BILL BARR AND JAMES COMER RE-IGNITE TRUMPSTEIN COVER-UP - 8.21.25 - Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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you Bill Barr, Thank you Jamie Comer. You heard me,
Trump's disgraced ex Attorney General Barr and Kentucky's ever disgrace
full which Hunter extraordinaire Comer have reignited the Trump's Stein
cover up scandal just as the Embers were about to

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go out. Comber will now release what he has already
leaked that William Barr told Comber's Keystone Cops Oversight Committee
investigators about the avalanche of evidence linking Epstein and Trump
that quote he had never seen anything that would implicate
President Trump in any of this. Maga is thus braying

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it is case closed. They have both released the Epstein files,
and they have cleared their lord and savior, slave Master
Trump about Epstein, except for one problem. The reason Bar
never saw the evidence that would implicate Trump with Epstein
is he has never shown it. The first Trump regime

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US attorney for the Southern District of New York, the
one Trump personally interviewed and appointed, the former Trump transition
team volunteer Jeffrey Berman, says he didn't show the evidence
to Bar three years ago. Berman, whom Trump also fired
wrote a book about his experiences called Holding the Line.

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Turns out one of the things he held was the
Epstein evidence. He held it back from bar Quoting mister Berman,
I never briefed bar on the investigation. The charges we
were seeking did not need main justice approval, and I
couldn't think of any way in which he would be

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of help. Keeping him out of the loop also meant
that if he had any concerns or objections, we didn't
have to deal with them. Unquote. So Trump's own guy
in the Epstein prosecution in New York deliberately did not
tell Trump's own attorney general what was going on in

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that prosecution. And when that attorney general says he didn't
see what, they never showed him, Trump's apologists and co
conspirators like Jamie Comer are now trumpeting that as an
exoneration as opposed to what it really is, which is
yet another Trump cover up of the Epstein crimes and

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the Epstein network and whatever Trump did or did not
have to do with Epstein. But wait, there's more. In
that book, former US Attorney Berman also hints that the
whole matter of prosecuting Epstein under Trump was a third rail,
because it was former US Attorney in Florida, Alex Acosta,

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who gave Epstein the sweetheart deal, the dirty deal that
let Epstein get away with it, that guaranteed Acosta's office
would not prosecute Epstein. That's Acosta, US attorney under President
George W. Bush and part of the Trump one cabinet,
again quoting holding the line by Trump's own US attorney

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appoint Jeff Furman. Quote, as we started our work, there
was another factor on the periphery of the case. Acosta
was now part of Trump's cabinet, his Secretary of Labor,
and a rising star in the Republican Party. Was the
Epstein matter something the Trump administration or Maju Justice would

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have preferred we stay away from. I did not know
the answer to that then or even now. I also
didn't care. Unquote. If all this sounds structurally familiar to you,
Bill Barr doesn't legally or technically lie. He tells you

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he never saw any crime, but leaves out the fact
that everybody who worked for him told him to turn
around and look in the opposite direction as the crime
was being committed. It is because this is the exact
same mo that Bill Barr used when Trump had him
serve as liar in chief washing the Muller Report, Barr

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said he couldn't prosecute or exonerate Trump based on the
Muller Report, Trump and his minions that announced Barr had
cleared Trump. That is what they will be trying to
do here, only to try to increase the chances that
this bar sleight of hand sticks. They had Comer leak

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it in advance so that whenever more of Barr's testimony
about Trump and Epstein is released today, I know nothing
They can hammer home the lie that everything Bar saw
proves that Trump had nothing to do with it. This time, though,
there is another quote that should get similar play if

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the stenographic pool that has replaced the White House Press
Corps does its job for once. The ranking Democrat on
Comer's Oversight Committee is Robert Garcia of California, and quoting
mister Garcia during his deposition with the committee, Attorney General
Barr could not clear President Trump of wrongdoing. Chairman Comer

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should release the full unedited transcript of his interview for
the public. That's just as true as Comer's claim. Bar
never saw anything that implicated Trump, and he never saw
anything that cleared Trump because Bar's own prosecutor, Trump's own appointee,

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never showed him anything. And if you would like to
feed a dying conspiracy, this is what you feed it.
They never showed him the evidence. That's another conspiracy. Other
than the fact that Barr's magic wand helped to make
the damning implications of the Muller report disappear, it is

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hard to understand why Trump's fellow cover up conspirators chose
him to be the poster boy for the Trump Steen
case here, after all, on top of everything else, on
top of all the other things that Barr has committed
in public office. The headmaster of the Dalton School in

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New York, the lame duck, who left just at the
same time that an inexperienced young man named Jeffrey Epstein
was hired to teach there at Dalton in the seventies.
That headmaster, who never saw any evidence about Epstein. That
headmaster was Donald Barr. Bill Barr's father, Barr the Elder,

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was leaving Dalton to take over my alma mater, Hackley.
That was my last scoop as a student journalist, by
the way, and we students were told but did not print,
that Barr had not exactly left Dalton voluntarily. I graduated
before he started at Hackley. I do know that in

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a few years there Barr nearly bankrupted the school. In
any event, Bill Barr perfect witness confirming there is a
Trump cover up of the Epstein files, which would also
mean Bill Barr is now part of the Trump cover
up of the Epstein files. And as if they needed

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to screw this up more than Trump organized crime government
got yelled at by the judge whom they asked to
release the meaningless grand jury testimony so Pambondi can pretend
she isn't covering up the Epstein case and renegging on
her own personal promise and credibility if any. Federal Judge
Richard Berman refused the request to unseal the testimony, which

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is mostly just FBI agents recounting stuff, almost no witness testimony.
It's meaningless anyway, even to the conspiracy theorists. The judge
slammed Trump for going back on the administration promise to
reveal what it has, slammed Bondy for trying to get
the grand jury stuff released without enough time to warn
the victims, and dismiss the Trump bondy stunt as a

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quote diversion. Quoting again, this time from the judge's ruling.
The government's one hundred thousand in pages of Epstein files
and materials dwarf the seventy odd pages of Epstein Grand
jury materials. Apart from the fact that Trump is covering

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up the Epstein case and still refusing to release the
Epstein files, this is the salient point. He's not doing
a real good job at it. Thank God for that.

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White House still demanding we praise the fat fury for
solving Ukraine. But it turns out his deal with Russia
allows Russia to veto any actual defense of Ukraine by
Ukraine or by anybody else. Swear to God. Art of
the deal Trump wants to get to Heaven, get working

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on that. Pal Putin's blob of a foreign minister, Sergei
the Hut, Lavrov explained first to Russian media. Then it
spread quickly internationally that the big accomplishment of the disaster
in Alaska, Russia agreeing to security guarantees for Ukraine post war,

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comes with a slight catch. From Russia's point of view,
one of the guaranteurs has to be Russia. The security
guarantees that Russia is willing to have for Ukraine have
to be vetoable by Russia. Oh and by China as well.
In fact, no country would be allowed to defend Ukraine

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militarily unless both Russia and China permit it. The guarantee,
it's not really a guarantee. In fact, it's not at
all a guarantee. Also, the summit with Zelenski and Putin,
the Trump thinks he's set up. Putin wants it in Budapest.

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And if you think that's a coincidence, in nineteen ninety four,
Russia already attended a summit with Ukraine at which Russia
and the US and the UK guaranteed the territorial integrity
of Ukraine. And that summit was held in Budapest. Then,

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as now, Russia's word is worthless. On the other hand,
so is Trump's worthless? I mean, are there any questions
left about this? He's stalling. That's all he's been doing
since January twentieth, stalling. This has all been about running

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out the clock for Putin. This deal, that deal, ceasefire,
no ceasefire. I hate your suit fifty days, I love
your suit. Twenty days he calls Putin in the middle
of the meeting for instructions. He is effing stalling for

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the Russian dictator. He is working for Putin. Also, something
else weird is going on with Ukraine below the surface.
I don't know what this is about, bluntly, but I
know something is going on. I can recognize that much.
I don't like Matt Drudge, I don't trust Matt Drudge,

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but I've never figured out Matt Drudge, even though it
is now twenty seven and a half years since Laura
Ingram boasted to me that she was the central desk
feeding him stories from the far right. But there's something
else in play here with Matt Drudge and Ukraine and
all of this, and I don't know what it is.

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This past week he ran out of nowhere. This headline
is the Dawn being blackmailed. The attached link not only
connects to the Times of Ireland, but to an op
ed in that paper written in June, written by that
country's former Minister of Justice, Michael McDowell, which underscores the

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point I made earlier. Since regaining power, Trump has taken
every possible position on Ukraine he'd resolve it immediately. He'd
solve it in one day. He then browbeats Zelenski. He
then threatened Putin, you have ten days to two weeks,
you have fifty days, you have ten days. Again, we
have to have a meeting. We have to have a
bilateral meeting, a trilateral meeting, a Zelenski Putin meeting. I'm

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a peacemaker to get to heaven. He's running out the clock.
That's the only possible explanation. Sure, it's a great side
show to obscure trump Stein as well, but this specifically Ukraine.
This is all about stalling on Putin's behalf. And this

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was what was in the op ed, the two month
old op ed to which Drudge has linked quote. The
idea that the Kremlin has compromot on Trump seems increasingly plausible.
If he capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly
and perhaps fatally, betray the principles on which NATO was founded.

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What is his real strategy? Is it to collapse the
Ukrainian state by weakening its resistance to Russia or to
re establish Ukraine as a Russian satellite. Is it to
divide the mineral and oil assets of Ukraine with Russia
in line with the deal he imposed on Zelensky in
a Corleone's style offer he couldn't refuse. Is the dictator

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Zelensky now to be the object of US backed regime
change as part of a capitulation to Russia? Or is
there some different hidden policy agenda in the White House?
I used to be skeptical. Mister McDowell writes about claims
that Putin had access to compromot on Trump that explained
his grubbling relationship with the Kremlin. But if such compromant

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is not the explanation, it is hard to see why
the White House is behaving as it does towards Ukraine. Unquote,
you know what this means. It rhymes with weeescape, doesn't it.

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Let's party like it's two thy sixteen. Here's a question.
Is the army in the streets of Washington is that
connected to Trump's unconstitutional vow to usurp control of the

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elections from the States and eliminate voting by mail and
eliminate voting machines. So it's all paper ballots and it
can only be counted that one night, and that's it. Quote.
Remember the States are merely an agent for the federal
government in counting and tabulating the votes. Bullshit. Maybe per

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the interpretation of the terrorists at the Heritage Foundation, but
not according to that other document we like to colloquially
call the US Constitution. So maybe the troops in DC
that are patrolling places like the war torn shakeshack in
Union Station are really just a warm up for enforcing

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this Trump's second unconstitutional executive order taking over control of
election from the States. You know, the new elections only
elections where you vote in person and you only get
to vote when you show them. Like Trump explained, he
always shows them when you show them your license plate. No,

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he's fine, driver's license, license plate. Political asylum, mental asylum.
He doesn't know if he's going to heaven. He wants to. Yeah,
that ship sailed in nineteen fifty six. Asshole. Then there's
Jersey Congressman Jeff Van Drew on voting. Jeff Van Drew

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says he has talked to lots of dead people who
have received mail in ballots. I've talked to lots of
these people who received these mail in ballots, the dead ones. Well,
Van Drew did defraud the voters of New Jersey by
running as a Democrat, getting elected as a Democrat, then
then not only switching part, he's been going full Nazi,

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So he's probably not lying here. He probably has talked
to lots of dead people. John Birch, Father Coglin, Hitler,
Chuck Grassley, you know, the usual bunch, Which brings us
back to a man to whom the Lincoln Project has
now given the nickname of the year, tiny shiny Fascist,

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Stephen Miller, whereas the Lincoln Project has now called him
pee Wee German. Oh Oly, cow, pee wee German. With
apologies to Paul Rubens. Pee Wee German. Pee Wee German

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was at the aforementioned shake Shack yesterday, home of Burgers
Malten's and Nazis, hosting an event for the troops. Boy,
they spend on these guys. Huh. The other night Pam
Bondi bought them hot dogs. Today Pete Hegseeth gives them
shake shack, not increased money to the VA or anything

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like that. Shake shack at the train station. AnyWho, Pee
Wee German told the troops that he hates older voters
like Trump's base, and he hates white people, also like
Trump's base. Stephen Miller said, he he hates white people.

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You're not gonna lect the communists destroy a great American city,
let alone the nation's capital. And let's just also dress
another thing. All these demonstrators that you've seen out here
in recent days, all of these helvety white hippies, they're
not part of the city. Never happened.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
By the way, most citizens of the Wasshon DC are blacked.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
This is not a city that has had any safety
for its black citizens for generations. And President Trump is
the one who is fixing that with the supportland Metropolitan
Police Department, the support of the National Guard, and our
federal Law office and officers. So we're going to ignore
the stupid fighting at basic You all need to go

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home and ticket out because they're all over ninety years old,
and we're going to get back from the business. I'm
protecting the America for people at a citizens of washap
a nest spoiler alert, pee wee German Steven Miller thinks
he's a hepcat. He's just nuts, isn't he? And tiny?

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As an aside, the event yesterday at Union Station will
mark the official death of the company known as shake Shack.
I am a milkshake afficionado since nineteen sixty four or so,
I have worn the evidence of this on my waist.

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I don't know what's happened there, but lately the shake
Shack shakes have gone from exquisite to tasting like sour
battery acid. Now it's the shake Shack company collaborating with
the fascists trying to destroy democracy. Your hosts today for

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Nazi Khan, shake shack. Well done, guys. Shake Shack equals authoritarianism.
Shake Shack supports the troops and hates the civilians. Nicely done,
shake Shack. And now two media notes. Firstly, as you know,

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I never criticize cable news, but if you have ever
felt sympathy towards Abby Philip of CNN, well you can
cut that the f out. She turns out to be
fully responsible for that shit show she anchors on CNN
every night with Kentucky Fried, Fascism Boy, Scott Jennings and

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the other dregs of Maga society. I always assumed she
was being forced to do it. I mean, cable news
contracts can be pretty severe, let me tell you, nah.
Get these transcripts from the Karis Swisher podcast. Guest Abby
Phillip quote. I know that folks really dislike Scott for

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his views, but I would say that there are views
that you don't like, that you think are unfounded, but
that are pretty widely shared. I think Scott falls into
that category. Excuse me. I mean you could say exactly
the same thing about Stalin. You could say it about

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Mount Say Tongue, you could say it about Jefferson Davis.
I know that folks really dislike Scott for his views,
but I would say that there are views that you
don't like that you think are unfounded, but are pretty
widely shared. I think Scott falls into that category. So
you're defending his right to go on CNN on your

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show and get a national platform every night designed particularly
to create viral videos. And it's just well, that's the
way we have to do things here. And as to
that which Jillian michaels last week, I think it was
implied that slavery wasn't that big a deal because what
two percent of white people own slaves? Quote. Look, I

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like to talk about negatively about guests who come on
the show, because I just don't think that's good form.
Oh my god, even when I disagree with people. I
respect their right to embarrass themselves on national television. I
think it is their right to do that, unquote and abby,
it's your right to do that, and you're doing it.

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But to say it like that even when I disagree
with people. The woman defended the structure of slavery in
the history of the United States. And this guy, Scott
Jennings comes on and not only speaks the worst trash
that is set on television outside of Newsmax in the

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middle of the night. Not only does he do that,
but he plays to the camera. He stares at the
camera and makes muggy faces like he was six years old.
And you're just going to talk about this as if
it were ordinary disagreement, as if it were Pat Buchanan
and Tom Braden in the original conservative show that they

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used to do, the thing that Tucker Carlson used to do.
What is that called point counterpoint? You think I'd remember it.
I was there for it. I consulted on them once
the original contradiction show between conservatives and Liberals. That's what
you think you're doing here? Yeah, I would say that

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there are views that you don't like, that you think
are unfounded but that are pretty widely shared. I think
Scott falls no, he's the son of a bitch, and
you put him on TV every night and you just
confess to it. That is your show, Abby Phillip, that
is your fault. That is not some idiot boss, and
god knows CNN manufactures them. The CNN Chief of the

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week did not shove this down your throat. You are
defending the show, and if not exactly what they say,
you are defending Scott Jennings and Jillian Michaels. If you
you are culpable here, you are responsible, or more correctly,
you are irresponsible. Resign. Never appear on television again. You

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might as well be on Fox. You might as well
be Gutfeld, just another broken person who does not recognize
that to want to be on TV news is a
problem psychologically. Let me tell you about that. To want
to be on TV doing the news is a sign

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of some degree of emotional distress. If you recognize that,
it probably lessens the degree. But let me tell you,
after fifty years in broadcasting, if you want to be
on TV, that's some distress. You need to manage it.
But if you have to be on TV news at
any cost you are dead inside and Abby Philip clearly

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from these quotes, has to be on TV. I am
not without empathy and I've got it, Abby, your next
career commercials do commercials for like shake check in addition

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to your burger and your milkshake? Do you want a
soft drink too? Do you want ice with that? Good?
Because ice is hiding in the kitchen ready to seize.
You said, I had two media notes. Here's the second one.
I have lived through some awful White House press secretaries.

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Aery Fleischer was a remorseless and bagdad bobby and level
elite liar who was connected to the first administration plant,
the former nude model Jeff Gannon and that wasn't even
his real name, who pretended to be a reporter and
one day started to ask Fleischer stupid questions, and I

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mean they would be considered stupid today. They didn't even
try to make them look like they were real questions.
It was just like democrats suck, How are you gonna
work with them? He did this for day after day
until he was outed, and I do mean outed. His successor,

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one of them, Dana Perino, was a nitwit who was
employed largely because She had literally lived out of the
country for years, and so when she expressed shock at
a question or or didn't know what the questioner was
talking about, she wasn't lying. She was just uninformed. I
don't know what her excuse for today is. On Fox,

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she's still just as uninformed. Fittingly, Sean Spicer is entirely remembered,
not as himself, but only as Melissa McCarthy portrayed him
on SNL. Sarah Huckabee, of course, scared children and small animals.
Kaylee mcinnaney was a dits. She too is now a

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Fox News dits. But in Caroline Levitt we may have
achieved perfection. First, as I've pointed out several times, there
is the word lie in both her first and last names. Second,
there's the fact that, in a room full of softball
questions from right wing plants like the Pizzagate guy who

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was there the other day, she was literally a softball
player who got a scholarship to play softball at an
obscure college. She is also belligerent, condescending, and aggressively stupid,
but her chief achievement is she doesn't actually speak English.

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She called Hitler Hilter. She has repeatedly mispronounced Trump's name.
Last week, she insisted Trump wheres she often calls him,
Trump deserves the Noble Peace Prize. Some people drop out
or stop paying attention of or in high school, literally

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or metaphorically. Some stop or drop out because of economic hardship,
some out of laziness. Caroline Levitt clearly stopped learning around
the sixth or seventh grade because she became convinced that
at that point she knew everything. Well, we can add
to the list. She has now mispronounced the word pundit

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during a self righteous I'm Caroline, and I want your
voteds sorority treasurer speech excoriating the White House Press Corps
for not applauding Trump about Ukraine enough. Though nothing has
happened other than to burn another week off the clock. Caroline,
Caroline gloriously got it wrong again.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
All weekend following those historic US Russia bilateral talks, we
listen to clueless pundits on television.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Pundints p U n d nts, no dumber than a
box of two hundred pounds of rocks. Now, I know
a lot of people make this exact mistake and say
punditt so what a lot of people get drunk and

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drive into telephone polls too. Does that make it any
more okay to do that? This person speaks on TV
every day. Does she have any pride or is she abby? Philip?
Any concern madam that people might think that, irrespective of
your support for fascism and your very bad Northeast accent

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impression of Ava Brown, that at the baseline here, you're
just an imbecile who can't you know pronounce words? Pundent,
She must have been thinking fondant is in cake? Mm?

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Cake to go with my shakeshack? Okay, pundit, let's add
it on to the end of the Hall of Fame
of Caroline Levitt.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
For example, just before Congress enacted the original Trump Chump
tax cuts, Law and order is back in America under
President Trump, President Trump sounded the alarm at Jake Tappers,
Colleidel filter the Nobel Peace Price. We listened to clueless
pundits on television.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
So all you hilter chump pundits just remember you may
try to get it, but Caroline is way ahead of
you in the running for the Noble Peace Price. Also

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of interest, here there's actually a third media note MSNBC
changed its name like I told them to in nineteen
ninety seven. My memo in the interoffice mail envelope finally
got to the fifty second floor. MSNBC possibly the worst

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name of any news network ever conceived in any language,
and they have now somehow found something worse to call it.
That's next. This is count Down, Countdown, which has outlasted

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the name MSNBC. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman Oberman
with the.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
Finally it dawns on me who she reminds me of? Who?
Caroline Lying Levitt Lying reminds me of? Ever seen SCTV
the original sc TV, and Katherine O'Hara playing in a

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sketch about a TV quiz show high school students, high
School Challenge or something like that, the equivalent of what
we used to have in the US called the College Bowl,
the ge College Bowl, Perdue versus the University of somewhere,
and people would show just how little they actually had

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learned in school. And in this episode, in this sketch,
Katherine O'Hara plays this girl who talks like this, and
every answer she gives she buzzes in before the question
has been asked, and I think it's Eugene Levy of
all people as the MC, and he says in Nordway,

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and she buzzes in and goes Dewey decimal system. And
then the next one is when the Titanic Dewey decimal System.
Every answer is Dewey Decimal System. That's Caroline Levitt. Death
of Noble Peace Pray still ahead on this edition of

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Countdown the Nobel Peace Prize winning program. It's happened again.
Another colleague has announced he's done, He's finished. No more broadcasting,
the news is dead. And I said, sit down and
shut up for an hour while I recite to you
all the times I have been told that about my career,

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because the most recent one was like six months ago,
and the first one, well, we will be coming up
on the forty first anniversary of it this November. Good evening,
and welcome to the ends of my career one a
decade since the eighties. Next in things I promised not

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to tell first, believe it or not, there's still more
new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the misgrants,
morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other
worst persons in the world. Do ey decmal system, the
Brons worse BBC News, as I always say when I

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torch them. Look, the reporters are unmatched, probably in the
English language, maybe in the entirety of the world. I
don't speak French. I can't speak to the French news,
and their worst is still better than the best offered
by CNN or MSNBC, to say nothing of Fascist News channel.

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But boy, oh boy, are there in studio editors and
producers naive and easily led. I mean sometimes it looks
like a high school newscast. The Big Second Day Story
on BBC World News, which they call that not as
a brand name. They actually show it all over the world.

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That's why they call it that, their Big Second Day Story.
After Zelenski and friends went the White House, they interviewed
Zelenski's suit guy not not some lawyer, not lawsuit, Zelenski's stylist,
his wardrobe fella, about Zelenski's new suit, the one he

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wore to the White House, about the idiot remark that
the bimbo Brian Glenn of the Rave News Network made
about Zelenski's fatigues from the meeting in February and comparing
it to the Zippier suit that Zelensky wore on Monday,
and then the punishment that Brian Glenn took when he

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smarmily tried to suck up to Zelensky by apologizing to him,
and Zolensky vaporized him. An entire segment on BBC World News,
which I'd like to remind you is shown around the world.
Do he Decimal system? An entire segment with the anchor
Christian phrase who's a little holier than now at times

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but otherwise okay, and the interviewee was speaking Ukrainian with
a translator. The whole segment on Zelensky's wardrobe, and not
once was the thing that tied the whole room together
ever mentioned the TV guy from rav Rave who insulted

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Zelenski in the first place and got smashed up this time.
Brian Glenn is the boyfriend of the insufferable Marjorie Stupid Green.
To treat Brian Glenn as just some sort of ordinary
right wing conspiracy nut reporter is to miss the point.
There is not a vast right wing conspiracy. It is

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still in this country only a couple of hundred people tops.
If they disappeared, tomorrow nature would begin to heal. But
they are all in the and I don't know that
it's coordinated. They don't have meetings. There isn't a rule book.
It's not like that they don't speak on some sort
of code. They didn't instill some sort of method of

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making us do what they want to and tracking our
whereabouts other than to sell us all these thousand dollars
phones that don't work and do track our whereabouts, but
they do coordinate to some degree. Maybe once a year.
That question was asked in February, and the phony apology

(40:39):
was spoken intentionally. Somebody thought about it in advance. How
to put Zelenski back on his heels ask him about
his jumpsuit. You have to make in covering this story.
If you're going to interview somebody about what Zelensky is wearing,
you have to mention that the alleged reporter. You have

(41:01):
to make some reference to the fact that the alleged
reporter actually is so deep in this pit of filth
that he is willing to put his hands on Marjorie
Taylor Green, I hope you weren't eating food, Speaking of

(41:24):
which the runner up worser MSNBC. Oh no, no, they
don't call it that anymore. Now it's called MISS now
or msnow or is it MS now as in M
and M's who the candy channel, M and M's now.

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I've kind of like that. I don't know what it's called.
I don't know how to pronounce it. I guess I
guess this comes from the fact that internally people think
that anybody outside of thirty Rock or the place they
kicked them out of, thirty Rock two in Times Square,
the people who work there think that they're not the
only ones who refer to it as MS. No one

(42:09):
watching MSNBC has ever referred to it as MS. People
who work their call it that, but they have not
thought this through. Why would you want to call your
network something that is the same acronym for a devastating
and heartbreaking physical ailment and disease? Why would you do that? Internally,

(42:30):
it's just an abbreviation to differentiate from CNBC or NBC. Yeah,
that's say they have the they have the box of
macaroons over there at MS. Yeah. No, there's cake. There's
cake in the MS newsroom. That's fine. But the keeping
the MS part, it's just madness. Anyway, They claim that

(42:57):
MSNOW is an acronym standing for my Source News Opinion World,
which is actually somehow worse than what the original MSNBC
acronym stood for, which was Microsoft NBC now the background
to the name MSNBC when I went to work there

(43:19):
in nineteen ninety seven, and they're year two. NBC News
president Andy Lack, who's nuts, warned me before taking me
into a meeting with the guy from Microsoft. It's top
Microsoft exec who thought he was running the place. He said, Lack,

(43:39):
that is, we agreed to call it that MSNBC so
that the Microsoft would give us their money and their
computer terminals for free. Just not at whatever this asshole says.
And then and just ignore him. And if you're not
sure what to say, look to look to me or
Phil Griffin, and we'll give you an indication what to say.
Just humor. We just need his money. That's all he

(44:01):
gets in this deal. He didn't read the fine print.
So it was Microsoft NBC and they thought they were
merging cable and the Internet. And the solution to that
was to call the eight o'clock show inter Night, you
get it instead of Internet. That was Phil Griffin's idea

(44:23):
he was the president of MSNBC. Not only was that
Phil Griffin's idea, it happened in nineteen ninety six, and
it was Phil Griffins's most recent idea, just not at
whatever he says. So with MSNBC, I'm sorry, it's now
called Miss Magazine has merged with the National Organization for Women,

(44:46):
with MSNBC changing its name as it is spun off
by Comcast and kicked out of the house before Comcast
sells it off and the new owners destroy it like
they did to CNN. I'd like to point out that
the first time I suggested it would be a good
idea to dissociate itself from NBC News and create its

(45:08):
own identity, because people who were watching US on MSNBC
had already decided they did not want to watch NBC News,
which is exactly the reverse of the logic of the
Andy Lacks, who thought, well, people who like NBC News
will certainly want to watch US twenty four hours a day. No,
you don't understand. They have just as much MSNBC over

(45:28):
here and as much NBC News over there as they
could possibly use. They don't want to go from one
to the other call it something else. You'll never get
away from the idea that it's just NBC Junior. You'll
never get away from the idea that this is the
triple A team for NBC News. And Andy Lack of
course thought, well, that's great. We like to have a

(45:50):
triple A team for NBC News, which is all he wanted,
a place for Brian Williams to practice. Well, he practiced
a lot, but he wasn't practicing what they thought he
was practicing. I invented air. The first time I asked
them whether or not it was a good idea to
rename the place was like the week I started in

(46:12):
October nineteen ninety seven and in two thousand and three,
and I still have the memo, and maybe I'll sit
down and read the whole thing on here one day.
I propose they rebrand it and make it simple. I said,
you want to have a news network, call your new
news network name, and you can get away with this
because nobody was watching MSNBC. I mean literally a few

(46:33):
more people were watching it in two thousand and three
than there are watching it now. That's how bad things
were in two thousand and three. Call it NWS. This
is NWS news. That's it. You want to use an acronym,
use that one co opt not just the brand name,

(46:56):
but an entire industry like Time magazine. Boy, that pretty
much covers it. Huh, what's your magazine about? Time or
Life magazine? You have to admit you can't get better
name recognition than if you called your magazine Life or Time,

(47:16):
or if you called your news network News. By the way,
who did they send out to convince the deeply suspicious
viewers that this dumb name is not a dumb name,
that it isn't the TV equivalent of Edsel or New

(47:37):
Coke or Max instead of HBO or any of the
drug brand names that you can't remember or spell exactlia
for you know when you have that thing xnactlia. The
point of the TV ads is to get you to
remember how to remember and spell the names of the

(47:59):
drugs and you can't remember what they're called. You know
who they sent out to, say, eld the most credible
person on MSNBC now, No, it's MSNBC earlier and ms now.
You know who they sent out to pitch this, The
most credible person they have the most believed, the guy

(48:22):
whose word you can depend on whose opinion, whose position
never changes. Joe Scarborough, who said the new name is
perfect and in solidarity. Joe then changed his name to
Vidcan Quizzling look it up. But the winner the worst
el Trump Bellini again needs any distraction he can find

(48:46):
from Trumpstein. But this is still something he has written
as President of the United States, and thus we can
believe he really believes this. The museums throughout Washington, but
all over the country. Okay, I don't know what you
mean that, Sonny, are essentially the last remaining segment of woke.

(49:10):
The Smithsonian is out of control. I don't know if
you've been to the Smithsonian, or in fact to any
major museum in this country, but the last thing they
are is out of control or woke. The museums are
there to invoke the year eighteen ninety eight, supposedly the

(49:30):
year Trump enjoyed the most. The Smithsonian is out of control.
Where everything discussed is how horrible our country is, how
bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the down trodden have been.
Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
It's a museum, af face, It's not about the future.

(49:55):
We are not going to allow this to happen. I
have instructed my attorneys to go through the museums and
start the exact same process that it has been done
with colleges and universities, where tremendous progress has been made. Yes,
we've cut back the number of Ivy League schools from
eight to six. This country cannot be woke, because woke

(50:16):
is broke. We have the hottest country in the world,
and we want people to talk about it, including in
our museums. He'll be asking people to shout in the
libraries next and to wear their underwear on the outside.
He's going to sue the museums over covering history because

(50:36):
there's not enough stuff about the future in the museums,
because museums are about the past. Yeah, he's not crazy,
new new new. Also, the Smithsonian mentioning slavery is woke,
and once again the line about the exact same process

(50:59):
that has been done with colleges and universities. Again, my
congratulations to Penn and Columbia and especially my ex friend
Claire Shipman. I really think Claire and the idiots who
run Pen ought to be selecting where they're going to
move to which country, not out of a fear of
an uncomfortable life full of public shame or danger under Trump,

(51:22):
but because of fear of an even more uncomfortable life
full of even more public shame after Trump. This is
your fault, Claire. You folded and the rest of them
folded behind you, and you gave this mealy mouthed, eighty
year old, stupid mother effort, the belief that he can

(51:47):
bully anybody and that everyone will appease him because you
appeased him. Congratulations, Wake up with that every morning. Also,
Trump is now pro slavery, and he's forever two day's
worst person. Or over the weekend, a colleague of mine

(52:32):
explained that his career is over. It's done. He's had
all the chances, there are no more jobs to get.
It's all over. The business is dying, his career is dying.
It's finished. He's going to look into something else, maybe
selling used cars. And I said, boy, oh boy, if
I had ten million dollars for every time I have

(52:53):
been told my career was over, I'd have a lot
less money than I actually do. To our number one
story on the countdown, and good evening, and welcome to
the end of our career years or more, particularly the
end of my career. No, I'm not retiring. I'm just
quoting myself from nineteen ninety three in the launch of

(53:14):
ESPN two and the subject of career ending announcements career
ending announcements. Recently a colleague of mine told me he
was done, and I had to go through all of
the times I have been told I was done. The
first one was in nineteen eighty four. This would be
in a previous century that I know. To a lot

(53:36):
of younger listeners, seems like it might as well be
eighteen eighty four. I have told before the story of
my limited career in Boston, for which I waited about
a year to start and lasted about half as long
because I went to work at the wrong place, in
the wrong city, outside in the wrong suburb of Boston,
with the wrong boss, where they said, don't make any jokes,

(53:59):
and I said, what did you hire me for? And
I left very very quickly, and then they tried to
fire me while I was filling out the terms of
my contract and staying there until they could get a replacement,
and the whole thing went up in flames. And the
result of this was that the news director of the
station Channel five in Boston, a man who actually answered
to the name Philip Scribner. Balboni went to the Boston

(54:22):
Globe TV Sportswriter when they had such things as TV Sportswriters,
and said, Oh, such a shame about Keith. He was
potentially such a major talent. I will not deny that
the use of that phrase did inspire me to some
degree to get cracking on my career. On the other hand,
I didn't work for nearly a year later, as I

(54:43):
was taking care of some family business back home and
sort of put everything about my own interest on the shelf.
Off the record, The general manager of the station I
had worked for, a man named James Coppersmith, said to
my agent something that made Balboni's statement look like a compliment.
Coppersmith said, he will never again work in our business.

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That got me motivated. I believe I read recently that
Coppersmith died. In any event, I worked again in his business.
The punchline to this one, and they all have punchlines,
is that at some point around two thousand and seven,
I got an email at MSNBC and the return address

(55:23):
was Philip Scribner. Balboni, And there was a great email
from my old brief news director Boston Channel five in Boston,
who explained that I had been potentially such a major
talent and was quoted on the record as saying that.
And now he was saying how he watched Countdown every
night and was so proud to have been in there
at the start of my career. Not a word about

(55:46):
the other part about the oh, potentially such a major talent.
I guess he meant it in the past future, perfect
sense of the I don't know, my grammar education is
not what it should be. But he managed to wriggle
out of it. Never made any reference to it. And
the one thing about surviving repeated announcements that your career

(56:06):
is over is to never really go back and criticize
the people who were wrong about it, because they know
they were wrong and your success is the best answer. Nevertheless,
this all came up, and I thought i'd retell it
to you because I had to retell it to a
friend who recently told me his career was over. But
as I said, that was just the first time that

(56:28):
had ever happened in a fully professional setting. In two
thousand and one, and I was just reading this. I
guess about a year ago. I came across it somewhere online.
I was reading it for a punchline in and of itself.
It was a piece in Sports Illustrated by a man
named Chris Ballard, I believe, and Chris Ballard wrote an

(56:48):
article about my being fired by Fox Sports, which he
wrote as I had resigned from Fox Sports, and went
on to explain that I did not respond as Sports
Illustrated's request by emails and phones for comment. I never
received any of them because it never occurred to me
him that when they fired me and told everybody I
had resigned, they cut off my access to my email

(57:11):
and my phone, and they said to him when he
wanted to talk to me, oh, just send him an email,
he'll get back to you. And I didn't, and thus
he made me look like a jerk. In any event,
the article explained in two thousand and one that having
gone through ESPN and now ESPN's sort of mini me rival,
Fox Sports News, that there was nothing left for me

(57:33):
to do in the business. I had tried news briefly
in nineteen ninety seven and nineteen ninety eight. Clearly my
career in both fields was over. I could not possibly
work again in television, in news or in sports. We're
now coming up next year if I get to it. Well,
it's been twenty three, twenty four year. Okay. I recently

(57:55):
saw this article and was inspired to look for it
online because Chris Ballard was retiring from Sports Illustrated and
I'm still One question that came up as I was
retelling the story of my various career ending moments that
did not in fact end my career from my friend
who's very worried about this, was how I managed not

(58:18):
to have my career And when Ballard's premise was not
completely wrong, he was certainly looking at what he thought
happened in television. He was not the TV sports writer
for Sports Illustrated for very long. It was not a
natural subject for him. Most people who did this job
thought that it involved simply watching sports on TV and

(58:39):
then writing what they thought as opposed to understanding an
industry or its complexities, or its parameters or its sort
of weird voodoo customs. In any event, I said, well, look,
it's not very difficult to survive these things. You just
have to acknowledge that perhaps your next job after some
sort of cataclysmic departure from an ESPN or a Fox

(59:02):
Sports or an MSNBC or wherever else, perhaps it's not
going to pay you quite as much as the last
one did. And so when my agent and I began
to look around for more work in two thousand and one,
and I might add that after Fox fired me, they
had to pay me for another eight months at one
hundred thousand dollars a year. And if you can't survive

(59:22):
on a job that requires you to do nothing for
eight months and pays you eight hundred thousand dollars that
you can salt away. If you can't survive on that
and enjoy your life while you're doing it, you're doing
things wrong. In any event, what I said was just
the next job. Just take a job that allows you
to do what you can do and do it well,

(59:44):
and you will succeed in it. You have talent a
lot of other people don't. You will be low cost,
so they're much more likely to overlook anything that happened
in the past, and most importantly, if it is successful,
you can then hold them up on the second contract negotiation.
So I went first to CNN after the Fox Sports
experience started to work for them for not a lot

(01:00:06):
of money, and although they did not ultimately exercise this,
they signed me to a contract to do the eight
pm show on CNN for a certain large amount of money,
and there were two finalists they wanted us lined up
in advance, and they made the clever decision to choose
Connie Chung instead of me. But they had sort of
reauthorized me. They had re established me by it was

(01:00:28):
well known within the industry that I was the runner
up for the job at eight o'clock and within six
months of them saying, nah, we think Connie's the right
person to lead us into the future here, within six
months of that, I was doing the eight o'clock show
on MSNBC for in fact, twice what the agreement had
been at CNN, And within three years they'd signed me
to a new deal that was worth three times that,

(01:00:50):
more than I had ever made in my life. So
the key thing to it is to be flexible financially.
You socked them for the money while you're successful, and
then by the way, once again, if you can't succeed
in the business, if you can't succeed in life, when
you have received in one year, anything north of three

(01:01:10):
million dollars in one year. Four million dollars. Maybe I
forget what the actual financial floor is. But if you've
made that much money in one year and can't live
basically off that and simply interest from the bank that
that will provide you. If you can't do that, you
must have some sort of addiction to drugs, because guess what,

(01:01:33):
you can go a long way still. I mean, yeah,
it's true, four million dollars is what it used to be,
but guess what it is now. It's still really good.
I never failed to see one of these articles in
which somebody who's lost a job paying in you know,
the tens of millions of dollars, and it's I always finished. Now.
It's like, yes, he's finished. Now he can sit on

(01:01:55):
a beach, he can hire somebody to do his exercise
for him. He can sit on a beach and and
eat the money, and it won't make it difference. He
doesn't have to do it again in any event. So
the pattern here that I have described already has continued
in subsequent years, even after I came back from the dead,
after my experience in Boston, where I was dubbed the

(01:02:17):
Dark prints of TV Sports and was winning awards in
Los Angeles the next year. Although, to be fair, after
that quote in nineteen eighty four about how I was
potentially a great talent, I did get down to about
my last one hundred dollars in the bank. And actually
I actually had to borrow money from my dear sister

(01:02:38):
to get on the bus to take me to the
airport in New York so I could take the flight
to Los Angeles to start my job there. That's how
close I cut it. Another week and I would have
been borrowing money for food. That's where I was. But
you have to be willing to walk that tight rope
to pull this off in any event. So that was

(01:02:58):
Boston became the Los Angeles job. In the Los Angeles job,
when they eliminated that, it's like, well, his career is
over now. Job was ESPN. ESPN led to NBC. When
that didn't work out and I pushed to get out
of there. They sold me to Fox for a million
dollars and they paid me a lot of money and
continued to pay me a lot of money even after
they stopped putting me on TV. And that led to

(01:03:19):
a doldrum period where I got to read about the
guy who's now retired from Sports Illustrated explaining what network
will sign him now, what team will sign him now?
Whither Keith? This is two thousand and one. I was
forty two years old. It's like I get nostalgic reading that, going, Yeah,
you were forty two years old. They fired you at
that point people thought your career was over. Yeah, but

(01:03:41):
I was forty two. My hair was dark most places
in any event, So that led into the MSNBC job,
and the MSNBC job, as sort of messy as that ended,
the second one, anyway, led to the Current TV job,
and as disastrous as that was, since it was kind
of a confidence trick, there was a day where between

(01:04:04):
the money I got for leaving NBC and the money
I got for joining Current TV, I made sixty eight
million dollars in one day. I had to sew a
lot of people afterwards to get all of it, but
I got just about all of it. In any event,
I'm now boasting back to the point of this whole story.
An old friend of mine came in when I was
doing the videos for GQ The Closer and The Resistance

(01:04:26):
in twenty sixteen, in twenty seventeen, came in to watch
me do this and started to ask, very very graciously
and very gently about, well, isn't this something of a
come down for you from the MSNBC experience where you
had a staff? And I said, well, first off, the
MSNBC experience consisted of two cameramen and a floor director

(01:04:49):
and me and sometimes a guest in a studio. The staff,
whereas they were all certainly dedicated to the project, consisted
of basically a core of six or seven people. It
never really felt like a big deal. I know it
had more influence than then I was ever led to understand.
But it wasn't like, oh, well, you know those movies

(01:05:11):
that you did with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and
Tom Cruise. Now you're just sitting at home with a camera.
It didn't have that feel in the slightest. And I
said to him, did you see the thing from CBS
News the other day? And he went, what thing from
CBS News? I said, don't you have the Google at
the New York Times? And he said yes. I said, Google,
Social Flow, Facebook, and he did on his phone and

(01:05:35):
he read this political pundit Keith Alderman found a way
to channel concerns about mister Trump. This is July twenty seventeen,
started hosting a series of political commentary and special interviews
titled The Resistance with Keith Olderman, with the first episode
featured on GQ on November sixteenth, twenty sixteen, reaching fifty
four million people, equivalent to one in six Americans. And

(01:05:58):
I said, look, I understand that if you measure things
solely by the idea that I'm on your TV every night, well, yeah,
that the doing a video and coming into a studio
that isn't really designed for TV and there's an echo
in it might seem like the end of my career.
Fifty four million people saw that video and interacted with
it in some kind. They either forwarded it, or watched it,

(01:06:21):
or put a comment on it, or sometimes all three.
That was, in fact the number one political video or
story on Facebook in the period of time after Donald
Trump's election. I think that's something of a success. And
I said, by this point, I don't need the damn money.
The money I'm making from doing this is going to

(01:06:41):
dog charities. Okay, So we could go on at length
about other small versions of that. I once went back
and forth with this guy who now is one of
the people at Puck News, who insisted that I had
not been negotiating with the then chairman of NBC, Jeff Schell,
about returning to MSNBC in twenty nineteen, twenty and twenty one,

(01:07:02):
because NBC News had insisted it wasn't true. And I said,
who told you that? And they said, a spokesman. And
I said to this guy, his name was Dylan Byers,
I said, well, who was the spokesman. Well, it's just
supposed to be a spokesman, I said, so. They wouldn't
even put their own name on it, not even a
made up name Jim Jones, NBC News spokesman, which would
have been, by the way, an appropriate name for a

(01:07:24):
series of NBC News spokespeople. They didn't even do that.
And he said no, they were insistent, there's never been
any contact between you and Jeff Shell. And I went
hang on, and I called up from my phone twenty
three emails and texts from Jeff Shell. I photo shot
at them, I screen shotted them and gave him to
the guy. And I don't think this guy Buyers has

(01:07:45):
recovered since his worldview was totally destroyed. He was writing
a story about how I had deteriorated to the point
where I was hallucinating about being in contact with Jeff
Shell from NBC News or from NBC about returning to
NBC News and MSNBC, when we were deep into negotiations
about and we're delayed only by the pandemic. And as

(01:08:07):
I pointed out here before, the vetos of certain people
working on the air at MSNBC, most of whose careers
I started. But that's another story which I've already discussed.
His whole worldview was shattered by this because should do
be he could not comprehend that an NBC News spokesperson
would lie to him, And he really said this. He said,

(01:08:29):
I don't understand why would they lie to me? And
I said, you don't have to understand that the idea
that they would not put their own name on this
statement might have suggested to you that they were lying
to you. Oh, I'll keep that in mind. Well he
didn't keep that in mind. But that's again another story
about Dylan Byers, and we'll get to him someday some
day two somewhere soon. Somebody asked towards the end of

(01:08:51):
July twenty twenty four about my recent comeback and how
I had just gotten back into political commentary now with
the new podcast, and I said, it's two years old.
On August first, it was approaching five hundred episodes. We're
doing like a million listens a week, a million audience

(01:09:12):
participants a week. I mean, it's challenging certain hours on
CNN for total audience. Good God, what do you mean
recent comeback? But this is, as I said, if I
had ten million dollars for every time somebody told me
my career was over, A career is sort of over

(01:09:34):
because I'm now of advanced years and now I've done
something that I really didn't understand until the year twenty eleven,
until I left MSNBC to go to Current TV, and
there was built into this transfer a three month period
of time where I could not work anywhere in television.

(01:09:55):
I had not had such a period of time except
for the aforementioned period when I was taking care of
family members who were in trouble in nineteen eighty five
after the Boston experience, I hadn't had such a length
at time without being on the air somewhere, And in fact,
during that period in nineteen eighty five, I did a
lot of freelance work just to you know, get the
cash that I didn't have to borrow from my sister,

(01:10:16):
who was, by the way, seventeen years old at the time. Yeah, Jen,
have you got a twenty Yeah? Thanks, I need to
go buy a cigar. In any event, I believe we
had that conversation. In any event, the point of this was,
until twenty eleven, I'd really not had a day or
at least a week without deadlines. Media deadlines. You have

(01:10:38):
to have this written by eight o'clock because the show
is starting with or without you. I hadn't had a
day or a week without those since I was sixteen
years old. I was to my shock. I found I
really enjoyed not having those deadlines. And when we went
back on the air in Current TV in June of
twenty eleven, I was kind of disappointed, not because the

(01:10:59):
studio was actually not a studio but more like a
you know, a portal to hell. Not that part of it,
which was disappointing, but not as much as I really enjoyed,
you know, not shaving every weekday and not having to write,
you know, ten thousand words a day and not having
to read the twelve seconds of script inside the twelve

(01:11:21):
second window before the sound hit, and just the number
of deadlines I suddenly didn't have. So since twenty eleven,
I decided to cut back to four days work a week,
generally speaking, that's my concession to my mid sixties. And
as I was preparing this to tell you this story
in light of the experience I had with my friend

(01:11:43):
who thought his career was over, and I was reciting this,
I realized that I had left out in telling him
the story, and I have deliberately left it out of
the chronological order of these tales of the actual first
time I was told my career was over. I had
forgotten completely about the day that the sports director what
was then a prominent radio station told me that not

(01:12:05):
only would he and the news director there not hire me,
even though I had been told I was a candidate
for a sports job there, but he told me that
I would never get a job in radio or television
of any prominence because of my attitude. No one will
ever hire you. His name was Ernie Jackson, and I

(01:12:26):
believe he left the town we were in to get
a job selling airtime on a radio station in Cincinnati,
and after that, I don't know what the hell happened
to him. The news director was a guy named Bob Lynch,
and he shortly thereafter moved to a job that I
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