Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
Speaker 1: is a Countdown Fulton podcast. It was, in short, the
Speaker 1: worst post disaster news conference in our modern American history,
Speaker 1: after the terrorist attack in New Orleans that killed at
Speaker 1: least ten people, when a Texas born Army veteran drove
Speaker 1: into a New Year's Eve crowd in the French Quarter,
Speaker 1: ran people over, shot at them, shot at police, and
Speaker 1: prepared apparently to disperse IED's improvised explosive devices he had
Speaker 1: brought with him, and he had, according to the FBI,
Speaker 1: the help of others, and the suspect was then shot
Speaker 1: and killed. And Wednesday afternoon, New Year's Day, the authorities
Speaker 1: in New Orleans somehow managed to make it worse. The mayor,
Speaker 1: the governor, the senator, the chief of police. If the
Speaker 1: least sophisticated form of terrorists a car driving into a
Speaker 1: crowd on a closed street during holiday celebrations happens in
Speaker 1: a city known for crowds on a street closed during
Speaker 1: holiday celebrations, do not stand there and congratulate each other
Speaker 1: on the great job you have done and the great
Speaker 1: job you are going to do, And do not get
Speaker 1: mad at reporters for asking how in the hell this happened.
Speaker 1: If you do not have information to share, don't share it.
Speaker 1: Don't blame reporters at a news conference you have called
Speaker 1: for asking questions. If you don't want to share the information,
Speaker 1: Governor Landry, don't share it. Don't act arrogantly and condescendingly
Speaker 1: towards reporters asking questions on behalf of a terrified public.
Speaker 1: The reporters do not know in advance that you are
Speaker 1: going to refuse to answer their questions. That's why they
Speaker 1: are asking the questions. And most of all, Superintendent of
Speaker 1: Police and Kirkpatrick and Captain L. John Roberts do not
Speaker 1: explain as if this were the most natural thing in
Speaker 1: the world. That the ballards, the removable stainless steel blocks
Speaker 1: designed to keep terrorists from driving onto pedestrian field streets
Speaker 1: or into buildings, the bollards that you bought a decade ago,
Speaker 1: that they did not work correctly, that they got stuck.
Speaker 1: So two months ago you started to replace them, and
Speaker 1: you have the new ones ready to go and they
Speaker 1: will provide total safety. Only they weren't there on New
Speaker 1: Year's Eve in New Orleans, so you had a police
Speaker 1: car blocking the road but the terrorists simply drove up
Speaker 1: onto the sidewalk instead, My god, to hear the superintendent
Speaker 1: of police express astonishment that a terrorist, by some evidence
Speaker 1: and inference, perhaps a suicide bomber, was willing to drive
Speaker 1: on something other than the street, that he was willing
Speaker 1: to drive on the side walk, as if somebody driving
Speaker 1: on a sidewalk had never happened before in the history
Speaker 1: of mankind. To hear a police person, a veteran police person,
Speaker 1: the person in charge say something that incredibly naive, is
Speaker 1: disturbing beyond measure. How could they have possibly gotten around
Speaker 1: your impregnable defenses, Superintendent, Well, they drove past the police
Speaker 1: car blocking the road instead of stopping. Apparently this superintendent,
Speaker 1: who is literally my age, has never seen a car
Speaker 1: on a sidewalk in New Orleans, or on the news
Speaker 1: from anywhere else in the world, or even in the movies.
Speaker 1: Superintendent promptly explained, they have plans in place, undefeatable plans
Speaker 1: to protect New Orleans and its people, and this is
Speaker 1: a time for leadership, and we here, we are the leaders,
Speaker 1: and we will provide the leaderships and know the leadership
Speaker 1: and the plans didn't work. Tuesday, night, not at all.
Speaker 1: But the new ballards will be installed soon. Might as
Speaker 1: well have said, the new ballards are flawless and perfect,
Speaker 1: and you'll be taking them out of the box any
Speaker 1: day now. And it is possible that of all the
Speaker 1: officials at that news conference in New Orleans, the superintendent
Speaker 1: was the one who made the least complete fool of herself.
Speaker 1: If you have ever seen the movie Airplane and heard
Speaker 1: the news conference given by the character played by Lloyd
Speaker 1: Bridges about a stricken airliner and how a pilot is
Speaker 1: not available, what one of the passengers is going to
Speaker 1: land the plane, and each answer he gives is worse
Speaker 1: and more horrifying than the last. And he's tossing off
Speaker 1: jokes and smoking cigarettes as he gives these answers. That's
Speaker 1: what this was. Only. Airplane was satire and those answers
Speaker 1: were funny. Oh, in New Orleans, nobody was smoking. It
Speaker 1: was this Governor Landry who answered every question as if
Speaker 1: the reporters were too stupid to know it advance. He
Speaker 1: had chosen to keep all pertinent details of the attack
Speaker 1: to himself rather than share them with the public. It
Speaker 1: was this man with the cadence and the tone of
Speaker 1: a chain gang supervisor who explained that even though the
Speaker 1: entire system failed Tuesday night, you should just trust him
Speaker 1: and go to that college football game they just had
Speaker 1: to postpone for a day anyhow because of successful terrorism.
Speaker 1: Just trust him, all right, Thank you all so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you. What gives you the confidence? Tomorrow night it'll
Speaker 1: be safe. Right, I'm gonna be there. Why are you
Speaker 1: confident there won't be problems tomorrow? I'll be there. He's
Speaker 1: Governor superman. I am truly surprised Governor Landry did not
Speaker 1: say they'd never attack a football game when a governor
Speaker 1: was at it, you know, just like they'd never drive
Speaker 1: onto the sidewalk. What are you crazy.
Speaker 2: For?
Speaker 1: Sheer political self prostitution, though for sinility in action. It
Speaker 1: was Senator Kennedy of Louisiana who stole this show, who
Speaker 1: made it about himself, who made it about vague conspiracy
Speaker 1: theories that he alluded to only in the background, who
Speaker 1: made it about politics, who chose this somber tragic event
Speaker 1: to take a stupid shot at the media, a stupid
Speaker 1: shot in the context of the rest of the news
Speaker 1: conference being one long stupid shot. This made the comparisons
Speaker 1: between Senator Kennedy and Pat Buttram's mister Haney from Green
Speaker 1: Acres and fog Horn Leghorn look embarrassing to Pat Buttram
Speaker 1: and fog Horn Leghorn.
Speaker 2: Ketsey speaking, and then tell the American people the truth. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to tell us yet. Any thank's
Speaker 2: going to interfere with your investigation. And there are things
Speaker 2: that I've been told that I think are true that
Speaker 2: I'm not sharing with the other day because it could
Speaker 2: interfere with their investigation. But after we get to the
Speaker 2: bob of this, they need to tell the American people
Speaker 2: the truth, and the people in New Orleans the truth,
Speaker 2: and the people of America the truth. I think the
Speaker 2: mayor and the Governor are very wise to postpone this
Speaker 2: ballgame for twenty four hours. There's just too much stuff
Speaker 2: we don't know, and it's it's just not worth it.
Speaker 2: But I guess my final point is I will.
Speaker 1: Promise you this.
Speaker 2: I will when when it is appropriate and this investigation
Speaker 2: is complete, you will find out what happened and who
Speaker 2: was responsible, or I will raise fresh hell. Can I
Speaker 2: say something?
Speaker 1: Tell me who you're with?
Speaker 2: W WSU OK MCBS.
Speaker 1: NBC's over here on the rail.
Speaker 2: Oh that unusual position.
Speaker 1: I don't get it.
Speaker 2: You wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Perfect time to make could joke about the news media.
Speaker 1: Senator resign and of course Senator Kennedy is the smart one.
Speaker 1: Earlier before it was revealed where the dead suspect was from, Trump,
Speaker 1: as always knew the real truth when I said that
Speaker 1: the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals
Speaker 1: we have in our country. That statement was constantly refuted
Speaker 1: by Democrats and the fake news media, but it turned
Speaker 1: out to be true. The crime rate in our country
Speaker 1: is at a level that nobody has ever seen before.
Speaker 1: Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and
Speaker 1: their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Police Department. The Trump administration will fully support the
Speaker 1: City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from
Speaker 1: this act of pure evil. Pure evil is a phrase
Speaker 1: used now to distinguish that from Trump evil. The suspect,
Speaker 1: the dead identified suspect was a US Army veteran born
Speaker 1: and raised in Texas. Who he might be working with
Speaker 1: it was yet to be determined as I recorded this,
Speaker 1: and he had an ISIS flag in his truck. Isis,
Speaker 1: which as Trump will always remind you whenever the word
Speaker 1: pops up. Trump defeated in twenty nineteen, in just weeks,
Speaker 1: he will tell you there is no isis. Idiot elect
Speaker 1: went silent after the suspect was idd and turned his
Speaker 1: attention back to bitcoin and tariffs, and somehow got topped
Speaker 1: by Congresswoman cave Woman Marjorie Taylor Green, very possibly the
Speaker 1: stupidest person in America, not just in Congress. New Orleans
Speaker 1: terrorist attacker is said to have come across the border
Speaker 1: in Eagle Pass two days ago. Exclamation point, exclamation point,
Speaker 1: exclamation point, shut the border down? Exclamation point, exclamation point,
Speaker 1: exclamation point. Who did our government bomb lately? That is
Speaker 1: taking it out on innocent Americans. Terrorism is a deadly
Speaker 1: threat to this country, nearly as much threat to as
Speaker 1: the Marjorie Taylor Greens and the Trumps and their stupidity
Speaker 1: and their willingness to exploit anything are deadly threats to
Speaker 1: this country, especially when their stupidity and their willingness to
Speaker 1: exploit anything takes place concurrently as the hot and cold
Speaker 1: running imbecility as we are seeing from New Orleans itself.
Speaker 1: Everybody at that news conference, with the exception of the
Speaker 1: FBI Special Agent ALTHEA. Duncan, who, after a brief and
Speaker 1: calm statement, spent most of the rest of her time
Speaker 1: watching the single digit IQ. Elected officials and police people
Speaker 1: soil themselves. Everybody but the FBI agent should resign. If
Speaker 1: you watched any of that and you came away confident
Speaker 1: that the authorities in New Orleans and in the state
Speaker 1: of Louisiana have any idea what they are doing, I
Speaker 1: congratulate you on your childlike possibly childish faith. The Sugar
Speaker 1: Bowl college football game was postponed until Thursday night. It
Speaker 1: should be moved to another state. The Super Bowl is
Speaker 1: scheduled for Sunday, February ninth in New Orleans in the Superdome.
Speaker 1: It should be moved to another state. I don't know
Speaker 1: if Louisiana is safe or not. I do know that
Speaker 1: the police officials and the elected officials in New Orleans
Speaker 1: are idiots, unless they have now unboxed the new road
Speaker 1: blocking devices by then and briefed officers on this terrible
Speaker 1: new invention of the terrorists not stopping when a cop
Speaker 1: tells them to and instead driving on the sidewalk. This
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