1 00:00:04,755 --> 00:00:08,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio. 2 00:00:24,555 --> 00:00:27,835 Speaker 1: He was completely caught up in the fantasy, in the 3 00:00:27,875 --> 00:00:30,995 Speaker 1: Maga fantasy, because he really believed in the whole Maga 4 00:00:31,075 --> 00:00:34,715 Speaker 1: Pizza Gates stolen election. If you go to Fox News, 5 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:36,675 Speaker 1: if you go on the Internet and you look at 6 00:00:36,715 --> 00:00:40,275 Speaker 1: Q and on, you know he had all these theories. 7 00:00:41,115 --> 00:00:45,635 Speaker 1: End quote David de Papi's employer of six years, Frank Cecerelli, 8 00:00:46,075 --> 00:00:48,835 Speaker 1: to the New York Times. The man who wanted to 9 00:00:48,835 --> 00:00:53,155 Speaker 1: torture and assassinate Nancy Pelosi and did attack Paul Pelosi 10 00:00:53,675 --> 00:00:56,795 Speaker 1: was ardently maga. He thought reporters who would not confirm 11 00:00:56,875 --> 00:00:59,555 Speaker 1: that the election had been stolen should be killed. He 12 00:00:59,635 --> 00:01:03,275 Speaker 1: was convinced about Pizza Gate. And he will apparently defend 13 00:01:03,355 --> 00:01:07,715 Speaker 1: himself by blaminga q and on Fox News, the Internet, 14 00:01:07,755 --> 00:01:12,155 Speaker 1: and Trump and claiming vulnerability to conspiracy theories and misinformation. 15 00:01:12,195 --> 00:01:16,155 Speaker 1: In fact, he will confess to being inspired to do 16 00:01:16,235 --> 00:01:20,115 Speaker 1: what he did stochastically by all the forces at the 17 00:01:20,155 --> 00:01:24,155 Speaker 1: back and call of the Republican Party. The exact argument 18 00:01:24,195 --> 00:01:28,075 Speaker 1: we have been making here since the attack, the exact 19 00:01:28,315 --> 00:01:32,595 Speaker 1: arguments the Republicans have been dismissing in such a desperate 20 00:01:32,595 --> 00:01:36,475 Speaker 1: and obvious effort to evade culpability when somebody finally did 21 00:01:36,755 --> 00:01:39,835 Speaker 1: what they so wanted somebody to do. That they had 22 00:01:39,835 --> 00:01:42,435 Speaker 1: paid two hundred and twenty seven million dollars over the 23 00:01:42,515 --> 00:01:46,475 Speaker 1: last four years for TV advertisements showing Pelosi being hunted, 24 00:01:46,515 --> 00:01:52,635 Speaker 1: shot and burned MAGA, Fox News Q and on Pizza Gate. 25 00:01:53,315 --> 00:01:59,875 Speaker 1: Trump case closed. If that is his defense, the Republicans 26 00:01:59,915 --> 00:02:02,955 Speaker 1: will have to do better then their simple blanket denial. 27 00:02:03,315 --> 00:02:06,075 Speaker 1: They will have to find somebody's smarter than the r 28 00:02:06,195 --> 00:02:09,955 Speaker 1: n C chair RONA McDaniel, who insists, quote, I think 29 00:02:09,955 --> 00:02:13,795 Speaker 1: it's unfair. You can't see people saying let's fire Pelosi 30 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:16,875 Speaker 1: or let's take back the house is saying go do violence. 31 00:02:16,995 --> 00:02:22,035 Speaker 1: It's just unfair. Senator John Cornyn brought up to Pappy's 32 00:02:22,235 --> 00:02:26,075 Speaker 1: immigration status. Tucker Carlson continued to push the same kind 33 00:02:26,075 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: of conspiracy theories that sent David to Pappy into Nancy 34 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:33,395 Speaker 1: Pelosi's home where the hammer and zip ties byron Yorke 35 00:02:34,035 --> 00:02:37,355 Speaker 1: of The Washington Examiner, who is what passes for a 36 00:02:37,475 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: deep thinker in conservative circles, said checking lefty media, there 37 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:46,195 Speaker 1: are numerous references to the attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi. 38 00:02:46,675 --> 00:02:50,835 Speaker 1: Not sure what that means. There wasn't an attempted assassination 39 00:02:50,915 --> 00:02:55,075 Speaker 1: of Nancy Pelosi. The thing that happened never happened, Byron 40 00:02:55,155 --> 00:02:58,515 Speaker 1: York says to this day. The Washington Examiner of Byron 41 00:02:58,595 --> 00:03:01,795 Speaker 1: York insists that the man who called police to come 42 00:03:01,835 --> 00:03:05,395 Speaker 1: get him a block away from Justice Brett Avanaugh's home 43 00:03:05,635 --> 00:03:09,675 Speaker 1: before he did something bad was guilty of Kavanaughs quote 44 00:03:09,715 --> 00:03:15,275 Speaker 1: attempted assassination. The RAND Think Tank reported that in the 45 00:03:15,275 --> 00:03:19,635 Speaker 1: first eight months of its most recent period of study, 46 00:03:19,795 --> 00:03:24,675 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism broke down leslie from the far left, six 47 00:03:25,755 --> 00:03:29,955 Speaker 1: from the far right. Domestic terrorism political violence is an 48 00:03:29,995 --> 00:03:34,595 Speaker 1: almost exclusively right wing phenomenon. Yet right wingers don't just 49 00:03:34,835 --> 00:03:38,715 Speaker 1: contest this, don't just dismiss this, don't just mock this. 50 00:03:39,115 --> 00:03:43,355 Speaker 1: They seem to genuinely believe they are both right and 51 00:03:43,475 --> 00:03:51,275 Speaker 1: not hypocritical. How how can they do this? Conservatism, wrote 52 00:03:51,315 --> 00:03:54,795 Speaker 1: a classical music composer named Frank Wilhoit four years ago, 53 00:03:55,075 --> 00:03:58,555 Speaker 1: consists of exactly one proposition, to wit, there must be 54 00:03:58,635 --> 00:04:01,075 Speaker 1: in groups whom the law protects but does not bind, 55 00:04:01,595 --> 00:04:05,195 Speaker 1: alongside out groups whom the law binds but does not 56 00:04:05,275 --> 00:04:10,355 Speaker 1: protect that's it. It is the political catch twenty two. 57 00:04:10,355 --> 00:04:14,075 Speaker 1: When I do it, it's my right. When you do it, 58 00:04:14,075 --> 00:04:17,715 Speaker 1: it's a crime. The anti abortion Republicans who paid for 59 00:04:17,755 --> 00:04:21,835 Speaker 1: their girlfriends abortions. Marjorie Taylor Green lecturing on patriotism when 60 00:04:21,915 --> 00:04:25,315 Speaker 1: she tried to overthrow the government and threatened the life 61 00:04:25,315 --> 00:04:28,155 Speaker 1: of the Speaker of the House, and of course Trump 62 00:04:29,595 --> 00:04:33,995 Speaker 1: his entire life. It is the Conservatives universal solvent, their 63 00:04:34,075 --> 00:04:38,195 Speaker 1: magic bullet, the all you can eat Forever buffet. When 64 00:04:38,235 --> 00:04:42,355 Speaker 1: Peter Navarro was arrested for contempt of Congress, he was 65 00:04:42,675 --> 00:04:48,035 Speaker 1: outraged that they actually took him to jail. Quote. I 66 00:04:48,275 --> 00:04:50,675 Speaker 1: served in the Trump White House for four years, he 67 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:55,035 Speaker 1: told the judge. I saved millions of lives. When Navara 68 00:04:55,195 --> 00:04:58,355 Speaker 1: was arrested, the lame duck, lame brain Congressman Louis Gombert 69 00:04:58,395 --> 00:05:01,635 Speaker 1: of Texas said, if you are a Republican, you can't 70 00:05:01,635 --> 00:05:04,315 Speaker 1: even lie to Congress, or lie to an FBI agent 71 00:05:04,435 --> 00:05:09,755 Speaker 1: or coming after you. When Justice Alito wrote the Leak 72 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:13,235 Speaker 1: decision overturning Roe v. Wade because he believes it is 73 00:05:13,315 --> 00:05:17,755 Speaker 1: the state killing people, he quoted Sir Matthew Hale, a 74 00:05:17,915 --> 00:05:21,555 Speaker 1: seventeenth century British jurist who literally presided at a witch 75 00:05:21,635 --> 00:05:26,155 Speaker 1: hunt trial that literally resulted in the state killing people 76 00:05:26,675 --> 00:05:30,315 Speaker 1: two women when a jury laughed John Durham out of 77 00:05:30,395 --> 00:05:34,635 Speaker 1: the courtroom in the Sessman case, William Barr insisted Durham 78 00:05:34,675 --> 00:05:38,755 Speaker 1: had one because he brought out the truth about Hillary Clinton. 79 00:05:39,955 --> 00:05:43,515 Speaker 1: Black lives matters. Protesters are terrorists and rioters, but the 80 00:05:43,595 --> 00:05:46,795 Speaker 1: January six rioters who preached the capital during the literal 81 00:05:46,835 --> 00:05:51,035 Speaker 1: peaceful transition of power were just tourist patriots. The gun 82 00:05:51,075 --> 00:05:56,075 Speaker 1: obsessed punk Rittenhouse was simply defending and endangered used car 83 00:05:56,235 --> 00:06:00,395 Speaker 1: lot in a different state. Another observer pointed out that 84 00:06:00,435 --> 00:06:03,155 Speaker 1: the essence of the twenty one century Republican Party is simple. 85 00:06:03,315 --> 00:06:06,875 Speaker 1: You can't tell us what to do masks during COVID No, 86 00:06:07,755 --> 00:06:11,035 Speaker 1: you can't tell us what to do. Vaccines now, you 87 00:06:11,035 --> 00:06:13,875 Speaker 1: can't tell us what to do obeying the laws. You 88 00:06:13,915 --> 00:06:16,675 Speaker 1: can't tell us what to do. We tell you what 89 00:06:16,875 --> 00:06:20,195 Speaker 1: to do. Life is simple when the law exists to 90 00:06:20,395 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: protect you and expose them. Consider the internet memes starring 91 00:06:26,475 --> 00:06:30,995 Speaker 1: the Dunning Krueger dropout Stephen Crowder sitting outdoors at a 92 00:06:31,035 --> 00:06:35,115 Speaker 1: card table at Texas Christian University smugly raising a coffee 93 00:06:35,155 --> 00:06:37,715 Speaker 1: mug to his lips, a sign draped over the table 94 00:06:37,755 --> 00:06:40,275 Speaker 1: in front of him, reading male privilege is a myth, 95 00:06:40,755 --> 00:06:45,635 Speaker 1: Change my mind, as if there were a mind to change. 96 00:06:47,915 --> 00:06:50,915 Speaker 1: The photo is four years old, and it made Crowder famous, 97 00:06:51,035 --> 00:06:53,155 Speaker 1: or it might have if it had not been such 98 00:06:53,195 --> 00:06:55,915 Speaker 1: an invitation to the rest of the world to photoshop 99 00:06:55,955 --> 00:06:58,475 Speaker 1: the image and he'll just rewrite it on their iPhone 100 00:06:58,515 --> 00:07:01,595 Speaker 1: app so that you erase the male privilege is a 101 00:07:01,635 --> 00:07:05,395 Speaker 1: myth part and right in its place anything anything at all, 102 00:07:05,955 --> 00:07:08,475 Speaker 1: but you make sure you leave the part about change 103 00:07:08,555 --> 00:07:11,515 Speaker 1: my mind. Most people have simply gone with something like 104 00:07:11,595 --> 00:07:15,355 Speaker 1: every Republican accusation is a confession, and then you leave 105 00:07:15,395 --> 00:07:17,675 Speaker 1: the second line, so you have this Crowder clown sitting 106 00:07:17,675 --> 00:07:20,515 Speaker 1: behind a table at TCU, smugly lifting his coffee mug 107 00:07:20,555 --> 00:07:23,555 Speaker 1: while the sign reads every Republican accusation is a confession. 108 00:07:23,675 --> 00:07:27,555 Speaker 1: Change my mind. And it works, of course, because nearly 109 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:32,035 Speaker 1: every Republican accusation is a confession, as we are seeing 110 00:07:32,075 --> 00:07:36,355 Speaker 1: again in the reactions to David de Pappi Maga and 111 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:42,955 Speaker 1: the Pelosi's why who does this? Who accuses people of 112 00:07:43,075 --> 00:07:47,515 Speaker 1: things they do themselves? If you normal non conservative person 113 00:07:47,635 --> 00:07:51,515 Speaker 1: have a skeleton in your closet, or even no, you 114 00:07:51,595 --> 00:07:54,355 Speaker 1: just have a closet without skeletons, where you keep your own, 115 00:07:54,435 --> 00:07:58,115 Speaker 1: boring personal life. That's nobody's business. You do not spend 116 00:07:58,155 --> 00:08:00,875 Speaker 1: the rest of the time accusing people of doing what 117 00:08:01,075 --> 00:08:04,315 Speaker 1: you've actually done, let alone accusing people of doing what 118 00:08:04,315 --> 00:08:08,155 Speaker 1: you've we done and demonizing it and maybe running for 119 00:08:08,235 --> 00:08:10,955 Speaker 1: office on a promise to make it illegal or give 120 00:08:11,035 --> 00:08:14,235 Speaker 1: life sentences to people who do it, or to execute them, 121 00:08:14,475 --> 00:08:20,955 Speaker 1: or or or this happens every week. Republicans overturning Roe v. Wade, 122 00:08:20,955 --> 00:08:23,035 Speaker 1: and they have left a trail of wives and girlfriends 123 00:08:23,035 --> 00:08:26,915 Speaker 1: and mistresses who they pressured to get abortions. In this world, 124 00:08:27,315 --> 00:08:31,235 Speaker 1: in this area, Herschel Walker is like his own industry. 125 00:08:31,275 --> 00:08:34,275 Speaker 1: But he's not alone. The GOP nominee in the Oregon 126 00:08:34,395 --> 00:08:37,315 Speaker 1: six Mike Rickson, alleged to have driven his ex girlfriend 127 00:08:37,315 --> 00:08:39,555 Speaker 1: to an a t M withdrawn three hundred bucks and 128 00:08:39,555 --> 00:08:41,475 Speaker 1: then taking her to a clinic to get an abortion. 129 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:45,915 Speaker 1: We now call his doing a herschel. Tim Murphy the 130 00:08:45,995 --> 00:08:49,955 Speaker 1: quote pro life Republican congressman from Pennsylvania, resigned from Congress 131 00:08:49,955 --> 00:08:52,795 Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen after his mistress half his age 132 00:08:52,795 --> 00:08:55,995 Speaker 1: and married, revealed he had demanded she get an abortion. 133 00:08:56,715 --> 00:09:00,955 Speaker 1: Two thousand thirteen, Republican Representative Scott Deserli of Tennessee abortion 134 00:09:00,995 --> 00:09:04,395 Speaker 1: for the mistress, two abortions for the ex wife, one 135 00:09:04,435 --> 00:09:07,675 Speaker 1: for the previous mistress, who was also his patient. That's right, 136 00:09:07,835 --> 00:09:10,875 Speaker 1: he was her doctor. And we know all this detail 137 00:09:10,955 --> 00:09:13,835 Speaker 1: because he taped himself talking her into getting the abortion. 138 00:09:14,395 --> 00:09:19,355 Speaker 1: Which one which her? I read the story two seven times, 139 00:09:19,395 --> 00:09:24,195 Speaker 1: I still can't tell which one. Elliott Broidy, Deputy financial 140 00:09:24,235 --> 00:09:28,155 Speaker 1: chairman of the Republican National Committee, Trump backer gets a 141 00:09:28,235 --> 00:09:33,275 Speaker 1: playboy playmate pregnant, has crazy Trump's old lawyer Michael Cohen 142 00:09:33,355 --> 00:09:36,795 Speaker 1: pay for the abortion, or maybe it was Trump or 143 00:09:36,915 --> 00:09:40,555 Speaker 1: somebody else, and Broidy just took the fall, which is 144 00:09:40,635 --> 00:09:43,315 Speaker 1: dumb because we already know Trump wanted his second wife 145 00:09:43,315 --> 00:09:47,515 Speaker 1: to get an abortion, because Trump said so. Trump's head 146 00:09:47,555 --> 00:09:52,155 Speaker 1: of Refugee Resettlement prevented immigrants who needed abortions from getting them, 147 00:09:52,195 --> 00:09:55,875 Speaker 1: including a seventeen year old rape victim. That guy once 148 00:09:55,955 --> 00:09:58,515 Speaker 1: drove his own girlfriend of the clinic for her abortion, 149 00:09:59,315 --> 00:10:02,115 Speaker 1: and on and on and on, and I'm not even 150 00:10:02,155 --> 00:10:08,475 Speaker 1: emphasizing herschel Walker, and this hypocrisy is not just about abortions, 151 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:15,555 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson fighting against trans athletes, praising the Hungarian dictator 152 00:10:15,675 --> 00:10:20,075 Speaker 1: or Bond's attempts to repress gaze, still insisting the Republican 153 00:10:20,115 --> 00:10:23,795 Speaker 1: inspired murderous attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband had to be 154 00:10:23,995 --> 00:10:28,555 Speaker 1: some people doing gay something. And in his college year book, 155 00:10:28,555 --> 00:10:30,795 Speaker 1: Carlson claimed to have been a member of a society 156 00:10:30,915 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: named after the man who assassinated the gay political icon 157 00:10:34,835 --> 00:10:39,075 Speaker 1: Harvey Milk and the mayor of San Francisco in and 158 00:10:39,155 --> 00:10:43,955 Speaker 1: Carlson's published a video online that he says is about 159 00:10:44,035 --> 00:10:49,835 Speaker 1: declining masculinity, and it's nothing but shirtless guys wrestling, shooting 160 00:10:49,915 --> 00:10:54,075 Speaker 1: jugs of canola oil with a machine gun, and chopping wood. 161 00:10:54,195 --> 00:10:58,675 Speaker 1: And one guy has shown naked arms triumphantly outstretched above 162 00:10:58,795 --> 00:11:02,755 Speaker 1: his head, airing out his privates in front of what 163 00:11:02,835 --> 00:11:05,675 Speaker 1: is either an infrared lamp or charging station for an 164 00:11:05,675 --> 00:11:10,635 Speaker 1: electric car. As the prominent gay activist and terrific Star 165 00:11:10,675 --> 00:11:14,195 Speaker 1: Trek actor George Takay wrote in retweeting that video, quote 166 00:11:15,235 --> 00:11:19,835 Speaker 1: this is so gay. Unquote. I know I'm going to 167 00:11:19,915 --> 00:11:21,875 Speaker 1: take heat for this next statement. I know it is 168 00:11:21,915 --> 00:11:24,395 Speaker 1: going to harm me professionally, and know your confidence in 169 00:11:24,435 --> 00:11:28,955 Speaker 1: my judgment may be shaken by it. Nevertheless, I believe 170 00:11:29,435 --> 00:11:33,915 Speaker 1: that Tucker Carlson and the other conservatives and fascists have 171 00:11:34,075 --> 00:11:40,875 Speaker 1: been giving us mixed messages. There, I said it, mixed messages. 172 00:11:42,715 --> 00:11:46,755 Speaker 1: But why? Why is every Republican accusation a confession? Why 173 00:11:46,915 --> 00:11:52,235 Speaker 1: all known Crowder photoshop meme? Finally I turned to my 174 00:11:52,235 --> 00:11:55,435 Speaker 1: friend of twenty five years, a therapist, doctor. Why do 175 00:11:55,515 --> 00:11:58,195 Speaker 1: these people who get abortions for their mistresses or higher 176 00:11:58,235 --> 00:12:01,395 Speaker 1: gay hookers, or do coke in the bathroom? Why are 177 00:12:01,435 --> 00:12:03,635 Speaker 1: they the ones who are the most loud, the most angry, 178 00:12:03,675 --> 00:12:07,595 Speaker 1: the most vindictive, about trying to criminalize abortion, about trying 179 00:12:07,595 --> 00:12:10,915 Speaker 1: to punish homosexuality, about trying to send people to jail 180 00:12:10,995 --> 00:12:15,835 Speaker 1: for life for doing drugs. Why? And her answer was 181 00:12:15,835 --> 00:12:17,915 Speaker 1: not what I expected. I had studied some of this 182 00:12:17,955 --> 00:12:20,355 Speaker 1: stuff in college, and I assumed, is maybe you still 183 00:12:20,395 --> 00:12:25,075 Speaker 1: assume that it was projection or compensation, or a desire 184 00:12:25,595 --> 00:12:29,275 Speaker 1: maybe to get caught, maybe even to get help or 185 00:12:29,315 --> 00:12:33,875 Speaker 1: anything else that was psych speak for every Republican accusation 186 00:12:33,995 --> 00:12:38,635 Speaker 1: is a confession. Nope, Nope, not at all. Call it 187 00:12:38,715 --> 00:12:42,595 Speaker 1: the scoreboard theory of personal behavior. As she put it 188 00:12:42,635 --> 00:12:44,915 Speaker 1: to me, say, you have been taught since childhood that 189 00:12:45,075 --> 00:12:48,875 Speaker 1: sex out of wedlock is wrong and abortion is wrong. 190 00:12:49,235 --> 00:12:54,075 Speaker 1: And you've had sex out of wedlock like fifty times, 191 00:12:54,315 --> 00:12:56,675 Speaker 1: and there have been half a dozen pregnancies, and you've 192 00:12:56,675 --> 00:12:59,715 Speaker 1: talked the women into and paid for half a dozen abortions. 193 00:13:00,235 --> 00:13:04,035 Speaker 1: And you're a conservative congressman or a conservative running for 194 00:13:04,035 --> 00:13:08,275 Speaker 1: the Senate, and your constituents are every day getting a 195 00:13:08,315 --> 00:13:11,315 Speaker 1: little lighter on that forgiveness of the Lord's stuff, but 196 00:13:11,395 --> 00:13:14,555 Speaker 1: a little heavier on the wrath of God's stuff. And 197 00:13:14,635 --> 00:13:16,995 Speaker 1: to make it worse for your sanity, maybe you really 198 00:13:17,075 --> 00:13:20,715 Speaker 1: believe sex out of wedlock is wrong and abortion is wrong. 199 00:13:20,755 --> 00:13:24,555 Speaker 1: And yet here you are the neighborhood distributor of sex 200 00:13:24,595 --> 00:13:28,235 Speaker 1: out of wedlock and of abortions in your own congressional district. 201 00:13:29,955 --> 00:13:34,635 Speaker 1: You're unconscious. My shrink explains hits on an ingenious solution. 202 00:13:34,715 --> 00:13:38,315 Speaker 1: You have three and fifty sexes out of wedlock and 203 00:13:38,435 --> 00:13:42,195 Speaker 1: six abortions on your scoreboard. Well, you can make that 204 00:13:42,275 --> 00:13:45,075 Speaker 1: number irrelevant. You can virtually wipe it away, make it 205 00:13:45,115 --> 00:13:48,995 Speaker 1: look like nothing. Simply act and talk and legislate three 206 00:13:49,315 --> 00:13:55,475 Speaker 1: thousand anti abortion things, persecute the doctors, encourage the neighbors 207 00:13:55,555 --> 00:13:57,955 Speaker 1: to run out people who help women in need, accuse 208 00:13:57,995 --> 00:14:00,875 Speaker 1: the other side of killing viable infants after birth, or 209 00:14:00,955 --> 00:14:04,555 Speaker 1: take it to the final step, accused them of pedophilia 210 00:14:04,795 --> 00:14:08,435 Speaker 1: and eating babies, and run for office on a platform 211 00:14:08,475 --> 00:14:12,235 Speaker 1: of exposing those secret baby torture chambers in the basements 212 00:14:12,515 --> 00:14:15,595 Speaker 1: of the pizza restaurants that not only don't have torture chambers, 213 00:14:15,715 --> 00:14:17,915 Speaker 1: but they don't even have basements. And David de Pappi 214 00:14:17,995 --> 00:14:23,035 Speaker 1: still believes this crap. Me, I can't be an adulterer 215 00:14:23,515 --> 00:14:27,595 Speaker 1: and an abortionist. Maybe once or twice or three fifty 216 00:14:27,635 --> 00:14:30,755 Speaker 1: six times I made a simple human error that God 217 00:14:30,795 --> 00:14:34,195 Speaker 1: long ago forgave me for. But look, I've closed a 218 00:14:34,395 --> 00:14:38,155 Speaker 1: thousand abortion clinics, and I forced a thousand women to 219 00:14:38,195 --> 00:14:41,955 Speaker 1: give birth, and I've accused a thousand liberals of eating babies. 220 00:14:42,235 --> 00:14:46,155 Speaker 1: That's three thousand, three d fifty six see on the scoreboard. 221 00:14:46,755 --> 00:14:49,955 Speaker 1: I am so anti abortion. It is as if those 222 00:14:49,955 --> 00:14:55,635 Speaker 1: abortions I paid for never happened. Three thousand to just 223 00:14:55,675 --> 00:15:00,675 Speaker 1: three fifty six. And that my shrink said is the 224 00:15:00,715 --> 00:15:03,875 Speaker 1: gist of it. So when we go back to the 225 00:15:03,915 --> 00:15:07,435 Speaker 1: denial of the possibility that decades of demonizing Nancy Pelosi 226 00:15:07,515 --> 00:15:10,235 Speaker 1: and showing TV commercials in which she has chased, shot 227 00:15:10,315 --> 00:15:14,275 Speaker 1: and burned could possibly be the reason that somebody went 228 00:15:14,355 --> 00:15:16,555 Speaker 1: to her house to try to torture and kill her. 229 00:15:16,955 --> 00:15:20,195 Speaker 1: And we go back to every Republican accusation is a confession, 230 00:15:20,315 --> 00:15:23,835 Speaker 1: change my mind. We are in fact wrong in one respect, 231 00:15:23,915 --> 00:15:30,635 Speaker 1: only every Republican accusation is more like one hundred confessions. 232 00:15:43,955 --> 00:15:47,035 Speaker 1: Still ahead, Lindsey Graham has to testify in Georgia. And 233 00:15:47,035 --> 00:15:50,355 Speaker 1: there is more to Elon Musk's bid to monetize Twitter verification. 234 00:15:50,595 --> 00:15:54,115 Speaker 1: In fact, it is effectively blackmail. The Republican running for 235 00:15:54,155 --> 00:15:56,715 Speaker 1: governor Wisconsin comes out and says it if he wins, 236 00:15:57,155 --> 00:16:01,035 Speaker 1: no Republican will ever lose another race there. I guess 237 00:16:01,035 --> 00:16:03,155 Speaker 1: how he intends to do that. How do he af 238 00:16:03,195 --> 00:16:07,835 Speaker 1: fix basketball's Kyrie Irving anti semitism problem where all by 239 00:16:07,955 --> 00:16:12,715 Speaker 1: changing his team's coach naturally, and the continuing prostitution of 240 00:16:12,795 --> 00:16:15,995 Speaker 1: CNN by the right wingers running it now looks so 241 00:16:16,115 --> 00:16:20,075 Speaker 1: familiar to me because I saw it attempted at MSNBC 242 00:16:20,355 --> 00:16:23,035 Speaker 1: in two thousand three. I'll tell you the story of 243 00:16:23,075 --> 00:16:26,235 Speaker 1: the day I quit Countdown and called the car to 244 00:16:26,275 --> 00:16:28,835 Speaker 1: take me home after they tried to force me to 245 00:16:28,915 --> 00:16:33,915 Speaker 1: run a commentary by the infamous Michael Savage. That's next. 246 00:16:34,595 --> 00:16:50,395 Speaker 1: This is Countdown. This is Countdown. With Keith Overman still 247 00:16:50,395 --> 00:16:53,275 Speaker 1: ahead on Countdown, the NBA has the perfect response to 248 00:16:53,315 --> 00:16:58,755 Speaker 1: the Kyrie Irving anti Semitism disaster fire. His team's coach 249 00:16:59,835 --> 00:17:01,835 Speaker 1: looks like the Oakland A's are moving and you know 250 00:17:01,875 --> 00:17:07,755 Speaker 1: who should be moving. Andrea Mitchell All MSNBC worst Person's 251 00:17:07,755 --> 00:17:09,715 Speaker 1: ahead first. In each edition of Countdown, we feature a 252 00:17:09,755 --> 00:17:11,635 Speaker 1: dog in need whom you can help. Every dog has 253 00:17:11,675 --> 00:17:15,315 Speaker 1: its day. Hex is a gorgeous one year old German 254 00:17:15,355 --> 00:17:18,995 Speaker 1: shepherd with big ears even for a shepherd. She is 255 00:17:19,035 --> 00:17:21,875 Speaker 1: on death row at DeVore, California, because she did not 256 00:17:21,995 --> 00:17:24,875 Speaker 1: like a dog she encountered in the pound, yet she 257 00:17:24,875 --> 00:17:26,835 Speaker 1: had gotten along fine with the strange dog she was 258 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:29,635 Speaker 1: kindled with. We can save her with pledges to help 259 00:17:29,675 --> 00:17:33,195 Speaker 1: defray the costs of a rescue pulling her out. She 260 00:17:33,195 --> 00:17:35,675 Speaker 1: could also use a family in California willing to foster her. 261 00:17:35,715 --> 00:17:38,155 Speaker 1: If you can help, Hex will be the pinned tweet 262 00:17:38,595 --> 00:17:41,995 Speaker 1: on my account for dogs in need. Tom Jumbo Grumbo 263 00:17:42,355 --> 00:17:45,795 Speaker 1: Your pledge big or small to get her out will 264 00:17:45,835 --> 00:17:49,195 Speaker 1: be gratefully welcomed. If you can't foster, that would be 265 00:17:49,235 --> 00:17:52,595 Speaker 1: even better. Still, your retweet of Hex's story will also 266 00:17:52,635 --> 00:18:10,395 Speaker 1: be of immeasurable help. Thank you for that help. O 267 00:18:10,595 --> 00:18:13,555 Speaker 1: scripts to the news, some headlines, some inside, some snark, 268 00:18:13,635 --> 00:18:17,235 Speaker 1: and now we are adding some predictions. Dateline, Washington. Supreme 269 00:18:17,235 --> 00:18:20,755 Speaker 1: Court actually rules against Senator Lindsey Graham. He does have 270 00:18:20,915 --> 00:18:24,515 Speaker 1: to testify to the Fulton County grand jury investigating Trump's 271 00:18:24,515 --> 00:18:28,235 Speaker 1: attempt to falsify the election results in Georgia. He is 272 00:18:28,275 --> 00:18:33,515 Speaker 1: scheduled to testify November. Plus. Trump chief of staff Mark 273 00:18:33,595 --> 00:18:37,435 Speaker 1: Meadows was pinning his hopes on not testifying on a 274 00:18:37,515 --> 00:18:41,955 Speaker 1: decision in Graham's favor, so out that goes prediction. Graham 275 00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:45,235 Speaker 1: now appeals the Supreme Court verdict to the United Federation 276 00:18:45,355 --> 00:18:50,075 Speaker 1: of Planets. Dateline Madison, Wisconsin. Ever since the Scott Walker days, 277 00:18:50,115 --> 00:18:54,195 Speaker 1: Wisconsin has been ground zero for Republican efforts to maintain 278 00:18:54,315 --> 00:18:57,915 Speaker 1: permanent control of a state and then a nation by 279 00:18:58,035 --> 00:19:02,315 Speaker 1: jerrymandering districts and overruling any executive they disagreed with by 280 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:06,915 Speaker 1: means of special legislation. While now their Republican gubernatorial candidate 281 00:19:06,955 --> 00:19:10,355 Speaker 1: in Wisconsin, Tim Michaels has said that Quiet part out 282 00:19:10,395 --> 00:19:14,075 Speaker 1: loud in audio obtained and provided by the liberal group 283 00:19:14,155 --> 00:19:18,915 Speaker 1: American Bridge. Michaels said it at a campaign stop Monday. 284 00:19:19,155 --> 00:19:23,075 Speaker 1: Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm 285 00:19:23,115 --> 00:19:26,595 Speaker 1: elected governor. No context, we don't really need one. Michaels 286 00:19:26,595 --> 00:19:29,235 Speaker 1: has insisted, if elected, he may try to decertify the 287 00:19:29,915 --> 00:19:33,915 Speaker 1: presidential vote just to please l Douche himself. Let me 288 00:19:33,995 --> 00:19:37,755 Speaker 1: hear Tim Michael's one more time. Republicans will never lose 289 00:19:37,795 --> 00:19:41,675 Speaker 1: another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor, because there'll 290 00:19:41,675 --> 00:19:44,635 Speaker 1: never be another election in Wisconsin after he's elected governor. 291 00:19:44,715 --> 00:19:48,515 Speaker 1: Dateline Washington, lish Cheney says the January six Committee is 292 00:19:48,555 --> 00:19:52,795 Speaker 1: discussing how it wants Trump to testify. Quote. We have 293 00:19:52,875 --> 00:19:55,835 Speaker 1: not made determinations about format, but it will be done 294 00:19:55,955 --> 00:19:59,435 Speaker 1: under oath. It will be done over multiple days. Prediction. 295 00:19:59,795 --> 00:20:02,475 Speaker 1: Trump is not going to testify even if the Democrats 296 00:20:02,555 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: keep the House. He will dare the Department of just 297 00:20:04,755 --> 00:20:08,635 Speaker 1: just to prosecute him. Dateline Soul, South Korea. The latest 298 00:20:08,675 --> 00:20:11,755 Speaker 1: number of fatalities in the Halloween crushed their Saturday night 299 00:20:11,795 --> 00:20:15,155 Speaker 1: is a hundred and fifty three. The BBC is reporting 300 00:20:15,195 --> 00:20:19,595 Speaker 1: that the first calls to police warning of dangerous overcrowding 301 00:20:19,595 --> 00:20:22,235 Speaker 1: in the narrow streets where the celebration was taking place, 302 00:20:22,875 --> 00:20:26,835 Speaker 1: came four hours before the Nightmare unfolded, and there were 303 00:20:26,875 --> 00:20:32,275 Speaker 1: eleven calls made and essentially ignored and dateline San Francisco first, 304 00:20:32,275 --> 00:20:35,315 Speaker 1: Elon Musk decided to demand twenty dollars a month for 305 00:20:35,355 --> 00:20:39,755 Speaker 1: account verification blue checks, as they're known. Then the author 306 00:20:39,795 --> 00:20:43,475 Speaker 1: Stephen King roasted him, and Musk actually asked if King 307 00:20:43,515 --> 00:20:46,355 Speaker 1: would instead pay eight dollars a month. We all know 308 00:20:46,475 --> 00:20:48,715 Speaker 1: what you are. We're now just haggling over the price. 309 00:20:48,795 --> 00:20:51,995 Speaker 1: Elon eventually Musk tried to position this is some sort 310 00:20:51,995 --> 00:20:56,555 Speaker 1: of populist message. Quote Twitter's current Lords and Peasants system 311 00:20:56,635 --> 00:20:59,315 Speaker 1: for who has or doesn't have a blue check mark 312 00:20:59,475 --> 00:21:03,675 Speaker 1: is bs power to the people blue For eight dollars 313 00:21:03,715 --> 00:21:08,195 Speaker 1: a month, you also get priority in replies, mentions, and search, 314 00:21:08,595 --> 00:21:11,595 Speaker 1: an ability to post long video and audio. In other words, 315 00:21:11,755 --> 00:21:14,155 Speaker 1: pay a me eight dollars a month, or will not 316 00:21:14,235 --> 00:21:17,035 Speaker 1: only take away your blue check, but we will shadow 317 00:21:17,115 --> 00:21:20,315 Speaker 1: ban you. It's blackmail and it could get worse. Musk 318 00:21:20,315 --> 00:21:24,155 Speaker 1: could easily threatened to take somebody's ARCT verification away and 319 00:21:24,235 --> 00:21:28,395 Speaker 1: sell that verification to somebody else. Musk also applauded a 320 00:21:28,435 --> 00:21:32,275 Speaker 1: tweet from somebody named Brent Winton, who seems to misunderstand 321 00:21:32,275 --> 00:21:34,635 Speaker 1: why those of us with the blue checks value them, 322 00:21:34,755 --> 00:21:38,235 Speaker 1: quoting lords who have been knighted by the Twitter verification 323 00:21:38,315 --> 00:21:41,075 Speaker 1: wand are upset that the proles will be able to 324 00:21:41,115 --> 00:21:44,355 Speaker 1: buy status. Has nothing to do with status. It's about 325 00:21:44,395 --> 00:21:48,475 Speaker 1: other people impersonating you and writing anything and putting your 326 00:21:48,635 --> 00:21:51,875 Speaker 1: name on it. If people like this Winton are jealous 327 00:21:51,875 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: of a verification mark, that's their emotional problem. There are 328 00:21:56,115 --> 00:22:00,075 Speaker 1: several even more stupid elements to this. Elon Musk explained 329 00:22:00,075 --> 00:22:02,995 Speaker 1: to Stephen King that he can't rely on advertisers alone 330 00:22:03,075 --> 00:22:06,115 Speaker 1: to pay the Twitter bills. There are about three hundred 331 00:22:06,195 --> 00:22:09,675 Speaker 1: thousand verified Twitter users. If ten of them pay that 332 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:13,675 Speaker 1: eight dollars a month, that will earn Twitter almost three 333 00:22:13,955 --> 00:22:17,595 Speaker 1: million dollars a year. Even if they all paid, that 334 00:22:17,635 --> 00:22:20,995 Speaker 1: would be thirty million a year. Relying on advertising, Twitter 335 00:22:21,035 --> 00:22:23,515 Speaker 1: is currently taking in revenue of five billion a year, 336 00:22:24,075 --> 00:22:27,915 Speaker 1: and the response to the chaos IPG Marketing, which advises 337 00:22:27,955 --> 00:22:31,435 Speaker 1: major companies like American Express, Spotify, and Johnson and Johnson 338 00:22:31,795 --> 00:22:35,795 Speaker 1: has advised all of its clients to pause all advertising 339 00:22:35,915 --> 00:22:40,675 Speaker 1: on Twitter, and Musk's reliance on investment from Saudi Arabia, 340 00:22:40,755 --> 00:22:45,195 Speaker 1: Qatar and China has, according to The Washington Post, led 341 00:22:45,195 --> 00:22:48,475 Speaker 1: the U. S. Treasury Department to look into whether it 342 00:22:48,595 --> 00:22:51,995 Speaker 1: has the right to investigate and maybe hold up the 343 00:22:52,035 --> 00:22:56,035 Speaker 1: purchase because that purchase might give foreign nationals access to 344 00:22:56,075 --> 00:23:01,555 Speaker 1: the personal info of users in this country. Nice work, Elmo. 345 00:23:14,395 --> 00:23:20,835 Speaker 1: This is Sports Center. Wait check that, not anymore. This 346 00:23:21,675 --> 00:23:27,755 Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith in Sports. World Series resumed in 347 00:23:27,835 --> 00:23:32,195 Speaker 1: Philly last night. Once again. Home runs, nothing but home runs. Literally, 348 00:23:32,795 --> 00:23:36,555 Speaker 1: We've crossed one thousand World Series home runs now, not 349 00:23:36,755 --> 00:23:40,275 Speaker 1: just this year. I gave up after Lance mccolors of 350 00:23:40,315 --> 00:23:42,515 Speaker 1: the Astros became the first pitcher ever to give up 351 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:44,995 Speaker 1: five homers in a series game, or in fact, any 352 00:23:45,035 --> 00:23:48,915 Speaker 1: postseason game, and Astro's manager Dusty Baker, who is beloved 353 00:23:48,995 --> 00:23:53,755 Speaker 1: universally but who has been since n a notoriously mediocre 354 00:23:53,835 --> 00:23:57,435 Speaker 1: in game manager, left mccolors in to face the Phillies 355 00:23:57,475 --> 00:23:59,355 Speaker 1: for a third time through the batting order. I think 356 00:23:59,395 --> 00:24:03,515 Speaker 1: the final score it was Phillies seventy three astros just watching, 357 00:24:04,195 --> 00:24:07,195 Speaker 1: I know will get tired of people being tired of 358 00:24:07,235 --> 00:24:11,435 Speaker 1: too many home runs. I first complained about it circa seven. 359 00:24:11,555 --> 00:24:14,515 Speaker 1: The great writer Ring Lardner was driven away from baseball 360 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:16,955 Speaker 1: because he thought there were too many home runs in 361 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:22,515 Speaker 1: ninety But it's just so boring and repetitive. And don't 362 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:24,675 Speaker 1: tell me. Oh, that kid in right fielder dropped Brandon 363 00:24:24,715 --> 00:24:26,875 Speaker 1: Marsha's homer last night. That was such a human moment. 364 00:24:26,875 --> 00:24:28,635 Speaker 1: And then the Phillies gave him the ball. If the 365 00:24:28,715 --> 00:24:31,235 Speaker 1: kid ty Coner just waits long enough, they'll be like 366 00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:34,875 Speaker 1: three more homers hit to him the other Baseball, in 367 00:24:34,915 --> 00:24:37,395 Speaker 1: another tradition as old as time itself, looks like the 368 00:24:37,435 --> 00:24:41,075 Speaker 1: Oakland A's will be moving and moving to Las Vegas, 369 00:24:41,315 --> 00:24:44,795 Speaker 1: Commissioner Manfred telling interviewers a new ballpark in Oakland quote 370 00:24:44,795 --> 00:24:47,875 Speaker 1: just doesn't look like it's going to happen, And more importantly, 371 00:24:47,955 --> 00:24:51,835 Speaker 1: says baseball's owners would waive a relocation fee if the 372 00:24:51,915 --> 00:24:54,715 Speaker 1: A's were to move to Nevada. Such a move would 373 00:24:54,715 --> 00:24:57,275 Speaker 1: eliminate Vegas as a place for an expansion team and 374 00:24:57,315 --> 00:24:59,595 Speaker 1: the two billion dollars it would net the other owners. 375 00:24:59,995 --> 00:25:02,915 Speaker 1: The A's moved from Philadelphia where they started, to Kansas 376 00:25:02,915 --> 00:25:06,395 Speaker 1: City in nineteen fifty five, to Oakland in ninety eight, 377 00:25:06,675 --> 00:25:09,715 Speaker 1: and to Denver in nineteen seventy seven seventy seventy nine, 378 00:25:09,915 --> 00:25:12,275 Speaker 1: only to have those last three moves blocked by the 379 00:25:12,315 --> 00:25:16,675 Speaker 1: other owners. And how has the NBA responded to Brooklyn 380 00:25:16,715 --> 00:25:19,875 Speaker 1: Nets star Kyrie Irving and his implied threat of anti 381 00:25:19,915 --> 00:25:23,515 Speaker 1: Semitic violence after he was challenged for having endorsed an 382 00:25:23,555 --> 00:25:27,195 Speaker 1: anti Semitic book and movie and the protesters showed up 383 00:25:27,235 --> 00:25:31,075 Speaker 1: wearing fight anti Semitism shirts sitting right behind the Brooklyn bench. 384 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,235 Speaker 1: What did the NBA do about it? The Nets yesterday 385 00:25:34,275 --> 00:25:39,555 Speaker 1: parted ways with their coach, Steve Nash. Kyrie Irving then 386 00:25:39,555 --> 00:25:41,515 Speaker 1: went out with the new coach and missed all six 387 00:25:41,595 --> 00:25:44,435 Speaker 1: three pointers he tried. He scored a total of four points. 388 00:25:44,435 --> 00:25:47,595 Speaker 1: The Nets lost to the Chicago Bulls ninety nine. Nets 389 00:25:47,595 --> 00:25:51,515 Speaker 1: general manager Shawn Marks then informed media that Kyrie Irving 390 00:25:51,555 --> 00:25:54,475 Speaker 1: would not be available for interviews after the game. Quote, 391 00:25:54,715 --> 00:25:57,395 Speaker 1: we don't want to cause more fuss right now. Let's 392 00:25:57,475 --> 00:26:01,755 Speaker 1: let him simmer down, Mark said, unquote share a great idea. 393 00:26:02,395 --> 00:26:05,515 Speaker 1: Let's let him sit. Him simmer down. Simmer down for 394 00:26:05,835 --> 00:26:23,795 Speaker 1: five or ten seasons, suspend him coming up? What are 395 00:26:23,835 --> 00:26:27,195 Speaker 1: they doing at CNN preparing to protect their profits even 396 00:26:27,195 --> 00:26:31,235 Speaker 1: if this country goes full fascists. I was an eyewitness 397 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:34,035 Speaker 1: when MSNBC tried this in two thousand three, and I 398 00:26:34,075 --> 00:26:37,555 Speaker 1: had to walk off the set to keep them from 399 00:26:37,595 --> 00:26:40,595 Speaker 1: forcing me to run a Michael Savage commentary in the 400 00:26:40,635 --> 00:26:43,355 Speaker 1: middle of the countdown. I'll tell you that story first. 401 00:26:43,355 --> 00:26:45,235 Speaker 1: It's the daily round up of the miscreants, morons and 402 00:26:45,275 --> 00:26:49,235 Speaker 1: Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in 403 00:26:49,275 --> 00:26:54,235 Speaker 1: the world. Lebronze Congressman Jim Jordan's with a foreword tweet 404 00:26:54,355 --> 00:26:59,555 Speaker 1: quote make America safe again? Given the cults obsession with acronyms, 405 00:26:59,675 --> 00:27:04,435 Speaker 1: make America safe again would be massa massa as in 406 00:27:04,715 --> 00:27:08,795 Speaker 1: every cliche from every story ever about American slavery. And 407 00:27:08,875 --> 00:27:12,795 Speaker 1: make America safe again for whom? Jim for the Pelosi's 408 00:27:13,715 --> 00:27:18,715 Speaker 1: for the wrestlers. Lebronze draws mement Oz, fascist candidate for 409 00:27:18,795 --> 00:27:22,155 Speaker 1: Senate from Pennsylvania. The Washington Post caught him cooking the 410 00:27:22,195 --> 00:27:26,235 Speaker 1: research books and getting banned for two years from publishing 411 00:27:26,675 --> 00:27:30,435 Speaker 1: in the Journal of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. 412 00:27:30,515 --> 00:27:33,675 Speaker 1: But for my money, the Post buried its lead. It 413 00:27:33,795 --> 00:27:36,595 Speaker 1: reports that OZ tried to get his old boss, Eric Rose, 414 00:27:36,715 --> 00:27:39,795 Speaker 1: chief of cardiac surgery at Columbia University, to cover up 415 00:27:40,195 --> 00:27:45,035 Speaker 1: the puppy story. Quoting about three weeks ago, Rose said 416 00:27:45,115 --> 00:27:47,795 Speaker 1: Oz reached out after years of not being in touch 417 00:27:48,195 --> 00:27:50,515 Speaker 1: and asked him to say publicly that OZ did not 418 00:27:50,715 --> 00:27:55,515 Speaker 1: bear responsibility for alleged inhumane treatment of puppies that occurred 419 00:27:55,915 --> 00:27:59,435 Speaker 1: as part of medical research oz oversaw. Rose said he 420 00:27:59,515 --> 00:28:02,275 Speaker 1: declined Oz's request because it felt like a political favor. 421 00:28:03,875 --> 00:28:10,395 Speaker 1: He killed puppy cruelly. But our winner, Andrew Mitchell of MSNBC, 422 00:28:11,875 --> 00:28:15,035 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. She was one of the greats. She gave 423 00:28:15,155 --> 00:28:18,915 Speaker 1: us at MSNBC credibility fifteen and twenty years ago when 424 00:28:18,955 --> 00:28:23,515 Speaker 1: most people at NBC laughed at us. But this is 425 00:28:23,555 --> 00:28:28,995 Speaker 1: out of control. Yesterday she literally both sized the attack 426 00:28:29,155 --> 00:28:33,035 Speaker 1: on the Pelosi's quoting her, let me just repeat, the 427 00:28:33,115 --> 00:28:37,515 Speaker 1: Republicans have been targeted, Andrew Mitchell said yesterday. Quote. There 428 00:28:37,515 --> 00:28:41,355 Speaker 1: have been death threats. Adam Kinzinger, Liz Cheney memorably could 429 00:28:41,435 --> 00:28:45,115 Speaker 1: barely campaign in Wyoming in public. You know, Susan Collins 430 00:28:45,195 --> 00:28:48,035 Speaker 1: talk about the protection in one's home, so it's both 431 00:28:48,075 --> 00:28:53,315 Speaker 1: sides unquote. Susan Collins called the cops because two women 432 00:28:53,355 --> 00:28:56,355 Speaker 1: had written a pro choice message on the public sidewalk 433 00:28:56,435 --> 00:29:00,515 Speaker 1: outside the Collins home. And the death threats that Republicans 434 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:04,155 Speaker 1: Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney got that Andrew Mitchell brought 435 00:29:04,235 --> 00:29:05,595 Speaker 1: up as if she was the only one who knew 436 00:29:05,595 --> 00:29:09,115 Speaker 1: about them. They were from other Republicans who were enraged 437 00:29:09,475 --> 00:29:14,755 Speaker 1: because Kinsinger and Cheney would not defend Trump. Andrew Mitchell 438 00:29:14,795 --> 00:29:16,995 Speaker 1: seems to have no idea that any of this is true. 439 00:29:17,635 --> 00:29:19,795 Speaker 1: She seems lost on the air. She has been doing 440 00:29:19,795 --> 00:29:22,475 Speaker 1: it this way for weeks, for months, maybe a year. 441 00:29:23,155 --> 00:29:26,475 Speaker 1: She is providing a disservice to her audience and to 442 00:29:26,635 --> 00:29:30,435 Speaker 1: journalism and to herself. Sad to say she needs to 443 00:29:30,475 --> 00:29:34,635 Speaker 1: retire today and if she won't, MSNBC needs to remove her. 444 00:29:35,355 --> 00:29:47,435 Speaker 1: Andrew Mitchell Today's worst person in the world. Finally to 445 00:29:47,555 --> 00:29:50,115 Speaker 1: the number one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, 446 00:29:50,235 --> 00:29:52,475 Speaker 1: me and things I've promised not to tell and I've 447 00:29:52,475 --> 00:29:55,915 Speaker 1: been warning you about. CNN and Chris Licked, the former 448 00:29:55,995 --> 00:29:59,595 Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough hitman who when we worked together at MSNBC. 449 00:29:59,755 --> 00:30:03,195 Speaker 1: I used to think eight pace. He was hired to 450 00:30:03,275 --> 00:30:05,155 Speaker 1: run c ANN by its new right Way owners to 451 00:30:05,235 --> 00:30:09,915 Speaker 1: neutralize CNN. A maga breaks into Nancy Pelosi's home, nearly 452 00:30:09,995 --> 00:30:13,035 Speaker 1: kills her husband, plans to hold her hostage until she 453 00:30:13,115 --> 00:30:16,835 Speaker 1: tells him some sort of truth. CNN has on Kentucky 454 00:30:16,875 --> 00:30:21,035 Speaker 1: fascist Congressman James Comber to respond, and he explains people 455 00:30:21,075 --> 00:30:24,315 Speaker 1: in both parties toned down the rhetoric, and then he 456 00:30:24,315 --> 00:30:27,315 Speaker 1: seiguays into the GOP plan to investigate Hunter and James 457 00:30:27,315 --> 00:30:31,595 Speaker 1: Biden because that shirt tones down the rhetoric. Almost every night, 458 00:30:31,715 --> 00:30:34,755 Speaker 1: Chris Licked has this idiot Scott Jennings on in primetime. 459 00:30:35,355 --> 00:30:38,395 Speaker 1: He's a conservative. He didn't like what a liberal commentator 460 00:30:38,515 --> 00:30:40,955 Speaker 1: sitting next to him on the stage was saying, so 461 00:30:41,035 --> 00:30:43,075 Speaker 1: he said of him, quote, tell you what, man, do 462 00:30:43,115 --> 00:30:48,235 Speaker 1: you have a single friend? Absolute jerk? I'll repeat my point. 463 00:30:48,995 --> 00:30:52,875 Speaker 1: This is no voting accident. The reason Glickt is in 464 00:30:52,995 --> 00:30:56,835 Speaker 1: charge of CNN is virtually every mainstream media organization in 465 00:30:56,835 --> 00:30:59,755 Speaker 1: this country has already had the meeting they had at CNN. 466 00:31:00,035 --> 00:31:05,235 Speaker 1: Let's discuss how if America goes fully fascist. In earlier 467 00:31:05,635 --> 00:31:09,315 Speaker 1: we can still protect this company's profits. I say this 468 00:31:09,395 --> 00:31:12,115 Speaker 1: not merely because I know most of the people running 469 00:31:12,115 --> 00:31:17,475 Speaker 1: the mainstream media organizations, but because these conversations have already happened, 470 00:31:17,475 --> 00:31:22,035 Speaker 1: and they happened long ago, largely because the first not 471 00:31:22,275 --> 00:31:25,155 Speaker 1: white guy president was elected just seven years and two 472 00:31:25,155 --> 00:31:29,355 Speaker 1: months after nine eleven. We forget how seriously and terrifyingly 473 00:31:29,475 --> 00:31:32,515 Speaker 1: we already have teetered on the edge of full fledged 474 00:31:32,515 --> 00:31:35,315 Speaker 1: fascism here after the attacks on the World Trade Center 475 00:31:35,355 --> 00:31:39,835 Speaker 1: and the Pentagon nine eleven happened between my two tenures 476 00:31:39,835 --> 00:31:43,235 Speaker 1: at MSNBC, but I returned a year and a half 477 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:46,195 Speaker 1: after it happened, and by then the place I went 478 00:31:46,235 --> 00:31:48,875 Speaker 1: back to work had already hired a sort of Alex 479 00:31:48,995 --> 00:31:53,155 Speaker 1: Jones prototype radio host named Michael Savage, and it was 480 00:31:53,195 --> 00:31:55,395 Speaker 1: slowly trying to build him into the host of a 481 00:31:55,435 --> 00:32:01,035 Speaker 1: weeknight show. Savage was a homophobe plus an equal opportunity bigot. 482 00:32:01,275 --> 00:32:03,835 Speaker 1: His real name was Michael Leaner, and all you need 483 00:32:03,875 --> 00:32:05,555 Speaker 1: to know about him is he was a weener who 484 00:32:05,635 --> 00:32:08,515 Speaker 1: pretended he was a savage. What happened to him when 485 00:32:08,555 --> 00:32:10,755 Speaker 1: they tried to stick him into prime time and what 486 00:32:10,835 --> 00:32:13,315 Speaker 1: he said that led to his firing and the blowing 487 00:32:13,395 --> 00:32:16,475 Speaker 1: up of the let's out Fox Fox News plan of 488 00:32:16,555 --> 00:32:19,875 Speaker 1: the then NBC chairman and CEO Bob Wright is a 489 00:32:19,915 --> 00:32:22,595 Speaker 1: great story. I will relish telling you in a moment, 490 00:32:23,475 --> 00:32:28,355 Speaker 1: but first a little context to this. MSNBC and Fox 491 00:32:28,475 --> 00:32:32,755 Speaker 1: Nudes launched within weeks of each other in n and 492 00:32:32,835 --> 00:32:36,555 Speaker 1: for a while, in fact, until I left MSNBC in December, 493 00:32:37,555 --> 00:32:41,595 Speaker 1: we were ahead of Fox in many time periods, though 494 00:32:41,675 --> 00:32:46,435 Speaker 1: CNN crushed us both. Then Fox ascended, then came nine eleven, 495 00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,835 Speaker 1: and then Bob Wright thought he saw his opportunity. All 496 00:32:49,915 --> 00:32:51,915 Speaker 1: you need to know about him is that after he 497 00:32:52,075 --> 00:32:56,715 Speaker 1: left the position of running NBC, he became a contributor 498 00:32:56,755 --> 00:33:01,755 Speaker 1: to Fox Business. At MSNBC, right gave Oliver North his 499 00:33:01,835 --> 00:33:05,315 Speaker 1: own show and Laura Ingram her own show. He had 500 00:33:05,355 --> 00:33:08,795 Speaker 1: given a program to Alan Keyes, a Republican who somehow 501 00:33:08,835 --> 00:33:11,955 Speaker 1: managed to lose Senate races in two different states and 502 00:33:12,075 --> 00:33:16,835 Speaker 1: washed out three different times in Republican presidential primaries. His 503 00:33:16,955 --> 00:33:20,555 Speaker 1: MSNBC show consisted of him giving speeches. Though he was 504 00:33:20,595 --> 00:33:23,715 Speaker 1: alone in a studio with no audience, Alan Keys could 505 00:33:23,715 --> 00:33:26,715 Speaker 1: not break himself up. His habit of spraying the room 506 00:33:26,755 --> 00:33:29,715 Speaker 1: with his eyes the viewer at home would see him 507 00:33:29,755 --> 00:33:32,955 Speaker 1: looking off camera to his left, then looking at the camera, 508 00:33:33,235 --> 00:33:35,875 Speaker 1: then looking off camera to the right. He went back 509 00:33:35,915 --> 00:33:38,875 Speaker 1: and forth like a sprinkler. I remember once looking at 510 00:33:38,915 --> 00:33:41,955 Speaker 1: him and yelling at the TV, hey, all over here, 511 00:33:41,995 --> 00:33:45,395 Speaker 1: I'm the one in the middle. Bob Right also brought 512 00:33:45,435 --> 00:33:48,395 Speaker 1: in Joe Scarborough, long before Scarborough knew how to disguise 513 00:33:48,515 --> 00:33:53,235 Speaker 1: much of his fascism. Bob Right fired Phil Donohue, although 514 00:33:53,275 --> 00:33:54,995 Speaker 1: to be fair, that was really more about money than 515 00:33:55,035 --> 00:33:57,635 Speaker 1: it was about politics. But he replaced Donna Hues show 516 00:33:57,675 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: with what was supposed to be a high speed, slightly 517 00:34:00,875 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: right leaning newscast produced by a Fox News refugee. It 518 00:34:04,355 --> 00:34:10,595 Speaker 1: was called Old Countdown with Sam Donaldson, and needless to say, 519 00:34:10,635 --> 00:34:13,755 Speaker 1: the right leaning idea went horribly horribly wrong after they 520 00:34:13,835 --> 00:34:19,315 Speaker 1: changed it to Countdown with Keith Olberman. MSNBC's lineup was 521 00:34:19,435 --> 00:34:23,235 Speaker 1: remarkably unstable at that time. I had hosted its eight 522 00:34:23,275 --> 00:34:27,355 Speaker 1: pm show from October one through the beginning of December, 523 00:34:28,235 --> 00:34:30,115 Speaker 1: and then I left to go back to sports and 524 00:34:30,195 --> 00:34:34,355 Speaker 1: baseball at Fox. Then the eight pm hour was hosted 525 00:34:34,355 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: by John Hockenberry for three months. Then Ali North got 526 00:34:38,435 --> 00:34:41,875 Speaker 1: his shot a month later, they started having rotating liberals 527 00:34:41,915 --> 00:34:45,795 Speaker 1: co host with Ali North. In April became North and 528 00:34:45,835 --> 00:34:49,395 Speaker 1: Paul Begala. That was five shows in five months. In 529 00:34:49,515 --> 00:34:51,795 Speaker 1: May they cut North and Begala to half an hour. 530 00:34:52,155 --> 00:34:54,595 Speaker 1: In June they canceled them and replaced them with a 531 00:34:54,635 --> 00:34:58,795 Speaker 1: half hour and Curry documentary. In early two thousand, Curry 532 00:34:59,035 --> 00:35:01,755 Speaker 1: was expanded to an hour, but then in May Curry 533 00:35:01,835 --> 00:35:05,035 Speaker 1: was replaced by Lorie Doo. In August two and they 534 00:35:05,035 --> 00:35:09,475 Speaker 1: started their version of Dateline called MSNBC Investigates. In September, 535 00:35:09,475 --> 00:35:12,635 Speaker 1: they cut that show to four days a week and 536 00:35:12,755 --> 00:35:15,755 Speaker 1: launched a vanished white Woman of the Week show actually 537 00:35:15,795 --> 00:35:20,755 Speaker 1: called Missing Persons with Diane Diamond, which they canceled after 538 00:35:20,795 --> 00:35:24,275 Speaker 1: one episode, and then they put MSNBC Investigates back on. 539 00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:25,995 Speaker 1: Then they canceled that a month later to make room 540 00:35:25,995 --> 00:35:29,115 Speaker 1: for a newscast with Forrest Sawyer. Then after the uncertainty 541 00:35:29,115 --> 00:35:31,795 Speaker 1: of the two thousand election, they refocused that as Decision 542 00:35:31,835 --> 00:35:35,355 Speaker 1: two thousand worth Forest Sawyer. In January two thousand one, 543 00:35:35,395 --> 00:35:38,555 Speaker 1: they canceled Forest Sawyer and put MSNBC Investigates back on 544 00:35:38,675 --> 00:35:41,515 Speaker 1: for the third different time. Then in July they moved 545 00:35:41,515 --> 00:35:44,475 Speaker 1: the news with Brian Williams from nine pm to eight pm. 546 00:35:44,595 --> 00:35:47,475 Speaker 1: Then the next September they moved Brian to CNBC and 547 00:35:47,515 --> 00:35:50,315 Speaker 1: instead launched Phil Donahue show in the eight p m 548 00:35:50,475 --> 00:35:54,275 Speaker 1: MSNBC slot. Then in March two thousand three, day off Donahue, 549 00:35:54,715 --> 00:35:58,235 Speaker 1: they started Countdown, originally with Lester Holt, Pat Buchanan and 550 00:35:58,275 --> 00:36:00,995 Speaker 1: Bill Press. Then after the war started and there wasn't 551 00:36:01,035 --> 00:36:03,755 Speaker 1: anything to count down to anymore, they hired me to 552 00:36:03,795 --> 00:36:07,315 Speaker 1: host Operate Iraqi Freedom, and after one week of that 553 00:36:07,435 --> 00:36:11,675 Speaker 1: show they launched Countdown with Keith all Ryman. That's twenty 554 00:36:11,675 --> 00:36:14,595 Speaker 1: different shows or four matsy in four years and four months. 555 00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:20,155 Speaker 1: So Bob Wright's next primetime ideas, and you gotta give 556 00:36:20,195 --> 00:36:23,035 Speaker 1: him this much. He had a lot of primetime ideas 557 00:36:23,395 --> 00:36:25,995 Speaker 1: and virtually all of them made it onto TV. His 558 00:36:26,195 --> 00:36:28,675 Speaker 1: next set of ideas was a prime time lineup of 559 00:36:28,715 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: me doing the News at eight, then Scarborough at nine, 560 00:36:32,635 --> 00:36:36,635 Speaker 1: then Jesse Ventura at ten, and then this Michael Savage character. 561 00:36:37,395 --> 00:36:40,195 Speaker 1: They began this plot by giving Savage his own show 562 00:36:40,395 --> 00:36:44,275 Speaker 1: an hour every Saturday afternoon on March eighth, two thousand three. 563 00:36:45,675 --> 00:36:52,035 Speaker 1: Everybody agreed it was crap on radio. Savage sounded kind 564 00:36:52,035 --> 00:36:54,755 Speaker 1: of threatening, I guess, kind of red meat fascist. But 565 00:36:54,875 --> 00:36:59,075 Speaker 1: on TV taking calls from viewers in a tiny, little, 566 00:36:59,075 --> 00:37:02,395 Speaker 1: cramped looking studio somewhere in the Bay Area, he looked 567 00:37:02,435 --> 00:37:06,235 Speaker 1: small and whiny and cavetchy, and he was wearing a 568 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:09,435 Speaker 1: bad toupee and a suit that was far worse than that. 569 00:37:11,515 --> 00:37:14,155 Speaker 1: When I was negotiating my return to MSNBC in two 570 00:37:14,195 --> 00:37:16,315 Speaker 1: thousand three, I got the executive in charge of Prime 571 00:37:16,355 --> 00:37:19,115 Speaker 1: Time to put it in my contract that Michael Savage 572 00:37:19,155 --> 00:37:22,755 Speaker 1: would never appear on my newscast in any form unless 573 00:37:22,795 --> 00:37:27,675 Speaker 1: it was an obituary, open and shut. But then on Friday, 574 00:37:27,675 --> 00:37:31,035 Speaker 1: April three, I came into work. We were about a 575 00:37:31,075 --> 00:37:33,875 Speaker 1: month into the show, and there in the computer rundown 576 00:37:33,915 --> 00:37:38,515 Speaker 1: of my newscast was a prerecorded Michael Savage commentary. As 577 00:37:38,555 --> 00:37:40,355 Speaker 1: soon as he saw I was in the office, the 578 00:37:40,395 --> 00:37:43,395 Speaker 1: executive producer they had hired from Fox across side chain 579 00:37:43,435 --> 00:37:46,395 Speaker 1: smoker named Dennis Murray, pushed his way into my office 580 00:37:46,395 --> 00:37:48,955 Speaker 1: and said, we have to run a Michael Savage commentary. 581 00:37:49,195 --> 00:37:52,115 Speaker 1: There's also a mandatory Matt Drudge SoundBite. This is per 582 00:37:52,195 --> 00:37:54,115 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin. So don't think you can call Phil to 583 00:37:54,115 --> 00:37:56,195 Speaker 1: get it dropped. He's not in New York, he's not reachable, 584 00:37:56,675 --> 00:38:00,035 Speaker 1: and he left. I called my agent. I told her 585 00:38:00,075 --> 00:38:02,195 Speaker 1: the story, and I matter of factively asked, if they 586 00:38:02,195 --> 00:38:04,755 Speaker 1: don't drop it, I have to walk out, don't I 587 00:38:04,835 --> 00:38:09,435 Speaker 1: mind you? She had just exhausted herself negotiating my extremely 588 00:38:09,555 --> 00:38:14,075 Speaker 1: unlikely return to MSNBC. She didn't flinch. Of course, you 589 00:38:14,115 --> 00:38:16,795 Speaker 1: have to walk out, but first call Phillip Griffin's office 590 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:18,955 Speaker 1: and tell him you're leaving. Give him a chance. It'll 591 00:38:18,995 --> 00:38:22,875 Speaker 1: help when you soothe them. It was breach of contract. 592 00:38:23,755 --> 00:38:26,795 Speaker 1: I find dramatic, life changing and potentially costly stuff like 593 00:38:26,835 --> 00:38:29,675 Speaker 1: that is usually way easier if you have the high 594 00:38:29,715 --> 00:38:33,635 Speaker 1: moral ground. So I called Griffin's office. His assistant said 595 00:38:33,635 --> 00:38:35,675 Speaker 1: he was in Washington and meetings and could not be reached. 596 00:38:35,715 --> 00:38:38,275 Speaker 1: I said, well, you should reach somebody there. Tell them 597 00:38:38,315 --> 00:38:40,115 Speaker 1: I just called a car to take me home because 598 00:38:40,155 --> 00:38:43,075 Speaker 1: my contract says you can't put Michael effing Savage on 599 00:38:43,115 --> 00:38:45,995 Speaker 1: my newscast and somebody just did nice working with you all, 600 00:38:46,035 --> 00:38:50,555 Speaker 1: And tell Phil to give me a call sometime sometime. 601 00:38:50,715 --> 00:38:55,315 Speaker 1: Was three minutes later, Griffin, who frequently panicked outdid himself 602 00:38:55,315 --> 00:38:58,715 Speaker 1: on this call. You would really walk out, Buddy, I said, 603 00:38:58,715 --> 00:39:01,035 Speaker 1: it was in the contract. I was putting my pens 604 00:39:01,035 --> 00:39:05,115 Speaker 1: and books in a box as we spoke. Uh, I 605 00:39:05,115 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: told him he was repeating himself. Finally, he said, okay, okay, okay, buddy, 606 00:39:10,395 --> 00:39:12,235 Speaker 1: can you just can you look at the commentary and 607 00:39:12,555 --> 00:39:15,915 Speaker 1: find me a reason, a reason it isn't about politics, 608 00:39:16,355 --> 00:39:20,115 Speaker 1: why it shouldn't run. I said, you mean, like video 609 00:39:20,195 --> 00:39:26,875 Speaker 1: quality or racist language or something. Phil Griffin's voice brightened. Yeah, good, 610 00:39:27,035 --> 00:39:29,835 Speaker 1: racist language or something that would be great. Call me back. 611 00:39:31,395 --> 00:39:34,155 Speaker 1: The executive producer and I went to the video edit suite, 612 00:39:34,235 --> 00:39:36,395 Speaker 1: where a guy named Brendan o'melia was cutting out the 613 00:39:36,395 --> 00:39:39,595 Speaker 1: time Savage had stumbled or flubbed while recording this nonsense. 614 00:39:40,115 --> 00:39:42,995 Speaker 1: First of all, I said to the Xbox guy who 615 00:39:42,995 --> 00:39:47,035 Speaker 1: was the producer, Michael Savage is wearing a brown shirt 616 00:39:47,995 --> 00:39:50,875 Speaker 1: and a brown tie on top of his brown shirt. 617 00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:56,675 Speaker 1: He is literally dressed like a Hitler brown shirt. The editor, Amelia, 618 00:39:56,755 --> 00:39:58,635 Speaker 1: played the whole video for me, and as I dialed 619 00:39:58,675 --> 00:40:02,395 Speaker 1: Phil Griffin, cell I started laughing. I said, even for 620 00:40:02,515 --> 00:40:05,355 Speaker 1: racist homophole, bit crap. This thing make no sense. He 621 00:40:05,435 --> 00:40:08,275 Speaker 1: just keeps saying George W. Bush is right because George W. 622 00:40:08,435 --> 00:40:11,955 Speaker 1: Bush because he's right. He looks small and whiney and 623 00:40:11,955 --> 00:40:14,235 Speaker 1: covetchi and he's got a bad tupe in a worst suit. 624 00:40:14,555 --> 00:40:17,435 Speaker 1: We wouldn't run this as a SoundBite in his obituary. 625 00:40:17,595 --> 00:40:20,555 Speaker 1: And the lighting is terrible, and he's dressed as a 626 00:40:20,675 --> 00:40:26,355 Speaker 1: brown shirt. Apparently that was enough. Phil Griffin ordered the 627 00:40:26,395 --> 00:40:29,515 Speaker 1: piece dropped from My show. I think they ran it 628 00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:31,875 Speaker 1: on Scarborough Show at nine pm. In fact, I think 629 00:40:32,275 --> 00:40:35,555 Speaker 1: I might be wrong. They ran two or three Savage 630 00:40:35,555 --> 00:40:39,235 Speaker 1: commentaries on Scarborough shows. I know they intended to, God knows. 631 00:40:39,275 --> 00:40:43,555 Speaker 1: I never watched Scarborough Show. Happily, this was about the 632 00:40:43,595 --> 00:40:47,475 Speaker 1: time Michael Savage ended his own TV career. On Saturday 633 00:40:47,555 --> 00:40:51,635 Speaker 1: July two thousand three, show fifteen out of a series 634 00:40:51,715 --> 00:40:56,875 Speaker 1: of Checks Notes fifteen, Michael Savage was on the air 635 00:40:56,915 --> 00:41:00,635 Speaker 1: live on MSNBC when a caller baited him about gaze. 636 00:41:01,515 --> 00:41:04,995 Speaker 1: Savage replied, quote, so you're one of them sodomists. You 637 00:41:05,075 --> 00:41:08,275 Speaker 1: a sodomite. The caller said, yes, oh, you're one of 638 00:41:08,275 --> 00:41:11,475 Speaker 1: them sodomites, continuing the quote, you should only get AIDS 639 00:41:11,515 --> 00:41:13,875 Speaker 1: and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see 640 00:41:13,875 --> 00:41:16,115 Speaker 1: if you consume you pig. You've got nothing better to 641 00:41:16,155 --> 00:41:18,355 Speaker 1: put me down? Your piece of garbage. You have nothing 642 00:41:18,395 --> 00:41:20,395 Speaker 1: better to do today, Go eat a sausage and choke 643 00:41:20,475 --> 00:41:26,275 Speaker 1: on it. Get tricking noteses end quote and Michael Savage. 644 00:41:26,475 --> 00:41:29,315 Speaker 1: And by the way, that quote that I just read 645 00:41:29,435 --> 00:41:32,075 Speaker 1: that was way better than the commentary they had him 646 00:41:32,115 --> 00:41:37,595 Speaker 1: record for Countdown. Two days later, on Monday, Eric Sorenson 647 00:41:37,675 --> 00:41:39,875 Speaker 1: the president of MSNBC, and he was president of all 648 00:41:39,915 --> 00:41:41,995 Speaker 1: the boring things. Bob Wright didn't want to be bothered 649 00:41:42,035 --> 00:41:47,275 Speaker 1: with an MSNBC. Eric Sorenson fired Michael Savage. Sorenson, for 650 00:41:47,355 --> 00:41:49,555 Speaker 1: whom I worked in Los Angeles in local news and 651 00:41:49,595 --> 00:41:52,675 Speaker 1: who consulted on my show on Current TV as recently 652 00:41:52,675 --> 00:41:55,155 Speaker 1: as two thousand eleven, took me for a drink because 653 00:41:55,155 --> 00:41:58,515 Speaker 1: he needed to tell somebody what happened next after he 654 00:41:58,635 --> 00:42:03,155 Speaker 1: fired Michael Savage. As soon as the Savage firing was announced, 655 00:42:03,155 --> 00:42:05,835 Speaker 1: Sorenson said, the phone rang in his office and it 656 00:42:05,915 --> 00:42:09,795 Speaker 1: was Bob Right, the chairman of NBC. Did you have 657 00:42:09,875 --> 00:42:13,475 Speaker 1: to fire Americ Right asked in his nasal long Island accent, 658 00:42:14,115 --> 00:42:18,355 Speaker 1: and Sorenson said he answered, yes, I literally had to. 659 00:42:18,435 --> 00:42:20,395 Speaker 1: I had to fire him. Remember the clause in his 660 00:42:20,555 --> 00:42:23,955 Speaker 1: contract there are forty phrases he's not allowed to use 661 00:42:24,035 --> 00:42:26,355 Speaker 1: on the show. It literally says, if you say any 662 00:42:26,355 --> 00:42:29,755 Speaker 1: of the following forty things, you will be automatically fired 663 00:42:29,755 --> 00:42:33,235 Speaker 1: for cause and get no money. Remember, remember what number 664 00:42:33,235 --> 00:42:36,395 Speaker 1: four on that list is. Number four is quote, I 665 00:42:36,435 --> 00:42:40,235 Speaker 1: hope you get AIDS and die unquote. And then he said, 666 00:42:40,275 --> 00:42:43,555 Speaker 1: I hope you get AIDS and die. Bob, I literally 667 00:42:43,675 --> 00:42:47,355 Speaker 1: had to fire him. I had to fire him. It's 668 00:42:47,435 --> 00:42:51,515 Speaker 1: in the contract. Eric Sorenson told me. There was a 669 00:42:51,555 --> 00:42:54,715 Speaker 1: long pause on the other end of the phone, and 670 00:42:54,755 --> 00:42:58,195 Speaker 1: then Bob Wright said, in anticipation of all that we 671 00:42:58,235 --> 00:43:01,635 Speaker 1: have seen in television news since all the meetings about 672 00:43:01,635 --> 00:43:05,235 Speaker 1: what happens if the country goes fully fascist, and NBC 673 00:43:05,395 --> 00:43:08,795 Speaker 1: and CNN and CBS and ABC all want to protect 674 00:43:08,835 --> 00:43:12,515 Speaker 1: their profits and do the devil's work, Bob Wright said, 675 00:43:12,515 --> 00:43:16,635 Speaker 1: after us long pause to Eric Sorenson, who had just 676 00:43:16,755 --> 00:43:19,515 Speaker 1: fired Michael Savage because it was in the contract. Bob 677 00:43:19,515 --> 00:43:24,275 Speaker 1: Wright said, softly and sadly, but Eric, did you have 678 00:43:24,355 --> 00:43:41,635 Speaker 1: to fire him? I've done all the damage I can 679 00:43:41,675 --> 00:43:44,115 Speaker 1: do here. Thanks for listening, follow the podcast. If you 680 00:43:44,195 --> 00:43:46,675 Speaker 1: can tell a friend, we're number one among non news 681 00:43:46,675 --> 00:43:51,595 Speaker 1: outlets in news and political podcasts. But I'm greedy more, mamma. 682 00:43:52,675 --> 00:43:54,915 Speaker 1: Here are the credits. Most of the music, including our 683 00:43:54,995 --> 00:43:58,395 Speaker 1: theme from Beethoven's Ninth, was arranged, produced and performed by 684 00:43:58,435 --> 00:44:00,875 Speaker 1: Brian Ray and John Philip Channel. They are the Countdown 685 00:44:00,915 --> 00:44:05,515 Speaker 1: musical directors. All orchestration and keyboards by John Philip Shane, guitars, 686 00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:08,275 Speaker 1: Bassed and drums by Brian Ray, produced by t k 687 00:44:08,475 --> 00:44:11,595 Speaker 1: O Brothers. Other Beethoven selections have been arranged and performed 688 00:44:11,595 --> 00:44:14,435 Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports music is 689 00:44:14,475 --> 00:44:16,915 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme from ESPN two and it was written 690 00:44:16,955 --> 00:44:20,035 Speaker 1: by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy of my friends 691 00:44:20,035 --> 00:44:24,075 Speaker 1: at ESPN Inc. Musical comments from Nancy Faust, the best 692 00:44:24,115 --> 00:44:27,755 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, our announcer today with Stevie van 693 00:44:27,875 --> 00:44:29,995 Speaker 1: z Ant, and that means everything else is pretty much 694 00:44:29,995 --> 00:44:32,955 Speaker 1: my fault. So that's countdown for this the six and 695 00:44:33,035 --> 00:44:36,675 Speaker 1: sixty six day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup against 696 00:44:36,675 --> 00:44:39,315 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States. Arrest him 697 00:44:39,355 --> 00:44:44,195 Speaker 1: now while we still can six six, As if every 698 00:44:44,275 --> 00:44:48,995 Speaker 1: day with Trump weren't satanic enough. A new episode tomorrow 699 00:44:48,995 --> 00:44:51,675 Speaker 1: and until then, I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, goodnight, 700 00:44:52,235 --> 00:45:01,075 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production 701 00:45:01,235 --> 00:45:04,675 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio. For more podcast from I Heart Ray. 702 00:45:04,715 --> 00:45:07,755 Speaker 1: Do you visit the I heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 703 00:45:07,995 --> 00:45:09,955 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.