November 8, 2022 • 49 mins
EPISODE 72: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) OH GOD I so wanted Trump to declare his candidacy last night. He was THISCLOSE to doing it at his fascist rally in Ohio and thus snatching defeat for the Republicans from the jaws of victory, like he did in Georgia. But somebody got to him! (3:46) Whatever happens today, the media is doing everything it can to stick to the "Red Wave" narrative: Their polls all indicate Democratic leads in the Generic Congressional Ballot so what did Politico, Yahoo, and Reuters do? THEY DISMISSED THEIR OWN POLLS AS OUTLIERS. It all underscores the real media narrative: The media corporations are sucking up to the fascists (8:30) Last night, the Republicans gave away the next narrative: any election undecided by Wednesday morning has been fixed by the Democrats (10:48) Oh by the way, a key member of Russia's 2016 Conspiracy with Trump confessed to interfering in the election (11:45) And Elon Musk tweeted more Nazi names and six months after saying "for Twitter to deserve public trust it must be politically neutral" he told his 115,000,000 followers they should vote Republican. Oh and he's also talking about putting all of Twitter behind a paywall.
B-Block (16:40) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Ace has been reserved! Today it's Angie, in Brooklyn (17:33) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Bannon incarceration delayed, Ted Cruz hit by a White Claw and Texas police actually just don't stand there (19:24) IN SPORTS: Check with me Monday after new Coach Saturday makes his debut Sunday; It's the strangest NFL coaching move since Rock Island fired its coach mid-game in 1921. Baseball free agent news and the new Veterans' Hall of Fame Ballot is out: McGriff, Murphy, Mattingly, four roiders, one jackass - where's Keith Hernandez? (23:27) Brit "Trash OnThe Street" Hume and CNN's New Morning Show, called "Fascists? Please Let Us Live!" are no match for the all-time champion of Conventional Political Lack of Wisdom and Groupthink: Chris Cillizza with an all-time great column, telling History Teacher Jim Clyburn he doesn't understand history.
C-Block (34:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The day in 1981 the disc jockey on the top New York radio station tried to kill me and then get me fired for daring to criticize "his" New York Giants on his show. The saga of Ted Brown and "he won't remember that either" (49:55) Plus, because it was handy, a complete sportscast from December 30, 1981, and 22-year old me doing an entire sportscast on WNEW Radio in New York, complete with the latest Wayne Gretzky news (and Ted Brown).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of I Heart Radio.
Oh God. I so wanted Trump to declare last night,
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we were so close. He was so pissed at descant As,
He was so pissed at the descent as Son of
God commercial. He was so pissed as Santas is trying
to steal his Jesus Freaks. He was so ready to
declare in Vandalia, Ohio, that he was gonna run in
twenty four is if we all didn't know already he
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was gonna run, so ready that the right wing fop
Benny Johnson tweeted Trump would be announcing it during the
Fascist rally, so ready that he could have said twenty
words that would have completely eclipsed every republic Can candidate
from Officer Dr. Lieutenant Herschel the trained seal walker to
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carry Eva Brown Lake, and made every voter with the
slightest hesitation about him at least rethink a vote for
any Republican anywhere in the country. Trump could have come
through for us like he did in Georgia for Warnock
and oss Off. He could have snatched defeat from the
jaws of Republican victory as only Donald john Trump can
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God damn it, somebody talked him out of it. He
actually listened for once. We want nothing to detract from
the importance of tomorrow. As the Maga Jesus Freak music
played in the background, he announced an announcement next Tuesday
at Mari Lago, oh helthough if Merrick Garland has conies,
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he did indict Trump Tuesday morning, mark five hundred bucks
if you indict Trump Tuesday morning. Anyway, I am not
going to give you a raw ross speech on election Day.
I think I know who is listening more accurately than
I have known who is listening or watching to any
of my work since I started doing this forty seven
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years ago. You are not undecided, and you are not
uncertain about going to the polls. But there is some
stuff I came across I think I can bring to
your attention that might help you digest whatever happens today
and in the weeks ahead of counting and recounting. And
it starts with the startling but nowhere near inexplicable truth
that three late reliable sober polls affiliated with major both
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sides this news organizations, three of them show the Democrats
ahead in the generic congressional ballot, But each poll so
disturbed the narrative of the red wave that the three
major both sides this news organizations dismissed their own polls.
One of them said the democratically quote spells trouble for Democrats, another,
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which showed a five point democratically, dismissed the five point
Democratic lead as a quote outlier and pleaded that the
results vode ill for Democrats, and the other one, showing
three different kinds of democratic congressional leads, simply left all
of them out of its news story and headlined it
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Biden approval takes downwards. Don't get me wrong, It is
absolutely possible that the Democrats will lose the House or
the Senate or both. But there is a phenomenon that
is at play and will remain at play no matter
what the outcomes are. I have mentioned it before. The
corporations which own the major news organizations in this country
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all live in abject terror that their profits might become
at risk. They have had internal meetings about what to
do in the event of another full Republican government or
just a Republican House or a Republican Senate, but especially
of a full fascist takeover. The first conclusion is always
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foot Republicans on TV and do not challenge them, which
is why Chuck Todd has a job at NBC and
Dana Bash and uh, what's your name, Holly Popover have
one at CNN. The second rule is higher Republicans, which
is why McK mulvaney and Chris Licht have jobs. And
the third is never be seen to be favoring Democrats
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in anything, so Politico can, in all seriousness put out
this headline voters appear ready to blame Democrats for economy inflation,
followed by this lead paragraph, voters approval of President Joe
Biden remains deep in negative territory. It is not until
the second half of the third paragraph before we get quote.
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Many polling averages indicate that voters are more inclined to
vote for Republicans. As a result, the Political a Morning
Consult poll is an outlier on this question, showing support
for Democratic congressional candidates at five points above support for
Republican candidates. It's the fifth paragraph before they mentioned that
the five point lead is more than twice as large
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as their own poll's margin of error, and they never
address anywhere in the story why Politico is throwing its
own polster and its own credibility under the bus, and
we are left to assume it's just because I will
spare you the full mental gymnastics that Yahoo, living down
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to its name, used to repudiate its own Yugov poll,
except to say that it mentions the Democrats are up
by two points, but that's a tie because the margin
of error is two point seven, and then it underscores
that since September this represents a three fold reduction in
Democrats lead in the closing days of the campaign. It's
Reuters with its IPSOS poll showing the Democrats that had
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unlikely forty among registered and thirty seven thirty six among
all adults. Routers simply wrote a two word piece about
Biden's unpopularity and about the House. It quoted the University
of Virginia's Center for Politics and left its own poll
out of the article Entirely. It's nuts. The people writing
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this crap and the editors putting it out had to
twist themselves into so many pretzels that the world of
the political pundits will now we'll be seeing an epidemic
of torn rotator cuffs. Ah I am not going to
go race by race for you, and frankly, I don't
know what tomorrow's podcast should be about, because I don't
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know what I'm going to tell you that will still
be valid even three minutes after I record it. I'll
think of something. Maybe ninety seconds in the first section,
in fifteen minutes in the second section, and twenty minutes
in the third section. I don't know. But there is
one other trend that is already self evident, and maybe
this will be the lead topic tomorrow. Trump, the Republicans,
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the fascist News channel, and therefore all the mainstream media
in the terrified mode mentioned earlier, will push the following narrative.
They have already started. It only vote totals from tomorrow
night count. Anything that's still undecided Wednesday morning or later
was fixed by the Democrats. This simple lie is what
all Trumpian election denialism has hung from for two years.
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It is idiotic. It does not match anything in our history,
not even just our history this century, think about two thousand.
But it has very similitude. It sounds right to people
who know nothing about whatever subject is in question. Not
only did one of Trump's lawyers pitch this in Ohio
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last night before the Fere's speech. Only vote totals Tuesday
night count no mail in votes, no Democratic votes, no
votes on Wednesday, but at least two Fox hosts did
it too, and with his usual restraint, Jimy Glick, Tucks
and Carlson explained that the ordinary counting delays are in
fact a Democratic plot to steal the election and threaten
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a civil war. Some late predictions from more or less
credible pollsters to note cook political categorizing at least lean
Republican versus at least lean Democrat has the Republicans up
two and twelve seven with thirty six toss up. If
that is accurate, Democrats could win thirty of those toss
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ups and the Republicans would still control the House two
to two hundred and seventeen. Larry Saboteau, who is often Okay,
calls it Republicans to five thirty eight. Models suggest the
Republicans have an eight percent chance of winning between one
and thirty three seats. Of course, if Politico reuters in
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Yahoo were writing up those forecasts there, they would explain
how much the Republicans were slipping. Actually, the Republicans are
slow thing. Trump lost forty seats in his mid term.
Obama lost sixty three in his first, Clinton fifty four
in his first. If the Republicans take the House, the
Saboteau prediction of a thirty nine vote margin is the
largest of the credible predictions. No matter what the number is,
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even if it is one, even if it is two,
an eight seventeen Biden will get pilloried anyway. One other
development from yesterday will probably get no traction when it should.
You have Getny Progosian prutents chef, the goon behind the
Russian mercenary gang trying to stave off defeating Ukraine. You
have Guny Progosian, long suspected of playing a central role
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in the Trump campaign conspiracy with Russian hackers and politicians
to interfere with the two thousand sixteen presidential election, and
just as long adamant in his denials that had happened
or that he had anything to do with it. Suddenly
yesterday you have Getny pregosition confirmed it. Gentlemen, his company's
press service announced on social media. We have interfered, are interfering,
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and will interfere carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way,
what did he do? He didn't say, it doesn't matter,
might have done nothing. Just saying it now on the
eve of the midterms constitutes interference by itself. And lastly,
to circle back to the media and the narratives, just
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to add to this perspective that the media is lined
up against reality on behalf of the Republicans and their
own asses. Think the new CNN hosting Rona Romney on Sunday.
Think MSNBC's liberal hosts like Meadow completely as it turned out,
ignoring the firing of Tiffany Cross to appease Fox and Carlson.
Think the pole twisting by Ruyters Political and Yahoo that
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I mentioned earlier. On April, Elon Musk tweeted quote, for
Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral.
Yesterday Elmo tweeted quote, I recommend voting for a publican Congress.
I think that tweet came after his daily Nazi meme,
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but I might be mistaken. Might have been Nazi meme
after the call to vote for a Republican. A Twitter
user named Kenneth Laster wrote, Elon Musk right now is
like if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs Bunnies.
It's a great line. Elon Musk right now is like
if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs bunnies. But
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it reminded me of the Family Guy episode where Elmer
Fudd approaches Bugs who says, what's app doc, and then
Elmer just shoots him point blank four times. Also, please
note this is Elmer Fudd. Musk, whom The Verge reported
last night, has at least discussed the possibility that his
real genius idea for making money with Twitter replacing his
last ten laugh out loud disastrous genius ideas for making
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money on Twitter. His real genius idea is to put
the whole thing behind a paywall. Put Twitter on a
subscription basis question e Lawn's Nazi memes. Are they included
with the subscription or are they extra? Still ahead, Steve
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Bannon is not going to prison, not yet anyway. On
any given Sunday, the New Colts Coaches Saturday, these are
the days of the week. Spoiler alert, Crystallism may have
produced the greatest in his series of all time great
conventional lack of wisdom both sides is m columns for
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CNN Worst Persons coming up and the day the dish
jockey who had been in a German prison camp for
eighteen months got mad at me for criticizing the New
York Football Giants and he tried to kill me and
then get me fired. Plus a complete vintage one KO sportscast.
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That's next. This is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Olberman still ahead on Countdown. Oh, Chris Silissa has finally
reclaimed the honors as worst person in the world Wait
till you hear what he wrote? And my sports cast
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from one and the dish jockey at the station who
wanted to kill me for criticizing the New York Football
Giants on his show. First any tradition of Countdown, we
feature a dog in need whom you can help. Every
dog has its day happy news to start. Ace Ace
was the pup who faced death in New York unless
somebody adopted or fostered him. We mentioned him yesterday. He's
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been reserved. He should be safe if it all happens
as planned. Ya today Angie in Brooklyn, a m a
Animal rescue is trying to get Angie home. She is loyal, healthy, young, smart, patient, beautiful.
They describe her as a sweet for angel. She likes
other dogs. She loves walks. She's a gray and white
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pibble mix, fifty pounds, gorgeous, floppy ears. She needs a home.
Angie is the pinned tweet at a m A Animal Rescue.
She'll be my pinned tweet at Tom Jumbo Grumbo as well.
Respond if you might be her forever human or just
retweet her free, unconditional, Your love can be yours. Thank
you very much. Pot Scripts to the news, some headlines,
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some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, District of Columbia.
Judge Carl Nichols with a two fur He did not
toss the dominion defamation suit against One American News, but
he did delay the incarceration of Steve Bannon until his
appeal is concluded. Obviously, the prediction here is Bannon is
trying to run out the claw and somehow get his
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contempt of Congress conviction overturned if the Republicans control Congress.
I don't think it works that way, but lord knows,
they'll try to make it work that way. Dateline, Forsyth County,
Georgia State Senate candidate Brent Binyon there says his Twitter
account has been suspended permanently on the eve of the election.
Well it's interesting timing, he writes from his campaign account,
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But my personal Twitter account has been permanently suspended for
no reason whatsoever. I wonder what will happen aftermorrow. I
guess Brent's party got it in one. Guess he's a Democrat. Dateline.
Houston police arrested a man who hit ted Cruz with
a can of white Claw during the Houston Astros World
Series parade Monday. He threw it. The man faces assault charges.
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I hope the white Claw is recovering well. But wait,
Texas police acting against somebody committing violence. Are they allowed
to do that? Don't they just have to go to
the crime scene and stand there and pose and look
good for the cameras. This is Sports Center? Wait, check
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that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in Sports.
It might be the oddest NFL coaching move since the
Rock Island Independence fired their coach in the middle of
a game after they lost to three to New England. Sunday,
the Indianapolis Colts fired coach Frank Reich and named as
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his interim replacement. ESPN analyst and X All Pro center
Jeff Saturday, who has never coached in the pros or
in the colleges before. Apparently that is a first, though
he did coach three seasons for prep school in Georgia.
And more importantly than all that put together, Jeff Saturday
has dream eyes. I say this as a straight man.
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He has dreamy eyes. He just does. Our sources indicate
the Jeff Saturday's assistance with the Colts will be former
Vikings guard Milt Sunday, former Duke punter Will Monday, actress Tuesday, well,
the legendary Wednesday, Adams and Ruby Thursday, and of course
seven Bills replacement guard Larry Friday. By the way, firing
a coach mid game, that really did happen. I didn't
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make that up. On October one, the Rock Island Independence
of the NFL that was going by its old name
then the p f A A something or another. They
had just gone in front of the Chicago Cardinals, who
exist in the NFL today in a different city fourteen
to seven, when the owners sent a player into the
team huddle on the field to tell lineman Frank Coughlin
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that he was no longer the player coach, and that
quarterback Jimmy Consulman was now the player coach. Middle of
the game, middle of the huddle. Not as crazy as
it sounds, that was the first minute of Consulman's fifteen
years an NFL coach, and he won two NFL championships.
So as to Jeff Saturday, check back with me Monday
after his first game Sunday. Thank you for your time
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this time until next time. Baseball free agency news Jeans
Sigura dropped by the Phillies. Anthony Rizzo of the Rizzoo
Quality Assortment opts out from the Yankees. The next Baseball
Veterans Committee Hall of Fame vote to clean up all
the mistakes of the writer's votes announced as December four.
The contemporary era ballot eight nominees revealed. The voters can
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only vote for three the candidates Barry Bonds, H G.
H In a Suit of Armor, Roger Clemens, Royd's and Amphetamines.
If either is elected, some Hall of famers will start
boycotting the Hall of Fame. Raphael Palmero angry denials in
front of Congress, including pointing and wagging a finger that
he ever did Royd's then tested positive. Albert Bell rage
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without the Royds, although lots of Royd's rumors and his
career war wins above replacement is lower than that of
David Justice, Kurt Schilling, hot and cold running scumbaggery Fred
McGriff FO nine three legitimate home runs, maybe the most
underrated pure slugger of the twentieth century, except for Dale Murphy,
two time m v P, who was not satisfied after
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one of those years that he won the m v
P and spent the next month trying to improve in
the Florida Instructional League. They should both go in McGriff
and Murphy. Maybe Don Mattingly the eighth nominee. I've been
a friend of his sincere. Maybe Mattingly should get a
co Fax exemption because of a career ending injury. He
was a great fielder and a better hitter, but I'll
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stay neutral. One real crime here, Keith Hernandez is not
on that ballot. Easily the most impressive defensive player I
have ever seen, and I include Ozzie Smith and ray
Or Doniz and Jim Edmonds because Hernandez performed aggressive, original intelligence,
valuable defense from a position simply not known for that
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first base. He's a Hall of Famer like McGriffin Murphy
and they should put him in. Just don't get him
started on politics. I had. I was twenty one years old.
I was on a top New York radio station and
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the disc jockey who had been on the air since
decided he was going to kill me and then get
me fired. Plus, I will play you one of those
sportscasts of mine from first the Daily Roundup of the misgrants,
morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst
persons in the world, The Bronze the CNN Morning Show,
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which I believe is titled Fascists, Please let Us Live.
After a fluff interview with Kevin McCarthy Don Lemon, formerly
the lynchpin of their prime time lineup who has now
been banished to Mornings with Poppy Somebody, and the woman
from the Daily Caller objected to well, Don objected to
McCarthy lying and not getting any pushback from the reporter
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who did the nonsense interview, quoting Don he misled people
about ventnyl in that there's a lot that needs to
be fact checked when it comes to what Kevin McCarthy
said about ventnyl seized at the border, that ventnyl is
not the number one cause of death for Americans. I
think it's important to have Kevin McCarthy on, but it
needs to be fact checked. A lot of what he
said in that interview was not factual. My guess is
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Chris licked well now moved on to overnights on weekends
on Headline News. The runner up Brit Hume, who was
once an actual news correspondent for ABC, but who has
spent the last twenty five years prostituting himself for Fox News.
Hume made a rare a live appearance yesterday. And how
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old he is? He's two and six. He made an
appearance yesterday, and since it was seventy six degrees here
in New York City in November, they did the interview
outside on sixth Avenue. It was that nitwit Harris Faulkner,
along with generic Blonde is number forty and number two
three nine and the generic brunette. Uh, what's her number?
Number one sixteen? That's right, Faulkner says to Hume, quote,
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you are here in the nineteen seventies, and you say
New York fails like that now and and remember they're
on a New York City sidewalk, as Hume says this.
Hume says, quote, the streets are chaotic. I see dirt
and trash on the sidewalks. I also see dirt and
trash on the sidewalks. It's called brit Hume. But our
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winner Chris Saliza of CNN years ago. He was with
the Washington Post, and when we couldn't get anybody else,
we would put him on countdown. He was okay, pleasant, friendly.
Somewhere along the line he earned the top spot on
the Mount Rushmore of tone deafness, a place on top
of the pyramid of both sides? Is him political group think?
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That's him conventional lack of wisdom. Chris Saliza, the House
majority whip South Carolina Congress since nineteen Jim Clyburne, history
degree from South Carolina State, former high school history teacher,
told Fox Over the Weekend, quote, the facts are very clear.
I've studied history all my life. I've taught history, and
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I'm telling you what I see here are parallels to
what the history was in this world back in the
nineteen thirties in Germany, in Italy. But Chris Saliza knows better,
because Chris is a very serious political reporter, and he
went to Georgetown and he hosts political trivia night. So
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Chris Soliza wrote, quote rule number one of politics goes
like this, don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Just don't
unquote Ah. Isn't that sweet? Chris thinks there are still
rules here. To quote James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams,
there are rules here. No, there are no rules here.
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I'll go on quoting Chris before we go any further.
It's worth noting here that pairing anything to the Nazi regime,
which led to the systemic murder more than six million Jews,
is a mistake. It just is. There is nothing in
our current moment that suggests we are anywhere close to that. Well,
you're wrong about that. But firstly, Clyburn was clearly referring
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to the start of Hitler's reign in Germany and Mussolini's
in Italy. He said back in the nineteen thirties. He
was not referring to the nineteen forties or the Second
World War. Hitler did not get sworn in and then
opened the death camps later the same afternoon. He began
a series of escalations, including demonizing minority groups like Oh,
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what's that guy's name? Uh Trump, who demonized every group
from Mexicans to dredged transgendered kids. And then Hitler called
for cleansing Germany, and then he staged political violence, like
what was that thing we had here? What was that? Well,
they went up on the wall and they and they Nancy, Nancy?
What was that? Or when they went to Nancy's house?
What was that? But January six and even if Clyburne
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didn't mean the start of fascism, let me quote a
tweet that's relevant to this, Crystaliza quote, America needs a
total cleansing only Trump can do with the help of
true patriots unquote cleansing. That tweet was in response to
the nut job lawyer Lynn Would calling for the execution
of Mike Pence by firing squad. And that tweet calling
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for a total cleansing of America only Trump can do
that was sent by Herschel Walker, who may soon be
Senator elect. Herschel total cleansing of America Walker, But Chrystaliza
go on. Chris writes that the election deniers like Herschel
total cleansing of America Walker quote represent a serious threat
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to our way of life. After all, if we can't
accept that our leaders were fairly elected and have faith
in the system, it's very hard to imagine how we
could expect anyone to effectively govern. Chris thinks the only
consequence of election denialism is inefficient governance. It's not going
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to be infrastructure week quite as often. It's that that's
the real problem here, not you know, the end of
representative government in the United States and a Trump usurpation.
Trump who kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a
bedside table, and who believes the military and everybody in
the government must be personally loyal to him, and who
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asked his chief of staff, General Kelly, quote, you effing generals,
why can't you be like the German generals in World
War Two? Meaning loyal? And when Kelly told him, you
know some of the generals trying to kill Hitler, Trump replied, no, no, no,
they were totally loyal to him. Go on, Chris, about
how much trouble a fascist coup, another fascist coup would
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do to government efficiency quote, which is bad, very bad.
But it's also worth remembering that democracy held even while
it was under active assault from Donald Trump and his minions. Yes, Chris,
because as whoever was your exact match in the political
landscape of eighteen sixty would have said, it's worth remembering
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that democracy has held since seventeen eighty nine, and the
Union is held ever since seventeen eighty nine, even while
it was under active threat of secession by John Calhoun
and his minions. This is the essence of political thought
in America today, or more correctly, the essence of lack
of political thought. It hasn't happened before, therefore it can
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never happen. Chuck Todd is a master's degree in this.
But wait, Chris still has more. Quote. We absolutely should
be vigilant about the potential rise of authoritarian politicians who
would wipe out things like the rule of law to
further their own political ambitions. I'm glad you're concerned, Chris.
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Stay vigilant over there on Political Trivia Night. But let's
making the Nazi Germany comparison for all of our sakes. Unquote, Chris,
I could go a lot of different ways here to
explain to you how tragically wrong you are here, but
let me just stick to a story in today's news.
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The guy who just bought Twitter, who had demanded that
it needed to remain politically neutral to have any credibility,
and then he bought it. And then he told his
one fifteen million followers yesterday to vote Republican. The guy
who on Sunday liked and responded to a quote that
was falsely attributed to Voltaire was actually spoken by an
American neo Nazi and pedophile Elon Musk. You've heard of him, Chris,
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who yesterday tweeted the photo of a Nazi soldier from
two Days two Nazis. That's a lot of Nazis, Chris.
The Nazi compy is legit, and you should be worried
about what happens to you and me and everybody else,
especially the enemies of the people that Trump has declared
us to be. You should be worried about that. In
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case you're wrong, and Chris, you're always wrong. Worry about
that instead of worrying about correcting a history teacher who
has also been in Congress for thirty freaking years. Chris,
When you're wrong and they put us in the journalistic
detention facility, you and I I just pray them in
a different barracks than you are. Solizza, Today's worst person
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and the world choose the number one story on the
countdown on my favorite topic, me and today's things I
promised not to tell, And with the NFL in full
swing and the New York Frontball Giants with a surprising
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six and to start, I thought we could all use
a little comic relief. At my expense. This remains, in short,
as terr rifying as anything else in my career, death threats,
fake antrax, What New York felt like post nine eleven,
the frozen feeling of realizing you've made a terrible, damaging
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mistake on a story, even working for Rupert Murdoch. Worse
than that. Forty two years have passed since this event,
and nothing has dimmed the memory, nothing has reduced the
palpable sense of anxiety in every joint in my body.
On Sunday, December twenty one, nineteen eighty, the Oakland Raiders
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defeated the New York Giants thirty three to seventeen to
end the Giant season at four wins and twelve losses,
with the most points they had given up in one year.
Since nineteen sixty six. I was the backup sportscaster at
w n e W Radio in New York. We carried
the Giants game broadcast. In fact, we had carried them
since I was two years old. I was now a
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month shy of twenty two, and it being Christmas week.
I reported bright and early to the studios at forty
one Street and Third Avenue on Monday, December. My first
sportscast was at five thirty am. There was a theme
song which invoked the name of the regular sportscaster, John Kennelly.
It said sports and Commentary, and my first few weeks
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filling in that year, I stuck mostly to the sports,
with just an occasional commentary, but mostly a joke or
pithy observation, well kind of pathy. But that first weekend
of winter, the Giants stink was all that we could
smell in New York, and I felt I had to
point it out, pointed Lee, and so while I observed
that there was a positive they had started one and eight,
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but then had actually won three of their last seven games,
the rest of my commentary was cynical, cerbic dissatisfied, in
other words, the average day of the typical New York
sports fan. I ended my show right on time at
five thirty five am. And to my surprise, I heard
the disc jockey skip his usual posts boards cast remarks
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and instead simply play the next record, which I think
was Frank Sinatra's The Way You Look Tonight. We were
a big band station. I stepped out of the booth
and took the dozen scrides through the newsroom, busy even
at that hour, with eight or ten staffers, and I
was sitting down at my desk when the door from
the main air studio slammed open. In the doorway stood
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the dish jockey, and he had a message for me.
The message was you punk. The disc jockey's name was
Ted Brown. On the air, he was your morning man,
Ted Brown, speaking upbeat drivel mostly two women who loved
the mellow sound of his voice. Off the air. W
n EW was his station and the morning show was
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his show. He would fight for it. In fact, he
had fought at least two news reporters in his time
in the studio. While Frank Sinatra records played on a
turntable thirty ft away. Ted Brown was a big man
six three six or maybe by this point I don't know,
two thirty forty to fifty thick tortoiseshell glasses. He was
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a sports fan, a huge gambler racetracks. Mostly the Giants
had begun on w n W nineteen sixty one. Ted
Brown had begun on w n W nineteen nine. And
he was tough, and it was not even the New
York tough I had grown up with. This guy had
been a tailgunner on a B seventeen during the Second
World War, and the Nazi shot him down, and they
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took him to Stalag nine Sea near Leipzig, and they
kept him there for eighteen months, and basically he chewed
up and spit out guys like me for breakfast. And
I respected him. You punk, So you don't like how
the giants? Did you think any of us do? He
gestured towards the newscasters and staffers. Nobody looked up. You
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know how easy it is to sit there in a nice, heated, dry,
comfortable newsroom. I was in Stalag nine c. His contempt
for the I of the newsroom was amazing. You sit
here in your newsroom and pontificate while men, men in
helmets with mud on them, their bones, breaking, their hearts pounding,
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They are out on the field, fighting and tackling and
working on the field of battle, so you can sit
here in your newsroom. It was at this point that
I remembered where I had first seen a photograph of
Ted Brown. He was in a booth at Yankee Stadium,
where the Giants played in the nineteen sixties. He was
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the third man, a combination color announcer and host on
Giants radio broadcasts on w NW. He was the worst
possible person to have heard me rip the New York Giants,
even the four and twelve nine New York Giants, even
if editorially I was completely correct and not nearly as
hard on the team as its own announcers had been
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on our station the day before. What did you do
to earn your spot here? Punk Ted Brown was turning red.
One of his fists was already clenched, while the other
arm cut through the air to emphasize how much I sucked.
I truly believed he was about to take a swing
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at me. Then from behind him, the door from his
studio swung open again, and the elderly engineer, the man
who actually spun the records on Ted's show, came through it.
Ted I just had the segue out of Sinatra to
Jimmy Cagney singing Yankee doodle Dandy, and the general manager
called and he said, I should tell you w ANW
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does not segue no records, don't do it again. You
better get back in here. The Cagney's almost finished. The
engineer then vanished silently back through the door. This warning
did nothing but make Ted Brown even angrier. The general manager.
Have you met the general manager? Punk? Jack Fair? And
Jack Fair gets in here at eight twenty every morning
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on dot clockwork Punk. When you finish your eight thirty sportscasts,
I'm dragging you into meet Jack Fair, the general manager.
And that punk is when your career at w n
e W Radio will come to an abrupt end. You
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think the New York Giants had a bad night, how
about your punk when your career ended? Because the real men,
the real men, are out there on the playing field,
not sitting inside a norse room in a slatter. This
continued for some time. The engineer returned, Tennant's there again,
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I just segue to Samel tourmey. Ted Thayer wants to
talk to you. He thinks maybe you're not here, and
I'm covering for you. Ted Brown turned and swore dark
oaths against the engineer, and for that matter against the
general manager, Jack Thayer, and for that matter, against Mel Tormay.
You and Ma Punk eight thirty five, the end of
your career, Punk. He lunged at me. Suddenly the engineer
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grabbed him and pulled him back through the door. In
the newsroom, there were only two sounds, one my heart,
which I suspect was audible, perhaps the next block, the
other typing. Nobody said a word, Nobody looked at me.
A phone rang, the production assistant sang out, w any
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W news. I went over to the newscaster who had
been the most supportive of me to that point, Bob Hagen,
and through my shaking, I said extra to help Bob.
Bob did not look up from his typewriter. What he
said a matter of factly Brown, I said, yes, Brown,
he's gonna get me fired in three hours. Bob Hagen laughed, No,
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he's not. I said, he just spent I don't know
how many minutes he spent three records screaming at me.
Didn't you hear him? I heard him. We all heard him.
We've all heard him every time he said that. He
said that to every one of us out here. He
said that about every one of us out here. He
took a swing at eyes grow over there. What was it,
Jimmy two months ago? Ignore him, I said, I failed
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to see why any of what he had told me
should encourage me to ignore Ted Brown. When we had
a meeting with the general manager at eight thirty five,
Bob Hagen now stopped typing and smiled up at me
reassuringly from his chair. Keith, you do a good job.
Ted is nuts. Ted is mean. Ted is a crazy
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Giants fan. Ted is also still better that he's not
on the radio broadcast of the Giants games. But Ted
has also been doing morning radio almost every day since Keith.
That's thirty five years of getting up in the middle
of the night, and many many years ago Keith. Ted
stopped remembering things like what somebody said on his show.
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He doesn't remember, he won't remember. Just finish off the
next sports cast with one of your clever, funny, little
kicker stories. And even if he somehow remembers what you
said about the Giants, when he hears a good laugh,
all he'll remember is the laugh. I tried to be
respectful of Bob, but I told him I found all
this hard to believe Keith. He also drinks, he has nightmares,
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he has pow nightmares, and he gets up at three
am every day. He does not imprint new memories anymore.
But no, why why should you listen to me? I've
only been on his show for ten years? Why would
I know? I'm telling you get a good, funny kicker
for the six thirty and he'll love you. I nodded grimly.
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I did not believe Bob Hagen, but I knew he
meant well in anyway. He had started to type again.
The clock now moved impossibly quickly in credib. I did
find just the kind of funny, clever kicker story Bob
suggested I should use to close the six thirties sports cast.
I minimized my assault on the Giants and then finished
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off my report with some story that shed a good
light on Montclair State College in New Jersey. I could
not have known, and I swear I did not know
that Ted Brown's sister had graduated from Montclair State College
in New Jersey. I finished off the sports cast with
the story something that made Montclair State look good A
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little chuckle, and then Keith all rimmon for John Kennelly
on the Ted Brown Show ominously again. To my terror,
Ted Brown now said nothing on the air. I could
not see him through the window into the main air studio.
The engineer played a record instead. It may have been
the Montovani strings play the Beatles. I opened the door
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back to the newsroom slowly and with trepidation. I crouched
as I moved back towards my desk. And that's when
it happened. The door from the main an air studio
slammed open again. It was Ted Brown again. Where is he?
Where is he? Montclair State? My sister went to Montclair State.
What a story, what a great laugh, perfectly delivered. My god,
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that was the best sports cast we have ever had
on this station. Don't you think so freely? God? Love
you kid? What a talent? I laughed out loud, Kid,
I don't laugh out loud. It was the same Ted Brown.
I stole a quick glance at the news room to
see if this whole thing was some kind of act
being filmed for a hidden camera TV series. Nobody looked
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up again. Nobody looked up Ted Brown, The man who
an hour before was ready to beat me up and
get me fired, was now repeating again and again that
I had just delivered the best sportscast in the history
of w n W radio. That's when his engineer came
back in. He had said, guy from Montevani to Perry Como,
and the general manager had called. And now Ted Brown's
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eyes widened behind the thick glasses. The general manager Jack,
theyre say, Keith, have you ever met Jack there? This
gives me a great idea. Jack Thayer comes in here
every morning at eight twenty like clockwork. Look. I love
John Kennelly, he's great, but you you were exactly the
kind of new, fresh young voice we need on this
radio station. Damn it, I need on my show. When
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Jack Thayer comes in here at eight twenties this morning,
you and I are going right in to his office
and we're gonna get you your own sports cast on
my show. We can do two sports cast an hour.
We'll take it out of the stock report. Montclair states.
I'll get you a contract you and Kennelly will seventy
five grand be enough for your kid. You're gonna hit
the big time here, my friend, and out the engineer
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came again. Jack Thayer had again called in fourth time
that I knew of he really needed Ted back in
the studio to talk to the women. Ted Brown happily
shouted okay, okay, and began to back up into the doorway.
The look in his eyes towards me was one of
unimaginable love. Come here, here, come here, wait, come here,
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come here, come here, and he lunged at me and
grabbed me into a bear hug. Just brilliant, Montclair State.
I gotta call my sister and tell you see in
Jack's office at five, I stood there, having now been
pummeled by two hurricanes arriving from different directions in the
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span of one hour. All was silent in the w
n a W news room again but for the typing.
But it was silent only for a moment. That's when
Bob Hagen addressed me again. He did not look up.
All he said was Keith, he won't remember that either.
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I still have nightmares. What I also have is a
cassette tape of a sportscast from w n W from
December with Ted Brown and me, and I will play
it for you at the end of these here credits.
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thanks
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Arrest him now while we still can a new episode
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Her Brooks thinks he will help her. Brooks should try
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to get Wayne Gretzky. Now what would he cost anyway?
A few billion, fifteen players and Brooks first born. He'd
be worth it. Gretzky got five more goals last night
in Edmonton's seven to five went over Philadelphia, meaning he
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now a game above five hundred on the road and
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the Nets took command. Their lead down the stretch was
in the high teams. The liberty ball last night was
supposed to be an Ohio State blowout, but quarterback Arch
Schleister inconveniently had a bad first half and the Buckeyes
wound up beating the Navy by only. This was rather
unfortunate if you took Ohio State, they were fourteen point favorites.
Not quite. Finally, they call it disastro turf, and the
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closer and closer we get to game day, the more
and more likely it is the Giants won't get to
practice on it. As the steady rains continue in the
Bay Area. The Forts continue to suggest that the Giants
canceled their scheduled Saturday practice at cattle Stick Park for
the good of the bad field, which means that the
first time folks like Rob Carpenter will get their feet
wet literally will be when they come out for the
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Oh God. I so wanted Trump to declare last night,
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we were so close. He was so pissed at descant As,
He was so pissed at the descent as Son of
God commercial. He was so pissed as Santas is trying
to steal his Jesus Freaks. He was so ready to
declare in Vandalia, Ohio, that he was gonna run in
twenty four is if we all didn't know already he
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was gonna run, so ready that the right wing fop
Benny Johnson tweeted Trump would be announcing it during the
Fascist rally, so ready that he could have said twenty
words that would have completely eclipsed every republic Can candidate
from Officer Dr. Lieutenant Herschel the trained seal walker to
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carry Eva Brown Lake, and made every voter with the
slightest hesitation about him at least rethink a vote for
any Republican anywhere in the country. Trump could have come
through for us like he did in Georgia for Warnock
and oss Off. He could have snatched defeat from the
jaws of Republican victory as only Donald john Trump can
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God damn it, somebody talked him out of it. He
actually listened for once. We want nothing to detract from
the importance of tomorrow. As the Maga Jesus Freak music
played in the background, he announced an announcement next Tuesday
at Mari Lago, oh helthough if Merrick Garland has conies,
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he did indict Trump Tuesday morning, mark five hundred bucks
if you indict Trump Tuesday morning. Anyway, I am not
going to give you a raw ross speech on election Day.
I think I know who is listening more accurately than
I have known who is listening or watching to any
of my work since I started doing this forty seven
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years ago. You are not undecided, and you are not
uncertain about going to the polls. But there is some
stuff I came across I think I can bring to
your attention that might help you digest whatever happens today
and in the weeks ahead of counting and recounting. And
it starts with the startling but nowhere near inexplicable truth
that three late reliable sober polls affiliated with major both
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sides this news organizations, three of them show the Democrats
ahead in the generic congressional ballot, But each poll so
disturbed the narrative of the red wave that the three
major both sides this news organizations dismissed their own polls.
One of them said the democratically quote spells trouble for Democrats, another,
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which showed a five point democratically, dismissed the five point
Democratic lead as a quote outlier and pleaded that the
results vode ill for Democrats, and the other one, showing
three different kinds of democratic congressional leads, simply left all
of them out of its news story and headlined it
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Biden approval takes downwards. Don't get me wrong, It is
absolutely possible that the Democrats will lose the House or
the Senate or both. But there is a phenomenon that
is at play and will remain at play no matter
what the outcomes are. I have mentioned it before. The
corporations which own the major news organizations in this country
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all live in abject terror that their profits might become
at risk. They have had internal meetings about what to
do in the event of another full Republican government or
just a Republican House or a Republican Senate, but especially
of a full fascist takeover. The first conclusion is always
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foot Republicans on TV and do not challenge them, which
is why Chuck Todd has a job at NBC and
Dana Bash and uh, what's your name, Holly Popover have
one at CNN. The second rule is higher Republicans, which
is why McK mulvaney and Chris Licht have jobs. And
the third is never be seen to be favoring Democrats
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in anything, so Politico can, in all seriousness put out
this headline voters appear ready to blame Democrats for economy inflation,
followed by this lead paragraph, voters approval of President Joe
Biden remains deep in negative territory. It is not until
the second half of the third paragraph before we get quote.
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Many polling averages indicate that voters are more inclined to
vote for Republicans. As a result, the Political a Morning
Consult poll is an outlier on this question, showing support
for Democratic congressional candidates at five points above support for
Republican candidates. It's the fifth paragraph before they mentioned that
the five point lead is more than twice as large
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as their own poll's margin of error, and they never
address anywhere in the story why Politico is throwing its
own polster and its own credibility under the bus, and
we are left to assume it's just because I will
spare you the full mental gymnastics that Yahoo, living down
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to its name, used to repudiate its own Yugov poll,
except to say that it mentions the Democrats are up
by two points, but that's a tie because the margin
of error is two point seven, and then it underscores
that since September this represents a three fold reduction in
Democrats lead in the closing days of the campaign. It's
Reuters with its IPSOS poll showing the Democrats that had
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unlikely forty among registered and thirty seven thirty six among
all adults. Routers simply wrote a two word piece about
Biden's unpopularity and about the House. It quoted the University
of Virginia's Center for Politics and left its own poll
out of the article Entirely. It's nuts. The people writing
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this crap and the editors putting it out had to
twist themselves into so many pretzels that the world of
the political pundits will now we'll be seeing an epidemic
of torn rotator cuffs. Ah I am not going to
go race by race for you, and frankly, I don't
know what tomorrow's podcast should be about, because I don't
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know what I'm going to tell you that will still
be valid even three minutes after I record it. I'll
think of something. Maybe ninety seconds in the first section,
in fifteen minutes in the second section, and twenty minutes
in the third section. I don't know. But there is
one other trend that is already self evident, and maybe
this will be the lead topic tomorrow. Trump, the Republicans,
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the fascist News channel, and therefore all the mainstream media
in the terrified mode mentioned earlier, will push the following narrative.
They have already started. It only vote totals from tomorrow
night count. Anything that's still undecided Wednesday morning or later
was fixed by the Democrats. This simple lie is what
all Trumpian election denialism has hung from for two years.
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It is idiotic. It does not match anything in our history,
not even just our history this century, think about two thousand.
But it has very similitude. It sounds right to people
who know nothing about whatever subject is in question. Not
only did one of Trump's lawyers pitch this in Ohio
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last night before the Fere's speech. Only vote totals Tuesday
night count no mail in votes, no Democratic votes, no
votes on Wednesday, but at least two Fox hosts did
it too, and with his usual restraint, Jimy Glick, Tucks
and Carlson explained that the ordinary counting delays are in
fact a Democratic plot to steal the election and threaten
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a civil war. Some late predictions from more or less
credible pollsters to note cook political categorizing at least lean
Republican versus at least lean Democrat has the Republicans up
two and twelve seven with thirty six toss up. If
that is accurate, Democrats could win thirty of those toss
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ups and the Republicans would still control the House two
to two hundred and seventeen. Larry Saboteau, who is often Okay,
calls it Republicans to five thirty eight. Models suggest the
Republicans have an eight percent chance of winning between one
and thirty three seats. Of course, if Politico reuters in
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Yahoo were writing up those forecasts there, they would explain
how much the Republicans were slipping. Actually, the Republicans are
slow thing. Trump lost forty seats in his mid term.
Obama lost sixty three in his first, Clinton fifty four
in his first. If the Republicans take the House, the
Saboteau prediction of a thirty nine vote margin is the
largest of the credible predictions. No matter what the number is,
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even if it is one, even if it is two,
an eight seventeen Biden will get pilloried anyway. One other
development from yesterday will probably get no traction when it should.
You have Getny Progosian prutents chef, the goon behind the
Russian mercenary gang trying to stave off defeating Ukraine. You
have Guny Progosian, long suspected of playing a central role
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in the Trump campaign conspiracy with Russian hackers and politicians
to interfere with the two thousand sixteen presidential election, and
just as long adamant in his denials that had happened
or that he had anything to do with it. Suddenly
yesterday you have Getny pregosition confirmed it. Gentlemen, his company's
press service announced on social media. We have interfered, are interfering,
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and will interfere carefully, precisely, surgically, and in our own way,
what did he do? He didn't say, it doesn't matter,
might have done nothing. Just saying it now on the
eve of the midterms constitutes interference by itself. And lastly,
to circle back to the media and the narratives, just
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to add to this perspective that the media is lined
up against reality on behalf of the Republicans and their
own asses. Think the new CNN hosting Rona Romney on Sunday.
Think MSNBC's liberal hosts like Meadow completely as it turned out,
ignoring the firing of Tiffany Cross to appease Fox and Carlson.
Think the pole twisting by Ruyters Political and Yahoo that
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I mentioned earlier. On April, Elon Musk tweeted quote, for
Twitter to deserve public trust, it must be politically neutral.
Yesterday Elmo tweeted quote, I recommend voting for a publican Congress.
I think that tweet came after his daily Nazi meme,
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but I might be mistaken. Might have been Nazi meme
after the call to vote for a Republican. A Twitter
user named Kenneth Laster wrote, Elon Musk right now is
like if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs Bunnies.
It's a great line. Elon Musk right now is like
if Elmer Fudd bought a website of bugs bunnies. But
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it reminded me of the Family Guy episode where Elmer
Fudd approaches Bugs who says, what's app doc, and then
Elmer just shoots him point blank four times. Also, please
note this is Elmer Fudd. Musk, whom The Verge reported
last night, has at least discussed the possibility that his
real genius idea for making money with Twitter replacing his
last ten laugh out loud disastrous genius ideas for making
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money on Twitter. His real genius idea is to put
the whole thing behind a paywall. Put Twitter on a
subscription basis question e Lawn's Nazi memes. Are they included
with the subscription or are they extra? Still ahead, Steve
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Bannon is not going to prison, not yet anyway. On
any given Sunday, the New Colts Coaches Saturday, these are
the days of the week. Spoiler alert, Crystallism may have
produced the greatest in his series of all time great
conventional lack of wisdom both sides is m columns for
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CNN Worst Persons coming up and the day the dish
jockey who had been in a German prison camp for
eighteen months got mad at me for criticizing the New
York Football Giants and he tried to kill me and
then get me fired. Plus a complete vintage one KO sportscast.
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retweet her free, unconditional, Your love can be yours. Thank
you very much. Pot Scripts to the news, some headlines,
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some updates, some snarks, some predictions. Dateline, District of Columbia.
Judge Carl Nichols with a two fur He did not
toss the dominion defamation suit against One American News, but
he did delay the incarceration of Steve Bannon until his
appeal is concluded. Obviously, the prediction here is Bannon is
trying to run out the claw and somehow get his
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contempt of Congress conviction overturned if the Republicans control Congress.
I don't think it works that way, but lord knows,
they'll try to make it work that way. Dateline, Forsyth County,
Georgia State Senate candidate Brent Binyon there says his Twitter
account has been suspended permanently on the eve of the election.
Well it's interesting timing, he writes from his campaign account,
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But my personal Twitter account has been permanently suspended for
no reason whatsoever. I wonder what will happen aftermorrow. I
guess Brent's party got it in one. Guess he's a Democrat. Dateline.
Houston police arrested a man who hit ted Cruz with
a can of white Claw during the Houston Astros World
Series parade Monday. He threw it. The man faces assault charges.
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I hope the white Claw is recovering well. But wait,
Texas police acting against somebody committing violence. Are they allowed
to do that? Don't they just have to go to
the crime scene and stand there and pose and look
good for the cameras. This is Sports Center? Wait, check
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that not anymore. This is Countdown with Keith in Sports.
It might be the oddest NFL coaching move since the
Rock Island Independence fired their coach in the middle of
a game after they lost to three to New England. Sunday,
the Indianapolis Colts fired coach Frank Reich and named as
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his interim replacement. ESPN analyst and X All Pro center
Jeff Saturday, who has never coached in the pros or
in the colleges before. Apparently that is a first, though
he did coach three seasons for prep school in Georgia.
And more importantly than all that put together, Jeff Saturday
has dream eyes. I say this as a straight man.
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He has dreamy eyes. He just does. Our sources indicate
the Jeff Saturday's assistance with the Colts will be former
Vikings guard Milt Sunday, former Duke punter Will Monday, actress Tuesday, well,
the legendary Wednesday, Adams and Ruby Thursday, and of course
seven Bills replacement guard Larry Friday. By the way, firing
a coach mid game, that really did happen. I didn't
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make that up. On October one, the Rock Island Independence
of the NFL that was going by its old name
then the p f A A something or another. They
had just gone in front of the Chicago Cardinals, who
exist in the NFL today in a different city fourteen
to seven, when the owners sent a player into the
team huddle on the field to tell lineman Frank Coughlin
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that he was no longer the player coach, and that
quarterback Jimmy Consulman was now the player coach. Middle of
the game, middle of the huddle. Not as crazy as
it sounds, that was the first minute of Consulman's fifteen
years an NFL coach, and he won two NFL championships.
So as to Jeff Saturday, check back with me Monday
after his first game Sunday. Thank you for your time
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this time until next time. Baseball free agency news Jeans
Sigura dropped by the Phillies. Anthony Rizzo of the Rizzoo
Quality Assortment opts out from the Yankees. The next Baseball
Veterans Committee Hall of Fame vote to clean up all
the mistakes of the writer's votes announced as December four.
The contemporary era ballot eight nominees revealed. The voters can
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only vote for three the candidates Barry Bonds, H G.
H In a Suit of Armor, Roger Clemens, Royd's and Amphetamines.
If either is elected, some Hall of famers will start
boycotting the Hall of Fame. Raphael Palmero angry denials in
front of Congress, including pointing and wagging a finger that
he ever did Royd's then tested positive. Albert Bell rage
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without the Royds, although lots of Royd's rumors and his
career war wins above replacement is lower than that of
David Justice, Kurt Schilling, hot and cold running scumbaggery Fred
McGriff FO nine three legitimate home runs, maybe the most
underrated pure slugger of the twentieth century, except for Dale Murphy,
two time m v P, who was not satisfied after
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one of those years that he won the m v
P and spent the next month trying to improve in
the Florida Instructional League. They should both go in McGriff
and Murphy. Maybe Don Mattingly the eighth nominee. I've been
a friend of his sincere. Maybe Mattingly should get a
co Fax exemption because of a career ending injury. He
was a great fielder and a better hitter, but I'll
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stay neutral. One real crime here, Keith Hernandez is not
on that ballot. Easily the most impressive defensive player I
have ever seen, and I include Ozzie Smith and ray
Or Doniz and Jim Edmonds because Hernandez performed aggressive, original intelligence,
valuable defense from a position simply not known for that
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first base. He's a Hall of Famer like McGriffin Murphy
and they should put him in. Just don't get him
started on politics. I had. I was twenty one years old.
I was on a top New York radio station and
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the disc jockey who had been on the air since
decided he was going to kill me and then get
me fired. Plus, I will play you one of those
sportscasts of mine from first the Daily Roundup of the misgrants,
morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst
persons in the world, The Bronze the CNN Morning Show,
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which I believe is titled Fascists, Please let Us Live.
After a fluff interview with Kevin McCarthy Don Lemon, formerly
the lynchpin of their prime time lineup who has now
been banished to Mornings with Poppy Somebody, and the woman
from the Daily Caller objected to well, Don objected to
McCarthy lying and not getting any pushback from the reporter
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who did the nonsense interview, quoting Don he misled people
about ventnyl in that there's a lot that needs to
be fact checked when it comes to what Kevin McCarthy
said about ventnyl seized at the border, that ventnyl is
not the number one cause of death for Americans. I
think it's important to have Kevin McCarthy on, but it
needs to be fact checked. A lot of what he
said in that interview was not factual. My guess is
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Chris licked well now moved on to overnights on weekends
on Headline News. The runner up Brit Hume, who was
once an actual news correspondent for ABC, but who has
spent the last twenty five years prostituting himself for Fox News.
Hume made a rare a live appearance yesterday. And how
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old he is? He's two and six. He made an
appearance yesterday, and since it was seventy six degrees here
in New York City in November, they did the interview
outside on sixth Avenue. It was that nitwit Harris Faulkner,
along with generic Blonde is number forty and number two
three nine and the generic brunette. Uh, what's her number?
Number one sixteen? That's right, Faulkner says to Hume, quote,
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you are here in the nineteen seventies, and you say
New York fails like that now and and remember they're
on a New York City sidewalk, as Hume says this.
Hume says, quote, the streets are chaotic. I see dirt
and trash on the sidewalks. I also see dirt and
trash on the sidewalks. It's called brit Hume. But our
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winner Chris Saliza of CNN years ago. He was with
the Washington Post, and when we couldn't get anybody else,
we would put him on countdown. He was okay, pleasant, friendly.
Somewhere along the line he earned the top spot on
the Mount Rushmore of tone deafness, a place on top
of the pyramid of both sides? Is him political group think?
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That's him conventional lack of wisdom. Chris Saliza, the House
majority whip South Carolina Congress since nineteen Jim Clyburne, history
degree from South Carolina State, former high school history teacher,
told Fox Over the Weekend, quote, the facts are very clear.
I've studied history all my life. I've taught history, and
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I'm telling you what I see here are parallels to
what the history was in this world back in the
nineteen thirties in Germany, in Italy. But Chris Saliza knows better,
because Chris is a very serious political reporter, and he
went to Georgetown and he hosts political trivia night. So
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Chris Soliza wrote, quote rule number one of politics goes
like this, don't compare anything to Nazi Germany. Just don't
unquote Ah. Isn't that sweet? Chris thinks there are still
rules here. To quote James Earl Jones in Field of Dreams,
there are rules here. No, there are no rules here.
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I'll go on quoting Chris before we go any further.
It's worth noting here that pairing anything to the Nazi regime,
which led to the systemic murder more than six million Jews,
is a mistake. It just is. There is nothing in
our current moment that suggests we are anywhere close to that. Well,
you're wrong about that. But firstly, Clyburn was clearly referring
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to the start of Hitler's reign in Germany and Mussolini's
in Italy. He said back in the nineteen thirties. He
was not referring to the nineteen forties or the Second
World War. Hitler did not get sworn in and then
opened the death camps later the same afternoon. He began
a series of escalations, including demonizing minority groups like Oh,
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what's that guy's name? Uh Trump, who demonized every group
from Mexicans to dredged transgendered kids. And then Hitler called
for cleansing Germany, and then he staged political violence, like
what was that thing we had here? What was that? Well,
they went up on the wall and they and they Nancy, Nancy?
What was that? Or when they went to Nancy's house?
What was that? But January six and even if Clyburne
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didn't mean the start of fascism, let me quote a
tweet that's relevant to this, Crystaliza quote, America needs a
total cleansing only Trump can do with the help of
true patriots unquote cleansing. That tweet was in response to
the nut job lawyer Lynn Would calling for the execution
of Mike Pence by firing squad. And that tweet calling
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for a total cleansing of America only Trump can do
that was sent by Herschel Walker, who may soon be
Senator elect. Herschel total cleansing of America Walker, But Chrystaliza
go on. Chris writes that the election deniers like Herschel
total cleansing of America Walker quote represent a serious threat
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to our way of life. After all, if we can't
accept that our leaders were fairly elected and have faith
in the system, it's very hard to imagine how we
could expect anyone to effectively govern. Chris thinks the only
consequence of election denialism is inefficient governance. It's not going
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to be infrastructure week quite as often. It's that that's
the real problem here, not you know, the end of
representative government in the United States and a Trump usurpation.
Trump who kept a book of Hitler's speeches in a
bedside table, and who believes the military and everybody in
the government must be personally loyal to him, and who
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asked his chief of staff, General Kelly, quote, you effing generals,
why can't you be like the German generals in World
War Two? Meaning loyal? And when Kelly told him, you
know some of the generals trying to kill Hitler, Trump replied, no, no, no,
they were totally loyal to him. Go on, Chris, about
how much trouble a fascist coup, another fascist coup would
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do to government efficiency quote, which is bad, very bad.
But it's also worth remembering that democracy held even while
it was under active assault from Donald Trump and his minions. Yes, Chris,
because as whoever was your exact match in the political
landscape of eighteen sixty would have said, it's worth remembering
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that democracy has held since seventeen eighty nine, and the
Union is held ever since seventeen eighty nine, even while
it was under active threat of secession by John Calhoun
and his minions. This is the essence of political thought
in America today, or more correctly, the essence of lack
of political thought. It hasn't happened before, therefore it can
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never happen. Chuck Todd is a master's degree in this.
But wait, Chris still has more. Quote. We absolutely should
be vigilant about the potential rise of authoritarian politicians who
would wipe out things like the rule of law to
further their own political ambitions. I'm glad you're concerned, Chris.
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Stay vigilant over there on Political Trivia Night. But let's
making the Nazi Germany comparison for all of our sakes. Unquote, Chris,
I could go a lot of different ways here to
explain to you how tragically wrong you are here, but
let me just stick to a story in today's news.
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The guy who just bought Twitter, who had demanded that
it needed to remain politically neutral to have any credibility,
and then he bought it. And then he told his
one fifteen million followers yesterday to vote Republican. The guy
who on Sunday liked and responded to a quote that
was falsely attributed to Voltaire was actually spoken by an
American neo Nazi and pedophile Elon Musk. You've heard of him, Chris,
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who yesterday tweeted the photo of a Nazi soldier from
two Days two Nazis. That's a lot of Nazis, Chris.
The Nazi compy is legit, and you should be worried
about what happens to you and me and everybody else,
especially the enemies of the people that Trump has declared
us to be. You should be worried about that. In
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case you're wrong, and Chris, you're always wrong. Worry about
that instead of worrying about correcting a history teacher who
has also been in Congress for thirty freaking years. Chris,
When you're wrong and they put us in the journalistic
detention facility, you and I I just pray them in
a different barracks than you are. Solizza, Today's worst person
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and the world choose the number one story on the
countdown on my favorite topic, me and today's things I
promised not to tell, And with the NFL in full
swing and the New York Frontball Giants with a surprising
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six and to start, I thought we could all use
a little comic relief. At my expense. This remains, in short,
as terr rifying as anything else in my career, death threats,
fake antrax, What New York felt like post nine eleven,
the frozen feeling of realizing you've made a terrible, damaging
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mistake on a story, even working for Rupert Murdoch. Worse
than that. Forty two years have passed since this event,
and nothing has dimmed the memory, nothing has reduced the
palpable sense of anxiety in every joint in my body.
On Sunday, December twenty one, nineteen eighty, the Oakland Raiders
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defeated the New York Giants thirty three to seventeen to
end the Giant season at four wins and twelve losses,
with the most points they had given up in one year.
Since nineteen sixty six. I was the backup sportscaster at
w n e W Radio in New York. We carried
the Giants game broadcast. In fact, we had carried them
since I was two years old. I was now a
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month shy of twenty two, and it being Christmas week.
I reported bright and early to the studios at forty
one Street and Third Avenue on Monday, December. My first
sportscast was at five thirty am. There was a theme
song which invoked the name of the regular sportscaster, John Kennelly.
It said sports and Commentary, and my first few weeks
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filling in that year, I stuck mostly to the sports,
with just an occasional commentary, but mostly a joke or
pithy observation, well kind of pathy. But that first weekend
of winter, the Giants stink was all that we could
smell in New York, and I felt I had to
point it out, pointed Lee, and so while I observed
that there was a positive they had started one and eight,
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but then had actually won three of their last seven games,
the rest of my commentary was cynical, cerbic dissatisfied, in
other words, the average day of the typical New York
sports fan. I ended my show right on time at
five thirty five am. And to my surprise, I heard
the disc jockey skip his usual posts boards cast remarks
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and instead simply play the next record, which I think
was Frank Sinatra's The Way You Look Tonight. We were
a big band station. I stepped out of the booth
and took the dozen scrides through the newsroom, busy even
at that hour, with eight or ten staffers, and I
was sitting down at my desk when the door from
the main air studio slammed open. In the doorway stood
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the dish jockey, and he had a message for me.
The message was you punk. The disc jockey's name was
Ted Brown. On the air, he was your morning man,
Ted Brown, speaking upbeat drivel mostly two women who loved
the mellow sound of his voice. Off the air. W
n EW was his station and the morning show was
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his show. He would fight for it. In fact, he
had fought at least two news reporters in his time
in the studio. While Frank Sinatra records played on a
turntable thirty ft away. Ted Brown was a big man
six three six or maybe by this point I don't know,
two thirty forty to fifty thick tortoiseshell glasses. He was
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a sports fan, a huge gambler racetracks. Mostly the Giants
had begun on w n W nineteen sixty one. Ted
Brown had begun on w n W nineteen nine. And
he was tough, and it was not even the New
York tough I had grown up with. This guy had
been a tailgunner on a B seventeen during the Second
World War, and the Nazi shot him down, and they
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took him to Stalag nine Sea near Leipzig, and they
kept him there for eighteen months, and basically he chewed
up and spit out guys like me for breakfast. And
I respected him. You punk, So you don't like how
the giants? Did you think any of us do? He
gestured towards the newscasters and staffers. Nobody looked up. You
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know how easy it is to sit there in a nice, heated, dry,
comfortable newsroom. I was in Stalag nine c. His contempt
for the I of the newsroom was amazing. You sit
here in your newsroom and pontificate while men, men in
helmets with mud on them, their bones, breaking, their hearts pounding,
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They are out on the field, fighting and tackling and
working on the field of battle, so you can sit
here in your newsroom. It was at this point that
I remembered where I had first seen a photograph of
Ted Brown. He was in a booth at Yankee Stadium,
where the Giants played in the nineteen sixties. He was
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the third man, a combination color announcer and host on
Giants radio broadcasts on w NW. He was the worst
possible person to have heard me rip the New York Giants,
even the four and twelve nine New York Giants, even
if editorially I was completely correct and not nearly as
hard on the team as its own announcers had been
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on our station the day before. What did you do
to earn your spot here? Punk Ted Brown was turning red.
One of his fists was already clenched, while the other
arm cut through the air to emphasize how much I sucked.
I truly believed he was about to take a swing
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at me. Then from behind him, the door from his
studio swung open again, and the elderly engineer, the man
who actually spun the records on Ted's show, came through it.
Ted I just had the segue out of Sinatra to
Jimmy Cagney singing Yankee doodle Dandy, and the general manager
called and he said, I should tell you w ANW
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does not segue no records, don't do it again. You
better get back in here. The Cagney's almost finished. The
engineer then vanished silently back through the door. This warning
did nothing but make Ted Brown even angrier. The general manager.
Have you met the general manager? Punk? Jack Fair? And
Jack Fair gets in here at eight twenty every morning
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on dot clockwork Punk. When you finish your eight thirty sportscasts,
I'm dragging you into meet Jack Fair, the general manager.
And that punk is when your career at w n
e W Radio will come to an abrupt end. You
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think the New York Giants had a bad night, how
about your punk when your career ended? Because the real men,
the real men, are out there on the playing field,
not sitting inside a norse room in a slatter. This
continued for some time. The engineer returned, Tennant's there again,
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I just segue to Samel tourmey. Ted Thayer wants to
talk to you. He thinks maybe you're not here, and
I'm covering for you. Ted Brown turned and swore dark
oaths against the engineer, and for that matter against the
general manager, Jack Thayer, and for that matter, against Mel Tormay.
You and Ma Punk eight thirty five, the end of
your career, Punk. He lunged at me. Suddenly the engineer
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grabbed him and pulled him back through the door. In
the newsroom, there were only two sounds, one my heart,
which I suspect was audible, perhaps the next block, the
other typing. Nobody said a word, Nobody looked at me.
A phone rang, the production assistant sang out, w any
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W news. I went over to the newscaster who had
been the most supportive of me to that point, Bob Hagen,
and through my shaking, I said extra to help Bob.
Bob did not look up from his typewriter. What he
said a matter of factly Brown, I said, yes, Brown,
he's gonna get me fired in three hours. Bob Hagen laughed, No,
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he's not. I said, he just spent I don't know
how many minutes he spent three records screaming at me.
Didn't you hear him? I heard him. We all heard him.
We've all heard him every time he said that. He
said that to every one of us out here. He
said that about every one of us out here. He
took a swing at eyes grow over there. What was it,
Jimmy two months ago? Ignore him, I said, I failed
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to see why any of what he had told me
should encourage me to ignore Ted Brown. When we had
a meeting with the general manager at eight thirty five,
Bob Hagen now stopped typing and smiled up at me
reassuringly from his chair. Keith, you do a good job.
Ted is nuts. Ted is mean. Ted is a crazy
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Giants fan. Ted is also still better that he's not
on the radio broadcast of the Giants games. But Ted
has also been doing morning radio almost every day since Keith.
That's thirty five years of getting up in the middle
of the night, and many many years ago Keith. Ted
stopped remembering things like what somebody said on his show.
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He doesn't remember, he won't remember. Just finish off the
next sports cast with one of your clever, funny, little
kicker stories. And even if he somehow remembers what you
said about the Giants, when he hears a good laugh,
all he'll remember is the laugh. I tried to be
respectful of Bob, but I told him I found all
this hard to believe Keith. He also drinks, he has nightmares,
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he has pow nightmares, and he gets up at three
am every day. He does not imprint new memories anymore.
But no, why why should you listen to me? I've
only been on his show for ten years? Why would
I know? I'm telling you get a good, funny kicker
for the six thirty and he'll love you. I nodded grimly.
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I did not believe Bob Hagen, but I knew he
meant well in anyway. He had started to type again.
The clock now moved impossibly quickly in credib. I did
find just the kind of funny, clever kicker story Bob
suggested I should use to close the six thirties sports cast.
I minimized my assault on the Giants and then finished
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off my report with some story that shed a good
light on Montclair State College in New Jersey. I could
not have known, and I swear I did not know
that Ted Brown's sister had graduated from Montclair State College
in New Jersey. I finished off the sports cast with
the story something that made Montclair State look good A
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little chuckle, and then Keith all rimmon for John Kennelly
on the Ted Brown Show ominously again. To my terror,
Ted Brown now said nothing on the air. I could
not see him through the window into the main air studio.
The engineer played a record instead. It may have been
the Montovani strings play the Beatles. I opened the door
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back to the newsroom slowly and with trepidation. I crouched
as I moved back towards my desk. And that's when
it happened. The door from the main an air studio
slammed open again. It was Ted Brown again. Where is he?
Where is he? Montclair State? My sister went to Montclair State.
What a story, what a great laugh, perfectly delivered. My god,
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that was the best sports cast we have ever had
on this station. Don't you think so freely? God? Love
you kid? What a talent? I laughed out loud, Kid,
I don't laugh out loud. It was the same Ted Brown.
I stole a quick glance at the news room to
see if this whole thing was some kind of act
being filmed for a hidden camera TV series. Nobody looked
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up again. Nobody looked up Ted Brown, The man who
an hour before was ready to beat me up and
get me fired, was now repeating again and again that
I had just delivered the best sportscast in the history
of w n W radio. That's when his engineer came
back in. He had said, guy from Montevani to Perry Como,
and the general manager had called. And now Ted Brown's
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eyes widened behind the thick glasses. The general manager Jack,
theyre say, Keith, have you ever met Jack there? This
gives me a great idea. Jack Thayer comes in here
every morning at eight twenty like clockwork. Look. I love
John Kennelly, he's great, but you you were exactly the
kind of new, fresh young voice we need on this
radio station. Damn it, I need on my show. When
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Jack Thayer comes in here at eight twenties this morning,
you and I are going right in to his office
and we're gonna get you your own sports cast on
my show. We can do two sports cast an hour.
We'll take it out of the stock report. Montclair states.
I'll get you a contract you and Kennelly will seventy
five grand be enough for your kid. You're gonna hit
the big time here, my friend, and out the engineer
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came again. Jack Thayer had again called in fourth time
that I knew of he really needed Ted back in
the studio to talk to the women. Ted Brown happily
shouted okay, okay, and began to back up into the doorway.
The look in his eyes towards me was one of
unimaginable love. Come here, here, come here, wait, come here,
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come here, come here, and he lunged at me and
grabbed me into a bear hug. Just brilliant, Montclair State.
I gotta call my sister and tell you see in
Jack's office at five, I stood there, having now been
pummeled by two hurricanes arriving from different directions in the
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span of one hour. All was silent in the w
n a W news room again but for the typing.
But it was silent only for a moment. That's when
Bob Hagen addressed me again. He did not look up.
All he said was Keith, he won't remember that either.
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I still have nightmares. What I also have is a
cassette tape of a sportscast from w n W from
December with Ted Brown and me, and I will play
it for you at the end of these here credits.
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thanks
for listening. Follow this podcast if you're not already doing so,
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Our announce you today, Larry David. Everything else pretty much
my fault. So let's countdown for this, the six hundred
and seventy second day since Donald Trump's first attempted coup
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Chris Saliza against the democratically elected government of the United States.
Arrest him now while we still can a new episode
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good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. And now, thanks to
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over the Islanders, their first win over the Cup champs
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goal to celebrate his return from the suspension. Do Gay
had a pair to up his total to two. The
Rangers are gonna trade Dean Telfus and Jerry Gillis today
to Quebec for Robbie fitz tok. This guy is your class.
A diminutive set are here. He works very hard. He
has a long track record of busting his body parts
for some pretty mediocre teams. He is thirty years old.
Her Brooks thinks he will help her. Brooks should try
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to get Wayne Gretzky. Now what would he cost anyway?
A few billion, fifteen players and Brooks first born. He'd
be worth it. Gretzky got five more goals last night
in Edmonton's seven to five went over Philadelphia, meaning he
cracked the fifty goal mark in thirty nine games, eleven
games faster than the previous record, which was shared by
Rocket Richard and Mike Bossi. Gratzky's biggest fans, his parents,
(47:15):
were to fly to Vancouver tonight to watch him play
there and try to get the record. He says now
he's almost sorry he got the five last night. He
didn't want to disappoint them. Neither local basketball team disappoints.
That and more after this from Amtrack. Now there's a
brand new express service, the New York Roodies, better known
(47:38):
here is The Knicks come from a twelve point halftime
deficit to beat Cleveland in overtime last night by dred
and ten to a hundred and eight. The Knickerbockers are
now a game above five hundred on the road and
a game below five hundred at home. That is not
supposed to happen in the NBA. The Nets one last
night too, only they did it at home one nineteen
over Detroit. After one and a half periods of feeling out,
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the Nets took command. Their lead down the stretch was
in the high teams. The liberty ball last night was
supposed to be an Ohio State blowout, but quarterback Arch
Schleister inconveniently had a bad first half and the Buckeyes
wound up beating the Navy by only. This was rather
unfortunate if you took Ohio State, they were fourteen point favorites.
Not quite. Finally, they call it disastro turf, and the
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closer and closer we get to game day, the more
and more likely it is the Giants won't get to
practice on it. As the steady rains continue in the
Bay Area. The Forts continue to suggest that the Giants
canceled their scheduled Saturday practice at cattle Stick Park for
the good of the bad field, which means that the
first time folks like Rob Carpenter will get their feet
wet literally will be when they come out for the
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game Sunday afternoon. That sports brought to you by Amtrak
America's getting into trading with Metroliner service thirteen times every
business day to Philadelphia. I'm Keith Olberman for John Kennelly
on The Ted Brown Show. Good morning everybody, Thank you Keith.
It's twenty one before seven and count Down with Keith
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