1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:23,315 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Just 2 00:00:23,395 --> 00:00:26,875 Speaker 1: want to thank Trump and his nit wit slaves for 3 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:29,515 Speaker 1: giving President Biden the chance to run for reelection on 4 00:00:29,555 --> 00:00:34,555 Speaker 1: a platform of bipartisan border security and a good economy. 5 00:00:35,755 --> 00:00:37,275 Speaker 1: Oh and I also want to thank Trump for giving 6 00:00:37,315 --> 00:00:39,395 Speaker 1: Nicky Haley and of oxygen to last through at least 7 00:00:39,395 --> 00:00:43,875 Speaker 1: South Carolina. But I especially want to thank the late 8 00:00:43,995 --> 00:00:49,195 Speaker 1: Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for writing a decade ago 9 00:00:49,635 --> 00:00:53,555 Speaker 1: that the president is too a quote officer of the 10 00:00:53,635 --> 00:00:58,475 Speaker 1: United States, and thus unknowingly blowing up Trump's only argument 11 00:00:58,515 --> 00:01:01,915 Speaker 1: that he can't be disqualified from office under the fourteenth 12 00:01:01,955 --> 00:01:05,955 Speaker 1: Amendment because he engaged in insurrection. Remember, the entire Trump 13 00:01:06,035 --> 00:01:09,595 Speaker 1: defense is that the fourteenth Amendment does not apply to 14 00:01:09,675 --> 00:01:13,955 Speaker 1: him because the phrasing of the disqualification clause says any 15 00:01:14,155 --> 00:01:17,555 Speaker 1: officer of the United States who engages an insurrection is ineligible, 16 00:01:17,955 --> 00:01:21,515 Speaker 1: but that the President, his argument goes, is not an 17 00:01:21,635 --> 00:01:26,355 Speaker 1: officer of the United States. This is from Roger Parloff, 18 00:01:26,595 --> 00:01:29,875 Speaker 1: formerly the main legal writer at Forbes, now a senior 19 00:01:29,995 --> 00:01:33,515 Speaker 1: editor at law Fair. In twenty fourteen, he writes, the 20 00:01:33,555 --> 00:01:38,115 Speaker 1: Supreme Court decided a case canning involving the recess appointments 21 00:01:38,115 --> 00:01:41,595 Speaker 1: of three commissioners to the National Labor Relations Board. The 22 00:01:41,635 --> 00:01:45,635 Speaker 1: Conservatives upheld a challenge to these appointments, and Scalia wrote 23 00:01:45,675 --> 00:01:50,835 Speaker 1: a concurrence which included this tantalizing sentence, except where the 24 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:55,595 Speaker 1: Constitution or a valid federal law provides otherwise, all quote 25 00:01:55,995 --> 00:01:59,915 Speaker 1: officers of the United States must be appointed by the 26 00:01:59,955 --> 00:02:05,515 Speaker 1: President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Well. 27 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:10,915 Speaker 1: Two Conservative lawyers, Messrs Blackman and Tillman, veteran water carriers, 28 00:02:10,915 --> 00:02:13,315 Speaker 1: for the argument that the president is not an officer, 29 00:02:13,795 --> 00:02:17,595 Speaker 1: wrote to Justice Scalia in horror, the legal equivalent of 30 00:02:17,675 --> 00:02:20,635 Speaker 1: wait what, and that was just the start of at 31 00:02:20,635 --> 00:02:26,355 Speaker 1: Scalia wrote them back, quote, Dear mister Tillman, I meant 32 00:02:26,395 --> 00:02:29,675 Speaker 1: exactly what I wrote. The manner by which the President 33 00:02:30,315 --> 00:02:36,635 Speaker 1: and Vice President hold their offices is provided otherwise by 34 00:02:36,675 --> 00:02:40,395 Speaker 1: the Constitution, as is the manner by which the Speaker 35 00:02:40,395 --> 00:02:42,555 Speaker 1: of the House and President pro Temporary of the Senate 36 00:02:42,595 --> 00:02:49,435 Speaker 1: hold theirs. Sincerely, Antonin Scalia. Well, I'm no legal scholar. 37 00:02:49,635 --> 00:02:52,715 Speaker 1: I'm just a simple country lawyer, So I don't know 38 00:02:52,755 --> 00:02:56,795 Speaker 1: about the sincerely part. But if somebody writes you to 39 00:02:56,875 --> 00:03:01,315 Speaker 1: explain what you meant by all officers of the United 40 00:03:01,315 --> 00:03:03,555 Speaker 1: States are appointed by the president, except where the Constitution 41 00:03:03,675 --> 00:03:06,635 Speaker 1: or the law says otherwise. And you reply that you 42 00:03:06,795 --> 00:03:10,275 Speaker 1: meant the president, Vice President, Speaker of the House, and 43 00:03:10,355 --> 00:03:13,235 Speaker 1: President pro Temporary of the Senate. You are saying that 44 00:03:13,275 --> 00:03:17,995 Speaker 1: the president and those others are officers of the United States. 45 00:03:20,075 --> 00:03:22,555 Speaker 1: Is it too much to hope that the lawyers who 46 00:03:22,555 --> 00:03:27,195 Speaker 1: are arguing for disqualification of the president as officer under 47 00:03:27,195 --> 00:03:33,475 Speaker 1: the fourteenth are aware of what antonin Scalia wrote? Do 48 00:03:33,515 --> 00:03:37,235 Speaker 1: you know any of them? Could you send them a 49 00:03:37,355 --> 00:03:44,835 Speaker 1: Candygram or an FTD Bouquet to that effect? Wait there's more, 50 00:03:45,595 --> 00:03:51,595 Speaker 1: mister Parloff of Lawfair suggests opinion by association. Three justices 51 00:03:51,955 --> 00:03:56,275 Speaker 1: joined Alito's concurrence in the Canning case, so they may 52 00:03:56,315 --> 00:03:59,195 Speaker 1: have already gone on record as saying they also believe 53 00:03:59,275 --> 00:04:01,835 Speaker 1: the president is an officer of the United States. They 54 00:04:01,875 --> 00:04:06,595 Speaker 1: would be a mister C. Thomas, a mister s. Alito, 55 00:04:07,195 --> 00:04:12,595 Speaker 1: and a mister Chief Justice Roberts. And the Trumpists could 56 00:04:12,595 --> 00:04:15,795 Speaker 1: get away with sliming Alito, and they could get away 57 00:04:15,795 --> 00:04:18,875 Speaker 1: with betraying Thomas, and they could get away with bull 58 00:04:18,915 --> 00:04:22,395 Speaker 1: dozing Roberts, they've already tried that. But he who argues 59 00:04:22,475 --> 00:04:28,435 Speaker 1: against the sainted Antonin Scalia may soon find himself metaphorically 60 00:04:28,475 --> 00:04:33,755 Speaker 1: sleeping with the metaphorical fishes. Because on July third, twenty twenty, 61 00:04:34,115 --> 00:04:38,475 Speaker 1: in a fake patriotic speech so overflowing with enough half 62 00:04:38,515 --> 00:04:43,075 Speaker 1: witted flag waving syrup that it could cover every pancake 63 00:04:43,155 --> 00:04:46,635 Speaker 1: in the United States of America tomorrow morning, somebody out 64 00:04:46,675 --> 00:04:52,275 Speaker 1: there proposed a National Garden of American Heroes to honor 65 00:04:52,875 --> 00:04:57,075 Speaker 1: the greatest Americans to ever live. And it was really 66 00:04:57,195 --> 00:04:59,395 Speaker 1: as stupid a list of thirty names as you could 67 00:04:59,395 --> 00:05:05,195 Speaker 1: cobble together. It included Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Douglas Arthur, 68 00:05:05,875 --> 00:05:11,115 Speaker 1: the Wright Brothers, Christopher Columbus, Billy Graham, and of course 69 00:05:12,675 --> 00:05:19,075 Speaker 1: Antonin Scalia. And the National Garden of American Heroes honoring quote, 70 00:05:19,155 --> 00:05:24,115 Speaker 1: the greatest Americans to ever live, including Antonin Scalia, was 71 00:05:24,195 --> 00:05:33,835 Speaker 1: proposed by Tarum who Scalia may have personally just gotten 72 00:05:34,395 --> 00:05:45,555 Speaker 1: thrown off the ballot, because you can stupid some of 73 00:05:45,555 --> 00:05:48,355 Speaker 1: the people all the time, and you can stupid all 74 00:05:48,395 --> 00:05:50,035 Speaker 1: of the people some of the time, but you cannot 75 00:05:50,035 --> 00:05:53,915 Speaker 1: stupid all of the people all the time. If this 76 00:05:54,555 --> 00:06:00,115 Speaker 1: scalia from the dead story ain't evidence enough of that quote, 77 00:06:00,235 --> 00:06:04,355 Speaker 1: it's interesting, says James Langford, the pastiest Republican in their 78 00:06:04,395 --> 00:06:08,035 Speaker 1: Senate caucus and the lead negotiator on a bipartisan border deal. 79 00:06:08,155 --> 00:06:11,235 Speaker 1: He said this on Fox When we're finally getting to 80 00:06:11,235 --> 00:06:14,635 Speaker 1: the end. Republicans are like, oh, just kidding, I actually 81 00:06:14,715 --> 00:06:20,435 Speaker 1: don't want to change in law because of presidential election year. Well, 82 00:06:20,475 --> 00:06:23,835 Speaker 1: there's Biden's instant campaign ad number two hundred and twenty three. 83 00:06:25,115 --> 00:06:27,675 Speaker 1: The last thing he needs to do, said Nikki Haley, 84 00:06:28,035 --> 00:06:30,155 Speaker 1: is tell them to wait to pass a border deal 85 00:06:30,235 --> 00:06:33,555 Speaker 1: until the election. We can't wait one more day. And 86 00:06:33,635 --> 00:06:36,435 Speaker 1: there's Biden's instant campaign ad number two hundred twenty four. 87 00:06:37,915 --> 00:06:41,395 Speaker 1: Apart from the material impacts of this on Ukraine funding, 88 00:06:41,955 --> 00:06:44,515 Speaker 1: on the reality that whatever you think, whether it's a 89 00:06:44,515 --> 00:06:47,315 Speaker 1: crisis or just a logistical nightmare, whatever is happening on 90 00:06:47,355 --> 00:06:50,315 Speaker 1: the border is escalating, and it is being escalated in 91 00:06:50,355 --> 00:06:53,315 Speaker 1: a second way by Republican stunt governors who are sending 92 00:06:53,395 --> 00:06:56,555 Speaker 1: refugees to blue states, and it is now being escalated 93 00:06:56,595 --> 00:06:58,835 Speaker 1: in a third way by many of these same stunt 94 00:06:58,835 --> 00:07:01,795 Speaker 1: governors who sent wooden soldiers to the border to enact 95 00:07:01,835 --> 00:07:05,635 Speaker 1: their fascist gubernatorial will when at any moment Biden can 96 00:07:05,675 --> 00:07:08,035 Speaker 1: federalize those same soldiers and order them to do the 97 00:07:08,035 --> 00:07:11,275 Speaker 1: opposite of what the governor sent them to do. Apart 98 00:07:11,355 --> 00:07:14,915 Speaker 1: from that practical stuff on the ground, there is also 99 00:07:14,955 --> 00:07:18,035 Speaker 1: the more visceral reality that as long as loser j 100 00:07:18,275 --> 00:07:21,595 Speaker 1: Trump and thus his slaves in the Republican Party continue 101 00:07:21,675 --> 00:07:26,675 Speaker 1: to prevent a border deal, anything that happens on the border, 102 00:07:27,115 --> 00:07:32,155 Speaker 1: from accidents to terrorism to a single fentanyl death anywhere 103 00:07:32,155 --> 00:07:36,595 Speaker 1: in America between now and November, or possibly between now 104 00:07:36,635 --> 00:07:40,915 Speaker 1: and next January, is not only Trump's fault, but it 105 00:07:40,955 --> 00:07:46,635 Speaker 1: will be blamed on Trump by Republicans like Nicki Haley 106 00:07:46,675 --> 00:07:51,235 Speaker 1: and James Langford. Nice work, Trump. 107 00:07:51,435 --> 00:07:54,915 Speaker 2: A lot of the Senators are trying to say, respectfully, 108 00:07:54,915 --> 00:07:55,755 Speaker 2: they're blaming it on me. 109 00:07:55,835 --> 00:07:58,555 Speaker 3: I said, that's okay. Please blame it on me. Please. 110 00:07:58,955 --> 00:08:03,795 Speaker 1: You got it. Moron the lynchpin of Trump's meager policy platform, 111 00:08:03,875 --> 00:08:09,115 Speaker 1: and he just single handedly proudly destroyed it. The one 112 00:08:09,315 --> 00:08:12,435 Speaker 1: part of Trump twenty twenty four, I hate everybody you 113 00:08:12,515 --> 00:08:16,595 Speaker 1: hate that is attached even by a pinky toe, to 114 00:08:16,715 --> 00:08:19,275 Speaker 1: a quarter inch of reality, and he just managed to 115 00:08:19,395 --> 00:08:22,275 Speaker 1: spill it all over himself and all over his party 116 00:08:22,475 --> 00:08:25,835 Speaker 1: and those Nazis in Texas, Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick 117 00:08:25,915 --> 00:08:30,715 Speaker 1: real name Danny Goeb and Pat Fallon and Andy Biggs 118 00:08:30,755 --> 00:08:34,875 Speaker 1: and Mark Green and Marjorie Taylor, Barney Rubbell Green and 119 00:08:34,915 --> 00:08:38,635 Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, who all went head first through the metaphorical 120 00:08:38,675 --> 00:08:42,555 Speaker 1: windshield of the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorcas because 121 00:08:42,595 --> 00:08:48,235 Speaker 1: suddenly Mayorcis is the immigration hardliner and they are the 122 00:08:48,275 --> 00:08:52,555 Speaker 1: ones demanding open, unchecked, and unimpeded border crossings. So if 123 00:08:52,555 --> 00:08:58,795 Speaker 1: there are terrorists there, remember Marge Green sent them Marge 124 00:08:59,155 --> 00:09:04,715 Speaker 1: and el trumpo oh and not content with that, but 125 00:09:04,755 --> 00:09:08,315 Speaker 1: they also screwed up their charges against Majorcas. Item three 126 00:09:08,755 --> 00:09:12,955 Speaker 1: accuses him of having quote terminated asylum cooperative agreements that 127 00:09:12,995 --> 00:09:15,955 Speaker 1: would have equitably shared the burden of complying with international 128 00:09:15,955 --> 00:09:20,395 Speaker 1: asylum accords unquote oops, not guilty. Those were terminated by 129 00:09:20,715 --> 00:09:23,555 Speaker 1: not by by Orcus, but by the Secretary of State. 130 00:09:23,635 --> 00:09:27,915 Speaker 1: That's a different guy, Republicans other than that, and impeaching 131 00:09:27,955 --> 00:09:30,155 Speaker 1: him for refusing to testify on the exact day he 132 00:09:30,235 --> 00:09:32,595 Speaker 1: was instead meeting with his counterparts in Mexico to press 133 00:09:32,675 --> 00:09:36,915 Speaker 1: them about international asylum accords, and of course refusing to 134 00:09:36,955 --> 00:09:39,595 Speaker 1: testify to them in general, while refusing to let him 135 00:09:39,595 --> 00:09:45,715 Speaker 1: testify during the impeachment process. That's all they got. Good 136 00:09:45,755 --> 00:09:53,395 Speaker 1: work everyone. And then there is Nikki Hayley, who has 137 00:09:53,435 --> 00:09:59,395 Speaker 1: now somewhere loudly without verbal fire, escapes behind her for 138 00:09:59,435 --> 00:10:01,915 Speaker 1: a week. Every day of that week said that Trump 139 00:10:02,035 --> 00:10:07,075 Speaker 1: is is nuts, is unhinged and who and Trump threatened 140 00:10:07,075 --> 00:10:11,675 Speaker 1: to bar permanently her donors started selling permanently barred merch. 141 00:10:13,355 --> 00:10:16,195 Speaker 1: And it's not just that she's doing all this, This dry, 142 00:10:16,475 --> 00:10:22,275 Speaker 1: narrow minded, unimaginative, sour person appears to be having a 143 00:10:22,475 --> 00:10:23,675 Speaker 1: ball doing this. 144 00:10:24,115 --> 00:10:27,035 Speaker 4: Election night Trump gets on stage, he throws an absolute 145 00:10:27,075 --> 00:10:31,075 Speaker 4: temper tantru. I'm talking about revenge, and Donald Trump was 146 00:10:31,275 --> 00:10:37,315 Speaker 4: totally unhinged, unhinged. I do think that he is in decline, 147 00:10:37,515 --> 00:10:40,035 Speaker 4: and I think that he needs to know to step away. 148 00:10:40,435 --> 00:10:43,035 Speaker 4: I do think that he surrounds himself in chaos, and 149 00:10:43,075 --> 00:10:45,115 Speaker 4: we can't be a country in disarray and have a 150 00:10:45,155 --> 00:10:47,555 Speaker 4: world on fire and being chaos. I do think that 151 00:10:47,595 --> 00:10:51,115 Speaker 4: these court cases are distracting not just to the American people, 152 00:10:51,115 --> 00:10:53,635 Speaker 4: but to him himself, which is keeping him from talking 153 00:10:53,675 --> 00:10:56,595 Speaker 4: about what really matters. That's exactly why I don't think 154 00:10:56,595 --> 00:10:57,515 Speaker 4: he should be president. 155 00:10:57,875 --> 00:11:00,955 Speaker 1: No, I'm not deluding myself here. Nikki Haley has already 156 00:11:01,115 --> 00:11:04,555 Speaker 1: pre endorsed Trump for whenever he does knock her off. 157 00:11:05,595 --> 00:11:10,115 Speaker 1: So what is this about. Trump's recent extra extra large 158 00:11:10,155 --> 00:11:13,075 Speaker 1: insanity has been propelled by his awareness that he could 159 00:11:13,115 --> 00:11:17,035 Speaker 1: have his own Annis Rbulus in just the next thirty days. 160 00:11:18,315 --> 00:11:21,075 Speaker 1: Trump already got the e Gene Carrol verdict eighty three 161 00:11:21,115 --> 00:11:22,795 Speaker 1: million dollars. And if we didn't make it clear the 162 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:26,795 Speaker 1: first time you're a rapist, Judge Arthur Engern is due 163 00:11:26,795 --> 00:11:28,955 Speaker 1: to rule on the New York Business broad case I eminently, 164 00:11:28,995 --> 00:11:31,875 Speaker 1: maybe this week. That's another three hundred and seventy million. 165 00:11:32,435 --> 00:11:34,835 Speaker 1: It's not like he has to pay by five PM 166 00:11:35,115 --> 00:11:38,195 Speaker 1: or that he can't appeal, but technically that would pretty 167 00:11:38,275 --> 00:11:42,955 Speaker 1: much wipe out his own claimed cash on hand. Trump's 168 00:11:42,955 --> 00:11:45,515 Speaker 1: presidential immunity scam is likely to come crashing to earth 169 00:11:45,515 --> 00:11:48,515 Speaker 1: before March first, and of course, the patron saint of 170 00:11:48,595 --> 00:11:51,915 Speaker 1: judicial fascism Scalia believe that a president was an officer 171 00:11:51,955 --> 00:11:54,195 Speaker 1: of the United States, which would mean he's eligible to 172 00:11:54,275 --> 00:11:57,835 Speaker 1: be disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment. Oh in The only 173 00:11:57,955 --> 00:12:00,795 Speaker 1: recent polling in South Carolina, which was last week, has 174 00:12:00,835 --> 00:12:03,235 Speaker 1: Trump's steady at fifty eight and Hailey up to thirty one, 175 00:12:03,795 --> 00:12:06,595 Speaker 1: and the average there already had Trump's lead down to 176 00:12:06,635 --> 00:12:09,475 Speaker 1: thirty three points. And for our purposes, this is not 177 00:12:09,515 --> 00:12:13,755 Speaker 1: about Haley somehow getting the nomination. It is about two things. 178 00:12:13,795 --> 00:12:16,435 Speaker 1: One the fact that as half of the Republicans in 179 00:12:16,475 --> 00:12:20,395 Speaker 1: Iowa opposed Trump, we may see a third or more 180 00:12:20,435 --> 00:12:23,835 Speaker 1: of them in South Carolina opposed Trump. And two that 181 00:12:23,995 --> 00:12:25,875 Speaker 1: she thinks there is enough of a chance that the 182 00:12:25,915 --> 00:12:28,195 Speaker 1: next month in the New York courts, in the Supreme Court, 183 00:12:28,195 --> 00:12:31,515 Speaker 1: in the court of public opinion, will kill him metaphorically 184 00:12:31,595 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: or otherwise or zooming out a little, that she believes 185 00:12:36,115 --> 00:12:38,515 Speaker 1: that it isn't just about Trump getting frick asied by 186 00:12:38,555 --> 00:12:41,075 Speaker 1: a couple of New York lawsuits. It's about him then 187 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:47,155 Speaker 1: appealing these verdicts and thus prolonging the public's awareness of 188 00:12:47,195 --> 00:12:51,555 Speaker 1: them and the continued viability of the Fourteenth Amendment process, 189 00:12:51,675 --> 00:12:54,275 Speaker 1: and whether Trump can be defeated not by losing, but 190 00:12:54,355 --> 00:13:02,435 Speaker 1: by his cult fearing that he will lose. Above all else, 191 00:13:02,515 --> 00:13:05,235 Speaker 1: they back him because they perceive him as a winner 192 00:13:05,675 --> 00:13:09,635 Speaker 1: the moment they stop perceiving him as a winner. They 193 00:13:09,635 --> 00:13:14,275 Speaker 1: will kill him and eat him. Anything new that breaks 194 00:13:14,275 --> 00:13:17,515 Speaker 1: against Trump before South Carolina and Haley may find yet 195 00:13:17,555 --> 00:13:20,275 Speaker 1: another rubicon to cross. She's already said the more obvious 196 00:13:20,315 --> 00:13:22,835 Speaker 1: things Republicans have been mortally terrified of saying about him. 197 00:13:23,075 --> 00:13:27,075 Speaker 1: He doesn't have policies, he doesn't talk about people anymore 198 00:13:27,115 --> 00:13:32,195 Speaker 1: besides himself. He's crazy, and he's getting crazier by the minute. 199 00:13:33,475 --> 00:13:35,635 Speaker 1: She came close to that next river when she said 200 00:13:35,675 --> 00:13:38,515 Speaker 1: she trusted the jury in the Egene Carol case. The 201 00:13:38,635 --> 00:13:41,955 Speaker 1: last leap is to say Trump is a crook who 202 00:13:41,995 --> 00:13:44,835 Speaker 1: is conning them all and has just been lucky so 203 00:13:44,955 --> 00:13:47,675 Speaker 1: far avoiding jail, and that they may be nominating a 204 00:13:47,675 --> 00:13:50,275 Speaker 1: guy who will be a convicted felon before the election itself. 205 00:13:52,155 --> 00:13:55,755 Speaker 1: Right now, Haley's idea seems to be, you don't have 206 00:13:55,795 --> 00:13:57,995 Speaker 1: to lock him up, you just have to wear him down. 207 00:14:01,155 --> 00:14:05,355 Speaker 1: Where do we get that impression? Your round up of 208 00:14:05,395 --> 00:14:07,755 Speaker 1: the recent additions to the Dementia J. Trump Hall of 209 00:14:07,835 --> 00:14:12,675 Speaker 1: Fame on day fifteen of this the mental health Crisis 210 00:14:13,155 --> 00:14:13,955 Speaker 1: of Dementia J. 211 00:14:14,115 --> 00:14:18,155 Speaker 3: Trump the first non incumbany and remember. 212 00:14:17,715 --> 00:14:20,595 Speaker 2: This, look at this, We got Mexico to send two 213 00:14:21,075 --> 00:14:22,555 Speaker 2: twenty eight thousand troops. 214 00:14:22,635 --> 00:14:24,875 Speaker 3: So Caucus on February Earth. 215 00:14:24,795 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 2: And if you need any detail, and we will restore 216 00:14:28,155 --> 00:14:32,195 Speaker 2: or this planet peace through Earth. I am the only 217 00:14:32,315 --> 00:14:34,755 Speaker 2: candidate who can make this promise to you. 218 00:14:34,835 --> 00:14:35,635 Speaker 3: Un had an uncle. 219 00:14:36,115 --> 00:14:40,755 Speaker 2: He's the longest serving professor, doctor John Trump, in the 220 00:14:40,875 --> 00:14:42,275 Speaker 2: history of mit. 221 00:14:42,555 --> 00:14:46,035 Speaker 3: Same genes we have. Jeens were smart people. We're smart people. 222 00:14:47,195 --> 00:14:51,075 Speaker 3: Were like race, mister Lieutenant Governor. We like racehorses too. 223 00:14:51,555 --> 00:14:54,115 Speaker 2: You know, the fast ones produced the fast ones and 224 00:14:54,155 --> 00:14:56,035 Speaker 2: the slow ones doesn't work out so well. 225 00:14:56,075 --> 00:14:56,275 Speaker 3: Right. 226 00:14:56,435 --> 00:14:59,355 Speaker 2: They say the president that was treated the worst was 227 00:14:59,435 --> 00:15:01,555 Speaker 2: Abraham Lincoln. But he had the Civil War, you know, 228 00:15:01,635 --> 00:15:04,555 Speaker 2: so he had a little Civil war going Abraham l 229 00:15:05,115 --> 00:15:07,515 Speaker 2: I haven't seen the new list, but if I'm not 230 00:15:07,635 --> 00:15:11,675 Speaker 2: number one over Abraham Lincoln, I will be very disappointed. 231 00:15:11,835 --> 00:15:15,075 Speaker 1: Treated worse than Lincoln. Be careful what you wish for, 232 00:15:15,195 --> 00:15:20,115 Speaker 1: bub to be fair. Being disqualified by Scalia from beyond 233 00:15:20,155 --> 00:15:25,715 Speaker 1: the grave and having this fantasy of presidential immunity evaporated 234 00:15:25,755 --> 00:15:30,515 Speaker 1: by Alexander Hamilton in a kind of mild rap. No 235 00:15:30,635 --> 00:15:33,915 Speaker 1: doubt that might be worse than what happened to Lincoln. 236 00:15:34,235 --> 00:15:37,875 Speaker 1: Federalists number sixty nine, Friday, March fourteenth, seventeen eighty eight. 237 00:15:37,915 --> 00:15:41,915 Speaker 1: This has been making the rounds lately. Where were you 238 00:15:41,995 --> 00:15:43,835 Speaker 1: and what were you doing when you first read that 239 00:15:43,915 --> 00:15:47,475 Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton had written this quote? The President of the 240 00:15:47,555 --> 00:15:50,155 Speaker 1: United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and 241 00:15:50,235 --> 00:15:54,115 Speaker 1: upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, 242 00:15:54,515 --> 00:15:58,955 Speaker 1: removed from office, and would afterwards be liable to prosecution 243 00:15:59,075 --> 00:16:04,235 Speaker 1: and punishment in the ordinary course of law. There are 244 00:16:04,235 --> 00:16:07,195 Speaker 1: two other developments in the fourteenth Amendment issue that are 245 00:16:07,235 --> 00:16:10,155 Speaker 1: actually more recent than March fourteenth, seventeen eighty eight, one 246 00:16:10,555 --> 00:16:13,715 Speaker 1: showing the clarity of history, the other the desperation of 247 00:16:13,755 --> 00:16:17,435 Speaker 1: today to muddy history up because everybody is scared. A 248 00:16:17,515 --> 00:16:20,755 Speaker 1: retired Illinois judge, a Republican, heard the bid to ban 249 00:16:20,915 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: him from the ballot. There ruled there is no question 250 00:16:23,755 --> 00:16:27,155 Speaker 1: Trump did engage in insurrection, but also recommended to the 251 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:30,915 Speaker 1: state election board that courts should decide whether or not 252 00:16:30,955 --> 00:16:34,195 Speaker 1: he should be on the ballot. The Illinois State Board 253 00:16:34,235 --> 00:16:37,395 Speaker 1: was to hold a hearing on that. Today, again, there's 254 00:16:37,475 --> 00:16:41,395 Speaker 1: no need. Twenty five historians, led by the preeminent living 255 00:16:41,475 --> 00:16:45,595 Speaker 1: Civil War scholar Princeton's James McPherson have submitted an amicus 256 00:16:45,675 --> 00:16:48,595 Speaker 1: brief to the Supreme Courts supporting the Colorado bid to 257 00:16:48,675 --> 00:16:51,675 Speaker 1: keep Trump off the ballot. There the key argument, which 258 00:16:51,675 --> 00:16:53,355 Speaker 1: I have made here and I have not seen a 259 00:16:53,355 --> 00:16:56,915 Speaker 1: lot elsewhere, and no I'm not a lawyer, is that 260 00:16:56,955 --> 00:17:01,875 Speaker 1: the fourteenth is self executing. Trump doesn't need to be 261 00:17:02,075 --> 00:17:07,715 Speaker 1: disqualified because actually he already is disqualified. To quote them, 262 00:17:07,955 --> 00:17:12,315 Speaker 1: no former Confederate instantly disqualified from holding office under section 263 00:17:12,435 --> 00:17:16,595 Speaker 1: three was disqualified by an Act of Congress. They noted 264 00:17:16,595 --> 00:17:19,395 Speaker 1: that when Jefferson Davis was indicted for treason, he said 265 00:17:19,475 --> 00:17:22,315 Speaker 1: it was an invalid indictment because he had already been 266 00:17:22,355 --> 00:17:28,515 Speaker 1: disqualified from holding office in the restored Union. McPherson and 267 00:17:28,555 --> 00:17:31,955 Speaker 1: the other historians also noted that President Andrew Johnson referred 268 00:17:31,955 --> 00:17:36,795 Speaker 1: to himself as the nation's chief executive officer, and found 269 00:17:36,835 --> 00:17:39,035 Speaker 1: the transcript of a Congressional debate from the time of 270 00:17:39,035 --> 00:17:41,475 Speaker 1: the passage of the fourteenth Amendment that gets to the 271 00:17:41,515 --> 00:17:46,995 Speaker 1: false confusion over officer or not an officer. Quoting their paper, 272 00:17:47,515 --> 00:17:50,875 Speaker 1: Senator Reverdy Johnson of Maryland, a Democratic opponent of the 273 00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:55,275 Speaker 1: Fourteenth Amendment challenged sponsors as to why section three omitted 274 00:17:55,315 --> 00:17:59,715 Speaker 1: the president. Republican Lot Morrill of Maine replied, let me 275 00:17:59,835 --> 00:18:03,515 Speaker 1: call the senator's attention to the words or hold any 276 00:18:03,715 --> 00:18:09,075 Speaker 1: office civil or military under the United States. Johnson admitted 277 00:18:09,115 --> 00:18:14,475 Speaker 1: his error. No other senator questioned whether section three covered 278 00:18:14,595 --> 00:18:27,635 Speaker 1: the president. Plus at Menscaliasso also of interest here, this 279 00:18:27,795 --> 00:18:30,795 Speaker 1: is already a week in which the non immigration nut 280 00:18:30,915 --> 00:18:35,555 Speaker 1: jobs also outstupided each other. Did you know that there 281 00:18:35,595 --> 00:18:38,835 Speaker 1: was a conspiracy to send Taylor Swift to seduce Travis 282 00:18:38,915 --> 00:18:42,435 Speaker 1: Kelce and thus become the yoko ono who destroyed the 283 00:18:42,515 --> 00:18:46,155 Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League. But there 284 00:18:46,195 --> 00:18:48,675 Speaker 1: is also a conspiracy to fix all the National Football 285 00:18:48,715 --> 00:18:51,995 Speaker 1: League games to make sure that Travis Kelce and Taylor 286 00:18:52,035 --> 00:18:54,955 Speaker 1: Swift get to the Super Bowl so that at halftime 287 00:18:55,715 --> 00:19:00,435 Speaker 1: they can endorse Joe Biden. Yeah, I know the these 288 00:19:00,475 --> 00:19:03,715 Speaker 1: two things both can't be true, and neither of them 289 00:19:03,755 --> 00:19:06,675 Speaker 1: actually is true. But just remember consistency is irrelevant if 290 00:19:06,675 --> 00:19:11,635 Speaker 1: you are as stupid as vivike Ramaswamy or Clay Travis. 291 00:19:12,675 --> 00:19:17,755 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith 292 00:19:17,835 --> 00:19:18,315 Speaker 1: old Woman. 293 00:19:30,355 --> 00:19:36,755 Speaker 5: This is sports Center. Wait, check that not anymore. This 294 00:19:37,595 --> 00:19:41,035 Speaker 5: is Countdown with Keith. 295 00:19:40,795 --> 00:19:49,675 Speaker 1: Alberman in Sports Dateline Kansas City, Missouri. So one Taylor's 296 00:19:49,715 --> 00:19:53,715 Speaker 1: Swift conspiracy theory was confirmed by developments that disproved the 297 00:19:53,795 --> 00:19:57,115 Speaker 1: other Taylor's Swift conspiracy theory. Now I realize we are 298 00:19:57,275 --> 00:20:00,995 Speaker 1: entering the world of the big League nut jobs. Elon 299 00:20:01,115 --> 00:20:05,955 Speaker 1: Musk Vivike Ramaswamy, Clay Travis, Aaron Rodgers. Travis, who is 300 00:20:05,995 --> 00:20:11,075 Speaker 1: the mastermind of the website outkicked the cabbage. Outkicked the cabbage? 301 00:20:11,115 --> 00:20:13,435 Speaker 1: Is that what it is? Whatever it's called. He wrote 302 00:20:13,435 --> 00:20:15,475 Speaker 1: that the Kansas City Chiefs were quote not a good 303 00:20:15,515 --> 00:20:18,755 Speaker 1: football team and that Travis Kelcey should retire. He's been 304 00:20:18,795 --> 00:20:21,635 Speaker 1: worthless the last seven or eight weeks. The double worthless 305 00:20:21,635 --> 00:20:23,795 Speaker 1: Pfizer shots may have caught up with him. Either that 306 00:20:23,955 --> 00:20:28,635 Speaker 1: or Taylor Swift is the Chiefs yoko ono maybe both. Sunday, 307 00:20:28,715 --> 00:20:32,075 Speaker 1: Kelsey caught all eleven passes thrown to him as the 308 00:20:32,155 --> 00:20:36,235 Speaker 1: Chiefs reached the Super Bowl again. So the vaccinated guy 309 00:20:36,395 --> 00:20:39,355 Speaker 1: is at the super Bowl again, and Aaron Rodgers the 310 00:20:39,955 --> 00:20:43,435 Speaker 1: unvaccinated guy. He got hurt ten seconds into the season 311 00:20:43,795 --> 00:20:45,995 Speaker 1: and he may never play in the NFL again, But 312 00:20:46,075 --> 00:20:48,755 Speaker 1: you do you. Of course, that does mean that the 313 00:20:48,795 --> 00:20:52,355 Speaker 1: other Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift conspiracy theory favored by those 314 00:20:52,395 --> 00:20:55,955 Speaker 1: two stupid, too stoned or too arrogant to think anything through, 315 00:20:56,475 --> 00:21:00,995 Speaker 1: is alive and well. Yesterday, Vivek Ramaswami, another guy who 316 00:21:00,995 --> 00:21:03,915 Speaker 1: has mistaken money for a triple digit IQ he does 317 00:21:03,915 --> 00:21:07,075 Speaker 1: not have, writes quote, I wonder who's going to win 318 00:21:07,075 --> 00:21:09,035 Speaker 1: the Super Bowl next month? I wonder if there's a 319 00:21:09,075 --> 00:21:12,955 Speaker 1: major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped up couple. 320 00:21:12,995 --> 00:21:16,155 Speaker 1: This fall just some wild speculation over here. Let's see 321 00:21:16,195 --> 00:21:19,475 Speaker 1: how it ages over the next eight months. We didn't 322 00:21:19,515 --> 00:21:21,795 Speaker 1: have to wait that long. After The New York Post 323 00:21:21,915 --> 00:21:26,115 Speaker 1: slammed Little viv for his super Bowl conspiracy theory, Ramaswami 324 00:21:26,155 --> 00:21:29,755 Speaker 1: then said he never voiced any conspiracy theory. Then, just 325 00:21:29,795 --> 00:21:32,275 Speaker 1: in case there were any remaining sides for him to take, 326 00:21:32,355 --> 00:21:36,035 Speaker 1: he tweeted, quote, what the MSM calls a conspiracy theory 327 00:21:36,195 --> 00:21:39,155 Speaker 1: is often nothing more than an amalgam of incentives hiding 328 00:21:39,195 --> 00:21:41,315 Speaker 1: in plain sight. Once you see that, the rest becomes 329 00:21:41,315 --> 00:21:50,635 Speaker 1: pretty obvious. Ooh, Vive learned a new word. A malgum. 330 00:21:50,675 --> 00:21:53,995 Speaker 1: Of course, Musk retweeted that, writing with deep insight quote 331 00:21:54,275 --> 00:22:00,715 Speaker 1: exactly unquote, the conspiracy theories get dumber. A jimoke from 332 00:22:00,755 --> 00:22:05,315 Speaker 1: New Jersey named Mike Crispy. He's had a tough light rights. 333 00:22:05,435 --> 00:22:08,995 Speaker 1: The NFL is totally rigged for the Kansas City Chiefs, 334 00:22:09,075 --> 00:22:14,515 Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Mister Pfizer parentheses Travis Kelcey all to spread 335 00:22:14,875 --> 00:22:19,515 Speaker 1: Democrat talking points, calling it now Casey wins, goes to 336 00:22:19,555 --> 00:22:21,795 Speaker 1: Super Bowl, Swift comes out at the halftime show and 337 00:22:21,915 --> 00:22:25,355 Speaker 1: endorses Joe Biden with Kelsey at midfield. It's all been 338 00:22:25,395 --> 00:22:29,235 Speaker 1: an OP since day one, Dude, I think you've been 339 00:22:29,275 --> 00:22:32,315 Speaker 1: an OP since day one. We're more likely in oops. 340 00:22:33,075 --> 00:22:37,755 Speaker 1: But seriously, Krispy Mike, if you're somehow right, and Biden 341 00:22:37,875 --> 00:22:42,475 Speaker 1: can fix every NFL game, and he can make Taylor 342 00:22:42,595 --> 00:22:47,635 Speaker 1: Swift start dating Travis Kelcey, you better start worshiping Joe 343 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:51,475 Speaker 1: Biden because if he don't like you, you won't last 344 00:22:51,555 --> 00:22:55,635 Speaker 1: until next week? Will you like? What else does Joe 345 00:22:55,635 --> 00:23:24,715 Speaker 1: Biden control how much oxygen you get? Thank you, Nancy Faust, 346 00:23:25,035 --> 00:23:33,515 Speaker 1: Dateline Atlanta, Georgia, Hello Atlanta Falcons did not hire ousted 347 00:23:33,555 --> 00:23:36,755 Speaker 1: New England Patriots legend Bill Belichick as their new head coach, 348 00:23:36,835 --> 00:23:40,275 Speaker 1: and it does not look like either the Seattle Seahawks 349 00:23:40,355 --> 00:23:42,835 Speaker 1: or the Washington Commanders, who have the last two open 350 00:23:42,875 --> 00:23:46,155 Speaker 1: coaching jobs in the NFL, will And so the speculation 351 00:23:46,195 --> 00:23:48,435 Speaker 1: in football Land is that Bill Belichick may wind up 352 00:23:48,475 --> 00:23:53,435 Speaker 1: taking a job in TV. If you know him only 353 00:23:53,475 --> 00:23:57,355 Speaker 1: as the grunting, monosyllabic star of pre and postgame news 354 00:23:57,395 --> 00:24:00,435 Speaker 1: conferences in New England, that he would seemingly have gladly 355 00:24:00,515 --> 00:24:04,315 Speaker 1: swamped for being waterboarded. This may seem implausible to you. 356 00:24:04,395 --> 00:24:08,075 Speaker 1: In fact, there is every chance Bill Belichick might become 357 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:11,795 Speaker 1: the closest thing we have seen since John Madden too. 358 00:24:11,875 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 1: John Madden, I'm pretty sure it was in nineteen ninety 359 00:24:14,915 --> 00:24:16,995 Speaker 1: five and I happened to be seated at a sports 360 00:24:17,075 --> 00:24:20,755 Speaker 1: award banquet in Washington. Bill Belichick was still the young 361 00:24:20,795 --> 00:24:24,275 Speaker 1: and relatively unknown coach of the original Cleveland Browns. He 362 00:24:24,355 --> 00:24:26,435 Speaker 1: and I sat next to each other on the dais 363 00:24:26,795 --> 00:24:32,595 Speaker 1: for three hours for every award imaginable. By award number 364 00:24:33,395 --> 00:24:36,555 Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy and hour number two, he and 365 00:24:36,595 --> 00:24:39,835 Speaker 1: I could no longer look at each other because we 366 00:24:39,835 --> 00:24:43,035 Speaker 1: were cracking each other up just by gestures and eye rolls. 367 00:24:43,875 --> 00:24:46,355 Speaker 1: Bill Belichick was one of the funniest people I had 368 00:24:46,395 --> 00:24:51,475 Speaker 1: ever met, not just in sports, ever and charming and 369 00:24:51,555 --> 00:24:56,315 Speaker 1: precise and economical with words, I mean the mojuiced instead 370 00:24:56,355 --> 00:25:00,395 Speaker 1: of the bond mow. And half of it was self deprecating. 371 00:25:00,875 --> 00:25:03,235 Speaker 1: I watch you and Dan four times every Monday morning, 372 00:25:03,275 --> 00:25:06,475 Speaker 1: he deadpanned how he introduced himself. I watched it home 373 00:25:06,475 --> 00:25:08,755 Speaker 1: as soon as I get up five. Then I go 374 00:25:08,795 --> 00:25:10,755 Speaker 1: into the office and I watch the rerun at seven. 375 00:25:11,315 --> 00:25:13,395 Speaker 1: Then I watch you during the meeting with my coordinators 376 00:25:13,435 --> 00:25:15,555 Speaker 1: at eight when we have breakfast. Then by the time 377 00:25:15,595 --> 00:25:17,635 Speaker 1: I watch you during the whole staff meeting at lunch 378 00:25:17,635 --> 00:25:21,075 Speaker 1: at noon, I've memorized all the punchlines to your jokes. 379 00:25:21,555 --> 00:25:23,635 Speaker 1: I shout them out and then I hit the mute button. 380 00:25:24,955 --> 00:25:27,435 Speaker 1: If somebody hires Bill Belichick and puts him not in 381 00:25:27,475 --> 00:25:30,155 Speaker 1: a studio panel where he would have to fight to 382 00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:32,595 Speaker 1: get in a thought, but in a booth with a 383 00:25:32,635 --> 00:25:35,675 Speaker 1: play by play announcer willing to defer to him, we 384 00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:38,435 Speaker 1: might hear the most honest and the most interesting football 385 00:25:38,475 --> 00:25:44,275 Speaker 1: commentary since my last Super Bowl broadcast. And no, no, no, no, 386 00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:49,795 Speaker 1: my last Super Bowl broadcast did not contain interesting or 387 00:25:49,915 --> 00:25:53,355 Speaker 1: honest football commentary. I don't mean my football commentary was 388 00:25:53,395 --> 00:25:57,755 Speaker 1: ever either interesting or honest. My last Super Bowl broadcast 389 00:25:57,875 --> 00:26:02,835 Speaker 1: just happened to be the game after which John Madden retired, 390 00:26:25,155 --> 00:26:28,275 Speaker 1: still ahead on countdown. A former Major League baseball manager 391 00:26:28,355 --> 00:26:31,195 Speaker 1: has died, and he had many accomplishments, but surely the 392 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:34,355 Speaker 1: most distinctive of them was when he was accused by 393 00:26:34,355 --> 00:26:36,555 Speaker 1: the owner of the other team of trying to start 394 00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:40,035 Speaker 1: a riot during the middle of their playoff game. He 395 00:26:40,155 --> 00:26:41,795 Speaker 1: was innocent, of course, but it's still a hell of 396 00:26:41,795 --> 00:26:43,595 Speaker 1: a story, and I will recount it in Things I 397 00:26:43,675 --> 00:26:46,635 Speaker 1: promise not to tell next first time for the daily 398 00:26:46,675 --> 00:26:48,995 Speaker 1: roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects 399 00:26:48,995 --> 00:26:55,075 Speaker 1: specimens who constitute two days worse persons in the world, Lebrons, 400 00:26:55,195 --> 00:26:59,875 Speaker 1: worse sentience, right wing pimple Charlie Kirk, who appears to 401 00:26:59,915 --> 00:27:04,235 Speaker 1: have gotten the legal scare of a lifetime. Kirk posted 402 00:27:04,235 --> 00:27:08,235 Speaker 1: on Twitter quote New York City councilman Yusef Salam, who 403 00:27:08,235 --> 00:27:10,755 Speaker 1: once took part in the gruesome gang rape of a 404 00:27:10,915 --> 00:27:14,875 Speaker 1: jogger in Central Park, is now furious that an NYPD 405 00:27:15,035 --> 00:27:18,355 Speaker 1: officer dared to pull him over for having illegally tinted 406 00:27:18,395 --> 00:27:24,355 Speaker 1: windows after getting away with gang rape, Kirk continues, he 407 00:27:24,395 --> 00:27:28,315 Speaker 1: apparently thinks he deserves to be completely above the law unquote. 408 00:27:28,675 --> 00:27:32,795 Speaker 1: That no, charlie're confused getting away with rape. Thinks he's 409 00:27:32,835 --> 00:27:36,435 Speaker 1: above the law. That that's your boy, Trump, Yusef Salaam 410 00:27:37,395 --> 00:27:40,835 Speaker 1: and the others wrongfully accused and wrongfully convicted were cleared 411 00:27:41,275 --> 00:27:44,995 Speaker 1: even after that idiot Trump called for their execution. AnyWho. 412 00:27:45,795 --> 00:27:50,595 Speaker 1: Yesterday morning, somebody apparently told Kirk how much effing trouble 413 00:27:50,635 --> 00:27:54,995 Speaker 1: he was in because he wrote a one thousand word 414 00:27:55,555 --> 00:28:01,715 Speaker 1: long tweet thousand word tweets did we lose a war 415 00:28:01,955 --> 00:28:06,395 Speaker 1: or something? Anyway, He said he had deleted the original 416 00:28:06,395 --> 00:28:09,915 Speaker 1: tweet quote because I think additional details or context are warranted. 417 00:28:10,835 --> 00:28:13,235 Speaker 1: Many people, even on the right, think the Central Park 418 00:28:13,315 --> 00:28:16,675 Speaker 1: five cases a story of five completely innocent men railroaded 419 00:28:16,675 --> 00:28:19,355 Speaker 1: by a racist justice system who have now been fully 420 00:28:19,355 --> 00:28:22,275 Speaker 1: and totally exonerated. Beyond doubt. This is not true, and 421 00:28:22,315 --> 00:28:30,675 Speaker 1: I'll explain why one thousand words of this so. Kirk 422 00:28:30,715 --> 00:28:33,795 Speaker 1: thought he was covering himself from a lawsuit by councilman Salaam, 423 00:28:33,835 --> 00:28:36,355 Speaker 1: but over those thousand words, he quickly backed away from 424 00:28:36,355 --> 00:28:40,355 Speaker 1: his seeming legal ass covering and simply quoted the false 425 00:28:40,395 --> 00:28:43,755 Speaker 1: confession that the cops had beaten out of Salam and 426 00:28:43,795 --> 00:28:47,235 Speaker 1: now Salam can sue Kirk over pretending that that was 427 00:28:47,635 --> 00:28:51,955 Speaker 1: actual truth. Kirk is an arrogant, virulent, stupid, and ever 428 00:28:52,035 --> 00:28:55,795 Speaker 1: increasingly dangerous racist, and if Councilman Salam needs any help 429 00:28:55,875 --> 00:28:58,675 Speaker 1: suing him, we should all give it to him. Your 430 00:28:58,755 --> 00:29:01,955 Speaker 1: runner up, at least Stefana, New York congresswoman, also stupid, 431 00:29:01,995 --> 00:29:04,195 Speaker 1: who also used the rise of Trump as an excuse 432 00:29:04,355 --> 00:29:08,275 Speaker 1: to re her inner fascism and sadism online. She was 433 00:29:08,395 --> 00:29:12,435 Speaker 1: eradicated over the weekend by former Congressman Liz Cheney over 434 00:29:12,475 --> 00:29:15,715 Speaker 1: her toadying de Trump. Cheney pointed out the press release 435 00:29:15,755 --> 00:29:19,075 Speaker 1: Stefanic had issued on January sixth, twenty twenty one, the 436 00:29:19,195 --> 00:29:23,475 Speaker 1: day she was photographed in a prone position between benches 437 00:29:23,755 --> 00:29:27,395 Speaker 1: on the floor of the house with her back facing 438 00:29:27,435 --> 00:29:31,715 Speaker 1: the camera as the people she now calls hostages broke 439 00:29:31,755 --> 00:29:35,555 Speaker 1: into the chamber trying to you know, kill her and 440 00:29:35,755 --> 00:29:39,835 Speaker 1: or other people like her. That day, the look alike 441 00:29:39,915 --> 00:29:42,235 Speaker 1: for one of the characters in the Doctor Rick commercials 442 00:29:42,275 --> 00:29:44,835 Speaker 1: wrote that those who stormed the capitol quote must be 443 00:29:44,915 --> 00:29:48,675 Speaker 1: prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. After Cheney 444 00:29:48,715 --> 00:29:52,995 Speaker 1: pointed that out, Stefanic wiped nearly everything off her official website, 445 00:29:53,035 --> 00:29:56,355 Speaker 1: including that press release. It's a cheesy and tawdry and 446 00:29:56,435 --> 00:29:58,515 Speaker 1: cowardly thing to do, but there is a silver lining 447 00:29:58,515 --> 00:30:00,595 Speaker 1: because now if you hit any of those links on 448 00:30:00,635 --> 00:30:03,875 Speaker 1: Stephanic's site, you are directed to a full screen that 449 00:30:04,035 --> 00:30:07,515 Speaker 1: shows one word that could easily be her campaign slogan 450 00:30:07,635 --> 00:30:14,115 Speaker 1: going forward quote error unquote. But our winner of former 451 00:30:14,235 --> 00:30:19,315 Speaker 1: South Dakota snow Queen and now South Dakota Governor, Christy Nome. Yes, 452 00:30:19,515 --> 00:30:22,595 Speaker 1: she was once voted snow queen, then they made her governor. 453 00:30:23,035 --> 00:30:25,795 Speaker 1: It has been alleged that Nome is a dope who 454 00:30:25,875 --> 00:30:28,915 Speaker 1: might be the person who actually made the apocryphal statement 455 00:30:28,955 --> 00:30:33,915 Speaker 1: of alarm. Wait, there's a North Dakota. Gnome has now 456 00:30:33,995 --> 00:30:37,555 Speaker 1: lent credence to this theory, defending the attempt by Republican governors, 457 00:30:37,635 --> 00:30:40,195 Speaker 1: led by Greg Abbott of Texas, to overrule the Supreme 458 00:30:40,195 --> 00:30:43,515 Speaker 1: Court and begin an insurrection. Yeah, another one, that's what 459 00:30:43,555 --> 00:30:48,155 Speaker 1: they do. Nome goes on Fox and says, quote Texas 460 00:30:48,195 --> 00:30:51,995 Speaker 1: and the thirteen original colonies would have never signed the 461 00:30:52,035 --> 00:30:56,675 Speaker 1: treaty that formed the first Constitution of the United States 462 00:30:57,235 --> 00:31:02,995 Speaker 1: if they didn't think their right to protect themselves was protected. 463 00:31:04,235 --> 00:31:07,195 Speaker 1: It's hard to tell if Gnome is that stupid, or 464 00:31:07,235 --> 00:31:10,035 Speaker 1: she thinks her constituents are that stupid, or she thinks 465 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:12,595 Speaker 1: that Fox hosts her that stupid, or all of the above. 466 00:31:12,955 --> 00:31:15,755 Speaker 1: But somebody is that stupid. I mean, she is moving 467 00:31:15,795 --> 00:31:20,355 Speaker 1: into the Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Bluto, Blue Tarsky Hall 468 00:31:20,355 --> 00:31:24,155 Speaker 1: of Fame level of historical idiocy. On his way to 469 00:31:24,275 --> 00:31:28,715 Speaker 1: his first inauguration, George Washington told his limo driver that 470 00:31:28,835 --> 00:31:32,595 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln had a lovely singing voice. That level of 471 00:31:32,675 --> 00:31:37,195 Speaker 1: historical idiocy. The Constitution was not the result of some treaty. 472 00:31:38,315 --> 00:31:40,675 Speaker 1: When it went into effect in seventeen eighty nine, Texas 473 00:31:40,755 --> 00:31:44,715 Speaker 1: was still part of Mexico. Thirteen colonies had nothing to 474 00:31:44,795 --> 00:31:49,675 Speaker 1: do with Mexican Texas in seventeen eighty nine, and Mexico 475 00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:52,955 Speaker 1: didn't let Texas go until eighteen thirty six. And Texas 476 00:31:52,955 --> 00:31:55,875 Speaker 1: wasn't even admitted to our country till eighteen forty five 477 00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:58,915 Speaker 1: as the twenty eighth state. I mean, this is nearly 478 00:31:58,955 --> 00:32:03,595 Speaker 1: a decade after we led in Arkansas. For God's sakes, Texas, 479 00:32:04,075 --> 00:32:09,755 Speaker 1: the new experimental state Christy did we give up when 480 00:32:09,795 --> 00:32:15,235 Speaker 1: the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor Gnome knit Wit two days 481 00:32:16,115 --> 00:32:36,515 Speaker 1: worse far seven in the world and worse than Finally 482 00:32:36,595 --> 00:32:38,755 Speaker 1: we merge part of the sports segment with things I 483 00:32:38,875 --> 00:32:40,995 Speaker 1: promised not to tell and the sad news that the 484 00:32:40,995 --> 00:32:43,635 Speaker 1: former manager of the Boston Red Sox, the Houston Astros 485 00:32:43,635 --> 00:32:46,235 Speaker 1: in the Toronto Blue Jays, Jimmy Williams, has died at 486 00:32:46,275 --> 00:32:50,355 Speaker 1: the age of eighty. Jimmy, It's Jimmy with one M. 487 00:32:50,475 --> 00:32:54,115 Speaker 1: Managed for ten full seasons and finished second six times, 488 00:32:54,115 --> 00:32:57,595 Speaker 1: including three straight years to the last dynasty in baseball, 489 00:32:57,595 --> 00:32:59,955 Speaker 1: the Yankees of the turn of the century. He was 490 00:33:00,035 --> 00:33:03,355 Speaker 1: many things, and uniquely, he was probably the only manager 491 00:33:03,395 --> 00:33:06,995 Speaker 1: ever accused by the owner of the other team of 492 00:33:07,075 --> 00:33:10,635 Speaker 1: trying to incite a riot by the fans during a 493 00:33:10,675 --> 00:33:14,315 Speaker 1: playoff game. And the owner made that accusation about Jimmy 494 00:33:14,315 --> 00:33:18,475 Speaker 1: Williams live on national television during the game. And of 495 00:33:18,475 --> 00:33:21,755 Speaker 1: course the person he made the accusation too was me, 496 00:33:22,675 --> 00:33:25,355 Speaker 1: and that was only because I was the reporter in 497 00:33:25,395 --> 00:33:27,995 Speaker 1: the Yankees dugout for the series in question, the nineteen 498 00:33:28,075 --> 00:33:31,395 Speaker 1: ninety nine American League Championship Series, and there actually was 499 00:33:32,075 --> 00:33:34,955 Speaker 1: a riot, or at least the beginning of one, and 500 00:33:35,035 --> 00:33:37,755 Speaker 1: I managed during it to get myself kicked off the 501 00:33:37,795 --> 00:33:41,875 Speaker 1: field and ordered to sit next to But I'm getting 502 00:33:41,915 --> 00:33:45,595 Speaker 1: ahead of myself. The good stuff started in Game three 503 00:33:45,675 --> 00:33:48,955 Speaker 1: on Saturday, October sixteenth, nineteen ninety nine, and it featured 504 00:33:48,955 --> 00:33:52,235 Speaker 1: the return of the former Red Sox hero Roger Clemens 505 00:33:52,555 --> 00:33:55,915 Speaker 1: in the uniform of the hated Yanks, to Fenway Park, Boston. 506 00:33:56,635 --> 00:33:58,995 Speaker 1: I don't have much time for Roger Clemens, but I 507 00:33:59,035 --> 00:34:02,315 Speaker 1: was a witness to two occasions, possibly the only two 508 00:34:02,395 --> 00:34:05,595 Speaker 1: occasions of his life, when he received eved the raw 509 00:34:05,675 --> 00:34:09,395 Speaker 1: deal rather than dishing it out. The fans at Boston's 510 00:34:09,395 --> 00:34:12,675 Speaker 1: Fenway Park blamed Clemens for leaving the old town team 511 00:34:13,115 --> 00:34:15,875 Speaker 1: two years previously, when it was a decision actually made 512 00:34:15,915 --> 00:34:19,395 Speaker 1: my Red Sox management. So they serenaded and booed him 513 00:34:19,395 --> 00:34:22,435 Speaker 1: out of that game after just fifteen batters and just 514 00:34:22,515 --> 00:34:25,915 Speaker 1: over two innings, and our Fox TV cameras caught them 515 00:34:25,995 --> 00:34:30,435 Speaker 1: tearing down Roger Clemens banners which hung outside the park. 516 00:34:31,355 --> 00:34:34,475 Speaker 1: Poor Roger completely rattled fell apart like a twelve dollars 517 00:34:34,515 --> 00:34:37,355 Speaker 1: fake rolex, and from where I sat between the third 518 00:34:37,355 --> 00:34:40,035 Speaker 1: base camera and the Yankee dugout, you could see he 519 00:34:40,275 --> 00:34:44,555 Speaker 1: was ashen. The game got out of hand quickly, a 520 00:34:44,635 --> 00:34:47,075 Speaker 1: theme for the series. Boston led thirteen to nothing in 521 00:34:47,115 --> 00:34:50,115 Speaker 1: the seventh inning. One of the oddities of my seat 522 00:34:50,155 --> 00:34:52,235 Speaker 1: was that between me and the Yankee bench was a 523 00:34:52,275 --> 00:34:55,915 Speaker 1: low railing and very ancient chicken wire fence that had 524 00:34:55,955 --> 00:35:00,795 Speaker 1: been painted over annually for something like since the First 525 00:35:00,835 --> 00:35:04,115 Speaker 1: World War. But next to the fence on the player's 526 00:35:04,115 --> 00:35:07,395 Speaker 1: side was the dugout bathroom. It was really just a 527 00:35:07,515 --> 00:35:11,835 Speaker 1: door and a urinal. So at some point every Yankee 528 00:35:11,835 --> 00:35:13,715 Speaker 1: player came down to that end of the dugout, and 529 00:35:13,755 --> 00:35:17,275 Speaker 1: almost always they said hi and then excuse me. A 530 00:35:17,315 --> 00:35:20,675 Speaker 1: minute late in the game, as it got dark, the 531 00:35:20,755 --> 00:35:25,675 Speaker 1: Yankee superb Cuban Emigray pitcher Orlando El Duque Hernandez made 532 00:35:25,675 --> 00:35:29,395 Speaker 1: that track and said hi, but did not go into 533 00:35:29,435 --> 00:35:32,515 Speaker 1: the tiny bathroom in the dugout at Fenway Park. Instead, 534 00:35:32,555 --> 00:35:34,435 Speaker 1: he sat down on the steps right next to the 535 00:35:34,435 --> 00:35:37,675 Speaker 1: little chicken wire fence and he said, Kate, can I 536 00:35:37,675 --> 00:35:41,075 Speaker 1: ask you a question? I was startled the official line 537 00:35:41,195 --> 00:35:44,555 Speaker 1: was El Duque Hernandez did not speak any English. I 538 00:35:44,635 --> 00:35:48,475 Speaker 1: pointed this out to him. He laughed, you'll keep my secret. 539 00:35:48,915 --> 00:35:50,995 Speaker 1: You know how much time I save not doing interviews 540 00:35:51,035 --> 00:35:55,075 Speaker 1: in English. He got an occasional conjugation wrong, Otherwise his 541 00:35:55,115 --> 00:35:59,715 Speaker 1: English was perfect. He got to his question, Keith, why 542 00:35:59,715 --> 00:36:02,395 Speaker 1: do you leave SportsCenter? You and Dan were so good 543 00:36:02,515 --> 00:36:06,435 Speaker 1: way downtown. Bang, they're not gonna go them. I suspect 544 00:36:06,475 --> 00:36:09,155 Speaker 1: anybody sitting in the stands in the ten rows nearest me? 545 00:36:09,195 --> 00:36:12,875 Speaker 1: Could hear my laughter? Orlando, I left Sports Center before 546 00:36:12,875 --> 00:36:15,555 Speaker 1: you left Cuba. How did you see us? He said? 547 00:36:15,595 --> 00:36:18,635 Speaker 1: We have nothing in Cuba, but we have baseball fields 548 00:36:18,755 --> 00:36:21,635 Speaker 1: and we have satellites. It's deep, and I don't think 549 00:36:21,675 --> 00:36:25,235 Speaker 1: it's playable. I was stunned. I had already discovered that 550 00:36:25,315 --> 00:36:28,075 Speaker 1: nearly every American born Major League player of nineteen ninety 551 00:36:28,155 --> 00:36:31,235 Speaker 1: nine knew me by voice, let alone by sight. But 552 00:36:31,355 --> 00:36:35,155 Speaker 1: this Cuba thing and El Duque reciting my old Sports 553 00:36:35,155 --> 00:36:39,275 Speaker 1: Center catchphrases was a genuine surprise. Oh, yes, you and Dan, 554 00:36:39,475 --> 00:36:41,595 Speaker 1: you teach me a lot of my English. What's the 555 00:36:41,635 --> 00:36:44,315 Speaker 1: one for the hockey? Can't believe I shrunk that guy's 556 00:36:44,315 --> 00:36:48,275 Speaker 1: freaking hand. I love that. Why'd you leave? I tried 557 00:36:48,275 --> 00:36:50,835 Speaker 1: to explain it was mostly geography. That if when he 558 00:36:50,875 --> 00:36:53,195 Speaker 1: had pitched briefly in the International League, he ever faced 559 00:36:53,195 --> 00:36:55,835 Speaker 1: the team in Patucket, Rhode Island, that that was kind 560 00:36:55,915 --> 00:36:59,435 Speaker 1: of where ESPN was, only it was more remote, much 561 00:36:59,475 --> 00:37:04,475 Speaker 1: smaller town. Oh el Duque said, like Cuba, but with snow, 562 00:37:04,955 --> 00:37:08,275 Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, that was it exactly. And now 563 00:37:08,315 --> 00:37:10,035 Speaker 1: I was living in Los Angeles and I owned a 564 00:37:10,035 --> 00:37:12,595 Speaker 1: big house on the beach. Okay, I get it. Listen, 565 00:37:12,635 --> 00:37:14,555 Speaker 1: you see me in the park, you say hi, there's 566 00:37:14,555 --> 00:37:17,275 Speaker 1: nobody around, we talk, Okay. If I say nothing, don't 567 00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:19,595 Speaker 1: be offended. I'm just making sure everybody still knows I 568 00:37:19,635 --> 00:37:26,315 Speaker 1: don't speak English. Orlando Hernandez did not get here till 569 00:37:26,355 --> 00:37:28,195 Speaker 1: he was thirty two years old. He pitched until he 570 00:37:28,235 --> 00:37:29,675 Speaker 1: was forty one. If he got in here when he 571 00:37:29,675 --> 00:37:31,155 Speaker 1: was twenty two, he'd be in the Hall of Fame, 572 00:37:31,195 --> 00:37:32,715 Speaker 1: and then he would have been the color man on 573 00:37:32,755 --> 00:37:35,115 Speaker 1: the Game of the Week. He pitched three years for 574 00:37:35,155 --> 00:37:37,475 Speaker 1: the Yankees and two for the Mets while I lived 575 00:37:37,475 --> 00:37:39,835 Speaker 1: in New York, and it was always a pleasure to 576 00:37:39,875 --> 00:37:43,035 Speaker 1: see him. Kase, you're still collecting baseballs. You want this one? 577 00:37:43,235 --> 00:37:46,395 Speaker 1: I walked by Ray Bonds with this one. So that 578 00:37:46,555 --> 00:37:50,035 Speaker 1: was Game three on the Saturday. On the Sunday, I 579 00:37:50,115 --> 00:37:53,635 Speaker 1: awoke to see my picture in the Boston Globe. In 580 00:37:53,715 --> 00:37:56,955 Speaker 1: those days, the newspapers all used to have columnists who 581 00:37:56,955 --> 00:38:02,635 Speaker 1: wrote about nothing but TV and radio sports casts. No, seriously, 582 00:38:03,195 --> 00:38:05,915 Speaker 1: I had been a sportscaster on local TV in Boston 583 00:38:05,955 --> 00:38:08,715 Speaker 1: fifteen years earlier, in nineteen eighty four. Then I'd been 584 00:38:08,755 --> 00:38:11,675 Speaker 1: to Fenway Park as long before as nineteen sixty six, 585 00:38:11,835 --> 00:38:13,875 Speaker 1: and yet I had grown up a Yankee fan in 586 00:38:13,915 --> 00:38:17,715 Speaker 1: New York. I explained that even then I was also 587 00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:22,915 Speaker 1: a fan of the long suffering Red Sox fans. Now 588 00:38:22,955 --> 00:38:26,035 Speaker 1: this was too complicated for some people at the Boston Globe, 589 00:38:26,395 --> 00:38:29,155 Speaker 1: which quoted me correctly as saying I always felt an 590 00:38:29,155 --> 00:38:31,555 Speaker 1: affinity with the fans. But then under my picture in 591 00:38:31,595 --> 00:38:37,435 Speaker 1: the article used the caption Olberman, Red Sox fan. Still 592 00:38:37,475 --> 00:38:39,995 Speaker 1: wondering how they got that wrong, I did my pregame 593 00:38:40,035 --> 00:38:42,675 Speaker 1: TV stuff for Fox, then climbed over the little chicken 594 00:38:42,675 --> 00:38:46,195 Speaker 1: wire fence back into my spot for in game dugout reporting, 595 00:38:46,435 --> 00:38:48,195 Speaker 1: and as the top of the first inning began of 596 00:38:48,195 --> 00:38:50,835 Speaker 1: the fourth game, the Yankees leadoff man Chuck Knoblock moved 597 00:38:50,835 --> 00:38:52,995 Speaker 1: towards the plate, and as he did, it was the 598 00:38:53,035 --> 00:38:57,315 Speaker 1: cleanup hitter Bernie Williams walking towards me, presumably to use 599 00:38:57,355 --> 00:39:01,635 Speaker 1: that little urinal in a closet. Wrong again. It's meet 600 00:39:01,795 --> 00:39:05,835 Speaker 1: Keith Weekend. Hey Keith, he said, in his lyrical voice, 601 00:39:06,035 --> 00:39:09,235 Speaker 1: extending a hand to shake Bernie Williams like I didn't 602 00:39:09,275 --> 00:39:11,955 Speaker 1: know who it was. Say, listen, I was reading the paper. 603 00:39:12,075 --> 00:39:15,195 Speaker 1: Are you a Red Sox fan? For a moment, I 604 00:39:15,235 --> 00:39:18,075 Speaker 1: put aside the fact that the game, the playoff game, 605 00:39:18,555 --> 00:39:21,275 Speaker 1: had now started, and the guy up three batters from 606 00:39:21,315 --> 00:39:24,115 Speaker 1: now was asking me about a typo in the Boston Globe. 607 00:39:25,195 --> 00:39:27,875 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams was never accused of burning himself out with 608 00:39:27,915 --> 00:39:31,275 Speaker 1: too much competitive focus. That's just who he was. I 609 00:39:31,355 --> 00:39:34,635 Speaker 1: explained the mistake as quickly as I could. Oh, I thought, 610 00:39:34,675 --> 00:39:37,435 Speaker 1: so okay, good. I'm glad because you can be a 611 00:39:37,435 --> 00:39:39,075 Speaker 1: fan of anybody you want. But I don't think it 612 00:39:39,075 --> 00:39:40,675 Speaker 1: would be right to have a Red Sox fan and 613 00:39:40,755 --> 00:39:44,395 Speaker 1: our dugout. I agreed with him. Just as Chuck Knoblock 614 00:39:44,515 --> 00:39:47,315 Speaker 1: singled and the number two hitter, Derek Jeter advanced to 615 00:39:47,355 --> 00:39:49,915 Speaker 1: the plate, and the third hitter, Paul O'Neil, went out 616 00:39:49,995 --> 00:39:52,675 Speaker 1: to the on deck circle, and that's when Bernie Williams 617 00:39:52,715 --> 00:39:56,915 Speaker 1: surprised me more than Orlando Hernandez had. Plus, Bernie went on, 618 00:39:57,315 --> 00:39:59,955 Speaker 1: doesn't your mom still have those seats like ten rows 619 00:39:59,955 --> 00:40:04,475 Speaker 1: back of our dugout at Yankee Stadium. This was before 620 00:40:04,515 --> 00:40:07,155 Speaker 1: my my mother became famous for getting hit by a 621 00:40:07,235 --> 00:40:11,235 Speaker 1: very badly thrown ball the next year. I asked Bernie 622 00:40:11,235 --> 00:40:13,835 Speaker 1: Williams how the hell he knew where my mother sat. 623 00:40:14,755 --> 00:40:17,955 Speaker 1: You've had seats there since the seventies, haven't you. I 624 00:40:18,115 --> 00:40:21,675 Speaker 1: just stared at him. Oh, Keith, it's my job to 625 00:40:21,755 --> 00:40:25,835 Speaker 1: know that, I said, no, it isn't. It's your job 626 00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:29,035 Speaker 1: to play center field for the Yankees. This was just 627 00:40:29,075 --> 00:40:31,555 Speaker 1: about the time Derek Jeter grounded out and Paul O'Neill 628 00:40:31,635 --> 00:40:33,875 Speaker 1: left the on deck circle, and Bernie Williams was supposed 629 00:40:33,875 --> 00:40:36,475 Speaker 1: to be in the on deck circle. I know your mom. 630 00:40:36,555 --> 00:40:40,155 Speaker 1: I see her, nice lady, So anyway, I interrupted him. 631 00:40:40,875 --> 00:40:43,715 Speaker 1: Bernie Jeter just grounded out, and now block went to 632 00:40:43,795 --> 00:40:47,075 Speaker 1: second and O'Neill is up with one out. Shouldn't you 633 00:40:47,275 --> 00:40:51,075 Speaker 1: get out there? He looked back at the field of play. 634 00:40:51,195 --> 00:40:53,315 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, he stuck out his hand again. 635 00:40:53,515 --> 00:40:56,115 Speaker 1: Nice visiting with you. Let's talk more later and just 636 00:40:56,555 --> 00:41:01,315 Speaker 1: double checking you're not a Red Sox fan, right. Bernie 637 00:41:01,355 --> 00:41:05,435 Speaker 1: Williams got three hits in that game. Other New York 638 00:41:05,475 --> 00:41:08,635 Speaker 1: sports reporter once said that if he concentrated on baseball, 639 00:41:08,675 --> 00:41:11,395 Speaker 1: really concentrated, Bernie Williams would either be so good that 640 00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:13,555 Speaker 1: he would hit four hundred or he would be so 641 00:41:13,675 --> 00:41:17,275 Speaker 1: stressed out that he would become a serial killer. In 642 00:41:17,355 --> 00:41:19,795 Speaker 1: this game, the Yankee scored six runs in the ninth 643 00:41:19,795 --> 00:41:21,595 Speaker 1: and there was a place so controversial that when the 644 00:41:21,595 --> 00:41:24,515 Speaker 1: Red Sox manager got himself ejected over it, the home 645 00:41:24,595 --> 00:41:28,795 Speaker 1: fans littered the field with debris. Almost all of it 646 00:41:28,915 --> 00:41:32,715 Speaker 1: was just plastic soda bottles, but still there was a 647 00:41:32,715 --> 00:41:37,395 Speaker 1: couple of flasks thrown two Yankees manager Joe Torre ordered 648 00:41:37,395 --> 00:41:40,355 Speaker 1: his team off the field and play was suspended as 649 00:41:40,355 --> 00:41:43,395 Speaker 1: the plastic bottles continued to fly. And via my earpiece, 650 00:41:43,795 --> 00:41:46,315 Speaker 1: which I listened to, even if Chris Matthews never listened 651 00:41:46,355 --> 00:41:49,075 Speaker 1: to his, my producer ordered me onto the field, and 652 00:41:49,155 --> 00:41:50,675 Speaker 1: I did as I was told, and I set up 653 00:41:50,715 --> 00:41:52,235 Speaker 1: in front of the camera right in front of the 654 00:41:52,275 --> 00:41:56,235 Speaker 1: dugout full of Yankee players. A plastic bottle whizzed past 655 00:41:56,395 --> 00:41:59,035 Speaker 1: my head, and I half wondered if Bernie Williams had 656 00:41:59,075 --> 00:42:01,115 Speaker 1: thrown it just in case I was a Red Sox fan. 657 00:42:01,875 --> 00:42:05,555 Speaker 1: Almost immediately, a Fenway Park security guy starts swearing at 658 00:42:05,595 --> 00:42:08,075 Speaker 1: me in Boston and told me if I didn't get 659 00:42:08,075 --> 00:42:10,435 Speaker 1: off the field and into the seats immediately, he'd have 660 00:42:10,515 --> 00:42:13,835 Speaker 1: me arrested. This time, I could actually hear some of 661 00:42:13,875 --> 00:42:16,995 Speaker 1: the Yankees laughing. Get over that fence right now, sit 662 00:42:17,075 --> 00:42:18,995 Speaker 1: your backside down in that seat, and do not move. 663 00:42:19,835 --> 00:42:22,195 Speaker 1: My producer heard all this through my microphone and told 664 00:42:22,235 --> 00:42:25,195 Speaker 1: me to comply. I didn't even look around. I just 665 00:42:25,275 --> 00:42:27,435 Speaker 1: went over the fence. I sat down in the front 666 00:42:27,515 --> 00:42:29,195 Speaker 1: row where I'd been ordered to, and that's when the 667 00:42:29,235 --> 00:42:32,635 Speaker 1: guy sitting next to me said hi, and I realized 668 00:42:32,675 --> 00:42:34,875 Speaker 1: the guy sitting next to me was George Steinbrenner, the 669 00:42:34,915 --> 00:42:39,515 Speaker 1: owner of the Yankees. I said, Hi, you want to 670 00:42:39,555 --> 00:42:43,355 Speaker 1: say something about this on TV? And George, who loved 671 00:42:43,355 --> 00:42:47,155 Speaker 1: me as I loved him, said sure. And my producer 672 00:42:47,195 --> 00:42:50,195 Speaker 1: heard all this through to the microphone as well. The 673 00:42:50,235 --> 00:42:53,235 Speaker 1: announcers immediately threw it to me, and I said seven words, 674 00:42:53,355 --> 00:42:57,275 Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner, your thoughts on all this? He proceeded to 675 00:42:57,355 --> 00:43:00,075 Speaker 1: very pleasantly blame the Red Sox fans for being drunk, 676 00:43:00,315 --> 00:43:03,595 Speaker 1: blame Fenway security for letting a riot start, blame baseball 677 00:43:03,635 --> 00:43:06,115 Speaker 1: officials for not immediately forfeiting the game to his club, 678 00:43:06,275 --> 00:43:10,315 Speaker 1: and blame the Boston manager for inciting the crowd. I 679 00:43:10,355 --> 00:43:12,515 Speaker 1: had said to George, I would ask a follow up, 680 00:43:12,515 --> 00:43:15,395 Speaker 1: but you seem to have covered everything, and so I 681 00:43:15,515 --> 00:43:19,035 Speaker 1: threw it back to the play by playbooth. Steinbrenner's remarks 682 00:43:19,035 --> 00:43:21,915 Speaker 1: made every newspaper in the country, and in many accounts 683 00:43:21,995 --> 00:43:24,555 Speaker 1: I was noted as the interview and frankly, I didn't 684 00:43:24,555 --> 00:43:28,995 Speaker 1: really do anything. The next night. The Yankees won the 685 00:43:29,035 --> 00:43:31,275 Speaker 1: series in five games, and the fifth game was devoid 686 00:43:31,275 --> 00:43:34,155 Speaker 1: of Cuban pitchers confiding they were fans, or Bernie Williams 687 00:43:34,235 --> 00:43:37,555 Speaker 1: quizzing me about my fan dumb, or me being ordered 688 00:43:37,555 --> 00:43:39,795 Speaker 1: onto the field during a riot, only to be thrown 689 00:43:39,835 --> 00:43:41,635 Speaker 1: off of it and directly into the seat next to 690 00:43:41,675 --> 00:43:45,035 Speaker 1: the owner of the Yankees. All I had to do 691 00:43:45,075 --> 00:43:47,235 Speaker 1: on this night was get into the Yankee clubhouse two 692 00:43:47,275 --> 00:43:49,715 Speaker 1: innings before the game ended. So I could cover the 693 00:43:49,755 --> 00:43:54,715 Speaker 1: celebrating players and the award presentation. The excitement of the 694 00:43:54,715 --> 00:43:57,595 Speaker 1: weekend clearly was over. I would just say hi to 695 00:43:57,635 --> 00:44:00,395 Speaker 1: these guys. They'd throw champagne in my direction, and then 696 00:44:00,435 --> 00:44:03,395 Speaker 1: I'd throw it back to Joe Buck. I was on 697 00:44:03,475 --> 00:44:06,995 Speaker 1: a platform, each a camera light as the technicians checked 698 00:44:06,995 --> 00:44:09,315 Speaker 1: their stuff. The game was still going on when the 699 00:44:09,355 --> 00:44:13,155 Speaker 1: clubhouse door slammed open and in strutted the Yankee second 700 00:44:13,155 --> 00:44:19,795 Speaker 1: basement Chuck Knoblock. He was swearing profusely, profoundly and proficiently. 701 00:44:20,395 --> 00:44:23,635 Speaker 1: He had been having trouble throwing ground balls away, and 702 00:44:23,635 --> 00:44:26,075 Speaker 1: as the eighth inning started, the Yankee manager Tory had 703 00:44:26,115 --> 00:44:29,315 Speaker 1: removed him, denying him a chance to be in the 704 00:44:29,355 --> 00:44:33,635 Speaker 1: on field celebration of the pennant. Nablock was enraged, so 705 00:44:33,875 --> 00:44:36,995 Speaker 1: enraged that he never saw me, or the platform or 706 00:44:37,035 --> 00:44:42,275 Speaker 1: the camera lights. He used all the known expletives and 707 00:44:42,395 --> 00:44:47,155 Speaker 1: directed all of them all at his own manager. The 708 00:44:47,235 --> 00:44:50,275 Speaker 1: Yankees pr guy, a childhood friend of mine, rushed over 709 00:44:50,315 --> 00:44:52,075 Speaker 1: to insist that I could not report what I had 710 00:44:52,155 --> 00:44:54,475 Speaker 1: just heard. He was a little shocked when I agreed 711 00:44:54,515 --> 00:44:57,955 Speaker 1: with him, I'm here as a lighting prop. I told him, 712 00:44:58,555 --> 00:45:00,555 Speaker 1: no block has a perfect right to expect there'd be 713 00:45:00,595 --> 00:45:03,515 Speaker 1: no reporters in the clubhouse during the game. If he 714 00:45:03,515 --> 00:45:06,555 Speaker 1: says it again afterwards, I'll say I heard it just now. 715 00:45:07,395 --> 00:45:11,235 Speaker 1: Otherwise I'm not saying anything. There is a course of 716 00:45:11,275 --> 00:45:16,115 Speaker 1: punchline even to this and this extraordinary weekend. The next summer, 717 00:45:16,995 --> 00:45:20,035 Speaker 1: Chuck Knoblock's career as a second baseman ended because he 718 00:45:20,155 --> 00:45:23,915 Speaker 1: completely lost the ability to throw an ordinary, uncomplicated baseball 719 00:45:23,955 --> 00:45:27,435 Speaker 1: to first base. Since similar cases of the yips seemed 720 00:45:27,475 --> 00:45:30,835 Speaker 1: to afflict players whose baseball centric fathers had gotten sick 721 00:45:30,955 --> 00:45:34,675 Speaker 1: or jailed or something, and Knoblock's dad had just entered 722 00:45:34,715 --> 00:45:38,475 Speaker 1: the final stages of Alzheimer's it was probably that the 723 00:45:38,595 --> 00:45:43,755 Speaker 1: last disastrous throw he made the next year, on June seventeenth, 724 00:45:43,795 --> 00:45:47,475 Speaker 1: two thousand, bounced off the Yankee dugout and spun weirdly 725 00:45:47,715 --> 00:45:50,195 Speaker 1: and hit a woman in the box seats. The woman 726 00:45:50,915 --> 00:45:55,315 Speaker 1: was my mother, the one where Bernie Williams knew where 727 00:45:55,315 --> 00:45:58,675 Speaker 1: she sat. All the things that followed. Since I was 728 00:45:58,715 --> 00:46:00,715 Speaker 1: in the studio that day doing the highlights for the 729 00:46:00,715 --> 00:46:03,475 Speaker 1: Fox Game of the Week, they require their own segment 730 00:46:03,515 --> 00:46:06,715 Speaker 1: of this. But the one thing that has always mystified 731 00:46:06,755 --> 00:46:10,355 Speaker 1: me was how Chuck Naubloch did not know not to 732 00:46:10,435 --> 00:46:13,835 Speaker 1: throw the ball where he did, because at some point 733 00:46:14,075 --> 00:46:17,875 Speaker 1: Bernie Williams must have warned him, Hey, hey, Chuck, don't 734 00:46:17,875 --> 00:46:34,795 Speaker 1: do it there. That's where Keith Olderman's mother sits. I've 735 00:46:34,795 --> 00:46:36,515 Speaker 1: done all the damage I can do here. Thank you 736 00:46:36,515 --> 00:46:38,675 Speaker 1: for listening. Countdown has come to you from the world 737 00:46:38,835 --> 00:46:44,195 Speaker 1: headquarters of the Olderman Broadcasting Empire in New York. Countdown 738 00:46:44,275 --> 00:46:47,355 Speaker 1: musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillips Chanel arranged, produced, 739 00:46:47,355 --> 00:46:50,795 Speaker 1: and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass, 740 00:46:50,835 --> 00:46:54,355 Speaker 1: and drums, and mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Produced 741 00:46:54,395 --> 00:46:58,275 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the Beethoven compositions, 742 00:46:58,555 --> 00:47:02,595 Speaker 1: arranged and performed by No Horns Allowed Sports Music is 743 00:47:02,595 --> 00:47:05,435 Speaker 1: the Olderman theme for ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren 744 00:47:05,515 --> 00:47:09,595 Speaker 1: Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical 745 00:47:09,635 --> 00:47:12,995 Speaker 1: comments are by Nancy faust Be's baseball stadium organist. Ever. 746 00:47:13,315 --> 00:47:16,035 Speaker 1: Our announcer today was my friend Jonathan Banks. Everything else 747 00:47:16,195 --> 00:47:19,115 Speaker 1: was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this The 748 00:47:19,115 --> 00:47:21,955 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty first day until the twenty twenty 749 00:47:21,955 --> 00:47:25,995 Speaker 1: four US presidential election, and the one and twentieth days 750 00:47:26,035 --> 00:47:29,395 Speaker 1: since dementia j Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically 751 00:47:29,435 --> 00:47:32,835 Speaker 1: elected government of the United States. Use the Fourteenth Amendment, 752 00:47:33,635 --> 00:47:37,835 Speaker 1: justice Scalia, use the Insurrection Act, use the justice system 753 00:47:38,275 --> 00:47:41,195 Speaker 1: and the mental health system to stop him from doing 754 00:47:41,195 --> 00:47:45,555 Speaker 1: it again while we still can. The next scheduled countdown 755 00:47:45,635 --> 00:47:48,155 Speaker 1: is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news warrants, and if my 756 00:47:48,275 --> 00:47:51,595 Speaker 1: throat holds out till then, I'm Keith Olverman. Good morning, 757 00:47:51,635 --> 00:48:10,835 Speaker 1: good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith 758 00:48:10,835 --> 00:48:15,915 Speaker 1: Alderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, 759 00:48:16,075 --> 00:48:20,075 Speaker 1: visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 760 00:48:20,115 --> 00:48:21,035 Speaker 1: your podcasts.