:10,475 Speaker 1: in the kitchen drinking from the hose all this time, 545 00:37:10,515 --> 00:37:13,675 Speaker 1: And it's actually almost how long he did drink from 546 00:37:13,675 --> 00:37:16,875 Speaker 1: the hose that night. He was just as good a 547 00:37:16,875 --> 00:37:19,795 Speaker 1: friend and a source, whip, smart, and often too honest 548 00:37:19,795 --> 00:37:22,475 Speaker 1: for his own good. Five years later, when he had 549 00:37:22,515 --> 00:37:25,395 Speaker 1: succeeded Garvey as executive director and the players again went 550 00:37:25,435 --> 00:37:28,075 Speaker 1: on strike against the NFL, I had a tip that 551 00:37:28,115 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: the strike was collapsing because the owners had brought in 552 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:34,915 Speaker 1: scab players and they kept playing games anyway. I called 553 00:37:34,915 --> 00:37:36,715 Speaker 1: a lawyer I knew in the union, and he was 554 00:37:36,755 --> 00:37:38,755 Speaker 1: hemming and hawing when I heard him say, wait, Gene 555 00:37:38,795 --> 00:37:41,715 Speaker 1: wants to talk to you. All Gene Upshaw did was 556 00:37:41,835 --> 00:37:45,915 Speaker 1: off the record confirm that the strike had indeed collapsed, 557 00:37:45,915 --> 00:37:48,235 Speaker 1: and he expected lots of union players to cross the 558 00:37:48,275 --> 00:37:52,235 Speaker 1: picket lines the next morning. I said, I can use this, 559 00:37:52,835 --> 00:37:54,875 Speaker 1: He said, You've always been honest with me. The least 560 00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:57,075 Speaker 1: I can do is be honest with you. Matter of fact, 561 00:37:57,115 --> 00:38:00,195 Speaker 1: you can say high placed union sources told you. Ah, 562 00:38:00,235 --> 00:38:02,795 Speaker 1: screw it, you can quote me Keith. But wait till 563 00:38:02,835 --> 00:38:06,435 Speaker 1: after midnight, my time, I got to call these guy. Unfortunately, 564 00:38:06,435 --> 00:38:08,795 Speaker 1: this meant that when I interviewed the now Los Angeles 565 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: Raiders team union rep live on TV a few hours 566 00:38:11,755 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: later in Los Angeles, and I asked him if the 567 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,515 Speaker 1: strike was in its final hours, he said no, and 568 00:38:16,555 --> 00:38:20,155 Speaker 1: I said, he kind of is. And it was the 569 00:38:20,195 --> 00:38:23,795 Speaker 1: head of his union who had told me so. Anyway, 570 00:38:23,795 --> 00:38:26,995 Speaker 1: that night at il Vagabondo, Upshaw and Garvey and Chipyablonsky 571 00:38:27,075 --> 00:38:29,235 Speaker 1: told me twenty stories I would have killed to use 572 00:38:29,275 --> 00:38:32,155 Speaker 1: that night, but they were all off the record. I 573 00:38:32,155 --> 00:38:33,915 Speaker 1: think I can mention a couple of them now, since 574 00:38:33,995 --> 00:38:38,955 Speaker 1: it's Check's watch. Forty years later, at one bargaining session, 575 00:38:38,955 --> 00:38:42,395 Speaker 1: one of the league's lawyers, Vince Lombardi Junior, was arguing 576 00:38:42,435 --> 00:38:45,035 Speaker 1: with one of the player bargainers, linebacker Stan White of 577 00:38:45,075 --> 00:38:48,715 Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions, who was also a lawyer. The players 578 00:38:48,755 --> 00:38:50,875 Speaker 1: were asking for something that is still a bone of 579 00:38:50,915 --> 00:38:53,955 Speaker 1: contention between the two sides, full access to their own 580 00:38:54,355 --> 00:38:58,955 Speaker 1: team medical personal records. Vince Lombardi Jr. Looked at White 581 00:38:58,995 --> 00:39:00,475 Speaker 1: and said, what are you going to do with them? 582 00:39:00,475 --> 00:39:02,195 Speaker 1: Even if we gave them to you, You guys are 583 00:39:02,195 --> 00:39:05,675 Speaker 1: too stupid to understand them. At that point, White, who 584 00:39:05,795 --> 00:39:08,315 Speaker 1: might have been a lawyer but was also still a linebacker, 585 00:39:08,635 --> 00:39:11,075 Speaker 1: leaped over the bargaining table and tried to get his 586 00:39:11,195 --> 00:39:15,715 Speaker 1: hands around Lombardi's throat. There were also a few hours 587 00:39:15,755 --> 00:39:19,875 Speaker 1: of shared insults about top NFL announcers and executives and players, 588 00:39:20,235 --> 00:39:23,515 Speaker 1: and a good deal of wine at this dinner, and periodically, 589 00:39:23,555 --> 00:39:26,075 Speaker 1: when there were no more breadsticks at the table, or 590 00:39:26,155 --> 00:39:28,955 Speaker 1: antipasto at the table, or water at the table, Gin 591 00:39:29,035 --> 00:39:31,595 Speaker 1: Upshaw would simply get up and go into the kitchen 592 00:39:31,755 --> 00:39:35,355 Speaker 1: and get it himself. When the evening was over, my 593 00:39:35,515 --> 00:39:39,395 Speaker 1: diary notes that we had spent for four men, four 594 00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:43,435 Speaker 1: large men, of whom I was the smallest, with wine, 595 00:39:43,955 --> 00:39:47,155 Speaker 1: with a generous tip at a top New York restaurant 596 00:39:47,475 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: on CNN's dime. The staggering figure of one hundred and 597 00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:56,875 Speaker 1: fifty five dollars still translates only to about four hundred 598 00:39:56,875 --> 00:40:00,635 Speaker 1: and seventy bucks today. It was a lot of money 599 00:40:00,635 --> 00:40:05,035 Speaker 1: then CNN was paying me twenty six thousand dollars a year. Anyway, 600 00:40:05,035 --> 00:40:07,395 Speaker 1: we all walked out into a lovely New York September 601 00:40:07,435 --> 00:40:10,595 Speaker 1: Saturday night. Garby, Pupshaw, and Yablonski were all staying in 602 00:40:10,635 --> 00:40:12,755 Speaker 1: a hotel, not from where we had eaten and not 603 00:40:12,875 --> 00:40:15,395 Speaker 1: far from where I lived, So I walked them back 604 00:40:15,875 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: and Upshaw had one more immortal memory left to create. 605 00:40:19,395 --> 00:40:21,075 Speaker 1: It happened that he was on the cover of that 606 00:40:21,115 --> 00:40:24,515 Speaker 1: week's edition of Newsweek magazine. And as we passed one 607 00:40:24,555 --> 00:40:28,195 Speaker 1: of the old, ubiquitous Manhattan newstands, which were just tiny 608 00:40:28,275 --> 00:40:31,835 Speaker 1: shacks on nearly every corner of the city, Jean leaned 609 00:40:31,995 --> 00:40:35,355 Speaker 1: down and into the little window through which the newsstand 610 00:40:35,395 --> 00:40:40,075 Speaker 1: operator peered out, and he said, politely but firmly, have 611 00:40:40,155 --> 00:40:42,235 Speaker 1: you got a copy of the one with me on 612 00:40:42,275 --> 00:40:58,275 Speaker 1: the cover? Face? It nowhere else in the news world 613 00:40:58,395 --> 00:41:00,235 Speaker 1: or in the sports world? Are you going to get 614 00:41:00,315 --> 00:41:04,715 Speaker 1: that as your twenty twenty four NFL season preview? And 615 00:41:04,835 --> 00:41:06,675 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here for one day? 616 00:41:07,075 --> 00:41:09,835 Speaker 1: Thank you for listening. Please share this podcast with somebody 617 00:41:09,835 --> 00:41:12,755 Speaker 1: who doesn't already. Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanelle, the 618 00:41:12,835 --> 00:41:16,035 Speaker 1: musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, and performed most of 619 00:41:16,075 --> 00:41:19,315 Speaker 1: our music, including this here what you're hearing behind me now. 620 00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:23,155 Speaker 1: Mister Shanale handled orchestration in keyboards. Mister Ray was on 621 00:41:23,235 --> 00:41:27,515 Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums. Although they did not actually 622 00:41:27,635 --> 00:41:31,995 Speaker 1: write this, it was produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical 623 00:41:31,995 --> 00:41:34,595 Speaker 1: and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium 624 00:41:34,715 --> 00:41:37,875 Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music when we have 625 00:41:37,915 --> 00:41:40,915 Speaker 1: a sports segment is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 626 00:41:41,195 --> 00:41:45,035 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtisy VESPN Inc. Other music 627 00:41:45,155 --> 00:41:48,235 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by a group called No Horns Allowed. 628 00:41:48,675 --> 00:41:52,315 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my late friend George Carlin. Everything 629 00:41:52,315 --> 00:41:55,435 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for this 630 00:41:55,515 --> 00:41:59,075 Speaker 1: the sixty third day until the twenty twenty four presidential election. 631 00:41:59,395 --> 00:42:03,675 Speaker 1: And yes I'm saying sixty third, others will say sixty second. 632 00:42:03,715 --> 00:42:07,875 Speaker 1: Today I am including election day itself, because that is 633 00:42:07,915 --> 00:42:11,435 Speaker 1: the day when a terrifyingly large number of people actually 634 00:42:11,475 --> 00:42:15,875 Speaker 1: decide who to vote for on election day, on their 635 00:42:15,915 --> 00:42:19,315 Speaker 1: way to the polls, or sometimes while they're standing there. 636 00:42:19,955 --> 00:42:23,035 Speaker 1: In any event, the sixty third day until the election 637 00:42:23,595 --> 00:42:27,995 Speaker 1: also the three hundred and thirty first day since convicted 638 00:42:28,075 --> 00:42:32,195 Speaker 1: felon Donald J. Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 639 00:42:32,235 --> 00:42:35,795 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Use the September eighteenth 640 00:42:35,795 --> 00:42:39,115 Speaker 1: sentencing hearing if it happens, use the mental health system. 641 00:42:39,675 --> 00:42:43,675 Speaker 1: Use presidential immunity. The Supreme Theocratic Court has given it 642 00:42:43,715 --> 00:42:48,035 Speaker 1: to you. President Biden. I say, if it's official, it's legal. 643 00:42:48,475 --> 00:42:53,075 Speaker 1: So crazy, go nuts, have fun. The next scheduled countdown 644 00:42:53,195 --> 00:42:56,355 Speaker 1: is tomorrow boltons as the news requires, until the next one, 645 00:42:56,355 --> 00:42:59,595 Speaker 1: whenever that is. I'm Keith Olrimman. Good morning, good afternoon, 646 00:42:59,635 --> 00:43:18,435 Speaker 1: good night, and good luck. 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