Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. And finally,
Speaker 1: the Teflon is falling off the Teflon Dawn the Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden, Puerto Rico is garbage disaster is not only
Speaker 1: not going away, it is still getting worse, with the
Speaker 1: news that Trump staffers vetted that statement and the tasteless
Speaker 1: reference to Latino's entering the country and the rest of
Speaker 1: the Tony Hinchcliff comments, and that Tony Hinchcliff's comments originally
Speaker 1: included a line in which he dropped the sea word
Speaker 1: in describing Kalina Harris. The news site The Bulwark is
Speaker 1: reporting that, and that Trump staffers directed Hinchcliff to take
Speaker 1: the sea word out, but that they somehow missed all
Speaker 1: the anti Hispanic material, or, as they have outclaimed, Hinchcliffe
Speaker 1: ad libbed all that, even though the video clearly shows
Speaker 1: him reading his material off the same teleprompter everybody else
Speaker 1: at the garden used on Sunday, Day three of Trump's
Speaker 1: self immolation among Hispanic voters, who make up twelve percent
Speaker 1: of the electorate one week before the election, and no
Speaker 1: sign that it, like every previous racist Trump controversy, is
Speaker 1: actually abating still the lead story at the New York Times,
Speaker 1: and at one point the New York Times had six
Speaker 1: front page stories about it, still the front page story
Speaker 1: at the Washington Post and on the Fox News talk shows,
Speaker 1: and at the Wall Street Journal and at the ultra
Speaker 1: conservative Washington Examiner. And when the Trump campaign's defense is
Speaker 1: well at least he didn't call her a rhymes with
Speaker 1: bunt like he planned, they have actually stepped neck high
Speaker 1: in it, especially since the pro Trump pack run by
Speaker 1: Elon Musk posted tweets based on the C word literally
Speaker 1: that say, the sea word, even the fig leaf, usually
Speaker 1: accepted by the both Sidesest media looking for a way,
Speaker 1: some way, anyway to avoid slamming Trump, has opened up
Speaker 1: a whole new line of stories itself. The disingenuous statement
Speaker 1: from the conveniently reappearing Latina spokesperson disavowing the jokes only
Speaker 1: served to spin off a series of further reports on
Speaker 1: all the other remarks Hingecliff and the others made Sunday
Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, from the line about African Americans
Speaker 1: and watermelons and the line calling the Vice President's staff
Speaker 1: pimp handlers to everything that that man Stephen Miller said,
Speaker 1: and the story is still expanding. Joe Rogan and Robert F.
Speaker 1: Kennedy Junior have been sucked under. David Corn of Mother
Speaker 1: Jones notes that Kennedy is so tied to Puerto Rico.
Speaker 1: He was once arrested there alongside Al Sharpton and the
Speaker 1: actor Edward James, almost protesting naval bombing exercises, and he
Speaker 1: gave one of his children. One of his children we
Speaker 1: know about the middle name, Viekees. Kennedy spoke after Hinchcliffe
Speaker 1: did at Madison Square Garden. He said nothing about the
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico garbage shot, and when Corn got hold of Kennedy,
Speaker 1: Kennedy said he was unaware of it. He would have
Speaker 1: said something had he known. When pressed to take the
Speaker 1: opportunity to say something about it now, he said, I
Speaker 1: think it was unfortunate, and he promptly hung up the
Speaker 1: phone on Corn. Kennedy's sad five words remain the closest
Speaker 1: thing to regret that anybody actually known to be involved
Speaker 1: with the Trump campaign has uttered, And that too has
Speaker 1: become a story as all the news outlets who have
Speaker 1: hesitated all these years to just ask Trump's enablers what
Speaker 1: they think of his latest hate or his latest threat
Speaker 1: or his latest lie? Are all doing so about this?
Speaker 1: Musk no comment, no comment. Eric doesn't know where he is,
Speaker 1: all right, Junior did retweet the video of all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Tulsey Gabbard doesn't know where she is. Lara, no comment, Milania,
Speaker 1: that's not in her contract. Tucker Carlson, not even a
Speaker 1: maniacal laugh. It fell to JV to say something, and
Speaker 1: of course JD. Vance said something stupid, saying he hadn't
Speaker 1: seen the joke. Maybe it's a stupid racist joke, but
Speaker 1: he doesn't know, and he hasn't seen it, and he's
Speaker 1: not going to comment on it. As he continued to
Speaker 1: comment on it, but quotes, we have to stop getting
Speaker 1: so offended at every little thing in the United States
Speaker 1: of America. I'm just I'm so over it. And one
Speaker 1: wonders if he would feel that way about a rally
Speaker 1: with jokes about men who wear eyeliner or who have
Speaker 1: sham marriages, just to pick two topics to comedy standards
Speaker 1: at random, comedy standards that I haven't seen and can't
Speaker 1: comment on. If Vance is really over it, he may
Speaker 1: be the only one now the entire Hinecliff Latino's Puerto
Speaker 1: Rico story has mainlines back to Joe Rogan. Thanks to
Speaker 1: the independent journalist Jacqueline Sweet, we have this.
Speaker 2: It would behoove him to hire a few great comics
Speaker 2: to just tour with him and just write one liners
Speaker 2: about all these different people. I mean, if he could
Speaker 2: remember them. I mean, I know he likes to go
Speaker 2: off his own head, but if he can remember a
Speaker 2: few Hinchcliff bangers, if he hires Hinchcliff to take him
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 1: Analysis of why this has stuck to Trump the way
Speaker 1: other stories had not is largely irrelevant, if not meaningless.
Speaker 1: But there is a bottom line here that may be
Speaker 1: operating on an unconscious level with tens of millions Americans
Speaker 1: all at the same time. It is one word that
Speaker 1: Hinchcliff used, because that one word was also a word
Speaker 1: Trump used again and again last week in Arizona. There's
Speaker 1: literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ocean right now. Yeah, I think it's called Puerto Rico.
Speaker 3: We're a dumping ground. We're like a garbage can for
Speaker 3: the world. That's what's happened. That's what's happened. Were like
Speaker 3: a garbage can. You know, it's the first time I've
Speaker 3: ever said that, And every time I come up and
Speaker 3: talk about what they've done to our country, I get
Speaker 3: angry and angry. First time I've ever said garbage can.
Speaker 3: But you know what, it's a very accurate description garbage.
Speaker 1: Three times, there has not been time to pull on
Speaker 1: the damage to what had been Trump's unprecedented support from
Speaker 1: Hispanic voters. As I mentioned yesterday, her polling advantage among
Speaker 1: them for ABC News over the weekend had grown from
Speaker 1: twelve points on October first to thirty points ahead of
Speaker 1: Trump on October twenty seven. The first poll that shows
Speaker 1: what the Madison Square Garden event did to those few
Speaker 1: remaining Trump Ispanic voters and his support in general, will
Speaker 1: of course extend the story into a fourth day, or
Speaker 1: fifth day, or sixth day. It is likely to still
Speaker 1: be front of mind on election day. All in all,
Speaker 1: what could be the final God help Me vibe shift
Speaker 1: before election Day is clearly in Harris's favor. The Tofts
Speaker 1: University Cooperative election study closing last Friday has her ahead
Speaker 1: by four fifty one to forty seven among likely voters
Speaker 1: in their model, by six fifty two forty six among
Speaker 1: those who say they have voted or definitely will vote
Speaker 1: Nate Silver again of use when he's just crunching batting
Speaker 1: averages or Google searches. Reports that there was more searching
Speaker 1: for Trump after the garden disaster than at any other
Speaker 1: time online since the guy showed up on Trump's golf course,
Speaker 1: and for hours, Tony Hinchcliff got more Google searches than
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. Guessing here, little of what popped up helped
Speaker 1: either of them. There is so much of God help
Speaker 1: me vibe shift towards Harris that even The New York
Speaker 1: Times has noticed quoting officials within the Harris campaign and
Speaker 1: people with whom they have shared candid assessments, believe she
Speaker 1: remains in a solid position in the northern Blue Wall
Speaker 1: states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, saying internal polling shows
Speaker 1: her slightly ahead in all three, though by as little
Speaker 1: as a half a percentage point. They think she remains
Speaker 1: competitive across the four Sun Belt battleground states. Arizona and
Speaker 1: North Carolina appear to be the toughest swing states from
Speaker 1: Miss Harris, these Democrats said, and they feel better about
Speaker 1: Georgia and Nevada. This jibes with what I've heard of
Speaker 1: those candid assessments, with a caveat that my quote unquote
Speaker 1: sore are pretty peripheral and also more importantly, could easily
Speaker 1: completely overlap with some of the ones talking to the Times.
Speaker 1: As to the Trump campaign, Well, clearly they still have
Speaker 1: an out of controlled dumpster fire going. Ah right, what
Speaker 1: is it you keep in dumpsters again? I guess they
Speaker 1: just trashed their own momentum into the dust bin of history.
Speaker 1: Or as they say, and by day I mean Tony
Speaker 1: Hinchcliffe and his pal Donald Trump, garbage in, garbage out.
Speaker 1: I'm only happy when it rains. As in fitting irony,
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris takes the podium today at the Ellipse from
Speaker 1: which Trump escalated himself from nightmarish lame duck to active
Speaker 1: lethal threat to the Republic, amid the little seventh grader
Speaker 1: teases about Trump's secret with Mike Johnson. As our brethren
Speaker 1: in the Northwest warm their hands by the fires of
Speaker 1: the burning ballot drop boxes. As all that happens, thoughts
Speaker 1: naturally turn to the next Trump coup attempt, and there
Speaker 1: will be one. For months, it has been evident that
Speaker 1: Trump World is being guaranteed a victory to gin them
Speaker 1: up for insurrection. Again, that Mike Johnson would enable that,
Speaker 1: and he would be wearing a military uniform by sunset,
Speaker 1: if they can find one in the boys department at Tjmax.
Speaker 1: But of all the things to fear, the most publicized
Speaker 1: is the least realistic. Professors Lawrence Tribe, Neil Buchanan, and
Speaker 1: Michael Darf Michael Dorff of Cornell, by the Way, have
Speaker 1: written a somewhat labored piece for The Washington Post, the
Speaker 1: gist of which is, No, you don't need two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy or more electoral College votes to become president.
Speaker 1: And no, just because nobody gets two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: or more electoral College votes that does not trigger a
Speaker 1: so called contingent election, in which the congressional delegation of
Speaker 1: each state gets one vote for president and the Republican
Speaker 1: always wins the end quoting them. The relevant language in
Speaker 1: the twelfth Amendment is admirably clear. The person having the
Speaker 1: greatest number of electoral votes shall be the president if
Speaker 1: such number be a majority of the whole number of
Speaker 1: electors appointed. If that majority is not achieved, the House
Speaker 1: would properly decide the election. The Professor's right. There are
Speaker 1: only two situations in which that could happen, both highly unlikely. First,
Speaker 1: there could be a tie vote in the electoral College. Second,
Speaker 1: a third party candidate could take enough electoral votes from
Speaker 1: the top two to prevent anyone from winning a majority
Speaker 1: of electors. One plausible scenario, they continue, involves Harris winning
Speaker 1: all of the swing states except North Carolina and Georgia,
Speaker 1: and thus besting Trump two hundred and eighty seven to
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty one. Suppose that Trump then succeeds
Speaker 1: in preventing the appointment of any Pennsylvania electors, Harris should
Speaker 1: still win two hundred and sixty eight to two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty one. This is where an accurate reading of
Speaker 1: the twelfth Amendment comes in. It doesn't matter that Harris's
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty eight votes would not be a
Speaker 1: majority of the full five hundred and thirty eight electoral
Speaker 1: college votes. The amendment says the victor must receive a
Speaker 1: majority of the whole number of electors appointed, not that
Speaker 1: could have been appointed. In this example, she would win
Speaker 1: by virtue of having received a majority of the five
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen votes cast after Pennsylvania's were discarded. The
Speaker 1: professors note that there are still nightmare scenarios spinning off
Speaker 1: of this one that they have just banished, not hold
Speaker 1: up Pennsylvania's electors, but flip them to Trump, or hold
Speaker 1: up Pennsylvania's electors and Arizona's Wisconsins so that there are
Speaker 1: no votes for any of those three states, and Trump
Speaker 1: has a majority of all the rest. And congratulations, you've
Speaker 1: stolen the election. I note, though, that you've also touched
Speaker 1: off civil war, having overlooked one critical detail. The party
Speaker 1: of the president elect from whom the election was just
Speaker 1: stolen would still be running the government and law enforcement
Speaker 1: and running what's the name of that place in Virginia
Speaker 1: the Pentagon. Also of interest here, it is not enough
Speaker 1: to threaten supposedly impartial journalists with retribution if they criticized
Speaker 1: Trump or fail to bury critical stories about him, or
Speaker 1: both sides them into meaninglessness. You must also reward them
Speaker 1: when they do these things. And so we have the
Speaker 1: story of a constantly self humiliating stenographer at CNN who,
Speaker 1: during the Biden Trump debate, encapsulated everything that is wrong
Speaker 1: with news in twenty first century America. So who got
Speaker 1: the big profile in the big newspaper yesterday claiming this
Speaker 1: is that person's moment. Why that same constantly self humiliating stenographer.
Speaker 1: Who else that's next? This is countdown? This is countdown
Speaker 1: with Keith Olberman still ahead on this edition of countdown.
Speaker 1: So why if Rudy Giuliani has any sense that Trump
Speaker 1: ruined his if Trump's lies literally just caused a court
Speaker 1: order that Rudy turn over his apartment in New York
Speaker 1: to the election workers he slandered in Georgia, And if
Speaker 1: the man Juliani has long blame for keeping him from
Speaker 1: becoming president, Joe Biden is not even on the ballot
Speaker 1: next Tuesday. Why why was Rudy Giuliani at Sunday's Nazi
Speaker 1: Trump rally at Madison Square Garden. Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: Rudy now lives in a hallway at Penn Station underneath
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, so he only had to get up
Speaker 1: the one flight of stairs. But I have long argued
Speaker 1: here that though it looks like Rudy was sane and
Speaker 1: went crazy, actually, based on my first had experience with him,
Speaker 1: he was always crazy. He simply used to have and
Speaker 1: has since lost the ability to pretend he is sane.
Speaker 1: I experienced this first nearly thirty years ago at a
Speaker 1: baseball event. They had me mc on the steps of
Speaker 1: Say Hall of New York, where Rudy acted like a
Speaker 1: malfunctioning robot. But the other day the World Series story
Speaker 1: I had forgotten popped back into my head. I think
Speaker 1: this was at Shay Stadium in two thousand and I
Speaker 1: can't remember if it was after the Mets won the
Speaker 1: National League pennant or it was after the Yankees won
Speaker 1: the World Series, but in either event, we were doing
Speaker 1: the postgame show on Fox from a little roped off
Speaker 1: area inside one of the locker rooms, and for several
Speaker 1: segments I could see Rudy hovering at the fringes, waiting
Speaker 1: to be asked to join us on a national broadcast. Oh,
Speaker 1: here's the most important person in the room, baseball fans,
Speaker 1: a mayor. Remember this is pre nine to eleven. Finally,
Speaker 1: during a commercial break, seconds before we came back into
Speaker 1: the studio that we had created for ourselves in the
Speaker 1: Mets or Yankees' locker room, and Aid leaned in and
Speaker 1: whispered something to Rudy, and Rudy promptly jumped over the
Speaker 1: rope over the velvet rope. I didn't know he could
Speaker 1: do that. And the aid produced a chair from somewhere
Speaker 1: and put it next to me, and Rudy, uninvited, sat
Speaker 1: down next to me and grabbed one of the handheld
Speaker 1: mics on the floor and said to me, Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: Mayor Juiani, And I said, I know we've met. We
Speaker 1: did a whole event together, and he sat there through
Speaker 1: the entire segment while we interviewed a Mets player and
Speaker 1: totally ignored him. We ignored him in large part because
Speaker 1: of what I'd been through with him five or six
Speaker 1: years earlier. See here's the point. Rudy was desperate, is desperate,
Speaker 1: will always be desperate. Trump ruined his life, So what
Speaker 1: Trump's giving him time on stage? I fully expect after
Speaker 1: Giuliani finally shuffles off, there will be a camera crew
Speaker 1: at his grave side someday and his arm will shoot
Speaker 1: out of the ground like at the end of the
Speaker 1: movie we Carry, only instead of trying to grab another victim,
Speaker 1: it will be holding a microphone pointing back towards the grave.
Speaker 1: So Rudy keep talking. The real Ruddy Giuliani story coming
Speaker 1: up in things I promised not to tell Happy World series. First,
Speaker 1: there are still more new idiots to talk about. The
Speaker 1: daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Krueger
Speaker 1: effects specimens who constitute two day's worst persons in the
Speaker 1: world Lebron's worst. Well, since we're on the subject Trump,
Speaker 1: this is from nearly two weeks ago, and I'm sorry
Speaker 1: I didn't bring it up sooner. But as you know
Speaker 1: all too well, the big pile of Trump's spit gets
Speaker 1: so high that it falls over on a weekly basis,
Speaker 1: proving that gravity exists. This just got lost in the pile.
Speaker 1: This was at one of his you know, Chautauqua tent shows.
Speaker 1: This one was in Greenville, North Carolina, in which he
Speaker 1: explained that the members of the Border Patrol Agent's Union
Speaker 1: told him he was the best president ever, sir, better
Speaker 1: than George Washington, and better, sir than Abraham Surleencoln, sir,
Speaker 1: because the border agent supposedly told him, sir that you're better,
Speaker 1: sir on the border, sir than Lincoln was. Sir. There
Speaker 1: are what five six things Lincoln did that no other
Speaker 1: American president, maybe no other world leader has ever done.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's fair to say that maintaining
Speaker 1: the border of the United States of America successfully at
Speaker 1: all costs was one of those things that nobody else
Speaker 1: has ever done. I believe that was the original issue
Speaker 1: in that whole Civil War thing, unless that was just
Speaker 1: because woke. Honestly, I think this way more often than
Speaker 1: I say it. On top of everything else going on
Speaker 1: in that vast, unexplored lethal jungle between his ears, there
Speaker 1: are moments when I think that Trump gets up there
Speaker 1: half the time, stoned out of his gord. Runner up
Speaker 1: worser Caroline Kitchener, a writer for the Washington Post. Nothing
Speaker 1: against Caroline Kitchener, she just went into the most detail.
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper said this to other people at the Post
Speaker 1: said this to other journalists, said this to. The argument
Speaker 1: she and the others have made was that when readers
Speaker 1: responded to The Washington Post's irresponsibility and disgrace by censoring
Speaker 1: its own pro forma endorsement of Harris, when they responded
Speaker 1: by canceling their own subscriptions, Caroline Kitchener wrote, when you cancel,
Speaker 1: you are hurting us, not our owner. I admit we
Speaker 1: should be boycotting Amazon and the Washington Post. Maybe that'll
Speaker 1: sentence Jeff Bezos to a fate worse than life with
Speaker 1: Lauren Sanchez. But MS Kitchener's message don't blame us, we're
Speaker 1: only employees, is wrong at its core. I mean, first
Speaker 1: of all, it sounds like we're just following orders. But
Speaker 1: more practically, lots of people quit the La Times when
Speaker 1: they did this. Lots of people have quit the Washington
Speaker 1: Post when they did this, and the people who stayed
Speaker 1: there are covering up for Jeff Bezos, who clearly did this.
Speaker 1: This British exile they brought in to run the paper
Speaker 1: into the ground. Lewis, he's lying about this. Clearly. You
Speaker 1: have to stand for something sometime. I understand quitting your
Speaker 1: job is an extreme measure, especially in a time in
Speaker 1: which your industry is evaporating. Note I will never criticize
Speaker 1: people for not quitting their jobs if their circumstances don't
Speaker 1: provide them with a safety net. But don't criticize the
Speaker 1: customers because they no longer trust the company you work for.
Speaker 1: It's certainly more your fault than it is the customer's fault.
Speaker 1: I mean this is personal for me too. I once
Speaker 1: worked for Rupert Murdoch. It was hardly my fault. He's
Speaker 1: the devil. On the other hand, I signed up for it.
Speaker 1: They didn't force me to take the millions. If anything,
Speaker 1: As anything but a subservient employee, I probably took a
Speaker 1: few days off Rupert Murdoch's life. And I'm proud of that.
Speaker 1: I'm goddamn proud of that. And by the way, the
Speaker 1: reason I stopped working for him was when I tripped
Speaker 1: over a sports story that was about him selling the
Speaker 1: LA Dodgers. I went to his office first for guidance.
Speaker 1: It was a business conflict. It was a conflict between
Speaker 1: his baseball business and his TV sports business. And if
Speaker 1: they had said to me kill the story, I would have.
Speaker 1: He owned the network, was his candy store, He owned
Speaker 1: the ball club. There was his other candy store. Now
Speaker 1: I might have quit after that, I don't know, But
Speaker 1: they didn't say kill it. His PR person, his personal
Speaker 1: full time PR person, crafted a denial and said, as
Speaker 1: long as you run this along with your story, if
Speaker 1: you're reporting his solid go ahead. What's what we hired
Speaker 1: you to do. And then Rupert saw the story on
Speaker 1: the air and fired me for having followed his rules.
Speaker 1: The problem, mis Kitchener, is that Jeff Bezos has clearly
Speaker 1: proven himself to be a weather vane. Last time, the
Speaker 1: interest of the Washington Post collided with his other business interests,
Speaker 1: his money that he was going to have to give
Speaker 1: his wife when they tried to blackmail him over Lauren Sanchez,
Speaker 1: and he defended the Post. He's not gonna make that
Speaker 1: mistake again, is he. If you think he's killing the
Speaker 1: endorsement is not the start of how he will compromise
Speaker 1: the newspaper next time, and eventually compromise you. You're being naive.
Speaker 1: Turns out, Miss Kitchener is the beat reporter on the
Speaker 1: abortion news beat. You think if Trump comes to Jeff
Speaker 1: Bezos and says, I've got a three billion dollar interstellar
Speaker 1: space let's go to the planet Andromeda in this galaxy
Speaker 1: of skyron project for you, but I don't want any
Speaker 1: more coverage of the pro abortion protests, you think your
Speaker 1: job isn't going away. Ms Kitchener, devote your energies not
Speaker 1: to criticizing those readers who have left your platform, but
Speaker 1: towards joining them. Bezos has destroyed your platform. Find a
Speaker 1: new one before your platform collapses beneath you. And incidentally,
Speaker 1: you have my sympathies. Caroline Kitchener's story came onto my
Speaker 1: radar because she wrote, quote, my mom just told me
Speaker 1: she canceled her subscription to the Washington Post. She reads
Speaker 1: every one of my stories. It was a heartbreaking call.
Speaker 1: I understand why she did it, but I asked her
Speaker 1: to reconsider. Oh God, honestly, though, if mom thinks your
Speaker 1: employer sucks, listen to mom new paper, but not the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. Because our winners, the Wall Street Journal
Speaker 1: and writer Isabella Siemenetti and CNN's David Shalien and CNN's
Speaker 1: Dana Bash. They have combined to bring us what might
Speaker 1: be the dumbest article I have ever read about TV news.
Speaker 1: Dumber even then, say the fifty dumbest articles I've read
Speaker 1: just about myself. The title CNN's Dana Bash, a trusted
Speaker 1: political referee, is having a moment. She won kudos from
Speaker 1: Trump and landed a Major Harris interview, but says it
Speaker 1: has been a slow climb to the top. Was it
Speaker 1: Major Harris a quarterback somewhere or was he an anchor?
Speaker 1: Major Harris? I know that name from somewhere in what world? Though?
Speaker 1: Are kudos from Trump positive? I mean Trump wants his
Speaker 1: mobs to kill everybody at CNN? What does it, quto
Speaker 1: or if you prefer kudo from Trump about a CNN
Speaker 1: talking head mean, does it mean Trump wants them to
Speaker 1: kill her? Last? It means he views her as favoring him,
Speaker 1: as breaking the rules for him, as benefiting him, as
Speaker 1: cheating for him. If Trump likes you, it means you
Speaker 1: have broken some law or moral code. Congratulations, Trump likes you,
Speaker 1: and for once in this case, he's right. Dana Bash
Speaker 1: is not having a moment. She and Jake Tapper and
Speaker 1: CNN permanently stained themselves by participating in a presidential debate
Speaker 1: in which they let one candidate lie NonStop for ninety minutes, and,
Speaker 1: as she's quoted in the piece saying, she still thinks
Speaker 1: that was the right route to go, her reaction to
Speaker 1: Trump's lies as a journalist on her network, on her
Speaker 1: show were to say, we'll be right back after that's
Speaker 1: commerce hewn. Of course Trump likes her, She's a Trump enabler.
Speaker 1: But this is a Murdoch paper, the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: So here's this article about her that skips lightly by
Speaker 1: that and also by her next journalistic self immolation. Her
Speaker 1: response to Kamala Harris's town hall on CNN last week.
Speaker 1: The Vice President was still on stage when Dana Bash
Speaker 1: piped in from the anchor desk with how quote people
Speaker 1: she was talking to had said Harris had failed in
Speaker 1: her goal to seal the deal or finish the sale,
Speaker 1: or whatever cliche she used. We have no idea to
Speaker 1: this day who those people were, no identification at all. Politicians,
Speaker 1: shoeshine men, Democrats, Republicans, Trump family members, people in the
Speaker 1: control room, passers by. There have been few journalists to
Speaker 1: fail to understand the essence of their job more spectacularly
Speaker 1: in consecutive gigantic showcases than Dana Bash. But because CNN
Speaker 1: and the Journal are trying to suck up to Trump
Speaker 1: right now, we get this crap just to sell the
Speaker 1: thing further. The Wall Street Journal reporter interviewed as somebody
Speaker 1: to get a quote from CNN's political director, the equally inert,
Speaker 1: incompetent a moral David Shalien, who is still defending the
Speaker 1: CNN farcical town hall with Trump a year ago, who said, quote,
Speaker 1: this is just Dana's cycle. She has just owned it.
Speaker 1: Shelian Isabella Siminetti the Wall Street Journal and Dana Danna,
Speaker 1: if this is your cycle, Take a look carefully, the
Speaker 1: wheels fell off Bash two Days, Worst Persons her cycle
Speaker 1: in ther and through the number one story on the
Speaker 1: Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things I promised
Speaker 1: not to tell. I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani
Speaker 1: a lot. When did his life go so horribly horribly wrong?
Speaker 1: Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis,
Speaker 1: after nine to eleven? What is he now? After literally
Speaker 1: years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story?
Speaker 1: Who does the Hunter Biden laptop story bite him? Four
Speaker 1: seasons gardening, the mascara running down his face, gashes, emissions
Speaker 1: at phony election hearings, the Sasha Baron Cohen film. I mean,
Speaker 1: even back then, I thought it was nuts that people
Speaker 1: actually thought Rudy Giuliani was the front runner for the
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight Republican presidential nomination. What he was
Speaker 1: widely held to be just that in two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, and by the time it happened,
Speaker 1: he was already on his way to spending millions of
Speaker 1: dollars to finish last. But it was the final nail
Speaker 1: in the coffin in which he still lives. At a
Speaker 1: Democratic debate in two thousand and seven October thirtieth, before
Speaker 1: the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary, one
Speaker 1: of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their
Speaker 1: exploitation of terrorism and the al Qaeda attacks, and that
Speaker 1: other candidates said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things
Speaker 1: he mentions in a sentence, A noun, a verb, and
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. The candidate was Joe Biden. The phrase
Speaker 1: a noun, a verb and nine to eleven ended Rudy
Speaker 1: Giuliani's career, and Giuliani's dislike of Joe Biden, many decades old,
Speaker 1: turned to hatred at that exact moment, which is why
Speaker 1: we got to where we got to in twenty and twenty.
Speaker 1: That was also the exact moment at which any hopes
Speaker 1: Julianni had being elected anything anywhere ever again vanished. But
Speaker 1: it was clear to me as far back as September
Speaker 1: two thousand and one, that's sadly, what we saw at
Speaker 1: that time was a bad man having a few good
Speaker 1: days before that month was out. Giuliani's response to the
Speaker 1: attack on democracy was to himself attacked democracy, to propose
Speaker 1: that the November election to choose his successor to be
Speaker 1: Mayor of New York should be postponed, or that at
Speaker 1: least he should stay on for a few months as
Speaker 1: co mayor because he was irreplaceable. There had always been
Speaker 1: more subtle hints that Giuliani was never a good man,
Speaker 1: just a slightly smarter one, a more debious one. The
Speaker 1: venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the a moral Rudy, the
Speaker 1: Rudy with a bad song in his heart, leaked out
Speaker 1: from time to time, and often inside the world of sports,
Speaker 1: which is where I met him. You will remember, Rudy
Speaker 1: Giuliani was a professional New York Yankees fan. He always
Speaker 1: went to the games for free, mind you, dugout seats
Speaker 1: for himself, his wife, his other wife, his next wife,
Speaker 1: the kids, the friends. When I still had friends in
Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars every time he showed up. He always left
Speaker 1: via the clubhouse. He always wore a Yankees cap. He
Speaker 1: billed himself as quote the number one Yankee fan. And
Speaker 1: then when the Boston Red Sox were playing in the
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven World Series, when he was campaigning
Speaker 1: for president in New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani suddenly announced he
Speaker 1: was rooting for the Red Sox. This is like being
Speaker 1: a Trump fan and announcing you are rooting for democracy.
Speaker 1: But I went back with Rudy Giuliani even longer than that.
Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety five or nineteen ninety six, I was
Speaker 1: asked by the Deputy Mayor of New York City, Fran Writer,
Speaker 1: and the staff of the Baseball Hall of Fame to
Speaker 1: travel from ESPN in Connecticut, literally to the steps of
Speaker 1: New York City Hall to MC an event for what
Speaker 1: must have been thirty five members of the Baseball Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, maybe the largest group of them ever assembled
Speaker 1: in one place in one moment in time. Deputy Mayor
Speaker 1: approached me and the Mayor a few steps behind her
Speaker 1: on that gorgeous spring day. As she began to introduce us,
Speaker 1: she realized he had begun to wander off. Ruddy, Ruddy,
Speaker 1: She bellowed, he wandered back, Rody, This is Keith Olberman
Speaker 1: from ESPN. He's going to be the MC. You will
Speaker 1: have to introduce him after you speak. The mayor seemed
Speaker 1: to be having trouble focusing on me or anything else.
Speaker 1: I thought of the old joke, just keep your eyes
Speaker 1: on the Olberman in the middle. He extended a hand,
Speaker 1: missed mine, then recalibrated. As we shook hands, he grunted.
Speaker 1: The Deputy mayor now roared at him, Rody, you have
Speaker 1: to introduce him. His name is Keith Olberman from ESPN.
Speaker 1: He's the MC. Juliani turned and looked at her like
Speaker 1: he'd never seen her before. He grunted again. Deputy Mayor
Speaker 1: writer now screamed at Rudy Giuliani, repeat it to me.
Speaker 1: He looked at me, then he looked back at her
Speaker 1: and he said, his name is Keith Alderman from ESPN.
Speaker 1: He's the MC. With annoyance. Writer said thank you, and
Speaker 1: Juliani smiled and wandered off again. And I half seriously thought,
Speaker 1: did I just meet a body double? Is he a replicant?
Speaker 1: Is he a well built robot? This can't be the
Speaker 1: actual mayor. Well it was. I took my seat in
Speaker 1: the front row of the stage that had been built
Speaker 1: atop the City Hall steps as the crowd gathered, and
Speaker 1: it was a good one, maybe three or four hundred people.
Speaker 1: The President of the Hall of Fame spoke first. The
Speaker 1: mayor sat next to me. Juliani leaned in at one
Speaker 1: point and whispered, to me, your name is Keith Alderman
Speaker 1: from ESPN. You're the MC I talk, I introduce you.
Speaker 1: I said something encouraging, and he smiled broadly, like a
Speaker 1: child who was about to get some candy. The President
Speaker 1: of the Baseball Hall of Fame wrapped up introduced Juliani,
Speaker 1: who bounced up to the stage and thanked him and
Speaker 1: got his name wrong. He then launched into a speech,
Speaker 1: taking credit for the great weather and the terrific early
Speaker 1: season performance of the New York Yankees and the New
Speaker 1: York Mets and the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York
Speaker 1: Giants who had moved out of New York in nineteen
Speaker 1: fifty seven. But if he had been mayor, then they
Speaker 1: wouldn't have moved out in New York, would have the
Speaker 1: four teams it deserves. And look at all these great players.
Speaker 1: Will let me now turn it over to a good
Speaker 1: friend of mine and a great baseball man. And he
Speaker 1: looked at me and he forgot everything. Silence, titters of
Speaker 1: laughter from the crowd, and finally he looked the other way.
Speaker 1: Behind him, where the Deputy mayor had her head in
Speaker 1: her hands. Rudy Giuliani into a microphone that picked up
Speaker 1: everything he said, said loudly, what's his name? Who is he?
Speaker 1: And now the of laughter in the crowd turned to
Speaker 1: a little bit louder laughter, and some of the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame players seated behind me gave me pats of
Speaker 1: consolation on my shoulder. Fran Ryder screamed, Keith Olberman from ESPN,
Speaker 1: the MC you repeated it to me. Juliani turned back
Speaker 1: to the crowd as if there had been no way
Speaker 1: they could have heard or seen any of this, and
Speaker 1: he said, so let me turn it over to a
Speaker 1: good friend of mine and a great baseball man, Keith Obolman,
Speaker 1: our NC from ESPM. I just sat there, more laughs,
Speaker 1: more consolations from the players behind me. I can still
Speaker 1: hear the laugh of the late Detroit Tigers great Al
Speaker 1: Kayline rising above the others. Al later came over to commiserate.
Speaker 1: As I thought, should I get there and say thank
Speaker 1: you Mayor Dinkins, or better yet, thank you Mayor LaGuardia.
Speaker 1: I then concluded, no, I can't do that. I'm representing ESPN.
Speaker 1: I'm representing the Baseball Hall of Fame. As I thought
Speaker 1: that he said it again. So now I got up
Speaker 1: and I told the crowd sorry, I wasn't sure he
Speaker 1: meant me. So if you are saying to yourself, what
Speaker 1: on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schitz
Speaker 1: pouring down his face, I am saying to you he
Speaker 1: has been this crazy for at least thirty years. You
Speaker 1: were just lucky enough to have not previously noticed. It
Speaker 1: is all true, or my name ain't Keith Obelman our
Speaker 1: NC from ESPM. I've done all the damage I can
Speaker 1: do here. Thank you for listening to it five episodes
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Speaker 1: to well. Forward it to anybody. Really, I don't care
Speaker 1: at this point. Once it leaves here, it's not my
Speaker 1: responsibility who listens to it or what they do after
Speaker 1: they listen to it. Brian Ray and John Phillip shaneal
Speaker 1: who do not share my opinion. In that are the
Speaker 1: musical directors of Countdown, and they arranged, produced and performed
Speaker 1: most of our music, which is what musical directors should do.
Speaker 1: Mister Shanale handled orchestration and keyboards, Mister Ray was on
Speaker 1: the guitars, bass and drums, and it was produced by
Speaker 1: TKO Brothers, which was Brian's idea to represent me and
Speaker 1: him and John Phillips Chanel. Our satirical and pithy musical
Speaker 1: comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust.
Speaker 1: The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis Curtesy BESPN Inc. Other music
Speaker 1: arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed. It dawns on
Speaker 1: me that the number of musical staffers on Countdown exceeds
Speaker 1: the number of editorial staffers on Countdown by a whole lot.
Speaker 1: See there's Brian and John and Nancy, and then there's
Speaker 1: Mitch Warren Davis from ESPN. That's four, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to remember. I believe there were five guys and No
Speaker 1: Horns Allowed. That's nine musical staffers and the one editorial
Speaker 1: guy me and I'm also part of TKO brothers, so
Speaker 1: it's actually ten to one. Oh wait, there's another editorial employee.
Speaker 1: My announcer today was my friend Kenny Maine. Thanks for
Speaker 1: standing with me, Kenny. It's ten to two. Everything else,
Speaker 1: of course, was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown
Speaker 1: for today, one week until the twenty twenty four presidential election,
Speaker 1: the one three hundred and ninety third day since convicted
Speaker 1: felon dissociative fugue j Trump got away with his first
Speaker 1: attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
Speaker 1: So if you can do your math, if it's seven
Speaker 1: days till the election, and this is day thirteen ninety
Speaker 1: three since the coup attempt, the election day is fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred days even since January sixth, all right, use the election,
Speaker 1: use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep
Speaker 1: him from doing it again. Always have a chets. The
Speaker 1: next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires
Speaker 1: until the next one. I'm Keith Oulderman. Good Morning, good afternoon,
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