1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:21,995 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Happy 2 00:00:22,435 --> 00:00:28,115 Speaker 1: Jack Smith Day to all who celebrate first. A sitting 3 00:00:28,195 --> 00:00:32,195 Speaker 1: US congressman is now openly threatening Haitian immigrants, all of 4 00:00:32,195 --> 00:00:34,795 Speaker 1: whom are here legally, some of whom have been here 5 00:00:34,835 --> 00:00:40,235 Speaker 1: for generations. Clay Higgins, the disgraced ex cop from Louisiana 6 00:00:40,435 --> 00:00:44,435 Speaker 1: who fabricated a story about evidence he fabricated about a 7 00:00:44,435 --> 00:00:50,035 Speaker 1: thing he fabricated called January sixth ghost buses, told the 8 00:00:50,075 --> 00:00:53,315 Speaker 1: Haitians to quote get their ass out of our country 9 00:00:53,555 --> 00:00:58,275 Speaker 1: before January twentieth. In a tweet over a screenshot of 10 00:00:58,315 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: the news we mentioned yesterday here that a group representing 11 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:04,595 Speaker 1: the immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, that Trump and Senator Van 12 00:01:04,675 --> 00:01:07,435 Speaker 1: Ants and other Republicans are trying to get killed via 13 00:01:07,515 --> 00:01:11,035 Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism. That that group was suing to try to 14 00:01:11,115 --> 00:01:14,235 Speaker 1: force the prosecution of Trump and Vance for breaking the 15 00:01:14,315 --> 00:01:19,515 Speaker 1: law by such incitement. Higgins writes, lull, these Haitians are wild, 16 00:01:19,915 --> 00:01:25,155 Speaker 1: eating pets, voodoo, nastiest country in the Western Hemisphere, cults, 17 00:01:25,355 --> 00:01:30,075 Speaker 1: slapstick gangsters, but damned if they don't feel all sophisticated. 18 00:01:30,155 --> 00:01:35,195 Speaker 1: Now filing charges against our president and VP all these 19 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:39,115 Speaker 1: thugs better get their mind right and their ass out 20 00:01:39,155 --> 00:01:44,475 Speaker 1: of our country before January twentieth, unquote. Leaving aside the 21 00:01:44,595 --> 00:01:48,915 Speaker 1: question of whose mind is right, Clay Higgins apparently thinks JV. 22 00:01:49,035 --> 00:01:52,955 Speaker 1: Vance is Vice president right now just because his fascist 23 00:01:53,035 --> 00:01:57,075 Speaker 1: party has nominated him. The blowback was immediate. Before the 24 00:01:57,155 --> 00:02:00,595 Speaker 1: House adjourned yesterday, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus 25 00:02:00,635 --> 00:02:05,075 Speaker 1: attempted to get Higgins immediately censured for his racist lineage 26 00:02:05,235 --> 00:02:08,955 Speaker 1: and his violent threats against legal residents of the United States. 27 00:02:09,315 --> 00:02:12,315 Speaker 1: Now that, as Stephen Horsford says, he confronted Higgins and 28 00:02:12,355 --> 00:02:16,115 Speaker 1: demanded Higgins delete the tweet. Quoting Horsford, he actually told 29 00:02:16,155 --> 00:02:19,475 Speaker 1: me no, he would not. Horsford's censure bid was blocked 30 00:02:19,475 --> 00:02:22,715 Speaker 1: for the moment by Republicans led my speaker Mike Johnson, 31 00:02:23,035 --> 00:02:28,355 Speaker 1: also an ass from Louisiana. Johnson, who Tuesday revealed by 32 00:02:28,355 --> 00:02:30,595 Speaker 1: what he refused to say, that he would be on 33 00:02:30,675 --> 00:02:33,195 Speaker 1: the side of the next Republican attempt to nullify the 34 00:02:33,235 --> 00:02:35,795 Speaker 1: election by legal trickery, just as he was on the 35 00:02:35,795 --> 00:02:38,435 Speaker 1: side of the last Republican attempt to do so, said 36 00:02:38,435 --> 00:02:41,755 Speaker 1: that this matter was now closed because Higgins did in fact, 37 00:02:41,795 --> 00:02:44,595 Speaker 1: delete the get their ass out of our country tweet, 38 00:02:45,035 --> 00:02:50,115 Speaker 1: Johnson claimed, Higgins quote prayed about it, and he regretted it, 39 00:02:50,475 --> 00:02:53,435 Speaker 1: and he pulled the post down. That's what you want 40 00:02:53,475 --> 00:02:56,715 Speaker 1: a gentleman to do. I'm sure he probably regrets some 41 00:02:56,795 --> 00:02:59,795 Speaker 1: of the language he used, Johnson says, but you know, 42 00:03:00,355 --> 00:03:05,195 Speaker 1: we move forward. We believe in redemption around here, right. 43 00:03:06,355 --> 00:03:10,715 Speaker 1: The only regret Clay Higgins has about the language he 44 00:03:10,875 --> 00:03:14,075 Speaker 1: used is that he stopped himself from using the N 45 00:03:14,155 --> 00:03:19,235 Speaker 1: word to describe the targets of his stochastic terrorism. Johnson, 46 00:03:19,435 --> 00:03:22,995 Speaker 1: who has long since solidified his reputation as the smarmiest 47 00:03:23,315 --> 00:03:26,435 Speaker 1: and most morally weightless speaker in the history of the 48 00:03:26,475 --> 00:03:31,595 Speaker 1: House of Representatives, did not explain why this scumbag Higgins 49 00:03:31,595 --> 00:03:34,875 Speaker 1: didn't pray about his tweet before he posted it and 50 00:03:34,955 --> 00:03:38,795 Speaker 1: reignited the nightmare unfolding in Ohio and elsewhere for Haitian 51 00:03:38,795 --> 00:03:43,275 Speaker 1: Americans and Irish Americans and Ohio and Americans and non 52 00:03:43,475 --> 00:03:49,075 Speaker 1: psychotic people named Higgins Americans. The most positive thing that 53 00:03:49,115 --> 00:03:52,355 Speaker 1: can be said about the Higgins threat is that he 54 00:03:52,435 --> 00:03:55,435 Speaker 1: declared he only wanted all the Haitians to leave the 55 00:03:55,555 --> 00:03:59,035 Speaker 1: United States within four months, rather than to have them 56 00:03:59,115 --> 00:04:03,155 Speaker 1: all killed. I don't know what kind of redemption Johnson 57 00:04:03,155 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: thinks is possible here any longer, but bluntly, the only 58 00:04:06,435 --> 00:04:08,995 Speaker 1: redemption is that of the United States of America, and 59 00:04:09,035 --> 00:04:12,995 Speaker 1: it involves putting slime like Clay Higgins in prison or 60 00:04:12,995 --> 00:04:16,955 Speaker 1: in a psychiatric institution as quickly as possible, and getting 61 00:04:16,955 --> 00:04:20,075 Speaker 1: them out of the goddamned House of Representatives before it's 62 00:04:20,115 --> 00:04:24,595 Speaker 1: too late. It is Clay Higgins or America. It is 63 00:04:24,755 --> 00:04:28,915 Speaker 1: Clay Higgins and a fascist apartheid state in which every 64 00:04:29,115 --> 00:04:31,955 Speaker 1: lie is truth as long as it is directed against 65 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:35,675 Speaker 1: someone who is not powerful or white, or the America 66 00:04:35,755 --> 00:04:37,715 Speaker 1: we have spent two hundred and forty eight years trying 67 00:04:37,715 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: to improve, even when white trash like Clay Higgins and 68 00:04:42,875 --> 00:04:46,755 Speaker 1: those hiding their tolerance for bigotry behind tailored suits like 69 00:04:46,795 --> 00:04:50,275 Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson, have tried to turn this country back to 70 00:04:50,475 --> 00:04:55,795 Speaker 1: Jim Crow, to lynchings, slavery, xenophobia, racism, and an attitude 71 00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:59,155 Speaker 1: that at its core amounts to this. My ancestors were 72 00:04:59,155 --> 00:05:02,995 Speaker 1: allowed to come here and make my life possible, Yours 73 00:05:03,275 --> 00:05:11,355 Speaker 1: are not. Why because I say so, If at any 74 00:05:11,395 --> 00:05:16,475 Speaker 1: point between now and election day, you stop being enraged 75 00:05:17,195 --> 00:05:23,195 Speaker 1: that Donald Trump and his fellow peddler of cultural heroine J. D. Vance, 76 00:05:23,715 --> 00:05:28,075 Speaker 1: have let worser creatures like Clay Higgins crawl out of 77 00:05:28,115 --> 00:05:33,195 Speaker 1: the woodwork. If you flag between now and then suck 78 00:05:33,235 --> 00:05:37,355 Speaker 1: it up. The election of November fifth is as existential 79 00:05:37,435 --> 00:05:40,875 Speaker 1: for this nation as was the Civil War, and many 80 00:05:40,955 --> 00:05:45,995 Speaker 1: of the issues are unchanged from the Civil War, and 81 00:05:46,075 --> 00:05:51,075 Speaker 1: the results must be identical. And by the way, the 82 00:05:51,115 --> 00:05:56,635 Speaker 1: phrase cultural heroine to describe what Trump has done to America, 83 00:05:57,355 --> 00:06:27,235 Speaker 1: that was coined in twenty sixteen by JD. Vance. As 84 00:06:27,235 --> 00:06:30,795 Speaker 1: we await the amended Jack Smith filing in Washington, again 85 00:06:30,875 --> 00:06:33,635 Speaker 1: we find ourselves on the subject of how far Trump 86 00:06:33,795 --> 00:06:40,075 Speaker 1: is gone mentally. Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown this month. 87 00:06:41,035 --> 00:06:45,595 Speaker 1: Yesterday Trump forgot he already admitted he lost the twenty 88 00:06:45,635 --> 00:06:50,155 Speaker 1: twenty election quote by a whisker, and then insisted, no, no, 89 00:06:50,235 --> 00:06:53,115 Speaker 1: he didn't mean that. He was being sarcastic and cynical 90 00:06:53,115 --> 00:06:56,795 Speaker 1: when he said whisker. And so he yesterday went back 91 00:06:57,195 --> 00:07:01,235 Speaker 1: and again admitted that he lost the twenty twenty election 92 00:07:02,035 --> 00:07:03,275 Speaker 1: by a whisker. 93 00:07:03,195 --> 00:07:07,995 Speaker 2: More votes than any sitting president in the history of 94 00:07:07,995 --> 00:07:12,875 Speaker 2: our country. But they beat us by a whisker. They 95 00:07:12,915 --> 00:07:14,475 Speaker 2: beat us us by a little whisker. 96 00:07:14,675 --> 00:07:17,195 Speaker 1: I am now waiting for somebody to ask drooling Jay 97 00:07:17,235 --> 00:07:19,555 Speaker 1: Trump about the whisker and for him to say he 98 00:07:19,595 --> 00:07:22,555 Speaker 1: was being sarcastic and cynical, so we can start this 99 00:07:22,635 --> 00:07:28,115 Speaker 1: crap cycle all over again. Trump's new thing is that 100 00:07:28,355 --> 00:07:32,675 Speaker 1: he has been targeted for assassination twice by Iran, that 101 00:07:32,755 --> 00:07:36,355 Speaker 1: the assassination attempts were by Iran in some way. This 102 00:07:36,555 --> 00:07:41,035 Speaker 1: is not entirely one of his hallucinations. He was apparently 103 00:07:41,075 --> 00:07:44,435 Speaker 1: briefed on what Secretary of State Blincoln went public about yesterday, 104 00:07:44,475 --> 00:07:49,795 Speaker 1: that Iran has targeted dozens of top US officials, including 105 00:07:49,835 --> 00:07:53,995 Speaker 1: virtually everybody now in the White House and Trump, with 106 00:07:54,195 --> 00:07:58,515 Speaker 1: assassination and hacking at everything else. Of course, to Trump, 107 00:07:58,555 --> 00:08:01,595 Speaker 1: all the languages of the world, all spoken sounds sound 108 00:08:01,715 --> 00:08:04,075 Speaker 1: like the teacher and the Charlie Brown specials, so all 109 00:08:04,115 --> 00:08:09,275 Speaker 1: he would have heard, and that briefing was Trump Iran. 110 00:08:09,675 --> 00:08:15,755 Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa whoa wow. And then of course Trump 111 00:08:15,875 --> 00:08:20,995 Speaker 1: added the motive to this Iranian plot to kill him 112 00:08:21,035 --> 00:08:24,995 Speaker 1: and only him. And they want to kill him because 113 00:08:26,075 --> 00:08:31,235 Speaker 1: because of because of the furniture, because he's trying to 114 00:08:31,235 --> 00:08:35,755 Speaker 1: bring back the furniture finishing business to Mint Hill in 115 00:08:35,795 --> 00:08:40,315 Speaker 1: North Carolina. I bet even now you think I'm kidding 116 00:08:40,355 --> 00:08:42,915 Speaker 1: about this one. I'm not kidding about this one. 117 00:08:43,395 --> 00:08:46,435 Speaker 2: All of your furniture makers are going to come back 118 00:08:46,755 --> 00:08:51,915 Speaker 2: and come back bigger and stronger and better than ever before. 119 00:08:52,355 --> 00:08:56,715 Speaker 2: They're mostly gone. They're all coming back. This is why 120 00:08:57,635 --> 00:09:03,275 Speaker 2: people in countries want to kill me. They're not happy 121 00:09:03,315 --> 00:09:07,075 Speaker 2: with me. It is to say risky business. This is 122 00:09:07,115 --> 00:09:12,595 Speaker 2: why they want to kill me. They only kill consequential presidents. 123 00:09:12,675 --> 00:09:17,995 Speaker 1: Remember that, not at all insane. The Iranians want to 124 00:09:18,035 --> 00:09:21,595 Speaker 1: kill him because he's bringing the furniture business back to 125 00:09:21,955 --> 00:09:27,995 Speaker 1: North Carolina from Tehran. I guess because they only kill 126 00:09:28,075 --> 00:09:35,675 Speaker 1: consequential presidents, the ones who restore America's furniture factories. He 127 00:09:35,835 --> 00:09:42,155 Speaker 1: is trying to pre brag on himself in case they 128 00:09:42,275 --> 00:09:48,595 Speaker 1: actually assassinate him. Oh, he's fine, He's out of his 129 00:09:48,635 --> 00:09:51,875 Speaker 1: freaking gord. He continues to sound high as a kite, 130 00:09:52,395 --> 00:09:55,115 Speaker 1: and in the video that accompanied what you just heard, 131 00:09:55,435 --> 00:09:58,955 Speaker 1: his face looked like a box of melting candlesticks. But 132 00:09:59,075 --> 00:10:02,035 Speaker 1: tell me again, Lindsey Graham, about why you don't think 133 00:10:02,075 --> 00:10:04,395 Speaker 1: that if he's returned to office, He's still going to 134 00:10:04,515 --> 00:10:11,435 Speaker 1: kill us all, including you. That day had begun just 135 00:10:11,515 --> 00:10:14,635 Speaker 1: after Tuesday turned into Wednesday with the briefest, craziest, most 136 00:10:14,635 --> 00:10:17,475 Speaker 1: harrowing Trump's social media post of all time. And I 137 00:10:17,515 --> 00:10:20,395 Speaker 1: know I'm really saying something when I say that. At 138 00:10:20,435 --> 00:10:24,875 Speaker 1: twelve twelve am Wednesday, Trump posted quote, a great day 139 00:10:24,915 --> 00:10:31,195 Speaker 1: in Louisiana. He was in Georgia. That is perhaps why 140 00:10:31,195 --> 00:10:36,595 Speaker 1: it was a great day in Louisiana. Meanwhile, what follows 141 00:10:36,635 --> 00:10:40,675 Speaker 1: here was an actual surprise. Harris Faulkner of Fox News, 142 00:10:41,315 --> 00:10:44,195 Speaker 1: dressed up like a cross between Angela Lansbury and the 143 00:10:44,235 --> 00:10:47,795 Speaker 1: Manchurian candidate and a slightly cleaned up version of reach 144 00:10:47,875 --> 00:10:52,035 Speaker 1: on He the anchor propagandist from North Korea Nightly News. 145 00:10:52,875 --> 00:10:57,995 Speaker 1: Harris Faulkner explains to guests Congresswoman Nancy Mace that Trump 146 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:03,435 Speaker 1: was Let's just say that, according to what Harris Faulkner said, 147 00:11:03,435 --> 00:11:06,115 Speaker 1: it appears we've all been carrying the lead these last 148 00:11:06,155 --> 00:11:07,035 Speaker 1: twenty four hours. 149 00:11:07,315 --> 00:11:10,955 Speaker 3: Why would anybody want to block information about the assassination 150 00:11:11,075 --> 00:11:12,595 Speaker 3: of former President Trump? 151 00:11:12,875 --> 00:11:14,635 Speaker 1: By the way, if I'm going to tell you, Harris 152 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:18,075 Speaker 1: Faulkner was dressed up like that North Korean news lady. 153 00:11:18,835 --> 00:11:21,955 Speaker 1: In fairness, I had to tell you Nancy Mace was 154 00:11:21,995 --> 00:11:37,275 Speaker 1: wearing a pearl necklace. No, a real one. Two national 155 00:11:37,315 --> 00:11:39,955 Speaker 1: polls of note from yesterday, both head to head and 156 00:11:40,395 --> 00:11:44,395 Speaker 1: full candidate slate by you gov for the economist Harris 157 00:11:44,435 --> 00:11:47,995 Speaker 1: by three active vote for whatever active vote is worth, 158 00:11:48,035 --> 00:11:51,635 Speaker 1: Harris by three. The swing states are all over the map. 159 00:11:51,675 --> 00:11:55,035 Speaker 1: No pun intended Harris by three in Pennsylvania by Monmouth, 160 00:11:55,435 --> 00:11:59,835 Speaker 1: or by two by Focal Data, or tied by RMG 161 00:11:59,955 --> 00:12:03,755 Speaker 1: and SP and R. I'm imagining one of them's right, 162 00:12:04,795 --> 00:12:08,035 Speaker 1: maybe of the most interest, maybe of the most interest. 163 00:12:08,115 --> 00:12:12,275 Speaker 1: This week from the pollsters, survey USA has polled. Nebraska 164 00:12:12,315 --> 00:12:14,875 Speaker 1: hasn't been done in a while. Districts one and three 165 00:12:14,995 --> 00:12:18,475 Speaker 1: are Trump landslides District two. The blue dot is Harris 166 00:12:18,515 --> 00:12:22,595 Speaker 1: by fifteen. There is no surprise there. It is the 167 00:12:22,635 --> 00:12:28,995 Speaker 1: Nebraska Senate polling that is dumbfounding. Incumbent Republican Senator Fisher 168 00:12:29,755 --> 00:12:35,635 Speaker 1: trails Independent Dan Osborne forty five forty four. The Republican 169 00:12:36,275 --> 00:12:40,275 Speaker 1: is losing within the margin of error. For the Senate 170 00:12:40,355 --> 00:12:44,835 Speaker 1: from Nebraska. Dan Osbourne is a steam fitter, a Navy Vet, 171 00:12:44,875 --> 00:12:48,155 Speaker 1: a Union leader and a Democrat registered since twenty sixteen. 172 00:12:48,355 --> 00:12:51,715 Speaker 1: He is proving that the oldest of Republican tricks can 173 00:12:51,755 --> 00:12:55,435 Speaker 1: work both ways. If and when your party affiliation is 174 00:12:55,475 --> 00:12:59,155 Speaker 1: going to cost you a point or a vote, just 175 00:13:00,235 --> 00:13:07,235 Speaker 1: pretend it never happened. Speaking of which, we swing back 176 00:13:07,235 --> 00:13:10,875 Speaker 1: to that little shit Mike Johnson, who has ordered Ukrainian 177 00:13:10,955 --> 00:13:17,075 Speaker 1: President Vladimir Zelensky to fire his ambassador, the Ukrainian Ambassador 178 00:13:17,315 --> 00:13:21,955 Speaker 1: to the United States, because Zelensky went to the factory 179 00:13:21,955 --> 00:13:27,675 Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania where munitions for Ukraine have been manufactured. No seriously, 180 00:13:28,715 --> 00:13:31,835 Speaker 1: little big man Mike thinks he runs two governments rather 181 00:13:31,915 --> 00:13:37,195 Speaker 1: than you know none. The Republicans have now decided that 182 00:13:37,235 --> 00:13:41,875 Speaker 1: the Zelenski factory visit was a campaign event and thus 183 00:13:42,835 --> 00:13:49,355 Speaker 1: interference in the American election by Zelenski because Governor Josh 184 00:13:49,435 --> 00:13:53,555 Speaker 1: Shapiro was at the factory too, and Shapiro was briefly 185 00:13:53,595 --> 00:13:59,435 Speaker 1: a candidate to be Kamala Harris's running mate. No, seriously, 186 00:14:01,155 --> 00:14:03,715 Speaker 1: Johnson is on firmer ground with Clay Higgins than he 187 00:14:03,875 --> 00:14:06,555 Speaker 1: is with this one or with the other half of this. 188 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:11,235 Speaker 1: Johnson's little fat ass henchman, James Comer claims to be 189 00:14:11,315 --> 00:14:15,755 Speaker 1: opening an investigation into Zolensky and the visit, and he 190 00:14:15,795 --> 00:14:20,155 Speaker 1: wants the testimony of Merrick Garland and Lloyd Austin, and 191 00:14:20,235 --> 00:14:24,675 Speaker 1: I don't know he wants Jesus to testify because, of 192 00:14:24,675 --> 00:14:27,195 Speaker 1: course Trump is still pissed about that little favu he 193 00:14:27,275 --> 00:14:31,995 Speaker 1: needed from Zelensky. Also, Comer has apparently decided that since 194 00:14:32,035 --> 00:14:34,915 Speaker 1: his entire life has now become an utter failure because 195 00:14:34,915 --> 00:14:38,315 Speaker 1: he never even took a vote on impeaching Biden as president, 196 00:14:38,595 --> 00:14:42,915 Speaker 1: what the hell, maybe he can still try to impeach 197 00:14:43,115 --> 00:14:52,115 Speaker 1: Zelenski as president. And yes, of course James Comer, Mike 198 00:14:52,195 --> 00:14:57,755 Speaker 1: Johnson and Clay Higgins are not just congressional viruses with shoes. 199 00:14:58,875 --> 00:15:05,755 Speaker 1: They all constitute part of Louisiana's Republican delegation. Squirt Louisiana, 200 00:15:06,395 --> 00:15:12,675 Speaker 1: thank you for sending us your spoiled oysters. Also of 201 00:15:12,755 --> 00:15:16,955 Speaker 1: interest here. Okay, the newsy RFK story may be petering out, 202 00:15:16,995 --> 00:15:23,955 Speaker 1: but not before London's Daily Mail interviewed doctor Christina Irene Gillespie. 203 00:15:24,115 --> 00:15:27,755 Speaker 1: And who is she? Well, we know this much about her. 204 00:15:28,195 --> 00:15:32,635 Speaker 1: She had the dignity to tell the London Rag I 205 00:15:32,675 --> 00:15:37,635 Speaker 1: am taking care of patients right now. Please don't call back. 206 00:15:38,835 --> 00:15:41,435 Speaker 1: Oh if only all of us could have said something 207 00:15:41,595 --> 00:15:45,755 Speaker 1: like that. An explanation is next. This is countdown. 208 00:15:47,675 --> 00:16:12,195 Speaker 3: This is Countdown with Keith Olberman saw ahead of us 209 00:16:12,195 --> 00:16:15,035 Speaker 3: on this edition to Countdown. I was watching the MSNBC 210 00:16:15,355 --> 00:16:22,275 Speaker 3: promo campaign to advertise Kamala Harris's first interview last night. Oh, 211 00:16:22,315 --> 00:16:27,355 Speaker 3: first one on one with somebody named Stephanie on a 212 00:16:27,395 --> 00:16:31,075 Speaker 3: Wednesday at seven pm. But they're trying to make a 213 00:16:31,155 --> 00:16:33,155 Speaker 3: count in the eight pm ratings by calling it the 214 00:16:33,275 --> 00:16:35,035 Speaker 3: Chris Hayes Show. It's the first one of those. 215 00:16:36,035 --> 00:16:38,995 Speaker 1: I mean, it's like these endless, nauseating baseball desperate efforts 216 00:16:38,995 --> 00:16:42,555 Speaker 1: to make clubs a thing showy Otani has seven triples, 217 00:16:42,875 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: four cot stealings, and ten intentional walks. He's just become 218 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:51,515 Speaker 1: the first member of the seven four to ten club. Anyway, 219 00:16:51,675 --> 00:16:55,035 Speaker 1: these advertisements made it dawn on me and knew that 220 00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:58,555 Speaker 1: there was a prominent MSNBC anchor who twenty years ago 221 00:16:59,075 --> 00:17:04,915 Speaker 1: was actively trying to destroy MSNBC and me and the 222 00:17:04,955 --> 00:17:08,595 Speaker 1: Democratic Party on behalf of George W. Bush. And nobody 223 00:17:08,715 --> 00:17:12,355 Speaker 1: even bats an Ie about what she's doing now. And 224 00:17:12,435 --> 00:17:16,315 Speaker 1: it wasn't Joe Scarborough, the saga of the White House 225 00:17:16,315 --> 00:17:19,355 Speaker 1: that couldn't spell straight. Next in Things I promised not 226 00:17:19,475 --> 00:17:22,235 Speaker 1: to tell first, there are still more new idiots to 227 00:17:22,275 --> 00:17:24,915 Speaker 1: talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons 228 00:17:24,915 --> 00:17:30,195 Speaker 1: and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today worst persons 229 00:17:30,195 --> 00:17:35,995 Speaker 1: in the world. A preamble, there is no Newsy Nudes 230 00:17:36,075 --> 00:17:40,275 Speaker 1: News network today, although The London Daily Mail managed to 231 00:17:40,315 --> 00:17:46,795 Speaker 1: get a five word no comment from Newsy's former fiance's 232 00:17:47,315 --> 00:17:51,115 Speaker 1: former wife, and that led me to figure out that 233 00:17:51,275 --> 00:17:55,555 Speaker 1: relative to me, she is Are you ready? She is 234 00:17:56,475 --> 00:18:04,835 Speaker 1: my ex girlfriends, x fiances because of my ex friends, sexts, 235 00:18:05,435 --> 00:18:10,875 Speaker 1: ex wife a lot of exits. I also feel compelled 236 00:18:10,915 --> 00:18:13,395 Speaker 1: to compliment The New York Post on turning Monday's accounty 237 00:18:13,395 --> 00:18:16,715 Speaker 1: in this podcast into the first kind of fair, not cynical, 238 00:18:17,035 --> 00:18:19,835 Speaker 1: not inaccurate story involving me in the Post in the 239 00:18:19,875 --> 00:18:24,275 Speaker 1: last thirty years. They also spelled my name correctly roughly 240 00:18:24,355 --> 00:18:26,235 Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the time in the piece, which 241 00:18:26,275 --> 00:18:28,195 Speaker 1: I think is a new accuracy record for the Post. 242 00:18:28,315 --> 00:18:28,995 Speaker 3: Bravo, sir. 243 00:18:30,475 --> 00:18:34,795 Speaker 1: Anyway, the Bronze Worse Sheriff Bruce Sikowski of Portage County 244 00:18:34,835 --> 00:18:38,555 Speaker 1: Ohio told you about Bruce previously. He's the guy with 245 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:41,515 Speaker 1: no neck and a bad rug who told voters there 246 00:18:41,715 --> 00:18:45,675 Speaker 1: told them on his official sheriff's Facebook page to look 247 00:18:45,755 --> 00:18:50,035 Speaker 1: for Kamala Harris campaign signs in yards in Portage County, 248 00:18:50,075 --> 00:18:53,555 Speaker 1: Ohio and write down the addresses so that when the 249 00:18:54,075 --> 00:18:57,835 Speaker 1: billions of the immigrants are sent to their Ohio towns 250 00:18:57,875 --> 00:19:01,595 Speaker 1: to eat their I don't know what is the lie now, 251 00:19:02,075 --> 00:19:05,675 Speaker 1: to eat their babies? What is it is? Is it fish? 252 00:19:05,795 --> 00:19:09,715 Speaker 1: What is it? Anyway, right down their addresses so you 253 00:19:09,715 --> 00:19:13,515 Speaker 1: can then send the migrants, or as Sheriff Zukowski called them, 254 00:19:13,555 --> 00:19:17,835 Speaker 1: with his seventh grade education, the locust, to live at 255 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:21,475 Speaker 1: those houses. That was his excuse. Of course, writing down 256 00:19:21,675 --> 00:19:24,475 Speaker 1: addresses of who is supporting the Democrat in a red 257 00:19:24,475 --> 00:19:29,835 Speaker 1: county is stochastic terrorism. Well, God blessed the Elections Board 258 00:19:29,835 --> 00:19:33,635 Speaker 1: of Portage County, Ohio. They, including one of the two Republicans, 259 00:19:33,915 --> 00:19:37,515 Speaker 1: decided that Sheriff Zukowski was way over the line here. 260 00:19:37,875 --> 00:19:42,195 Speaker 1: They have barred their own sheriff's office from providing the 261 00:19:42,275 --> 00:19:46,675 Speaker 1: security during early voting, having determined that the mere sight 262 00:19:46,755 --> 00:19:50,355 Speaker 1: of Zukowski's brown shirts may serve as an illegal form 263 00:19:50,395 --> 00:19:54,515 Speaker 1: of electoral intimidation. They say they will borrow another county's 264 00:19:54,595 --> 00:19:59,555 Speaker 1: officers or hire private security instead. The one member of 265 00:19:59,595 --> 00:20:01,475 Speaker 1: the board who voted to keep the Nazis running the 266 00:20:01,475 --> 00:20:05,315 Speaker 1: elections says, the real victims here are Zukowski's office, who 267 00:20:05,315 --> 00:20:08,795 Speaker 1: committed no crime and blah blah blah blah blah. People 268 00:20:08,835 --> 00:20:11,275 Speaker 1: were literally saying at a town meeting they were now 269 00:20:11,315 --> 00:20:15,635 Speaker 1: afraid to vote because of what he posted. Zakowski should 270 00:20:15,635 --> 00:20:17,555 Speaker 1: be rotting in prison for this, but I don't think 271 00:20:17,595 --> 00:20:21,435 Speaker 1: we have the laws to put him there yet. The 272 00:20:21,515 --> 00:20:25,515 Speaker 1: runner up worser, Jamie Diamond, CEO of JP Morgan and 273 00:20:25,755 --> 00:20:28,955 Speaker 1: just as big a money grubbing swine as the founder 274 00:20:28,995 --> 00:20:32,995 Speaker 1: of the firm, was quote, if you do not control 275 00:20:33,035 --> 00:20:36,755 Speaker 1: the borders, you are going to destroy our country. Now 276 00:20:36,795 --> 00:20:39,835 Speaker 1: that they are sending migrants into New York, he said 277 00:20:39,875 --> 00:20:43,275 Speaker 1: on the Money is more important than Life Network CNBC. 278 00:20:43,875 --> 00:20:46,995 Speaker 1: Now that they are sending migrants into New York, all 279 00:20:47,075 --> 00:20:50,035 Speaker 1: my super liberal friends realize what a problem it is. 280 00:20:51,515 --> 00:20:57,875 Speaker 1: Once again, I cherish my ancestors. I love the thought 281 00:20:57,875 --> 00:21:01,155 Speaker 1: of my great great grandfather Frederick Olderman getting off the 282 00:21:01,195 --> 00:21:03,555 Speaker 1: boat at Castle Garden in New York and opening up 283 00:21:03,555 --> 00:21:06,555 Speaker 1: his blacksmith shop at forty sixth and Fifth in the 284 00:21:06,635 --> 00:21:10,235 Speaker 1: year eighteen forty seven, and me maybe going back in 285 00:21:10,275 --> 00:21:14,275 Speaker 1: time and telling him, look, Fred, never mind the blacksmith shop, 286 00:21:14,635 --> 00:21:18,435 Speaker 1: try to buy this land right here. I love the 287 00:21:18,475 --> 00:21:22,595 Speaker 1: fact that I am the end result of his courage. 288 00:21:22,715 --> 00:21:25,955 Speaker 1: Lord knows I don't have his courage. Just the blessings 289 00:21:27,195 --> 00:21:32,355 Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond. As the online commentator NYC Southpawd notes, Jamie 290 00:21:32,435 --> 00:21:39,635 Speaker 1: Diamond dishonors his ancestors, quoting Jamie Diamond's paternal grandfather, Panos 291 00:21:39,995 --> 00:21:44,115 Speaker 1: Papa Demetrio, immigrated from Greece to New York in nineteen 292 00:21:44,155 --> 00:21:48,075 Speaker 1: twenty one, the year a racist reaction against Southern and 293 00:21:48,235 --> 00:21:53,235 Speaker 1: Eastern European immigration led to the Quota Act. So did 294 00:21:53,315 --> 00:21:56,955 Speaker 1: Jamie Diamond's grandfather get into this country legally or illegally? 295 00:21:57,235 --> 00:22:01,195 Speaker 1: Let's see the documents, Jamie. The last time we decided 296 00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:04,315 Speaker 1: that we had to control the borders to keep immigrants 297 00:22:04,315 --> 00:22:08,955 Speaker 1: skuf like Jamie Diamond's grandfather out. What happened? 298 00:22:08,995 --> 00:22:09,155 Speaker 2: Then? 299 00:22:10,315 --> 00:22:13,275 Speaker 1: May your grandfather come back from the dead, Jamie, and 300 00:22:13,435 --> 00:22:16,315 Speaker 1: drain your bank accounts and give all the money to 301 00:22:16,395 --> 00:22:19,995 Speaker 1: the new immigrants who count not like you, mf R. 302 00:22:21,035 --> 00:22:25,195 Speaker 1: But our winners the worst a tie between two senators 303 00:22:25,275 --> 00:22:29,115 Speaker 1: we have thankfully disposed of, Joe Manchin of West Virginia 304 00:22:29,195 --> 00:22:32,675 Speaker 1: and Kirsten Cinema of Arizona. And yes, if you are 305 00:22:32,715 --> 00:22:35,435 Speaker 1: new to the podcast, I went out with her for 306 00:22:35,475 --> 00:22:38,235 Speaker 1: a while too, and she and I also went to 307 00:22:38,235 --> 00:22:41,675 Speaker 1: see Book of Mormon twice. And even I'm getting tired 308 00:22:41,675 --> 00:22:44,275 Speaker 1: of this. And when I say tired, I mean I'm 309 00:22:44,355 --> 00:22:46,675 Speaker 1: not tired at all. I mean, what's the phrase I'm 310 00:22:46,675 --> 00:22:52,435 Speaker 1: thinking of laughing hysterically about all this. AnyWho, you've heard Manchin, 311 00:22:52,475 --> 00:22:54,275 Speaker 1: who is a scumbag that we've all pretended to be 312 00:22:54,315 --> 00:22:56,275 Speaker 1: nice to for twenty years because he occasionally voted with 313 00:22:56,275 --> 00:22:58,755 Speaker 1: the Democrats in the Senate. He says he will not 314 00:22:58,915 --> 00:23:01,395 Speaker 1: endorse Kamala Harris for president because she wants to eliminate 315 00:23:01,435 --> 00:23:04,315 Speaker 1: the filibuster in order to enshrine Roe v. Wade in 316 00:23:04,315 --> 00:23:07,715 Speaker 1: federal law. Now, setting aside for the moment the reality 317 00:23:08,075 --> 00:23:11,155 Speaker 1: that this will probably increase Harris's vote count in West 318 00:23:11,195 --> 00:23:14,475 Speaker 1: Virginia because they don't like Mansion there either, let's move 319 00:23:14,515 --> 00:23:19,755 Speaker 1: on to his fellow theoretical constitutionalist idiot, Kirsten Cinema is 320 00:23:19,795 --> 00:23:22,595 Speaker 1: a very different kind of person from Mansion. She's not 321 00:23:22,915 --> 00:23:27,115 Speaker 1: really a moron. She's in fact exceedingly bright, but as 322 00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:32,075 Speaker 1: they would say in baseball, she has reverse dunning. Krueger splits, 323 00:23:32,315 --> 00:23:37,355 Speaker 1: she knows she's smart, but unlike most smart people who think, well, 324 00:23:37,355 --> 00:23:39,795 Speaker 1: if I know this, lots of other people must know 325 00:23:39,835 --> 00:23:42,995 Speaker 1: it too, she thinks she's not only the smartest one 326 00:23:43,035 --> 00:23:47,195 Speaker 1: in the room, but the only smart one in the room. Sinny, 327 00:23:47,275 --> 00:23:50,195 Speaker 1: responding to the plan to eliminate the philibuster quote to 328 00:23:50,315 --> 00:23:55,115 Speaker 1: state the supremely obvious. Eliminating the filibuster to codify real 329 00:23:55,195 --> 00:23:58,435 Speaker 1: V made also enable to future Congress to ban all 330 00:23:58,515 --> 00:24:04,155 Speaker 1: aborich nahtan wide, Henny, what an absolutely terrible, short sighted idea. 331 00:24:05,395 --> 00:24:08,475 Speaker 1: When is not dawned on Kirsten Because she is the 332 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:10,955 Speaker 1: smartest one in the room and the only one that's 333 00:24:10,995 --> 00:24:13,195 Speaker 1: smart in the room. Rest of us are all idiots. 334 00:24:13,315 --> 00:24:16,715 Speaker 1: What's not dawned on her is that her pals, the Republicans, 335 00:24:16,835 --> 00:24:19,475 Speaker 1: they're not going to wait for Congress to ban all 336 00:24:19,515 --> 00:24:22,475 Speaker 1: abortion nationwide. They're going to do it themselves. The next 337 00:24:22,515 --> 00:24:26,395 Speaker 1: Republican president will do it himself. He'll probably send troops 338 00:24:26,435 --> 00:24:28,915 Speaker 1: into the states that still permit abortion, and if he 339 00:24:28,955 --> 00:24:31,195 Speaker 1: wants to make it all actually legal, if there's a 340 00:24:31,235 --> 00:24:35,235 Speaker 1: Republican controlled Senate, he'll have them eliminate the filibuster or 341 00:24:35,355 --> 00:24:37,995 Speaker 1: force an exception to it, like the exceptions to the 342 00:24:38,035 --> 00:24:41,355 Speaker 1: filibuster have been forced roughly one hundred and fifty times 343 00:24:41,355 --> 00:24:47,075 Speaker 1: in my lifetime alone. Idiots, Senator Joe Manchin and Senator 344 00:24:47,155 --> 00:24:53,555 Speaker 1: Kirsten you self satisfied, unimaginative, smug ass clown cinema two 345 00:24:53,635 --> 00:25:15,075 Speaker 1: days worst persons than the world. Finally to the number 346 00:25:15,115 --> 00:25:17,675 Speaker 1: one story on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me 347 00:25:18,635 --> 00:25:21,515 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell. And on Monday, 348 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:25,115 Speaker 1: May third, two thousand and four, my executive producer phoned 349 00:25:25,155 --> 00:25:28,475 Speaker 1: me at home and said, we got Ambassador Joe Wilson. 350 00:25:28,515 --> 00:25:32,795 Speaker 1: He'll be on the show tomorrow. Within hours, the communications 351 00:25:32,795 --> 00:25:34,875 Speaker 1: office of the White House of George W. Bush began 352 00:25:34,915 --> 00:25:40,835 Speaker 1: a desperate, ceaseless, tireless effort to send me one email 353 00:25:41,395 --> 00:25:47,395 Speaker 1: with talking points about Ambassador Joe Wilson, which repeatedly hilariously 354 00:25:47,435 --> 00:25:49,635 Speaker 1: failed to get through to me because none of them 355 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:54,515 Speaker 1: could spell my name correctly. By late in the evening 356 00:25:54,555 --> 00:25:56,715 Speaker 1: of May third, and Throughout the morning of May the fourth, 357 00:25:56,755 --> 00:26:00,555 Speaker 1: I got calls and forwarded emails from people throughout NBC 358 00:26:00,715 --> 00:26:03,155 Speaker 1: who had received emails of their own from the Bush 359 00:26:03,155 --> 00:26:06,595 Speaker 1: White House Communications Office, all of them with attachments addressed 360 00:26:06,635 --> 00:26:11,235 Speaker 1: to Keith Oberman without the L, Keith Olberman with only 361 00:26:11,235 --> 00:26:15,675 Speaker 1: one N, Kaieth Olberman Keith spelled wrong, and even Keith 362 00:26:15,755 --> 00:26:21,635 Speaker 1: Oberman with a V. This was actually truly the first 363 00:26:21,675 --> 00:26:23,675 Speaker 1: day I believed I was having an impact on the 364 00:26:23,675 --> 00:26:26,115 Speaker 1: Bush White House, and also the first day I realized 365 00:26:26,355 --> 00:26:32,115 Speaker 1: they were incredibly stupid. There democracy still had a slim chance. 366 00:26:33,235 --> 00:26:35,875 Speaker 1: The Internet had been operating at more or less its 367 00:26:35,915 --> 00:26:39,715 Speaker 1: present speed since about nineteen ninety seven or nineteen ninety eight. 368 00:26:40,075 --> 00:26:43,275 Speaker 1: My name was all over the Internet in articles about 369 00:26:43,275 --> 00:26:47,515 Speaker 1: my news career, about my sports career, about my previous 370 00:26:47,555 --> 00:26:51,035 Speaker 1: news career. There were articles I had written, there were 371 00:26:51,075 --> 00:26:53,875 Speaker 1: books I had written, and these people who were trying 372 00:26:53,875 --> 00:26:59,835 Speaker 1: to reshape the United States of America into a reactionary, conservative, cruel, xenophobic, 373 00:27:00,195 --> 00:27:04,635 Speaker 1: semi authoritarian state were not smart enough to figure out 374 00:27:04,795 --> 00:27:09,875 Speaker 1: how to spell my name, just so we know who 375 00:27:09,875 --> 00:27:12,875 Speaker 1: we are talking about. By this point, Scott McClellan had 376 00:27:12,875 --> 00:27:17,235 Speaker 1: succeeded the infamous Aary Fleischer as press secretary. His deputies 377 00:27:17,235 --> 00:27:20,835 Speaker 1: were Dana Perino, who went from being the stupidest person 378 00:27:20,835 --> 00:27:23,515 Speaker 1: ever to be White House Press secretary to being one 379 00:27:23,515 --> 00:27:25,395 Speaker 1: of the stupidest persons ever to have a show on 380 00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:29,195 Speaker 1: Fox News, Pamela is Stevens, who later wound up as 381 00:27:29,235 --> 00:27:32,555 Speaker 1: a producer at CNN. Because political press people are exactly 382 00:27:32,715 --> 00:27:37,035 Speaker 1: like unemployed football coaches or baseball managers who get TV 383 00:27:37,275 --> 00:27:39,835 Speaker 1: jobs and then leave the TV jobs to go back 384 00:27:39,875 --> 00:27:43,755 Speaker 1: onto the field. The communications director was named Dan Bartlett, 385 00:27:43,955 --> 00:27:46,955 Speaker 1: and there was another communications person there named Nicole Wallace, 386 00:27:47,275 --> 00:27:50,435 Speaker 1: who has somehow shaken off the stink of working for 387 00:27:50,515 --> 00:27:53,075 Speaker 1: both George and Jeb Bush and is now considered a 388 00:27:53,195 --> 00:27:57,355 Speaker 1: darling of MSNBC, even though her only true non fascist 389 00:27:57,395 --> 00:28:01,635 Speaker 1: credential is she doesn't like Trump either. The crack White 390 00:28:01,635 --> 00:28:04,595 Speaker 1: House media team representing the most powerful man in the world, 391 00:28:04,795 --> 00:28:07,955 Speaker 1: the anxious and foreshadowing years after nine to eleven, and 392 00:28:07,995 --> 00:28:11,675 Speaker 1: not one of them could even find anybody else who 393 00:28:11,715 --> 00:28:17,355 Speaker 1: could spell my name, let alone spell it themselves. More 394 00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:19,595 Speaker 1: on them in a moment, But I need to explain 395 00:28:19,715 --> 00:28:23,435 Speaker 1: who Joe Wilson was if you don't know, and why 396 00:28:23,515 --> 00:28:28,955 Speaker 1: he was so important. Long before Colin Powell confessed to 397 00:28:28,995 --> 00:28:31,275 Speaker 1: Tim Russert that he had been lied to by the 398 00:28:31,275 --> 00:28:33,555 Speaker 1: White House, and thus he himself had lied to the 399 00:28:33,635 --> 00:28:37,555 Speaker 1: United Nations about Sadam Hussein's imaginary weapons of mass destruction. 400 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:41,635 Speaker 1: Those were the excuses from Bush Cheney for dragging this 401 00:28:41,715 --> 00:28:46,115 Speaker 1: country into an unnecessary and national soul destroying war in 402 00:28:46,155 --> 00:28:50,235 Speaker 1: Iraq with lies and torture and scapegoating and suppression and brutality. 403 00:28:50,475 --> 00:28:55,355 Speaker 1: Before that, there was Ambassador Joseph Charles Wilson fourth, and 404 00:28:55,475 --> 00:28:57,915 Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, after pressure from the White House, 405 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:00,395 Speaker 1: the CIA sent him back to the scene of his 406 00:29:00,435 --> 00:29:04,875 Speaker 1: first diplomatic posting, the African nation of Niger to get 407 00:29:05,115 --> 00:29:08,915 Speaker 1: proof for Bush that Saddam was trying to buy yellow 408 00:29:08,955 --> 00:29:13,155 Speaker 1: cake uranium there to make nuclear bombses out of and 409 00:29:13,155 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: Wilson quickly found out it was nonsense, and he reported 410 00:29:16,355 --> 00:29:19,515 Speaker 1: back and the Bush White House promptly buried his findings 411 00:29:19,555 --> 00:29:21,835 Speaker 1: and instead, in the two thousand and three State of 412 00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:24,915 Speaker 1: the Union address just before he started bombing Iraq, George W. 413 00:29:25,035 --> 00:29:28,755 Speaker 1: Bush said, the British government has learned that Sadam Hussein 414 00:29:28,835 --> 00:29:32,715 Speaker 1: recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. It was 415 00:29:32,995 --> 00:29:38,235 Speaker 1: and remains a complete lie, and war occurred because of it, 416 00:29:39,075 --> 00:29:41,875 Speaker 1: and Joe Wilson called it a complete lie in an 417 00:29:41,915 --> 00:29:44,715 Speaker 1: op ed in the New York Times on July sixth, 418 00:29:44,875 --> 00:29:48,315 Speaker 1: two thousand and three. The Iraq War was still at 419 00:29:48,315 --> 00:29:51,995 Speaker 1: this stage defined by Rah Rah, we're winning, but Sadam's 420 00:29:52,075 --> 00:29:55,035 Speaker 1: WND and his biological weapons and his chemical weapons might 421 00:29:55,035 --> 00:29:57,555 Speaker 1: be over the next hill. And you'd better not criticize 422 00:29:57,555 --> 00:30:01,595 Speaker 1: what we're doing, or maybe you're a terrorist. Joe Wilson said. 423 00:30:01,635 --> 00:30:04,275 Speaker 1: The emperor had no clothes in two thousand and three, 424 00:30:05,035 --> 00:30:08,595 Speaker 1: he was an American hero of the highest order. A 425 00:30:08,635 --> 00:30:13,475 Speaker 1: week later, a Dick Cheney flunky named Scooter Libby and 426 00:30:13,595 --> 00:30:17,395 Speaker 1: a Deputy Secretary of State named Armitage began a campaign 427 00:30:17,435 --> 00:30:21,475 Speaker 1: to punish Joe Wilson and discredit him. They leaked to 428 00:30:21,555 --> 00:30:25,595 Speaker 1: a dyspeptic and hate filled columnist named Robert Novak, who 429 00:30:25,715 --> 00:30:29,195 Speaker 1: is now working in the Bureau in Hell, that Wilson's 430 00:30:29,235 --> 00:30:32,115 Speaker 1: wife was an undercover agent for the CIA, and that 431 00:30:32,155 --> 00:30:34,435 Speaker 1: her name was Valerie Plain, and that the pair of 432 00:30:34,475 --> 00:30:38,315 Speaker 1: them were dirty Democrats. And moreover, it was Plain who 433 00:30:38,395 --> 00:30:41,035 Speaker 1: had urged that her own husband be sent to Niger 434 00:30:41,435 --> 00:30:45,995 Speaker 1: to deliberately not find the uranium or the Sadam Hussein 435 00:30:46,235 --> 00:30:51,075 Speaker 1: signed receipts, or whatever Bush expected to find there. The 436 00:30:51,115 --> 00:30:55,235 Speaker 1: Bush white House destroyed the career of risked the life 437 00:30:55,275 --> 00:30:59,515 Speaker 1: of and ruined several assignments and contacts of one of 438 00:30:59,555 --> 00:31:03,475 Speaker 1: this country's own secret CIA agents, just to make her 439 00:31:03,555 --> 00:31:07,595 Speaker 1: husband look bad. So in May two thousand and four, 440 00:31:07,675 --> 00:31:09,955 Speaker 1: when Joe Wilson wrote a book about all this crap, 441 00:31:09,995 --> 00:31:13,395 Speaker 1: and he inexplicably wanted to go on MSNBC, which was 442 00:31:13,435 --> 00:31:15,835 Speaker 1: still at that point trying to be more conservative than 443 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:19,675 Speaker 1: Fox Nudes, and wanted to go on My little watched show, 444 00:31:19,715 --> 00:31:22,915 Speaker 1: which was considered the neutral outlier on a network full 445 00:31:22,955 --> 00:31:27,115 Speaker 1: of Joe Scarboroughs and Michael Savage's. This was a happy 446 00:31:27,115 --> 00:31:31,755 Speaker 1: surprise for us, which was followed by this wonderful, flailing 447 00:31:31,795 --> 00:31:33,835 Speaker 1: effort by the Bush White House to send me talking 448 00:31:33,875 --> 00:31:36,955 Speaker 1: points about Joe Wilson before I interviewed him. They not 449 00:31:36,995 --> 00:31:40,275 Speaker 1: only could not spell my name, but they were utterly 450 00:31:40,315 --> 00:31:44,395 Speaker 1: convinced that my interview was designed to discredit Joe Wilson. 451 00:31:45,235 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: The talking points which eventually got to me from Assistant 452 00:31:47,795 --> 00:31:51,995 Speaker 1: Press Secretary Pamela Stevens consisted of six items over two pages. 453 00:31:52,355 --> 00:31:56,755 Speaker 1: The headings were as follows. One political motivation. This was 454 00:31:56,795 --> 00:32:00,115 Speaker 1: about Wilson calling Dick Cheney a lying sob about a 455 00:32:00,155 --> 00:32:02,715 Speaker 1: year after the knee jair trip. I couldn't figure this 456 00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:05,275 Speaker 1: one out. Dick Cheney was a lying so b. That's 457 00:32:05,275 --> 00:32:09,395 Speaker 1: how I got to be vice president. Two Gingrich spokesman 458 00:32:09,475 --> 00:32:12,595 Speaker 1: calls allegations about alleged March two thousand and three meeting 459 00:32:12,635 --> 00:32:18,795 Speaker 1: completely false. This cited Newt Gingrich and his people as 460 00:32:18,835 --> 00:32:22,555 Speaker 1: if they were good sources, as opposed to the punchlines 461 00:32:22,595 --> 00:32:24,755 Speaker 1: they already were back then. In two thousand and four. 462 00:32:26,115 --> 00:32:29,555 Speaker 1: Talking point number three, McClellan points out political objective, and 463 00:32:29,755 --> 00:32:34,835 Speaker 1: four McClellan addresses accusations. These were quotes from the press secretary. 464 00:32:35,675 --> 00:32:38,755 Speaker 1: This man suddenly quit that job two years later two 465 00:32:38,795 --> 00:32:42,195 Speaker 1: thousand and six, and confessed he had repeatedly lied for 466 00:32:42,275 --> 00:32:44,235 Speaker 1: George W. Bush and the others, and now he just 467 00:32:44,275 --> 00:32:46,715 Speaker 1: couldn't take it anymore, and he would come on my 468 00:32:46,835 --> 00:32:50,075 Speaker 1: show and give one of the best Atonement interviews I've 469 00:32:50,115 --> 00:32:54,315 Speaker 1: ever heard. It went on for forty five minutes. Five 470 00:32:54,675 --> 00:32:58,635 Speaker 1: Fleischer says VP office did not request trip a quote 471 00:32:58,635 --> 00:33:02,635 Speaker 1: from McLellan's predecessor, who unless he is talking about baseball, 472 00:33:02,955 --> 00:33:06,675 Speaker 1: you should assume he's lying. Plus he might be lying 473 00:33:06,675 --> 00:33:11,275 Speaker 1: about baseball. And finally, six statement by George J. Tennant 474 00:33:11,355 --> 00:33:13,915 Speaker 1: July eleven, two thousand and three. This was a quote 475 00:33:13,915 --> 00:33:16,715 Speaker 1: from the CIA director which they thought was their home run, 476 00:33:17,355 --> 00:33:21,355 Speaker 1: and it basically consisted of this. Bush never saw that report. 477 00:33:22,395 --> 00:33:26,955 Speaker 1: That was it. There are three punchlines to this story. 478 00:33:27,075 --> 00:33:30,595 Speaker 1: Number one. I don't know why the Bush Communications office 479 00:33:30,595 --> 00:33:32,995 Speaker 1: assumed I was there to take down Joe Wilson, But 480 00:33:33,075 --> 00:33:35,955 Speaker 1: the moment I saw these talking points, any lingering doubt 481 00:33:35,995 --> 00:33:39,315 Speaker 1: I had that they were not all lying bastards down 482 00:33:39,395 --> 00:33:43,635 Speaker 1: there was erased. I used the talking points in my interview, 483 00:33:43,675 --> 00:33:46,115 Speaker 1: all right. I read them out loud to Joe Wilson, 484 00:33:46,355 --> 00:33:49,675 Speaker 1: and he rebutted each of them with impeccable charm and elegance. 485 00:33:50,475 --> 00:33:53,355 Speaker 1: He and Valerie Plain became regular guests on My show 486 00:33:53,355 --> 00:33:55,235 Speaker 1: and would beat the crap out of George Bush with 487 00:33:55,275 --> 00:33:58,075 Speaker 1: the plom right through the morning of January twenty, two 488 00:33:58,115 --> 00:34:03,755 Speaker 1: thousand and nine. Second punchline a year earlier, a supply 489 00:34:03,915 --> 00:34:06,475 Speaker 1: clerk with a maintenance company on the ground in Iraq, 490 00:34:06,595 --> 00:34:10,755 Speaker 1: was captured Private Jessica Lynch. The military and the Bush 491 00:34:10,755 --> 00:34:13,195 Speaker 1: administration immediately put out the story that she was being 492 00:34:13,235 --> 00:34:18,915 Speaker 1: tortured by them evil Iraqi Sadam Hussein doctors. There was 493 00:34:18,995 --> 00:34:23,475 Speaker 1: the glorious rescue of Jessica Lynch which followed, and the 494 00:34:23,555 --> 00:34:26,675 Speaker 1: parades and the you better not question this story period, 495 00:34:26,715 --> 00:34:30,915 Speaker 1: which lasted about six weeks until a Toronto newspaper printed 496 00:34:31,035 --> 00:34:37,035 Speaker 1: a substantially different account that Lynch was rescued from an 497 00:34:37,035 --> 00:34:40,075 Speaker 1: Iraqi hospital and a US military team in good faith 498 00:34:40,635 --> 00:34:43,595 Speaker 1: went in to extract her, but that this was all arranged, 499 00:34:43,635 --> 00:34:47,115 Speaker 1: not by some sort of part of intelligence or US 500 00:34:47,195 --> 00:34:52,875 Speaker 1: operations or the Allies, but by the Iraqi doctors. Some 501 00:34:52,955 --> 00:34:56,195 Speaker 1: of them sneaked over to American lines at great danger 502 00:34:56,235 --> 00:34:58,435 Speaker 1: and said, one of your soldiers is hurt and we 503 00:34:58,435 --> 00:35:00,555 Speaker 1: don't have the right equipment to help her. Could you 504 00:35:00,675 --> 00:35:05,035 Speaker 1: swing by and pick her up. I reported that version 505 00:35:05,075 --> 00:35:08,555 Speaker 1: on MSNBC, and the next day, as I was still 506 00:35:08,555 --> 00:35:12,595 Speaker 1: taking my coat off, my boss, Phil Griffin called me 507 00:35:12,635 --> 00:35:14,955 Speaker 1: in and said that the head of NBC News and 508 00:35:15,035 --> 00:35:18,355 Speaker 1: the president of NBC, Bob Wright, had been on the 509 00:35:18,395 --> 00:35:21,875 Speaker 1: phone all morning to him, insisting I should be fired 510 00:35:22,435 --> 00:35:26,355 Speaker 1: for implying that the Bush administration had lied. Griffin proudly 511 00:35:26,395 --> 00:35:29,035 Speaker 1: said he had talked him into letting me get away 512 00:35:29,075 --> 00:35:34,435 Speaker 1: with just apologizing to the troops. I can't even read 513 00:35:34,475 --> 00:35:37,835 Speaker 1: this with a straight face now, twenty years later, apologizing 514 00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:42,715 Speaker 1: to the troops who rescued her, I must credit myself 515 00:35:42,875 --> 00:35:45,395 Speaker 1: when my brain was fulled in that I did some 516 00:35:45,515 --> 00:35:50,275 Speaker 1: quick thinking. The demand was comical nonsense journalistically. On the 517 00:35:50,275 --> 00:35:54,355 Speaker 1: other hand, if I agreed to apologize to okay, the 518 00:35:54,395 --> 00:35:59,195 Speaker 1: troops who rescued her, whoever you want, I would get 519 00:35:59,195 --> 00:36:02,115 Speaker 1: the chance to tell the whole real story of Jessica 520 00:36:02,195 --> 00:36:07,355 Speaker 1: Lynch again. So I did. The apology was fifteen seconds, 521 00:36:07,395 --> 00:36:10,995 Speaker 1: and while unnecessary, was sincere. I didn't want to make 522 00:36:10,995 --> 00:36:13,115 Speaker 1: the troops look bad. They didn't know anything about this crap. 523 00:36:13,955 --> 00:36:16,275 Speaker 1: I made sure, however, that the retelling of the true 524 00:36:16,355 --> 00:36:18,835 Speaker 1: Lynch rescue story took about two and a half minutes. 525 00:36:20,235 --> 00:36:22,315 Speaker 1: That was in June of two thousand and three. So 526 00:36:22,475 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: why as of May of two thousand and four, the 527 00:36:25,235 --> 00:36:28,435 Speaker 1: Bush White House thought I was sympathetic to them, I'll 528 00:36:28,435 --> 00:36:31,595 Speaker 1: never know, or why they bothered with me, I'll never know, 529 00:36:32,595 --> 00:36:36,155 Speaker 1: which brings me to the last point. The unintended side 530 00:36:36,195 --> 00:36:39,875 Speaker 1: effect with the long term impact of all those failed 531 00:36:39,915 --> 00:36:43,035 Speaker 1: White House emails with my name misspelled was that this 532 00:36:43,195 --> 00:36:48,275 Speaker 1: Pamelas Stevens person promptly forwarded them to people around NBC 533 00:36:48,995 --> 00:36:53,475 Speaker 1: whom she considered friendly to George W. Bush. One of 534 00:36:53,555 --> 00:36:56,995 Speaker 1: them was Tom Brokaw's assistant, another was in the office 535 00:36:56,995 --> 00:37:00,515 Speaker 1: of future NBC News president Steve Cappus, and the final 536 00:37:00,555 --> 00:37:04,195 Speaker 1: one was to some guy named George Uribe. And so 537 00:37:04,275 --> 00:37:07,195 Speaker 1: I found about all the people in the Bush administrations 538 00:37:07,635 --> 00:37:10,435 Speaker 1: we like them, list at NBC News who I should 539 00:37:10,435 --> 00:37:15,475 Speaker 1: avoid under all circumstances. Let's see Brokaw's assistance. So no Brokaw, 540 00:37:15,635 --> 00:37:18,555 Speaker 1: somebody in Cappus's office, and no Cappus, and this guy 541 00:37:18,675 --> 00:37:23,755 Speaker 1: George Ribey. And George Rebay turned out to be a 542 00:37:23,835 --> 00:37:29,435 Speaker 1: guy hired by MSNBC from Fox News to go work 543 00:37:29,435 --> 00:37:33,955 Speaker 1: for Scarborough. He fell out of favor with Joe Scarborough, 544 00:37:33,955 --> 00:37:36,555 Speaker 1: and I guess he didn't henchman enough for Joe's tastes, 545 00:37:37,355 --> 00:37:40,555 Speaker 1: and his influence fell to a guy. I don't think 546 00:37:40,555 --> 00:37:56,835 Speaker 1: I've mentioned him to you yet, Chris Licked. I've done 547 00:37:56,875 --> 00:37:58,835 Speaker 1: all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. 548 00:37:58,835 --> 00:38:01,435 Speaker 1: We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly 549 00:38:01,515 --> 00:38:05,315 Speaker 1: just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. 550 00:38:05,675 --> 00:38:08,555 Speaker 1: Please forward this podcast to a non listener who should 551 00:38:08,595 --> 00:38:12,475 Speaker 1: start listening, and start listening now. Brian Ray and John 552 00:38:12,475 --> 00:38:15,915 Speaker 1: Phillip Shaneil, the musical directors of Countdown, arranged, produced, and 553 00:38:15,955 --> 00:38:20,075 Speaker 1: performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. 554 00:38:20,115 --> 00:38:22,795 Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on guitars, bass and drums. It was 555 00:38:22,795 --> 00:38:26,595 Speaker 1: produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments 556 00:38:26,635 --> 00:38:29,315 Speaker 1: are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. 557 00:38:29,675 --> 00:38:32,755 Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, 558 00:38:33,075 --> 00:38:36,595 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other 559 00:38:36,715 --> 00:38:39,515 Speaker 1: music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 560 00:38:39,995 --> 00:38:43,155 Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Nancy Faust. Everything else 561 00:38:43,315 --> 00:38:48,235 Speaker 1: was as usual, pretty much my fault. That's countdown for today. 562 00:38:48,635 --> 00:38:51,675 Speaker 1: Five weeks and five days until the twenty twenty four 563 00:38:51,715 --> 00:38:55,595 Speaker 1: presidential election and the one three hundred and sixtieth day 564 00:38:56,035 --> 00:39:00,315 Speaker 1: since convicted felon drooling Jay Trump's first attempted coup against 565 00:39:00,315 --> 00:39:03,995 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States, use the election, 566 00:39:04,235 --> 00:39:07,595 Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if we 567 00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:11,915 Speaker 1: have to, to keep him from doing it again while 568 00:39:12,555 --> 00:39:18,235 Speaker 1: we still can. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow Bolton's, 569 00:39:18,355 --> 00:39:21,155 Speaker 1: as the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Oldremman. Good morning, 570 00:39:21,195 --> 00:39:25,715 Speaker 1: good afternoon, goodnight, I miss the post, and good luck. 571 00:39:31,595 --> 00:39:35,315 Speaker 2: They only kill consequential presidents. Remember that. 572 00:39:35,955 --> 00:39:39,915 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 573 00:39:40,115 --> 00:39:44,995 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 574 00:39:45,275 --> 00:39:47,235 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.