1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,795 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Good 2 00:00:21,795 --> 00:00:26,915 Speaker 1: News everyone, we can all relax now. Kevin McCarthy has 3 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:30,475 Speaker 1: promised that the January sixth security video he has released 4 00:00:30,475 --> 00:00:34,275 Speaker 1: to Fox News may indeed be shown on television, but 5 00:00:34,435 --> 00:00:37,595 Speaker 1: it will not include footage showing the secret exit paths 6 00:00:37,635 --> 00:00:42,035 Speaker 1: for congressman and senators and vice presidents. The Trump mob 7 00:00:42,075 --> 00:00:46,475 Speaker 1: wants to hang, and Kevin McCarthy promises this because he 8 00:00:46,595 --> 00:00:52,915 Speaker 1: has been promised it by Tucker Carlson. So he'll have 9 00:00:52,995 --> 00:00:57,355 Speaker 1: an exclusive, McCarthy says, then I'll give it out to 10 00:00:57,395 --> 00:01:01,275 Speaker 1: the entire country like he was a publicist trying to 11 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:04,115 Speaker 1: sell somebody on interviewing one of the real housewives of 12 00:01:04,315 --> 00:01:07,995 Speaker 1: m ansk as if he would be qualified for such 13 00:01:07,995 --> 00:01:11,515 Speaker 1: a job. If there has ever been in American political 14 00:01:11,555 --> 00:01:25,235 Speaker 1: history a greater confluence of corrupt, cynical, unprincipled, immoral, indefensible, unreliable, disloyal, dishonest, condescending, unstable, malicious, 15 00:01:25,395 --> 00:01:30,675 Speaker 1: anti democracy crooks from two different fields than Kevin McCarthy 16 00:01:30,675 --> 00:01:35,835 Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson, I cannot identify them. McCarthy has told 17 00:01:35,835 --> 00:01:39,515 Speaker 1: reporters that Carlson has personally and specifically assured him he 18 00:01:39,515 --> 00:01:43,155 Speaker 1: would not show any video detailing the exit routes, and 19 00:01:43,275 --> 00:01:46,315 Speaker 1: in fact, he would not even watch any video detailing 20 00:01:46,315 --> 00:01:50,275 Speaker 1: the exit routes. Quote. We walked through the security basis, 21 00:01:50,435 --> 00:01:56,155 Speaker 1: so there's no concern the assurances of Tucker Carlson. Like 22 00:01:56,315 --> 00:02:00,155 Speaker 1: when Tucker Carlson recoiled at the made up conspiracy theories 23 00:02:00,155 --> 00:02:03,315 Speaker 1: that the election had been stolen by voting machines controlled 24 00:02:03,355 --> 00:02:08,115 Speaker 1: by software from Venezuela or China or Mars or whichever 25 00:02:08,155 --> 00:02:12,275 Speaker 1: they chose, and he texted, the software shit is absurd, 26 00:02:12,715 --> 00:02:16,435 Speaker 1: shockingly reckless unquote. Yet seven weeks later he had Mike 27 00:02:16,555 --> 00:02:19,915 Speaker 1: Lindell on his show to make all those software accusations 28 00:02:19,915 --> 00:02:24,075 Speaker 1: all over again. And when Lindell finished making them all 29 00:02:24,075 --> 00:02:28,035 Speaker 1: over again, Carlson said, quote Mike Lindell, I really appreciate 30 00:02:28,035 --> 00:02:31,995 Speaker 1: you coming on tonight. Thank you very much. God bless you. 31 00:02:33,395 --> 00:02:37,635 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson's word is the coin of the realm, provided 32 00:02:37,675 --> 00:02:41,355 Speaker 1: the realm is Russia. As John Schwartz at the Intercept 33 00:02:41,475 --> 00:02:45,035 Speaker 1: memorably summed up the dominion documents, quote, the most wonderful 34 00:02:45,115 --> 00:02:49,715 Speaker 1: part of the filings is Tucker Carlson's inspiring, principled stand 35 00:02:50,235 --> 00:02:55,555 Speaker 1: against telling the truth. I await Kevin McCarthy's announcement that 36 00:02:55,635 --> 00:02:58,355 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson has also promised not to alter any of 37 00:02:58,355 --> 00:03:02,315 Speaker 1: the video, nor to decontextualize it, nor to use it 38 00:03:02,355 --> 00:03:06,355 Speaker 1: to support further Fox News segments gaslighting this country over 39 00:03:06,395 --> 00:03:09,915 Speaker 1: what happened on January sixth, twenty twenty one, calling it 40 00:03:10,075 --> 00:03:14,715 Speaker 1: as Carlson already has repeatedly a false flag operation, and 41 00:03:14,795 --> 00:03:18,955 Speaker 1: casting other doubts on the obviousness of a Trump inspired 42 00:03:19,075 --> 00:03:24,115 Speaker 1: coup attempt, doubts that who knows Tucker Carlson might even 43 00:03:24,195 --> 00:03:30,035 Speaker 1: himself believe it is certainly possible, though none of us 44 00:03:30,035 --> 00:03:32,395 Speaker 1: who have ever worked with him can identify such a 45 00:03:32,475 --> 00:03:38,235 Speaker 1: previous case that Tucker Carlson actually believes in something besides 46 00:03:38,595 --> 00:03:45,115 Speaker 1: his own paycheck. Tucker Carlson promises Kevin McCarthy, and Kevin 47 00:03:45,195 --> 00:03:49,755 Speaker 1: McCarthy promises us the face of a television channel that 48 00:03:49,795 --> 00:03:54,875 Speaker 1: a month ago ranked incredibility and honesty somewhere near German 49 00:03:55,035 --> 00:03:58,795 Speaker 1: State Radio in the nineteen thirties, yet actually found a 50 00:03:58,835 --> 00:04:02,755 Speaker 1: way to go downhill from there. With these revelations of 51 00:04:02,755 --> 00:04:06,915 Speaker 1: the jaundiced hypocrisy, the deliberate lying by Carlson and the 52 00:04:06,995 --> 00:04:10,155 Speaker 1: other vermin in Fox Primetime in the first set of 53 00:04:10,195 --> 00:04:13,635 Speaker 1: dominion lawsuits, exhibits and depositions, and now with the naked 54 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:17,595 Speaker 1: suppression and censorship of truth and fact by the network's owner, 55 00:04:17,955 --> 00:04:21,875 Speaker 1: and his theft of the advertisements of one presidential campaign 56 00:04:21,995 --> 00:04:25,155 Speaker 1: so he could illegally give them to the other presidential campaign, 57 00:04:25,475 --> 00:04:28,675 Speaker 1: contained in the second set of dominion exhibits and depositions 58 00:04:28,795 --> 00:04:33,675 Speaker 1: that got out on Monday, And that promise is conveyed 59 00:04:33,715 --> 00:04:39,875 Speaker 1: to us from Tucker Carlson by Kevin McCarthy as vile 60 00:04:40,115 --> 00:04:44,955 Speaker 1: and scheming and worthless a human being as has ever 61 00:04:44,995 --> 00:04:49,955 Speaker 1: appeared on the American political stage, a sort of man 62 00:04:50,755 --> 00:04:54,235 Speaker 1: who in exactly two years went from prompting Trump to 63 00:04:54,315 --> 00:04:58,035 Speaker 1: resign on the night Trump instigated an attempt to overthrow 64 00:04:58,075 --> 00:05:02,915 Speaker 1: the government of this country to thanking Trump personally repeatedly 65 00:05:03,555 --> 00:05:08,355 Speaker 1: grovelingly forgetting him elected Speaker of the House with the 66 00:05:08,395 --> 00:05:12,315 Speaker 1: support of such traitors and scum as Marjorie Taylor Green 67 00:05:12,395 --> 00:05:17,435 Speaker 1: and Matt Gates. Maybe there was a similar pair of 68 00:05:17,475 --> 00:05:21,195 Speaker 1: walking cancers in our nation's past. Pick somebody and join 69 00:05:21,355 --> 00:05:25,515 Speaker 1: him or her with John Wilkes Booth, pick somebody else 70 00:05:25,555 --> 00:05:30,715 Speaker 1: and join him or her with Jefferson Davis. And why 71 00:05:30,835 --> 00:05:34,755 Speaker 1: is the Speaker of the House of Representatives dealing personally 72 00:05:35,235 --> 00:05:39,155 Speaker 1: with a creature whose reputation for thirty years in television 73 00:05:39,195 --> 00:05:43,755 Speaker 1: has been that of a constant, remorseless liar. Who on 74 00:05:43,795 --> 00:05:47,675 Speaker 1: earth is Kevin McCarthy think he is? What omniscient writes 75 00:05:48,475 --> 00:05:50,795 Speaker 1: does he think he has? At? Who on earth does 76 00:05:50,875 --> 00:05:56,035 Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy think Tucker Carlson is? We have now gotten 77 00:05:56,035 --> 00:05:58,995 Speaker 1: more details of this devil's bargain between Carlson and McCarthy, 78 00:05:58,995 --> 00:06:01,435 Speaker 1: in which it is impossible to tell which one of 79 00:06:01,475 --> 00:06:04,795 Speaker 1: them is the devil. I have said previously that, in 80 00:06:04,835 --> 00:06:07,955 Speaker 1: addition to his baseline of evil, Kevin McCarthy may also 81 00:06:07,995 --> 00:06:11,915 Speaker 1: be that rare combination of hyena and moron. He also 82 00:06:12,035 --> 00:06:14,675 Speaker 1: told reporters at the Capitol that he quote wanted to 83 00:06:14,715 --> 00:06:18,995 Speaker 1: make sure we don't play politics with the release of 84 00:06:19,035 --> 00:06:23,355 Speaker 1: the video, as if playing politics was not the only 85 00:06:23,355 --> 00:06:25,475 Speaker 1: thing he's doing here, and not the only thing. Kevin 86 00:06:25,515 --> 00:06:29,435 Speaker 1: McCarthy has the vaguest idea of how to do if 87 00:06:29,435 --> 00:06:32,355 Speaker 1: the perfidy off. Kevin McCarthy and his alliance with the 88 00:06:32,475 --> 00:06:37,395 Speaker 1: scumbag that is Tucker Carlson so bad as scumbag. It's 89 00:06:37,395 --> 00:06:40,275 Speaker 1: continued out of the next scumbag. If all that we're 90 00:06:40,315 --> 00:06:43,795 Speaker 1: not bad enough. It is now clear that McCarthy's adjutant 91 00:06:43,835 --> 00:06:48,355 Speaker 1: in this sleaziest of businesses is not that freshman Wisconsin 92 00:06:48,435 --> 00:06:52,115 Speaker 1: Congressman Brian's Style, whom McCarthy apparently talked into misleading the 93 00:06:52,115 --> 00:06:56,035 Speaker 1: Capitol police about setting up a viewing station nominally for 94 00:06:56,075 --> 00:06:59,355 Speaker 1: a House committee. In fact, it was for Tucker Carlson's producers. No, 95 00:06:59,475 --> 00:07:03,435 Speaker 1: it's even worse than this kid's style. McCarthy's number two 96 00:07:03,515 --> 00:07:09,275 Speaker 1: in this scam is Barry louder Milk, the Georgia congressman who, 97 00:07:09,675 --> 00:07:13,595 Speaker 1: as one reporter perfectly put it, is very familiar with 98 00:07:13,635 --> 00:07:16,875 Speaker 1: the January twenty twenty one Capital Security video because he's 99 00:07:16,955 --> 00:07:20,795 Speaker 1: on it, shown giving personal tours of the Capitol and 100 00:07:20,875 --> 00:07:24,075 Speaker 1: specifically of areas of it, as the January sixth committee 101 00:07:24,075 --> 00:07:29,955 Speaker 1: phrase that quote not typically of interest to tourists, including hallways, staircases, 102 00:07:29,995 --> 00:07:35,115 Speaker 1: and security checkpoints. The videotape louder Milk tour was on 103 00:07:35,235 --> 00:07:40,035 Speaker 1: January fifth. On January sixth, one of louder Milk's guests 104 00:07:40,035 --> 00:07:44,235 Speaker 1: on that tour was recorded on video. Marching towards the 105 00:07:44,275 --> 00:07:49,955 Speaker 1: Capitol as the violence began, shouting there's no escape, Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, 106 00:07:50,315 --> 00:07:56,075 Speaker 1: We're coming for you, instead of breaking rocks at sing 107 00:07:56,235 --> 00:08:00,115 Speaker 1: sing this insurrectionist slime. Barry louder Milk is actually the 108 00:08:00,195 --> 00:08:03,755 Speaker 1: chair of a subcommittee of the Administration Committee, because evidently 109 00:08:03,795 --> 00:08:06,595 Speaker 1: there were too many Republican crooks to put each of 110 00:08:06,635 --> 00:08:11,195 Speaker 1: them in charge of a full committee. Now, louder Milk 111 00:08:11,315 --> 00:08:13,915 Speaker 1: is also promising that this is all above board. Because 112 00:08:13,915 --> 00:08:18,235 Speaker 1: the Fox News producers who were already viewing this January 113 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:21,715 Speaker 1: sixth video before Capitol Hill police or the Department of 114 00:08:21,755 --> 00:08:25,075 Speaker 1: Justice or Homeland Security or minority members even knew it 115 00:08:25,115 --> 00:08:28,115 Speaker 1: was going to happen, they were not allowed to duplicate 116 00:08:28,195 --> 00:08:31,315 Speaker 1: anything they saw, nor were they given copies of the videos, 117 00:08:32,155 --> 00:08:34,795 Speaker 1: though there is no indication that there was any security 118 00:08:35,355 --> 00:08:38,195 Speaker 1: preventing them from duplicating the videos, and even if there 119 00:08:38,195 --> 00:08:40,435 Speaker 1: had been, it would have been security provided by louder 120 00:08:40,475 --> 00:08:46,515 Speaker 1: Milk and or McCarthy. Fox News producers, louder Milk explains, 121 00:08:46,795 --> 00:08:50,875 Speaker 1: must request that specific clips of the January sixth video 122 00:08:50,955 --> 00:08:54,555 Speaker 1: be given to them, and those requests will be carefully vetted, 123 00:08:54,995 --> 00:08:59,555 Speaker 1: and louder Milk promises, quote, We'll make sure there's nothing sensitive, 124 00:08:59,635 --> 00:09:06,035 Speaker 1: nothing classified, including escape routes. Louder Milk then actually added, quote, 125 00:09:06,435 --> 00:09:10,675 Speaker 1: we don't want al Qaeda to know certain things al 126 00:09:10,835 --> 00:09:14,635 Speaker 1: Qaeda because Barry Loudermilk doesn't really know the name of 127 00:09:14,635 --> 00:09:17,955 Speaker 1: the likeliest foreign terrorist threat out of whose hands we 128 00:09:18,035 --> 00:09:20,395 Speaker 1: need to keep that video. So he just mentioned the 129 00:09:20,515 --> 00:09:22,915 Speaker 1: last one he'd heard about, and we should be grateful 130 00:09:22,995 --> 00:09:27,155 Speaker 1: he didn't mention the boder Minehoff group. And of course 131 00:09:27,235 --> 00:09:29,795 Speaker 1: louder Milk certainly wasn't going to mention the likeliest domestic 132 00:09:29,955 --> 00:09:34,275 Speaker 1: terrorist threat, because how could he choose among the House 133 00:09:34,275 --> 00:09:41,155 Speaker 1: Republican Caucus, Fox News, and Donald effing Trump. However, in 134 00:09:41,195 --> 00:09:44,315 Speaker 1: a twist that could only happen in these cynical times, 135 00:09:44,555 --> 00:09:49,235 Speaker 1: with this cynical, stupid Republican Congressional collection of America's flotsam 136 00:09:49,235 --> 00:09:54,755 Speaker 1: and jetsam, there is blowback against McCarthy's indefensible deal with 137 00:09:54,835 --> 00:09:58,235 Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson, and it comes from his own party. It's 138 00:09:58,235 --> 00:10:01,715 Speaker 1: not about safety or propriety, or false narratives or false 139 00:10:01,715 --> 00:10:07,315 Speaker 1: flags or false news networks, but about your politics. Monday 140 00:10:07,395 --> 00:10:11,355 Speaker 1: night and again yesterday morning, McCarthy met with his congressional 141 00:10:11,435 --> 00:10:15,515 Speaker 1: leadership teams. One can envision the devils taking five in 142 00:10:15,595 --> 00:10:20,235 Speaker 1: hell to huddle up with Lucifer. The team's anger was 143 00:10:20,275 --> 00:10:23,075 Speaker 1: reported by CNN Monday night, but it got buried behind 144 00:10:23,075 --> 00:10:28,075 Speaker 1: the second wave of Fox Dominion damnations. Some of McCarthy's minions, 145 00:10:28,555 --> 00:10:32,035 Speaker 1: quoting the CNN report, questioned how long the footage is 146 00:10:32,035 --> 00:10:34,835 Speaker 1: going to be dragged out in the press, with some 147 00:10:34,955 --> 00:10:38,235 Speaker 1: lawmakers concerned about the optics of appearing to try to 148 00:10:38,315 --> 00:10:42,075 Speaker 1: downplay a deadly insurrection in the US Capitol. Quote, let's 149 00:10:42,075 --> 00:10:44,275 Speaker 1: just rip the band aid off and get this over with, 150 00:10:44,875 --> 00:10:50,995 Speaker 1: one GOP lawmaker told CNN, happily for what is left 151 00:10:51,035 --> 00:10:54,355 Speaker 1: of American democracy. Those lawmakers are evidently unaware of what 152 00:10:54,435 --> 00:10:57,875 Speaker 1: the crisis at News Corps means. Tucker Carlson now has 153 00:10:57,955 --> 00:11:01,395 Speaker 1: to do. He not only has to gaslight with the 154 00:11:01,475 --> 00:11:06,035 Speaker 1: false flag story every night until he or Rupert Murdoch 155 00:11:06,155 --> 00:11:09,835 Speaker 1: think the dozens of bombs inside the Dominion releases are 156 00:11:09,875 --> 00:11:13,475 Speaker 1: no longer big news, but clearly Carlson also has to 157 00:11:13,515 --> 00:11:17,915 Speaker 1: come up with something new and worse to distract everybody 158 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:21,755 Speaker 1: from the Fox scandal. He will now have to fabricate 159 00:11:21,955 --> 00:11:27,515 Speaker 1: something using that video something proving I don't know. Nancy 160 00:11:27,635 --> 00:11:32,195 Speaker 1: Pelosi is shown leading the mob towards her own office. 161 00:11:33,115 --> 00:11:38,755 Speaker 1: Who knows it's Tucker Carlson. Most of his brain may 162 00:11:38,755 --> 00:11:43,195 Speaker 1: be a diseased, dysfunctional mess, but his imagination and his 163 00:11:43,235 --> 00:11:46,555 Speaker 1: ability to come up with barely plausible excuses for Republican 164 00:11:46,635 --> 00:11:51,515 Speaker 1: disloyalty and treason seems to be intact. There will be 165 00:11:51,555 --> 00:11:55,715 Speaker 1: no relief of the dragging this out in the press Republicans, 166 00:11:55,955 --> 00:11:58,355 Speaker 1: nor the chance to just rip the band aid off 167 00:11:58,395 --> 00:12:01,315 Speaker 1: and get this over with Republicans. There will be dozens 168 00:12:01,315 --> 00:12:05,315 Speaker 1: and dozens of band aids until Fox News either plodes 169 00:12:05,835 --> 00:12:13,195 Speaker 1: or Tucker Carlson saves Rupert Murdoch's ancient ass. Even worse 170 00:12:13,235 --> 00:12:16,355 Speaker 1: for the Republicans, who have some foggy view of the 171 00:12:16,435 --> 00:12:21,875 Speaker 1: real world that McCarthy no longer has. In this particular nightmare, 172 00:12:22,075 --> 00:12:25,515 Speaker 1: they are also being led by this Barry louder Milk, 173 00:12:26,395 --> 00:12:29,395 Speaker 1: you know, the guy who's worried about Al Qaeda. Seeing 174 00:12:29,435 --> 00:12:37,435 Speaker 1: this video, I'm surprised you didn't mention the Viet cong yesterday. 175 00:12:38,075 --> 00:12:41,915 Speaker 1: Tour guide louder Milk of Georgia said he who was 176 00:12:41,955 --> 00:12:44,955 Speaker 1: not sure exactly what the time frame was for actually 177 00:12:44,995 --> 00:12:49,755 Speaker 1: releasing January sixth video to Carlson or you know, news 178 00:12:49,915 --> 00:12:54,035 Speaker 1: organizations or I don't know whoever would pay louder Milk 179 00:12:54,075 --> 00:12:57,155 Speaker 1: twenty five dollars. Is that the way this works? But 180 00:12:57,355 --> 00:13:01,755 Speaker 1: get this quote, Barry louder Milk quote. Hopefully sooner rather 181 00:13:01,795 --> 00:13:04,475 Speaker 1: than later. But I think we're talking about weeks to 182 00:13:04,755 --> 00:13:12,355 Speaker 1: months months. The real problem today on the Fox News 183 00:13:12,435 --> 00:13:17,435 Speaker 1: front is if Murdox propagandists are not actually mortally wounded, 184 00:13:17,955 --> 00:13:21,395 Speaker 1: they clearly could be with a few quick shots from 185 00:13:21,435 --> 00:13:23,795 Speaker 1: the Democrats or the Biden administration. But of course I 186 00:13:23,835 --> 00:13:27,795 Speaker 1: am asking for political street smarts from people who so 187 00:13:27,835 --> 00:13:30,195 Speaker 1: far have not even been able to end the careers 188 00:13:30,195 --> 00:13:34,475 Speaker 1: of somebody as stupid as Barney Rubble's body double Marjorie 189 00:13:34,555 --> 00:13:39,595 Speaker 1: Taylor freaking green. The first thing that should have happened 190 00:13:39,635 --> 00:13:43,875 Speaker 1: yesterday was a notification to news corps from the FCC. No, 191 00:13:44,075 --> 00:13:46,915 Speaker 1: the FCC cannot do a damn thing about Fox News. 192 00:13:47,155 --> 00:13:50,515 Speaker 1: The FCC has no jurisdiction over cable. I have been 193 00:13:50,555 --> 00:13:53,515 Speaker 1: saying sentences like that since the year nineteen eighty two. 194 00:13:54,315 --> 00:13:58,035 Speaker 1: But the FCC sure as hell can do something about 195 00:13:58,075 --> 00:14:01,395 Speaker 1: the twenty nine over the air station's news corp owns 196 00:14:01,755 --> 00:14:06,475 Speaker 1: in eighteen markets from Albuquerque to Sandusky. It can challenge 197 00:14:06,595 --> 00:14:11,355 Speaker 1: their licenses. It rarely works, but it always gets great publicity, 198 00:14:11,355 --> 00:14:16,755 Speaker 1: and it always leaves scars on the corporation involved. The 199 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:19,355 Speaker 1: second thing that should have happened yesterday is that the 200 00:14:19,355 --> 00:14:23,195 Speaker 1: Biden administration should have announced, matter of factly, that Rupert 201 00:14:23,275 --> 00:14:25,275 Speaker 1: Murdock can put any damn thing he wants on his 202 00:14:25,315 --> 00:14:30,995 Speaker 1: little faux news operation. This is America. But A that 203 00:14:31,115 --> 00:14:33,355 Speaker 1: does not mean anybody has to treat them any longer 204 00:14:33,395 --> 00:14:36,635 Speaker 1: as a journalistic entity. And therefore all press access under 205 00:14:36,635 --> 00:14:41,995 Speaker 1: White House control is hereby revoked. And b that therefore 206 00:14:42,035 --> 00:14:45,875 Speaker 1: the scheduled Tuesday evening interview of FBI Director Christopher Ray 207 00:14:46,275 --> 00:14:50,155 Speaker 1: by Brett Baer, the opinion host who actually believes he 208 00:14:50,315 --> 00:14:53,395 Speaker 1: is a straight news announcer on Fox that interview had 209 00:14:53,435 --> 00:14:57,355 Speaker 1: been canceled. Well, guess what did not happen yesterday? Any 210 00:14:57,475 --> 00:15:02,075 Speaker 1: of those things I just mentioned? Can we at least 211 00:15:02,195 --> 00:15:07,315 Speaker 1: pretend to fight back? A last point on the January 212 00:15:07,395 --> 00:15:10,915 Speaker 1: sixth insurrection before Tucker Carlson's Nightly Hour is converted by 213 00:15:10,995 --> 00:15:15,235 Speaker 1: Murdoch into a twenty four seven telethon to raise funds 214 00:15:15,275 --> 00:15:21,875 Speaker 1: for the slendered patriots charged by the dictatorial Department. There 215 00:15:21,915 --> 00:15:27,355 Speaker 1: are so many of these patriots whose idea of loyalty 216 00:15:27,395 --> 00:15:31,595 Speaker 1: to America is to destroy its representative government that they 217 00:15:31,635 --> 00:15:36,595 Speaker 1: have officially run out of even bad excuses for what 218 00:15:36,635 --> 00:15:42,235 Speaker 1: they did. On January sixth, newly unsealed court documents confirmed 219 00:15:42,235 --> 00:15:46,675 Speaker 1: that I, retired New Jersey state trooper facing five federal charges, 220 00:15:47,115 --> 00:15:50,795 Speaker 1: helped knocked over a barricade, pull other barricades out of 221 00:15:50,835 --> 00:15:53,755 Speaker 1: the hands of outnumbered Capitol police officers, and entered the 222 00:15:53,795 --> 00:15:57,035 Speaker 1: capital through a broken doorway after the building had been 223 00:15:57,075 --> 00:16:00,115 Speaker 1: cordoned off and the insurrectionists had been ordered to leave. 224 00:16:01,235 --> 00:16:05,515 Speaker 1: His name is Michael Danielle of Holndale, New Jersey, and 225 00:16:05,635 --> 00:16:08,835 Speaker 1: in an affidavit written by the FBI agent who interviewed him, 226 00:16:08,955 --> 00:16:12,595 Speaker 1: retired Trooper Danielle said he only went into the Capitol 227 00:16:12,635 --> 00:16:19,795 Speaker 1: because he was quote looking for a bathroom and not 228 00:16:19,915 --> 00:16:30,155 Speaker 1: finding one. Left immediately thereafter unquote looking for a bathroom. Well, 229 00:16:30,155 --> 00:16:32,835 Speaker 1: if he needed to go, why didn't he just find 230 00:16:32,915 --> 00:16:36,155 Speaker 1: the nearest American flag? God knows. That's what Kevin McCarthy 231 00:16:36,155 --> 00:16:52,075 Speaker 1: and Tucker Carlson use stell ahead of us in this 232 00:16:52,195 --> 00:16:54,635 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown. While the corruption of news Corp and 233 00:16:54,715 --> 00:16:57,835 Speaker 1: Fox News and Rupert Murdoch is front of mind, time 234 00:16:57,875 --> 00:17:01,235 Speaker 1: for me to recount what they did when somebody sent 235 00:17:01,315 --> 00:17:04,675 Speaker 1: me and a dozen other liberals packages that they claimed 236 00:17:04,915 --> 00:17:09,275 Speaker 1: contained anthrax. The FBI asked us all to keep it 237 00:17:09,395 --> 00:17:12,315 Speaker 1: quiet for a day so they could follow a great lead. 238 00:17:12,915 --> 00:17:16,035 Speaker 1: But news Corp published a story anyway in The New 239 00:17:16,115 --> 00:17:22,035 Speaker 1: York Post and mocked me for calling the FBI. How 240 00:17:22,115 --> 00:17:24,555 Speaker 1: dumb is Matt Gates dumb enough that he tried to 241 00:17:24,555 --> 00:17:27,795 Speaker 1: score points against an Undersecretary of Defense by quoting an 242 00:17:27,835 --> 00:17:29,995 Speaker 1: article for him a newspaper that he did not know 243 00:17:30,795 --> 00:17:34,915 Speaker 1: was published by the Chinese Communist Party? How he spelt 244 00:17:34,995 --> 00:17:38,875 Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson? Don't ask the signmakers at the New York 245 00:17:38,875 --> 00:17:43,515 Speaker 1: Department of Transportation. A big announcement about this here podcast. 246 00:17:43,595 --> 00:17:48,595 Speaker 1: It's good news. And not only is Joe Biden running 247 00:17:48,595 --> 00:17:56,635 Speaker 1: for reelection, but he's getting taller. That's next. This Discountdown 248 00:18:04,755 --> 00:18:13,155 Speaker 1: is a countdown with Keith old Woman postscripts to the news, 249 00:18:13,155 --> 00:18:17,355 Speaker 1: some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, state Line Washington, 250 00:18:17,995 --> 00:18:23,395 Speaker 1: Patard time on Capitol Hill. As in hoist on one's. 251 00:18:24,155 --> 00:18:27,715 Speaker 1: At a hearing into aid to Ukraine, Congressman Matt Gates 252 00:18:27,795 --> 00:18:31,995 Speaker 1: decided to show up Defense under Secretary Colan Call he 253 00:18:32,115 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: had a gotcha moment about American money purportedly going to 254 00:18:34,955 --> 00:18:39,355 Speaker 1: a Ukrainian brigade once linked to Neo Nazis. Problem was 255 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:43,875 Speaker 1: his source for this story was, well, you'll hear his 256 00:18:43,955 --> 00:18:49,195 Speaker 1: source is the A's Off battalion getting access to US weapons. 257 00:18:49,555 --> 00:18:54,075 Speaker 1: Not that I'm aware of, but if you have information, 258 00:18:55,075 --> 00:18:57,635 Speaker 1: I sets consent to enter to the record. The Global 259 00:18:57,635 --> 00:19:02,355 Speaker 1: Times investigative report that that talks about training. It's from 260 00:19:02,395 --> 00:19:06,075 Speaker 1: the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Resource Lab, citing that the 261 00:19:06,115 --> 00:19:08,075 Speaker 1: Azab Battalion was even getting stuff as far back as 262 00:19:08,075 --> 00:19:11,115 Speaker 1: twenty eighteen without objection. Show order any reason to disagree 263 00:19:11,155 --> 00:19:13,915 Speaker 1: with that assessment. Doctor, I'm sorry? Is this the Global 264 00:19:13,915 --> 00:19:19,795 Speaker 1: Times from China? No? This is well that's what you read. Yeah, 265 00:19:19,835 --> 00:19:22,795 Speaker 1: it might be. Yeah, would that be a reason. As 266 00:19:22,835 --> 00:19:25,275 Speaker 1: a general matter, I don't take beijings. Probably No, No No, yeah, 267 00:19:25,355 --> 00:19:27,435 Speaker 1: just if the if the allegation is true or false, 268 00:19:27,715 --> 00:19:29,875 Speaker 1: I mean, I don't have any evidence one way or 269 00:19:29,875 --> 00:19:31,755 Speaker 1: the other. As a general matter, I don't take Beijings 270 00:19:31,795 --> 00:19:34,395 Speaker 1: propaganda at face value, fair fair enough. I would agree 271 00:19:34,395 --> 00:19:39,395 Speaker 1: with that assessment. As Under Secretary Call noted, the Global 272 00:19:39,555 --> 00:19:43,595 Speaker 1: Times Gates was quoting is the international edition basically of 273 00:19:43,635 --> 00:19:46,755 Speaker 1: the People's Daily, which is the official newspaper of the 274 00:19:46,835 --> 00:19:51,155 Speaker 1: Chinese Communist Party. And as whoever runs against Gates next 275 00:19:51,235 --> 00:19:54,475 Speaker 1: year can now say Gates not only reads Chinese communist 276 00:19:54,475 --> 00:19:59,315 Speaker 1: propaganda but entering some of it into the congressional record. Morn, 277 00:20:13,395 --> 00:20:18,595 Speaker 1: Thank you, Nancy Faust, Dateline, Washington. Another hearing, Another moron 278 00:20:18,875 --> 00:20:23,555 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green about the implications of school shutdowns during COVID. 279 00:20:24,035 --> 00:20:26,915 Speaker 1: What it did to our children's math and reading levels 280 00:20:27,155 --> 00:20:30,875 Speaker 1: is horrific. School closures brought them to the lowest levels 281 00:20:30,875 --> 00:20:36,235 Speaker 1: in years. England eighth graders math proficiency dropped by seven points. 282 00:20:36,555 --> 00:20:40,275 Speaker 1: But do you have any numbers, Marge? There are one million, 283 00:20:40,595 --> 00:20:44,435 Speaker 1: five hundred and twenty four, five hundred and twenty four 284 00:20:44,435 --> 00:20:47,395 Speaker 1: and four hundred and eighty one. This is over one million, 285 00:20:47,475 --> 00:20:51,355 Speaker 1: one point five million, a lot, Midge, Just say a 286 00:20:51,475 --> 00:20:54,675 Speaker 1: lot and move on. Oh, I got to hear that again. 287 00:20:54,835 --> 00:20:59,555 Speaker 1: There are one million, five hundred and twenty four, five 288 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:01,915 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty four and four hundred and eighty one. 289 00:21:02,275 --> 00:21:05,515 Speaker 1: This is over one million, one point five million, eleveny 290 00:21:05,555 --> 00:21:10,355 Speaker 1: billion dateline Leesburg, Florida. Comforted by the thought that Ron 291 00:21:10,475 --> 00:21:13,675 Speaker 1: Desantist might be the Republican presidential nominee and not Trump, 292 00:21:14,235 --> 00:21:16,995 Speaker 1: don't be de Santists did a book signing in a 293 00:21:17,075 --> 00:21:19,635 Speaker 1: mall yesterday. The book has his name on it. Lord 294 00:21:19,715 --> 00:21:22,395 Speaker 1: knows who actually wrote it, but we do know who 295 00:21:22,435 --> 00:21:25,995 Speaker 1: that was outside the mall telling Trump supporters who came 296 00:21:25,995 --> 00:21:29,635 Speaker 1: to troll to Santists that anybody wearing or carrying Trump 297 00:21:29,755 --> 00:21:34,035 Speaker 1: signs was required to leave the area. It was a cop. 298 00:21:34,795 --> 00:21:37,915 Speaker 1: Governor Huey Long used to do this too, and dateline 299 00:21:37,915 --> 00:21:41,995 Speaker 1: the White House. President Biden's physical had a surprise in it. No, 300 00:21:42,195 --> 00:21:46,075 Speaker 1: he's fine, he's just well. In his last physical at 301 00:21:46,075 --> 00:21:48,875 Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty one, he was five feet 302 00:21:49,035 --> 00:21:53,795 Speaker 1: eleven and sixty five one hundredths inches tall. In the 303 00:21:53,875 --> 00:21:59,475 Speaker 1: new physical, he's six feet tall. He grew thirty five 304 00:21:59,635 --> 00:22:03,915 Speaker 1: one hundredths of an inch in a little over a year. Actually, 305 00:22:03,915 --> 00:22:08,395 Speaker 1: it's probably just daily height variability or better posture or 306 00:22:08,435 --> 00:22:12,395 Speaker 1: as a terrific legendary Saturday Night Live sketch from nineteen 307 00:22:12,515 --> 00:22:16,035 Speaker 1: seventy nine about the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, was 308 00:22:16,075 --> 00:22:34,955 Speaker 1: once titled He's the Amazing Colossal President Ahead. I went 309 00:22:34,995 --> 00:22:37,835 Speaker 1: on at length yesterday about the measures News Corps and 310 00:22:37,955 --> 00:22:42,235 Speaker 1: Fox News will take to prevent people criticizing it. Step 311 00:22:42,315 --> 00:22:45,235 Speaker 1: one is always character assassination, but they don't stick to 312 00:22:45,355 --> 00:22:48,995 Speaker 1: television character assassination. They also have a newspaper called The 313 00:22:49,115 --> 00:22:52,035 Speaker 1: New York Post, and they have not only used it 314 00:22:52,035 --> 00:22:55,315 Speaker 1: against my employers, but against two of my former girlfriends, 315 00:22:55,555 --> 00:22:58,435 Speaker 1: and against members of my family, and often against me 316 00:22:58,635 --> 00:23:01,795 Speaker 1: once because they did not like it when I called 317 00:23:01,835 --> 00:23:05,475 Speaker 1: the police when somebody sent to my home home what 318 00:23:05,675 --> 00:23:10,715 Speaker 1: that person claimed was anthrax things I promised not to tell. 319 00:23:10,795 --> 00:23:12,515 Speaker 1: Coming up first time for the daily roundup of the 320 00:23:12,515 --> 00:23:15,555 Speaker 1: mis grants, morons, and Dunning kruger offex specimens who constitute 321 00:23:15,835 --> 00:23:19,795 Speaker 1: today's worst persons in the world. The Bronze New York 322 00:23:19,795 --> 00:23:23,595 Speaker 1: City's Department of Transportation. It has installed a new sign 323 00:23:23,715 --> 00:23:26,915 Speaker 1: directing drivers from the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Forest 324 00:23:26,955 --> 00:23:32,435 Speaker 1: Park Drive onto the Jackie Robinson Parkway. It's got his initials, 325 00:23:32,435 --> 00:23:34,795 Speaker 1: the sign does. It's got a very good likeness of him. 326 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:36,995 Speaker 1: It's got his number, forty two, and it's got his name, 327 00:23:37,115 --> 00:23:42,795 Speaker 1: Jackie j A k I E j A k I E. No, 328 00:23:43,035 --> 00:23:49,475 Speaker 1: Jakie would be Jake to JK. Robinson Parkway your runner 329 00:23:49,555 --> 00:23:54,515 Speaker 1: up CNN's Chris Licked. The implosion continues. A round table 330 00:23:54,555 --> 00:23:59,355 Speaker 1: discussing the Norfolk Southern chemical disaster train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, 331 00:23:59,515 --> 00:24:03,035 Speaker 1: featured on a Dana Bash program. One of the participants 332 00:24:03,115 --> 00:24:06,955 Speaker 1: was a CNN political commentator, David Urban, a Republican, who 333 00:24:06,995 --> 00:24:12,675 Speaker 1: blamed who else, the President, not Norfolk Southern Railway par 334 00:24:12,835 --> 00:24:15,075 Speaker 1: for the course in the remaking of CNN into a 335 00:24:15,155 --> 00:24:19,435 Speaker 1: right wing outlet. But more importantly, CNN standards have just collapsed. 336 00:24:20,275 --> 00:24:24,675 Speaker 1: Urban and they never mentioned this, deflecting blame from Norfolk 337 00:24:24,755 --> 00:24:29,395 Speaker 1: Southern was until twenty twenty, president of the firm that 338 00:24:29,515 --> 00:24:35,395 Speaker 1: lobbied for Norfolk Southern. But our winner, New York City 339 00:24:35,395 --> 00:24:42,035 Speaker 1: Mayor Eric Adams, Help us, we have elected a messianic theocrat. 340 00:24:42,755 --> 00:24:45,755 Speaker 1: Mayor Adams has done it again, telling an interfaith breakfast 341 00:24:45,755 --> 00:24:47,795 Speaker 1: that he does not believe in the separation of church 342 00:24:47,795 --> 00:24:51,915 Speaker 1: and state. Don't tell me about no separation of church 343 00:24:51,955 --> 00:24:55,435 Speaker 1: and state. State is the body, Church is the heart, 344 00:24:56,075 --> 00:24:58,795 Speaker 1: he said. You take the heart out of the body, 345 00:24:58,835 --> 00:25:02,835 Speaker 1: the body dies. Unquote well, sure if this is a rand. 346 00:25:04,075 --> 00:25:06,635 Speaker 1: Last spring, Adams was consoling the family of a murder 347 00:25:06,715 --> 00:25:09,555 Speaker 1: victim and he suddenly blurted, I thank God I'm the 348 00:25:09,595 --> 00:25:13,115 Speaker 1: mayor right now. And then at Shabbat's services in May, 349 00:25:13,195 --> 00:25:17,555 Speaker 1: he added circular logic to his obsessions, quote, there is 350 00:25:17,635 --> 00:25:20,315 Speaker 1: no way God created me for this moment if he 351 00:25:20,355 --> 00:25:25,235 Speaker 1: did not believe this was my moment. Uh huh, this 352 00:25:25,395 --> 00:25:31,795 Speaker 1: is not going to end well, help us, New York Mayor, Eric. 353 00:25:31,875 --> 00:25:34,675 Speaker 1: There is no way God created me for this moment 354 00:25:34,835 --> 00:25:36,995 Speaker 1: if he did not believe this was my moment to 355 00:25:37,075 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: be creating me momentarily for this creative momentum moment. Adams 356 00:25:41,995 --> 00:26:03,795 Speaker 1: two days worst person in the world still a head 357 00:26:03,835 --> 00:26:07,795 Speaker 1: on Countdown of the news Corp files. The day the 358 00:26:07,875 --> 00:26:12,275 Speaker 1: FBI had me evacuate my apartment because they were sure 359 00:26:12,435 --> 00:26:15,755 Speaker 1: that what I had gotten in the mail was fake anthrax, 360 00:26:16,595 --> 00:26:19,355 Speaker 1: and somebody leaked the story to news Corpse New York 361 00:26:19,395 --> 00:26:22,235 Speaker 1: Post and it identified who was to blame for the 362 00:26:22,315 --> 00:26:26,635 Speaker 1: fake anthrax attack and it was me first. In each 363 00:26:26,795 --> 00:26:28,715 Speaker 1: edition of Countdown, we feature a dog in need you 364 00:26:28,755 --> 00:26:31,635 Speaker 1: can help. Every dog has its day today, two of them, 365 00:26:32,075 --> 00:26:35,315 Speaker 1: Dora and Lee. They were found wandering the streets in 366 00:26:35,315 --> 00:26:40,475 Speaker 1: a small Arkansas town, saved by positively canine rescue puppies. 367 00:26:40,555 --> 00:26:44,755 Speaker 1: Just week old sisters, the bandons sticking together without food 368 00:26:44,835 --> 00:26:48,475 Speaker 1: or medical care. They're now being treated for malnourishment, parasites, 369 00:26:48,555 --> 00:26:52,315 Speaker 1: bacterial infections. The prognosis is good, but they'll need several 370 00:26:52,395 --> 00:26:55,115 Speaker 1: hundred dollars in betcare. If you want to donate, you 371 00:26:55,115 --> 00:26:58,235 Speaker 1: can find Dora and Lee on cuddy dot com or 372 00:26:58,355 --> 00:27:02,435 Speaker 1: on my Twitter feeds, and your retweets can really help them. 373 00:27:02,835 --> 00:27:25,635 Speaker 1: I thank you, and Dora Lee thank you. You should 374 00:27:25,675 --> 00:27:28,915 Speaker 1: never believe any source story you read in The New 375 00:27:28,955 --> 00:27:32,115 Speaker 1: York Post, or indeed, in or on any media outlet 376 00:27:32,155 --> 00:27:36,115 Speaker 1: owned by the Murdochs like Fox News. They occasionally do 377 00:27:36,275 --> 00:27:39,995 Speaker 1: report real things, but just as often they make stuff up. 378 00:27:40,075 --> 00:27:44,315 Speaker 1: Not exaggerate or get slightly wrong, or spin for political purposes, 379 00:27:44,315 --> 00:27:49,355 Speaker 1: but utterly fabricate. On April eleventh, two thousand and five, 380 00:27:49,435 --> 00:27:52,435 Speaker 1: the Post was to run such a story. Only under 381 00:27:52,475 --> 00:27:56,595 Speaker 1: the threat of multiple lawsuits did the Post spike this story. 382 00:27:56,635 --> 00:27:59,275 Speaker 1: I've never told this thing before, but I was reminded 383 00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:00,715 Speaker 1: of it the other day. And I think going through 384 00:28:00,755 --> 00:28:03,395 Speaker 1: the mechanics of it will illustrate just how evil an 385 00:28:03,475 --> 00:28:07,155 Speaker 1: organization news actually is, Like you didn't know that from 386 00:28:07,155 --> 00:28:11,115 Speaker 1: the existence of Tucker Carlson, but more importantly, how unreliable 387 00:28:11,235 --> 00:28:14,755 Speaker 1: it is as a source of news, even for people 388 00:28:14,755 --> 00:28:18,435 Speaker 1: who agree with it politically. As a New York Post 389 00:28:18,435 --> 00:28:22,995 Speaker 1: page six gossip story, this one had everything. It attacked MSNBC, 390 00:28:23,555 --> 00:28:26,915 Speaker 1: It had quotes from informed sources even at one point, 391 00:28:26,915 --> 00:28:30,195 Speaker 1: it had a witness. It had somebody insulting Peter Jennings 392 00:28:30,315 --> 00:28:33,395 Speaker 1: right after the late ABC anchorman revealed he had lung cancer. 393 00:28:33,795 --> 00:28:35,755 Speaker 1: And it was constructed in such a way that if 394 00:28:35,795 --> 00:28:38,915 Speaker 1: I did not comment on it, they could print the story, 395 00:28:39,275 --> 00:28:42,035 Speaker 1: then come back the next day and rehash it and 396 00:28:42,115 --> 00:28:44,315 Speaker 1: add that I was still refusing to comment on it. 397 00:28:44,755 --> 00:28:49,355 Speaker 1: But there was one overriding problem. It was a complete fabrication. 398 00:28:49,515 --> 00:28:52,595 Speaker 1: It was full of events that did not happen, and 399 00:28:52,795 --> 00:28:57,035 Speaker 1: people who did not exist. New York Post Page six 400 00:28:57,155 --> 00:29:01,315 Speaker 1: contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy, Jeremy Gaines on Thursday, 401 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:04,115 Speaker 1: April seventh, two thousand and five, and this was the story. 402 00:29:04,155 --> 00:29:08,555 Speaker 1: They told me. A quote frequent critic of President Bush 403 00:29:08,915 --> 00:29:11,755 Speaker 1: had refused to anchor the coverage of the death of 404 00:29:11,795 --> 00:29:15,355 Speaker 1: Pope John Paul the Second, pretended to be ill and 405 00:29:15,515 --> 00:29:19,955 Speaker 1: called in sick instead. The major problem with their story 406 00:29:20,115 --> 00:29:22,355 Speaker 1: was I had anchored the coverage of the death of 407 00:29:22,395 --> 00:29:25,555 Speaker 1: Pope John Paul the Second. I had been anchoring primetime 408 00:29:25,555 --> 00:29:29,635 Speaker 1: coverage for hours each weeknight leading up to the Potiff's passing. 409 00:29:29,675 --> 00:29:33,555 Speaker 1: There were viewers who saw me, Studio staffers. Carl Bernstein 410 00:29:33,675 --> 00:29:37,035 Speaker 1: was our in studio Papal expert, remembered seeing me there. 411 00:29:37,515 --> 00:29:41,555 Speaker 1: There were videotapes of me anchoring. This did not stop 412 00:29:41,595 --> 00:29:45,075 Speaker 1: the Post. In the first version of their story, page 413 00:29:45,115 --> 00:29:47,835 Speaker 1: six told us that their unnamed source had been on 414 00:29:47,915 --> 00:29:51,355 Speaker 1: board the Amtrak Acela train from Washington to New York, 415 00:29:51,635 --> 00:29:54,515 Speaker 1: sitting near my agent as my agent talked to somebody 416 00:29:54,515 --> 00:29:58,115 Speaker 1: on a cell phone. Their witness said, my agent complained 417 00:29:58,435 --> 00:30:01,475 Speaker 1: that I had had a quote meltdown after quote, calling 418 00:30:01,555 --> 00:30:05,035 Speaker 1: in sick rather than anchor the papal coverage, which I anchored. 419 00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:08,915 Speaker 1: But there was more quote. Aulderman, a frequent critic of 420 00:30:08,955 --> 00:30:11,755 Speaker 1: the president's policies, said it was better in sports. They 421 00:30:11,835 --> 00:30:15,275 Speaker 1: quoted my agent quoting me into the phone. She supposedly 422 00:30:15,315 --> 00:30:19,235 Speaker 1: said I'll be dealing with this all day now. Apart 423 00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:21,355 Speaker 1: from the fact that I had anchored the coverage, the 424 00:30:21,395 --> 00:30:24,195 Speaker 1: postclaimed I had not anchored. There was another major flaw 425 00:30:24,195 --> 00:30:26,955 Speaker 1: on the story. My agent was not on a train 426 00:30:27,035 --> 00:30:29,675 Speaker 1: from Washington to New York on the day in question, 427 00:30:30,475 --> 00:30:33,715 Speaker 1: nor the week in question, nor in fact the year 428 00:30:33,835 --> 00:30:36,155 Speaker 1: in question. She told me she thought she had once 429 00:30:36,235 --> 00:30:39,115 Speaker 1: been on a train from Washington to New York in 430 00:30:39,155 --> 00:30:43,035 Speaker 1: the year nineteen sixty seven. My agent at the time 431 00:30:43,075 --> 00:30:47,715 Speaker 1: lived a top Mount Shasta in California, and so seldom 432 00:30:47,795 --> 00:30:50,315 Speaker 1: left there that when she once drove to town to 433 00:30:50,315 --> 00:30:53,235 Speaker 1: get the mail, I asked her for full details because 434 00:30:53,275 --> 00:30:56,075 Speaker 1: I jokingly suggested we should lead the news with it. 435 00:30:57,275 --> 00:30:59,595 Speaker 1: So the next day, Friday, April eighth, New York Post 436 00:30:59,595 --> 00:31:02,075 Speaker 1: Page six came back with a different version of their story. 437 00:31:02,115 --> 00:31:06,155 Speaker 1: They had misheard their source. Of course, it wasn't my 438 00:31:06,315 --> 00:31:09,155 Speaker 1: agent on the phone from the train from DC to 439 00:31:09,195 --> 00:31:11,675 Speaker 1: New York. It was a woman who worked for my agent, 440 00:31:11,715 --> 00:31:16,515 Speaker 1: a woman named Susan. A woman named Susan, whom I had, 441 00:31:16,675 --> 00:31:20,075 Speaker 1: they would report, already phoned three times that morning and 442 00:31:20,155 --> 00:31:24,035 Speaker 1: was to meet urgently at the boat House in Central Park, 443 00:31:24,955 --> 00:31:27,995 Speaker 1: presumably because the middle of Grand Central Station would have 444 00:31:27,995 --> 00:31:32,915 Speaker 1: been a little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again 445 00:31:32,955 --> 00:31:37,595 Speaker 1: with some irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for my agent. 446 00:31:37,635 --> 00:31:41,315 Speaker 1: In fact, sorry Post, nobody at all worked for my agent. 447 00:31:41,395 --> 00:31:44,835 Speaker 1: She was independent. She had a working relationship with a 448 00:31:44,915 --> 00:31:48,875 Speaker 1: small Los Angeles agency which basically covered her phone when 449 00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:52,035 Speaker 1: she was on vacation, which was almost never because she 450 00:31:52,115 --> 00:31:55,435 Speaker 1: never left the top of Mount Shasta. We called that 451 00:31:56,075 --> 00:31:58,155 Speaker 1: see and they confirmed they not only did not have 452 00:31:58,195 --> 00:32:01,555 Speaker 1: anybody working for them named Susan, but nobody from their 453 00:32:01,595 --> 00:32:05,795 Speaker 1: agency was even on the East coast so far that year. 454 00:32:07,195 --> 00:32:09,635 Speaker 1: At this point I called the television columnist of the 455 00:32:09,635 --> 00:32:11,395 Speaker 1: New York Post, who I knew a little, and off 456 00:32:11,395 --> 00:32:13,275 Speaker 1: the record explained to him that I was furious in 457 00:32:13,315 --> 00:32:16,835 Speaker 1: getting ready to sue, but that NBC was far angrier 458 00:32:16,875 --> 00:32:18,635 Speaker 1: than I was, and that they were going to sue 459 00:32:18,635 --> 00:32:21,555 Speaker 1: as well and sue the editor of Page six personally 460 00:32:21,595 --> 00:32:24,115 Speaker 1: in an effort to put him out of business. I 461 00:32:24,235 --> 00:32:27,075 Speaker 1: calmly went through the facts of this. This guy, who 462 00:32:27,115 --> 00:32:29,715 Speaker 1: had a conscience, sighed, said he got these kinds of 463 00:32:29,715 --> 00:32:31,715 Speaker 1: calls more often than I would believe and I said, no, 464 00:32:32,035 --> 00:32:34,035 Speaker 1: I'd believe it, And he said he would go to 465 00:32:34,035 --> 00:32:36,515 Speaker 1: the editor of page six and explain somebody was lying 466 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:38,435 Speaker 1: to the editor of page six and he was going 467 00:32:38,435 --> 00:32:41,355 Speaker 1: to get himself sued into bankruptcy over a really obviously 468 00:32:41,435 --> 00:32:45,795 Speaker 1: untrue and completely disproven story. A couple of hours later, 469 00:32:45,835 --> 00:32:49,035 Speaker 1: New York Post Page six called again, demanding a comment 470 00:32:49,115 --> 00:32:52,115 Speaker 1: from me on a third different version of their exclusive 471 00:32:52,195 --> 00:32:56,515 Speaker 1: papal scoop. No, the woman their witness heard, who they 472 00:32:56,515 --> 00:32:59,555 Speaker 1: first said was my agent, then said she'd gotten it wrong. 473 00:32:59,555 --> 00:33:01,115 Speaker 1: It was a woman named Susan who worked for my 474 00:33:01,155 --> 00:33:03,955 Speaker 1: agent had now become a woman who worked for my agent, 475 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:06,835 Speaker 1: whose name witness never heard, but she was talking to 476 00:33:07,195 --> 00:33:11,795 Speaker 1: somebody else named Susan. And there was an additional quote 477 00:33:11,795 --> 00:33:14,515 Speaker 1: that appeared out of nowhere. I'll be dealing with this 478 00:33:14,635 --> 00:33:18,715 Speaker 1: all day now was gone. It was replaced with I'll 479 00:33:18,755 --> 00:33:21,275 Speaker 1: be dealing with this all day now. The same week 480 00:33:21,275 --> 00:33:24,555 Speaker 1: Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having lung cancer. This idiot, 481 00:33:24,595 --> 00:33:27,835 Speaker 1: a frequent President and President Bush critic, is sitting around 482 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:32,315 Speaker 1: in his pajamas calling me about this. Years later, a 483 00:33:32,355 --> 00:33:35,115 Speaker 1: former gossip reporter in Murdoch's employee explained to me that 484 00:33:35,475 --> 00:33:38,795 Speaker 1: his celebrity and gossip people are taught never to back 485 00:33:38,835 --> 00:33:41,635 Speaker 1: down from a confrontation, and that if the subject of 486 00:33:41,635 --> 00:33:44,395 Speaker 1: one of their hit jobs fights back or tries to refute, 487 00:33:44,715 --> 00:33:48,355 Speaker 1: or especially threatens legal action, to keep making the story 488 00:33:48,475 --> 00:33:51,635 Speaker 1: worse and worse for them. And in the first decade 489 00:33:51,635 --> 00:33:53,555 Speaker 1: of this century, you were supposed to try to work 490 00:33:53,555 --> 00:33:57,395 Speaker 1: in a defense of George W. Bush. But there's also 491 00:33:57,395 --> 00:34:00,715 Speaker 1: what they called an emergency exit. If there is no 492 00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:03,675 Speaker 1: question that the story is nonsensible, the basic spine of 493 00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:06,155 Speaker 1: the story does not line up with provable facts. Just 494 00:34:06,315 --> 00:34:09,515 Speaker 1: abandoned it. Don't tell the subject of your attack that 495 00:34:09,555 --> 00:34:12,635 Speaker 1: you are abandoning it. Just don't make any more phone 496 00:34:12,635 --> 00:34:15,595 Speaker 1: calls and don't send any more emails about it. Just vanish, 497 00:34:16,155 --> 00:34:18,875 Speaker 1: and then send the name of the subject around to 498 00:34:18,955 --> 00:34:20,995 Speaker 1: all the other Murdoch operations to see if they can 499 00:34:21,035 --> 00:34:23,675 Speaker 1: come up with any dirt on the subject to punish 500 00:34:23,715 --> 00:34:27,995 Speaker 1: them for fighting back against the Murdoch lies. Well, it 501 00:34:28,075 --> 00:34:30,235 Speaker 1: took the New York Post a year and a half 502 00:34:30,515 --> 00:34:33,835 Speaker 1: after dropping this story. They never called back about Susan 503 00:34:33,955 --> 00:34:37,475 Speaker 1: or my agent or the boathouse in Central Park again. 504 00:34:38,035 --> 00:34:41,275 Speaker 1: But on September twenty six, two thousand and six, I 505 00:34:41,395 --> 00:34:44,195 Speaker 1: opened an envelope bearing a California post mark at my 506 00:34:44,235 --> 00:34:46,955 Speaker 1: home in New York, and a sticky substance it looked 507 00:34:46,995 --> 00:34:50,795 Speaker 1: like drano mixed with talcum powder fell out. An accompanying 508 00:34:50,835 --> 00:34:53,555 Speaker 1: note said it was antrax, and now I and other 509 00:34:53,635 --> 00:34:56,795 Speaker 1: Liberals would get a taste of our own medicine. Even 510 00:34:56,875 --> 00:35:00,075 Speaker 1: reading those chilling words and having covered the actual anthrax 511 00:35:00,195 --> 00:35:03,195 Speaker 1: letters attacks of two thousand and one for CNN, I 512 00:35:03,235 --> 00:35:06,155 Speaker 1: knew it wasn't antrax. The guy who supposedly sent the 513 00:35:06,155 --> 00:35:08,555 Speaker 1: actual anthrax was an expert in the field, and even 514 00:35:08,595 --> 00:35:11,715 Speaker 1: he mishandled the stuff so badly that the official report 515 00:35:11,795 --> 00:35:14,875 Speaker 1: was he gave himself anthrax poisoning and died of it. 516 00:35:15,635 --> 00:35:19,475 Speaker 1: On the other hand, whatever I was wrong, my apartment 517 00:35:19,475 --> 00:35:21,555 Speaker 1: building was filled with little old ladies who had lived 518 00:35:21,555 --> 00:35:24,795 Speaker 1: there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed that meant 519 00:35:24,835 --> 00:35:28,355 Speaker 1: Franklin Roosevelt. The odds were about one in a trillion. 520 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:30,155 Speaker 1: This was actually anthrax, but who was I had to 521 00:35:30,155 --> 00:35:34,475 Speaker 1: dismiss this on their behalf, So I made a phone call. 522 00:35:35,395 --> 00:35:38,115 Speaker 1: Well that made it into quite an evening. The cops 523 00:35:38,115 --> 00:35:40,275 Speaker 1: showed up. The FBI showed up. They said, of course, 524 00:35:40,315 --> 00:35:42,235 Speaker 1: it's not anthrax. What we have to act like it is. 525 00:35:42,715 --> 00:35:45,595 Speaker 1: The hazmat squad came in, they set up a command 526 00:35:45,635 --> 00:35:48,275 Speaker 1: post in the building. They swept my apartment and they said, okay, 527 00:35:48,315 --> 00:35:50,475 Speaker 1: now you have to go to the emergency room for tests. 528 00:35:50,675 --> 00:35:52,475 Speaker 1: And I said, it's not anthrax. You just said so. 529 00:35:52,515 --> 00:35:54,395 Speaker 1: And they said, if we have to do this, you 530 00:35:54,435 --> 00:35:57,475 Speaker 1: have to do this too. I laughed, And if you don't, 531 00:35:57,515 --> 00:35:59,555 Speaker 1: we can arrest you as a threat to public health 532 00:35:59,595 --> 00:36:02,475 Speaker 1: and make you do it. So out I went into 533 00:36:02,475 --> 00:36:07,435 Speaker 1: an ambulance dressed in a hazmat suit one size too 534 00:36:07,475 --> 00:36:10,595 Speaker 1: small that really chafed in the groin. I spent the 535 00:36:10,715 --> 00:36:13,315 Speaker 1: night getting checked out, and the FBI called back and said, 536 00:36:13,595 --> 00:36:18,035 Speaker 1: it's like Draino with ivory soap flakes. But they also 537 00:36:18,075 --> 00:36:20,875 Speaker 1: said there were other letters that had arrived that night 538 00:36:20,875 --> 00:36:22,915 Speaker 1: and the night before and the week before to people 539 00:36:22,955 --> 00:36:26,555 Speaker 1: like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's office, and 540 00:36:26,715 --> 00:36:31,035 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi and the wrong John Stewart, And they couldn't 541 00:36:31,075 --> 00:36:32,795 Speaker 1: make me do this, but it would really help if 542 00:36:32,835 --> 00:36:34,995 Speaker 1: I did not report what had happened to me on 543 00:36:35,035 --> 00:36:37,675 Speaker 1: my TV show just for one day because they had 544 00:36:37,675 --> 00:36:39,155 Speaker 1: a lead on the guy and they didn't want to 545 00:36:39,155 --> 00:36:43,635 Speaker 1: scare them off. Naturally, I said sure. The next day, 546 00:36:44,155 --> 00:36:46,835 Speaker 1: while we were still observing the embargo on the story 547 00:36:47,235 --> 00:36:51,275 Speaker 1: my story, which actually happened to me, New York Post 548 00:36:51,275 --> 00:36:53,235 Speaker 1: page six ran a picture of me with the headline 549 00:36:53,595 --> 00:36:57,875 Speaker 1: powder Puff spooks Keith and making sure to identify me 550 00:36:57,995 --> 00:37:01,915 Speaker 1: as quote can you guess a frequent critic of President 551 00:37:01,955 --> 00:37:05,355 Speaker 1: Bush's policies. It mocked me for not just assuming it 552 00:37:05,395 --> 00:37:08,355 Speaker 1: was fake antrax and ignoring it, and claimed I insisted 553 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:10,915 Speaker 1: the cops take me to the hospital. Quote whether they 554 00:37:10,955 --> 00:37:13,755 Speaker 1: gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. 555 00:37:15,275 --> 00:37:17,315 Speaker 1: By the way, one of the anthrax letters in two 556 00:37:17,355 --> 00:37:19,955 Speaker 1: thousand and one, the actual anthrax letters had been mailed 557 00:37:19,995 --> 00:37:22,035 Speaker 1: to the New York Post, and one of their staffers 558 00:37:22,035 --> 00:37:25,075 Speaker 1: contracted the anthrax poisoning, but that didn't seem to matter 559 00:37:25,115 --> 00:37:26,875 Speaker 1: anymore when it was a chance to take a shot 560 00:37:26,915 --> 00:37:29,795 Speaker 1: at me. Anyway. As it turned out, there was a 561 00:37:29,795 --> 00:37:33,275 Speaker 1: guy in California sending out these threatening letters, each with 562 00:37:33,395 --> 00:37:36,355 Speaker 1: fake antrax, to about a dozen people. He sent me 563 00:37:36,675 --> 00:37:40,395 Speaker 1: four of them. I soon knew the FBI guys on 564 00:37:40,435 --> 00:37:43,955 Speaker 1: the case by their first names, and one day I 565 00:37:44,035 --> 00:37:47,595 Speaker 1: pointed out to FBI Doug that the last envelope had 566 00:37:47,595 --> 00:37:50,115 Speaker 1: a barcode on it that maybe could track the guy, 567 00:37:50,195 --> 00:37:52,195 Speaker 1: and he said, oh, you're right, And the next thing 568 00:37:52,195 --> 00:37:55,115 Speaker 1: I knew, the FBI had videotaped the suspect mailing yet 569 00:37:55,155 --> 00:37:58,715 Speaker 1: another letter to me from his home in Woodland Hills, California, 570 00:37:58,755 --> 00:38:01,395 Speaker 1: and I swear to god he actually lived in his 571 00:38:01,475 --> 00:38:04,675 Speaker 1: mother's basement. And FBI Doug said, do you have your 572 00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:06,355 Speaker 1: permission to pull a letter out of the mailbox and 573 00:38:06,395 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: open it? And I said sure, And the guy wound 574 00:38:09,435 --> 00:38:12,395 Speaker 1: up going to prison for like eighteen months, but not 575 00:38:12,475 --> 00:38:15,795 Speaker 1: before FBI Doug said, by the way, the barcode you'd 576 00:38:15,875 --> 00:38:18,635 Speaker 1: noticed it was for the post office here, and that's 577 00:38:18,635 --> 00:38:20,715 Speaker 1: where we found his address, and the fact that he'd 578 00:38:21,395 --> 00:38:24,195 Speaker 1: bought all this stuff and purchased a postal money order 579 00:38:24,195 --> 00:38:27,555 Speaker 1: for fifteen dollars made out to the Katherine Harris for 580 00:38:27,715 --> 00:38:32,475 Speaker 1: Florida Senate campaign, and that led us to his online history, 581 00:38:32,515 --> 00:38:35,635 Speaker 1: which is all about how she is the most beautiful 582 00:38:35,675 --> 00:38:38,875 Speaker 1: woman in the world, Katherine Harris, except for maybe some 583 00:38:39,075 --> 00:38:43,115 Speaker 1: gal named Laura something, the most beautiful woman in history, 584 00:38:43,515 --> 00:38:49,795 Speaker 1: and I said, Laura, Laura Ingram an FBI. Doug said, Yeah, 585 00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:54,035 Speaker 1: that's it, Laura Ingram. And if that isn't ten years 586 00:38:54,035 --> 00:38:55,875 Speaker 1: of my life in one sentence, I don't know what 587 00:38:55,835 --> 00:39:12,755 Speaker 1: it is. Thanks for listening, and thanks for listening so much. 588 00:39:13,115 --> 00:39:15,635 Speaker 1: I'm happy to tell you that for the second consecutive month, 589 00:39:15,755 --> 00:39:22,235 Speaker 1: Countdown cleared the podcast benchmark one million downloads in a month, 590 00:39:23,395 --> 00:39:25,635 Speaker 1: and in a month who only had twenty week days. 591 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:29,595 Speaker 1: Thank you. Now go and find others to listen. Here 592 00:39:29,595 --> 00:39:31,915 Speaker 1: the credits. Most of the music was arranged, produced and 593 00:39:31,955 --> 00:39:34,795 Speaker 1: performed by Brian Ray and John Philip Channel, who are 594 00:39:34,835 --> 00:39:39,315 Speaker 1: the Countdown musical directors. Produced by Tko Brothers. All orchestration 595 00:39:39,355 --> 00:39:42,835 Speaker 1: and keyboards by John Philip Chanelle guitarist based on drums 596 00:39:42,875 --> 00:39:47,515 Speaker 1: by Brian Ray, Our Beethoven selections. Others of them have 597 00:39:47,555 --> 00:39:50,755 Speaker 1: been arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. The sports 598 00:39:50,835 --> 00:39:53,995 Speaker 1: music is the Olberman theme from ESPN two and it 599 00:39:54,035 --> 00:39:57,395 Speaker 1: was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy of ESPN, Inc. 600 00:39:57,875 --> 00:40:01,315 Speaker 1: Musical comments from Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist 601 00:40:01,315 --> 00:40:03,995 Speaker 1: ever our announce here today was Jonathan banks and everything 602 00:40:03,995 --> 00:40:07,155 Speaker 1: else is pretty mu my fault. So let's countdown for this, 603 00:40:07,195 --> 00:40:10,155 Speaker 1: the seven hundred and eighty fifth day since Donald Trump's 604 00:40:10,155 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the 605 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:17,195 Speaker 1: United States. Arrest him now while we still can. The 606 00:40:17,315 --> 00:40:20,195 Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Until then, I'm Keith Olberman. 607 00:40:20,235 --> 00:40:34,795 Speaker 1: Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown 608 00:40:34,875 --> 00:40:38,595 Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. 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