February 16, 2024 • 36 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 124: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) The Stormy Daniels Trump Trial will start as scheduled on March 25. The attempt to derail the Georgia 11,780 Votes Trial is bloodied but unbowed when the witness claiming the DA is lying about her relationship can't remember when she found out or who told her, and is a disgruntled ex-employee. The fine in the Trump Financial Fraud Trial should come today.
And that ISN'T the Trump legal headline. The meticulous Trump really screwed up last night and posed for a series of photos that defied the first thing all lawyers tell all clients: Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK GUILTY. He not only looks guilty in these shots, he looks like he's already imprisoned.
Plus the Comer/Grassley/Hannity "case" against the Bidens hits a slight bump (the "whistleblower" was just indicted for lying to the FBI - he made it all up) and Robert Hur's "Biden Age Plot" has two new conspirators, and shockingly enough they're both - just like Hur - Trump appointees.
B-Block (27:05) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: What could bring the ever-warring world of baseball together in one quest? Nike. Fans, players, writers, jersey wonks, all agree: new uniforms it's made for 2024 suck. So, of course, does Marjorie Taylor Greene and after that hearing yesterday nobody knows that better than she does. And the mild, modest Associated Press produces the worst Bothsidesist headline of the month.
C-block (33:30) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Back to the beginnings. Back to the story I heard William Windom recite in 1977 and hoped someday I could emulate him. Thurber's impeccable story of madness just beneath the surface: "A Box To Hide In."
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's
attempt to stall his New York trial has failed. That's
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the trial for claiming hush money he paid to the
porn star he cheated with on his wife three months
after she gave birth was legal expenses. The New York
trial will start thirty four counts as planned March twenty fifth,
And obviously the implications are that Trump trial Air traffic
Control will now be waiving the Stormy Daniels Trump case
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in for a landing first, and it just told the
Trump election subversion case in DC to go round and
try to set down later. The Trump Georgia eleven eighty
votes trial is encountering some turbulence, even though the only
witness claiming any evidence of anything improper between Fannie Willis
and the extra prosecutor cannot remember how or when she
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found out about the affair. And remember, the whole purpose
of this is the same purpose it always is, stalling.
The Trump business fraud case has already landed and might
have deplayed yesterday in the same court building as the
Trump what did you do after your son was born?
I did Stormy Daniels case, but it didn't. We may
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hear from Judge Arthur and gern with the final count
and the amount in the second New York trial as
early as today, and now the punchline to this brief
resume of all the criminal trials and other trials that
Trump is currently facing. None of that, None of that
is the current Trump legal headline. You do not get
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to survive to become a seventy seven year old, deranged,
malignant narcissist without being really good at controlling your own image.
Trump's brain does not work right to him. Other people
are just furniture that can move on its own. He
has no courage, no conscience, and no conception that the
world was not created solely for him. But he's good
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at controlling his own image, or at least he was
until he made what could ultimately be a fatal mistake
if the rest of us just jump on it, because
as he yelled at cameras at Manhattan Criminal Court on
Center Street in New York yesterday, he made a terrible
logistical decision. Whenever Trump has talked to the media that
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has been separated from him, even by those cold, imposing
silver police barricades, the one that looks like the bottom
half of a jail cell. Trump has always managed, in
that situation to position himself in a way in which
it is clear that it is the media that is
behind the half jail cell barricades and not him behind them.
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It's simple, really, You stand parallel to those barricades, and
you make sure you are doing so in such a
way that only barricades in front of you are visible.
Even the taller barricades will only go up to the
belt line of even an average size man as long
as they are in front of him. Photographs of Trump
will therefore be cropped often, and even if they are not,
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the barricades just look like ordinary railings. But something happened
to Trump yesterday in court. Those police barricades were in
front of him and also behind him in a kind
of loose octagon shape. Suddenly there were these half jail
cell bars in front of him as usual, but also
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half jail cell bars behind him in the distance, so
that almost every photo of him and every video of
him showed the ones in the back, and thanks to
the laws of perspective, they were even with his shoulders
or somewhat higher than his shoulders, and basically what looked
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like jail cells could not be cropped out of every
photo of Trump. Just to make it worse, Trump, the
incredibly good orchestrator of his own image, exacerbated the problem somehow.
His lawyer stood behind the barricade that was placed perfectly
parallel to the two men, and Trump stood to the
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lawyer's left, and perhaps without ever realizing it, he put
himself in one of the corners where the front barricade
angled backwards. So if you have not seen the picture,
bars in front of Trump, a second set of bars
to the side of Trump, stretching from where he stood
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to back behind him, and to the right of him,
a third set of bars which sloped back from there
in Trump's direction, and then the pista resistance, the fourth
set of bars, unmistakable and unavoidable, at the height of
Trump's shoulders. Trump behind bars several times. Trump even put
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his hands on the railing in front of him, and
he might as well have been shouting, get me out
of this prison, yall lousy screw. In fact, there is
one set of images. The photographer was named Timothy Clary
of Ajen's Franz Press, and he must have put his
camera over his own head because in his shots those
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back bars are literally appearing as if they were above
Trump's head. The show is so wide that you see
perhaps two dozen people leaning against walls and standing staring
at Trump, and then in the middle bars suggesting jail
behind him, above his head, bars suggesting jail to his right,
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bars suggesting jail in front of him. Looking left to right,
you see the cop outside the barricades, Trump inside the barricades,
lawyer inside the barricades, second cop outside the barricades. Even
if it is just on an unconscious level, the photograph
screams Trump in prison, Trump behind bars, Trump guilty, Trump
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the criminal, Trump indicted, Trump so indicted. Wait, so indicted.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, Nancy, I'm so indicted and I just can't fight it.
I'm about to go to jail in America likes it.
I'm so indicted. My defense at they're tightened, and I
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know I know the unindicted co conspirators can bite it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Thank you, Nancy Faust. More than that, though, for once,
it is Trump in that photograph, and most of those
photographs it is Trump who is behind bars, and everybody
else in the shot is free, the court staff, the cops,
the media. I'll post the photo on Twitter x and
wherever else I can think to. I've never been on trial.
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I've never actually been a witness or anything else in
a courtroom, and only once have I ever been in
a deposition. Of course, it was a two day deposition
over an issue fifty million dollars. And one of the
things my very good lawyers for that deposition hammered into
me for use in the deposition and any other time
I encountered other lawyers, it was a very simple warning,
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whatever you do, try not to look guilty. And in
the picture, God does Trump look guilty. I don't know
if Nicki Gley's campaign can license that image. It merely
proves her last honest point of her campaign that a
Trump candidacy will be nothing but him in court. It's
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like five hundred bucks to license the rights to use
a photo like that off Getty Images, but for a
campaign would probably be way higher. However, the Biden campaign
ought to buy that photo and the rights and the
camera and any piece of video shot from that damning angle,
and hire the cameraman and plaster it everywhere. Trump on trial,
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you know he's guilty, your Republican nominee. Only with nominee
crossed out and defendant written above it in read on
this photographer Tim Clary led pipe cinch Pulitzer prize that
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sound effect. That's what the picture looks like. Meanwhile, a
California grand jury has indicted James Comer's and Sean Hannity's
and Grandpa Grassley's key FBI informant against the Bidens. He
did make all that stuff up, the infamous FD one
zero two three form that Grassley released and Comber tried
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to sell as real about Barisma and bribing the Bidens.
And when they went back to the informant and they
said that a Barisma official told him in twenty fifteen,
according to his story, that he'd bribed the Bidens. Turned
out this guy had not met with anybody at Brisma
until two years after that, that the timeline didn't work.
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It was obvious he'd made it up. He just repeated
his crap, which was or sounds awfully like Kremlin composed
dis info and James Comer and Chuck Grassley and Sean
Hannity served as to facto Russian agents in spreading it.
And now Alexander Smirnoff faces twenty five years in prison
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for lying to the FBI in Russia. FBI sues you.
If they were Democrats, James Comer would have been stripped
of his chairmanship by right now, possibly forced out of
the House already, and Chuck Grassley would have been in
jail years ago. So now Joe Biden's legal problems have
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been reduced to just the one. Unfortunately, that one is
having an idiot for his attorney general. How Merrick Garland
has not resigned yet is beyond me. I assume it's
just because, as we saw in the Trump prosecutions, he
does nothing quickly or in normal time, or even slowly.
I presume he cannot go to the bathroom without a
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six month long series of meetings and consultations. First. Well,
now Garland's got to act fast and spit or get
off the pot, and if he won't, Biden has to
fire him again. This political prostitute, Robert Herr, the Trump
appointee and now apparently de facto Trump campaign surrogate, the
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centerpiece in what Politico aptly named the Biden Age plot,
her is revealing more and more of his plans to
try to sink the president, violating all legal ethics both
of them by including his neurological guesswork about Biden's memory
inside a special Council investigation that oh, by the way,
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cleared Biden, that wasn't enough damage to do, That was
a enough prostitution to perform on behalf of Donald Trump.
This bastard her, as I keep repeating here, is actively
and not even secretly, arranging to testify to at least
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the House Judiciary Committee. It is now next month. CNN
and The Times reported yesterday HER's congressional testimony is set
for March twelfth, and somebody on HER's side of this
equation has spun HER's tawdry, subhuman question about the president's
late sun Bo as justified because it was Biden and
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not her, who first brought up Bo Biden. Axios also
reports that her quote has been in discussions with Sarah Isker,
the head of public affairs and a senior counselor to
Trump's deputy attorney general during the Mueller investigation, to help
him navigate a congressional hearing. Sarah Isker. Sarah Isker is
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the federalist phony who attacked Trump in twenty sixteen for
having threatened to prosecute Hillary Clinton, and who bashed CNN
as fake news, and first went to work for Trump
as the spokesperson for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, all the
while pitching herself for a job with MSNBC and CNN,
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and finally being hired by CNN, which she had called
fake news, as political editor. They blew her out quickly
over there, and she was last seen at ABC News
before she signed on as Robert Hur's assistant henchman in
the aptly titled biden Age plot. And now besides this,
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there is a new twist to the biden Age plot.
The New York Times reported that before it was released,
the White House pushed back on that report, but did
not take any of the actions it or the DOJ
could have done to censor that report. Nobl not smart,
but noble. The day before the report was released, the
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dojy's senior career official, a man named Bradley Weinsheimer, wrote
back that HER's amateur doctoring and his other political opinions
inserted into his report quote fall well within the department
standards for public release. The Times does not tell you
who this Bradley Weinsheimer is. They describe him as the
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department's senior career official or non political appointee. That's bullshit.
He is hardly that. He was appointed by George H. W.
Bush to the Department of Justice, and he was elevated
to his current non political position under Trump. There is
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nothing stopping Merrick Garland from stopping them all dead in
their tracks, denying the House Judiciary Committee any material at
hers testimony. There's nothing stopping him except Garland's own sluggish
trees instead of the forest phony piety about the Department
of Justice and Law with a capital L. Eric Garland
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already missed his chance to redact her as utterly uninformed
and politically poisoned conspiracy theories. And now we have this
Weinsheimer guy involved in this, and this Isker involved in this,
and it is a little miniature right wing conspiracy. Your
Department of Justice, mister Garland. It just produced a document
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in which some idiot from the Federalist Society was permitted
to speculate on the President's acuity. James Comy and then
Bill Barr had already turned DOJ and its branches into
a political whorehouse, and this clown Robert Hurr just turned
it into a free political whorehouse once again. Garland has
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to shut this down, or Biden has to fire him
and take the fallout for doing so. Unless I don't know,
Jack Smith has threatened to quit if Garland goes. Unless
it's something like that, there is no reason to continue
to trust Merrick Garland a foolish, naive man, not just
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to do the right thing, but to do anything. Remember
when I said that actor their Sunday Shows deceptively edited
quotes from the non brain parts of her report, edited
them like you would edit the phrase not guilty into
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dot dot dot guilty. That they needed to fire their
anchors and their anchors bosses. This is probably a coincidence,
but ABC News is president. Kim Godwin just discovered, Hey,
there's another ABC News president above her. Deborah O'Connell has
been promoted to president News Group and Network's Disney Entertainment.
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She has more words in her job, so that means
she's boss. This is not necessarily cause in effect. I
would actually guess it's not cause and effect. Godwin was
reportedly hated at ABC, and evinced no earthly clue that
she knew what she was doing. But the news president
positions the producers and management at the key shows they
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put those people there and keep them there, and it's
usually their favorites. Not so much with the talent, but
definitely the producers of shows like Meet the Press and
This Week are the people that the Kim Goodwins of
this world want there. So those producers, the ones particularly
at This Week, all have to be scared right now
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because their boss is no longer the boss. And by
the way, after how they screwed up her story Good
two other TV stories. The Washington Post has made a
million arteries run cold a nice little feature on biden
game strategy for the election and why nearly three percent
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of the one hundred and thirty million dollars Swing States
ad buy that they have arranged is going to go
for Joe Biden's spots in Omaha, Nebraska three million, seven
hundred thousand dollars worth of Biden commercials and Biden ad
and Biden's streaming stuff in Nebraska. Well, in the second
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district of Nebraska that state splits its electoral votes. Four
are awarded from the deeply read first district. One is
awarded from the deeply Omaha second district. It's kind of
blue there. It's a city. I'll just read the rest
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of the little post story. Under a scenario where Biden
wins the three northern swing states and the other uncontested
Blue states, a loss in Nebraska's second district, well, that
could result in a two hundred and sixty nine two
hundred and sixty nine tie, kicking the selection of the
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president to the House, where Republicans currently have an advantage
in the number of state delegations they control. And remember,
if God help us, the House ever has to decide
who's going to be president. Each state gets one vote,
and right now the Republicans control twenty six state delegations.
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So you're going to spend three point seven mili in
the Omaha market? Are we sure that's enough? And a
year ago today, Tucker Carlson was already in negotiations with
Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, remember Kevin McCarthy, to
unleash the greatest blockbuster in the history of American television,
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the real January sixth tapes, which of course turned out
to be several days worth a video of empty hallways,
so didn't wind up being a full length Zuppruder film.
But we didn't know that then. A year ago today,
and Where's Tucker Carlson now filming inside a Moscow supermarket
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explaining that Russia is far better than the United States
because the prices in the supermarket are so low, without
ever noting that the prices are still two to three
times higher than the average Russian can ever afford in
his lifetime. Moreover, if you thought Carlson's flatulent lap sitting
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interview with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was useless, I
hope if you saw how it was trashed by a
critic named Vladimir Putin. Putin said, I honestly thought he
would be aggressive and ask so called sharp questions, but
he chose a different tactic unquote. What's he implying there?
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What's the opposite of sharp? Dull? Soft? Worst? Yet, Putin
made Carlson release their interview unedited, and then when it
appeared on the Russian government's official site, they had edited
out the really dull parts, which turned out to be
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many of Tucker Carlson's questions. One day, you're in the
middle of the Kremlin praising Putin to his face. The
next day you're praising the prices in the Borsch department
at the Moscow win Dixie. So I'd like to congratulate
Tucker Carlson, the first broadcast to my knowledge, who has
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been fired by CNN, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News and now
by the KGB. Also of interest here, how many different
things does Marjorie Taylor Green not understand? I mean, I
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suppose the answer is infinite. I mean, she has spent
several days congratulating herself now on being named one of
the impeachment managers for the trial of Secretary Majorcis in
the Senate. Blithely unaware or blithely too stupid to be
aware that there is not going to be a trial
of Secretary Majorcas in the Senate. The stunt is over.
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But yesterday Marge went back to one of her favorite
gaps in her knowledge back things and she got called
out for it. Crushed. Thank you, Congressman Robert Garcia of California.
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Auberman.
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Aberman still ahead of us on countdown. It's Fridays with Thurber,
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and we'll get back to the beginning. To my mind,
it is the quintessential Thurber story. It's the one I
heard the actor William Windham recite on public television in
nineteen seventy seven in his One Man Thurber Show, And
I thought, I wonder if I could ever have a
job that would let me read Thurber stories out loud
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for an audience. The perfection of a box to hide
in coming up first. Yes, it's the daily roundup of
the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute
two days worse Parsons in the world, the bronze worse
Nike and Major League Baseball. Nike is the new supplier
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of baseball's uniforms, and thus they are the people who
have brought everybody in the game into rare agreement. Everybody
in the game loves to disagree. That's the point about baseball.
It's about to end. Somebody says, oh no, it's never
been better, says somebody else. Now we all agree. Young fans,
uniform nerds, old reporters now in their seventh decade of
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going to games, and the players themselves, they are all
saying the same thing this February, the new uniforms suck eggs.
As spring training begins, everybody can see the obvious, the
numbers and the player names have been shrunk to near illegibility.
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Outfielder Taylor Ward of the Angels says, they look like
replica uniforms. Somebody else said, yeah, they look like replicas
at TJ Max, but it's worse than that. The hefty
and large Angels reliever Carlos Estevez pointed out to reporters
that the white in his team's pants does not match
the white in his team's shirts, and Estebez says he
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can't fit into his pants and they will not let
him tailor his pants. I feel like I'm wearing someone
else's pants. The blue in the Cubs uniforms, according to
a Cubs player, does not appear to be the same
blue the Cubs have worn since the mid nineteen fifties,
and they have screwed up the fabled script Dodgers uniforms
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of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The shirt used to open
used to button between the OH and the middle D
in the word Dodgers across the chest. Now it opens
in the middle of the OH. So if an LA
player has his top buttons on button, it really looks
like his uniform reads Dudgers, Dodgers, Dudegers. The next complaint
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will come from the fans when they find out that
the price of one of these replicated uniforms has risen
to about four hundred dollars. The runner up worser Marjorie
Taylor Barney Rubble, please get your deviated septum fixed. Green,
the first congress person dumber than Rosie the robot from
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the Jetsons.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I'm not a doctor, but I have a PhD In
recognizing bullshit when I hear it. It's time to be
honest about the vaccine injured and we need to stop
allowing these COVID nineteen vaccines to be given out to
children in a lady's time has expired, and now recognize
mister Garcia from California for five minutes of questions.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Thank you so Chairman.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I'm sorry you all had to go through that. That
was a lot of conspiracy theories and wild accusations which
we now have been debunked by medical science. And we
should be clear that vaccines work and save lives, and
they have millions of lives in this country.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Good lord, I mean Marjorie Taylor Green can't spell PhD.
Thank you, Congressman Garcia, but our winner the worst the
Associated Press. You know for the most concentrated, most absurd
both siding of the presidential election. The AP, which is
usually just bland and shallow, may have won the award
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for all of journalism in the month of February. The
headline of a story analyzing Congressman elect Tom Swase's victory
in the special election in the New York Third quote,
Democrats cheered New York win as good omen for November.
Is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? Ah the
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Associated Press. I swear to Jesus if Kamala Harris discovered
a pill guaranteeing everybody eternal life, and she was handing
them out to everybody on the street. Here take two,
somebody would write, Democrats cheer public reaction to their immortality pill.
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But is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? Today's
worst persons in the world. It's been a long week.
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And every time I find myself thinking it's been a
long week, I like to turn to my book of
James Thurber, and it's Fridays with Thurber. And it's been
a few Fridays since I've done any James Thurber. And
so let's start at the beginning. As I've mentioned many times.
I read this story first aloud in a class in
college in nineteen seventy nine, and a friend of mine
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came up to me and said, you should forget that
sportscasting thing. You should read Thurber for a living, and
I said, yeah, that'll ever happen. This is, for some
reason salvation for me, Catharsis, and every other emotion that
is appropriate after it has been a long week. A
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Box to Hide In by James Thurber. I waited till
the large woman with the awful hat took up her
sack of groceries and went out, peering at the tomatoes
and the l us on her way. The clerk asked
me what mine was. Have you got a box, I asked,
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A large box. I want a box to hide in.
You want a box, he asked, I want a box
to hide in. I said, what do you mean? He said,
you mean a big box. I said, I meant a
big box big enough to hold me. I haven't got
any boxes, he said, only cottons that cans come in.
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I tried several other groceries and none of them had
a box big enough for me to hide in. And
there was nothing for it but to face life out.
I didn't feel strong, and I'd had this overpowering desire
to hide in a box for a long time. Well,
what do you mean you want to hide in this box,
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one grocer asked me. It's a form of escape. I
told him, hiding in a box. It circumscribes your worries
in the range of your anguish. You don't see people either.
How the hell do you eat when you're in this box,
asked the grocer. I don't the hell do you get
anything to eat? I said, I had never been in
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a box and didn't know, but that that would take
care of itself. Well, he said, finally, I haven't got
any boxes, only some pasteboard curtains that cans come in.
It was the same every place. I gave up when
it got dark and the groceries closed, and hid in
my room again. I turned out the light and lay
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on the bed. You feel better when it gets dark.
I could have hit in a closet, I suppose, but
people are always opening doors. Somebody would find you in
a closet. They would be startled, and you'd have to
tell them why you're in the closet. Nobody pays attention
to a big box lying on the floor. I'd stay
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in it for days, and nobody'd think to look in it,
not even the cleaning woman. My cleaning woman came the
next morning and woke me up, and I was still
feeling bad. I asked her if she knew where I
could get a large box. How big a box you want,
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she asked, I want a box big enough for me
to get inside of, I said. She looked at me
with big, dim eyes. There's something wrong with her glands.
She's awful, but she has a big heart, which makes
it worse. She's unbearable. Her husband is sick, and her
children are sick, and she is sick too. I got
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to thinking how pleasant it would be if I were
in a box now and didn't have to see her.
I'd be in a box right there in the room,
and she wouldn't know. I wondered, if you had a
desire to bark or laugh when someone who doesn't know
walks by the box you were in, maybe she would
have a spell with her heart. If I did that
would die right there. The officers and the elevator man
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and mister Grammage would find us funny. Dog Gune. Thing
happened at the building last night, the doorman would say
to his wife, I led him this woman to clean
up tenf and she never come out. See she's never
in there more in an hour, but she never come out. See.
So when it got time for me to go off duty, why,
I says to Krenik, who was on the elevator, I says,
what the hell you suppose this happened to that woman
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cleans tenf. He says he didn't know. He says he
never seen her after he took her up. So I
spoke to mister Grammage about it. I'm sorry to bother you,
mister Grammage, I says, but there's something funny about that
woman cleans TENF. So I told him. So he said
we better have a look, and we all three goes
up and knots on the door and rings the bells
sea and nobody answers. So he said we'd have to
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walk in. So Credic opened the door and we walked
in and here was this woman cleans the apartment, dead
as a herring on the floor, and the gentleman that
lives there was in a box. The cleaning woman kept
looking at me. It was hard to realize she wasn't dead.
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It's a form of escape. I murmured, wat say. She asked, Dully,
you don't know of any large packing boxes, do you?
I asked, now, I don't. She said, I haven't found
one yet. But I still have this overpowering urge to
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hide in a box. Maybe it will go away, maybe
I'll be all right, Maybe it will get worse. It's
hard to say a box to hide in. By James Thurber,
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I've done all the damage I can do. Here. Here
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Musical comments from Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever.
Our announcer was John Dean, and everything else is pretty
much my fault. So that's countdown for this, the eight
hundred and sixty fourth day since Donald Trump's first attempted
coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
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Don't forget to keep arresting him while we still can.
The next scheduled countdown is Monday, and until then, I'm
Keith Oldriman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump's
attempt to stall his New York trial has failed. That's
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the trial for claiming hush money he paid to the
porn star he cheated with on his wife three months
after she gave birth was legal expenses. The New York
trial will start thirty four counts as planned March twenty fifth,
And obviously the implications are that Trump trial Air traffic
Control will now be waiving the Stormy Daniels Trump case
(00:47):
in for a landing first, and it just told the
Trump election subversion case in DC to go round and
try to set down later. The Trump Georgia eleven eighty
votes trial is encountering some turbulence, even though the only
witness claiming any evidence of anything improper between Fannie Willis
and the extra prosecutor cannot remember how or when she
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found out about the affair. And remember, the whole purpose
of this is the same purpose it always is, stalling.
The Trump business fraud case has already landed and might
have deplayed yesterday in the same court building as the
Trump what did you do after your son was born?
I did Stormy Daniels case, but it didn't. We may
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hear from Judge Arthur and gern with the final count
and the amount in the second New York trial as
early as today, and now the punchline to this brief
resume of all the criminal trials and other trials that
Trump is currently facing. None of that, None of that
is the current Trump legal headline. You do not get
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to survive to become a seventy seven year old, deranged,
malignant narcissist without being really good at controlling your own image.
Trump's brain does not work right to him. Other people
are just furniture that can move on its own. He
has no courage, no conscience, and no conception that the
world was not created solely for him. But he's good
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at controlling his own image, or at least he was
until he made what could ultimately be a fatal mistake
if the rest of us just jump on it, because
as he yelled at cameras at Manhattan Criminal Court on
Center Street in New York yesterday, he made a terrible
logistical decision. Whenever Trump has talked to the media that
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has been separated from him, even by those cold, imposing
silver police barricades, the one that looks like the bottom
half of a jail cell. Trump has always managed, in
that situation to position himself in a way in which
it is clear that it is the media that is
behind the half jail cell barricades and not him behind them.
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It's simple, really, You stand parallel to those barricades, and
you make sure you are doing so in such a
way that only barricades in front of you are visible.
Even the taller barricades will only go up to the
belt line of even an average size man as long
as they are in front of him. Photographs of Trump
will therefore be cropped often, and even if they are not,
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the barricades just look like ordinary railings. But something happened
to Trump yesterday in court. Those police barricades were in
front of him and also behind him in a kind
of loose octagon shape. Suddenly there were these half jail
cell bars in front of him as usual, but also
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half jail cell bars behind him in the distance, so
that almost every photo of him and every video of
him showed the ones in the back, and thanks to
the laws of perspective, they were even with his shoulders
or somewhat higher than his shoulders, and basically what looked
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like jail cells could not be cropped out of every
photo of Trump. Just to make it worse, Trump, the
incredibly good orchestrator of his own image, exacerbated the problem somehow.
His lawyer stood behind the barricade that was placed perfectly
parallel to the two men, and Trump stood to the
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lawyer's left, and perhaps without ever realizing it, he put
himself in one of the corners where the front barricade
angled backwards. So if you have not seen the picture,
bars in front of Trump, a second set of bars
to the side of Trump, stretching from where he stood
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to back behind him, and to the right of him,
a third set of bars which sloped back from there
in Trump's direction, and then the pista resistance, the fourth
set of bars, unmistakable and unavoidable, at the height of
Trump's shoulders. Trump behind bars several times. Trump even put
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his hands on the railing in front of him, and
he might as well have been shouting, get me out
of this prison, yall lousy screw. In fact, there is
one set of images. The photographer was named Timothy Clary
of Ajen's Franz Press, and he must have put his
camera over his own head because in his shots those
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back bars are literally appearing as if they were above
Trump's head. The show is so wide that you see
perhaps two dozen people leaning against walls and standing staring
at Trump, and then in the middle bars suggesting jail
behind him, above his head, bars suggesting jail to his right,
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bars suggesting jail in front of him. Looking left to right,
you see the cop outside the barricades, Trump inside the barricades,
lawyer inside the barricades, second cop outside the barricades. Even
if it is just on an unconscious level, the photograph
screams Trump in prison, Trump behind bars, Trump guilty, Trump
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the criminal, Trump indicted, Trump so indicted. Wait, so indicted.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Oh, Nancy, I'm so indicted and I just can't fight it.
I'm about to go to jail in America likes it.
I'm so indicted. My defense at they're tightened, and I
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know I know the unindicted co conspirators can bite it.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Thank you, Nancy Faust. More than that, though, for once,
it is Trump in that photograph, and most of those
photographs it is Trump who is behind bars, and everybody
else in the shot is free, the court staff, the cops,
the media. I'll post the photo on Twitter x and
wherever else I can think to. I've never been on trial.
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I've never actually been a witness or anything else in
a courtroom, and only once have I ever been in
a deposition. Of course, it was a two day deposition
over an issue fifty million dollars. And one of the
things my very good lawyers for that deposition hammered into
me for use in the deposition and any other time
I encountered other lawyers, it was a very simple warning,
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whatever you do, try not to look guilty. And in
the picture, God does Trump look guilty. I don't know
if Nicki Gley's campaign can license that image. It merely
proves her last honest point of her campaign that a
Trump candidacy will be nothing but him in court. It's
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like five hundred bucks to license the rights to use
a photo like that off Getty Images, but for a
campaign would probably be way higher. However, the Biden campaign
ought to buy that photo and the rights and the
camera and any piece of video shot from that damning angle,
and hire the cameraman and plaster it everywhere. Trump on trial,
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you know he's guilty, your Republican nominee. Only with nominee
crossed out and defendant written above it in read on
this photographer Tim Clary led pipe cinch Pulitzer prize that
(09:26):
sound effect. That's what the picture looks like. Meanwhile, a
California grand jury has indicted James Comer's and Sean Hannity's
and Grandpa Grassley's key FBI informant against the Bidens. He
did make all that stuff up, the infamous FD one
zero two three form that Grassley released and Comber tried
(09:50):
to sell as real about Barisma and bribing the Bidens.
And when they went back to the informant and they
said that a Barisma official told him in twenty fifteen,
according to his story, that he'd bribed the Bidens. Turned
out this guy had not met with anybody at Brisma
until two years after that, that the timeline didn't work.
(10:11):
It was obvious he'd made it up. He just repeated
his crap, which was or sounds awfully like Kremlin composed
dis info and James Comer and Chuck Grassley and Sean
Hannity served as to facto Russian agents in spreading it.
And now Alexander Smirnoff faces twenty five years in prison
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for lying to the FBI in Russia. FBI sues you.
If they were Democrats, James Comer would have been stripped
of his chairmanship by right now, possibly forced out of
the House already, and Chuck Grassley would have been in
jail years ago. So now Joe Biden's legal problems have
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been reduced to just the one. Unfortunately, that one is
having an idiot for his attorney general. How Merrick Garland
has not resigned yet is beyond me. I assume it's
just because, as we saw in the Trump prosecutions, he
does nothing quickly or in normal time, or even slowly.
I presume he cannot go to the bathroom without a
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six month long series of meetings and consultations. First. Well,
now Garland's got to act fast and spit or get
off the pot, and if he won't, Biden has to
fire him again. This political prostitute, Robert Herr, the Trump
appointee and now apparently de facto Trump campaign surrogate, the
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centerpiece in what Politico aptly named the Biden Age plot,
her is revealing more and more of his plans to
try to sink the president, violating all legal ethics both
of them by including his neurological guesswork about Biden's memory
inside a special Council investigation that oh, by the way,
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cleared Biden, that wasn't enough damage to do, That was
a enough prostitution to perform on behalf of Donald Trump.
This bastard her, as I keep repeating here, is actively
and not even secretly, arranging to testify to at least
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the House Judiciary Committee. It is now next month. CNN
and The Times reported yesterday HER's congressional testimony is set
for March twelfth, and somebody on HER's side of this
equation has spun HER's tawdry, subhuman question about the president's
late sun Bo as justified because it was Biden and
(12:40):
not her, who first brought up Bo Biden. Axios also
reports that her quote has been in discussions with Sarah Isker,
the head of public affairs and a senior counselor to
Trump's deputy attorney general during the Mueller investigation, to help
him navigate a congressional hearing. Sarah Isker. Sarah Isker is
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the federalist phony who attacked Trump in twenty sixteen for
having threatened to prosecute Hillary Clinton, and who bashed CNN
as fake news, and first went to work for Trump
as the spokesperson for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, all the
while pitching herself for a job with MSNBC and CNN,
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and finally being hired by CNN, which she had called
fake news, as political editor. They blew her out quickly
over there, and she was last seen at ABC News
before she signed on as Robert Hur's assistant henchman in
the aptly titled biden Age plot. And now besides this,
(13:46):
there is a new twist to the biden Age plot.
The New York Times reported that before it was released,
the White House pushed back on that report, but did
not take any of the actions it or the DOJ
could have done to censor that report. Nobl not smart,
but noble. The day before the report was released, the
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dojy's senior career official, a man named Bradley Weinsheimer, wrote
back that HER's amateur doctoring and his other political opinions
inserted into his report quote fall well within the department
standards for public release. The Times does not tell you
who this Bradley Weinsheimer is. They describe him as the
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department's senior career official or non political appointee. That's bullshit.
He is hardly that. He was appointed by George H. W.
Bush to the Department of Justice, and he was elevated
to his current non political position under Trump. There is
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nothing stopping Merrick Garland from stopping them all dead in
their tracks, denying the House Judiciary Committee any material at
hers testimony. There's nothing stopping him except Garland's own sluggish
trees instead of the forest phony piety about the Department
of Justice and Law with a capital L. Eric Garland
(15:14):
already missed his chance to redact her as utterly uninformed
and politically poisoned conspiracy theories. And now we have this
Weinsheimer guy involved in this, and this Isker involved in this,
and it is a little miniature right wing conspiracy. Your
Department of Justice, mister Garland. It just produced a document
(15:37):
in which some idiot from the Federalist Society was permitted
to speculate on the President's acuity. James Comy and then
Bill Barr had already turned DOJ and its branches into
a political whorehouse, and this clown Robert Hurr just turned
it into a free political whorehouse once again. Garland has
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to shut this down, or Biden has to fire him
and take the fallout for doing so. Unless I don't know,
Jack Smith has threatened to quit if Garland goes. Unless
it's something like that, there is no reason to continue
to trust Merrick Garland a foolish, naive man, not just
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to do the right thing, but to do anything. Remember
when I said that actor their Sunday Shows deceptively edited
quotes from the non brain parts of her report, edited
them like you would edit the phrase not guilty into
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dot dot dot guilty. That they needed to fire their
anchors and their anchors bosses. This is probably a coincidence,
but ABC News is president. Kim Godwin just discovered, Hey,
there's another ABC News president above her. Deborah O'Connell has
been promoted to president News Group and Network's Disney Entertainment.
(17:12):
She has more words in her job, so that means
she's boss. This is not necessarily cause in effect. I
would actually guess it's not cause and effect. Godwin was
reportedly hated at ABC, and evinced no earthly clue that
she knew what she was doing. But the news president
positions the producers and management at the key shows they
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put those people there and keep them there, and it's
usually their favorites. Not so much with the talent, but
definitely the producers of shows like Meet the Press and
This Week are the people that the Kim Goodwins of
this world want there. So those producers, the ones particularly
at This Week, all have to be scared right now
(17:57):
because their boss is no longer the boss. And by
the way, after how they screwed up her story Good
two other TV stories. The Washington Post has made a
million arteries run cold a nice little feature on biden
game strategy for the election and why nearly three percent
(18:19):
of the one hundred and thirty million dollars Swing States
ad buy that they have arranged is going to go
for Joe Biden's spots in Omaha, Nebraska three million, seven
hundred thousand dollars worth of Biden commercials and Biden ad
and Biden's streaming stuff in Nebraska. Well, in the second
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district of Nebraska that state splits its electoral votes. Four
are awarded from the deeply read first district. One is
awarded from the deeply Omaha second district. It's kind of
blue there. It's a city. I'll just read the rest
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of the little post story. Under a scenario where Biden
wins the three northern swing states and the other uncontested
Blue states, a loss in Nebraska's second district, well, that
could result in a two hundred and sixty nine two
hundred and sixty nine tie, kicking the selection of the
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president to the House, where Republicans currently have an advantage
in the number of state delegations they control. And remember,
if God help us, the House ever has to decide
who's going to be president. Each state gets one vote,
and right now the Republicans control twenty six state delegations.
(19:51):
So you're going to spend three point seven mili in
the Omaha market? Are we sure that's enough? And a
year ago today, Tucker Carlson was already in negotiations with
Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, remember Kevin McCarthy, to
unleash the greatest blockbuster in the history of American television,
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the real January sixth tapes, which of course turned out
to be several days worth a video of empty hallways,
so didn't wind up being a full length Zuppruder film.
But we didn't know that then. A year ago today,
and Where's Tucker Carlson now filming inside a Moscow supermarket
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explaining that Russia is far better than the United States
because the prices in the supermarket are so low, without
ever noting that the prices are still two to three
times higher than the average Russian can ever afford in
his lifetime. Moreover, if you thought Carlson's flatulent lap sitting
(21:00):
interview with the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin was useless, I
hope if you saw how it was trashed by a
critic named Vladimir Putin. Putin said, I honestly thought he
would be aggressive and ask so called sharp questions, but
he chose a different tactic unquote. What's he implying there?
(21:22):
What's the opposite of sharp? Dull? Soft? Worst? Yet, Putin
made Carlson release their interview unedited, and then when it
appeared on the Russian government's official site, they had edited
out the really dull parts, which turned out to be
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many of Tucker Carlson's questions. One day, you're in the
middle of the Kremlin praising Putin to his face. The
next day you're praising the prices in the Borsch department
at the Moscow win Dixie. So I'd like to congratulate
Tucker Carlson, the first broadcast to my knowledge, who has
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been fired by CNN, PBS, MSNBC, Fox News and now
by the KGB. Also of interest here, how many different
things does Marjorie Taylor Green not understand? I mean, I
(22:31):
suppose the answer is infinite. I mean, she has spent
several days congratulating herself now on being named one of
the impeachment managers for the trial of Secretary Majorcis in
the Senate. Blithely unaware or blithely too stupid to be
aware that there is not going to be a trial
of Secretary Majorcas in the Senate. The stunt is over.
(22:54):
But yesterday Marge went back to one of her favorite
gaps in her knowledge back things and she got called
out for it. Crushed. Thank you, Congressman Robert Garcia of California.
That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Auberman.
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Aberman still ahead of us on countdown. It's Fridays with Thurber,
(23:43):
and we'll get back to the beginning. To my mind,
it is the quintessential Thurber story. It's the one I
heard the actor William Windham recite on public television in
nineteen seventy seven in his One Man Thurber Show, And
I thought, I wonder if I could ever have a
job that would let me read Thurber stories out loud
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for an audience. The perfection of a box to hide
in coming up first. Yes, it's the daily roundup of
the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute
two days worse Parsons in the world, the bronze worse
Nike and Major League Baseball. Nike is the new supplier
(24:30):
of baseball's uniforms, and thus they are the people who
have brought everybody in the game into rare agreement. Everybody
in the game loves to disagree. That's the point about baseball.
It's about to end. Somebody says, oh no, it's never
been better, says somebody else. Now we all agree. Young fans,
uniform nerds, old reporters now in their seventh decade of
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going to games, and the players themselves, they are all
saying the same thing this February, the new uniforms suck eggs.
As spring training begins, everybody can see the obvious, the
numbers and the player names have been shrunk to near illegibility.
(25:13):
Outfielder Taylor Ward of the Angels says, they look like
replica uniforms. Somebody else said, yeah, they look like replicas
at TJ Max, but it's worse than that. The hefty
and large Angels reliever Carlos Estevez pointed out to reporters
that the white in his team's pants does not match
the white in his team's shirts, and Estebez says he
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can't fit into his pants and they will not let
him tailor his pants. I feel like I'm wearing someone
else's pants. The blue in the Cubs uniforms, according to
a Cubs player, does not appear to be the same
blue the Cubs have worn since the mid nineteen fifties,
and they have screwed up the fabled script Dodgers uniforms
(25:59):
of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The shirt used to open
used to button between the OH and the middle D
in the word Dodgers across the chest. Now it opens
in the middle of the OH. So if an LA
player has his top buttons on button, it really looks
like his uniform reads Dudgers, Dodgers, Dudegers. The next complaint
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will come from the fans when they find out that
the price of one of these replicated uniforms has risen
to about four hundred dollars. The runner up worser Marjorie
Taylor Barney Rubble, please get your deviated septum fixed. Green,
the first congress person dumber than Rosie the robot from
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the Jetsons.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I'm not a doctor, but I have a PhD In
recognizing bullshit when I hear it. It's time to be
honest about the vaccine injured and we need to stop
allowing these COVID nineteen vaccines to be given out to
children in a lady's time has expired, and now recognize
mister Garcia from California for five minutes of questions.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Thank you so Chairman.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
I'm sorry you all had to go through that. That
was a lot of conspiracy theories and wild accusations which
we now have been debunked by medical science. And we
should be clear that vaccines work and save lives, and
they have millions of lives in this country.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Good lord, I mean Marjorie Taylor Green can't spell PhD.
Thank you, Congressman Garcia, but our winner the worst the
Associated Press. You know for the most concentrated, most absurd
both siding of the presidential election. The AP, which is
usually just bland and shallow, may have won the award
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for all of journalism in the month of February. The
headline of a story analyzing Congressman elect Tom Swase's victory
in the special election in the New York Third quote,
Democrats cheered New York win as good omen for November.
Is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? Ah the
(28:13):
Associated Press. I swear to Jesus if Kamala Harris discovered
a pill guaranteeing everybody eternal life, and she was handing
them out to everybody on the street. Here take two,
somebody would write, Democrats cheer public reaction to their immortality pill.
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But is it enough to calm anxiety over Biden? Today's
worst persons in the world. It's been a long week.
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And every time I find myself thinking it's been a
long week, I like to turn to my book of
James Thurber, and it's Fridays with Thurber. And it's been
a few Fridays since I've done any James Thurber. And
so let's start at the beginning. As I've mentioned many times.
I read this story first aloud in a class in
college in nineteen seventy nine, and a friend of mine
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came up to me and said, you should forget that
sportscasting thing. You should read Thurber for a living, and
I said, yeah, that'll ever happen. This is, for some
reason salvation for me, Catharsis, and every other emotion that
is appropriate after it has been a long week. A
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Box to Hide In by James Thurber. I waited till
the large woman with the awful hat took up her
sack of groceries and went out, peering at the tomatoes
and the l us on her way. The clerk asked
me what mine was. Have you got a box, I asked,
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A large box. I want a box to hide in.
You want a box, he asked, I want a box
to hide in. I said, what do you mean? He said,
you mean a big box. I said, I meant a
big box big enough to hold me. I haven't got
any boxes, he said, only cottons that cans come in.
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I tried several other groceries and none of them had
a box big enough for me to hide in. And
there was nothing for it but to face life out.
I didn't feel strong, and I'd had this overpowering desire
to hide in a box for a long time. Well,
what do you mean you want to hide in this box,
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one grocer asked me. It's a form of escape. I
told him, hiding in a box. It circumscribes your worries
in the range of your anguish. You don't see people either.
How the hell do you eat when you're in this box,
asked the grocer. I don't the hell do you get
anything to eat? I said, I had never been in
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a box and didn't know, but that that would take
care of itself. Well, he said, finally, I haven't got
any boxes, only some pasteboard curtains that cans come in.
It was the same every place. I gave up when
it got dark and the groceries closed, and hid in
my room again. I turned out the light and lay
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on the bed. You feel better when it gets dark.
I could have hit in a closet, I suppose, but
people are always opening doors. Somebody would find you in
a closet. They would be startled, and you'd have to
tell them why you're in the closet. Nobody pays attention
to a big box lying on the floor. I'd stay
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in it for days, and nobody'd think to look in it,
not even the cleaning woman. My cleaning woman came the
next morning and woke me up, and I was still
feeling bad. I asked her if she knew where I
could get a large box. How big a box you want,
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she asked, I want a box big enough for me
to get inside of, I said. She looked at me
with big, dim eyes. There's something wrong with her glands.
She's awful, but she has a big heart, which makes
it worse. She's unbearable. Her husband is sick, and her
children are sick, and she is sick too. I got
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to thinking how pleasant it would be if I were
in a box now and didn't have to see her.
I'd be in a box right there in the room,
and she wouldn't know. I wondered, if you had a
desire to bark or laugh when someone who doesn't know
walks by the box you were in, maybe she would
have a spell with her heart. If I did that
would die right there. The officers and the elevator man
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and mister Grammage would find us funny. Dog Gune. Thing
happened at the building last night, the doorman would say
to his wife, I led him this woman to clean
up tenf and she never come out. See she's never
in there more in an hour, but she never come out. See.
So when it got time for me to go off duty, why,
I says to Krenik, who was on the elevator, I says,
what the hell you suppose this happened to that woman
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cleans tenf. He says he didn't know. He says he
never seen her after he took her up. So I
spoke to mister Grammage about it. I'm sorry to bother you,
mister Grammage, I says, but there's something funny about that
woman cleans TENF. So I told him. So he said
we better have a look, and we all three goes
up and knots on the door and rings the bells
sea and nobody answers. So he said we'd have to
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walk in. So Credic opened the door and we walked
in and here was this woman cleans the apartment, dead
as a herring on the floor, and the gentleman that
lives there was in a box. The cleaning woman kept
looking at me. It was hard to realize she wasn't dead.
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It's a form of escape. I murmured, wat say. She asked, Dully,
you don't know of any large packing boxes, do you?
I asked, now, I don't. She said, I haven't found
one yet. But I still have this overpowering urge to
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hide in a box. Maybe it will go away, maybe
I'll be all right, Maybe it will get worse. It's
hard to say a box to hide in. By James Thurber,
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I've done all the damage I can do. Here. Here
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and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. The sports
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was written by Mitch Warren Davis and appears courtesy of ESPN, Inc.
Musical comments from Nancy Faust the best baseball stadium organist ever.
Our announcer was John Dean, and everything else is pretty
much my fault. So that's countdown for this, the eight
hundred and sixty fourth day since Donald Trump's first attempted
coup against the democratically elected government of the United States.
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Don't forget to keep arresting him while we still can.
The next scheduled countdown is Monday, and until then, I'm
Keith Oldriman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
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My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.