1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:25,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Is 2 00:00:25,355 --> 00:00:28,955 Speaker 1: it just me? Or does Trump look drawn and unnaturally 3 00:00:29,075 --> 00:00:32,675 Speaker 1: thin in the face, like lost a lot of girth 4 00:00:32,835 --> 00:00:34,835 Speaker 1: in the face, the kind of thing where people who 5 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: don't know say, you've lost a lot of weight, you 6 00:00:37,195 --> 00:00:42,595 Speaker 1: look great, except you don't. Or is it just wishful thinking? Again? Also, 7 00:00:43,315 --> 00:00:46,635 Speaker 1: the Republicans in the Arizona Senate are moving to make 8 00:00:46,755 --> 00:00:53,995 Speaker 1: ICE mandatory at polling places there this November. Mandatory local 9 00:00:54,035 --> 00:01:00,515 Speaker 1: cooperation with ice mandatory gestapo at the voting booths this November. 10 00:01:01,235 --> 00:01:06,195 Speaker 1: It won't pass this time. Let me finish up on 11 00:01:06,235 --> 00:01:09,795 Speaker 1: Trump's appearance first, because there are like six ice stories. 12 00:01:10,155 --> 00:01:13,755 Speaker 1: Happily half of them are ice versus ice metaphoric violence, 13 00:01:13,795 --> 00:01:16,755 Speaker 1: so let's group them. But about Trump, We've all been 14 00:01:16,795 --> 00:01:20,995 Speaker 1: through this before. He looks like shit. He always looks 15 00:01:21,035 --> 00:01:23,635 Speaker 1: like shit. I met him in nineteen eighty three. He 16 00:01:23,675 --> 00:01:26,355 Speaker 1: looked like shit. He looks like he can't last the week. 17 00:01:26,475 --> 00:01:28,755 Speaker 1: He always looks like he can't last the week. His 18 00:01:28,835 --> 00:01:32,755 Speaker 1: hand yesterday wasn't just black, it was red around the black, 19 00:01:33,315 --> 00:01:36,875 Speaker 1: and the makeup looked double thick. That's not what's got 20 00:01:36,915 --> 00:01:38,915 Speaker 1: my attention. What got my attention here is he looks 21 00:01:38,955 --> 00:01:43,995 Speaker 1: too good. The turkey neck it's half its normal size. 22 00:01:44,115 --> 00:01:49,235 Speaker 1: The modeled inflated cheeks are skinnier. Maybe he's been hitting 23 00:01:49,315 --> 00:01:52,995 Speaker 1: the gym with RFK Junior and Kid Rock. You know 24 00:01:53,235 --> 00:01:58,435 Speaker 1: RFK Junior's Heroin workout regimen, heroin and steroids in the 25 00:01:58,555 --> 00:02:02,035 Speaker 1: RFK Kid Rock video that has in the background a 26 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:08,195 Speaker 1: Confederate flag. I know you're shocked. The only reason I 27 00:02:08,235 --> 00:02:10,835 Speaker 1: give this hunch any merit at all. I was going 28 00:02:10,875 --> 00:02:13,835 Speaker 1: to say any weight, is that he has made his 29 00:02:13,955 --> 00:02:17,195 Speaker 1: first mental gaff I have ever heard that. I absolutely 30 00:02:17,275 --> 00:02:22,035 Speaker 1: do not believe he has always made. His Black History 31 00:02:22,075 --> 00:02:26,075 Speaker 1: Month speech yesterday was standard. It was about the twenty 32 00:02:26,115 --> 00:02:29,315 Speaker 1: twenty election and how he knows Mike Tyson and everything 33 00:02:29,355 --> 00:02:32,635 Speaker 1: else except Black History Month. And he confused harm Meat 34 00:02:32,715 --> 00:02:39,195 Speaker 1: Dylan with Phyllis Diller, which I for one cherish. However, 35 00:02:39,595 --> 00:02:42,955 Speaker 1: he looked like his collar fit. And then there is 36 00:02:42,995 --> 00:02:46,635 Speaker 1: this one mistake he made that defies traditional Trumpian explanation. 37 00:02:46,915 --> 00:02:51,395 Speaker 1: Whatever ultimately proves to have been his specific brain malformation 38 00:02:51,555 --> 00:02:55,275 Speaker 1: and disease and sociopathic evil, it has produced in him 39 00:02:55,515 --> 00:02:59,915 Speaker 1: the ultimate Dunning Krueger disease, wherein he knows almost nothing 40 00:02:59,955 --> 00:03:04,435 Speaker 1: of earth outside those handful of subjects that give him 41 00:03:05,075 --> 00:03:07,595 Speaker 1: over other people, and he is likely to make the 42 00:03:07,635 --> 00:03:11,155 Speaker 1: most astonishing gaps. Things a four year old would say 43 00:03:11,275 --> 00:03:14,915 Speaker 1: or think until they are corrected, and then the four 44 00:03:15,035 --> 00:03:17,555 Speaker 1: year old would never say or think it again. Things 45 00:03:17,555 --> 00:03:21,035 Speaker 1: that are perfectly understandable in a four year old's mind, 46 00:03:21,275 --> 00:03:24,995 Speaker 1: but once you tell them, they go oh, and they 47 00:03:25,115 --> 00:03:28,595 Speaker 1: never repeat them again. And Trump has been repeating them 48 00:03:28,595 --> 00:03:34,675 Speaker 1: for seventy six years now every day. The easiest is 49 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:39,755 Speaker 1: the homonym asylum asylum. He decided there's only one kind 50 00:03:39,795 --> 00:03:45,755 Speaker 1: of asylum. Therefore, political asylum since nineteen forty six, also 51 00:03:45,915 --> 00:03:52,275 Speaker 1: means crazy the end Perfectly normal people do this when 52 00:03:52,355 --> 00:03:57,875 Speaker 1: they're four. Not to compare my dear sister to Trump, 53 00:03:58,275 --> 00:04:00,795 Speaker 1: but it is an endearing family legend that on a 54 00:04:00,835 --> 00:04:03,955 Speaker 1: Florida vacation one year when she was four, during a 55 00:04:03,995 --> 00:04:06,355 Speaker 1: car trip, she asked me where we were going, and 56 00:04:06,395 --> 00:04:10,395 Speaker 1: I answered Miami, and she scolded me, no, we're going 57 00:04:10,475 --> 00:04:15,075 Speaker 1: to daddy's amy. That's actually pretty damn smart for a 58 00:04:15,075 --> 00:04:18,755 Speaker 1: four year old. Unfortunately, it's not for seventy nine year 59 00:04:18,755 --> 00:04:22,035 Speaker 1: old or a president of any age. Or anybody with 60 00:04:22,075 --> 00:04:24,715 Speaker 1: the ability to order the Department of Justice to skip 61 00:04:24,755 --> 00:04:27,995 Speaker 1: the investigation and the build up and immediately try to 62 00:04:28,035 --> 00:04:31,195 Speaker 1: start a coup by getting two Democratic senators and four 63 00:04:31,235 --> 00:04:34,755 Speaker 1: Democratic congressmen indicted. And when the drunken US attorney doesn't 64 00:04:34,755 --> 00:04:36,555 Speaker 1: get a single member of the grand jury to raise 65 00:04:36,595 --> 00:04:39,675 Speaker 1: their hands and vote for any indictment, all he tells here, obviously, 66 00:04:39,795 --> 00:04:42,995 Speaker 1: is to try it again, like what time is it 67 00:04:43,035 --> 00:04:47,595 Speaker 1: now next week? Anyway. My point, and I do have one, 68 00:04:48,395 --> 00:04:52,835 Speaker 1: is that Trump's behavior is consistently insane, consistently that of 69 00:04:52,875 --> 00:04:58,795 Speaker 1: a diseased, over intelligent four year old forever frozen at 70 00:04:58,795 --> 00:05:02,235 Speaker 1: age four. He has the same worldview now he had 71 00:05:02,235 --> 00:05:04,675 Speaker 1: in the summer of nineteen fifty. It has been up 72 00:05:04,715 --> 00:05:07,995 Speaker 1: updated only by things he has constantly been exposed to 73 00:05:08,835 --> 00:05:12,235 Speaker 1: in his family near his home, when he's found faster 74 00:05:12,355 --> 00:05:15,875 Speaker 1: ways to manipulate people or steal their money or avoid 75 00:05:15,915 --> 00:05:20,595 Speaker 1: having any of them beat him up. Except here's one 76 00:05:21,315 --> 00:05:26,995 Speaker 1: brand new that doesn't fit this pattern. The Penn Station post. 77 00:05:28,115 --> 00:05:30,555 Speaker 1: You saw it, the Penn Station post where he lets 78 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:34,075 Speaker 1: slip in passing while he's lying that somebody else suggested 79 00:05:34,115 --> 00:05:37,715 Speaker 1: they rename Penn Station after Trump he lets slip that 80 00:05:37,755 --> 00:05:43,475 Speaker 1: he doesn't know why it's called penn Station. Quote also 81 00:05:43,555 --> 00:05:46,915 Speaker 1: the naming of penn Station. I love Pennsylvania, but it 82 00:05:46,955 --> 00:05:50,075 Speaker 1: is a direct competitor to New York and eating New 83 00:05:50,155 --> 00:05:56,915 Speaker 1: York's lunch to Trump Station. Blah blah blah blah blah, Pennsylvania. 84 00:05:57,075 --> 00:05:59,995 Speaker 1: This is impossible. This is not something he thought of 85 00:06:00,035 --> 00:06:04,235 Speaker 1: briefly in nineteen fifty. It solidified and cement in his brain, 86 00:06:04,515 --> 00:06:08,035 Speaker 1: and he has not revisited this since. Nobody who grew 87 00:06:08,115 --> 00:06:11,555 Speaker 1: up in or around New York or the other places 88 00:06:11,555 --> 00:06:15,555 Speaker 1: by the way that had penn Stations, but specifically nobody 89 00:06:15,555 --> 00:06:18,595 Speaker 1: who grew up in New York, especially anybody whould ever 90 00:06:18,635 --> 00:06:23,275 Speaker 1: come in from Long Island to Manhattan. Nobody who had 91 00:06:23,315 --> 00:06:26,435 Speaker 1: grown up in New York or lived here or traveled 92 00:06:26,435 --> 00:06:30,995 Speaker 1: here since nineteen ten could possibly not have realized, known 93 00:06:31,315 --> 00:06:36,315 Speaker 1: understood that it was Pennsylvania Station since the original one 94 00:06:36,315 --> 00:06:38,435 Speaker 1: opened in nineteen ten. Because it was built by the 95 00:06:38,475 --> 00:06:44,075 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Railroad, not because of the state of Pennsylvania, not 96 00:06:44,155 --> 00:06:47,715 Speaker 1: because the trains went to Pennsylvania, not named in honor 97 00:06:47,755 --> 00:06:52,475 Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. When they tore down penn Station in nineteen 98 00:06:52,515 --> 00:06:56,355 Speaker 1: sixty three. It was because the Pennsylvania Railroad was going 99 00:06:56,435 --> 00:06:59,555 Speaker 1: bankrupt and we tore it down exactly the same way. 100 00:06:59,715 --> 00:07:03,395 Speaker 1: Whoever owned the Pyramids would have torn them down if 101 00:07:03,395 --> 00:07:06,435 Speaker 1: they were losing money and there was money in tearing 102 00:07:06,475 --> 00:07:13,155 Speaker 1: them down. This is Trump from the Trump building family, 103 00:07:14,435 --> 00:07:18,235 Speaker 1: the Trump rental family, the Trump real estate family, going 104 00:07:18,275 --> 00:07:20,475 Speaker 1: into it. If Trump somehow did not know it was 105 00:07:20,555 --> 00:07:24,675 Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania Railroad station in nineteen fifty, he had to 106 00:07:24,715 --> 00:07:27,355 Speaker 1: have found it out during the years of pain as 107 00:07:27,515 --> 00:07:30,795 Speaker 1: the Pennsylvania Railroad Station was torn down in the sixties. 108 00:07:30,995 --> 00:07:32,955 Speaker 1: Or he had to have known it during the land 109 00:07:33,035 --> 00:07:36,035 Speaker 1: grab that put Madison Square Garden at dump where the 110 00:07:36,075 --> 00:07:39,955 Speaker 1: Pennsylvania Railroad station used to be, or he knew it 111 00:07:40,715 --> 00:07:45,155 Speaker 1: when he went to the University of Pennsylvania later in 112 00:07:45,195 --> 00:07:52,115 Speaker 1: the sixties. He knows this, or he knew it. And 113 00:07:52,155 --> 00:07:54,675 Speaker 1: if he doesn't know it now, this ain't the same 114 00:07:54,715 --> 00:07:59,675 Speaker 1: old crazy brain damaged actually celebrating seventy nine years of 115 00:07:59,715 --> 00:08:06,075 Speaker 1: being challenged Trump, it's the new something's really wrong Trump. 116 00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:12,795 Speaker 1: We'll see Okay to Arizona. It won't pass again. It 117 00:08:12,915 --> 00:08:17,755 Speaker 1: will not pass this time. But a state senator named Hoffman, 118 00:08:18,235 --> 00:08:20,315 Speaker 1: and he's not some sort of rogue. The state Senate 119 00:08:20,315 --> 00:08:23,755 Speaker 1: Republicans have announced this formally has introduced a so called 120 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:29,355 Speaker 1: Striker bills Striker that would change the laws for this election, 121 00:08:30,115 --> 00:08:32,875 Speaker 1: and not only change them in Arizona, but strike the 122 00:08:32,915 --> 00:08:36,315 Speaker 1: current laws, hence the name Striker, and not only authorize 123 00:08:36,395 --> 00:08:40,235 Speaker 1: Trump and Homeland Security to send Ice and Border Patrol 124 00:08:40,315 --> 00:08:42,555 Speaker 1: and anybody else they can find with a gun to 125 00:08:42,835 --> 00:08:47,035 Speaker 1: ballot places in Arizona on November three. Not only do that, 126 00:08:47,075 --> 00:08:50,955 Speaker 1: but it will change all the extant laws. So don't 127 00:08:50,995 --> 00:08:54,275 Speaker 1: worry about Ice trying to find an excuse to be 128 00:08:54,355 --> 00:08:58,315 Speaker 1: outside or inside the voting booth with you. They would 129 00:08:58,355 --> 00:09:04,475 Speaker 1: in Arizona be required to be there again, will not pass, 130 00:09:05,035 --> 00:09:08,875 Speaker 1: might pass in a vote in the Arizona Senate. Ever 131 00:09:08,955 --> 00:09:12,915 Speaker 1: increasingly democratic, but the surviving MAGA there are among the 132 00:09:12,915 --> 00:09:16,675 Speaker 1: most diseased and corrupted in the nation. But the governor 133 00:09:16,715 --> 00:09:20,275 Speaker 1: is a Democrat. She is essentially vetopoof certainly for this 134 00:09:20,475 --> 00:09:24,915 Speaker 1: undisputed one hundred percent fascistic militaristic MAGA means make America 135 00:09:24,915 --> 00:09:30,955 Speaker 1: Gestapo all over. Bill you ready is Provision one requires 136 00:09:31,195 --> 00:09:36,755 Speaker 1: county recorders and each county bos board of Supervisors, notwithstanding 137 00:09:36,875 --> 00:09:40,355 Speaker 1: any other law, and for the twenty twenty six general 138 00:09:40,395 --> 00:09:44,715 Speaker 1: election only to enter into a written agreement with a 139 00:09:44,715 --> 00:09:49,195 Speaker 1: federal immigration law enforcement agency to provide for a federal 140 00:09:49,235 --> 00:09:54,035 Speaker 1: immigration law enforcement presence at each location in Arizona where 141 00:09:54,075 --> 00:10:00,435 Speaker 1: ballots are cast or deposited. End quote. I will not 142 00:10:00,555 --> 00:10:03,755 Speaker 1: read the entirety of the rest of it verbatim. This 143 00:10:03,835 --> 00:10:09,155 Speaker 1: is largely a troll job, but you understand Arizona Republicans 144 00:10:09,195 --> 00:10:15,755 Speaker 1: are bluntly rubbing themselves over this one. However, two things 145 00:10:15,795 --> 00:10:19,995 Speaker 1: to read verbatim. Part three requires ice or border patrol 146 00:10:20,075 --> 00:10:25,395 Speaker 1: at early voting locations. Parts five and seven are elegantly 147 00:10:25,435 --> 00:10:30,115 Speaker 1: phrased shifts thrust at the heart of the Constitution. Five 148 00:10:30,515 --> 00:10:34,395 Speaker 1: prohibits federal immigration law enforcement personnel from interfering with the 149 00:10:34,515 --> 00:10:40,035 Speaker 1: casting or depositing of ballots, except as otherwise authorized by law. 150 00:10:42,395 --> 00:10:44,555 Speaker 1: Might as well say, you can't shoot anybody in the 151 00:10:44,555 --> 00:10:50,835 Speaker 1: face ice, except we're authorized by law. Item seven on 152 00:10:50,875 --> 00:10:56,195 Speaker 1: this prohibits county recorders, each county bos and federal immigration 153 00:10:56,315 --> 00:11:00,395 Speaker 1: law enforcement personnel from questioning, detaining, or arresting a voter 154 00:11:00,875 --> 00:11:06,315 Speaker 1: solely for the purpose of determining voter eligibility, except as 155 00:11:06,355 --> 00:11:11,875 Speaker 1: otherwise allowed. Under state or federal law. Again, this will 156 00:11:11,875 --> 00:11:16,475 Speaker 1: not go into effect barring a full authoritarian takeover in 157 00:11:16,515 --> 00:11:19,355 Speaker 1: the next eight months plus, which kind of makes this 158 00:11:19,395 --> 00:11:24,035 Speaker 1: one bill almost irrelevant. But it does put the lae 159 00:11:24,315 --> 00:11:26,155 Speaker 1: to the defenders of ICE who say there is no 160 00:11:26,395 --> 00:11:30,795 Speaker 1: chance ICE would ever be used to intimidate or invalidate 161 00:11:30,875 --> 00:11:34,395 Speaker 1: the vote or drag off voters before they cast their 162 00:11:34,475 --> 00:11:37,435 Speaker 1: vote and then say later, oops, sorry, but you missed 163 00:11:37,435 --> 00:11:43,595 Speaker 1: the vote. This is the dream, if not the plan. 164 00:11:45,715 --> 00:11:52,635 Speaker 1: This this measure mandatory federal troops with guns at local 165 00:11:52,835 --> 00:11:56,755 Speaker 1: ballot places. This is the dream, if not the plan. 166 00:11:56,875 --> 00:11:59,555 Speaker 1: This is the super Bowl, if not the win in 167 00:11:59,635 --> 00:12:04,355 Speaker 1: week three. Happily, right now, ICE is in such a 168 00:12:04,395 --> 00:12:07,275 Speaker 1: mess that the Department of Homeland Security could not now 169 00:12:07,275 --> 00:12:11,595 Speaker 1: tell the difference between Arizona's elbow and Christy Nome's artificial ass. 170 00:12:12,675 --> 00:12:15,915 Speaker 1: The response to the bad press that might still cost 171 00:12:15,995 --> 00:12:18,995 Speaker 1: Nome her job, well, of course she got her. Press 172 00:12:18,995 --> 00:12:25,395 Speaker 1: spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin, Ohio Gestapo Barbie fired Gnome and lover 173 00:12:25,515 --> 00:12:28,955 Speaker 1: boy Corey Lewandowski were nice enough to garrot her and 174 00:12:28,995 --> 00:12:32,155 Speaker 1: then leak to the Washington Examiner the implication that she 175 00:12:32,435 --> 00:12:36,195 Speaker 1: McLaughlin was the source of a negative story about Customs 176 00:12:36,275 --> 00:12:40,355 Speaker 1: and Border Commissioner Rodney Scott that was in Politico, and 177 00:12:40,435 --> 00:12:43,595 Speaker 1: then that she was also the source of Politico's break 178 00:12:43,875 --> 00:12:49,275 Speaker 1: about her own firing. Why did Christy Nomes boast in 179 00:12:49,315 --> 00:12:52,515 Speaker 1: her autobiography about shooting her daughter's puppy in the face, 180 00:12:52,595 --> 00:12:57,315 Speaker 1: we all wondered, because it was an audition. Regardless, Gnome 181 00:12:57,395 --> 00:13:00,715 Speaker 1: is currently looked at askance in the White House. I 182 00:13:00,755 --> 00:13:04,035 Speaker 1: mean each time she goes in there it is with 183 00:13:04,115 --> 00:13:07,195 Speaker 1: the new faate. So maybe they just don't recognize her. 184 00:13:07,915 --> 00:13:12,555 Speaker 1: Lewandowski obviously has something on Trump, or this hapless Ichabod 185 00:13:12,675 --> 00:13:18,715 Speaker 1: crane wouldn't keep getting re employed by Trump. This latest 186 00:13:18,915 --> 00:13:22,675 Speaker 1: disaster led to the revival of a pro publica headline 187 00:13:22,675 --> 00:13:26,995 Speaker 1: from last November quote, firm tied to Christy Nomes secretly 188 00:13:27,035 --> 00:13:30,395 Speaker 1: got money from two hundred and twenty million dollar DHS 189 00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:34,195 Speaker 1: AD contracts. The company is run by the husband of 190 00:13:34,355 --> 00:13:38,155 Speaker 1: Nome's chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties 191 00:13:38,195 --> 00:13:42,275 Speaker 1: to Nome and her aids. DHS invoked the emergency at 192 00:13:42,315 --> 00:13:45,315 Speaker 1: the border to skirt competitive bidding rules for the taxpayer 193 00:13:45,355 --> 00:13:48,955 Speaker 1: funded campaign. Yes, the spokesperson referenced is McLaughlin who just 194 00:13:48,995 --> 00:13:53,195 Speaker 1: got fired man her husband got the money anyway. Happily 195 00:13:53,235 --> 00:13:55,875 Speaker 1: for them, they have found a Trump loyalist to replace 196 00:13:55,955 --> 00:13:59,275 Speaker 1: McLaughlin and a Fox News guest to replace the Trump loyalists, 197 00:13:59,275 --> 00:14:02,315 Speaker 1: So the net skill level at DHS will be even 198 00:14:02,395 --> 00:14:06,755 Speaker 1: lower than it was last week. Day Tuned. The desperate 199 00:14:07,435 --> 00:14:15,155 Speaker 1: life deciding struggle between fascism and utter stupidity is likely 200 00:14:15,195 --> 00:14:17,755 Speaker 1: to get even more dangerous in the days and weeks 201 00:14:17,795 --> 00:14:43,275 Speaker 1: to come, but also way more entertaining. Still, once again 202 00:14:43,315 --> 00:14:45,955 Speaker 1: we can be confident that one outcome will not trouble 203 00:14:45,995 --> 00:14:50,115 Speaker 1: our horizons ice and otherwise Maga will not atone and 204 00:14:50,195 --> 00:14:52,755 Speaker 1: will not rejoin the plane of existence the rest of 205 00:14:52,835 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: us call reality. Laura Ingram show devoted to trashing the 206 00:14:58,235 --> 00:15:02,515 Speaker 1: Rhode Island hockey shooter as trans, not a mention of 207 00:15:02,715 --> 00:15:05,275 Speaker 1: the social media history of this person, which is of 208 00:15:05,315 --> 00:15:08,435 Speaker 1: course what you would do if you're trying to set 209 00:15:08,515 --> 00:15:11,595 Speaker 1: up a paulgrom against trans people, and especially deflect away 210 00:15:11,715 --> 00:15:14,755 Speaker 1: from the fact that the shooter was Maga. But this 211 00:15:14,795 --> 00:15:17,635 Speaker 1: is a new high in low. It is a new 212 00:15:17,675 --> 00:15:20,475 Speaker 1: indication that there are no barricades over there anymore. There 213 00:15:20,555 --> 00:15:23,595 Speaker 1: is no shame there is no vestige or shadow of shame. 214 00:15:23,755 --> 00:15:28,075 Speaker 1: There is no marker to previous shame. The social media 215 00:15:28,475 --> 00:15:31,955 Speaker 1: record of the shooter in Rhode Island, the shooter regularly 216 00:15:32,075 --> 00:15:39,155 Speaker 1: reposted clips from Laura Ingram's show. But of course Paul 217 00:15:39,195 --> 00:15:42,795 Speaker 1: Grom's against trans people. But Trump administration would never target 218 00:15:42,875 --> 00:15:47,155 Speaker 1: any minority group and buy giant warehouses to wearhouse them 219 00:15:47,195 --> 00:15:51,795 Speaker 1: and eventually torture and kill them. Of course, not new 220 00:15:51,795 --> 00:15:58,075 Speaker 1: people who predicted everything else. You're still just alarmists. Senator 221 00:15:58,115 --> 00:16:00,595 Speaker 1: Mike Rounds of South Dakota, one of the most obedient 222 00:16:00,635 --> 00:16:03,835 Speaker 1: of the FASCISTI a real estate guy, went on Fox 223 00:16:03,875 --> 00:16:07,035 Speaker 1: and explained the updated poll tax they have disguised as 224 00:16:07,115 --> 00:16:11,555 Speaker 1: voter ID. Quote. You take out your driving your driver's license. 225 00:16:12,195 --> 00:16:14,555 Speaker 1: If you've got a little you got a little yellow 226 00:16:14,715 --> 00:16:19,995 Speaker 1: star up on the right hand corner. That means I 227 00:16:19,995 --> 00:16:23,635 Speaker 1: didn't hear the rest of it. Actually, little yellow star 228 00:16:24,475 --> 00:16:29,395 Speaker 1: on your IDs. Little yellow stars didn't bother Mike Rounds 229 00:16:29,995 --> 00:16:33,995 Speaker 1: didn't bother host Larry Cudlow. Oh hell, why would it 230 00:16:34,075 --> 00:16:41,315 Speaker 1: bother Larry Cudlow. Look this Nick Shirley guy, the Slow Kid, 231 00:16:41,555 --> 00:16:43,875 Speaker 1: does an expose on a woman in California who got 232 00:16:43,875 --> 00:16:46,835 Speaker 1: her dog registered to vote there, did not mention the 233 00:16:46,875 --> 00:16:49,675 Speaker 1: woman was Maga, did not mention She did it as 234 00:16:49,715 --> 00:16:52,195 Speaker 1: a stunt because she thought it would prove voter fraud. 235 00:16:53,035 --> 00:16:56,835 Speaker 1: It happened in twenty twenty one. She's currently facing charges. 236 00:16:58,035 --> 00:17:00,835 Speaker 1: This is called a self fulfilling prophecy in which a 237 00:17:00,915 --> 00:17:04,595 Speaker 1: MAGA fraudulent voter got caught by the state of California 238 00:17:04,875 --> 00:17:08,115 Speaker 1: and we'll probably now go to prison. And this Nick 239 00:17:08,195 --> 00:17:14,275 Speaker 1: Shirley guy turns it into a MAGA talking point. And 240 00:17:14,435 --> 00:17:18,555 Speaker 1: Trump's latest endless Ukraine peace talks have broken up the war. 241 00:17:18,635 --> 00:17:20,955 Speaker 1: He said he would settle in twenty four hours. He's 242 00:17:21,035 --> 00:17:26,155 Speaker 1: now off by like, oh, ninety five hundred hours. Maga 243 00:17:26,195 --> 00:17:30,075 Speaker 1: waives these talks like a banner, proving Trump is I 244 00:17:30,075 --> 00:17:34,595 Speaker 1: don't know peace president. He's tough, he's the Nobel winner, 245 00:17:34,955 --> 00:17:39,795 Speaker 1: he's not incontinent. It should be tragically obvious that Trump's 246 00:17:39,915 --> 00:17:44,035 Speaker 1: job in all of this, assigned by Putin no doubt, 247 00:17:44,795 --> 00:17:51,035 Speaker 1: is to waste time to stall that Putin and Russia 248 00:17:51,075 --> 00:17:53,875 Speaker 1: are so incompetent that there are murmurs coming out of there. 249 00:17:54,075 --> 00:17:56,195 Speaker 1: Not that they're going to now defeat Ukraine, but that 250 00:17:56,195 --> 00:18:00,155 Speaker 1: the Russian economy is about to collapse. That's not Trump's fault. 251 00:18:00,475 --> 00:18:03,515 Speaker 1: Trump's actually done his job here, even if Putin hasn't. 252 00:18:04,795 --> 00:18:09,395 Speaker 1: Job is pretend to negotiate, then stop the negotiations, mention 253 00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:11,755 Speaker 1: some other period of time in the future, and come 254 00:18:11,755 --> 00:18:14,115 Speaker 1: back and do this all over again. The media will 255 00:18:14,155 --> 00:18:18,475 Speaker 1: never notice. Poor Zelensky has to go on the off 256 00:18:18,555 --> 00:18:21,115 Speaker 1: chance that something will happen that will improve his chances 257 00:18:24,035 --> 00:18:27,155 Speaker 1: back home. Putin has now taken sterner steps and always 258 00:18:27,275 --> 00:18:30,715 Speaker 1: look to Moscow for what Trump will try two years 259 00:18:30,715 --> 00:18:36,995 Speaker 1: from now. His puppet parliament that's Putin's, has voted to 260 00:18:37,035 --> 00:18:40,235 Speaker 1: give him the right to turn off the Internet or 261 00:18:40,435 --> 00:18:48,355 Speaker 1: specific Internet sites. The Moscow Times reports that it also 262 00:18:48,475 --> 00:18:55,515 Speaker 1: lets him block phone calls, number please texts. He can 263 00:18:55,515 --> 00:19:00,235 Speaker 1: block texts and the mail. This, says a Putin spokesman, 264 00:19:00,355 --> 00:19:05,395 Speaker 1: is to confuse enemies. There's a lot of enemies spoiler alert, 265 00:19:05,435 --> 00:19:08,835 Speaker 1: and confuses no one except maybe some Russians and of 266 00:19:08,875 --> 00:19:23,075 Speaker 1: course Trump. Good news everyone. Two unexpected media victories. UCLA 267 00:19:23,155 --> 00:19:26,195 Speaker 1: has canceled its speaker at the Daniel Pearl lecture. Was 268 00:19:26,195 --> 00:19:29,875 Speaker 1: supposed to be Barry Weiss, the anti journalism chief of 269 00:19:29,915 --> 00:19:34,795 Speaker 1: CBS News, who would have probably fired Daniel Pearl if 270 00:19:34,835 --> 00:19:38,675 Speaker 1: he had worked for her, and apparently somebody at CNN 271 00:19:38,835 --> 00:19:41,555 Speaker 1: just discovered Jake Tapper has been using a channel to 272 00:19:41,635 --> 00:19:46,395 Speaker 1: sell his crap book. Underscores the fact that nobody's watching CNN, 273 00:19:46,595 --> 00:19:51,675 Speaker 1: not even its own management. In Breaker, Lachlan Cartwright reports 274 00:19:51,715 --> 00:19:53,915 Speaker 1: that two weeks ago CNN issued what seemed like a 275 00:19:53,955 --> 00:19:57,595 Speaker 1: company wide memo, but is in fact Tapper getting slapped 276 00:19:57,675 --> 00:20:04,515 Speaker 1: on his well. Tapper, quoting Cartwright, quoting the memo, CNN's 277 00:20:04,755 --> 00:20:09,475 Speaker 1: editorial platforms are meant to distribute and showcase CNN's journalism. 278 00:20:09,755 --> 00:20:13,195 Speaker 1: That our audience comes to CNN for what audience, because 279 00:20:13,195 --> 00:20:16,275 Speaker 1: they know content we present goes through our editorial review. 280 00:20:17,875 --> 00:20:21,195 Speaker 1: There should be no use of websites, QR codes or 281 00:20:21,315 --> 00:20:26,035 Speaker 1: links to drive personal sales. We should not mix news 282 00:20:26,035 --> 00:20:30,555 Speaker 1: and advertising, even when what is being advertised is work 283 00:20:30,595 --> 00:20:35,115 Speaker 1: by a leading CNN journalist. There's not an asterisk here 284 00:20:35,155 --> 00:20:40,955 Speaker 1: and says asterisk also Jake Tapper. Cartwright notes a historical 285 00:20:41,035 --> 00:20:45,395 Speaker 1: curiosity that I must mention too. Until the fascists bought CNN, 286 00:20:45,555 --> 00:20:48,435 Speaker 1: what was it four years ago? Now? Books by CNN 287 00:20:48,475 --> 00:20:52,275 Speaker 1: anchors were rigorously fact checked and then could be promoted 288 00:20:52,275 --> 00:20:56,595 Speaker 1: on air with some dignity. That's not Jake Tapper's forte. 289 00:20:57,035 --> 00:20:59,635 Speaker 1: The punchline here is who did the fact checking in 290 00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:02,875 Speaker 1: the good old days five years ago, four years ago. 291 00:21:02,915 --> 00:21:06,955 Speaker 1: It was then executive vice president of news Standards, Rick Davis. 292 00:21:06,995 --> 00:21:09,875 Speaker 1: Not that Rick Davis was there forever, but the day 293 00:21:09,915 --> 00:21:13,035 Speaker 1: I broke into TV at the end of CNN's first 294 00:21:13,115 --> 00:21:16,715 Speaker 1: year on the air in August nineteen eighty one, when 295 00:21:16,755 --> 00:21:19,555 Speaker 1: I was twenty two years old, my direct boss, my 296 00:21:19,715 --> 00:21:22,675 Speaker 1: first true TV boss, the guy who used to assign 297 00:21:22,755 --> 00:21:25,435 Speaker 1: me my stories, the man I used to argue with, 298 00:21:26,475 --> 00:21:31,595 Speaker 1: was CNN's original executive producer of Sports, Rick Davis. And 299 00:21:31,635 --> 00:21:34,395 Speaker 1: we still get along. So if somebody says I'm fatal 300 00:21:34,435 --> 00:21:41,395 Speaker 1: to employers, well it's certainly not literally true. But back 301 00:21:41,395 --> 00:21:45,195 Speaker 1: to Jake Tapper's on air book clearance sale, a two 302 00:21:45,275 --> 00:21:48,155 Speaker 1: hundred for one deal, as I understand it. Reaction from Tapper, 303 00:21:48,195 --> 00:21:51,755 Speaker 1: who still thinks this is twenty fifteen and CNN has credibility, 304 00:21:52,155 --> 00:21:55,275 Speaker 1: writes mister Cartwright. Quote how has this new edict gone 305 00:21:55,355 --> 00:21:59,275 Speaker 1: over with the mild mannered Tapper quote he is very 306 00:21:59,355 --> 00:22:02,955 Speaker 1: very unhappy about it, One CNN journalist told breaker. In fact, 307 00:22:03,035 --> 00:22:05,675 Speaker 1: Tapper is so enraged by it that he has gathered 308 00:22:05,795 --> 00:22:09,395 Speaker 1: several other anchors who are now demanding a meeting with 309 00:22:09,555 --> 00:22:16,075 Speaker 1: CNN CEO Mark Thompson to discuss the new policy. Unquot Wow, 310 00:22:16,875 --> 00:22:20,555 Speaker 1: you can get six CNN anchors into that meeting. You'll 311 00:22:20,595 --> 00:22:44,875 Speaker 1: have a larger audience than Jake has on CNN. I 312 00:22:44,955 --> 00:22:48,035 Speaker 1: told you I expected this podcast would eventually morph into 313 00:22:48,035 --> 00:22:53,835 Speaker 1: a mediate podcast, and here we are. So you already 314 00:22:53,875 --> 00:22:57,115 Speaker 1: know about Stephen Colbert, who reported Monday night that he 315 00:22:57,155 --> 00:23:01,915 Speaker 1: had been prevented by CBS from having Texas Democratic Senate 316 00:23:01,955 --> 00:23:06,475 Speaker 1: primary contender James Tallerico as again test, I have no 317 00:23:06,635 --> 00:23:10,275 Speaker 1: use for Colbert, as you know, but in one hundred 318 00:23:10,315 --> 00:23:13,835 Speaker 1: battles between him and Barry Weiss, I'll take Colbert's side 319 00:23:14,275 --> 00:23:18,755 Speaker 1: one hundred and one times. He says. They even threatened him, 320 00:23:18,995 --> 00:23:22,195 Speaker 1: told him not to say, They told him not to say, 321 00:23:22,475 --> 00:23:25,355 Speaker 1: they said he couldn't have tall Rico on. This is 322 00:23:25,435 --> 00:23:31,075 Speaker 1: pretty strange, pretty condescending, given that Colbert's show is sunsetting 323 00:23:31,115 --> 00:23:33,195 Speaker 1: in like two months. What are they going to do? 324 00:23:33,475 --> 00:23:36,515 Speaker 1: Cancel him? But as we have seen, the new people 325 00:23:36,555 --> 00:23:42,395 Speaker 1: at CBS are not very smart. They also reportedly threw 326 00:23:42,475 --> 00:23:46,755 Speaker 1: out the FCC equal time regulations, as if it would 327 00:23:46,795 --> 00:23:50,515 Speaker 1: scare Colbert, which is hilarious because the erasure of these 328 00:23:50,555 --> 00:23:56,075 Speaker 1: regulations began under Ronald Reagan forty five years ago. And anyway, 329 00:23:56,115 --> 00:23:59,755 Speaker 1: this is a primary. The only candidate Colbert would have 330 00:23:59,835 --> 00:24:03,995 Speaker 1: to have on to satisfy these zombie rules nobody enforces anymore, 331 00:24:04,075 --> 00:24:07,315 Speaker 1: would have been Jasmine Crockett, and Jasmine Crockett has already 332 00:24:07,355 --> 00:24:13,915 Speaker 1: been on Colbert's show several times. It's all bullshit. It's 333 00:24:13,955 --> 00:24:18,755 Speaker 1: the fascist from Skydance taking over CBS. I guess they 334 00:24:18,795 --> 00:24:21,595 Speaker 1: think maybe some of them at least have been told 335 00:24:21,835 --> 00:24:25,395 Speaker 1: they will make money somehow by now convincing the same 336 00:24:25,555 --> 00:24:29,475 Speaker 1: people they have spent seventy five years convincing that CBS 337 00:24:29,555 --> 00:24:33,515 Speaker 1: stands for a communist broadcast system, that this is now 338 00:24:33,755 --> 00:24:38,635 Speaker 1: the home for right wing nutjobs like Barry Weiss, especially 339 00:24:38,755 --> 00:24:44,635 Speaker 1: right wing nutjob news viewers, stupid ones people like Barry Weiss. 340 00:24:45,955 --> 00:24:49,875 Speaker 1: They won't they'll go broke. On the other hand, with 341 00:24:49,875 --> 00:24:52,075 Speaker 1: the actual amount of money they'll lose here, they'll just 342 00:24:52,155 --> 00:24:54,315 Speaker 1: write it off and they'll get a nice note from 343 00:24:54,355 --> 00:24:58,355 Speaker 1: Trump or whoever succeeds him. There has been a lot 344 00:24:58,395 --> 00:25:01,395 Speaker 1: of this at CBS and Sky Dance. This week, Anderson 345 00:25:01,475 --> 00:25:04,435 Speaker 1: Cooper announced he's leaving sixty minutes to spend more time 346 00:25:04,475 --> 00:25:07,395 Speaker 1: with his family, which I think is kind of an 347 00:25:07,395 --> 00:25:10,035 Speaker 1: inside joke, since when I worked with Anderson Cooper at 348 00:25:10,035 --> 00:25:13,395 Speaker 1: CNN years ago, he used to sarcastically say in the 349 00:25:13,435 --> 00:25:17,555 Speaker 1: office that his colleagues at CNN were his family, and 350 00:25:17,635 --> 00:25:21,595 Speaker 1: he didn't mean it anyway. Oliver Darcy of Status reports, 351 00:25:21,635 --> 00:25:25,435 Speaker 1: Cooper chose not to re up at CBS specifically because 352 00:25:25,795 --> 00:25:29,715 Speaker 1: of Barry Weiss turning CBS News into the intellectual equivalent 353 00:25:29,755 --> 00:25:34,915 Speaker 1: of a fourth grade class newspaper, only with less editorial integrity. 354 00:25:35,875 --> 00:25:38,515 Speaker 1: As I have no use for Colbert, so have I 355 00:25:38,595 --> 00:25:41,555 Speaker 1: no use for Cooper. But in one hundred battles between 356 00:25:41,595 --> 00:25:44,475 Speaker 1: him and Barry Weiss, I'll take Anderson Cooper's side one 357 00:25:44,515 --> 00:25:47,715 Speaker 1: hundred and two times. That, of course, won't stop me 358 00:25:47,755 --> 00:25:51,075 Speaker 1: from making the obligatory joke. Now, when you don't watch 359 00:25:51,075 --> 00:25:56,955 Speaker 1: Anderson Cooper, you can only not watch Anderson Cooper on CNN. Again. 360 00:25:57,035 --> 00:26:01,675 Speaker 1: Back to the point, the same people who are destroying CBS, nah, 361 00:26:01,755 --> 00:26:04,715 Speaker 1: I think we can. We can say they've accomplished it. 362 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:08,955 Speaker 1: I mean, the nine funniest words in media right now 363 00:26:09,435 --> 00:26:19,195 Speaker 1: are This is the CBS Evening News with Tony Dakoppel. 364 00:26:21,355 --> 00:26:24,355 Speaker 1: Those sane people are now getting another chance to buy 365 00:26:24,395 --> 00:26:29,875 Speaker 1: the same scumbags who destroyed CNN. David Zaslab's Warner Bros. 366 00:26:30,075 --> 00:26:35,195 Speaker 1: Discovery or Anderson Cooper gets off the sinking CBS ship 367 00:26:35,235 --> 00:26:38,395 Speaker 1: only to reboard the already sunk CNN ship that they're 368 00:26:38,395 --> 00:26:45,875 Speaker 1: now going to refloat and torpedo again. Lusitania Hello. Believe 369 00:26:45,915 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: it or not, this ties in to a very solemn 370 00:26:49,955 --> 00:26:53,475 Speaker 1: and sad story, the death Monday of the great actor 371 00:26:53,555 --> 00:26:58,395 Speaker 1: Robert Duval. From the Godfather to the Natural, to Mash, 372 00:26:58,635 --> 00:27:03,675 Speaker 1: to tender Mercies, to kill a mockingbird. You will find 373 00:27:03,715 --> 00:27:07,435 Speaker 1: yourself hard pressed to pick just one immortal Robert Duval 374 00:27:07,635 --> 00:27:12,275 Speaker 1: role in one immortal Robert Duval movie. But there is 375 00:27:12,315 --> 00:27:16,075 Speaker 1: no question as to what his most important role was. 376 00:27:16,515 --> 00:27:21,875 Speaker 1: His most meaningful role relative to our society today. He 377 00:27:21,995 --> 00:27:30,235 Speaker 1: portrayed every television executive now ruining television. He is David 378 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:35,435 Speaker 1: Zaslab and both Ellisons, and that's Cipher Mark Thompson at CNN, 379 00:27:35,675 --> 00:27:38,875 Speaker 1: and for that matter, he's also Jeff Bezos and the 380 00:27:38,915 --> 00:27:43,675 Speaker 1: people corrupting newspapers for Trump as well. He portrayed the 381 00:27:43,715 --> 00:27:48,795 Speaker 1: aptly named Frank Hackett in the movie Network, and in 382 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:53,235 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six he gave life, well sort of life Hackett. 383 00:27:53,275 --> 00:27:55,955 Speaker 1: Like the zaz Labs and Ellison's of the real world, 384 00:27:56,555 --> 00:28:00,275 Speaker 1: they aren't really alive anymore than just dollar bills wearing 385 00:28:00,315 --> 00:28:05,355 Speaker 1: overpriced suits. He gave life to what what would happen 386 00:28:05,835 --> 00:28:11,115 Speaker 1: when television news finally lost its immunization, its immunization against 387 00:28:11,115 --> 00:28:15,875 Speaker 1: being judged solely by how much money it made or lost. 388 00:28:17,995 --> 00:28:20,555 Speaker 1: What Network was when it came out in nineteen seventy 389 00:28:20,595 --> 00:28:25,835 Speaker 1: six was a seemingly ridiculous, impossible sci fi portrayal of 390 00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:30,075 Speaker 1: a world in which CBSABC and NBC stopped doing the 391 00:28:30,115 --> 00:28:34,955 Speaker 1: news as it existed, stopped doing the news as its 392 00:28:35,075 --> 00:28:40,795 Speaker 1: corporate payment, as its financial give back to American society 393 00:28:40,915 --> 00:28:46,675 Speaker 1: for using the publicly owned American airwaves to make money, 394 00:28:47,555 --> 00:28:49,435 Speaker 1: that it was no longer going to be part of 395 00:28:49,475 --> 00:28:53,315 Speaker 1: the public service requirement, the public service requirement that is 396 00:28:53,355 --> 00:28:55,035 Speaker 1: still on the books, by the way, for every radio 397 00:28:55,075 --> 00:28:58,115 Speaker 1: and TV station in America to do something for the 398 00:28:58,115 --> 00:29:01,315 Speaker 1: public good in exchange for all this free money, and 399 00:29:01,355 --> 00:29:04,195 Speaker 1: in particular it was to tell the truth, no matter 400 00:29:04,235 --> 00:29:07,995 Speaker 1: what it hurts, and no matter what it cost. In 401 00:29:08,035 --> 00:29:11,155 Speaker 1: the movie Frank Hackett, Robert Duval was put in charge 402 00:29:11,155 --> 00:29:13,995 Speaker 1: of a television network that was hemorrhaging money, one that 403 00:29:14,075 --> 00:29:18,795 Speaker 1: was actually on the verge of bankruptcy. And when, by coincidence, 404 00:29:18,835 --> 00:29:23,515 Speaker 1: his newscaster started drawing audiences by simply threatening on air 405 00:29:23,635 --> 00:29:27,035 Speaker 1: suicide and by having prophetic visions, and by getting so 406 00:29:27,155 --> 00:29:30,235 Speaker 1: agitated on the air he would pass out up close 407 00:29:30,275 --> 00:29:36,515 Speaker 1: and personal, Frank Hackett saw the gold mine. It actually 408 00:29:36,715 --> 00:29:43,075 Speaker 1: wasn't like that then. Now, money often did mean censorship 409 00:29:43,115 --> 00:29:45,555 Speaker 1: in all that time. We tend to forget that. Since 410 00:29:45,595 --> 00:29:48,795 Speaker 1: nineteen fifty four, we've left out one little detail from 411 00:29:48,835 --> 00:29:52,195 Speaker 1: the valiant story of Edward R. Murrow versus Senator Joseph McCarthy. 412 00:29:52,755 --> 00:29:56,875 Speaker 1: Murrow put the first big knife in Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism. 413 00:29:57,515 --> 00:30:00,395 Speaker 1: The final knives were administered by my heroes, Bob and Ray, 414 00:30:01,115 --> 00:30:05,795 Speaker 1: the comedians. That's when Roy Kohne knew McCarthy was finished. 415 00:30:05,875 --> 00:30:09,955 Speaker 1: When radio comedians were humiliating McCarthy every morning for two 416 00:30:10,035 --> 00:30:14,835 Speaker 1: weeks in New York anyway, everybody applauded Murrow and CBS. 417 00:30:14,955 --> 00:30:17,795 Speaker 1: Everybody said TV and TV news had come of age 418 00:30:18,195 --> 00:30:21,555 Speaker 1: and the Golden Era was born. And then and this 419 00:30:21,595 --> 00:30:23,355 Speaker 1: is the part they leave out at the end of 420 00:30:23,395 --> 00:30:26,715 Speaker 1: that TV season. At the end of nineteen fifty three, 421 00:30:26,875 --> 00:30:32,475 Speaker 1: fifty four weeks after Murrow's McCarthy broadcast, William S. Paley 422 00:30:33,075 --> 00:30:36,555 Speaker 1: quietly changed his CBS schedule around And what do you know, 423 00:30:37,555 --> 00:30:42,115 Speaker 1: Edward R. Murrow never had a weekly series in primetime 424 00:30:42,595 --> 00:30:48,875 Speaker 1: on television ever again, not a news anyway. He had 425 00:30:48,915 --> 00:30:52,675 Speaker 1: that interview show. He never did the news on a 426 00:30:52,715 --> 00:31:00,475 Speaker 1: regular basis in primetime ever again, just specials. He was, 427 00:31:00,835 --> 00:31:07,955 Speaker 1: in effect as finished as McCarthy was, but not happily 428 00:31:08,755 --> 00:31:12,235 Speaker 1: as terrible as it was was the exception in the 429 00:31:12,275 --> 00:31:15,115 Speaker 1: fifties and the sixties and the seventies and even part 430 00:31:15,115 --> 00:31:19,115 Speaker 1: of the eighties. Now it is the rule, as CBS 431 00:31:19,195 --> 00:31:23,715 Speaker 1: is so bluntly and unimaginatively showing us now quizzlings like 432 00:31:23,755 --> 00:31:27,155 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss and Tony Diakoppele and whoever chased out Anderson 433 00:31:27,235 --> 00:31:31,715 Speaker 1: Cooper but platformed Stephen A. Smith, admitting he doesn't know 434 00:31:31,755 --> 00:31:34,595 Speaker 1: any of the issues, but he's gonna read about them 435 00:31:34,635 --> 00:31:39,075 Speaker 1: and run for president anyway. The dipshit they are all 436 00:31:39,155 --> 00:31:44,235 Speaker 1: pointing out they are all underscoring that Frank Hackett, as 437 00:31:44,235 --> 00:31:47,355 Speaker 1: personified by the brilliance of the late Robert Duval, as 438 00:31:47,435 --> 00:31:50,195 Speaker 1: created by the brilliance of the late Patty Chaefski, was 439 00:31:50,235 --> 00:31:54,955 Speaker 1: not only part of the future, he was the only future. 440 00:31:56,435 --> 00:32:01,555 Speaker 1: We're here in the future now, and the Frank Hacketts 441 00:32:01,635 --> 00:32:05,995 Speaker 1: destroyed American TV News took them fit fifty years. Literally, 442 00:32:06,435 --> 00:32:09,075 Speaker 1: the fiftieth anniversary of the premiere of Network is this 443 00:32:09,195 --> 00:32:13,675 Speaker 1: November twenty seventh, after the midterms. The unraveling of TV 444 00:32:13,835 --> 00:32:17,635 Speaker 1: news it began at CBS as they began to cut 445 00:32:17,675 --> 00:32:21,355 Speaker 1: back and demand profits in the late eighties. Dan Rather 446 00:32:21,435 --> 00:32:25,355 Speaker 1: tried to stand up against it. Didn't work. Everybody tried 447 00:32:25,355 --> 00:32:27,275 Speaker 1: to stand up against it. I even tried to stand 448 00:32:27,355 --> 00:32:29,915 Speaker 1: up against it. Didn't work. I got us all in 449 00:32:29,955 --> 00:32:34,235 Speaker 1: the end. The thing is everything that's gone wrong with 450 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:36,835 Speaker 1: TV news, everything that has reduced it to the place 451 00:32:37,995 --> 00:32:40,515 Speaker 1: where it was the weakest and the first of our 452 00:32:40,555 --> 00:32:43,915 Speaker 1: guardrails to go, reduced it to the place where if 453 00:32:43,915 --> 00:32:46,355 Speaker 1: it all vanished tomorrow, every bit of it, from an 454 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:51,395 Speaker 1: affiliate in Sandusky, through all of PBS News, through MS, 455 00:32:51,435 --> 00:32:54,915 Speaker 1: through Fox, if it all vanished tomorrow, if there was 456 00:32:54,995 --> 00:32:59,795 Speaker 1: no news on TV in this country tomorrow, the quality 457 00:32:59,795 --> 00:33:02,555 Speaker 1: of TV news in this country would immediately double or treble. 458 00:33:03,955 --> 00:33:08,795 Speaker 1: Everything that's gone wrong with TV news is in the 459 00:33:08,835 --> 00:33:14,795 Speaker 1: movie Network. With Robert Duval, I've often said, if you 460 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:18,035 Speaker 1: told me to pick my all time number one film, 461 00:33:18,075 --> 00:33:20,595 Speaker 1: but you said, the rule is it has to be 462 00:33:20,675 --> 00:33:24,555 Speaker 1: only one movie. You pick two and you forfeit, and 463 00:33:24,595 --> 00:33:26,915 Speaker 1: it's not the movie you'd watch or bring it to me. 464 00:33:27,315 --> 00:33:29,915 Speaker 1: It's the only movie you get to watch for the 465 00:33:29,915 --> 00:33:34,435 Speaker 1: rest of your life. Of course, we do let you 466 00:33:34,555 --> 00:33:38,915 Speaker 1: watch it after you're dead. Still, that's the rule. I'll 467 00:33:38,915 --> 00:33:44,635 Speaker 1: take Network. It is a prophetic movie. I don't know 468 00:33:44,835 --> 00:33:49,875 Speaker 1: of any other movie that accurate about the future, and 469 00:33:49,955 --> 00:33:53,115 Speaker 1: we're talking about an HG. Wells film called Things to 470 00:33:53,155 --> 00:33:56,395 Speaker 1: Come that predicted the Second World War more or less 471 00:33:56,435 --> 00:34:00,555 Speaker 1: on the start date. Network is better. I made a 472 00:34:00,595 --> 00:34:04,635 Speaker 1: list once the nearly two dozen material changes to television 473 00:34:04,755 --> 00:34:07,955 Speaker 1: news that Tchaievsky and director Sidney Lumet, and the actors, 474 00:34:08,035 --> 00:34:12,035 Speaker 1: especially Duval and Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway, showed us 475 00:34:12,075 --> 00:34:15,875 Speaker 1: in advance. We were warned about this, and we didn't 476 00:34:15,875 --> 00:34:17,915 Speaker 1: do enough about it. I'm not sure what else we 477 00:34:17,955 --> 00:34:20,875 Speaker 1: could have done, but we did not do enough because 478 00:34:20,995 --> 00:34:26,515 Speaker 1: they've won. I think with what's happening at CBS, let 479 00:34:26,515 --> 00:34:28,875 Speaker 1: me use a phrase that Finch used in the movie, 480 00:34:29,875 --> 00:34:32,675 Speaker 1: what shit will be pedled for truth on this network? 481 00:34:33,795 --> 00:34:36,515 Speaker 1: I think, especially with the passing of Robert Duval, this 482 00:34:36,715 --> 00:34:38,635 Speaker 1: is a good time to go through that list of 483 00:34:38,675 --> 00:34:43,635 Speaker 1: the prophecies within network. Yet again. The irony, of course, 484 00:34:43,795 --> 00:34:47,155 Speaker 1: as I begin that list again about Robert Duval's role 485 00:34:47,235 --> 00:34:50,555 Speaker 1: as the executive as Frank Hackett, is that the eternal 486 00:34:50,675 --> 00:34:55,915 Speaker 1: quote from the movie is not by him, It's by 487 00:34:55,995 --> 00:35:01,475 Speaker 1: Peter Finch. Well, you knew this was coming as hell 488 00:35:01,955 --> 00:35:07,235 Speaker 1: im anymore. Star Peter Finch as the newscaster, William Holden 489 00:35:07,315 --> 00:35:10,395 Speaker 1: as his best friend, the network news boss, Faye Dunaway 490 00:35:10,435 --> 00:35:13,395 Speaker 1: as the network programmer who sees in this newscast a 491 00:35:13,475 --> 00:35:17,315 Speaker 1: gold mine, and Robert Duval as the ambitious new network 492 00:35:17,395 --> 00:35:20,155 Speaker 1: chief who sees in the newscast his ticket to the 493 00:35:20,195 --> 00:35:25,155 Speaker 1: corporate boardroom. When I first saw network as a seventeen 494 00:35:25,235 --> 00:35:29,835 Speaker 1: year old aspiring TV broadcaster, my jaw dropped and it 495 00:35:29,955 --> 00:35:33,715 Speaker 1: stayed dropped, And in the last forty six years, jaw 496 00:35:33,795 --> 00:35:38,195 Speaker 1: has barely moved from that position. The world of TV 497 00:35:38,315 --> 00:35:42,555 Speaker 1: news that Network predicted was not unthinkable in nineteen seventy six, 498 00:35:43,195 --> 00:35:47,875 Speaker 1: but it was a nightmare Today. Virtually everything Chaiavsky saw 499 00:35:47,955 --> 00:35:51,315 Speaker 1: in the future has come true and is accepted as 500 00:35:51,515 --> 00:35:56,075 Speaker 1: conservative broadcasting. The movie was so prophetic, but younger viewers 501 00:35:56,115 --> 00:35:58,555 Speaker 1: sometimes see the quality of the film and its artistry 502 00:35:58,595 --> 00:36:01,035 Speaker 1: and its genius, but they can't imagine what the big 503 00:36:01,075 --> 00:36:04,315 Speaker 1: deal was about its content. It's just showing TV news 504 00:36:04,315 --> 00:36:08,075 Speaker 1: the way it's always been. So a while ago, I 505 00:36:08,155 --> 00:36:11,395 Speaker 1: sat down and watched Network, and I took notes. I 506 00:36:11,515 --> 00:36:15,675 Speaker 1: counted twenty three major things about TV news that were 507 00:36:15,755 --> 00:36:18,995 Speaker 1: not true when Network came out, but are true now, 508 00:36:19,595 --> 00:36:23,715 Speaker 1: and they cover basically everything in the business. First of 509 00:36:23,755 --> 00:36:27,675 Speaker 1: these the on air breakdown of a newscaster, Peter Finch's 510 00:36:27,675 --> 00:36:30,275 Speaker 1: Howard Bealle announces he's going to shoot himself on the 511 00:36:30,315 --> 00:36:33,435 Speaker 1: air in one week. There was a local news anchor 512 00:36:33,515 --> 00:36:36,835 Speaker 1: named Christine Chubbeck who had already shot herself during a 513 00:36:36,875 --> 00:36:40,155 Speaker 1: newscast in Sarasota in nineteen seventy four, but she did 514 00:36:40,195 --> 00:36:45,955 Speaker 1: not give advance warning nor show any indication of emotional distress. Sadly, tragically, 515 00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:50,475 Speaker 1: she just did it, but after network things began to 516 00:36:50,515 --> 00:36:53,595 Speaker 1: come apart at the seams in local news and network news. 517 00:36:53,635 --> 00:36:56,435 Speaker 1: In nineteen eighty eight, after reporter Bree Walker of New 518 00:36:56,515 --> 00:37:00,435 Speaker 1: York's Channel two News had concluded a story on birth defects, 519 00:37:00,995 --> 00:37:04,315 Speaker 1: veteran anchor Jim Jensen questioned her at length about a 520 00:37:04,355 --> 00:37:08,155 Speaker 1: hand and foot deformity which she herself suffered from, and 521 00:37:08,235 --> 00:37:11,715 Speaker 1: whether or not her parents would have aborted her had 522 00:37:11,715 --> 00:37:15,675 Speaker 1: they known in advanced she had the condition. Shortly afterwards, Jensen, 523 00:37:15,675 --> 00:37:17,715 Speaker 1: who had been on the air in New York forever, 524 00:37:18,195 --> 00:37:21,515 Speaker 1: entered a rehab center for treatment of alcohol, prescription drug 525 00:37:21,555 --> 00:37:25,995 Speaker 1: and cocaine abuse and depression. Later in two thousand and four, 526 00:37:26,115 --> 00:37:29,515 Speaker 1: Dan Harris had a live panic attack on ABC's Good 527 00:37:29,515 --> 00:37:32,515 Speaker 1: Morning America, losing his breath and cutting his newscast short. 528 00:37:34,195 --> 00:37:37,395 Speaker 1: Second of the prophecies Network posited that such a breakdown 529 00:37:37,435 --> 00:37:40,355 Speaker 1: would lead not to treatment nor removal from a broadcast, 530 00:37:40,395 --> 00:37:45,635 Speaker 1: but to greater success. Fifteen years ago, Glenn Beck began 531 00:37:45,675 --> 00:37:49,275 Speaker 1: to regularly weep on the air. If that was not 532 00:37:49,395 --> 00:37:52,115 Speaker 1: an indication of emotional trouble, it might have been the 533 00:37:52,155 --> 00:37:58,035 Speaker 1: attempt to convey that feeling legitimate or contrived. Beck was rewarded, 534 00:37:58,595 --> 00:38:01,515 Speaker 1: and the ABC newscaster I just mentioned, Dan Harris would 535 00:38:01,515 --> 00:38:03,715 Speaker 1: go on to do a World News Tonight feature on 536 00:38:04,475 --> 00:38:09,315 Speaker 1: his own on air breakdown. Third prophecy, when Howard Beel 537 00:38:09,395 --> 00:38:12,395 Speaker 1: first tells his boss Max Schumacher played by William Holden, 538 00:38:12,435 --> 00:38:14,835 Speaker 1: that he will kill himself on the air, Schumacher goes 539 00:38:14,875 --> 00:38:17,475 Speaker 1: off on a drunken flight of fancy about a new 540 00:38:17,555 --> 00:38:20,555 Speaker 1: Sunday night news show he called in his mind the 541 00:38:20,715 --> 00:38:26,835 Speaker 1: Death Hour, suicides, assassinations, mad bombers, mafia hitman, automobile smash ups, 542 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:32,035 Speaker 1: he says, and a terrorist of the Week. Schumacher's utterly 543 00:38:32,115 --> 00:38:36,755 Speaker 1: dystopian forecast has not made air yet, but the terrorism 544 00:38:36,755 --> 00:38:39,835 Speaker 1: of nine to eleven did play out live on all networks, 545 00:38:40,115 --> 00:38:45,355 Speaker 1: and parts of that terrorism are repeated minimally annually. Much 546 00:38:45,475 --> 00:38:48,595 Speaker 1: of a network like True TV consisted of programs that 547 00:38:48,635 --> 00:38:52,515 Speaker 1: were merely edited highlights of disasters, centering, in fact, largely on, 548 00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:58,875 Speaker 1: as Max Schumacher phrased it, automobile smashups. The fourth network prophecy, 549 00:38:59,195 --> 00:39:04,195 Speaker 1: Beel swears repeatedly during his newscasts. In the last few years, 550 00:39:04,195 --> 00:39:07,355 Speaker 1: CNN in particular has made the decision to quote words 551 00:39:07,675 --> 00:39:10,395 Speaker 1: that would have been bleeped less than a decade ago, 552 00:39:10,955 --> 00:39:13,835 Speaker 1: and at least one broadcast television program, The Late Late 553 00:39:13,835 --> 00:39:17,315 Speaker 1: Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS, produced its show live 554 00:39:17,395 --> 00:39:20,435 Speaker 1: to tape with an audience and in real time let 555 00:39:20,475 --> 00:39:24,595 Speaker 1: the hosts swear copiously and then would bleep him just 556 00:39:24,675 --> 00:39:28,755 Speaker 1: as copiously for the broadcast itself. Maybe the scripted swear 557 00:39:28,955 --> 00:39:32,755 Speaker 1: in the newscast is not far away. Fifth of the 558 00:39:32,795 --> 00:39:38,195 Speaker 1: network prophecies. Newscasts did not do stories about other newscasts 559 00:39:38,315 --> 00:39:43,235 Speaker 1: before network premiered. When Beal announces his intention to kill himself, 560 00:39:43,275 --> 00:39:46,435 Speaker 1: all of New York's local ten and eleven PM newscasts 561 00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:50,315 Speaker 1: made it their lead story at this point, and in 562 00:39:50,515 --> 00:39:55,675 Speaker 1: ensuing years, even monumental retirements such as Chet Huntley's retirement 563 00:39:55,675 --> 00:39:59,115 Speaker 1: in NBC in nineteen seventy or Walter Cronkite's retirement from 564 00:39:59,155 --> 00:40:02,715 Speaker 1: CBS in nineteen eighty one, had only merited the briefest 565 00:40:02,715 --> 00:40:06,915 Speaker 1: of footnotes on rival. But by the time of Peter 566 00:40:07,035 --> 00:40:09,715 Speaker 1: Jennings lung cancer announcement in two thousand and five, a 567 00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:15,635 Speaker 1: newscast or newscaster could become the lead story on another newscast. Indeed, 568 00:40:15,955 --> 00:40:19,995 Speaker 1: when I left MSNBC in January twenty eleven, announcing it 569 00:40:20,155 --> 00:40:25,155 Speaker 1: mid show, CNN's Anderson Cooper three point sixty not only 570 00:40:25,275 --> 00:40:28,995 Speaker 1: led its live broadcast at ten pm ET with it, 571 00:40:28,995 --> 00:40:33,595 Speaker 1: it devoted a dumbfounding twenty two minutes to something that 572 00:40:33,635 --> 00:40:37,395 Speaker 1: would have been ignored even a decade before. Understand how 573 00:40:37,395 --> 00:40:41,715 Speaker 1: long twenty two minutes is on CNN. I retired from 574 00:40:41,715 --> 00:40:45,435 Speaker 1: the broadcast countdown on MSNBC and was able to get 575 00:40:45,475 --> 00:40:49,075 Speaker 1: home before he was done covering the story of my 576 00:40:49,195 --> 00:40:54,595 Speaker 1: retiring from the broadcast sixth and this was the key 577 00:40:54,755 --> 00:41:00,875 Speaker 1: to everything in network and since Network, Penny Chayevsky and 578 00:41:00,955 --> 00:41:04,995 Speaker 1: his script forecast a moment in which newscasts would be 579 00:41:05,075 --> 00:41:08,355 Speaker 1: required to make money. It had not been that way 580 00:41:08,395 --> 00:41:12,035 Speaker 1: before news divisions were considered public service. The price the 581 00:41:12,075 --> 00:41:16,435 Speaker 1: networks paid to make billions off entertainment shows. Robert Duval 582 00:41:16,675 --> 00:41:21,515 Speaker 1: as Frank Hackett, the executive, attacks UBS's quote KREDI News 583 00:41:21,515 --> 00:41:25,035 Speaker 1: division and its annual thirty three million dollar deficit. As 584 00:41:25,035 --> 00:41:29,075 Speaker 1: Hackett later tells UBS stockholders, in effect, the news division 585 00:41:29,115 --> 00:41:32,315 Speaker 1: would be reduced from an independent division to a department 586 00:41:32,395 --> 00:41:37,275 Speaker 1: accountable to network. After CBS was sold in nineteen eighty seven, 587 00:41:37,315 --> 00:41:39,835 Speaker 1: the news budget was cut in half, and the moment 588 00:41:39,955 --> 00:41:43,195 Speaker 1: arrived newscasts from there on in had to be profitable. 589 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:46,475 Speaker 1: In twenty twelve, NBC took it to a new level 590 00:41:46,475 --> 00:41:50,075 Speaker 1: by appointing a programming executive with no news experience to 591 00:41:50,195 --> 00:41:54,115 Speaker 1: oversee all news on all of its networks, stations, and 592 00:41:54,195 --> 00:41:59,195 Speaker 1: even local cable systems. The reason Patichewski could see this 593 00:41:59,675 --> 00:42:02,155 Speaker 1: when others could not was that he had worked in 594 00:42:02,235 --> 00:42:05,355 Speaker 1: live television drama in the nineteen fifties, particularly on one 595 00:42:05,435 --> 00:42:09,715 Speaker 1: show called You Are There, in which CBS news reporters 596 00:42:09,715 --> 00:42:13,395 Speaker 1: and actors re enacted great moments from history. The newscasters 597 00:42:13,435 --> 00:42:16,195 Speaker 1: could make extra cash on the side, and the network 598 00:42:16,235 --> 00:42:20,955 Speaker 1: made huge profits. The host of You Are There, half News, 599 00:42:21,315 --> 00:42:28,435 Speaker 1: half entertainment was Walter Cronkite. The seventh Network Prophecy criminals 600 00:42:28,515 --> 00:42:32,715 Speaker 1: videotaping their own crimes. A series in network is created 601 00:42:32,755 --> 00:42:36,995 Speaker 1: after a terrorist group called the Ecumenical Liberation Army shoots 602 00:42:37,035 --> 00:42:40,515 Speaker 1: film of its own members robbing a bank. This was 603 00:42:40,835 --> 00:42:45,075 Speaker 1: inconceivable in nineteen seventy six, yet is today a facet 604 00:42:45,075 --> 00:42:48,955 Speaker 1: of every act, from the simplest self taped vandalism uploaded 605 00:42:48,955 --> 00:42:52,755 Speaker 1: to YouTube to actual terrorist attacks, recordings of which are 606 00:42:52,755 --> 00:42:57,115 Speaker 1: made by and then disseminated to news organizations by the perpetrators. 607 00:42:57,955 --> 00:43:03,155 Speaker 1: The eighth prophecy of network television news as rage quote. 608 00:43:03,155 --> 00:43:06,755 Speaker 1: The American people want somebody to articulate their rage for them, 609 00:43:06,755 --> 00:43:10,955 Speaker 1: says Faye Dunaway's character Diana Christensen, relative to cable news 610 00:43:10,995 --> 00:43:15,235 Speaker 1: in particular, does this even require me to elaborate at all? 611 00:43:16,395 --> 00:43:20,555 Speaker 1: Ninth Christensen, not a news executive, has then given control 612 00:43:20,715 --> 00:43:25,675 Speaker 1: over and permission to program Beal's newscast, the UBS Evening News. 613 00:43:26,275 --> 00:43:29,075 Speaker 1: Although there was a history of news personnel being involved 614 00:43:29,075 --> 00:43:32,595 Speaker 1: in entertainment programming, Edward R. Murrow also did an interview 615 00:43:32,595 --> 00:43:37,595 Speaker 1: show called Person to Person. Evening newscast were sacrosancd Today 616 00:43:37,635 --> 00:43:40,475 Speaker 1: the fiction may be maintained that they're still sacro sancd, 617 00:43:40,595 --> 00:43:43,275 Speaker 1: But since the advent of the consultant on the local 618 00:43:43,275 --> 00:43:45,835 Speaker 1: news level in the late nineteen seventies and early eighties, 619 00:43:46,195 --> 00:43:49,235 Speaker 1: more and more decisions about not just who does the news, 620 00:43:49,515 --> 00:43:51,835 Speaker 1: but what goes on the news have been made by 621 00:43:51,995 --> 00:43:57,955 Speaker 1: non news executives. The tenth prophecy, Diana Christensen also foretells 622 00:43:57,995 --> 00:44:01,315 Speaker 1: the various genres of five nights a week network programming 623 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:05,155 Speaker 1: that didn't happen before network she sees a prophet in 624 00:44:05,195 --> 00:44:08,515 Speaker 1: a chiefly produced, low budget program that can run Monday 625 00:44:08,515 --> 00:44:12,195 Speaker 1: through Friday, in which happens to be about the news. 626 00:44:13,035 --> 00:44:15,755 Speaker 1: The other networks then try to find their own outlandish 627 00:44:15,795 --> 00:44:19,475 Speaker 1: newscasts and run them five nights a week. Patti Chewski 628 00:44:19,635 --> 00:44:23,595 Speaker 1: is now anticipating every genre of craze that followed in news, 629 00:44:23,915 --> 00:44:26,875 Speaker 1: from nightline to Dateline, to Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 630 00:44:26,955 --> 00:44:30,155 Speaker 1: To American Idol to the NBC two thousand and nine 631 00:44:30,195 --> 00:44:32,955 Speaker 1: experiment in which they put Jay Leno on for a 632 00:44:32,995 --> 00:44:38,035 Speaker 1: comedy show every night at ten PM. The eleventh prophecy 633 00:44:38,355 --> 00:44:43,635 Speaker 1: network anticipates government deregulation and what it would do to TV. 634 00:44:44,315 --> 00:44:47,995 Speaker 1: When the UVS president objects to a pornographic network news 635 00:44:47,995 --> 00:44:51,475 Speaker 1: show and warns the FCC had kill us, Robert duval 636 00:44:51,635 --> 00:44:55,955 Speaker 1: As Hackett dismisses him and the FCC and foretells the 637 00:44:56,035 --> 00:44:59,315 Speaker 1: declawing of the commission. The FCC can't do anything that 638 00:44:59,355 --> 00:45:03,795 Speaker 1: wrap our knuckles again, does anything the FCC has not 639 00:45:03,995 --> 00:45:07,915 Speaker 1: done in post network television? Need any detail from me? 640 00:45:09,075 --> 00:45:14,995 Speaker 1: Twelve news commentary devolving into rants and takes. Wait what 641 00:45:15,115 --> 00:45:19,795 Speaker 1: did I write here news commentary devolves into rants and takes. 642 00:45:20,435 --> 00:45:23,915 Speaker 1: I've never heard any news commentator ranting, what the hell 643 00:45:24,035 --> 00:45:27,475 Speaker 1: is this? The rest of this rant about the relevance 644 00:45:27,475 --> 00:45:35,915 Speaker 1: of the Movie Network. Right after this, before the break, 645 00:45:35,955 --> 00:45:38,475 Speaker 1: I was about halfway through my look at the remarkably 646 00:45:38,595 --> 00:45:42,235 Speaker 1: prescient nineteen seventy six Film Network, which foresaw things we 647 00:45:42,315 --> 00:45:46,555 Speaker 1: thought impossible then, ranging from TV news covering TV news 648 00:45:46,635 --> 00:45:50,835 Speaker 1: as news, to terrorists videotaping their own terror and giving 649 00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:54,835 Speaker 1: it to newscasts, to the twelfth thing that network foretold, 650 00:45:55,235 --> 00:46:01,155 Speaker 1: the evolution or devolution of news commentary into takes and rants. 651 00:46:01,995 --> 00:46:05,715 Speaker 1: What in substance are we proposing newtws where Chief Hackett 652 00:46:05,755 --> 00:46:09,235 Speaker 1: asks his horrified colleagues, then he answers his own question, 653 00:46:09,635 --> 00:46:13,795 Speaker 1: merely to add editorial comment to our news show. Brinkley, Severid, 654 00:46:13,875 --> 00:46:17,275 Speaker 1: Reasoner all have their comments. Now, Howard Beal will have his. 655 00:46:18,435 --> 00:46:22,475 Speaker 1: Hackett's erasure of a line between nuanced, thoughtful scripts of 656 00:46:22,515 --> 00:46:27,235 Speaker 1: commentary agonized over by commentators, producers and executives and ad 657 00:46:27,275 --> 00:46:32,555 Speaker 1: libbed madness foresaw the similar real life change. Not merely 658 00:46:32,595 --> 00:46:36,235 Speaker 1: were comments added to newscasts, but the standards for what 659 00:46:36,355 --> 00:46:40,355 Speaker 1: constituted useful public commentary dropped from an age's old tradition 660 00:46:40,435 --> 00:46:46,315 Speaker 1: of newspaper editorials and columnists to verbal graffiti spontaneously letting 661 00:46:46,315 --> 00:46:52,035 Speaker 1: out his anger. The thirteenth Network prophecy. Newscasters and commentators 662 00:46:52,075 --> 00:46:55,275 Speaker 1: never used to claim that God told them what to say. 663 00:46:56,155 --> 00:46:59,035 Speaker 1: Though Beale specifically quotes the voice who tells him to 664 00:46:59,115 --> 00:47:01,595 Speaker 1: tell the people the truth as also saying that that 665 00:47:01,715 --> 00:47:05,435 Speaker 1: voice is not God. Beal still says he feels quote 666 00:47:05,515 --> 00:47:10,915 Speaker 1: imbued and connected to all living things. The leap for 667 00:47:11,035 --> 00:47:16,635 Speaker 1: a commentator from hearing your inner voice to hearing somebody 668 00:47:16,635 --> 00:47:20,475 Speaker 1: else's inner voice was preposterous enough as it was, but 669 00:47:20,595 --> 00:47:24,075 Speaker 1: reality took it further. While Glenn Beck may not have 670 00:47:24,155 --> 00:47:28,435 Speaker 1: claimed God was writing his commentaries for him, in April 671 00:47:28,475 --> 00:47:32,395 Speaker 1: twenty twelve, according to the ut San Diego News, he 672 00:47:32,475 --> 00:47:35,795 Speaker 1: told an audience in Rancho, San Diego that God did 673 00:47:35,995 --> 00:47:39,275 Speaker 1: tell him to quit his job at Fox News Channel. 674 00:47:39,995 --> 00:47:42,635 Speaker 1: On the day he decided to leave, they wrote, Beck 675 00:47:42,715 --> 00:47:44,915 Speaker 1: said he walked up to a floorida ceiling window in 676 00:47:44,915 --> 00:47:47,435 Speaker 1: his New York apartment and asked his wife, how could 677 00:47:47,475 --> 00:47:50,915 Speaker 1: this possibly be God's plan? As I stood there, the 678 00:47:50,955 --> 00:47:54,115 Speaker 1: Lord whispered to me if you do not leave now, 679 00:47:54,475 --> 00:47:57,435 Speaker 1: you will lose your soul. Beck said it was the 680 00:47:57,475 --> 00:48:02,235 Speaker 1: easiest decision I've ever made. Beck also later announced that 681 00:48:02,275 --> 00:48:05,395 Speaker 1: God not only Wantedmit Romney to be present, but had 682 00:48:05,435 --> 00:48:08,555 Speaker 1: put him behind in the polls so that when Romney won, 683 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:12,275 Speaker 1: everyone would see a modern miracle. Had that one turn 684 00:48:12,315 --> 00:48:16,515 Speaker 1: out for you, Glenn? The fourteenth Network Prophecy Network accurately 685 00:48:16,515 --> 00:48:19,235 Speaker 1: predicted that journalists would stop throwing themselves in front of 686 00:48:19,235 --> 00:48:23,555 Speaker 1: professional train wrecks. The same year that network was released, 687 00:48:24,275 --> 00:48:27,515 Speaker 1: a House committee wanted correspond at Daniel Shore of CBS 688 00:48:27,515 --> 00:48:30,315 Speaker 1: News to testify about where he got a copy of 689 00:48:30,355 --> 00:48:35,235 Speaker 1: a secret report. He refused. CBS pressured him to testify, 690 00:48:35,515 --> 00:48:41,115 Speaker 1: so he quit. He quit his job, but Network foretold 691 00:48:41,515 --> 00:48:43,875 Speaker 1: that Shore would be among the last to do something 692 00:48:43,995 --> 00:48:47,355 Speaker 1: like that. William Holden's Max Schumacher tries to derail the 693 00:48:47,395 --> 00:48:51,395 Speaker 1: Howard Beale prophecy and rage newscasts by telling Robert Duvals 694 00:48:51,435 --> 00:48:53,035 Speaker 1: Frank Hackett, you want me out of here, You're going 695 00:48:53,115 --> 00:48:54,875 Speaker 1: to have to drag me out of here, kicking and 696 00:48:54,915 --> 00:48:57,355 Speaker 1: screaming in the whole news division, kicking and screaming with me. 697 00:48:58,275 --> 00:49:01,355 Speaker 1: Hackett dismisses him. You think they're going to quit their 698 00:49:01,435 --> 00:49:04,675 Speaker 1: jobs for you. Not. In this recession, buddy, the premise 699 00:49:05,395 --> 00:49:09,475 Speaker 1: of the integrity of newspeople was as widely held as 700 00:49:09,555 --> 00:49:13,755 Speaker 1: the integrity and inviolability of a news division. And yet 701 00:49:13,755 --> 00:49:18,515 Speaker 1: in each downsizing, redesigning, and boldlarization of the old standard 702 00:49:18,555 --> 00:49:24,395 Speaker 1: concept of news again, Patty Chaievski foresaw correctly the number 703 00:49:24,435 --> 00:49:28,835 Speaker 1: of public protests, let alone public exits, has been negligible 704 00:49:28,875 --> 00:49:32,395 Speaker 1: in the last thirty years. Dan rather railed against the 705 00:49:32,435 --> 00:49:36,035 Speaker 1: gutting of CBS in nineteen eighty seven. That's been about it. 706 00:49:36,675 --> 00:49:38,715 Speaker 1: And for all the other good things Dan has done, 707 00:49:39,515 --> 00:49:45,035 Speaker 1: he didn't quit his job. Fifteenth Network foresaw reality television 708 00:49:45,035 --> 00:49:48,315 Speaker 1: and the staging of news. When Christiansen meets with the 709 00:49:48,315 --> 00:49:52,275 Speaker 1: activist Lorraine Hobbs and her attorneys to program their terrorism show, 710 00:49:52,315 --> 00:49:55,875 Speaker 1: The Moutse Tungue Hour, she's not merely reflecting the coming 711 00:49:55,915 --> 00:50:00,395 Speaker 1: amorality of reality television, nor just amplifying the already extant 712 00:50:00,515 --> 00:50:04,555 Speaker 1: if it Bleeds it leads mantra of local news. Through her, 713 00:50:04,715 --> 00:50:08,315 Speaker 1: Patty Chaiaski is also foretelling a time when television would 714 00:50:08,355 --> 00:50:12,315 Speaker 1: begin not to cover the news, but to orchestrate it. 715 00:50:12,915 --> 00:50:15,075 Speaker 1: If the networks have yet to actually be guilty of 716 00:50:15,155 --> 00:50:19,395 Speaker 1: misprision of a penalty regarding terrorists, we hope, surely on 717 00:50:19,435 --> 00:50:22,515 Speaker 1: a lesser scale than nineteen ninety two NBC scandal over 718 00:50:22,635 --> 00:50:27,115 Speaker 1: faked video of Chevy trucks exploding after collisions confirms the 719 00:50:27,155 --> 00:50:30,955 Speaker 1: basic premise of adding programming helper to the actual news. 720 00:50:31,635 --> 00:50:36,875 Speaker 1: Somewhat more remotely. Event recreations were once absolutely impermissible in news, 721 00:50:37,675 --> 00:50:41,315 Speaker 1: they are now one of its staples. There are eight 722 00:50:41,395 --> 00:50:45,635 Speaker 1: more prophecies, and they all fall into one category. Howard 723 00:50:45,675 --> 00:50:49,675 Speaker 1: Beale's revised newscast, The Network News Hour, has components in it, 724 00:50:49,755 --> 00:50:52,555 Speaker 1: eight of them that would have been thought absurd in 725 00:50:52,635 --> 00:50:56,355 Speaker 1: any newscast anywhere the day that the Film Network premiered 726 00:50:56,395 --> 00:51:01,755 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six. Number One, it has a studio audience. 727 00:51:02,555 --> 00:51:07,475 Speaker 1: Countless newscasts, particularly on cable, have now used studio audiences. 728 00:51:07,635 --> 00:51:11,195 Speaker 1: MSNBC's Donahue did it nightly in two thousand and two 729 00:51:11,235 --> 00:51:15,035 Speaker 1: two thousand and three. Others like Anderson Cooper and Chris 730 00:51:15,075 --> 00:51:19,355 Speaker 1: Matthews and Chris Hayes have experimented with it. Number two, 731 00:51:20,115 --> 00:51:24,715 Speaker 1: predicting the news on The Beal Show, Sybil the Soothsayer 732 00:51:24,875 --> 00:51:29,195 Speaker 1: actually predicts the news. Well, nobody has done that yet, 733 00:51:29,315 --> 00:51:34,475 Speaker 1: not literally. But what does every specialty newscast, especially political ones, 734 00:51:34,515 --> 00:51:38,675 Speaker 1: do in its last broadcast before Monday? Almost invariably there 735 00:51:38,715 --> 00:51:42,315 Speaker 1: is some kind of prediction or forecast for the week ahead, 736 00:51:42,435 --> 00:51:46,035 Speaker 1: what to look for, and if it is not institutionalized 737 00:51:46,075 --> 00:51:50,355 Speaker 1: in that distinct manner, the show still contains pundits who 738 00:51:50,435 --> 00:51:54,315 Speaker 1: do nothing but forecast tomorrow's news. As long ago as 739 00:51:54,355 --> 00:51:57,755 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight, we would try on Thursday night to 740 00:51:57,955 --> 00:52:02,235 Speaker 1: guess where the Clinton Lewinsky story was going and what 741 00:52:02,275 --> 00:52:05,235 Speaker 1: we could give them to put in the pre recorded 742 00:52:05,275 --> 00:52:11,515 Speaker 1: promos that would run on Monday, three days later. Number 743 00:52:11,555 --> 00:52:14,795 Speaker 1: three Trial Obsessed TV News. There is a Howard Beal 744 00:52:14,875 --> 00:52:19,435 Speaker 1: segment called Jim Webbing and His It's the Emmys Truth Department. 745 00:52:19,675 --> 00:52:22,955 Speaker 1: The script is a little vague. We don't know. Is 746 00:52:22,995 --> 00:52:26,195 Speaker 1: the Emmys Truth a series of hard to believe news stories. 747 00:52:26,555 --> 00:52:29,995 Speaker 1: Does the giant logo behind Jim Webbing of Justice carrying 748 00:52:30,035 --> 00:52:33,435 Speaker 1: her scales suggest it's a regular report on trials in 749 00:52:33,475 --> 00:52:36,675 Speaker 1: the law. Or is the emphasis on ems as in, 750 00:52:36,915 --> 00:52:39,915 Speaker 1: you've been lied to, Here's the real truth, not the 751 00:52:39,955 --> 00:52:43,835 Speaker 1: cover up? Which is it? Well? Does it matter, which 752 00:52:44,515 --> 00:52:48,355 Speaker 1: do we not have all of them concurrently every hour? 753 00:52:49,795 --> 00:52:55,155 Speaker 1: Fourth public sexual scandal coverage. Another Beal segment stars Miss 754 00:52:55,195 --> 00:52:57,915 Speaker 1: Matta Harry and her skeletons in the closet and she 755 00:52:58,035 --> 00:53:01,315 Speaker 1: stands in front of a giant keyhole. This is something 756 00:53:01,355 --> 00:53:04,435 Speaker 1: beyond just gossip, and it has become the sustaining joy 757 00:53:04,875 --> 00:53:09,355 Speaker 1: of all newscasts, from the cheesiest local station to PBS 758 00:53:09,675 --> 00:53:16,035 Speaker 1: the public Sex Scandal, Ask Bill Clinton, Ask Madison Cawthorne. 759 00:53:17,675 --> 00:53:21,315 Speaker 1: Fifth opinion polls. As news, Beale has a regular segment 760 00:53:21,355 --> 00:53:25,515 Speaker 1: called Vox Popular, the calculation and reporting of public opinion. 761 00:53:25,795 --> 00:53:28,115 Speaker 1: This one is the hardest to explain to younger viewers 762 00:53:28,115 --> 00:53:31,955 Speaker 1: of the film network, But the idea of running polls, 763 00:53:32,595 --> 00:53:36,755 Speaker 1: especially polls conducted by the news organization that would then 764 00:53:36,835 --> 00:53:41,195 Speaker 1: televise the results of those polls, was laughable when Tchaiavsky 765 00:53:41,235 --> 00:53:45,795 Speaker 1: saw it coming. Now, TV news organizations like MSNBC will 766 00:53:45,835 --> 00:53:49,595 Speaker 1: not only employ somewhat reliable polling morning, noon, and night, 767 00:53:49,795 --> 00:53:53,315 Speaker 1: but they'll also employ text polls in which viewers are 768 00:53:53,355 --> 00:53:56,835 Speaker 1: asked if a particular Republican is a evil or b 769 00:53:57,315 --> 00:54:02,035 Speaker 1: just stupid. Moreover, every newscast believes in relies on and 770 00:54:02,195 --> 00:54:05,875 Speaker 1: most of them commission their own polling for everything and 771 00:54:05,995 --> 00:54:10,875 Speaker 1: treats the results as breaking news. Guilty is charged here, 772 00:54:11,355 --> 00:54:14,115 Speaker 1: I did it, then I do it. In this podcast 773 00:54:15,475 --> 00:54:19,275 Speaker 1: six the Corporate Influence, Beal opens the first edition of 774 00:54:19,315 --> 00:54:22,595 Speaker 1: The Network News Hour with the death of network president 775 00:54:22,795 --> 00:54:25,515 Speaker 1: Ed Ruddy and the assent of Frank Hackett and the 776 00:54:25,515 --> 00:54:30,635 Speaker 1: full control of UBS by the company. CCA. Beal asks, 777 00:54:30,715 --> 00:54:33,555 Speaker 1: when the twelfth largest company in the world controls the 778 00:54:33,595 --> 00:54:37,235 Speaker 1: most awesome, goddamn propaganda pos in the whole godless world, 779 00:54:37,555 --> 00:54:40,795 Speaker 1: who knows what blank will be peddled for truth on 780 00:54:40,835 --> 00:54:47,315 Speaker 1: this network? The cross promotion between GE and NBC and 781 00:54:47,435 --> 00:54:51,395 Speaker 1: its various networks and channels, or Universal Studios when the 782 00:54:51,435 --> 00:54:58,475 Speaker 1: former owned the latter, or between Disney Networks and Disney products, ABC, ESPN, 783 00:54:58,635 --> 00:55:02,435 Speaker 1: the cross quotation of one news corp print entity by 784 00:55:02,435 --> 00:55:05,955 Speaker 1: a news corp broadcast entity, or five News and the like. 785 00:55:06,555 --> 00:55:10,675 Speaker 1: That was only the start. But what is Fox News? 786 00:55:10,915 --> 00:55:15,075 Speaker 1: What Isan? What is Newsmax? What is the serious coverage 787 00:55:15,235 --> 00:55:19,315 Speaker 1: of the entire big lie about the twenty twenty presidential election? 788 00:55:20,235 --> 00:55:23,235 Speaker 1: You think those are the newscasters thinking all that up? 789 00:55:23,715 --> 00:55:27,675 Speaker 1: It is exactly what Chaievsky had Beal, warn of what 790 00:55:27,795 --> 00:55:31,755 Speaker 1: if the corporations own all the television networks and tell 791 00:55:31,835 --> 00:55:36,835 Speaker 1: you what they the corporations want you to hear. Seven 792 00:55:36,955 --> 00:55:41,795 Speaker 1: direct involvement of corporate CEOs in news content, well, I 793 00:55:41,955 --> 00:55:44,275 Speaker 1: know of no meeting in which a real life equivalent 794 00:55:44,315 --> 00:55:46,915 Speaker 1: to the Ned Beatty character, one of the great characters 795 00:55:46,955 --> 00:55:51,435 Speaker 1: in motion picture history, Arthur Jensen, preaches fire and brimstone 796 00:55:51,555 --> 00:55:54,115 Speaker 1: to Howard Beale to get him to do what he 797 00:55:54,395 --> 00:56:00,155 Speaker 1: Jensen wants. But I can tell you, without fear of contradiction, 798 00:56:00,315 --> 00:56:05,035 Speaker 1: as a witness to this, that corporate CEOs will tell 799 00:56:05,355 --> 00:56:09,955 Speaker 1: individual newscasters what they want personally, directly and with the 800 00:56:09,995 --> 00:56:14,915 Speaker 1: threat of retribution spoken or otherwise. Just yesterday here I 801 00:56:14,995 --> 00:56:18,475 Speaker 1: mentioned Jeff Immelt, the head of GE, in the summer 802 00:56:18,475 --> 00:56:21,675 Speaker 1: of two thousand and nine, during the well publicized GE 803 00:56:21,715 --> 00:56:27,595 Speaker 1: swoon over MSNBC's criticism of Immelt's friends at Fox News. Eventually, 804 00:56:27,635 --> 00:56:31,715 Speaker 1: it was all resolved when Immelt had me come up 805 00:56:31,755 --> 00:56:35,835 Speaker 1: to the private GE NBC dining room a top thirty 806 00:56:35,915 --> 00:56:38,755 Speaker 1: rock in New York City along with NBC President Jeff 807 00:56:38,835 --> 00:56:43,675 Speaker 1: Zucker to hash it all out. This thing lasted two hours. 808 00:56:44,275 --> 00:56:47,395 Speaker 1: When I finally asked Immelt, Is this a question of 809 00:56:47,435 --> 00:56:51,275 Speaker 1: never criticizing Fox again or how much we criticized Fox? 810 00:56:51,555 --> 00:56:54,995 Speaker 1: He said how much? And I said, well I can 811 00:56:55,035 --> 00:56:58,795 Speaker 1: do less, and he said, well great, Really, then it's resolved. 812 00:56:59,435 --> 00:57:03,635 Speaker 1: Let's eat. And that's when Emmelt confirmed that he had 813 00:57:03,675 --> 00:57:06,875 Speaker 1: met on this topic were Rupert Murdoch, the CEO of 814 00:57:06,955 --> 00:57:09,635 Speaker 1: News Corp, And that Jeff Zucker had met with Roger Ales, 815 00:57:09,635 --> 00:57:13,555 Speaker 1: who ran Fox News, to discuss what the Fox Corporation 816 00:57:14,275 --> 00:57:17,755 Speaker 1: and the NBC Corporation would and would not allow their 817 00:57:17,755 --> 00:57:24,755 Speaker 1: television networks to report about each other. Eight. Lastly, assassination 818 00:57:26,555 --> 00:57:28,635 Speaker 1: spoiler alert about the movie network. 819 00:57:28,715 --> 00:57:31,315 Speaker 2: I don't think anybody has actually been killed by his 820 00:57:31,395 --> 00:57:36,235 Speaker 2: own bosses for having lousy ratings, but the moral equivalent 821 00:57:36,835 --> 00:57:39,675 Speaker 2: character assassination of a network's owned newscasters. 822 00:57:40,155 --> 00:57:45,155 Speaker 1: That is a regular technique to undermine them, to discipline them, 823 00:57:45,195 --> 00:57:48,795 Speaker 1: to make them more malleable, to get away with firing them. 824 00:57:49,155 --> 00:57:53,995 Speaker 1: In Aaron Sorkin's newsroom, his employers were themselves leaking gossip 825 00:57:54,035 --> 00:57:57,835 Speaker 1: about their newscaster, played by Jeff Daniels, to the tabloid 826 00:57:57,875 --> 00:58:01,955 Speaker 1: newspaper they also owned. But I know for a fact 827 00:58:02,035 --> 00:58:05,195 Speaker 1: that past bosses of mine at NBC eight to The 828 00:58:05,195 --> 00:58:07,555 Speaker 1: New York Post in hopes of making me fear from 829 00:58:07,555 --> 00:58:11,355 Speaker 1: my job. When Current TV tried to fire me to 830 00:58:11,395 --> 00:58:13,875 Speaker 1: get out of having to pay me roughly ooh fifty 831 00:58:13,875 --> 00:58:17,035 Speaker 1: million dollars, it still owed me. It actually hired a 832 00:58:17,075 --> 00:58:20,675 Speaker 1: former White House spin doctor to make up and spread 833 00:58:20,755 --> 00:58:24,195 Speaker 1: stories with his contacts about me in hopes of getting 834 00:58:24,235 --> 00:58:29,595 Speaker 1: themselves off the financial hook. If you have never seen 835 00:58:29,755 --> 00:58:31,795 Speaker 1: the movie Network, all that I've been through in the 836 00:58:31,875 --> 00:58:34,435 Speaker 1: last twenty minutes probably makes it sound like some sort 837 00:58:34,475 --> 00:58:39,115 Speaker 1: of drab, almost academic treatise on declining journalistic values and 838 00:58:39,235 --> 00:58:45,515 Speaker 1: personal moral decay. Well, it's anything but that. It is exciting, hilarious, surprising, terrifying, 839 00:58:45,755 --> 00:58:50,075 Speaker 1: and it's virtually perfect, with brilliant acting and a subtle 840 00:58:50,115 --> 00:58:53,675 Speaker 1: but perceptible sense that everybody in the film and everybody 841 00:58:53,755 --> 00:59:00,235 Speaker 1: watching the film is detaching slowly and slowly and more slowly, 842 00:59:00,595 --> 00:59:04,195 Speaker 1: detaching from reality and the reliable world they thought they 843 00:59:04,315 --> 00:59:08,715 Speaker 1: knew with every passing minute of the film. But mostly 844 00:59:08,995 --> 00:59:11,955 Speaker 1: it's just a great flick. If you have not seen it, 845 00:59:12,595 --> 00:59:16,395 Speaker 1: see it now. To paraphrase for Finch as Beel, so 846 00:59:16,515 --> 00:59:19,795 Speaker 1: turn off this podcast and go watch Network. Turn it off. Now, 847 00:59:19,955 --> 00:59:21,875 Speaker 1: turn it off right now, turn it off and leave 848 00:59:21,915 --> 00:59:23,635 Speaker 1: it off. Turn it off right in the middle of 849 00:59:23,635 --> 00:59:31,675 Speaker 1: the sentence I'm speaking to you now. Among his other credits, 850 00:59:31,715 --> 00:59:34,915 Speaker 1: Moe used to host a TV show called Things I 851 00:59:34,995 --> 00:59:40,675 Speaker 1: Hate About You. I'm sure I've seen that program only 852 00:59:40,795 --> 01:00:07,395 Speaker 1: I believe it's now called Countdown with Keith Overman. So 853 01:00:08,155 --> 01:00:10,835 Speaker 1: I juggled the format here because of CBS and Robert 854 01:00:10,915 --> 01:00:15,515 Speaker 1: Duval and network. And so we close in unfamiliar order 855 01:00:15,555 --> 01:00:17,715 Speaker 1: with the new Idiots to talk about the roundup of 856 01:00:17,715 --> 01:00:21,155 Speaker 1: the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute 857 01:00:21,195 --> 01:00:29,595 Speaker 1: today's other worst persons in the world. Lebron's worst, Tom Emmer, 858 01:00:30,155 --> 01:00:35,435 Speaker 1: Congressman from Minnesota. The House Majority whip and no majority 859 01:00:35,515 --> 01:00:41,635 Speaker 1: ain't short for whips. Smart Tom is a moron. Tom, though, 860 01:00:41,755 --> 01:00:44,195 Speaker 1: is one of the dozens of MAGA who got the 861 01:00:44,235 --> 01:00:48,635 Speaker 1: memo and can read it aloud. They can memorize this much. 862 01:00:49,635 --> 01:00:53,395 Speaker 1: The Democratic Senate requirement and negotiations that all the Ice 863 01:00:53,435 --> 01:00:57,515 Speaker 1: Gestapo have to wear ID badges of some sort, you know, 864 01:00:57,875 --> 01:01:01,635 Speaker 1: like cops do then on their home address on it. 865 01:01:01,635 --> 01:01:05,395 Speaker 1: It's just numbers or some way of identifying them. Without 866 01:01:05,395 --> 01:01:11,035 Speaker 1: giving away, you know, their home address. They have decided 867 01:01:11,075 --> 01:01:13,875 Speaker 1: the MAGA have, Tom Emmer has, the others have that 868 01:01:13,915 --> 01:01:16,555 Speaker 1: they can twist this into something else to say. On TV, 869 01:01:16,995 --> 01:01:19,635 Speaker 1: Tom Emmer was on CBS and the host managed to 870 01:01:19,635 --> 01:01:21,875 Speaker 1: get in some news before they fire him and replace 871 01:01:21,955 --> 01:01:25,995 Speaker 1: him with I don't know somebody from Real Housewives of 872 01:01:26,235 --> 01:01:31,075 Speaker 1: Barry Weiss who knows? And this guy Emmer spouted the 873 01:01:31,075 --> 01:01:36,595 Speaker 1: idea that it was intellectually dishonest, as if intellectually has 874 01:01:36,715 --> 01:01:42,195 Speaker 1: ever entered into Mecca for one second, that it's intellectually 875 01:01:42,235 --> 01:01:47,155 Speaker 1: dishonest for Democrats to demand IDs for ice if they 876 01:01:47,235 --> 01:01:53,235 Speaker 1: won't accept IDs to vote. You know what these these 877 01:01:53,275 --> 01:01:59,075 Speaker 1: things have in common, the initials ID. That's it because 878 01:01:59,195 --> 01:02:02,635 Speaker 1: IDs to vote are actually just a modernized version of 879 01:02:02,675 --> 01:02:06,955 Speaker 1: the Jim Crow poll tax for minorities in women and 880 01:02:07,115 --> 01:02:10,315 Speaker 1: IDs like an ID badge doesn't even have your picture 881 01:02:10,355 --> 01:02:13,355 Speaker 1: on it, let alone your address, let alone, you have 882 01:02:13,435 --> 01:02:16,755 Speaker 1: to pay for it, let alone, you have to have 883 01:02:16,835 --> 01:02:19,715 Speaker 1: it be where you shoot somebody. They're totally different things. 884 01:02:21,355 --> 01:02:24,315 Speaker 1: It's like saying, I don't know it's got ID on it. 885 01:02:24,395 --> 01:02:27,715 Speaker 1: So it also means IDAHO IDs for a cop or 886 01:02:27,755 --> 01:02:31,515 Speaker 1: ice IDs for voting and ID for Idaho. Same thing 887 01:02:32,195 --> 01:02:35,635 Speaker 1: you're telling me Ice has to move to Idaho, same 888 01:02:35,875 --> 01:02:40,155 Speaker 1: intellectual through line. Well, finally, somebody questioned him about how 889 01:02:40,235 --> 01:02:42,555 Speaker 1: much of a stretch this is and how much he 890 01:02:43,635 --> 01:02:48,675 Speaker 1: Emmer is an asshole question, Congressman. When they're asking for IDs, 891 01:02:48,755 --> 01:02:52,155 Speaker 1: they don't mean identification in the way we as ordinary 892 01:02:52,155 --> 01:02:55,675 Speaker 1: Americans carry them. They mean a badge number like a 893 01:02:55,715 --> 01:03:01,235 Speaker 1: cop would have. Emmer does not simply vanish in a 894 01:03:01,475 --> 01:03:04,555 Speaker 1: ball of smoke. Emmer. You can interpret it that way, 895 01:03:04,555 --> 01:03:08,395 Speaker 1: for sure, But that isn't necessarily what they're asking for 896 01:03:08,915 --> 01:03:13,835 Speaker 1: if you listen closely. Actually it is, especially if you 897 01:03:13,955 --> 01:03:17,395 Speaker 1: listen closely. It's exactly what we're asking for. Now. You 898 01:03:17,435 --> 01:03:19,715 Speaker 1: can interpret it that way for sure, because a badge 899 01:03:19,715 --> 01:03:22,155 Speaker 1: with a number on it telling you who is threatening 900 01:03:22,155 --> 01:03:25,035 Speaker 1: to shoot you in the face is not the same 901 01:03:25,395 --> 01:03:28,315 Speaker 1: as a new ID with your picture and address on 902 01:03:28,355 --> 01:03:31,035 Speaker 1: it that you have to go and buy after a 903 01:03:31,115 --> 01:03:33,915 Speaker 1: five hour drive in order to vote. And when you 904 01:03:33,995 --> 01:03:36,195 Speaker 1: do the five hour drive, you find out they have 905 01:03:36,355 --> 01:03:39,955 Speaker 1: closed all the places you could buy that ID. And 906 01:03:39,995 --> 01:03:42,675 Speaker 1: it's also not the same as Idaho. I don't want 907 01:03:42,715 --> 01:03:45,235 Speaker 1: to hear any of you Maga fs say, this is 908 01:03:45,275 --> 01:03:49,275 Speaker 1: the same as Idaho. Somehow, It's like my own private Idaho. 909 01:03:49,395 --> 01:03:52,115 Speaker 1: What happened to the privacy in my own private Idaho? 910 01:03:55,635 --> 01:03:58,555 Speaker 1: I almost would be willing to accept fascism in this 911 01:03:58,715 --> 01:04:05,195 Speaker 1: country if these magas weren't so effing stupid. Just try 912 01:04:05,315 --> 01:04:11,275 Speaker 1: a little harder. Nope. Next example, how could you top that? 913 01:04:11,515 --> 01:04:14,155 Speaker 1: You're the runner up, the worser Peter Navarro? He can 914 01:04:14,195 --> 01:04:20,555 Speaker 1: top that White House senior counselor and lawn jockey, the 915 01:04:20,595 --> 01:04:25,475 Speaker 1: economy sized economist, Peter Navarro, the guy who sold Trump 916 01:04:25,555 --> 01:04:29,635 Speaker 1: on tariffs and last time actually went to jail for 917 01:04:29,755 --> 01:04:36,475 Speaker 1: Donald Trump. This is one dumb mofo. But I always assumed, 918 01:04:36,755 --> 01:04:40,395 Speaker 1: not being an economist myself, that Navarro had some kind 919 01:04:40,395 --> 01:04:44,835 Speaker 1: of credibility financially, even on behalf of his fellow fascists 920 01:04:45,395 --> 01:04:50,515 Speaker 1: like Trump and Kushner and Lutnik, who are looting the 921 01:04:50,595 --> 01:04:55,475 Speaker 1: treasury as we speak. Nuh uh. Peter Navarro on Maria Bartiromo. 922 01:04:56,195 --> 01:05:01,435 Speaker 1: Oh God, Peter Navarro on Maria Bartiromo's show. God, now 923 01:05:01,435 --> 01:05:03,995 Speaker 1: I've got that picture in my mind. Peter Navarro on 924 01:05:04,075 --> 01:05:09,515 Speaker 1: Maria bart Romo's show. Bartaromo. By the way, another financial 925 01:05:09,555 --> 01:05:14,195 Speaker 1: ignoramus who thinks she's a genius. Quote, it's the perfect 926 01:05:14,195 --> 01:05:17,435 Speaker 1: Trump economy. In twenty twenty six, Navaro said, quote, it's 927 01:05:17,475 --> 01:05:20,755 Speaker 1: a Goldilock's economy. Quote. What are we seeing? We're seeing 928 01:05:20,835 --> 01:05:27,755 Speaker 1: stock market over fifty thousand dollars. It's not the stock 929 01:05:27,795 --> 01:05:31,635 Speaker 1: market the number he's quoting. It's not over fifty thousand dollars. 930 01:05:32,075 --> 01:05:33,835 Speaker 1: But he's saying the stock market is worth a total 931 01:05:33,875 --> 01:05:37,235 Speaker 1: of fifty thousand dollars. We're in a lot of trouble, 932 01:05:37,235 --> 01:05:41,355 Speaker 1: aren't we, then, Pete, and I don't mean it's below 933 01:05:41,475 --> 01:05:45,115 Speaker 1: fifty thousand. He's talking about the Dow Jones. The Dow 934 01:05:45,195 --> 01:05:48,835 Speaker 1: Jones has been below above around fifty thousand for about 935 01:05:48,835 --> 01:05:53,355 Speaker 1: a week. Navarro is quoting where the Dow Jones industrial 936 01:05:53,395 --> 01:05:56,635 Speaker 1: average is, but he doesn't understand what the Dow Jones 937 01:05:56,635 --> 01:06:00,755 Speaker 1: industrial average is. What the number is, Yes, it's around 938 01:06:00,755 --> 01:06:05,275 Speaker 1: fifty thousand, but not dollars, Peter. It's the of the 939 01:06:05,275 --> 01:06:09,635 Speaker 1: stocks in the average, then divided by a figure to 940 01:06:09,755 --> 01:06:13,715 Speaker 1: balance it out and produce a statistic, an index, and 941 01:06:13,715 --> 01:06:16,755 Speaker 1: the number is roughly zero point one six or something. 942 01:06:16,795 --> 01:06:22,115 Speaker 1: It isn't The outcome isn't dollars it's points. It's fifty 943 01:06:22,155 --> 01:06:26,355 Speaker 1: thousand points or forty nine two hundred and seventy four points. 944 01:06:27,795 --> 01:06:32,275 Speaker 1: The Dow Jones Industrial average closed down twenty eight points 945 01:06:32,315 --> 01:06:36,875 Speaker 1: today It's at forty nine thousand points. I mean, ah, 946 01:06:36,915 --> 01:06:39,435 Speaker 1: I've been hearing this since like nineteen sixty seven on 947 01:06:39,475 --> 01:06:44,115 Speaker 1: the TV. Even I know this. Here's one of Trump's 948 01:06:44,155 --> 01:06:47,235 Speaker 1: primary financial advisors, and he literally doesn't know the Dow 949 01:06:47,355 --> 01:06:51,835 Speaker 1: Jones isn't dollars, it's points. How long has this twerp 950 01:06:52,035 --> 01:06:55,235 Speaker 1: been making this mistake? You know how old Peter Navarro is. 951 01:06:55,355 --> 01:06:59,555 Speaker 1: He's two hundred and six nine in July actually would 952 01:06:59,555 --> 01:07:01,555 Speaker 1: be seventy seven, but he looks two hundred and six. 953 01:07:02,515 --> 01:07:06,235 Speaker 1: And yet this is not the worst, the winner, the 954 01:07:06,475 --> 01:07:14,635 Speaker 1: worst candas owens. I know Twitter x is dying, activity 955 01:07:14,715 --> 01:07:19,235 Speaker 1: is down, Blue Sky is improving. They are letting you 956 01:07:19,435 --> 01:07:22,595 Speaker 1: manipulate your own algorithm on threads, although I still look 957 01:07:22,595 --> 01:07:27,075 Speaker 1: at threads through suspicious and slitted eyelids and think Zuckerberg 958 01:07:27,235 --> 01:07:30,635 Speaker 1: is doing something bad. But there is one account on 959 01:07:30,675 --> 01:07:35,875 Speaker 1: twitter x I cannot recommend too much. It is at 960 01:07:36,315 --> 01:07:44,115 Speaker 1: Candace reading one c an dacee r e A d 961 01:07:44,315 --> 01:07:49,195 Speaker 1: I n G one at Candace reading one. That's the handle. 962 01:07:49,395 --> 01:07:56,155 Speaker 1: The title is Candace Owens trying to read parody. It's 963 01:07:56,235 --> 01:08:00,155 Speaker 1: blue checked, and it's worth going on Twitter x just 964 01:08:00,235 --> 01:08:03,555 Speaker 1: for this account. If you follow another other account, not 965 01:08:03,715 --> 01:08:07,795 Speaker 1: one can Owens trying to read at Candace reading one. 966 01:08:07,875 --> 01:08:11,475 Speaker 1: Because of all the transparent frauds out there trying to 967 01:08:11,515 --> 01:08:14,715 Speaker 1: grift off the stupidity of people so stupid they can't 968 01:08:14,715 --> 01:08:18,355 Speaker 1: see through Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Candace Owens is 969 01:08:18,515 --> 01:08:22,115 Speaker 1: the dumbest. She's dumb enough to replace Barry Weiss as 970 01:08:22,115 --> 01:08:25,115 Speaker 1: the head of CBS News. I mean, she not only 971 01:08:25,155 --> 01:08:29,515 Speaker 1: behaves like a creature created in a test tube, she 972 01:08:29,755 --> 01:08:32,915 Speaker 1: behaves like a creature created in a test tube who 973 01:08:32,995 --> 01:08:38,555 Speaker 1: was released into the wild seventeen hours before the experiment 974 01:08:38,715 --> 01:08:43,995 Speaker 1: was finished. Candace Owens just acts like she has never 975 01:08:44,115 --> 01:08:48,275 Speaker 1: been on this planet before, I mean not before this morning, 976 01:08:48,675 --> 01:08:52,355 Speaker 1: Like every day is her first day here in this 977 01:08:52,835 --> 01:08:56,195 Speaker 1: part of the galaxy. And you don't have to analyze 978 01:08:56,195 --> 01:08:59,315 Speaker 1: what she thinks in her political commentary to find this out. 979 01:08:59,395 --> 01:09:01,675 Speaker 1: You don't have to lose yourself in the wormhole that 980 01:09:01,835 --> 01:09:05,115 Speaker 1: is her conspiracy driven brain. You don't have to ask 981 01:09:05,155 --> 01:09:08,675 Speaker 1: yourself her eyes the hell's wrong with her eyes. They're 982 01:09:08,675 --> 01:09:12,275 Speaker 1: almost literally on opposite sides of her skull. Is she 983 01:09:12,355 --> 01:09:14,875 Speaker 1: not of this earth? You don't have to go that far. 984 01:09:15,275 --> 01:09:18,995 Speaker 1: It's much simpler than that. The woman cannot read. This 985 01:09:19,035 --> 01:09:23,715 Speaker 1: person cannot read aloud, and she's in the reading aloud business, 986 01:09:24,195 --> 01:09:28,875 Speaker 1: and she cannot read aloud. She does not recognize English words, 987 01:09:29,195 --> 01:09:35,595 Speaker 1: American English words. She cannot say what might be words 988 01:09:35,635 --> 01:09:39,195 Speaker 1: that she's never heard somebody else read aloud before. We 989 01:09:39,275 --> 01:09:45,275 Speaker 1: all have words like that lackadaisical, trip, so most people. 990 01:09:47,275 --> 01:09:51,915 Speaker 1: But her word. One of those words is grandiose. She 991 01:09:51,995 --> 01:09:56,835 Speaker 1: can't say grandiose. She also can't say words like bureau, 992 01:09:57,275 --> 01:10:02,435 Speaker 1: words that she must have heard somebody else say aloud before. Bureau. 993 01:10:03,875 --> 01:10:06,075 Speaker 1: You don't believe me about bureau. You don't believe me 994 01:10:06,115 --> 01:10:10,555 Speaker 1: about grandiose. This is where at Candace read one comes in. 995 01:10:11,075 --> 01:10:14,515 Speaker 1: This guy or gal has like forty nine thousand followers, 996 01:10:14,515 --> 01:10:17,235 Speaker 1: and to me, they should have forty nine million. You 997 01:10:17,315 --> 01:10:21,475 Speaker 1: must follow them now. At Candace is spelled with an 998 01:10:21,555 --> 01:10:25,075 Speaker 1: A read as in you know, read things you can't 999 01:10:25,115 --> 01:10:30,195 Speaker 1: do at Candace read one. This is priceless. This account 1000 01:10:30,195 --> 01:10:32,515 Speaker 1: for a few moments at least gives me not just 1001 01:10:32,715 --> 01:10:35,355 Speaker 1: hope that we will defeat the fascists because they are 1002 01:10:35,355 --> 01:10:39,275 Speaker 1: so stupid, it gives me confidence that we will. So 1003 01:10:39,315 --> 01:10:43,035 Speaker 1: I'm going to just rip at Candace read one off 1004 01:10:43,355 --> 01:10:47,435 Speaker 1: just once, go sign up for it. It's a final 1005 01:10:47,515 --> 01:10:54,155 Speaker 1: score Grandiose and Bureau eighteen. Candace owens nothing. 1006 01:10:54,235 --> 01:10:57,635 Speaker 3: Black Scorpio writes, I am so very disappointed in Cash Paateel, 1007 01:10:57,755 --> 01:11:00,675 Speaker 3: Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi, who all made these grandois 1008 01:11:00,715 --> 01:11:06,235 Speaker 3: promises to get the Epstein files. We also learned that 1009 01:11:06,355 --> 01:11:10,275 Speaker 3: last night a bomb squad and agents from the Borough 1010 01:11:10,715 --> 01:11:14,875 Speaker 3: of Alcohol and Tobacco firearms the ATF Obviously, what is 1011 01:11:14,875 --> 01:11:17,755 Speaker 3: the borough doing? Has anybody traced this down where you 1012 01:11:17,795 --> 01:11:21,075 Speaker 3: brought into an FBI borough who's a former Borough of 1013 01:11:21,115 --> 01:11:23,795 Speaker 3: Prisons chief, because there is a borough that has been 1014 01:11:24,155 --> 01:11:27,915 Speaker 3: corrupt rebuilding this borough. Chief of the Utah Borough is 1015 01:11:27,955 --> 01:11:31,355 Speaker 3: the borough's public facing spot leaned house at the State 1016 01:11:31,395 --> 01:11:34,395 Speaker 3: Borough of the old Federal Borough of Narcotics with the 1017 01:11:34,435 --> 01:11:39,715 Speaker 3: Federal Borough Investigation Federal Borough of Investigation Federal Bureau of Investigation. 1018 01:11:40,155 --> 01:11:43,995 Speaker 3: Out of all of the FBI boroughs in the United States, 1019 01:11:44,115 --> 01:11:47,795 Speaker 3: fifty five main burrows and over three hundred and fifty 1020 01:11:48,075 --> 01:11:53,995 Speaker 3: satellite burrows. The FBI sent the specific Connecticut borough, that 1021 01:11:54,195 --> 01:11:59,915 Speaker 3: borough to UVU. I wonder what moved them to send 1022 01:11:59,995 --> 01:12:03,315 Speaker 3: that particular borough, which just feels like you got a 1023 01:12:03,315 --> 01:12:07,435 Speaker 3: lot around you options. It wasn't exactly like were you 1024 01:12:07,475 --> 01:12:09,075 Speaker 3: brought into an FBI borrow. 1025 01:12:09,515 --> 01:12:14,915 Speaker 1: Candace Owens live from the grand Was Burrow. Thanks to 1026 01:12:15,035 --> 01:12:22,035 Speaker 1: add Candace read one today's other worst person in the world. 1027 01:12:38,395 --> 01:12:44,675 Speaker 1: Grandis the grand Wise Burrow. She climbed out of a 1028 01:12:44,715 --> 01:12:47,115 Speaker 1: grand Oise burrow. I've done all the damage I can 1029 01:12:47,155 --> 01:12:49,275 Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening. Most of our Countdown 1030 01:12:49,355 --> 01:12:52,915 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray On guitars, 1031 01:12:52,955 --> 01:12:57,195 Speaker 1: bass and drums and John Phillips Chaneil handling, orchestration and keyboards. 1032 01:12:57,235 --> 01:13:00,755 Speaker 1: They are our musical directors of Countdown. This was produced 1033 01:13:00,755 --> 01:13:04,235 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. The music was our satirical and pithy 1034 01:13:04,315 --> 01:13:07,075 Speaker 1: musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, 1035 01:13:07,155 --> 01:13:10,755 Speaker 1: Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from 1036 01:13:11,035 --> 01:13:14,555 Speaker 1: ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy BESPN Inc. 1037 01:13:15,155 --> 01:13:20,555 Speaker 1: Other music arranged and performed by No Horns Aloud Horns loud. Yeah, 1038 01:13:20,595 --> 01:13:22,475 Speaker 1: make fun of other people for not being able to talk. 1039 01:13:22,795 --> 01:13:27,635 Speaker 1: No horns loud. I was thinking of saying Dick Cheney, 1040 01:13:27,635 --> 01:13:30,595 Speaker 1: and Dick Cheney's voice came out in my mouth. No 1041 01:13:30,715 --> 01:13:36,635 Speaker 1: horns Armderck Trainey. Our announcer today was Dick Cheney, the 1042 01:13:36,715 --> 01:13:40,315 Speaker 1: late ghost of Dick Cheney. IF's here in the studio. 1043 01:13:41,555 --> 01:13:46,075 Speaker 1: This program was co produced by Ted and Kit. Everything 1044 01:13:46,115 --> 01:13:49,475 Speaker 1: else was as always my fault. That's countdown for today. 1045 01:13:49,515 --> 01:13:52,435 Speaker 1: Day three hundred and ninety six of America held hostage again. 1046 01:13:52,915 --> 01:13:55,715 Speaker 1: Just one thy sixty seven days until the scheduled end 1047 01:13:55,715 --> 01:13:58,675 Speaker 1: of Trump's lame duck and lame brained term unless he 1048 01:13:58,715 --> 01:14:04,675 Speaker 1: is removed sooner by Epstein trump Stein. The next schedule 1049 01:14:04,795 --> 01:14:08,075 Speaker 1: countdown is Monday. Bulletins is the news merits until the 1050 01:14:08,115 --> 01:14:10,955 Speaker 1: next one. I'm Keith Alremman. Good Morning, good afternoon, good night, 1051 01:14:11,635 --> 01:14:31,515 Speaker 1: and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olreman is a production 1052 01:14:31,715 --> 01:14:36,995 Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, 1053 01:14:37,115 --> 01:14:40,475 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.