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Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So

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Speaker 1: which do you like worst, suspending habeas corpus breaking the

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Speaker 1: the law, or Trump accepting a half billion dollar impeachable

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Speaker 1: illegal bribe from the government of Kutthar that the Attorney

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Speaker 1: General has ruled isn't illegal. And by the way, the

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Speaker 1: Attorney General used to be a lobbyist for the government

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Speaker 1: of Kutthar. Coincidence, No doubt, they are all nation destroying events.

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Speaker 1: But bluntly, there is no way back from a suspension

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Speaker 1: of habeas corpus. It becomes a one man dictatorship then,

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Speaker 1: Because if you think suspending habeas corpus just for undocumented

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Speaker 1: immigrants is somehow acceptable on its face, remember two things.

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Speaker 1: One is that there would be no hearings and no

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Speaker 1: legal recourse for anyone seized in this way, so that

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Speaker 1: all they would have to do is claim that you

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Speaker 1: are an undocumented immigrant to rationalize disappearing you, and you

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Speaker 1: would not have a hearing at which you could prove

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Speaker 1: you were a citizen, and you would not have a

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Speaker 1: lawyer to appeal the decision not to give you a hearing.

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Speaker 1: Alexandria Accassio Cortes born in the Bronx High School in

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Speaker 1: we have her down as being born elsewhere, and she's illegal.

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Speaker 1: And if you ask any other questions, we'll just get

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Speaker 1: your file, which also has you being born elsewhere and

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Speaker 1: your illegal. And if you somehow get in to see

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Speaker 1: a judge somewhere on her behalf or on your own behalf,

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Speaker 1: judge being born elsewhere, and they're illegal. And maybe eighteen

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Speaker 1: days ago you would have laughed at the idea that

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Speaker 1: they could ever arrest a judge. And if you're still laughing,

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Speaker 1: That's the first and most obvious problem. There is no limit.

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Speaker 1: Once habeas corpus is suspended for whatever reason about whatever

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Speaker 1: group of people, habeas corpus is the limit. Suspend that,

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Speaker 1: and there are no limits. It is then one quick

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Speaker 1: But there is a second thing to remember. The one

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Speaker 1: lie to him to make him think it's him. The

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Speaker 1: one man dictatorship, on the ethnic cleansing, on the elimination

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Speaker 1: of the judiciary, the erasure of your baseline rights to

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Speaker 1: not be kidnapped by the proud boys gang dressed up

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Speaker 1: as government agents. The one man dictatorship is actually run

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Speaker 1: by Stephen fing Miller. And where in this happy announcement

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Speaker 1: does Stephen Miller say anything about suspending habeas corpus only

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Speaker 1: four immigrants.

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Speaker 2: Well, the Constitution is clear, and that, of course is

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Speaker 2: the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of

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Speaker 2: the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a

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Speaker 2: time of invasion. So would say that's an option we're

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Speaker 2: actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on

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Speaker 1: I heard invasion there the only invasion is by the

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Speaker 1: disease that he is Maga, just as the invasion of

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Speaker 1: Germany was by the disease that was Nazism. I also

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Speaker 1: heard it depends on whether the courts do the right

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Speaker 1: warning to the judges, and the warning is your next

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Speaker 1: I presented the nightmares of habeas corpus and arresting members

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Speaker 1: not separate. Michael McCall is one of the Trump gangsters

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Speaker 1: threatening to arrest Representatives Rob Menendez and Lamonica Machiver and

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Speaker 1: exactly what it comes down to. Steven Miller decides who

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Speaker 1: Death Squad chief Tom Homan has already said this, like

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Speaker 1: I already said in twenty sixteen that someday somebody would

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Speaker 1: And if you're a member of Congress who protests, you are,

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Speaker 1: of course, McCall has forgotten this most elemental bit of logic.

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Speaker 1: After reich Schleiter Miller glibly referred to habeas corpus to

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Speaker 1: Quoting him, then there are ways to mitigate it, and

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Speaker 1: Like everything else. He'll just do it. I really need

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Speaker 1: We just suspended Habeas corpus. By the way, that Pollyanna

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Speaker 1: didn't forget the four hundred billion dollar bribe of Trump

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Speaker 1: last week, immediately became the current team's best player. She's generous, proactive,

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00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:09,635
Speaker 1: a dear friend, a gifted musician, and she manages to

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00:32:09,715 --> 00:32:14,955
Speaker 1: balance a sweet, diminutive, affable personality with the acerbic knife

427
00:32:14,995 --> 00:32:19,995
Speaker 1: wielding viewpoint of a Chicago Steve Adore. There's the late

428
00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:23,995
Speaker 1: ed Farmer Farmio, whom the new Pope had to have

429
00:32:24,115 --> 00:32:26,875
Speaker 1: listened to. He was a radio voice of the White

430
00:32:26,875 --> 00:32:30,435
Speaker 1: Sox for decades after having pitched for them, after having

431
00:32:30,475 --> 00:32:33,955
Speaker 1: grown up in Chicago and been a prep baseball pitcher there.

432
00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:38,675
Speaker 1: A star. He was intellectual, he was athletic. He was

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00:32:38,755 --> 00:32:43,675
Speaker 1: one of a kind. He played and then broadcast for

434
00:32:43,915 --> 00:32:48,035
Speaker 1: years with continuing kidney problems. He knew pain, and not

435
00:32:48,275 --> 00:32:50,515
Speaker 1: just of seeing the White Sox every day. He saw

436
00:32:50,555 --> 00:32:53,675
Speaker 1: them finally win the World Series and broadcast the games,

437
00:32:54,715 --> 00:32:58,635
Speaker 1: and he never stopped talking. I believe though he had

438
00:32:58,715 --> 00:33:03,355
Speaker 1: passed several years ago, he's still talking. An exceptional person

439
00:33:04,235 --> 00:33:08,555
Speaker 1: would do anything for you, was constantly involved in charities

440
00:33:08,595 --> 00:33:11,795
Speaker 1: and giving people lifts. And the day I met him,

441
00:33:11,795 --> 00:33:13,995
Speaker 1: I was at their ballpark and he said, how are

442
00:33:13,955 --> 00:33:16,555
Speaker 1: you getting home? And I said, you mean the hotel? Yeah,

443
00:33:16,555 --> 00:33:18,875
Speaker 1: where you're staying? I told him the Drake Hotel. Hey,

444
00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:21,355
Speaker 1: I drive right past there. Well, that's half an hour

445
00:33:21,395 --> 00:33:24,595
Speaker 1: out of my way. I'll give you a lift. There's

446
00:33:24,635 --> 00:33:29,915
Speaker 1: my friend. Jason Bennetti, lifelong Socks fan, overcame many diseases

447
00:33:29,955 --> 00:33:32,915
Speaker 1: and things in his own life, and most importantly, people's

448
00:33:32,915 --> 00:33:38,195
Speaker 1: stupid reactions to the things. He overcame to become the

449
00:33:38,275 --> 00:33:41,235
Speaker 1: voice of the Chicago White Sox, to grow up and

450
00:33:41,315 --> 00:33:44,195
Speaker 1: become the play by play announcer of your childhood team,

451
00:33:44,635 --> 00:33:48,315
Speaker 1: and then, when the working circumstances were not what they

452
00:33:48,355 --> 00:33:51,315
Speaker 1: should have been, to have the steel to say, yes,

453
00:33:51,675 --> 00:33:55,195
Speaker 1: this was my childhood dream. I am no longer a child.

454
00:33:55,635 --> 00:33:59,115
Speaker 1: I am going to go to Detroit instead. I knew

455
00:33:59,155 --> 00:34:02,595
Speaker 1: Bill Veck, the owner of the Chicago White Sox, who

456
00:34:02,595 --> 00:34:06,315
Speaker 1: bought the team rather than let them moved to Seattle

457
00:34:06,355 --> 00:34:09,355
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six. He'd already owned them once. He

458
00:34:09,395 --> 00:34:10,915
Speaker 1: was the one who put them in the World Series

459
00:34:10,955 --> 00:34:13,635
Speaker 1: the previous time before two thousand and five, when the

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Speaker 1: Pope attended. He got them in in nineteen fifty nine

461
00:34:16,755 --> 00:34:18,875
Speaker 1: and then sold the team. And he did all kinds

462
00:34:18,915 --> 00:34:22,075
Speaker 1: of crazy things in his various capacities in the teams

463
00:34:22,115 --> 00:34:24,435
Speaker 1: he owned in Saint Louis and Cleveland, and then the

464
00:34:24,435 --> 00:34:28,435
Speaker 1: White Sox. The story of Bill Beck is probably summarized

465
00:34:28,475 --> 00:34:31,035
Speaker 1: by this, Among other things, he was the guy who said,

466
00:34:31,195 --> 00:34:33,595
Speaker 1: you know what that outfield wall at Wrigley Park where

467
00:34:33,595 --> 00:34:37,675
Speaker 1: the Cubs play, Wrigley Field, rather what that needs. I'm

468
00:34:37,715 --> 00:34:42,155
Speaker 1: confusing it with its original name, Cubbs Park. That outfield

469
00:34:42,195 --> 00:34:45,395
Speaker 1: fence here at Wrigleyfield that needs ivy. I'll go and

470
00:34:45,435 --> 00:34:48,315
Speaker 1: plant some ivy every time you see the ivy at

471
00:34:48,315 --> 00:34:53,435
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. Bill Veck, his father was president of the Cubs.

472
00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:56,555
Speaker 1: He wound up owning the White Sox. He lost part

473
00:34:56,555 --> 00:35:00,115
Speaker 1: of a leg in Second World War service, and I

474
00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:03,195
Speaker 1: saw him do this the last time I saw him,

475
00:35:03,195 --> 00:35:07,075
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty or eighty one. He used to smoke

476
00:35:07,115 --> 00:35:09,595
Speaker 1: a lot. He used to stub out his cigarettes on

477
00:35:10,235 --> 00:35:14,755
Speaker 1: his wooden leg. President Obama was a White Sox fan

478
00:35:15,555 --> 00:35:17,675
Speaker 1: throughout a first pitch at one of the games of

479
00:35:17,675 --> 00:35:20,995
Speaker 1: the American League Championship Series that they ran roughshod through

480
00:35:21,035 --> 00:35:22,835
Speaker 1: on the way to the World Series in two thousand

481
00:35:22,835 --> 00:35:25,195
Speaker 1: and five. There are lots of pictures. Google him in

482
00:35:25,235 --> 00:35:28,835
Speaker 1: a white Sox jacket, a white Sox uniform, and think

483
00:35:28,875 --> 00:35:31,915
Speaker 1: of this for a moment. How popular the Chicago Cubs are.

484
00:35:32,115 --> 00:35:34,715
Speaker 1: It's an easy thing to be a Cubs fan in

485
00:35:34,755 --> 00:35:37,755
Speaker 1: some senses. Yes, you had to suffer between the years

486
00:35:37,795 --> 00:35:40,835
Speaker 1: nineteen oh eight and twenty sixteen without winning the World Series.

487
00:35:40,955 --> 00:35:45,275
Speaker 1: Oh boohoo, everybody felt sorry for you. You automatically got

488
00:35:45,275 --> 00:35:48,675
Speaker 1: a free beer. The games were played during the day,

489
00:35:48,995 --> 00:35:51,675
Speaker 1: so you could drink all afternoon and then go out

490
00:35:51,715 --> 00:35:55,555
Speaker 1: on the town on public transportation and get drunk again

491
00:35:55,595 --> 00:36:01,555
Speaker 1: at night. Terrible, terrible existence. In any event, Obama, No,

492
00:36:01,675 --> 00:36:03,595
Speaker 1: he did not take advantage of that. He did not

493
00:36:03,635 --> 00:36:08,955
Speaker 1: say I'm a Cubs fan. He just reveled in being

494
00:36:08,995 --> 00:36:13,515
Speaker 1: a white Sox fan, an Illinois senator running for president,

495
00:36:13,915 --> 00:36:18,755
Speaker 1: identifying not with the easy Cubs but with the White Sox.

496
00:36:19,675 --> 00:36:22,995
Speaker 1: In fact, that was the first thing I admired about

497
00:36:23,035 --> 00:36:28,115
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. And lastly, of these exceptional White Sox fans,

498
00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:31,715
Speaker 1: there was the late Gene Shepherd, humorist radio rack on

499
00:36:31,795 --> 00:36:36,235
Speaker 1: tour the O tour of the movie A Christmas Story.

500
00:36:37,755 --> 00:36:42,435
Speaker 1: He wrote it, he narrated the movie itself, He played

501
00:36:42,475 --> 00:36:45,115
Speaker 1: the angry old man in the hat in the line

502
00:36:45,155 --> 00:36:48,555
Speaker 1: for Santa at the department store, and most importantly, he

503
00:36:48,635 --> 00:36:54,195
Speaker 1: lived it. He was, in fact little Ralphie. Geene Shepherd

504
00:36:54,275 --> 00:36:56,155
Speaker 1: was also a lifetime White Sox fan. And if you

505
00:36:56,155 --> 00:36:58,555
Speaker 1: don't know baseball, the White Sox were the team that

506
00:36:58,595 --> 00:37:01,355
Speaker 1: the long suffering Cubs fans and the long suffering Red

507
00:37:01,395 --> 00:37:04,555
Speaker 1: Sox fans and the long suffering everybody else fans looked

508
00:37:04,795 --> 00:37:08,795
Speaker 1: down on. The Cubs had a cathedral for a stadium

509
00:37:09,315 --> 00:37:12,235
Speaker 1: with Bill Veck's ivy on the walls. The Socks had

510
00:37:12,275 --> 00:37:15,635
Speaker 1: an even older ballpark that looked even older the day

511
00:37:15,795 --> 00:37:19,035
Speaker 1: it had opened in nineteen oh nine. People think of

512
00:37:19,075 --> 00:37:23,915
Speaker 1: it fondly now. It was a dump. The Cubs had

513
00:37:23,915 --> 00:37:26,075
Speaker 1: not won the World Series since nineteen oh eight. The

514
00:37:26,115 --> 00:37:28,755
Speaker 1: White Sox won it in nineteen seventeen and had a

515
00:37:28,835 --> 00:37:32,275
Speaker 1: dynasty with the second or third greatest hitter of all

516
00:37:32,275 --> 00:37:35,275
Speaker 1: time at its center Shoeles Joe Jackson, and they should

517
00:37:35,315 --> 00:37:37,275
Speaker 1: have won the World Series again in nineteen nineteen and

518
00:37:37,355 --> 00:37:40,715
Speaker 1: probably nineteen twenty by eight of their players, including Jackson,

519
00:37:40,755 --> 00:37:46,595
Speaker 1: at least agreed to accept bribes small bribes to deliberately

520
00:37:46,675 --> 00:37:49,995
Speaker 1: lose the nineteen nineteen World Series. They would not win

521
00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:52,595
Speaker 1: a World Series again until two thousand and five. With

522
00:37:52,995 --> 00:37:57,395
Speaker 1: as it proves, their guy the pulpe in the stands.

523
00:37:58,235 --> 00:38:04,355
Speaker 1: And no no martyrdom jokes here please, except for the

524
00:38:04,395 --> 00:38:08,995
Speaker 1: Martin joke from White Sox fan Geene Shepherd. I have

525
00:38:09,115 --> 00:38:13,115
Speaker 1: never read anything like this by any fan of any team.

526
00:38:13,515 --> 00:38:17,595
Speaker 1: It summarizes the White Sox and their fans and thus

527
00:38:17,675 --> 00:38:23,995
Speaker 1: the new pope completely. To quote Geene Shepherd, if I

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00:38:24,075 --> 00:38:28,155
Speaker 1: were going to storm a pillbox, going to sheer utter

529
00:38:28,635 --> 00:38:32,835
Speaker 1: certain death, and the colonel said, Shepherd picked six guys,

530
00:38:33,715 --> 00:38:40,275
Speaker 1: I'd pick six White Sox fans because they have known

531
00:38:40,555 --> 00:38:45,915
Speaker 1: death every day of their lives and it holds no

532
00:38:46,555 --> 00:38:55,355
Speaker 1: terror for them. Wow, cassocks are read. Conclaves are dope.

533
00:38:56,115 --> 00:39:07,355
Speaker 1: Wake up, babe, we got a woke Marxist also of

534
00:39:07,395 --> 00:39:11,235
Speaker 1: interest here. Actually, let me do this SNL dead Pope

535
00:39:11,315 --> 00:39:14,595
Speaker 1: joke now, because who knows when I'll get to quote

536
00:39:14,595 --> 00:39:17,755
Speaker 1: this again for anyone who didn't see it when it happened.

537
00:39:18,035 --> 00:39:21,675
Speaker 1: On August sixth, nineteen seventy eight, Pope Paul the sixth,

538
00:39:22,235 --> 00:39:24,475
Speaker 1: the two hundred and sixty third Pope in a series

539
00:39:24,515 --> 00:39:27,035
Speaker 1: of two hundred and sixty seven collect them mall died.

540
00:39:27,715 --> 00:39:30,835
Speaker 1: He was succeeded by Pope John Paul, who took the

541
00:39:30,915 --> 00:39:34,835
Speaker 1: names of his two predecessors, John and Paul, leading to

542
00:39:34,875 --> 00:39:37,795
Speaker 1: the joke that his successor would take the name John Paul.

543
00:39:37,875 --> 00:39:41,835
Speaker 1: George Ringo then, in a genuine shock that I can

544
00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:44,755
Speaker 1: still remember from the time as vividly as it was

545
00:39:44,835 --> 00:39:47,835
Speaker 1: that day, on the twenty eighth of September nineteen seventy eight,

546
00:39:47,875 --> 00:39:53,595
Speaker 1: not two months later, Pope John Paul died. He was

547
00:39:53,635 --> 00:39:57,675
Speaker 1: succeeded by John Paul the Second on October sixteenth. And

548
00:39:57,755 --> 00:40:00,955
Speaker 1: on Saturday, September thirtieth, of the Year of the Three

549
00:40:01,035 --> 00:40:04,635
Speaker 1: Popes nineteen seventy eight, Bill Murray was anchoring the weekend

550
00:40:04,795 --> 00:40:08,795
Speaker 1: Update mock newscast on Saturday Night Live. He approached it

551
00:40:09,275 --> 00:40:11,915
Speaker 1: if you never saw him as he did, Nick the

552
00:40:11,995 --> 00:40:15,715
Speaker 1: Lounge singer kind of mixed with the groundskeeper from Caddy

553
00:40:15,795 --> 00:40:19,155
Speaker 1: Shack that he also played. He started to read the

554
00:40:19,195 --> 00:40:23,635
Speaker 1: news of Pope John Paul's passing and then stopped and

555
00:40:23,835 --> 00:40:27,115
Speaker 1: shouted and looked around the stage as he did, Wait

556
00:40:27,155 --> 00:40:31,035
Speaker 1: a minute, who's running this news department? A dead pope?

557
00:40:31,515 --> 00:40:40,155
Speaker 1: We already did this story? Come on anyway? Also of

558
00:40:40,195 --> 00:40:43,595
Speaker 1: interest here worst Persons is not just three reprobates, but

559
00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:49,195
Speaker 1: three reprobates I know and once respected, including Claire Shipman.

560
00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:53,355
Speaker 1: And Claire Shipman needs to resign as co chair and

561
00:40:53,515 --> 00:41:00,235
Speaker 1: acting president at Columbia University after her school suspended four

562
00:41:00,715 --> 00:41:09,875
Speaker 1: student reporters for reporting. That's next. This is countdown. This

563
00:41:10,315 --> 00:41:34,155
Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead on this all

564
00:41:34,195 --> 00:41:37,075
Speaker 1: new editiative. Countdown. What do you name a dog who

565
00:41:37,235 --> 00:41:42,515
Speaker 1: smiles all the time and loves every human she meets? Well,

566
00:41:42,595 --> 00:41:49,755
Speaker 1: her pet little boy named her smiles her story Next first,

567
00:41:49,755 --> 00:41:51,835
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to

568
00:41:51,875 --> 00:41:54,715
Speaker 1: talk about, the roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning

569
00:41:54,755 --> 00:41:59,595
Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons

570
00:41:59,675 --> 00:42:05,875
Speaker 1: in the world. As preface, most of these times, these

571
00:42:05,955 --> 00:42:09,195
Speaker 1: people annoy me. They often enrage me, but rarely do

572
00:42:09,275 --> 00:42:14,115
Speaker 1: they disappoint me personally. They are on this list because

573
00:42:14,155 --> 00:42:18,515
Speaker 1: they're maga and maga is a disease, or because they're

574
00:42:18,555 --> 00:42:23,755
Speaker 1: conservative and conservativism is at its heart. I've got mine,

575
00:42:23,795 --> 00:42:25,955
Speaker 1: now you go get yours. But even if my ancestors

576
00:42:26,035 --> 00:42:27,835
Speaker 1: have rigged the system to make sure I can never

577
00:42:27,915 --> 00:42:32,435
Speaker 1: lose mine and you can never gain yours, it's always

578
00:42:32,435 --> 00:42:35,475
Speaker 1: at least that. Rarely is it personal. Rarely is it

579
00:42:35,515 --> 00:42:40,875
Speaker 1: personal disappointment, and even betrayal from people I know even

580
00:42:40,955 --> 00:42:43,995
Speaker 1: more rare and the first worst Person's list appeared on

581
00:42:44,155 --> 00:42:49,035
Speaker 1: MSNBC on like June thirtieth, I think, two thousand and five,

582
00:42:49,315 --> 00:42:52,355
Speaker 1: and the first one was in defense of Tucker Carlson's

583
00:42:52,835 --> 00:42:57,475
Speaker 1: MSNBC show. More specifically, it was in defense after a

584
00:42:57,595 --> 00:43:00,675
Speaker 1: New York Times critic called for it to be canceled,

585
00:43:01,395 --> 00:43:04,355
Speaker 1: like a week after it debuted, when all the TV

586
00:43:04,395 --> 00:43:07,555
Speaker 1: critics ever did in those days was slam MSNBC for

587
00:43:07,675 --> 00:43:13,475
Speaker 1: canceling new shows too quickly. So nearly twenty years of

588
00:43:13,555 --> 00:43:17,635
Speaker 1: worse persons, and even more rare than a personal worse

589
00:43:17,715 --> 00:43:21,075
Speaker 1: person is when all three are people I know and

590
00:43:21,115 --> 00:43:23,275
Speaker 1: at one point respected and even worked with, who have

591
00:43:23,435 --> 00:43:28,635
Speaker 1: failed utterly, irredeemably, irretrievably failed. In fact, in twenty years,

592
00:43:28,675 --> 00:43:32,515
Speaker 1: I can't think of three of them appearing on one list,

593
00:43:32,555 --> 00:43:39,035
Speaker 1: and yet here we are the bronze worse and it's

594
00:43:39,075 --> 00:43:43,795
Speaker 1: personal Governor Gavin Newsom of California. I don't know if

595
00:43:43,795 --> 00:43:47,035
Speaker 1: he thinks he's moving inexorably towards some position where he's

596
00:43:47,075 --> 00:43:49,835
Speaker 1: the only Democratic choice for the nomination in twenty eight

597
00:43:50,115 --> 00:43:53,435
Speaker 1: because the Trump dictatorship will choose the Democratic nominee in

598
00:43:53,435 --> 00:43:58,715
Speaker 1: twenty eight, or if he's just this stupid but here

599
00:43:58,715 --> 00:44:03,555
Speaker 1: he goes again. Trump and John Voight, who between them

600
00:44:03,595 --> 00:44:05,915
Speaker 1: are now one hundred and sixty five years old. And

601
00:44:05,995 --> 00:44:08,235
Speaker 1: Voight turns out to be from the town next to

602
00:44:08,355 --> 00:44:11,875
Speaker 1: my hometown, and he went to the Catholic school called

603
00:44:12,075 --> 00:44:16,315
Speaker 1: Steppinac that was close enough to my school that occasionally

604
00:44:16,355 --> 00:44:22,075
Speaker 1: Steppinac and Hackley shared the same bus home to our

605
00:44:22,155 --> 00:44:26,875
Speaker 1: towns in the afternoons. Trump and vod devised this truly

606
00:44:27,075 --> 00:44:32,395
Speaker 1: stupid one hundred percent tariff on films produced in foreign lands,

607
00:44:33,315 --> 00:44:35,515
Speaker 1: and I don't know what does that even mean. Bollywood,

608
00:44:36,195 --> 00:44:40,515
Speaker 1: anything with a scene in it shot at Octoberfest All

609
00:44:40,595 --> 00:44:45,635
Speaker 1: Movies with Gary Oldman. The next day, Newsom responded to

610
00:44:45,675 --> 00:44:48,755
Speaker 1: this by springing into action, and instead of defending America's

611
00:44:48,755 --> 00:44:51,555
Speaker 1: film capital, the state he is governor of, he issued

612
00:44:51,555 --> 00:44:55,035
Speaker 1: a statement reading, We're eager to partner with the Trump administration.

613
00:44:55,555 --> 00:45:00,395
Speaker 1: Stop just at that point, go to the end of

614
00:45:00,395 --> 00:45:04,355
Speaker 1: the Santa Monica peer, get a good running start, and

615
00:45:04,755 --> 00:45:08,595
Speaker 1: leap into the ocean. There's more to his statement, We're

616
00:45:08,635 --> 00:45:11,395
Speaker 1: eager to partner with the Trump administration to further strengthen

617
00:45:11,475 --> 00:45:19,075
Speaker 1: domestic production and make America film again. MafA one letter

618
00:45:19,115 --> 00:45:24,355
Speaker 1: short of Mafia. Good call. Gav Newsom thinks he's going

619
00:45:24,395 --> 00:45:28,155
Speaker 1: to get seven and a half billion in movie making

620
00:45:28,235 --> 00:45:32,675
Speaker 1: incentives out of Trump by capitulating to him and riffing

621
00:45:32,915 --> 00:45:37,355
Speaker 1: on his MAGA fascist catchphrase, Gavin, you are a jackass.

622
00:45:38,115 --> 00:45:40,515
Speaker 1: The only way you get seven and a half billion

623
00:45:40,555 --> 00:45:43,635
Speaker 1: out of Trump is to give him fifteen billion and

624
00:45:43,715 --> 00:45:48,435
Speaker 1: then maybe you'll get half of it back. Just a moron,

625
00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:53,835
Speaker 1: quite literally, Gavin Newsom could have been president, but instead

626
00:45:53,875 --> 00:45:59,355
Speaker 1: he's decided to join the vshy opposition. Him and Joe Scarborough. Boys,

627
00:45:59,835 --> 00:46:04,235
Speaker 1: your hair ain't gonna get you elected, Not in the

628
00:46:04,435 --> 00:46:09,115
Speaker 1: hair era of Trump and Javier Milay and Boris Johnson.

629
00:46:10,275 --> 00:46:17,235
Speaker 1: Your hair disqualifies you. Also Joe Scaraberer and Gavin Newsom,

630
00:46:17,515 --> 00:46:23,875
Speaker 1: Your stupidity disqualifies you, and your scumbagginess disqualifies you. The

631
00:46:23,955 --> 00:46:27,235
Speaker 1: runner up worser also personal Bob Eiger, chairman of Disney,

632
00:46:27,235 --> 00:46:31,075
Speaker 1: who is on his what fifth sellout to Trump? The

633
00:46:31,195 --> 00:46:35,115
Speaker 1: deal to settle Trump's nonsense lawsuit against George Stephanopolis and

634
00:46:35,195 --> 00:46:37,955
Speaker 1: ABC News and thus in the process kind of legally

635
00:46:37,995 --> 00:46:42,315
Speaker 1: bribed Trump, then giving Trump his choice of interviewers and

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Speaker 1: leaving George and David Muir off the list five sellouts

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Speaker 1: to Trump? What is it? Bob six? This is six

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Speaker 1: Exchange Commission. Disney has now added a new channel to

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Speaker 1: News Max has for thirty years been the thing you

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Speaker 1: read or watch when you think Fox News is just

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Speaker 1: too damn liberal. I hate that liberal, Harris Faulkner. It

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Speaker 1: is not only propaganda Newsmax, that is, but it's poorly done,

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Speaker 1: self contradictory, stupid propaganda. It's literally for the people who

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Speaker 1: aren't smart enough to understand Fox News and the fascists

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Speaker 1: think it's lack of distribution and decreasing carriage on cable

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Speaker 1: and satellite is a conspiracy against them, a conspiracy against fascism.

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Speaker 1: You bet you're ass Newsmax. Except for Disney and Bob Iiger, who,

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Speaker 1: as I have mentioned, I have known since March nineteen

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Speaker 1: call him personally if I ever wanted to return to ESPN.

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Speaker 1: And who then did the corporate j Leno chose a

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Speaker 1: Who gets the job back? Why?

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Speaker 3: Bob?

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Speaker 1: Bob j Leno Iger, Bob j Leno Ron McLean Iger

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Speaker 1: and what has he done with it? Wore himself out

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Speaker 1: to Trump again? But our winner the worst. And I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna sound really happy about this, because really I am

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Speaker 1: crying inside. Claire Shipman, who I praised here and waxed

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Speaker 1: nostalgic about not two months ago, perhaps my favorite, or

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Speaker 1: at least my second favorite, of my original six White

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Speaker 1: House correspondence on the MSNBC White House in Crisis show

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Speaker 1: the Animal Medical Center in March. She's still lovely and

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Speaker 1: a delight, and I knew I could always count on

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Speaker 1: her ethics and toughness, especially now that she was co

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Speaker 1: chair of the board of Trustees at Columbia University. And

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Speaker 1: if she continues on her current path, my friend Claire

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Speaker 1: should resign. The president of Columbia. The one that was

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Speaker 1: there when I saw Claire. That president of Columbia has

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Speaker 1: since gone into the volcano to try to appease Trump.

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Speaker 1: Claire has succeeded that one as acting president, and she

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Speaker 1: has been appalling. Now I guess I can defer to

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Speaker 1: her on the decision to call the New York City

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Speaker 1: cops in to address a campus building takeover. As I

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Speaker 1: noted here previously, five years before I got to Cornell,

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Speaker 1: justifiably angry African American students took over a campus building

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Speaker 1: there and they were carrying long guns. This was in

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Speaker 1: response to cross burning on campus. This was as a

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Speaker 1: minor complaint they were literally burning crosses in front of

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Speaker 1: black sororities at Cornell in nineteen sixty nine and seventy.

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Speaker 1: I think I understand where you're coming from, So I

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Speaker 1: have a pretty high threshold about calling the cops on

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Speaker 1: student protesters. But I can see there are circumstances where

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Speaker 1: you might be justified in doing that if the protesters

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Speaker 1: tried to, say, burn the building down, rather than set

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Speaker 1: a nearby dumpster on fire. By the way, I assumed

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Speaker 1: that dumpster was set on fire, and that wasn't just

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Speaker 1: Claire's career as an educator spontaneously combusting. Anyway, Claire did

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Speaker 1: something that on the ethical scale, was far worse than

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Speaker 1: calling the cops in to arrest some of her own students.

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Speaker 1: She has sat idly by and without comment as Columbia

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Speaker 1: and the still differently named College for Women there, Barnard

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Speaker 1: other students' protests. Sawyer Huckabee of w KCR Radio at

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Speaker 1: Columbia first was prevented by campus cops from leaving the

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Speaker 1: library as the siege ended Wednesday, and then he was

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Speaker 1: suspended Thursday afternoon for his quote involvement unquote. In the protest,

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Speaker 1: dozens of Columbia students were issued interim suspensions. Huckaby included

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Speaker 1: five hours later Huckabee suspension, which his ID was inoperative.

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Speaker 1: He was ordered to leave campus blutly. His college life

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Speaker 1: and life life were jeopardized. Somebody wised up and canceled

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Speaker 1: his suspension. But also on Thursday, Barnard's Dean Leslie Greenwage

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Speaker 1: Grenage Grinage, Grinage. It's a mean sounding name, isn't it,

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Speaker 1: suspended two female reporters from the radio station and a

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Speaker 1: third from the Columbia campus newspaper. Same restrictions, get out

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Speaker 1: your IDs, no longer work, you can't go to class,

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Speaker 1: you can't take exams. What time of year is it, Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's exam time. You may be done here in fact,

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Speaker 1: and they let those suspensions sit overnight and did not

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Speaker 1: lift them until the next morning after news got out.

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Speaker 1: The Columbia Columbia as in the Columbia Journalism School Columbia

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Speaker 1: had suspended four reporters for reporting Were you ever suspended

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Speaker 1: in school or in college? I was suspended in college

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Speaker 1: for not finishing a swimming test. I swear I got

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Speaker 1: the letter as I was leaving home for the start

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Speaker 1: of the spring semester, about a five hour trip, the

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Speaker 1: longest five hours of my life to that point. What

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Speaker 1: would I do if they did not reinstate me? Where

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Speaker 1: would I go? I was going to a school that

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Speaker 1: technically I was not allowed to go to. Could I

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Speaker 1: go on the campus to protest? To just ask what

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Speaker 1: about the tuition for the just starting semester? What about

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Speaker 1: my entire future at the school? And then, as somebody

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Speaker 1: who had been thrown out of Cornell or suspended at Cornell,

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Speaker 1: what do I do now? I was eighteen? Now it

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Speaker 1: was great that when I got to Ithaca and went

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Speaker 1: to the registrar's office and basically asked the question help,

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Speaker 1: the administrator looked at the letter and laughed and said, well,

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Speaker 1: this is stupid. And she wrote on the letter reinstated

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Speaker 1: effective immediately, and said she'd send me a formal letter

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Speaker 1: in the mail immediately. And then she looked on a

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Speaker 1: calendar and she handed me a slip reading swimming test appointment,

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Speaker 1: and she told me to write down a day and

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Speaker 1: a time on it. And it was all resolved that fast.

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Speaker 1: That was great, And still those five hours are burned

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Speaker 1: into my brain. Forty eight years later. Imagine being one

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Speaker 1: of these reporters at Columbia, at a university known uniquely

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Speaker 1: in the Ivy League, perhaps in American academia for its

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Speaker 1: journalism programs undergraduate and graduate, and with a true journalist,

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Speaker 1: a reporter from CNN, NBC and ABC as both its

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Speaker 1: acting president and co chair of the board. Imagine the

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Speaker 1: sense of dread and betrayal, and even after the lifting

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Speaker 1: of the suspension, the sense of your university, the people

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00:54:34,275 --> 00:54:37,315
Speaker 1: you are buying a product from deciding to let you

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00:54:37,435 --> 00:54:40,995
Speaker 1: get away with this this time, but reminding you they

753
00:54:40,995 --> 00:54:44,115
Speaker 1: could screw you into the ground whenever they want to

754
00:54:45,595 --> 00:54:51,155
Speaker 1: talk about chilling dissent and chilling reporting. You're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be when it says journalism school, Claire, You're supposed to

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00:54:54,955 --> 00:55:00,315
Speaker 1: be for journalism. These weren't radical protesters. These weren't even

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Speaker 1: columnists or loudmouthed on air commentators. These were four students

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Speaker 1: who were doing what Claire Shipman used to do, what

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Speaker 1: she used to do when she earned her reputation and

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Speaker 1: her livelihood and eventually wound up in the position to

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Speaker 1: become the person running the university. And she let them

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00:55:23,235 --> 00:55:26,995
Speaker 1: twist slowly in the wind, and she let freedom of

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00:55:27,035 --> 00:55:30,875
Speaker 1: the press at Columbia University twists slowly in the wind.

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Speaker 1: It's already bad enough that Claire was at the center

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Speaker 1: as Columbia cut a deal with Trump, a deal in

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Speaker 1: which Trump wants a handpicked judge to appoint a handpicked

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00:55:40,555 --> 00:55:44,355
Speaker 1: enforcer for Trump's fascist demands for how the university should

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00:55:44,435 --> 00:55:47,995
Speaker 1: run from now on. That was bad enough, maybe it

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Speaker 1: was necessary for survival. But this suspending student reporters Claire.

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Speaker 1: This makes one question whether anybody should give a damn

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00:55:58,035 --> 00:56:02,955
Speaker 1: whether Columbia University survives or not. The shame I feel

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00:56:03,555 --> 00:56:07,475
Speaker 1: about Claire Ship may only be matched by what seems

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00:56:07,475 --> 00:56:09,795
Speaker 1: to be her incapacity to feel any shame for what

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Speaker 1: she's done, or any awareness that her job right now

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00:56:12,595 --> 00:56:14,835
Speaker 1: is to walk up to Trump and spit in his

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Speaker 1: face on behalf of Columbia, on behalf of those briefly

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Speaker 1: suspended journalists, on behalf of Academia, on behalf of America,

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00:56:26,195 --> 00:56:37,755
Speaker 1: the Cardinals chosen anti Trump, Pope, you folded, go spit

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00:56:37,875 --> 00:56:41,075
Speaker 1: metaphorically in Trump's face. Claire, do it. It's your last chance.

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00:56:41,635 --> 00:56:45,755
Speaker 1: Cancel the deal with Trump. Harvard did, and if you

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00:56:45,795 --> 00:56:50,875
Speaker 1: won't do that, get out, resign and take the Barnard

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00:56:50,955 --> 00:56:54,595
Speaker 1: Dean with you, and for that matter, take Columbia with you,

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00:56:54,835 --> 00:56:59,235
Speaker 1: because right now your university is headed towards becoming just

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Speaker 1: another Trump whorehouse shipman. I am so ashamed, Claire truly

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Speaker 1: today's worst person in the world. For the first time

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Speaker 1: in a while, time for another dog in need. You

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Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day today. It's personal,

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Speaker 1: a lot of personal. In this show. In February of

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Speaker 1: last year, I introduced you to a big, lovely Bernese

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Speaker 1: Mountain dog called Smiles. Called Smiles because she does NonStop.

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Speaker 1: Her default position is to smile, and she loves every

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Speaker 1: human she's ever met, especially her pet little boy. She

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Speaker 1: is the size of a large bicycle. She was just

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Speaker 1: about to turn three years old last year when she

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Speaker 1: suddenly became sick. It was cancer. In fact, it was lymphoma.

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Speaker 1: Everybody chipped in and thank you for helping. She got chemo.

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Speaker 1: She tolerated it well, she barely noticed it. In fact,

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Speaker 1: she got better fast, and she and her little boy

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Speaker 1: have had a great year. And now the cancer is back.

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Speaker 1: And so for my friend Andrew Bloonner. Is the cost

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Speaker 1: of the treatment for smiles. The good news is we

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Speaker 1: know she can handle it, and even with the recurrence,

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Speaker 1: the vets are predicting eighty to eighty five percent likelihood

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Speaker 1: of success of getting her back into remission. You might

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Speaker 1: ask why spend thousands of dollars on the health of

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Speaker 1: just one dog. My primary answer is this because you can.

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Speaker 1: And my secondary answer is I'm thinking of her pet,

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Speaker 1: little boy. Andrew's gofund me for smiles is is at

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Speaker 1: GoFundMe dot com and in the search engine type in

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Speaker 1: three words smiles, mountain dog, smiles, mountain dog. Anything you

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Speaker 1: and this GoFundMe will help. I'll put the link out

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Speaker 1: on Twitter again and retweeting it can make all the

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Speaker 1: and I thank you. I've done all the damage I

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Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Ryan Ray and

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Speaker 1: And if you happen to know whether or not the

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Speaker 1: Day one, one hundred and thirteen of America held hostage,

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Speaker 1: always bulletins as the news warrants remember Trump is laying

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Speaker 1: the groundwork now to not leave office later. He must

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