March 20, 2025 • 40 mins
SEASON 3 EPISODE 111: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: The White Supremacist Trash Trump Administration thought it had gotten away with memory-holing Baseball immortal and Civil Rights immortal Jackie Robinson. They eliminated the Pentagon web page honoring Jackie's service during WWII and re-directed you to a URL reading "DEI SPORTS." They thought they had gotten away with it so much that a Pentagon spokesman named John Ullyot boasted loudly about eliminating the DEI Robinson represented (and the Navajo Code Talkers and that one Native American at Iwo Jima and the Tuskegee Airmen).
And then when all hell broke loose, within 90 minutes they actually backed off and restored the page - and made it MORE racist, insisting that they would only honor Robinson as an ex-serviceman, not as a man who may have saved this country from becoming then, what Trump is trying to make it into now.
And for all the reversals, one other company's website associated with Jackie Robinson DID scrub any references to "DEI" from its mission statement and has not responded to the Robinson blowback. The other company is of course... Major League Baseball.
This is hardly the most important of the daily parade of Trump Atrocities. It may, however, may the most symbolic.
B-Block (23:40) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: A podcaster insists what's happening to Tesla is "worse than January 6." Life comes at you fast: Friday, Minnesota State Senator Justin Eichorn introduced a bill to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" an actual legal thing there. Monday he was being arrested for trying to pay a 17-year old for sex. And why did Jake Tapper drink another pitcher of Kool-Aid and call it "The Gulf of America"? Well there are some people who become their salaries, nothing more.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. This
is by no stretch the most important atrocity of the
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self destroying regime of the insane dictator Trump. It's not
even the most important right now, but it may be
the most symbolic. Trump, again repeatedly, is still trying to
disappear Jackie Robinson, to erase Jackie Robinson, to memory hole
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Jackie Robinson, to relegate him using those hated letters Trump
does not understand and can barely spell, but which in
his animal instinct way, he has used to exploit and
manipulate and use to rebuild segregation and begin to build
apartheid in this nation. DI, which if you did not notice,
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replaced CRT, probably because DEI was easier for Trump to say.
And the scum who work for Trump are boasting about
trying to disappear Jackie Robinson again in a new way,
newer than the one they were trying to disappear him
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with yesterday, and even when caught and forced finally to
retreat from their racism, to restore the page honoring Jackie
Robinson at the Department of Defense website that they erased,
even after they were forced by public outrage to restore
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that page. They are still boasting about erasing Jackie Robinson
in a new way, and boasting about it in a
way that is even more racist than their original white
supremacist trash racism, boasting about first disappearing Jackie Robinson, and
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then when they restored him, demeaning his memory and diminishing
the meaning of his life and his sacrifice. The page
on the Department of Defense website that drily recounted Robinson's
military service for this country during World War Two was broken, eliminated, erased.
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The page was among those detailing sports heroes who served
this nation. The page, as discovered by the digital editor
of the New Mexico News, Matthew Reichbach, then amplified by
the baseball writer Craig Calcaterra, finally written up by ESPN
and NBC News and others. It was deleted and the
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link redirected you to Defense dot govslash news, slash features Stories,
slashdi Sports. It actually read DEI sports, and it produced
when you clicked on it, a four oh four page
not found Jackie Robinson memory hold as surely as it
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was an example in George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and
worse yet, they went about boasting about it. John Oldyacht
another right wing press spokesman who has chosen a photo
of himself that suggests that during the military part of
his career he had what we used to call shell
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shock behind the eyes. A former columnist at the disgraced
Town Hall and the federalist John Ullacht now Pentagon Press scretary. Finally,
yesterday afternoon, gave NBC News a comment about the disappearing
of Jackie Robinson quote as Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI
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is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ieology is
a form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place
in our military. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion,
and interferes. Cleverly divides eroads and interferes are capitalized with
the service's Corps war fighting mission. We are pleased by
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the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing
DEI content from all platforms. A reminder that the DEI
content that this bastard u Yacht is referring to is
the story as dryly told as imaginable of when Jackie
Robinson served in the US Army before he summoned the
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courage to go ahead and break through what was then
all white baseball, all white sports, essentially all white America.
We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department
with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. This
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oly yacht continued. In the rare cases that content is
removed either deliberately or by mistake that is out of
the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the
components and they correct the content accordingly. That is a
long way from mister Olliot of saying that America is
a white nationalist country. Now Jackie Robinson didn't count anymore
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and they had gotten rid of Jackie Robinson's memory. Happily,
this country is not dead yet. All hell broke loose.
It broke loose when Donald Trump decided to throw Jackie
Robinson to the white supremacist mob and the racists and
the other white garbage who must find an excuse for
the failures of their own existences on this planet. Trump,
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through his minions memory, hold Jackie Robinson. Less than a
month before Jackie Robinson Day, the celebration of the integration
of Major League Baseball, probably the most important event in
this country in the lifetime of this emperor with no soul.
When he dies and his years are reviewed, the most
important event during the lifespan of Trump will be Jackie Robinson.
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So much hell broke loose about the memory holding of
Jackie Robinson and the Navajo code talkers whose page was
also taken down at DoD and the Tuskegee Airmen whose
page was also taken down, and the Marines at Ewojima,
that late yesterday the Trumpsts had to back off. Eighty
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two minutes after that first boastful, dirty ku klucks clannish
statement from this olyyacht, this thug alyyacht. Eighty two minutes later,
enough hell had broken loose over the life of Alyat
that a second statement from him came, and I would
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argue he managed to make it more racist than the first.
This is the second statement. Everyone at the Defense Department
loves Jackie Robinson as well as the Navajo code talkers,
the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at ewo Jima, and so
many others. We salute them for their strong, end in
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many cases, heroic service to our country. Full stop. We
do not view or highlight them through the prism of
immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex. We do
so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the
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war fighting mission, like every other American who has worn
the uniform. This scum all Yacht then repeats the smear
against the concept of DEI, calling it discriminatory equity ideology,
which I read you previously, which of course is Trump
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thinking he's clever by making the acronym mean something else,
and also a way of Trump stopping himself and others
in his administration from using the N word. Olyyacht boasts
about the speed with which DEI was removed from government
websites again and by terrified corporations and the other cowards
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of American life today, when money means everything and dignity
and self respect mean nothing, to say nothing of reality
meaning nothing. His statement concludes, in the rare cases that
content is removed either deliberately or by mistake that is
out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we
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instruct the components and they correct the content, which he
said in the first statement, then adds, so it recognizes
our heroes for their dedicated service alongside the Farloh Americans period.
So the new message is, it is not enough for
us to try to disappear Jackie Robinson. And since you
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stopped us, we will make it worse. We must deny
Jackie Robinson his role as the most courageous man in
sports history, perhaps in American history, or among them. At least.
Jackie Robinson cannot be viewed any longer through quote the
prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex,
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even though race is a human invention and nothing scientific,
and ethnicity changes as the maps do, and sex is
one of fifty different genders. The prism of immutable characteristics
such as race, ethnicity, or sex only by recognizing their
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patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. You heard
that Jackie Robinson is no longer black. He's just part
of the war fighting mission. He's just another sort of
human robot without identity or meaning who once served, because
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all that matters is the uniform. And the Navajo code
talkers aren't Navajo, and the soldier at Eojima Ira Hayes
isn't Native American, and the Tuskegee airmen are just airmen,
and the page at the Arlington National Cemetery website for
Technical Sergeant Medgar Evers still isn't back up because Medgar
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Evers is just gone. At this rate, they will be
digging Medgar Evers up and moving him somewhere else. Because
if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black,
for overcoming, or being native, or being transgender, or being
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any of a thousand other things that have caused people
lifetimes and generations and histories of pain in this country
at the hands of white people, white people like Donald Trump,
if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black
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and single handedly, in this case, integrating a racist white world,
then there can be no further racism. The problem is solved.
If Jackie Robinson isn't officially black, you don't have to
ask why there are fewer blacks in Major League Baseball
today when there are nearly twice as many teams than
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there were in nineteen sixty, or why in his fourth
year on the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson already had two black teammates,
but today's Dodgers star Mookie Betts is the only African
American on his Dodger team. Did Trump do this himself. No,
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he can barely operate a toilet, let alone a computer
or a website. But he put an unstable creature at
the head of the Pentagon named heg Seth, and heg
Seth either ordered this or put the people in place
who did and if they did not do it manually,
they did it using oh Elon Musk's computer systems. Elon
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Musk Apartheid. Clyde tries to erase or help in the
erase of Jackie Robinson. Trump and those around him are
memory holding Jackie Robinson. They are still doing it, even
after getting caught doing it and pretending to stop doing it.
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And with him all he represents, especially the end of
the codified Jim Crow world of the twentieth century and
the racism without which people like say Donald Trump's father
and Donald Trump and Donald Trump's children might have starved.
Metaphorically or literally. The playing field is not level. The
playing field is tilted. It always has been. It has
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been tilted for me. I like to think I would
have succeeded anyway. I don't know. I know Jackie Robinson
succeeded anyway. There are two final ironic notes to this
last month in his announcement of his moronic idea about
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the National Garden of Heroes, Trump said one of the
statues had to be of Jackie Robinson and another had
to be of Medgar Evers. Makes no sense at first
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until you remember that statues tend not to be more
than one color. They tend to be monochrome, don't they.
And the statues would be all light gray perhaps, and
all the white guys would look white, and all the
black guys would look white. The National Garden of Heroes,
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they would all look white. The second irony is that
there is a private firm obviously taking its queue from Trump,
as so many have taking its queue from Trump, and
things like the attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson yesterday twice,
the ongoing attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson, to memory old
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Jackie Robinson, to whitewash Jackie Robinson. This private firm has
changed the wording of its mission statement under workplace inclusivity.
At its web page. It used to have its logo
next to a nicely graphically matching reference to diversity, equity
and inclusion, and then it read mission and vision to
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support and sustain a diverse and inclusive culture for a
diverse and growing base. That message has now dropped. The
reference to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the top of
the page. The heading simply reads now mission and vision
and the content to support and sustain and inclusive culture.
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The word diverse is gone for a growing base, no
longer diverse and growing base. Who beat Trump to the
punch and self censored? Who did not correct or even
try to correct the whitewashing of African Americans in its
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own field? Who dropped diversity in the time of the
failed trumpest full whitewashing of Jackie Robinson. The company in
question that did that at its own website is Major
League Baseball. Sports racism stories actually came in bunches this week.
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Insane Dictator Trump has just paused one hundred and seventy
five million dollars in federal funding to the University of
Pennsylvania because one of Penn's swimmers was Leah Thomas, a
transgender woman. And we all know the only reason Riley
Gains is a bad swimmer is Leah Thomas was once
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a man. But more importantly, Penn is, of course Trump's
alma mater. I think the response at the university should
be obvious, Penn should now pause Trump's degree, unless, of course,
he never really earned it in the first place, and
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there was a second sports story. You may have heard
this too when he got on the phone with Putin.
Among the instru productions from Putin, I'm sorry. Among the
topics of conversations between the two deer leaders was a
proposed tournament between the Russian Stars of the KHL, the
Continental Hockey League, and the American Stars of North America's
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National Hockey League. I'm just guessing here, but I'm assuming,
like everything else involving Russia and America, Putin has told
Trump to make sure to fix it so Russia wins.
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You will have noticed this episode is a little ragged.
There were no second takes. I apologize for the stumbles,
and it will be a little briefer today. I'm afraid
the throat problem that I referenced on Sunday and Monday
took a turn for the worse. Although it is finally
improving and we know what it is and it's not serious.
It's just I'd like to stop talking now. I expect
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a full episode Monday, when perhaps we can analyze the
other and larger facts, including the one that knows. Since
Trump and his mad men are ignoring court orders and
judges now and ignoring court orders about the court orders
they had already ignored. No, we are not facing a
constitutional crisis. We are already in one. But for now,
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still of interest here in an all new edition of Countdown. Yes,
there is an actual mainstream newscaster who has already swallowed
the cool aid his third complete picture of the cool aid.
If I count correctly, he is the one on CNN gladly, willingly,
voluntarily calling it the Gulf of America because I know
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this guy. This guy is not giving up the money
just for the principle of journalistic ethics or the preservation
of freedom in the United States of America, not with
the money he's making and he never has before his identity. Next,
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this is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Believe
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it or not, There's still more new idiots to talk about,
and uh apparently still enough of my voice to talk
about them. With the daily roundup of the misgrints, morons
and dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other world.
The worst persons in the world, I might add to
have an excellent ear nosen throat doctor who, I believe
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it or not, sound seventy five percent better than I
did before I went to see her yesterday morning. Any Who,
she'll never be on this list. Here the nominees the
bronze worst. Anna R. Mattson self described as a market
researcher and political researcher. I don't know what that is,
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but if it produces content like this, keep going. I'm
just going to say it. She wrote, Oh what is
that about. I'm just going to say it. What is
happening to Tesla slash Tesla owners right now is ten
times worse than January sixth. Okay, we could probably bail
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out there. Actually, remember it could have been worse. She
could have said it's ten times worse than nine to eleven,
because people have said that ten times worse than Nagasaki.
Shortly after posting about a Tesla protest I saw while
driving mine, I was called a quote yatzi and then docks.
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I'm going to have to, when I feel a little better,
research this to discover whether or not people are actually
using the noun yatsi as some kind of insult, or
if simply somebody saw her describe herself as a Tesla
driver and went yatsi, as in, you know you win
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that you identify the Okay. Also, I talked to someone
today about doing an interview in Detroit and I was
told not to bring my car because Tesla's are being
set on fire and vandalized. Yes, as you know, the
entirety of the nation is a blaze with tesla's. This
is happening on literally re straet. And when I say literally,
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I mean not even figuratively. Millions and millions of Americans
have lost their lives to blazing teslas being set on
fire and vandalized. When somebody think of the teslas, this
is absolutely unacceptable behavior. Many elected Democrats are inciting this violence.
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Name one, name one, Anna R. Matson, whoever the f
you are, I was called a yatzi. Okay, every one
of them should denounce this behavior immediately. You are putting
all of us in danger. I'm going to make an
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effort here. I hope you appreciate it. I hope Anna R.
Mattson appreciates it. All of us in danger. The world
has been endangered by people yelling yatsi at Tesla owners
and then them and then lighting their cars on fire.
She was docked. Her bio links to her website. Her
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website gives you a form to use to send her
messages and to apply to be a guest on her podcast.
Exactly how non docksed were you living your life? Anyway?
Anna R. Mattson, And it's ten times worse than January sixth.
I would like to point this fact out. Tesla owners,
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and especially Tesla cybertruck owners, and especially the guy who
makes all of them. They all fall apart faster than
do Tesla cyber trucks. The runner up worser. Justin Icorn,
Minnesota State Senator. He introduced to Bill last Friday, I
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think saying Trump derangement syndrome is an actual mental illness
now in the state of Minnesota. Last Friday, he's addressing
mental illnesses, and presumably, I don't know, you can be
I don't know you can be officially diagnosed with it,
you can be I don't know, forcibly institutionalized with it.
And while the next thing that happened to him has
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been going on, I guess he's been given a lot
of time to think about the implications of what he
meant by that, because on Monday, per the NBC account,
a Minnesota state senator is facing calls to resign after
he was arrested and accused of arranging to solicit a
teenage girl for prostitution. What does that say? Does that
say illegal immigrant? Unhere? Does that say Democrat? On here?
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Does that say athlete? On here? It is it? No,
it says a Minnesota state senator, forty year old Republican.
Here it is Justin Ekorn, a Republican thought he was
talking to a seventeen year old girl when he arranged
a meet up in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Please,
he said, But he was actually communicating with an undercover detective.
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I Corn arrived at the location in a pickup truck.
This is a man of romance, and was arrested Monday
quote without incident. Bloomington police said unclear if he'd retained
an attorney. I mean, if you're going to retain an
attorney at this point, you better meet them in person.
Justin Senate office did not immediately respond to a request
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for comment. I don't know. Maybe maybe he can get
Elon Musk's peons to erase his web page for him.
Imagine Justin's surprise when the woman he tried to solicit
prostitution from, which, however you feel about it, is illegal,
and he thought she was seventeen, which is much more illegal,
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when it turned out no, no, she was a cop.
Is it Trump derangement syndrome you want to make an
actual mental illness? Or is it Trump is deranged syndrome
and taking all of you bastards with him syndrome? Justin
By the way, who do you think is laughing loudest
in this story? I'm guessing it is the incumbent Minnesota
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state senator that Icorn defeated for his District five Senate seat,
which he's now going to obviously lose soon or late.
The incumbent mister Icorn defeated in twenty sixteen was named
Tom sas Hog sax Haug sas Hog. He probably has
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not stopped laughing since Monday. But the winner the worst
Jake Tapper. There are times when television networks turn into
the Cambodia of modern American media, where everything goes wrong
in a if not idyllic, then at least functional operation,
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and that turns into hell and you're eating the bark
off of trees and you're, you know, moving millions of
people to places where they can't live, and you're piling
up the skulls of the dead. That's CNN. MSNBC is
a mess. It's not nearly as big of a mess
as CNN is. CNN is on its second worst president
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in a row, and the ones before them they weren't
that hot either. The winner of this award Jake Tapper,
according to Oliver Darcy in his superb newsletter Status, he
wrote it this way, as CNN was covering the return
of the stranded astronauts, you know the ones who were
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docks docks because they were writing in a Tesla spacecraft.
Jake Tapper repeatedly referred to the body of the water
they touched down in as the Gulf of America, while
also saying others refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico. Yep,
I checked Jake Tapper talking about the Gulf of America
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as if that were a thing. Why did he do this?
Why did he go on CNN and announce it's the
Gulf of America like a good little Trump whore? Well,
why did he go on CNN and announce after the election.
I think it's important to point out that the Trump
dvance campaign in twenty twenty four was a very disciplined
campaign and did a decent job of depicting Trump as
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somebody who was within the realm of normalcy. Why would
you say that, especially since we were still talking then
three thousand Trump scandals ago about how they had lied
and made up the story of Haitian immigrants eating pets
in Ohio. Why would you do that after they made
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up the story about the Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio,
and after Trump lied about private twenty twenty five, and
he lied about Musk, he lied about deporting Americans who
are here illegally. He lied about solving the Ukraine War
on day one. He lied about the economy, He lied
about bringing down prices, He lied about bringing down the
prices of eggs, He lied about musk. He lied about
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about everything that he could possibly lie about. And this
is all in one morning. Why why would you say
something like that? Well? Why didn't he fact check Trump
at the debate last summer? Do you remember that? Anybody
remember that? They just let Trump lie for an hour
and a half. I mean, the Biden part of it
was bad enough, but the real headline there remains. They
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gave an hour and a half of airtime for Donald
Trump to just lie, and not the complicated ones like
what he's going to do in the future, but lie
about facts that were easily disprovable the way ABC did it.
Why didn't he do that well, sir? Cause the Ankler,
which is a Hollywood website that you may or may
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not have heard of, I've reported that last October. After
the cutbacks at CNN, the three hundred this Century, I
think that's right. Cut back at CNN they told poor
Jake Tapper that he could not get a raise, that
if he wanted to stay, they'd give him a new
three year contract, but he'd have to scrape by on
the pittance they were giving him then seven million dollars
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a year, but not a penny more. Seven million dollars
for a show that's not even in primetime and doesn't
have much of an audience at a network that does
not make very much money off of its television product anymore,
and could use that money to hire I don't know,
probably three or four people who could do as badly
at night as the people they have on the air
at night now. Seven million a year, but not a
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penny more. Oh, we're not going to be a cut.
I mean, I'm not as well to suggest demanding you
you fact check people. Let me explain what it means
to make money like that. Jake Tapper has been at
CNN since he came back from ABC in twenty thirteen.
I don't know what he was making at ABC, but
let's say he was making a million or two million
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dollars a year. But he's been making more than that
since he went back to CNN in twenty thirteen, and
certainly the last three or four years, he's been making
seven million or roughly, and he's going to do that
for the next three years. So that's like forty nine
or fifty million dollars right there. Let me explain this
to you. When Bill O'Reilly got fired by Fox, somebody
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asked me, well, what does he do? Now? Where's he
going to make that kind of money doing? I said,
he didn't have to make that kind of money. If
you've been at that job making that kind of money,
lesser amounts in previous years, but proportionately that kind of money,
and if you reach your twentieth year in an organization
making eighteen million dollars a year. If you don't have
enough money to last year the rest of your life,
you've done it completely wrong. You must have been burning cash,
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you know, to light scandals with. And the same is truth,
Jake Tapper. If you're sitting on forty nine million dollars
over the last four years, in the next three years,
that is enough for the rest of your lifetime and
your family's lifetime, and your at least next generation of
your family's lifetime. A little investment here or there makes
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it even easier. But unless you're planning to be you know,
a three thousand year old man. I mean, I had
one day in twenty eleven, one twenty four hour period
of time, where I signed the deal to leave NBC
after they breached my contract. And then the next day
I signed the contract to go to Current TV, which
we've been negotiating all that time. And those two contracts
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were worth sixty seven million dollars. Guess what, I was
fifty two years old. I didn't need to make another
dollar in my lifetime. Doesn't mean you have to stop,
but it does mean you no longer have to say, well,
I better make every dollar I can. No, you don't
have to make every dollar you can. You have already.
You can go back to your own print if you
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remember what they are. So Jake Tapper has enough money
to last him the rest of his life comfortably, enough
to get a job somewhere else. If they're demanding that
he do things like caught the Gulf of America or
other things that would please the Trump whars if you're
doing that, if you're if you're willing to sell yourself
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like a hooker, you know, call that Minnesota state senator,
for God's sakes, do something honorable. TV News seven million
dollars a year to call it the Gulf of Borshed,
seven million dollars a year to not fact check Donald
Trump when he lies for an hour and a half
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on your air. But here's the problem. Many people making
that much money, or not even that much money, get
addicted to the idea of making the money, and suddenly
it's never enough. I want more. I must have more,
because I've discovered it is my only identity. If I
don't make seven million dollars a year, if I only
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make five million dollars a year, am I still a man?
This is the way many of them think, and the
women making that kind of money too, only they would
presumably say, am I still a woman? That's I think
the only change, the only difference. Soon, seven million dollars
is not enough. It's never enough, and you never get comfortable,
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and you never say, well, I'm going to make decisions
based on what's right, and you stop thinking what's the
right thing here? And you start thinking well, you stop
thinking not what would what? What? What would Murrow do here?
Or what would George Clooney playing Murrow do here? You
stop even asking yourself what would I do here? Or
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what would I in an earlier form of my life,
when I was a kid trying to get into this business,
what would I do here? You stop asking it that way.
You simply ask what do my bosses want me to
do here in order for them to keep giving me
the seven million dollars? And then you're crossed off the
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journalism list. There is no amount of sackcloth and or
ashes available to make it possible for you to ever
be considered a journalist again. You are then moved into
a category called seven million dollar whore because the next
thing you know, you're not fact checking Trump, You're crediting
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Trump's campaign for making him look honest. You're calling it
the Gulf of America because you know Trump will find
out about it and be pleased, and the message will
get back to your boss, and your boss the cockney
that they brought in to replace the non cockney who
cocked up the whole place. He will say, that's very good, Jake,
here's another seven million dollars. GUVNA. They won't take your
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seven million dollars away, and you will not be a
little standing there naked saying I make no money. All
they do is a guessed I supposed by the way.
I might add to the alternate feeling when you stop
making that kind of money, or I might add more
when you stop making that kind of money and you
suddenly go nobody owns me. I can say what I want,
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and if they don't for some reason, let me keep
doing it here. I can go over there to some
other room and do it there too instead. Jake's lost,
but at least CNN is wasting seven million. I look
at it positively, as you know, Jake Tapper, Gulf of America.
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So we can just change proper names now whenever we
feel like it, so I don't have to call you
Jake Tapper anymore, I can just call you Jake schmuck,
Jake schmuck two days other wars person and the word
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is by no stretch the most important atrocity of the
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self destroying regime of the insane dictator Trump. It's not
even the most important right now, but it may be
the most symbolic. Trump, again repeatedly, is still trying to
disappear Jackie Robinson, to erase Jackie Robinson, to memory hole
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Jackie Robinson, to relegate him using those hated letters Trump
does not understand and can barely spell, but which in
his animal instinct way, he has used to exploit and
manipulate and use to rebuild segregation and begin to build
apartheid in this nation. DI, which if you did not notice,
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replaced CRT, probably because DEI was easier for Trump to say.
And the scum who work for Trump are boasting about
trying to disappear Jackie Robinson again in a new way,
newer than the one they were trying to disappear him
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with yesterday, and even when caught and forced finally to
retreat from their racism, to restore the page honoring Jackie
Robinson at the Department of Defense website that they erased,
even after they were forced by public outrage to restore
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that page. They are still boasting about erasing Jackie Robinson
in a new way, and boasting about it in a
way that is even more racist than their original white
supremacist trash racism, boasting about first disappearing Jackie Robinson, and
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then when they restored him, demeaning his memory and diminishing
the meaning of his life and his sacrifice. The page
on the Department of Defense website that drily recounted Robinson's
military service for this country during World War Two was broken, eliminated, erased.
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The page was among those detailing sports heroes who served
this nation. The page, as discovered by the digital editor
of the New Mexico News, Matthew Reichbach, then amplified by
the baseball writer Craig Calcaterra, finally written up by ESPN
and NBC News and others. It was deleted and the
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link redirected you to Defense dot govslash news, slash features Stories,
slashdi Sports. It actually read DEI sports, and it produced
when you clicked on it, a four oh four page
not found Jackie Robinson memory hold as surely as it
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was an example in George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, and
worse yet, they went about boasting about it. John Oldyacht
another right wing press spokesman who has chosen a photo
of himself that suggests that during the military part of
his career he had what we used to call shell
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shock behind the eyes. A former columnist at the disgraced
Town Hall and the federalist John Ullacht now Pentagon Press scretary. Finally,
yesterday afternoon, gave NBC News a comment about the disappearing
of Jackie Robinson quote as Secretary Hegseth has said, DEI
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is dead at the Defense Department. Discriminatory equity ieology is
a form of woke cultural Marxism that has no place
in our military. It divides the force, erodes unit cohesion,
and interferes. Cleverly divides eroads and interferes are capitalized with
the service's Corps war fighting mission. We are pleased by
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the rapid compliance across the Department with the directive removing
DEI content from all platforms. A reminder that the DEI
content that this bastard u Yacht is referring to is
the story as dryly told as imaginable of when Jackie
Robinson served in the US Army before he summoned the
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courage to go ahead and break through what was then
all white baseball, all white sports, essentially all white America.
We are pleased by the rapid compliance across the Department
with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms. This
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oly yacht continued. In the rare cases that content is
removed either deliberately or by mistake that is out of
the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the
components and they correct the content accordingly. That is a
long way from mister Olliot of saying that America is
a white nationalist country. Now Jackie Robinson didn't count anymore
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and they had gotten rid of Jackie Robinson's memory. Happily,
this country is not dead yet. All hell broke loose.
It broke loose when Donald Trump decided to throw Jackie
Robinson to the white supremacist mob and the racists and
the other white garbage who must find an excuse for
the failures of their own existences on this planet. Trump,
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through his minions memory, hold Jackie Robinson. Less than a
month before Jackie Robinson Day, the celebration of the integration
of Major League Baseball, probably the most important event in
this country in the lifetime of this emperor with no soul.
When he dies and his years are reviewed, the most
important event during the lifespan of Trump will be Jackie Robinson.
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So much hell broke loose about the memory holding of
Jackie Robinson and the Navajo code talkers whose page was
also taken down at DoD and the Tuskegee Airmen whose
page was also taken down, and the Marines at Ewojima,
that late yesterday the Trumpsts had to back off. Eighty
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two minutes after that first boastful, dirty ku klucks clannish
statement from this olyyacht, this thug alyyacht. Eighty two minutes later,
enough hell had broken loose over the life of Alyat
that a second statement from him came, and I would
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argue he managed to make it more racist than the first.
This is the second statement. Everyone at the Defense Department
loves Jackie Robinson as well as the Navajo code talkers,
the Tuskegee Airmen, the Marines at ewo Jima, and so
many others. We salute them for their strong, end in
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many cases, heroic service to our country. Full stop. We
do not view or highlight them through the prism of
immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex. We do
so only by recognizing their patriotism and dedication to the
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war fighting mission, like every other American who has worn
the uniform. This scum all Yacht then repeats the smear
against the concept of DEI, calling it discriminatory equity ideology,
which I read you previously, which of course is Trump
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thinking he's clever by making the acronym mean something else,
and also a way of Trump stopping himself and others
in his administration from using the N word. Olyyacht boasts
about the speed with which DEI was removed from government
websites again and by terrified corporations and the other cowards
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of American life today, when money means everything and dignity
and self respect mean nothing, to say nothing of reality
meaning nothing. His statement concludes, in the rare cases that
content is removed either deliberately or by mistake that is
out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we
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instruct the components and they correct the content, which he
said in the first statement, then adds, so it recognizes
our heroes for their dedicated service alongside the Farloh Americans period.
So the new message is, it is not enough for
us to try to disappear Jackie Robinson. And since you
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stopped us, we will make it worse. We must deny
Jackie Robinson his role as the most courageous man in
sports history, perhaps in American history, or among them. At least.
Jackie Robinson cannot be viewed any longer through quote the
prism of immutable characteristics such as race, ethnicity, or sex,
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even though race is a human invention and nothing scientific,
and ethnicity changes as the maps do, and sex is
one of fifty different genders. The prism of immutable characteristics
such as race, ethnicity, or sex only by recognizing their
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patriotism and dedication to the war fighting mission. You heard
that Jackie Robinson is no longer black. He's just part
of the war fighting mission. He's just another sort of
human robot without identity or meaning who once served, because
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all that matters is the uniform. And the Navajo code
talkers aren't Navajo, and the soldier at Eojima Ira Hayes
isn't Native American, and the Tuskegee airmen are just airmen,
and the page at the Arlington National Cemetery website for
Technical Sergeant Medgar Evers still isn't back up because Medgar
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Evers is just gone. At this rate, they will be
digging Medgar Evers up and moving him somewhere else. Because
if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black,
for overcoming, or being native, or being transgender, or being
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any of a thousand other things that have caused people
lifetimes and generations and histories of pain in this country
at the hands of white people, white people like Donald Trump,
if it is forbidden to recognize somebody for being black
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and single handedly, in this case, integrating a racist white world,
then there can be no further racism. The problem is solved.
If Jackie Robinson isn't officially black, you don't have to
ask why there are fewer blacks in Major League Baseball
today when there are nearly twice as many teams than
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there were in nineteen sixty, or why in his fourth
year on the Dodgers, Jackie Robinson already had two black teammates,
but today's Dodgers star Mookie Betts is the only African
American on his Dodger team. Did Trump do this himself. No,
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he can barely operate a toilet, let alone a computer
or a website. But he put an unstable creature at
the head of the Pentagon named heg Seth, and heg
Seth either ordered this or put the people in place
who did and if they did not do it manually,
they did it using oh Elon Musk's computer systems. Elon
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Musk Apartheid. Clyde tries to erase or help in the
erase of Jackie Robinson. Trump and those around him are
memory holding Jackie Robinson. They are still doing it, even
after getting caught doing it and pretending to stop doing it.
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And with him all he represents, especially the end of
the codified Jim Crow world of the twentieth century and
the racism without which people like say Donald Trump's father
and Donald Trump and Donald Trump's children might have starved.
Metaphorically or literally. The playing field is not level. The
playing field is tilted. It always has been. It has
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been tilted for me. I like to think I would
have succeeded anyway. I don't know. I know Jackie Robinson
succeeded anyway. There are two final ironic notes to this
last month in his announcement of his moronic idea about
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the National Garden of Heroes, Trump said one of the
statues had to be of Jackie Robinson and another had
to be of Medgar Evers. Makes no sense at first
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until you remember that statues tend not to be more
than one color. They tend to be monochrome, don't they.
And the statues would be all light gray perhaps, and
all the white guys would look white, and all the
black guys would look white. The National Garden of Heroes,
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they would all look white. The second irony is that
there is a private firm obviously taking its queue from Trump,
as so many have taking its queue from Trump, and
things like the attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson yesterday twice,
the ongoing attempt to disappear Jackie Robinson, to memory old
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Jackie Robinson, to whitewash Jackie Robinson. This private firm has
changed the wording of its mission statement under workplace inclusivity.
At its web page. It used to have its logo
next to a nicely graphically matching reference to diversity, equity
and inclusion, and then it read mission and vision to
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support and sustain a diverse and inclusive culture for a
diverse and growing base. That message has now dropped. The
reference to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the top of
the page. The heading simply reads now mission and vision
and the content to support and sustain and inclusive culture.
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The word diverse is gone for a growing base, no
longer diverse and growing base. Who beat Trump to the
punch and self censored? Who did not correct or even
try to correct the whitewashing of African Americans in its
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own field? Who dropped diversity in the time of the
failed trumpest full whitewashing of Jackie Robinson. The company in
question that did that at its own website is Major
League Baseball. Sports racism stories actually came in bunches this week.
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Insane Dictator Trump has just paused one hundred and seventy
five million dollars in federal funding to the University of
Pennsylvania because one of Penn's swimmers was Leah Thomas, a
transgender woman. And we all know the only reason Riley
Gains is a bad swimmer is Leah Thomas was once
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a man. But more importantly, Penn is, of course Trump's
alma mater. I think the response at the university should
be obvious, Penn should now pause Trump's degree, unless, of course,
he never really earned it in the first place, and
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there was a second sports story. You may have heard
this too when he got on the phone with Putin.
Among the instru productions from Putin, I'm sorry. Among the
topics of conversations between the two deer leaders was a
proposed tournament between the Russian Stars of the KHL, the
Continental Hockey League, and the American Stars of North America's
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National Hockey League. I'm just guessing here, but I'm assuming,
like everything else involving Russia and America, Putin has told
Trump to make sure to fix it so Russia wins.
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You will have noticed this episode is a little ragged.
There were no second takes. I apologize for the stumbles,
and it will be a little briefer today. I'm afraid
the throat problem that I referenced on Sunday and Monday
took a turn for the worse. Although it is finally
improving and we know what it is and it's not serious.
It's just I'd like to stop talking now. I expect
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a full episode Monday, when perhaps we can analyze the
other and larger facts, including the one that knows. Since
Trump and his mad men are ignoring court orders and
judges now and ignoring court orders about the court orders
they had already ignored. No, we are not facing a
constitutional crisis. We are already in one. But for now,
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still of interest here in an all new edition of Countdown. Yes,
there is an actual mainstream newscaster who has already swallowed
the cool aid his third complete picture of the cool aid.
If I count correctly, he is the one on CNN gladly, willingly,
voluntarily calling it the Gulf of America because I know
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this guy. This guy is not giving up the money
just for the principle of journalistic ethics or the preservation
of freedom in the United States of America, not with
the money he's making and he never has before his identity. Next,
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this is Countdown. This is Countdown with Keith Oberman. Believe
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it or not, There's still more new idiots to talk about,
and uh apparently still enough of my voice to talk
about them. With the daily roundup of the misgrints, morons
and dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other world.
The worst persons in the world, I might add to
have an excellent ear nosen throat doctor who, I believe
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it or not, sound seventy five percent better than I
did before I went to see her yesterday morning. Any Who,
she'll never be on this list. Here the nominees the
bronze worst. Anna R. Mattson self described as a market
researcher and political researcher. I don't know what that is,
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but if it produces content like this, keep going. I'm
just going to say it. She wrote, Oh what is
that about. I'm just going to say it. What is
happening to Tesla slash Tesla owners right now is ten
times worse than January sixth. Okay, we could probably bail
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out there. Actually, remember it could have been worse. She
could have said it's ten times worse than nine to eleven,
because people have said that ten times worse than Nagasaki.
Shortly after posting about a Tesla protest I saw while
driving mine, I was called a quote yatzi and then docks.
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I'm going to have to, when I feel a little better,
research this to discover whether or not people are actually
using the noun yatsi as some kind of insult, or
if simply somebody saw her describe herself as a Tesla
driver and went yatsi, as in, you know you win
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that you identify the Okay. Also, I talked to someone
today about doing an interview in Detroit and I was
told not to bring my car because Tesla's are being
set on fire and vandalized. Yes, as you know, the
entirety of the nation is a blaze with tesla's. This
is happening on literally re straet. And when I say literally,
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I mean not even figuratively. Millions and millions of Americans
have lost their lives to blazing teslas being set on
fire and vandalized. When somebody think of the teslas, this
is absolutely unacceptable behavior. Many elected Democrats are inciting this violence.
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Name one, name one, Anna R. Matson, whoever the f
you are, I was called a yatzi. Okay, every one
of them should denounce this behavior immediately. You are putting
all of us in danger. I'm going to make an
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effort here. I hope you appreciate it. I hope Anna R.
Mattson appreciates it. All of us in danger. The world
has been endangered by people yelling yatsi at Tesla owners
and then them and then lighting their cars on fire.
She was docked. Her bio links to her website. Her
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website gives you a form to use to send her
messages and to apply to be a guest on her podcast.
Exactly how non docksed were you living your life? Anyway?
Anna R. Mattson, And it's ten times worse than January sixth.
I would like to point this fact out. Tesla owners,
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and especially Tesla cybertruck owners, and especially the guy who
makes all of them. They all fall apart faster than
do Tesla cyber trucks. The runner up worser. Justin Icorn,
Minnesota State Senator. He introduced to Bill last Friday, I
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think saying Trump derangement syndrome is an actual mental illness
now in the state of Minnesota. Last Friday, he's addressing
mental illnesses, and presumably, I don't know, you can be
I don't know you can be officially diagnosed with it,
you can be I don't know, forcibly institutionalized with it.
And while the next thing that happened to him has
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been going on, I guess he's been given a lot
of time to think about the implications of what he
meant by that, because on Monday, per the NBC account,
a Minnesota state senator is facing calls to resign after
he was arrested and accused of arranging to solicit a
teenage girl for prostitution. What does that say? Does that
say illegal immigrant? Unhere? Does that say Democrat? On here?
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Does that say athlete? On here? It is it? No,
it says a Minnesota state senator, forty year old Republican.
Here it is Justin Ekorn, a Republican thought he was
talking to a seventeen year old girl when he arranged
a meet up in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis, Please,
he said, But he was actually communicating with an undercover detective.
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I Corn arrived at the location in a pickup truck.
This is a man of romance, and was arrested Monday
quote without incident. Bloomington police said unclear if he'd retained
an attorney. I mean, if you're going to retain an
attorney at this point, you better meet them in person.
Justin Senate office did not immediately respond to a request
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for comment. I don't know. Maybe maybe he can get
Elon Musk's peons to erase his web page for him.
Imagine Justin's surprise when the woman he tried to solicit
prostitution from, which, however you feel about it, is illegal,
and he thought she was seventeen, which is much more illegal,
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when it turned out no, no, she was a cop.
Is it Trump derangement syndrome you want to make an
actual mental illness? Or is it Trump is deranged syndrome
and taking all of you bastards with him syndrome? Justin
By the way, who do you think is laughing loudest
in this story? I'm guessing it is the incumbent Minnesota
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state senator that Icorn defeated for his District five Senate seat,
which he's now going to obviously lose soon or late.
The incumbent mister Icorn defeated in twenty sixteen was named
Tom sas Hog sax Haug sas Hog. He probably has
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not stopped laughing since Monday. But the winner the worst
Jake Tapper. There are times when television networks turn into
the Cambodia of modern American media, where everything goes wrong
in a if not idyllic, then at least functional operation,
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and that turns into hell and you're eating the bark
off of trees and you're, you know, moving millions of
people to places where they can't live, and you're piling
up the skulls of the dead. That's CNN. MSNBC is
a mess. It's not nearly as big of a mess
as CNN is. CNN is on its second worst president
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in a row, and the ones before them they weren't
that hot either. The winner of this award Jake Tapper,
according to Oliver Darcy in his superb newsletter Status, he
wrote it this way, as CNN was covering the return
of the stranded astronauts, you know the ones who were
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docks docks because they were writing in a Tesla spacecraft.
Jake Tapper repeatedly referred to the body of the water
they touched down in as the Gulf of America, while
also saying others refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico. Yep,
I checked Jake Tapper talking about the Gulf of America
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as if that were a thing. Why did he do this?
Why did he go on CNN and announce it's the
Gulf of America like a good little Trump whore? Well,
why did he go on CNN and announce after the election.
I think it's important to point out that the Trump
dvance campaign in twenty twenty four was a very disciplined
campaign and did a decent job of depicting Trump as
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somebody who was within the realm of normalcy. Why would
you say that, especially since we were still talking then
three thousand Trump scandals ago about how they had lied
and made up the story of Haitian immigrants eating pets
in Ohio. Why would you do that after they made
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up the story about the Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio,
and after Trump lied about private twenty twenty five, and
he lied about Musk, he lied about deporting Americans who
are here illegally. He lied about solving the Ukraine War
on day one. He lied about the economy, He lied
about bringing down prices, He lied about bringing down the
prices of eggs, He lied about musk. He lied about
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about everything that he could possibly lie about. And this
is all in one morning. Why why would you say
something like that? Well? Why didn't he fact check Trump
at the debate last summer? Do you remember that? Anybody
remember that? They just let Trump lie for an hour
and a half. I mean, the Biden part of it
was bad enough, but the real headline there remains. They
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gave an hour and a half of airtime for Donald
Trump to just lie, and not the complicated ones like
what he's going to do in the future, but lie
about facts that were easily disprovable the way ABC did it.
Why didn't he do that well, sir? Cause the Ankler,
which is a Hollywood website that you may or may
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not have heard of, I've reported that last October. After
the cutbacks at CNN, the three hundred this Century, I
think that's right. Cut back at CNN they told poor
Jake Tapper that he could not get a raise, that
if he wanted to stay, they'd give him a new
three year contract, but he'd have to scrape by on
the pittance they were giving him then seven million dollars
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a year, but not a penny more. Seven million dollars
for a show that's not even in primetime and doesn't
have much of an audience at a network that does
not make very much money off of its television product anymore,
and could use that money to hire I don't know,
probably three or four people who could do as badly
at night as the people they have on the air
at night now. Seven million a year, but not a
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penny more. Oh, we're not going to be a cut.
I mean, I'm not as well to suggest demanding you
you fact check people. Let me explain what it means
to make money like that. Jake Tapper has been at
CNN since he came back from ABC in twenty thirteen.
I don't know what he was making at ABC, but
let's say he was making a million or two million
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dollars a year. But he's been making more than that
since he went back to CNN in twenty thirteen, and
certainly the last three or four years, he's been making
seven million or roughly, and he's going to do that
for the next three years. So that's like forty nine
or fifty million dollars right there. Let me explain this
to you. When Bill O'Reilly got fired by Fox, somebody
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asked me, well, what does he do? Now? Where's he
going to make that kind of money doing? I said,
he didn't have to make that kind of money. If
you've been at that job making that kind of money,
lesser amounts in previous years, but proportionately that kind of money,
and if you reach your twentieth year in an organization
making eighteen million dollars a year. If you don't have
enough money to last year the rest of your life,
you've done it completely wrong. You must have been burning cash,
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you know, to light scandals with. And the same is truth,
Jake Tapper. If you're sitting on forty nine million dollars
over the last four years, in the next three years,
that is enough for the rest of your lifetime and
your family's lifetime, and your at least next generation of
your family's lifetime. A little investment here or there makes
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it even easier. But unless you're planning to be you know,
a three thousand year old man. I mean, I had
one day in twenty eleven, one twenty four hour period
of time, where I signed the deal to leave NBC
after they breached my contract. And then the next day
I signed the contract to go to Current TV, which
we've been negotiating all that time. And those two contracts
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were worth sixty seven million dollars. Guess what, I was
fifty two years old. I didn't need to make another
dollar in my lifetime. Doesn't mean you have to stop,
but it does mean you no longer have to say, well,
I better make every dollar I can. No, you don't
have to make every dollar you can. You have already.
You can go back to your own print if you
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remember what they are. So Jake Tapper has enough money
to last him the rest of his life comfortably, enough
to get a job somewhere else. If they're demanding that
he do things like caught the Gulf of America or
other things that would please the Trump whars if you're
doing that, if you're if you're willing to sell yourself
(34:25):
like a hooker, you know, call that Minnesota state senator,
for God's sakes, do something honorable. TV News seven million
dollars a year to call it the Gulf of Borshed,
seven million dollars a year to not fact check Donald
Trump when he lies for an hour and a half
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on your air. But here's the problem. Many people making
that much money, or not even that much money, get
addicted to the idea of making the money, and suddenly
it's never enough. I want more. I must have more,
because I've discovered it is my only identity. If I
don't make seven million dollars a year, if I only
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make five million dollars a year, am I still a man?
This is the way many of them think, and the
women making that kind of money too, only they would
presumably say, am I still a woman? That's I think
the only change, the only difference. Soon, seven million dollars
is not enough. It's never enough, and you never get comfortable,
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and you never say, well, I'm going to make decisions
based on what's right, and you stop thinking what's the
right thing here? And you start thinking well, you stop
thinking not what would what? What? What would Murrow do here?
Or what would George Clooney playing Murrow do here? You
stop even asking yourself what would I do here? Or
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what would I in an earlier form of my life,
when I was a kid trying to get into this business,
what would I do here? You stop asking it that way.
You simply ask what do my bosses want me to
do here in order for them to keep giving me
the seven million dollars? And then you're crossed off the
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journalism list. There is no amount of sackcloth and or
ashes available to make it possible for you to ever
be considered a journalist again. You are then moved into
a category called seven million dollar whore because the next
thing you know, you're not fact checking Trump, You're crediting
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Trump's campaign for making him look honest. You're calling it
the Gulf of America because you know Trump will find
out about it and be pleased, and the message will
get back to your boss, and your boss the cockney
that they brought in to replace the non cockney who
cocked up the whole place. He will say, that's very good, Jake,
here's another seven million dollars. GUVNA. They won't take your
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seven million dollars away, and you will not be a
little standing there naked saying I make no money. All
they do is a guessed I supposed by the way.
I might add to the alternate feeling when you stop
making that kind of money, or I might add more
when you stop making that kind of money and you
suddenly go nobody owns me. I can say what I want,
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and if they don't for some reason, let me keep
doing it here. I can go over there to some
other room and do it there too instead. Jake's lost,
but at least CNN is wasting seven million. I look
at it positively, as you know, Jake Tapper, Gulf of America.
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So we can just change proper names now whenever we
feel like it, so I don't have to call you
Jake Tapper anymore, I can just call you Jake schmuck,
Jake schmuck two days other wars person and the word
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know what his voice sounds like, That's how my voice feels.
Everything else was, as ever, my fault, including my complaining
about myself. That's countdown for today, just four hundred and
three days until the scheduled end of his lame duck
and lame brained term unless Musk removes Trump sooner where
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the actuarial tables do. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday.
As always, bulletins as the news warrants, remember impeach Trump.
It won't work now. It will, however, win the Democrats
the mid terms if there are midterms, and get rid
of Schumer. N Till next time, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning,
good afternoon, goodnight, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman
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