1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:27,555 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Donald 2 00:00:27,635 --> 00:00:33,715 Speaker 1: Trump has lost the moral authority to continue to rule 3 00:00:33,755 --> 00:00:38,355 Speaker 1: this country. I have asserted this before. Donald Trump has 4 00:00:38,395 --> 00:00:42,475 Speaker 1: lost the moral authority to continue to rule this country. 5 00:00:44,195 --> 00:00:47,195 Speaker 1: And he does not give one good God damn that 6 00:00:47,195 --> 00:00:49,755 Speaker 1: that is true. He may never have had the moral 7 00:00:49,755 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: authority to govern this country. His enablers and those like 8 00:00:53,635 --> 00:00:56,635 Speaker 1: him who are draining the financial and moral resources of 9 00:00:56,635 --> 00:01:00,195 Speaker 1: this nation don't care what I think, don't care what 10 00:01:00,275 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: you think, don't care what the world thinks. But it 11 00:01:04,155 --> 00:01:07,315 Speaker 1: is time for us to think, to think about what 12 00:01:07,435 --> 00:01:11,435 Speaker 1: to do about the fact that Trump retains control over us, 13 00:01:11,755 --> 00:01:14,235 Speaker 1: and there can be no question of it now. Is 14 00:01:14,275 --> 00:01:19,955 Speaker 1: seeking to expand his control to true dictatorial levels through 15 00:01:20,035 --> 00:01:25,875 Speaker 1: increasingly repressive and immoral and violent actions and threats and 16 00:01:25,955 --> 00:01:29,115 Speaker 1: what looks like only two options regarding the midterms and 17 00:01:29,195 --> 00:01:32,075 Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. He wants to either fix the elections 18 00:01:32,595 --> 00:01:38,435 Speaker 1: for Trumpists or eliminate them outright. Object to any of this, 19 00:01:39,315 --> 00:01:42,515 Speaker 1: he will buy you or blackmail you, or hire somebody 20 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:46,995 Speaker 1: dress them up in an Ice uniform, hire somebody to 21 00:01:47,195 --> 00:01:50,795 Speaker 1: kill you. I mean, what are Ice agents if not 22 00:01:50,915 --> 00:01:57,875 Speaker 1: private paramilitary gangsters hired by Trump to kill you, or 23 00:01:57,875 --> 00:02:00,275 Speaker 1: at least to put it in your mind that if 24 00:02:00,275 --> 00:02:04,395 Speaker 1: you disagree with him, they might kill you. Kill you 25 00:02:04,475 --> 00:02:07,555 Speaker 1: on and what Trump promises is quote the day of 26 00:02:07,755 --> 00:02:14,435 Speaker 1: reckoning and retribution against Minnesota. At no point in the 27 00:02:14,475 --> 00:02:17,435 Speaker 1: history of this country since the Civil War ended would 28 00:02:17,475 --> 00:02:21,315 Speaker 1: anybody who talked like that still be in public service 29 00:02:21,635 --> 00:02:27,875 Speaker 1: the next day. At no point. And he is enabled 30 00:02:27,915 --> 00:02:30,315 Speaker 1: in all of this, not merely by corrupt and immoral 31 00:02:30,355 --> 00:02:34,475 Speaker 1: Republicans who are addicted to power the way heroin addicts 32 00:02:34,515 --> 00:02:37,795 Speaker 1: are addicted to heroin, but by a legal structure he 33 00:02:37,835 --> 00:02:41,155 Speaker 1: has perverted, manipulated, and twisted, with the help of a 34 00:02:41,435 --> 00:02:47,915 Speaker 1: corrupt and wholly monetized Supreme Court. We are being strangled 35 00:02:47,955 --> 00:02:54,195 Speaker 1: in Trump's grip. America is dying. It could yet revive, 36 00:02:54,355 --> 00:02:57,235 Speaker 1: It could yet survive. We could defeat him at the 37 00:02:57,235 --> 00:03:03,995 Speaker 1: polls in November. Anyway, our greatest asset remains his amazing imbecility. 38 00:03:05,715 --> 00:03:08,035 Speaker 1: I have suspected for years that if he and most 39 00:03:08,075 --> 00:03:11,355 Speaker 1: of those around him were not as spectacularly stupid as 40 00:03:11,395 --> 00:03:13,955 Speaker 1: they are, you and I would be in camps by now, 41 00:03:14,835 --> 00:03:18,275 Speaker 1: or we would be chained together harvesting food to be 42 00:03:18,395 --> 00:03:21,515 Speaker 1: sold at the Trump Kennedy Center down the street from 43 00:03:21,555 --> 00:03:25,195 Speaker 1: the White Trump House, the Lincoln Memorial with Trump sitting 44 00:03:25,235 --> 00:03:29,635 Speaker 1: on Lincoln's lap, and of course the Washington Monument to Trump. 45 00:03:32,915 --> 00:03:34,795 Speaker 1: But seriously, it is time for us to think about 46 00:03:34,795 --> 00:03:39,235 Speaker 1: what to do about this. I do not know. I 47 00:03:39,315 --> 00:03:43,755 Speaker 1: do not advocate violence, I do not advocate revolution, although 48 00:03:43,795 --> 00:03:48,035 Speaker 1: I remain convinced that serious spine rattling action by state 49 00:03:48,155 --> 00:03:53,075 Speaker 1: governments and state governors is necessary and warranted, including the use, 50 00:03:53,155 --> 00:03:57,315 Speaker 1: ironically of state national guards to protect state residents from 51 00:03:57,315 --> 00:04:00,835 Speaker 1: Ice and other Trump criminal gangs, and from Trump himself. 52 00:04:01,395 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: And I am convinced of the necessity of state led freezing, 53 00:04:05,235 --> 00:04:10,235 Speaker 1: of paying federal taxes wherever that is possible, starve the bastards. 54 00:04:12,715 --> 00:04:15,675 Speaker 1: But we have still crossed a rubicon in the last 55 00:04:15,875 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: two weeks. Yeah, another one. God damned lot more rubicons 56 00:04:21,835 --> 00:04:24,475 Speaker 1: in this country than the GPS suggested. Am I right? 57 00:04:26,315 --> 00:04:30,075 Speaker 1: Principally in the remarkable split screen between Trump saying to 58 00:04:30,115 --> 00:04:33,755 Speaker 1: those protesting the dead on the streets of Tehran quote 59 00:04:33,875 --> 00:04:38,235 Speaker 1: to all Iranian patriots, keep protesting. Take over your institutions 60 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:42,235 Speaker 1: if possible, your abusers. They'll pay a very big price, 61 00:04:44,755 --> 00:04:46,875 Speaker 1: while at almost the exact same hour, Trump says to 62 00:04:46,915 --> 00:04:49,595 Speaker 1: those protesting the dead on the streets of Minneapolis and 63 00:04:49,715 --> 00:04:53,835 Speaker 1: other American cities, quote that woman was very, very disrespectful 64 00:04:53,875 --> 00:04:57,515 Speaker 1: to law enforcement. You saw they were harassing them. Law 65 00:04:57,595 --> 00:05:00,195 Speaker 1: enforcement should not be in a position where they have 66 00:05:00,275 --> 00:05:04,995 Speaker 1: to put up with this stuff. Imagine if he said 67 00:05:05,075 --> 00:05:08,955 Speaker 1: to all American patriots, keep protesting. Take over your institutions 68 00:05:08,995 --> 00:05:13,755 Speaker 1: if possible, your abusers i e. Me Donald Trump, they'll 69 00:05:13,795 --> 00:05:16,915 Speaker 1: pay a very big price. But he didn't say that. 70 00:05:16,955 --> 00:05:21,235 Speaker 1: And in short, the message here is, Iranian protesters, destroy 71 00:05:21,275 --> 00:05:25,435 Speaker 1: your government. America will support you, and American protesters we 72 00:05:25,595 --> 00:05:29,155 Speaker 1: your government will destroy you, because we believe America should 73 00:05:29,195 --> 00:05:34,635 Speaker 1: be run like Iran. But of course it's not just 74 00:05:34,675 --> 00:05:37,235 Speaker 1: the shooting of Renee Good and the still unraveling of 75 00:05:37,235 --> 00:05:40,035 Speaker 1: those few remaining American principles of law and order and 76 00:05:40,075 --> 00:05:43,355 Speaker 1: protecting the right to protest, rather than Trump installing a 77 00:05:43,395 --> 00:05:48,075 Speaker 1: system by which Americans are summarily executed near their own homes, 78 00:05:48,275 --> 00:05:53,835 Speaker 1: without charge, without trial, for protesting. Because of Trump, there 79 00:05:53,835 --> 00:05:57,875 Speaker 1: are always a dozen or more American institutions burning at 80 00:05:57,875 --> 00:06:03,955 Speaker 1: a time. On Tuesday, from morning to evening, the front 81 00:06:03,955 --> 00:06:07,515 Speaker 1: page of the New York Times website featured the following 82 00:06:07,555 --> 00:06:11,675 Speaker 1: headlines just the front page. One US used aircraft that 83 00:06:11,755 --> 00:06:15,795 Speaker 1: looked like civilian plane in September boat attack. That's a 84 00:06:15,835 --> 00:06:20,515 Speaker 1: war crime. Two FBI inquiry into Ice shooting is examining 85 00:06:20,835 --> 00:06:25,475 Speaker 1: victim's possible activist group ties the dead woman. They want 86 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:29,195 Speaker 1: to prosecute her. Three Trump has another justification for the 87 00:06:29,195 --> 00:06:34,955 Speaker 1: shooting of Renee Good disrespect. Four ICE arrests New York 88 00:06:35,035 --> 00:06:40,315 Speaker 1: City City Council employee at routine appointment. Five Fed changes 89 00:06:40,475 --> 00:06:43,875 Speaker 1: course and takes on Trump in political fight that would 90 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 1: be over the opening of a spurious criminal investigation of 91 00:06:47,155 --> 00:06:51,515 Speaker 1: Jerome Powell because he doesn't like him. Six Labor Secretary 92 00:06:51,635 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: investigating a complaint alleging sexual misconduct by the Secretary Laurie 93 00:06:56,955 --> 00:07:02,235 Speaker 1: Chavez Dreamer. Seven Senator Kelly sues Pentagon over threats of 94 00:07:02,235 --> 00:07:06,635 Speaker 1: punishment from Hegseth. No mention of alcoholism in that Eight 95 00:07:06,915 --> 00:07:12,035 Speaker 1: Trump officials are sending one thousand more immigration officers to Minnesota, 96 00:07:12,075 --> 00:07:15,475 Speaker 1: presumably because there aren't enough dead on the streets yet. 97 00:07:16,195 --> 00:07:21,035 Speaker 1: Nine prosecutors quit over push to investigate Ice shooting victim's widow. 98 00:07:21,955 --> 00:07:27,475 Speaker 1: Ten Trump will end deportation protection for Somali's because he's 99 00:07:27,515 --> 00:07:30,675 Speaker 1: declared war on one state and it happens to be Minnesota. 100 00:07:31,315 --> 00:07:35,155 Speaker 1: Eleven Supreme Court seems inclined to allow states to bar 101 00:07:35,555 --> 00:07:40,635 Speaker 1: transgender athletes, of which in this country interscholastically there might 102 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:45,275 Speaker 1: be one hundred. Twelve Trump loyalist asserts she can keep 103 00:07:45,475 --> 00:07:51,515 Speaker 1: US Attorney title. Thirteen. Trump insists affordability is a fake word. 104 00:07:52,955 --> 00:07:58,115 Speaker 1: Fourteen facing contempt threat, Clinton's refused to testify in Epstein inquiry. 105 00:07:58,955 --> 00:08:03,315 Speaker 1: Fifteen Trump insults Greenland's prime minister, says he doesn't know 106 00:08:03,395 --> 00:08:09,795 Speaker 1: who he is. Fifteen. That is so many institutions Trump 107 00:08:09,795 --> 00:08:13,075 Speaker 1: has set fire to this week that it may actually 108 00:08:13,115 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: be more than the number of institutions Trump set fire 109 00:08:17,115 --> 00:08:23,035 Speaker 1: to last week. So again it is time for us 110 00:08:23,035 --> 00:08:27,515 Speaker 1: to think about what to do about this apropos of 111 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:30,395 Speaker 1: that reality. I was reading something recently, an old piece 112 00:08:30,435 --> 00:08:32,475 Speaker 1: of American writing, one of my favorites. You may have 113 00:08:32,515 --> 00:08:35,955 Speaker 1: read it too, or heard it read aloud just as likely, 114 00:08:36,275 --> 00:08:38,955 Speaker 1: And though it is really old, I find that with 115 00:08:39,115 --> 00:08:43,235 Speaker 1: just some minor modifications and the insertion of Trump's title 116 00:08:43,275 --> 00:08:46,315 Speaker 1: in key places, it could have been written about an 117 00:08:46,355 --> 00:08:48,835 Speaker 1: hour and a half ago. Hell, it could be on 118 00:08:48,915 --> 00:08:50,995 Speaker 1: the front page of the New York Times website right 119 00:08:51,035 --> 00:08:53,395 Speaker 1: now if it could manage to squeeze out any of 120 00:08:53,435 --> 00:08:59,235 Speaker 1: those fifteen stories about Trump's endless cultural arson. Permit me 121 00:08:59,355 --> 00:09:03,035 Speaker 1: to make those referenced emendations and see if this old 122 00:09:03,075 --> 00:09:08,915 Speaker 1: piece of political writing still holds up today. Ready, we 123 00:09:08,995 --> 00:09:12,195 Speaker 1: hold these truths to be self evident, that all men 124 00:09:12,235 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: are created equal, That they are endowed by their creator 125 00:09:15,635 --> 00:09:19,555 Speaker 1: with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, 126 00:09:19,595 --> 00:09:22,795 Speaker 1: and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, 127 00:09:22,835 --> 00:09:27,395 Speaker 1: governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from 128 00:09:27,435 --> 00:09:33,355 Speaker 1: the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of 129 00:09:33,475 --> 00:09:38,395 Speaker 1: government becomes destructive of those ends, it is the right 130 00:09:38,555 --> 00:09:45,915 Speaker 1: of the people to alter or to abolish it, and 131 00:09:45,995 --> 00:09:51,275 Speaker 1: to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, 132 00:09:51,275 --> 00:09:54,315 Speaker 1: and organizing its powers in such form as to them 133 00:09:54,635 --> 00:10:02,755 Speaker 1: shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Hey, 134 00:10:02,755 --> 00:10:04,475 Speaker 1: guess what, I didn't have to change any of that. 135 00:10:05,635 --> 00:10:07,715 Speaker 1: Let me skip ahead a bit in this document. If 136 00:10:07,755 --> 00:10:09,955 Speaker 1: it sounds familiar to you by now, I hope it does. 137 00:10:10,155 --> 00:10:14,035 Speaker 1: There are a couple more changes later on the history 138 00:10:14,155 --> 00:10:16,915 Speaker 1: of the present President of the United States is a 139 00:10:16,995 --> 00:10:21,195 Speaker 1: history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct 140 00:10:21,235 --> 00:10:25,395 Speaker 1: object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. 141 00:10:26,155 --> 00:10:30,035 Speaker 1: To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. 142 00:10:30,955 --> 00:10:34,395 Speaker 1: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome 143 00:10:34,395 --> 00:10:37,595 Speaker 1: and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his 144 00:10:37,715 --> 00:10:41,995 Speaker 1: governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless 145 00:10:42,195 --> 00:10:46,235 Speaker 1: suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, 146 00:10:46,475 --> 00:10:51,275 Speaker 1: and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend 147 00:10:51,435 --> 00:10:55,515 Speaker 1: to them. He has refused to pass other laws for 148 00:10:55,555 --> 00:10:59,355 Speaker 1: the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people 149 00:10:59,595 --> 00:11:03,715 Speaker 1: would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a 150 00:11:03,835 --> 00:11:07,955 Speaker 1: right in estimate to them and formidable to tyrants only. 151 00:11:10,955 --> 00:11:13,635 Speaker 1: He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states 152 00:11:14,355 --> 00:11:20,355 Speaker 1: for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, 153 00:11:20,395 --> 00:11:24,515 Speaker 1: refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and 154 00:11:24,755 --> 00:11:31,635 Speaker 1: raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has 155 00:11:31,675 --> 00:11:35,915 Speaker 1: obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to 156 00:11:36,115 --> 00:11:40,995 Speaker 1: laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent 157 00:11:41,195 --> 00:11:46,795 Speaker 1: on his will alone for the tenure of their offices 158 00:11:47,595 --> 00:11:51,955 Speaker 1: and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has 159 00:11:51,955 --> 00:11:55,915 Speaker 1: erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms 160 00:11:55,955 --> 00:12:00,755 Speaker 1: of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. 161 00:12:03,675 --> 00:12:06,915 Speaker 1: He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing 162 00:12:07,115 --> 00:12:11,195 Speaker 1: armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has effected 163 00:12:11,395 --> 00:12:15,115 Speaker 1: to render the military independent of and superior to, the 164 00:12:15,235 --> 00:12:18,315 Speaker 1: civil power. He has combined with others to subject us 165 00:12:18,475 --> 00:12:23,435 Speaker 1: to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by 166 00:12:23,475 --> 00:12:29,675 Speaker 1: our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. 167 00:12:36,595 --> 00:12:40,355 Speaker 1: For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for 168 00:12:40,395 --> 00:12:43,875 Speaker 1: protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any 169 00:12:43,955 --> 00:12:48,075 Speaker 1: murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states. 170 00:12:48,315 --> 00:12:51,515 Speaker 1: For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world, 171 00:12:51,755 --> 00:12:55,475 Speaker 1: for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for depriving 172 00:12:55,555 --> 00:12:59,315 Speaker 1: us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury, 173 00:13:02,155 --> 00:13:07,355 Speaker 1: for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses, 174 00:13:08,275 --> 00:13:12,235 Speaker 1: for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, 175 00:13:12,515 --> 00:13:17,755 Speaker 1: and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. He has 176 00:13:17,835 --> 00:13:21,955 Speaker 1: plundered our sees, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and 177 00:13:22,035 --> 00:13:25,835 Speaker 1: destroyed the lives of our people. He has constrained our 178 00:13:25,955 --> 00:13:30,875 Speaker 1: fellow citizens to bear arms against their country, to become 179 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:38,355 Speaker 1: the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall 180 00:13:38,715 --> 00:13:46,915 Speaker 1: themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections among us. 181 00:13:47,315 --> 00:13:50,115 Speaker 1: In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned for 182 00:13:50,235 --> 00:13:53,915 Speaker 1: redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have 183 00:13:53,955 --> 00:13:59,035 Speaker 1: been answered only by repeated injury. A president whose character 184 00:13:59,155 --> 00:14:02,955 Speaker 1: is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, 185 00:14:03,515 --> 00:14:07,155 Speaker 1: is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. 186 00:14:14,315 --> 00:14:17,515 Speaker 1: Some stylistic changes might be necessary. But you could put 187 00:14:17,555 --> 00:14:19,315 Speaker 1: that on the front page of the New York Times 188 00:14:19,355 --> 00:14:21,835 Speaker 1: as a news story, and add in a few details 189 00:14:22,035 --> 00:14:26,115 Speaker 1: about the murder of civilians and the transportation beyond seas 190 00:14:26,195 --> 00:14:30,835 Speaker 1: to be tried for pretended offenses, and the keeping of 191 00:14:30,915 --> 00:14:34,155 Speaker 1: troops in our cities without our consent. You could change 192 00:14:34,195 --> 00:14:43,115 Speaker 1: that and say, by Maggie Haberman, and in the excerpts 193 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:45,275 Speaker 1: that I read to you just there, I only changed 194 00:14:45,435 --> 00:14:53,555 Speaker 1: six words. Really is remarkable. It is as if Thomas Jefferson, 195 00:14:53,995 --> 00:14:56,835 Speaker 1: for all his disqualifying flaws as a human being, and 196 00:14:56,875 --> 00:15:00,355 Speaker 1: they were many, was endowed by his maker with the 197 00:15:00,395 --> 00:15:05,835 Speaker 1: ability to see not just the future, but the exact 198 00:15:05,875 --> 00:15:09,715 Speaker 1: future in the country he helped to create, and exactly 199 00:15:09,715 --> 00:15:14,075 Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years into the future. So when 200 00:15:14,115 --> 00:15:16,075 Speaker 1: I say it is time for us to think about 201 00:15:16,195 --> 00:15:19,355 Speaker 1: what to do about this, what to do about Trump, 202 00:15:19,555 --> 00:15:21,915 Speaker 1: what to do about his attempt to strangle this nation, 203 00:15:22,195 --> 00:15:25,195 Speaker 1: I would suggest it is time to read and reread 204 00:15:25,715 --> 00:15:30,555 Speaker 1: and reread again the Declaration of Independence and think in 205 00:15:31,075 --> 00:15:35,795 Speaker 1: terms that Jefferson thought big picture, not how are we 206 00:15:35,875 --> 00:15:39,235 Speaker 1: going to get Chuck Schumer reelected? Or how are we 207 00:15:39,275 --> 00:15:43,035 Speaker 1: going to get Chuck Schumer not reelected? Not those things. 208 00:15:43,355 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: Think for time how Jefferson thought, Because there are a 209 00:15:51,875 --> 00:15:55,275 Speaker 1: lot of reasons to wonder what the hell the founding 210 00:15:55,315 --> 00:15:59,835 Speaker 1: fathers meant exactly, or how they could have made the 211 00:15:59,875 --> 00:16:04,315 Speaker 1: Second Amendment so vague and mean ownership of guns without 212 00:16:04,395 --> 00:16:08,275 Speaker 1: using the word own. There are a lot of questions 213 00:16:08,315 --> 00:16:10,755 Speaker 1: about what they meant, and what Jefferson felt, and how 214 00:16:10,795 --> 00:16:13,475 Speaker 1: Adams thought about this, and what was coming out of 215 00:16:13,475 --> 00:16:18,395 Speaker 1: Button Gwinnett, or how we should now adapt or adjust 216 00:16:18,435 --> 00:16:21,155 Speaker 1: their words to two and a half centuries later. But 217 00:16:21,675 --> 00:16:27,635 Speaker 1: almost none of what I read you needs improvement or explanation. 218 00:16:31,595 --> 00:16:33,795 Speaker 1: So let me just add one more thing about this. 219 00:16:35,875 --> 00:16:38,795 Speaker 1: For the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance 220 00:16:38,835 --> 00:16:42,475 Speaker 1: on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to 221 00:16:42,515 --> 00:16:47,835 Speaker 1: each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. 222 00:17:10,315 --> 00:17:13,475 Speaker 1: I have to confess thirty two out of the forty 223 00:17:13,595 --> 00:17:18,675 Speaker 1: crimes of King George the third. I'm impressed only thirty 224 00:17:18,715 --> 00:17:23,995 Speaker 1: two out of forty so far. The next one might 225 00:17:24,035 --> 00:17:27,075 Speaker 1: be the original sin which the British Parliament was accused 226 00:17:27,115 --> 00:17:31,995 Speaker 1: of taxation without representation, Trump claiming some right that must 227 00:17:31,995 --> 00:17:34,235 Speaker 1: have been granted to him while he slept by the 228 00:17:34,275 --> 00:17:38,675 Speaker 1: ghost of Jacob Marley, to simply stop sending federal funds 229 00:17:38,675 --> 00:17:42,995 Speaker 1: to any state with a sanctuary city, effective February first. 230 00:17:43,755 --> 00:17:45,835 Speaker 1: They still have not explained to Trump, or at least 231 00:17:45,835 --> 00:17:49,635 Speaker 1: to the Maga idiocracy, what would happen to the Trump 232 00:17:49,715 --> 00:17:54,315 Speaker 1: dictatorship if the Blue state governors really did cut off 233 00:17:54,435 --> 00:17:58,395 Speaker 1: funds to the federal government. But you would hear the 234 00:17:58,435 --> 00:18:04,275 Speaker 1: word starvation within two months if you're Trump's size. Three months, 235 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:08,675 Speaker 1: Trump continues to bid to expand his King George Mania 236 00:18:08,755 --> 00:18:12,475 Speaker 1: Recreation Crime thirty four might have unfolded at the home 237 00:18:12,715 --> 00:18:16,195 Speaker 1: of a Washington Post reporter yesterday who was there when 238 00:18:16,235 --> 00:18:20,195 Speaker 1: the FBI raided it, seizing her electronics and looking for 239 00:18:20,315 --> 00:18:23,995 Speaker 1: incriminating evidence against one of her sources, and of course 240 00:18:24,075 --> 00:18:28,195 Speaker 1: also looking for ex Deputy director Dan Bongino's hair. The 241 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:31,835 Speaker 1: junta says she is not a prosecution target, the alleged 242 00:18:31,915 --> 00:18:36,155 Speaker 1: leaker is. The raid still is unprecedented. The Post made 243 00:18:36,195 --> 00:18:38,635 Speaker 1: all the right noises about the First Amendment, but not 244 00:18:38,755 --> 00:18:43,595 Speaker 1: owner Jeff anything for money or plastic surgery Bezos. My 245 00:18:43,755 --> 00:18:46,835 Speaker 1: own sources say the Feds were directed to the reporter's 246 00:18:46,875 --> 00:18:52,635 Speaker 1: home by a source identified only as Bef Jazos. The 247 00:18:52,675 --> 00:18:56,355 Speaker 1: slandering of the late Renee Good continues now from Ice 248 00:18:56,435 --> 00:19:02,555 Speaker 1: headquarters in the Chancellery, where Economy Size Commander Bovine Bovino. 249 00:19:02,995 --> 00:19:08,675 Speaker 1: Bovine Bovino called for quote hats off for her murderer. 250 00:19:09,115 --> 00:19:11,835 Speaker 1: Now comes the claim that the shooter, Jonathan Ross, has 251 00:19:11,915 --> 00:19:17,675 Speaker 1: suffered internal bleeding, which they have apparently discovered a week later. 252 00:19:18,795 --> 00:19:21,275 Speaker 1: The next story will be that Ross has actually been 253 00:19:21,395 --> 00:19:25,875 Speaker 1: dead all this time, but he got better one of 254 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:29,315 Speaker 1: the crimes already covered by the Declaration of Independence was 255 00:19:29,355 --> 00:19:33,075 Speaker 1: cutting off immigration here. Yes, that's right. The founding fathers 256 00:19:33,075 --> 00:19:37,435 Speaker 1: were pro immigration. No more visas for people from seventy 257 00:19:37,475 --> 00:19:40,155 Speaker 1: five countries which are now known and this is an 258 00:19:40,155 --> 00:19:42,995 Speaker 1: insider professional term, so I hope the jargon is not 259 00:19:43,115 --> 00:19:46,475 Speaker 1: too unsettling. Seventy five countries that will now be known 260 00:19:46,555 --> 00:19:56,515 Speaker 1: as quote scapegoats unquote like Somalia, Brazil, Colombia, Brazil, Colombia, Yes, 261 00:19:57,235 --> 00:20:03,755 Speaker 1: and Egypt, Ghana, Haiti, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Uruguay 262 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:08,915 Speaker 1: and Uzbeka, all of whom have teams playing in Soccer's 263 00:20:08,995 --> 00:20:12,955 Speaker 1: World Cup starting here in North America in June, starting 264 00:20:12,995 --> 00:20:16,875 Speaker 1: in the US in La on June twelfth, Paraguay versus 265 00:20:16,955 --> 00:20:26,275 Speaker 1: the US. But no visas for Brazil, Columbia, Egypt, Gana, Haiti, Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Senegal, Tunisia, Uruguay, 266 00:20:26,315 --> 00:20:31,595 Speaker 1: and Uzbekistan. No visas welcome to America except you, guys, 267 00:20:32,515 --> 00:20:36,235 Speaker 1: dear free world. A reminder, please boycott the World Cup 268 00:20:36,275 --> 00:20:38,995 Speaker 1: matches here in the US. This is now a rogue, 269 00:20:39,275 --> 00:20:45,435 Speaker 1: extra legal, xenophobic, unreliable, gratuitously violent militaristic, anti foreigner government 270 00:20:45,715 --> 00:20:52,235 Speaker 1: that disappears people stay safe, and I'm not expecting to 271 00:20:52,275 --> 00:20:55,235 Speaker 1: see wall to wall on this from Fox News. When 272 00:20:55,275 --> 00:20:59,315 Speaker 1: Republicans seized control of the Department of Homeland Security now 273 00:20:59,435 --> 00:21:03,555 Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security and Botox, they installed a 274 00:21:03,715 --> 00:21:08,035 Speaker 1: verification tool in the computers in hopes of finding millions 275 00:21:08,035 --> 00:21:12,035 Speaker 1: of illegal votes cast by undocumented immigrants in the twenty 276 00:21:12,035 --> 00:21:16,715 Speaker 1: twenty four presidential election. Well, they found some ten thousand 277 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:21,555 Speaker 1: cases which were referred for further investigation. Ten thousand cases 278 00:21:22,195 --> 00:21:27,315 Speaker 1: out of forty nine million, five hundred thousand votes. That's 279 00:21:27,715 --> 00:21:33,435 Speaker 1: two tenths of one percent. There is a caveat that 280 00:21:33,635 --> 00:21:38,555 Speaker 1: ten thousand figure. It might be high. The verification tool 281 00:21:38,675 --> 00:21:41,395 Speaker 1: is more tool than it is verification. It has turned 282 00:21:41,475 --> 00:21:45,235 Speaker 1: up a lot of citizens misidentified as ineligible voters. A 283 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:49,275 Speaker 1: more likely number a better ratio was proudly released by 284 00:21:49,315 --> 00:21:54,555 Speaker 1: Florida Republican elections supervisor Leah Valenti, who uploaded one hundred 285 00:21:54,595 --> 00:21:57,915 Speaker 1: and seventy six thousand suspicious voter names in her state 286 00:21:57,955 --> 00:22:05,195 Speaker 1: and found yes illegal, improper, fraudulent, unregistered immigrant votes, fifteen 287 00:22:05,275 --> 00:22:10,915 Speaker 1: of them one to five fifteen votes out of one 288 00:22:10,955 --> 00:22:23,195 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six thousand, speaking of ridiculously tiny numbers. 289 00:22:23,235 --> 00:22:25,475 Speaker 1: At this rate, the CBS Evening News will have to 290 00:22:25,475 --> 00:22:28,155 Speaker 1: be moved off the TV network to a platform more 291 00:22:28,195 --> 00:22:31,875 Speaker 1: appropriate to the size of its audience, like, uh, just 292 00:22:32,075 --> 00:22:36,315 Speaker 1: text it to people. Ooh, that CBS Evening News just 293 00:22:36,355 --> 00:22:41,315 Speaker 1: came in on my phone. It's eighteen seconds long. It's 294 00:22:41,355 --> 00:22:44,915 Speaker 1: not just an attempt to appease a dictator, it's an 295 00:22:45,075 --> 00:22:50,235 Speaker 1: unwatchable attempt to appease a dictator. It is possible, just 296 00:22:50,315 --> 00:22:52,315 Speaker 1: from the evidence of what's been on the air so far, 297 00:22:52,515 --> 00:22:55,355 Speaker 1: that Barry Weiss is actually a plant of some kind, 298 00:22:55,675 --> 00:22:58,795 Speaker 1: and that she selected Tony Diacopple to make the people 299 00:22:58,875 --> 00:23:03,955 Speaker 1: on Mike Lindell TV feel better about themselves. Compared to 300 00:23:03,995 --> 00:23:06,835 Speaker 1: the CBS RA ratings one year ago, the CBS Evening 301 00:23:06,875 --> 00:23:10,755 Speaker 1: News is down twenty three percent in total audience and 302 00:23:10,915 --> 00:23:13,675 Speaker 1: twenty three percent in the twenty five to fifty four 303 00:23:13,795 --> 00:23:17,635 Speaker 1: ad demo. One quarter of viewers are gone as of 304 00:23:17,755 --> 00:23:23,315 Speaker 1: day seven. The other networks, it's closer to a ten 305 00:23:23,355 --> 00:23:28,915 Speaker 1: percent drop. But to add insult to insult, Anchorman Ducoppel 306 00:23:29,035 --> 00:23:32,795 Speaker 1: did the now traditional massage interview with Trump and had 307 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:34,595 Speaker 1: to stand there as Trump told him that if it 308 00:23:34,595 --> 00:23:37,595 Speaker 1: weren't for him, Trump quote, you wouldn't have this job. 309 00:23:37,755 --> 00:23:40,355 Speaker 1: You wouldn't have this job. Certainly, whatever the hell they're 310 00:23:40,395 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: paying you. And here's another number. According to the website 311 00:23:45,315 --> 00:23:50,195 Speaker 1: Awful Announcing, fake presidential candidate stalking Horse Jill Stein twenty 312 00:23:50,235 --> 00:23:53,395 Speaker 1: twenty eight version, Steven A. Shitt responded to critics of 313 00:23:53,395 --> 00:23:56,755 Speaker 1: his support for the murder of Renee Goodbye Ice. Critics, 314 00:23:56,795 --> 00:24:00,995 Speaker 1: including me, Awful Announcing and The New York Post responded 315 00:24:01,035 --> 00:24:04,675 Speaker 1: to them with a diet tribe that lasted thirty eight minutes. 316 00:24:07,275 --> 00:24:10,595 Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith thirty eight minutes. My god, what made 317 00:24:10,635 --> 00:24:15,075 Speaker 1: him so succinct? One of his responses to my claim 318 00:24:15,115 --> 00:24:17,275 Speaker 1: that he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, 319 00:24:18,195 --> 00:24:23,035 Speaker 1: and he, of course was defending murder of citizens unarmed. 320 00:24:24,515 --> 00:24:27,355 Speaker 1: One of his responses was to claim, I'm just jealous 321 00:24:27,395 --> 00:24:30,675 Speaker 1: of his current success at ESPN, to which I would 322 00:24:30,675 --> 00:24:35,715 Speaker 1: note I retired from ESPN five and a half years ago. 323 00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:40,155 Speaker 1: I'm actually a Disney retiree. I'm actually an ESPN retiree, 324 00:24:40,515 --> 00:24:45,275 Speaker 1: and I have mail addressed to me. As a Disney retiree, 325 00:24:46,035 --> 00:24:51,355 Speaker 1: I get retirement money. So when he succeeds I make 326 00:24:51,515 --> 00:24:55,955 Speaker 1: money off stephen A. Smith could have googled that. Steve 327 00:24:57,115 --> 00:24:58,795 Speaker 1: As to his response to my claim that he is 328 00:24:58,835 --> 00:25:01,435 Speaker 1: pretending to be a Democrat and a liberal and is 329 00:25:01,475 --> 00:25:03,715 Speaker 1: in fact being set up as a fake third party 330 00:25:03,755 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: candidate lostne his response may have been unintentional by way 331 00:25:08,195 --> 00:25:12,075 Speaker 1: of a Freudian slip. Reviewing the Houston Texans playoff win 332 00:25:12,115 --> 00:25:15,635 Speaker 1: over Pittsburgh and the key role played by Houston's Christian Kirk, 333 00:25:15,915 --> 00:25:22,755 Speaker 1: Smith said quote, Smith said quote, we saw Charlie Kirk 334 00:25:23,275 --> 00:25:29,355 Speaker 1: catch eight receptions for one hundred and forty four yards. 335 00:25:30,435 --> 00:25:36,675 Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk, Jesus H. Christ Now now ESPN having one 336 00:25:36,675 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: of your marquee guys doubling as a political idiot who 337 00:25:40,995 --> 00:25:46,035 Speaker 1: doesn't know his stephen A from his elbow. This is 338 00:25:46,155 --> 00:25:51,755 Speaker 1: going perfectly for you. Also of interest here, oh, another 339 00:25:51,795 --> 00:25:54,635 Speaker 1: one of my favorites. Of course, Bill Maher didn't like 340 00:25:54,755 --> 00:25:58,995 Speaker 1: the joke about him at the Golden Globes, because when 341 00:25:59,075 --> 00:26:02,075 Speaker 1: was the last time Bill Maher encountered an actual joke? 342 00:26:03,115 --> 00:26:05,475 Speaker 1: Worst Person's next this discountdown. 343 00:26:07,555 --> 00:26:09,995 Speaker 2: Among his other credits, Moe used to host a TV 344 00:26:10,115 --> 00:26:15,235 Speaker 2: show called Things I Hate About You. I'm sure, I've 345 00:26:15,275 --> 00:26:20,075 Speaker 2: seen that program, only I believe it's now called Countdown, 346 00:26:20,115 --> 00:26:21,395 Speaker 2: with Keith Oberman. 347 00:26:43,595 --> 00:26:46,515 Speaker 1: Still ahead. On this all new edition of Countdown. Trump 348 00:26:46,635 --> 00:26:50,035 Speaker 1: flips the bird at a worker at a Ford plant, 349 00:26:50,595 --> 00:26:54,235 Speaker 1: and the far right twists itself into pretzels trying to 350 00:26:54,275 --> 00:26:59,115 Speaker 1: congratulate him. Laura Ingram tried to make a joke. I 351 00:26:59,235 --> 00:27:05,275 Speaker 1: hope Bill was a thunderbarried as a to what they 352 00:27:05,355 --> 00:27:07,875 Speaker 1: ordinarily do, which is to make up stories about gestures 353 00:27:08,115 --> 00:27:11,715 Speaker 1: made by left wing figures like Tom Hanks at the 354 00:27:11,835 --> 00:27:14,835 Speaker 1: con Film Festival that weren't at all disparaging, but they 355 00:27:14,875 --> 00:27:17,235 Speaker 1: tried to make them out as such, and in turn 356 00:27:17,275 --> 00:27:19,235 Speaker 1: that reminded me of the saga of the day that 357 00:27:19,275 --> 00:27:24,395 Speaker 1: Hanks and Affleck and Damon and I all met and 358 00:27:24,475 --> 00:27:28,595 Speaker 1: the three of them broke my cummerbund at the Oscars 359 00:27:29,555 --> 00:27:32,035 Speaker 1: in front of people. First. Believe it or not, there's 360 00:27:32,035 --> 00:27:34,195 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about, the roundup of 361 00:27:34,235 --> 00:27:37,595 Speaker 1: the mis grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who 362 00:27:37,595 --> 00:27:45,115 Speaker 1: constitute today's other worst persons in the world, the brons worse. 363 00:27:46,235 --> 00:27:52,515 Speaker 1: Speaking of bad jokes, Bill Maher, Oh, he's back, I'm 364 00:27:52,595 --> 00:27:56,395 Speaker 1: way behind temporarily here, but I wasn't watching. It was 365 00:27:56,435 --> 00:28:00,035 Speaker 1: the Golden Globes, and Bill Maher was nominated for one 366 00:28:00,075 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: of them, So it was somebody for whom I did 367 00:28:01,715 --> 00:28:05,435 Speaker 1: not know. They gave out awards only noise canceling headphones. 368 00:28:05,875 --> 00:28:08,515 Speaker 1: Whose show I don't watch? Who is appearing on an 369 00:28:08,555 --> 00:28:14,355 Speaker 1: award show I don't watch? Anyway? Presenter Wanda Sykes, who's cool, 370 00:28:14,755 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: apparently shared my assessment of my college contemporary looking at 371 00:28:18,395 --> 00:28:21,275 Speaker 1: mar Somehow she found him out there in the crowd, 372 00:28:21,315 --> 00:28:24,515 Speaker 1: all five six of him. Wanda said, quote, you give 373 00:28:24,595 --> 00:28:27,435 Speaker 1: us so much, but I would love a little less, 374 00:28:28,195 --> 00:28:35,515 Speaker 1: just try less. A great joke, simple, punchy, factually correct, 375 00:28:35,755 --> 00:28:37,955 Speaker 1: and an A plus to the director of the program, 376 00:28:38,035 --> 00:28:43,195 Speaker 1: who caught Bill Maher's reaction in real time. Bill was 377 00:28:43,275 --> 00:28:48,235 Speaker 1: not happy. Bill made his sour face. He made that 378 00:28:48,315 --> 00:28:50,315 Speaker 1: face of his like a duck that has just had 379 00:28:50,355 --> 00:28:54,195 Speaker 1: Einstein's theory of relativity explained to it. Well, it's understandable 380 00:28:54,195 --> 00:28:58,435 Speaker 1: he didn't get or appreciate Wanda's joke. Bill Maher is 381 00:28:58,475 --> 00:29:01,675 Speaker 1: not used to jokes. After all, all he has every 382 00:29:01,715 --> 00:29:04,275 Speaker 1: week is the script from his own show, and there's 383 00:29:04,275 --> 00:29:08,995 Speaker 1: certainly aren't any jokes in that the runner up, Congresswoman 384 00:29:09,155 --> 00:29:12,955 Speaker 1: sherry Lynn Biggs of the South Carolina third Future Bill 385 00:29:13,035 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: maher guest. And I'm not full time in this anymore. 386 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:19,715 Speaker 1: I'll confess to that. But I can still name couple 387 00:29:19,915 --> 00:29:22,755 Speaker 1: one hundred members of the House. Give me enough time, 388 00:29:22,795 --> 00:29:26,195 Speaker 1: I might get seventy five percent of them. I swear. 389 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:30,235 Speaker 1: Until my clip came across the transom, I had never 390 00:29:30,315 --> 00:29:34,355 Speaker 1: heard of her. She may be not necessarily the dumbest 391 00:29:34,435 --> 00:29:38,475 Speaker 1: there's so much competition, but the dumbest sounding member of 392 00:29:38,555 --> 00:29:42,235 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. She makes James Comer sound like 393 00:29:42,395 --> 00:29:47,635 Speaker 1: James Earl Jones. She's been in office a year. I've 394 00:29:47,675 --> 00:29:50,355 Speaker 1: never heard of her. I know about Andy Biggs. He's 395 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:55,395 Speaker 1: the nut, He's the non American nut. This is a 396 00:29:55,435 --> 00:29:58,995 Speaker 1: different Bigs. This is I think it's a different Bigs. 397 00:29:58,995 --> 00:30:02,235 Speaker 1: It's a woman. She has her BA from the Carolina 398 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:05,835 Speaker 1: College of Biblical Studies, and she was born in Mississippi. 399 00:30:06,075 --> 00:30:10,355 Speaker 1: But apparently she's never read the Constitution. No man, the 400 00:30:10,355 --> 00:30:15,395 Speaker 1: Constitution of the United States of America. Google it. I 401 00:30:15,435 --> 00:30:18,395 Speaker 1: don't know the name of the Newsmax anchor in this 402 00:30:18,435 --> 00:30:21,515 Speaker 1: clip who's desperately trying to read the question that she's 403 00:30:21,515 --> 00:30:24,475 Speaker 1: been handed by the channel's director of propaganda. I mean, 404 00:30:24,515 --> 00:30:27,555 Speaker 1: this is a pre written question. I have had pre 405 00:30:27,635 --> 00:30:30,795 Speaker 1: written questions on my teleprompter, and you learn how to 406 00:30:30,795 --> 00:30:33,435 Speaker 1: make it sound ad libbed. You know, if you're tired, 407 00:30:33,515 --> 00:30:35,155 Speaker 1: or you're not sure what you're going to ask, or 408 00:30:35,155 --> 00:30:37,555 Speaker 1: it's a late ad of a guest, or somebody else 409 00:30:37,595 --> 00:30:39,875 Speaker 1: has breaking news they want you to ask a question about. 410 00:30:39,915 --> 00:30:41,555 Speaker 1: You can put it up on the prompter, but you 411 00:30:41,675 --> 00:30:44,835 Speaker 1: must make an effort to not make it sound like 412 00:30:44,915 --> 00:30:49,755 Speaker 1: you are reading it. She didn't do that. It's possible 413 00:30:49,755 --> 00:30:54,075 Speaker 1: this woman is smart enough to appear anonymously. Anyway. You'll 414 00:30:54,115 --> 00:30:57,355 Speaker 1: hear her, and then you'll hear Congresswoman Biggs, and you 415 00:30:57,475 --> 00:30:59,915 Speaker 1: be the judge if she is in fact the dumbest 416 00:30:59,915 --> 00:31:01,435 Speaker 1: sounding member of Congress. 417 00:31:01,995 --> 00:31:05,875 Speaker 3: So as more and more video as now being revealed online, 418 00:31:05,915 --> 00:31:08,315 Speaker 3: like the one we're going to show on our screen, 419 00:31:08,795 --> 00:31:11,755 Speaker 3: you can see the driver and then her wife harassing 420 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:16,915 Speaker 3: and stalking ICE agents throughout the entire day, basically egging 421 00:31:16,955 --> 00:31:18,835 Speaker 3: them on. And then at the same time you've got 422 00:31:18,915 --> 00:31:22,195 Speaker 3: Mayor Jacob Fry and Governor Tim Wallas inflaming the situation 423 00:31:22,715 --> 00:31:26,795 Speaker 3: once again by demonizing Ice I'm sorry, but do you 424 00:31:26,795 --> 00:31:30,115 Speaker 3: think it's long past do for these Democrat officials to 425 00:31:30,155 --> 00:31:34,515 Speaker 3: be charged for clearly inciting violence against our federal agents. 426 00:31:34,555 --> 00:31:36,715 Speaker 3: I mean, is there something that Congress can do to 427 00:31:36,755 --> 00:31:37,795 Speaker 3: hold these people accountable? 428 00:31:39,035 --> 00:31:41,195 Speaker 4: Well, I certainly hope so, and I hope that'll be 429 00:31:41,315 --> 00:31:45,875 Speaker 4: on the table for discussion this week as we get 430 00:31:45,915 --> 00:31:50,555 Speaker 4: back to work. But you know, in South Carolina, in 431 00:31:50,595 --> 00:31:54,395 Speaker 4: the third District, we support our law enforcement, but we 432 00:31:54,515 --> 00:31:59,115 Speaker 4: stand behind them. And I think it's appalling that these 433 00:31:59,195 --> 00:32:02,075 Speaker 4: men and women are having to go to work every day, 434 00:32:02,355 --> 00:32:05,075 Speaker 4: put their lives on the line, leave their fame lease, 435 00:32:05,475 --> 00:32:07,955 Speaker 4: and have to deal with this kind of rhetoric. The 436 00:32:08,115 --> 00:32:12,315 Speaker 4: far left is just using anything they can get to 437 00:32:12,395 --> 00:32:16,355 Speaker 4: push violence. And when you have a member of Congress 438 00:32:16,875 --> 00:32:23,475 Speaker 4: like Congresswoman Omar that shows up unannounced at an ICE facility, 439 00:32:23,755 --> 00:32:28,155 Speaker 4: it's only causing chaos and more problems. And I think 440 00:32:28,355 --> 00:32:31,835 Speaker 4: it's un American. I think if you don't love this country, 441 00:32:31,915 --> 00:32:34,755 Speaker 4: you shouldn't be here, and you certainly shouldn't be a 442 00:32:34,755 --> 00:32:35,675 Speaker 4: member of Congress. 443 00:32:35,995 --> 00:32:42,355 Speaker 1: So ma'am, you're resigning. Congress should somehow arrest Governor Wallace 444 00:32:42,435 --> 00:32:46,795 Speaker 1: and Mayor Fry and Congresswoman Omar for inspiring Mayo Land. 445 00:32:48,275 --> 00:32:50,475 Speaker 1: Holy cow. I mean, I know it's a conservative area, 446 00:32:50,475 --> 00:32:53,235 Speaker 1: but who did we run against her? And when we 447 00:32:53,315 --> 00:32:57,315 Speaker 1: ran them, was that person actually still alive? We found 448 00:32:57,355 --> 00:33:00,835 Speaker 1: the smartest person in our county to run for Congress, 449 00:33:03,155 --> 00:33:06,795 Speaker 1: but the winner the world. No more regional insult. Oh no, 450 00:33:06,835 --> 00:33:09,235 Speaker 1: there's a regional insult coming up. In about two seconds, 451 00:33:09,315 --> 00:33:13,035 Speaker 1: a guy named David Marcus, writing on Fox's website, it's 452 00:33:13,035 --> 00:33:15,795 Speaker 1: the usual no evidence that there's a sixth grade diploma 453 00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:19,435 Speaker 1: involved here, fascism stuff from a guy who actually reveals 454 00:33:19,475 --> 00:33:22,795 Speaker 1: as if it were something to boast about that he's 455 00:33:22,795 --> 00:33:26,155 Speaker 1: from West Virginia. Quote. There seems to be a bit 456 00:33:26,195 --> 00:33:29,315 Speaker 1: of confusion in our society of lege about what civil 457 00:33:29,435 --> 00:33:33,315 Speaker 1: disobedience is and what it isn't. Last week, this very 458 00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:37,915 Speaker 1: confusion got thirty seven year old Renee Good killed. No, 459 00:33:37,995 --> 00:33:42,195 Speaker 1: actually that was Jonathan Ross got her killed. And Trump 460 00:33:42,955 --> 00:33:48,915 Speaker 1: and the ICE director and Commander Bovine and the fascists 461 00:33:48,995 --> 00:33:53,235 Speaker 1: and MAGA and Fox News and that's what got Renee 462 00:33:53,275 --> 00:33:57,235 Speaker 1: Good killed. That and the sadism of the Republican Party, 463 00:33:57,275 --> 00:34:00,315 Speaker 1: that's what that's not. But this was followed by an 464 00:34:00,355 --> 00:34:03,915 Speaker 1: argument that civil disobedience is when you are civil to 465 00:34:04,115 --> 00:34:07,795 Speaker 1: police and you know the mass murderous gangs pretending to 466 00:34:07,835 --> 00:34:11,355 Speaker 1: be police and the police and the murderers don't feel 467 00:34:11,435 --> 00:34:14,195 Speaker 1: threatened or at risk. That's what the main bos sybyl 468 00:34:15,275 --> 00:34:18,515 Speaker 1: that Renee Good deserved to be shot because Marcus says, 469 00:34:18,555 --> 00:34:21,635 Speaker 1: she tried to avoid arrest. She made it difficult for 470 00:34:21,675 --> 00:34:24,995 Speaker 1: these people who are trying to install a dictatorship in 471 00:34:25,035 --> 00:34:28,355 Speaker 1: the United States. But that is not even why mister 472 00:34:28,395 --> 00:34:32,555 Speaker 1: Marcus is our winner. That's just boilerplate trump ass kissing. 473 00:34:33,275 --> 00:34:39,835 Speaker 1: Why is Marcus here for this priceless sentence? You may 474 00:34:39,915 --> 00:34:45,195 Speaker 1: want to write this down quote. What we're seeing across 475 00:34:45,275 --> 00:34:51,755 Speaker 1: the country is organized gangs of wine moms use Antifa 476 00:34:51,915 --> 00:34:57,035 Speaker 1: tactics to harris and impede immigration and customs enforcement agents. 477 00:34:58,835 --> 00:35:00,635 Speaker 5: Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait. 478 00:35:01,035 --> 00:35:07,275 Speaker 5: There are organized gangs of wine moms Antifa wine moms. 479 00:35:07,315 --> 00:35:10,355 Speaker 5: What are they secretly funded by Ernest and Julio Gallo? 480 00:35:10,995 --> 00:35:12,595 Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, oh my god. Where 481 00:35:12,595 --> 00:35:17,675 Speaker 1: can I meet them wine mom gangs? David, I am 482 00:35:17,835 --> 00:35:24,195 Speaker 1: terrified of roving organized gangs of wine moms. Kill the 483 00:35:24,275 --> 00:35:29,355 Speaker 1: wine moms, kill the wine moms Now, Marcus of Fox 484 00:35:29,475 --> 00:35:40,475 Speaker 1: News Today's worst person in the World, shoot the number 485 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:44,035 Speaker 1: one story on the countdown, and somebody shouts pedophile protector 486 00:35:44,115 --> 00:35:48,235 Speaker 1: at Trump at a Ford plant day before yesterday, that 487 00:35:48,435 --> 00:35:50,915 Speaker 1: he was of course trying to take credit for, and 488 00:35:50,955 --> 00:35:54,475 Speaker 1: he shoots them the bird, and the left says, yeah, 489 00:35:54,555 --> 00:35:56,835 Speaker 1: here we go again, all class, all the time, And 490 00:35:56,915 --> 00:36:00,395 Speaker 1: the right says, we're number one, We're number one, MRCA, 491 00:36:01,035 --> 00:36:04,595 Speaker 1: And I say, well, at least his brain de tear 492 00:36:05,115 --> 00:36:07,915 Speaker 1: hasn't gone so far that he's forgotten how to count 493 00:36:07,995 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: to one. You know me, I'm mister half glass full, 494 00:36:14,915 --> 00:36:24,075 Speaker 1: mister optimism, mister positive. But seeing this video from like 495 00:36:24,155 --> 00:36:27,235 Speaker 1: thirteen different angles, each of them exclusive, I was also 496 00:36:27,275 --> 00:36:30,155 Speaker 1: thinking of the number of times the right wing media 497 00:36:30,235 --> 00:36:34,755 Speaker 1: has simply made up narratives about celebrities or Democratic politicians 498 00:36:34,875 --> 00:36:38,675 Speaker 1: or just anybody who doesn't support the dictatorship in similar 499 00:36:38,675 --> 00:36:44,235 Speaker 1: scenarios in public making a gesture there was a time 500 00:36:44,315 --> 00:36:49,595 Speaker 1: with my friend Tom Hanks at con they also could have. 501 00:36:50,595 --> 00:36:54,555 Speaker 1: This reminded me of made up a similar story, a 502 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:59,395 Speaker 1: similar fake timeline about Tom Hanks and me at the 503 00:36:59,435 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: Oscars the day we met. They were everywhere photos and 504 00:37:05,075 --> 00:37:07,675 Speaker 1: of what certainly looked from a distance like actor Tom 505 00:37:07,715 --> 00:37:12,355 Speaker 1: Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson yelling at, maybe even berating, 506 00:37:12,795 --> 00:37:16,355 Speaker 1: an unidentified random staffer on the red carpet at the 507 00:37:16,355 --> 00:37:20,675 Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Con Film Festival in France while promoting 508 00:37:20,715 --> 00:37:26,115 Speaker 1: his new movie Asteroid City. At various intervals, Hanks seems 509 00:37:26,155 --> 00:37:29,475 Speaker 1: to have a fist clenched, then seems to be jabbing 510 00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:33,315 Speaker 1: his forefinger at the man. Throughout he appeared to wear 511 00:37:33,355 --> 00:37:37,995 Speaker 1: a look of disbelief verging on anger. European newspapers were 512 00:37:38,035 --> 00:37:41,955 Speaker 1: filled for two days with stories about Tom Hanks yells 513 00:37:41,995 --> 00:37:46,155 Speaker 1: at Con and Tom Hanks yells at staffer and Tom 514 00:37:46,195 --> 00:37:49,915 Speaker 1: Hanks skulls con staffer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. 515 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:53,075 Speaker 1: And then his wife Rita spoke up, Then the staffer, 516 00:37:53,435 --> 00:37:57,395 Speaker 1: Vincent Chapelaine, spoke up. Then the sound on the video 517 00:37:58,035 --> 00:38:00,835 Speaker 1: spoke up louder than either of them. Tom Hanks wasn't 518 00:38:00,835 --> 00:38:03,995 Speaker 1: scolding anybody, but he was yelling because he could not 519 00:38:04,155 --> 00:38:09,675 Speaker 1: hear him or this vincente Chaplaine or anything else, because 520 00:38:09,755 --> 00:38:14,955 Speaker 1: the crowd around the red carpet was too loud. The 521 00:38:14,995 --> 00:38:18,355 Speaker 1: clenched hand Tom Hanks clenched it while he was yelling, 522 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:23,355 Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Everybody's screaming the jabbing forefinger. It 523 00:38:23,435 --> 00:38:25,715 Speaker 1: went with where are we supposed to go? Are we 524 00:38:25,715 --> 00:38:27,875 Speaker 1: supposed to go back to the start of the red carpet? 525 00:38:28,355 --> 00:38:32,035 Speaker 1: Just point at where you want us to go? And 526 00:38:32,115 --> 00:38:36,035 Speaker 1: the scolding of the random staffer. Vince A Chapelaine is 527 00:38:36,075 --> 00:38:39,435 Speaker 1: the manager of the Red Carpet at Cohn, has been 528 00:38:39,515 --> 00:38:42,675 Speaker 1: for ten years. The only thing he was taking offense 529 00:38:42,715 --> 00:38:46,795 Speaker 1: at was people presuming he was just security rather than management. 530 00:38:47,635 --> 00:38:53,795 Speaker 1: These are the French con you hear me. Now, this 531 00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:56,955 Speaker 1: is an unusual story to include here, and I've gone 532 00:38:57,035 --> 00:39:00,395 Speaker 1: into unusual detail about it because the moment I saw 533 00:39:00,435 --> 00:39:03,675 Speaker 1: this story from Cohn, I didn't have mere deja vu, 534 00:39:04,795 --> 00:39:11,395 Speaker 1: full flashback, a full out of body experience time travel. 535 00:39:12,195 --> 00:39:15,915 Speaker 1: I was propelled back to March twenty first, nineteen ninety nine, 536 00:39:16,395 --> 00:39:19,235 Speaker 1: where a similar overhead view of Tom Hanks on a 537 00:39:19,275 --> 00:39:24,115 Speaker 1: red carpet, without any audio, without any context, would have 538 00:39:24,195 --> 00:39:27,155 Speaker 1: presented you a picture of first Tom Hanks and then 539 00:39:27,235 --> 00:39:30,515 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks, with the assistance of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, 540 00:39:31,155 --> 00:39:35,235 Speaker 1: assaulting a guy literally pulling him over the hedges that 541 00:39:35,395 --> 00:39:39,755 Speaker 1: served as the security boundary, damaging the guy's clothing, and 542 00:39:39,795 --> 00:39:43,515 Speaker 1: then basically throwing him back over the hedges, and all 543 00:39:43,595 --> 00:39:47,995 Speaker 1: this took place on a red carpet at the Oscars. 544 00:39:50,075 --> 00:39:54,155 Speaker 1: The guy was me In nineteen ninety nine. I had 545 00:39:54,235 --> 00:39:57,155 Speaker 1: just started what began as a pretty good gig. Fox 546 00:39:57,315 --> 00:40:00,555 Speaker 1: Sports had launched its own version of ESPN and its 547 00:40:00,595 --> 00:40:03,155 Speaker 1: own version of SportsCenter, and it had thrown way too 548 00:40:03,235 --> 00:40:05,755 Speaker 1: much money at me, and it bought me out of 549 00:40:05,795 --> 00:40:09,355 Speaker 1: my contract at MSNBC, where I was desperately unhappy doing 550 00:40:09,395 --> 00:40:13,155 Speaker 1: the Clinton Lewinsky story every hour on the hour, and 551 00:40:13,235 --> 00:40:15,155 Speaker 1: they got me to move back to Los Angeles and 552 00:40:15,195 --> 00:40:17,755 Speaker 1: anchor their version of Sports Center and all the Fox 553 00:40:17,795 --> 00:40:20,355 Speaker 1: Baseball coverage two, including the World Series in the All 554 00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:23,075 Speaker 1: Star Game, and it launched a five year plan to 555 00:40:23,115 --> 00:40:26,635 Speaker 1: give itself enough credibility to compete with the ESPN. And 556 00:40:26,835 --> 00:40:29,955 Speaker 1: I was just there to enjoy the sun, collect the 557 00:40:30,035 --> 00:40:33,955 Speaker 1: huge paycheck, and publicize the thing as often as possible 558 00:40:34,115 --> 00:40:37,155 Speaker 1: while they slowly built it up for the year two 559 00:40:37,235 --> 00:40:40,755 Speaker 1: thousand and four. As the executive who signed me said, 560 00:40:40,755 --> 00:40:44,075 Speaker 1: after we held an introductory press conference and press phone 561 00:40:44,075 --> 00:40:47,275 Speaker 1: call with about two hundred reporters. You earned about a 562 00:40:47,355 --> 00:40:51,675 Speaker 1: year of your salary just doing that call. So when 563 00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:54,235 Speaker 1: one of the editors of the Los Angeles Times called 564 00:40:54,315 --> 00:40:56,995 Speaker 1: somebody she knew in the PR department at Fox and said, 565 00:40:56,995 --> 00:40:59,915 Speaker 1: I have a crazy idea, what is Keith Olderman doing 566 00:40:59,955 --> 00:41:04,155 Speaker 1: on Oscars night? The Fox people listened. The next thing 567 00:41:04,195 --> 00:41:06,595 Speaker 1: I knew if I had that night off, I was 568 00:41:06,635 --> 00:41:08,995 Speaker 1: in a tux. I was standing the mid a sea 569 00:41:08,995 --> 00:41:12,635 Speaker 1: off photographers at the first turn of the red carpet 570 00:41:12,675 --> 00:41:17,515 Speaker 1: at the Oscars, gathering quotes from startled celebrities who expected 571 00:41:17,515 --> 00:41:21,355 Speaker 1: to see only photogs right there and not somebody asking questions, 572 00:41:21,355 --> 00:41:25,155 Speaker 1: certainly not me asking questions. I was a little startled too. 573 00:41:25,955 --> 00:41:29,355 Speaker 1: The editor, in a free Oscars phone call, explained that 574 00:41:29,355 --> 00:41:31,875 Speaker 1: this was the seventy first edition of the Oscars, and 575 00:41:31,955 --> 00:41:34,595 Speaker 1: the Times had covered the first seventy. Then they had 576 00:41:34,635 --> 00:41:36,595 Speaker 1: pretty much gotten it down to a science around the 577 00:41:36,675 --> 00:41:39,435 Speaker 1: year nineteen thirty two, and they really hadn't changed much 578 00:41:39,595 --> 00:41:44,155 Speaker 1: since then, except the photos are in color now, she mentioned. 579 00:41:44,595 --> 00:41:46,395 Speaker 1: She asked if I wanted to hear what would be 580 00:41:46,755 --> 00:41:49,515 Speaker 1: in the Times the day after the Oscars, She said, 581 00:41:49,555 --> 00:41:51,595 Speaker 1: I can recite the main story right Now I just 582 00:41:51,635 --> 00:41:53,715 Speaker 1: have to fill in the names of the winners. And 583 00:41:53,755 --> 00:41:56,835 Speaker 1: then there's the fashion review and how many daring and 584 00:41:57,035 --> 00:42:00,555 Speaker 1: outlandish and classic outfits there were. Now I'll had the 585 00:42:00,595 --> 00:42:03,635 Speaker 1: TV critic complaining about how bad the host was, Now 586 00:42:03,675 --> 00:42:06,275 Speaker 1: had the TV business guy explaining why the ratings were 587 00:42:06,275 --> 00:42:09,035 Speaker 1: so low. Then we'll have the big poll quotes from 588 00:42:09,075 --> 00:42:11,755 Speaker 1: the actors that we'll read exactly like the big poll 589 00:42:11,875 --> 00:42:15,555 Speaker 1: quotes from nineteen eighty nine or nineteen seventy nine. It 590 00:42:15,595 --> 00:42:18,475 Speaker 1: we'll have the predictive piece on which award wins will 591 00:42:18,515 --> 00:42:20,875 Speaker 1: actually help movies at the box office, and then we'll 592 00:42:20,915 --> 00:42:23,835 Speaker 1: have the predictive piece on which awards snubs will actually 593 00:42:23,915 --> 00:42:26,555 Speaker 1: hurt movies at the box office. What we need is 594 00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:31,075 Speaker 1: anything else? Can you think of anything else? Can you 595 00:42:31,075 --> 00:42:33,355 Speaker 1: think of anything you haven't read in our paper about 596 00:42:33,355 --> 00:42:37,035 Speaker 1: the Oscars. I thought for a second, I said, what 597 00:42:37,115 --> 00:42:40,275 Speaker 1: about this idea that they're now going to televise the 598 00:42:40,315 --> 00:42:43,955 Speaker 1: Red Carpet live for half an hour before the Oscars. 599 00:42:44,035 --> 00:42:47,435 Speaker 1: You're gonna have like an Oscars pregame show. I heard 600 00:42:47,475 --> 00:42:49,835 Speaker 1: somebody say, you know, maybe they could do that all day. 601 00:42:49,915 --> 00:42:53,915 Speaker 1: I mean, what if I asked everybody like like whoever 602 00:42:53,955 --> 00:42:55,715 Speaker 1: will stop to talk to me. I mean, what if 603 00:42:55,915 --> 00:42:57,835 Speaker 1: I asked them, would they think would be a good 604 00:42:57,875 --> 00:43:01,395 Speaker 1: idea to make the Oscars an all day kind of thing, 605 00:43:01,475 --> 00:43:06,315 Speaker 1: like like Super Bowl Sunday Oscar Sunday Oscar Bowl Live 606 00:43:06,395 --> 00:43:08,475 Speaker 1: starting at dawn on ABC. I mean, I could basically 607 00:43:08,515 --> 00:43:11,355 Speaker 1: write you the lead paragraph. Now, thanks for attending Oscar 608 00:43:11,435 --> 00:43:15,795 Speaker 1: Bowl one. Please ask your limo driver to tune into 609 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:23,195 Speaker 1: the postgame show with Vince Gully, Uma Thurman, and Angeline 610 00:43:23,235 --> 00:43:29,715 Speaker 1: not Angeline Edie Williams arrive home safely. The editor laughed, 611 00:43:29,795 --> 00:43:33,875 Speaker 1: had me repeat it, and wrote it down. It was 612 00:43:33,955 --> 00:43:36,795 Speaker 1: the lead of my story. So on the night of 613 00:43:36,835 --> 00:43:39,915 Speaker 1: March twenty first, nineteen ninety nine, Oscar's Night, there I 614 00:43:40,235 --> 00:43:44,155 Speaker 1: was officially a sports reporter and ex news reporter and 615 00:43:44,275 --> 00:43:47,315 Speaker 1: ex local LA sportscaster on top of everything else. There 616 00:43:47,355 --> 00:43:49,835 Speaker 1: I was at the first corner of the red carpet 617 00:43:50,155 --> 00:43:53,395 Speaker 1: in front of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, standing where one 618 00:43:53,395 --> 00:43:57,235 Speaker 1: of the eighty or so LA Times photographers should have been. 619 00:43:57,675 --> 00:43:59,915 Speaker 1: And I never found out what he thought of this idea. 620 00:44:00,555 --> 00:44:03,395 Speaker 1: And I was introducing myself to actors and actresses who 621 00:44:03,635 --> 00:44:06,795 Speaker 1: producers and other who had no idea who I was. 622 00:44:07,315 --> 00:44:11,355 Speaker 1: Helen Hunt was particularly confused and explaining why I was 623 00:44:11,355 --> 00:44:13,795 Speaker 1: there to actors and actresses who knew exactly who I was. 624 00:44:14,155 --> 00:44:18,795 Speaker 1: Kevin Costner was particularly confused. Some of them gave thoughtful 625 00:44:18,875 --> 00:44:22,155 Speaker 1: answers to my question about an all day oscars. Helen 626 00:44:22,235 --> 00:44:25,515 Speaker 1: Hunt actually thought about it and said something interesting. Costner 627 00:44:25,555 --> 00:44:28,195 Speaker 1: said he would never watch anything like that instead of 628 00:44:28,235 --> 00:44:31,595 Speaker 1: say college basketball. He recommended against doing it, and he said, 629 00:44:31,955 --> 00:44:34,355 Speaker 1: we already know too much about the things we already 630 00:44:34,395 --> 00:44:37,155 Speaker 1: know about. And I knew exactly what he meant. What 631 00:44:37,235 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: a great quote. We shook hands, and cost took a 632 00:44:40,275 --> 00:44:42,475 Speaker 1: deep breath, and he moved towards the gauntlet of the 633 00:44:42,515 --> 00:44:45,315 Speaker 1: next five hundred reporters down the red carpet and said, 634 00:44:45,915 --> 00:44:49,715 Speaker 1: wish me luck Keith. Within two minutes, I then saw 635 00:44:49,835 --> 00:44:53,515 Speaker 1: Costner walking back towards me. Can you do me a favor? 636 00:44:53,675 --> 00:44:56,275 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, but can you not run that quote. 637 00:44:56,595 --> 00:44:59,875 Speaker 1: I've never retracted a quote in my life, but that'll 638 00:45:00,075 --> 00:45:05,075 Speaker 1: make me sound like Yogi bearra I said, it didn't 639 00:45:05,075 --> 00:45:07,395 Speaker 1: make him sound like Yogi Berra. It was perfect and 640 00:45:07,395 --> 00:45:09,515 Speaker 1: everybody would know exactly what he meant. But of course 641 00:45:09,675 --> 00:45:12,115 Speaker 1: if that's what he wanted, I'd forget it. I wouldn't 642 00:45:12,195 --> 00:45:17,475 Speaker 1: use the quote until now. Anyway, I had enough color 643 00:45:17,555 --> 00:45:19,835 Speaker 1: and quotes, and technically my article was going to be 644 00:45:19,915 --> 00:45:23,115 Speaker 1: re labeled Arrivals, so it was done already as night 645 00:45:23,195 --> 00:45:25,595 Speaker 1: began to fall, and I had one particular piece of 646 00:45:25,755 --> 00:45:29,315 Speaker 1: gold handed to me. When the fabled actress who had 647 00:45:29,315 --> 00:45:32,675 Speaker 1: done the cameo in Titanic the year before, arrived on 648 00:45:32,715 --> 00:45:35,195 Speaker 1: the Red carpet, the photographer standing on one side of 649 00:45:35,195 --> 00:45:38,795 Speaker 1: me said, look, it's Martha Stewart, not Martha Stuart. I 650 00:45:38,875 --> 00:45:44,035 Speaker 1: mean Glorious Swanson. No, you know who I mean, the 651 00:45:44,515 --> 00:45:49,275 Speaker 1: glorious Stuart. It was good that I had enough material, 652 00:45:49,395 --> 00:45:51,275 Speaker 1: and I thought that was probably going to be my 653 00:45:51,355 --> 00:45:54,235 Speaker 1: second paragraph because the editor had given me a deadline, like, 654 00:45:54,635 --> 00:45:56,955 Speaker 1: I don't know, six thirty seven pm, where I had 655 00:45:56,995 --> 00:45:59,995 Speaker 1: to be back in the Times offices, which were a 656 00:46:00,075 --> 00:46:02,475 Speaker 1: quick walk a block or two away, and I had 657 00:46:02,475 --> 00:46:04,475 Speaker 1: to start writing because they wanted to put my piece 658 00:46:04,475 --> 00:46:06,955 Speaker 1: on the page with all the early photos from the 659 00:46:06,955 --> 00:46:08,795 Speaker 1: Red Carpet and the start of the awards, and they 660 00:46:08,795 --> 00:46:12,275 Speaker 1: needed my piece finished asap. But I lingered a few 661 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:14,075 Speaker 1: minutes longer than I was supposed to, because there was 662 00:46:14,075 --> 00:46:17,115 Speaker 1: only one actor. I had really hoped I was going 663 00:46:17,155 --> 00:46:22,595 Speaker 1: to get to meet Tom Hanks. Finally, Keith comes back 664 00:46:22,635 --> 00:46:27,635 Speaker 1: to Tom Hanks. Didn't see him. Everybody's already inside. I 665 00:46:27,715 --> 00:46:29,755 Speaker 1: must have missed him, or maybe he's not coming, even 666 00:46:29,795 --> 00:46:32,555 Speaker 1: though he has a nominated film. And I'm about to leave. Literally, 667 00:46:32,595 --> 00:46:34,835 Speaker 1: I'm double checking my notes in my quotes when I 668 00:46:34,835 --> 00:46:38,875 Speaker 1: heard some of the photog shout Tom, Tom, and there 669 00:46:39,075 --> 00:46:42,435 Speaker 1: finally he was in a tux and a beard, and 670 00:46:42,475 --> 00:46:46,635 Speaker 1: he gave him that half mile actor stare and pleasant smile, 671 00:46:47,035 --> 00:46:50,915 Speaker 1: and without being asked, he did a slow pan from 672 00:46:50,995 --> 00:46:54,355 Speaker 1: side to side so each cameraman could get him in 673 00:46:54,435 --> 00:46:57,755 Speaker 1: profile and in full face. And then he stopped and 674 00:46:57,795 --> 00:47:01,915 Speaker 1: his eyes widened comically, and he said, Keith Olberman, what 675 00:47:02,035 --> 00:47:07,115 Speaker 1: are you doing here? Did you get fired again? That 676 00:47:07,555 --> 00:47:12,635 Speaker 1: even got a laugh from the photographers. He then devolved 677 00:47:12,675 --> 00:47:15,715 Speaker 1: into stick, come in with me. You can have Rita's 678 00:47:15,715 --> 00:47:18,315 Speaker 1: ticket better than that. Why don't you go in with Rita? 679 00:47:18,995 --> 00:47:23,835 Speaker 1: I'll go watch UCLA play. Rita Wilson smiled, waved, and 680 00:47:23,875 --> 00:47:26,035 Speaker 1: while looking at her husband, she pointed to her own 681 00:47:26,115 --> 00:47:30,115 Speaker 1: head and made that crazy gesture and on and on 682 00:47:30,195 --> 00:47:33,595 Speaker 1: and on it went. I asked Tom Hanks my questions. 683 00:47:33,595 --> 00:47:35,435 Speaker 1: He gave me some good answers. He gave me a 684 00:47:35,515 --> 00:47:38,635 Speaker 1: very nice double handed handshake, and he moved on. And 685 00:47:38,675 --> 00:47:41,075 Speaker 1: he was one or two people down the gauntlet of 686 00:47:41,115 --> 00:47:44,355 Speaker 1: the red carpet when I thought, dummy, Tom Hanks is 687 00:47:44,435 --> 00:47:47,235 Speaker 1: right there. He's a fan. You're a fan. You have 688 00:47:47,275 --> 00:47:50,155 Speaker 1: a camera with you, You have a mother, Get a picture 689 00:47:50,195 --> 00:47:54,395 Speaker 1: with him for mom. So I beckoned, So you'll go 690 00:47:54,475 --> 00:47:57,955 Speaker 1: in with me, hot dog. I explained what I actually wanted, 691 00:47:57,955 --> 00:48:01,315 Speaker 1: and I handed my little disposable cardboard camera. Remember those 692 00:48:01,635 --> 00:48:04,355 Speaker 1: to the nearest reporter I knew, Lara Spencer from Channel 693 00:48:04,355 --> 00:48:07,635 Speaker 1: seven in New York more recently of Good Morning America. 694 00:48:07,955 --> 00:48:10,675 Speaker 1: And I leaned back over the hedges, which in those 695 00:48:11,075 --> 00:48:13,315 Speaker 1: innocent pre nine to eleven days, were the only things 696 00:48:13,315 --> 00:48:17,475 Speaker 1: actually keeping the famous safe from us. We merely cover 697 00:48:17,555 --> 00:48:21,275 Speaker 1: the famous. Lara took a couple of shots in them. 698 00:48:21,315 --> 00:48:23,715 Speaker 1: It would prove my head is about four times as 699 00:48:23,715 --> 00:48:29,315 Speaker 1: big as Tom's and we both look like mutants, straining mutants. Wait, 700 00:48:29,355 --> 00:48:32,315 Speaker 1: this won't work, Tom Hanks finally said, and with that 701 00:48:32,515 --> 00:48:36,475 Speaker 1: he grabbed me and started to pull me over the shrubbery. 702 00:48:37,435 --> 00:48:41,715 Speaker 1: I was unprepared for this. I started to teeter. At 703 00:48:41,715 --> 00:48:44,675 Speaker 1: this exact moment, I heard coming from the carpet behind me, 704 00:48:45,155 --> 00:48:50,155 Speaker 1: two guys chanting. Hanks turned around and said, Hello, boys, 705 00:48:50,435 --> 00:48:53,155 Speaker 1: Look it's Keith Olberman. Can you believe this? Finally a 706 00:48:53,235 --> 00:48:56,355 Speaker 1: reason actually show up to this dumb thing? Can we 707 00:48:56,435 --> 00:48:58,355 Speaker 1: take me in with this bet? You guys got an 708 00:48:58,395 --> 00:49:00,795 Speaker 1: extra ticket here, help me pull him over the hedge. 709 00:49:01,675 --> 00:49:05,315 Speaker 1: The two guys were Ben Athleck and Matt Damon. Somewhere 710 00:49:05,355 --> 00:49:09,555 Speaker 1: in this process, and Affleck and Damon were really young, 711 00:49:09,595 --> 00:49:14,115 Speaker 1: then they really could pull One of these three men 712 00:49:14,195 --> 00:49:18,275 Speaker 1: broke my commer bund, I swear. Suddenly I was on 713 00:49:18,315 --> 00:49:21,155 Speaker 1: the red carpet with them, and with a loose commer bund, 714 00:49:22,595 --> 00:49:26,715 Speaker 1: Affleck struck a wrestling pose and made a grimace, a 715 00:49:26,755 --> 00:49:30,355 Speaker 1: fake grimace. Lara Spencer shouted, that's a perfect shot, at 716 00:49:30,395 --> 00:49:33,195 Speaker 1: which point I heard a sound effect, but in real life, 717 00:49:33,595 --> 00:49:36,115 Speaker 1: nearly identical to the one that signaled the arrival of 718 00:49:36,155 --> 00:49:39,075 Speaker 1: the reporters. Throughout the movie, the right stuff like a 719 00:49:39,155 --> 00:49:46,235 Speaker 1: thousand mosquitoes moving in Unison. Every photographer there panned over 720 00:49:46,315 --> 00:49:49,515 Speaker 1: to us, because even those who did not know who 721 00:49:49,595 --> 00:49:52,275 Speaker 1: I was or what Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, and Ben 722 00:49:52,315 --> 00:49:56,475 Speaker 1: Affleck were doing to me? Did notice security rushing to 723 00:49:56,555 --> 00:50:01,315 Speaker 1: this scene. It's all right, fellas, Hank shouted, he fell. 724 00:50:02,555 --> 00:50:05,755 Speaker 1: They helped me back over the hedge. Affleck asked me 725 00:50:05,795 --> 00:50:08,875 Speaker 1: about the Red Sox chances in the season ahead. Hanks 726 00:50:09,035 --> 00:50:12,235 Speaker 1: slapped me on the back. I barely managed to shout 727 00:50:12,395 --> 00:50:15,595 Speaker 1: enjoy the show boys, and Damon turned and said, well, 728 00:50:15,635 --> 00:50:20,155 Speaker 1: we just did, and they were gone. Any image of 729 00:50:20,235 --> 00:50:24,755 Speaker 1: this scene taken without sound and without context would have 730 00:50:24,795 --> 00:50:28,035 Speaker 1: been greeted, perhaps as the stuff from Con was about 731 00:50:28,075 --> 00:50:30,995 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks. It would have shown three of Hollywood's top 732 00:50:31,035 --> 00:50:37,435 Speaker 1: actors appearing to attack, or maybe trying to subdue some 733 00:50:37,555 --> 00:50:42,675 Speaker 1: guy who looked vaguely like some sports or newsguy or something. 734 00:50:42,715 --> 00:50:44,915 Speaker 1: And the tucks didn't fit well. It must have been 735 00:50:44,915 --> 00:50:48,715 Speaker 1: a rental. It might have been a perimeter breach. I mean, 736 00:50:48,755 --> 00:50:51,195 Speaker 1: look at the damage to the hedge, to say nothing 737 00:50:51,235 --> 00:50:54,995 Speaker 1: of the guy's cover bund. So when the story of 738 00:50:55,035 --> 00:50:57,755 Speaker 1: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson yelling at the guy on 739 00:50:57,835 --> 00:51:00,195 Speaker 1: the red carpet at Con broke, all I could think 740 00:51:00,275 --> 00:51:05,915 Speaker 1: of was here we go again. PostScript I should note 741 00:51:05,955 --> 00:51:08,195 Speaker 1: that I have seen Tom Hanks several times since then, 742 00:51:08,195 --> 00:51:12,715 Speaker 1: and Hanks always mentions the cummerbund. Affleck once portrayed me 743 00:51:12,755 --> 00:51:15,515 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live, and I went up to his studio, 744 00:51:15,555 --> 00:51:18,995 Speaker 1: which was also the Football Night in America studio, to 745 00:51:19,155 --> 00:51:22,395 Speaker 1: say hello at his rehearsal and offer him any tips 746 00:51:22,395 --> 00:51:24,555 Speaker 1: he needed. And the next thing I knew that was 747 00:51:24,555 --> 00:51:28,395 Speaker 1: in the New York Post Olverman crashes Studio and the 748 00:51:28,435 --> 00:51:31,515 Speaker 1: photo of the four of us. Well, I clearly had 749 00:51:31,595 --> 00:51:33,795 Speaker 1: enough stuff for my Arrivals piece in the la time. 750 00:51:33,835 --> 00:51:35,915 Speaker 1: So I jogged back to their office is a little 751 00:51:35,955 --> 00:51:38,275 Speaker 1: late now and found the editor and she asked me 752 00:51:38,275 --> 00:51:39,955 Speaker 1: if the story would work, and I said, yes, I 753 00:51:39,995 --> 00:51:43,435 Speaker 1: have enough. And then I sheepishly said, listen, there was 754 00:51:43,475 --> 00:51:46,875 Speaker 1: a thing with me and Hanks and Affleck and Damon, 755 00:51:46,955 --> 00:51:49,595 Speaker 1: and can I mention it in the piece maybe at 756 00:51:49,595 --> 00:51:53,155 Speaker 1: the end. And again her eyes widened as I explained 757 00:51:53,155 --> 00:51:56,595 Speaker 1: what happened, and in great excitement, she asked, did anybody 758 00:51:56,595 --> 00:51:59,515 Speaker 1: get a picture of this? And I said, well, yeah, 759 00:51:59,515 --> 00:52:04,235 Speaker 1: I thought about one hundred real photographers got a picture 760 00:52:04,275 --> 00:52:07,235 Speaker 1: of it, but I was certain that my friend Lara 761 00:52:07,275 --> 00:52:10,475 Speaker 1: from New York had gotten it on my disposable, which 762 00:52:10,515 --> 00:52:13,475 Speaker 1: is when the editor grabbed the camera from my hand 763 00:52:13,955 --> 00:52:17,555 Speaker 1: and left without a word, running down the hallway. And 764 00:52:17,595 --> 00:52:19,995 Speaker 1: the next thing I saw of my camera or what 765 00:52:20,235 --> 00:52:22,635 Speaker 1: was in it was the next morning when the front 766 00:52:22,635 --> 00:52:26,275 Speaker 1: page of the La Times Oscar section had four beautiful 767 00:52:26,355 --> 00:52:29,635 Speaker 1: color pictures on it, One of Gwyneth Paltrow, Judy Dench, 768 00:52:29,755 --> 00:52:34,475 Speaker 1: James Coburn and Roberto Benini. One of Iliat Kazan. It 769 00:52:34,515 --> 00:52:38,315 Speaker 1: was the Elia Kazan's speech year. One of Kate Blanchette's 770 00:52:38,395 --> 00:52:41,795 Speaker 1: dress as seen from behind, so it was a picture 771 00:52:41,795 --> 00:52:45,235 Speaker 1: of Kate Blanchette's but the largest of all the pictures 772 00:52:45,715 --> 00:52:51,235 Speaker 1: me and the boys, with the caption the arrivals. Fox 773 00:52:51,395 --> 00:52:55,435 Speaker 1: Sports News anchor Keith Alderman is mugged by Tom Hanks, 774 00:52:55,515 --> 00:52:58,795 Speaker 1: left Ben Affleck and Matt Damon on the red carpet 775 00:52:59,235 --> 00:53:05,075 Speaker 1: and lives to write about it, page f two. I 776 00:53:05,155 --> 00:53:09,155 Speaker 1: still have it framed on my wall, but just to 777 00:53:09,195 --> 00:53:28,595 Speaker 1: be clear, Tom Hanks didn't actually mug me. I've done 778 00:53:28,635 --> 00:53:30,955 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 779 00:53:31,075 --> 00:53:34,035 Speaker 1: Most of our countdown music was arranged, produced and performed 780 00:53:34,075 --> 00:53:37,835 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray On guitars, bass, and drums and John 781 00:53:37,875 --> 00:53:42,395 Speaker 1: Phillip Schaneil handling, orchestration and keyboards. They are our musical 782 00:53:42,395 --> 00:53:46,395 Speaker 1: directors of Countdown and their work was produced by Tko Brothers. 783 00:53:46,835 --> 00:53:49,355 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments there by the best 784 00:53:49,355 --> 00:53:53,475 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organists ever ms Nancy Faust. The sports music 785 00:53:53,555 --> 00:53:56,715 Speaker 1: is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch 786 00:53:56,835 --> 00:54:00,395 Speaker 1: Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and 787 00:54:00,475 --> 00:54:03,755 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today 788 00:54:04,075 --> 00:54:08,995 Speaker 1: was the late Dick Cheney. Everybody this program was produced 789 00:54:08,995 --> 00:54:13,275 Speaker 1: by Ted. Everything else was as always my fault. That's 790 00:54:13,315 --> 00:54:15,915 Speaker 1: countdown for today, Day three hundred and sixty one of 791 00:54:15,995 --> 00:54:20,355 Speaker 1: America held hostage again, just one and two days until 792 00:54:20,355 --> 00:54:22,995 Speaker 1: the scheduled end of his lane duck and lame brained 793 00:54:23,115 --> 00:54:27,035 Speaker 1: term unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey 794 00:54:27,035 --> 00:54:32,275 Speaker 1: Epstein or affordability or marble armrests or Venezuela or his 795 00:54:32,395 --> 00:54:38,075 Speaker 1: ice gestapo, or you know, the endless construction of the 796 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:44,315 Speaker 1: new Trump Memorial Ballroom. The next scheduled countdown is Monday Bulletins. 797 00:54:44,355 --> 00:54:47,475 Speaker 1: As the news merits until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman, 798 00:54:47,555 --> 00:55:08,395 Speaker 1: good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with 799 00:55:08,515 --> 00:55:12,835 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts 800 00:55:12,835 --> 00:55:17,595 Speaker 1: from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever 801 00:55:17,635 --> 00:55:18,955 Speaker 1: you get your podcasts.