1 00:00:04,835 --> 00:00:22,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:28,395 Speaker 1: has now finally, inevitably, inescapably, and overtly threatened to shut 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:31,675 Speaker 1: down the free press in this country. Repeated that threat 4 00:00:31,675 --> 00:00:35,115 Speaker 1: in a speech at Detroit and then descended in the 5 00:00:35,155 --> 00:00:39,595 Speaker 1: same speech to meandering gibberish, the kind of incoherence that 6 00:00:39,635 --> 00:00:43,395 Speaker 1: would get you institutionalized, whether you were twenty eight or 7 00:00:43,555 --> 00:00:48,435 Speaker 1: like him, seventy eight. First, the threat to news. Sixty 8 00:00:48,475 --> 00:00:50,955 Speaker 1: minutes is a major part of the news organization of CBS, 9 00:00:50,995 --> 00:00:53,755 Speaker 1: which has just created the greatest fraud in broadcast history. 10 00:00:53,995 --> 00:00:57,395 Speaker 1: CBS should lose its license, and it should be bid 11 00:00:57,435 --> 00:01:01,395 Speaker 1: out to the highest bidder, as should all other broadcast licenses, 12 00:01:01,675 --> 00:01:04,515 Speaker 1: because they are just as corrupt as CBS, and maybe 13 00:01:04,515 --> 00:01:09,555 Speaker 1: even worse. Another Trump post reads a fake news scam 14 00:01:09,675 --> 00:01:13,795 Speaker 1: which is totally illegal, take away the CBS license. Once again, 15 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,955 Speaker 1: he means this. The intent is to punish, to bankrupt, 16 00:01:18,475 --> 00:01:26,155 Speaker 1: to prosecute anybody who criticizes him. That includes CBS, That 17 00:01:26,235 --> 00:01:31,995 Speaker 1: includes me, and like all ttalitarians and dictators, that threat 18 00:01:31,995 --> 00:01:38,195 Speaker 1: to destroy critics will soon or late include you. He 19 00:01:38,235 --> 00:01:41,355 Speaker 1: wants to punish sixty minutes on CBS because he did 20 00:01:41,355 --> 00:01:45,835 Speaker 1: an interview with Kamala Harris, even after he chickened out 21 00:01:45,835 --> 00:01:47,955 Speaker 1: of the interview with them to which he had agreed 22 00:01:48,515 --> 00:01:52,795 Speaker 1: in his mindless rage. Trump believes his cowardice and his 23 00:01:52,875 --> 00:01:57,555 Speaker 1: dishonesty is not the problem, but that CBS underscoring his 24 00:01:57,675 --> 00:02:02,475 Speaker 1: cowardice and his dishonesty is the problem. But there is 25 00:02:02,515 --> 00:02:06,595 Speaker 1: within this threat something almost disfrightening. As I've mentioned before, 26 00:02:07,355 --> 00:02:11,595 Speaker 1: CBS does not have a license. News organizations do not 27 00:02:11,755 --> 00:02:16,875 Speaker 1: have licenses. Individual over the air TV and radio stations 28 00:02:17,315 --> 00:02:21,075 Speaker 1: have licenses. But if he somehow really managed to take 29 00:02:21,115 --> 00:02:25,115 Speaker 1: their licenses, CBS Television would still exist, so would sixty Minutes, 30 00:02:25,315 --> 00:02:28,395 Speaker 1: so would CBS News. He does not understand this. He 31 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:30,315 Speaker 1: is wrong about it, and as we have seen for 32 00:02:30,395 --> 00:02:33,875 Speaker 1: a decade, when he is wrong, there is only one 33 00:02:33,915 --> 00:02:37,475 Speaker 1: way out. What he is wrong about must be changed 34 00:02:38,075 --> 00:02:41,755 Speaker 1: so that he is right about it. After all, what 35 00:02:41,835 --> 00:02:45,595 Speaker 1: Trump is saying, one way or the other is if 36 00:02:45,595 --> 00:02:51,635 Speaker 1: he regains power, there will be licenses for news organizations, 37 00:02:52,115 --> 00:02:54,635 Speaker 1: and the constitution be damned. 38 00:02:54,995 --> 00:02:58,995 Speaker 2: The other big news is the fraud committed by sixty 39 00:02:59,075 --> 00:03:03,515 Speaker 2: Minutes in CBS together with the Democrat Party working together 40 00:03:03,595 --> 00:03:06,715 Speaker 2: with them which will go down as the single biggest 41 00:03:06,715 --> 00:03:09,795 Speaker 2: scandal in broadcast history. I predict it's a big story. 42 00:03:09,835 --> 00:03:12,675 Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen it yet. Happened. They 43 00:03:12,795 --> 00:03:14,915 Speaker 2: learned about it yesterday evening. 44 00:03:14,835 --> 00:03:18,675 Speaker 1: Trump's speech to the Economic Club of Detroit. And how 45 00:03:18,715 --> 00:03:22,195 Speaker 1: stupid are these people that they don't know that there 46 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:26,355 Speaker 1: are no news licenses. The speech did not stop there 47 00:03:26,795 --> 00:03:30,395 Speaker 1: before he again tried to bribe voters with something preposterous 48 00:03:30,475 --> 00:03:34,475 Speaker 1: and financially disastrous, in this case making all automobile loan 49 00:03:34,555 --> 00:03:39,475 Speaker 1: payments fully tax deductible. He raged over Monday's peace in 50 00:03:39,515 --> 00:03:42,435 Speaker 1: The New York Times that tiptoed around his metal condition 51 00:03:42,795 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: and cited his continuing obsession with a nonexistent Michigan Man 52 00:03:48,515 --> 00:03:52,595 Speaker 1: of the Year award as some of the evidence of 53 00:03:52,635 --> 00:03:56,515 Speaker 1: his cognitive decline. Trump, in the speech said his staff 54 00:03:56,555 --> 00:03:59,195 Speaker 1: had finally found the proof that he was right. He 55 00:03:59,235 --> 00:04:02,595 Speaker 1: pulled from his pocket a computer print out of an 56 00:04:02,675 --> 00:04:07,115 Speaker 1: article from a small Michigan paper, The Press quote. It 57 00:04:07,195 --> 00:04:09,995 Speaker 1: was like nineteen years ago. It was a long time, 58 00:04:10,235 --> 00:04:12,595 Speaker 1: but I was honored. And guess what they found it? 59 00:04:12,675 --> 00:04:16,235 Speaker 1: I was so, here's your article right here. Oakland County 60 00:04:16,275 --> 00:04:19,995 Speaker 1: gop to honor Donald Trump, former president, to speak at 61 00:04:20,075 --> 00:04:27,755 Speaker 1: upcoming Lincoln Day fundraising dinner former president from nineteen years ago. 62 00:04:28,475 --> 00:04:32,715 Speaker 1: The article is from June of twenty twenty three. It 63 00:04:32,835 --> 00:04:39,715 Speaker 1: references a local dinner from two thousand and thirteen. Trump 64 00:04:39,795 --> 00:04:43,115 Speaker 1: says it proves he was Michigan's Man of the Year 65 00:04:43,235 --> 00:04:47,195 Speaker 1: in two thousand and five or two thousand and four. 66 00:04:48,795 --> 00:04:51,515 Speaker 1: Trump has the year wrong, the decade wrong, the award wrong, 67 00:04:51,555 --> 00:04:54,435 Speaker 1: and the geography wrong. He was very happy about this. 68 00:04:55,035 --> 00:05:01,195 Speaker 1: He is very, very sick. What's worse, the paper has 69 00:05:01,235 --> 00:05:06,355 Speaker 1: now deleted and corrected its account at that dinner in 70 00:05:06,355 --> 00:05:09,675 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen that they wrote about. In twenty twenty three, 71 00:05:09,795 --> 00:05:12,315 Speaker 1: there was no Man of the Year award, not even 72 00:05:12,395 --> 00:05:16,595 Speaker 1: just Man of the Year in Oakland County. Trump literally 73 00:05:16,635 --> 00:05:20,275 Speaker 1: does not remember what he got wrong then or what 74 00:05:20,395 --> 00:05:24,155 Speaker 1: he is getting wrong now. And this was before his 75 00:05:24,235 --> 00:05:28,755 Speaker 1: speech descended into madness. Trump has taken to calling his 76 00:05:28,835 --> 00:05:32,435 Speaker 1: inability to focus on any one, two or twenty topics 77 00:05:32,475 --> 00:05:37,555 Speaker 1: at a time weaving, and there is some evidence that 78 00:05:37,675 --> 00:05:43,915 Speaker 1: he often hears the connections others don't, as his mind 79 00:05:43,955 --> 00:05:48,715 Speaker 1: wanders around like a roomba. Yesterday in Detroit, though there 80 00:05:48,795 --> 00:05:53,995 Speaker 1: seemed a new suggestion that even he no longer knows 81 00:05:54,395 --> 00:05:57,595 Speaker 1: what he is talking about or what he has been 82 00:05:57,755 --> 00:06:03,035 Speaker 1: trying to talk about. This seemed to have started with 83 00:06:03,195 --> 00:06:09,635 Speaker 1: factory closings, god knows where it ends, the very big plant. 84 00:06:10,115 --> 00:06:12,635 Speaker 2: Many countries they do that, and then all of a 85 00:06:12,675 --> 00:06:15,715 Speaker 2: sudden you hear that they're leaving Milwaukee, or they're leaving 86 00:06:15,715 --> 00:06:18,635 Speaker 2: wherever they may be located. It's very sad to see it. 87 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:23,995 Speaker 2: And it's so simple. I mean, you know, this isn't 88 00:06:24,115 --> 00:06:27,315 Speaker 2: like Elon with his rocket ships that land within twelve 89 00:06:27,355 --> 00:06:30,555 Speaker 2: inches on the moon where they wanted to land, or 90 00:06:30,595 --> 00:06:35,635 Speaker 2: he gets the engines back. How was the first I realized? 91 00:06:35,675 --> 00:06:37,635 Speaker 2: I said, who the hell did that? I saw engines 92 00:06:37,675 --> 00:06:41,595 Speaker 2: about three or four years ago. These things were coming cylinders, 93 00:06:41,635 --> 00:06:45,035 Speaker 2: no wings, know nothing, and they're coming down very slowly, 94 00:06:45,115 --> 00:06:47,075 Speaker 2: landing on a raft in the middle of the ocean 95 00:06:47,075 --> 00:06:52,955 Speaker 2: someplace with a circle boom. Reminded me of the Biden 96 00:06:53,035 --> 00:06:55,835 Speaker 2: circles that he used to have. Right, he'd have eight 97 00:06:55,875 --> 00:06:58,715 Speaker 2: circles and he couldn't fill them up. But then I 98 00:06:58,755 --> 00:07:01,435 Speaker 2: heard he beat us with the popular vote. I don't know, 99 00:07:01,555 --> 00:07:03,755 Speaker 2: I don't know, couldn't fill up the eight circles. I 100 00:07:03,795 --> 00:07:07,195 Speaker 2: always loved those because they were so beautiful. They were 101 00:07:07,275 --> 00:07:09,875 Speaker 2: so beautiful to look at. In fact, the person that 102 00:07:09,915 --> 00:07:12,395 Speaker 2: did them, that was the best thing about his The 103 00:07:12,635 --> 00:07:15,635 Speaker 2: level of that circle was great. But they couldn't get people, 104 00:07:15,675 --> 00:07:17,995 Speaker 2: so they used to have the press stand at the 105 00:07:18,195 --> 00:07:21,435 Speaker 2: circles because they couldn't get the people. Then I heard 106 00:07:21,515 --> 00:07:24,035 Speaker 2: we lost. Oh we lost. No, We're never going to 107 00:07:24,155 --> 00:07:28,995 Speaker 2: let that happen again. But we've been abused by other countries. 108 00:07:29,035 --> 00:07:31,915 Speaker 2: We've been abused by our own politicians really more than 109 00:07:31,955 --> 00:07:32,635 Speaker 2: other countries. 110 00:07:33,155 --> 00:07:37,475 Speaker 1: As Dan Ackroyd said while portraying the chef Julia Child 111 00:07:37,515 --> 00:07:40,955 Speaker 1: on Saturday Night Live years ago, as she lost consciousness 112 00:07:41,195 --> 00:07:45,715 Speaker 1: due to a cut while preparing a chicken save the liver, 113 00:07:46,795 --> 00:07:52,635 Speaker 1: I remember when I was a little girl and worse 114 00:07:53,155 --> 00:07:56,835 Speaker 1: was yet to come. As an aside, this actually might 115 00:07:56,875 --> 00:07:58,475 Speaker 1: have been the highlight of Trump's speech. 116 00:07:59,035 --> 00:08:02,595 Speaker 2: Is a catastrophe for the American dream and the dire 117 00:08:02,675 --> 00:08:04,635 Speaker 2: crisis from commerce to labor. 118 00:08:06,915 --> 00:08:13,235 Speaker 1: There are no words, yet Trump still said them again bluntly, 119 00:08:13,915 --> 00:08:17,035 Speaker 1: nothing President Biden has ever said, not in the worst 120 00:08:17,075 --> 00:08:23,475 Speaker 1: moments of the debate, approached that this is how you sound. 121 00:08:23,835 --> 00:08:28,275 Speaker 1: As the anesthesia begins to take effect or the dementia 122 00:08:29,635 --> 00:08:33,475 Speaker 1: or the drugs, or the booze or the stroke, that 123 00:08:33,635 --> 00:08:37,115 Speaker 1: this ever more rapid loss of coherence is not getting 124 00:08:37,155 --> 00:08:40,635 Speaker 1: the publicity it should, nor that the one to one 125 00:08:40,755 --> 00:08:45,915 Speaker 1: hundredth as disturbing hesitations of President Biden did is the 126 00:08:45,995 --> 00:08:49,475 Speaker 1: crisis of this campaign. Trump is going crazy before the 127 00:08:49,515 --> 00:08:54,675 Speaker 1: media's eyes, and the media is virtually ignoring it. And 128 00:08:54,755 --> 00:08:58,435 Speaker 1: the combination of the media cowering and Trump's inability to 129 00:08:58,555 --> 00:09:02,515 Speaker 1: function rationally, and his rage at anybody criticizing him, especially 130 00:09:02,515 --> 00:09:06,115 Speaker 1: about his inability to function rationally, that can be fatal 131 00:09:06,155 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: to this country. Just yesterday, the Washington Post scooped that 132 00:09:10,755 --> 00:09:13,555 Speaker 1: early this year, on a strategy conference call, a Trump 133 00:09:13,595 --> 00:09:17,955 Speaker 1: aide named James Blair was asked how to fight back 134 00:09:17,995 --> 00:09:20,835 Speaker 1: against news stories that said the campaigns get out the 135 00:09:20,915 --> 00:09:25,635 Speaker 1: vote effort was insufficient. Blair was quoted by The Washington 136 00:09:25,675 --> 00:09:30,155 Speaker 1: Post as replying, we are going to beat the reporters 137 00:09:30,595 --> 00:09:37,475 Speaker 1: into retardation, unquote. The real problem is that there remains 138 00:09:37,475 --> 00:09:40,715 Speaker 1: the possibility that Trump will not remember the CBS license 139 00:09:40,835 --> 00:09:45,355 Speaker 1: idiocy after whatever next enrages him does enrage him. The 140 00:09:45,395 --> 00:09:49,715 Speaker 1: real problem is that this goon Blair might have merely 141 00:09:49,875 --> 00:09:52,835 Speaker 1: been being metaphorical on that call. The real problem is 142 00:09:52,835 --> 00:09:55,555 Speaker 1: that prospective Trump Attorney General Mike Davis might be, as 143 00:09:55,555 --> 00:09:59,075 Speaker 1: he claims, just trolling Democrats when he explains he wants 144 00:09:59,155 --> 00:10:02,715 Speaker 1: to imprison reporters at Guantanamo Bay or in a gulag somewhere. 145 00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:06,195 Speaker 1: That could all be true, but the real problem is 146 00:10:06,235 --> 00:10:09,955 Speaker 1: the Trump cultists who hear these threats do not take 147 00:10:10,035 --> 00:10:17,515 Speaker 1: them metaphorically. Politico's Adam Wrenn profiled this Mike Davis and 148 00:10:17,635 --> 00:10:23,835 Speaker 1: his quote trolling unquote. Wren Now writes that at the 149 00:10:23,875 --> 00:10:27,755 Speaker 1: Republican Nazi Convention this summer, he was permitted by Davis 150 00:10:27,795 --> 00:10:31,235 Speaker 1: to shadow him. They went to a hotel bar where 151 00:10:31,275 --> 00:10:34,715 Speaker 1: Trump's idiot sons and hangers on were waiting to laud Davis. 152 00:10:35,475 --> 00:10:38,835 Speaker 1: He writes, quote, as I pecked notes on my phone, 153 00:10:39,235 --> 00:10:42,715 Speaker 1: a woman who had told us to stop staring, scolded 154 00:10:42,715 --> 00:10:46,075 Speaker 1: me for chronicling the exchange and began recording me. She 155 00:10:46,195 --> 00:10:49,275 Speaker 1: demanded that I delete the notes or give her my phone. 156 00:10:49,955 --> 00:10:53,075 Speaker 1: When I tried to leave, she recruited four men to 157 00:10:53,275 --> 00:10:56,915 Speaker 1: block the elevators. They stared menacingly at me and demanded 158 00:10:56,915 --> 00:11:00,475 Speaker 1: I turn over my phone or delete my notes. I 159 00:11:00,595 --> 00:11:03,475 Speaker 1: was trapped. I wouldn't delete my notes, and I was 160 00:11:03,515 --> 00:11:07,355 Speaker 1: getting nervous. I called Mike Davis, who had disappeared. He 161 00:11:07,435 --> 00:11:09,995 Speaker 1: asked me where I was, and I told him. I 162 00:11:10,075 --> 00:11:11,795 Speaker 1: explained to the woman I had to catch a flight 163 00:11:11,835 --> 00:11:14,755 Speaker 1: to go home to my family in the next few hours. Quote. 164 00:11:14,755 --> 00:11:17,115 Speaker 1: You should have thought about your kids before you did 165 00:11:17,155 --> 00:11:21,875 Speaker 1: what you did, she replied. After roughly fifteen minutes of 166 00:11:21,915 --> 00:11:24,835 Speaker 1: this standoff, he writes, I searched for another exit. I 167 00:11:24,915 --> 00:11:27,915 Speaker 1: ran down a hallway into a stairwell. Two people followed me. 168 00:11:27,955 --> 00:11:29,875 Speaker 1: When I was out on the street, Davis called me. 169 00:11:30,155 --> 00:11:32,635 Speaker 1: By this point, Davis had confronted the aid near the 170 00:11:32,675 --> 00:11:35,715 Speaker 1: elevators and dressed her down. You don't ask a reporter 171 00:11:35,795 --> 00:11:38,395 Speaker 1: to delete their notes, he told her. According to both 172 00:11:38,435 --> 00:11:41,195 Speaker 1: Davis and a second person, he recounted his remarks too 173 00:11:41,235 --> 00:11:48,435 Speaker 1: briefly after this isn't North Korea unquote, this isn't North Korea, 174 00:11:49,355 --> 00:11:53,115 Speaker 1: not yet. And that it is not North Korea not yet, 175 00:11:53,835 --> 00:11:58,635 Speaker 1: is not Trump's doing. And there is the flip side 176 00:11:58,635 --> 00:12:02,195 Speaker 1: of the same thing. Threatening licenses, threatening networks, threatening journalism, 177 00:12:02,315 --> 00:12:05,115 Speaker 1: threatening the First Amendment, threatening reporters again, and again and 178 00:12:05,195 --> 00:12:09,195 Speaker 1: day after day, makes them censor themselves in advance, makes 179 00:12:09,235 --> 00:12:13,435 Speaker 1: them cooperate in advance, makes them weary of just the 180 00:12:13,475 --> 00:12:20,435 Speaker 1: thought of the confrontation. And it is measurable. There are metrics. 181 00:12:21,715 --> 00:12:25,315 Speaker 1: Media Matters analyzed. Coverage in the LA Times, The New 182 00:12:25,395 --> 00:12:28,155 Speaker 1: York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and The Washington Post. 183 00:12:28,315 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: How many stories were written in the week after Judge 184 00:12:31,835 --> 00:12:36,795 Speaker 1: Chutkin unsealed Jack Smith's filing in the Trump cou case 185 00:12:37,275 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: the week that ended on Wednesday, twenty six stories in 186 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:47,235 Speaker 1: those five major papers. How many stories were written in 187 00:12:47,355 --> 00:12:50,035 Speaker 1: the same five newspapers in the week after the James 188 00:12:50,075 --> 00:12:53,155 Speaker 1: Comey letter eight years ago this month about Hillary Clinton's 189 00:12:53,155 --> 00:13:00,395 Speaker 1: emails one hundred, one hundred email stories, twenty six Jack 190 00:13:00,435 --> 00:13:04,955 Speaker 1: Smith filing stories, literally four times as much coverage in 191 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:11,115 Speaker 1: some of the supposedly liberal newspapers of this country, but 192 00:13:11,275 --> 00:13:16,155 Speaker 1: her emails ominously. Judge Chutkin now says she will release 193 00:13:16,155 --> 00:13:20,355 Speaker 1: Smith's second filing the supporting evidence for his first filing, 194 00:13:21,035 --> 00:13:23,035 Speaker 1: delaying it for a week to give Trump a chance 195 00:13:23,075 --> 00:13:28,835 Speaker 1: to investigate litigation to stop it. When she releases the evidence, 196 00:13:29,795 --> 00:13:33,715 Speaker 1: Let's see if those five newspapers give this the same 197 00:13:33,995 --> 00:13:39,315 Speaker 1: one quarter of the coverage because the phrase but her 198 00:13:39,355 --> 00:13:44,475 Speaker 1: emails is now paired in reporters and editors minds with 199 00:13:44,595 --> 00:13:58,555 Speaker 1: the phrase but trumpists will threaten me. A quick pulling 200 00:13:58,755 --> 00:14:02,995 Speaker 1: roundup two fascinating interior numbers from the IPSOS poll for 201 00:14:03,115 --> 00:14:08,435 Speaker 1: Reuter's gr reverses Trump's leads in suburbs and among middle 202 00:14:08,435 --> 00:14:13,875 Speaker 1: class voters. Reuter's IPSOS polls show I'm indebted to my 203 00:14:13,915 --> 00:14:17,515 Speaker 1: former colleague Carl Kintonia for doing this exclusive Harris up 204 00:14:17,555 --> 00:14:20,515 Speaker 1: forty seven to forty one among suburban voters, nine points 205 00:14:20,515 --> 00:14:24,155 Speaker 1: better than Biden. Harris up forty five forty three in 206 00:14:24,195 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 1: households earning fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dollars per year, 207 00:14:28,635 --> 00:14:33,555 Speaker 1: also nine points better than Biden. Now the other stuff 208 00:14:33,675 --> 00:14:38,235 Speaker 1: I have mentioned before, you should expect down the stretch 209 00:14:39,275 --> 00:14:43,675 Speaker 1: a flood of bad, cooked pro Trump polls. They not 210 00:14:43,795 --> 00:14:46,635 Speaker 1: only are there to screw up the polling averages, but 211 00:14:46,715 --> 00:14:50,435 Speaker 1: the more outlandish ones like Trump plus two by active vote, 212 00:14:50,955 --> 00:14:56,315 Speaker 1: like Trump in Rasmussen up way over Biden. They are 213 00:14:56,355 --> 00:15:00,395 Speaker 1: there to serve as props if Trump loses and when 214 00:15:00,435 --> 00:15:04,155 Speaker 1: he tries to foment violence and he pulls another article 215 00:15:04,155 --> 00:15:06,755 Speaker 1: from his pot as he did in Michigan yesterday and screams, 216 00:15:06,875 --> 00:15:10,395 Speaker 1: but I was winning in all the polls. The other 217 00:15:10,475 --> 00:15:14,435 Speaker 1: purpose is to screw with the heads of Democrats. It's working. 218 00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:18,075 Speaker 1: Social media is a wash with Trump is gaining. What 219 00:15:18,115 --> 00:15:20,835 Speaker 1: are we gonna do? The five thirty eight polling average 220 00:15:21,355 --> 00:15:25,475 Speaker 1: is Harris forty eight point four, Trump forty six point zero. 221 00:15:25,995 --> 00:15:31,315 Speaker 1: That is Harris by two point four points. On the 222 00:15:31,315 --> 00:15:34,475 Speaker 1: twenty fifth of last month, it was Harris by two 223 00:15:34,595 --> 00:15:38,395 Speaker 1: point six points. On August eleventh, it was Harris by 224 00:15:38,955 --> 00:15:43,875 Speaker 1: two point three points. The polling average at the split 225 00:15:43,995 --> 00:15:49,515 Speaker 1: ticket website is Harris by two point seven points. On 226 00:15:49,555 --> 00:15:51,875 Speaker 1: the eighth of September, it had been Harris by two 227 00:15:51,955 --> 00:15:58,035 Speaker 1: point six Getting the point here, she's ahead by a little, 228 00:15:58,555 --> 00:16:00,555 Speaker 1: she's ahead by a little. Wess, she's ahead by a 229 00:16:00,595 --> 00:16:04,195 Speaker 1: little more. She needs to be head by even more. 230 00:16:04,915 --> 00:16:06,715 Speaker 1: This was true the day she took over the ticket, 231 00:16:06,715 --> 00:16:09,155 Speaker 1: and it was true most of the day since it's 232 00:16:09,235 --> 00:16:14,795 Speaker 1: around two and a half. And yes, there are even 233 00:16:14,915 --> 00:16:20,075 Speaker 1: some badly done or less sympathetically perhaps even deliberately badly 234 00:16:20,115 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: done poles being mixed in there now, even by reputable outlets. 235 00:16:23,675 --> 00:16:27,275 Speaker 1: Perhaps the most panic in the past week was after 236 00:16:27,355 --> 00:16:30,595 Speaker 1: a Tip poll for American Greatness. They've done pretty good 237 00:16:30,675 --> 00:16:35,595 Speaker 1: work nationally, but they did for Pennsylvania a poll that 238 00:16:35,675 --> 00:16:38,395 Speaker 1: showed Harris trailing Trump by a point and a half 239 00:16:38,435 --> 00:16:42,915 Speaker 1: among likely voters. As professor Aaron astor If Maryville College 240 00:16:42,915 --> 00:16:46,635 Speaker 1: noted and several polling experts agreed, going diving into the 241 00:16:46,755 --> 00:16:50,475 Speaker 1: cross tabs is rarely anything more than the equivalent of 242 00:16:50,555 --> 00:16:54,355 Speaker 1: sticking your finger down your throat or emulating the Trumpists 243 00:16:54,355 --> 00:16:57,075 Speaker 1: looking for an excuse. But it turns out that in 244 00:16:57,115 --> 00:17:00,275 Speaker 1: the cross tabs for the Tip Pennsylvania pole, there is 245 00:17:00,315 --> 00:17:05,955 Speaker 1: one genuinely shocking bit of pulling malpractice in the same 246 00:17:06,075 --> 00:17:09,835 Speaker 1: pole in the same state in which Tip concludes Trump 247 00:17:09,875 --> 00:17:12,835 Speaker 1: leads Harris by a point and a half among likely voters, 248 00:17:13,875 --> 00:17:18,835 Speaker 1: their data shows him trailing her Kamala Harris ahead by 249 00:17:19,515 --> 00:17:23,395 Speaker 1: four points in Pennsylvania among registered voters. Do you know 250 00:17:24,555 --> 00:17:27,155 Speaker 1: what you have to do to make your own poll 251 00:17:27,395 --> 00:17:34,315 Speaker 1: swing five and a half points towards Donald Trump? You'd 252 00:17:34,395 --> 00:17:38,715 Speaker 1: have to like eliminate virtually all voters from Philadelphia from 253 00:17:38,755 --> 00:17:44,555 Speaker 1: your likely voter Pennsylvania sample, which is exactly what Tip did. 254 00:17:45,475 --> 00:17:49,275 Speaker 1: The crosstabs show this. There were one hundred and thirty 255 00:17:49,315 --> 00:17:55,555 Speaker 1: four voters from Philadelphia among tips registered voters for Pennsylvania 256 00:17:56,075 --> 00:17:59,235 Speaker 1: when they refined this and sorted them out into likely 257 00:17:59,315 --> 00:18:02,555 Speaker 1: voters and not likely voters and the weighted averages here 258 00:18:02,635 --> 00:18:05,035 Speaker 1: in the non weighted averages there, I went from one 259 00:18:05,115 --> 00:18:08,955 Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four voters in Philadelphia in the registered 260 00:18:08,995 --> 00:18:12,275 Speaker 1: voters count that had Harris ahead by four to twelve 261 00:18:12,595 --> 00:18:15,675 Speaker 1: voters from Philadelphia in the likely voters poll that has 262 00:18:15,715 --> 00:18:19,355 Speaker 1: Trump ahead by a point and a half. That's a lot. 263 00:18:19,595 --> 00:18:23,235 Speaker 1: That's eliminating nine tenths of the voters from the biggest 264 00:18:23,235 --> 00:18:25,875 Speaker 1: democratic city in the state and one of the biggest 265 00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:32,475 Speaker 1: democratic cities in the country. So so much for the 266 00:18:32,555 --> 00:18:36,515 Speaker 1: tip pole of Pennsylvania. I'm going to go out on 267 00:18:36,555 --> 00:18:39,235 Speaker 1: a limb here and say they may have made that 268 00:18:39,315 --> 00:18:44,755 Speaker 1: one to be stuffed into Trump's jacket pocket. On that one, 269 00:18:44,835 --> 00:18:54,155 Speaker 1: at least take a deep breath. Quick correction here. I 270 00:18:54,195 --> 00:18:57,475 Speaker 1: mentioned yesterday that the grandfather of Looney Tunes, Florida congress 271 00:18:57,515 --> 00:19:01,035 Speaker 1: woman an ex Maxim model Anna Paulina Luna real name 272 00:19:01,115 --> 00:19:05,195 Speaker 1: Anna Meyerhoffer, was drafted into the Nazi Worldorld War two 273 00:19:05,315 --> 00:19:09,275 Speaker 1: Air Force. The Wehrmacht. I want to apologize to Congresswoman 274 00:19:09,355 --> 00:19:12,835 Speaker 1: Luna for my appalling mistake. Her grandfather was not drafted 275 00:19:12,835 --> 00:19:17,275 Speaker 1: in the Nazi air Force. Nazi air Force was the Luftwaffa. 276 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:22,355 Speaker 1: Her grandfather was drafted into the Nazi military, the Wehrmacht. 277 00:19:23,195 --> 00:19:27,755 Speaker 1: So I apologize. Congresswoman Luna's grandfather was not a Nazi flyer. 278 00:19:28,075 --> 00:19:36,275 Speaker 1: He was just a Nazi soldier. Also of interest here, 279 00:19:36,355 --> 00:19:41,835 Speaker 1: Carrie Lake thinks nephews are girls, and says so at 280 00:19:42,035 --> 00:19:46,035 Speaker 1: her debate. And she thinks that the miracle that parents 281 00:19:46,035 --> 00:19:48,675 Speaker 1: turned to to help bring them to life is called 282 00:19:49,515 --> 00:19:58,195 Speaker 1: UVF the Ulster Volunteer Army. I guess or did she 283 00:19:58,315 --> 00:20:03,395 Speaker 1: mean UVA at the University of Virginia. If you're going 284 00:20:03,475 --> 00:20:07,115 Speaker 1: to take somebody from Tell Division and run them for senator, 285 00:20:07,395 --> 00:20:12,755 Speaker 1: never ever ever make it the ex weekend weather person. 286 00:20:13,475 --> 00:20:21,235 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman. 287 00:20:42,075 --> 00:20:44,475 Speaker 1: Let me peel back the curtain for a second. I 288 00:20:44,515 --> 00:20:47,515 Speaker 1: don't think the man whose voice you just heard there, 289 00:20:48,155 --> 00:20:50,795 Speaker 1: the Hall of Famer Larry David, will object to this. 290 00:20:51,395 --> 00:20:54,195 Speaker 1: But twice in the last two weeks he and I 291 00:20:54,275 --> 00:21:01,955 Speaker 1: have corresponded by email about this music. It is the 292 00:21:02,075 --> 00:21:07,915 Speaker 1: Chakata and Fugue by Bach, and to Larry's great surprise, 293 00:21:08,155 --> 00:21:10,875 Speaker 1: And Larry has been a supporter and friend of mine 294 00:21:11,435 --> 00:21:15,595 Speaker 1: for almost twenty years now, and I have appreciated every 295 00:21:15,675 --> 00:21:18,555 Speaker 1: moment of his support, every moment of his friendship. And 296 00:21:18,635 --> 00:21:21,195 Speaker 1: I might add, if you ever get a chance to 297 00:21:21,235 --> 00:21:25,835 Speaker 1: actually sit down with him, he is the most delightful 298 00:21:26,075 --> 00:21:30,395 Speaker 1: audience you will ever meet. He will laugh at almost 299 00:21:30,435 --> 00:21:34,435 Speaker 1: anything that is slightly funny, as the great humorists tend 300 00:21:34,475 --> 00:21:38,755 Speaker 1: to be. He's an easy laugh. Having put that aside, 301 00:21:38,875 --> 00:21:43,675 Speaker 1: Larry emailed me with some urgency and astonishment because watching 302 00:21:43,675 --> 00:21:47,035 Speaker 1: a New York Yankees playoff game on TV, he heard 303 00:21:47,795 --> 00:21:54,795 Speaker 1: this playing at a critical moment, the Bach Takata and 304 00:21:54,875 --> 00:21:58,515 Speaker 1: Fugue playing in a critical moment at Yankee Stadium during 305 00:21:58,555 --> 00:22:01,995 Speaker 1: a ballgame, and he wanted to know if indeed his 306 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:04,955 Speaker 1: ears were playing tricks on him, if the Yankee Keys 307 00:22:04,995 --> 00:22:11,635 Speaker 1: were suddenly playing the music the organ music from my podcast. 308 00:22:11,915 --> 00:22:16,075 Speaker 1: I am delighted that it has now taken on that name. 309 00:22:17,235 --> 00:22:19,515 Speaker 1: I think the composer Bach had something to do with 310 00:22:19,555 --> 00:22:24,315 Speaker 1: it much earlier. And now we push the curtain back 311 00:22:24,635 --> 00:22:30,555 Speaker 1: with thanks to Larry for bringing that up. Jim Boughton, 312 00:22:30,595 --> 00:22:33,155 Speaker 1: my late friend, who wrote Ball for the best baseball 313 00:22:33,155 --> 00:22:35,875 Speaker 1: book ever written, said that after a few years his 314 00:22:35,995 --> 00:22:39,795 Speaker 1: youngest child, few years of going to baseball games, heard 315 00:22:39,835 --> 00:22:44,635 Speaker 1: the national anthem played at a parade or a rodeo 316 00:22:44,875 --> 00:22:47,915 Speaker 1: or something like that, and said, Dad, they're playing the 317 00:22:47,915 --> 00:22:53,115 Speaker 1: baseball song. Wonderful still ahead of us. On this edition 318 00:22:53,155 --> 00:22:55,395 Speaker 1: of Countdown, it may seem as if we just got 319 00:22:55,435 --> 00:23:00,995 Speaker 1: stupid in the last ten, fifteen, fifty years. Nah. It 320 00:23:01,035 --> 00:23:03,635 Speaker 1: may seem as if only recently the stupid people somehow 321 00:23:03,675 --> 00:23:07,755 Speaker 1: all gained enough money to travel somehow to the major 322 00:23:07,795 --> 00:23:12,035 Speaker 1: cities of the world, where they somehow intuitively know where 323 00:23:12,075 --> 00:23:15,475 Speaker 1: the most crowded spots on the most crowded sidewalks are 324 00:23:15,915 --> 00:23:19,915 Speaker 1: and stand there for hours and simply stare at the 325 00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:23,435 Speaker 1: tall buildings, because evidently, where they live they do not 326 00:23:23,595 --> 00:23:28,555 Speaker 1: have tall buildings or buildings of any kind or sidewalks. 327 00:23:30,035 --> 00:23:33,675 Speaker 1: This idea that this is new is palpably untrue. As 328 00:23:33,795 --> 00:23:37,235 Speaker 1: James Thurber will explain, all this happened no later than 329 00:23:37,275 --> 00:23:41,235 Speaker 1: October two, nineteen thirty seven, when he published in The 330 00:23:41,275 --> 00:23:45,275 Speaker 1: New Yorker his saga of one of these international travelers 331 00:23:45,435 --> 00:23:48,635 Speaker 1: who he met in the Lake country of England, where 332 00:23:48,675 --> 00:23:54,035 Speaker 1: she was complaining to him that Macbeth by Shakespeare was 333 00:23:54,235 --> 00:23:58,435 Speaker 1: unbearably bad because it did not follow the rules of 334 00:23:58,635 --> 00:24:03,195 Speaker 1: suspense paperbacks like in the later you know Mickey Spallaine 335 00:24:03,475 --> 00:24:08,835 Speaker 1: stories the woman who believed Shakespeare fingered the wrong murderer 336 00:24:08,915 --> 00:24:13,395 Speaker 1: in Macbeth. Coming up on Fridays with Thurber First, there 337 00:24:13,395 --> 00:24:16,155 Speaker 1: are still many more new idiots to talk about in 338 00:24:16,195 --> 00:24:18,595 Speaker 1: the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning 339 00:24:18,675 --> 00:24:24,275 Speaker 1: Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's weis poisons in the world. 340 00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:28,355 Speaker 1: The Bronze Well, we've already invoked the Yankees, so why 341 00:24:28,395 --> 00:24:33,715 Speaker 1: not the New York Mets, specifically New York Mets Radio. Now, 342 00:24:33,795 --> 00:24:36,995 Speaker 1: I'm a Mets fan and I'm delighted they beat the 343 00:24:37,035 --> 00:24:41,155 Speaker 1: Phillies and will begin the National League Championship Series on Sunday, 344 00:24:41,395 --> 00:24:43,475 Speaker 1: and maybe we will have a World Series in New 345 00:24:43,555 --> 00:24:46,275 Speaker 1: York for the first time since twenty fifteen. I like 346 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:51,675 Speaker 1: going to the World Series. It's fun. I'm even glad 347 00:24:51,715 --> 00:24:56,075 Speaker 1: that when Mets relief pitcher Edwin roller Coaster Diaz came 348 00:24:56,115 --> 00:24:58,435 Speaker 1: in in the ninth inning of the deciding game with 349 00:24:58,515 --> 00:25:00,875 Speaker 1: a three run lead, and then walked the first two 350 00:25:00,915 --> 00:25:04,315 Speaker 1: men that he faced and then steered out of the 351 00:25:04,355 --> 00:25:08,715 Speaker 1: skin and the Mets won. I'm delighted for Mets play 352 00:25:08,915 --> 00:25:12,475 Speaker 1: play man Howie Rose, who was in the press box 353 00:25:12,795 --> 00:25:16,195 Speaker 1: in the first game I ever covered as a full 354 00:25:16,235 --> 00:25:19,835 Speaker 1: time professional network radio reporter in New York in nineteen 355 00:25:19,915 --> 00:25:22,875 Speaker 1: seventy nine. It was the Mets and the Phillies. Just 356 00:25:23,035 --> 00:25:26,475 Speaker 1: like this game I'm talking about now. Howie was at 357 00:25:26,515 --> 00:25:29,515 Speaker 1: dinner with me in the press room the first time 358 00:25:29,555 --> 00:25:32,195 Speaker 1: I covered a New York Knicks game at Madison Square 359 00:25:32,195 --> 00:25:35,355 Speaker 1: Garden as a pro. A few months later, Howie and 360 00:25:35,395 --> 00:25:41,275 Speaker 1: I go back. But as the pitcher Diaz entered the game, 361 00:25:41,755 --> 00:25:46,715 Speaker 1: his appearance was somehow sponsored by an advertiser, and not 362 00:25:46,835 --> 00:25:49,755 Speaker 1: only was there a radio commercial for it, but my 363 00:25:49,875 --> 00:25:53,715 Speaker 1: friend Howie Rose had to read this commercial live. The commercial, 364 00:25:53,875 --> 00:25:56,675 Speaker 1: as the relief pitcher warmed up, was for a suction 365 00:25:56,875 --> 00:26:01,755 Speaker 1: device that is designed to prevent you from choking. As 366 00:26:01,835 --> 00:26:04,595 Speaker 1: the relief pitcher is entering the game in the final 367 00:26:05,035 --> 00:26:07,715 Speaker 1: of the series deciding contest, the device to keep you 368 00:26:07,755 --> 00:26:13,115 Speaker 1: from gagging. I mean right then, not in the second inning, 369 00:26:13,355 --> 00:26:15,555 Speaker 1: but in the ninth inning at the moment the disaster 370 00:26:15,675 --> 00:26:18,315 Speaker 1: prone relief pitcher enters the game. I mean, why not 371 00:26:18,515 --> 00:26:24,475 Speaker 1: just say worried you might choke like Edwin Diaz as 372 00:26:24,515 --> 00:26:29,035 Speaker 1: we used to say in a different context. Yeah, the 373 00:26:29,115 --> 00:26:32,355 Speaker 1: runner up, speaking of well, you know, getting all the 374 00:26:32,395 --> 00:26:36,755 Speaker 1: oxygen cut off, there's Carrie Lake, her debate against Reuben 375 00:26:36,795 --> 00:26:40,195 Speaker 1: Diego and the Arizona Senate race is over now, and frankly, 376 00:26:40,635 --> 00:26:44,075 Speaker 1: so is she. If you've ever asked yourself, is this 377 00:26:44,395 --> 00:26:49,635 Speaker 1: lady strung out or something? I think you now have 378 00:26:49,755 --> 00:26:55,635 Speaker 1: your answer, or in this case, answers two of them. 379 00:26:55,955 --> 00:26:58,035 Speaker 3: First of all, I'm astounded that he actually knows the 380 00:26:58,035 --> 00:27:00,875 Speaker 3: difference between a woman and a man, because I thought 381 00:27:00,955 --> 00:27:03,395 Speaker 3: there were what one hundred and forty seven different genders. 382 00:27:04,275 --> 00:27:06,635 Speaker 3: I do care about women's rights. I come from a 383 00:27:06,635 --> 00:27:08,675 Speaker 3: family of women, and I have a daughter of my 384 00:27:08,795 --> 00:27:11,275 Speaker 3: own and many nieces and nephews. I want to make 385 00:27:11,315 --> 00:27:14,955 Speaker 3: sure that UVF is protected. I have many friends who 386 00:27:14,995 --> 00:27:18,435 Speaker 3: are here, they're my friends today because of UVF. And 387 00:27:18,515 --> 00:27:20,835 Speaker 3: I have many of my friends who have had children 388 00:27:20,875 --> 00:27:24,795 Speaker 3: and experienced the joy of motherhood and parenthood because of UVF. 389 00:27:25,795 --> 00:27:31,555 Speaker 1: To take those in reverse order, UVF Now everybody thinks 390 00:27:31,595 --> 00:27:36,555 Speaker 1: she meant IVF in vitro fertilization, but of course she 391 00:27:36,675 --> 00:27:42,395 Speaker 1: could have also meant UHF ultra high frequency television like 392 00:27:42,435 --> 00:27:45,235 Speaker 1: Channel forty five in Phoenix. I mean Lake used to 393 00:27:45,235 --> 00:27:50,555 Speaker 1: do TV. Or maybe she meant SPF as in sunscreen, 394 00:27:51,675 --> 00:27:54,475 Speaker 1: which if you've ever seen one of her interviews, when 395 00:27:54,515 --> 00:27:57,075 Speaker 1: one of the six camera filters she uses has broken, 396 00:27:57,355 --> 00:28:02,075 Speaker 1: it's clear she could have used more of pro tip 397 00:28:02,115 --> 00:28:07,515 Speaker 1: for the Republicans, never run the weekend weather person as 398 00:28:07,515 --> 00:28:12,795 Speaker 1: your candidate for anything other than maybe weekday weather person. 399 00:28:14,355 --> 00:28:18,355 Speaker 1: She sounds good. She has no idea what she's say 400 00:28:19,035 --> 00:28:22,235 Speaker 1: As to the other answer about the male nieces. I 401 00:28:22,235 --> 00:28:23,915 Speaker 1: don't know what to tell you, but it sure seems 402 00:28:23,995 --> 00:28:26,755 Speaker 1: like that moderator's next question to Carrie Lake should have 403 00:28:26,835 --> 00:28:30,115 Speaker 1: been to borrow one of the far right self martyrdom catchphrases, 404 00:28:30,875 --> 00:28:36,955 Speaker 1: what is a woman nephews and nieces or women but 405 00:28:37,075 --> 00:28:40,555 Speaker 1: our winner? The New York Times expect the world all 406 00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:43,875 Speaker 1: the news that spit to print when they actually question 407 00:28:43,995 --> 00:28:46,955 Speaker 1: Trump's mental problems Monday. We should have seen this coming 408 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:54,235 Speaker 1: no later than Friday. Analysis in interviews, Kamala Harris continues 409 00:28:54,475 --> 00:28:58,435 Speaker 1: to Bob and Weave. Her media swing showed how she 410 00:28:58,475 --> 00:29:01,235 Speaker 1: often responds to uncomfortable questions by acknowledging them yet not 411 00:29:01,395 --> 00:29:06,515 Speaker 1: fully answering them. In remarks about min Donald Trump invoked 412 00:29:06,555 --> 00:29:12,555 Speaker 1: his long held fascination with genes and genetics. The Harris 413 00:29:12,595 --> 00:29:17,835 Speaker 1: story noted that sometimes she answers questions directly, but sometimes 414 00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:22,395 Speaker 1: she doesn't. This is news because apparently The New York 415 00:29:22,435 --> 00:29:26,635 Speaker 1: Times fires all its writers and headline composers and editors 416 00:29:26,955 --> 00:29:30,515 Speaker 1: every year or two, so that everything that happened that 417 00:29:30,715 --> 00:29:33,315 Speaker 1: also happened last year and the year before that, and 418 00:29:33,355 --> 00:29:35,715 Speaker 1: the decade before that, and in fact happened in the 419 00:29:35,795 --> 00:29:39,435 Speaker 1: year eighteen sixty seven, all that seems fresh and new 420 00:29:39,715 --> 00:29:42,235 Speaker 1: to all the new editors and writers and headline writers. 421 00:29:42,795 --> 00:29:46,955 Speaker 1: Oh golly, a politician didn't completely answer my question. That's 422 00:29:46,995 --> 00:29:50,195 Speaker 1: against the law, isn't it. Well, at least we should 423 00:29:50,395 --> 00:29:53,635 Speaker 1: all mock her, but not Trump, because he does it 424 00:29:53,675 --> 00:29:56,035 Speaker 1: every day, every hour, and every question. So that's not 425 00:29:56,155 --> 00:29:58,715 Speaker 1: news anymore. Right, that's the way it works. If it's 426 00:29:58,715 --> 00:30:01,235 Speaker 1: happened a thousand times, it's not news. If it just 427 00:30:01,315 --> 00:30:05,315 Speaker 1: happened once, it's news. He's done it all already. See 428 00:30:05,315 --> 00:30:10,115 Speaker 1: how this works. The headline about in remarks about migrants, 429 00:30:10,155 --> 00:30:13,515 Speaker 1: Donald Trump invoked his long held fascination with genes and genetics. 430 00:30:13,995 --> 00:30:18,635 Speaker 1: Is The Times reverting to sanea washing Trump's latest madness 431 00:30:19,035 --> 00:30:23,555 Speaker 1: when he said that murdering people is genetic. It's in 432 00:30:23,595 --> 00:30:27,435 Speaker 1: the genes, and especially it's genetic in migrants coming to 433 00:30:27,475 --> 00:30:30,315 Speaker 1: this country. And we've got a lot of bad genes 434 00:30:30,315 --> 00:30:34,475 Speaker 1: in this country. And he's talking about eugenics, about ruling 435 00:30:34,555 --> 00:30:38,555 Speaker 1: people out of staying here, or maybe incarcerating them or worse, 436 00:30:38,675 --> 00:30:47,035 Speaker 1: based on their racial history. It's hitler. It's not fascination 437 00:30:47,235 --> 00:30:53,035 Speaker 1: with genes and genetics. He is, of course criminally insane. 438 00:30:53,235 --> 00:30:55,835 Speaker 1: But The New York Times is, in fact even more 439 00:30:55,875 --> 00:30:59,635 Speaker 1: criminally insane than is Trump. That headline is the equivalent 440 00:30:59,715 --> 00:31:03,435 Speaker 1: of To apply it to Trump's fictional role model. In 441 00:31:03,475 --> 00:31:07,715 Speaker 1: remarks about census, Hannibal Lecter invoked his long held fascination 442 00:31:08,075 --> 00:31:11,915 Speaker 1: with faba beans and a nice kiante or to send 443 00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:14,675 Speaker 1: it back to its source. In headlines about Trump, the 444 00:31:14,715 --> 00:31:17,595 Speaker 1: New York Times invoked its long held fascination with seeing 445 00:31:17,595 --> 00:31:20,235 Speaker 1: what woul happened to America if it went fascist and 446 00:31:20,275 --> 00:31:22,755 Speaker 1: a dictator decided to shut down the free press and 447 00:31:22,835 --> 00:31:28,235 Speaker 1: jail everybody at the New York Times. This on the 448 00:31:28,235 --> 00:31:31,635 Speaker 1: part of what is nominally the nation's leading news organization, 449 00:31:32,195 --> 00:31:35,955 Speaker 1: is not just perverse and petulant and stupid and anti journalistic, 450 00:31:36,355 --> 00:31:41,595 Speaker 1: it's suicidal. Nobody's asking for The Times to openly campaign 451 00:31:41,795 --> 00:31:45,675 Speaker 1: against Donald Trump, or for Kamala Harris or anybody else, 452 00:31:45,955 --> 00:31:49,475 Speaker 1: but the desire to make it seem as if this 453 00:31:49,675 --> 00:31:54,995 Speaker 1: manifestly insane man is just the equivalent of a pyromaniac 454 00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:59,075 Speaker 1: who likes to see how well his own clothes will 455 00:31:59,115 --> 00:32:05,035 Speaker 1: burn and therefore is fascinated with heating devices, is at 456 00:32:05,035 --> 00:32:08,195 Speaker 1: the heart of this. Once again, I will note that 457 00:32:08,275 --> 00:32:11,195 Speaker 1: the summary the best summary of where we stand with Trump, 458 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:15,195 Speaker 1: comes from a New York Times article and a quote 459 00:32:15,235 --> 00:32:18,795 Speaker 1: from the Yale historian Tim Snyder. Trump is in the 460 00:32:18,835 --> 00:32:23,595 Speaker 1: classic dictatorial position. He needs to die in bed holding 461 00:32:23,755 --> 00:32:27,435 Speaker 1: all executive power to stay out of prison. This means 462 00:32:27,435 --> 00:32:29,635 Speaker 1: that he will do whatever he can to gain power, 463 00:32:29,795 --> 00:32:32,115 Speaker 1: and once in power, will do all that he can 464 00:32:32,275 --> 00:32:35,115 Speaker 1: to never let it go. This is a basic incentive 465 00:32:35,155 --> 00:32:40,875 Speaker 1: structure which underlies everything else. It is entirely inconsistent with democracy. 466 00:32:41,555 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: In point of fact, what Tim Snyder said there should 467 00:32:43,995 --> 00:32:47,715 Speaker 1: be The Times headline on every article it writes about Trump, 468 00:32:49,955 --> 00:32:52,875 Speaker 1: or as whoever wrote that Trump invoked his long held 469 00:32:52,915 --> 00:32:56,475 Speaker 1: fascination with genes and genetics headline. Trump invoked his long 470 00:32:56,475 --> 00:33:01,355 Speaker 1: held fascination with serving America along with faba beans A 471 00:33:01,435 --> 00:33:06,435 Speaker 1: nice canty. The New York Time. James Hitler invoked his 472 00:33:06,515 --> 00:33:11,675 Speaker 1: long held fascination with significant rebuilding programs for European cities. 473 00:33:12,355 --> 00:33:33,955 Speaker 1: Two Days, Worst Persons, All Fridays with Thurber and the 474 00:33:33,955 --> 00:33:36,155 Speaker 1: Works of the Master, and one I have not read 475 00:33:36,195 --> 00:33:39,595 Speaker 1: to you here before, but is one of my favorites 476 00:33:39,875 --> 00:33:44,675 Speaker 1: because it is well you'll hear. Fridays with Thurber and 477 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:50,315 Speaker 1: the Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber. It was a 478 00:33:50,355 --> 00:33:53,475 Speaker 1: stupid mistake to make, said the American woman I had 479 00:33:53,515 --> 00:33:56,355 Speaker 1: met at my hotel in the English Lake Country. But 480 00:33:56,395 --> 00:33:58,515 Speaker 1: it was on the counter with the other Penguin books, 481 00:33:58,755 --> 00:34:01,275 Speaker 1: the little sixpenny ones, you know, with the paper covers, 482 00:34:01,835 --> 00:34:04,315 Speaker 1: and I supposed, of course, it was a detective story. 483 00:34:04,995 --> 00:34:08,275 Speaker 1: All the others were detective stories. I'd read all the others, 484 00:34:08,835 --> 00:34:11,275 Speaker 1: so I bought this one without really looking at it carefully. 485 00:34:11,795 --> 00:34:13,755 Speaker 1: You can imagine how mad I was. When I found 486 00:34:13,835 --> 00:34:21,275 Speaker 1: it was Shakespeare, I murmured something sympathetically. I don't see 487 00:34:21,315 --> 00:34:23,835 Speaker 1: why the Penguin Books people had to get out Shakespeare's 488 00:34:23,875 --> 00:34:26,355 Speaker 1: plays in the same size and everything as the detective 489 00:34:26,435 --> 00:34:30,795 Speaker 1: stories went on. My companion, I think they have different 490 00:34:30,835 --> 00:34:35,715 Speaker 1: colored jackets. I said, well, I didn't notice that, she said. Anyway, 491 00:34:35,715 --> 00:34:37,955 Speaker 1: I got real comfy in bed that night and all 492 00:34:38,035 --> 00:34:40,475 Speaker 1: ready to read a good mystery story. And here I 493 00:34:40,555 --> 00:34:45,475 Speaker 1: had the Tragedy of Macbeth, a book for high school 494 00:34:45,515 --> 00:34:52,675 Speaker 1: students like Ivan Hoe or Lorna Doone, I said, exactly, 495 00:34:53,035 --> 00:34:55,955 Speaker 1: said the American lady, And I was just crazy for 496 00:34:55,995 --> 00:34:59,875 Speaker 1: a good Agatha Christie or something. Ercule Poirot is my 497 00:34:59,995 --> 00:35:05,075 Speaker 1: favorite detective. Is he the Rabbity one? I asked? Oh? No, oh, 498 00:35:05,315 --> 00:35:08,915 Speaker 1: said my crime fiction expert. He's the Belgian one you're 499 00:35:08,955 --> 00:35:11,835 Speaker 1: thinking of, mister Pinkerton, the one that helps Inspector Bull. 500 00:35:12,195 --> 00:35:17,035 Speaker 1: He's good too. Over her second cup of tea, my 501 00:35:17,155 --> 00:35:20,195 Speaker 1: companion began to tell me the plot of a detective 502 00:35:20,235 --> 00:35:23,835 Speaker 1: story that had fooled her completely. It seems it was 503 00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:28,795 Speaker 1: the old family doctor all the time. But I cut 504 00:35:28,835 --> 00:35:33,515 Speaker 1: in on her. Tell me, I said, did you read Macbeth. 505 00:35:34,315 --> 00:35:36,475 Speaker 1: I had to read it, she said. There wasn't a 506 00:35:36,515 --> 00:35:38,755 Speaker 1: scrap of anything else to read in the whole room. 507 00:35:40,155 --> 00:35:44,515 Speaker 1: Did you like it, I asked, no, I did not, 508 00:35:45,155 --> 00:35:48,315 Speaker 1: she said decisively in the first place. I don't think 509 00:35:48,355 --> 00:35:52,675 Speaker 1: for a moment that Macbeth did it. I looked at 510 00:35:52,715 --> 00:35:58,955 Speaker 1: her blankly. Did what I asked? I don't think for 511 00:35:59,035 --> 00:36:01,635 Speaker 1: a moment that he killed the king? She said. I 512 00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:03,915 Speaker 1: don't think the Macbeth woman was mixed up in it either. 513 00:36:04,675 --> 00:36:06,555 Speaker 1: I suspect them the most, of course, but those are 514 00:36:06,595 --> 00:36:09,235 Speaker 1: the ones that are never guilty, or shouldn't be anyway. 515 00:36:11,075 --> 00:36:14,595 Speaker 1: I'm afraid I began that I but don't you see, 516 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:18,155 Speaker 1: said the American lady. It would spoil everything if you 517 00:36:18,195 --> 00:36:21,035 Speaker 1: could figure out right away who did it. Shakespeare was 518 00:36:21,115 --> 00:36:24,195 Speaker 1: too smart for that. I've read that people never have 519 00:36:24,315 --> 00:36:27,595 Speaker 1: figured out Hamlet, so it isn't likely Shakespeare would have 520 00:36:27,635 --> 00:36:32,395 Speaker 1: made Macbeth as simple as it seems. I thought this 521 00:36:32,675 --> 00:36:38,715 Speaker 1: over while I filled my pipe. Who do you suspect? 522 00:36:39,115 --> 00:36:46,235 Speaker 1: I asked suddenly Macduff she said promptly. Good God, I 523 00:36:46,355 --> 00:36:50,475 Speaker 1: whispered softly. Oh McDuff did it all right, said the 524 00:36:50,555 --> 00:36:55,555 Speaker 1: murder specialist Ercio Paro would have gotten him easily. How 525 00:36:55,595 --> 00:36:59,435 Speaker 1: did you figure it out, I demanded, Well, she said 526 00:36:59,635 --> 00:37:02,835 Speaker 1: I didn't right away. At first I suspected Banquo, and 527 00:37:02,875 --> 00:37:05,235 Speaker 1: then of course he was the second person and killed. 528 00:37:05,395 --> 00:37:07,835 Speaker 1: That was good right in there, that part the person 529 00:37:07,875 --> 00:37:10,555 Speaker 1: you suspect of the first murder should always be the 530 00:37:10,595 --> 00:37:15,675 Speaker 1: second victim. Is that so, I murmured, Oh, yes, said 531 00:37:15,675 --> 00:37:19,355 Speaker 1: my informant. They have to keep surprising you. Well after 532 00:37:19,395 --> 00:37:21,635 Speaker 1: the second murder, I didn't know who the killer was 533 00:37:21,675 --> 00:37:27,235 Speaker 1: for a while. Uh, how about Malcolm and Donald Bain, 534 00:37:27,315 --> 00:37:31,075 Speaker 1: the King's sons, I asked, As I remember it, They 535 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:35,795 Speaker 1: fled right after the first murder. That looks suspicious. Too suspicious, 536 00:37:35,955 --> 00:37:40,795 Speaker 1: said the American lady. Much too suspicious. When they flee, 537 00:37:40,835 --> 00:37:45,035 Speaker 1: they're never guilty. You can count on that, I believe, 538 00:37:45,275 --> 00:37:49,555 Speaker 1: I said, I'll have a brandy, and I summoned the waiter. 539 00:37:50,355 --> 00:37:55,275 Speaker 1: My companion leaned toward me, her eyes bright, her teacup quivering. 540 00:37:56,155 --> 00:38:01,395 Speaker 1: Do you know who discovered Duncan's body? She demanded. I said, 541 00:38:01,435 --> 00:38:05,515 Speaker 1: I was sorry, but I had forgotten McDuff discovers it, 542 00:38:05,795 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: she said, slipping into the historical presence. Then he comes 543 00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:13,035 Speaker 1: running downstairs and shouts, confusion has broke open the Lord's 544 00:38:13,075 --> 00:38:17,115 Speaker 1: anointed temple, and sacrilegious murder has made his masterpiece, and 545 00:38:17,195 --> 00:38:20,315 Speaker 1: on and on like that. The good lady tapped me 546 00:38:20,355 --> 00:38:24,075 Speaker 1: on the knee. All that stuff was rehearsed. She said, 547 00:38:24,555 --> 00:38:26,915 Speaker 1: you wouldn't say a lot of stuff like that offhand, 548 00:38:26,955 --> 00:38:30,715 Speaker 1: would you, if you'd found a body? She fixed me 549 00:38:30,795 --> 00:38:35,475 Speaker 1: with a glittering eye. I began, you're right, She said, 550 00:38:35,515 --> 00:38:39,835 Speaker 1: you wouldn't unless you had practiced it in advance. My god, 551 00:38:39,915 --> 00:38:42,515 Speaker 1: there's a body in here is what an innocent man 552 00:38:42,555 --> 00:38:48,475 Speaker 1: would say. She sat back with a confident glare. I 553 00:38:48,795 --> 00:38:51,795 Speaker 1: thought for a while, But what do you make of 554 00:38:51,835 --> 00:38:53,915 Speaker 1: the third murderer? 555 00:38:54,155 --> 00:38:54,635 Speaker 2: I asked. 556 00:38:54,635 --> 00:38:58,755 Speaker 1: You know, the third murderer has puzzled Macbeth's scholars for 557 00:38:58,835 --> 00:39:03,115 Speaker 1: three hundred years. That's because they never thought of McDuff. 558 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:06,795 Speaker 1: Said the American lady was McDuff. I'm certain you couldn't 559 00:39:06,795 --> 00:39:09,795 Speaker 1: have one of the victims murdered by two ordinary thugs. 560 00:39:10,195 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: The murderer always has to be somebody important. But what 561 00:39:13,955 --> 00:39:17,195 Speaker 1: about the banquet scene, I asked, after a moment, how 562 00:39:17,195 --> 00:39:21,595 Speaker 1: do you account for Macbeth's guilty actions there when Banquo's 563 00:39:21,635 --> 00:39:25,835 Speaker 1: ghosts came in and sat in his chair. The lady 564 00:39:25,915 --> 00:39:29,235 Speaker 1: leaned forward and tapped me on the knee again. There 565 00:39:29,315 --> 00:39:33,115 Speaker 1: wasn't any ghost, she said. A big strong man like 566 00:39:33,155 --> 00:39:36,355 Speaker 1: that doesn't go around seeing ghosts, especially in a brightly 567 00:39:36,475 --> 00:39:40,075 Speaker 1: lighted banquet hall with dozens of people around. Macbeth was 568 00:39:40,195 --> 00:39:47,515 Speaker 1: shielding somebody. Who was he shielding, I asked missus Macbeth. 569 00:39:47,675 --> 00:39:51,075 Speaker 1: Of course, she said. He thought she did it, and 570 00:39:51,115 --> 00:39:53,515 Speaker 1: he was going to take the rap himself. The husband 571 00:39:53,595 --> 00:39:57,595 Speaker 1: always does that when the wife is suspected. But what 572 00:39:58,115 --> 00:40:03,035 Speaker 1: I demanded about the sleepwalking scene, then the same thing, 573 00:40:03,115 --> 00:40:06,635 Speaker 1: only the other way around, said companion. That time she 574 00:40:06,995 --> 00:40:11,115 Speaker 1: was shielding him. She wasn't asleep at all. Do you 575 00:40:11,115 --> 00:40:15,675 Speaker 1: remember where it says enter lady Macbeth with a taper? Yes, 576 00:40:16,235 --> 00:40:18,995 Speaker 1: I said, Well, people who walk in their sleep never 577 00:40:19,155 --> 00:40:23,635 Speaker 1: carry lights, said my fellow traveler. They have a second sight. 578 00:40:24,115 --> 00:40:27,995 Speaker 1: Did you ever hear of a sleepwalker carrying a light? No, 579 00:40:28,595 --> 00:40:32,275 Speaker 1: I said, I never did. Well, then she wasn't asleep. 580 00:40:32,355 --> 00:40:38,315 Speaker 1: She was acting guilty to shield Macbeth. I think. I said, 581 00:40:38,955 --> 00:40:42,795 Speaker 1: I'll have another brandy, and I called the waiter when 582 00:40:42,795 --> 00:40:45,315 Speaker 1: he brought it I drank it rapidly and rose to go. 583 00:40:46,875 --> 00:40:49,995 Speaker 1: I believe, I said that you have got hold of something. 584 00:40:50,675 --> 00:40:53,355 Speaker 1: Would you lend me that? Macbeth. I'd like to look 585 00:40:53,355 --> 00:40:55,835 Speaker 1: it over tonight. I don't feel somehow as if I've 586 00:40:56,115 --> 00:40:59,835 Speaker 1: ever really read it. I'll get it for you, she said, 587 00:40:59,915 --> 00:41:04,195 Speaker 1: but you'll find that I'm right. I read the play 588 00:41:04,235 --> 00:41:07,515 Speaker 1: over carefully that night, and the next morning, after breakfast, 589 00:41:07,555 --> 00:41:10,235 Speaker 1: I sought out the American woman. She was on the 590 00:41:10,275 --> 00:41:13,635 Speaker 1: putting green, and I came up behind her silently and 591 00:41:13,675 --> 00:41:18,515 Speaker 1: took her arm. She gave an exclamation. Could I see 592 00:41:18,515 --> 00:41:21,755 Speaker 1: you alone? I asked in a low voice. She nodded 593 00:41:21,755 --> 00:41:25,315 Speaker 1: cautiously and followed me to a secluded spot. You've found 594 00:41:25,355 --> 00:41:30,595 Speaker 1: out something, she breathed. I've found out, I said, triumphantly, 595 00:41:30,795 --> 00:41:35,155 Speaker 1: the name of the murderer. You mean it wasn't McDuff, 596 00:41:35,515 --> 00:41:40,395 Speaker 1: she said. McDuff is as innocent of those murders, I said, 597 00:41:41,035 --> 00:41:46,195 Speaker 1: as Macbeth and the Macbeth woman. I opened the copy 598 00:41:46,235 --> 00:41:48,235 Speaker 1: of the play which I had with me, and turned 599 00:41:48,235 --> 00:41:51,555 Speaker 1: to act too scene to hear. I said, you will 600 00:41:51,555 --> 00:41:56,555 Speaker 1: see where lady Macbeth says, I laid their daggers ready. 601 00:41:57,195 --> 00:42:00,915 Speaker 1: He could not miss them. Had he not resembled my 602 00:42:01,075 --> 00:42:07,475 Speaker 1: father as he slept, I had done it. You see, no, 603 00:42:08,435 --> 00:42:12,475 Speaker 1: said the American woman bluntly. I don't. But it's simple, 604 00:42:12,755 --> 00:42:15,275 Speaker 1: I exclaimed. I wonder I didn't see it years ago. 605 00:42:15,675 --> 00:42:20,475 Speaker 1: The reason Duncan resembled Lady Macbeth's father as he slept 606 00:42:20,515 --> 00:42:27,395 Speaker 1: is that it actually was her father. Good God, breathed 607 00:42:27,435 --> 00:42:33,675 Speaker 1: my companion softly. Lady Macbeth's father killed the king, I said, 608 00:42:34,235 --> 00:42:37,435 Speaker 1: and hearing someone coming, thrust the body under the bed 609 00:42:37,475 --> 00:42:41,315 Speaker 1: and crawled into the bed himself. But said the lady, 610 00:42:41,475 --> 00:42:43,355 Speaker 1: you can't have a murder who only appears in the 611 00:42:43,395 --> 00:42:47,635 Speaker 1: story once. You can't have that. I know that, I said, 612 00:42:47,635 --> 00:42:50,115 Speaker 1: and I turned to Act two, Scene four. It says 613 00:42:50,155 --> 00:42:56,595 Speaker 1: here enter Ross with an old man. Now that old 614 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:59,555 Speaker 1: man is never identified, and it is my contention that 615 00:42:59,675 --> 00:43:02,795 Speaker 1: he was old mister Macbeth, whose ambition it was to 616 00:43:03,035 --> 00:43:07,355 Speaker 1: make his daughter queen. There you'll have your motive. But 617 00:43:07,475 --> 00:43:12,675 Speaker 1: even then, cried the American lady, he's still a minor character, not, 618 00:43:13,355 --> 00:43:16,035 Speaker 1: I said, gleefully, when you realize that he was also 619 00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:19,915 Speaker 1: one of the weird sisters in disguise. You mean one 620 00:43:19,915 --> 00:43:24,235 Speaker 1: of those three witches. Precisely, I said, listen to this 621 00:43:24,395 --> 00:43:27,955 Speaker 1: speech of the old man's. On Tuesday last a falcon 622 00:43:28,155 --> 00:43:31,795 Speaker 1: towering in her pride of place was by a mousing owl, 623 00:43:32,035 --> 00:43:37,195 Speaker 1: hawked at and killed. Who does that sound like? It 624 00:43:37,355 --> 00:43:40,595 Speaker 1: sounds like the way the three witches talk, said my 625 00:43:40,755 --> 00:43:46,755 Speaker 1: companion reluctantly. Precisely, I said, again, Well, said the American woman. 626 00:43:47,275 --> 00:43:50,155 Speaker 1: Maybe you're right, but I'm sure I am, I said, 627 00:43:50,395 --> 00:43:52,315 Speaker 1: And do you know what I'm going to do now? 628 00:43:52,955 --> 00:43:53,035 Speaker 2: No? 629 00:43:53,915 --> 00:43:58,715 Speaker 1: She said, what buy a copy of Hamlet? I said, 630 00:43:58,715 --> 00:44:06,195 Speaker 1: and solve that. My companion's eyes brightened. Then she said, 631 00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:10,955 Speaker 1: you don't think Hamlet did it? I am? I said, 632 00:44:11,635 --> 00:44:18,915 Speaker 1: absolutely positive he did not. But who? She demanded, Who 633 00:44:18,915 --> 00:44:25,715 Speaker 1: do you suspect? I looked at her cryptically, everybody, I said, 634 00:44:26,235 --> 00:44:30,675 Speaker 1: and disappeared into a small grove of trees as silently 635 00:44:31,275 --> 00:44:37,635 Speaker 1: as I had come. The Macbeth Murder Mystery by James Thurber. 636 00:44:51,035 --> 00:44:52,795 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 637 00:44:52,835 --> 00:44:55,235 Speaker 1: you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week. 638 00:44:55,275 --> 00:44:59,115 Speaker 1: We post nightly just after midnight Eastern. Follow me for 639 00:44:59,195 --> 00:45:04,475 Speaker 1: the podcast promo videos on TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, 640 00:45:04,795 --> 00:45:10,475 Speaker 1: and instacart. Oddly enough, once again there is a Monday countdown. 641 00:45:11,595 --> 00:45:14,035 Speaker 1: Please send this podcast to somebody who does not know 642 00:45:14,075 --> 00:45:18,195 Speaker 1: that they need to listen, but needs to listen. Brian 643 00:45:18,275 --> 00:45:21,795 Speaker 1: Ray and John Phillip Shanelle, the musical directors, have Countdown, arranged, produced, 644 00:45:21,835 --> 00:45:25,155 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. 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Three 653 00:45:56,035 --> 00:45:59,475 Speaker 1: weeks and four days until the twenty twenty four presidential 654 00:45:59,475 --> 00:46:04,395 Speaker 1: election and the three and seventy fifth day since convicted 655 00:46:04,435 --> 00:46:08,475 Speaker 1: felt dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 656 00:46:08,515 --> 00:46:11,755 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Use the election, use 657 00:46:11,795 --> 00:46:15,235 Speaker 1: the metal health system, use presidential immunity. If we have 658 00:46:15,355 --> 00:46:18,955 Speaker 1: to do it that way to keep him from doing 659 00:46:18,995 --> 00:46:24,555 Speaker 1: it again, probably so can. The next schedule Countdown is 660 00:46:24,595 --> 00:46:28,475 Speaker 1: Monday bulletins as the news requires. Until then, I'm Keith Aulderman. 661 00:46:28,755 --> 00:46:50,235 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 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