Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Quote
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind unquote the Washington Examiner,
Speaker 1: seven and seventy three words in one of the most
Speaker 1: prominent mega magazines in this country. Headlines elsewhere in the
Speaker 1: same issue, quote Chris Murphy, Democrat of Tehran and New
Speaker 1: York City crime part of promise is broken by mom
Speaker 1: Donnie and why Trump should not rush back to talks
Speaker 1: where they're on quote donald Trump is losing his mind?
Speaker 1: Is that me writing that? It's not Jimmy Kimmel, It's
Speaker 1: the Washington goddamned Examiner, where the same columnist who wrote
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind once authored monarchical Obama.
Speaker 1: Real monarchs are humbler and a whole lot cheaper. And
Speaker 1: this conservative magabastion published this Donald Trump is losing his
Speaker 1: mind before Trump threatened yesterday to go all General Sherman
Speaker 1: on Tehran. They published it before he overshadowed his own
Speaker 1: claim that the Virginia redistricting vote was fixed by also
Speaker 1: insisting in the same post quote, as everyone knows I
Speaker 1: am an extraordinarily brilliant person, insisting that as an asshole does.
Speaker 1: This was published before Trump compared his war in Iran
Speaker 1: to Vietnam, a war he avoided serving in, and said
Speaker 1: he could have quote won Vietnam very quickly, you know, Vietnam,
Speaker 1: which he dodged, and before Trump exhausted this that's not
Speaker 1: the flex you think it is and found a second
Speaker 1: one like that quote, I would have won Iraq in
Speaker 1: the same amount of time. The Washington Examiner column claiming
Speaker 1: Trump is losing his mind preceded all that. It even
Speaker 1: preceded Trump's proclamation that nobody should be allowed to criticize
Speaker 1: him about Iran anymore. He didn't threaten his critics, but
Speaker 1: he came right up to that point. Never allow the
Speaker 1: trader Democrats like low IQ person a Keem Jeffries. Low
Speaker 1: IQ person is, of course, Trump's euphemism for black or
Speaker 1: crying Chuck Schumer, or the totally corrupt fake news media
Speaker 1: such as the phony and decaying Wall Street Journal, the
Speaker 1: failing New York Times subscriptions way down or dying sixty
Speaker 1: minutes to demean or criticize Operation Midnight Hammer, which totally
Speaker 1: obliterated the nuclear dust locations. Editor's note, There's no such
Speaker 1: thing as nuclear dust moron nuclear dust locations to the
Speaker 1: point where blood thirsty Iran has been unable to get
Speaker 1: to it or dig it out, not allowed to criticize
Speaker 1: what I've done. He wrote, I'm the best. I bombed Iran.
Speaker 1: I would have won an Iraq in Vietnam. I would
Speaker 1: have won Antietam. I would have won at Waterloo. Never
Speaker 1: never allow, never allow, Who are we kidding? Trump doesn't
Speaker 1: know what Waterloo was? Quote Donald Trump is losing his mind.
Speaker 2: I would have.
Speaker 3: Won Vietnam very quickly. I would have if I were president,
Speaker 3: I would have won a RAQ in the same amount
Speaker 3: of time that we won, because essentially we won here.
Speaker 1: And if you disagree, you can't disagree. You're not allowed.
Speaker 1: You're not allowed by whom are you not allowed? Well,
Speaker 1: he hasn't said yet. As an aside, note please that
Speaker 1: most of Trump's TV interviews tend to be not just
Speaker 1: with fascist stooges like Joe Kernan there, but with fascist
Speaker 1: stooges like Joe Kernan there, who's is actually worse than
Speaker 1: his own. Think Kennedy, Think Maria Bartiromo. What is perhaps
Speaker 1: the most amazing of all the details buried in this
Speaker 1: reality we now accept as part of our daily lives
Speaker 1: that the President is a functioning insane person. Was the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal report that when the two American airmen
Speaker 1: went down in Iran and a rescue operation was being forged, quote,
Speaker 1: aides kept the President out of the room as they
Speaker 1: got minute by minute updates because they believed his impatience
Speaker 1: wouldn't be helpful. A senior administration official said, unquote, they
Speaker 1: wouldn't let Trump in the situation room for the planning meeting.
Speaker 1: They updated him when there were meaningful developments, and in
Speaker 1: between they just left him too. I don't know, play
Speaker 1: with his own toes. Back to The Washington Examiner. Author
Speaker 1: Dan Hannon's other columns before Donald Trump Is Losing his
Speaker 1: Mind included such Pulitzer Prize winners as better Trump than
Speaker 1: Starmer and reactions to the Charlie Kirk assassination reveal a
Speaker 1: nation on the brink, and the epic The Kids Are
Speaker 1: Alt Right, which I understand has been optioned as a
Speaker 1: major motion picture, presumably by Jeff Bezos. I'll spare you
Speaker 1: the whole column. I wrote this better and sooner in
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. George Conway wrote it in twenty nineteen. But
Speaker 1: Hannon underscores that the breaking point to the degree that
Speaker 1: MAGA has broken with Trump, and that is still only
Speaker 1: showing up marginally and pulling, but it is showing up.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a moment. The breaking point
Speaker 1: from MAGA has been the attack on the Pope. Fascism. Okay, heresy,
Speaker 1: we draw the line at heresy quote. Imagine it was
Speaker 1: someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader
Speaker 1: were posting deranged grants in the small hours, insulting the
Speaker 1: spiritual leader of one point three billion Catholics, threatening the
Speaker 1: entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What
Speaker 1: would be the reaction. We all know the answer. Both
Speaker 1: parties would be rushing to bundle him out of office
Speaker 1: before he did irreversible harm to the Republic. Yet, as
Speaker 1: we all know, different rules apply to Trump. Democrats, having
Speaker 1: had their fingers burned by two failed impeachment attempts, you think,
Speaker 1: are reluctant to try again. You think, for they know
Speaker 1: that there is no sure way to boost his support.
Speaker 1: Republicans who privately despair at the electoral damage he is doing,
Speaker 1: let alone the constitutional damage, are paralyzed by fear of
Speaker 1: upsetting their primary voters. The president he went on whom
Speaker 1: critics accused of having a God complex. No, those are
Speaker 1: his followers who accuse him of having a God complex.
Speaker 1: Then followed up with an image of himself as Jesus
Speaker 1: healing the sick. The image was offensive not only the Catholics,
Speaker 1: but to almost every practicing Christian and come to that,
Speaker 1: to almost every Muslim. The Iranian Ayatolas used one of
Speaker 1: the lego videos with which they have been trolling the
Speaker 1: president to condemn what they sincerely saw as blasphemy. They
Speaker 1: were not alone. Catholic vote dot org, which turned out
Speaker 1: millions of voters for Trump in three successive elections, condemned
Speaker 1: the post as impious. At the same time, according to
Speaker 1: its president, Kelsey Reinhardt, quote President Trump's post insulting Pope
Speaker 1: Leo crossed again a line of decorum. Mister Hannon in
Speaker 1: his column you know what It's called, then asks if
Speaker 1: there is some strategy, some chess move. He writes that
Speaker 1: requires picking a quarrel with the pope, and lists a
Speaker 1: few options, and then he dismisses them and dismisses Trump's
Speaker 1: sanity and quoting his column again, these things are possible.
Speaker 1: I suppose the likelier explanation, though, is that this is
Speaker 1: exactly what it looks like. A seventy nine year old
Speaker 1: man who has long dealt in chaos is now being
Speaker 1: consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent,
Speaker 1: his good days further apart. What he has lost is
Speaker 1: not a sense of decency or decorum he never had those,
Speaker 1: but any remaining self sense of control. Everyone around him
Speaker 1: can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance,
Speaker 1: they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The
Speaker 1: tragedy is no longer Trump's, it is now America's. Column
Speaker 1: kind of fizzles out at the end there, but the
Speaker 1: point remains. This is written about Trump in as Trump Sucking,
Speaker 1: a magazine as still publishes in this country, and the
Speaker 1: details may be instructive, but the takeaway remains the headline,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind. By the way, this
Speaker 1: point the essence of the Emperor, has no close argument
Speaker 1: some of us have been making about Trump since nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty three, let alone twenty fifteen. This is finally beginning
Speaker 1: to catch on. People are afraid of this issue of
Speaker 1: Trump's acuity and sanity, even though he constantly brings it up.
Speaker 1: I suppose that is because once you ask if one
Speaker 1: particular public figure is insane, where do you stop? But
Speaker 1: finally somebody's actually asking. A little publicized IPSOS poll for
Speaker 1: Reuter's this week has Trump's mental sharpness. That's the phrase
Speaker 1: they use, mental sharpness gotten worse over the last year,
Speaker 1: gently phrased mental sharpness. A lot of wiggle room mental sharpness,
Speaker 1: but a majority say yeah, it has fifty one percent
Speaker 1: his mental sharpness has gotten worse, and the interior numbers
Speaker 1: are even more telling. Eighty five percent of Democrats. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see the fifteen percent of you who
Speaker 1: think he has not gotten worse in the last year
Speaker 1: raise your hands, which may be difficult since you must
Speaker 1: be in Coma's fifty four percent of into and it'd say, yes,
Speaker 1: his mental sharpness is worse than last year. Fourteen percent
Speaker 1: of Republicans think Trump's mental sharpness has gotten worse than
Speaker 1: the last year. The rest of the world was ahead
Speaker 1: of us on this, of course, and now they are
Speaker 1: ahead in using Trump's dementia or stupidity or insanity against him.
Speaker 1: The New York Times reports that some leaders in Ukraine
Speaker 1: think they might be able yet to sway Trump into
Speaker 1: fully supporting their nation, especially in the continuing demands by
Speaker 1: Russia for Ukraine to see the don Bas region to
Speaker 1: Russia by simply renaming the don Vas quote Donnie Land
Speaker 1: well that that, of course, is ridiculous. Trump would never
Speaker 1: go against Putin and repudiate a decade of enmity towards
Speaker 1: Ukraine and Zelensky simply because they would rename part of
Speaker 1: their country. Donni Land now rename it Trumpylvania, and he's in.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is losing his mind, rights the Washington Examiner,
Speaker 1: which I guess makes it unanimous. Trump is also approaching
Speaker 1: unanimity in none is he crazy? Polling a new Associated
Speaker 1: Press NRC poll thirty three percent approval, thirty three. He's
Speaker 1: now nineteen points underwater on immigration, and that's his best
Speaker 1: poll number. He's thirty five points underwater on Iran, forty
Speaker 1: on the economy, fifty three on inflation. Even Politico stenographer
Speaker 1: to the Western World, reports that White House affers have
Speaker 1: accepted they will not only lose the House significantly, but
Speaker 1: probably will lose the Senate as well. There is an
Speaker 1: outside chance that the Democrats could come up with enough
Speaker 1: of a swing in the upper Chamber to get enough
Speaker 1: votes to not merely impeach Trump in the House, but
Speaker 1: convict him and remove him in the Senate, which is
Speaker 1: dandy because there is a separate poll strength in numbers. Verisite,
Speaker 1: fifty five percent of Americans support impeaching Trump, fifty five
Speaker 1: forty five percent strongly support impeaching him, only thirty percent
Speaker 1: are strongly opposed. And if you say, and blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: there's been an impeachment bill somewhere in the House every
Speaker 1: day Trump has been president. And yeah, that point from
Speaker 1: before there's been two impeachments. What good did they do?
Speaker 1: Ponder this number. Impeachment in this poll is supported by
Speaker 1: twenty one percent of Republicans, by twenty one percent of
Speaker 1: Trump's twenty twenty four voters, a fifth of them want
Speaker 1: their money back. Now, how will Trump's crack team redeem him?
Speaker 1: And by crack team, I am not just referring to
Speaker 1: RFK Junior. They have bellowed the clarion call save me
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan. Politico reported yesterday that when you saw little
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and his cue ball noggin up on his
Speaker 1: tippy toes trying to peer over the top of Trump's
Speaker 1: head as Trump sat at the Oval Office Saturday. It
Speaker 1: was part of a meeting with him to try to
Speaker 1: get him back on their side after Rogan trashed Trump
Speaker 1: about Iran. Rogan was there because it is assumed that
Speaker 1: Rogan prioritizes the new White House initiative to make some
Speaker 1: psychedelic drugs available to treat severe depression. Once again, seems
Speaker 1: like they got the wrong guy there, Joe Rogan. This
Speaker 1: is RFK Junior's area of expertise. There are also strong
Speaker 1: indications that one of the other solutions to the Trump slump.
Speaker 1: The firings will continue until Trump's rady improve. Tulsey Gabbard
Speaker 1: and her Minion Harmy Dylan on the block because well
Speaker 1: they're women and Trump is a flaming misogynist. But also
Speaker 1: Cash Paateel Cash Patel may be on the way because
Speaker 1: Cash Hotel not only sued The Atlantic over its drunken
Speaker 1: unreliability story, but a streisand affected that story and that
Speaker 1: suit by relisting every detail of the story in his
Speaker 1: lawyer letter. B left a series of embarrassing typos in
Speaker 1: the lawyer letter, and c at a news conference he
Speaker 1: did not know that the lawyer letter confirmed the framework
Speaker 1: of a story in the story, the one about him
Speaker 1: getting locked out of a device on the FBI computer
Speaker 1: system while he stood there, and contradicted his own lawyer letter,
Speaker 1: insisting no, he never got locked out of anything computer, iPad,
Speaker 1: his government funded private jet, the bedroom of his quote girlfriend,
Speaker 1: the locker room of some hockey team somewhere. Patel also
Speaker 1: did not sound the sharpest at his news conference. But
Speaker 1: if we still took that as an indicator, and what
Speaker 1: has been dubbed the Trump liquor Cabinet, RFK Junior would
Speaker 1: have been long gone and hag Seth and Patel and
Speaker 1: of course Trump himself. But the unfortunate and perhaps unfair
Speaker 1: reality for Patel in particular is whatever that is with
Speaker 1: his eyes makes him look like he is worse for wear.
Speaker 1: They call it cock eyed drunk for a reason. The Democrats,
Speaker 1: once again showing the wisdom to kick a man when
Speaker 1: he's down, are now demanding that Patel take an alcoholism
Speaker 1: screening tests. His choices amount to a are you an alcoholic? B?
Speaker 1: Are you so full of alcohol that you're at risk
Speaker 1: of bursting into flames? Or c are you j Edgar Boozer.
Speaker 1: Some highlights of the Act Actual Test Alcohol Use Disorders
Speaker 1: Identification Test Audit questionnaire. Please circle the answer that is
Speaker 1: correct for you and it doesn't say if you can One.
Speaker 1: How often do you have a drink containing alcohol? A? Never,
Speaker 1: B monthly or less, C two four times a month,
Speaker 1: e is four more times a week. How many standard
Speaker 1: drinks containing alcohol do you have on a typical day
Speaker 1: when drinking A one or two, B three or four,
Speaker 1: C five or six, D seven to nine, E ten
Speaker 1: or more? Three? How often do you have six or
Speaker 1: more drinks on one occasion? You can see where this
Speaker 1: is going. Number six? Question number six during the past year,
Speaker 1: how often have you needed a drink in the morning
Speaker 1: to get yourself going after a heavy drinking session? A never,
Speaker 1: B less than monthly, CE, monthly, D weekly, E daily
Speaker 1: almost daily F should be I can't tell the difference
Speaker 1: between night and morning anymore. Seven is during the past year,
Speaker 1: how often have you had a feeling of guilt or
Speaker 1: remorse after drinking? Eight is during the past year, have
Speaker 1: you been unable to remember what happened the night before
Speaker 1: because you've been drinking? Nine Have you or someone else
Speaker 1: been injured as a result of your drinking? Ten has
Speaker 1: a relative or friend, doctor or other health worker been
Speaker 1: concerned about your drinking or suggested you cut down A no,
Speaker 1: B yes, but not in the past year. See yes
Speaker 1: during the past year. Once again, I will suggest d
Speaker 1: only the President. As to the typos in the lawsuit,
Speaker 1: Patel's lawyers misspelled policies and the word discussed as in
Speaker 1: we discussed this, and most tellingly, the word feeble. Press.
Speaker 1: For a response to these typos in the lawsuit, his
Speaker 1: lawyer said, if the worst that critics come up with
Speaker 1: about the lawsuit just some misspelled words, he felt good
Speaker 1: about their chances, even though the point of the lawsuit
Speaker 1: is to deny that Patel is failing at his job
Speaker 1: and letting others fail at their job because he is impaired,
Speaker 1: or if you prefer, because he's no longer able to
Speaker 1: successfully discuss administration politizes because he's too feeble. That's FEA
Speaker 1: B l E feeble. Lastly, in the news, White House
Speaker 1: Correspondence Dinner is Saturday, still only Huffington Post as officially
Speaker 1: and entirely pulled out. Trump will be there. Heg Seth
Speaker 1: and Stephen Miller have been invited some by multiple news organizations,
Speaker 1: possibly by CBS FCC chairman Brendan Carr, the Gibbels of
Speaker 1: our time, says he will be there. He's not saying
Speaker 1: who invited him, He's saying it is not CBS. Some
Speaker 1: media analysts think he'll be there at the Paramount table,
Speaker 1: and only Brendan Carr would deny he's going to be
Speaker 1: there with CBS when he's going to be there with Paramount,
Speaker 1: which owns CBS. Now not a bright guy. People will
Speaker 1: go to this because the Chuck Todd Chris Silizza construction
Speaker 1: still fits. There is nothing reporters yearn more for than
Speaker 1: what they would want to see still happening in their
Speaker 1: own profession, rather than what is happening the past, the
Speaker 1: world in which there were only about six different kinds
Speaker 1: of news political stories and they all fit neatly to
Speaker 1: a series of maybe three different cubby holes, the way
Speaker 1: it used to be, when news and the news media
Speaker 1: were not imploding and not being bombed from above by
Speaker 1: the president. When no, the few fair news organizations were
Speaker 1: not being bought, subverted and sabotaged by the fascists, and no,
Speaker 1: so all the jobs weren't disappearing, And no, you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have impossible trouble finding a new job, and no, you
Speaker 1: aren't going to have trouble making the rent, paying the mortgage.
Speaker 1: And no, it's still okay to dress up on a
Speaker 1: clammy Saturday night in April and sit on the oldest,
Speaker 1: clammiest chairs left in any Washington hotel. And it's okay
Speaker 1: to sit in the same room as Trump and pretend
Speaker 1: it's still nineteen ninety six or something, and that you
Speaker 1: can pretend that the president up there wouldn't enjoy watching
Speaker 1: you get killed. Look, I get it. We were all
Speaker 1: raised on all the president's men, and that image of reporting,
Speaker 1: or at least the broadcast news version of reporting. It's gone.
Speaker 1: It's dead. We might be able to get it back,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't exist right now. And if you're looking
Speaker 1: for it to protect you two and I get the
Speaker 1: other part. The high end people in the business who
Speaker 1: are slowly sliding into the abyss of obeying in advance
Speaker 1: of collaborating with Brendan Carr and the Ellisons and Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss and the rest of them who would erase the
Speaker 1: First Amendment or like Jeff Bezos, sell it to buy
Speaker 1: extra implants for his wife's breasts. The money they offer
Speaker 1: can still be much more than any of these people
Speaker 1: could ever make doing anything else. The trap of that
Speaker 1: money is you don't just look at a couple of
Speaker 1: years of a multimillion dollar salary and say, as I
Speaker 1: honestly said, how can I make this last the rest
Speaker 1: of my life? If I have to, or if I
Speaker 1: decide one day I don't want to go to work anymore. No,
Speaker 1: you don't do that. Suddenly you reset your floor that money.
Speaker 1: I'm making seven million dollars a year, I will never
Speaker 1: work for less than seven million again. It becomes the
Speaker 1: minimum you need, and you will do anything to keep
Speaker 1: it coming. At the pinnacle of my income, I like
Speaker 1: to think of the days when I started and made
Speaker 1: sixteen five hundred dollars a year as a sports reporter
Speaker 1: at UPI in New York, and I did stuff like
Speaker 1: this with Oberman rev.
Speaker 2: After receiving gifts serious and comical and the phrase of
Speaker 2: his teammates's manager and the fan Jetfish. Hutter marked his
Speaker 2: retirement ceremony by noting the important people who could not
Speaker 2: attend three people that way come in here.
Speaker 1: I used to do stuff like that every day, and
Speaker 1: on my off nights I would still go back to
Speaker 1: the ballpark because I had a pass to get into
Speaker 1: the press box, and dinner was still free in those
Speaker 1: days in the press box, and then later they would
Speaker 1: give you a snack and I could get there on
Speaker 1: the subway and then usually get a free lift downtown
Speaker 1: after the game from a friend. And if I did
Speaker 1: it right, my cost for an evening of food and
Speaker 1: entertainment and fellowship was the sixty cents the sub way cost,
Speaker 1: instead of the three dollars and twenty five cents that
Speaker 1: the dinner at Burger King cost to this day. In
Speaker 1: a real sense, the two dollars and sixty five cents
Speaker 1: I used to save while I beat the nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: nine system was the largest amount of money I have
Speaker 1: ever had in my hands. I beat the system. I
Speaker 1: made sure I remembered that others in media remember something
Speaker 1: like that, only to do a Scarlett O'Hara and insist,
Speaker 1: as God as their witness, they'll never be hungry again.
Speaker 1: You think Jake Tapper wants to become a professional cartoonist
Speaker 1: and take a cut from seven million a year to
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirteen thousand if he's lucky. Does Mattow
Speaker 1: want to go back to being a dancing cell phone
Speaker 1: outside a cell phone store in suburban Boston. Does Sarah
Speaker 1: Eisen of CNBC want to go back to, I don't know,
Speaker 1: trying to find work in some other field. I think
Speaker 1: it was a bit of a trap to ask Kevin
Speaker 1: Wan about the election denial to get him to disagree
Speaker 1: with President Trump, she said yesterday on CNBC in a
Speaker 1: statement that should be framed and delivered to Brendan Carr
Speaker 1: or Vladimir Putin. You know, no FED chair is going
Speaker 1: to weigh in on politics like that, Senator Warren. Yes,
Speaker 1: that was CNBC declaring, you know, no FED chair is
Speaker 1: going to weigh in on politics like that. That CNBC
Speaker 1: declaring Trump's attempt to overturn an election and overthrow the
Speaker 1: government of the United States and end democracy here. That
Speaker 1: that's quote politics. Sarah Eisen should be fired and CNBC
Speaker 1: should be closed down and the building knocked down and
Speaker 1: the earth beneath it salted. But no, they'll have a
Speaker 1: table at the Washington Hilton, and maybe maybe this Eisen
Speaker 1: woman will be there applauding the Nazis in person. I
Speaker 1: still hold out some hope there there must be some
Speaker 1: people somewhere who had thought about leaving the media anyway
Speaker 1: and had saved their money for the day when the
Speaker 1: chance might come around, the roulette wheel might spin and
Speaker 1: they might at least make a statement about Trump that
Speaker 1: Trump might actually see that they might break through the
Speaker 1: bubble in which he lives, somebody who would stand up
Speaker 1: as he enters the room and scream if you Trump,
Speaker 1: or interrupt him if he actually gets up and talks,
Speaker 1: because if you can't do that, because you would get
Speaker 1: fired and blacklisted and they'd take your home within a month.
Speaker 1: I guess you get a pass. Though. Maybe if that's true,
Speaker 1: maybe you shouldn't go to the Damn Dinner anyway, which
Speaker 1: in its best years is boring and sad, with terrible
Speaker 1: food and too many chairs at each table. That was
Speaker 1: before the dinner was actually so corrupted that it's organizing
Speaker 1: committee would list Trump as they list Trump for this
Speaker 1: Saturday night, in this timeline, at this moment, they are
Speaker 1: listing Trump as an honoree of the White House Correspondence Association.
Speaker 1: Fuck you, White House Correspondence Association. Can I be any
Speaker 1: more blunt about that? Because the bottom line is, if
Speaker 1: you are attending the White House Correspondence dinner, and you
Speaker 1: are not storming out or otherwise protesting Trump's presence, Trump
Speaker 1: who wants to destroy you literally and your employers and
Speaker 1: your profession and decide which few of you get to live,
Speaker 1: which few of you get to continue in some kind
Speaker 1: of macabre perversion of journalism. If you are not protesting
Speaker 1: tomorrow at the White House Correspondent's dinner, you are not
Speaker 1: only a trader to journalism, you are a trader to America.
Speaker 1: All set of interest here talking about dinner on Saturday
Speaker 1: in DC. A little lighter note, time to tell you
Speaker 1: about my dates with Laura ingram Well one date and
Speaker 1: then something that was closer to me being held hostage.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, remember that trump crazy idea about the
Speaker 1: Garden of Heroes. Two hundred and fifty statues of American
Speaker 1: immortals like Elvis and Buffalo Bill and Justice Scalia and
Speaker 1: Patten and Whittaker Effing Chambers to open on July fourth
Speaker 1: for the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Small problem
Speaker 1: with the Garden of Heroes. They forgot to order the statues,
Speaker 1: even the statue of Whittaker Chambers. They forgot to get
Speaker 1: any statues for the Garden of Statues. That's next, that
Speaker 1: you don't know who Whittaker Chambers was. Whittaker Chambers was
Speaker 1: the guy who ratted out Alger Hiss. That's next. This
Speaker 1: is countdown.
Speaker 4: This is countdown with Keith album.
Speaker 1: Still ahead on this ediationtive countdown. I made reference online
Speaker 1: early this week to having gone out on two dates
Speaker 1: with Laura Ingram during a previous century. Judging by the
Speaker 1: astonished reaction, this admittedly startling fact has apparently again slipped
Speaker 1: from the forefront of the collective American consciousness. So let
Speaker 1: me refresh your memory. The first one was definitely a date.
Speaker 1: The second one, as I always like to say, was
Speaker 1: more of a hostage situation, and I was the hostage. Next,
Speaker 1: in another thing I promised not to tell in the interim,
Speaker 1: we always have new idiots to talk about. The roundup
Speaker 1: of the miscrants, morons and dunning krugriffect specimens who constitute
Speaker 1: today's other worst persons in the world, the medalists, the
Speaker 1: Bronze Worst, the National Garden of American Heroes. You remember
Speaker 1: this crackpot idea among Trump's Trump's swell National Garden of
Speaker 1: Crackpot ideas an outdoor collection of giant statues of popular
Speaker 1: Americans Kobe Bryant, Rosa Parks, Elvis Presley, like very much,
Speaker 1: up to two hundred and fifty of them, to be
Speaker 1: sandwiched into the DC landscape outside somewhere in somebody's yard
Speaker 1: or something, apparently near the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, because duh
Speaker 1: Trump is making sure there's another place where somebody will
Speaker 1: have to put up a statue of him, or he
Speaker 1: thinks he's making sure of that. The cell on this
Speaker 1: one was it was to open around July fourth to
Speaker 1: be part of the commemorations of America's two hundred and
Speaker 1: fiftieth anniversary, at least of the Declaration of Independence, so
Speaker 1: we can celebrate it with Elvis. One assumes, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's singing Elvis and not a statue of Elvis odeing
Speaker 1: on the turlet Elvis. The whole thing is asinine. But
Speaker 1: what's amazing is Trump and his cronies have somehow screwed
Speaker 1: it up. It is the end of April, July fourth
Speaker 1: is in July, and they don't have any of the
Speaker 1: statues made yet. Hell, they don't even have any of
Speaker 1: them commissioned yet. And don't think there haven't been applicants.
Speaker 1: The statue business is not a high volume industry. You
Speaker 1: get five statues or sculptures commissioned in a decade, you're
Speaker 1: having a great year. Not only are there no statues,
Speaker 1: they haven't even gotten permission to secure the land yet
Speaker 1: or start the commission that would have to run the place. Now.
Speaker 1: I can't help on that, but I do have a
Speaker 1: suggestion on the lack of statues. Cardboard cutouts two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty cardboard cutouts of Kobe and Rosa, Parks and
Speaker 1: Trump and Cash, Patel and Elvis. It'll be great until
Speaker 1: it rains. Actually it would be greater after it rains.
Speaker 1: The runner up worser Secretary of the Interior, Doug Bergham,
Speaker 1: speaking of statues, No, not him, He's not made of
Speaker 1: metal that he's very wooden. And why are the eyebrows
Speaker 1: jet black? Doug? I mean, bluntly, I'm an eyebrows expert.
Speaker 1: What the hell? Man? Doug Bergham is the President's point
Speaker 1: man on one of the weirder co opter previous American
Speaker 1: hero to grow Trump's reputation ideas weirder even than the
Speaker 1: national Garden of American cardboard Heroes. Doug Bergham is starting
Speaker 1: a pressure campaign, a public pressure campaign, in concert with
Speaker 1: a museum, and maybe in concert with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell,
Speaker 1: who used to make the sports version of the Worst
Speaker 1: Person's List once a week when I did it for ESPN.
Speaker 1: Doug Bergham wants President Theodore Roosevelt to be inducted into
Speaker 1: the Professional Football Hall of Fame. Bergham points accurately to
Speaker 1: TR's efforts in nineteen oh five to get hold of
Speaker 1: the then out of control increase in severe injuries during
Speaker 1: football games, even fatal injuries. He convened his summit. He
Speaker 1: got rules changes, They eliminated the flying wedge, they improved
Speaker 1: helmet quality, all great things. And the other option was
Speaker 1: to ban football. But the point is all of Roosevelt's
Speaker 1: interventions pertained to college football. There had been some pro
Speaker 1: football by nineteen oh five, teams a few failed attempts
Speaker 1: at leagues, mostly in Ohio and Pennsylvania. They had an
Speaker 1: indoor football game at Madison Square Garden with a bunch
Speaker 1: of famous baseball players, but professional football would not really
Speaker 1: be a serious thing until the nineteen twenties. By some measurements,
Speaker 1: it wasn't serious until the nineteen thirties. Hell, one of
Speaker 1: the networks that had exclusive TV rights for football in
Speaker 1: the nineteen fifties went out of business. Dumont Television carried
Speaker 1: the National Football League in the fifties and it went bankrupt.
Speaker 1: That's how unpopular professional football was. Teddy Roosevelt saved college football,
Speaker 1: and Doug Bergram's argument to put him in the Pro
Speaker 1: Football Hall Fame is that because he saved college football,
Speaker 1: that in turn saved pro football for the future. And
Speaker 1: that's ridiculous. What's the idea here, what's the Trump scam
Speaker 1: on this one? Teddy Roosevelt has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the NFL or Pro Football. Next year's NFL Draft of
Speaker 1: college players is supposed to be held on the National
Speaker 1: Mall in Washington. And if you could tie Teddy Roosevelt's
Speaker 1: election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame to the
Speaker 1: Pro football draft, that would make it, that would make it. Well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't really make it anything either, does it that?
Speaker 1: There's no there's no scam here, There's no well, there's
Speaker 1: no scam. We can explain, but it makes no sense
Speaker 1: because the Pro Football Hall of Fame has its own
Speaker 1: induction ceremony and an exhibition game to go with it
Speaker 1: each summer in the place where they have a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, Canton, Ohio. The only thing I can think
Speaker 1: of is this is this rare, one dimensional stupidity from
Speaker 1: the Trump administration. This is just a dumb idea from
Speaker 1: two dumb guys. Why don't we put Alexander Hamilton in
Speaker 1: the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Or Ben Franklin? I
Speaker 1: mean they named the field after Ben Franklin. But our winner,
Speaker 1: the worst Congressman, Clay Fuller of Georgia. Once again, each
Speaker 1: time you think you know the ten dumbest members of
Speaker 1: the House of Representatives, a new one is discovered, just
Speaker 1: like termites. Fuller is the guy who succeeded Marjorie Taylor Green,
Speaker 1: who right now looks like sheep should be given a
Speaker 1: statue in the Hall of Famous Cardboard Americans or something
Speaker 1: compared certainly to her successor. Fuller posted what he says
Speaker 1: what he says now was a satirical video complaining about
Speaker 1: air conditioning at a Maryland hotel. This video recorded with
Speaker 1: the congressman shown wearing a backwards snap back ball cap.
Speaker 1: This is a grown man forty years old trying to
Speaker 1: dress like he's seventeen. This video has some very interesting
Speaker 1: claims about the state of Georgia that he represents.
Speaker 4: He said, well, don't worry, there's this VIP setting that
Speaker 4: we can override it and the AC will turn on.
Speaker 4: And I was offended. I said, hey, I don't understand
Speaker 4: I should already be in VIP mode because I'm from Georgia.
Speaker 4: He says, I don't understand. I said, well, Georgia is
Speaker 4: named after George Washington, who white literally invented freedom. As
Speaker 4: the birthplace of Ronald Acunia Junior.
Speaker 1: Nobody is stupid enough to think that Ronald Acunya Junior
Speaker 1: of Atlanta Braves is from Georgia was born in Georgia.
Speaker 1: But given that, MAGA tried to get Senator Murphy like
Speaker 1: arrested when he responded this week to news of Iranian
Speaker 1: ships getting through the blockade with a clearly satirical awesome,
Speaker 1: I'm going to say this didn't start out as entirely satirical,
Speaker 1: and that Clay Fuller really believes Georgia is named after
Speaker 1: George Washington. The date is actually fascinating about this. Georgia
Speaker 1: was founded in April seventeen thirty two. George Washington had
Speaker 1: been born in February seventeen thirty two. So, according to
Speaker 1: this theory, the King of England, King George, named the
Speaker 1: new colony of Georgia after a different George who was
Speaker 1: a two month old infant. Congressman Clay. You know, that's
Speaker 1: all MAGA is missing. A congressman who is himself a
Speaker 1: two month old infant fuller of Georgia with his hat
Speaker 1: on backwards. Today's other worst person. And it is important
Speaker 1: to know that though Laura Ingram was the first star
Speaker 1: of MSNBC, literally shown on the cover of the New
Speaker 1: York Times magazine in a leopard print skirt in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety five, a year before MSNBC even went on the air.
Speaker 1: It's why they hired her the skirt, she did not
Speaker 1: get her own primetime show in cable news for another
Speaker 1: twenty two years. And she did not get that show
Speaker 1: until she fully embraced Trump. And as we've seen yet again,
Speaker 1: as Trump has circled the drain, she sure has embraced
Speaker 1: him in things I promised not to tell little personal
Speaker 1: experience about embracing her my primetime cable news show debut
Speaker 1: on October one, nineteen ninety seven. That would be twenty
Speaker 1: years before hers. But she was a guest on my
Speaker 1: show the first time the next month, November nineteen ninety seven,
Speaker 1: and she asked me out in December. I think it
Speaker 1: was long after that that Laura revealed to me that
Speaker 1: her mother's dying words to her had been, Lara, why
Speaker 1: are you so BASSI? I mean, who tells anybody else
Speaker 1: something like that, anybody else in the world. Why would
Speaker 1: you say that? Wouldn't you make up some nicer sounding Laura,
Speaker 1: you have been such a great daughter. I mean, how
Speaker 1: in the hell could I check? Even more recently than that,
Speaker 1: she had invoked her mother again in public, I think
Speaker 1: as an excuse for raising the Social Security age, or
Speaker 1: eliminating Social Security altogether, or having ninety year old's screw
Speaker 1: little screws into American iPhones or something. I can't remember
Speaker 1: what it was. It's true, though, even as Laura flourished
Speaker 1: in television, she never said her mom, here's enough so
Speaker 1: you can retire. Laura boasted in public that her mother,
Speaker 1: Anne worked until she was seventy three as a waitress
Speaker 1: full time, and boasted that her mother continued to pay
Speaker 1: off Laura's college loans. Anyway, the Ingram date and something
Speaker 1: she told me on the first of these dates has
Speaker 1: resonated with me literally every month since and is relevant
Speaker 1: to politics today. I did not so much date her
Speaker 1: as survive her. Even then before nine to eleven helped
Speaker 1: to slide her cheese off her cracker. I find a
Speaker 1: diary entry referring to her as Hurricane Laura. That was
Speaker 1: March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight. Beware the odds of March
Speaker 1: Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly, and God helped me. Nearly
Speaker 1: forty eight years of dating, I have not been a
Speaker 1: kiss and tell her I have dated. I don't know dozens.
Speaker 1: We're in a couple of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with
Speaker 1: maybe three exceptions. You don't know any of their names.
Speaker 1: One of them, now a political writer, basically lived with
Speaker 1: me for three years. I keep that confidence. So why
Speaker 1: am I telling this story violating that? Because not three
Speaker 1: months after that first date, when we were still going out,
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram asked me if she could look at a
Speaker 1: speech I was going to give it Corneill's graduation weekend
Speaker 1: and offer suggestions. This is so long ago, I literally
Speaker 1: faxed it to her. Sure enough, a couple days later,
Speaker 1: I'm watching Imus in the morning, which was televised by
Speaker 1: my network MSNBC, and there on his desk in front
Speaker 1: of him is the faxed copy of my speech, and
Speaker 1: he is reading from my facts. I could recognize the
Speaker 1: exact sequence of the vertical stripes. My cheap fax machine
Speaker 1: used to streak all my outgoing pages with Laura used
Speaker 1: to go on his show a lot, so to curry
Speaker 1: favor with iMOS, she sent him the speech without asking me.
Speaker 1: As I told her that day, all bets are now off.
Speaker 1: So I've told parts of this story before, like She
Speaker 1: had been a Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and
Speaker 1: our first date consisted of taking me on an insider's
Speaker 1: tour of the court and having me sit in his
Speaker 1: chair in tribute to him. I did not say or
Speaker 1: do anything constructive. She then cooked me the largest steak
Speaker 1: I had ever seen that did not have a rodeo
Speaker 1: cowboy riding on it, and we watched a woman later
Speaker 1: discredited because she could not keep her stories straight, go
Speaker 1: on sixty minutes and make allegations against Bill Clinton. This
Speaker 1: is my perfect date, Laura told me seared into my memory.
Speaker 1: But the important Laura Ingram's story sitting there in the
Speaker 1: middle of all the debris. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: told this. The first date was only about six weeks
Speaker 1: after the then First Lady Hillary Clinton got on the
Speaker 1: Today Show and blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about
Speaker 1: her husband at Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right
Speaker 1: wing conspiracy that is south stumpid. Laura said that night,
Speaker 1: as she showed me her small office upstairs, I expected
Speaker 1: that she was about to decry the idea that Republicans
Speaker 1: would exploit television, talk radio and the brand new Internet
Speaker 1: to try to bring down a president from the other party.
Speaker 1: And I said, so naive little boy that I was no,
Speaker 1: not that, of course we're doing that. She was kind
Speaker 1: of offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained,
Speaker 1: I'd only been covering politics for two months. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's that vast part.
Speaker 1: It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet
Speaker 1: there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingraman explained that
Speaker 1: she was essentially the central desk for what she called
Speaker 1: the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a printed
Speaker 1: page that had the facts numbers of about two dozen people.
Speaker 1: There at the top are the sources. She said. There
Speaker 1: was Ted Olsen, the attorney, founder of the so called
Speaker 1: Arkansas Project and the husband of Barbara Olson, a constant
Speaker 1: presence as a talking head on cable news. She later
Speaker 1: died on nine to eleven. Everybody liked her. There were
Speaker 1: several numbers in the Office of Independent Counsel ken Starr.
Speaker 1: One of them read B. Cavanaugh. I said, who's that?
Speaker 1: She said, nobody important. The only other name I remember
Speaker 1: was Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan.
Speaker 1: She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office,
Speaker 1: sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton.
Speaker 1: Stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the
Speaker 1: other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number
Speaker 1: was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV. O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV.
Speaker 1: There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas,
Speaker 1: and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe the most important name is not on that list.
Speaker 1: That's Matt Dradge. She said, Matt Drudge used all her stuff,
Speaker 1: but he didn't want any of it to be traceable,
Speaker 1: very big on not traceable, so I never fax it
Speaker 1: to him. She said, I just give it to my brother.
Speaker 1: This is when she still liked her brother. He sees
Speaker 1: Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver,
Speaker 1: here is my baseball collection. See, there were reasons to
Speaker 1: go out with her. At the time, I could think
Speaker 1: only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It
Speaker 1: was an octopus working in the post office, using all
Speaker 1: eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every
Speaker 1: couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I
Speaker 1: was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations
Speaker 1: of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether
Speaker 1: it is vast or miniature. It's best the machinery that
Speaker 1: links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed
Speaker 1: to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and
Speaker 1: special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right
Speaker 1: wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like
Speaker 1: Fox and Drudge and Oaan and Newsmax, and the ones
Speaker 1: that don't even pretend like those who succeeded Limbaugh. This
Speaker 1: machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid conservative,
Speaker 1: Republican fascist trumpest thinks is being run by George Soros
Speaker 1: or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You want
Speaker 1: to be able to say, there are reports or accusations
Speaker 1: about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well,
Speaker 1: somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery,
Speaker 1: or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of
Speaker 1: the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people.
Speaker 1: They repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports
Speaker 1: then get fed back to Fox News or Breitbart or
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or they're
Speaker 1: just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want to
Speaker 1: push this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the Great Replacement,
Speaker 1: but you wanted to come out washed clean enough that
Speaker 1: soulless opportunists like Elis Stephanic and JD Vance can say
Speaker 1: it aloud on the campaign trail without forfeiting their candidacies.
Speaker 1: This is the machinery, and I saw the machinery when
Speaker 1: it was just a list of twenty and thirty people,
Speaker 1: And at that moment I barely recognized the importance of
Speaker 1: what I saw. Then again, I was still on that night,
Speaker 1: recovering from not just the Giant's steak, but something far
Speaker 1: more visceral. Earlier that day, as we were leaving the
Speaker 1: Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had boasted about getting even with
Speaker 1: an ex boyfriend by going back into what had been
Speaker 1: their house and putting up exact copies of all the
Speaker 1: photos of the two of them together that he had
Speaker 1: taken down from his walls. And when he got small
Speaker 1: art and changed the locks, she went back again to
Speaker 1: finish the job. Found her key didn't work so naturally
Speaker 1: as you would. She stuffed his garden hose through the
Speaker 1: mail slot of his front door and turned on the
Speaker 1: outdoors spagot ten thousand dollars worth of heart. When Florence ruined,
Speaker 1: she said proudly, and part of me screamed, flee, flee.
Speaker 1: Now I didn't flee. Later, as I tried to sleep,
Speaker 1: two noises kept me awake, snoring, not my own, and
Speaker 1: Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking in his sleep, I mean,
Speaker 1: almost in syllables, yell like that it was something like
Speaker 1: twenty five degrees out and I was on the second floor.
Speaker 1: And yet I resolved that if her dog really did
Speaker 1: make that last leap, to formulate actual syllables. And it
Speaker 1: turned out her dog was the one telling her what
Speaker 1: to do, I was simply going to leave by the
Speaker 1: window without bothering to open it first. The next morning,
Speaker 1: Laura and I walked her dog. We got to an
Speaker 1: empty field. She threw a tennis ball, He went and
Speaker 1: got it. She cocked her arm back again. He took off,
Speaker 1: loving life as he did. She did not throw it.
Speaker 1: He went forty to fifty sixty feet, then stopped and
Speaker 1: looked back at her with such disappointment and even a
Speaker 1: sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without a trace
Speaker 1: of affection for him or anything else, wait far at
Speaker 1: which is when I realized I was being courted to
Speaker 1: be the next dog. A few weeks later, back home
Speaker 1: in New York, I got home from working an early
Speaker 1: morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul Harvey at
Speaker 1: ABC Radio. I was just waking up from a tortured
Speaker 1: nap when the phone rang, and it's Laura. I'm downstairs.
Speaker 1: We're going to my old law firms party at the museum.
Speaker 1: I said, I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just
Speaker 1: stay here at this payphone outside your planes calling you
Speaker 1: all night. We went. The next opportunity probably was going
Speaker 1: to be me on the wrong end of a hostage drama.
Speaker 1: Turned out she was not invited to her party. We're
Speaker 1: crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly, it was
Speaker 1: a great party. I got to meet Hillary Clinton's mother
Speaker 1: and her brother. And if you think the fascists are
Speaker 1: completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and their paranoia, no,
Speaker 1: Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and Hillary Clinton's brother.
Speaker 1: They seem to be friends. Later we wound up meeting
Speaker 1: friends of her in the Oak bar at the Plaza Hotel,
Speaker 1: where she kept drinking. I was astonished. After about her
Speaker 1: sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd had at the party,
Speaker 1: she began to droop her head, nodding like a bobblehead doll.
Speaker 1: Her friend said, Okay, that's it, we'll take care of
Speaker 1: the check. You take care of her. She had not
Speaker 1: gotten a hotel room or anything. And if you've ever
Speaker 1: heard of anybody who needed to be poured into a
Speaker 1: cab because they were so drunk. You don't really know
Speaker 1: what that means until you have to pour them into
Speaker 1: a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put her in a
Speaker 1: hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have made the gossip pages.
Speaker 1: She basically could not stand up, so I took her
Speaker 1: to my apartment, put her into my bed, and I
Speaker 1: went and slept on the couch at the far end
Speaker 1: of the apartment, which is where I was hours later
Speaker 1: in the morning when she woke me up because she
Speaker 1: came parading through using my phone to call my assistant
Speaker 1: to get a car sent to my address to take
Speaker 1: her to the airport, and to make sure that everybody
Speaker 1: in my office knew she had stayed overnight at my apartment.
Speaker 1: And all I kept thinking was why didn't I follow
Speaker 1: my instincts. My instincts said flee, I fleed. Not, of course,
Speaker 1: if I had fled, I would have missed seeing the
Speaker 1: telephone tree of the miniature right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I
Speaker 1: I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. It really happened, and then I let
Speaker 1: it happen again. I'm a lot less judgmental now than
Speaker 1: I was before that second date. Oh yeah, you should
Speaker 1: have heard me then. Our musical directors have countdown Er
Speaker 1: John Phillip Schaneil on keyboards and handling the orchestration, Brian
Speaker 1: Ray on guitars, bass and drums. Their work is produced
Speaker 1: by Tko Brothers. Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever,
Speaker 1: is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. The
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Speaker 1: Music was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy
Speaker 1: of ESPN Inc. Other music in this program arranged and
Speaker 1: performed by the group No Horns Allowed. And my announcer
Speaker 1: today was my friend Larry David, who arranged and performed himself.
Speaker 1: This program was produced by Ted Stevie Rose and Kit
Speaker 1: and everything else was as always my fault. That's countdown
Speaker 1: for today, Day four hundred and forty nine of America
Speaker 1: held hostage again, but just one thousand and four days
Speaker 1: until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame
Speaker 1: brained term unless he is removed sooner by trying to
Speaker 1: start the war in Vietnam. Again. The next scheduled countdown
Speaker 1: is Monday. Bulletin says the news warrants until the next one.
Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and
Speaker 1: good luck. He's made some deal with the deep state
Speaker 1: to throw the election of Democrats. That's something. This can
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