Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. So
Speaker 1: which do you like worst, suspending habeas corpus breaking the
Speaker 1: law by threatening to arrest members of Congress for obeying
Speaker 1: the law, or Trump accepting a half billion dollar impeachable
Speaker 1: illegal bribe from the government of Kutthar that the Attorney
Speaker 1: General has ruled isn't illegal. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: Attorney General used to be a lobbyist for the government
Speaker 1: of Kutthar. Coincidence, No doubt, they are all nation destroying events.
Speaker 1: But bluntly, there is no way back from a suspension
Speaker 1: of habeas corpus. It becomes a one man dictatorship then,
Speaker 1: Because if you think suspending habeas corpus just for undocumented
Speaker 1: immigrants is somehow acceptable on its face, remember two things.
Speaker 1: One is that there would be no hearings and no
Speaker 1: legal recourse for anyone seized in this way, so that
Speaker 1: all they would have to do is claim that you
Speaker 1: are an undocumented immigrant to rationalize disappearing you, and you
Speaker 1: would not have a hearing at which you could prove
Speaker 1: you were a citizen, and you would not have a
Speaker 1: lawyer to appeal the decision not to give you a hearing.
Speaker 1: Alexandria Accassio Cortes born in the Bronx High School in
Speaker 1: Yorktown Heights, not according to Christy Nomes records. In her file,
Speaker 1: we have her down as being born elsewhere, and she's illegal.
Speaker 1: And if you ask any other questions, we'll just get
Speaker 1: your file, which also has you being born elsewhere and
Speaker 1: your illegal. And if you somehow get in to see
Speaker 1: a judge somewhere on her behalf or on your own behalf,
Speaker 1: we'll just get the judge file, which also has the
Speaker 1: judge being born elsewhere, and they're illegal. And maybe eighteen
Speaker 1: days ago you would have laughed at the idea that
Speaker 1: they could ever arrest a judge. And if you're still laughing,
Speaker 1: let me reintroduce you to Judge Hannah Dugan of Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: That's the first and most obvious problem. There is no limit.
Speaker 1: Once habeas corpus is suspended for whatever reason about whatever
Speaker 1: group of people, habeas corpus is the limit. Suspend that,
Speaker 1: and there are no limits. It is then one quick
Speaker 1: final jump to making this place the Trump States of America.
Speaker 1: But there is a second thing to remember. The one
Speaker 1: man dictatorship to which I refer is not Trump. He
Speaker 1: is the ever more feeble front man here, and they
Speaker 1: lie to him to make him think it's him. The
Speaker 1: one man dictatorship, on the ethnic cleansing, on the elimination
Speaker 1: of the judiciary, the erasure of your baseline rights to
Speaker 1: not be kidnapped by the proud boys gang dressed up
Speaker 1: as government agents. The one man dictatorship is actually run
Speaker 1: by Stephen fing Miller. And where in this happy announcement
Speaker 1: does Stephen Miller say anything about suspending habeas corpus only
Speaker 1: four immigrants.
Speaker 2: Well, the Constitution is clear, and that, of course is
Speaker 2: the supreme law of the land, that the privilege of
Speaker 2: the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended in a
Speaker 2: time of invasion. So would say that's an option we're
Speaker 2: actively looking at. Look, a lot of it depends on
Speaker 2: whether the courts do the right thing or not.
Speaker 1: I heard invasion there the only invasion is by the
Speaker 1: disease that he is Maga, just as the invasion of
Speaker 1: Germany was by the disease that was Nazism. I also
Speaker 1: heard it depends on whether the courts do the right
Speaker 1: thing or not, because sure they'd use habeas corpus to
Speaker 1: continue to round up undocumented immigrants and citizens and anybody
Speaker 1: else who doesn't look white enough. But the reference to
Speaker 1: the courts by Miller is not inadvertent. That is a
Speaker 1: warning to the judges, and the warning is your next
Speaker 1: I presented the nightmares of habeas corpus and arresting members
Speaker 1: of Congress and the Katari airplane bribe as three separate issues,
Speaker 1: but they're really not separate. Certainly, the first two are
Speaker 1: not separate. Michael McCall is one of the Trump gangsters
Speaker 1: from Texas, and he is absolutely fine with Homeland Security
Speaker 1: threatening to arrest Representatives Rob Menendez and Lamonica Machiver and
Speaker 1: Bonnie Watson Coleman on a charge of, I guess a
Speaker 1: charge of being beaten up by Homeland Security as they
Speaker 1: exercise their Congressional right to inspect the ICE concentration camp
Speaker 1: in Delaney Hall in Newark. The congresswoman hit an officer's
Speaker 1: fist with her face. The Homeland Gestapo spent the weekend
Speaker 1: dropping hints that the three congress people are going to
Speaker 1: the Big House, just as they arrested Newark's mayor ros Baraka,
Speaker 1: who knew it was coming because he's not a member
Speaker 1: of Congress, and bus does not have legal privilege to
Speaker 1: inspect a concentration camp with one hundred cells in it
Speaker 1: being reopened in the city he's supposed to be in
Speaker 1: charge of and was elected to do so. But what
Speaker 1: this thug McCall said yesterday ties this all together and ominously,
Speaker 1: so he went on face the nation and postulated a
Speaker 1: conspiracy between the Jersey Democrats and the imaginary invaders from
Speaker 1: the nation of MS thirteen Land asked specifically about arresting
Speaker 1: members of Congress, and remember he's a member of Congress,
Speaker 1: this fascist McCall answered, quote and peacefully protest in this country,
Speaker 1: but you cannot be complicit with gang violence against our
Speaker 1: law enforcement. And I think perhaps that's what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. Well, if we live in a dictatorship, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what it comes down to. Steven Miller decides who
Speaker 1: should be disappeared if you defend them, and the Ice
Speaker 1: Death Squad chief Tom Homan has already said this, like
Speaker 1: I already said in twenty sixteen that someday somebody would
Speaker 1: say this, if you defend them, Steven Miller can decide
Speaker 1: that you should also be disappeared. And if you are
Speaker 1: a judge who tries to merely enforce the law giving
Speaker 1: either of you due process. The judge can be disappeared.
Speaker 1: And if you're a member of Congress who protests, you are,
Speaker 1: according to the guy at the next desk, complicit with
Speaker 1: gang violence against our law enforcement, and you can be disappeared.
Speaker 1: Even the leading Trump gangsters are morons. So in this equation,
Speaker 1: of course, McCall has forgotten this most elemental bit of logic.
Speaker 1: One members of the House of Representatives can be seized
Speaker 1: for exercising their legal rights as members of the House
Speaker 1: of Representatives. Thus two, Michael McCall is a member of
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. Thus three. That means Michael McCall
Speaker 1: can well. Even if he hasn't figured it out, you
Speaker 1: already have Trump his mind rapidly going is not uninvolved here.
Speaker 1: After reich Schleiter Miller glibly referred to habeas corpus to
Speaker 1: stop the invasion, which is going on only inside his
Speaker 1: diseased mind. The White House was quick to leak to
Speaker 1: CNN that while Trump himself has not mentioned habeas corpus,
Speaker 1: that's what he meant last month when he insisted there
Speaker 1: were steps he could take against the courts, against the
Speaker 1: judges against the laws, against the Constitution, and against America.
Speaker 1: Quoting him, then there are ways to mitigate it, and
Speaker 1: there's some very strong ways. There's one way that's been
Speaker 1: used by three very highly respected presidents. He then elaborated
Speaker 1: on this in the same way he usually does, by
Speaker 1: simply repeating himself with the words in a different order.
Speaker 1: There is one way used successfully by three presidents, all
Speaker 1: highly respected. I am waiting for him to further clarify
Speaker 1: this by adding quote three to one, all is successfully
Speaker 1: respected way there is highly used presidents. There's one more
Speaker 1: snake in this bag, and it is the response to
Speaker 1: this by the Senate, and for once it is bipartisan
Speaker 1: naivete Amy Klobashar said they would never approve the suspension
Speaker 1: of Habeas Corpus. Tom Barrasso said he doesn't believe Habeas
Speaker 1: Corpus's suspension will ever come to Congress. And of course
Speaker 1: they're both right, though neither of them understands the implications
Speaker 1: of why they're right. It'll never come to Congress because
Speaker 1: while there's some chance Trump would ask for a formal suspension,
Speaker 1: he really can't take that chance. He'll just do it.
Speaker 1: Like everything else. He'll just do it. I really need
Speaker 1: to find out what the Latin translation of the Trump
Speaker 1: motto is. You know, try and stop me. He will
Speaker 1: just do it, especially now that McCall has conveniently reminded
Speaker 1: not just the Democrats at the Newark concentration camp, but
Speaker 1: any Republicans who might waiver that those who don't voluntarily
Speaker 1: vote for the furer's legislation will be accused of being
Speaker 1: complicit with gang violence against our law enforcement and will
Speaker 1: be arrested. And no, you can't have a lawyer, silly,
Speaker 1: We just suspended Habeas corpus. By the way, that Pollyanna
Speaker 1: answer from that authoritarian stooge Senator Barack as Hoole had
Speaker 1: to be pulled out of him. He was on Meet
Speaker 1: the Press and he was asked about whether he'd support
Speaker 1: suspending Habeas Corpus. He was asked three times. The first
Speaker 1: two times he simply went into the same speech defending
Speaker 1: Trump like an Elmo doll whose string has been pulled.
Speaker 1: The third time he said he didn't think it would
Speaker 1: ever come to Congress, whereupon the feckless Kristen Welker beamed
Speaker 1: at him and thanked him so effusively you would have
Speaker 1: thought he'd just given a million to her favorite charity.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Barasso still never answered your question. Welker,
Speaker 1: good work. Welker did not bother the fill in guy
Speaker 1: on CBS did not bother nobody, as near as I
Speaker 1: can tell, bothered to ask the question posed the other
Speaker 1: day by Harvey Wilkinson, now in his forty first year
Speaker 1: as a federal judge on the US Court of Appeals
Speaker 1: for the Fourth Circuit, appointed by Reagan, who twenty years
Speaker 1: ago was on w Bush's short list for the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: But Bush chose Harriet Myers, who was basically a paralegal,
Speaker 1: and when she washed out, he picked Alito instead. Because
Speaker 1: w Bush remains eternally an asshole anyway, Judge Wilkinson, who
Speaker 1: he skipped, perhaps because of thoughts like this, asks this question,
Speaker 1: if today the executive claims the right to deport without
Speaker 1: due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance
Speaker 1: will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American
Speaker 1: citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home. Our
Speaker 1: baseline American crisis is in the answer to that question. None,
Speaker 1: none at all, Judge. No assurance of any kind. Judge.
Speaker 1: In fact, the executive is doing this now. If forced
Speaker 1: to place a bet, I would say, they won't arrest
Speaker 1: members of Congress or judges and rendition them or just
Speaker 1: keep them in communicado in Newark. They will, however, threaten
Speaker 1: them endlessly. That's the value here. And that started Friday
Speaker 1: with Stephen Miller. It extended to the leak to Caitlin
Speaker 1: Collins Friday night and the attempt to entrap the members
Speaker 1: of the House and Newark's mayor, and then McCall's helpful
Speaker 1: drawing of a line between defending constitutional rights and complicity
Speaker 1: with gang violence against law enforcement, a line that does
Speaker 1: not exist. The threat is far more valuable than the
Speaker 1: act because video of congress people being dragged off by
Speaker 1: brown shirts wearing masks might actually wake some part of
Speaker 1: the public up. But I thought that about the first
Speaker 1: videos Friday, and I thought that about the arrest of
Speaker 1: Judge dougan iiO, and sadly, wakefulness in this case may
Speaker 1: have to wait until those members of the public and
Speaker 1: the media are already in one of those thousand cells
Speaker 1: at the Newark Delaney Hall concentration camp. Don't worry, I
Speaker 1: didn't forget the four hundred billion dollar bribe of Trump
Speaker 1: by the Royal Family of Qatar a seven forty seven,
Speaker 1: probably five hundred billion. With the accouterments they're going to
Speaker 1: add to it. It'll be the new Air Force one
Speaker 1: after they check to see if there are any listening devices,
Speaker 1: or after they install some. When Trump leaves office, it
Speaker 1: will simply be donated to the Trump Presidential Library, which
Speaker 1: as you know, is wallet sized. The bad news is
Speaker 1: it is a brazenly illegal, absolutely impeachable offense. Tomorrow. If
Speaker 1: this had been Obama or any other president, the president
Speaker 1: would have been impeached and by Wednesday it would have
Speaker 1: been out of office. There is that little quote in
Speaker 1: the Constitution thingy what reads, no person holding any office
Speaker 1: of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent
Speaker 1: of the Congress, except of any President, imlia to office
Speaker 1: or title of any kind whatever, from any King, prince
Speaker 1: or foreign state. Hey, you hit the trifecta. That's a
Speaker 1: king of prince and a foreign state. Well done, Trump,
Speaker 1: be I mean, my god, the Founding Fathers couldn't have
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head anymore cleanly. If that
Speaker 1: sentence ended. This means you Trump. It's so bad. Even
Speaker 1: Laura Lumer literally says this is a quote stain on
Speaker 1: the administration, and she's disappointed in Trump. Laura Lumer rapidly
Speaker 1: becoming the Senator Susan Collins of the Reich. So that's
Speaker 1: the bad news. The good news is, thanks to Trump's
Speaker 1: Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, by the time Trump accepts
Speaker 1: this bribe, the plane will not be able to take
Speaker 1: off or land at any airport in America. The punch
Speaker 1: line is that ABC reports the Department of Justice has
Speaker 1: already helped to draft an analysis concluding sure it's legal
Speaker 1: for the Department of Defense to accept the airplane as
Speaker 1: a gift from kut R and then just later give
Speaker 1: it to the Trump Library, which, as you know, is
Speaker 1: now available in a new easy to carry flight bag
Speaker 1: with spinner wheels. And who runs this Department of Justice?
Speaker 1: What wrote all that? Why? It's DEI hire Pam Blondie,
Speaker 1: former registered foreign agent of the Embassy of the State
Speaker 1: of Kutr. So no conflict there. Pam Bondi learned her
Speaker 1: law at Stetson, not the school, just the hat kind
Speaker 1: of amazingly, ham Bondi might be his best personnel story
Speaker 1: right now. The campus newspaper of the Princetonian found out
Speaker 1: that the Secretary of Scotch Pete Hegseth clearly borrowed the
Speaker 1: writing of others in his senior thesis at Princeton, where
Speaker 1: I assume he only took weekend classes eight cut and pastes.
Speaker 1: It appears here is one. See if you see any
Speaker 1: similarity here. I know it's borderline, but just listen. September twelfth,
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, Washington Post quote after Cards, whisper
Speaker 1: Bush looked distracted and somber, but continued to listen to
Speaker 1: the second grader's read, and soon was smiling again. He
Speaker 1: joked that they read so well they must be sixth graders.
Speaker 1: Heg Seth's thesis two thousand and three, quoting Hegseth After Cards,
Speaker 1: whisper Bush looked distracted and somber, but continued to listen
Speaker 1: to the second graders, joking that they read like sixth graders.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It might be close. It's not in quotes,
Speaker 1: there's no footnote, there's no The Washington Post reported nothing.
Speaker 1: I think he took out two words, so well isn't
Speaker 1: in there. The Princetonian quoted three experts who said you
Speaker 1: cannot define this as serious plagiarism. I mean, it's hegseeth.
Speaker 1: How could it be serious? But all eight lifted passages
Speaker 1: quote violate Princeton's Rights Rules Responsibilities a set of policies
Speaker 1: and procedures that govern academic integrity eg. SETH integrity Low.
Speaker 1: Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress. A reporter asked
Speaker 1: the impossibly stupid Secretary of Lying, Caroline Levitt, the President
Speaker 1: fired the Librarian of Congress. Why this is Levitt's answer,
Speaker 1: There were concuning things she had done at the Library
Speaker 1: of Congreth in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate
Speaker 1: book in the library for a children miss. There are
Speaker 1: no children in the Library of Congress. It's the record
Speaker 1: of every book published in America. It's the other kind
Speaker 1: of library. It's a research library and a records library.
Speaker 1: There is no DEI. Caroline Levitt is a fricking moron.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, it can and probably is worse.
Speaker 1: Trump probably thinks a library is a part of the
Speaker 1: female anatomy. And then there's Janine Piro, the new interim
Speaker 1: US Attorney for the District to column to be appointed
Speaker 1: after a Republican senator said that the last Trump interim
Speaker 1: US Attorney for the District of Columbia was two fascist, stupid,
Speaker 1: and sloppy. Even for him, he didn't use those words.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking for him. The question now is does the
Speaker 1: president get two interim appointments free of Senate approval for
Speaker 1: the same job or only one? Because if you can
Speaker 1: get two, you never have to go to the Senate
Speaker 1: at all for any approvals. You just change your interim
Speaker 1: guy every one hundred and twenty days. This has never
Speaker 1: been adjudicated before. On the other hand, when Reagan tried
Speaker 1: to appoint a second interim US Marshal in nineteen eighty six,
Speaker 1: his own Office of Legal Counsel said no, and that
Speaker 1: opinion no was written by a lawyer in the Office
Speaker 1: of Legal Counsel named Samuel Alito. On top of all this,
Speaker 1: Pierro is an idiot. That's not just my opinion here
Speaker 1: for change, it's her opinion. Simon Malloy read her book,
Speaker 1: and well she she calls herself an idiot. Malloy writes, quote,
Speaker 1: you only get about one page into Janine Piro's new book, Liars,
Speaker 1: Leakers and Liberals, The Case against the Anti Trump Conspiracy
Speaker 1: before she calls herself an idiot. It's not entirely clear
Speaker 1: whether she meant to do it or if she just
Speaker 1: got lost in the rapture of the pros, but she
Speaker 1: definitely calls yourself an idiot. Quote. We know what the
Speaker 1: liberal media think of Trump voters. They're deplorables, idiots, rednecks,
Speaker 1: and people who cling to God, guns and religion. Piro writes,
Speaker 1: to those charges, I plead guilty, guilty, and proud unquote.
Speaker 1: Among the charges Janine pre laid out is being an idiot,
Speaker 1: and a sentence later, she says she's proud of being
Speaker 1: guilty of all those charges, including being an idiot, and
Speaker 1: she is an idiot. Holy cow. She was investigated by
Speaker 1: federal prosecutors after she was caught on tape discussing with
Speaker 1: the soon to be jailed ex New York City Police
Speaker 1: chief Bernie Carrick Rudy Giuliani stooge. She was caught on
Speaker 1: tape discussing how to bug her husband's boat in hopes
Speaker 1: of capturing evidence that he was being unfaithful to her.
Speaker 1: And of course, you know the story of page ten.
Speaker 1: You don't Page ten from Piro's two thousand and five
Speaker 1: announcement that she was running for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat.
Speaker 1: She gets up in a big ballroom in Manhattan and
Speaker 1: Wooden Lee reads her beach well the first nine pages
Speaker 1: of her speech, and then she couldn't find page ten.
Speaker 3: Hillary clintons to a page ten. She's got Yeah, like
Speaker 3: so many New Yorkers, I am tired of the bickering
Speaker 3: that has tied our nation's political system in knots.
Speaker 1: And there, of course you see Janine Piro's qualifications to
Speaker 1: be the US Attorney for the District of Columbia. They
Speaker 1: telescope that, by the way, in that clip. I remember
Speaker 1: this going on for eight to ten days, all right,
Speaker 1: It was like a minute or two. But she didn't
Speaker 1: she didn't add lib or continue her speech from memory,
Speaker 1: or make a joke out of it, and just cut
Speaker 1: to page eleven with cameras rolling in front of her
Speaker 1: in a big ballroom announcing that she should be the senator.
Speaker 1: She just stopped and stood there and waited until somebody
Speaker 1: from her own staff gave her their copy of page ten.
Speaker 1: I'll just wait still. None of them, heg Seth Piro Levitt,
Speaker 1: none of them can ever top Trump's own personal stupidity.
Speaker 1: First off, he hired all of these moochs. Secondly, he
Speaker 1: proclaimed last Thursday, you may recall as victory in World
Speaker 1: War two day, and happily nobody noticed, except they noticed
Speaker 1: another gaff about this. They put out a meme to
Speaker 1: celebrate May eighth, which of course was the actual anniversary
Speaker 1: of V Day victory in Europe, ending the European part
Speaker 1: of Worldorld War two. And the meme celebrating the end
Speaker 1: of the European part of World War two was the
Speaker 1: statue of the Marines raising the flag at Ewo Jima
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Theater on Mount Suribachi, which isn't in Europe,
Speaker 1: which happened on February twenty third, which isn't in May. Look,
Speaker 1: I may be the most religious person on this planet
Speaker 1: who does not adhere to a single, actual recognized religion.
Speaker 1: I don't think any of them has it right. I
Speaker 1: don't like how any of them are run. And I
Speaker 1: think the human being has yet to be born who
Speaker 1: has correctly divined the purpose of life, if any. But
Speaker 1: I am now thinking of becoming a Catholic. Did they
Speaker 1: really select an American pope with African American heritage who
Speaker 1: did his missions in South America and is from Chicago,
Speaker 1: and is a Chicago White Sox fan, and has been
Speaker 1: located not just in newspaper photos taken during the White
Speaker 1: Sox appearance in the two thousand and five World Series,
Speaker 1: but appears on the video of the Fox broadcast of
Speaker 1: the first game of the two thousand and five World Series.
Speaker 1: I'll get back to the White Sox part in full
Speaker 1: in a moment. And yes, I am trying to figure
Speaker 1: out if this means when he was just father Bob,
Speaker 1: the new Pope used to watch me on sportseedter or
Speaker 1: on the World Series telecast that I anchored in ninety
Speaker 1: seven and two thousand, in which the White Sox did
Speaker 1: not play. But for now, let me just quote our
Speaker 1: own Nancy Faust, stadium organist at the White Sox games
Speaker 1: all those years when the Pope was in the building,
Speaker 1: who noted dryly that little did she know, but all
Speaker 1: that time she literally had a papal audience. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Nancy Faust and your holiness the Maglio or Doniez fan
Speaker 1: Robbie Jenks. But first, more importantly, did they really select
Speaker 1: an anti Trump pope? I mean, I know the papal
Speaker 1: conclave is supposedly about discerning a divine message as to
Speaker 1: who you should say the next Pope is, and then
Speaker 1: the vote Diisol got at the annual guild meeting at
Speaker 1: our college radio station. We used to pretend that's what
Speaker 1: drove us to select the new general manager and the
Speaker 1: vice presidents and stuff. I got elected twice in those conclaves,
Speaker 1: So I tend to doubt divine intervention in any election.
Speaker 1: I just think it's obvious. The Cardinals saw a great
Speaker 1: candidate under any circumstances, with an amazingly varied resume, and
Speaker 1: they said, hey, you know what, if we make him pope,
Speaker 1: he will not only replace Trump as the most famous
Speaker 1: American in the world, but he will be a counterweight
Speaker 1: to his evil. If this pope criticizes Trump and advance
Speaker 1: and this entire culture of brutality and vengeance, and we
Speaker 1: believe he already has online, what's Trump going to do
Speaker 1: to him? Slap him with tariffs? He's American, American pope's first.
Speaker 1: I cannot help but think that they saw a need,
Speaker 1: an actual need in the world for something or somebody
Speaker 1: to push back against Trump, and good grief, they actually
Speaker 1: accepted what almost no organization in this whole world has
Speaker 1: the responsibility to try to push back. He is the
Speaker 1: resistance Pope, whether that was the plan or not, he
Speaker 1: is the resistance Pope. And given the papacies abysmal track
Speaker 1: record in the decades between the last Pope Leo's opposition
Speaker 1: to slavery and John Paul the Second's involvement in the
Speaker 1: fall of the Russian occupying force in Poland, it's about
Speaker 1: goddamn time, your holiness. I can only imagine what the
Speaker 1: new Pope is imagining he might be able to do
Speaker 1: to Trump, and with impunity, because on the right, there
Speaker 1: isn't the slightest doubt that the conclave chose Robert Privos
Speaker 1: deliberately as the anti Trump. I mean, they have gone
Speaker 1: nuts and there's nothing they can do about it. This time.
Speaker 1: They can't fire him, they can't get Doge to defund him.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk's cyber truck means nothing to him. If the fundamentalist,
Speaker 1: ecstatic vision snake handlers who support Trump didn't already hate
Speaker 1: the Catholics, they are ready for war now, and they
Speaker 1: can't have one because they could not win one. The
Speaker 1: Trump whisperer of the moment, the astoundingly clownish. Laura Lumer
Speaker 1: replied to the election with just three words, all in caps,
Speaker 1: woke Marxist Pope. That in turn led to one of
Speaker 1: the all time great Blue Sky posts from the Irish
Speaker 1: American polysci professor at Michigan Don moynihan, using a screenshot
Speaker 1: of Lumer's post as the punchline and reading in full quote,
Speaker 1: Cassicks are read Conclaves are dope. Wake up, babe, we
Speaker 1: got a woke Marxist pope. Oh my god, is that funny?
Speaker 1: If I can find a tune, I may have to
Speaker 1: sing that on Thursday's podcast. Anyway, If Pope Leo can
Speaker 1: counterbalance and undermine Trump, if he can hit him up
Speaker 1: side his head with some metaphorical woke Marxist pope whip action,
Speaker 1: I'll convert. And before I drop this subject, back to
Speaker 1: the White Sox and the Pope for a moment. It
Speaker 1: occurred to me after the election that the number of
Speaker 1: White Sox fans I have known has been few because
Speaker 1: there are few, but they are all vivid, exceptional individuals.
Speaker 1: As a caveat. The team owner is Jerry Reinsdorf, who
Speaker 1: is two hundred and six years old and who tried
Speaker 1: to get me fired by ESPN in nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 1: So there's that. Not saying every White Sox fan or
Speaker 1: person is good. I'm just saying they're vivid. The others.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Nancy Faust, who returned to the White Sox
Speaker 1: Park Sunday to play the organ again, total coincidence of
Speaker 1: timing after too many years away, and as I said
Speaker 1: last week, immediately became the current team's best player. She's generous, proactive,
Speaker 1: a dear friend, a gifted musician, and she manages to
Speaker 1: balance a sweet, diminutive, affable personality with the acerbic knife
Speaker 1: wielding viewpoint of a Chicago Steve Adore. There's the late
Speaker 1: ed Farmer Farmio, whom the new Pope had to have
Speaker 1: listened to. He was a radio voice of the White
Speaker 1: Sox for decades after having pitched for them, after having
Speaker 1: grown up in Chicago and been a prep baseball pitcher there.
Speaker 1: A star. He was intellectual, he was athletic. He was
Speaker 1: one of a kind. He played and then broadcast for
Speaker 1: years with continuing kidney problems. He knew pain, and not
Speaker 1: just of seeing the White Sox every day. He saw
Speaker 1: them finally win the World Series and broadcast the games,
Speaker 1: and he never stopped talking. I believe though he had
Speaker 1: passed several years ago, he's still talking. An exceptional person
Speaker 1: would do anything for you, was constantly involved in charities
Speaker 1: and giving people lifts. And the day I met him,
Speaker 1: I was at their ballpark and he said, how are
Speaker 1: you getting home? And I said, you mean the hotel? Yeah,
Speaker 1: where you're staying? I told him the Drake Hotel. Hey,
Speaker 1: I drive right past there. Well, that's half an hour
Speaker 1: out of my way. I'll give you a lift. There's
Speaker 1: my friend. Jason Bennetti, lifelong Socks fan, overcame many diseases
Speaker 1: and things in his own life, and most importantly, people's
Speaker 1: stupid reactions to the things. He overcame to become the
Speaker 1: voice of the Chicago White Sox, to grow up and
Speaker 1: become the play by play announcer of your childhood team,
Speaker 1: and then, when the working circumstances were not what they
Speaker 1: should have been, to have the steel to say, yes,
Speaker 1: this was my childhood dream. I am no longer a child.
Speaker 1: I am going to go to Detroit instead. I knew
Speaker 1: Bill Veck, the owner of the Chicago White Sox, who
Speaker 1: bought the team rather than let them moved to Seattle
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six. He'd already owned them once. He
Speaker 1: was the one who put them in the World Series
Speaker 1: the previous time before two thousand and five, when the
Speaker 1: Pope attended. He got them in in nineteen fifty nine
Speaker 1: and then sold the team. And he did all kinds
Speaker 1: of crazy things in his various capacities in the teams
Speaker 1: he owned in Saint Louis and Cleveland, and then the
Speaker 1: White Sox. The story of Bill Beck is probably summarized
Speaker 1: by this, Among other things, he was the guy who said,
Speaker 1: you know what that outfield wall at Wrigley Park where
Speaker 1: the Cubs play, Wrigley Field, rather what that needs. I'm
Speaker 1: confusing it with its original name, Cubbs Park. That outfield
Speaker 1: fence here at Wrigleyfield that needs ivy. I'll go and
Speaker 1: plant some ivy every time you see the ivy at
Speaker 1: Wrigley Field. Bill Veck, his father was president of the Cubs.
Speaker 1: He wound up owning the White Sox. He lost part
Speaker 1: of a leg in Second World War service, and I
Speaker 1: saw him do this the last time I saw him,
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty or eighty one. He used to smoke
Speaker 1: a lot. He used to stub out his cigarettes on
Speaker 1: his wooden leg. President Obama was a White Sox fan
Speaker 1: throughout a first pitch at one of the games of
Speaker 1: the American League Championship Series that they ran roughshod through
Speaker 1: on the way to the World Series in two thousand
Speaker 1: and five. There are lots of pictures. Google him in
Speaker 1: a white Sox jacket, a white Sox uniform, and think
Speaker 1: of this for a moment. How popular the Chicago Cubs are.
Speaker 1: It's an easy thing to be a Cubs fan in
Speaker 1: some senses. Yes, you had to suffer between the years
Speaker 1: nineteen oh eight and twenty sixteen without winning the World Series.
Speaker 1: Oh boohoo, everybody felt sorry for you. You automatically got
Speaker 1: a free beer. The games were played during the day,
Speaker 1: so you could drink all afternoon and then go out
Speaker 1: on the town on public transportation and get drunk again
Speaker 1: at night. Terrible, terrible existence. In any event, Obama, No,
Speaker 1: he did not take advantage of that. He did not
Speaker 1: say I'm a Cubs fan. He just reveled in being
Speaker 1: a white Sox fan, an Illinois senator running for president,
Speaker 1: identifying not with the easy Cubs but with the White Sox.
Speaker 1: In fact, that was the first thing I admired about
Speaker 1: Barack Obama. And lastly, of these exceptional White Sox fans,
Speaker 1: there was the late Gene Shepherd, humorist radio rack on
Speaker 1: tour the O tour of the movie A Christmas Story.
Speaker 1: He wrote it, he narrated the movie itself, He played
Speaker 1: the angry old man in the hat in the line
Speaker 1: for Santa at the department store, and most importantly, he
Speaker 1: lived it. He was, in fact little Ralphie. Geene Shepherd
Speaker 1: was also a lifetime White Sox fan. And if you
Speaker 1: don't know baseball, the White Sox were the team that
Speaker 1: the long suffering Cubs fans and the long suffering Red
Speaker 1: Sox fans and the long suffering everybody else fans looked
Speaker 1: down on. The Cubs had a cathedral for a stadium
Speaker 1: with Bill Veck's ivy on the walls. The Socks had
Speaker 1: an even older ballpark that looked even older the day
Speaker 1: it had opened in nineteen oh nine. People think of
Speaker 1: it fondly now. It was a dump. The Cubs had
Speaker 1: not won the World Series since nineteen oh eight. The
Speaker 1: White Sox won it in nineteen seventeen and had a
Speaker 1: dynasty with the second or third greatest hitter of all
Speaker 1: time at its center Shoeles Joe Jackson, and they should
Speaker 1: have won the World Series again in nineteen nineteen and
Speaker 1: probably nineteen twenty by eight of their players, including Jackson,
Speaker 1: at least agreed to accept bribes small bribes to deliberately
Speaker 1: lose the nineteen nineteen World Series. They would not win
Speaker 1: a World Series again until two thousand and five. With
Speaker 1: as it proves, their guy the pulpe in the stands.
Speaker 1: And no no martyrdom jokes here please, except for the
Speaker 1: Martin joke from White Sox fan Geene Shepherd. I have
Speaker 1: never read anything like this by any fan of any team.
Speaker 1: It summarizes the White Sox and their fans and thus
Speaker 1: the new pope completely. To quote Geene Shepherd, if I
Speaker 1: were going to storm a pillbox, going to sheer utter
Speaker 1: certain death, and the colonel said, Shepherd picked six guys,
Speaker 1: I'd pick six White Sox fans because they have known
Speaker 1: death every day of their lives and it holds no
Speaker 1: terror for them. Wow, cassocks are read. Conclaves are dope.
Speaker 1: Wake up, babe, we got a woke Marxist also of
Speaker 1: interest here. Actually, let me do this SNL dead Pope
Speaker 1: joke now, because who knows when I'll get to quote
Speaker 1: this again for anyone who didn't see it when it happened.
Speaker 1: On August sixth, nineteen seventy eight, Pope Paul the sixth,
Speaker 1: the two hundred and sixty third Pope in a series
Speaker 1: of two hundred and sixty seven collect them mall died.
Speaker 1: He was succeeded by Pope John Paul, who took the
Speaker 1: names of his two predecessors, John and Paul, leading to
Speaker 1: the joke that his successor would take the name John Paul.
Speaker 1: George Ringo then, in a genuine shock that I can
Speaker 1: still remember from the time as vividly as it was
Speaker 1: that day, on the twenty eighth of September nineteen seventy eight,
Speaker 1: not two months later, Pope John Paul died. He was
Speaker 1: succeeded by John Paul the Second on October sixteenth. And
Speaker 1: on Saturday, September thirtieth, of the Year of the Three
Speaker 1: Popes nineteen seventy eight, Bill Murray was anchoring the weekend
Speaker 1: Update mock newscast on Saturday Night Live. He approached it
Speaker 1: if you never saw him as he did, Nick the
Speaker 1: Lounge singer kind of mixed with the groundskeeper from Caddy
Speaker 1: Shack that he also played. He started to read the
Speaker 1: news of Pope John Paul's passing and then stopped and
Speaker 1: shouted and looked around the stage as he did, Wait
Speaker 1: a minute, who's running this news department? A dead pope?
Speaker 1: We already did this story? Come on anyway? Also of
Speaker 1: interest here worst Persons is not just three reprobates, but
Speaker 1: three reprobates I know and once respected, including Claire Shipman.
Speaker 1: And Claire Shipman needs to resign as co chair and
Speaker 1: acting president at Columbia University after her school suspended four
Speaker 1: student reporters for reporting. That's next. This is countdown. This
Speaker 1: is countdown with Keith Alberman still ahead on this all
Speaker 1: new editiative. Countdown. What do you name a dog who
Speaker 1: smiles all the time and loves every human she meets? Well,
Speaker 1: her pet little boy named her smiles her story Next first,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, there's still more new idiots to
Speaker 1: talk about, the roundup of the miscrants, morons and Dunning
Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute the latest other worst persons
Speaker 1: in the world. As preface, most of these times, these
Speaker 1: people annoy me. They often enrage me, but rarely do
Speaker 1: they disappoint me personally. They are on this list because
Speaker 1: they're maga and maga is a disease, or because they're
Speaker 1: conservative and conservativism is at its heart. I've got mine,
Speaker 1: now you go get yours. But even if my ancestors
Speaker 1: have rigged the system to make sure I can never
Speaker 1: lose mine and you can never gain yours, it's always
Speaker 1: at least that. Rarely is it personal. Rarely is it
Speaker 1: personal disappointment, and even betrayal from people I know even
Speaker 1: more rare and the first worst Person's list appeared on
Speaker 1: MSNBC on like June thirtieth, I think, two thousand and five,
Speaker 1: and the first one was in defense of Tucker Carlson's
Speaker 1: MSNBC show. More specifically, it was in defense after a
Speaker 1: New York Times critic called for it to be canceled,
Speaker 1: like a week after it debuted, when all the TV
Speaker 1: critics ever did in those days was slam MSNBC for
Speaker 1: canceling new shows too quickly. So nearly twenty years of
Speaker 1: worse persons, and even more rare than a personal worse
Speaker 1: person is when all three are people I know and
Speaker 1: at one point respected and even worked with, who have
Speaker 1: failed utterly, irredeemably, irretrievably failed. In fact, in twenty years,
Speaker 1: I can't think of three of them appearing on one list,
Speaker 1: and yet here we are the bronze worse and it's
Speaker 1: personal Governor Gavin Newsom of California. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he thinks he's moving inexorably towards some position where he's
Speaker 1: the only Democratic choice for the nomination in twenty eight
Speaker 1: because the Trump dictatorship will choose the Democratic nominee in
Speaker 1: twenty eight, or if he's just this stupid but here
Speaker 1: he goes again. Trump and John Voight, who between them
Speaker 1: are now one hundred and sixty five years old. And
Speaker 1: Voight turns out to be from the town next to
Speaker 1: my hometown, and he went to the Catholic school called
Speaker 1: Steppinac that was close enough to my school that occasionally
Speaker 1: Steppinac and Hackley shared the same bus home to our
Speaker 1: towns in the afternoons. Trump and vod devised this truly
Speaker 1: stupid one hundred percent tariff on films produced in foreign lands,
Speaker 1: and I don't know what does that even mean. Bollywood,
Speaker 1: anything with a scene in it shot at Octoberfest All
Speaker 1: Movies with Gary Oldman. The next day, Newsom responded to
Speaker 1: this by springing into action, and instead of defending America's
Speaker 1: film capital, the state he is governor of, he issued
Speaker 1: a statement reading, We're eager to partner with the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: Stop just at that point, go to the end of
Speaker 1: the Santa Monica peer, get a good running start, and
Speaker 1: leap into the ocean. There's more to his statement, We're
Speaker 1: eager to partner with the Trump administration to further strengthen
Speaker 1: domestic production and make America film again. MafA one letter
Speaker 1: short of Mafia. Good call. Gav Newsom thinks he's going
Speaker 1: to get seven and a half billion in movie making
Speaker 1: incentives out of Trump by capitulating to him and riffing
Speaker 1: on his MAGA fascist catchphrase, Gavin, you are a jackass.
Speaker 1: The only way you get seven and a half billion
Speaker 1: out of Trump is to give him fifteen billion and
Speaker 1: then maybe you'll get half of it back. Just a moron,
Speaker 1: quite literally, Gavin Newsom could have been president, but instead
Speaker 1: he's decided to join the vshy opposition. Him and Joe Scarborough. Boys,
Speaker 1: your hair ain't gonna get you elected, Not in the
Speaker 1: hair era of Trump and Javier Milay and Boris Johnson.
Speaker 1: Your hair disqualifies you. Also Joe Scaraberer and Gavin Newsom,
Speaker 1: Your stupidity disqualifies you, and your scumbagginess disqualifies you. The
Speaker 1: runner up worser also personal Bob Eiger, chairman of Disney,
Speaker 1: who is on his what fifth sellout to Trump? The
Speaker 1: deal to settle Trump's nonsense lawsuit against George Stephanopolis and
Speaker 1: ABC News and thus in the process kind of legally
Speaker 1: bribed Trump, then giving Trump his choice of interviewers and
Speaker 1: leaving George and David Muir off the list five sellouts
Speaker 1: to Trump? What is it? Bob six? This is six
Speaker 1: or seven according to a filing with the Securities and
Speaker 1: Exchange Commission. Disney has now added a new channel to
Speaker 1: its Hulu and Live TV streaming services, the channel, news Max.
Speaker 1: News Max has for thirty years been the thing you
Speaker 1: read or watch when you think Fox News is just
Speaker 1: too damn liberal. I hate that liberal, Harris Faulkner. It
Speaker 1: is not only propaganda Newsmax, that is, but it's poorly done,
Speaker 1: self contradictory, stupid propaganda. It's literally for the people who
Speaker 1: aren't smart enough to understand Fox News and the fascists
Speaker 1: think it's lack of distribution and decreasing carriage on cable
Speaker 1: and satellite is a conspiracy against them, a conspiracy against fascism.
Speaker 1: You bet you're ass Newsmax. Except for Disney and Bob Iiger, who,
Speaker 1: as I have mentioned, I have known since March nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy nine, who I have worked for three times, who
Speaker 1: I got a call from the day I first left
Speaker 1: ESPN in ninety seven, in which he asked me to
Speaker 1: call him personally if I ever wanted to return to ESPN.
Speaker 1: And who then did the corporate j Leno chose a
Speaker 1: successor as the head of Disney, then Bob missed having
Speaker 1: the job. He may have helped spread the stories that
Speaker 1: his successor didn't have it. Presto, the successor gets fired.
Speaker 1: Who gets the job back? Why?
Speaker 3: Bob?
Speaker 1: Bob j Leno Iger, Bob j Leno Ron McLean Iger
Speaker 1: and what has he done with it? Wore himself out
Speaker 1: to Trump again? But our winner the worst. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna sound really happy about this, because really I am
Speaker 1: crying inside. Claire Shipman, who I praised here and waxed
Speaker 1: nostalgic about not two months ago, perhaps my favorite, or
Speaker 1: at least my second favorite, of my original six White
Speaker 1: House correspondence on the MSNBC White House in Crisis show
Speaker 1: during Clinton Lewinsky and I ran in to her at
Speaker 1: the Animal Medical Center in March. She's still lovely and
Speaker 1: a delight, and I knew I could always count on
Speaker 1: her ethics and toughness, especially now that she was co
Speaker 1: chair of the board of Trustees at Columbia University. And
Speaker 1: if she continues on her current path, my friend Claire
Speaker 1: should resign. The president of Columbia. The one that was
Speaker 1: there when I saw Claire. That president of Columbia has
Speaker 1: since gone into the volcano to try to appease Trump.
Speaker 1: Claire has succeeded that one as acting president, and she
Speaker 1: has been appalling. Now I guess I can defer to
Speaker 1: her on the decision to call the New York City
Speaker 1: cops in to address a campus building takeover. As I
Speaker 1: noted here previously, five years before I got to Cornell,
Speaker 1: justifiably angry African American students took over a campus building
Speaker 1: there and they were carrying long guns. This was in
Speaker 1: response to cross burning on campus. This was as a
Speaker 1: minor complaint they were literally burning crosses in front of
Speaker 1: black sororities at Cornell in nineteen sixty nine and seventy.
Speaker 1: I think I understand where you're coming from, So I
Speaker 1: have a pretty high threshold about calling the cops on
Speaker 1: student protesters. But I can see there are circumstances where
Speaker 1: you might be justified in doing that if the protesters
Speaker 1: tried to, say, burn the building down, rather than set
Speaker 1: a nearby dumpster on fire. By the way, I assumed
Speaker 1: that dumpster was set on fire, and that wasn't just
Speaker 1: Claire's career as an educator spontaneously combusting. Anyway, Claire did
Speaker 1: something that on the ethical scale, was far worse than
Speaker 1: calling the cops in to arrest some of her own students.
Speaker 1: She has sat idly by and without comment as Columbia
Speaker 1: and the still differently named College for Women there, Barnard
Speaker 1: suspended four student journalists for the crime of covering the
Speaker 1: other students' protests. Sawyer Huckabee of w KCR Radio at
Speaker 1: Columbia first was prevented by campus cops from leaving the
Speaker 1: library as the siege ended Wednesday, and then he was
Speaker 1: suspended Thursday afternoon for his quote involvement unquote. In the protest,
Speaker 1: dozens of Columbia students were issued interim suspensions. Huckaby included
Speaker 1: five hours later Huckabee suspension, which his ID was inoperative.
Speaker 1: He was ordered to leave campus blutly. His college life
Speaker 1: and life life were jeopardized. Somebody wised up and canceled
Speaker 1: his suspension. But also on Thursday, Barnard's Dean Leslie Greenwage
Speaker 1: Grenage Grinage, Grinage. It's a mean sounding name, isn't it,
Speaker 1: suspended two female reporters from the radio station and a
Speaker 1: third from the Columbia campus newspaper. Same restrictions, get out
Speaker 1: your IDs, no longer work, you can't go to class,
Speaker 1: you can't take exams. What time of year is it, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's exam time. You may be done here in fact,
Speaker 1: and they let those suspensions sit overnight and did not
Speaker 1: lift them until the next morning after news got out.
Speaker 1: The Columbia Columbia as in the Columbia Journalism School Columbia
Speaker 1: had suspended four reporters for reporting Were you ever suspended
Speaker 1: in school or in college? I was suspended in college
Speaker 1: for not finishing a swimming test. I swear I got
Speaker 1: the letter as I was leaving home for the start
Speaker 1: of the spring semester, about a five hour trip, the
Speaker 1: longest five hours of my life to that point. What
Speaker 1: would I do if they did not reinstate me? Where
Speaker 1: would I go? I was going to a school that
Speaker 1: technically I was not allowed to go to. Could I
Speaker 1: go on the campus to protest? To just ask what
Speaker 1: about the tuition for the just starting semester? What about
Speaker 1: my entire future at the school? And then, as somebody
Speaker 1: who had been thrown out of Cornell or suspended at Cornell,
Speaker 1: what do I do now? I was eighteen? Now it
Speaker 1: was great that when I got to Ithaca and went
Speaker 1: to the registrar's office and basically asked the question help,
Speaker 1: the administrator looked at the letter and laughed and said, well,
Speaker 1: this is stupid. And she wrote on the letter reinstated
Speaker 1: effective immediately, and said she'd send me a formal letter
Speaker 1: in the mail immediately. And then she looked on a
Speaker 1: calendar and she handed me a slip reading swimming test appointment,
Speaker 1: and she told me to write down a day and
Speaker 1: a time on it. And it was all resolved that fast.
Speaker 1: That was great, And still those five hours are burned
Speaker 1: into my brain. Forty eight years later. Imagine being one
Speaker 1: of these reporters at Columbia, at a university known uniquely
Speaker 1: in the Ivy League, perhaps in American academia for its
Speaker 1: journalism programs undergraduate and graduate, and with a true journalist,
Speaker 1: a reporter from CNN, NBC and ABC as both its
Speaker 1: acting president and co chair of the board. Imagine the
Speaker 1: sense of dread and betrayal, and even after the lifting
Speaker 1: of the suspension, the sense of your university, the people
Speaker 1: you are buying a product from deciding to let you
Speaker 1: get away with this this time, but reminding you they
Speaker 1: could screw you into the ground whenever they want to
Speaker 1: talk about chilling dissent and chilling reporting. You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be when it says journalism school, Claire, You're supposed to
Speaker 1: be for journalism. These weren't radical protesters. These weren't even
Speaker 1: columnists or loudmouthed on air commentators. These were four students
Speaker 1: who were doing what Claire Shipman used to do, what
Speaker 1: she used to do when she earned her reputation and
Speaker 1: her livelihood and eventually wound up in the position to
Speaker 1: become the person running the university. And she let them
Speaker 1: twist slowly in the wind, and she let freedom of
Speaker 1: the press at Columbia University twists slowly in the wind.
Speaker 1: It's already bad enough that Claire was at the center
Speaker 1: as Columbia cut a deal with Trump, a deal in
Speaker 1: which Trump wants a handpicked judge to appoint a handpicked
Speaker 1: enforcer for Trump's fascist demands for how the university should
Speaker 1: run from now on. That was bad enough, maybe it
Speaker 1: was necessary for survival. But this suspending student reporters Claire.
Speaker 1: This makes one question whether anybody should give a damn
Speaker 1: whether Columbia University survives or not. The shame I feel
Speaker 1: about Claire Ship may only be matched by what seems
Speaker 1: to be her incapacity to feel any shame for what
Speaker 1: she's done, or any awareness that her job right now
Speaker 1: is to walk up to Trump and spit in his
Speaker 1: face on behalf of Columbia, on behalf of those briefly
Speaker 1: suspended journalists, on behalf of Academia, on behalf of America,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals chosen anti Trump, Pope, you folded, go spit
Speaker 1: metaphorically in Trump's face. Claire, do it. It's your last chance.
Speaker 1: Cancel the deal with Trump. Harvard did, and if you
Speaker 1: won't do that, get out, resign and take the Barnard
Speaker 1: Dean with you, and for that matter, take Columbia with you,
Speaker 1: because right now your university is headed towards becoming just
Speaker 1: another Trump whorehouse shipman. I am so ashamed, Claire truly
Speaker 1: today's worst person in the world. For the first time
Speaker 1: in a while, time for another dog in need. You
Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day today. It's personal,
Speaker 1: a lot of personal. In this show. In February of
Speaker 1: last year, I introduced you to a big, lovely Bernese
Speaker 1: Mountain dog called Smiles. Called Smiles because she does NonStop.
Speaker 1: Her default position is to smile, and she loves every
Speaker 1: human she's ever met, especially her pet little boy. She
Speaker 1: is the size of a large bicycle. She was just
Speaker 1: about to turn three years old last year when she
Speaker 1: suddenly became sick. It was cancer. In fact, it was lymphoma.
Speaker 1: Everybody chipped in and thank you for helping. She got chemo.
Speaker 1: She tolerated it well, she barely noticed it. In fact,
Speaker 1: she got better fast, and she and her little boy
Speaker 1: have had a great year. And now the cancer is back.
Speaker 1: And so for my friend Andrew Bloonner. Is the cost
Speaker 1: of the treatment for smiles. The good news is we
Speaker 1: know she can handle it, and even with the recurrence,
Speaker 1: the vets are predicting eighty to eighty five percent likelihood
Speaker 1: of success of getting her back into remission. You might
Speaker 1: ask why spend thousands of dollars on the health of
Speaker 1: just one dog. My primary answer is this because you can.
Speaker 1: And my secondary answer is I'm thinking of her pet,
Speaker 1: little boy. Andrew's gofund me for smiles is is at
Speaker 1: GoFundMe dot com and in the search engine type in
Speaker 1: three words smiles, mountain dog, smiles, mountain dog. Anything you
Speaker 1: can give will be gratefully welcomed. And just publicizing smiles
Speaker 1: and this GoFundMe will help. I'll put the link out
Speaker 1: on Twitter again and retweeting it can make all the
Speaker 1: difference and smiles. Thank you and her little Boy. Thanks you,
Speaker 1: and I thank you. I've done all the damage I
Speaker 1: can do here. Thank you for listening. Ryan Ray and
Speaker 1: John Phillip Schaneil, the musical directors have Countdown Ra produced
Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration
Speaker 1: and keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums,
Speaker 1: and it was produced by Tko Brothers Now are satirical
Speaker 1: and pithy. Musical comments are by the best baseball stadium
Speaker 1: organist ever, Nancy Faust, now back doing cameos with the
Speaker 1: White Sox, or as they are now known, the Vatican's
Speaker 1: Team or the Vaticans South Sides Team. The sports music
Speaker 1: is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch
Speaker 1: Warren Davis Curtisy ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed
Speaker 1: by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was
Speaker 1: my friend Kenny Maine. Everything else was, as ever, my fault.
Speaker 1: And if you happen to know whether or not the
Speaker 1: Pope used to watch me or Kenny or anybody else
Speaker 1: on Sports Center in the nineties, just get a hold
Speaker 1: of me. I'd just like to know. That's countdown for today,
Speaker 1: Day one, one hundred and thirteen of America held hostage,
Speaker 1: just one three hundred and fifty days until the scheduled
Speaker 1: end of his lame duck and lame brained term unless
Speaker 1: Musk removes him sooner. Where the actuarial tables do or
Speaker 1: we do, or the next scheduled countdown is Thursday is
Speaker 1: always bulletins as the news warrants remember Trump is laying
Speaker 1: the groundwork now to not leave office later. He must
Speaker 1: be stopped till next time. I'm Keith Oldremman. Good morning,
Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck Trump, peach Ten Who's
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