February 23, 2023 • 33 mins
EPISODE 140: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN:
A-Block (1:41) SPECIAL COMMENT: Speaker Kevin McCarthy has jeopardized the security of every Representative and every Senator and every staffer, and the continuity of the government of the United States, and thus the safety of every CITIZEN of the United States - and he has publicly admitted to, and boasted about, committing the act by which he did so. This is treasonous. Indict him and arrest him.
We now know that Tucker Carlson gained access to the January 6 video by the deception of McCarthy and/or House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil. Steil asked the Capitol Police for a video terminal on which he personally could look at the video. Without warning the Capitol Police, McCarthy unilaterally gave Carlson access to that terminal.
And then, yesterday, McCarthy not only admitted "he released" the video - he began to FUNDRAISE OFF HIS DECEPTION.
"The Speaker," says Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, "is needlessly exposing the Capitol complex to one of the worst security risks since 9/11..it also risks exposing the carefully laid out and highly guarded plans for the continuity of government, intended to preserve our democracy in the event of an attack." These are not minor infractions, nor mere political conflicts.
This is treachery. McCarthy admits to doing it. Indict him and arrest him.
B-Block (15:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Special Counsel subpoenas Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner (Trump) and before you think they can't try to evade it by making up yet another ludicrous privilege: You forgot Nepo-Baby Privilege, didn't you? GOP still denies it wants to cut Social Security and Medicare while Paul Ryan and Mike Pence announce they want to cut Social Security and Medicare. And in the new Marist Poll Biden does what 100% of political pundits insisted he could not do. (18:18) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Never light a Pride Flag on fire. Especially not if there's a high-def surveillance camera right next to it. Sean Hannity endorses a plan to disenfranchise Sean Hannity. And Barney Rubble's Body Double explains why "black people" should be proud of Confederate statues.
C-Block (22:50) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Since I'm calling for the government to shut down "Fox News" I probably need to fess up: I went out on two dates with Laura Ingraham. Admittedly, it was a century ago, but I think you need to know. Besides which it's cheaper than telling it to a therapist. Thank you.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Kevin
Owen McCarthy, representative of the twentieth California Congressional District and
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fifty fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives, has jeopardized
the security and safety of every representative and every Senator
and every staffer, and the continuity of the government of
the United States of America, and publicly admitted committing the
act by which he did so. He must be indicted
and arrested. We know now that Tucker Carlson gained access
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to the January sixth video by a dishonest sleight of
hand executed by Speaker McCarthy. That Congressman Brian's Style asked
the Capitol Police to set up a video terminal so
he Style could view the footage in his capacity as
Chairman of the House Administration Committee. But McCarthy, acting without
authorization and without even the minimal decency to warren Capitol Police,
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whose lives he would also risk by his actions, then
gave Carlson access to that terminal designed for Brian's Style.
If the Capitol Police Board cannot or will not act
on its own to close the terminal to Carlson and
to House Republicans until the nation can be assured Brian's
Style and Kevin McCarthy are not lying about who the
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viewing station is for today, the Department of Homeland Security
and the Department of Justice need to step in. They
must block Tucker Carlson's access to that video, the secrecy
of which is vital to the safety of the United
States capital, and the containment of which is essential to
prevent another violent assault by some of Tucker Carlson's viewers,
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an assault designed to overthrow the government of the United States,
and the Department of Justice needs to investigate which laws
Speaker McCarthy and Congressman's Style have violated and indict and
arrest them accordingly. Unilaterally, granting a grandstanding propagandist of dubious
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sanity access to the video is bad enough, and it
violates national security interests. But to do it by scam
like the one McCarthy and Style have run is sufficient
to merit prosecution and sufficient for Democrats in the House
to bring motions of censure and even expulsion for both
of these blindly, brazenly, irresponsibly stupid supposed public servants. Tucker
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Carlson and Fox News have no more right to see
this unedited video than Vladimir Putin does. Tucker Carlson's conduct,
his irresponsibility over decades, his disloyalty to this country suggest
he is the last person in this country who should
control what happens to this video, and Kevin McCarthy is
the next to last person in this country who should
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control what happens to this video. McCarthy finally has said
something about his actions. Unfortunately, what he said sounds like
something said by a child. He told the New York
Times last night. Quote I promised, unquote, he added, I
was asked in the press about these tapes, and I
said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine.
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Lets everybody make their own judgment unquote. Of course, here
McCarthy is both lying and mistaken. The so called promise
he made, the one that jeopardizes the lives of every
member of Congress, including his own, was made not to
the American public but to the insurrectionists in his own party,
who demanded the public release of the remaining security video
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so they could cherry pick from it as part of
their price for voting for him. For speaker. Additionally, under
no circumstances is Tucker Carlson the American public. His audience
may seem large in a cable news context, but it
is about the same as Friday night wrestling on Fox,
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and it is about half that of sixty minutes last Friday,
two million, seven hundred and eighty eight thousand Americans watched
Carlson's show, meaning the other three hundred and thirty million
did not. Additionally, McCarthy's use of the word sunshine in
any context relating to Tucker Carlson is certainly a first
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in the history of the world. But before his very
limited and very scared sounding quote to the newspaper, Kevin
McCarthy's team spoke volumes yesterday. It blasted a fundraising email.
It was not titled Kevin McCarthy gives American public access
to January six tapes. It was titled Kevin McCarthy gives
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Tucker Carlson access to those tapes, Patriot. It begins, you
deserve the facts, all of the facts. I have released
the full forty four thousand hours of uncut camera surveillance footage.
McCarthy then fund raises off his actions. Would you consider
chipping in twenty five dollars, fifty dollars or one hundred
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dollars to help House Republicans keep delivering on our commitments
to America the use of America. There is a surprise,
and you would think that under the circumstances McCarthy would
give donors a DVD showing where all the security cameras
and hidden escape routes in the Capitol are located, but
no such offer is presented. The use of the personal
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pronoun in that email I have released when the viewing
station was set up at the request of Congressman's style
adds to the evidence that McCarthy lied to the Capitol
police to get their cooperation, and it underscores the need
for DOJ and Homeland Security to shut down the viewing
station today, to shut down Tucker Carlson, and for that matter,
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to shut down Kevin McCarthy. It would be at this
point that a McCarthy or Carlson defender would start yelling
about my hypocrisy in wanting the cops to come and
stop a journalist from seeing this video. Were there journalists
involved in this process, this might in fact be a
complicating action in court in their own defense. However, Fox
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and Tucker Carlson have repeatedly and utter oath asserted that
he is not a journalist. There is no more of
a free press issue here than there would be if
Brian Style and Kevin McCarthy had connived to put the
January sixth footage in the hands of the producers of
the aforementioned Friday night wrestling show. We know from Tuesday's
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developments that the Capitol Police Board, made up of the
acting Architect of the Capitol and the sergeants at arms
of the House and the Senate, was supposedly to me
yesterday and perhaps even to vote on whether to shut
down the viewing terminal, or at least shut it down
from Tucker Carlson and his producer's gaze. But as I
recording time, there were no details from that meeting yet
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if it indeed took place, nor was information forthcoming from
an internal meeting of House Democratic leadership called for Wednesday
by Akeem Jeffries. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer went
off on McCarthy and Carlson and Fox and the entire
corrupt scumbaggery of this quote. The Speaker, nor any elected
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official does not have the right to jeopardize the safety
of senators, nor Senate and Capital staff for their own
political purposes. Schumer wrote to the other Democratic senators period
full stop. Schumer fleshed out the security problem that is
at the heart of McCarthy's crimes and why officials must intervene. Quote.
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The footage speaker McCarthy is making available to Fox News
is a treasure trove of closely held in about how
the Capital Complex is protected. It publicly reveals the locations
of security cameras across the Capital grounds. It also risks
exposing the carefully laid out and highly guarded plans for
the continuity of government intended to preserve our democracy in
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the event of an attack. The speaker is needlessly exposing
the Capital Complex to one of the worst security risks
since nine to eleven end quote. Schumer could just as
easily have noted that that is why McCarthy executed this charade,
because Tucker Carlson is his best route to reach those
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who need to know how the capital is protected, and
where the cameras are and what the continuity plans are.
He did note, Schumer that is that Carlson has no
fidelity to the truth. Schumer called him disingenuous, which is
a polite way of underscoring the reality here, which is that,
in the same way George Santos cannot stop lying, Tucker
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Carlson exists solely to dissemble and manipulate and propagandize. Regrettably,
at this point, Chuck Schumer's letter comes to a screeching halt.
Let me be clear, his penultimate paragraph begins. The Senate
strongly objects to the release, but Schumer then says nothing
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about the Senate taking any action to prevent it or
to find those culpable for it, as if there were
some reason not to blow up McCarthy and Style and
Fox News for it that matter, by subpoenaing them to
appear before a Senate committee. These are not traditional fights
between two political parties. This is the leader of one
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party in the House, the speaker of that August organization,
so desperate for power that he committed himself to working
against the national security interests of the United States of America,
and there are laws against such treachery. If the Senate
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wants to hold back, or the Democrats of both houses
want to hold back, there would seemingly be no other
option in his fundraising email and his quote to The
New York Times, Kevin McCarthy has confessed and boasted about it. Quote.
I have released the full forty four thousand hours of
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uncut camera surveillance footage. Kevin Owen McCarthy has willfully endangered
every congressman, senator staffer, to say nothing of the continuity
of the government itself. And therefore he has willfully endangered
every American. This is treasonous. Arrest him still ahead of
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us in this edition of Countdown, since we're still on
the topic of the Fox quote news unquote channel and
it's continuing attack on America. Time for me to fess up.
I went out on two dates with Laura Ingram. To
be fair, it was a century ago. On the other hand,
I still have the scars a surprise in the presidential
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approval polls. But I was told Joe Biden couldn't possibly
do this, and Special counsel Jack Smith reportedly subpoena's testimony
from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Trump. And before you say,
at least they can't possibly claim, they can refuse by
claiming some kind of made up privilege, you've forgotten about
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NEPO baby privilege, haven't you That's next? This is countdown.
This is countdown with Keith postscripts to the news. Some headlines,
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some updates, some snarks, some predictions, state line District of Columbia.
Some subpoenas from the Special Council's office more of them.
The testimony of Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner
Trump is demanded by the office of Jack Smith. Per
The New York Times and Maga Haberman. Here we wait
for the Special Council to subpoena Haberman. Dateline East Palestine, Ohio, Trump,
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who once posted of the deregulations of the railroad industry
which permitted the chemical spilled disaster on the Ohio Pennsylvania border,
visited that city and brought the people there baseball caps
and bottled water. He says the water was Trump Water.
Trump Water went out of business in two ten, meaning
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those containers of water have been filled with water and
germs for thirteen years. As if East Palestine didn't already
have enough toxic waste. Date Line Orlando police say a
suspect shot and killed a woman in the Pine Hills
neighborhood there in the morning yesterday. Then after TV cruise
showed up to cover the story. Hours later, the same
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man returned and shot at the TV news cruise. Four
people were hit, One reporter and a child were killed.
Date Lines Madison, Wisconsin and New York Former House Speaker
Paul Ryan slammed both President Biden and Trump for not
cutting or gutting social Security and Medicare. Ryan said, they
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quote are doing the opposite of leadership. At almost the
same hour, the former Vice President Mike Pence attacked Kevin
McCarthy and to quote Pence, while I respect the speaker's
commitment to take Social Security and Medicare off the table
for the debt ceiling negotiations, we've got to put them
on the table in the long term unquote. Remind me
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again about McCarthy's claim that the GEO p does not
want to cut or gut social Security and Medicare. Thank you,
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Nancy Faust and dateline for Keepsie, New York. Polling from
Marist College based in that city, done for NPR and PBS,
showing something every American political pundit has assured us would
never happen. While half of them were insisting that Joe
Biden should not seek reelection. Do you approve or disapprove
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of the job Biden is doing as president? The Marist
Pole asked registered voters disapprove forty five percent, approve forty
nine percent approve would be more in this poll. Stell
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ahead on countdown the Awful truth as we discussed the
end of Fox News or what should be the end
of Fox News in this debacle over Kevin McCarthy and
Tucker Carlson. I dated Laura Ingram first time for the
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daily round ups of the other miscreants, morons and Donning
Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's whereas persons in the world.
The Bronze thirty year old Angelina Cando arrested and now
facing charges of arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and hate crimes.
Somebody pulled up to the Little Prince restaurant in New
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York City, went up to the Pride flag hanging outside
of it, and lit the flag on fire. Once police
confirmed it was not anybody working for the New York
Rangers or the National Hockey League, they arrested Cando because,
in addition to being a homophobe, she's also a moron.
Never occurred to miss Cando that restaurants these days have
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security cameras. The entire episode was caught on video. The
Bronze speaking of morons, Sean Hannity, because of all the
hatred stuffed inside him along with all the scotch, we
sometimes forget the stupidity in his case. Sean Hannity hosted
Marjorie Trader Green on his TV show to discuss her
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national divorce stunt. Hannity highlighted one part of it that
he likes, quote banning people who moved from blue states
to red states from voting for five years so they
don't bring their band politics with them. I actually favor
that idea un punchline. Sean Hannity is a legal resident
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of New York State, so if he moved into Marjorie
Taylor Green's Confederate States of Moron America, he just endorsed
denying himself the right to vote for five years. But
our winner, it's Marge herself first. The divorce of red
states from blue states, in which the red states get
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to keep everything they like at the Blue states expense,
while she remains blissfully unaware that she lives in a
blue state. Now, Green has told a waiting world of
her next project, the preservation of statues honoring Confederate heroes.
Won't the descendants of the victims of slavery take offense? No,
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she says, quote. If I were black people today and
I walked by one of those statues, I would be
so proud because I'd say, look how far I have
come in this country, just like the pride Green no
doubt feels when she goes to Bedrock Ranch in Williams,
Arizona and walks by the statue of Barney Rubble Marjorie, Yeah, dab,
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Now what's the rest of it? Taylor Green, Today's worst
person in the world, to the number one story on
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the countdown on my favorite topic, Me and Things I
promised not to tell. My tattered little diary from nineteen
ninety seven informs me the twenty five years ago this week,
in the second month of my news career at MSNBC,
one of my guests for the first time was one
of the network's original contributor commentators, original MSNBC talent, Laura Ingram.
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This began a process that ended in us going out
on two dates, and something she told me on the
first of these dates has resonated with me literally every
month since, and is relevant to politics today. I did
not so much date her as survive her. Even then
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before nine to eleven helped to slide her cheese off
her cracker. I find a diary entry referring to her
as Hurricane Laura. That was March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight.
Beware the odds of March Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly,
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and God help me, nearly forty eight years of dating,
I have not been a kiss. And tell her I
have dated. I don't know dozens. We're in a couple
of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with maybe three exceptions. You
don't know any of their names. One of them, now
a political writer, basically lived with me for three years.
I keep that confidence. So why am I telling this
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story violating that? Because not three months after that first date,
when we were still going out, Laura Ingram asked me
if she could look at a speech was going to
give it Cornell's graduation weekend and offer suggestions. This is
so long ago. I literally faxed it to her. Sure enough,
a couple days later, I'm watching Imus in the Morning,
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which was televised by my network MSNBC, and there on
his desk in front of him is the fact copy
of my speech, and he is reading from my facts.
I could recognize the exact sequence of the vertical stripes.
My cheap fax machine used to streak all of my
outgoing pages with Laura used to go on his show
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a lot, so to curry favor with Imus, she sent
him the speech without asking me, as I told her
that day, all bets are now off. So I've told
parts of this story before, like she had been a
Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and our first date
consisted of taking me on an insider's tour of the
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court and having me sit in his chair in tribute
to him. I did not say or do anything constructive.
She then cooked me the largest steak I had ever
seen that did not have a rodeo cowboy riding on it,
and we watched a woman later discredited because she could
not keep her stories straight, go on sixty minutes and
make allegations against Bill Clinton. This is my perfect date,
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Laura told me, seared into my memory. But the important
Laura Ingram story sitting there in the middle of all
the debris, I don't think I've ever told this. The
first date was only about six weeks after the then
First Lady Hillary Clinton got on The Today Show and
blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about her husband and
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Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right wing conspiracy man
is sound stumpid. Laura said that night, as she showed
me her small office upstairs, I expected that she was
about to decry the idea that Republicans would exploit television,
talk radio and the brand new Internet to try to
bring down a president from the other party. And I said,
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so naive little boy that I was now not that,
of course, we aren't doing that. She was kind of
offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, I'd
only been covering politics for two months. At the end
of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly,
at the end of the day, it's that vast part.
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It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet
there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingraman explained that
she was essentially the central desk for what she called
the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a printed
page that had the facts numbers of about two dozen people.
There at the top are the sources. She said. There
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was Ted Olson, the attorney, founder of the so called
Arkansas Project on the husband of Barbara Olsen, a constant
presence as a talking head on cable news. She later
died on nine to eleven. Body liked her. There were
several numbers in the office of Independent Council ken Starr.
One of them read B. Kavanaugh. I said, who's that?
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She said, nobody impartant. The only other name I remember
was Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan.
She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office,
sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton.
Stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the
other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number
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was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV.
There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas,
and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now,
maybe the most important name is not on that list.
That's Matt Dredge. She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff,
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but he didn't want any of it to be traceable.
Very big on not traceable, so I never facts it
to him. She said, I just give it to my
This is when she still liked her brother. He sees
Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver,
here is my baseball collection. See there were reasons to
go out with her. At the time, I could think
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only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It
was an octopus working in the post office, using all
eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every
couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I
was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations
of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether
it is vast or miniature. It's beast, the machinery that
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links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed
to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and
special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right
wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like
Fox and Drudge and o N and Newsmax, and the
ones that don't even pretend, like those who succeeded Limbaugh.
This machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid
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conservative republican fascist trumpist thinks is being run by George
Soros or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You
want to be able to say, there are reports or
accusations about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well,
somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery,
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or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of
the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people.
They repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports
then get fed back to Fox News or bright Bart
or the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or
they're just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want
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to push this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the
Great Replacement, but you want it to come out washed
clean enough that soulless opportunists like at least to Find
and JD Vance can say it aloud on the campaign
trail without forfeiting their candidacies. This is the machinery. And
I saw the machinery when it was just a list
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of twenty and thirty people, and at that moment I
barely recognized the importance of what I saw. Then again,
I was still on that night, recovering from not just
the giants steak, but something far more visceral. Earlier that day,
as we were leaving the Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had
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boasted about getting even with an ex boyfriend by going
back into what had been their house and putting up
exact copies of all the photos of the two of
them together that he had taken down from his walls.
And when he got smart and changed the locks, she
went back again to finish the job. Found her key
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didn't work so naturally as you would. She stuffed his
garden home through the mail slot of his front door
and turned on the outdoor Spiggott ten thousand dollars rith
the hirn who when Flora's ruined, she said proudly, And
part of me screamed, flee, flee. Now I didn't flee. Later,
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as I tried to sleep, two noises kept me awake, snoring,
not my own, and Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking
in his sleep, I mean almost in syllables, Yeah, like that.
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It was something like twenty five degrees out and I
was on the second floor. And yet I resolved that
if her dog really did make that last leap to
formulate actual syllables, and it turned out her dog was
the one telling her what to do. I was simply
going to leave by the window without bothering to open
it first. The next morning, Laura and I walked her dog.
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We got to an empty field. She threw a tennis ball.
He went and got it. She cocked her arm back again.
He took off, loving life as he did. She did
not throw it. He went forty fifty sixty feet, then
stopped and looked back at her with such disappointment and
even a sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without
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a trace of affection for him or anything else, wait
far at which is when I realized I was being
courted to be the next dog. A few weeks later,
back home in New York, I got home from working
an early morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul
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Harvey at ABC Radio. I was just waking up from
a tortured nap when the phone rang aunts Laura, I'm downstairs.
We're going to my old law frames party at the museum.
I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just
stay here at this pay phone outside her plans calling
you all night. We went the next option opportunity probably
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was going to be me on the wrong end of
a hostage drama. Turned out she was not invited to
her party. We're crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly,
it was a great party. I got to meet Hillary
Clinton's mother and her brother. And if you think the
fascists are completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and
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their paranoia, no, Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and
Hillary Clinton's brother. They seemed to be friends. Later we
wound up meeting friends of her in the Oak bar
at the Plaza Hotel, where she kept drinking. I was astonished.
After about her sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd
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had at the party, she began to droop her head,
nodding like a bobblehead doll. Her friends, Okay, that's it,
we'll take care of the check. You take care of her.
She had not gotten a hotel room or anything. And
if you've ever heard of anybody who needed to be
poured into a cab because they were so drunk, you
don't really know what that means until you have to
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pour them into a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put
her in a hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have
made the gossip pages. She basically could not stand up,
so I took her to my apartment, put her into
my bed, and I went and slept on the couch
at the far end of the apartment, which is where
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I was hours later in the morning when she woke
me up because she came parading through using my phone
to call my assistant to get a car sent to
my address to take her to the airport, and to
make sure that everybody in my office knew she had
stayed overnight at my apartment. And all I kept thinking
was why didn't I follow my instincts. Instincts said flee?
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I fleed? Not, of course, if I had fled, I
would have missed seeing the telephone tree of the miniature
right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I. Well, if you spend forty
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eight years of your life dating, I'm gonna make some mistakes,
big mistakes, terrible, horrible, unfixable mistakes, mistakes that they'll put
on your tombstone. Countdown has come to you from the
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Musical comments from Nancy Faust The best baseball stadium organist ever.
Our announcer today was Larry David and everything else was
pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this the
seven hundred and seventy ninth day since Donald Trump's first
attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
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Arrest him now while we still can. The next scheduled
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Kevin
Owen McCarthy, representative of the twentieth California Congressional District and
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fifty fifth Speaker of the House of Representatives, has jeopardized
the security and safety of every representative and every Senator
and every staffer, and the continuity of the government of
the United States of America, and publicly admitted committing the
act by which he did so. He must be indicted
and arrested. We know now that Tucker Carlson gained access
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to the January sixth video by a dishonest sleight of
hand executed by Speaker McCarthy. That Congressman Brian's Style asked
the Capitol Police to set up a video terminal so
he Style could view the footage in his capacity as
Chairman of the House Administration Committee. But McCarthy, acting without
authorization and without even the minimal decency to warren Capitol Police,
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whose lives he would also risk by his actions, then
gave Carlson access to that terminal designed for Brian's Style.
If the Capitol Police Board cannot or will not act
on its own to close the terminal to Carlson and
to House Republicans until the nation can be assured Brian's
Style and Kevin McCarthy are not lying about who the
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viewing station is for today, the Department of Homeland Security
and the Department of Justice need to step in. They
must block Tucker Carlson's access to that video, the secrecy
of which is vital to the safety of the United
States capital, and the containment of which is essential to
prevent another violent assault by some of Tucker Carlson's viewers,
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an assault designed to overthrow the government of the United States,
and the Department of Justice needs to investigate which laws
Speaker McCarthy and Congressman's Style have violated and indict and
arrest them accordingly. Unilaterally, granting a grandstanding propagandist of dubious
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sanity access to the video is bad enough, and it
violates national security interests. But to do it by scam
like the one McCarthy and Style have run is sufficient
to merit prosecution and sufficient for Democrats in the House
to bring motions of censure and even expulsion for both
of these blindly, brazenly, irresponsibly stupid supposed public servants. Tucker
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Carlson and Fox News have no more right to see
this unedited video than Vladimir Putin does. Tucker Carlson's conduct,
his irresponsibility over decades, his disloyalty to this country suggest
he is the last person in this country who should
control what happens to this video, and Kevin McCarthy is
the next to last person in this country who should
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control what happens to this video. McCarthy finally has said
something about his actions. Unfortunately, what he said sounds like
something said by a child. He told the New York
Times last night. Quote I promised, unquote, he added, I
was asked in the press about these tapes, and I
said they do belong to the American public. I think sunshine.
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Lets everybody make their own judgment unquote. Of course, here
McCarthy is both lying and mistaken. The so called promise
he made, the one that jeopardizes the lives of every
member of Congress, including his own, was made not to
the American public but to the insurrectionists in his own party,
who demanded the public release of the remaining security video
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so they could cherry pick from it as part of
their price for voting for him. For speaker. Additionally, under
no circumstances is Tucker Carlson the American public. His audience
may seem large in a cable news context, but it
is about the same as Friday night wrestling on Fox,
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and it is about half that of sixty minutes last Friday,
two million, seven hundred and eighty eight thousand Americans watched
Carlson's show, meaning the other three hundred and thirty million
did not. Additionally, McCarthy's use of the word sunshine in
any context relating to Tucker Carlson is certainly a first
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in the history of the world. But before his very
limited and very scared sounding quote to the newspaper, Kevin
McCarthy's team spoke volumes yesterday. It blasted a fundraising email.
It was not titled Kevin McCarthy gives American public access
to January six tapes. It was titled Kevin McCarthy gives
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Tucker Carlson access to those tapes, Patriot. It begins, you
deserve the facts, all of the facts. I have released
the full forty four thousand hours of uncut camera surveillance footage.
McCarthy then fund raises off his actions. Would you consider
chipping in twenty five dollars, fifty dollars or one hundred
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dollars to help House Republicans keep delivering on our commitments
to America the use of America. There is a surprise,
and you would think that under the circumstances McCarthy would
give donors a DVD showing where all the security cameras
and hidden escape routes in the Capitol are located, but
no such offer is presented. The use of the personal
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pronoun in that email I have released when the viewing
station was set up at the request of Congressman's style
adds to the evidence that McCarthy lied to the Capitol
police to get their cooperation, and it underscores the need
for DOJ and Homeland Security to shut down the viewing
station today, to shut down Tucker Carlson, and for that matter,
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to shut down Kevin McCarthy. It would be at this
point that a McCarthy or Carlson defender would start yelling
about my hypocrisy in wanting the cops to come and
stop a journalist from seeing this video. Were there journalists
involved in this process, this might in fact be a
complicating action in court in their own defense. However, Fox
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and Tucker Carlson have repeatedly and utter oath asserted that
he is not a journalist. There is no more of
a free press issue here than there would be if
Brian Style and Kevin McCarthy had connived to put the
January sixth footage in the hands of the producers of
the aforementioned Friday night wrestling show. We know from Tuesday's
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developments that the Capitol Police Board, made up of the
acting Architect of the Capitol and the sergeants at arms
of the House and the Senate, was supposedly to me
yesterday and perhaps even to vote on whether to shut
down the viewing terminal, or at least shut it down
from Tucker Carlson and his producer's gaze. But as I
recording time, there were no details from that meeting yet
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if it indeed took place, nor was information forthcoming from
an internal meeting of House Democratic leadership called for Wednesday
by Akeem Jeffries. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer went
off on McCarthy and Carlson and Fox and the entire
corrupt scumbaggery of this quote. The Speaker, nor any elected
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official does not have the right to jeopardize the safety
of senators, nor Senate and Capital staff for their own
political purposes. Schumer wrote to the other Democratic senators period
full stop. Schumer fleshed out the security problem that is
at the heart of McCarthy's crimes and why officials must intervene. Quote.
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The footage speaker McCarthy is making available to Fox News
is a treasure trove of closely held in about how
the Capital Complex is protected. It publicly reveals the locations
of security cameras across the Capital grounds. It also risks
exposing the carefully laid out and highly guarded plans for
the continuity of government intended to preserve our democracy in
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the event of an attack. The speaker is needlessly exposing
the Capital Complex to one of the worst security risks
since nine to eleven end quote. Schumer could just as
easily have noted that that is why McCarthy executed this charade,
because Tucker Carlson is his best route to reach those
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who need to know how the capital is protected, and
where the cameras are and what the continuity plans are.
He did note, Schumer that is that Carlson has no
fidelity to the truth. Schumer called him disingenuous, which is
a polite way of underscoring the reality here, which is that,
in the same way George Santos cannot stop lying, Tucker
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Carlson exists solely to dissemble and manipulate and propagandize. Regrettably,
at this point, Chuck Schumer's letter comes to a screeching halt.
Let me be clear, his penultimate paragraph begins. The Senate
strongly objects to the release, but Schumer then says nothing
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about the Senate taking any action to prevent it or
to find those culpable for it, as if there were
some reason not to blow up McCarthy and Style and
Fox News for it that matter, by subpoenaing them to
appear before a Senate committee. These are not traditional fights
between two political parties. This is the leader of one
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party in the House, the speaker of that August organization,
so desperate for power that he committed himself to working
against the national security interests of the United States of America,
and there are laws against such treachery. If the Senate
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wants to hold back, or the Democrats of both houses
want to hold back, there would seemingly be no other
option in his fundraising email and his quote to The
New York Times, Kevin McCarthy has confessed and boasted about it. Quote.
I have released the full forty four thousand hours of
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uncut camera surveillance footage. Kevin Owen McCarthy has willfully endangered
every congressman, senator staffer, to say nothing of the continuity
of the government itself. And therefore he has willfully endangered
every American. This is treasonous. Arrest him still ahead of
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us in this edition of Countdown, since we're still on
the topic of the Fox quote news unquote channel and
it's continuing attack on America. Time for me to fess up.
I went out on two dates with Laura Ingram. To
be fair, it was a century ago. On the other hand,
I still have the scars a surprise in the presidential
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approval polls. But I was told Joe Biden couldn't possibly
do this, and Special counsel Jack Smith reportedly subpoena's testimony
from Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner Trump. And before you say,
at least they can't possibly claim, they can refuse by
claiming some kind of made up privilege, you've forgotten about
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NEPO baby privilege, haven't you That's next? This is countdown.
This is countdown with Keith postscripts to the news. Some headlines,
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some updates, some snarks, some predictions, state line District of Columbia.
Some subpoenas from the Special Council's office more of them.
The testimony of Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner
Trump is demanded by the office of Jack Smith. Per
The New York Times and Maga Haberman. Here we wait
for the Special Council to subpoena Haberman. Dateline East Palestine, Ohio, Trump,
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who once posted of the deregulations of the railroad industry
which permitted the chemical spilled disaster on the Ohio Pennsylvania border,
visited that city and brought the people there baseball caps
and bottled water. He says the water was Trump Water.
Trump Water went out of business in two ten, meaning
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those containers of water have been filled with water and
germs for thirteen years. As if East Palestine didn't already
have enough toxic waste. Date Line Orlando police say a
suspect shot and killed a woman in the Pine Hills
neighborhood there in the morning yesterday. Then after TV cruise
showed up to cover the story. Hours later, the same
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man returned and shot at the TV news cruise. Four
people were hit, One reporter and a child were killed.
Date Lines Madison, Wisconsin and New York Former House Speaker
Paul Ryan slammed both President Biden and Trump for not
cutting or gutting social Security and Medicare. Ryan said, they
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quote are doing the opposite of leadership. At almost the
same hour, the former Vice President Mike Pence attacked Kevin
McCarthy and to quote Pence, while I respect the speaker's
commitment to take Social Security and Medicare off the table
for the debt ceiling negotiations, we've got to put them
on the table in the long term unquote. Remind me
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again about McCarthy's claim that the GEO p does not
want to cut or gut social Security and Medicare. Thank you,
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Nancy Faust and dateline for Keepsie, New York. Polling from
Marist College based in that city, done for NPR and PBS,
showing something every American political pundit has assured us would
never happen. While half of them were insisting that Joe
Biden should not seek reelection. Do you approve or disapprove
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of the job Biden is doing as president? The Marist
Pole asked registered voters disapprove forty five percent, approve forty
nine percent approve would be more in this poll. Stell
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ahead on countdown the Awful truth as we discussed the
end of Fox News or what should be the end
of Fox News in this debacle over Kevin McCarthy and
Tucker Carlson. I dated Laura Ingram first time for the
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daily round ups of the other miscreants, morons and Donning
Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's whereas persons in the world.
The Bronze thirty year old Angelina Cando arrested and now
facing charges of arson, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, and hate crimes.
Somebody pulled up to the Little Prince restaurant in New
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York City, went up to the Pride flag hanging outside
of it, and lit the flag on fire. Once police
confirmed it was not anybody working for the New York
Rangers or the National Hockey League, they arrested Cando because,
in addition to being a homophobe, she's also a moron.
Never occurred to miss Cando that restaurants these days have
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security cameras. The entire episode was caught on video. The
Bronze speaking of morons, Sean Hannity, because of all the
hatred stuffed inside him along with all the scotch, we
sometimes forget the stupidity in his case. Sean Hannity hosted
Marjorie Trader Green on his TV show to discuss her
(16:29):
national divorce stunt. Hannity highlighted one part of it that
he likes, quote banning people who moved from blue states
to red states from voting for five years so they
don't bring their band politics with them. I actually favor
that idea un punchline. Sean Hannity is a legal resident
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of New York State, so if he moved into Marjorie
Taylor Green's Confederate States of Moron America, he just endorsed
denying himself the right to vote for five years. But
our winner, it's Marge herself first. The divorce of red
states from blue states, in which the red states get
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to keep everything they like at the Blue states expense,
while she remains blissfully unaware that she lives in a
blue state. Now, Green has told a waiting world of
her next project, the preservation of statues honoring Confederate heroes.
Won't the descendants of the victims of slavery take offense? No,
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she says, quote. If I were black people today and
I walked by one of those statues, I would be
so proud because I'd say, look how far I have
come in this country, just like the pride Green no
doubt feels when she goes to Bedrock Ranch in Williams,
Arizona and walks by the statue of Barney Rubble Marjorie, Yeah, dab,
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Now what's the rest of it? Taylor Green, Today's worst
person in the world, to the number one story on
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the countdown on my favorite topic, Me and Things I
promised not to tell. My tattered little diary from nineteen
ninety seven informs me the twenty five years ago this week,
in the second month of my news career at MSNBC,
one of my guests for the first time was one
of the network's original contributor commentators, original MSNBC talent, Laura Ingram.
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This began a process that ended in us going out
on two dates, and something she told me on the
first of these dates has resonated with me literally every
month since, and is relevant to politics today. I did
not so much date her as survive her. Even then
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before nine to eleven helped to slide her cheese off
her cracker. I find a diary entry referring to her
as Hurricane Laura. That was March fifteenth, nineteen ninety eight.
Beware the odds of March Julius Caesar. I didn't, honestly,
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and God help me, nearly forty eight years of dating,
I have not been a kiss. And tell her I
have dated. I don't know dozens. We're in a couple
of hundred, actually thirteen, seriously, with maybe three exceptions. You
don't know any of their names. One of them, now
a political writer, basically lived with me for three years.
I keep that confidence. So why am I telling this
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story violating that? Because not three months after that first date,
when we were still going out, Laura Ingram asked me
if she could look at a speech was going to
give it Cornell's graduation weekend and offer suggestions. This is
so long ago. I literally faxed it to her. Sure enough,
a couple days later, I'm watching Imus in the Morning,
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which was televised by my network MSNBC, and there on
his desk in front of him is the fact copy
of my speech, and he is reading from my facts.
I could recognize the exact sequence of the vertical stripes.
My cheap fax machine used to streak all of my
outgoing pages with Laura used to go on his show
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a lot, so to curry favor with Imus, she sent
him the speech without asking me, as I told her
that day, all bets are now off. So I've told
parts of this story before, like she had been a
Supreme Court clerk for Clarence Thomas, and our first date
consisted of taking me on an insider's tour of the
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court and having me sit in his chair in tribute
to him. I did not say or do anything constructive.
She then cooked me the largest steak I had ever
seen that did not have a rodeo cowboy riding on it,
and we watched a woman later discredited because she could
not keep her stories straight, go on sixty minutes and
make allegations against Bill Clinton. This is my perfect date,
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Laura told me, seared into my memory. But the important
Laura Ingram story sitting there in the middle of all
the debris, I don't think I've ever told this. The
first date was only about six weeks after the then
First Lady Hillary Clinton got on The Today Show and
blamed the at best exaggerated scandal about her husband and
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Monica Lewinsky on the quote vast right wing conspiracy man
is sound stumpid. Laura said that night, as she showed
me her small office upstairs, I expected that she was
about to decry the idea that Republicans would exploit television,
talk radio and the brand new Internet to try to
bring down a president from the other party. And I said,
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so naive little boy that I was now not that,
of course, we aren't doing that. She was kind of
offended that I doubted the conspiracy part. I explained, I'd
only been covering politics for two months. At the end
of the day, she said, end of the day, constantly,
at the end of the day, it's that vast part.
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It's not vast, vast right wing conspiracy. Why, I bet
there's not even thirty of us. Laura Ingraman explained that
she was essentially the central desk for what she called
the miniature right wing conspiracy. She showed me a printed
page that had the facts numbers of about two dozen people.
There at the top are the sources. She said. There
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was Ted Olson, the attorney, founder of the so called
Arkansas Project on the husband of Barbara Olsen, a constant
presence as a talking head on cable news. She later
died on nine to eleven. Body liked her. There were
several numbers in the office of Independent Council ken Starr.
One of them read B. Kavanaugh. I said, who's that?
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She said, nobody impartant. The only other name I remember
was Spencer Abraham, who then was a senator from Michigan.
She said, they, including the people in ken Starr's office,
sent her all the rumors, the ideas, stuff about Clinton.
Stuff they made up, and she distributed them to the
other parts of the list. That's these numbers. One number
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was marked Hannity Radio, another Hannity TV, O'Reilly Radio, O'Reilly TV.
There was one for Limbaugh. There was one mark Justice Thomas,
and I pointed to it. He likes to stay and farmed. Now,
maybe the most important name is not on that list.
That's Matt Dredge. She said. Matt Drudge used all her stuff,
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but he didn't want any of it to be traceable.
Very big on not traceable, so I never facts it
to him. She said, I just give it to my
This is when she still liked her brother. He sees
Drudge all the time. He gives the stuff to Drudge. Now, Oliver,
here is my baseball collection. See there were reasons to
go out with her. At the time, I could think
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only of an old cartoon I had once seen. It
was an octopus working in the post office, using all
eight of its limbs to sort the mail. But every
couple of weeks it dawns on me afresh. Then I
was actually a witness to one of the earliest configurations
of the machinery. And there is no doubt today whether
it is vast or miniature. It's beast, the machinery that
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links the right wing politicians and those who are supposed
to be above the fray, like Supreme Court justices and
special prosecutors and people like that. There with the right
wing publicity outlets that pretend to be news organizations like
Fox and Drudge and o N and Newsmax, and the
ones that don't even pretend, like those who succeeded Limbaugh.
This machine is, in fact everything that your typical paranoid
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conservative republican fascist trumpist thinks is being run by George
Soros or Bill Gates or doctor Fauci or me. You
want to be able to say, there are reports or
accusations about some Democrat or a liberal figure or celebrity. Well,
somebody puts a rumor in at one end of the machinery,
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or somebody makes up a rumor at one end of
the machinery. It is then sent to dozens of other people.
They repeat it voila. Suddenly there are reports. The reports
then get fed back to Fox News or bright Bart
or the Wall Street Journal or the Supreme Court, or
they're just tweeted by a thousand bots simultaneously. You want
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to push this ancient racist, anti Semitic paranoia called the
Great Replacement, but you want it to come out washed
clean enough that soulless opportunists like at least to Find
and JD Vance can say it aloud on the campaign
trail without forfeiting their candidacies. This is the machinery. And
I saw the machinery when it was just a list
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of twenty and thirty people, and at that moment I
barely recognized the importance of what I saw. Then again,
I was still on that night, recovering from not just
the giants steak, but something far more visceral. Earlier that day,
as we were leaving the Supreme Court, Laura Ingram had
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boasted about getting even with an ex boyfriend by going
back into what had been their house and putting up
exact copies of all the photos of the two of
them together that he had taken down from his walls.
And when he got smart and changed the locks, she
went back again to finish the job. Found her key
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didn't work so naturally as you would. She stuffed his
garden home through the mail slot of his front door
and turned on the outdoor Spiggott ten thousand dollars rith
the hirn who when Flora's ruined, she said proudly, And
part of me screamed, flee, flee. Now I didn't flee. Later,
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as I tried to sleep, two noises kept me awake, snoring,
not my own, and Laura's dog. Laura's dog kept talking
in his sleep, I mean almost in syllables, Yeah, like that.
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It was something like twenty five degrees out and I
was on the second floor. And yet I resolved that
if her dog really did make that last leap to
formulate actual syllables, and it turned out her dog was
the one telling her what to do. I was simply
going to leave by the window without bothering to open
it first. The next morning, Laura and I walked her dog.
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We got to an empty field. She threw a tennis ball.
He went and got it. She cocked her arm back again.
He took off, loving life as he did. She did
not throw it. He went forty fifty sixty feet, then
stopped and looked back at her with such disappointment and
even a sense of betrayal, and she said, loudly, without
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a trace of affection for him or anything else, wait
far at which is when I realized I was being
courted to be the next dog. A few weeks later,
back home in New York, I got home from working
an early morning shift filling in for the commentator Paul
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Harvey at ABC Radio. I was just waking up from
a tortured nap when the phone rang aunts Laura, I'm downstairs.
We're going to my old law frames party at the museum.
I said. I was exhausted. We're going, or I'll just
stay here at this pay phone outside her plans calling
you all night. We went the next option opportunity probably
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was going to be me on the wrong end of
a hostage drama. Turned out she was not invited to
her party. We're crashing it. I'm going to drink heavily. Frankly,
it was a great party. I got to meet Hillary
Clinton's mother and her brother. And if you think the
fascists are completely sincere about everything, even their neuroses and
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their paranoia, no, Laura Ingram hugged Hillary Clinton's mother and
Hillary Clinton's brother. They seemed to be friends. Later we
wound up meeting friends of her in the Oak bar
at the Plaza Hotel, where she kept drinking. I was astonished.
After about her sixth Cosmopolitan on top of everything she'd
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had at the party, she began to droop her head,
nodding like a bobblehead doll. Her friends, Okay, that's it,
we'll take care of the check. You take care of her.
She had not gotten a hotel room or anything. And
if you've ever heard of anybody who needed to be
poured into a cab because they were so drunk, you
don't really know what that means until you have to
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pour them into a cab. Frankly, I wanted to put
her in a hotel somewhere, but the spectacle would have
made the gossip pages. She basically could not stand up,
so I took her to my apartment, put her into
my bed, and I went and slept on the couch
at the far end of the apartment, which is where
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I was hours later in the morning when she woke
me up because she came parading through using my phone
to call my assistant to get a car sent to
my address to take her to the airport, and to
make sure that everybody in my office knew she had
stayed overnight at my apartment. And all I kept thinking
was why didn't I follow my instincts. Instincts said flee?
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I fleed? Not, of course, if I had fled, I
would have missed seeing the telephone tree of the miniature
right wing conspiracy, wouldn't I. Well, if you spend forty
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eight years of your life dating, I'm gonna make some mistakes,
big mistakes, terrible, horrible, unfixable mistakes, mistakes that they'll put
on your tombstone. Countdown has come to you from the
studios of All Women Broadcasting umpire World headquarters here in
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Musical comments from Nancy Faust The best baseball stadium organist ever.
Our announcer today was Larry David and everything else was
pretty much my fault. So let's countdown for this the
seven hundred and seventy ninth day since Donald Trump's first
attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
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