July 25, 2024 • 47 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 219: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump’s nephew Fred III – the one who likes him – says Trump told him, in the oval office, in May 2020, that the disabled, quote, “these people…the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”
It is somehow worse than it seems.
Fred Trump III has a son William who has spent the whole of his 25 years on this planet fighting illness after illness and complication after complication. When the medical fund the family set up for William began to run dry in 2020, William called his uncle and asked for more help. “I don’t know,”Fred Trump quotes Donald Trump. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”
There are lots of words for this: euthanasia, mercy killing, assisted suicide, quietus; for the elderly senicide or geroniticide, the Nazis called it Akt-zone T-4. We all have our differing moral north stars but for most of us I think there are at least some circumstances in which it is valid and justifiable.
You and I both knew Trump was this kind of monster. What we must realize is that while others might see individually justifiable acts of assisted suicide, with Trump we are talking forced euthanasia - mass murder. I have asserted here before that we saw of Trump during Covid suggested this was at the heart of his attitude towards people: that they were just another commodity. Kill a few… kill a few thousand… so what. Just let them die and move down to Florida. Round them up by the millions in camps before deporting them, leaving lord knows how many to DIE in those camps. "These people. The shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die."
It's kind of amazing that in Fred Trump III's upcoming book he quotes his uncle using the N-word to blame damage to his car and that's barely an afterthought here. Which circles back to the campaign against Harris. Brian Kilmeade of Fox may have said the Vice President was going to a "college sorority" and he may have said "colored sorority" but two weeks ago Trump flunky Sebastian Gorka proudly called Harris "colored" - and the birtherism has started again.
This while Biden gave a moving and eloquent farewell address, Kim Jong Un told Trump to stuff his friendship, CBS reported there are a dozen potential VP candidates, and the next round of polls shows her - in a wildly conservative poll - just a point back in Pennsylvania, and cutting Trump's lead in half in the CNN poll while improving 5 points on Biden's last numbers among female voters and 11 among young voters and 16 points among black voters
B-Block (27:46) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: To analyze how the fascists are NOT running a misogynistic campaign against Kamala Harris, NewsMax brings on Mark Halperin and Ed Henry - both fired for harassment and worse. If you think Trump has been screwed up by Biden bowing out, The New York Times is down to criticizing HOW he bowed out and the astonished headline "The Most Ruthless Political Operator in the Country Is a WOMAN." And Russell Brand, super-genius, thinks melatonin controls skin color.
C-Block (42:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The old joke about this hated baseball figure was: you're in a boat with this guy, Hitler and Mussolini. You have a gun and two bullets. What do you do? Answer: shoot this guy, then throw Hitler overboard, then throw Mussolini overboard, then shoot this guy again just to make sure. The saga of how the Los Angeles Dodgers "lost" several million dollars in 1964 while making a huge profit.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's nephew,
the one who likes him, says Trump told him in
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the Overall Office in May twenty twenty that the disabled.
Quote these people, the shape they're in, all the expenses,
maybe those kinds of people should just die. This is
not merely horrifying on some kind of generic human level.
Fred Trump the first was Trump's father, Fred Trump. The
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second was Trump's older brother who died young. Fred Trump
the third is Trump's nephew, and he has a son, William,
who has spent the whole of his twenty five years
on this planet fighting illness after illness, and complication after completion.
And when the medical fund the family set up for
William began to run dry in twenty twenty, Fred the
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Third called his uncle, the President and asked for help.
I don't know Fred Trump quotes Donald Trump as saying,
with a sigh, he doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should
just let him die and move down to Florida. The
him in this sentence Trump wants to die is his
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own grand nephew. Because all the expenses, maybe those kinds
of people should just die. There are lots of words
for what Trump is proposing here euthanasia, mercy killing, assisted suicide,
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quietus for the elderly, senicide or geronticide. The Nazis called
it Oxyon T four. We all have our differing moral
north stars, but for most of us, I think there
are at least some circumstances in which the idea, regrettable
as it is, of helping people in trouble leave this
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life is valid and justifiable. And then there are monsters
like Donald Trump who would make it mandatory, who would
give themselves the choice to kill you or your disabled relatives.
These people the shape therein all the expenses. Maybe those
kinds of people should just die. Your son doesn't recognize you,
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maybe you should just let him die and move down
to Florida. Because the only term that applies to what
Trump was thinking about the physically challenged is mass murder.
I have asserted here before that what we saw of
Trump during COVID suggested this was at the heart of
his attitude towards people. A mass murderer, that people just
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another commodity. Kill a few, kill a few thousand, kill
a million, So what just let them die and move
down to Florida. Round them up by the millions in
camps before you deport them leaving. Lord knows how many
to die in those camps. These people, the shape they're in,
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all the expenses, Maybe those kinds of people should just die.
Fred Trump the third has published these quotes in excerpts
of his book All in the Family, How, fitting Trump
as Archie Bunker, only without the brain power and conscience.
The excerpts in Time magazine, The New York Times and
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The Guardian also got hard copies of the book, which
comes out next Tuesday. It is not amazing to me
that the sick people of this country, the ones without conscience,
the ones like Trump with no real understanding that the
people they are not related to or friendly with or
don't like, that those people are still people, and the
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people too lazy or stupid to realize that this is
the kind of man they have been supporting. It is
not amazing to me that they are supporting this monster
Trump for president again, or that they got him elected
president in twenty sixteen. What is amazing to me is
that we humanity, the people of this nation and all
the other nations, somehow survived Trump. Watching Joe Biden last night,
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Thank you sir, thank you for helping us survive Trump,
and thank you for the great sacrifice that will enable
us to survive Trump again, because Trump is a mass murderer.
And one side note, quote these people the shape there
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in all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should
just die. If it ever, for some reas crosses your
mind to actually say something like that out loud, think again.
Quote might not just hurt you if somebody repeats it,
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But in fact, somebody worse than you, somebody sicker than you,
somebody more murderous than you, might hear that, and wonder
if the quote might also be applied to you. By
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the way, Fred Trump the third has another nightmarish anecdote
about his uncle to share in his book decades earlier.
The New York Times put it in the nineteen seventy
when the author claims to have heard his uncle use
a racial slur after his car had been damaged and
he was searching for someone to blame. The quote from
the book cleaned up just a little bit, quote N words.
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I recall him saying, disgustedly, look what the N words did. Unquote,
when you are quoted directly in a book by a
close relative who heard you repeatedly use racial epithets, and
that's not even close to the worst thing he quotes
you as saying, because the rest of it is about
letting your own disabled great nephew die or killing untold
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numbers of physically and mentally challenged people. When the racial
epithets are not the lead story, you're not having a
good day, asshole, which continues something that started nearly two
weeks ago. All men, at all times in all history,
greater or small, good or evil, live their lives, often
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without detours or disasters. They often live them on top
of the world until some unpredictable, unforeseen day comes when
the world turns on them. One day they are beloved
or feared, or for other reasons, they have primacy. And then,
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just as inexplicably as when the hundreds of summer flies
seemingly filling that invisible box in front of your eyes
outside one day, when they all suddenly and simultaneously decide
to move exactly thirteen and a half inches to their left,
just like that, your primacy vanishes, no rhyme, no reason,
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no explanation, your luck or your goodwill or your mastery,
or your followers or your Reich ends, I think this
is happening to Trump. One of his own maga gun
nuts tried to kill him. He got hit by something,
claims it was a bullet, though a bullet would have
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taken his ear off. No law enforcement or medical authority
outside of a substance addled ex doctor has confirmed any
of this. Each day, it still lingers in the background,
waiting to explode into an unprecedented scandal. He goes from
there to picking a vice president, and the average net
favorable score for all VP picks since two thousand both
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parties is plus nineteen, and this idiot picks another idiot
whose net favorable is minus six. Did they vet this
idiot advance at all? Did they know he wrote the
forward to the book by the guy behind Project twenty
twenty five, the thing Trump insists he knows nothing about.
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Then after that, Trump's entire campaign, his entire campaign since
literally April of twenty nineteen, collapses because his entire campaign
was only about calling for Joe Biden to leave the
White House and or the campaign trail, not Joe Biden
actually leaving the White House and or the campaign trail.
Turns out, Trump's crackstaff had nothing ready in the event
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it actually happened, least of all any preparation for the
moment it dawned on America that Donald J. Dementia Trump
is now the exclusive national distributor of crazy old man.
Then the first polls with the new candidate hit and
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Kamala Harris was ahead or tied or damned close for
somebody on day three of their campaign. More on the
polls in a moment than after eight years of their
racism being enabled by Trump, Republican campaigners actually had to
warn senators and congressmen not to make racial references to
her nor call her dei. So of course all oh
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they did was call her dei because they can't help themselves,
because it is as if somebody has tampered with the
brakes on their mental cars. And guess who the hell
that was. And suddenly Brian kill Mead goes on Fox
and tries to attack Harris for skipping net and Yahoo's
campaign speech on Capitol Hill yesterday and instead going to
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a college sorority. Only one of the many things that
does not work properly in kill Mead's brain does not work,
and at best he kind of MUSHes up the word
college with another word he might have been thinking of,
which sounded like colored. And half the people watching Fox
or watching the tape here kill Mead say something like
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colored sorority or color or colored sorority. And while we're
arguing about whether or not Trump's top morning TV advocate
just used colored about Kamala Harris, everybody forgets the two
weeks Trump's favorite foreign fascist, Sebastian Gorka literally and seemingly
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proudly called Kamala Harris colored. She's a DEI higher right,
she's a woman. She's colored. Therefore she's gotta be good.
Do you think perhaps he called her college? I think
she's college. Oh and while we're debating Kilmead and ignoring Sorca,
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guess what others of Trump's friends are bringing us more bertherism.
There is this crazy woman named Emerald Robinson, and she
started her career started it as the White House corresponded
for One America News. Previously, she had starred as Jennifer
Lee in the blockbuster film Airline Disaster. Didn't last long.
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When America fired her, she went to Newsmax. They fired her.
She's now on Mike Lindell Lumpy Pillow TV and here
we go berther two electric Boogaloo. Emerald Robinson posts at
the time of Kamala Harris's birth, her parents were not
US citizens. They were foreign students. Her mother's visa was expired.
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She's the daughter of non citizens. Harris is not eligible
to hold the office of president. Where does it say that, Well,
it says that in the Invisible Book Emerald Robinson has
that only she's allowed to read. Obviously, famed actress Emerald
Robinson is now working on actually getting fired somehow from
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Mike Lindell's website, where she is currently senior Chief Fluffiness Correspondent.
Citizenship is automatically confirmed on any child born here period.
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. I don't know the
last time I looked Oakland was in the United States.
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So where did Robinson get this idea that there's a
Birtherism thing here. Well, a Republican said it in twenty
nineteen quote I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements.
And the Republican who said that about Kamala Harris was Wow,
you got it in the first guess Trump, So don't
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say anything racial about her other than the Dei and
the second wave of birthriism and calling her colored. Oh
and his own nephew quoting Trump using the N word
and advocating for the forced killing of the disabled to
save on the expenses on one more sign that the
worm has turned on Trump. Trump accept in speech Republican
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National Nazi Fascist convention about the North Korean dictator and oh,
by the way, mass murderer Kim Jong un, I get
along with him. He said he'd like to see me
back too. I think he misses me. If you want
to know the truth, it's nice to get along with
someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong
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Loon has now issued a response. Even if any administration
takes office in the US, the political climate, which is
confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change,
and accordingly, we do not care about this. Congratulations Trump.
You only have about three friends in the world, and
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one of them just said he does not care about you. Well,
when Kamala Harris beats Trump in November and Trump has
to flee the country to avoid dying in prison, here,
I guess he's gonna have to cross off North Korea
from the list of friendly destinations. The Harris campaign is
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betting at least a dozen candidates for vice president. Wait,
somebody vets CA candidates for vice president? Does Trump know
about this? Hit the road JD. We're going vetting quote.
Multiple sources tell CBS News that the list of candidates
include several governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of
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North Carolina, Andy Basher of Kentucky, Tim Waltz of Minnesota, JB.
Pritzker of Illinois, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Members of
the Biden administration, including Commerce Secretary Genia Rimundo and Transportation
Secretary Pete Pootage Edge, are also being considered, along with
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, among others. I got an out
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of the box idea about the others? What about for
Vice president? Joe Biden? Man? Would that throw a monkey
wrench into the political pundit machine? The Times wouldn't be
able to publish for a freaking month? Only a dozen candidates?
All right? Debates Fox is playing its part to letting
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Trump run away. Scared from debating her, Fox has now
offered a debate on September seventeenth. Once again, this would
allow Trump to back out of a debate he has
already committed to and blame the other participant. Now, the
correct response from the Harris campaign to this offer from
Fox is we will be at the ABC facility as
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planned at Texas Southern University on September twelfth. And as
to anything else, there is no reply, make no reference,
no thanks, no, she's busy measuring the drapes. Nothing, no reply.
Leave Trump hanging. Keep him talking. He has hit a
talking slump. Keep him talking. Let's also assess some of
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the newer polls. Nothing as cleanly all Harris as yesterday,
but all our good and one set of interior numbers
is great from the CNN poll comparing with Biden's numbers
against Trump either in an April or June poll. And
these are the same respondents. So this is the same
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people who said X in April or June are saying
why now Kamala Harris has an eleven point improvement from
Biden among young voters, and a sixteen point improvement among
black voters, and a five point improvement among female voters.
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That is the sort of thing you will see first
before you see the overall numbers. In the larger polls changed.
On the other hand, you may recall that three weeks
ago CNN put out what was considered even on the
Trump side to be something of an outlier, something showing
Trump ahead of Biden by six. Their overall number now
again on day three of the Harris campaign is Trump
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forty nine, Harris six. That is the lead cut in
half in three days. The Yugov poll for the Economist
National Trump forty four, Harris forty one, Kennedy five, West one,
Stein one, so putin getting what seven percent there? Active vote.
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I know what you're thinking, I've never heard of active
vote before. What a coincidence. I've never heard of active
vote before. National ge Trump fifty point five, Harris forty
nine point five National among independents, Active vote Harris fifty four,
Trump forty six among independents r MG. RMG is a
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breakaway poll from Rasmussen Polling. And as you know, Rasmussen
Polling is created by the two idiots who thought up
ESPN and then sold it for a bag of magic beans.
This is the breakaway. Apparently there's some sort of fissure
at Rasmussen make up the numbers polling company. The New
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Scott Rasmussen poll is Trump forty four, Harris forty three,
Kennedy six. I don't think it's a liberal leaning poll.
It's just a guess. Now they have another number where
they throw in leaners, leaping leaners for you, Stan Freiberg
fans Trump forty eight Harris forty six. Still one of
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those is a one point lead for Trump. The other
is a two point lead for Trump. On the breakaway
right wing pole, the Big Village Pole, Trump forty four,
Harris forty three. Last one had Trump over Biden by
four and one state pole in Pennsylvania North Star Opinion
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for the American Greatness North Star Opinion Pennsylvania Trump forty seven,
Harris forty five. And the interesting thing about this poll
is obviously Pennsylvania was getting away from the Democrats, so
a two point margin is a good start. However, the
American Greatness is a rabid Trump centric organization and they
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only have their lunatic in charge of Pennsylvania by two points.
And I close with the MOE. Just of the day
from doctor Joscelyn J. Fitzgerald, a euro gynecologist from Pittsburgh,
on what he has been so far. And there will
be others but so far, the only non dei, non
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birth attack on Vice President Harris in this brand new campaign,
the attack that says she cannot be president because she's
not invested in America's future because she has never had children,
says doctor Fitzgerald. No US president has ever given birth.
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So explain to me why suddenly we think that's necessary. Hey,
Harris campaign, are you vetting doctor Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald for
vice president? Because I think that might be a nice pick.
A programming note. I will try to do a Friday
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edition tomorrow, but if you will recall Tuesday's news, I
am getting my tattoo of my late seventeen year old
rescue pup Meney today. I suspect that will make a
long enough and full enough day if there is anything
urgent or frankly, there's just something I can you know,
get a row of stamps and mail in. There will
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be a brief episode Friday. If not, try to struggle
on without me in the interim. Also of interest here today,
honest to god, if you think Trump is screwed up.
After Biden pulled out, The New York Times is now
running half a dozen pieces a day criticizing Biden and
how he dropped out, and how the Democrats handled it
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and the Times blank surprise that, to quote the headline
in one of these pieces, the most ruthless political operator
in the country is a woman. Oh my god, there's
a powerful woman. That's it. We're shutting the Times down forever.
Our Times world is at an end. Who could have
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thought something so horrible could have happened in this the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety six Christ,
that's next. This is countdown, George Crolin. Pleasure to have
you here. Thank you. This is the best news show ever.
I told that to one of your producers, and I
want you to know that I've seen them all and
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it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. Thank
you sir. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between
you and I. We got six minutes to completely still
that in my rapt Yeah, that's good. I cheated. That
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was from October two thousand and seven. My late hero,
George Carlin doing the introduction. I saw him at Carnegie
Hall when I was fourteen years old, sat around laughing,
wondering when the adults were going to come in and
throw me out. When I was forty eight years old.
He sat next to me and told me mine was
the best newscast of all time. Just saw the documentary
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on him again, not an extraordinary man, so ahead of
us on this edition of Countdown, partly in honor of George.
That's what made me think of running that both the
New Yorker and a great baseball fan that he was
the story of how one of the most infamous baseball
people of all time, the most hated in New York history,
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used to also distort words in a way that would
have driven George, who was as good with the language
as was H. L. Mankin, would have driven him nuts.
How hated was the guy I'm going to tell you about.
The old joke was, you're in a boat with Hitler,
Mussolini and this guy. You have a gun, you have
two bullets. What do you do? The answer, shoot this guy,
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throw Hitler and Mussolini overboard. Then shoot this guy again
to make sure he's coming up in things I promised
not to tell first. There are still more new idiots
to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's wors persons
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in the world keat George used to call me Keith
like my granddad's did. They're all from the same neighborhood, Keith.
Let me tell you the bronze Newsmax, which is a
propaganda network, and boy are they unhappy. Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin. I'll just read what the head of media
Matters tweeted the two people Newsmax brings on this afternoon
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to insist that the GOP and Megamedia are not running
a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris are Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin. And there is a picture of the two
of them around some host guy in the middle, and
Henry has got that faint I'll kill you smile and
Halprin looks like but it looks like this is a
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mugshot of some sort, which is possible. Ed Henry fired
by CNN, then he went to Fox. Fox fired him
after harrisman and rape charges and been sued for rape.
Mark Halprin fired by NBC at HBO after harassment and
improper touching while he was still at ABC, and also
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for not wearing pants. Mark Alprin and Ed Henry talking
about how nobody's running a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris.
Of course not well to be fair ed. Henry and
Mark Halprin would be the experts on misogyny. My god,
you couldn't have gotten O'Reilly on there. Dig up Roger
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Ales and put him out there. He's probably still trying
to fondle somebody even though he's dead. What's that? Who's
that's been bothering you? The skeleton of Roger Ales? Runner
up The New York Times. The New York Times right
now is the third best political paper in New York,
behind Newsday and the Daily News. And I think it
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has a chance to sync to fourth place behind the
New York Post. And I'm only counting those in English.
The Times caught the car with Joe Biden because he
would not do an interview with them. They made up
a whole construction about how that proves he was not
cognitively read. It was about the Times. The Times is ultimately,
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although there are excellent reporters doing great work, The New
York Times as an institution under this editor con and
after the latest Sealzburger, who's the publisher? The New York
Times is about the New York Times. The best thing
in the New York Times was wordle until they whirdled
everybody into the ground. Now the best thing about the
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New York Times is canceling the subscription because it's so
so very satisfying. They caught the car with Biden stepping
aside that has not stopped them. Can't stop, won't stop.
A Brett Stevens op ed Democrats deserved a contest, not
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a coronation. Brett Stevens, who is a conservative, apparently was
in a coma during the Republican National Convention, in which
they did everything but declare that Trump had changed his
name to King Jesus H. Christ. A coronation, a coronation
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of Kamala Harris has to come in and try to
win an election starting in late July. Oh, what an
unfair thing to Republicans. But wait, there's more in the Times.
Jessica Bennett. Now the article wasn't bad. It's about Nancy Pelosi.
The headline once again is where the Times really? They
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should empty the building, make sure everybody's safe, preserve a
few artifacts, and then implode the Times headquarters. Jessica Bennett's
story about Nancy Pelosi was fine. The headline was from
nineteen forty six. The most ruthless political operator in the
country is a woman. What there are women politicians? What
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are you gonna tell me?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Next?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Women have the vote, Women are allowed to walk around
not wearing high heels. Does Ed Henry know about this?
What about Mark Alprin? The most ruthless political operator in
the country is a woman? Oh no, repeal all the amendments.
My god. Next you'll be telling me there's a person
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of color running for president. The most ruthless political operator
in the country is a woman. Then wait, there's more.
Brent Staples, Biden should have treated Harris as a future president. Okay,
I I'd like to point out that it was Joe
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Biden who in fact selected Kamala Harris to be the
vice president of the United States provided that they were elected,
and just more recently, in case mister Staples did not
know about this happening Sunday, when Joe Biden finally saw
the light and said, yes, I have to get out
of the race. I can't win this. The person he
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immediately endorsed, and I mean immediately endorsed. His endorsement came
before anybody else who was hoping this would happen, would
endorse her. The immediate endorsement was of Kamala Harris. However,
Brent Staples is not satisfied. He wants to speak to
the presidential manager. Biden should have treated Harris as a
future president. He's doing that now. He's doing it right now,
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and you're complaining he's not doing it. He's not doing
it fast enough, he's not doing it twenty four hours
a day. And this COVID thing shouldn't have stopped him
from being out there on the campaign trail saying that
Kamala Harris is the most ruthless photical operator in the country.
Is a woman, but it's not Kamala Harris. See Times.
I can write your headlines for you. There's one more
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thing out of the Brent Staples op ed. Let me
just quote this paragraph, which is where mister Staples went
really wrong. Apart from the premise and the fact that
The Times should just shudder its op ed section, all
it is doing is killing subscriptions and credibility with every
passing hour. Brent Staples actually wrote this, in the words
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of my Times colleague Astead Herndon, Well you're done now,
mister Herndon is the least knowledgeable writer in politics. And
you know how many people that covers. I mean, Chris
Silizziz somewhere has just burst into tears that I have
suggested there's somebody worse than him. Wait, there's more from
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The Times, Thomas Edsall, who at least has the excuse
that he's a Republican and therefore he's not supposed to
be able to put two thoughts together. Donald Trump and JD.
Vance are cobbling together a core constituency that includes millions
of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard press.
Trump's selection of Vance reflects his determination to focus on
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incorporating middle and lower income, predominantly, but not exclusively, white
men and women who often did not graduate from college,
into the base of the Republican Where does he aff
to the part about JD. Vance having sex with a couch?
I don't see that in here, mister Edsall, Is there
a reason you left that out? You said cobbling together
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culturally conservative and financially hard pressed. Why you got the
hard pressed part right? JD hard pressed himself into the couch.
His selection of Vance reflects his determination to vote he
liked his beard. Did you vet him? Yeah, he trimmed
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his beard today. Okay, he's in now. These were all
op eds driving the New York Times into the ground,
to the point where the people who own the name
New York Herald Tribune are going ge. Do you think
we could start up again? I mean, we've been out
of business for what is it now, fifty eight years?
I bet we could probably outsell them, at least in
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the city. Look at this crap I have. My entire
staff has been dead for forty years. They could write
better than these guys. There's a news article by a
man named Charles Homans, a political news article, and it's
not bad. But once again, the headline has been written
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by fourth graders to be read by third graders. How
Democrats learned to love the smoke filled room again? Sub headline,
It's because it's because they want to win. Oh my god,
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the Times is just broken. The story of the century.
The Democrats want to win the presidency. Oh no, stop
the presses, don't make I don't bother with a word'
email email people about this Charles Holman's article breaking the
news that the Democrats want to win the election. My god,
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and still somehow somebody is worse that Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin and everybody writing the headlines at the Times,
and the editor and the publisher, and these nitwitz in
the op ed pages, and the people who stick these
unbelievable headlines on these otherwise okay articles, and how they
are now in third place in the city of New York.
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Somebody worse than that. Yes it's Russell Brand. I don't
know for some of you younger folks if you know
that he was once a comedian sometime I think in
the nineteenth century. He's now been banned from like all
of Great Britain for a series of alleged attacks on
women in the studios at the BBC and other place
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in England before his own shows. And of course, as
always with people who get caught, he says, I'll go consoled.
The biggest problem with Russell Brand is he's not He's
not bright, but he's been taught the words that you
use to make yourself sound bright. He's an autodidact, which
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means he actually doesn't know anything, or more importantly, many
of the words he's used he's never trying to pronounce
before or heard other people use in context, he wrote,
and I'll spare you my impression of him. If Kamala
Harris is to be the new pick in the bait
and switch find the lady cup and ball trick that
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we are being offered in lieu of democracy, we already
know she's a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent
institutional power. He has a list of words he likes
to try to work into things like this, solely offering
cutaneous and jenet novelty to a famished pack of secularist
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devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an X chromosome could
represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory. Melatonin, melatonin,
Russell Brand wrote, Melatonin. The word is melanin. Melanin is
what he's talking about, which is the pigmentation in skin
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is from the chemical melanin. Melatonin is what you take
at night when you can't sleep, like on the occasion
when you keep thinking about all those girls you assaulted. Russell,
what's my profession? Den I have been.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Taught words as one might attempt to philosophically educate a
minor bird, and my air is so dirty. I need
some Shambalic immediately brand two days, worst person Underworld of
Planets of the Earth, Gov No.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Sear the number one story on the countdown and my
favorite topic, Me and things I promised not to tell.
And this story is secondhand, but I'm pretty sure Gil
Stratton told it to me. And Gil was gold. If
you've ever seen the movie Stalog seventeen, and if you
have it, you should like right now. Gil played William
Holden's right hand man, Cookie, and Gil narrates the film too.
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And he was in the Wild One with Marlon Brando,
and he co starred on Broadway with Judy Garland. And
Gil was a baseball umpire and Gil was the number
one TV sportscaster in LA from nineteen fifty four to
about nineteen seventy five. And he stayed on the air
so long that eventually he worked with me and then
for me, and he never complained about that once. Loved
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the business, loved doing it, and he knew everything that
had ever happened in Los Angeles. In a city that
almost deliberately erases its past as quickly as possible, Gil
was one of those living history books. And I always
tell this one story of his whenever a sports owner
or commissioner says his team or league lost money. After
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some research, it turns out the year of the story
has to have been nineteen sixty four. From the details
in the anecdote, we know the Dodgers had won the
World Series the year before, but had not been in
the Pennant race in the year in question, so that
had to be nineteen sixty eight or earlier. Because one
of the three men in the story, the Dodgers vice
president Fresco Thompson, passed away on November thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight.
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So the nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be,
ends at Dodger Stadium fifty eight years ago this week,
late on the afternoon of Sunday, October fourth. The Dodgers
have just won, but it's not enough to save them
from a losing season. Eighty and eighty two, just under
fourteen thousand people have paid to get in, which means
two million, two hundred and twenty eight thousand, and seven
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hundred and fifty one souls have dropped some cash into
the till of the infamous Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. That
was a lot of fans in nineteen sixty four. The
stench of Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is still
the villain in sports in New York City, where he
moved the Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the borough
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of Brooklyn has never recovered, even though the historical record
is pretty clear that the Dodgers did have an attendance
problem in Brooklyn, and the City of New York did
not think it was worth it to merely sell O'Malley
the land he thought was ideal for a sports stadium.
O'Malley was right about the land. The land is now
where they put the Barclays Center, an arena at Public Spence.
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O'Malley wanted to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back
to nineteen sixty four, a sixth place Dodger season has
just ended, and either that day or the next day
or the day after that, fifty eight years ago this week,
one of the three men who basically run the franchise,
vice president and general manager, Buzzy Bavasi, leans in through
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the doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium, where
the man who got rich for closing on mortgages during
the depression, including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how
he became the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind
his desk, thumbing through accountant's ledgers, smoking a large cigar
and using a long plastic holder. See it the winter meetings.
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Boss O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At
least we had a decent fiscal year. I mean, with
kofax heard and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls,
why do you main dacent fiscal year? We lost two
million dollars. Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell
Buzzy Babasei to leave his office, because Buzzy Babasei feels
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as if he has just been shot. We lost two
million dollars, he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars.
Two million dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of
the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls
around him. Two million. Just four years earlier, when Baseball
had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in
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that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry, the price
had been two million, one hundred thousand dollars. Two million
was literally the price of a Major League Baseball franchise
in the early sixties. Buzzy Bavasi staggered down the hallway.
The sweat poured from every part of his body. His
vision blurred, and he found it difficult to breathe. He
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almost fell into the open doorway of the third man
who ran the Dodgers, the other senior vice president, Fresco Thompson.
Buzzo said, with considerable alarm, you okay, Buzzy Vesei barely
croaked the word no, but the rest of the sentence
he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost two
million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, And now Vivasi's
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terror turned to anger. What the hell are you laughing
at two million? We lost two million? Don't you know
what this means. We'll have to fire everybody. We'll have
to trade kofax. At least we have to trade morey wills,
which toured two million, and we lost two million. And
now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy Vesi. Jesus Fresco,
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He's gonna fire one of as Isity Ravesi had not
noticed Fresco's Thompson's laughter, growing you Italian idiot, BAVESI Only
Fresco Thompson did not say, Italian, how long you been
working for this guy? O'Malley. Vesey spit out the answer
nineteen fifty Thompson and calmly replied, Ah, yeah, nearly as
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long as I have, and you still haven't figured him out.
Buzzy Bavasi was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy
in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused, for
some reason, on how long they had each known Walter O'Malley.
They were all about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco.
Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still
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shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year,
buzz What that greedy bastard means is last year, when
we won the World Series, we made a profit of
six million dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place,
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we only made a profit of four million dollars. So
in his mind, that means this year we lost two million.
We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So
the next time you hear the owner of a sports
franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you
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it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars.
Just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley math, and
it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal
profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. Push Mussolini overboard,
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push Hitler overboard, and shoot O'Malley twice. I've done all
the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown.
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and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on
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As I like to remind you periodically, TKO Brothers consists
of mister Ray, mister Shaneale and me and the title
was mister Ray's idea. Other music, including some of the
Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No
Horns Allowed. Their name was their idea. The sports music
is the Ulderman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch
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Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And the name ESPN
two was ESPN's idea. Our satirical and pithy musical comments
are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever.
As I noted earlier, I cheated today. My announcer was
my late friend and hero, George Carlin, and everything else
was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the
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one hundred and fourth day until the twenty twenty four
presidential election, and the two hundred and ninety fifth day
since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempt to whop against
the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the
September eighteenth sentencing hearing, Use the mental health system. You've
got it, President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him
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from doing it again while we still can governor well
you still can, mister President, and Republicans, please stop shooting
at Trump. The next scheduled downtown he is as mentioned Tuesday,
gotta go get that tattoo of me. Nay, I will
try to do a quick one tomorrow. We'll see bulletins
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as always as the news requires till the next one,
whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Oldrimman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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your podcasts.
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's nephew,
the one who likes him, says Trump told him in
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the Overall Office in May twenty twenty that the disabled.
Quote these people, the shape they're in, all the expenses,
maybe those kinds of people should just die. This is
not merely horrifying on some kind of generic human level.
Fred Trump the first was Trump's father, Fred Trump. The
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second was Trump's older brother who died young. Fred Trump
the third is Trump's nephew, and he has a son, William,
who has spent the whole of his twenty five years
on this planet fighting illness after illness, and complication after completion.
And when the medical fund the family set up for
William began to run dry in twenty twenty, Fred the
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Third called his uncle, the President and asked for help.
I don't know Fred Trump quotes Donald Trump as saying,
with a sigh, he doesn't recognize you. Maybe you should
just let him die and move down to Florida. The
him in this sentence Trump wants to die is his
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own grand nephew. Because all the expenses, maybe those kinds
of people should just die. There are lots of words
for what Trump is proposing here euthanasia, mercy killing, assisted suicide,
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quietus for the elderly, senicide or geronticide. The Nazis called
it Oxyon T four. We all have our differing moral
north stars, but for most of us, I think there
are at least some circumstances in which the idea, regrettable
as it is, of helping people in trouble leave this
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life is valid and justifiable. And then there are monsters
like Donald Trump who would make it mandatory, who would
give themselves the choice to kill you or your disabled relatives.
These people the shape therein all the expenses. Maybe those
kinds of people should just die. Your son doesn't recognize you,
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maybe you should just let him die and move down
to Florida. Because the only term that applies to what
Trump was thinking about the physically challenged is mass murder.
I have asserted here before that what we saw of
Trump during COVID suggested this was at the heart of
his attitude towards people. A mass murderer, that people just
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another commodity. Kill a few, kill a few thousand, kill
a million, So what just let them die and move
down to Florida. Round them up by the millions in
camps before you deport them leaving. Lord knows how many
to die in those camps. These people, the shape they're in,
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all the expenses, Maybe those kinds of people should just die.
Fred Trump the third has published these quotes in excerpts
of his book All in the Family, How, fitting Trump
as Archie Bunker, only without the brain power and conscience.
The excerpts in Time magazine, The New York Times and
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The Guardian also got hard copies of the book, which
comes out next Tuesday. It is not amazing to me
that the sick people of this country, the ones without conscience,
the ones like Trump with no real understanding that the
people they are not related to or friendly with or
don't like, that those people are still people, and the
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people too lazy or stupid to realize that this is
the kind of man they have been supporting. It is
not amazing to me that they are supporting this monster
Trump for president again, or that they got him elected
president in twenty sixteen. What is amazing to me is
that we humanity, the people of this nation and all
the other nations, somehow survived Trump. Watching Joe Biden last night,
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Thank you sir, thank you for helping us survive Trump,
and thank you for the great sacrifice that will enable
us to survive Trump again, because Trump is a mass murderer.
And one side note, quote these people the shape there
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in all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should
just die. If it ever, for some reas crosses your
mind to actually say something like that out loud, think again.
Quote might not just hurt you if somebody repeats it,
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But in fact, somebody worse than you, somebody sicker than you,
somebody more murderous than you, might hear that, and wonder
if the quote might also be applied to you. By
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the way, Fred Trump the third has another nightmarish anecdote
about his uncle to share in his book decades earlier.
The New York Times put it in the nineteen seventy
when the author claims to have heard his uncle use
a racial slur after his car had been damaged and
he was searching for someone to blame. The quote from
the book cleaned up just a little bit, quote N words.
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I recall him saying, disgustedly, look what the N words did. Unquote,
when you are quoted directly in a book by a
close relative who heard you repeatedly use racial epithets, and
that's not even close to the worst thing he quotes
you as saying, because the rest of it is about
letting your own disabled great nephew die or killing untold
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numbers of physically and mentally challenged people. When the racial
epithets are not the lead story, you're not having a
good day, asshole, which continues something that started nearly two
weeks ago. All men, at all times in all history,
greater or small, good or evil, live their lives, often
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without detours or disasters. They often live them on top
of the world until some unpredictable, unforeseen day comes when
the world turns on them. One day they are beloved
or feared, or for other reasons, they have primacy. And then,
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just as inexplicably as when the hundreds of summer flies
seemingly filling that invisible box in front of your eyes
outside one day, when they all suddenly and simultaneously decide
to move exactly thirteen and a half inches to their left,
just like that, your primacy vanishes, no rhyme, no reason,
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no explanation, your luck or your goodwill or your mastery,
or your followers or your Reich ends, I think this
is happening to Trump. One of his own maga gun
nuts tried to kill him. He got hit by something,
claims it was a bullet, though a bullet would have
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taken his ear off. No law enforcement or medical authority
outside of a substance addled ex doctor has confirmed any
of this. Each day, it still lingers in the background,
waiting to explode into an unprecedented scandal. He goes from
there to picking a vice president, and the average net
favorable score for all VP picks since two thousand both
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parties is plus nineteen, and this idiot picks another idiot
whose net favorable is minus six. Did they vet this
idiot advance at all? Did they know he wrote the
forward to the book by the guy behind Project twenty
twenty five, the thing Trump insists he knows nothing about.
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Then after that, Trump's entire campaign, his entire campaign since
literally April of twenty nineteen, collapses because his entire campaign
was only about calling for Joe Biden to leave the
White House and or the campaign trail, not Joe Biden
actually leaving the White House and or the campaign trail.
Turns out, Trump's crackstaff had nothing ready in the event
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it actually happened, least of all any preparation for the
moment it dawned on America that Donald J. Dementia Trump
is now the exclusive national distributor of crazy old man.
Then the first polls with the new candidate hit and
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Kamala Harris was ahead or tied or damned close for
somebody on day three of their campaign. More on the
polls in a moment than after eight years of their
racism being enabled by Trump, Republican campaigners actually had to
warn senators and congressmen not to make racial references to
her nor call her dei. So of course all oh
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they did was call her dei because they can't help themselves,
because it is as if somebody has tampered with the
brakes on their mental cars. And guess who the hell
that was. And suddenly Brian kill Mead goes on Fox
and tries to attack Harris for skipping net and Yahoo's
campaign speech on Capitol Hill yesterday and instead going to
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a college sorority. Only one of the many things that
does not work properly in kill Mead's brain does not work,
and at best he kind of MUSHes up the word
college with another word he might have been thinking of,
which sounded like colored. And half the people watching Fox
or watching the tape here kill Mead say something like
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colored sorority or color or colored sorority. And while we're
arguing about whether or not Trump's top morning TV advocate
just used colored about Kamala Harris, everybody forgets the two
weeks Trump's favorite foreign fascist, Sebastian Gorka literally and seemingly
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proudly called Kamala Harris colored. She's a DEI higher right,
she's a woman. She's colored. Therefore she's gotta be good.
Do you think perhaps he called her college? I think
she's college. Oh and while we're debating Kilmead and ignoring Sorca,
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guess what others of Trump's friends are bringing us more bertherism.
There is this crazy woman named Emerald Robinson, and she
started her career started it as the White House corresponded
for One America News. Previously, she had starred as Jennifer
Lee in the blockbuster film Airline Disaster. Didn't last long.
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When America fired her, she went to Newsmax. They fired her.
She's now on Mike Lindell Lumpy Pillow TV and here
we go berther two electric Boogaloo. Emerald Robinson posts at
the time of Kamala Harris's birth, her parents were not
US citizens. They were foreign students. Her mother's visa was expired.
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She's the daughter of non citizens. Harris is not eligible
to hold the office of president. Where does it say that, Well,
it says that in the Invisible Book Emerald Robinson has
that only she's allowed to read. Obviously, famed actress Emerald
Robinson is now working on actually getting fired somehow from
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Mike Lindell's website, where she is currently senior Chief Fluffiness Correspondent.
Citizenship is automatically confirmed on any child born here period.
Kamala Harris was born in Oakland. I don't know the
last time I looked Oakland was in the United States.
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So where did Robinson get this idea that there's a
Birtherism thing here. Well, a Republican said it in twenty
nineteen quote I heard today that she doesn't meet the requirements.
And the Republican who said that about Kamala Harris was Wow,
you got it in the first guess Trump, So don't
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say anything racial about her other than the Dei and
the second wave of birthriism and calling her colored. Oh
and his own nephew quoting Trump using the N word
and advocating for the forced killing of the disabled to
save on the expenses on one more sign that the
worm has turned on Trump. Trump accept in speech Republican
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National Nazi Fascist convention about the North Korean dictator and oh,
by the way, mass murderer Kim Jong un, I get
along with him. He said he'd like to see me
back too. I think he misses me. If you want
to know the truth, it's nice to get along with
someone who has a lot of nuclear weapons. Kim Jong
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Loon has now issued a response. Even if any administration
takes office in the US, the political climate, which is
confused by the infighting of the two parties, does not change,
and accordingly, we do not care about this. Congratulations Trump.
You only have about three friends in the world, and
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one of them just said he does not care about you. Well,
when Kamala Harris beats Trump in November and Trump has
to flee the country to avoid dying in prison, here,
I guess he's gonna have to cross off North Korea
from the list of friendly destinations. The Harris campaign is
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betting at least a dozen candidates for vice president. Wait,
somebody vets CA candidates for vice president? Does Trump know
about this? Hit the road JD. We're going vetting quote.
Multiple sources tell CBS News that the list of candidates
include several governors Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of
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North Carolina, Andy Basher of Kentucky, Tim Waltz of Minnesota, JB.
Pritzker of Illinois, and Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan. Members of
the Biden administration, including Commerce Secretary Genia Rimundo and Transportation
Secretary Pete Pootage Edge, are also being considered, along with
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly, among others. I got an out
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of the box idea about the others? What about for
Vice president? Joe Biden? Man? Would that throw a monkey
wrench into the political pundit machine? The Times wouldn't be
able to publish for a freaking month? Only a dozen candidates?
All right? Debates Fox is playing its part to letting
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Trump run away. Scared from debating her, Fox has now
offered a debate on September seventeenth. Once again, this would
allow Trump to back out of a debate he has
already committed to and blame the other participant. Now, the
correct response from the Harris campaign to this offer from
Fox is we will be at the ABC facility as
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planned at Texas Southern University on September twelfth. And as
to anything else, there is no reply, make no reference,
no thanks, no, she's busy measuring the drapes. Nothing, no reply.
Leave Trump hanging. Keep him talking. He has hit a
talking slump. Keep him talking. Let's also assess some of
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the newer polls. Nothing as cleanly all Harris as yesterday,
but all our good and one set of interior numbers
is great from the CNN poll comparing with Biden's numbers
against Trump either in an April or June poll. And
these are the same respondents. So this is the same
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people who said X in April or June are saying
why now Kamala Harris has an eleven point improvement from
Biden among young voters, and a sixteen point improvement among
black voters, and a five point improvement among female voters.
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That is the sort of thing you will see first
before you see the overall numbers. In the larger polls changed.
On the other hand, you may recall that three weeks
ago CNN put out what was considered even on the
Trump side to be something of an outlier, something showing
Trump ahead of Biden by six. Their overall number now
again on day three of the Harris campaign is Trump
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forty nine, Harris six. That is the lead cut in
half in three days. The Yugov poll for the Economist
National Trump forty four, Harris forty one, Kennedy five, West one,
Stein one, so putin getting what seven percent there? Active vote.
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I know what you're thinking, I've never heard of active
vote before. What a coincidence. I've never heard of active
vote before. National ge Trump fifty point five, Harris forty
nine point five National among independents, Active vote Harris fifty four,
Trump forty six among independents r MG. RMG is a
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breakaway poll from Rasmussen Polling. And as you know, Rasmussen
Polling is created by the two idiots who thought up
ESPN and then sold it for a bag of magic beans.
This is the breakaway. Apparently there's some sort of fissure
at Rasmussen make up the numbers polling company. The New
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Scott Rasmussen poll is Trump forty four, Harris forty three,
Kennedy six. I don't think it's a liberal leaning poll.
It's just a guess. Now they have another number where
they throw in leaners, leaping leaners for you, Stan Freiberg
fans Trump forty eight Harris forty six. Still one of
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those is a one point lead for Trump. The other
is a two point lead for Trump. On the breakaway
right wing pole, the Big Village Pole, Trump forty four,
Harris forty three. Last one had Trump over Biden by
four and one state pole in Pennsylvania North Star Opinion
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for the American Greatness North Star Opinion Pennsylvania Trump forty seven,
Harris forty five. And the interesting thing about this poll
is obviously Pennsylvania was getting away from the Democrats, so
a two point margin is a good start. However, the
American Greatness is a rabid Trump centric organization and they
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only have their lunatic in charge of Pennsylvania by two points.
And I close with the MOE. Just of the day
from doctor Joscelyn J. Fitzgerald, a euro gynecologist from Pittsburgh,
on what he has been so far. And there will
be others but so far, the only non dei, non
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birth attack on Vice President Harris in this brand new campaign,
the attack that says she cannot be president because she's
not invested in America's future because she has never had children,
says doctor Fitzgerald. No US president has ever given birth.
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So explain to me why suddenly we think that's necessary. Hey,
Harris campaign, are you vetting doctor Jocelyn J. Fitzgerald for
vice president? Because I think that might be a nice pick.
A programming note. I will try to do a Friday
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edition tomorrow, but if you will recall Tuesday's news, I
am getting my tattoo of my late seventeen year old
rescue pup Meney today. I suspect that will make a
long enough and full enough day if there is anything
urgent or frankly, there's just something I can you know,
get a row of stamps and mail in. There will
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be a brief episode Friday. If not, try to struggle
on without me in the interim. Also of interest here today,
honest to god, if you think Trump is screwed up.
After Biden pulled out, The New York Times is now
running half a dozen pieces a day criticizing Biden and
how he dropped out, and how the Democrats handled it
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and the Times blank surprise that, to quote the headline
in one of these pieces, the most ruthless political operator
in the country is a woman. Oh my god, there's
a powerful woman. That's it. We're shutting the Times down forever.
Our Times world is at an end. Who could have
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thought something so horrible could have happened in this the
year of our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety six Christ,
that's next. This is countdown, George Crolin. Pleasure to have
you here. Thank you. This is the best news show ever.
I told that to one of your producers, and I
want you to know that I've seen them all and
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it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. Thank
you sir. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between
you and I. We got six minutes to completely still
that in my rapt Yeah, that's good. I cheated. That
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was from October two thousand and seven. My late hero,
George Carlin doing the introduction. I saw him at Carnegie
Hall when I was fourteen years old, sat around laughing,
wondering when the adults were going to come in and
throw me out. When I was forty eight years old.
He sat next to me and told me mine was
the best newscast of all time. Just saw the documentary
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on him again, not an extraordinary man, so ahead of
us on this edition of Countdown, partly in honor of George.
That's what made me think of running that both the
New Yorker and a great baseball fan that he was
the story of how one of the most infamous baseball
people of all time, the most hated in New York history,
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used to also distort words in a way that would
have driven George, who was as good with the language
as was H. L. Mankin, would have driven him nuts.
How hated was the guy I'm going to tell you about.
The old joke was, you're in a boat with Hitler,
Mussolini and this guy. You have a gun, you have
two bullets. What do you do? The answer, shoot this guy,
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throw Hitler and Mussolini overboard. Then shoot this guy again
to make sure he's coming up in things I promised
not to tell first. There are still more new idiots
to talk about. The daily roundup of the miscreants, morons
and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's wors persons
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in the world keat George used to call me Keith
like my granddad's did. They're all from the same neighborhood, Keith.
Let me tell you the bronze Newsmax, which is a
propaganda network, and boy are they unhappy. Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin. I'll just read what the head of media
Matters tweeted the two people Newsmax brings on this afternoon
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to insist that the GOP and Megamedia are not running
a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris are Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin. And there is a picture of the two
of them around some host guy in the middle, and
Henry has got that faint I'll kill you smile and
Halprin looks like but it looks like this is a
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mugshot of some sort, which is possible. Ed Henry fired
by CNN, then he went to Fox. Fox fired him
after harrisman and rape charges and been sued for rape.
Mark Halprin fired by NBC at HBO after harassment and
improper touching while he was still at ABC, and also
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for not wearing pants. Mark Alprin and Ed Henry talking
about how nobody's running a sexist campaign against Kamala Harris.
Of course not well to be fair ed. Henry and
Mark Halprin would be the experts on misogyny. My god,
you couldn't have gotten O'Reilly on there. Dig up Roger
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Ales and put him out there. He's probably still trying
to fondle somebody even though he's dead. What's that? Who's
that's been bothering you? The skeleton of Roger Ales? Runner
up The New York Times. The New York Times right
now is the third best political paper in New York,
behind Newsday and the Daily News. And I think it
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has a chance to sync to fourth place behind the
New York Post. And I'm only counting those in English.
The Times caught the car with Joe Biden because he
would not do an interview with them. They made up
a whole construction about how that proves he was not
cognitively read. It was about the Times. The Times is ultimately,
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although there are excellent reporters doing great work, The New
York Times as an institution under this editor con and
after the latest Sealzburger, who's the publisher? The New York
Times is about the New York Times. The best thing
in the New York Times was wordle until they whirdled
everybody into the ground. Now the best thing about the
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New York Times is canceling the subscription because it's so
so very satisfying. They caught the car with Biden stepping
aside that has not stopped them. Can't stop, won't stop.
A Brett Stevens op ed Democrats deserved a contest, not
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a coronation. Brett Stevens, who is a conservative, apparently was
in a coma during the Republican National Convention, in which
they did everything but declare that Trump had changed his
name to King Jesus H. Christ. A coronation, a coronation
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of Kamala Harris has to come in and try to
win an election starting in late July. Oh, what an
unfair thing to Republicans. But wait, there's more in the Times.
Jessica Bennett. Now the article wasn't bad. It's about Nancy Pelosi.
The headline once again is where the Times really? They
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should empty the building, make sure everybody's safe, preserve a
few artifacts, and then implode the Times headquarters. Jessica Bennett's
story about Nancy Pelosi was fine. The headline was from
nineteen forty six. The most ruthless political operator in the
country is a woman. What there are women politicians? What
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are you gonna tell me?
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Next?
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Women have the vote, Women are allowed to walk around
not wearing high heels. Does Ed Henry know about this?
What about Mark Alprin? The most ruthless political operator in
the country is a woman? Oh no, repeal all the amendments.
My god. Next you'll be telling me there's a person
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of color running for president. The most ruthless political operator
in the country is a woman. Then wait, there's more.
Brent Staples, Biden should have treated Harris as a future president. Okay,
I I'd like to point out that it was Joe
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Biden who in fact selected Kamala Harris to be the
vice president of the United States provided that they were elected,
and just more recently, in case mister Staples did not
know about this happening Sunday, when Joe Biden finally saw
the light and said, yes, I have to get out
of the race. I can't win this. The person he
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immediately endorsed, and I mean immediately endorsed. His endorsement came
before anybody else who was hoping this would happen, would
endorse her. The immediate endorsement was of Kamala Harris. However,
Brent Staples is not satisfied. He wants to speak to
the presidential manager. Biden should have treated Harris as a
future president. He's doing that now. He's doing it right now,
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and you're complaining he's not doing it. He's not doing
it fast enough, he's not doing it twenty four hours
a day. And this COVID thing shouldn't have stopped him
from being out there on the campaign trail saying that
Kamala Harris is the most ruthless photical operator in the country.
Is a woman, but it's not Kamala Harris. See Times.
I can write your headlines for you. There's one more
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thing out of the Brent Staples op ed. Let me
just quote this paragraph, which is where mister Staples went
really wrong. Apart from the premise and the fact that
The Times should just shudder its op ed section, all
it is doing is killing subscriptions and credibility with every
passing hour. Brent Staples actually wrote this, in the words
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of my Times colleague Astead Herndon, Well you're done now,
mister Herndon is the least knowledgeable writer in politics. And
you know how many people that covers. I mean, Chris
Silizziz somewhere has just burst into tears that I have
suggested there's somebody worse than him. Wait, there's more from
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The Times, Thomas Edsall, who at least has the excuse
that he's a Republican and therefore he's not supposed to
be able to put two thoughts together. Donald Trump and JD.
Vance are cobbling together a core constituency that includes millions
of voters who are both culturally conservative and financially hard press.
Trump's selection of Vance reflects his determination to focus on
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incorporating middle and lower income, predominantly, but not exclusively, white
men and women who often did not graduate from college,
into the base of the Republican Where does he aff
to the part about JD. Vance having sex with a couch?
I don't see that in here, mister Edsall, Is there
a reason you left that out? You said cobbling together
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culturally conservative and financially hard pressed. Why you got the
hard pressed part right? JD hard pressed himself into the couch.
His selection of Vance reflects his determination to vote he
liked his beard. Did you vet him? Yeah, he trimmed
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his beard today. Okay, he's in now. These were all
op eds driving the New York Times into the ground,
to the point where the people who own the name
New York Herald Tribune are going ge. Do you think
we could start up again? I mean, we've been out
of business for what is it now, fifty eight years?
I bet we could probably outsell them, at least in
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the city. Look at this crap I have. My entire
staff has been dead for forty years. They could write
better than these guys. There's a news article by a
man named Charles Homans, a political news article, and it's
not bad. But once again, the headline has been written
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by fourth graders to be read by third graders. How
Democrats learned to love the smoke filled room again? Sub headline,
It's because it's because they want to win. Oh my god,
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the Times is just broken. The story of the century.
The Democrats want to win the presidency. Oh no, stop
the presses, don't make I don't bother with a word'
email email people about this Charles Holman's article breaking the
news that the Democrats want to win the election. My god,
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and still somehow somebody is worse that Ed Henry and
Mark Halprin and everybody writing the headlines at the Times,
and the editor and the publisher, and these nitwitz in
the op ed pages, and the people who stick these
unbelievable headlines on these otherwise okay articles, and how they
are now in third place in the city of New York.
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Somebody worse than that. Yes it's Russell Brand. I don't
know for some of you younger folks if you know
that he was once a comedian sometime I think in
the nineteenth century. He's now been banned from like all
of Great Britain for a series of alleged attacks on
women in the studios at the BBC and other place
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in England before his own shows. And of course, as
always with people who get caught, he says, I'll go consoled.
The biggest problem with Russell Brand is he's not He's
not bright, but he's been taught the words that you
use to make yourself sound bright. He's an autodidact, which
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means he actually doesn't know anything, or more importantly, many
of the words he's used he's never trying to pronounce
before or heard other people use in context, he wrote,
and I'll spare you my impression of him. If Kamala
Harris is to be the new pick in the bait
and switch find the lady cup and ball trick that
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we are being offered in lieu of democracy, we already
know she's a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent
institutional power. He has a list of words he likes
to try to work into things like this, solely offering
cutaneous and jenet novelty to a famished pack of secularist
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devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an X chromosome could
represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory. Melatonin, melatonin,
Russell Brand wrote, Melatonin. The word is melanin. Melanin is
what he's talking about, which is the pigmentation in skin
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is from the chemical melanin. Melatonin is what you take
at night when you can't sleep, like on the occasion
when you keep thinking about all those girls you assaulted. Russell,
what's my profession? Den I have been.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Taught words as one might attempt to philosophically educate a
minor bird, and my air is so dirty. I need
some Shambalic immediately brand two days, worst person Underworld of
Planets of the Earth, Gov No.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Sear the number one story on the countdown and my
favorite topic, Me and things I promised not to tell.
And this story is secondhand, but I'm pretty sure Gil
Stratton told it to me. And Gil was gold. If
you've ever seen the movie Stalog seventeen, and if you
have it, you should like right now. Gil played William
Holden's right hand man, Cookie, and Gil narrates the film too.
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And he was in the Wild One with Marlon Brando,
and he co starred on Broadway with Judy Garland. And
Gil was a baseball umpire and Gil was the number
one TV sportscaster in LA from nineteen fifty four to
about nineteen seventy five. And he stayed on the air
so long that eventually he worked with me and then
for me, and he never complained about that once. Loved
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the business, loved doing it, and he knew everything that
had ever happened in Los Angeles. In a city that
almost deliberately erases its past as quickly as possible, Gil
was one of those living history books. And I always
tell this one story of his whenever a sports owner
or commissioner says his team or league lost money. After
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some research, it turns out the year of the story
has to have been nineteen sixty four. From the details
in the anecdote, we know the Dodgers had won the
World Series the year before, but had not been in
the Pennant race in the year in question, so that
had to be nineteen sixty eight or earlier. Because one
of the three men in the story, the Dodgers vice
president Fresco Thompson, passed away on November thirtieth, nineteen sixty eight.
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So the nineteen sixty four season, which it has to be,
ends at Dodger Stadium fifty eight years ago this week,
late on the afternoon of Sunday, October fourth. The Dodgers
have just won, but it's not enough to save them
from a losing season. Eighty and eighty two, just under
fourteen thousand people have paid to get in, which means
two million, two hundred and twenty eight thousand, and seven
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hundred and fifty one souls have dropped some cash into
the till of the infamous Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. That
was a lot of fans in nineteen sixty four. The
stench of Walter O'Malley reeks through history. He is still
the villain in sports in New York City, where he
moved the Brooklyn Dodgers out, something from which the borough
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of Brooklyn has never recovered, even though the historical record
is pretty clear that the Dodgers did have an attendance
problem in Brooklyn, and the City of New York did
not think it was worth it to merely sell O'Malley
the land he thought was ideal for a sports stadium.
O'Malley was right about the land. The land is now
where they put the Barclays Center, an arena at Public Spence.
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O'Malley wanted to pay for his building himself. Anyway, back
to nineteen sixty four, a sixth place Dodger season has
just ended, and either that day or the next day
or the day after that, fifty eight years ago this week,
one of the three men who basically run the franchise,
vice president and general manager, Buzzy Bavasi, leans in through
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the doorway of Walter O'Malley's office in Dodger Stadium, where
the man who got rich for closing on mortgages during
the depression, including the mortgage on the Dodgers. That's how
he became the owner. He is, as usual, sitting behind
his desk, thumbing through accountant's ledgers, smoking a large cigar
and using a long plastic holder. See it the winter meetings.
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Boss O'Malley never looks up from his financial books. At
least we had a decent fiscal year. I mean, with
kofax heard and all. Now O'Malley looks up and he growls,
why do you main dacent fiscal year? We lost two
million dollars. Walter O'Malley does not now have to tell
Buzzy Babasei to leave his office, because Buzzy Babasei feels
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as if he has just been shot. We lost two
million dollars, he thinks to himself, we lost two million dollars.
Two million dollars. The hallway of the executive offices of
the Dodgers on the Loge level of Dodger Stadium swirls
around him. Two million. Just four years earlier, when Baseball
had sold the rights to put an expansion franchise in
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that same city, Los Angeles, to Gene Autry, the price
had been two million, one hundred thousand dollars. Two million
was literally the price of a Major League Baseball franchise
in the early sixties. Buzzy Bavasi staggered down the hallway.
The sweat poured from every part of his body. His
vision blurred, and he found it difficult to breathe. He
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almost fell into the open doorway of the third man
who ran the Dodgers, the other senior vice president, Fresco Thompson.
Buzzo said, with considerable alarm, you okay, Buzzy Vesei barely
croaked the word no, but the rest of the sentence
he fairly shouted. O'Malley just told me we lost two
million dollars this year. Fresco Thompson laughed, And now Vivasi's
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terror turned to anger. What the hell are you laughing
at two million? We lost two million? Don't you know
what this means. We'll have to fire everybody. We'll have
to trade kofax. At least we have to trade morey wills,
which toured two million, and we lost two million. And
now the worst suddenly occurs to Buzzy Vesi. Jesus Fresco,
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He's gonna fire one of as Isity Ravesi had not
noticed Fresco's Thompson's laughter, growing you Italian idiot, BAVESI Only
Fresco Thompson did not say, Italian, how long you been
working for this guy? O'Malley. Vesey spit out the answer
nineteen fifty Thompson and calmly replied, Ah, yeah, nearly as
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long as I have, and you still haven't figured him out.
Buzzy Bavasi was lost. The franchise was teetering on bankruptcy
in front of their eyes, but Thompson was focused, for
some reason, on how long they had each known Walter O'Malley.
They were all about to get fired by Walter O'Malley Fresco.
Thompson stood up and put his arm around his still
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shaken colleague. When O'Malley says we lost two million this year,
buzz What that greedy bastard means is last year, when
we won the World Series, we made a profit of
six million dollars. This year, when we finished in sixth place,
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we only made a profit of four million dollars. So
in his mind, that means this year we lost two million.
We didn't lose two million, we made four million. So
the next time you hear the owner of a sports
franchise or the commissioner of a sports league tell you
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it or he has quote lost unquote eleventy billion dollars.
Just remember this is almost always Walter O'Malley math, and
it only means that's how much lower this year's phenomenal
profits are compared to last year's phenomenal profits. Push Mussolini overboard,
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push Hitler overboard, and shoot O'Malley twice. I've done all
the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Countdown.
Musical directors Brian Ray and John Phillip Schaneil arranged, produced,
and performed most of our music. Mister Ray was on
the guitars, the bass and the drums. It was mister
Shaneale on orchestration and keyboards. It's all produced by TKO Brothers.
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As I like to remind you periodically, TKO Brothers consists
of mister Ray, mister Shaneale and me and the title
was mister Ray's idea. Other music, including some of the
Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No
Horns Allowed. Their name was their idea. The sports music
is the Ulderman theme from ESPN two written by Mitch
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Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And the name ESPN
two was ESPN's idea. Our satirical and pithy musical comments
are by Nancy Fauss, the best baseball stadium organist ever.
As I noted earlier, I cheated today. My announcer was
my late friend and hero, George Carlin, and everything else
was pretty much my fault. That's countdown for this the
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one hundred and fourth day until the twenty twenty four
presidential election, and the two hundred and ninety fifth day
since convicted felon Donald Trump's first attempt to whop against
the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the
September eighteenth sentencing hearing, Use the mental health system. You've
got it, President Biden. Use presidential immunity to stop him
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from doing it again while we still can governor well
you still can, mister President, and Republicans, please stop shooting
at Trump. The next scheduled downtown he is as mentioned Tuesday,
gotta go get that tattoo of me. Nay, I will
try to do a quick one tomorrow. We'll see bulletins
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as always as the news requires till the next one,
whenever the hell that is. I'm Keith Oldrimman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith
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