1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,635 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Quote 2 00:00:24,675 --> 00:00:30,635 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind unquote the Washington Examiner, 3 00:00:31,115 --> 00:00:33,395 Speaker 1: seven and seventy three words in one of the most 4 00:00:33,475 --> 00:00:38,075 Speaker 1: prominent mega magazines in this country. Headlines elsewhere in the 5 00:00:38,115 --> 00:00:42,875 Speaker 1: same issue, quote Chris Murphy, Democrat of Tehran and New 6 00:00:42,955 --> 00:00:45,515 Speaker 1: York City crime part of promise is broken by mom 7 00:00:45,595 --> 00:00:49,555 Speaker 1: Donnie and why Trump should not rush back to talks 8 00:00:49,595 --> 00:00:54,115 Speaker 1: where they're on quote donald Trump is losing his mind? 9 00:00:55,035 --> 00:00:58,635 Speaker 1: Is that me writing that? It's not Jimmy Kimmel, It's 10 00:00:58,675 --> 00:01:02,275 Speaker 1: the Washington goddamned Examiner, where the same columnist who wrote 11 00:01:02,315 --> 00:01:06,795 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind once authored monarchical Obama. 12 00:01:07,235 --> 00:01:11,435 Speaker 1: Real monarchs are humbler and a whole lot cheaper. And 13 00:01:11,555 --> 00:01:16,475 Speaker 1: this conservative magabastion published this Donald Trump is losing his 14 00:01:16,595 --> 00:01:20,875 Speaker 1: mind before Trump threatened yesterday to go all General Sherman 15 00:01:21,035 --> 00:01:24,915 Speaker 1: on Tehran. They published it before he overshadowed his own 16 00:01:24,995 --> 00:01:29,035 Speaker 1: claim that the Virginia redistricting vote was fixed by also 17 00:01:29,155 --> 00:01:32,395 Speaker 1: insisting in the same post quote, as everyone knows I 18 00:01:32,435 --> 00:01:37,715 Speaker 1: am an extraordinarily brilliant person, insisting that as an asshole does. 19 00:01:38,675 --> 00:01:41,955 Speaker 1: This was published before Trump compared his war in Iran 20 00:01:42,195 --> 00:01:47,795 Speaker 1: to Vietnam, a war he avoided serving in, and said 21 00:01:47,795 --> 00:01:51,395 Speaker 1: he could have quote won Vietnam very quickly, you know, Vietnam, 22 00:01:51,395 --> 00:01:55,955 Speaker 1: which he dodged, and before Trump exhausted this that's not 23 00:01:56,075 --> 00:01:58,635 Speaker 1: the flex you think it is and found a second 24 00:01:58,635 --> 00:02:01,035 Speaker 1: one like that quote, I would have won Iraq in 25 00:02:01,075 --> 00:02:06,235 Speaker 1: the same amount of time. The Washington Examiner column claiming 26 00:02:06,275 --> 00:02:10,235 Speaker 1: Trump is losing his mind preceded all that. It even 27 00:02:10,275 --> 00:02:15,315 Speaker 1: preceded Trump's proclamation that nobody should be allowed to criticize 28 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:20,035 Speaker 1: him about Iran anymore. He didn't threaten his critics, but 29 00:02:20,115 --> 00:02:23,875 Speaker 1: he came right up to that point. Never allow the 30 00:02:23,955 --> 00:02:28,635 Speaker 1: trader Democrats like low IQ person a Keem Jeffries. Low 31 00:02:28,675 --> 00:02:32,435 Speaker 1: IQ person is, of course, Trump's euphemism for black or 32 00:02:32,595 --> 00:02:36,075 Speaker 1: crying Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt fake news media 33 00:02:36,235 --> 00:02:39,475 Speaker 1: such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the 34 00:02:39,555 --> 00:02:43,475 Speaker 1: failing New York Times subscriptions way down or dying sixty 35 00:02:43,515 --> 00:02:48,955 Speaker 1: minutes to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally 36 00:02:48,995 --> 00:02:54,195 Speaker 1: obliterated the nuclear dust locations. Editor's note, There's no such 37 00:02:54,275 --> 00:02:58,155 Speaker 1: thing as nuclear dust moron nuclear dust locations to the 38 00:02:58,155 --> 00:03:00,915 Speaker 1: point where blood thirsty Iran has been unable to get 39 00:03:00,955 --> 00:03:06,315 Speaker 1: to it or dig it out, not allowed to criticize 40 00:03:06,355 --> 00:03:09,955 Speaker 1: what I've done. He wrote, I'm the best. I bombed Iran. 41 00:03:10,115 --> 00:03:12,635 Speaker 1: I would have won an Iraq in Vietnam. I would 42 00:03:12,635 --> 00:03:15,635 Speaker 1: have won Antietam. I would have won at Waterloo. Never 43 00:03:15,915 --> 00:03:21,275 Speaker 1: never allow, never allow, Who are we kidding? Trump doesn't 44 00:03:21,355 --> 00:03:29,035 Speaker 1: know what Waterloo was? Quote Donald Trump is losing his mind. 45 00:03:29,515 --> 00:03:29,995 Speaker 2: I would have. 46 00:03:29,955 --> 00:03:33,835 Speaker 3: Won Vietnam very quickly. I would have if I were president, 47 00:03:34,355 --> 00:03:36,235 Speaker 3: I would have won a RAQ in the same amount 48 00:03:36,275 --> 00:03:40,395 Speaker 3: of time that we won, because essentially we won here. 49 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:44,635 Speaker 1: And if you disagree, you can't disagree. You're not allowed. 50 00:03:44,795 --> 00:03:48,395 Speaker 1: You're not allowed by whom are you not allowed? Well, 51 00:03:48,435 --> 00:03:54,435 Speaker 1: he hasn't said yet. As an aside, note please that 52 00:03:54,555 --> 00:03:57,275 Speaker 1: most of Trump's TV interviews tend to be not just 53 00:03:57,395 --> 00:04:01,915 Speaker 1: with fascist stooges like Joe Kernan there, but with fascist 54 00:04:01,995 --> 00:04:05,795 Speaker 1: stooges like Joe Kernan there, who's is actually worse than 55 00:04:05,795 --> 00:04:12,555 Speaker 1: his own. Think Kennedy, Think Maria Bartiromo. What is perhaps 56 00:04:12,555 --> 00:04:15,075 Speaker 1: the most amazing of all the details buried in this 57 00:04:15,155 --> 00:04:17,995 Speaker 1: reality we now accept as part of our daily lives 58 00:04:18,155 --> 00:04:22,835 Speaker 1: that the President is a functioning insane person. Was the 59 00:04:22,835 --> 00:04:25,435 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal report that when the two American airmen 60 00:04:25,835 --> 00:04:29,995 Speaker 1: went down in Iran and a rescue operation was being forged, quote, 61 00:04:30,275 --> 00:04:34,355 Speaker 1: aides kept the President out of the room as they 62 00:04:34,355 --> 00:04:38,755 Speaker 1: got minute by minute updates because they believed his impatience 63 00:04:38,835 --> 00:04:44,475 Speaker 1: wouldn't be helpful. A senior administration official said, unquote, they 64 00:04:44,515 --> 00:04:50,995 Speaker 1: wouldn't let Trump in the situation room for the planning meeting. 65 00:04:51,395 --> 00:04:56,115 Speaker 1: They updated him when there were meaningful developments, and in 66 00:04:56,195 --> 00:05:00,715 Speaker 1: between they just left him too. I don't know, play 67 00:05:00,755 --> 00:05:06,035 Speaker 1: with his own toes. Back to The Washington Examiner. Author 68 00:05:06,115 --> 00:05:09,715 Speaker 1: Dan Hannon's other columns before Donald Trump Is Losing his 69 00:05:09,795 --> 00:05:13,795 Speaker 1: Mind included such Pulitzer Prize winners as better Trump than 70 00:05:13,915 --> 00:05:18,075 Speaker 1: Starmer and reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination reveal a 71 00:05:18,155 --> 00:05:21,515 Speaker 1: nation on the brink, and the epic The Kids Are 72 00:05:21,675 --> 00:05:25,275 Speaker 1: Alt Right, which I understand has been optioned as a 73 00:05:25,275 --> 00:05:30,515 Speaker 1: major motion picture, presumably by Jeff Bezos. I'll spare you 74 00:05:30,595 --> 00:05:34,915 Speaker 1: the whole column. I wrote this better and sooner in 75 00:05:34,955 --> 00:05:39,715 Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. George Conway wrote it in twenty nineteen. But 76 00:05:39,835 --> 00:05:43,275 Speaker 1: Hannon underscores that the breaking point to the degree that 77 00:05:43,355 --> 00:05:46,715 Speaker 1: MAGA has broken with Trump, and that is still only 78 00:05:46,795 --> 00:05:49,035 Speaker 1: showing up marginally and pulling, but it is showing up. 79 00:05:49,075 --> 00:05:51,395 Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. The breaking point 80 00:05:51,475 --> 00:05:58,955 Speaker 1: from MAGA has been the attack on the Pope. Fascism. Okay, heresy, 81 00:05:59,115 --> 00:06:03,275 Speaker 1: we draw the line at heresy quote. Imagine it was 82 00:06:03,395 --> 00:06:06,715 Speaker 1: someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader 83 00:06:06,755 --> 00:06:09,875 Speaker 1: were posting deranged grants in the small hours, insulting the 84 00:06:09,875 --> 00:06:13,435 Speaker 1: spiritual leader of one point three billion Catholics, threatening the 85 00:06:13,715 --> 00:06:17,595 Speaker 1: entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What 86 00:06:17,675 --> 00:06:21,195 Speaker 1: would be the reaction. We all know the answer. Both 87 00:06:21,275 --> 00:06:23,635 Speaker 1: parties would be rushing to bundle him out of office 88 00:06:23,675 --> 00:06:26,795 Speaker 1: before he did irreversible harm to the Republic. Yet, as 89 00:06:26,795 --> 00:06:30,475 Speaker 1: we all know, different rules apply to Trump. Democrats, having 90 00:06:30,515 --> 00:06:35,475 Speaker 1: had their fingers burned by two failed impeachment attempts, you think, 91 00:06:35,835 --> 00:06:39,875 Speaker 1: are reluctant to try again. You think, for they know 92 00:06:39,955 --> 00:06:42,195 Speaker 1: that there is no sure way to boost his support. 93 00:06:43,915 --> 00:06:47,555 Speaker 1: Republicans who privately despair at the electoral damage he is doing, 94 00:06:47,675 --> 00:06:51,115 Speaker 1: let alone the constitutional damage, are paralyzed by fear of 95 00:06:51,235 --> 00:06:54,955 Speaker 1: upsetting their primary voters. The president he went on whom 96 00:06:55,035 --> 00:06:58,515 Speaker 1: critics accused of having a God complex. No, those are 97 00:06:58,555 --> 00:07:01,115 Speaker 1: his followers who accuse him of having a God complex. 98 00:07:01,355 --> 00:07:03,475 Speaker 1: Then followed up with an image of himself as Jesus 99 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:06,915 Speaker 1: healing the sick. The image was offensive not only the Catholics, 100 00:07:06,915 --> 00:07:09,755 Speaker 1: but to almost every practicing Christian and come to that, 101 00:07:10,275 --> 00:07:14,435 Speaker 1: to almost every Muslim. The Iranian Ayatolas used one of 102 00:07:14,435 --> 00:07:16,955 Speaker 1: the lego videos with which they have been trolling the 103 00:07:16,995 --> 00:07:20,955 Speaker 1: president to condemn what they sincerely saw as blasphemy. They 104 00:07:20,955 --> 00:07:24,355 Speaker 1: were not alone. Catholic vote dot org, which turned out 105 00:07:24,395 --> 00:07:28,115 Speaker 1: millions of voters for Trump in three successive elections, condemned 106 00:07:28,195 --> 00:07:31,995 Speaker 1: the post as impious. At the same time, according to 107 00:07:32,035 --> 00:07:36,315 Speaker 1: its president, Kelsey Reinhardt, quote President Trump's post insulting Pope 108 00:07:36,395 --> 00:07:42,835 Speaker 1: Leo crossed again a line of decorum. Mister Hannon in 109 00:07:42,955 --> 00:07:47,755 Speaker 1: his column you know what It's called, then asks if 110 00:07:47,795 --> 00:07:51,315 Speaker 1: there is some strategy, some chess move. He writes that 111 00:07:51,475 --> 00:07:54,275 Speaker 1: requires picking a quarrel with the pope, and lists a 112 00:07:54,275 --> 00:07:58,355 Speaker 1: few options, and then he dismisses them and dismisses Trump's 113 00:07:58,395 --> 00:08:02,115 Speaker 1: sanity and quoting his column again, these things are possible. 114 00:08:02,155 --> 00:08:05,075 Speaker 1: I suppose the likelier explanation, though, is that this is 115 00:08:05,195 --> 00:08:08,195 Speaker 1: exactly what it looks like. A seventy nine year old 116 00:08:08,235 --> 00:08:10,955 Speaker 1: man who has long dealt in chaos is now being 117 00:08:11,035 --> 00:08:15,115 Speaker 1: consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, 118 00:08:15,355 --> 00:08:18,155 Speaker 1: his good days further apart. What he has lost is 119 00:08:18,155 --> 00:08:20,755 Speaker 1: not a sense of decency or decorum he never had those, 120 00:08:20,915 --> 00:08:25,755 Speaker 1: but any remaining self sense of control. Everyone around him 121 00:08:25,755 --> 00:08:29,915 Speaker 1: can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, 122 00:08:30,035 --> 00:08:33,275 Speaker 1: they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The 123 00:08:33,355 --> 00:08:38,875 Speaker 1: tragedy is no longer Trump's, it is now America's. Column 124 00:08:38,915 --> 00:08:40,715 Speaker 1: kind of fizzles out at the end there, but the 125 00:08:40,755 --> 00:08:45,515 Speaker 1: point remains. This is written about Trump in as Trump Sucking, 126 00:08:45,555 --> 00:08:49,075 Speaker 1: a magazine as still publishes in this country, and the 127 00:08:49,155 --> 00:08:53,035 Speaker 1: details may be instructive, but the takeaway remains the headline, 128 00:08:53,315 --> 00:08:57,675 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind. By the way, this 129 00:08:57,795 --> 00:09:00,915 Speaker 1: point the essence of the Emperor, has no close argument 130 00:09:00,995 --> 00:09:03,515 Speaker 1: some of us have been making about Trump since nineteen 131 00:09:03,555 --> 00:09:07,395 Speaker 1: eighty three, let alone twenty fifteen. This is finally beginning 132 00:09:07,435 --> 00:09:11,715 Speaker 1: to catch on. People are afraid of this issue of 133 00:09:11,755 --> 00:09:15,475 Speaker 1: Trump's acuity and sanity, even though he constantly brings it up. 134 00:09:16,395 --> 00:09:19,315 Speaker 1: I suppose that is because once you ask if one 135 00:09:19,395 --> 00:09:25,115 Speaker 1: particular public figure is insane, where do you stop? But 136 00:09:25,155 --> 00:09:29,475 Speaker 1: finally somebody's actually asking. A little publicized IPSOS poll for 137 00:09:29,515 --> 00:09:33,595 Speaker 1: Reuter's this week has Trump's mental sharpness. That's the phrase 138 00:09:33,635 --> 00:09:37,115 Speaker 1: they use, mental sharpness gotten worse over the last year, 139 00:09:37,595 --> 00:09:41,435 Speaker 1: gently phrased mental sharpness. A lot of wiggle room mental sharpness, 140 00:09:41,555 --> 00:09:44,755 Speaker 1: but a majority say yeah, it has fifty one percent 141 00:09:45,275 --> 00:09:49,235 Speaker 1: his mental sharpness has gotten worse, and the interior numbers 142 00:09:49,355 --> 00:09:54,155 Speaker 1: are even more telling. Eighty five percent of Democrats. Okay, 143 00:09:54,195 --> 00:09:55,835 Speaker 1: I'd like to see the fifteen percent of you who 144 00:09:55,835 --> 00:09:57,635 Speaker 1: think he has not gotten worse in the last year 145 00:09:57,915 --> 00:10:01,355 Speaker 1: raise your hands, which may be difficult since you must 146 00:10:01,395 --> 00:10:05,515 Speaker 1: be in Coma's fifty four percent of into and it'd say, yes, 147 00:10:05,715 --> 00:10:09,155 Speaker 1: his mental sharpness is worse than last year. Fourteen percent 148 00:10:09,195 --> 00:10:12,395 Speaker 1: of Republicans think Trump's mental sharpness has gotten worse than 149 00:10:12,435 --> 00:10:16,115 Speaker 1: the last year. The rest of the world was ahead 150 00:10:16,155 --> 00:10:18,235 Speaker 1: of us on this, of course, and now they are 151 00:10:18,275 --> 00:10:21,995 Speaker 1: ahead in using Trump's dementia or stupidity or insanity against him. 152 00:10:22,275 --> 00:10:24,755 Speaker 1: The New York Times reports that some leaders in Ukraine 153 00:10:24,835 --> 00:10:28,115 Speaker 1: think they might be able yet to sway Trump into 154 00:10:28,115 --> 00:10:32,115 Speaker 1: fully supporting their nation, especially in the continuing demands by 155 00:10:32,195 --> 00:10:35,275 Speaker 1: Russia for Ukraine to see the don Bas region to 156 00:10:35,595 --> 00:10:43,875 Speaker 1: Russia by simply renaming the don Vas quote Donnie Land 157 00:10:45,115 --> 00:10:48,075 Speaker 1: well that that, of course, is ridiculous. Trump would never 158 00:10:48,115 --> 00:10:51,235 Speaker 1: go against Putin and repudiate a decade of enmity towards 159 00:10:51,355 --> 00:10:54,195 Speaker 1: Ukraine and Zelensky simply because they would rename part of 160 00:10:54,235 --> 00:11:02,075 Speaker 1: their country. Donni Land now rename it Trumpylvania, and he's in. 161 00:11:04,435 --> 00:11:09,035 Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind, rights the Washington Examiner, 162 00:11:09,675 --> 00:11:34,755 Speaker 1: which I guess makes it unanimous. Trump is also approaching 163 00:11:34,875 --> 00:11:38,995 Speaker 1: unanimity in none is he crazy? Polling a new Associated 164 00:11:39,035 --> 00:11:46,395 Speaker 1: Press NRC poll thirty three percent approval, thirty three. He's 165 00:11:46,395 --> 00:11:50,755 Speaker 1: now nineteen points underwater on immigration, and that's his best 166 00:11:50,835 --> 00:11:55,075 Speaker 1: poll number. He's thirty five points underwater on Iran, forty 167 00:11:55,195 --> 00:12:01,755 Speaker 1: on the economy, fifty three on inflation. Even Politico stenographer 168 00:12:01,915 --> 00:12:05,155 Speaker 1: to the Western World, reports that White House affers have 169 00:12:05,195 --> 00:12:08,515 Speaker 1: accepted they will not only lose the House significantly, but 170 00:12:08,635 --> 00:12:11,755 Speaker 1: probably will lose the Senate as well. There is an 171 00:12:11,755 --> 00:12:14,675 Speaker 1: outside chance that the Democrats could come up with enough 172 00:12:14,715 --> 00:12:16,755 Speaker 1: of a swing in the upper Chamber to get enough 173 00:12:16,835 --> 00:12:19,155 Speaker 1: votes to not merely impeach Trump in the House, but 174 00:12:19,315 --> 00:12:23,035 Speaker 1: convict him and remove him in the Senate, which is 175 00:12:23,115 --> 00:12:27,235 Speaker 1: dandy because there is a separate poll strength in numbers. Verisite, 176 00:12:27,395 --> 00:12:31,995 Speaker 1: fifty five percent of Americans support impeaching Trump, fifty five 177 00:12:32,595 --> 00:12:36,115 Speaker 1: forty five percent strongly support impeaching him, only thirty percent 178 00:12:36,155 --> 00:12:39,475 Speaker 1: are strongly opposed. And if you say, and blah blah blah, 179 00:12:39,555 --> 00:12:41,995 Speaker 1: there's been an impeachment bill somewhere in the House every 180 00:12:42,075 --> 00:12:44,675 Speaker 1: day Trump has been president. And yeah, that point from 181 00:12:44,715 --> 00:12:47,075 Speaker 1: before there's been two impeachments. What good did they do? 182 00:12:47,315 --> 00:12:51,955 Speaker 1: Ponder this number. Impeachment in this poll is supported by 183 00:12:52,315 --> 00:12:58,075 Speaker 1: twenty one percent of Republicans, by twenty one percent of 184 00:12:58,115 --> 00:13:02,755 Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty four voters, a fifth of them want 185 00:13:02,795 --> 00:13:08,875 Speaker 1: their money back. Now, how will Trump's crack team redeem him? 186 00:13:09,395 --> 00:13:11,635 Speaker 1: And by crack team, I am not just referring to 187 00:13:11,715 --> 00:13:16,955 Speaker 1: RFK Junior. They have bellowed the clarion call save me 188 00:13:17,275 --> 00:13:22,195 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. Politico reported yesterday that when you saw little 189 00:13:22,275 --> 00:13:24,875 Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and his cue ball noggin up on his 190 00:13:24,915 --> 00:13:27,315 Speaker 1: tippy toes trying to peer over the top of Trump's 191 00:13:27,355 --> 00:13:30,675 Speaker 1: head as Trump sat at the Oval Office Saturday. It 192 00:13:30,715 --> 00:13:32,275 Speaker 1: was part of a meeting with him to try to 193 00:13:32,275 --> 00:13:35,635 Speaker 1: get him back on their side after Rogan trashed Trump 194 00:13:35,755 --> 00:13:40,275 Speaker 1: about Iran. Rogan was there because it is assumed that 195 00:13:40,395 --> 00:13:43,675 Speaker 1: Rogan prioritizes the new White House initiative to make some 196 00:13:43,755 --> 00:13:49,435 Speaker 1: psychedelic drugs available to treat severe depression. Once again, seems 197 00:13:49,475 --> 00:13:52,635 Speaker 1: like they got the wrong guy there, Joe Rogan. This 198 00:13:52,795 --> 00:13:57,955 Speaker 1: is RFK Junior's area of expertise. There are also strong 199 00:13:57,995 --> 00:14:01,795 Speaker 1: indications that one of the other solutions to the Trump slump. 200 00:14:02,475 --> 00:14:07,115 Speaker 1: The firings will continue until Trump's rady improve. Tulsey Gabbard 201 00:14:07,155 --> 00:14:11,555 Speaker 1: and her Minion Harmy Dylan on the block because well 202 00:14:11,555 --> 00:14:16,235 Speaker 1: they're women and Trump is a flaming misogynist. But also 203 00:14:16,835 --> 00:14:21,115 Speaker 1: Cash Paateel Cash Patel may be on the way because 204 00:14:21,115 --> 00:14:24,075 Speaker 1: Cash Hotel not only sued The Atlantic over its drunken 205 00:14:24,235 --> 00:14:29,555 Speaker 1: unreliability story, but a streisand affected that story and that 206 00:14:29,715 --> 00:14:32,955 Speaker 1: suit by relisting every detail of the story in his 207 00:14:33,075 --> 00:14:37,475 Speaker 1: lawyer letter. B left a series of embarrassing typos in 208 00:14:37,555 --> 00:14:40,995 Speaker 1: the lawyer letter, and c at a news conference he 209 00:14:41,075 --> 00:14:43,915 Speaker 1: did not know that the lawyer letter confirmed the framework 210 00:14:43,955 --> 00:14:46,995 Speaker 1: of a story in the story, the one about him 211 00:14:46,995 --> 00:14:49,195 Speaker 1: getting locked out of a device on the FBI computer 212 00:14:49,275 --> 00:14:53,395 Speaker 1: system while he stood there, and contradicted his own lawyer letter, 213 00:14:53,595 --> 00:14:58,155 Speaker 1: insisting no, he never got locked out of anything computer, iPad, 214 00:14:58,435 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: his government funded private jet, the bedroom of his quote girlfriend, 215 00:15:02,675 --> 00:15:07,715 Speaker 1: the locker room of some hockey team somewhere. Patel also 216 00:15:07,755 --> 00:15:13,395 Speaker 1: did not sound the sharpest at his news conference. But 217 00:15:13,435 --> 00:15:15,515 Speaker 1: if we still took that as an indicator, and what 218 00:15:15,635 --> 00:15:19,755 Speaker 1: has been dubbed the Trump liquor Cabinet, RFK Junior would 219 00:15:19,755 --> 00:15:22,035 Speaker 1: have been long gone and hag Seth and Patel and 220 00:15:22,075 --> 00:15:26,235 Speaker 1: of course Trump himself. But the unfortunate and perhaps unfair 221 00:15:26,315 --> 00:15:29,715 Speaker 1: reality for Patel in particular is whatever that is with 222 00:15:29,835 --> 00:15:34,915 Speaker 1: his eyes makes him look like he is worse for wear. 223 00:15:35,675 --> 00:15:39,915 Speaker 1: They call it cock eyed drunk for a reason. The Democrats, 224 00:15:39,955 --> 00:15:43,715 Speaker 1: once again showing the wisdom to kick a man when 225 00:15:43,755 --> 00:15:48,035 Speaker 1: he's down, are now demanding that Patel take an alcoholism 226 00:15:48,195 --> 00:15:53,875 Speaker 1: screening tests. His choices amount to a are you an alcoholic? B? 227 00:15:54,595 --> 00:15:56,835 Speaker 1: Are you so full of alcohol that you're at risk 228 00:15:56,875 --> 00:16:02,115 Speaker 1: of bursting into flames? Or c are you j Edgar Boozer. 229 00:16:03,675 --> 00:16:06,915 Speaker 1: Some highlights of the Act Actual Test Alcohol Use Disorders 230 00:16:06,955 --> 00:16:13,035 Speaker 1: Identification Test Audit questionnaire. Please circle the answer that is 231 00:16:13,115 --> 00:16:18,115 Speaker 1: correct for you and it doesn't say if you can One. 232 00:16:18,195 --> 00:16:21,235 Speaker 1: How often do you have a drink containing alcohol? A? Never, 233 00:16:21,595 --> 00:16:24,555 Speaker 1: B monthly or less, C two four times a month, 234 00:16:25,435 --> 00:16:28,795 Speaker 1: e is four more times a week. How many standard 235 00:16:28,875 --> 00:16:30,915 Speaker 1: drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day 236 00:16:30,955 --> 00:16:33,435 Speaker 1: when drinking A one or two, B three or four, 237 00:16:33,635 --> 00:16:36,915 Speaker 1: C five or six, D seven to nine, E ten 238 00:16:37,315 --> 00:16:41,475 Speaker 1: or more? Three? How often do you have six or 239 00:16:41,475 --> 00:16:43,795 Speaker 1: more drinks on one occasion? You can see where this 240 00:16:43,915 --> 00:16:49,315 Speaker 1: is going. Number six? Question number six during the past year, 241 00:16:49,315 --> 00:16:51,555 Speaker 1: how often have you needed a drink in the morning 242 00:16:51,795 --> 00:16:55,435 Speaker 1: to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session? A never, 243 00:16:55,515 --> 00:16:58,995 Speaker 1: B less than monthly, CE, monthly, D weekly, E daily 244 00:16:59,275 --> 00:17:02,555 Speaker 1: almost daily F should be I can't tell the difference 245 00:17:02,595 --> 00:17:06,755 Speaker 1: between night and morning anymore. Seven is during the past year, 246 00:17:06,795 --> 00:17:08,555 Speaker 1: how often have you had a feeling of guilt or 247 00:17:08,595 --> 00:17:11,075 Speaker 1: remorse after drinking? Eight is during the past year, have 248 00:17:11,155 --> 00:17:13,315 Speaker 1: you been unable to remember what happened the night before 249 00:17:13,395 --> 00:17:16,235 Speaker 1: because you've been drinking? Nine Have you or someone else 250 00:17:16,275 --> 00:17:18,795 Speaker 1: been injured as a result of your drinking? Ten has 251 00:17:18,795 --> 00:17:21,915 Speaker 1: a relative or friend, doctor or other health worker been 252 00:17:21,955 --> 00:17:25,475 Speaker 1: concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down A no, 253 00:17:25,595 --> 00:17:27,875 Speaker 1: B yes, but not in the past year. See yes 254 00:17:27,955 --> 00:17:29,835 Speaker 1: during the past year. Once again, I will suggest d 255 00:17:30,515 --> 00:17:35,715 Speaker 1: only the President. As to the typos in the lawsuit, 256 00:17:36,075 --> 00:17:42,835 Speaker 1: Patel's lawyers misspelled policies and the word discussed as in 257 00:17:42,915 --> 00:17:47,675 Speaker 1: we discussed this, and most tellingly, the word feeble. Press. 258 00:17:47,755 --> 00:17:52,035 Speaker 1: For a response to these typos in the lawsuit, his 259 00:17:52,155 --> 00:17:54,475 Speaker 1: lawyer said, if the worst that critics come up with 260 00:17:54,515 --> 00:17:57,395 Speaker 1: about the lawsuit just some misspelled words, he felt good 261 00:17:57,395 --> 00:18:00,715 Speaker 1: about their chances, even though the point of the lawsuit 262 00:18:00,795 --> 00:18:03,315 Speaker 1: is to deny that Patel is failing at his job 263 00:18:03,475 --> 00:18:07,315 Speaker 1: and letting others fail at their job because he is impaired, 264 00:18:08,155 --> 00:18:12,595 Speaker 1: or if you prefer, because he's no longer able to 265 00:18:12,675 --> 00:18:22,595 Speaker 1: successfully discuss administration politizes because he's too feeble. That's FEA 266 00:18:22,755 --> 00:18:35,235 Speaker 1: B l E feeble. Lastly, in the news, White House 267 00:18:35,235 --> 00:18:39,075 Speaker 1: Correspondence Dinner is Saturday, still only Huffington Post as officially 268 00:18:39,115 --> 00:18:43,915 Speaker 1: and entirely pulled out. Trump will be there. Heg Seth 269 00:18:43,955 --> 00:18:48,635 Speaker 1: and Stephen Miller have been invited some by multiple news organizations, 270 00:18:48,675 --> 00:18:53,275 Speaker 1: possibly by CBS FCC chairman Brendan Carr, the Gibbels of 271 00:18:53,315 --> 00:18:56,675 Speaker 1: our time, says he will be there. He's not saying 272 00:18:56,715 --> 00:18:59,635 Speaker 1: who invited him, He's saying it is not CBS. Some 273 00:18:59,835 --> 00:19:02,795 Speaker 1: media analysts think he'll be there at the Paramount table, 274 00:19:03,075 --> 00:19:05,315 Speaker 1: and only Brendan Carr would deny he's going to be 275 00:19:05,355 --> 00:19:07,715 Speaker 1: there with CBS when he's going to be there with Paramount, 276 00:19:07,715 --> 00:19:15,075 Speaker 1: which owns CBS. Now not a bright guy. People will 277 00:19:15,075 --> 00:19:21,115 Speaker 1: go to this because the Chuck Todd Chris Silizza construction 278 00:19:22,355 --> 00:19:28,595 Speaker 1: still fits. There is nothing reporters yearn more for than 279 00:19:28,995 --> 00:19:31,995 Speaker 1: what they would want to see still happening in their 280 00:19:32,035 --> 00:19:37,515 Speaker 1: own profession, rather than what is happening the past, the 281 00:19:37,555 --> 00:19:40,795 Speaker 1: world in which there were only about six different kinds 282 00:19:40,795 --> 00:19:44,075 Speaker 1: of news political stories and they all fit neatly to 283 00:19:44,155 --> 00:19:48,355 Speaker 1: a series of maybe three different cubby holes, the way 284 00:19:48,395 --> 00:19:50,955 Speaker 1: it used to be, when news and the news media 285 00:19:51,035 --> 00:19:55,275 Speaker 1: were not imploding and not being bombed from above by 286 00:19:55,315 --> 00:20:00,835 Speaker 1: the president. When no, the few fair news organizations were 287 00:20:00,835 --> 00:20:04,475 Speaker 1: not being bought, subverted and sabotaged by the fascists, and no, 288 00:20:04,675 --> 00:20:10,075 Speaker 1: so all the jobs weren't disappearing, And no, you wouldn't 289 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:15,075 Speaker 1: have impossible trouble finding a new job, and no, you 290 00:20:15,115 --> 00:20:17,955 Speaker 1: aren't going to have trouble making the rent, paying the mortgage. 291 00:20:17,955 --> 00:20:21,075 Speaker 1: And no, it's still okay to dress up on a 292 00:20:21,115 --> 00:20:25,155 Speaker 1: clammy Saturday night in April and sit on the oldest, 293 00:20:25,555 --> 00:20:30,995 Speaker 1: clammiest chairs left in any Washington hotel. And it's okay 294 00:20:30,995 --> 00:20:32,795 Speaker 1: to sit in the same room as Trump and pretend 295 00:20:32,795 --> 00:20:35,995 Speaker 1: it's still nineteen ninety six or something, and that you 296 00:20:36,035 --> 00:20:39,515 Speaker 1: can pretend that the president up there wouldn't enjoy watching 297 00:20:39,555 --> 00:20:45,075 Speaker 1: you get killed. Look, I get it. We were all 298 00:20:45,195 --> 00:20:48,835 Speaker 1: raised on all the president's men, and that image of reporting, 299 00:20:50,595 --> 00:20:55,635 Speaker 1: or at least the broadcast news version of reporting. It's gone. 300 00:20:56,515 --> 00:20:59,875 Speaker 1: It's dead. We might be able to get it back, 301 00:21:00,155 --> 00:21:02,195 Speaker 1: but it doesn't exist right now. And if you're looking 302 00:21:02,195 --> 00:21:06,955 Speaker 1: for it to protect you two and I get the 303 00:21:06,995 --> 00:21:09,715 Speaker 1: other part. The high end people in the business who 304 00:21:09,715 --> 00:21:13,835 Speaker 1: are slowly sliding into the abyss of obeying in advance 305 00:21:14,075 --> 00:21:17,915 Speaker 1: of collaborating with Brendan Carr and the Ellisons and Barry 306 00:21:17,915 --> 00:21:20,075 Speaker 1: Weiss and the rest of them who would erase the 307 00:21:20,115 --> 00:21:24,315 Speaker 1: First Amendment or like Jeff Bezos, sell it to buy 308 00:21:24,435 --> 00:21:30,835 Speaker 1: extra implants for his wife's breasts. The money they offer 309 00:21:30,915 --> 00:21:34,195 Speaker 1: can still be much more than any of these people 310 00:21:34,235 --> 00:21:37,195 Speaker 1: could ever make doing anything else. The trap of that 311 00:21:37,315 --> 00:21:39,515 Speaker 1: money is you don't just look at a couple of 312 00:21:39,675 --> 00:21:44,555 Speaker 1: years of a multimillion dollar salary and say, as I 313 00:21:44,595 --> 00:21:47,075 Speaker 1: honestly said, how can I make this last the rest 314 00:21:47,115 --> 00:21:49,995 Speaker 1: of my life? If I have to, or if I 315 00:21:50,075 --> 00:21:54,275 Speaker 1: decide one day I don't want to go to work anymore. No, 316 00:21:54,435 --> 00:21:58,755 Speaker 1: you don't do that. Suddenly you reset your floor that money. 317 00:21:58,875 --> 00:22:01,795 Speaker 1: I'm making seven million dollars a year, I will never 318 00:22:01,835 --> 00:22:05,115 Speaker 1: work for less than seven million again. It becomes the 319 00:22:05,155 --> 00:22:08,795 Speaker 1: minimum you need, and you will do anything to keep 320 00:22:08,835 --> 00:22:13,475 Speaker 1: it coming. At the pinnacle of my income, I like 321 00:22:13,555 --> 00:22:15,995 Speaker 1: to think of the days when I started and made 322 00:22:16,075 --> 00:22:18,715 Speaker 1: sixteen five hundred dollars a year as a sports reporter 323 00:22:18,795 --> 00:22:21,755 Speaker 1: at UPI in New York, and I did stuff like 324 00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:23,475 Speaker 1: this with Oberman rev. 325 00:22:23,915 --> 00:22:26,675 Speaker 2: After receiving gifts serious and comical and the phrase of 326 00:22:26,675 --> 00:22:29,755 Speaker 2: his teammates's manager and the fan Jetfish. Hutter marked his 327 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:32,835 Speaker 2: retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could not 328 00:22:32,955 --> 00:22:37,635 Speaker 2: attend three people that way come in here. 329 00:22:40,595 --> 00:22:42,715 Speaker 1: I used to do stuff like that every day, and 330 00:22:42,755 --> 00:22:44,555 Speaker 1: on my off nights I would still go back to 331 00:22:44,595 --> 00:22:46,635 Speaker 1: the ballpark because I had a pass to get into 332 00:22:46,635 --> 00:22:49,475 Speaker 1: the press box, and dinner was still free in those 333 00:22:49,555 --> 00:22:51,755 Speaker 1: days in the press box, and then later they would 334 00:22:51,755 --> 00:22:54,475 Speaker 1: give you a snack and I could get there on 335 00:22:54,515 --> 00:22:57,035 Speaker 1: the subway and then usually get a free lift downtown 336 00:22:57,155 --> 00:22:59,355 Speaker 1: after the game from a friend. And if I did 337 00:22:59,355 --> 00:23:01,355 Speaker 1: it right, my cost for an evening of food and 338 00:23:01,475 --> 00:23:05,355 Speaker 1: entertainment and fellowship was the sixty cents the sub way cost, 339 00:23:05,955 --> 00:23:08,795 Speaker 1: instead of the three dollars and twenty five cents that 340 00:23:08,835 --> 00:23:12,755 Speaker 1: the dinner at Burger King cost to this day. In 341 00:23:12,835 --> 00:23:16,475 Speaker 1: a real sense, the two dollars and sixty five cents 342 00:23:16,475 --> 00:23:19,635 Speaker 1: I used to save while I beat the nineteen seventy 343 00:23:19,715 --> 00:23:23,675 Speaker 1: nine system was the largest amount of money I have 344 00:23:23,795 --> 00:23:29,755 Speaker 1: ever had in my hands. I beat the system. I 345 00:23:29,795 --> 00:23:33,675 Speaker 1: made sure I remembered that others in media remember something 346 00:23:33,715 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 1: like that, only to do a Scarlett O'Hara and insist, 347 00:23:36,235 --> 00:23:38,795 Speaker 1: as God as their witness, they'll never be hungry again. 348 00:23:39,235 --> 00:23:42,235 Speaker 1: You think Jake Tapper wants to become a professional cartoonist 349 00:23:42,595 --> 00:23:44,635 Speaker 1: and take a cut from seven million a year to 350 00:23:45,235 --> 00:23:49,675 Speaker 1: one hundred and thirteen thousand if he's lucky. Does Mattow 351 00:23:49,675 --> 00:23:51,635 Speaker 1: want to go back to being a dancing cell phone 352 00:23:51,635 --> 00:23:55,995 Speaker 1: outside a cell phone store in suburban Boston. Does Sarah 353 00:23:56,075 --> 00:23:59,555 Speaker 1: Eisen of CNBC want to go back to, I don't know, 354 00:23:59,795 --> 00:24:02,635 Speaker 1: trying to find work in some other field. I think 355 00:24:02,635 --> 00:24:04,435 Speaker 1: it was a bit of a trap to ask Kevin 356 00:24:04,435 --> 00:24:07,195 Speaker 1: Wan about the election denial to get him to disagree 357 00:24:07,195 --> 00:24:11,115 Speaker 1: with President Trump, she said yesterday on CNBC in a 358 00:24:11,155 --> 00:24:14,915 Speaker 1: statement that should be framed and delivered to Brendan Carr 359 00:24:15,715 --> 00:24:19,075 Speaker 1: or Vladimir Putin. You know, no FED chair is going 360 00:24:19,075 --> 00:24:23,355 Speaker 1: to weigh in on politics like that, Senator Warren. Yes, 361 00:24:23,435 --> 00:24:28,435 Speaker 1: that was CNBC declaring, you know, no FED chair is 362 00:24:28,475 --> 00:24:32,035 Speaker 1: going to weigh in on politics like that. That CNBC 363 00:24:32,195 --> 00:24:35,515 Speaker 1: declaring Trump's attempt to overturn an election and overthrow the 364 00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:38,715 Speaker 1: government of the United States and end democracy here. That 365 00:24:38,715 --> 00:24:44,915 Speaker 1: that's quote politics. Sarah Eisen should be fired and CNBC 366 00:24:44,955 --> 00:24:49,115 Speaker 1: should be closed down and the building knocked down and 367 00:24:49,155 --> 00:24:53,235 Speaker 1: the earth beneath it salted. But no, they'll have a 368 00:24:53,235 --> 00:24:56,995 Speaker 1: table at the Washington Hilton, and maybe maybe this Eisen 369 00:24:57,035 --> 00:25:02,715 Speaker 1: woman will be there applauding the Nazis in person. I 370 00:25:02,755 --> 00:25:05,275 Speaker 1: still hold out some hope there there must be some 371 00:25:05,395 --> 00:25:08,635 Speaker 1: people somewhere who had thought about leaving the media anyway 372 00:25:09,155 --> 00:25:12,555 Speaker 1: and had saved their money for the day when the 373 00:25:12,675 --> 00:25:15,875 Speaker 1: chance might come around, the roulette wheel might spin and 374 00:25:15,915 --> 00:25:18,755 Speaker 1: they might at least make a statement about Trump that 375 00:25:18,795 --> 00:25:22,115 Speaker 1: Trump might actually see that they might break through the 376 00:25:22,115 --> 00:25:25,115 Speaker 1: bubble in which he lives, somebody who would stand up 377 00:25:25,115 --> 00:25:28,755 Speaker 1: as he enters the room and scream if you Trump, 378 00:25:30,075 --> 00:25:32,435 Speaker 1: or interrupt him if he actually gets up and talks, 379 00:25:34,915 --> 00:25:36,795 Speaker 1: because if you can't do that, because you would get 380 00:25:36,835 --> 00:25:39,715 Speaker 1: fired and blacklisted and they'd take your home within a month. 381 00:25:40,355 --> 00:25:44,035 Speaker 1: I guess you get a pass. Though. Maybe if that's true, 382 00:25:44,195 --> 00:25:48,355 Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't go to the Damn Dinner anyway, which 383 00:25:48,355 --> 00:25:51,755 Speaker 1: in its best years is boring and sad, with terrible 384 00:25:51,795 --> 00:25:56,235 Speaker 1: food and too many chairs at each table. That was 385 00:25:56,275 --> 00:25:59,435 Speaker 1: before the dinner was actually so corrupted that it's organizing 386 00:25:59,475 --> 00:26:03,435 Speaker 1: committee would list Trump as they list Trump for this 387 00:26:03,715 --> 00:26:07,475 Speaker 1: Saturday night, in this timeline, at this moment, they are 388 00:26:07,555 --> 00:26:11,915 Speaker 1: listing Trump as an honoree of the White House Correspondence Association. 389 00:26:12,595 --> 00:26:16,515 Speaker 1: Fuck you, White House Correspondence Association. Can I be any 390 00:26:16,515 --> 00:26:19,435 Speaker 1: more blunt about that? Because the bottom line is, if 391 00:26:19,475 --> 00:26:22,195 Speaker 1: you are attending the White House Correspondence dinner, and you 392 00:26:22,235 --> 00:26:26,435 Speaker 1: are not storming out or otherwise protesting Trump's presence, Trump 393 00:26:26,475 --> 00:26:30,955 Speaker 1: who wants to destroy you literally and your employers and 394 00:26:30,995 --> 00:26:34,315 Speaker 1: your profession and decide which few of you get to live, 395 00:26:35,075 --> 00:26:36,995 Speaker 1: which few of you get to continue in some kind 396 00:26:36,995 --> 00:26:41,355 Speaker 1: of macabre perversion of journalism. If you are not protesting 397 00:26:41,355 --> 00:26:44,555 Speaker 1: tomorrow at the White House Correspondent's dinner, you are not 398 00:26:44,715 --> 00:26:52,995 Speaker 1: only a trader to journalism, you are a trader to America. 399 00:26:55,275 --> 00:27:00,075 Speaker 1: All set of interest here talking about dinner on Saturday 400 00:27:00,115 --> 00:27:03,475 Speaker 1: in DC. A little lighter note, time to tell you 401 00:27:03,515 --> 00:27:09,675 Speaker 1: about my dates with Laura ingram Well one date and 402 00:27:10,275 --> 00:27:12,675 Speaker 1: then something that was closer to me being held hostage. 403 00:27:13,315 --> 00:27:16,475 Speaker 1: And more importantly, remember that trump crazy idea about the 404 00:27:16,515 --> 00:27:21,235 Speaker 1: Garden of Heroes. Two hundred and fifty statues of American 405 00:27:21,275 --> 00:27:25,675 Speaker 1: immortals like Elvis and Buffalo Bill and Justice Scalia and 406 00:27:25,755 --> 00:27:32,595 Speaker 1: Patten and Whittaker Effing Chambers to open on July fourth 407 00:27:32,595 --> 00:27:35,635 Speaker 1: for the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Small problem 408 00:27:35,955 --> 00:27:40,915 Speaker 1: with the Garden of Heroes. They forgot to order the statues, 409 00:27:42,755 --> 00:27:46,155 Speaker 1: even the statue of Whittaker Chambers. They forgot to get 410 00:27:46,195 --> 00:27:51,235 Speaker 1: any statues for the Garden of Statues. That's next, that 411 00:27:51,835 --> 00:27:56,715 Speaker 1: you don't know who Whittaker Chambers was. Whittaker Chambers was 412 00:27:56,755 --> 00:28:00,755 Speaker 1: the guy who ratted out Alger Hiss. That's next. This 413 00:28:00,915 --> 00:28:01,555 Speaker 1: is countdown. 414 00:28:03,515 --> 00:28:07,835 Speaker 4: This is countdown with Keith album. 415 00:28:27,675 --> 00:28:30,915 Speaker 1: Still ahead on this ediationtive countdown. I made reference online 416 00:28:31,035 --> 00:28:33,795 Speaker 1: early this week to having gone out on two dates 417 00:28:33,835 --> 00:28:39,355 Speaker 1: with Laura Ingram during a previous century. Judging by the 418 00:28:39,555 --> 00:28:45,635 Speaker 1: astonished reaction, this admittedly startling fact has apparently again slipped 419 00:28:45,635 --> 00:28:49,995 Speaker 1: from the forefront of the collective American consciousness. So let 420 00:28:49,995 --> 00:28:54,395 Speaker 1: me refresh your memory. The first one was definitely a date. 421 00:28:54,555 --> 00:28:56,955 Speaker 1: The second one, as I always like to say, was 422 00:28:56,955 --> 00:29:02,395 Speaker 1: more of a hostage situation, and I was the hostage. Next, 423 00:29:02,435 --> 00:29:07,195 Speaker 1: in another thing I promised not to tell in the interim, 424 00:29:07,235 --> 00:29:09,675 Speaker 1: we always have new idiots to talk about. The roundup 425 00:29:09,715 --> 00:29:13,075 Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons and dunning krugriffect specimens who constitute 426 00:29:13,075 --> 00:29:19,635 Speaker 1: today's other worst persons in the world, the medalists, the 427 00:29:19,675 --> 00:29:24,355 Speaker 1: Bronze Worst, the National Garden of American Heroes. You remember 428 00:29:24,435 --> 00:29:30,475 Speaker 1: this crackpot idea among Trump's Trump's swell National Garden of 429 00:29:30,595 --> 00:29:35,555 Speaker 1: Crackpot ideas an outdoor collection of giant statues of popular 430 00:29:35,595 --> 00:29:42,515 Speaker 1: Americans Kobe Bryant, Rosa Parks, Elvis Presley, like very much, 431 00:29:42,635 --> 00:29:45,155 Speaker 1: up to two hundred and fifty of them, to be 432 00:29:45,395 --> 00:29:51,315 Speaker 1: sandwiched into the DC landscape outside somewhere in somebody's yard 433 00:29:51,435 --> 00:29:55,795 Speaker 1: or something, apparently near the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, because duh 434 00:29:56,275 --> 00:29:59,915 Speaker 1: Trump is making sure there's another place where somebody will 435 00:29:59,915 --> 00:30:03,435 Speaker 1: have to put up a statue of him, or he 436 00:30:03,475 --> 00:30:06,915 Speaker 1: thinks he's making sure of that. The cell on this 437 00:30:06,955 --> 00:30:10,315 Speaker 1: one was it was to open around July fourth to 438 00:30:10,395 --> 00:30:12,755 Speaker 1: be part of the commemorations of America's two hundred and 439 00:30:12,795 --> 00:30:16,315 Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary, at least of the Declaration of Independence, so 440 00:30:16,795 --> 00:30:21,395 Speaker 1: we can celebrate it with Elvis. One assumes, by the way, 441 00:30:21,395 --> 00:30:25,395 Speaker 1: that's singing Elvis and not a statue of Elvis odeing 442 00:30:25,515 --> 00:30:29,955 Speaker 1: on the turlet Elvis. The whole thing is asinine. But 443 00:30:29,995 --> 00:30:33,435 Speaker 1: what's amazing is Trump and his cronies have somehow screwed 444 00:30:33,475 --> 00:30:37,355 Speaker 1: it up. It is the end of April, July fourth 445 00:30:37,435 --> 00:30:41,075 Speaker 1: is in July, and they don't have any of the 446 00:30:41,115 --> 00:30:43,875 Speaker 1: statues made yet. Hell, they don't even have any of 447 00:30:43,915 --> 00:30:48,195 Speaker 1: them commissioned yet. And don't think there haven't been applicants. 448 00:30:48,555 --> 00:30:53,315 Speaker 1: The statue business is not a high volume industry. You 449 00:30:53,395 --> 00:30:57,315 Speaker 1: get five statues or sculptures commissioned in a decade, you're 450 00:30:57,355 --> 00:31:01,075 Speaker 1: having a great year. Not only are there no statues, 451 00:31:01,075 --> 00:31:03,475 Speaker 1: they haven't even gotten permission to secure the land yet 452 00:31:03,715 --> 00:31:07,075 Speaker 1: or start the commission that would have to run the place. Now. 453 00:31:07,155 --> 00:31:09,835 Speaker 1: I can't help on that, but I do have a 454 00:31:09,875 --> 00:31:16,675 Speaker 1: suggestion on the lack of statues. Cardboard cutouts two hundred 455 00:31:16,715 --> 00:31:22,595 Speaker 1: and fifty cardboard cutouts of Kobe and Rosa, Parks and 456 00:31:22,795 --> 00:31:31,195 Speaker 1: Trump and Cash, Patel and Elvis. It'll be great until 457 00:31:31,235 --> 00:31:34,875 Speaker 1: it rains. Actually it would be greater after it rains. 458 00:31:35,955 --> 00:31:40,395 Speaker 1: The runner up worser Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergham, 459 00:31:40,435 --> 00:31:43,475 Speaker 1: speaking of statues, No, not him, He's not made of 460 00:31:43,515 --> 00:31:47,755 Speaker 1: metal that he's very wooden. And why are the eyebrows 461 00:31:47,955 --> 00:31:53,155 Speaker 1: jet black? Doug? I mean, bluntly, I'm an eyebrows expert. 462 00:31:53,235 --> 00:31:57,115 Speaker 1: What the hell? Man? Doug Bergham is the President's point 463 00:31:57,155 --> 00:32:00,075 Speaker 1: man on one of the weirder co opter previous American 464 00:32:00,115 --> 00:32:03,435 Speaker 1: hero to grow Trump's reputation ideas weirder even than the 465 00:32:03,515 --> 00:32:08,555 Speaker 1: national Garden of American cardboard Heroes. Doug Bergham is starting 466 00:32:08,555 --> 00:32:12,075 Speaker 1: a pressure campaign, a public pressure campaign, in concert with 467 00:32:12,115 --> 00:32:16,355 Speaker 1: a museum, and maybe in concert with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, 468 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:19,195 Speaker 1: who used to make the sports version of the Worst 469 00:32:19,195 --> 00:32:21,835 Speaker 1: Person's List once a week when I did it for ESPN. 470 00:32:22,435 --> 00:32:27,835 Speaker 1: Doug Bergham wants President Theodore Roosevelt to be inducted into 471 00:32:27,915 --> 00:32:34,235 Speaker 1: the Professional Football Hall of Fame. Bergham points accurately to 472 00:32:34,275 --> 00:32:36,715 Speaker 1: TR's efforts in nineteen oh five to get hold of 473 00:32:36,715 --> 00:32:40,355 Speaker 1: the then out of control increase in severe injuries during 474 00:32:40,395 --> 00:32:44,555 Speaker 1: football games, even fatal injuries. He convened his summit. He 475 00:32:44,675 --> 00:32:48,755 Speaker 1: got rules changes, They eliminated the flying wedge, they improved 476 00:32:48,835 --> 00:32:53,075 Speaker 1: helmet quality, all great things. And the other option was 477 00:32:53,115 --> 00:32:57,555 Speaker 1: to ban football. But the point is all of Roosevelt's 478 00:32:57,555 --> 00:33:02,355 Speaker 1: interventions pertained to college football. There had been some pro 479 00:33:02,395 --> 00:33:06,955 Speaker 1: football by nineteen oh five, teams a few failed attempts 480 00:33:06,955 --> 00:33:10,475 Speaker 1: at leagues, mostly in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They had an 481 00:33:10,515 --> 00:33:13,155 Speaker 1: indoor football game at Madison Square Garden with a bunch 482 00:33:13,195 --> 00:33:17,315 Speaker 1: of famous baseball players, but professional football would not really 483 00:33:17,315 --> 00:33:21,275 Speaker 1: be a serious thing until the nineteen twenties. By some measurements, 484 00:33:21,635 --> 00:33:25,635 Speaker 1: it wasn't serious until the nineteen thirties. Hell, one of 485 00:33:25,675 --> 00:33:28,715 Speaker 1: the networks that had exclusive TV rights for football in 486 00:33:28,755 --> 00:33:33,355 Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties went out of business. Dumont Television carried 487 00:33:33,395 --> 00:33:36,755 Speaker 1: the National Football League in the fifties and it went bankrupt. 488 00:33:37,315 --> 00:33:44,195 Speaker 1: That's how unpopular professional football was. Teddy Roosevelt saved college football, 489 00:33:44,235 --> 00:33:46,795 Speaker 1: and Doug Bergram's argument to put him in the Pro 490 00:33:46,835 --> 00:33:50,155 Speaker 1: Football Hall Fame is that because he saved college football, 491 00:33:50,595 --> 00:33:54,875 Speaker 1: that in turn saved pro football for the future. And 492 00:33:54,955 --> 00:33:59,235 Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. What's the idea here, what's the Trump scam 493 00:33:59,235 --> 00:34:01,915 Speaker 1: on this one? Teddy Roosevelt has nothing to do with 494 00:34:01,995 --> 00:34:07,235 Speaker 1: the NFL or Pro Football. Next year's NFL Draft of 495 00:34:07,315 --> 00:34:10,395 Speaker 1: college players is supposed to be held on the National 496 00:34:10,475 --> 00:34:13,835 Speaker 1: Mall in Washington. And if you could tie Teddy Roosevelt's 497 00:34:13,875 --> 00:34:16,755 Speaker 1: election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame to the 498 00:34:16,755 --> 00:34:24,075 Speaker 1: Pro football draft, that would make it, that would make it. Well, 499 00:34:24,235 --> 00:34:26,635 Speaker 1: that doesn't really make it anything either, does it that? 500 00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:30,715 Speaker 1: There's no there's no scam here, There's no well, there's 501 00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:34,315 Speaker 1: no scam. We can explain, but it makes no sense 502 00:34:34,355 --> 00:34:36,995 Speaker 1: because the Pro Football Hall of Fame has its own 503 00:34:36,995 --> 00:34:40,795 Speaker 1: induction ceremony and an exhibition game to go with it 504 00:34:40,875 --> 00:34:43,355 Speaker 1: each summer in the place where they have a Hall 505 00:34:43,395 --> 00:34:46,555 Speaker 1: of Fame, Canton, Ohio. The only thing I can think 506 00:34:46,595 --> 00:34:50,395 Speaker 1: of is this is this rare, one dimensional stupidity from 507 00:34:50,395 --> 00:34:54,675 Speaker 1: the Trump administration. This is just a dumb idea from 508 00:34:54,715 --> 00:34:59,635 Speaker 1: two dumb guys. Why don't we put Alexander Hamilton in 509 00:34:59,675 --> 00:35:03,715 Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Or Ben Franklin? I 510 00:35:03,715 --> 00:35:07,715 Speaker 1: mean they named the field after Ben Franklin. But our winner, 511 00:35:07,795 --> 00:35:11,395 Speaker 1: the worst Congressman, Clay Fuller of Georgia. Once again, each 512 00:35:11,435 --> 00:35:13,835 Speaker 1: time you think you know the ten dumbest members of 513 00:35:13,835 --> 00:35:16,915 Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, a new one is discovered, just 514 00:35:17,035 --> 00:35:21,235 Speaker 1: like termites. Fuller is the guy who succeeded Marjorie Taylor Green, 515 00:35:22,275 --> 00:35:25,355 Speaker 1: who right now looks like sheep should be given a 516 00:35:25,395 --> 00:35:29,595 Speaker 1: statue in the Hall of Famous Cardboard Americans or something 517 00:35:30,235 --> 00:35:34,555 Speaker 1: compared certainly to her successor. Fuller posted what he says 518 00:35:34,635 --> 00:35:40,115 Speaker 1: what he says now was a satirical video complaining about 519 00:35:40,195 --> 00:35:44,915 Speaker 1: air conditioning at a Maryland hotel. This video recorded with 520 00:35:44,955 --> 00:35:49,155 Speaker 1: the congressman shown wearing a backwards snap back ball cap. 521 00:35:49,475 --> 00:35:51,635 Speaker 1: This is a grown man forty years old trying to 522 00:35:51,715 --> 00:35:55,075 Speaker 1: dress like he's seventeen. This video has some very interesting 523 00:35:55,155 --> 00:35:58,355 Speaker 1: claims about the state of Georgia that he represents. 524 00:35:58,635 --> 00:36:01,595 Speaker 4: He said, well, don't worry, there's this VIP setting that 525 00:36:01,635 --> 00:36:03,875 Speaker 4: we can override it and the AC will turn on. 526 00:36:03,955 --> 00:36:06,715 Speaker 4: And I was offended. I said, hey, I don't understand 527 00:36:06,835 --> 00:36:09,955 Speaker 4: I should already be in VIP mode because I'm from Georgia. 528 00:36:10,035 --> 00:36:12,835 Speaker 4: He says, I don't understand. I said, well, Georgia is 529 00:36:12,995 --> 00:36:16,475 Speaker 4: named after George Washington, who white literally invented freedom. As 530 00:36:16,515 --> 00:36:18,875 Speaker 4: the birthplace of Ronald Acunia Junior. 531 00:36:19,315 --> 00:36:23,595 Speaker 1: Nobody is stupid enough to think that Ronald Acunya Junior 532 00:36:23,635 --> 00:36:27,955 Speaker 1: of Atlanta Braves is from Georgia was born in Georgia. 533 00:36:28,795 --> 00:36:31,635 Speaker 1: But given that, MAGA tried to get Senator Murphy like 534 00:36:31,755 --> 00:36:34,835 Speaker 1: arrested when he responded this week to news of Iranian 535 00:36:34,875 --> 00:36:38,435 Speaker 1: ships getting through the blockade with a clearly satirical awesome, 536 00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:43,475 Speaker 1: I'm going to say this didn't start out as entirely satirical, 537 00:36:43,795 --> 00:36:48,035 Speaker 1: and that Clay Fuller really believes Georgia is named after 538 00:36:48,155 --> 00:36:52,995 Speaker 1: George Washington. The date is actually fascinating about this. Georgia 539 00:36:53,075 --> 00:36:57,035 Speaker 1: was founded in April seventeen thirty two. George Washington had 540 00:36:57,075 --> 00:37:00,155 Speaker 1: been born in February seventeen thirty two. So, according to 541 00:37:00,195 --> 00:37:03,435 Speaker 1: this theory, the King of England, King George, named the 542 00:37:03,475 --> 00:37:07,715 Speaker 1: new colony of Georgia after a different George who was 543 00:37:07,915 --> 00:37:13,715 Speaker 1: a two month old infant. Congressman Clay. You know, that's 544 00:37:13,715 --> 00:37:16,595 Speaker 1: all MAGA is missing. A congressman who is himself a 545 00:37:16,635 --> 00:37:20,475 Speaker 1: two month old infant fuller of Georgia with his hat 546 00:37:20,515 --> 00:37:44,195 Speaker 1: on backwards. Today's other worst person. And it is important 547 00:37:44,235 --> 00:37:47,835 Speaker 1: to know that though Laura Ingram was the first star 548 00:37:48,235 --> 00:37:52,315 Speaker 1: of MSNBC, literally shown on the cover of the New 549 00:37:52,395 --> 00:37:57,115 Speaker 1: York Times magazine in a leopard print skirt in nineteen 550 00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:01,195 Speaker 1: ninety five, a year before MSNBC even went on the air. 551 00:38:01,235 --> 00:38:04,915 Speaker 1: It's why they hired her the skirt, she did not 552 00:38:05,035 --> 00:38:08,755 Speaker 1: get her own primetime show in cable news for another 553 00:38:08,915 --> 00:38:12,515 Speaker 1: twenty two years. And she did not get that show 554 00:38:12,635 --> 00:38:18,235 Speaker 1: until she fully embraced Trump. And as we've seen yet again, 555 00:38:18,675 --> 00:38:23,515 Speaker 1: as Trump has circled the drain, she sure has embraced 556 00:38:23,595 --> 00:38:27,595 Speaker 1: him in things I promised not to tell little personal 557 00:38:27,675 --> 00:38:31,795 Speaker 1: experience about embracing her my primetime cable news show debut 558 00:38:31,835 --> 00:38:36,475 Speaker 1: on October one, nineteen ninety seven. That would be twenty 559 00:38:36,555 --> 00:38:39,795 Speaker 1: years before hers. But she was a guest on my 560 00:38:39,955 --> 00:38:42,995 Speaker 1: show the first time the next month, November nineteen ninety seven, 561 00:38:43,155 --> 00:38:46,955 Speaker 1: and she asked me out in December. I think it 562 00:38:47,035 --> 00:38:50,275 Speaker 1: was long after that that Laura revealed to me that 563 00:38:50,355 --> 00:38:53,995 Speaker 1: her mother's dying words to her had been, Lara, why 564 00:38:54,035 --> 00:38:58,555 Speaker 1: are you so BASSI? I mean, who tells anybody else 565 00:38:58,595 --> 00:39:01,435 Speaker 1: something like that, anybody else in the world. Why would 566 00:39:01,515 --> 00:39:07,315 Speaker 1: you say that? Wouldn't you make up some nicer sounding Laura, 567 00:39:07,435 --> 00:39:09,635 Speaker 1: you have been such a great daughter. I mean, how 568 00:39:09,675 --> 00:39:14,715 Speaker 1: in the hell could I check? Even more recently than that, 569 00:39:14,755 --> 00:39:17,195 Speaker 1: she had invoked her mother again in public, I think 570 00:39:17,235 --> 00:39:20,955 Speaker 1: as an excuse for raising the Social Security age, or 571 00:39:20,995 --> 00:39:25,915 Speaker 1: eliminating Social Security altogether, or having ninety year old's screw 572 00:39:25,995 --> 00:39:28,955 Speaker 1: little screws into American iPhones or something. I can't remember 573 00:39:28,995 --> 00:39:35,395 Speaker 1: what it was. It's true, though, even as Laura flourished 574 00:39:35,435 --> 00:39:40,115 Speaker 1: in television, she never said her mom, here's enough so 575 00:39:40,275 --> 00:39:44,035 Speaker 1: you can retire. Laura boasted in public that her mother, 576 00:39:44,195 --> 00:39:49,235 Speaker 1: Anne worked until she was seventy three as a waitress 577 00:39:49,795 --> 00:39:56,555 Speaker 1: full time, and boasted that her mother continued to pay 578 00:39:56,595 --> 00:40:07,555 Speaker 1: off Laura's college loans. Anyway, the Ingram date and something 579 00:40:07,595 --> 00:40:09,675 Speaker 1: she told me on the first of these dates has 580 00:40:09,795 --> 00:40:13,675 Speaker 1: resonated with me literally every month since and is relevant 581 00:40:13,835 --> 00:40:21,275 Speaker 1: to politics today. I did not so much date her 582 00:40:21,435 --> 00:40:26,035 Speaker 1: as survive her. Even then before nine to eleven helped 583 00:40:26,115 --> 00:40:29,475 Speaker 1: to slide her cheese off her cracker. I find a 584 00:40:29,555 --> 00:40:33,715 Speaker 1: diary entry referring to her as Hurricane Laura. That was 585 00:40:33,755 --> 00:40:38,475 Speaker 1: March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. Beware the odds of March 586 00:40:38,915 --> 00:40:45,755 Speaker 1: Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, and God helped me. Nearly 587 00:40:45,755 --> 00:40:47,555 Speaker 1: forty eight years of dating, I have not been a 588 00:40:47,635 --> 00:40:50,795 Speaker 1: kiss and tell her I have dated. I don't know dozens. 589 00:40:51,035 --> 00:40:55,515 Speaker 1: We're in a couple of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with 590 00:40:55,595 --> 00:40:58,595 Speaker 1: maybe three exceptions. You don't know any of their names. 591 00:40:59,235 --> 00:41:02,035 Speaker 1: One of them, now a political writer, basically lived with 592 00:41:02,115 --> 00:41:07,275 Speaker 1: me for three years. I keep that confidence. So why 593 00:41:07,275 --> 00:41:10,555 Speaker 1: am I telling this story violating that? Because not three 594 00:41:10,595 --> 00:41:13,635 Speaker 1: months after that first date, when we were still going out, 595 00:41:14,355 --> 00:41:16,195 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram asked me if she could look at a 596 00:41:16,235 --> 00:41:18,835 Speaker 1: speech I was going to give it Corneill's graduation weekend 597 00:41:19,195 --> 00:41:23,835 Speaker 1: and offer suggestions. This is so long ago, I literally 598 00:41:24,035 --> 00:41:28,195 Speaker 1: faxed it to her. Sure enough, a couple days later, 599 00:41:28,515 --> 00:41:31,795 Speaker 1: I'm watching Imus in the morning, which was televised by 600 00:41:31,835 --> 00:41:35,555 Speaker 1: my network MSNBC, and there on his desk in front 601 00:41:35,555 --> 00:41:39,075 Speaker 1: of him is the faxed copy of my speech, and 602 00:41:39,115 --> 00:41:43,515 Speaker 1: he is reading from my facts. I could recognize the 603 00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:48,155 Speaker 1: exact sequence of the vertical stripes. My cheap fax machine 604 00:41:48,195 --> 00:41:52,435 Speaker 1: used to streak all my outgoing pages with Laura used 605 00:41:52,435 --> 00:41:54,915 Speaker 1: to go on his show a lot, so to curry 606 00:41:54,955 --> 00:41:59,555 Speaker 1: favor with iMOS, she sent him the speech without asking me. 607 00:42:00,755 --> 00:42:04,435 Speaker 1: As I told her that day, all bets are now off. 608 00:42:05,395 --> 00:42:08,235 Speaker 1: So I've told parts of this story before, like She 609 00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:11,835 Speaker 1: had been a Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and 610 00:42:11,995 --> 00:42:14,835 Speaker 1: our first date consisted of taking me on an insider's 611 00:42:14,875 --> 00:42:17,155 Speaker 1: tour of the court and having me sit in his 612 00:42:17,355 --> 00:42:20,315 Speaker 1: chair in tribute to him. I did not say or 613 00:42:20,315 --> 00:42:24,315 Speaker 1: do anything constructive. She then cooked me the largest steak 614 00:42:24,395 --> 00:42:26,755 Speaker 1: I had ever seen that did not have a rodeo 615 00:42:26,875 --> 00:42:30,435 Speaker 1: cowboy riding on it, and we watched a woman later 616 00:42:30,515 --> 00:42:33,835 Speaker 1: discredited because she could not keep her stories straight, go 617 00:42:33,875 --> 00:42:37,395 Speaker 1: on sixty minutes and make allegations against Bill Clinton. This 618 00:42:37,635 --> 00:42:42,635 Speaker 1: is my perfect date, Laura told me seared into my memory. 619 00:42:44,115 --> 00:42:47,795 Speaker 1: But the important Laura Ingram's story sitting there in the 620 00:42:47,835 --> 00:42:50,675 Speaker 1: middle of all the debris. I don't think I've ever 621 00:42:50,715 --> 00:42:54,995 Speaker 1: told this. The first date was only about six weeks 622 00:42:55,035 --> 00:42:57,275 Speaker 1: after the then First Lady Hillary Clinton got on the 623 00:42:57,275 --> 00:43:01,275 Speaker 1: Today Show and blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about 624 00:43:01,275 --> 00:43:04,995 Speaker 1: her husband at Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right 625 00:43:05,035 --> 00:43:10,475 Speaker 1: wing conspiracy that is south stumpid. Laura said that night, 626 00:43:10,475 --> 00:43:13,475 Speaker 1: as she showed me her small office upstairs, I expected 627 00:43:13,475 --> 00:43:15,795 Speaker 1: that she was about to decry the idea that Republicans 628 00:43:15,835 --> 00:43:20,195 Speaker 1: would exploit television, talk radio and the brand new Internet 629 00:43:20,395 --> 00:43:22,675 Speaker 1: to try to bring down a president from the other party. 630 00:43:22,715 --> 00:43:26,635 Speaker 1: And I said, so naive little boy that I was no, 631 00:43:26,875 --> 00:43:30,515 Speaker 1: not that, of course we're doing that. She was kind 632 00:43:30,515 --> 00:43:33,955 Speaker 1: of offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, 633 00:43:33,955 --> 00:43:36,995 Speaker 1: I'd only been covering politics for two months. At the 634 00:43:37,115 --> 00:43:40,755 Speaker 1: end of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly, 635 00:43:40,955 --> 00:43:43,675 Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's that vast part. 636 00:43:43,915 --> 00:43:47,635 Speaker 1: It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet 637 00:43:47,715 --> 00:43:52,515 Speaker 1: there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingraman explained that 638 00:43:52,515 --> 00:43:55,075 Speaker 1: she was essentially the central desk for what she called 639 00:43:55,115 --> 00:43:58,795 Speaker 1: the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a printed 640 00:43:58,835 --> 00:44:01,635 Speaker 1: page that had the facts numbers of about two dozen people. 641 00:44:01,995 --> 00:44:05,235 Speaker 1: There at the top are the sources. She said. There 642 00:44:05,315 --> 00:44:07,915 Speaker 1: was Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so called 643 00:44:08,035 --> 00:44:11,315 Speaker 1: Arkansas Project and the husband of Barbara Olson, a constant 644 00:44:11,395 --> 00:44:14,675 Speaker 1: presence as a talking head on cable news. She later 645 00:44:14,755 --> 00:44:18,595 Speaker 1: died on nine to eleven. Everybody liked her. There were 646 00:44:18,635 --> 00:44:21,475 Speaker 1: several numbers in the Office of Independent Counsel ken Starr. 647 00:44:21,555 --> 00:44:25,595 Speaker 1: One of them read B. Cavanaugh. I said, who's that? 648 00:44:25,755 --> 00:44:29,315 Speaker 1: She said, nobody important. The only other name I remember 649 00:44:29,395 --> 00:44:32,035 Speaker 1: was Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan. 650 00:44:32,595 --> 00:44:35,315 Speaker 1: She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office, 651 00:44:35,355 --> 00:44:39,875 Speaker 1: sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton. 652 00:44:40,395 --> 00:44:43,435 Speaker 1: Stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the 653 00:44:43,475 --> 00:44:46,915 Speaker 1: other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number 654 00:44:46,995 --> 00:44:53,915 Speaker 1: was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV. O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV. 655 00:44:54,035 --> 00:44:57,435 Speaker 1: There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas, 656 00:44:57,515 --> 00:45:01,395 Speaker 1: and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now, 657 00:45:01,435 --> 00:45:03,555 Speaker 1: maybe the most important name is not on that list. 658 00:45:03,595 --> 00:45:08,635 Speaker 1: That's Matt Dradge. She said, Matt Drudge used all her stuff, 659 00:45:09,515 --> 00:45:11,235 Speaker 1: but he didn't want any of it to be traceable, 660 00:45:11,315 --> 00:45:14,795 Speaker 1: very big on not traceable, so I never fax it 661 00:45:14,875 --> 00:45:16,955 Speaker 1: to him. She said, I just give it to my brother. 662 00:45:17,435 --> 00:45:20,875 Speaker 1: This is when she still liked her brother. He sees 663 00:45:20,955 --> 00:45:24,795 Speaker 1: Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver, 664 00:45:24,835 --> 00:45:29,195 Speaker 1: here is my baseball collection. See, there were reasons to 665 00:45:29,195 --> 00:45:33,355 Speaker 1: go out with her. At the time, I could think 666 00:45:33,395 --> 00:45:36,275 Speaker 1: only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It 667 00:45:36,315 --> 00:45:39,875 Speaker 1: was an octopus working in the post office, using all 668 00:45:39,915 --> 00:45:43,835 Speaker 1: eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every 669 00:45:43,835 --> 00:45:45,715 Speaker 1: couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I 670 00:45:45,835 --> 00:45:49,635 Speaker 1: was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations 671 00:45:49,675 --> 00:45:52,835 Speaker 1: of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether 672 00:45:52,875 --> 00:45:56,835 Speaker 1: it is vast or miniature. It's best the machinery that 673 00:45:56,875 --> 00:45:59,395 Speaker 1: links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed 674 00:45:59,395 --> 00:46:02,395 Speaker 1: to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and 675 00:46:02,475 --> 00:46:06,075 Speaker 1: special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right 676 00:46:06,115 --> 00:46:09,395 Speaker 1: wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like 677 00:46:09,515 --> 00:46:12,955 Speaker 1: Fox and Drudge and Oaan and Newsmax, and the ones 678 00:46:12,955 --> 00:46:16,275 Speaker 1: that don't even pretend like those who succeeded Limbaugh. This 679 00:46:16,515 --> 00:46:22,235 Speaker 1: machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid conservative, 680 00:46:22,355 --> 00:46:27,915 Speaker 1: Republican fascist trumpest thinks is being run by George Soros 681 00:46:28,435 --> 00:46:34,195 Speaker 1: or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You want 682 00:46:34,195 --> 00:46:36,995 Speaker 1: to be able to say, there are reports or accusations 683 00:46:36,995 --> 00:46:39,795 Speaker 1: about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well, 684 00:46:39,835 --> 00:46:43,075 Speaker 1: somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery, 685 00:46:43,835 --> 00:46:45,675 Speaker 1: or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of 686 00:46:45,675 --> 00:46:48,435 Speaker 1: the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people. 687 00:46:48,515 --> 00:46:54,115 Speaker 1: They repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports 688 00:46:54,155 --> 00:46:57,035 Speaker 1: then get fed back to Fox News or Breitbart or 689 00:46:57,075 --> 00:47:01,595 Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or they're 690 00:47:01,635 --> 00:47:06,435 Speaker 1: just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want to 691 00:47:06,475 --> 00:47:10,955 Speaker 1: push this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the Great Replacement, 692 00:47:11,035 --> 00:47:14,235 Speaker 1: but you wanted to come out washed clean enough that 693 00:47:14,475 --> 00:47:18,435 Speaker 1: soulless opportunists like Elis Stephanic and JD Vance can say 694 00:47:18,435 --> 00:47:21,955 Speaker 1: it aloud on the campaign trail without forfeiting their candidacies. 695 00:47:22,315 --> 00:47:27,275 Speaker 1: This is the machinery, and I saw the machinery when 696 00:47:27,275 --> 00:47:29,635 Speaker 1: it was just a list of twenty and thirty people, 697 00:47:30,315 --> 00:47:32,995 Speaker 1: And at that moment I barely recognized the importance of 698 00:47:32,995 --> 00:47:37,515 Speaker 1: what I saw. Then again, I was still on that night, 699 00:47:37,555 --> 00:47:41,955 Speaker 1: recovering from not just the Giant's steak, but something far 700 00:47:42,035 --> 00:47:46,475 Speaker 1: more visceral. Earlier that day, as we were leaving the 701 00:47:46,515 --> 00:47:50,155 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had boasted about getting even with 702 00:47:50,195 --> 00:47:53,155 Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend by going back into what had been 703 00:47:53,235 --> 00:47:57,995 Speaker 1: their house and putting up exact copies of all the 704 00:47:58,035 --> 00:48:00,875 Speaker 1: photos of the two of them together that he had 705 00:48:00,915 --> 00:48:04,675 Speaker 1: taken down from his walls. And when he got small 706 00:48:04,755 --> 00:48:08,395 Speaker 1: art and changed the locks, she went back again to 707 00:48:08,715 --> 00:48:13,715 Speaker 1: finish the job. Found her key didn't work so naturally 708 00:48:14,275 --> 00:48:18,235 Speaker 1: as you would. She stuffed his garden hose through the 709 00:48:18,275 --> 00:48:20,875 Speaker 1: mail slot of his front door and turned on the 710 00:48:20,955 --> 00:48:25,915 Speaker 1: outdoors spagot ten thousand dollars worth of heart. When Florence ruined, 711 00:48:26,275 --> 00:48:32,875 Speaker 1: she said proudly, and part of me screamed, flee, flee. 712 00:48:32,915 --> 00:48:40,555 Speaker 1: Now I didn't flee. Later, as I tried to sleep, 713 00:48:40,995 --> 00:48:45,475 Speaker 1: two noises kept me awake, snoring, not my own, and 714 00:48:45,555 --> 00:48:50,195 Speaker 1: Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking in his sleep, I mean, 715 00:48:50,795 --> 00:49:00,795 Speaker 1: almost in syllables, yell like that it was something like 716 00:49:00,835 --> 00:49:03,795 Speaker 1: twenty five degrees out and I was on the second floor. 717 00:49:04,235 --> 00:49:07,195 Speaker 1: And yet I resolved that if her dog really did 718 00:49:07,755 --> 00:49:11,395 Speaker 1: make that last leap, to formulate actual syllables. And it 719 00:49:11,435 --> 00:49:14,235 Speaker 1: turned out her dog was the one telling her what 720 00:49:14,355 --> 00:49:16,675 Speaker 1: to do, I was simply going to leave by the 721 00:49:16,715 --> 00:49:22,515 Speaker 1: window without bothering to open it first. The next morning, 722 00:49:22,595 --> 00:49:24,915 Speaker 1: Laura and I walked her dog. We got to an 723 00:49:24,915 --> 00:49:27,355 Speaker 1: empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He went and 724 00:49:27,395 --> 00:49:30,835 Speaker 1: got it. She cocked her arm back again. He took off, 725 00:49:32,075 --> 00:49:35,195 Speaker 1: loving life as he did. She did not throw it. 726 00:49:35,395 --> 00:49:38,755 Speaker 1: He went forty to fifty sixty feet, then stopped and 727 00:49:38,875 --> 00:49:44,475 Speaker 1: looked back at her with such disappointment and even a 728 00:49:44,515 --> 00:49:48,755 Speaker 1: sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without a trace 729 00:49:48,795 --> 00:49:53,755 Speaker 1: of affection for him or anything else, wait far at 730 00:49:54,315 --> 00:49:58,595 Speaker 1: which is when I realized I was being courted to 731 00:49:58,715 --> 00:50:04,195 Speaker 1: be the next dog. A few weeks later, back home 732 00:50:04,235 --> 00:50:06,355 Speaker 1: in New York, I got home from working an early 733 00:50:06,395 --> 00:50:08,795 Speaker 1: morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul Harvey at 734 00:50:08,835 --> 00:50:11,395 Speaker 1: ABC Radio. I was just waking up from a tortured 735 00:50:11,475 --> 00:50:14,635 Speaker 1: nap when the phone rang, and it's Laura. I'm downstairs. 736 00:50:14,635 --> 00:50:17,115 Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum. 737 00:50:18,115 --> 00:50:21,075 Speaker 1: I said, I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just 738 00:50:21,115 --> 00:50:23,595 Speaker 1: stay here at this payphone outside your planes calling you 739 00:50:23,635 --> 00:50:30,795 Speaker 1: all night. We went. The next opportunity probably was going 740 00:50:30,835 --> 00:50:34,475 Speaker 1: to be me on the wrong end of a hostage drama. 741 00:50:35,075 --> 00:50:38,355 Speaker 1: Turned out she was not invited to her party. We're 742 00:50:38,395 --> 00:50:41,275 Speaker 1: crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly, it was 743 00:50:41,315 --> 00:50:44,035 Speaker 1: a great party. I got to meet Hillary Clinton's mother 744 00:50:44,555 --> 00:50:47,235 Speaker 1: and her brother. And if you think the fascists are 745 00:50:47,275 --> 00:50:51,635 Speaker 1: completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and their paranoia, no, 746 00:50:52,195 --> 00:50:55,715 Speaker 1: Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and Hillary Clinton's brother. 747 00:50:56,635 --> 00:51:01,515 Speaker 1: They seem to be friends. Later we wound up meeting 748 00:51:01,555 --> 00:51:04,115 Speaker 1: friends of her in the Oak bar at the Plaza Hotel, 749 00:51:04,155 --> 00:51:09,355 Speaker 1: where she kept drinking. I was astonished. After about her 750 00:51:09,395 --> 00:51:12,435 Speaker 1: sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd had at the party, 751 00:51:12,635 --> 00:51:16,075 Speaker 1: she began to droop her head, nodding like a bobblehead doll. 752 00:51:16,515 --> 00:51:19,555 Speaker 1: Her friend said, Okay, that's it, we'll take care of 753 00:51:19,635 --> 00:51:23,595 Speaker 1: the check. You take care of her. She had not 754 00:51:23,715 --> 00:51:26,555 Speaker 1: gotten a hotel room or anything. And if you've ever 755 00:51:26,595 --> 00:51:29,595 Speaker 1: heard of anybody who needed to be poured into a 756 00:51:29,675 --> 00:51:32,155 Speaker 1: cab because they were so drunk. You don't really know 757 00:51:32,195 --> 00:51:34,915 Speaker 1: what that means until you have to pour them into 758 00:51:34,955 --> 00:51:39,115 Speaker 1: a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put her in a 759 00:51:39,195 --> 00:51:44,035 Speaker 1: hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have made the gossip pages. 760 00:51:44,595 --> 00:51:48,035 Speaker 1: She basically could not stand up, so I took her 761 00:51:48,075 --> 00:51:50,195 Speaker 1: to my apartment, put her into my bed, and I 762 00:51:50,235 --> 00:51:52,835 Speaker 1: went and slept on the couch at the far end 763 00:51:52,875 --> 00:51:55,995 Speaker 1: of the apartment, which is where I was hours later 764 00:51:56,035 --> 00:51:58,235 Speaker 1: in the morning when she woke me up because she 765 00:51:58,275 --> 00:52:02,155 Speaker 1: came parading through using my phone to call my assistant 766 00:52:02,155 --> 00:52:04,635 Speaker 1: to get a car sent to my address to take 767 00:52:04,755 --> 00:52:07,155 Speaker 1: her to the airport, and to make sure that everybody 768 00:52:07,235 --> 00:52:10,595 Speaker 1: in my office knew she had stayed overnight at my apartment. 769 00:52:12,275 --> 00:52:15,475 Speaker 1: And all I kept thinking was why didn't I follow 770 00:52:15,515 --> 00:52:25,395 Speaker 1: my instincts. My instincts said flee, I fleed. Not, of course, 771 00:52:25,435 --> 00:52:28,435 Speaker 1: if I had fled, I would have missed seeing the 772 00:52:28,475 --> 00:52:44,835 Speaker 1: telephone tree of the miniature right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I 773 00:52:44,835 --> 00:52:46,755 Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank 774 00:52:46,795 --> 00:52:51,835 Speaker 1: you for listening. It really happened, and then I let 775 00:52:51,875 --> 00:52:56,835 Speaker 1: it happen again. I'm a lot less judgmental now than 776 00:52:56,835 --> 00:53:00,275 Speaker 1: I was before that second date. Oh yeah, you should 777 00:53:00,275 --> 00:53:02,795 Speaker 1: have heard me then. Our musical directors have countdown Er 778 00:53:02,835 --> 00:53:06,395 Speaker 1: John Phillip Schaneil on keyboards and handling the orchestration, Brian 779 00:53:06,515 --> 00:53:09,555 Speaker 1: Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Their work is produced 780 00:53:09,555 --> 00:53:13,755 Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, 781 00:53:13,915 --> 00:53:18,315 Speaker 1: is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. The 782 00:53:18,475 --> 00:53:23,235 Speaker 1: sports music is from the Old Olderman Show on ESPN two. 783 00:53:23,515 --> 00:53:26,195 Speaker 1: Music was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy 784 00:53:26,195 --> 00:53:29,595 Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Other music in this program arranged and 785 00:53:29,635 --> 00:53:31,995 Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer 786 00:53:32,075 --> 00:53:36,315 Speaker 1: today was my friend Larry David, who arranged and performed himself. 787 00:53:37,275 --> 00:53:42,195 Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted Stevie Rose and Kit 788 00:53:42,635 --> 00:53:46,955 Speaker 1: and everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown 789 00:53:46,995 --> 00:53:50,035 Speaker 1: for today, Day four hundred and forty nine of America 790 00:53:50,075 --> 00:53:53,435 Speaker 1: held hostage again, but just one thousand and four days 791 00:53:53,875 --> 00:53:56,275 Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame 792 00:53:56,355 --> 00:54:01,155 Speaker 1: brained term unless he is removed sooner by trying to 793 00:54:01,275 --> 00:54:05,955 Speaker 1: start the war in Vietnam. Again. The next scheduled countdown 794 00:54:06,035 --> 00:54:09,115 Speaker 1: is Monday. Bulletin says the news warrants until the next one. 795 00:54:09,155 --> 00:54:12,635 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 796 00:54:12,875 --> 00:54:30,315 Speaker 1: good luck. He's made some deal with the deep state 797 00:54:30,355 --> 00:54:32,115 Speaker 1: to throw the election of Democrats. That's something. 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