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

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Speaker 1: perhaps the most hapless ninety six hours of his presidency,

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Speaker 1: the most hapless, worst ninety six hours of the worst

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Speaker 1: presidency of all time, the most fail in the shortest span,

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Speaker 1: the mentally deteriorating, untethered from reality, Trump must resign and

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Speaker 1: take his idiot sick ephants with him. The last ninety

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Speaker 1: six hours, his un speech sounding like an escape ee

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Speaker 1: from a psych ward, his tailenol news conference sounding like

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Speaker 1: an escapee from a psych ward who's been living on

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Speaker 1: the street for a month. His suggestion NATO country shoot

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Speaker 1: stall or stupid dared putin Maga's rage at his sudden

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Speaker 1: embrace of Zelenski. The cover of a London right wing daily,

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Speaker 1: his picture on it in seventy two point type, the

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Speaker 1: word deranged. The ice shooting in Dallas, His sidistic Homeland

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Speaker 1: Chief pretending the victims were agents when they were detainees,

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Speaker 1: His idiots simpering Vice President pretending the victims were agents

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Speaker 1: when they were detainees. His corrupt, venal, cross eyed FBI

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Speaker 1: his Ice chief not denying he took fifty thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: in a paper bag, his staff then denying the man

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Speaker 1: took fifty thousand dollars in a paper bag. His cancelation

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Speaker 1: of a meeting with Democrats, making certain that if there

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Speaker 1: is a government shutdown, it is all his fault. His

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Speaker 1: crack pot pal melay of the Sideburns, crashing the Venezuelan

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Speaker 1: economy and needing us to base ail him out. His

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Speaker 1: paranoia over the stopped teleprompter at the UN that was

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Speaker 1: the White House staff's fault. His paranoia over the stopped

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Speaker 1: escalator at the UN that was his own vanity videographer's fault.

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Speaker 1: His desire to arrest the UN escalator technician or the

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Speaker 1: UN escalator button pusher, his desire to arrest the escalator

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Speaker 1: and James Comy. The election of Raoul Grihalva's daughter to Congress,

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Speaker 1: the fact that Adalita Grihalvo will be the last representative

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Speaker 1: needed to force a vote on releasing the Trump. Epstein

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Speaker 1: files his self humiliation at the Kirk Memorial, ABC reinstating

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Kimmel meaning Disney told him to f off, meaning

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Speaker 1: the National Football League told him to f off, meaning

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Speaker 1: they all told his propagandists it Sinclair to f off Kimmel,

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Speaker 1: then shoving him in a locker using only a monologue.

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Speaker 1: Kimmel getting a record six million viewers and twenty two

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Speaker 1: more million online in just the first twenty hours, Kimmel

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Speaker 1: and his show getting new life and maybe a new contract.

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Speaker 1: His self owning confession that he and his goons used

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Speaker 1: threats to get Kimmel canceled, except they didn't get Kimmel canceled.

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Speaker 1: The fact that Kimmel and ABC and Bob Iger and

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Speaker 1: Disney at America told Trump to shove his threats up

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Speaker 1: his ass. And that's just since Sunday night. Resign. Take

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Speaker 1: Vance with you, Take Nome with you, Take Home Man

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Speaker 1: with you, Take me Lay with you. Leave the Epstein files.

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Speaker 1: He lost to a escalator. Let me start with the

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Speaker 1: biggest surprise of all these things. Remember the South African

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Speaker 1: pastor who woke up from a dream couple weeks back

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Speaker 1: and proclaimed there would be a rapture at sunset in Israel,

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Speaker 1: which would have been eleven thirty six am this Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: I think there was a rapture because something sure disappeared

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Speaker 1: into the sky the hours before and after that sunset.

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Speaker 1: And that's something, was Trump's feeling of invulnerability. That collection

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Speaker 1: of disasters that's two dozen in four days, is worse

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Speaker 1: than it seems because they are all self owns, all

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Speaker 1: of them mistakes, self delusions, obsessions, self indulgences, self destructions,

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Speaker 1: quicksand that Trump and Trump alone could voluntarily dive into

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Speaker 1: an average of one every four hours. Kimmel looms above, around,

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Speaker 1: and behind every one of them, and I'll get to

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Speaker 1: him in a moment, But cause, to paraphrase the Baseball

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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer and builder Rube Foster, Kimmel is the ship.

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Speaker 1: All else is the sea. However, the Zelensky surprise is

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Speaker 1: the most meaningful because we have yet to hear Putin's reaction,

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Speaker 1: and the silence lends more credence to the theory that

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Speaker 1: this is just another new, admittedly novel, way for Trump

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Speaker 1: to further stall on Putin's behalf. And even if it isn't,

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Speaker 1: it still included Trump's insistence that any action taken and

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Speaker 1: any money spent be taken and spent by Europe, including

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Speaker 1: shooting down Russian planes or drones during incursions over Pole

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Speaker 1: and Estonia, maybe Denmark, maybe Wherever's next. Nothing for us

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Speaker 1: to worry about here, of course, because we have an

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Speaker 1: ocean between us, and as another president wants asked rhetorically,

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Speaker 1: a trial of one thousand years. Of course, the president

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Speaker 1: who said that was Lincoln said it in eighteen thirty nine,

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Speaker 1: not yet found out that there are now airplanes and

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Speaker 1: thinks it's still eighteen thirty nine. The Grijalva election, of course,

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Speaker 1: will be the most meaningful going forward, because the new

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Speaker 1: in this century, my friend Raoul Grijalva, but she has

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Speaker 1: said that the day she is sworn in by the Speaker,

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Speaker 1: she will sign on to the Massy motion to force

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Speaker 1: a House vote on releasing the Epstein files. Massy has

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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventeen votes right now he needs two

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighteen. Atalida Grihava will be number two hundred

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Speaker 1: and eighteen. And this now means that to stop the

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Speaker 1: vote and stop putting his pet speaker Mike Johnson in

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Speaker 1: an untenable position, Trump has only one option then, which

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Speaker 1: is to force Johnson and House Republicans to actually shut

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Speaker 1: the government down. Because a government shut down delays swearing

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Speaker 1: in Adalita Grihalva vote number two hundred and eighteen, and

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Speaker 1: delaying swearing in Adalita Grihalva may be Trump's last way

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Speaker 1: out of the Epstein files. And now to the Gettysburg

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Speaker 1: Address of Late Night Comedy Monologues, The I'm as mad

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Speaker 1: as hell and I'm not going to take it any

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Speaker 1: more of Late Night Comedy Monologue, the Ten Commandments of

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Speaker 1: Late Night Comedy Monologues. I can confess this now. I

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Speaker 1: really thought even Jimmy Kimmel, who makes my Nate palming

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Speaker 1: of Bridges look like nothing, was returning to save the

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Speaker 1: jobs of his staff and the other two hundred people

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Speaker 1: or so whose livelihoods depend on his show still existing.

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Speaker 1: I thought he would pull a lot of punches, or

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Speaker 1: a monologue so searing, so masterful, so declaring of his

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Speaker 1: to the part about Robert de Niro playing in perfect

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Speaker 1: form a mafioso version of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Well,

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Speaker 1: I got that wrong. Huh If that was done without

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Speaker 1: Bob Eiger's approval, I'll be just as shocked and just

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Speaker 1: as wrong. Again, he knew that was coming. Is it

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Speaker 1: a compromise, Maybe, jim you say whatever you want now

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Speaker 1: and we'll just shut the show down in a year.

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Speaker 1: Or is it Eiger waking up to the fact that

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Speaker 1: the sixteen million dollar settlement bribe with Trump bought him nothing,

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Speaker 1: nothing but more trouble, nothing but more threats, nothing but

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Speaker 1: more blackmail. Was it Eiger's realization that he chairs the

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Speaker 1: leading entertainment company in the country and Trump's true approval

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Speaker 1: rating is down to around thirty two percent. Here and

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Speaker 1: even most right wingers realized that if Trump could get

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Speaker 1: Kimmel fired, President Fritzker or President AOC. We'll be able

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Speaker 1: to get everybody at Fox News fired and maybe all

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Speaker 1: of their podcasts canceled. What is Ted Cruz? If there

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Speaker 1: is no Ted Cruz podcast, He's just an idiot asshole, Senate. Sure,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter which it was, either way or any

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Speaker 1: other way. This is a landmark moment. This is a

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Speaker 1: bullying victim coming back and hitting Scott Farcus Trump in

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Speaker 1: the nuts and better than that. After Trump's long suffering,

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Speaker 1: perpetual rake stepping Minion spent a week insisting Trump had

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, and Brendan Gebbel's car had

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Speaker 1: nothing to do with it, and the FCC had nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with it, nothing to do with Kimmel's sidelining.

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Speaker 1: Trump then boasted that he and car and the FCC

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Speaker 1: had not only done it, they thought that ABC had surrendered. Quote.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe ABC, fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his

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Speaker 1: job back. The White House was told by ABC that

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Speaker 1: his show was canceled. That's a confession. Something happened between

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Speaker 1: then and now, because his audience is gone and his

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Speaker 1: talent was never there. Well, he's wrong about that too,

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Speaker 1: as the numbers will show. Why would they want someone

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Speaker 1: back who does so poorly? All things considered, more people

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Speaker 1: watch Kimmel than watch Trump's inauguration this year. Why would

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Speaker 1: they want something made prob not funny? Puts the network

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Speaker 1: in jeopardy, but puts the network in jeopardy. What does

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Speaker 1: he mean? Oh, he is yet another arm of the DNC,

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Speaker 1: major illegal contribution, illegal campaign contribution. I think we're going

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Speaker 1: to test ABC out on this. Well, there are no

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Speaker 1: what's the plan. Let's see how we do. Last time

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Speaker 1: I went after them, they gave me dollars, signed sixteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true

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Speaker 1: bunch of losers. Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings. Yo, h,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have bad ratings. He had four times his

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Speaker 1: normal ratings. It's one thing if you bully a company

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Speaker 1: perverted it into many pollot bureaus using Trump brand coercion.

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Speaker 1: Trump should sue ABC over Kimmel, and then Kimmel should

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Speaker 1: sue the FCC for tortious interference, and ABC should sue

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Speaker 1: the FCC and Sinclair and Next Star for damages. All right,

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Speaker 1: they don't have to. I haven't worked in local news

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Speaker 1: network shows. The Smothers Brothers used to be preempted. The

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Speaker 1: But then, and it turns out, now this comes at

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Speaker 1: a postponement fee each time you don't run it. In

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Speaker 1: Kimmel's case, that's five nights a week. And if you

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Speaker 1: cancel enough network shows, ABC has the right to cancel

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Speaker 1: your contract. And the next thing you know, Sinclair stations

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Speaker 1: the way, this is how unprepared MAGA was for a

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Speaker 1: full one hundred percent humiliation and extinction level loss an

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Speaker 1: up an entire story about me after Tim Russert died

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Speaker 1: and the Post actually ran away scared under the threat

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Speaker 1: of lawsuit and published nothing. The saga of the New

426
00:29:54,355 --> 00:29:57,755
Speaker 1: York Post and Rupert Murdoch making things up about me

427
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Speaker 1: for now thirty years. Next in Things I Promised not

428
00:30:01,835 --> 00:30:04,435
Speaker 1: to tell first, Believe it or not, there's still more

429
00:30:04,475 --> 00:30:06,795
Speaker 1: new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants,

430
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Speaker 1: Morons Dunning, Kruegerfect Specimens who constitute two Day's other worst

431
00:30:12,195 --> 00:30:17,475
Speaker 1: persons in the world. Theron's Jason Whitlock, who used to

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Speaker 1: be a sports writer. He had his own vertical at

433
00:30:20,675 --> 00:30:24,235
Speaker 1: ESPN dot com if you can believe that, and he

434
00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:27,115
Speaker 1: didn't get anything published, and I mean he had months.

435
00:30:28,715 --> 00:30:32,115
Speaker 1: I never got this internet. Parts of the Internet, the

436
00:30:32,435 --> 00:30:35,915
Speaker 1: idea that you could have months to publish something and

437
00:30:35,995 --> 00:30:39,355
Speaker 1: still not get anything done. I mean on the air.

438
00:30:39,755 --> 00:30:44,115
Speaker 1: The show starts at eight o'clock. Whether you're ready or not. Well,

439
00:30:44,195 --> 00:30:46,395
Speaker 1: I'll be here in eight months. From no eight o'clock.

440
00:30:46,995 --> 00:30:48,595
Speaker 1: I'm going to need eight months to prepare the show.

441
00:30:48,635 --> 00:30:52,275
Speaker 1: In any event. Jason Whitlock smelled more money in fascism

442
00:30:52,395 --> 00:30:55,475
Speaker 1: and got fired from ESPN and everything else in the

443
00:30:55,515 --> 00:30:58,835
Speaker 1: real world, and he now writes crap like this quote.

444
00:30:58,875 --> 00:31:02,675
Speaker 1: What you're witnessing is Christian nationalism. If you're ashamed of it,

445
00:31:02,755 --> 00:31:06,915
Speaker 1: that's your problem, not mine. You've been brainwashed by Marxists.

446
00:31:07,995 --> 00:31:11,995
Speaker 1: They all learned a new word, Marxist. You've been brainwashed

447
00:31:11,995 --> 00:31:15,275
Speaker 1: by Marxist to believe that wanting government respectful of Jesus

448
00:31:15,395 --> 00:31:19,835
Speaker 1: Christ is a bad thing. I've rejected the brainwashing. This

449
00:31:19,995 --> 00:31:25,875
Speaker 1: memorial is awesome a correction, Jay Dubb. It's Christo fascism,

450
00:31:26,595 --> 00:31:30,875
Speaker 1: not Christian nationalism, and of course you've rejected the brainwashing.

451
00:31:31,715 --> 00:31:35,195
Speaker 1: Can't be brainwashed if you have no brain left to wash. Fella.

452
00:31:36,475 --> 00:31:40,835
Speaker 1: Runner up Conresson Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin. Same problem.

453
00:31:41,755 --> 00:31:45,995
Speaker 1: An HR guy who works somewhere in the vast organization

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Speaker 1: that is the Mayo Clinic tweeted some of the things

455
00:31:49,515 --> 00:31:52,995
Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk actually said. And then after that memorial that

456
00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:58,715
Speaker 1: got Jason ol Chubby the Memorial Service and Trump Grievance

457
00:31:58,875 --> 00:32:02,995
Speaker 1: show last weekend in Arizona, this guy from the Mayo Clinic,

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00:32:03,355 --> 00:32:05,195
Speaker 1: on a private account, by the way, referred to the

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Speaker 1: widow as the winner of an acting award. Robbie Starbuck,

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00:32:10,115 --> 00:32:14,635
Speaker 1: one of Kirk's henchmen, then outed the man and demanded

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Speaker 1: that the Mayo Clinic fire him. Not enough for Derek

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00:32:19,635 --> 00:32:22,475
Speaker 1: Van Orton quote, we will be working to remove every

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Speaker 1: single penny of federal funding from the Mayo Clinic unless

464
00:32:25,995 --> 00:32:29,755
Speaker 1: this is resolved. Well, of course, if you're gonna support

465
00:32:29,875 --> 00:32:32,755
Speaker 1: RFK Junior, everybody's gonna be dead anyway. Don't need any

466
00:32:32,795 --> 00:32:36,755
Speaker 1: more clinics. One way to cut down on hospitalizations have

467
00:32:36,915 --> 00:32:40,555
Speaker 1: everybody follow Robert F. Kennedy Junior right off the FN cliff.

468
00:32:41,275 --> 00:32:43,355
Speaker 1: We will be working and remove every single penny of

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00:32:43,435 --> 00:32:46,275
Speaker 1: federal funding from the Mayo Clinic unless this is resolved.

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Speaker 1: He did not add my head hurts. My head really

471
00:32:49,955 --> 00:32:53,155
Speaker 1: hurts when somebody helped me. Van Orden then went on

472
00:32:53,195 --> 00:32:57,235
Speaker 1: a radio show that the Mayo Clinic was inciting violence.

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00:32:58,555 --> 00:33:02,595
Speaker 1: Derek Van Orden has so many stories, just the ones

474
00:33:02,635 --> 00:33:07,835
Speaker 1: I've covered here of this severe anger management problem that

475
00:33:07,995 --> 00:33:10,195
Speaker 1: I say this with actual sincerity. I don't think he

476
00:33:10,275 --> 00:33:13,675
Speaker 1: can be trusted with a position of responsibility in a bakery,

477
00:33:14,235 --> 00:33:18,555
Speaker 1: let alone a government. But just as sincerely, he's got

478
00:33:18,595 --> 00:33:26,235
Speaker 1: PTSD going big time, probably from his service. Maybe it's CTE.

479
00:33:27,275 --> 00:33:29,115
Speaker 1: In fact, the only thing he should be doing about

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Speaker 1: the Mayo Clinic is going to it. But the winner,

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Speaker 1: speaking of paranoia, Christy Nome. You know her, Christy Nome

482
00:33:40,995 --> 00:33:47,155
Speaker 1: is Tom fifty thousand dollars Homan's boss. Gavin Newsom's social

483
00:33:47,195 --> 00:33:50,395
Speaker 1: media manager, tweeted that Christy Nome was going to have

484
00:33:50,435 --> 00:33:53,275
Speaker 1: a bad day and of course apropos of the Post's

485
00:33:53,315 --> 00:33:56,155
Speaker 1: latest crap about me. This is a phrase, She's going

486
00:33:56,195 --> 00:33:58,355
Speaker 1: to have a bad day. This is a phrase that

487
00:33:58,475 --> 00:34:02,275
Speaker 1: MAGA and Trump and the Trumpsts get to use every

488
00:34:02,555 --> 00:34:07,035
Speaker 1: damn day about every liberal and every politician. But if

489
00:34:07,075 --> 00:34:11,035
Speaker 1: it's used by others about MAGA or Trump, it's a

490
00:34:11,155 --> 00:34:15,275
Speaker 1: death threat. Now I agree, it's bad phrasing. There's no

491
00:34:15,355 --> 00:34:18,155
Speaker 1: reason to leave the slightest impression of violence, even when

492
00:34:18,235 --> 00:34:21,915
Speaker 1: it's an incorrect impression. I did that myself this week.

493
00:34:22,275 --> 00:34:25,275
Speaker 1: I wasn't careful enough. You have to remember it's a

494
00:34:25,315 --> 00:34:28,955
Speaker 1: bad time for that. Plus, the great dirty secret of

495
00:34:28,995 --> 00:34:32,755
Speaker 1: the right wingers is they are utter snowflakes, holy cow,

496
00:34:33,995 --> 00:34:35,915
Speaker 1: and they're looking for things to make a big deal

497
00:34:35,955 --> 00:34:41,675
Speaker 1: out of. They always need somebody evil on the other side.

498
00:34:41,795 --> 00:34:45,235
Speaker 1: And the idea that their softest church music evidence of that.

499
00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:49,715
Speaker 1: Christino her response to Fox about that tweet, the tweet

500
00:34:49,715 --> 00:34:53,115
Speaker 1: that foretold she'd have a bad day, which turned out

501
00:34:53,115 --> 00:34:55,875
Speaker 1: to be because they knew that Tom Holman story was

502
00:34:55,915 --> 00:35:01,155
Speaker 1: about to break. Quoting her, it was cryptic and it

503
00:35:01,235 --> 00:35:08,115
Speaker 1: was really menacing. It immediately panicked my family. Unquote, well, Christy,

504
00:35:08,355 --> 00:35:13,915
Speaker 1: I'm giving you this. It was cryptic, but hey, you

505
00:35:13,955 --> 00:35:19,235
Speaker 1: don't have any friends. B If that's really menacing to you,

506
00:35:19,235 --> 00:35:22,435
Speaker 1: you need to get to a convent or somewhere, or

507
00:35:22,435 --> 00:35:24,715
Speaker 1: at least I mean, I don't know, a convent sounds

508
00:35:24,715 --> 00:35:26,875
Speaker 1: like a good idea. I mean, you'd have a lot

509
00:35:26,915 --> 00:35:29,355
Speaker 1: of explaining to do before they let you in the convent.

510
00:35:29,795 --> 00:35:37,155
Speaker 1: But they're forgiving people. Even if I was just thinking

511
00:35:37,155 --> 00:35:40,875
Speaker 1: of the guy with the Trump campaign that she's her advisor,

512
00:35:42,235 --> 00:35:46,635
Speaker 1: her confidant, You need to get into a convent because

513
00:35:46,635 --> 00:35:50,195
Speaker 1: you're just not meant for this society. You never know

514
00:35:50,235 --> 00:35:52,195
Speaker 1: when someone might come up to you and say you're

515
00:35:52,235 --> 00:35:54,115
Speaker 1: going to have a bad day, and then you immediately

516
00:35:54,155 --> 00:35:58,395
Speaker 1: go into cardiac seizure or something. But on this part

517
00:35:58,435 --> 00:36:01,715
Speaker 1: about it panicked my family and friends. Did it panic

518
00:36:01,795 --> 00:36:05,675
Speaker 1: them more or less than the day at your house

519
00:36:06,075 --> 00:36:10,075
Speaker 1: when you picked up a shotgun and went hunting for

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00:36:10,795 --> 00:36:17,035
Speaker 1: and then murdered your daughter's puppy, Christy. I kill innocent

521
00:36:17,115 --> 00:36:20,995
Speaker 1: animals and then boast about it in my autobiography, probably

522
00:36:21,035 --> 00:36:23,635
Speaker 1: in hopes of appealing to Trump and showing him I'm

523
00:36:23,675 --> 00:36:52,035
Speaker 1: a sadist gnome two day's other worst person, and you

524
00:36:52,195 --> 00:36:54,955
Speaker 1: the number one story on the countdown and my favorite topic,

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00:36:55,035 --> 00:36:57,275
Speaker 1: me and things I promised not to tell. And here

526
00:36:57,275 --> 00:37:02,035
Speaker 1: we go again, Rupert Murdoch's quote news outlets unquote shooting

527
00:37:02,075 --> 00:37:05,955
Speaker 1: themselves in the groin yet again while they were aiming

528
00:37:06,195 --> 00:37:09,835
Speaker 1: at me. A little timeline is required on this one.

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Speaker 1: April eighteen sixty five, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States,

530
00:37:15,075 --> 00:37:19,475
Speaker 1: was assassinated May twenty twenty, maybe earlier May twenty twenty,

531
00:37:19,555 --> 00:37:23,395
Speaker 1: was the earliest I remembered or found. Trump started claiming

532
00:37:23,875 --> 00:37:27,355
Speaker 1: he had been treated far worse than Abraham Lincoln had.

533
00:37:28,475 --> 00:37:32,195
Speaker 1: March sixteenth, twenty twenty four, Trump said it again. Then

534
00:37:32,395 --> 00:37:36,995
Speaker 1: Biden Harris Headquarters tweets the clip, adding Trump says he's

535
00:37:37,035 --> 00:37:40,795
Speaker 1: been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated. Also

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00:37:40,915 --> 00:37:45,235
Speaker 1: March sixteenth, twenty twenty four, I retweeted that, adding there's

537
00:37:45,315 --> 00:37:49,635
Speaker 1: always the hope. March eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Fox News

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00:37:49,675 --> 00:37:53,555
Speaker 1: publishes a story first headlined Keith Olderman appears to hope

539
00:37:53,555 --> 00:37:56,835
Speaker 1: for Trump assassination, but the headline was then changed to

540
00:37:56,955 --> 00:38:00,955
Speaker 1: Keith Olderman sparks outrage by hinting at trump assassination with

541
00:38:01,075 --> 00:38:05,355
Speaker 1: a blue stripe over my face, reading blue blood bath,

542
00:38:06,595 --> 00:38:10,035
Speaker 1: meaning on some level, I am the same as Trump.

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00:38:10,115 --> 00:38:13,835
Speaker 1: To the New York Post and the Fox News and

544
00:38:13,875 --> 00:38:17,315
Speaker 1: all the rest of Murdoch's outlets, well, I was tempted

545
00:38:17,315 --> 00:38:20,195
Speaker 1: to answer this by saying I was just referring to

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00:38:20,235 --> 00:38:25,235
Speaker 1: the auto industry. In reality, obviously I was and am

547
00:38:25,315 --> 00:38:27,955
Speaker 1: hoping that Trump will be right and that he will

548
00:38:27,955 --> 00:38:31,835
Speaker 1: be treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, something worse than assassination,

549
00:38:31,955 --> 00:38:35,915
Speaker 1: which would be that Trump is convicted and dies in prison.

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00:38:36,435 --> 00:38:39,195
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I have said this,

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00:38:39,795 --> 00:38:44,075
Speaker 1: maybe more than Trump's ludicrous charge that he's been treated

552
00:38:44,115 --> 00:38:46,275
Speaker 1: worse than Lincoln. I may have actually said it more

553
00:38:46,315 --> 00:38:49,435
Speaker 1: than he has said that. I think I first said

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00:38:49,835 --> 00:38:52,795
Speaker 1: I hope he dies in prison. I expect he dies

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00:38:52,835 --> 00:38:57,435
Speaker 1: in prison in twenty sixteen. This is because I hope

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00:38:57,435 --> 00:39:01,155
Speaker 1: he dies in prison. But of course the point of

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00:39:01,195 --> 00:39:04,675
Speaker 1: this is Murdoch and Fox, and especially the New York

558
00:39:04,755 --> 00:39:08,355
Speaker 1: Post have been doing this to me since about nineteen

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00:39:08,475 --> 00:39:14,475
Speaker 1: ninety six, always always getting it wrong, ever since I

560
00:39:14,555 --> 00:39:16,715
Speaker 1: caught the Post in a lie that year about a

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00:39:16,755 --> 00:39:19,875
Speaker 1: couple of hockey players that it claimed had been thrown

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Speaker 1: out of a New York City bar for knocking over tables,

563
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Speaker 1: to the horror of customers, when in fact I was

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Speaker 1: with them, and they left the place in their own

565
00:39:30,195 --> 00:39:32,915
Speaker 1: form of horror, because as one of them, Eric Lindross,

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Speaker 1: stood up, he almost knocked over the chair he was

567
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Speaker 1: sitting in. He said to the other, John Leclair, I

568
00:39:39,835 --> 00:39:41,915
Speaker 1: think I've had enough. We got to go home, Johnny,

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Speaker 1: and they politely left, but not before asking if I

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Speaker 1: needed a lift. In two thousand and one, The Post

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00:39:49,315 --> 00:39:51,915
Speaker 1: slammed me because I attended a New York Mets game

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00:39:51,955 --> 00:39:56,755
Speaker 1: while wearing cargo shorts. A few years later, the Post

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Speaker 1: showed a picture somebody had snapped of me leaning against

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Speaker 1: one of the gates of Central Park here in New

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Speaker 1: York and said I was alone and depressed. Actually, I

576
00:40:05,275 --> 00:40:10,475
Speaker 1: was alone and early to my dental appointment across the street,

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Speaker 1: and I was trying to talk myself into actually going

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Speaker 1: into my doctor's office. There was a brief interruption in

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Speaker 1: the year during the two and a half years or

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Speaker 1: so that I worked for Murdoch in Sports, a brief

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Speaker 1: interruption in these constantly hilarious stories before Murdoch personally fired

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Speaker 1: me after I had reported, with his office's full approval

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00:40:33,555 --> 00:40:36,035
Speaker 1: in advance that he was working behind the scenes to

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Speaker 1: sell the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, which he was.

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00:40:39,755 --> 00:40:43,275
Speaker 1: Murdoch later boasted about firing me, but he didn't say that.

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00:40:43,395 --> 00:40:46,595
Speaker 1: He didn't boast about it until after he had sold

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Speaker 1: the LA Dodgers baseball team. The origin of the Post's

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00:40:52,035 --> 00:40:55,795
Speaker 1: quarter century of badly aimed shots at me stems from

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00:40:55,795 --> 00:40:59,435
Speaker 1: that firing. When Murdoch fired me, his minions did it

590
00:40:59,595 --> 00:41:02,555
Speaker 1: slowly in stages over the course of a couple of days,

591
00:41:02,595 --> 00:41:06,075
Speaker 1: in hopes that they could get me angry and bait

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00:41:06,195 --> 00:41:10,035
Speaker 1: me into attacking Fox and News Corp. In the newspapers

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00:41:10,515 --> 00:41:13,635
Speaker 1: so that then they could fire me for cause that

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00:41:13,755 --> 00:41:15,635
Speaker 1: way they wouldn't owe me the rest of the money

595
00:41:15,635 --> 00:41:19,275
Speaker 1: on my contract instead. As I've mentioned here before, given

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00:41:19,315 --> 00:41:23,195
Speaker 1: the choice between waiting eight months to insult someone and

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00:41:23,275 --> 00:41:26,315
Speaker 1: getting a lot of money, or getting no money and

598
00:41:26,595 --> 00:41:30,195
Speaker 1: yelling at them right now, I'll always wait the eight months.

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00:41:31,115 --> 00:41:35,795
Speaker 1: I remained quiet for eight lovely months, and Rupert had

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00:41:35,835 --> 00:41:38,675
Speaker 1: to pay me one hundred thousand dollars a month to

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00:41:38,675 --> 00:41:46,275
Speaker 1: do that best job I ever had. So whenever this

602
00:41:46,475 --> 00:41:49,035
Speaker 1: happens and somebody says, why don't you sue Murdoch, Go,

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00:41:49,235 --> 00:41:51,835
Speaker 1: sue News Corp? Sue the New York Post, I always say,

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00:41:52,115 --> 00:41:54,555
Speaker 1: what kind of money could I get from them that

605
00:41:54,595 --> 00:41:57,235
Speaker 1: could hurt them more than that eight hundred thousand dollars

606
00:41:57,315 --> 00:42:00,755
Speaker 1: back in two thousand and one. Also, most of the

607
00:42:00,835 --> 00:42:04,355
Speaker 1: stuff they do is so hilariously wrong, like the Worse

608
00:42:04,395 --> 00:42:11,035
Speaker 1: than Life story, that it's transparently desperate. But twice they

609
00:42:11,115 --> 00:42:13,875
Speaker 1: threatened me with stories that I had to take some

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00:42:14,115 --> 00:42:18,275
Speaker 1: action about once they completely made one up, and once

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00:42:18,555 --> 00:42:20,995
Speaker 1: they ran a story even though the FBI and the

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00:42:21,035 --> 00:42:24,995
Speaker 1: Department of Homeland Security specifically asked them not to run it.

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00:42:26,355 --> 00:42:29,515
Speaker 1: The obligatory reminder before I tell you those two stories,

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00:42:29,555 --> 00:42:33,115
Speaker 1: you should never believe any source story you read in

615
00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:37,315
Speaker 1: the New York Post, or indeed on any media outlet

616
00:42:37,395 --> 00:42:41,995
Speaker 1: owned by the Murdochs like Fox. They occasionally report real things,

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00:42:42,035 --> 00:42:47,075
Speaker 1: but just as often they make stuff up. Not exaggerate

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00:42:47,515 --> 00:42:53,715
Speaker 1: or get slightly wrong or twist, but utterly fabricate. On

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Speaker 1: April eleventh, two thousand and five, the New York Post

620
00:42:56,515 --> 00:42:59,475
Speaker 1: was to run exactly the kind of story I'm talking about,

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Speaker 1: only under threat of multiple lawsuits did they actually spike it.

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00:43:04,995 --> 00:43:07,595
Speaker 1: I hadn't told this story before, but I was reminded

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00:43:07,595 --> 00:43:09,475
Speaker 1: of it. I think going through the mechanics of it

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00:43:09,475 --> 00:43:13,395
Speaker 1: will illustrate just how evil an organization News Corp. Actually

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00:43:13,515 --> 00:43:17,595
Speaker 1: Is and more importantly, how unreliable it is as a

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00:43:17,635 --> 00:43:21,835
Speaker 1: source of news. As a New York Post page six

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00:43:21,955 --> 00:43:25,915
Speaker 1: gossip story, this one, though, had everything it attacked MSNBC,

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00:43:26,555 --> 00:43:29,595
Speaker 1: it had quotes from informed sources, and even at one

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Speaker 1: points it had a witness. Now the witness disappeared during

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00:43:33,595 --> 00:43:35,515
Speaker 1: the evolution of this story, but at one point it

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Speaker 1: had a witness. It had somebody prominent insulting Peter Jennings,

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Speaker 1: the newscaster, right after he had revealed he had lung cancer.

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Speaker 1: And it was constructed in such a way that if

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Speaker 1: I did not comment on it, they could print the story,

635
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Speaker 1: then come back the next day, rehash it and add

636
00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:55,475
Speaker 1: that I was still refusing to comment on it. But

637
00:43:55,595 --> 00:43:59,795
Speaker 1: there was one overriding problem. It was a complete fabrication,

638
00:43:59,995 --> 00:44:02,995
Speaker 1: and thus it was full of events that didn't happen

639
00:44:03,555 --> 00:44:08,235
Speaker 1: and people who did not exist. New York Post Page

640
00:44:08,355 --> 00:44:14,275
Speaker 1: six contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy Jeremy Gaines on Thursday,

641
00:44:14,315 --> 00:44:17,155
Speaker 1: April seventh, two thousand and five, with the following story.

642
00:44:17,795 --> 00:44:21,755
Speaker 1: Keith Olderman, a quote frequent critic of President Bush, had

643
00:44:21,795 --> 00:44:25,395
Speaker 1: refused to anchor the coverage of the death of Pope

644
00:44:25,435 --> 00:44:29,115
Speaker 1: John Paul the Second, pretended to be ill and called

645
00:44:29,155 --> 00:44:33,515
Speaker 1: in sick instead. There was, as I suggested earlier, a

646
00:44:33,595 --> 00:44:36,795
Speaker 1: major problem here. I had anchored the coverage of the

647
00:44:36,835 --> 00:44:39,435
Speaker 1: death of Pope John Paul the Second. I had been

648
00:44:39,555 --> 00:44:44,115
Speaker 1: anchoring the primetime coverage four hours each weeknight day after

649
00:44:44,195 --> 00:44:47,755
Speaker 1: day leading up to the pottiffs passing. There were viewers

650
00:44:47,795 --> 00:44:52,635
Speaker 1: who had seen me. There were studio staffers. Carl Bernstein

651
00:44:52,875 --> 00:44:55,915
Speaker 1: was there. He was the in studio papal expert. He

652
00:44:55,955 --> 00:44:58,315
Speaker 1: was on the air with me every night for like

653
00:44:58,475 --> 00:45:03,715
Speaker 1: six nights in a row. There were video tapes. Joe Tory,

654
00:45:03,915 --> 00:45:06,235
Speaker 1: then the manager of the New York Yankees, called me

655
00:45:06,675 --> 00:45:10,875
Speaker 1: to compliment me on my reverential coverage of the Pope's illness.

656
00:45:12,155 --> 00:45:15,155
Speaker 1: That did not stop. The New York Post in the

657
00:45:15,195 --> 00:45:17,715
Speaker 1: first version that page six told us it was going

658
00:45:17,755 --> 00:45:21,115
Speaker 1: to print their unnamed source had been on board an

659
00:45:21,235 --> 00:45:25,155
Speaker 1: Amtrak Asella train going from Washington, DC to New York,

660
00:45:25,555 --> 00:45:29,315
Speaker 1: sitting near my agent as my agent talked to somebody

661
00:45:29,315 --> 00:45:33,795
Speaker 1: on a cell phone. This is apparently a very favorite

662
00:45:33,955 --> 00:45:36,915
Speaker 1: construction when The New York Post wants to make up

663
00:45:36,955 --> 00:45:40,835
Speaker 1: a story about somebody their witness said. My agent complained

664
00:45:40,875 --> 00:45:44,155
Speaker 1: that I had had a quote meltdown after quote, calling

665
00:45:44,195 --> 00:45:47,595
Speaker 1: in sick. Rather than anchoring the papal coverage, which I anchored,

666
00:45:48,035 --> 00:45:51,595
Speaker 1: but there was more quote. Alderman, a frequent critic of

667
00:45:51,595 --> 00:45:55,755
Speaker 1: the president's policies, said it was better in sports. They

668
00:45:55,835 --> 00:45:58,875
Speaker 1: quoted my agent quoting me into the phone. I'll be

669
00:45:58,955 --> 00:46:03,155
Speaker 1: dealing with this all day now. Apart from the fact

670
00:46:03,155 --> 00:46:05,435
Speaker 1: that I had anchored the coverage they said I had

671
00:46:05,435 --> 00:46:08,315
Speaker 1: not anchored. There was another major flaw in this story.

672
00:46:09,115 --> 00:46:13,035
Speaker 1: My agent was not on a train from Washington to

673
00:46:13,115 --> 00:46:16,315
Speaker 1: New York on the day in question, or the week

674
00:46:16,315 --> 00:46:19,635
Speaker 1: in question, or the month, or in fact, the year

675
00:46:19,715 --> 00:46:22,795
Speaker 1: in question. My agent told me she thought she had

676
00:46:22,835 --> 00:46:25,235
Speaker 1: once been on a train from Washington to New York

677
00:46:25,355 --> 00:46:29,595
Speaker 1: in the year nineteen sixty seven. My agent at that

678
00:46:29,715 --> 00:46:33,635
Speaker 1: time lived a top Mount Shasta in California, and so

679
00:46:33,835 --> 00:46:37,275
Speaker 1: seldom left there that when she once drove to town

680
00:46:37,355 --> 00:46:40,115
Speaker 1: to get the mail, I asked her for the details

681
00:46:40,155 --> 00:46:43,475
Speaker 1: of her trip because I jokingly suggested to her we

682
00:46:43,515 --> 00:46:49,115
Speaker 1: should lead the newscast with it. So the next day, Friday,

683
00:46:49,155 --> 00:46:51,755
Speaker 1: April eighth, two thousand and five, New York Post, page

684
00:46:51,795 --> 00:46:54,515
Speaker 1: six came back with a different version of this same story.

685
00:46:54,675 --> 00:46:58,315
Speaker 1: They had misheard their source. Of course, it wasn't my

686
00:46:58,675 --> 00:47:01,715
Speaker 1: agent on the train from DC to New York. It

687
00:47:01,835 --> 00:47:05,155
Speaker 1: was a woman who worked for my agent, a woman

688
00:47:05,235 --> 00:47:08,755
Speaker 1: named Susan. A woman named Susan whom I had they

689
00:47:08,755 --> 00:47:12,635
Speaker 1: would report already phoned three times that morning, and I

690
00:47:12,795 --> 00:47:15,395
Speaker 1: was to meet her urgently at the boat House in

691
00:47:15,515 --> 00:47:20,995
Speaker 1: Central Park, presumably because meeting her in the middle of

692
00:47:21,075 --> 00:47:23,475
Speaker 1: Penn Station when she got off that train would have

693
00:47:23,515 --> 00:47:28,275
Speaker 1: been a little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again

694
00:47:28,355 --> 00:47:33,715
Speaker 1: with some irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for my agent.

695
00:47:34,275 --> 00:47:37,835
Speaker 1: In fact, nobody at all worked for my agent. She

696
00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:41,595
Speaker 1: was independent. She had a working relationship with a small

697
00:47:41,635 --> 00:47:45,195
Speaker 1: agency in Los Angeles, and basically they covered her phone

698
00:47:45,195 --> 00:47:48,395
Speaker 1: calls when she was on vacation, which she almost never was,

699
00:47:48,435 --> 00:47:53,035
Speaker 1: because she never left the top of Mount effing Shasta.

700
00:47:53,155 --> 00:47:55,835
Speaker 1: We called that agency and they confirmed that not only

701
00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:58,595
Speaker 1: did they not have anybody working for them named Susan,

702
00:47:58,755 --> 00:48:01,395
Speaker 1: but nobody from that agency was even on the East

703
00:48:01,435 --> 00:48:06,835
Speaker 1: Coast or had been so far that entire year. At

704
00:48:06,835 --> 00:48:09,675
Speaker 1: this point I called the television columnist of The New

705
00:48:09,755 --> 00:48:11,995
Speaker 1: York Post and off the record, explained to him that

706
00:48:12,035 --> 00:48:14,795
Speaker 1: I was kind of furious, and this time I was

707
00:48:14,835 --> 00:48:18,155
Speaker 1: actually going to sue, but that NBC was far angrier

708
00:48:18,195 --> 00:48:20,435
Speaker 1: than I was, and that they were going to sue

709
00:48:20,435 --> 00:48:23,755
Speaker 1: as well, and sue the editor of Page six personally,

710
00:48:24,595 --> 00:48:27,475
Speaker 1: I calmly went through the facts of this. This guy,

711
00:48:27,795 --> 00:48:30,595
Speaker 1: the TV guy, had a conscience, he sighed. He said

712
00:48:30,635 --> 00:48:32,715
Speaker 1: he got those kind of calls more often than I

713
00:48:32,755 --> 00:48:35,355
Speaker 1: would believe. And I said, no, I believe it. And

714
00:48:35,395 --> 00:48:37,035
Speaker 1: he said he would go to the editor of page

715
00:48:37,035 --> 00:48:39,795
Speaker 1: six and explain somebody was lying to him, the editor,

716
00:48:39,995 --> 00:48:42,515
Speaker 1: and he was going to get himself sued into bankruptcy

717
00:48:42,835 --> 00:48:49,355
Speaker 1: over a really obviously untrue and completely disproved story. Okay,

718
00:48:49,395 --> 00:48:51,715
Speaker 1: So now a couple hours later, New York Post Page

719
00:48:51,755 --> 00:48:55,035
Speaker 1: six calls again demanding a comment from me on the

720
00:48:55,075 --> 00:49:00,595
Speaker 1: third different version of their exhaustive papals scoop. No, the

721
00:49:00,635 --> 00:49:03,795
Speaker 1: woman their witness heard, who they first said was my agent,

722
00:49:04,235 --> 00:49:05,875
Speaker 1: then said she had gotten it wrong. It was a

723
00:49:05,875 --> 00:49:07,995
Speaker 1: woman named Susan who worked for my agent. She had

724
00:49:07,995 --> 00:49:10,555
Speaker 1: now become a woman who worked for my agent, whose

725
00:49:10,635 --> 00:49:13,315
Speaker 1: name the witness never heard, but she was talking to

726
00:49:14,155 --> 00:49:19,195
Speaker 1: somebody else named Susan. And there was an additional quote

727
00:49:19,235 --> 00:49:22,955
Speaker 1: now thrown in, I'll be dealing this all day now,

728
00:49:23,515 --> 00:49:26,995
Speaker 1: had morphed into I'll be dealing with this all day now.

729
00:49:27,235 --> 00:49:30,315
Speaker 1: The same week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having

730
00:49:30,435 --> 00:49:33,915
Speaker 1: lung cancer. This idiot, a frequent critic of President Bush

731
00:49:34,115 --> 00:49:36,835
Speaker 1: is sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this.

732
00:49:39,115 --> 00:49:41,915
Speaker 1: I'll spare you how I know this was not true.

733
00:49:41,995 --> 00:49:43,515
Speaker 1: It has something to do with the fact that I

734
00:49:43,555 --> 00:49:49,155
Speaker 1: don't wear pajamas. Years later, a former gossip reporter in

735
00:49:49,235 --> 00:49:52,795
Speaker 1: Murdoch's employ explained to me that his celebrity and gossip

736
00:49:52,795 --> 00:49:56,675
Speaker 1: people are taught never to back down from a confrontation,

737
00:49:57,035 --> 00:49:58,875
Speaker 1: and that if the subject of one of their hit

738
00:49:58,955 --> 00:50:02,995
Speaker 1: jobs fires back or tries to refute, or especially threatens

739
00:50:03,075 --> 00:50:07,515
Speaker 1: legal action, to keep making story worse and worse for them.

740
00:50:07,955 --> 00:50:10,355
Speaker 1: And in the first decade of this century, anyway, you

741
00:50:10,395 --> 00:50:12,275
Speaker 1: were supposed to try to work in a defense of

742
00:50:12,355 --> 00:50:16,395
Speaker 1: George W. Bush. But there's also what she said, they

743
00:50:16,475 --> 00:50:20,395
Speaker 1: called an emergency exit. If there is no question that

744
00:50:20,435 --> 00:50:24,155
Speaker 1: the story is nonsensical, if the basic spine of the

745
00:50:24,195 --> 00:50:28,315
Speaker 1: story does not line up with provable facts, just abandon it.

746
00:50:29,315 --> 00:50:32,355
Speaker 1: Abandon it. Don't tell the subject of your attack that

747
00:50:32,395 --> 00:50:35,755
Speaker 1: you are abandoning it. Just don't make any more phone calls,

748
00:50:35,955 --> 00:50:39,755
Speaker 1: don't send any more emails about it. Just vanish, just

749
00:50:39,875 --> 00:50:44,195
Speaker 1: disappear the story, and then send the name of the

750
00:50:44,235 --> 00:50:47,875
Speaker 1: subject of the story that you've just punted. Send it

751
00:50:47,915 --> 00:50:50,275
Speaker 1: around to all the other Murdoch operations to see if

752
00:50:50,275 --> 00:50:52,315
Speaker 1: they can come up with any dirt on the subject,

753
00:50:52,475 --> 00:50:56,955
Speaker 1: to punish them for fighting back against Rupert Murdoch's lies.

754
00:50:59,435 --> 00:51:03,155
Speaker 1: So they abandoned the story, and it took the New

755
00:51:03,235 --> 00:51:06,115
Speaker 1: York Post a year and ahe half to get me back,

756
00:51:06,995 --> 00:51:09,675
Speaker 1: and to get back the Department of Homeland Security and

757
00:51:09,755 --> 00:51:13,795
Speaker 1: the FBI. On September twenty sixth, two thousand and six,

758
00:51:13,835 --> 00:51:17,355
Speaker 1: I opened an envelope bearing a California postmark at my

759
00:51:17,475 --> 00:51:21,115
Speaker 1: home in New York. I shouldn't have done it, but bluntly,

760
00:51:21,155 --> 00:51:24,035
Speaker 1: I'll confess to this. I thought it was some baseball

761
00:51:24,115 --> 00:51:28,755
Speaker 1: cards I had bought off eBay. Well it wasn't. The

762
00:51:29,035 --> 00:51:34,155
Speaker 1: envelope contained a sticky substance looked like draino mixed with

763
00:51:34,435 --> 00:51:38,195
Speaker 1: talcum powder, and it fell out, and accompanying notes said

764
00:51:38,235 --> 00:51:41,555
Speaker 1: it was anthrax. Now I and other liberals would get

765
00:51:41,555 --> 00:51:45,915
Speaker 1: a taste of our own medicine. Even reading those chilling

766
00:51:45,955 --> 00:51:50,075
Speaker 1: words and having covered the actual anthrax letters terrorist attacks

767
00:51:50,195 --> 00:51:52,275
Speaker 1: of two thousand and one when I was with CNN,

768
00:51:52,955 --> 00:51:56,515
Speaker 1: I knew it was an anthrax. The guy who supposedly

769
00:51:56,555 --> 00:51:59,835
Speaker 1: sent the actual anthrax in two thousand and one. Was

770
00:51:59,995 --> 00:52:03,275
Speaker 1: an expert in the field, and even he masshandled the

771
00:52:03,275 --> 00:52:06,555
Speaker 1: stuff so badly that supposed he gave himself anthrax and

772
00:52:06,635 --> 00:52:10,875
Speaker 1: died of it. On the other hand, I know the

773
00:52:10,915 --> 00:52:14,515
Speaker 1: odds were impossible, but what if I was wrong. My

774
00:52:14,635 --> 00:52:17,475
Speaker 1: apartment building was filled with little old ladies who had

775
00:52:17,475 --> 00:52:21,235
Speaker 1: lived there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed that

776
00:52:21,355 --> 00:52:25,875
Speaker 1: meant Franklin, not Theodore. The odds were I don't know

777
00:52:26,035 --> 00:52:29,035
Speaker 1: one in a billion that it was anthrax. But who

778
00:52:29,075 --> 00:52:32,435
Speaker 1: was I to dismiss this one in a billion chance

779
00:52:32,835 --> 00:52:35,395
Speaker 1: that these little old ladies were going to get anthrax?

780
00:52:35,715 --> 00:52:38,875
Speaker 1: Who was I to make that call? So instead I

781
00:52:38,915 --> 00:52:43,475
Speaker 1: made a call. I called the FBI. Well, it was

782
00:52:43,555 --> 00:52:46,995
Speaker 1: quite an evening. The cops showed up. The FBI showed up.

783
00:52:47,035 --> 00:52:48,915
Speaker 1: They said, of course it's not anthrax, but we have

784
00:52:48,995 --> 00:52:51,635
Speaker 1: to act like it is. Welcome to our new world.

785
00:52:52,115 --> 00:52:55,195
Speaker 1: The hasmat squad came in. They set up a command

786
00:52:55,235 --> 00:52:58,115
Speaker 1: post in the building. They swept my apartment and they said, okay,

787
00:52:58,115 --> 00:53:00,355
Speaker 1: now you have to go to the emergency room for tests.

788
00:53:00,635 --> 00:53:03,355
Speaker 1: And I said, it's not anthrax. You just said so.

789
00:53:03,395 --> 00:53:05,995
Speaker 1: And they said if we have to do this. You

790
00:53:06,155 --> 00:53:09,475
Speaker 1: have to do this too, I laughed. Plus, if you don't,

791
00:53:09,515 --> 00:53:11,595
Speaker 1: we can arrest you as a threat to public health,

792
00:53:11,675 --> 00:53:14,635
Speaker 1: and we could make you go to the hospital. So

793
00:53:14,755 --> 00:53:18,595
Speaker 1: out I went into an ambulance dressed in a hazmat

794
00:53:18,715 --> 00:53:24,355
Speaker 1: suit one size too small that really cut in the groin.

795
00:53:25,475 --> 00:53:27,955
Speaker 1: I spent the night getting checked out. The FBI then

796
00:53:27,995 --> 00:53:32,595
Speaker 1: called and said, it's like it's like draino with ivory

797
00:53:32,635 --> 00:53:36,955
Speaker 1: soap flakes. But they also said there had been other

798
00:53:37,075 --> 00:53:39,795
Speaker 1: letters that had arrived that night and the night before,

799
00:53:40,075 --> 00:53:43,595
Speaker 1: sent to people like the chairman of CBS and David

800
00:53:43,675 --> 00:53:47,875
Speaker 1: Letterman's office, and Nancy Pelosi and some poor guy who

801
00:53:47,915 --> 00:53:50,275
Speaker 1: happened to have the name John Stuart who was not

802
00:53:50,515 --> 00:53:53,955
Speaker 1: the John Stuart. And they couldn't make me do this,

803
00:53:54,075 --> 00:53:56,795
Speaker 1: but it would really help if I did not report

804
00:53:56,835 --> 00:54:01,275
Speaker 1: what happened on my TV show that night, just for

805
00:54:01,315 --> 00:54:04,155
Speaker 1: the one day do it tomorrow, because they had a

806
00:54:04,235 --> 00:54:06,355
Speaker 1: lead on and the guy who had sent all these letters,

807
00:54:06,355 --> 00:54:10,955
Speaker 1: and they didn't want to scare them off, And I said, sure,

808
00:54:11,315 --> 00:54:15,035
Speaker 1: I'm a patriot. The next day, while we were still

809
00:54:15,075 --> 00:54:18,675
Speaker 1: observing the embargo on the story, my story planning to

810
00:54:18,715 --> 00:54:21,555
Speaker 1: run it at eight o'clock at night. New York Post

811
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:25,835
Speaker 1: page six led with a picture of me with the

812
00:54:25,835 --> 00:54:31,395
Speaker 1: headline powder puff spooks Keith and making sure to identify

813
00:54:31,475 --> 00:54:34,875
Speaker 1: me as Quote, a frequent critic of President Bush's policies.

814
00:54:35,555 --> 00:54:39,195
Speaker 1: The New York Post mocked me for not just assuming

815
00:54:39,235 --> 00:54:42,075
Speaker 1: it was fake antrax and ignoring it, and claimed I

816
00:54:42,155 --> 00:54:45,595
Speaker 1: insisted the cops should take me to the hospital. Quote

817
00:54:45,955 --> 00:54:48,875
Speaker 1: whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out

818
00:54:49,075 --> 00:54:54,515
Speaker 1: isn't known. By the way, one of the actual anthrax

819
00:54:54,635 --> 00:54:56,555
Speaker 1: letters in two thousand and one, one of the letters

820
00:54:56,595 --> 00:54:59,755
Speaker 1: with actual anthrax in it that got some people sick

821
00:54:59,955 --> 00:55:03,715
Speaker 1: and killed a little old lady, had been mailed to

822
00:55:04,475 --> 00:55:07,235
Speaker 1: the New York Post, and one of their staffers had

823
00:55:07,275 --> 00:55:15,675
Speaker 1: contracted anthrax. And still this was their attitude towards anthrax threats. Anyway,

824
00:55:15,715 --> 00:55:17,715
Speaker 1: as it turned out, there was a guy in California

825
00:55:17,795 --> 00:55:20,515
Speaker 1: sending out these threatening letters, each with fake antracks, to

826
00:55:20,555 --> 00:55:23,555
Speaker 1: about a dozen people. He sent me four of them. Ultimately,

827
00:55:24,315 --> 00:55:27,755
Speaker 1: I soon knew the FBI guys by their first names.

828
00:55:28,115 --> 00:55:31,235
Speaker 1: I pointed out to FBI Doug that the last envelope

829
00:55:31,275 --> 00:55:33,355
Speaker 1: I received had a bar code on it. Maybe they

830
00:55:33,355 --> 00:55:35,155
Speaker 1: could track the guy that way, and he said, oh,

831
00:55:35,235 --> 00:55:37,475
Speaker 1: you're right. And the next thing I knew the FBI

832
00:55:37,555 --> 00:55:41,515
Speaker 1: had just videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me,

833
00:55:41,595 --> 00:55:45,315
Speaker 1: the fifth from his home in Woodland Hills, California. And

834
00:55:45,355 --> 00:55:49,955
Speaker 1: I swear to god he actually lived in his mother's

835
00:55:50,035 --> 00:55:54,875
Speaker 1: basement at age thirty seven or something. And FBI Doug said,

836
00:55:55,555 --> 00:55:57,435
Speaker 1: do we have your permission to pull a letter out

837
00:55:57,475 --> 00:56:00,155
Speaker 1: of the mailbox and open it? I said sure, And

838
00:56:00,195 --> 00:56:02,355
Speaker 1: the next thing I knew the guy was sentenced to

839
00:56:02,555 --> 00:56:07,155
Speaker 1: prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI Doug said,

840
00:56:07,435 --> 00:56:12,315
Speaker 1: by the way, that barcode, you noticed it connected to

841
00:56:12,355 --> 00:56:15,875
Speaker 1: the post office here, and that's where we found his address.

842
00:56:16,395 --> 00:56:18,595
Speaker 1: And we also found the fact that he purchased a

843
00:56:18,635 --> 00:56:22,635
Speaker 1: postal money order for fifteen dollars made out to the

844
00:56:22,875 --> 00:56:27,875
Speaker 1: Catherine Harris for Florida Senate campaign, if you remember her

845
00:56:27,955 --> 00:56:32,275
Speaker 1: from Gore V. Bush and his online history. We looked

846
00:56:32,275 --> 00:56:34,995
Speaker 1: that all up. It's all about how she Katherine Harris

847
00:56:35,155 --> 00:56:39,035
Speaker 1: and some woman named Laura something or another. They are

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Speaker 1: And if that isn't ten years of my life in

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Speaker 1: one sentence courtesy of the New York effing Post, I

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Speaker 1: don't know what is. And as I said earlier, the

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Speaker 1: Post is cooking up something as we speak. It may

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Speaker 1: be about my evil, evil tweets. I know it's it's

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Speaker 1: not something you're going to read. It's not something I'm

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Speaker 1: going to read. It's like that's Saturday Night Live sketch

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was so long and not interesting that

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Speaker 1: middle of the sketch, and the sketch was about me.

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Speaker 1: Same thing with the Post. But I mean, it's not

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Speaker 1: easy to find forty pages of red meat to throw

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Speaker 1: at Murdoch's idiot readers every day. I understand that. All right,

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Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. Most of our Countdown music was a

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Speaker 1: our musical directors have Countdown. It was produced by Tko Brothers.

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Speaker 1: Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. Mister

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Speaker 1: Chanel handled orchestration and keyboards. That's them playing now. Our

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Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball

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Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc.

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Speaker 1: the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my

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Speaker 1: friend Larry David, and everything else was as always my fault.

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Speaker 1: Sorry for the hoarseness. It was dog grooming day at

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Speaker 1: the house and so the air is thick with small

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Speaker 1: doggie hair. I don't think Walter Cronkite ever said that

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Speaker 1: on his show That's Countdown for Today, Day two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty nine of America held hostage just one and

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Speaker 1: twenty four days until the scheduled end of Trump's lame

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Speaker 1: duck and lame brain term unless unless he listens and resigns,

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Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein,

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Speaker 1: or the pavement stuck on his hand, or a stuck

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Speaker 1: escalator or tail and all, or Jimmy Kimmel the next

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Speaker 1: schedule count down his Monday until then, I'm Keith Oldraman

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