1 00:00:04,795 --> 00:00:24,395 Speaker 1: Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The 2 00:00:24,515 --> 00:00:29,715 Speaker 1: fascist propagandist and well known conservative fop Byron York had 3 00:00:29,795 --> 00:00:33,155 Speaker 1: just finished boasting online about a new Associated Press poll 4 00:00:33,515 --> 00:00:37,195 Speaker 1: showing that Trump's stance on crime got a fifty three 5 00:00:37,315 --> 00:00:41,435 Speaker 1: percent approval rating from voters and only forty five percent disapproval, 6 00:00:41,755 --> 00:00:45,195 Speaker 1: the only issue on which he is not amazingly underwater, 7 00:00:45,715 --> 00:00:49,475 Speaker 1: and other Conservatives had already begun yesterday's edition of their 8 00:00:49,755 --> 00:00:54,835 Speaker 1: New Job do everything to portray Democrats as pro crime 9 00:00:55,675 --> 00:00:58,835 Speaker 1: when a man walked up to a school chapel in Minnesota, 10 00:00:59,235 --> 00:01:02,275 Speaker 1: barricaded some of the doors so that children inside couldn't 11 00:01:02,275 --> 00:01:05,875 Speaker 1: get out, and started shooting them through the walls and 12 00:01:05,995 --> 00:01:13,635 Speaker 1: windows during their thoughts and prayers. Trump is instituting a 13 00:01:13,755 --> 00:01:19,795 Speaker 1: police state, military men pointing guns at citizens on American 14 00:01:19,835 --> 00:01:24,155 Speaker 1: streets while outfitted more obviously and life threateningly than they 15 00:01:24,155 --> 00:01:27,515 Speaker 1: were in Fallujah or during the Battle of Agincourt in 16 00:01:27,595 --> 00:01:31,355 Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen, and the Democrats are afraid to respond in 17 00:01:31,475 --> 00:01:34,635 Speaker 1: any way that might feed the knee jerk reaction of 18 00:01:34,675 --> 00:01:38,275 Speaker 1: people who do not know that they are fulfilling Benjamin 19 00:01:38,355 --> 00:01:42,115 Speaker 1: Franklin's observation that Those who would give up essential liberty 20 00:01:42,315 --> 00:01:48,155 Speaker 1: to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Democrats, 21 00:01:48,275 --> 00:01:53,115 Speaker 1: who have more useless, brain dead strategists and consultants than 22 00:01:53,155 --> 00:01:56,515 Speaker 1: they have elected officials at the moment, are terrified that 23 00:01:56,595 --> 00:02:00,515 Speaker 1: they will feed this narrative, even while the most prevalent, 24 00:02:00,755 --> 00:02:05,675 Speaker 1: heartrending crime of our century, school shootings in a America will 25 00:02:05,715 --> 00:02:11,275 Speaker 1: continue unaffected, in fact probably increased, because the fascist dictator 26 00:02:11,315 --> 00:02:15,675 Speaker 1: Trump will not will never will die before he allows 27 00:02:15,995 --> 00:02:21,195 Speaker 1: any action to be taken against the undeniable, unarguable, unassailable 28 00:02:21,275 --> 00:02:25,115 Speaker 1: primary cause of atrocities like the one at the Annunciation 29 00:02:25,315 --> 00:02:31,435 Speaker 1: Church School in Minneapolis yesterday, the effing guns. You want 30 00:02:31,435 --> 00:02:34,555 Speaker 1: to push back against Trump as he militarizes this country, 31 00:02:35,675 --> 00:02:39,115 Speaker 1: as he makes it the United Police States of America, 32 00:02:39,915 --> 00:02:44,355 Speaker 1: as he and that eyelinered buffoon vance respond to real 33 00:02:44,475 --> 00:02:51,835 Speaker 1: crime with real victims, real children by claiming they are praying, yeah, 34 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:57,075 Speaker 1: praying with an e You want to make something something 35 00:02:57,315 --> 00:03:01,235 Speaker 1: good happen in the wake of these latest children, we 36 00:03:01,435 --> 00:03:05,235 Speaker 1: as a nation have sacrificed on our mindless alter of 37 00:03:05,275 --> 00:03:08,595 Speaker 1: worship to a lie about what the Second Amendment to 38 00:03:08,635 --> 00:03:12,155 Speaker 1: the Constitution says, you want these to be the last. 39 00:03:12,475 --> 00:03:16,435 Speaker 1: Maybe you want the people who cause these nightmares, gun 40 00:03:16,515 --> 00:03:22,635 Speaker 1: makers and the lawmakers who prostitute themselves for gun money, Republicans, 41 00:03:22,955 --> 00:03:27,115 Speaker 1: Maga trumpists. You want them to pay for their crimes. 42 00:03:27,435 --> 00:03:31,115 Speaker 1: You want people to recognize that standing ghost life behind 43 00:03:31,155 --> 00:03:35,675 Speaker 1: that subhuman creature shooting into a school chapel service yesterday. 44 00:03:35,875 --> 00:03:38,955 Speaker 1: The figure in the background is Trump, like in one 45 00:03:38,995 --> 00:03:43,275 Speaker 1: of his own cheesy memes, with gentrified white Jesus standing 46 00:03:43,315 --> 00:03:46,315 Speaker 1: behind him. You want any of that to happen, you 47 00:03:46,355 --> 00:03:51,755 Speaker 1: start with one thing. You have to say it. You 48 00:03:51,795 --> 00:03:54,555 Speaker 1: have to come out and say the truth, and you 49 00:03:54,635 --> 00:03:59,715 Speaker 1: go from there. Not alter the truth because a consultant says, 50 00:03:59,715 --> 00:04:04,795 Speaker 1: there could be damage if you are perceived the wrong way. 51 00:04:04,835 --> 00:04:08,315 Speaker 1: Years ago, this was the message inside the Democratic Party 52 00:04:08,595 --> 00:04:12,275 Speaker 1: about the blatant exploitation of the terrorist threat that was 53 00:04:12,315 --> 00:04:15,235 Speaker 1: being done by George W. Bush. Don't you dare say 54 00:04:15,795 --> 00:04:19,755 Speaker 1: he has made terrorism into a political weapon for the Republicans. 55 00:04:19,915 --> 00:04:24,435 Speaker 1: Don't you dare say he's exaggerating threats, maybe staging threats, 56 00:04:24,635 --> 00:04:28,395 Speaker 1: definitely timing headlines about threats to try to terrify the 57 00:04:28,435 --> 00:04:31,635 Speaker 1: public into voting Republican. Even though that is exactly what 58 00:04:31,755 --> 00:04:35,155 Speaker 1: he was doing, so much so that even the first 59 00:04:35,235 --> 00:04:39,035 Speaker 1: head of Bush's Department of Homeland Security confessed his own 60 00:04:39,075 --> 00:04:42,475 Speaker 1: beliefs about this after he left the office. Don't you 61 00:04:42,755 --> 00:04:47,595 Speaker 1: say that it may backfire? Then many of us said it, 62 00:04:49,035 --> 00:04:51,275 Speaker 1: and the politicians got to see that the people knew 63 00:04:51,275 --> 00:04:56,515 Speaker 1: it before they did or before the strategists did, And 64 00:04:56,555 --> 00:04:59,155 Speaker 1: as they admitted it and talked about it and said it, 65 00:04:59,195 --> 00:05:01,995 Speaker 1: the Democrats then broke the Bush terror spell and they 66 00:05:02,035 --> 00:05:03,955 Speaker 1: swept the two thousand and six mid terms in the 67 00:05:03,955 --> 00:05:08,035 Speaker 1: two thousand and eight presidential election. Well, the soft on 68 00:05:08,315 --> 00:05:13,675 Speaker 1: crime issue is backfiring now because those children in Minnesota 69 00:05:14,155 --> 00:05:18,955 Speaker 1: died yesterday because Donald Trump is using resources to stop 70 00:05:19,235 --> 00:05:24,675 Speaker 1: imaginary crimes while permitting and enabling the worst crimes, the 71 00:05:24,715 --> 00:05:30,315 Speaker 1: most heartrending crimes, the most preventable crimes, to continue and escalate. 72 00:05:30,555 --> 00:05:33,955 Speaker 1: And instead of telling that truth and maybe saving the 73 00:05:33,995 --> 00:05:38,555 Speaker 1: next school full of fresh meat from the next trumpest 74 00:05:38,835 --> 00:05:44,675 Speaker 1: Second Amendment psycho, the Democrats are hiding as Trump sends 75 00:05:44,675 --> 00:05:48,715 Speaker 1: the wrong guns in the wrong hands to the wrong places, 76 00:05:48,875 --> 00:05:55,635 Speaker 1: pursuing the wrong criminals. The criminals are not foreigners with 77 00:05:55,795 --> 00:06:00,955 Speaker 1: petty records or those who overstayed their official welcome. The 78 00:06:00,995 --> 00:06:05,395 Speaker 1: criminals aren't the demented and misfortunate people lying on the 79 00:06:05,435 --> 00:06:09,275 Speaker 1: floor of Union station in Washington. And they aren't the 80 00:06:09,395 --> 00:06:13,115 Speaker 1: day workers breaking their backs to harvest our food. And 81 00:06:13,155 --> 00:06:18,755 Speaker 1: they aren't Americans in cities throwing salami subs at border 82 00:06:18,835 --> 00:06:22,595 Speaker 1: patrol and FBI agents who are just as bewildered as 83 00:06:22,635 --> 00:06:26,355 Speaker 1: to anybody else as to why the hell they are there. 84 00:06:29,595 --> 00:06:33,955 Speaker 1: The criminals are the creatures who make and sell these guns. 85 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:39,475 Speaker 1: The criminals are the politicians who enable these guns to 86 00:06:39,675 --> 00:06:44,195 Speaker 1: flow freely through every state in this country into any 87 00:06:44,315 --> 00:06:47,395 Speaker 1: hands they can find an excuse to put them in. 88 00:06:51,595 --> 00:06:56,875 Speaker 1: You want to be tough on crime, your great cowardly fraud, Trump, 89 00:06:57,875 --> 00:07:02,875 Speaker 1: deploy the National Guard to Maryville, Tennessee, and round up 90 00:07:02,915 --> 00:07:06,755 Speaker 1: the monsters who run the Smith and Wesson headquarters there. 91 00:07:08,155 --> 00:07:11,915 Speaker 1: Go to Geneseo, Illinois and shut down the Springfield Armory. 92 00:07:13,075 --> 00:07:17,395 Speaker 1: Send your platoons to Connecticut and close Colt and close Ruger. 93 00:07:18,075 --> 00:07:21,155 Speaker 1: Do that, and then I will listen to you Trump 94 00:07:21,595 --> 00:07:26,435 Speaker 1: telling me the Democrats are soft on crime. And then 95 00:07:26,435 --> 00:07:29,155 Speaker 1: I'll listen to Democratic consultants telling this not to say 96 00:07:29,155 --> 00:07:32,315 Speaker 1: anything about the police state forming around us, because right 97 00:07:32,355 --> 00:07:34,995 Speaker 1: now the leading cause of violent death in this country 98 00:07:35,115 --> 00:07:41,075 Speaker 1: is the Republican Party and the individual protecting the killers. 99 00:07:41,235 --> 00:07:43,315 Speaker 1: The man who might as well have been shooting into 100 00:07:43,355 --> 00:07:46,995 Speaker 1: that church yesterday is Donald Trump. And first you have 101 00:07:47,075 --> 00:07:52,075 Speaker 1: to say that. First you have to stop calculating. First 102 00:07:52,155 --> 00:07:54,635 Speaker 1: you have to take a sacred oath to tell the 103 00:07:54,715 --> 00:08:01,635 Speaker 1: truth and deal with the consequences. Trump is destroying this country. 104 00:08:01,715 --> 00:08:03,915 Speaker 1: He is increasing the amount of violence here. He is 105 00:08:03,955 --> 00:08:07,595 Speaker 1: scattering tin in every major city. He is throwing matches. 106 00:08:08,155 --> 00:08:10,915 Speaker 1: He is daring people to stand up and protest so 107 00:08:11,075 --> 00:08:16,035 Speaker 1: he can have them shot. And he is ignoring, deliberately 108 00:08:16,115 --> 00:08:20,355 Speaker 1: ignoring the true nightmare, the true threat, the true violence, 109 00:08:20,515 --> 00:08:28,235 Speaker 1: because those guns, those shooters, he likes them. You have 110 00:08:28,315 --> 00:08:33,475 Speaker 1: to say it, Democrats. There is no massaging the message 111 00:08:33,995 --> 00:08:36,755 Speaker 1: that can let you take back the narrative of who's 112 00:08:36,795 --> 00:08:40,195 Speaker 1: really tough on crime here. Trump is not the cure. 113 00:08:40,315 --> 00:08:43,675 Speaker 1: Trump is the cause. Trump is not the law. Trump 114 00:08:43,755 --> 00:08:47,155 Speaker 1: is the criminal. We save this country not by negotiating 115 00:08:47,195 --> 00:08:50,795 Speaker 1: with Trump over how much police stage, but by destroying 116 00:08:50,835 --> 00:08:53,995 Speaker 1: it and him and the companies and the politicians who 117 00:08:54,035 --> 00:08:58,075 Speaker 1: are in the very profitable field of murdering kids in schools. 118 00:09:03,435 --> 00:09:36,115 Speaker 1: You have to say it? Who will Who will say it? 119 00:09:36,955 --> 00:09:40,275 Speaker 1: I have some hope. I have some hope from something 120 00:09:40,275 --> 00:09:43,075 Speaker 1: I saw this past week, which, as much attention as 121 00:09:43,115 --> 00:09:46,875 Speaker 1: it did get, did not get enough attention. I got 122 00:09:46,875 --> 00:09:51,635 Speaker 1: some hope from somebody who, unlike Chuck Schumer, and unlike 123 00:09:51,675 --> 00:09:55,195 Speaker 1: Barack Obama, and unlike Kamala Harris, and unlike the other 124 00:09:55,275 --> 00:09:57,515 Speaker 1: people who should be out front on all of this, 125 00:09:58,475 --> 00:10:01,555 Speaker 1: somebody who stood up and in less than fifteen minutes, 126 00:10:01,835 --> 00:10:05,635 Speaker 1: cut through all of the Democratic strategist coward and bullshit 127 00:10:06,515 --> 00:10:10,275 Speaker 1: and told the truth about Trump and guns and the 128 00:10:10,315 --> 00:10:14,955 Speaker 1: police state. The man who did this is the governor 129 00:10:14,995 --> 00:10:21,515 Speaker 1: of Illinois, JB. Pritzker. Pritzker's response is far more important 130 00:10:21,955 --> 00:10:26,115 Speaker 1: than it even seemed at the time, because it reflects 131 00:10:26,155 --> 00:10:30,395 Speaker 1: that somebody in the upper echelons of the Democratic Party 132 00:10:31,555 --> 00:10:40,755 Speaker 1: gets it. Trump is destroying democracy. Trump is pointing the 133 00:10:40,755 --> 00:10:44,595 Speaker 1: guns of American troops against American citizens and daring them 134 00:10:44,595 --> 00:10:48,035 Speaker 1: to say something against it, or against him, or against 135 00:10:48,075 --> 00:10:53,075 Speaker 1: Trump's treasonous conspiracy to destroy America. And just by doing this, 136 00:10:53,715 --> 00:10:57,635 Speaker 1: Trump is increasing the validation of the use of guns 137 00:10:58,235 --> 00:11:11,475 Speaker 1: in our society. Everywhere, at church schools, the negligence by Schumer, Jeffries, 138 00:11:12,035 --> 00:11:17,835 Speaker 1: most Democratic senators, most governors, all consultants, sadly, all ex 139 00:11:17,955 --> 00:11:24,675 Speaker 1: presidents is astonishing, especially when Pritzker confirms what I've been 140 00:11:24,715 --> 00:11:27,795 Speaker 1: saying here. The first and biggest step is just to 141 00:11:28,195 --> 00:11:33,435 Speaker 1: say it. Speak the truth, use the words, and do 142 00:11:33,515 --> 00:11:37,275 Speaker 1: not waste time. Trump is not just wrong and evil. 143 00:11:37,435 --> 00:11:41,035 Speaker 1: Trump is crazy. So get out there in front of 144 00:11:41,075 --> 00:11:45,355 Speaker 1: microphones and call Trump wrong, and call Trump evil, and 145 00:11:45,475 --> 00:11:47,275 Speaker 1: call Trump crazy. 146 00:11:47,595 --> 00:11:57,795 Speaker 2: Mister President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither 147 00:11:57,915 --> 00:12:01,955 Speaker 2: wanted here nor needed here. Your remarks about this effort 148 00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:06,435 Speaker 2: over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip 149 00:12:06,555 --> 00:12:09,835 Speaker 2: in your mental faculties, and are not fit for the 150 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:15,355 Speaker 2: auspicious office that you occupy. Most alarming, you seem to 151 00:12:15,435 --> 00:12:19,355 Speaker 2: lack any appropriate concern as our commander in chief, for 152 00:12:19,435 --> 00:12:22,795 Speaker 2: the members of the military that you would so callously 153 00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:28,075 Speaker 2: deploy as pawns in your ever more alarming grabs for power. 154 00:12:28,355 --> 00:12:31,475 Speaker 1: The second stage of telling the truth is to call 155 00:12:31,515 --> 00:12:36,675 Speaker 1: out the liars and the enablers surrounding Trump, to promise 156 00:12:36,755 --> 00:12:41,155 Speaker 1: them a future in which it's possible Trump gets away 157 00:12:41,195 --> 00:12:48,275 Speaker 1: with it. It's possible Trump dies, not in jail, but 158 00:12:48,515 --> 00:12:51,435 Speaker 1: the future then means they are chased by justice for 159 00:12:51,475 --> 00:12:55,235 Speaker 1: the rest of their lives. To remind them that there 160 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:59,155 Speaker 1: are three possibilities, and three possibilities alone for them. One 161 00:12:59,555 --> 00:13:02,555 Speaker 1: in which they go to jail for their betrayals of America. 162 00:13:03,915 --> 00:13:06,715 Speaker 1: A second in which they go to jail because Trump 163 00:13:06,755 --> 00:13:10,075 Speaker 1: has to make them the scapegoat like he's made everybody 164 00:13:10,075 --> 00:13:13,075 Speaker 1: else who's ever worked for him escapegoat. And the third 165 00:13:13,155 --> 00:13:16,755 Speaker 1: in which both fates befall them and destroy them. 166 00:13:17,075 --> 00:13:20,995 Speaker 2: To the Trump administration officials who are complicit in this scheme, 167 00:13:21,955 --> 00:13:25,235 Speaker 2: To the public servants who have forsaken their oath to 168 00:13:25,315 --> 00:13:29,275 Speaker 2: the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant 169 00:13:29,515 --> 00:13:30,435 Speaker 2: little man. 170 00:13:31,355 --> 00:13:33,395 Speaker 3: To any federal official who would come. 171 00:13:33,275 --> 00:13:36,595 Speaker 2: To Chicago and try to incite my people into violence 172 00:13:36,835 --> 00:13:40,235 Speaker 2: as a pretext for something darker and more dangerous. 173 00:13:40,795 --> 00:13:43,595 Speaker 3: We are watching, and we are taking names. 174 00:13:44,915 --> 00:13:48,235 Speaker 2: This country has survived darker periods than the one that 175 00:13:48,275 --> 00:13:52,475 Speaker 2: we're going through right now, and eventually the pendulum will 176 00:13:52,675 --> 00:13:58,555 Speaker 2: swing back, maybe even next year. Donald Trump has already 177 00:13:58,555 --> 00:14:02,635 Speaker 2: shown himself to have little regard for the many acolytes 178 00:14:03,195 --> 00:14:06,675 Speaker 2: that he has encouraged to commit crimes on his behalf. 179 00:14:07,515 --> 00:14:10,195 Speaker 3: You can delay justice for a time. 180 00:14:10,515 --> 00:14:14,995 Speaker 2: But history shows you cannot prevent it from finding you eventually. 181 00:14:16,075 --> 00:14:20,155 Speaker 2: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not 182 00:14:20,395 --> 00:14:24,835 Speaker 2: time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face 183 00:14:25,195 --> 00:14:27,995 Speaker 2: justice under our constitutional. 184 00:14:27,235 --> 00:14:28,035 Speaker 3: Rule of law. 185 00:14:28,915 --> 00:14:31,835 Speaker 1: And just as importantly as standing up to Trump and 186 00:14:31,955 --> 00:14:35,515 Speaker 1: reassuring those of us who see his insanity that it 187 00:14:35,635 --> 00:14:40,635 Speaker 1: is him and not us, just as importantly as warning 188 00:14:41,915 --> 00:14:46,555 Speaker 1: about the United Police States of America and warning these 189 00:14:46,595 --> 00:14:52,635 Speaker 1: gutless cowards, these hegxeths and heros and gnomes and Levitt's 190 00:14:52,755 --> 00:14:57,435 Speaker 1: and Rubios and Lutniks, that the only question is who 191 00:14:57,515 --> 00:15:02,235 Speaker 1: gets you first, a democratic justice department or Trump throwing 192 00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:07,995 Speaker 1: you overboard. Just important was Pritzker's warning to the third 193 00:15:08,075 --> 00:15:10,595 Speaker 1: group which has pushed this nation to the edge of 194 00:15:10,635 --> 00:15:15,115 Speaker 1: this cliff, the both sides ist reporters and the money 195 00:15:15,115 --> 00:15:18,875 Speaker 1: grubbers who own their papers and networks and who somehow 196 00:15:18,995 --> 00:15:23,715 Speaker 1: think Trump will not someday come for them too. 197 00:15:24,195 --> 00:15:27,435 Speaker 3: I am asking for your courage to tell it like 198 00:15:27,515 --> 00:15:27,875 Speaker 3: it is. 199 00:15:28,955 --> 00:15:31,555 Speaker 2: This is not a time to pretend here that there 200 00:15:31,555 --> 00:15:34,835 Speaker 2: are two sides to this story. This is not a 201 00:15:34,875 --> 00:15:38,555 Speaker 2: time to fall back into the reflexive crouch that I 202 00:15:38,635 --> 00:15:42,595 Speaker 2: so often see, where the authoritarian creep by this administration 203 00:15:42,955 --> 00:15:46,715 Speaker 2: is ignored in favor of some horse race piece on 204 00:15:47,115 --> 00:15:51,195 Speaker 2: who will be helped politically by the president's actions. Donald 205 00:15:51,275 --> 00:15:55,635 Speaker 2: Trump wants to use the military to occupy a US city, 206 00:15:56,275 --> 00:16:01,195 Speaker 2: punish his dissonance, and score political points. If this were 207 00:16:01,235 --> 00:16:04,315 Speaker 2: happening in any other country, we would have no troubled 208 00:16:04,395 --> 00:16:05,315 Speaker 2: calling it what. 209 00:16:05,275 --> 00:16:07,715 Speaker 3: It is, a dangerous power grab. 210 00:16:08,395 --> 00:16:14,435 Speaker 1: I will confess I slept on Governor Pritzker. I didn't 211 00:16:14,475 --> 00:16:23,675 Speaker 1: see it, not anymore. He is eloquent, concise, and most importantly, 212 00:16:25,195 --> 00:16:28,195 Speaker 1: he doesn't do what everybody else does. And how often 213 00:16:28,275 --> 00:16:31,675 Speaker 1: can you look at someone and say, his greatest success 214 00:16:31,915 --> 00:16:36,235 Speaker 1: is what he's not doing. He can focus his rage 215 00:16:37,075 --> 00:16:44,515 Speaker 1: and turn it into controlled, searing commentary rather than mere anger. 216 00:16:46,635 --> 00:16:49,515 Speaker 1: This is a tight rope I have fallen off too 217 00:16:49,555 --> 00:16:55,875 Speaker 1: many times to count. I want him and Newsom in 218 00:16:55,955 --> 00:16:59,075 Speaker 1: charge of the opposition henceforth, with Sanders and AOC and 219 00:16:59,195 --> 00:17:06,955 Speaker 1: anybody else who will goddamned fight. Newsom incidentally seems to 220 00:17:06,995 --> 00:17:11,955 Speaker 1: be reprising his federal tax boycott idea answered another sanctimonious 221 00:17:11,995 --> 00:17:15,875 Speaker 1: tweeted video from that Texas Khanman Abbot, who you could 222 00:17:15,915 --> 00:17:18,235 Speaker 1: barely see in the video for all the banners and 223 00:17:18,315 --> 00:17:23,555 Speaker 1: gonfolens he had around him. Newsom wrote, quote, California is 224 00:17:23,595 --> 00:17:26,795 Speaker 1: the fourth largest economy in the world. We contribute eighty 225 00:17:26,915 --> 00:17:30,915 Speaker 1: three billion dollars to the federal government, while Texas takes 226 00:17:31,715 --> 00:17:37,235 Speaker 1: seventy one billion. Nice flags, though we are going to 227 00:17:37,355 --> 00:17:43,995 Speaker 1: eventually get around to having to do this to the 228 00:17:44,035 --> 00:17:47,155 Speaker 1: Blue States, cutting off our funding of the federal government 229 00:17:48,235 --> 00:17:54,515 Speaker 1: and thus ending the failed socialist experiment that keeps financially 230 00:17:54,755 --> 00:18:00,955 Speaker 1: unstable places like Texas from going bankrupt. We might as 231 00:18:00,955 --> 00:18:06,875 Speaker 1: well do it now, but we start by telling the truth. 232 00:18:15,755 --> 00:18:18,355 Speaker 1: A couple of notes here before the holiday weekend. Think 233 00:18:18,395 --> 00:18:20,955 Speaker 1: about these and I'll then go on at length about 234 00:18:20,955 --> 00:18:23,835 Speaker 1: them on Monday. And yes, the next edition will be Monday. 235 00:18:24,595 --> 00:18:28,395 Speaker 1: Something for you to actually do on Labor Day. First, 236 00:18:29,395 --> 00:18:32,715 Speaker 1: What the hell? Why does Trump keep talking about going 237 00:18:32,835 --> 00:18:37,235 Speaker 1: to heaven? Is that why the tunnel buysed circle jerk 238 00:18:37,355 --> 00:18:40,395 Speaker 1: cabinet meeting went on for three hours on Tuesday? Were 239 00:18:40,435 --> 00:18:43,555 Speaker 1: they saying goodbye to him? Do they know more about 240 00:18:43,595 --> 00:18:47,395 Speaker 1: that thing on his hand than we do? It looks 241 00:18:47,435 --> 00:18:51,635 Speaker 1: like a pothole repair crew got to his hand. Looks 242 00:18:51,675 --> 00:18:54,355 Speaker 1: just like that photo of Queen Elizabeth reaching out her 243 00:18:54,355 --> 00:18:58,075 Speaker 1: hand to shake hands with Liz Trusts two days before 244 00:18:58,115 --> 00:19:04,115 Speaker 1: the Queen died. And now he's fundraising with emails that 245 00:19:04,155 --> 00:19:06,595 Speaker 1: are title, I want to try to get to heaven. 246 00:19:08,915 --> 00:19:10,555 Speaker 1: You want to try to get to heaven? Well, hell 247 00:19:10,715 --> 00:19:17,595 Speaker 1: go nuts, who's stopping you? You need money for the trip? 248 00:19:20,075 --> 00:19:23,395 Speaker 1: And yes, once again, no grand jury indictment of the 249 00:19:23,435 --> 00:19:26,995 Speaker 1: former DOJ lawyer who threw the sandwich at the Trump 250 00:19:27,035 --> 00:19:30,075 Speaker 1: police state reps standing in front of the subway shop 251 00:19:30,115 --> 00:19:35,315 Speaker 1: at fourteenth and you. Democratic leadership is afraid of voter 252 00:19:35,395 --> 00:19:39,395 Speaker 1: blowback on the crime issue, even as the ordinary citizens 253 00:19:39,435 --> 00:19:46,155 Speaker 1: are blowing back literal failure to indict a salami sandwich 254 00:19:47,515 --> 00:19:53,355 Speaker 1: higher evidential threshold than the ham. I guess a note 255 00:19:53,355 --> 00:19:56,355 Speaker 1: for next Tuesday. Again, no media coverage when this was announced. 256 00:19:56,395 --> 00:19:59,115 Speaker 1: I didn't see it for three days. Congressman Kanna is 257 00:19:59,115 --> 00:20:03,315 Speaker 1: holding a news conference Tuesday with Epstein victims in DC 258 00:20:03,555 --> 00:20:12,035 Speaker 1: about Trump Tuesday. Be there, Aloha? What does this mean? 259 00:20:12,115 --> 00:20:16,275 Speaker 1: The House Comber Snipe Hunt Committee has subpoenaed the Epstein 260 00:20:16,475 --> 00:20:21,075 Speaker 1: estate looking for anything Epstein signed pertaining to the botched 261 00:20:21,195 --> 00:20:26,315 Speaker 1: prosecution in Florida under the Republican former US attorney there 262 00:20:26,395 --> 00:20:31,555 Speaker 1: Alex Acosta, you know, Trump's first labor secretary, and Acosta 263 00:20:31,635 --> 00:20:34,835 Speaker 1: will appear before the committee for a transcribed interview on 264 00:20:34,875 --> 00:20:41,635 Speaker 1: September nineteenth. Just keep bringing it up, Just keep bringing 265 00:20:41,675 --> 00:20:44,755 Speaker 1: it up. Thank you, Jamie Comer. I don't care what happens. 266 00:20:44,755 --> 00:20:47,195 Speaker 1: I don't care what he says. Nobody cared what Klain 267 00:20:47,275 --> 00:20:52,315 Speaker 1: Maxwell says. Keeping that story alive is all that matters, 268 00:20:53,435 --> 00:21:01,355 Speaker 1: Jamie Comer, American Hero this week and bookkeeping here weeks ago. 269 00:21:01,395 --> 00:21:06,275 Speaker 1: I promised news about enlarging the footprint. I can't do 270 00:21:06,395 --> 00:21:08,835 Speaker 1: that quite yet, though we are close. But I can 271 00:21:08,955 --> 00:21:12,315 Speaker 1: tell you the fine folks at iHeart Media and I 272 00:21:12,315 --> 00:21:14,115 Speaker 1: have agreed on a new deal that will keep this 273 00:21:14,155 --> 00:21:18,475 Speaker 1: podcast going through at least the midterms and presumably beyond. 274 00:21:18,555 --> 00:21:22,435 Speaker 1: And god damn it, oh, I wanted it too. Was retire, 275 00:21:22,555 --> 00:21:30,315 Speaker 1: but no also of interest here, Honest to god, I 276 00:21:30,355 --> 00:21:34,235 Speaker 1: don't wish my ex ill in her apparently just restarting 277 00:21:34,275 --> 00:21:39,155 Speaker 1: attempt to come back from last year's RFK Junior fiasco. 278 00:21:41,075 --> 00:21:46,155 Speaker 1: Phone call for you, But my god, her former employer, 279 00:21:46,675 --> 00:21:49,235 Speaker 1: the one that was supposedly going to be the place 280 00:21:49,275 --> 00:21:52,595 Speaker 1: that rehired her, that restarted her career, just did a 281 00:21:52,635 --> 00:21:56,115 Speaker 1: story about her and put in the headline that she 282 00:21:56,475 --> 00:22:06,875 Speaker 1: was RFK Juniors quote digital lover, Oh, how in the 283 00:22:06,915 --> 00:22:10,035 Speaker 1: hell do you ever live that down? I mean, the 284 00:22:10,035 --> 00:22:14,675 Speaker 1: only option is trademarket and make some T shirts. Olivia. 285 00:22:15,435 --> 00:22:22,235 Speaker 1: That could be the title of your column somewhere Digital lover. Oh, 286 00:22:22,315 --> 00:22:33,355 Speaker 1: my lord, shod Day saying that digital Lover not gonna boast, 287 00:22:33,355 --> 00:22:36,755 Speaker 1: but it is an exceptional Worst Persons She's in it, 288 00:22:37,155 --> 00:22:42,635 Speaker 1: not shot Day. Also Stephen Miller and Candice Owens and 289 00:22:42,875 --> 00:22:43,475 Speaker 1: Stephen A. 290 00:22:43,715 --> 00:22:44,115 Speaker 3: Smith. 291 00:22:44,915 --> 00:22:47,475 Speaker 1: That's next. This is countdown. 292 00:22:49,515 --> 00:22:54,275 Speaker 3: This is countdown with Keith Oberman. 293 00:23:14,915 --> 00:23:17,675 Speaker 1: Still ahead on this initiative, countdown Things I've promised not 294 00:23:17,835 --> 00:23:21,555 Speaker 1: to tell and something inspired by a question I got 295 00:23:21,555 --> 00:23:24,715 Speaker 1: about the winner of Worse Persons today and whether or 296 00:23:24,755 --> 00:23:28,275 Speaker 1: not she could really believe the filth she spews and 297 00:23:28,315 --> 00:23:32,555 Speaker 1: the sad reality that again then again, these charlatans start 298 00:23:32,715 --> 00:23:35,995 Speaker 1: by selling a product, and then as they come to 299 00:23:36,035 --> 00:23:40,795 Speaker 1: realize the audience really believes the product they say and 300 00:23:41,035 --> 00:23:43,475 Speaker 1: see that they will make more money the more they 301 00:23:43,515 --> 00:23:48,475 Speaker 1: pretend to also believe in the product. And then suddenly 302 00:23:48,515 --> 00:23:53,155 Speaker 1: the product. The belief takes them over like a mask 303 00:23:53,315 --> 00:23:58,515 Speaker 1: you put on and cannot remove. How my personal histories 304 00:23:58,555 --> 00:24:01,955 Speaker 1: with them suggest the startling probability that Sean Hannity and 305 00:24:02,035 --> 00:24:07,515 Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh and the others alive and were once human 306 00:24:07,675 --> 00:24:14,835 Speaker 1: beings who were just salesmen, just entertainment, and then the 307 00:24:14,915 --> 00:24:18,715 Speaker 1: hate consumed them and replaced them with non human replicants 308 00:24:18,915 --> 00:24:23,835 Speaker 1: who knew nothing but hate and the money it provided them, 309 00:24:23,835 --> 00:24:26,795 Speaker 1: that ahead, and things I promised not to tell first. 310 00:24:26,875 --> 00:24:30,195 Speaker 1: Believe it or not, they're still new ones, more new 311 00:24:30,355 --> 00:24:33,675 Speaker 1: idiots to talk about. The roundup of the latest miscreants, 312 00:24:33,755 --> 00:24:37,555 Speaker 1: morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other 313 00:24:38,675 --> 00:24:44,795 Speaker 1: worst persons in the world. Lebron's worst third place, Steven Miller. 314 00:24:45,555 --> 00:24:48,835 Speaker 1: We really all knew this guy was warped when his 315 00:24:48,955 --> 00:24:52,555 Speaker 1: derelict father's finances collapsed and he had to go to 316 00:24:52,755 --> 00:24:56,755 Speaker 1: public school in Santa Monica, California. And I told you 317 00:24:56,875 --> 00:25:01,235 Speaker 1: before the rumor from his classmates that he asked out 318 00:25:01,275 --> 00:25:04,075 Speaker 1: some Hispanic girl in that public school and she said no. 319 00:25:05,075 --> 00:25:08,035 Speaker 1: And ever since that minute, he's been getting weirder and 320 00:25:08,075 --> 00:25:13,715 Speaker 1: weirder and more and more hateful. And prejudiced. Who knows 321 00:25:13,715 --> 00:25:16,315 Speaker 1: if there's anything to that or not, But none of 322 00:25:16,355 --> 00:25:21,995 Speaker 1: that explains what we are seeing now. These are bonafide, 323 00:25:22,115 --> 00:25:30,795 Speaker 1: full scale hallucinations. On Fox Shiny, Stephen Miller says, quote 324 00:25:31,115 --> 00:25:34,475 Speaker 1: President Trump has literally set the people of Washington, DC free. 325 00:25:34,835 --> 00:25:37,355 Speaker 1: They're so happy now they can go and live their 326 00:25:37,395 --> 00:25:40,915 Speaker 1: lives and go to their favorite restaurant or bar or 327 00:25:40,955 --> 00:25:46,435 Speaker 1: their favorite pool hall or park. You see moms taking 328 00:25:46,515 --> 00:25:48,795 Speaker 1: kids out to parks they haven't been doing years because 329 00:25:48,795 --> 00:25:51,555 Speaker 1: they know the police are there and the President Trump 330 00:25:51,635 --> 00:25:58,115 Speaker 1: is there with his law enforcement to protect them. First 331 00:25:58,115 --> 00:26:04,875 Speaker 1: of all, Trump is Trump is there at the the 332 00:26:04,955 --> 00:26:08,755 Speaker 1: parks with the kids and the moms. You've seen this, 333 00:26:09,235 --> 00:26:18,275 Speaker 1: have you, Steve Mescalin, Aaron Rodgers brand T. Also, this 334 00:26:18,395 --> 00:26:21,675 Speaker 1: other party is really the tell they can go to 335 00:26:21,715 --> 00:26:25,635 Speaker 1: their favorite restaurant or bar or their favorite pool hall. 336 00:26:28,075 --> 00:26:35,155 Speaker 1: Pool hall, pool hall. You say, when was the last 337 00:26:35,155 --> 00:26:38,515 Speaker 1: time the phrase pool hall was used by. 338 00:26:40,155 --> 00:26:41,235 Speaker 3: Humans. 339 00:26:42,755 --> 00:26:45,995 Speaker 1: I had a friend, a professional pool player, forty five 340 00:26:46,075 --> 00:26:49,915 Speaker 1: years ago. This is I never heard her call it 341 00:26:49,955 --> 00:26:56,795 Speaker 1: a pool hall. What the f pool halls? I mean 342 00:26:56,955 --> 00:27:00,715 Speaker 1: like Professor Harold Hill calls it a pool hall in 343 00:27:00,795 --> 00:27:04,315 Speaker 1: the movie The Music man from nineteen sixty freaking two, 344 00:27:05,475 --> 00:27:08,915 Speaker 1: or maybe Minnesota Fats. Jackie Gleeson is Minnesota Fats in 345 00:27:08,915 --> 00:27:12,595 Speaker 1: the Hustler. I don't even think that Minnesota Fats called 346 00:27:12,635 --> 00:27:13,675 Speaker 1: it a pool. 347 00:27:13,355 --> 00:27:20,075 Speaker 3: Hall pool ball man. 348 00:27:21,835 --> 00:27:25,595 Speaker 1: The runner up. Uh, here we go again, not quite 349 00:27:25,635 --> 00:27:28,635 Speaker 1: a year after she went from a rising celebrity political 350 00:27:28,755 --> 00:27:36,075 Speaker 1: interviewer to a punchline, My ex is in the news again. No, 351 00:27:36,155 --> 00:27:42,435 Speaker 1: not her, and not her. The other one Olivia Newsy, 352 00:27:43,195 --> 00:27:46,275 Speaker 1: although I understand she's playing with the pronunciation again, might 353 00:27:46,315 --> 00:27:51,835 Speaker 1: be nutsy right now. She also tried MIZI. I said, 354 00:27:51,955 --> 00:27:56,795 Speaker 1: your job is news. Your name is really Newsy. Stop 355 00:27:56,875 --> 00:28:02,595 Speaker 1: throwing back the talking fish who craps gold? What more 356 00:28:02,635 --> 00:28:10,595 Speaker 1: do you want out of life? First name? Really really Newsy? Anyway, 357 00:28:10,755 --> 00:28:13,875 Speaker 1: this is less about her. I mean I would try 358 00:28:13,915 --> 00:28:18,195 Speaker 1: to restart my career even after you know. This is 359 00:28:18,235 --> 00:28:23,675 Speaker 1: about Vanity Fair magazine, whose new editor is named Mark Guducci. 360 00:28:23,875 --> 00:28:28,835 Speaker 1: Gaducci he fired all their established people and he wants 361 00:28:28,835 --> 00:28:32,275 Speaker 1: to remake the magazine with other people's successes and names 362 00:28:33,555 --> 00:28:38,635 Speaker 1: newsletter authors like Oliver Darcy per semaphore, their reporting and 363 00:28:38,795 --> 00:28:42,635 Speaker 1: also per semaphore quote. He has had conversations with Olivia 364 00:28:42,715 --> 00:28:49,555 Speaker 1: Newsy about a roll writing for the magazine. Uh, here 365 00:28:49,595 --> 00:28:51,555 Speaker 1: we go. 366 00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:52,195 Speaker 3: Good for her. 367 00:28:52,435 --> 00:28:54,355 Speaker 1: I don't need to remind you of the details of 368 00:28:54,395 --> 00:28:58,675 Speaker 1: her demise, just the headlines. She did a huge fawning 369 00:28:58,795 --> 00:29:02,835 Speaker 1: profile of RFK Junior in the middle of a presidential race. 370 00:29:03,315 --> 00:29:06,075 Speaker 1: Then he bragged he had no photos of her and 371 00:29:06,075 --> 00:29:10,075 Speaker 1: that they'd had phone video sex, which they both seem 372 00:29:10,155 --> 00:29:17,035 Speaker 1: to think is a relationship of some kind. So then 373 00:29:17,355 --> 00:29:21,155 Speaker 1: there was her fiance and he found out about all this, 374 00:29:21,275 --> 00:29:23,955 Speaker 1: and she tried to get him arrested, and she claimed 375 00:29:23,995 --> 00:29:26,675 Speaker 1: he leaked it, and then he sued her, and then 376 00:29:26,715 --> 00:29:30,875 Speaker 1: Politico fired him, and he dropped hints about her episodes 377 00:29:31,395 --> 00:29:36,715 Speaker 1: and anyway, New York Magazine parted ways with her. Then 378 00:29:36,755 --> 00:29:38,955 Speaker 1: the New York Post called me about having lived with 379 00:29:38,995 --> 00:29:43,395 Speaker 1: her a decade in Morgo and then she disappeared. To me, 380 00:29:43,555 --> 00:29:48,875 Speaker 1: the headline was RFK Junior, who's seventy and looks like 381 00:29:48,955 --> 00:29:52,275 Speaker 1: he was standing way too close when Oppenheimer tested the 382 00:29:52,315 --> 00:29:56,715 Speaker 1: Manhattan Project that RFK Junior, you mean I was too 383 00:29:56,915 --> 00:29:57,955 Speaker 1: young for her. 384 00:30:00,395 --> 00:30:01,675 Speaker 4: Pool halls. 385 00:30:02,555 --> 00:30:06,635 Speaker 1: However, here is the here is the here's the rub. 386 00:30:08,075 --> 00:30:11,715 Speaker 1: Her headline now is what her former employer is at 387 00:30:11,755 --> 00:30:15,275 Speaker 1: The Daily Beast foot as the headline of their version 388 00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:23,475 Speaker 1: of this story quote RFK Junior's Digital lover plots comeback 389 00:30:23,595 --> 00:30:25,115 Speaker 1: after nuking her career. 390 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:33,995 Speaker 3: Oh oh no, no, no digital lover. 391 00:30:34,275 --> 00:30:41,235 Speaker 1: Oh never gonna wash that out. Digital lover in pool halls, 392 00:30:41,315 --> 00:30:45,835 Speaker 1: no doubt. The real problem with that Daily Beast headline 393 00:30:45,995 --> 00:30:49,235 Speaker 1: is that, for the last ten months since all this happened, 394 00:30:49,595 --> 00:30:52,475 Speaker 1: the hot rumor around the news business was that Livvy 395 00:30:52,595 --> 00:30:56,515 Speaker 1: would be returning to magazine writing or online writing or 396 00:30:56,555 --> 00:31:03,355 Speaker 1: something once this all blew over. She'd be returning with 397 00:31:03,355 --> 00:31:08,235 Speaker 1: with the Daily Beast, which just called her RFK Junior's 398 00:31:08,675 --> 00:31:15,995 Speaker 1: digital lover. That was supposedly her best employment option. Yes, 399 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:19,235 Speaker 1: we just hired this reporter used to work for us. 400 00:31:19,835 --> 00:31:24,675 Speaker 1: Anything new about her since since our headline called her 401 00:31:24,755 --> 00:31:30,875 Speaker 1: the digital lover? Okay, okay, destroy the contract digital lover? 402 00:31:32,275 --> 00:31:38,035 Speaker 1: Why is that not like a pop hit? Already, the 403 00:31:38,115 --> 00:31:43,115 Speaker 1: newly engaged Taylor Swift sings her number one hit, Digital Lover. 404 00:31:46,595 --> 00:31:49,075 Speaker 1: I give you one hundred dollars, Taylor Swift if you 405 00:31:49,115 --> 00:31:53,275 Speaker 1: put the phrase pool haul in your new hit digital lover, 406 00:31:55,795 --> 00:32:00,115 Speaker 1: see because it's also a pun. But our winner Candace Owens, 407 00:32:00,155 --> 00:32:04,635 Speaker 1: the Stephen A. Smith endorsed reckless clown with the eye 408 00:32:05,115 --> 00:32:08,395 Speaker 1: on either side of her head who was too anti 409 00:32:08,395 --> 00:32:13,755 Speaker 1: Semitic and vile even for The Daily Wire. Perfect example 410 00:32:14,315 --> 00:32:17,155 Speaker 1: of this Hannity Limbaus syndrome I'm going to talk about 411 00:32:17,195 --> 00:32:20,795 Speaker 1: after the next break. If you hadn't heard, Owens is 412 00:32:20,835 --> 00:32:27,435 Speaker 1: being sued by the President of France. I mean, that's 413 00:32:27,515 --> 00:32:31,875 Speaker 1: a suit being sued for damages by the President of France, 414 00:32:31,875 --> 00:32:35,795 Speaker 1: Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, for alleging, let me 415 00:32:35,875 --> 00:32:39,675 Speaker 1: just quote the website, the Bulwark quote, that they are 416 00:32:39,835 --> 00:32:44,195 Speaker 1: involved in an elaborate criminal conspiracy to hide the supposed 417 00:32:44,275 --> 00:32:50,595 Speaker 1: fact that Brigitte is transgender unquote. That's right. Candace Owens 418 00:32:50,635 --> 00:32:54,155 Speaker 1: went on her podcast I Guess and not only alleged that, 419 00:32:54,635 --> 00:32:57,795 Speaker 1: but then said they were conspiring to keep it all 420 00:32:57,835 --> 00:33:02,635 Speaker 1: a secret, and then they sued her. And apparently only 421 00:33:02,715 --> 00:33:05,635 Speaker 1: then did it dawn on her that somebody from another 422 00:33:05,675 --> 00:33:09,275 Speaker 1: country can sue you for defaming them and alleging that 423 00:33:09,315 --> 00:33:13,115 Speaker 1: they've committed a crime. This is Owens on a more 424 00:33:13,155 --> 00:33:17,115 Speaker 1: recent podcast. This lawsuit. We got an estimate this weekend 425 00:33:17,115 --> 00:33:20,155 Speaker 1: from a legal team. It is going to cost us millions. 426 00:33:20,555 --> 00:33:23,115 Speaker 1: I don't have that money, I really don't, So I 427 00:33:23,155 --> 00:33:28,475 Speaker 1: thought we could actually sell some T shirts. Yes, that 428 00:33:28,675 --> 00:33:33,235 Speaker 1: distance between Candice Owens and reality grows larger the more 429 00:33:33,275 --> 00:33:37,955 Speaker 1: you look at it. Thirty dollars T shirts, oh, and 430 00:33:38,035 --> 00:33:43,435 Speaker 1: thirty dollars caps. If her costs legally are say five million, 431 00:33:43,995 --> 00:33:47,395 Speaker 1: she would need to sell one hundred and sixty seven 432 00:33:47,515 --> 00:33:52,595 Speaker 1: thousand shirts and caps, which is weird because her father 433 00:33:52,635 --> 00:33:55,395 Speaker 1: in law is a British nobleman worth a reported one 434 00:33:55,475 --> 00:33:59,435 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million pounds, and obviously has a son 435 00:33:59,475 --> 00:34:03,195 Speaker 1: who's a masochist or something. The bulwark continues. In theory, 436 00:34:03,315 --> 00:34:05,755 Speaker 1: Owens could try to reach a cell with the Macrons 437 00:34:05,875 --> 00:34:09,195 Speaker 1: that would alleviate the need to sell an ungodly amount 438 00:34:09,195 --> 00:34:12,755 Speaker 1: of merch or facilitate a presidential intervention on her behalf. 439 00:34:12,915 --> 00:34:15,515 Speaker 1: But so far she doesn't seem interested in that option. 440 00:34:16,395 --> 00:34:20,595 Speaker 1: Owens has decidedly not toned down her conspiracy theories about 441 00:34:20,635 --> 00:34:24,435 Speaker 1: the Macrons. The magazine article continues, If anything, they're getting 442 00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:28,075 Speaker 1: more baroque, Oh good a French word about the French president. 443 00:34:28,635 --> 00:34:32,115 Speaker 1: Last week, for example, Owens asked her viewers whether Bragitte 444 00:34:32,155 --> 00:34:36,435 Speaker 1: Macron as a man had participated in the infamous Stanford 445 00:34:36,555 --> 00:34:41,915 Speaker 1: prison experiment. Why would that even matter because she suggested 446 00:34:41,995 --> 00:34:47,355 Speaker 1: it might link the macrons to a CIA mind control program. 447 00:34:47,515 --> 00:34:51,555 Speaker 1: As in aside, I would suggest not a CIA mind 448 00:34:51,595 --> 00:34:54,475 Speaker 1: control program for Candace Owens, but something that would allow 449 00:34:54,555 --> 00:34:58,795 Speaker 1: Candace Owens to control her own mind. But wait, this 450 00:34:58,875 --> 00:35:02,235 Speaker 1: all gets better if you heard something in that quote 451 00:35:02,995 --> 00:35:08,315 Speaker 1: that went, why to you? What Owens really wants right 452 00:35:08,355 --> 00:35:12,675 Speaker 1: now is statements of support for her and threats on 453 00:35:12,795 --> 00:35:19,995 Speaker 1: her behalf by Trump and JD. Vance. No, no, seriously, 454 00:35:20,395 --> 00:35:24,995 Speaker 1: save me Jeebis again Owens from her podcast quote, the 455 00:35:25,115 --> 00:35:28,275 Speaker 1: job of the federal government is to defend us from 456 00:35:28,435 --> 00:35:32,675 Speaker 1: foreign invaders. And I would pretty much say Emmanuel mccrawan 457 00:35:32,835 --> 00:35:36,195 Speaker 1: right now is being a foreign invader. But no, they 458 00:35:36,795 --> 00:35:46,275 Speaker 1: meaning Trump and Vance are silent, seriously seriously because she's 459 00:35:46,315 --> 00:35:52,395 Speaker 1: being sued for something she said, We're being invaded. I mean, look, 460 00:35:52,395 --> 00:35:56,835 Speaker 1: Trump has used his office to do stupid things, not 461 00:35:57,115 --> 00:36:01,955 Speaker 1: just evil things, but stupid things, trivial things. I'm trying 462 00:36:01,955 --> 00:36:06,355 Speaker 1: to get Roger Clemens in the Hall of Fame in baseball, Like, honestly, 463 00:36:06,715 --> 00:36:12,715 Speaker 1: who the f cares? I've been involved in covering baseball 464 00:36:12,755 --> 00:36:15,995 Speaker 1: professionally since nineteen seventy five. I don't the f care. 465 00:36:18,115 --> 00:36:24,275 Speaker 1: But Candace Trump claims to like President Macron, and she's 466 00:36:24,275 --> 00:36:26,115 Speaker 1: not asking for him to try to get the Macrons 467 00:36:26,115 --> 00:36:29,155 Speaker 1: to drop the suit, or she's not offering an apology 468 00:36:29,235 --> 00:36:32,595 Speaker 1: in exchange for or something small. She wants Trump to 469 00:36:32,715 --> 00:36:37,115 Speaker 1: declare that the president of France is invading the United 470 00:36:37,155 --> 00:36:44,715 Speaker 1: States of America because Candace Owens being a foreign invader, 471 00:36:44,795 --> 00:36:50,435 Speaker 1: because he sued her, like anybody in this country would 472 00:36:50,475 --> 00:36:54,955 Speaker 1: know who Candace fing Owens would be if Macrone hadn't 473 00:36:54,995 --> 00:37:01,875 Speaker 1: sued her. And by the way, Macrone then had her investigated. 474 00:37:02,075 --> 00:37:06,235 Speaker 1: The Financial Times reported quote lawyers Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron 475 00:37:06,395 --> 00:37:10,675 Speaker 1: hired investigators to research the US podcaster as they prepared 476 00:37:10,715 --> 00:37:14,675 Speaker 1: to sue her, leading to a compilation of details, including 477 00:37:14,715 --> 00:37:18,515 Speaker 1: about her ties to French far right personalities, and her 478 00:37:18,595 --> 00:37:27,875 Speaker 1: popularity in Russian state media. Once again, I say, when 479 00:37:27,955 --> 00:37:33,115 Speaker 1: the lawsuit starts that she will not prevent by apologizing 480 00:37:33,715 --> 00:37:38,275 Speaker 1: when that lawsuit starts, When the trial starts, who Candace is, 481 00:37:39,115 --> 00:37:43,515 Speaker 1: who Candace Owens is will be revealed. And so if 482 00:37:43,555 --> 00:37:49,635 Speaker 1: you're adjacent to Candace Owens, if you've endorsed her, stephen A, 483 00:37:50,275 --> 00:37:55,315 Speaker 1: you might wind up indelibly ruined by her. Just thought 484 00:37:56,675 --> 00:38:01,995 Speaker 1: save me, jeebus Trump suddenly flashing back to that redneck 485 00:38:02,115 --> 00:38:06,715 Speaker 1: sovereign citizen guy, the moron and his car six years ago. 486 00:38:06,915 --> 00:38:11,075 Speaker 1: Do you remember this about to get arrested. The cops 487 00:38:11,155 --> 00:38:15,555 Speaker 1: were literally outside his truck because his kayak was sticking 488 00:38:15,595 --> 00:38:18,155 Speaker 1: too far out of his truck. That's not a metaphor. 489 00:38:18,555 --> 00:38:21,355 Speaker 1: I'm not referring back to Olivia Newzy and RFK Junior. 490 00:38:21,995 --> 00:38:24,355 Speaker 1: This is literally the cops pulled him over for a 491 00:38:24,435 --> 00:38:27,515 Speaker 1: moving violation. His kayak was sticking too far out of 492 00:38:27,555 --> 00:38:31,515 Speaker 1: his truck. If he just stopped, it probably would have 493 00:38:31,555 --> 00:38:34,235 Speaker 1: meant nothing more than a small fine, a ticket, maybe 494 00:38:34,275 --> 00:38:36,675 Speaker 1: just a warning. Maybe just come out here and put 495 00:38:36,715 --> 00:38:39,795 Speaker 1: your kayak back in, zip up your pants, and put 496 00:38:39,835 --> 00:38:43,435 Speaker 1: your kayak back in your car. And the guy instead 497 00:38:43,475 --> 00:38:49,675 Speaker 1: starts live screaming himself, praying quote Donald Trump, if you 498 00:38:49,715 --> 00:38:53,515 Speaker 1: can hear us, please save me, putting his hands up, 499 00:38:54,275 --> 00:38:58,115 Speaker 1: please save me. And then he starts crying, and then 500 00:38:58,155 --> 00:39:03,315 Speaker 1: the cops bust his window. Now he's Secretary of Kayaking 501 00:39:03,355 --> 00:39:08,155 Speaker 1: in the Trump administration. Something, Candace, have we ever seen 502 00:39:08,195 --> 00:39:11,675 Speaker 1: her and the Trump praying Kayak guy in the same place, 503 00:39:11,955 --> 00:39:20,635 Speaker 1: Steven A. Smith, Owens dip Shit and Today's Other Worst Part, 504 00:39:20,755 --> 00:39:51,475 Speaker 1: Sudden and the World Show, the number one story on 505 00:39:51,515 --> 00:39:53,995 Speaker 1: the Countdown, and things I promised not to tell and 506 00:39:54,435 --> 00:39:57,675 Speaker 1: I am often asked. I was asked this weekend past 507 00:39:58,475 --> 00:40:03,595 Speaker 1: about this exact question about the relative sincerity of the 508 00:40:03,635 --> 00:40:09,715 Speaker 1: Wall of Fame of the Mount Rushmore of conservative fascist commentators. 509 00:40:09,755 --> 00:40:12,955 Speaker 1: I don't mean the little nebeshy guys who are on now, 510 00:40:13,075 --> 00:40:15,795 Speaker 1: who turns out have been getting money from the Kremlin 511 00:40:15,915 --> 00:40:20,555 Speaker 1: wash through intermediaries, and not even the more recent group 512 00:40:20,715 --> 00:40:25,275 Speaker 1: like Glenn Beck, but the founding fathers of this rush Limbaugh, 513 00:40:25,835 --> 00:40:31,875 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Dead, career dead, brain dead. I 514 00:40:31,875 --> 00:40:34,395 Speaker 1: have met them all, and I think the answer about 515 00:40:34,435 --> 00:40:37,075 Speaker 1: whether or not they are being sincere or this is 516 00:40:37,275 --> 00:40:41,155 Speaker 1: just a stick that they do for money, is different 517 00:40:42,395 --> 00:40:45,475 Speaker 1: in each of them, and yet eventually all becomes the 518 00:40:45,515 --> 00:40:49,635 Speaker 1: same thing. Many of them do not start out believing 519 00:40:49,795 --> 00:40:53,435 Speaker 1: a word they are saying, and then they discover success, 520 00:40:53,915 --> 00:40:56,155 Speaker 1: and suddenly they want to say more of what they 521 00:40:56,195 --> 00:40:58,915 Speaker 1: have been saying because it pays them so well. And 522 00:40:58,995 --> 00:41:01,835 Speaker 1: the next thing you know, after you say something long enough, 523 00:41:02,115 --> 00:41:04,355 Speaker 1: it's not just the audience that begins to believe it, 524 00:41:04,355 --> 00:41:08,235 Speaker 1: it's you who begins to believe it. One day and 525 00:41:08,315 --> 00:41:10,155 Speaker 1: I tried to get the exact date of this, I 526 00:41:10,195 --> 00:41:14,355 Speaker 1: know it was a Sunday, that's all ninety five, ninety six. 527 00:41:14,435 --> 00:41:17,795 Speaker 1: Perhaps based on the memory of what the ESPN Sports 528 00:41:17,795 --> 00:41:21,235 Speaker 1: Center newsroom looked like before it's remodeling in nineteen ninety six, 529 00:41:21,635 --> 00:41:24,395 Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's nineteen ninety five. I walked in to 530 00:41:24,435 --> 00:41:27,475 Speaker 1: do the Sunday eleven PM Sports Center and in an 531 00:41:27,475 --> 00:41:31,595 Speaker 1: otherwise empty newsroom, a very small room with a bunch 532 00:41:31,595 --> 00:41:34,995 Speaker 1: of cubicles around it, one of which was mine, so 533 00:41:35,115 --> 00:41:39,995 Speaker 1: small that two anchors would share one computer. Standing next 534 00:41:40,035 --> 00:41:43,395 Speaker 1: to my desk, not saying a word, but just looking 535 00:41:43,515 --> 00:41:48,315 Speaker 1: into the newsroom as if he were Charlie visiting Willie 536 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:53,115 Speaker 1: Wonka's chocolate factory. Was Rush Limbaugh. And given his size, 537 00:41:53,155 --> 00:41:57,275 Speaker 1: perhaps that's a good analogy. Rush Limbaugh saw me walk 538 00:41:57,315 --> 00:42:02,915 Speaker 1: in and he almost asked for an autograph. Oh, Keith, Hi, 539 00:42:03,355 --> 00:42:07,515 Speaker 1: I'm Rush Limbaugh. Nothing like the person you heard or saw, 540 00:42:08,715 --> 00:42:13,195 Speaker 1: restrained whispering, behaving as if he were as he said 541 00:42:13,315 --> 00:42:18,155 Speaker 1: in church, I'm such a fan. Oh my goodness, Oh, 542 00:42:18,515 --> 00:42:20,275 Speaker 1: I remember you from the CNN days. I had to 543 00:42:20,315 --> 00:42:23,115 Speaker 1: explain to him that we had met once. No, was 544 00:42:23,155 --> 00:42:24,835 Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty World Series when you worked for the 545 00:42:24,915 --> 00:42:29,035 Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals. It's important to remember that Rush Limbaugh's 546 00:42:29,115 --> 00:42:32,835 Speaker 1: career path was he thought sports. He was going to 547 00:42:32,875 --> 00:42:36,435 Speaker 1: be a broadcaster, a baseball broadcaster, or a baseball executive. 548 00:42:36,635 --> 00:42:40,795 Speaker 1: And he got no further down that line then, as 549 00:42:40,835 --> 00:42:45,355 Speaker 1: he put it, the assistant Media and Community Affairs director 550 00:42:45,355 --> 00:42:49,435 Speaker 1: of the Kansas City Royals in charge of escorting the 551 00:42:49,475 --> 00:42:53,515 Speaker 1: first pitch thrower and the national anthem singer onto the field. 552 00:42:53,795 --> 00:42:56,675 Speaker 1: That was his job. But when the head of the 553 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:58,915 Speaker 1: PR department for the Kansas City Royals, whose name was 554 00:42:58,955 --> 00:43:02,075 Speaker 1: Dean Vogelar and how could you forget that name, introduces 555 00:43:02,115 --> 00:43:03,795 Speaker 1: you to one of his assistants, and the guy's name 556 00:43:03,835 --> 00:43:06,515 Speaker 1: is Rush Limbaugh, Well you remember that name. I don't 557 00:43:06,515 --> 00:43:08,675 Speaker 1: remember the conversation. I don't know what it was about. 558 00:43:08,715 --> 00:43:10,515 Speaker 1: I think he was just standing there and Dean Volgor 559 00:43:10,675 --> 00:43:13,315 Speaker 1: was being nice to both of us. But we had met, 560 00:43:13,635 --> 00:43:15,755 Speaker 1: and he was when I told him this story, he 561 00:43:15,795 --> 00:43:16,995 Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, I wish we had a 562 00:43:16,995 --> 00:43:20,395 Speaker 1: picture of that. It was almost to the point of embarrassing. 563 00:43:21,595 --> 00:43:24,755 Speaker 1: I'll take praise from anybody, especially in nineteen ninety five 564 00:43:24,755 --> 00:43:26,995 Speaker 1: before I fully understood what Rush Limbaugh was doing to 565 00:43:27,035 --> 00:43:29,835 Speaker 1: this country. But I will take praise from anybody. But 566 00:43:29,955 --> 00:43:32,955 Speaker 1: Rush Limbaugh went from sports into what he did to 567 00:43:33,075 --> 00:43:37,715 Speaker 1: this country because he failed at sports. His original radio 568 00:43:37,755 --> 00:43:41,795 Speaker 1: work was as a sportscaster and call in show host 569 00:43:41,875 --> 00:43:44,355 Speaker 1: in sports when that was not a very popular thing. 570 00:43:44,555 --> 00:43:47,955 Speaker 1: And simply being good at killing four hours by repeating 571 00:43:48,035 --> 00:43:50,835 Speaker 1: the same argument over who's the greatest player of all 572 00:43:50,835 --> 00:43:53,835 Speaker 1: time this week was not enough to get you a 573 00:43:54,035 --> 00:43:57,115 Speaker 1: thirty one million dollar a year contract. He got fired 574 00:43:57,115 --> 00:43:59,155 Speaker 1: from that. He was a disc jockey for a while, 575 00:43:59,395 --> 00:44:01,075 Speaker 1: and then they said, we got some time to kill, 576 00:44:01,115 --> 00:44:02,755 Speaker 1: why don't you just go on Limbaugh and do a 577 00:44:02,795 --> 00:44:07,195 Speaker 1: news talk show. Well, he was of conservative leaning, and 578 00:44:07,315 --> 00:44:10,115 Speaker 1: he found out as he began to criticize the liberals 579 00:44:10,115 --> 00:44:13,075 Speaker 1: of California in the various small markets in which he 580 00:44:13,115 --> 00:44:16,395 Speaker 1: worked there around to believe the Sacramento area. The more 581 00:44:16,435 --> 00:44:20,635 Speaker 1: he did that and the more vituperative he became, the 582 00:44:20,675 --> 00:44:23,795 Speaker 1: more people listened. Soon he had a contract. Soon he 583 00:44:23,875 --> 00:44:27,555 Speaker 1: wasn't about to get fired from another industry, having failed 584 00:44:27,595 --> 00:44:30,595 Speaker 1: in baseball and then failed in sportscasting and failed as 585 00:44:30,595 --> 00:44:33,395 Speaker 1: a disc jockey. Suddenly he had a contract and then 586 00:44:33,755 --> 00:44:37,915 Speaker 1: somebody said we should syndicate your show. Other markets would 587 00:44:37,955 --> 00:44:40,475 Speaker 1: love to hear this, and you know where it went 588 00:44:40,475 --> 00:44:45,395 Speaker 1: from there. But in nineteen ninety five, and that's twelve 589 00:44:45,395 --> 00:44:49,475 Speaker 1: thirteen years into the Limbaugh dynasty, Rush Limbaugh was speaking 590 00:44:49,515 --> 00:44:54,315 Speaker 1: in hushed tones, having appeared like a ghost, like the 591 00:44:54,395 --> 00:44:57,795 Speaker 1: devil in Bristol, Connecticut. And by the way, I yes, 592 00:44:57,835 --> 00:44:59,835 Speaker 1: I explained, what the hell, what are you doing here? 593 00:45:00,275 --> 00:45:03,195 Speaker 1: I asked him that question. He explained he had been 594 00:45:03,795 --> 00:45:07,675 Speaker 1: invited after he years of pestering Chris Berman to sit 595 00:45:07,835 --> 00:45:11,595 Speaker 1: with the football crew from ESPN that did the Sunday 596 00:45:11,635 --> 00:45:13,995 Speaker 1: Night I believe it was called Countdown at that point, 597 00:45:14,275 --> 00:45:18,475 Speaker 1: ironically enough, football Highlight Show. After the NFL games on Sundays, 598 00:45:19,075 --> 00:45:21,755 Speaker 1: they watched the games in a room upstairs that US 599 00:45:21,795 --> 00:45:25,435 Speaker 1: civilians were never permitted to attend, and they watched in 600 00:45:25,675 --> 00:45:30,395 Speaker 1: low definition all whatever ten twelve NFL games there were simultaneously, 601 00:45:30,795 --> 00:45:35,275 Speaker 1: and there were options for bringing in your friend. They 602 00:45:35,315 --> 00:45:41,035 Speaker 1: once brought in a back specialist who brought his table 603 00:45:41,075 --> 00:45:45,115 Speaker 1: and was doing acupuncture and was doing everything that you 604 00:45:45,155 --> 00:45:48,315 Speaker 1: could do to try to improve people's If you could 605 00:45:49,235 --> 00:45:51,355 Speaker 1: do something for the crew, you could come in. I 606 00:45:51,355 --> 00:45:54,035 Speaker 1: don't know what Rushlanbaud did for the crew, but they 607 00:45:54,115 --> 00:45:56,115 Speaker 1: finally let him in and he was there early, and 608 00:45:56,155 --> 00:45:58,475 Speaker 1: he was about to go upstairs and join Chris Berman 609 00:45:58,835 --> 00:46:02,635 Speaker 1: in that room. And I asked Berman later, what was 610 00:46:02,675 --> 00:46:03,755 Speaker 1: that like? He went, I don't know. 611 00:46:03,795 --> 00:46:05,955 Speaker 4: The guy didn't say a thing. I mean, he was 612 00:46:06,035 --> 00:46:07,875 Speaker 4: just there. He was just there. He didn't mean we 613 00:46:08,035 --> 00:46:13,795 Speaker 4: didn't even do any chiropracty what. So what lim Blas 614 00:46:13,795 --> 00:46:17,275 Speaker 4: said to me that echoes through the years, and it's 615 00:46:17,515 --> 00:46:21,675 Speaker 4: nearly thirty years ago, was that he would at that 616 00:46:21,795 --> 00:46:26,115 Speaker 4: point trade everything he had, and he was already successful. 617 00:46:26,155 --> 00:46:28,675 Speaker 4: I mean, he was already making I don't know ten 618 00:46:28,715 --> 00:46:31,235 Speaker 4: times what I was making, twenty times what I was making. 619 00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:36,035 Speaker 4: He was successful. He said he'd give it all up 620 00:46:36,075 --> 00:46:38,595 Speaker 4: if he got to be my co host on Sports 621 00:46:38,595 --> 00:46:42,635 Speaker 4: Center instead with the pay cut, or Dan Patrick's co host. 622 00:46:42,715 --> 00:46:44,435 Speaker 4: He was ready to knock off either one of us 623 00:46:44,715 --> 00:46:47,875 Speaker 4: because that was his goal. And much of the fuel 624 00:46:48,075 --> 00:46:52,675 Speaker 4: for these raging, hateful men and women is that they 625 00:46:52,715 --> 00:46:56,675 Speaker 4: have not succeeded in their first dream. My first dream 626 00:46:56,755 --> 00:46:58,315 Speaker 4: was to be play by plan announcer for the New 627 00:46:58,395 --> 00:47:02,595 Speaker 4: York Yankees. I never got close to it. Did I 628 00:47:02,635 --> 00:47:03,595 Speaker 4: become bitter or written? No? 629 00:47:03,675 --> 00:47:05,475 Speaker 1: I took my second dream and got that one, and 630 00:47:05,515 --> 00:47:07,475 Speaker 1: my third, my fourth, and fifth, and my sixth, and myself. 631 00:47:07,635 --> 00:47:10,875 Speaker 1: Not for the conservatives. Rush Limbaugh was going to be 632 00:47:12,035 --> 00:47:14,315 Speaker 1: the great sportscaster, and he never got close to it. 633 00:47:14,355 --> 00:47:16,475 Speaker 1: And when he finally got the opportunity to do it 634 00:47:16,475 --> 00:47:19,035 Speaker 1: in two thousand and two, I believe when ESPN finally 635 00:47:19,035 --> 00:47:20,995 Speaker 1: put him on the NFL show, and he did know 636 00:47:21,035 --> 00:47:24,275 Speaker 1: something about football. When they finally put him on, like 637 00:47:24,355 --> 00:47:28,155 Speaker 1: three weeks into it, he existed that Donovan McNabb was 638 00:47:28,235 --> 00:47:31,715 Speaker 1: highly rated by NFL experts simply because he was African 639 00:47:31,755 --> 00:47:34,035 Speaker 1: American and they needed an African American to be a 640 00:47:34,075 --> 00:47:38,195 Speaker 1: top quarterback. Bye. Rush, See, you got another chance after 641 00:47:38,235 --> 00:47:40,755 Speaker 1: all those years, and you blew it in just three weeks. 642 00:47:41,715 --> 00:47:45,435 Speaker 1: So that's where Rush Limbaugh came from. And of course, 643 00:47:45,555 --> 00:47:49,555 Speaker 1: if every time you say Bill Clinton is a rapist, 644 00:47:49,875 --> 00:47:53,435 Speaker 1: or you say Nancy Pelosi is a fascist, or you 645 00:47:53,475 --> 00:47:58,635 Speaker 1: say Kamala Harris is a communist. If every time you 646 00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:01,795 Speaker 1: say that, somebody sends you ten thousand dollars, guess what 647 00:48:01,795 --> 00:48:04,955 Speaker 1: you're going to say, and sooner rather than later, because 648 00:48:04,995 --> 00:48:07,835 Speaker 1: it's impossible to go on at that volume of work 649 00:48:09,235 --> 00:48:12,395 Speaker 1: saying things extemporaneously that you don't believe the truth will 650 00:48:12,435 --> 00:48:14,475 Speaker 1: come out. At some point. You have to believe it. 651 00:48:15,315 --> 00:48:17,955 Speaker 1: You have to begin to believe it. You get, as 652 00:48:17,995 --> 00:48:22,195 Speaker 1: the cliche goes high on your own supply, and each 653 00:48:22,235 --> 00:48:24,435 Speaker 1: time you get a little higher, they send you a 654 00:48:24,435 --> 00:48:27,235 Speaker 1: little bit more money. It is thus not a coincidence 655 00:48:27,475 --> 00:48:30,515 Speaker 1: that rush Limbaugh nearly went to prison because he had 656 00:48:30,555 --> 00:48:35,115 Speaker 1: a housekeeper who used to get him vicoden and other painkillers, 657 00:48:35,395 --> 00:48:39,875 Speaker 1: prescription painkillers by the hundreds. He took high two digits 658 00:48:39,915 --> 00:48:46,555 Speaker 1: in painkillers every day because ultimately he could not believe, 659 00:48:47,635 --> 00:48:51,155 Speaker 1: deep in his soul that what he was saying was true, 660 00:48:51,195 --> 00:48:56,715 Speaker 1: even remotely true, but to sell fascism. It is a 661 00:48:56,795 --> 00:49:02,555 Speaker 1: verified and thoroughly documented fact that the entirety of the 662 00:49:02,635 --> 00:49:06,675 Speaker 1: Nazi brass in Germany in the thirties and into the 663 00:49:06,715 --> 00:49:13,235 Speaker 1: war regularly got methamphetamines and other uppers and other prescription 664 00:49:13,315 --> 00:49:15,955 Speaker 1: painkillers of the time. There's an entire book on it. 665 00:49:16,635 --> 00:49:21,995 Speaker 1: That is just revealing, and that was Rush Windbaugh. Sean 666 00:49:22,035 --> 00:49:26,315 Speaker 1: Hannity would seemingly have been the exact opposite. In two 667 00:49:26,315 --> 00:49:30,115 Speaker 1: thousand and six, two thousand and five, perhaps I went 668 00:49:30,155 --> 00:49:33,795 Speaker 1: back to ESPN after years of nuclear war at the 669 00:49:33,795 --> 00:49:36,515 Speaker 1: request of the head of ESPN Radio to do an 670 00:49:36,555 --> 00:49:39,155 Speaker 1: hour every day on Dan Patrick's radio show. And we 671 00:49:39,195 --> 00:49:41,595 Speaker 1: had a gas and they paid me an extraordinary amount 672 00:49:41,595 --> 00:49:43,635 Speaker 1: of money and it was such a nice break. The 673 00:49:43,755 --> 00:49:46,555 Speaker 1: MSNBC show was just coming into prominence, and it was 674 00:49:46,635 --> 00:49:49,875 Speaker 1: a lot of work, and an hour with Dan Patrick 675 00:49:50,395 --> 00:49:52,635 Speaker 1: was not a lot of work. I would get there. 676 00:49:52,755 --> 00:49:54,475 Speaker 1: We did the three o'clock to four o'clock hour, if 677 00:49:54,475 --> 00:49:56,435 Speaker 1: I remember correctly, I would get there at three o'clock 678 00:49:57,275 --> 00:49:59,595 Speaker 1: and he'd be in his break. They'd have a news 679 00:49:59,715 --> 00:50:02,675 Speaker 1: update from Dan Davis, and I'd say to him on 680 00:50:02,675 --> 00:50:05,035 Speaker 1: the line, what are we talking about? Ego to talk 681 00:50:05,035 --> 00:50:07,155 Speaker 1: about Barry Bonds. We're gonna talk about this, We're gonna 682 00:50:07,195 --> 00:50:08,915 Speaker 1: tell Okay, great, let me call up a couple of 683 00:50:08,955 --> 00:50:11,795 Speaker 1: stories on the computer and we'd go and then at 684 00:50:11,835 --> 00:50:13,955 Speaker 1: the end of the hour, I'd say, I'll talk to 685 00:50:13,995 --> 00:50:17,675 Speaker 1: you tomorrow, and there's Keith Olverman, my friend, he has 686 00:50:17,715 --> 00:50:21,915 Speaker 1: to go save the democracy now. But the studio that 687 00:50:21,995 --> 00:50:23,675 Speaker 1: we used often, and I had one in my house, 688 00:50:23,675 --> 00:50:24,915 Speaker 1: so I didn't have to do this. But it was 689 00:50:24,995 --> 00:50:27,555 Speaker 1: nice to get into a big studio, a top Madison 690 00:50:27,595 --> 00:50:30,755 Speaker 1: Square Garden was at the ABC Radio network, and it 691 00:50:30,835 --> 00:50:32,395 Speaker 1: helped because every once in a while I had to 692 00:50:32,395 --> 00:50:35,195 Speaker 1: do things for ABC Radio and WABC in New York 693 00:50:35,275 --> 00:50:39,115 Speaker 1: as part of the deal. So I was very happy 694 00:50:39,115 --> 00:50:42,115 Speaker 1: to be there. And one day, as I was leaving, 695 00:50:42,555 --> 00:50:45,155 Speaker 1: I see sitting in a studio, a different studio, a 696 00:50:45,195 --> 00:50:47,275 Speaker 1: couple of studios away from the one i'd just used 697 00:50:47,275 --> 00:50:50,075 Speaker 1: for an hour. To my surprise, there is Sean Hannity 698 00:50:51,195 --> 00:50:54,075 Speaker 1: and he pounds on the inside of the window like 699 00:50:54,195 --> 00:50:58,875 Speaker 1: that and waves me in. And I had already I 700 00:50:58,915 --> 00:51:00,795 Speaker 1: don't know how many times I put Sean Hannity in 701 00:51:00,835 --> 00:51:02,955 Speaker 1: on the Worst Person's List, but there he was, in 702 00:51:03,035 --> 00:51:05,115 Speaker 1: the flesh, and we had never met before. So again, 703 00:51:05,275 --> 00:51:07,955 Speaker 1: this is two thousand and five, six somewhere like that, 704 00:51:09,235 --> 00:51:12,275 Speaker 1: and it's I don't know, three point fifty seven or 705 00:51:12,275 --> 00:51:14,435 Speaker 1: soeve and he's going on the air at four and 706 00:51:14,475 --> 00:51:16,835 Speaker 1: he says, listen, I don't understand this. Why do people 707 00:51:16,835 --> 00:51:19,675 Speaker 1: think I hate you. People are assume, Wait, we have 708 00:51:19,675 --> 00:51:22,435 Speaker 1: a fistfight the moment we ever met. Every time you 709 00:51:22,475 --> 00:51:25,075 Speaker 1: put me on that worst person's list, we get another 710 00:51:25,115 --> 00:51:28,315 Speaker 1: ten thousand viewers. Every time I make a reference to MSNBC, 711 00:51:28,355 --> 00:51:31,075 Speaker 1: I'm sure you get another ten thousand viewers. It's just television. 712 00:51:31,835 --> 00:51:33,595 Speaker 1: And I thought, oh my god, I hate this guy 713 00:51:33,595 --> 00:51:36,235 Speaker 1: more than I hate Wimbaugh. He didn't believe a word 714 00:51:36,275 --> 00:51:38,635 Speaker 1: of it, or if he believed it, he didn't think 715 00:51:38,635 --> 00:51:41,155 Speaker 1: there was anything wrong with it or controversial about it. 716 00:51:41,475 --> 00:51:43,435 Speaker 1: He didn't think it was worth standing up for or 717 00:51:43,515 --> 00:51:47,035 Speaker 1: for somebody else to be standing against. He assumed I 718 00:51:47,075 --> 00:51:49,475 Speaker 1: didn't believe what I was saying, that this was just 719 00:51:49,515 --> 00:51:53,755 Speaker 1: a television act. In fact, he said just stay there, 720 00:51:53,795 --> 00:51:55,635 Speaker 1: and he signed a show on he goes. You know, 721 00:51:55,755 --> 00:51:58,035 Speaker 1: people think I hate all liberals. Well, I don't hate 722 00:51:58,035 --> 00:52:00,515 Speaker 1: all liberals at all. Some of them are really nice guys. 723 00:52:00,515 --> 00:52:02,995 Speaker 1: There's one standing here now. I'm not going to mention him, 724 00:52:02,995 --> 00:52:05,435 Speaker 1: because you know, I get him in trouble if we 725 00:52:05,515 --> 00:52:08,155 Speaker 1: find out he finds we're friendly and we haven't had 726 00:52:08,155 --> 00:52:10,035 Speaker 1: a fist fight yet. But he's a great guy, and 727 00:52:10,035 --> 00:52:12,115 Speaker 1: he just said something really funny about sports, and I'm 728 00:52:12,155 --> 00:52:14,555 Speaker 1: just gonna quote him, and so, you know what, you 729 00:52:14,715 --> 00:52:17,035 Speaker 1: hate all those liberals, but leave a little room for 730 00:52:17,075 --> 00:52:20,715 Speaker 1: the good ones. And I was like crying out loud, 731 00:52:20,755 --> 00:52:23,955 Speaker 1: I'd rather deal with Rush Limbaugh. Well. And then there 732 00:52:24,075 --> 00:52:27,235 Speaker 1: was the other, of course, future if Sean Hannity was 733 00:52:27,515 --> 00:52:31,715 Speaker 1: to become a true believer, because once again he started 734 00:52:31,755 --> 00:52:34,155 Speaker 1: that show for Fox in nineteen ninety six when they 735 00:52:34,195 --> 00:52:36,475 Speaker 1: went on the air. The story I told Drews from 736 00:52:36,675 --> 00:52:39,475 Speaker 1: ten years later. Thirteen years later, he was seated a 737 00:52:39,555 --> 00:52:43,715 Speaker 1: couple of boxes behind me at Yankee Stadium when the 738 00:52:43,795 --> 00:52:45,755 Speaker 1: Yankees won the two thousand and nine World Series, and 739 00:52:45,755 --> 00:52:47,795 Speaker 1: we waved and took photos of each other and tweeted 740 00:52:47,795 --> 00:52:50,235 Speaker 1: the photos. We were still kind of friendly. And by 741 00:52:50,635 --> 00:52:52,755 Speaker 1: you know, twenty sixteen, he was advocating for a man 742 00:52:52,755 --> 00:52:56,075 Speaker 1: wants to be the dictator of America. And you can't 743 00:52:56,075 --> 00:52:58,515 Speaker 1: do that if you don't believe it, if it's pure opportunism, 744 00:52:58,595 --> 00:53:02,635 Speaker 1: you can't do what Sean Hannity did. So he, again, 745 00:53:03,235 --> 00:53:10,035 Speaker 1: like Limbaugh, started selling a product and ended taking the product. O'Reilly, 746 00:53:10,955 --> 00:53:16,515 Speaker 1: I believe at some point must have been more moderate 747 00:53:16,555 --> 00:53:19,915 Speaker 1: than he turned out to be. His story is largely different. 748 00:53:20,435 --> 00:53:24,995 Speaker 1: He was what the exaggerations of my own career say 749 00:53:25,075 --> 00:53:27,435 Speaker 1: I was, but he was it for real. He worked 750 00:53:27,435 --> 00:53:30,075 Speaker 1: in three different local television markets in one year. He 751 00:53:30,115 --> 00:53:32,835 Speaker 1: had to move three times in one year. I never 752 00:53:32,875 --> 00:53:36,795 Speaker 1: did anything like that. I never worked in two local 753 00:53:36,835 --> 00:53:39,955 Speaker 1: markets in one year. In fact, I only worked in 754 00:53:39,955 --> 00:53:43,675 Speaker 1: two local markets in my life in television. I haven't 755 00:53:43,715 --> 00:53:46,635 Speaker 1: had half the jobs that Bill O'Reilly did, and he 756 00:53:46,715 --> 00:53:48,915 Speaker 1: was never successful. But his goal was to be I 757 00:53:48,995 --> 00:53:53,155 Speaker 1: believe he wanted to be Walter Cronkite. I'm not kidding 758 00:53:53,955 --> 00:53:58,315 Speaker 1: Walter Cronkite. And he got to work for NBC News 759 00:53:58,355 --> 00:54:01,115 Speaker 1: and ABC News. He got to be an anchor at 760 00:54:01,115 --> 00:54:03,235 Speaker 1: the same station in Boston that I worked at for 761 00:54:03,275 --> 00:54:05,715 Speaker 1: a while, we missed each other by like three months, 762 00:54:05,875 --> 00:54:08,435 Speaker 1: and he wanted to be He wanted to be Walter Cronkoint. 763 00:54:08,475 --> 00:54:10,515 Speaker 1: He wanted to be the voice of America. He wanted 764 00:54:10,555 --> 00:54:13,715 Speaker 1: to be the most trusted man in America, absolutely devoid 765 00:54:13,715 --> 00:54:17,635 Speaker 1: of political bias, trusted by everybody. Well, that didn't work 766 00:54:17,675 --> 00:54:21,955 Speaker 1: out because they kept firing him, and so he was 767 00:54:21,995 --> 00:54:25,835 Speaker 1: working on Inside Edition owned by the Fox people. When 768 00:54:25,875 --> 00:54:28,955 Speaker 1: Fox launched the Fox News Channel, in nineteen ninety six, 769 00:54:29,475 --> 00:54:30,915 Speaker 1: and they said, well, we're going to have to kill 770 00:54:30,955 --> 00:54:32,555 Speaker 1: some time here. What have we got. We got this 771 00:54:32,555 --> 00:54:35,315 Speaker 1: guy O'Reilly under contract for another eight to ten months here, 772 00:54:35,315 --> 00:54:37,835 Speaker 1: and he's doing terribly with Inside Edition and everybody hates 773 00:54:37,875 --> 00:54:42,035 Speaker 1: him there. Let's move him into the three pm slot 774 00:54:42,195 --> 00:54:43,835 Speaker 1: or something on his Fox News and then when he 775 00:54:44,195 --> 00:54:45,795 Speaker 1: contract is up. I mean, you know, if he makes 776 00:54:45,795 --> 00:54:47,395 Speaker 1: some sort of impression, we can offer him half what 777 00:54:47,475 --> 00:54:50,955 Speaker 1: he's making now, and if not, he's out the door. Well, 778 00:54:51,275 --> 00:54:54,395 Speaker 1: Fox's primetime lineup and nobody remembers. This began with at 779 00:54:54,435 --> 00:54:58,635 Speaker 1: eight o'clock Catherine Cryer, formerly of ABC and CNN and 780 00:54:58,675 --> 00:55:01,995 Speaker 1: a former judge in Texas and really pretty much a 781 00:55:02,035 --> 00:55:06,555 Speaker 1: straight down the middle, slightly leaning to the left news 782 00:55:06,595 --> 00:55:10,835 Speaker 1: anchor and pretty good one. And she didn't draw flies 783 00:55:10,835 --> 00:55:13,795 Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. Instead, O'Reilly, who I believe was on 784 00:55:13,795 --> 00:55:16,835 Speaker 1: at two o'clock in the afternoon, had an extraordinary spike 785 00:55:16,915 --> 00:55:22,195 Speaker 1: because he went on expressing his frustration. People thought he 786 00:55:22,315 --> 00:55:25,715 Speaker 1: was talking about the country and right wing versus left wing. 787 00:55:25,755 --> 00:55:28,555 Speaker 1: He was talking about how everybody had dumped on Bill O'Reilly. 788 00:55:28,875 --> 00:55:31,755 Speaker 1: The point of every episode of every show Bill O'Reilly 789 00:55:31,835 --> 00:55:35,275 Speaker 1: ever did. Ultimately you could put his name in there 790 00:55:35,315 --> 00:55:38,435 Speaker 1: when he talked about America or values, or this happened 791 00:55:38,435 --> 00:55:40,875 Speaker 1: to a friend of his, or why I was so 792 00:55:40,955 --> 00:55:42,995 Speaker 1: surprised I went to this restaurant in Harlem and they 793 00:55:42,995 --> 00:55:45,875 Speaker 1: didn't say I want some more iced T MF. Or 794 00:55:47,035 --> 00:55:50,515 Speaker 1: every one of those stories is about him and how 795 00:55:50,555 --> 00:55:52,515 Speaker 1: he did not get to be Walter Cronkite and all 796 00:55:52,555 --> 00:55:56,235 Speaker 1: the people he was now going to screw back and 797 00:55:56,315 --> 00:56:00,315 Speaker 1: they loved it, and he became a template, and Hannity 798 00:56:00,395 --> 00:56:01,995 Speaker 1: looked at that and went, I'm going to do that too. 799 00:56:03,915 --> 00:56:07,795 Speaker 1: Bill O'Reilly, by the time I met him, really really 800 00:56:07,835 --> 00:56:11,955 Speaker 1: believed this. And again, if you're expressing your own rage 801 00:56:12,595 --> 00:56:15,755 Speaker 1: and just dressing it up and making it in somehow 802 00:56:16,195 --> 00:56:19,155 Speaker 1: some fashion generic for everybody in the world, of course 803 00:56:19,155 --> 00:56:21,915 Speaker 1: you're going to believe it. You are angry. Bill O'Reilly 804 00:56:21,915 --> 00:56:25,715 Speaker 1: will die without ever becoming Walter Cronkite. I will die 805 00:56:25,755 --> 00:56:28,035 Speaker 1: without becoming the play by playman of the New York Yankees, 806 00:56:28,035 --> 00:56:31,915 Speaker 1: and I'll go well, travel would have been terrible crying 807 00:56:31,955 --> 00:56:38,155 Speaker 1: out loud click in any event, O'Reilly, as I've outlined 808 00:56:38,195 --> 00:56:40,595 Speaker 1: many times in many places, did not take well to 809 00:56:40,635 --> 00:56:44,155 Speaker 1: the criticism that I began to unleash on him. Literally 810 00:56:44,155 --> 00:56:46,275 Speaker 1: the day I returned to MSNBC in two thousand and three, 811 00:56:46,315 --> 00:56:47,555 Speaker 1: when I got a phone call from one of my 812 00:56:47,595 --> 00:56:50,875 Speaker 1: old friends at NBC in Washington, Nora O'Donnell, who said, 813 00:56:50,915 --> 00:56:53,115 Speaker 1: you should do a segment on Bill O'Reilly. It's so 814 00:56:53,155 --> 00:56:55,075 Speaker 1: great to have you back. He lies every night. You 815 00:56:55,075 --> 00:57:00,195 Speaker 1: should do something about O'Reilly, called O'Reilly Factor fiction, and 816 00:57:00,235 --> 00:57:04,595 Speaker 1: I went, thank you, Nora, thank you for our resuscitate 817 00:57:04,835 --> 00:57:07,275 Speaker 1: my career at MSNBC. And as soon as the war 818 00:57:07,355 --> 00:57:11,195 Speaker 1: began to die down in Iraq, we began to go 819 00:57:11,235 --> 00:57:13,635 Speaker 1: after Bill O'Reilly. And God knows he provided all the 820 00:57:13,675 --> 00:57:18,635 Speaker 1: ammunition I could ever want. The rule is never punched down, 821 00:57:18,675 --> 00:57:21,275 Speaker 1: and all he did was punched down. He wanted somebody 822 00:57:21,315 --> 00:57:25,395 Speaker 1: to stop me. He tried to blackmail Jeff mL the 823 00:57:25,915 --> 00:57:28,875 Speaker 1: GE chairman. I've told that story a dozen times. He 824 00:57:29,235 --> 00:57:32,795 Speaker 1: threatened Jeff Zooker, he threatened to expose this and say 825 00:57:32,835 --> 00:57:36,635 Speaker 1: that he threatened, And finally we ran into each other 826 00:57:37,955 --> 00:57:41,315 Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium. I went to a Yankee Mets game 827 00:57:41,355 --> 00:57:43,235 Speaker 1: and had a credential because I was on the Dan 828 00:57:43,275 --> 00:57:45,875 Speaker 1: Patrick Show every day. I was actually also a sports 829 00:57:45,915 --> 00:57:49,675 Speaker 1: reporter two thousand and five, two thousand and six, Yankee Stadium, 830 00:57:49,675 --> 00:57:52,155 Speaker 1: and there's O'Reilly and I walk out onto the field, 831 00:57:52,195 --> 00:57:54,355 Speaker 1: and to my surprise, there's Bill O'Reilly and he's got 832 00:57:54,395 --> 00:57:57,235 Speaker 1: a not a press pass, but a pass given to 833 00:57:57,315 --> 00:57:58,955 Speaker 1: him by the manager of the Yankees at the time, 834 00:57:59,035 --> 00:58:01,475 Speaker 1: Joe Tory. So it was an FOJ friend of Joe 835 00:58:01,555 --> 00:58:03,915 Speaker 1: pass allows you to get on the field you're not 836 00:58:03,955 --> 00:58:06,835 Speaker 1: allowed in certain And he was at one end of 837 00:58:06,835 --> 00:58:08,635 Speaker 1: the Yankee dugout as I came out of the Yankee 838 00:58:08,715 --> 00:58:10,715 Speaker 1: dugout on the home plate side, and the moment he 839 00:58:10,755 --> 00:58:14,995 Speaker 1: saw me, he moved ten feet further away. And every 840 00:58:15,035 --> 00:58:16,635 Speaker 1: time I would look out onto the field, I could 841 00:58:16,675 --> 00:58:18,955 Speaker 1: feel his eyes burning a hole in the side of 842 00:58:18,995 --> 00:58:20,635 Speaker 1: my head, and I would turn my head quickly and 843 00:58:20,635 --> 00:58:25,755 Speaker 1: he would look away. I would edge suddenly one inch 844 00:58:25,795 --> 00:58:27,355 Speaker 1: closer to him, and I could see out of the 845 00:58:27,355 --> 00:58:30,475 Speaker 1: corner of my eye him edging one inch further away 846 00:58:30,515 --> 00:58:35,235 Speaker 1: from me. This went on for ten minutes while I 847 00:58:35,275 --> 00:58:39,115 Speaker 1: talked to my friends among the sports reporters. Later, he 848 00:58:39,195 --> 00:58:42,155 Speaker 1: tried to get into the met clubhouse and his friend 849 00:58:42,195 --> 00:58:45,235 Speaker 1: of Joe Torre credential did not allow him near the clubhouse, 850 00:58:45,475 --> 00:58:48,875 Speaker 1: and they asked him to leave. Two or three days later, 851 00:58:48,915 --> 00:58:52,875 Speaker 1: I got a call from the Yankees. There was an 852 00:58:52,995 --> 00:58:55,355 Speaker 1: international incident, was the way it was described to me, 853 00:58:55,555 --> 00:58:58,715 Speaker 1: about the fact that I had credentials and Bill O'Reilly 854 00:58:58,795 --> 00:59:02,795 Speaker 1: did not Fox, to the point of having the president 855 00:59:02,955 --> 00:59:06,275 Speaker 1: of Fox's operations saying he was calling on behalf of 856 00:59:06,355 --> 00:59:10,355 Speaker 1: Roger Ayle's demanding to know why I was given access 857 00:59:10,355 --> 00:59:13,635 Speaker 1: to the Mets clubhouse, but Bill O'Reilly was not, And 858 00:59:13,715 --> 00:59:15,995 Speaker 1: the head of PR for the Yankees, sounding like he 859 00:59:16,035 --> 00:59:19,435 Speaker 1: was reading from a script, went through thirty minutes explaining 860 00:59:19,915 --> 00:59:22,995 Speaker 1: that the Yankees didn't give credentials to celebrities and that 861 00:59:23,435 --> 00:59:26,835 Speaker 1: these sort of situations won't be tolerated, and only the 862 00:59:26,875 --> 00:59:29,835 Speaker 1: working press gets credentials. And you could hear that there 863 00:59:29,835 --> 00:59:32,355 Speaker 1: were other people on the phone call who were not talking. 864 00:59:32,675 --> 00:59:34,315 Speaker 1: You could hear it because every once in a while 865 00:59:34,315 --> 00:59:36,035 Speaker 1: the guy would stop suddenly and then you'd hear in 866 00:59:36,035 --> 00:59:42,275 Speaker 1: the background. I assumed that was O'Reilly. The next day, 867 00:59:43,235 --> 00:59:47,915 Speaker 1: I went to Yankee Stadium with my credential, and I 868 00:59:47,955 --> 00:59:49,675 Speaker 1: went to the PR director of the Yankees and I said, 869 00:59:49,675 --> 00:59:51,795 Speaker 1: what was that? He goes, what do you mean? I said, 870 00:59:51,875 --> 00:59:53,755 Speaker 1: how come I have a credential today? Wasn't that about 871 00:59:53,835 --> 00:59:56,795 Speaker 1: taking away my credentials? He goes, what did I say 872 00:59:56,795 --> 01:00:01,155 Speaker 1: at the beginning of that conversation? I said, you said 873 01:00:01,195 --> 01:00:02,915 Speaker 1: you were going to make this phone call and talk 874 01:00:02,955 --> 01:00:04,675 Speaker 1: to me about the fact that we did not issue 875 01:00:04,795 --> 01:00:08,235 Speaker 1: credentials to celebrities. Did we have that conversation? Did I 876 01:00:08,315 --> 01:00:11,155 Speaker 1: do that? Yes? Do we issue you a credential because 877 01:00:11,155 --> 01:00:13,275 Speaker 1: you're on the Dan Patrick shower, because you're a celebrity. 878 01:00:13,875 --> 01:00:17,875 Speaker 1: And I went, I presume the former correct have a 879 01:00:17,955 --> 01:00:20,675 Speaker 1: nice game. And that was It. Never came up again. 880 01:00:21,075 --> 01:00:26,675 Speaker 1: O'Reilly believed he had somehow sabotaged my access to Yankee Stadium, 881 01:00:26,915 --> 01:00:29,075 Speaker 1: and he tried it many other times. And I saw 882 01:00:29,155 --> 01:00:32,795 Speaker 1: him once at a Joe Tory event, a charity event, 883 01:00:32,835 --> 01:00:34,715 Speaker 1: and he did the same thing where he stared at 884 01:00:34,755 --> 01:00:36,835 Speaker 1: me and then moved an inch away if I got 885 01:00:36,835 --> 01:00:43,395 Speaker 1: too close to him. An extraordinarily crazy man and remained 886 01:00:43,475 --> 01:00:46,795 Speaker 1: such to this day. But as I always say, I 887 01:00:46,835 --> 01:00:48,795 Speaker 1: probably owe him ten percent of all of my earnings 888 01:00:48,835 --> 01:00:52,995 Speaker 1: from MSNBC because he just couldn't ignore me. I mean, 889 01:00:52,995 --> 01:00:56,995 Speaker 1: his ratings were initially at least five times mine. Even 890 01:00:56,995 --> 01:00:59,715 Speaker 1: at the end, when we'd grown that thing into making 891 01:00:59,715 --> 01:01:02,075 Speaker 1: one hundred two hundred million dollars a year profit for NBC, 892 01:01:02,395 --> 01:01:05,915 Speaker 1: his ratings were still twice three times mine. He should 893 01:01:05,955 --> 01:01:11,355 Speaker 1: never have once mentioned me. Instead, he put up a 894 01:01:11,395 --> 01:01:13,915 Speaker 1: petition one day, had them do it on the Fox 895 01:01:13,955 --> 01:01:18,075 Speaker 1: News website too, without mentioning my name, because he refused 896 01:01:18,075 --> 01:01:22,835 Speaker 1: to ever mention my name. He wanted Phil Donahue reinstated 897 01:01:22,875 --> 01:01:26,115 Speaker 1: as the eight pm anchor on MSNBC, and he did 898 01:01:26,115 --> 01:01:27,995 Speaker 1: a whole thing about how Phil Donna, who had been 899 01:01:27,995 --> 01:01:31,035 Speaker 1: treated so badly, so sign up here on foxnews dot 900 01:01:31,075 --> 01:01:33,915 Speaker 1: com the get Phil Donahue the eight pm slot that 901 01:01:33,995 --> 01:01:37,195 Speaker 1: he so richly deserves. And I was like, thank you, Bill. 902 01:01:37,595 --> 01:01:39,875 Speaker 1: So the next thing I did was I got my camera, 903 01:01:40,235 --> 01:01:43,635 Speaker 1: one of my camera crews from NBC in Secaucus to 904 01:01:43,955 --> 01:01:48,875 Speaker 1: record everybody on the MSNBC Countdown staff lined up to 905 01:01:48,915 --> 01:01:51,955 Speaker 1: get to the computer and all of them signing up 906 01:01:52,115 --> 01:01:56,515 Speaker 1: to get me fired and get Phil Donahue reinstated. Because 907 01:01:56,595 --> 01:01:59,515 Speaker 1: one thing about fascists and people who get high on 908 01:01:59,555 --> 01:02:02,435 Speaker 1: their own supply, but people like Bill Riley never understand 909 01:02:02,515 --> 01:02:04,675 Speaker 1: people like that who believe all this, that people are 910 01:02:04,755 --> 01:02:07,675 Speaker 1: at home taking notes, writing down how will I live 911 01:02:07,715 --> 01:02:09,675 Speaker 1: my life? This is what Bill O'Reilly says, This is 912 01:02:09,675 --> 01:02:11,755 Speaker 1: what Hannity says, this is what Limbo says. One thing 913 01:02:11,835 --> 01:02:14,955 Speaker 1: is they really believe that they don't recognize that the 914 01:02:15,075 --> 01:02:20,315 Speaker 1: job is just too largely inform but in many cases, 915 01:02:20,355 --> 01:02:22,835 Speaker 1: simply reassure people who've already reached the opinion you have 916 01:02:22,995 --> 01:02:24,715 Speaker 1: that they're not crazy, that there are other people who've 917 01:02:24,715 --> 01:02:27,395 Speaker 1: reached that same opinion, and to add to their understanding 918 01:02:27,435 --> 01:02:30,115 Speaker 1: and correct them sometimes or to have them correct you. 919 01:02:30,595 --> 01:02:33,675 Speaker 1: It's illumination with maybe a few jokes and an entertaining 920 01:02:33,755 --> 01:02:36,635 Speaker 1: broadcast of some kind. It is not I am writing 921 01:02:36,675 --> 01:02:41,555 Speaker 1: the New Bible, and you will live your life this way. 922 01:02:41,675 --> 01:02:45,555 Speaker 1: So we got that count of how many people wanted 923 01:02:45,675 --> 01:02:48,595 Speaker 1: to have Phil Donahue reinstated like, we managed to get 924 01:02:48,595 --> 01:03:04,315 Speaker 1: it over five thousand. I've done all the damage I 925 01:03:04,315 --> 01:03:06,875 Speaker 1: can do. Thank you for listening. Most of our Countdown 926 01:03:06,955 --> 01:03:09,715 Speaker 1: music was arranged, produced, and performed by Brian Ray and 927 01:03:09,795 --> 01:03:13,195 Speaker 1: John Phillips Chanel. Our musical directors have Countdown and it 928 01:03:13,195 --> 01:03:16,755 Speaker 1: was produced by Tko Brothers. Mister Ray was on the guitars, 929 01:03:16,795 --> 01:03:21,355 Speaker 1: bass and drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. Our 930 01:03:21,395 --> 01:03:24,475 Speaker 1: satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball 931 01:03:24,475 --> 01:03:29,675 Speaker 1: stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The Olderman theme from ESPN two, 932 01:03:29,715 --> 01:03:33,395 Speaker 1: written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN, Inc. Is 933 01:03:33,435 --> 01:03:36,915 Speaker 1: the sports music. Other music arranged unperformed by the group 934 01:03:36,955 --> 01:03:40,675 Speaker 1: No Horns Allowed. My announcer today is my friend Stevie 935 01:03:40,795 --> 01:03:47,035 Speaker 1: van Zant. Everything else was, as always my fault. That's 936 01:03:47,075 --> 01:03:49,195 Speaker 1: countdown for today, Day two hundred and twenty one of 937 01:03:49,235 --> 01:03:54,555 Speaker 1: America held hostage again, just forty one days until the 938 01:03:54,595 --> 01:03:57,715 Speaker 1: scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term, 939 01:03:58,235 --> 01:04:04,075 Speaker 1: unless he is removed sooner by MAGA and Jeffrey Epstein 940 01:04:04,915 --> 01:04:08,235 Speaker 1: and the pavement on his hand, or by how he 941 01:04:08,355 --> 01:04:12,675 Speaker 1: keeps saying he wants to go to heaven. Okay, said 942 01:04:12,715 --> 01:04:18,435 Speaker 1: the Lord. The next scheduled countdown is Monday, Labor Day, Monday, 943 01:04:19,315 --> 01:04:22,675 Speaker 1: look for us Monday. You can listen to it Tuesday 944 01:04:22,715 --> 01:04:26,755 Speaker 1: and take Monday off. I wouldn't blame you till then. 945 01:04:26,795 --> 01:04:30,315 Speaker 1: I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and 946 01:04:30,355 --> 01:04:51,795 Speaker 1: good luck, Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. 947 01:04:52,075 --> 01:04:57,235 Speaker 1: For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 948 01:04:57,515 --> 01:04:59,675 Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.