1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:21,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump 2 00:00:21,595 --> 00:00:25,355 Speaker 1: filmed a commercial while standing on top of the graves 3 00:00:25,515 --> 00:00:28,955 Speaker 1: of dead American war heroes. I am surprised he didn't 4 00:00:28,995 --> 00:00:32,675 Speaker 1: try to sell us sneakers or trading cards or bitcoin 5 00:00:32,915 --> 00:00:37,075 Speaker 1: or the rest of his shit. And his staffers assaulted 6 00:00:37,195 --> 00:00:41,635 Speaker 1: a woman employee at Arlington National Cemetery, and he blamed 7 00:00:41,675 --> 00:00:44,875 Speaker 1: the families of the dead because his campaign broke the 8 00:00:44,955 --> 00:00:48,035 Speaker 1: law at his fascist gang of thugs is running wild 9 00:00:48,115 --> 00:00:50,635 Speaker 1: with this, as if Kamala Harris has anything to do 10 00:00:50,715 --> 00:00:53,315 Speaker 1: with it. And eight days later, there still is at a 11 00:00:53,435 --> 00:00:57,635 Speaker 1: Senate investigation, or a Defense Department investigation, or a real 12 00:00:57,755 --> 00:01:01,155 Speaker 1: journalistic investigation, and one of them better be started, god 13 00:01:01,315 --> 00:01:06,795 Speaker 1: damned immediately. And the media continued to cover up for 14 00:01:06,955 --> 00:01:11,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Cover up. Not the cover up of his 15 00:01:11,995 --> 00:01:15,875 Speaker 1: campaign emails hacked by a foreign government and sent to 16 00:01:15,915 --> 00:01:20,075 Speaker 1: the New York Times, Washington Post and Politico. Not their 17 00:01:20,195 --> 00:01:24,115 Speaker 1: cover up of that story, because this time that matters. 18 00:01:24,915 --> 00:01:27,555 Speaker 1: Not the cover up of the reported ten million dollar 19 00:01:27,675 --> 00:01:31,315 Speaker 1: bribing of Trump just before the twenty sixteen election by 20 00:01:31,395 --> 00:01:35,195 Speaker 1: President Elcesi of Egypt. Not that cover up by the 21 00:01:35,275 --> 00:01:38,955 Speaker 1: major newspapers and by the Department of Justice, which should 22 00:01:38,995 --> 00:01:42,355 Speaker 1: just publicly release all it has on the Egyptian bribe, 23 00:01:42,355 --> 00:01:44,555 Speaker 1: and if it won't, Biden should order it to not 24 00:01:45,035 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: That cover up. The cover up of Trump grinning like 25 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:53,835 Speaker 1: the psychotic that he is, thumbs up, violating all codes 26 00:01:53,875 --> 00:01:58,195 Speaker 1: of decency and respect for veterans, which can only be 27 00:01:58,315 --> 00:02:02,555 Speaker 1: re established in this country if we prosecute scumbags like 28 00:02:02,675 --> 00:02:06,275 Speaker 1: Trump who helped to tear them down every day. The 29 00:02:06,395 --> 00:02:10,115 Speaker 1: cover up of him illegally filming a commercial for his 30 00:02:10,395 --> 00:02:14,715 Speaker 1: campaign to end democracy and filming it in a place 31 00:02:14,915 --> 00:02:19,875 Speaker 1: marked no political activity. The cover up of whoever hit 32 00:02:20,435 --> 00:02:24,795 Speaker 1: an Arlington National Cemetery employee and how they hit her, 33 00:02:25,435 --> 00:02:28,755 Speaker 1: and the cover up of why she is now too 34 00:02:28,795 --> 00:02:34,235 Speaker 1: afraid to proceed or to go public. Where is the 35 00:02:34,475 --> 00:02:41,315 Speaker 1: daily pounding on this utterly, transcendently disgusting story, this deeply 36 00:02:41,675 --> 00:02:46,075 Speaker 1: meaningful story, and most importantly for the simpletons running places 37 00:02:46,115 --> 00:02:48,995 Speaker 1: like the New York Times, the Washington Post in Politico, 38 00:02:49,315 --> 00:02:54,915 Speaker 1: this really easy to follow story. I give the New 39 00:02:55,035 --> 00:02:57,835 Speaker 1: York Times some credit for paying some attention to this story, 40 00:02:57,835 --> 00:02:59,915 Speaker 1: but even they have let it slide, even as the 41 00:02:59,915 --> 00:03:05,075 Speaker 1: Trump campaign continues to use the video illegally shot not 42 00:03:05,155 --> 00:03:07,355 Speaker 1: only to promote his campaign, but also to try to 43 00:03:07,435 --> 00:03:12,075 Speaker 1: smear the vice president because she didn't literally dance on 44 00:03:12,195 --> 00:03:16,475 Speaker 1: the graves of soldiers alongside Trump the way Trump did. 45 00:03:17,955 --> 00:03:22,155 Speaker 1: But even this from the Times, this is six days old. Quote. 46 00:03:22,195 --> 00:03:25,515 Speaker 1: The family of a Green Beret who died by suicide 47 00:03:25,795 --> 00:03:30,355 Speaker 1: after serving eight combat tours and is buried at Arlington 48 00:03:30,755 --> 00:03:35,595 Speaker 1: express concern Wednesday that Trump's campaign had filmed his gravesite 49 00:03:35,835 --> 00:03:39,795 Speaker 1: without permission, as Trump stood in an area where campaign 50 00:03:39,835 --> 00:03:46,315 Speaker 1: photography is not allowed. Relatives of Master Sergeant Andrew Marcasano 51 00:03:46,395 --> 00:03:49,635 Speaker 1: issued their statement two days after Trump's visit, which also 52 00:03:49,715 --> 00:03:52,875 Speaker 1: included a confrontation between members of the Trump campaign and 53 00:03:52,955 --> 00:03:56,955 Speaker 1: an Arlington employee. The former president's campaign took video in 54 00:03:57,035 --> 00:04:01,155 Speaker 1: a heavily restricted section of the cemetery known as Section sixty, 55 00:04:01,395 --> 00:04:03,995 Speaker 1: which is largely reserved for the fallen veterans of the 56 00:04:03,995 --> 00:04:07,795 Speaker 1: Iraq and acts Afghanistan wars. A woman who works at 57 00:04:07,835 --> 00:04:11,835 Speaker 1: the cemetery filed an incident report with the military authorities 58 00:04:12,075 --> 00:04:15,675 Speaker 1: over the altercation, but the official, who has not been identified, 59 00:04:15,995 --> 00:04:21,995 Speaker 1: later declined to press charges. Military officials said she feared 60 00:04:22,315 --> 00:04:31,875 Speaker 1: mister Trump's supporters pursuing retaliation unquote. You will recall that 61 00:04:31,955 --> 00:04:35,315 Speaker 1: the worker who asked them to stop was yelled at 62 00:04:35,395 --> 00:04:40,435 Speaker 1: by Trump goons then abused physically in some way. We 63 00:04:40,515 --> 00:04:42,835 Speaker 1: still don't know if it was a tap on the 64 00:04:42,875 --> 00:04:47,875 Speaker 1: shoulder or a broken goddamn jaw. Then, when the story 65 00:04:47,995 --> 00:04:51,515 Speaker 1: of how the Trump people trampled the graves of the 66 00:04:51,555 --> 00:04:57,595 Speaker 1: war dead at Arlington National Cemetery, this Trump spokesclown Stephen 67 00:04:57,755 --> 00:05:00,475 Speaker 1: Chung said the woman who tried to stop them was 68 00:05:00,555 --> 00:05:05,315 Speaker 1: quote suffering from a mental health episode. And this phony 69 00:05:05,475 --> 00:05:10,395 Speaker 1: Trump patriot Chris las Sevida, the swift boat asshole, called 70 00:05:10,435 --> 00:05:14,315 Speaker 1: her a quote despicable individual who does not deserve to 71 00:05:14,395 --> 00:05:19,155 Speaker 1: represent the hollowed grounds of Arlington National Cemetery, and half 72 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:21,955 Speaker 1: the media, including The Times, covered up the fact that 73 00:05:22,035 --> 00:05:26,755 Speaker 1: this idiot las Savita indeed wrote hollowed as in hollowed 74 00:05:26,875 --> 00:05:31,595 Speaker 1: out conscience instead of the correct word, which is hallowed 75 00:05:31,715 --> 00:05:34,515 Speaker 1: with an A. And by the way, when the Trump 76 00:05:34,595 --> 00:05:37,995 Speaker 1: campaign issued a statement from Senator Tom Cotton, who was 77 00:05:38,035 --> 00:05:42,195 Speaker 1: a candidate for Dumbest Man Alive but he looks serious, 78 00:05:42,515 --> 00:05:46,355 Speaker 1: so Trump likes him, the quote from Cotton misspelled the 79 00:05:46,395 --> 00:05:51,155 Speaker 1: word cemetery, and your goddamn right. It matters because it's 80 00:05:51,195 --> 00:05:55,355 Speaker 1: the Arlington National Cemetery, and since literally the Civil War 81 00:05:55,715 --> 00:05:58,675 Speaker 1: when we seized it from the trader Robert E. Lee, 82 00:05:58,755 --> 00:06:03,675 Speaker 1: it has been our most hallowed ground, this cemetery, and 83 00:06:03,755 --> 00:06:06,515 Speaker 1: these Trump it it's can't even get that part right, 84 00:06:06,755 --> 00:06:09,555 Speaker 1: let alone the laws right, or the respect right, or 85 00:06:09,595 --> 00:06:15,515 Speaker 1: the solemnity right required of anybody who goes there. I mean, 86 00:06:15,555 --> 00:06:19,635 Speaker 1: do you know who the Sullivan brothers are. They are 87 00:06:19,635 --> 00:06:22,675 Speaker 1: in Arlington two. They're going to be there for a while. 88 00:06:23,515 --> 00:06:28,155 Speaker 1: They're in Section MC, basically across the street from Section 89 00:06:28,235 --> 00:06:34,555 Speaker 1: thirty five. They're the equivalent of about three city blocks 90 00:06:34,555 --> 00:06:38,715 Speaker 1: away from where Trump shot his commercial. The former marine 91 00:06:38,755 --> 00:06:42,275 Speaker 1: and former Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Kesling brought this up. 92 00:06:42,675 --> 00:06:46,715 Speaker 1: The Sullivans were five brothers from Iowa who served together 93 00:06:46,795 --> 00:06:49,715 Speaker 1: in the Second World War on the same ship, on 94 00:06:49,795 --> 00:06:53,555 Speaker 1: the light cruiser USS, you know, and it was sunk 95 00:06:53,635 --> 00:06:57,275 Speaker 1: by the Japanese at Guadalcanal on November thirteenth, nineteen forty two, 96 00:06:57,275 --> 00:07:02,795 Speaker 1: and they all died, all five of them, all five brothers. 97 00:07:04,035 --> 00:07:06,595 Speaker 1: Trump could have taken five minutes to go and salute them, 98 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:12,035 Speaker 1: or five seconds to salute anybody at Arlington, even Robert F. 99 00:07:12,115 --> 00:07:15,955 Speaker 1: Kennedy Senior the hell. As Kesling notes, this isn't the 100 00:07:15,955 --> 00:07:20,635 Speaker 1: first time Trump specifically ignored the Sullivan brothers. Waterloo, Iowa 101 00:07:20,915 --> 00:07:24,235 Speaker 1: named its convention center after them, and Kesling was there 102 00:07:24,635 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: when Trump campaigned there more than eight years ago. And 103 00:07:27,595 --> 00:07:30,915 Speaker 1: just to be as cynical as possible, you go to 104 00:07:30,955 --> 00:07:34,715 Speaker 1: the Sullivan Center, it's a layup politically. There's a big 105 00:07:34,755 --> 00:07:38,755 Speaker 1: picture of them, their story, their deaths, where they are now, 106 00:07:39,715 --> 00:07:45,235 Speaker 1: unbelievably tragic story. Trump didn't pose with the picture. He 107 00:07:45,315 --> 00:07:48,995 Speaker 1: didn't reference them in the speech at their center. Just 108 00:07:49,035 --> 00:07:51,675 Speaker 1: like a week ago yesterday, he just went to Arlington 109 00:07:51,955 --> 00:07:55,155 Speaker 1: as he'd gone to Waterloo, just to sell you more shit, 110 00:07:55,795 --> 00:07:59,515 Speaker 1: and f the Sullivans and f the soldiers in Afghanistan, 111 00:07:59,795 --> 00:08:05,795 Speaker 1: and especially f this Arlington employee, and after yelling at 112 00:08:05,835 --> 00:08:08,875 Speaker 1: the employee, after touching or slandering her, questioning her mental health, 113 00:08:09,075 --> 00:08:12,395 Speaker 1: questioning her patriotism, threatening her in some way, when it 114 00:08:12,595 --> 00:08:16,475 Speaker 1: was reported that she initially filed her report then declined 115 00:08:16,515 --> 00:08:19,315 Speaker 1: to pursue it at Joint Base Meyer Henderson Hall in 116 00:08:19,435 --> 00:08:24,915 Speaker 1: Virginia for fear of retaliation. This breathing cartoon spokesman Stephen 117 00:08:25,035 --> 00:08:28,875 Speaker 1: Chung went in for another hit, quoting him that is 118 00:08:29,035 --> 00:08:35,035 Speaker 1: ridiculous and sounds like someone who has Trump derangement syndrome. Unquote. 119 00:08:35,155 --> 00:08:39,875 Speaker 1: You know who has Trump derangement syndrome? Trump Trump has 120 00:08:39,955 --> 00:08:45,795 Speaker 1: Trump derangement syndrome. He's the one with the derangement. Oh. 121 00:08:45,795 --> 00:08:49,595 Speaker 1: By the way, there are two fatally flawed strains of 122 00:08:49,715 --> 00:08:53,955 Speaker 1: pseudo logic operating within our newsrooms that are covering up 123 00:08:53,995 --> 00:08:58,275 Speaker 1: for Trump about Arlington and all the other stories. One 124 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:01,595 Speaker 1: of these strains is, as the Inn saying goes, that 125 00:09:01,635 --> 00:09:06,075 Speaker 1: this is another opportunity for news organizations with vestigial and 126 00:09:06,235 --> 00:09:09,835 Speaker 1: long since expired reputations for being liberal, like The Times 127 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:13,115 Speaker 1: could be mistaken for liberal anymore. It's an opportunity for 128 00:09:13,155 --> 00:09:19,275 Speaker 1: them to comply in advance in case Trump regains power. 129 00:09:20,995 --> 00:09:23,915 Speaker 1: The other pseudo logic is this claim that Trump people 130 00:09:23,955 --> 00:09:27,755 Speaker 1: continued to belch that they have exculpatory video of this 131 00:09:27,955 --> 00:09:32,555 Speaker 1: incident with that crazy National Cemetery employee and it'll show 132 00:09:32,595 --> 00:09:35,555 Speaker 1: you and don't you dare criticize Trump because you'll look 133 00:09:35,635 --> 00:09:39,315 Speaker 1: really stupid when we release the video and take our revenge. 134 00:09:40,595 --> 00:09:45,595 Speaker 1: And there are eighth graders starting at school newspapers this week, 135 00:09:45,915 --> 00:09:50,435 Speaker 1: this minute. Who know there is no video that the 136 00:09:50,515 --> 00:09:54,475 Speaker 1: only video Trump has he shot illegally and used all 137 00:09:54,475 --> 00:09:57,475 Speaker 1: of it illegally for an illegal campaign. Add but don't 138 00:09:57,515 --> 00:09:59,555 Speaker 1: try explaining that to the New York Times, the Washington 139 00:09:59,595 --> 00:10:02,355 Speaker 1: Post in Politico, because for them to say there is 140 00:10:02,435 --> 00:10:09,355 Speaker 1: no video requires them to say something. And the point 141 00:10:09,435 --> 00:10:15,355 Speaker 1: right now is for them to not say anything. Two 142 00:10:15,395 --> 00:10:20,635 Speaker 1: generations of the fascist Republicans working the refs of the 143 00:10:20,675 --> 00:10:25,475 Speaker 1: media of this nation, plus the ever spiraling gyre of 144 00:10:25,515 --> 00:10:31,075 Speaker 1: the shrinking news business, have in short worked. Democracy may 145 00:10:31,155 --> 00:10:34,355 Speaker 1: die in darkness, but inside the Washington Post, the real 146 00:10:34,475 --> 00:10:38,515 Speaker 1: fear is the Washington Post will die because somebody there 147 00:10:39,395 --> 00:10:47,435 Speaker 1: said something. Now when others say something, When the family 148 00:10:48,115 --> 00:10:51,715 Speaker 1: of the PTSD suicide whose grave was shown by Trump 149 00:10:51,915 --> 00:10:57,555 Speaker 1: without that family's permission, when they say something, then then 150 00:10:57,635 --> 00:11:00,435 Speaker 1: the Times or the Post or the others will go 151 00:11:00,755 --> 00:11:04,275 Speaker 1: just far enough out onto that limb to point at 152 00:11:04,275 --> 00:11:07,955 Speaker 1: what they said and say, oh, please, don't hurt us. 153 00:11:08,035 --> 00:11:14,075 Speaker 1: Right wingers keep buying our shit newspapers. Trump blamed the 154 00:11:14,115 --> 00:11:17,715 Speaker 1: family of the soldier he was supposedly honoring. It wasn't us. 155 00:11:18,595 --> 00:11:23,435 Speaker 1: We just saw it on the TV. Then and only 156 00:11:23,515 --> 00:11:27,475 Speaker 1: then will they report something like this, should your campaign 157 00:11:27,475 --> 00:11:29,595 Speaker 1: have put out those videos and photos? Well, we have 158 00:11:29,635 --> 00:11:30,035 Speaker 1: a lot of. 159 00:11:29,955 --> 00:11:31,955 Speaker 2: People, you know, we have people, TikTok people. 160 00:11:31,995 --> 00:11:34,195 Speaker 1: You know, we're leading the internet. That was the other thing. 161 00:11:34,835 --> 00:11:36,715 Speaker 1: We're so far above her on. 162 00:11:36,675 --> 00:11:38,835 Speaker 3: The end, I'm not hallowed ground so that they have. 163 00:11:38,875 --> 00:11:41,235 Speaker 2: Put out I don't know what the rules and regulations are. 164 00:11:41,315 --> 00:11:43,795 Speaker 2: I don't know who did it. And it could have 165 00:11:43,835 --> 00:11:45,555 Speaker 2: been them. It could have been the parents, it could 166 00:11:45,555 --> 00:11:47,715 Speaker 2: have been somebody. It was your campaign's TikTok theild I 167 00:11:47,755 --> 00:11:48,195 Speaker 2: put out there. 168 00:11:48,235 --> 00:11:49,795 Speaker 1: I really don't know anything about it. 169 00:11:49,915 --> 00:11:51,875 Speaker 2: All I do is I stood there and I said, 170 00:11:52,075 --> 00:11:53,715 Speaker 2: if you'd like to have a picture, we can have 171 00:11:53,715 --> 00:11:56,555 Speaker 2: a picture. If somebody did, if this was a setup 172 00:11:56,955 --> 00:12:01,155 Speaker 2: by the people in the administration that oh Trump is 173 00:12:01,155 --> 00:12:02,515 Speaker 2: coming to Arlington. 174 00:12:02,075 --> 00:12:04,155 Speaker 1: That looks so bad for us. There ought to be 175 00:12:04,195 --> 00:12:07,795 Speaker 1: a story in every newspaper every day demanding that the 176 00:12:07,795 --> 00:12:11,155 Speaker 1: Trump campaign released the video showing it was the woman 177 00:12:11,235 --> 00:12:15,075 Speaker 1: employee who attacked the Trump campaign goons, you know, the 178 00:12:15,155 --> 00:12:18,875 Speaker 1: video that doesn't exist, because otherwise he gets away with it, 179 00:12:19,955 --> 00:12:22,875 Speaker 1: like he's getting away with the Egypt bribe, like he's 180 00:12:22,915 --> 00:12:26,115 Speaker 1: getting away with whatever was in the emails the Iranians hacked, 181 00:12:26,155 --> 00:12:31,755 Speaker 1: because this election foreign hacking matters. Like he's getting away 182 00:12:31,795 --> 00:12:35,235 Speaker 1: with saying Kamala Harris treated Mike Pence terribly because she 183 00:12:35,315 --> 00:12:38,515 Speaker 1: told him to stop interrupting him during the debate, as 184 00:12:38,515 --> 00:12:42,875 Speaker 1: opposed to you know, the whole gallowsy hangy thing that 185 00:12:42,915 --> 00:12:46,635 Speaker 1: Trump did. Like he's getting away with the Willie Brown 186 00:12:46,755 --> 00:12:51,955 Speaker 1: helicopter flight logs from when Brown slimed Kamala Harris. He's 187 00:12:51,995 --> 00:12:55,115 Speaker 1: going to release them from ten years ago. Only it 188 00:12:55,155 --> 00:12:58,235 Speaker 1: wasn't ten years ago, and they didn't talk about Harris, 189 00:12:58,755 --> 00:13:02,235 Speaker 1: and for that matter, it wasn't Willie Brown, and it 190 00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:05,875 Speaker 1: wasn't ten years ago, and it wasn't a helicopter, and 191 00:13:05,955 --> 00:13:09,195 Speaker 1: it wasn't in San Francisco. He's getting away with it, 192 00:13:11,395 --> 00:13:13,955 Speaker 1: and you get away with it when the media covers 193 00:13:14,035 --> 00:13:20,115 Speaker 1: up for you so thoroughly, so automatically, as the Times 194 00:13:20,355 --> 00:13:23,835 Speaker 1: and the Post and the politico operations of this world 195 00:13:23,875 --> 00:13:26,875 Speaker 1: and all but a few others are so thoroughly, so 196 00:13:27,075 --> 00:13:31,675 Speaker 1: automatically defaulting to covering up for Trump. Not wanting to 197 00:13:31,675 --> 00:13:34,155 Speaker 1: touch it, it's too much trouble. It's a third rail. 198 00:13:34,475 --> 00:13:37,395 Speaker 1: Nothing good can come of it. Everybody knows he's crazy. 199 00:13:37,435 --> 00:13:40,875 Speaker 1: We can't report this. They're doing it so thoroughly that 200 00:13:40,915 --> 00:13:45,155 Speaker 1: the Trump campaign and the Trump psychopaths don't even have 201 00:13:45,275 --> 00:14:11,835 Speaker 1: to bother to cover it up themselves anymore. By the way, 202 00:14:11,875 --> 00:14:16,475 Speaker 1: the Arlington National Cemetery employee slimed and manhandled by the 203 00:14:16,515 --> 00:14:20,475 Speaker 1: Trump campaign in ways we still don't know, she doesn't 204 00:14:20,555 --> 00:14:25,355 Speaker 1: have to in effect press charges. The army can take 205 00:14:25,395 --> 00:14:29,915 Speaker 1: it from here. The evidence is the commercial. The Trump 206 00:14:30,475 --> 00:14:33,915 Speaker 1: physical attack on her is almost unbelievable, but in one 207 00:14:33,995 --> 00:14:39,075 Speaker 1: context it's unnecessary to this story. The laws were broken, 208 00:14:39,435 --> 00:14:41,635 Speaker 1: whether they beat her over the head with a tire 209 00:14:41,755 --> 00:14:45,475 Speaker 1: iron or they said sorry, ma'am and bowed on the 210 00:14:45,515 --> 00:14:49,235 Speaker 1: way out and the breeze was too strong for her. 211 00:14:50,635 --> 00:14:52,635 Speaker 1: But you're not going to read about that either, because 212 00:14:52,675 --> 00:14:56,435 Speaker 1: the media is so so broken. It was broken in 213 00:14:56,475 --> 00:15:01,035 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. It tried with some success to fix itself 214 00:15:01,075 --> 00:15:04,715 Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, but it's now broken in new and 215 00:15:04,755 --> 00:15:10,595 Speaker 1: worse your waves. Joe Scarborough, who has unsuccessfully tried to 216 00:15:10,675 --> 00:15:13,675 Speaker 1: purge from the Internet all those photos of Trump standing 217 00:15:13,715 --> 00:15:18,155 Speaker 1: next to him like he Scarborough was also a tombstone, 218 00:15:19,155 --> 00:15:21,595 Speaker 1: and both of them are grinning like con men giving 219 00:15:21,675 --> 00:15:26,555 Speaker 1: the thumbs up sign. Joe Scarborough his show followed up 220 00:15:26,595 --> 00:15:30,315 Speaker 1: on the CNN Kamala Harrison interview last week with a 221 00:15:30,355 --> 00:15:34,835 Speaker 1: focus group of mixed race voters, and sure enough, one 222 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:39,395 Speaker 1: of them, a guy named Adul Ali, just happens to 223 00:15:39,515 --> 00:15:44,435 Speaker 1: echo this Trump insult to everybody in the world, almost 224 00:15:44,435 --> 00:15:48,755 Speaker 1: word for word, quoting from the Scarborough focus group. I 225 00:15:48,835 --> 00:15:51,395 Speaker 1: didn't know she was black until a number of years 226 00:15:51,395 --> 00:15:53,915 Speaker 1: ago when she happened to turn black, and now she 227 00:15:53,995 --> 00:15:56,635 Speaker 1: wants to be known as black. I don't know is 228 00:15:56,675 --> 00:16:02,675 Speaker 1: she Indian or is she black? Unquote this Adul Ali 229 00:16:02,875 --> 00:16:10,595 Speaker 1: is a Trump podcaster running for Congress as the Republican 230 00:16:11,195 --> 00:16:17,195 Speaker 1: in the North Carolina twelfth Congressional district as a Trumpist. 231 00:16:17,275 --> 00:16:20,435 Speaker 1: And guess you never mentioned that. Joe Scarborough and his 232 00:16:20,515 --> 00:16:23,595 Speaker 1: people and MSNBC, and they matter of factly told the 233 00:16:23,635 --> 00:16:27,475 Speaker 1: website Mediaite. Sure they knew he was a Republican running 234 00:16:27,475 --> 00:16:33,715 Speaker 1: for Congress, they just didn't mention it. That's where we 235 00:16:33,795 --> 00:16:39,195 Speaker 1: are again. The media is pitted against the Democratic candidate 236 00:16:39,435 --> 00:16:43,715 Speaker 1: because bluntly, liberals do not punish bad media. I don't 237 00:16:43,755 --> 00:16:46,395 Speaker 1: care about that. I think the Democratic candidate can handle it. 238 00:16:46,435 --> 00:16:49,635 Speaker 1: For herself. What I'm worried about is this also coincides 239 00:16:49,635 --> 00:16:52,635 Speaker 1: with the reality that the media is pitted against democracy 240 00:16:52,835 --> 00:16:56,555 Speaker 1: as a result of this stand up for democracy. You guys, 241 00:16:57,075 --> 00:16:59,155 Speaker 1: you're all going to wind up in the camps with us. 242 00:17:01,395 --> 00:17:07,635 Speaker 1: You saw this from Politico. Next question, Harris evades questions 243 00:17:07,675 --> 00:17:11,715 Speaker 1: about her identity. This was in the wake of the 244 00:17:11,955 --> 00:17:17,315 Speaker 1: CNN interview with Kamala Harris, which admittedly didn't provide a 245 00:17:17,315 --> 00:17:21,235 Speaker 1: lot of headlines. And Kamala Harris did, as I've said before, 246 00:17:21,515 --> 00:17:24,795 Speaker 1: showed respray I could never muster in thirty five thousand lifetimes. 247 00:17:25,155 --> 00:17:27,475 Speaker 1: They read her the Trump quote about turning black and 248 00:17:27,555 --> 00:17:31,355 Speaker 1: she just went same old playbook. Next question. It was 249 00:17:31,435 --> 00:17:36,075 Speaker 1: a dignified answer to a piece of shit. Next question, 250 00:17:36,155 --> 00:17:43,475 Speaker 1: Harris evades questions about her identity. Well, the blowback on 251 00:17:43,555 --> 00:17:45,395 Speaker 1: this the ratio of let me see if I've got 252 00:17:45,395 --> 00:17:48,955 Speaker 1: this right. The ratio on the tweet was fifty seven million, 253 00:17:49,515 --> 00:17:53,355 Speaker 1: two three. That's a lot, isn't it. I made those 254 00:17:53,435 --> 00:17:56,635 Speaker 1: numbers up, but what the hell it's Politico. Politico then 255 00:17:56,795 --> 00:18:01,155 Speaker 1: changed in a matter of I guess three hours or 256 00:18:01,155 --> 00:18:05,555 Speaker 1: so to Harris sidesteps the spotlight when it comes to 257 00:18:05,595 --> 00:18:08,515 Speaker 1: her identity, and of course the picture of her from 258 00:18:08,555 --> 00:18:12,395 Speaker 1: the video still says next question, Harris evades questions, and 259 00:18:12,435 --> 00:18:16,555 Speaker 1: then they did a little thread for the record. This 260 00:18:16,635 --> 00:18:21,955 Speaker 1: replaces a deleted tweet to better reflect Harris's response. It's 261 00:18:21,995 --> 00:18:25,795 Speaker 1: a funny way to spell apology. We're idiots, We're Politico, 262 00:18:25,875 --> 00:18:30,235 Speaker 1: We're run by a German right winger. We have retreads 263 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:34,915 Speaker 1: who got fired from every other news organization in the world. 264 00:18:35,995 --> 00:18:38,755 Speaker 1: You saw this from the New York Times. They got 265 00:18:38,795 --> 00:18:40,595 Speaker 1: something wrong, they tried to fix it. They got it 266 00:18:40,635 --> 00:18:42,995 Speaker 1: wrong again in a different way. If you saw this. 267 00:18:44,235 --> 00:18:47,355 Speaker 1: The Moms for Liberty can get a bit carried away, 268 00:18:49,155 --> 00:18:53,835 Speaker 1: one of their local chapters, once accidentally quoted Atoll Hitler, 269 00:18:56,355 --> 00:18:59,475 Speaker 1: He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Well, well, 270 00:18:59,635 --> 00:19:04,275 Speaker 1: well that's fun. Accidentally, the Moms for Liberty can get 271 00:19:04,275 --> 00:19:06,715 Speaker 1: a bit carried away, one of their local chapters, once 272 00:19:06,835 --> 00:19:10,915 Speaker 1: quoted Adolf Hitler. He alone, who owns the youth, gains 273 00:19:10,955 --> 00:19:14,115 Speaker 1: the future. A correction was made on September first, twenty 274 00:19:14,115 --> 00:19:16,435 Speaker 1: twenty four. At the Times wrote an earlier version of 275 00:19:16,435 --> 00:19:19,235 Speaker 1: this article incorrectly said that a local chapter of Moms 276 00:19:19,235 --> 00:19:22,275 Speaker 1: for Liberty had accidentally quoted Adolf Hitler in a newsletter. 277 00:19:22,395 --> 00:19:24,755 Speaker 1: The group, which later issued an apology, was aware that 278 00:19:24,795 --> 00:19:27,835 Speaker 1: the quote was from Hitler when the newsletter was published. Well, 279 00:19:27,875 --> 00:19:32,795 Speaker 1: the Times correction is wrong. They didn't just acknowledge that 280 00:19:32,835 --> 00:19:36,715 Speaker 1: they were aware Hitler, said that they defended quoting Hitler. 281 00:19:38,115 --> 00:19:42,555 Speaker 1: They defended quoting Hitler after people in their own organization 282 00:19:42,675 --> 00:19:45,875 Speaker 1: threatened to shut this chapter of Moms for Liberty, which 283 00:19:45,915 --> 00:19:51,475 Speaker 1: is a brand name. After that, then finally they apologized, 284 00:19:51,835 --> 00:19:55,795 Speaker 1: you saw this from Puck News, from this perpetual hot 285 00:19:55,835 --> 00:20:01,275 Speaker 1: and cold running clown Dylan Buyers representing the closed ranks 286 00:20:01,275 --> 00:20:08,555 Speaker 1: of political media. Fascist propaganda dits are not really fascist propagandists. 287 00:20:08,275 --> 00:20:11,635 Speaker 1: It's just stiff. Fox News is just another flavor of 288 00:20:11,755 --> 00:20:16,435 Speaker 1: news right, and it's like MSNBC. It's a different kind. 289 00:20:16,835 --> 00:20:20,035 Speaker 1: One is sweet, one is sour. You decide which is witch. 290 00:20:20,955 --> 00:20:24,275 Speaker 1: Not even the fascist propagandists whose names came up in 291 00:20:24,355 --> 00:20:27,875 Speaker 1: the dominion lawsuit and are shown in texts trying to 292 00:20:27,915 --> 00:20:31,915 Speaker 1: get their own network to take back their call of 293 00:20:31,995 --> 00:20:35,395 Speaker 1: Arizona for Joe Biden in twenty twenty, they're not really 294 00:20:35,515 --> 00:20:39,675 Speaker 1: fascist propagandists. They're the same as everybody else. This is 295 00:20:39,675 --> 00:20:43,675 Speaker 1: what Dylan Byers wrote first, The perceived bias of television 296 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:50,355 Speaker 1: news networks is almost always a red herring, bullshit. Of 297 00:20:50,395 --> 00:20:55,915 Speaker 1: the three well known popular television networks, add Fox and CNN. 298 00:20:55,995 --> 00:20:59,435 Speaker 1: Let's make it five. I've worked for NBC, I've worked 299 00:20:59,435 --> 00:21:03,115 Speaker 1: for Fox, I've worked for CNN. I worked locally for 300 00:21:03,195 --> 00:21:06,515 Speaker 1: ABC and CBS. Why it's a complete set. Guess what. 301 00:21:06,795 --> 00:21:10,155 Speaker 1: The perceived bias of television news networks is almost never 302 00:21:10,195 --> 00:21:14,475 Speaker 1: a red herring. Actually, but he goes on all available 303 00:21:14,515 --> 00:21:18,395 Speaker 1: evidence suggests foxes Brett Bhar and Martha McCallum would be 304 00:21:18,435 --> 00:21:24,515 Speaker 1: equally responsible moderators or interviewers of either candidate. Likewise, NBC's 305 00:21:24,595 --> 00:21:28,835 Speaker 1: Less Your hold In, Savannah Guthrie, by the Way, Savannah 306 00:21:28,835 --> 00:21:33,475 Speaker 1: Guthrie and Less Your Whole perfectly nice people, Ciphers, there's 307 00:21:33,515 --> 00:21:37,515 Speaker 1: nobody there. They're television performers. At one point each of 308 00:21:37,515 --> 00:21:42,115 Speaker 1: them was a newsman or newswoman. But they're Cipher's. Martha 309 00:21:42,195 --> 00:21:46,235 Speaker 1: McCallum is a Republican who often advocates for right wing 310 00:21:46,355 --> 00:21:48,955 Speaker 1: causes on her show and takes a right wing slanted 311 00:21:48,995 --> 00:21:51,235 Speaker 1: point of view. And as I said, Brett Behar is 312 00:21:51,275 --> 00:21:55,595 Speaker 1: in this huge lawsuit, demanding that his own network, and 313 00:21:55,715 --> 00:22:00,235 Speaker 1: he's the newsman, added, demanding that they put Arizona back 314 00:22:00,275 --> 00:22:03,475 Speaker 1: in play, because it's making everybody look bad for all 315 00:22:03,515 --> 00:22:07,835 Speaker 1: the mission creep. Dylan Byers right, anybody knows creeps. It 316 00:22:07,875 --> 00:22:10,315 Speaker 1: would be Dylan Byer's for all the mission creep and 317 00:22:10,355 --> 00:22:12,755 Speaker 1: conflicts of interest in TV news. These days, all of 318 00:22:12,795 --> 00:22:16,475 Speaker 1: the major companies, yes, even Fox, employ capable newsmen and 319 00:22:16,555 --> 00:22:20,675 Speaker 1: women whose reputations, like those of the network that employ them, 320 00:22:20,875 --> 00:22:23,235 Speaker 1: depend on their ability to moderate a debate or conduct 321 00:22:23,275 --> 00:22:27,635 Speaker 1: an interview with journalistic integrity. I'm waiting for the punchline 322 00:22:27,675 --> 00:22:29,595 Speaker 1: to this, in which it turns out Dylan Byers does 323 00:22:29,635 --> 00:22:41,515 Speaker 1: not own a TV of any kind. To a quick 324 00:22:41,595 --> 00:22:44,475 Speaker 1: run of the polls New York Times in Swing States, 325 00:22:44,475 --> 00:22:48,235 Speaker 1: the number one issue in Swing states for women voters 326 00:22:48,355 --> 00:22:54,795 Speaker 1: is no longer the economy. It is abortion. ABC ipsos 327 00:22:55,275 --> 00:22:59,395 Speaker 1: Harris by six over the weekend. Favorable's good for her 328 00:22:59,475 --> 00:23:05,435 Speaker 1: and for Walls, not so hot for the Republicans, widening 329 00:23:05,475 --> 00:23:09,155 Speaker 1: her advantage among women. In the new ABC News IPSOS poll, 330 00:23:09,555 --> 00:23:12,995 Speaker 1: she now leads by thirteen points, fifty four to forty one. 331 00:23:13,875 --> 00:23:17,275 Speaker 1: Among the men, Trump leads by five fifty one forty six, 332 00:23:18,235 --> 00:23:24,595 Speaker 1: which is declared not statistically significant. Between the lines to 333 00:23:24,795 --> 00:23:30,995 Speaker 1: use the phrase the female male change occurs among pasty 334 00:23:31,035 --> 00:23:34,715 Speaker 1: white people quoting it, White women have gone from thirteen 335 00:23:34,795 --> 00:23:37,515 Speaker 1: points for Trump pre convention to a virtual dead heat 336 00:23:37,835 --> 00:23:41,955 Speaker 1: Trump plus two now. White men from plus thirteen points 337 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:45,755 Speaker 1: for Trump before the convention to plus twenty one points now, 338 00:23:46,235 --> 00:23:51,155 Speaker 1: according to the ABC News polling director, So the women 339 00:23:51,195 --> 00:23:54,275 Speaker 1: are all even and the men are even more for 340 00:23:54,315 --> 00:23:58,995 Speaker 1: Trump than they were before and in this isn't really 341 00:23:59,075 --> 00:24:02,595 Speaker 1: a poll, this is the oops. Those were internal numbers. 342 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:06,035 Speaker 1: I didn't know they'd go public where they went public. 343 00:24:06,035 --> 00:24:09,235 Speaker 1: In the Boston Globe, Tom Mountain, who had served as 344 00:24:09,235 --> 00:24:12,035 Speaker 1: one of several vice chairs of the former president's effort 345 00:24:12,035 --> 00:24:14,995 Speaker 1: in Massachusetts, wrote in an email to Trump volunteers in 346 00:24:15,035 --> 00:24:18,515 Speaker 1: the state that the campaign has determined that New Hampshire 347 00:24:18,555 --> 00:24:22,155 Speaker 1: is no longer a battleground state, advis supporters to instead 348 00:24:22,155 --> 00:24:27,035 Speaker 1: direct their attention to Pennsylvania. The GOP, the Boston Globe says, 349 00:24:27,075 --> 00:24:29,795 Speaker 1: had been bullish about winning New Hampshire before President Biden 350 00:24:29,835 --> 00:24:33,595 Speaker 1: dropped out. In the email, Mountain, former official with the 351 00:24:33,595 --> 00:24:37,515 Speaker 1: Massachusetts GOP, said Trump was quote sure to lose by 352 00:24:37,555 --> 00:24:40,275 Speaker 1: an even higher margin in New Hampshire than he did 353 00:24:40,275 --> 00:24:46,155 Speaker 1: in sixteen and twenty. Citing campaign data slash research. Can 354 00:24:46,195 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: you guess where I'm going with this? For the joke 355 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:52,835 Speaker 1: that ends this segment, he claimed, resources the Globe continues 356 00:24:53,675 --> 00:24:56,155 Speaker 1: would be suspended and the campaign would not send Trump 357 00:24:56,235 --> 00:24:59,995 Speaker 1: or high profile surrogates such as his sons. Well, thank 358 00:25:00,035 --> 00:25:03,595 Speaker 1: goodness for small blessings New Hampshire. The email was obtained 359 00:25:03,595 --> 00:25:08,195 Speaker 1: by the Globe and confirmed with multiple recipients. Trump campaign 360 00:25:08,275 --> 00:25:15,075 Speaker 1: official Tom Mountain has now resigned, thus making a molehill 361 00:25:15,195 --> 00:25:23,835 Speaker 1: out of a mountain. Just sitting there on a tee. 362 00:25:23,915 --> 00:25:25,955 Speaker 1: All right, if you're new here, thanks for responding to 363 00:25:25,995 --> 00:25:28,835 Speaker 1: the advertising, appreciate it. I put a new one of 364 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:31,755 Speaker 1: these out, usually forty minutes to an hour in length. 365 00:25:31,835 --> 00:25:35,075 Speaker 1: Every night, just after midnight, a version goes up on 366 00:25:35,115 --> 00:25:38,835 Speaker 1: YouTube about five am. So this is the Tuesday edition 367 00:25:38,955 --> 00:25:41,835 Speaker 1: or the Monday Bulldog edition that you're listening to now 368 00:25:42,635 --> 00:25:46,755 Speaker 1: starting next Monday, now, next Sunday night about midnight. That'll 369 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:50,115 Speaker 1: be five nights a week. Though the one Sunday night 370 00:25:50,195 --> 00:25:53,035 Speaker 1: Monday morning, that's going to be real short eight minutes 371 00:25:53,195 --> 00:25:55,355 Speaker 1: unless I get worked up, and of course, as you know, 372 00:25:55,435 --> 00:25:59,955 Speaker 1: I never get worked up. Four is about the maximum 373 00:25:59,955 --> 00:26:02,235 Speaker 1: I can handle. We got eight weeks to go until 374 00:26:02,235 --> 00:26:05,715 Speaker 1: the election. If I can ask you to do something 375 00:26:06,395 --> 00:26:09,955 Speaker 1: like listen, the least I can do is actually add 376 00:26:10,035 --> 00:26:14,635 Speaker 1: the fifth piece. Anyhow, back to this one. Also of 377 00:26:14,675 --> 00:26:17,555 Speaker 1: interest here, it is amazing to watch right wing racists 378 00:26:17,555 --> 00:26:22,155 Speaker 1: and misogynists goes so nuts over somebody like Kamala Harris. 379 00:26:22,675 --> 00:26:24,395 Speaker 1: I don't know if you notice this, but she's a 380 00:26:24,435 --> 00:26:28,755 Speaker 1: woman of color that the misogynists and racists and their 381 00:26:28,795 --> 00:26:33,515 Speaker 1: defenses melt and they all default to assuming she's where 382 00:26:33,555 --> 00:26:38,635 Speaker 1: she is because of quote puppet masters and or quote 383 00:26:38,915 --> 00:26:43,355 Speaker 1: oral sex. Worst persons in the world is next. This 384 00:26:43,435 --> 00:27:11,395 Speaker 1: is countdown. This is countdown. With Keith Olberman still ahead 385 00:27:11,395 --> 00:27:14,115 Speaker 1: of us on this ediative countdown. The college year has 386 00:27:14,275 --> 00:27:20,035 Speaker 1: just begun. The pro football year starts day after tomorrow. 387 00:27:20,715 --> 00:27:24,115 Speaker 1: These things may combine to mean many things for you. 388 00:27:24,835 --> 00:27:29,955 Speaker 1: For me, they combine into only one story. The day 389 00:27:30,155 --> 00:27:33,875 Speaker 1: one of the most infamous mistakes in football history led 390 00:27:33,955 --> 00:27:37,235 Speaker 1: my college professor to have to talk himself out of 391 00:27:37,275 --> 00:27:40,995 Speaker 1: taking it out on everybody in his course by failing 392 00:27:41,195 --> 00:27:45,075 Speaker 1: us all f's for everybody. You get an F, and 393 00:27:45,115 --> 00:27:47,515 Speaker 1: you get an F, and you get an F next, 394 00:27:47,555 --> 00:27:51,315 Speaker 1: and things I promised not to tell first. There are 395 00:27:51,315 --> 00:27:55,195 Speaker 1: still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup 396 00:27:55,235 --> 00:27:58,315 Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens who 397 00:27:58,355 --> 00:28:06,955 Speaker 1: constitute two day's worst persons in the World's fellow's name 398 00:28:06,995 --> 00:28:11,755 Speaker 1: is Peter J. Hassen. He is an editor. The editor. 399 00:28:11,795 --> 00:28:14,355 Speaker 1: It's hard to say they won't assume responsibility at the 400 00:28:14,395 --> 00:28:19,875 Speaker 1: Free Beacon, which is exactly what it sounds like. It's free. 401 00:28:19,915 --> 00:28:24,115 Speaker 1: Peter Jay Hassen is we think the person behind the 402 00:28:24,155 --> 00:28:28,435 Speaker 1: big story on the far right that Kamala Harris should 403 00:28:28,475 --> 00:28:32,315 Speaker 1: not be president of the United States because nowhere in 404 00:28:32,355 --> 00:28:37,995 Speaker 1: her past resumes, autobiographies, or campaigns does it say she 405 00:28:38,195 --> 00:28:44,675 Speaker 1: worked at McDonald's. You may have heard she worked at McDonald's, new, 406 00:28:45,235 --> 00:28:47,835 Speaker 1: writes Peter J. Hassen. And there's a picture of Mickey 407 00:28:47,875 --> 00:28:50,955 Speaker 1: De's at least the logo the Golden Arches. And next 408 00:28:50,995 --> 00:28:52,955 Speaker 1: to a picture of that is picture of Kamala Harris 409 00:28:53,195 --> 00:28:58,035 Speaker 1: looking concerned as she holds a microphone. New Kamala Harris's 410 00:28:58,235 --> 00:29:04,315 Speaker 1: missing summer job at McDonald's job. Uh Kamala Harris is 411 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:07,995 Speaker 1: missing summer job at McDonald's job. The guy has a 412 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:12,235 Speaker 1: blue check on Twitter x and he didn't edit this. 413 00:29:12,995 --> 00:29:16,355 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is missing summer job at McDonald's job. I 414 00:29:16,395 --> 00:29:19,075 Speaker 1: got a new job for you, fella, and it is 415 00:29:19,115 --> 00:29:22,755 Speaker 1: not in the grammar police her resume and job application 416 00:29:22,835 --> 00:29:26,835 Speaker 1: a year after graduating college free beacon obtained through FOIA. 417 00:29:27,275 --> 00:29:31,955 Speaker 1: Didn't mention it. Yeah, okay, neither to either of her 418 00:29:32,035 --> 00:29:36,675 Speaker 1: books or either of the biographies on her exclusive report 419 00:29:36,755 --> 00:29:43,315 Speaker 1: from Chuck Somebody and Andrew and Simon something Peter Jay 420 00:29:43,435 --> 00:29:48,635 Speaker 1: Hassen editor, He offers subscriptions to his feed in which 421 00:29:48,635 --> 00:29:51,475 Speaker 1: he writes things like Kamala Harris's missing summer job at 422 00:29:51,555 --> 00:29:55,715 Speaker 1: McDonald's job, her resume, job and job application job a 423 00:29:55,795 --> 00:29:59,515 Speaker 1: year job after graduating job college job, beginning to sound 424 00:29:59,555 --> 00:30:02,195 Speaker 1: like a money Python script. In any event, I'd like 425 00:30:02,275 --> 00:30:05,275 Speaker 1: to just point something out. This is the Vice president 426 00:30:05,395 --> 00:30:09,115 Speaker 1: of the United States. Why on her resume, even when 427 00:30:09,115 --> 00:30:13,235 Speaker 1: she was just a graduate from university, why would she 428 00:30:13,355 --> 00:30:19,875 Speaker 1: include a summer job. A summer job at McDonald's. No 429 00:30:19,915 --> 00:30:22,835 Speaker 1: offense to anybody who's ever had a summer job at McDonald's, 430 00:30:22,835 --> 00:30:25,475 Speaker 1: but I just point something out. I have not had 431 00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:28,355 Speaker 1: a lot of jobs in the real world. I've been 432 00:30:28,355 --> 00:30:31,995 Speaker 1: in media almost all of my life. However, one summer 433 00:30:32,515 --> 00:30:36,395 Speaker 1: I had a job once with real work involved in it, 434 00:30:36,555 --> 00:30:42,475 Speaker 1: something between freelance and independent contractor. I was sixteen years old, 435 00:30:42,755 --> 00:30:45,075 Speaker 1: and I managed to figure out that instead of trying 436 00:30:45,115 --> 00:30:48,875 Speaker 1: to buy and sell the Baseball cards that came on 437 00:30:48,915 --> 00:30:53,075 Speaker 1: the back of Hostess cupcakes and other Hostess confectionery and 438 00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:55,915 Speaker 1: baked goods in the summer of nineteen seventy five, instead 439 00:30:55,915 --> 00:31:01,715 Speaker 1: of simply buying the boxes retail or maybe even wholesale, 440 00:31:02,235 --> 00:31:05,915 Speaker 1: there was a place called the host Store in which 441 00:31:05,955 --> 00:31:09,115 Speaker 1: they would sell day old or two day old or 442 00:31:09,315 --> 00:31:13,035 Speaker 1: a couple hours passed the expiration date, bread and other 443 00:31:13,115 --> 00:31:17,595 Speaker 1: baked goods for lower prices, and then if they didn't sell, 444 00:31:17,755 --> 00:31:20,435 Speaker 1: I wondered what happened to them. My dad and I 445 00:31:20,515 --> 00:31:22,835 Speaker 1: went to the one nearest our home. We went in 446 00:31:22,915 --> 00:31:24,995 Speaker 1: and talked to the guy, and he said, well, after that, 447 00:31:25,115 --> 00:31:28,075 Speaker 1: they'd all go in that dumpster over there. I swear 448 00:31:28,115 --> 00:31:30,155 Speaker 1: to God, as big a dumpster as I've ever seen 449 00:31:30,195 --> 00:31:34,155 Speaker 1: in my life. The ones in the dumpster fire memes 450 00:31:34,755 --> 00:31:37,235 Speaker 1: not as big as this dumpster, and in that dumpster 451 00:31:37,435 --> 00:31:41,635 Speaker 1: were all the boxes with the baseball cards on them. 452 00:31:41,875 --> 00:31:43,755 Speaker 1: And where do they go from here? Well, we send 453 00:31:43,795 --> 00:31:46,435 Speaker 1: them to Jersey and they feed them to the hogs. 454 00:31:48,355 --> 00:31:52,275 Speaker 1: My job, and I created this job. I was a 455 00:31:52,395 --> 00:31:56,395 Speaker 1: job creator at age sixteen. My job was I paid 456 00:31:56,435 --> 00:31:59,755 Speaker 1: this guy a fee to hop into this dumpster with 457 00:31:59,835 --> 00:32:03,555 Speaker 1: an exact o knife and cut the baseball cards off 458 00:32:03,595 --> 00:32:07,675 Speaker 1: the boxes for the boxes and the now you know, 459 00:32:08,355 --> 00:32:12,635 Speaker 1: three week old twinkies and ding dongs and everything else 460 00:32:12,675 --> 00:32:15,635 Speaker 1: that they sold went out to New Jersey to be 461 00:32:15,795 --> 00:32:21,995 Speaker 1: fed to the pigs. The smell of a six day 462 00:32:22,035 --> 00:32:25,835 Speaker 1: old twinkie is contrary to rumor that they have the 463 00:32:25,875 --> 00:32:29,195 Speaker 1: shelf life of a cockroach or a rat or I 464 00:32:29,235 --> 00:32:34,275 Speaker 1: don't know, radioactive carbon dating material. A six day old 465 00:32:34,315 --> 00:32:37,595 Speaker 1: twinkie left out in the elements begins to smell six 466 00:32:37,715 --> 00:32:40,595 Speaker 1: or seven hundred of them, and the bugs that accompany 467 00:32:40,675 --> 00:32:43,875 Speaker 1: them they smell bad too. But I went in there 468 00:32:44,035 --> 00:32:47,475 Speaker 1: for hour after hour cutting these things off, and frankly, 469 00:32:47,755 --> 00:32:50,035 Speaker 1: I was able to sell them for about a dollar apiece. 470 00:32:50,235 --> 00:32:52,555 Speaker 1: I must have gotten about a thousand of them. You 471 00:32:52,595 --> 00:32:56,915 Speaker 1: know what. I did not mention this on any of 472 00:32:56,915 --> 00:33:02,195 Speaker 1: my job applications in the let's see forty forty five, 473 00:33:02,355 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: now forty nine years since then. This is what I 474 00:33:05,755 --> 00:33:09,675 Speaker 1: was doing forty nine years ago, and for some reason 475 00:33:09,755 --> 00:33:12,515 Speaker 1: I left it off my resume. I have a copy 476 00:33:12,635 --> 00:33:15,755 Speaker 1: outside of this studio right now of my resume from 477 00:33:15,875 --> 00:33:19,395 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine, which includes things that I don't know 478 00:33:19,435 --> 00:33:21,355 Speaker 1: why I put them on, like my height and weight. 479 00:33:22,155 --> 00:33:24,475 Speaker 1: Who needs a height and weight on a resume? But 480 00:33:24,515 --> 00:33:27,355 Speaker 1: there it was, I guess for television purposes. I don't 481 00:33:27,355 --> 00:33:29,635 Speaker 1: know what I was thinking. It says height and weight. 482 00:33:29,675 --> 00:33:37,035 Speaker 1: It does not say hostess, dumpster diver, hostess thrift chop 483 00:33:37,155 --> 00:33:39,795 Speaker 1: dumpster diver in nineteen seventy five, and I had no 484 00:33:39,835 --> 00:33:43,955 Speaker 1: intention of running to be attorney general of any state 485 00:33:44,795 --> 00:33:49,835 Speaker 1: or a senator or vice president of United States, were 486 00:33:49,835 --> 00:33:52,515 Speaker 1: president of the United States. I didn't put it on 487 00:33:52,555 --> 00:33:56,315 Speaker 1: my resume. And I've written, now I guess, three books 488 00:33:56,355 --> 00:33:59,275 Speaker 1: that have included at least in part autobiographies. I have 489 00:33:59,435 --> 00:34:03,435 Speaker 1: mentioned it in any of those. Either I didn't put 490 00:34:03,475 --> 00:34:06,915 Speaker 1: it on my resume. And this guy Hassen, you know him, 491 00:34:07,195 --> 00:34:10,795 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is missing summer job at McDonald's job Hassen 492 00:34:11,675 --> 00:34:15,515 Speaker 1: he's in the Daily Caller News Foundation. I'm confident that 493 00:34:15,595 --> 00:34:18,955 Speaker 1: he hasn't put that on his resume. Kamala Harris didn't 494 00:34:18,955 --> 00:34:23,795 Speaker 1: put her job at McDonald's on her resume, which would 495 00:34:23,835 --> 00:34:25,955 Speaker 1: be the same thing as you know, if she worked 496 00:34:25,955 --> 00:34:28,435 Speaker 1: at the Free Beacon, she wouldn't say, put that on 497 00:34:28,515 --> 00:34:32,355 Speaker 1: her resume either. Morons the runner up the silver Now 498 00:34:32,355 --> 00:34:36,235 Speaker 1: it gets a little darker. Tulsy Gabbard. You remember Tulsa Gabbard. 499 00:34:36,435 --> 00:34:38,435 Speaker 1: Every time you think there is some sort of bottom 500 00:34:38,475 --> 00:34:43,395 Speaker 1: for old skunk hair, turns out you are mistaken. Tulsi, 501 00:34:43,515 --> 00:34:46,075 Speaker 1: of course, is still mad that her bid for the 502 00:34:46,075 --> 00:34:50,715 Speaker 1: presidential nomination in twenty twenty earned her exactly two delegates. 503 00:34:51,195 --> 00:34:54,115 Speaker 1: She is, now, though, dropped below that red line of 504 00:34:54,155 --> 00:34:59,555 Speaker 1: respectability where you have to now not say her name 505 00:34:59,595 --> 00:35:01,675 Speaker 1: without putting an obscenity in the middle of it. You know, 506 00:35:01,755 --> 00:35:05,275 Speaker 1: Tulsey effing Gabbard. That's her name now, because, as I 507 00:35:05,395 --> 00:35:09,955 Speaker 1: quote also twitter x, Harris's CNN interview exposed her as 508 00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:13,755 Speaker 1: insecure and weak, which of course is exactly the qualities 509 00:35:13,995 --> 00:35:17,395 Speaker 1: that will make her again. Grammar is not Tulsi's strength, 510 00:35:17,555 --> 00:35:20,715 Speaker 1: which of course is exactly the qualities that will make 511 00:35:20,755 --> 00:35:24,635 Speaker 1: her the perfect puppet uh oh, controlled by the faceless 512 00:35:25,035 --> 00:35:29,635 Speaker 1: power hungry warmongers who run our country right now, she 513 00:35:29,755 --> 00:35:34,315 Speaker 1: will be the dream quote president unquote for the You're 514 00:35:34,355 --> 00:35:40,475 Speaker 1: ready puppet masters, Tulsy Gabbard writes, puppet masters, because she'll 515 00:35:40,515 --> 00:35:44,315 Speaker 1: be so easy to control and influence. I don't know 516 00:35:44,355 --> 00:35:46,795 Speaker 1: how many people there are left in this country who 517 00:35:46,835 --> 00:35:50,475 Speaker 1: would not recognize the phrase puppet masters for what it is. 518 00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:55,195 Speaker 1: The American Jewish Center and the SPLC, the Southern Poverty 519 00:35:55,275 --> 00:35:59,475 Speaker 1: Law Center both identify the phrase puppet masters, the one 520 00:35:59,515 --> 00:36:03,235 Speaker 1: Telsy Gabbard used. They identify that phrase as an anti 521 00:36:03,235 --> 00:36:08,515 Speaker 1: Semitic trope. It's jew hate in common parlance, and Tulsey 522 00:36:08,635 --> 00:36:12,315 Speaker 1: Gabbard just used it and also made a grammatical mistake 523 00:36:12,355 --> 00:36:14,915 Speaker 1: in there. So her next stop book is clearly to 524 00:36:14,955 --> 00:36:18,915 Speaker 1: become an editor of the Free Beacon. But our winner, 525 00:36:18,995 --> 00:36:22,115 Speaker 1: how do you top that? Well, you move from anti 526 00:36:22,155 --> 00:36:29,595 Speaker 1: semitism to pure misogyny and racial hatred and just grossness. 527 00:36:29,675 --> 00:36:33,235 Speaker 1: And that's Eric Ericksson. It's hard to believe now, but 528 00:36:33,435 --> 00:36:36,275 Speaker 1: Eric Erickson, who's always been kind of a schmuck, has 529 00:36:36,275 --> 00:36:39,195 Speaker 1: seen the entirety of the right wing movement move past 530 00:36:39,275 --> 00:36:44,155 Speaker 1: him as they have gone into proverbial you know, hostess, 531 00:36:44,155 --> 00:36:49,875 Speaker 1: thrift shop, dumpster diving. He stayed right where he was schmuck, 532 00:36:50,395 --> 00:36:52,715 Speaker 1: and now he's seen as some sort of moderate who 533 00:36:52,755 --> 00:36:57,435 Speaker 1: doesn't want Trump or Harris. But this is how disoriented 534 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:01,835 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, being a woman of color, being an intelligent person, 535 00:37:02,315 --> 00:37:06,475 Speaker 1: being a woman, How all these things have disoriented them 536 00:37:06,515 --> 00:37:10,635 Speaker 1: beyond their ability to shot the f up. You remember 537 00:37:10,715 --> 00:37:12,955 Speaker 1: Eric Ericson, apart from the joke I always use about 538 00:37:12,995 --> 00:37:15,355 Speaker 1: him that he's one of those guys like Lars Larson 539 00:37:15,395 --> 00:37:18,555 Speaker 1: and Hugh Hewitt, came from a family so poor we 540 00:37:18,595 --> 00:37:22,435 Speaker 1: could only afford the one syllable for our name. In 541 00:37:22,515 --> 00:37:26,155 Speaker 1: the immediate aftermath of when the Maga gun nut shot 542 00:37:26,235 --> 00:37:28,555 Speaker 1: at Trump, he put out a tweet blaming it on 543 00:37:28,675 --> 00:37:33,315 Speaker 1: MSNBC in Comcast. He's also the guy who, three weeks ago, 544 00:37:33,355 --> 00:37:36,395 Speaker 1: barely three weeks ago, wrote at this point, the GOP 545 00:37:36,595 --> 00:37:39,675 Speaker 1: has so devastated Tim Walls, I wouldn't be surprised to 546 00:37:39,715 --> 00:37:42,795 Speaker 1: see Josh Shapiro show up at the DNC as their 547 00:37:42,875 --> 00:37:45,795 Speaker 1: vice presidential pick. Well, of course, as we know he 548 00:37:45,875 --> 00:37:50,115 Speaker 1: got that one right. Well, Eric's misogyny and racism is 549 00:37:50,195 --> 00:37:54,275 Speaker 1: now leaking out of his ears. This is Eric Ericksson 550 00:37:54,755 --> 00:37:57,875 Speaker 1: talking about the Vice president of the United States and 551 00:37:57,915 --> 00:38:00,875 Speaker 1: how she got to that position and what she's doing 552 00:38:00,915 --> 00:38:04,155 Speaker 1: now running for president. This is him. 553 00:38:04,675 --> 00:38:07,035 Speaker 3: People who were so willing to say, oh, we have 554 00:38:07,115 --> 00:38:10,195 Speaker 3: to support Kamala Harris because she's going to stop Donald Trump. 555 00:38:10,275 --> 00:38:12,955 Speaker 3: You know what, She's an authoritarian Kamala Harris. Did you 556 00:38:12,995 --> 00:38:15,715 Speaker 3: pay attention to her record as Attorney general in California? 557 00:38:15,915 --> 00:38:17,955 Speaker 3: You really want me to believe that we have to 558 00:38:17,995 --> 00:38:21,275 Speaker 3: save democracy by voting for Kamala Harris. If Kamala Harris 559 00:38:21,275 --> 00:38:23,355 Speaker 3: could get in office and ensure she'd never leave again, 560 00:38:23,475 --> 00:38:26,075 Speaker 3: she'd do it. Kamala Harris has done nothing but climbed 561 00:38:26,075 --> 00:38:27,875 Speaker 3: the ladder of power since the moment she got up 562 00:38:27,915 --> 00:38:29,235 Speaker 3: off her knees in front of Willie Brown. 563 00:38:29,475 --> 00:38:33,515 Speaker 1: To put it bluntly to you, every Republican accusation is 564 00:38:33,555 --> 00:38:36,915 Speaker 1: an admission. Just remember that I would make the same 565 00:38:37,115 --> 00:38:41,355 Speaker 1: slander about Eric Erickson. But if you've ever seen Eric Erickson, 566 00:38:41,355 --> 00:38:42,955 Speaker 1: if you go look up the video that I just 567 00:38:42,995 --> 00:38:46,555 Speaker 1: played there, you would know that if ever in his 568 00:38:46,715 --> 00:38:50,595 Speaker 1: life he had gotten down on his knees they would 569 00:38:50,675 --> 00:38:54,915 Speaker 1: need a winch to get him upright again. Eric Erickson, 570 00:38:56,155 --> 00:39:03,035 Speaker 1: you're worse than Tulsey Gabbard two days worse person and Lord. 571 00:39:13,715 --> 00:39:16,595 Speaker 1: Finally to the number one story on the countdown and 572 00:39:16,675 --> 00:39:20,275 Speaker 1: my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to 573 00:39:20,315 --> 00:39:25,715 Speaker 1: tell so September again. I literally don't know anybody whoever 574 00:39:25,915 --> 00:39:29,195 Speaker 1: shakes the childhood dread of back to school days in 575 00:39:29,275 --> 00:39:32,755 Speaker 1: August and the beginning of September. Third grade, high school, 576 00:39:32,835 --> 00:39:37,355 Speaker 1: college doesn't matter. Forty four degrees, ninety four degrees, doesn't matter. 577 00:39:37,955 --> 00:39:40,875 Speaker 1: It's September and by now. The dread, even if you 578 00:39:41,235 --> 00:39:47,835 Speaker 1: liked school, remains until the day you die, especially if 579 00:39:47,835 --> 00:39:50,035 Speaker 1: it invokes memories like the one I have about the 580 00:39:50,075 --> 00:39:53,115 Speaker 1: day I nearly failed a for credit course in college 581 00:39:53,435 --> 00:39:59,035 Speaker 1: because of a fumble in a professional football game. Forty 582 00:39:59,075 --> 00:40:01,875 Speaker 1: four years ago. This week, I actually walked reluctantly but 583 00:40:02,075 --> 00:40:05,275 Speaker 1: proudly into a class at Cornell University. If I remem correctly. 584 00:40:05,315 --> 00:40:09,675 Speaker 1: To get into Professor Joel Silby's nineteenth Century American history 585 00:40:09,675 --> 00:40:13,475 Speaker 1: course eight credits spanning two semesters, I had to get 586 00:40:13,515 --> 00:40:16,195 Speaker 1: special permission from the History department because I was not 587 00:40:16,315 --> 00:40:19,315 Speaker 1: a history major. I just took all the history classes 588 00:40:19,355 --> 00:40:21,435 Speaker 1: they would let me, and this was one of the 589 00:40:21,435 --> 00:40:25,115 Speaker 1: best ones. And I remember Professor Silby's first lecture and 590 00:40:25,155 --> 00:40:28,075 Speaker 1: the accent and the mannerisms that quickly identified him not 591 00:40:28,155 --> 00:40:31,155 Speaker 1: only as a fellow native New Yorker, but as a 592 00:40:31,195 --> 00:40:34,475 Speaker 1: Brookly Knight and a Brookly Knight fan of as he 593 00:40:34,555 --> 00:40:39,315 Speaker 1: quickly told us the New York Football Giants. What Professor 594 00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:42,115 Speaker 1: Joel Silby said next, cause the I think it was 595 00:40:42,155 --> 00:40:44,835 Speaker 1: two hundred or so other students in the lecture hall 596 00:40:45,155 --> 00:40:50,195 Speaker 1: to laugh, all of them except me, because I was 597 00:40:50,275 --> 00:40:53,355 Speaker 1: the sports director of the Cornhill student owned radio station, 598 00:40:53,435 --> 00:40:56,955 Speaker 1: and in those days, you could actually know everything about 599 00:40:57,035 --> 00:41:00,595 Speaker 1: and everybody in all the national sports off the top 600 00:41:00,635 --> 00:41:02,555 Speaker 1: of your head. And usually that meant you could figure 601 00:41:02,555 --> 00:41:04,355 Speaker 1: out all the teams in all the sports that had 602 00:41:04,395 --> 00:41:07,315 Speaker 1: the lightest chance of succeeding, and all the teams and 603 00:41:07,355 --> 00:41:09,315 Speaker 1: all the sports that did not. And the New York 604 00:41:09,315 --> 00:41:12,595 Speaker 1: Football Giants did not. I want you to know, I 605 00:41:12,675 --> 00:41:16,235 Speaker 1: graded the papers, not the teaching assistance me and I 606 00:41:16,275 --> 00:41:20,155 Speaker 1: happened to be a lifelong, therefore long suffering fan of 607 00:41:20,195 --> 00:41:23,675 Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants. I saw my first Giants 608 00:41:23,715 --> 00:41:26,875 Speaker 1: game in nineteen forty five, and over the years I 609 00:41:26,915 --> 00:41:29,235 Speaker 1: happened to have developed this habit of grading your papers 610 00:41:29,235 --> 00:41:32,395 Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoons and evenings right after I watch my 611 00:41:32,515 --> 00:41:36,875 Speaker 1: New York Football Giants. So, to some degree great or small, 612 00:41:37,475 --> 00:41:40,355 Speaker 1: your grade will depend on how well the New York 613 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:44,835 Speaker 1: Football Giants do in this nineteen seventy eight National Football 614 00:41:44,915 --> 00:41:48,755 Speaker 1: League season. One hundred and ninety nine of Joel Silbey's 615 00:41:48,755 --> 00:41:55,555 Speaker 1: students laughed. I emitted a low moan, since they had 616 00:41:55,595 --> 00:41:59,195 Speaker 1: gone to five NFL championship games in the six seasons 617 00:41:59,275 --> 00:42:02,355 Speaker 1: ending in nineteen sixty three and lost all five. By 618 00:42:02,395 --> 00:42:06,515 Speaker 1: the way, the Giants had had exact actly two winning seasons, 619 00:42:06,555 --> 00:42:08,995 Speaker 1: and they had lost nine of fourteen games the year 620 00:42:09,035 --> 00:42:12,555 Speaker 1: before nineteen seventy seven. Though they had opened this nineteen 621 00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:15,035 Speaker 1: seventy eight season with a narrow victory over a very 622 00:42:15,035 --> 00:42:17,675 Speaker 1: bad Tampa Bay team, and the first half of their 623 00:42:17,715 --> 00:42:20,075 Speaker 1: schedule had as many as four more opponents who they 624 00:42:20,155 --> 00:42:22,595 Speaker 1: might be better than they would be lucky to win 625 00:42:22,675 --> 00:42:26,075 Speaker 1: two games in the second half of the season. When 626 00:42:26,115 --> 00:42:28,235 Speaker 1: I got back to the radio station, I looked at 627 00:42:28,235 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: the Giants' schedule and Professor Silby's class schedule and I 628 00:42:32,795 --> 00:42:38,595 Speaker 1: circled one critical day when the schedules converged Sunday, November nineteenth, 629 00:42:38,715 --> 00:42:42,755 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight. Our term papers were due on Thursday 630 00:42:42,835 --> 00:42:47,475 Speaker 1: the sixteenth. He could actually read them all after the 631 00:42:47,595 --> 00:42:52,035 Speaker 1: Giants Eagles game that night. In the following day. Amazingly, 632 00:42:52,115 --> 00:42:55,715 Speaker 1: your New York Football Giants actually opened the season winning 633 00:42:55,795 --> 00:42:58,355 Speaker 1: three of their first four. In the middle of October, 634 00:42:58,355 --> 00:43:00,355 Speaker 1: they were still five and three, and in the history 635 00:43:00,475 --> 00:43:03,315 Speaker 1: lecture room, Professor Sylvie was very happy, and he often 636 00:43:03,395 --> 00:43:07,075 Speaker 1: recreated highlights of his his glorious Giants pleasing success, and 637 00:43:07,235 --> 00:43:10,635 Speaker 1: he was furiously fanboying on the new quarterback they'd brought 638 00:43:10,635 --> 00:43:16,875 Speaker 1: in from the Canadian League, Joe Pisarchick. If you are 639 00:43:16,915 --> 00:43:19,675 Speaker 1: a football history fan, or god forbid, a fan of 640 00:43:19,715 --> 00:43:23,155 Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants, you already know where I'm 641 00:43:23,155 --> 00:43:27,075 Speaker 1: going with this. The Giants lost the next three games, 642 00:43:27,115 --> 00:43:30,155 Speaker 1: and then our term papers were due on November sixteenth, 643 00:43:30,195 --> 00:43:33,915 Speaker 1: and Joel Sylbey turned morose. And I was at the 644 00:43:33,995 --> 00:43:37,315 Speaker 1: radio station watching the Giants Eagles game of the nineteenth 645 00:43:37,395 --> 00:43:39,755 Speaker 1: on a big black and white TV in the lounge 646 00:43:40,155 --> 00:43:44,955 Speaker 1: when my nightmare unfolded impossibly. The Giants led the much 647 00:43:44,955 --> 00:43:47,995 Speaker 1: better Philadelphia Eagles fourteen to nothing. After the first quarter. 648 00:43:48,155 --> 00:43:51,835 Speaker 1: Pisarcik threw two touchdown passes. After the third quarter, it 649 00:43:51,875 --> 00:43:55,115 Speaker 1: was still seventeen to six Giants. Then the Eagles scored, 650 00:43:55,155 --> 00:43:56,995 Speaker 1: and they were driving to go ahead with a minute 651 00:43:56,995 --> 00:43:59,235 Speaker 1: and a half left in the game, when the impossible 652 00:43:59,275 --> 00:44:02,755 Speaker 1: happened deep in Giants' territory. The Philly quarterback threw an 653 00:44:02,755 --> 00:44:06,795 Speaker 1: interception with eighty three seconds left and in possession of 654 00:44:06,835 --> 00:44:10,675 Speaker 1: the ball. The Giants led seventeen thirteen. The crowd at 655 00:44:10,675 --> 00:44:15,155 Speaker 1: the radio station was ecstatic. I was even more ecstatic. 656 00:44:15,635 --> 00:44:18,475 Speaker 1: All the Giants now had to do was stall and 657 00:44:18,515 --> 00:44:22,115 Speaker 1: have the quarterback fall on the ball, maybe twice, as 658 00:44:22,155 --> 00:44:25,235 Speaker 1: if he had heard me. The quarterback, Joe Pisarcik, fell 659 00:44:25,235 --> 00:44:28,835 Speaker 1: on the ball. Then he nearly killed me by handing 660 00:44:28,915 --> 00:44:31,195 Speaker 1: the ball off to his running back Larry Zanka, who 661 00:44:31,235 --> 00:44:33,315 Speaker 1: plowed up the middle to get a first down and 662 00:44:33,395 --> 00:44:37,155 Speaker 1: burn another thirty seconds off the clock. The Eagles called 663 00:44:37,155 --> 00:44:40,235 Speaker 1: their last time out thirty one seconds left, thirty one 664 00:44:40,315 --> 00:44:43,635 Speaker 1: seconds to my grade in Joel Silbey's nineteenth century American 665 00:44:43,715 --> 00:44:47,915 Speaker 1: history class, probably ending up being half or maybe even 666 00:44:47,955 --> 00:44:51,155 Speaker 1: a full grade. Better than I deserved. All Joe Pisarchi 667 00:44:51,275 --> 00:44:53,235 Speaker 1: had to do was fall on the damn ball again 668 00:44:53,315 --> 00:44:59,155 Speaker 1: and it was over. However, on the Giants sideline, offensive 669 00:44:59,155 --> 00:45:02,915 Speaker 1: coordinator Bob Gibson decided that the safe play, the winning play, 670 00:45:03,115 --> 00:45:06,515 Speaker 1: was for Jopisarcik to hand the ball off again to 671 00:45:06,635 --> 00:45:09,155 Speaker 1: Larry Zanka. Now that might have been the right play, 672 00:45:09,275 --> 00:45:15,435 Speaker 1: only Bob Gibson and everybody else failed to tell Larry Zanka. 673 00:45:15,835 --> 00:45:18,155 Speaker 1: Larry Zanka assumed he was there just to block for 674 00:45:18,235 --> 00:45:21,395 Speaker 1: Joe Pisarcik, as Joe Pisarcik collapsed to the turf and 675 00:45:21,475 --> 00:45:24,315 Speaker 1: ran out the clock and got me a better grade. Instead, 676 00:45:24,915 --> 00:45:28,715 Speaker 1: Pisarchik handed the ball to where Zanka's hands should have been, 677 00:45:28,995 --> 00:45:31,995 Speaker 1: except Larry Zanka was in the blocking stance, and Pisarchik 678 00:45:31,995 --> 00:45:35,715 Speaker 1: in fact handed it off directly to Larry Zanka's helmet. 679 00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:40,755 Speaker 1: I screamed. The ball bounced once off the turf and 680 00:45:40,795 --> 00:45:43,795 Speaker 1: directly into the hands of Philadelphia cornerback Herman Edwards. I 681 00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:46,995 Speaker 1: continued to scream. There was nobody near Edwards, and he 682 00:45:47,035 --> 00:45:49,115 Speaker 1: scooted twenty six yards into the end zone and the 683 00:45:49,155 --> 00:45:52,035 Speaker 1: Giants lost the damn game. Nineteen to seventeen. In the 684 00:45:52,115 --> 00:45:54,515 Speaker 1: last seconds, and as the Giants fans at the radio 685 00:45:54,515 --> 00:45:58,155 Speaker 1: station shouted or moaned or swore, I could see Professor 686 00:45:58,235 --> 00:46:01,635 Speaker 1: Joel Sylvie shutting off the TV, grabbing our papers and 687 00:46:01,715 --> 00:46:09,435 Speaker 1: sentencing us to hell, and I continued to scream. Our 688 00:46:09,595 --> 00:46:12,235 Speaker 1: term papers were returned on Tuesday the twenty first, just 689 00:46:12,275 --> 00:46:16,275 Speaker 1: before school broke for Thanksgiving. I actually was thankful I 690 00:46:16,355 --> 00:46:18,835 Speaker 1: got either a B or a B plus. I can't 691 00:46:18,875 --> 00:46:20,835 Speaker 1: find the paper. It should be somewhere in a box. 692 00:46:21,475 --> 00:46:24,435 Speaker 1: There was a rumor which I was never able to confirm, 693 00:46:24,515 --> 00:46:27,195 Speaker 1: that my B or B plus was the highest grade 694 00:46:27,195 --> 00:46:32,075 Speaker 1: in the class. I can confirm. I saw classmates most 695 00:46:32,235 --> 00:46:35,355 Speaker 1: far more prepared and astute than myself, most of them 696 00:46:35,395 --> 00:46:39,315 Speaker 1: history majors, looking at their grades and blanching visibly. One 697 00:46:39,435 --> 00:46:45,795 Speaker 1: girl cried, a C, really a C. Professor Joel Silbey 698 00:46:45,915 --> 00:46:47,875 Speaker 1: said much of our grade would depend on how well 699 00:46:47,915 --> 00:46:50,195 Speaker 1: the New York Football Giants did in that nineteen seventy 700 00:46:50,195 --> 00:46:52,835 Speaker 1: eight National football season, and my god, they had just 701 00:46:52,915 --> 00:46:55,075 Speaker 1: sustained a loss so bad that it has still talked 702 00:46:55,075 --> 00:47:00,595 Speaker 1: about to this day. My classmates did not listen, and 703 00:47:00,875 --> 00:47:07,715 Speaker 1: I only am escaped alone to tell thee there is 704 00:47:07,755 --> 00:47:12,475 Speaker 1: a PostScript. The PostScript takes place thirty two and one 705 00:47:12,595 --> 00:47:16,675 Speaker 1: half years later. I returned to Cornell in March of 706 00:47:16,715 --> 00:47:20,235 Speaker 1: twenty eleven to give a lecture and teach a series 707 00:47:20,275 --> 00:47:23,275 Speaker 1: of classes to students who no longer afterwards felt they 708 00:47:23,275 --> 00:47:26,635 Speaker 1: had gotten their full money from the university. My alma 709 00:47:26,675 --> 00:47:29,435 Speaker 1: mater was very kind to me. They gave me a 710 00:47:29,475 --> 00:47:31,755 Speaker 1: tour of the secret places they never would have shown 711 00:47:31,755 --> 00:47:34,155 Speaker 1: me when I was a struggling student, like where they 712 00:47:34,235 --> 00:47:37,915 Speaker 1: kept Cornell's copy of the Gettysburg address. And they promised 713 00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:40,715 Speaker 1: me something special for lunch the first day, And sure 714 00:47:40,795 --> 00:47:42,995 Speaker 1: enough I was dropped off at a restaurant, and there, 715 00:47:43,595 --> 00:47:46,995 Speaker 1: rising from a table to greet me with applause, were 716 00:47:47,155 --> 00:47:51,435 Speaker 1: Cornell's official historian and former Professor Glenn Altschuler, and their 717 00:47:51,555 --> 00:47:56,515 Speaker 1: very famous history professor Walter Lefeber, and I swear Professor 718 00:47:56,635 --> 00:48:02,475 Speaker 1: Joel Silby, and they were fans of mine. Of course, 719 00:48:02,755 --> 00:48:06,355 Speaker 1: I could not leave well enough alone. After a few 720 00:48:06,395 --> 00:48:09,675 Speaker 1: minutes of very pleasant conversation with mister alt Schuller and 721 00:48:09,715 --> 00:48:12,795 Speaker 1: Professor la Faber and Professor Silby, I brought up the 722 00:48:12,875 --> 00:48:17,355 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy eight term paper Joe pisarcik handoff story. Professor 723 00:48:17,435 --> 00:48:20,115 Speaker 1: la Faber looked at Professor Silby like Professor Silby was 724 00:48:20,155 --> 00:48:24,395 Speaker 1: out of his mind. Is that true? And Sylby smiled 725 00:48:24,435 --> 00:48:29,355 Speaker 1: and said, yes, yes it is. And then Joel Silby 726 00:48:29,395 --> 00:48:32,075 Speaker 1: looked off into the distance as if he were peering 727 00:48:32,115 --> 00:48:36,915 Speaker 1: backwards through time. Nineteen seventy eight, that's when you could 728 00:48:36,955 --> 00:48:41,195 Speaker 1: really enjoy being a professor. He then looked back at 729 00:48:41,275 --> 00:48:45,475 Speaker 1: me and smiled, Keith, you won't believe this, but I 730 00:48:45,635 --> 00:48:48,955 Speaker 1: actually graded those papers pretty fairly, and I didn't follow 731 00:48:48,995 --> 00:48:52,835 Speaker 1: through on my original plan. After the fumble, I actually 732 00:48:52,875 --> 00:48:54,835 Speaker 1: turned off the TV and I sat there for a 733 00:48:54,875 --> 00:48:56,915 Speaker 1: few minutes, and I asked my soul if it was 734 00:48:56,995 --> 00:49:01,115 Speaker 1: okay for me to take my revenge on the universe 735 00:49:01,195 --> 00:49:08,115 Speaker 1: by failing all of you. Gulped Oh, said Sylby. It 736 00:49:08,275 --> 00:49:12,355 Speaker 1: was so great to be a professor back then. I 737 00:49:12,435 --> 00:49:14,635 Speaker 1: laughed so much I had tears in my eyes. And 738 00:49:14,635 --> 00:49:17,875 Speaker 1: then Sylbe said, okay, okay, maybe I was a little 739 00:49:17,915 --> 00:49:21,635 Speaker 1: unfair to you guys, but you know, it's the Giants 740 00:49:22,515 --> 00:49:24,035 Speaker 1: and you have to take this as a whole. The 741 00:49:24,075 --> 00:49:25,955 Speaker 1: year they won their first Super Bowl, what was that 742 00:49:26,075 --> 00:49:29,035 Speaker 1: eighty six. The final exam in that class was like 743 00:49:29,195 --> 00:49:32,235 Speaker 1: two days after they finished the regular season, fourteen and two, 744 00:49:32,235 --> 00:49:34,195 Speaker 1: eight o'clock in the morning. So I go to the 745 00:49:34,235 --> 00:49:37,275 Speaker 1: final see, which I never do. And I waited until 746 00:49:37,315 --> 00:49:40,315 Speaker 1: they were all sitting there sweating, and I said, remember 747 00:49:40,355 --> 00:49:42,675 Speaker 1: last September when I told you your grade will depend 748 00:49:42,755 --> 00:49:45,475 Speaker 1: on how well the New York Football Giants doing this 749 00:49:45,595 --> 00:49:49,315 Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six National Football League season. And it was 750 00:49:49,395 --> 00:49:53,235 Speaker 1: just silence, and I said, well, if you didn't notice, 751 00:49:53,355 --> 00:49:55,755 Speaker 1: they went fourteen and two, and I haven't been this 752 00:49:55,835 --> 00:49:58,315 Speaker 1: happy since when they won the title in nineteen fifty six. 753 00:49:58,355 --> 00:50:04,035 Speaker 1: So guess what, there's no final exam. And nobody moved, 754 00:50:04,315 --> 00:50:07,635 Speaker 1: so I said it again, there's no final exam, Go home, 755 00:50:08,035 --> 00:50:11,635 Speaker 1: go study for something else. Y'all get a's. And then 756 00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:13,355 Speaker 1: there was a couple of seconds of silence, and they 757 00:50:13,395 --> 00:50:16,635 Speaker 1: all simultaneously realized I was not kidding, and everybody cheered 758 00:50:16,675 --> 00:50:21,555 Speaker 1: and ran out into the sunshine. So with me and 759 00:50:21,675 --> 00:50:25,235 Speaker 1: professors Altschuler and la Faber, now in tears, Sylby said, 760 00:50:25,555 --> 00:50:29,795 Speaker 1: see it evens out, and I said, the hell it does. 761 00:50:30,235 --> 00:50:33,035 Speaker 1: I graduated in nineteen seventy nine, How does it canceled 762 00:50:33,075 --> 00:50:35,955 Speaker 1: final in nineteen eighty six. Even it out for me, Fella. 763 00:50:37,395 --> 00:50:40,395 Speaker 1: Joel Silby thought for a second and then he said, Wow, 764 00:50:41,715 --> 00:50:59,515 Speaker 1: I am buying you lunch forty six years ago. Forty 765 00:50:59,555 --> 00:51:02,515 Speaker 1: six years ago? What did I say? Forty three? Twenty three? 766 00:51:03,115 --> 00:51:06,955 Speaker 1: It was nineteen seventy eight. See, I was considered a 767 00:51:06,955 --> 00:51:09,715 Speaker 1: math prodigy. However, this was when I was still very 768 00:51:09,715 --> 00:51:12,595 Speaker 1: short and had blonde hair, all of which has changed. 769 00:51:13,155 --> 00:51:15,715 Speaker 1: I just like to add and subtract numbers. Now I'm 770 00:51:15,715 --> 00:51:18,675 Speaker 1: not even any good at that anymore. When we got 771 00:51:18,675 --> 00:51:21,675 Speaker 1: finally to algebra, I would just sit and stare at 772 00:51:21,715 --> 00:51:26,955 Speaker 1: the board and ask the math teacher which side was 773 00:51:26,995 --> 00:51:30,035 Speaker 1: the question and which side was the answer? And I 774 00:51:30,155 --> 00:51:33,035 Speaker 1: turned my head upside down, so I was looking upside down. 775 00:51:33,715 --> 00:51:36,395 Speaker 1: That's when he said, take the class, pass fail and 776 00:51:36,395 --> 00:51:42,155 Speaker 1: I'll pass you forty nineteen seventy eight. It was AnyWho, 777 00:51:43,155 --> 00:51:44,955 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 778 00:51:44,955 --> 00:51:47,395 Speaker 1: you for listening. Please share this podcast with somebody who 779 00:51:47,435 --> 00:51:49,875 Speaker 1: does not yet listen. And again, if you're just joining 780 00:51:49,915 --> 00:51:53,875 Speaker 1: us after the advertising, thank you kindly. Brian Ray and 781 00:51:53,915 --> 00:51:57,275 Speaker 1: John Phillip Chanel, the musical directors have Countdown, arranged, produced, 782 00:51:57,315 --> 00:52:00,555 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled the 783 00:52:00,635 --> 00:52:03,715 Speaker 1: orchestration in keyboards, mister Ray was on the guitars, bass, 784 00:52:03,795 --> 00:52:06,595 Speaker 1: and drums, and it was pretty by Tko Brothers. Yes, 785 00:52:07,435 --> 00:52:11,475 Speaker 1: every day we do this. It was four days a week, 786 00:52:11,515 --> 00:52:13,275 Speaker 1: and it's four days a week this week. Next week 787 00:52:13,315 --> 00:52:14,915 Speaker 1: I'm gonna start doing it five days a week. And 788 00:52:14,915 --> 00:52:19,195 Speaker 1: as I said, Mondays will be brief. In any event. 789 00:52:19,875 --> 00:52:22,435 Speaker 1: Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best 790 00:52:22,435 --> 00:52:25,995 Speaker 1: baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music we 791 00:52:26,075 --> 00:52:30,155 Speaker 1: do sports segments periodically. The Old Woman theme from ESPN 792 00:52:30,195 --> 00:52:33,835 Speaker 1: two was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. 793 00:52:34,355 --> 00:52:37,675 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. 794 00:52:37,955 --> 00:52:40,835 Speaker 1: And my announcer today is my friend Larry David. Everything 795 00:52:40,835 --> 00:52:43,995 Speaker 1: else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for 796 00:52:44,075 --> 00:52:47,275 Speaker 1: this the sixty fourth day until the twenty twenty four 797 00:52:47,355 --> 00:52:51,035 Speaker 1: presidential election, the one three hundred and thirty first day 798 00:52:51,475 --> 00:52:55,475 Speaker 1: since convicted Feldon Donald J. Trump's first attempted coup against 799 00:52:55,475 --> 00:52:58,955 Speaker 1: the democratically elected government of the United States use the 800 00:52:58,995 --> 00:53:02,715 Speaker 1: September eighteenth sentencing hearing. If it happens, use the mental 801 00:53:02,715 --> 00:53:07,035 Speaker 1: health system. Use president immunity. The Supreme Theocratic Court has 802 00:53:07,075 --> 00:53:10,915 Speaker 1: given it to you. President Biden. I say, if it's official, 803 00:53:11,435 --> 00:53:17,035 Speaker 1: it's legal. Have fun. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. 804 00:53:17,075 --> 00:53:19,955 Speaker 1: Bulletins as the news requires until the next one on 805 00:53:20,115 --> 00:53:23,635 Speaker 1: Keith Olderman good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. 806 00:53:39,315 --> 00:53:43,275 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For 807 00:53:43,475 --> 00:53:48,355 Speaker 1: more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 808 00:53:48,635 --> 00:53:50,595 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.