May 1, 2024 • 35 mins
SERIES 2 EPISODE 167: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is officially in contempt of court and has been threatened with jail time if he again violates the gag order and testimony from the stand continues to bury him alive as he buried the Stormy Daniels scandal and none of that is CLOSE to being as important as his new and most virulent threat yet to destroy this country via political VIOLENCE. And it underscores why we – LOYAL Americans – must destroy his cult first.
Cover story, Time magazine, all the nightmares of Trump becoming dictator, but laid out with unusual clarity for someone as insane and demented as Trump. Quoting the interviewer (Eric Cortellessa) “Trump does not dismiss he possibility of political violence around the election.” Quoting Trump: “If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of the election.” The author asks him about his social media post in which Trump claimed a stolen election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations and articles, even those found in the constitution,” Trump then denies he said it. Quoting Trump: “I never said that at all. I never said that at all.”Within moments of this lie – no, not a lie, a distinction without a difference in that he never SAID it, he merely WROTE it, on Truth Social, on December 3, 2022 – within moments he declares the CURRENT government has “broken the constitution. They have gotten very far astray from our Constitution..."
What about his remarks about being a dictator only on day one? He says he was kidding. Doesn’t he realize it horrifies those who see dictatorship as the opposite of America? Quote: “I think a lot of people LIKE IT.”
So the police become militarized and the military becomes Trump’s personal gestapo and the states and cities that don’t promise fealty to him don’t get federal allotments and the federal government becomes his personal staff and if he doesn’t win the elections they’re UNFAIR elections and violence is fine and most people WANT a dictator anyway and he chooses who gets prosecuted and he chooses which budgeted money gets spent and where because he’ll give himself a line-item veto and he’ll put anybody here illegally into concentration camps… or anybody he SAYS is here illegally and if that’s YOU – who are you going to get to STOP him?
ALSO: "Jail may be a necessary punishment." Justice Merchan bemoans the low limits of the fines he could impose upon Trump for being in contempt of court after breaking the gag order nine times. So Imprisoned Don is on the clock.
B-Block (19:04) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: That embossed giant representation of The Queensboro/59th Street Bridge on the new batting helmet of the New York Mets is wonderful, until you realize it ALSO looks like something never ever associated with baseball. Kayleigh McEnany is the latest Trump pusher who can't add or subtract integers. And Jesse Watters invokes the Loch Ness monster to explain why he thinks the Trump Gag Order is unconstitutional.
C-Block (27:37) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Let's continue on the subject of Watters, whose stupidity is anything but an act, and whose cupidity was honed as Bill O'Reilly's henchman and stalker-by-proxy. Let's talk Jesse and revisit some of the best Billo moments.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump
is in contempt of court and has been threatened with
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jail time if he again violates the gag order, and
testimony from the stand continues to bury him alive, just
as he buried the Stormy Daniel's scandal. And none of
that is close to being as important as his new
and most virulent threat yet to destroy this country via
political violence, and it underscores why we loyal Americans must
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destroy his cult. First cover story Time Magazine all of
the nightmares of Trump becoming dictator, but laid out with
unusual clarity for someone as insane and demented as Trump.
Quoting the interviewer Eric Cordalessa, Trump does not dismiss the
possibility of political violence around the election, quoting Trump, if
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we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends
on the fairness of the election. The author asks him
about his social media post in which Trump claimed a
stolen election allows for the termination of all rules, regulations,
and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Trump then
denies he said it, quoting Trump, I never said that
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at all. I never said that at all. Within moments
of that lie. No, not a lie, A distinction without
a difference in that he never said it. He merely
wrote it on truth Social on December third, twenty twenty two.
Within moments of that, he declares that the current administration
has quote broken the constitution. They have gotten very far
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astray from our constitution. I'm talking about the fascists and
the people in our government right now because I consider
them the enemy within. I think the enemy within in
many cases is much more dangerous for our country than
the outside enemies of China, Russia, and various others that
would be called enemies depending on who the president is.
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Unquote what about his remarks about becoming a dictator, but
only on day one he says he was kidding. Doesn't
he realize it horrifies those who see dictatorship as the
opposite of America. Quote. I think a lot of people
like it about that. He is clearly not kidding. He
is ready to give his imaginary slaves what he insists
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they want. He has now told Time magazine that he
is ready to use the National Guard in effect as
his personal police force, and the rest of the military
as his personal police force, and your local police force
as his personal police force, and to build migrant detention
camps to hold millions rounded up by the National Guard. Quote.
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If they weren't able to, then I'd use the military.
The interviewer adds. Quote. He would also seek help from
local police and says he would deny funding for jurisdictions
that decline to adopt his policies. Trump would send the
National Guard into cities to fight crime without the required
request of governors, because that FBI data showing homicides dropping
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six percent in twenty twenty two and thirteen percent more
last year. Quote it's a lie. He would approve Department
of Justice funds only for use in those cities that
use police strong arm tactics that he designates, like stop
and frisk. This is how Hitler talked before he seized power.
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It is how Mao talked. It is how Mussolini talked.
It is how all of them have talked. It is
how Trump is talking the cops for his interview with Time.
Would then be free to help monitor pregnancies and arrest
and prosecute women and physicians and nurses and hospitals, women
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and the others who violate abortion bands. And he'll blame
any draconian abortion bands on others, quote Trump, It's irrelevant
whether I'm comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the
States are going to make those decisions. The military will
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be available for suppression of descent and civilian rights because well,
to hell with Ukraine and Taiwan, and now add to
that list, to hell with South Korea. Quoting Trump, we
have forty thousand troops that are in a precarious position,
which doesn't make any sense. Why would we defend somebody?
And we're talking about a very wealthy country. And while
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we already know about the January sixth pardons and his
belief that protests in Portland were far more perilous, and
the prosecutions and the schedule F firings of the bureaucratically
confident to be replaced by Trump whores. While we've known
about all of that for a long time, we have
two new weapons on the horizon that Trump has revealed
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in this time interview. If he ordered a US attorney
to prosecute you, and the US attorney refused, he would
break more than two hundred and fifty years of American
tradition and fire the US attorney and replace him with
somebody who would prosecute you. And if none of that
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democracy stuff matters to you, he doubled down on a
ten percent tariff on all imported goods, all a tariff,
A ten percent tax on you, quoting Trump, it may
be more than that. It may be a derivative of that. Look,
when they come in and they steal our jobs, and
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they steal our wealth, they steal our country more than
ten percent. Yeah, I call it a ring around the country.
And most subtly, perhaps most damagingly, as the interviewer writes, quote,
he would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by
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Congress according to top advisors, restoring the power of impoundment,
which allowed presidents to withhold congressionally appropriated funds. Trump and
his allies planned to challenge a nineteen seventy four law
that prohibits the use of the measure. So the police
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become militarized, and the military becomes Trump's personal gestapo, and
the states and the cities that don't promise fear to
him don't get federal allocations, and the federal government becomes
his personal staff. And if he doesn't win all the elections,
they are unfair elections, and violence is fine, and most
people want a dictator anyway. And he chooses who gets prosecuted,
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and he chooses which budgeted money gets spent and where,
because he'll give himself a line item veto, and he'll
put anybody here illegally into concentration camps, or anybody he
says is here illegally. And if that is you, exactly
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who are you going to get to stop him? Heard enough, yet,
stop him now while we still can. The gist of
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the testimony yesterday at the trial, or as Trump calls it,
nap time, was that the former attorney for Stormy Daniels
and Karen McDougall never had a doubt that when he
was selling their stories to the National Inquirer via Michael
Cohen in twenty sixteen, that Cohen and the rest of
them were all acting on behalf of Trump. It was
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so obvious who the money was from and the influence
was for, said Keith Davidson, that in twenty sixteen he
texted the publication's editor quote, throw in an ambassadorship for me.
But most importantly in court, Justice Van Merschan did it fast,
and he glossed over the highlights. But he found Trump
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guilty of contempt of court for violating the gag order
in nine of the ten cases submitted by the prosecution.
He find him the max per one thousand dollars each
nine thousand in total, and the justice matter of fact.
He writes that for a Trump, the money means nothing,
because the money is nothing, quoting it would be preferable
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if the court could impose a fine more commensurate with
the wealth of the contemnar. In some cases that might
be a twenty five hundred dollars fine. In other cases
it might be a fine of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Because this court is not cloaked with such discretion,
it must therefore consider whether in some instances jail may
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be a necessary punishment. If you wonder if Trump actually
felt the impact there of Mehrshah hitting him in the
crotch with the jail stick, jail may be a necessary punishment.
Please note that while after court adjourned, Trump continued to
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attack the judge and call the trial rigged. His next
most controversial social media post was quoting Harris Faulkner, Happy
tenth year anniversary, Nobody does it better than you. Congratulations
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while he was in the courtroom, Trump got some really
bad electoral news if somebody read it to him. Aaron
Blake of The Washington Post found it inside a Monmouth
University poll released on Monday. It asked voters if they'd
consider voting for Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Democrats were slightly
more likely to say yes than were Republicans. But then
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the pollsters asked the same people if they knew that
cay quote claims that autism is linked to vaccines and
that he has floated a conspiracy theory that COVID was
targeted at certain racial groups. And then it asked those
same people if, knowing his vaccine beliefs, they would now
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consider voting for him. The number of Republicans who said
they now would consider voting for RFK Junior instantly rose dramatically.
In fact, it nearly doubled. It went up eight percentage
points to nearly one out of five, and the number
of Democrats that dropped by seven points down to one
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in ten. Seems like a campaign, add to me back
at the ranch. Also of note, Trump was hoisted twice
upon his own petards as the judge said he would.
He ruled on whether or not Trump could go to
his son Baron's high school graduation as soon as the
trial schedule be came clear. It has he can go
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on May seventeenth. Now let's see if he goes or
if the school's commencement is by an incredible coincidence a
golf tournament. And he whined on the way in again
about how cold it was in that courtroom, and then surprise,
yesterday it was too warm. The New York Times reported
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at first quote Trump has been sitting with his eyes
closed for significant portions of testimony this morning. Then at
twelve twenty six pm, NBC News reported Trump appeared to
have fallen asleep while listening to testimony, at times appearing
to stir and then falling back to sleep. Trump's eyes
were closed for extended periods, and his head at times
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jerked in a way consistent with sleeping jerk. After the
break at two thirty nine pm, the Times again quote,
Trump is exactly as he was for much of this morning,
eyes closed, leaning back in his seat. And that was
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when it finally hit me. Ever seen the Geico commercial,
The hockey commercial where the hockey coach has had the
brainstorm of all brainstorms to replace his goaltender with a
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twelve foot tall, three thousand pound walrus. It's not just easy,
it's having a wallus and goal easy to waus ridiculous. Yes, nice,
then go and job duncan we go? Duncan say up,
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no sleepies, Donald stay up, no sleepies. Hell even the
walrus part fits. Also of interest here on this all
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new edition of Countdown, Jesse Waters of Fox insists the
gag order on Trump is unconstitutional and then boasts boasts
that he's not a lawyer. If this lack of functioning
brain cells or awareness of hypocrisy and self contradiction, If
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that sounds familiar to you, let me remind you. Jesse
Wanners used to be the guy that Bill O'Reilly sent
out to stalk women reporters who wrote bad things about
Bill O'Reilly and women tales of billow and water sports.
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That's next. This is counting. This is countdown, with Keith
Olberman still ahead of us. On this all new edition
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of Countdown. This thing yesterday where the worst person segment
flowed seamlessly into things I promised not to tell, starring
the same people I liked that. So now I'm gonna
try it again. I'm gonna go from Jesse Waters, the
new chief moron at Fox doing something moronic, even dumber
than Hannity, to his old boss and mentor, Bill O'Reilly Billow,
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the big giant head. Tales of Waters and O'Reilly and
tails and women and stalking. Next in things I promised
not to tell, and there will be out of mothballs,
the bidd O'Reilly impression first, still more new idiots to
talk about. The daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and
Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons
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in the world, the bronze worse. The New York Mets
baseball's most elaborate merchandized marketing scheme, the City Connect Uniforms,
has been kind of up and down. While down with
occasional ups, maybe one or two ups, okay, a rumor
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of one up. The premise is to create new uniforms
and hats and coats and hoodies that bear no resemblance
to the team's traditional colors or logos, but have some
vague connection to its city or region or whatever else,
can be sold at a huge markup. The San Francisco
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Giants have an orange fog on their City Connect uniforms
of Boston Red Sox black and red since the nineteen
thirties are dressed in the light blue and yellow of
the Boston Marathon and also, unfortunately, the light blue and
yellow of the old Boston Yellow Page's phone book. The
whole thing was complicated by this year's baseball uniform crisis,
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in which the industry and the fanatics and Nike companies
decided to redesign all the uniforms to fit worse, look worse,
tear more, easily, retain more sweat, have smaller and more
amateurish numbers and letters, and be delivered late. Several teams
still don't have their City Connect uniforms, which may be
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a blessing in disguise anyway. Finally, we come to the Mets.
Their City connects came in on time and are innovative
and went over well. Kind of thick black pin stripe
on a metallic gray with all kinds of purple acts
vents to represent the colors of the seven Line subway
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that goes to their stadium, And unexpectedly there was a
huge response to the Mets' batting helmets. They're a matt
gray with a raised Mets logo in the middle, and,
in an unprecedented innovation, an embossed raised representation of the
fifty ninth Street Bridge, or if you're from queens the
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Queensboro Bridge, or if you're from the nineteen eighties, the
Edcoch Bridge. This miniature bridge goes from one side of
the helmet to the other. It's as wide as the
brim of the helmet, looks like you could drive a
little toy car across it. There's the tall Manhattan Tower
of the bridge on the left and the tall Queen's
Tower of the bridge on the right. The Mets wore
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the City Connect uniforms and the helmets for the second
time the other night. Somewhere along the way of that
second game, it became apparent to a bunch of us
that as dramatic and innovative as that raised model of
the bridge on the helmet was the stadium lights reflecting
off the glittering surface of the little bridge. The shadows
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it casts the suspended deck sweeping from one tower on
the left side of the helmet to the other tower
on the right side of the helmet. It also looked
kind of like something else, a tiara the bridge. Sitting
there on the Mets players batting helmets kind of looks
like a tiara. I mean a well done and very
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artistic tiara, but still a tiara. The Mets are wearing tiaras.
The silver worser Kaylee mcananey, who segued seamlessly from Trump's
worst press secretary to Fox's worst host. Well, it's a tie,
but you know what I mean. If you ask Ms
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mcananney to handle math, she's in trouble. If you ask
her to handle truth, she's in more trouble. If you
ask her to try both at the same time, she's
cooked people, she says on the Jesse Waters Show, which
is I believe titled are you Smarter than the fifth grader? People,
they think back to three years ago and they remember
the good old days of President Trump. Three years ago
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would be May first, twenty twenty one, which would have
been one hundred and two days into the administration of
President Biden. In fact, it was ten days after the
confirmation that Biden had fulfilled his promise of getting Americans
two hundred million doses of the COVID vaccine before his
one hundredth day in office. But Kaylee has a problem
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doing those complicated math problems of history. Twenty four minus
three equals twenty twenty one, two hundred and six. Amazingly, though,
she was not the dumbest person on that Fox program
that day, because in terms of stupidity and density, the
host is head and shoulder above the rest of them there.
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And by that I mean he's head and shoulders. He's
just a stack of hair with some shampoo in it
that has achieved sentience. He's not just the head and
shoulders of Fox, though. He's the Paul Mitchell, the propagandists,
and the L'Oreal of the white supremacists, our winner the worst.
Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters says the Trump gag order is
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not constitutional. He said, if one of the jurors was
the locked ness Monster, this would deny Trump the right
to say the locked ness monster is real, and that's
not constitutional. The locked ness Monster is real. It's not
just for the record, let me acknowledge that this is
the smartest and most creative thing Jesse Waters has ever thought,
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let alone said out loud the rest of his quote.
He's threatening to throw the Republican nominee for president in
jail for talking for talking during the election, I am
not a lawyer unquote. Well, to be honest, you're also
not a newscaster, and you're not a functioning adult. But
about this not a lawyer part. Honestly, you're not a lawyer,
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but you still think it's unconstitutional. Doesn't that make you
fit to be a member of the Supreme Court? Jesse?
What if the lockness Monster was Trump's running mate? Waters
very possibly the dumbest man in America? More on him
in a moment emphasis of the moron and he is
today's worst part, said dead see the number one story
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on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things
I promised not to tell, although I've already told this
one years ago. When Bill O'Reilly was still a thing
rather than an occasional guest on an unwatched show on
an unknown television network that usually does not get a
larger audience than does this podcast, Bill O'Reilly used to
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send out one of his junior producers to bluntley stalk people.
This guy would wait around corners and behind bushes, and
he just spring out the cameraman already rolling and confront
the people O'Reilly wanted to scare or humiliate or embarrass
or all the above. He tried it with the chairman
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of GE and thus of NBC, Jeff Immelt, and famously
he almost got himself arrested for following the car of
reporter Amanda Turkele for two hours while she was driving
at the start of her vacation, and then cameraman rolling
they sprung out and confronted her about an article she
had written about Bill O'Reilly. At the next White House
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Correspondent's dinner, another journalist confronted this O'Reilly flack. His name
was Jesse Waters. The other correspondent, using only a phone,
demanded that Jesse Waters apologized to the woman he had chased,
Amanda Turkle. Instead, Waters swatted the phone out of the
reporter's hand and then went on O'Reilly's show to complain
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that he didn't understand what the problem was. He was
at the party just to have a good time. As
that suggests, Jesse Waters has always been a deeply stupid man,
so stupid that he has no concept of how stupid
he is. On Countdown we kind of did a piece
about him. Advice from me on video on your options
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if you too were to be ambushed by an O'Reilly
stalker chasing you with his car. Can't really rerun it here,
too many sight gags, but it reminded me that one
of Waters's main jobs was to protect Bill O'Reilly from
critical articles that mentioned Bill's little problem with women, the
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one he would wind up paying at least fifty million
dollars to settle with the women involved and losing his
eight pm slot on Fox as well, the slot now
occupied by Jesse Waters, who may be stupid, but who's
no dummy, and who might add who you calling a slot? Anyway,
This has inspired me to revisit my files and offer
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you something that has not seen the light of day
since the spring of two thousand and eight, a countdown
analysis of Jesse's old boss, Bill O'Reilly, virtually word for
word as it aired, and it sounded something like this.
After years of talking out of his seat, Bill O'Reilly
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has finally found a subject to pontificate about in which
his personal knowledge actually reaches to the level of expertise,
a topic in which he is not just hypocritical scold,
but rather battle scarred veteran. Bill oh analyzes Elliot Spitzer,
the New York Governor's resignation only just became official after
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he was caught up in the federal investigation into a
prostitution ring. Spitzer, as you doubtless know, has been accused
of financial shenanigans, possibly employing state funds to pay for
the services of Kristen, the singing prostitute with the Heart
of Gold or at hundreds of dollars an hour, the
Something of Gold, And for reasons known only to our
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Fox friend, Billy decided to deconstruct the Spitzer saga in
the latest edition of his not so widely read newspaper column. Again,
when it comes to having your pockets drained and your
name turned into a punchline by your pursuit of a woman,
O'Reilly knows his material. Why he would write this column
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and remind everybody of all this all over again. Well,
maybe in trying to explain Spitzer, perhaps Billow wound up
explaining Billow. We take you back to October thirteenth, two
thousand and four, also known around the news business as
Cable Christmas. His former producer at Fox, Andrea Macris, filed
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suit against O'Reilly and Fox on that day in two
thousand and four for sixty million dollars, claiming he had
repeatedly harassed her by telling her lurid stories of his
own sexual history, describing his fantasies, trying to corral her
into sexual liaisons by phone, in person with others, with loofahs,
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and with a falafel. The case was settled just over
two weeks later, with Billow shelling out a reported ten
million dollars. So Billy decided to write about Spitzer. Leave
us quote from the writings of the Bard of Babology,
the Frank Burns of news, the fallowful king himself, and
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then translate for you back into what he really meant.
Let's analyze this Elliot Spitzer situation without emotion, because there
are lessons to be learned here, expensive lessons, embarrassing lessons,
lessons which, even if they cost you ten million dollars,
you might forget and bring the topic up again. Anyway,
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if you watch cable TV news, you will hear the
brain pack talk about Spitzer's arrogances I'm above it all mentality.
But if you examine the facts, this shallow analysis doesn't wash. Hey, pal,
if you're gonna call Greta van Sustrin, Sean Hannity and
John Gibson, the Braying Pack of cable TV News. I'm
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gonna have to ask you to step outside. Nover know.
Spitzer had to know that repeated visits with people breaking
the law prostitutes put him at enormous risk. At any time,
any one of those ladies might have been arrested and
facing prosecution. Could have easily offered authorities Spitzer's name in
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return for having all charges dropped. Translation. If you're going
to associate yourself with prostitutes, strippers, porn stars, or other
ladies who might be arrested, make sure you do it
like Billow does. Defendant Bill O'Reilly reads Item forty two
in the Andrea Macris lawsuit without solicitation or invite regaled
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plaintiff and her friend with stories of a girl at
a sex show in Thailand who had shown him things
in a back room that had quote blown his mind
unquote Yes, if you're going to visit with sex workers,
make sure you do it like Billo does. In a
foreign country with weak extradition laws. The ladies also could
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have blackmailed Spitzer, could have sold their stories about him
to the tabloid media, could have done many things to
destroy his life. Translation here Bill is saying, trust me,
I know, and for a change he sure does know.
And none there's the money. Spitzer well knew that wired
transfers to offshore facilities are closely monitored because of terrorist surveillance.
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Translation Billo is here in a roundabout way tipping his
hat to the former governor. Mister Spitzer. Paide reported eighty
thousand dollars for a variety of activities. Mister O'Reilly paid
reported ten million dollars to Andrew mackris, and he didn't
even get her into the sack. Spitzer also knew that
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talking on the telephone the pimps people setting up liaisons
with prostitutes left him open to being tapped. There are
many psychoanalytic geniuses insist no coincidences in speech or in writing.
The word tapped is used, it's very close to taped
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and just as close to the phrase tapped out. And
by the way, the word tapped also has another meaning,
doesn't it. Item thirty six in the Macris suit defended
Bill O'Reilly proceeded to inform defendant Andrea Macris that he
advised another woman to purchase a vibrator and had taught
that woman how to masturbate while telling her sexual stories
over the telephone. So you're telling me that Elliott Spitzer
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thought he wouldn't get caught. Sure, and I'm Paris Hilton.
Now we have that image. No, what's in play. Here's
what I call the Belushi syndrome. That's when a famous
person who has money and success subconsciously tries to destroy
roy himself. You're seeing all the time movie stars, athletes,
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then politicians doing incredibly stupid stuff, the blushy syndrome. You say,
this is not some dime stores psychoanalysis, unless by dime
you mean ten million. There are many people walking around
who are deeply self destructive and who will hurt themselves
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and others around them. That's a fact. A self destructive,
self loathing personality. We'll find a way to blow everything up.
And it doesn't matter what kind of career the person has,
either kind of career, Bill broadcast or cable television. We
all no people like this stay away from them. And
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as we digest your analysis of what makes Bill o,
I'm sorry, what makes Spitzer tick? We'd be happy to
stay away from people like this. Bill O'Reilly, you only
you would stay away from us. You can't buy memories
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like those. Huh. Only I had other bill O'Reilly scripts
still in my computer. Oh look, there's only thirty eight
of them. I've done all the damage I can do
here for now, Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors
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by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. My
announcer today was my friend Larry David, and everything else
was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this,
the one hundred and eighty ninth day until the twenty
twenty four presidential election, and the one thy two hundred
and twelfth day since Diamond J. Trump's first attempted coup
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against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use
the justice system, use the mental health system, use the
not regularly given elector objection option, Use the Donald the
Walrus no sleepies bit to stop him from doing it
again while we still can. By the way, did I
ever tell you whose idea it was? When I returned
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to MSNBC in two thousand and three to do a
regular feature on what Bill O'Reilly said on Fox that
wasn't true? Do you know who called me up the
day my New then show started in two thousand and
three and said, you've got to do something about him.
He makes up up every night. You've got to use it.
You know you can, You must do it. It was
an NBC News Washington correspondent named Norah O'Donnell, now the
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anchor of the CBS Evening News. It's her idea. The
next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news warrants
till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
and good luck don again Saya No Sleepies. Countdown with
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is in contempt of court and has been threatened with
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jail time if he again violates the gag order, and
testimony from the stand continues to bury him alive, just
as he buried the Stormy Daniel's scandal. And none of
that is close to being as important as his new
and most virulent threat yet to destroy this country via
political violence, and it underscores why we loyal Americans must
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destroy his cult. First cover story Time Magazine all of
the nightmares of Trump becoming dictator, but laid out with
unusual clarity for someone as insane and demented as Trump.
Quoting the interviewer Eric Cordalessa, Trump does not dismiss the
possibility of political violence around the election, quoting Trump, if
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we don't win, you know, it depends. It always depends
on the fairness of the election. The author asks him
about his social media post in which Trump claimed a
stolen election allows for the termination of all rules, regulations,
and articles, even those found in the Constitution. Trump then
denies he said it, quoting Trump, I never said that
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at all. I never said that at all. Within moments
of that lie. No, not a lie, A distinction without
a difference in that he never said it. He merely
wrote it on truth Social on December third, twenty twenty two.
Within moments of that, he declares that the current administration
has quote broken the constitution. They have gotten very far
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astray from our constitution. I'm talking about the fascists and
the people in our government right now because I consider
them the enemy within. I think the enemy within in
many cases is much more dangerous for our country than
the outside enemies of China, Russia, and various others that
would be called enemies depending on who the president is.
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Unquote what about his remarks about becoming a dictator, but
only on day one he says he was kidding. Doesn't
he realize it horrifies those who see dictatorship as the
opposite of America. Quote. I think a lot of people
like it about that. He is clearly not kidding. He
is ready to give his imaginary slaves what he insists
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they want. He has now told Time magazine that he
is ready to use the National Guard in effect as
his personal police force, and the rest of the military
as his personal police force, and your local police force
as his personal police force, and to build migrant detention
camps to hold millions rounded up by the National Guard. Quote.
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If they weren't able to, then I'd use the military.
The interviewer adds. Quote. He would also seek help from
local police and says he would deny funding for jurisdictions
that decline to adopt his policies. Trump would send the
National Guard into cities to fight crime without the required
request of governors, because that FBI data showing homicides dropping
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six percent in twenty twenty two and thirteen percent more
last year. Quote it's a lie. He would approve Department
of Justice funds only for use in those cities that
use police strong arm tactics that he designates, like stop
and frisk. This is how Hitler talked before he seized power.
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It is how Mao talked. It is how Mussolini talked.
It is how all of them have talked. It is
how Trump is talking the cops for his interview with Time.
Would then be free to help monitor pregnancies and arrest
and prosecute women and physicians and nurses and hospitals, women
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and the others who violate abortion bands. And he'll blame
any draconian abortion bands on others, quote Trump, It's irrelevant
whether I'm comfortable or not. It's totally irrelevant, because the
States are going to make those decisions. The military will
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be available for suppression of descent and civilian rights because well,
to hell with Ukraine and Taiwan, and now add to
that list, to hell with South Korea. Quoting Trump, we
have forty thousand troops that are in a precarious position,
which doesn't make any sense. Why would we defend somebody?
And we're talking about a very wealthy country. And while
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we already know about the January sixth pardons and his
belief that protests in Portland were far more perilous, and
the prosecutions and the schedule F firings of the bureaucratically
confident to be replaced by Trump whores. While we've known
about all of that for a long time, we have
two new weapons on the horizon that Trump has revealed
(05:30):
in this time interview. If he ordered a US attorney
to prosecute you, and the US attorney refused, he would
break more than two hundred and fifty years of American
tradition and fire the US attorney and replace him with
somebody who would prosecute you. And if none of that
(05:51):
democracy stuff matters to you, he doubled down on a
ten percent tariff on all imported goods, all a tariff,
A ten percent tax on you, quoting Trump, it may
be more than that. It may be a derivative of that. Look,
when they come in and they steal our jobs, and
(06:13):
they steal our wealth, they steal our country more than
ten percent. Yeah, I call it a ring around the country.
And most subtly, perhaps most damagingly, as the interviewer writes, quote,
he would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by
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Congress according to top advisors, restoring the power of impoundment,
which allowed presidents to withhold congressionally appropriated funds. Trump and
his allies planned to challenge a nineteen seventy four law
that prohibits the use of the measure. So the police
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become militarized, and the military becomes Trump's personal gestapo, and
the states and the cities that don't promise fear to
him don't get federal allocations, and the federal government becomes
his personal staff. And if he doesn't win all the elections,
they are unfair elections, and violence is fine, and most
people want a dictator anyway. And he chooses who gets prosecuted,
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and he chooses which budgeted money gets spent and where,
because he'll give himself a line item veto, and he'll
put anybody here illegally into concentration camps, or anybody he
says is here illegally. And if that is you, exactly
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who are you going to get to stop him? Heard enough, yet,
stop him now while we still can. The gist of
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the testimony yesterday at the trial, or as Trump calls it,
nap time, was that the former attorney for Stormy Daniels
and Karen McDougall never had a doubt that when he
was selling their stories to the National Inquirer via Michael
Cohen in twenty sixteen, that Cohen and the rest of
them were all acting on behalf of Trump. It was
(08:47):
so obvious who the money was from and the influence
was for, said Keith Davidson, that in twenty sixteen he
texted the publication's editor quote, throw in an ambassadorship for me.
But most importantly in court, Justice Van Merschan did it fast,
and he glossed over the highlights. But he found Trump
(09:07):
guilty of contempt of court for violating the gag order
in nine of the ten cases submitted by the prosecution.
He find him the max per one thousand dollars each
nine thousand in total, and the justice matter of fact.
He writes that for a Trump, the money means nothing,
because the money is nothing, quoting it would be preferable
(09:29):
if the court could impose a fine more commensurate with
the wealth of the contemnar. In some cases that might
be a twenty five hundred dollars fine. In other cases
it might be a fine of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Because this court is not cloaked with such discretion,
it must therefore consider whether in some instances jail may
(09:55):
be a necessary punishment. If you wonder if Trump actually
felt the impact there of Mehrshah hitting him in the
crotch with the jail stick, jail may be a necessary punishment.
Please note that while after court adjourned, Trump continued to
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attack the judge and call the trial rigged. His next
most controversial social media post was quoting Harris Faulkner, Happy
tenth year anniversary, Nobody does it better than you. Congratulations
(10:36):
while he was in the courtroom, Trump got some really
bad electoral news if somebody read it to him. Aaron
Blake of The Washington Post found it inside a Monmouth
University poll released on Monday. It asked voters if they'd
consider voting for Robert F. Kennedy Junior. Democrats were slightly
more likely to say yes than were Republicans. But then
(11:00):
the pollsters asked the same people if they knew that
cay quote claims that autism is linked to vaccines and
that he has floated a conspiracy theory that COVID was
targeted at certain racial groups. And then it asked those
same people if, knowing his vaccine beliefs, they would now
(11:22):
consider voting for him. The number of Republicans who said
they now would consider voting for RFK Junior instantly rose dramatically.
In fact, it nearly doubled. It went up eight percentage
points to nearly one out of five, and the number
of Democrats that dropped by seven points down to one
(11:45):
in ten. Seems like a campaign, add to me back
at the ranch. Also of note, Trump was hoisted twice
upon his own petards as the judge said he would.
He ruled on whether or not Trump could go to
his son Baron's high school graduation as soon as the
trial schedule be came clear. It has he can go
(12:07):
on May seventeenth. Now let's see if he goes or
if the school's commencement is by an incredible coincidence a
golf tournament. And he whined on the way in again
about how cold it was in that courtroom, and then surprise,
yesterday it was too warm. The New York Times reported
(12:32):
at first quote Trump has been sitting with his eyes
closed for significant portions of testimony this morning. Then at
twelve twenty six pm, NBC News reported Trump appeared to
have fallen asleep while listening to testimony, at times appearing
to stir and then falling back to sleep. Trump's eyes
were closed for extended periods, and his head at times
(12:53):
jerked in a way consistent with sleeping jerk. After the
break at two thirty nine pm, the Times again quote,
Trump is exactly as he was for much of this morning,
eyes closed, leaning back in his seat. And that was
(13:15):
when it finally hit me. Ever seen the Geico commercial,
The hockey commercial where the hockey coach has had the
brainstorm of all brainstorms to replace his goaltender with a
(13:36):
twelve foot tall, three thousand pound walrus. It's not just easy,
it's having a wallus and goal easy to waus ridiculous. Yes, nice,
then go and job duncan we go? Duncan say up,
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no sleepies, Donald stay up, no sleepies. Hell even the
walrus part fits. Also of interest here on this all
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new edition of Countdown, Jesse Waters of Fox insists the
gag order on Trump is unconstitutional and then boasts boasts
that he's not a lawyer. If this lack of functioning
brain cells or awareness of hypocrisy and self contradiction, If
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that sounds familiar to you, let me remind you. Jesse
Wanners used to be the guy that Bill O'Reilly sent
out to stalk women reporters who wrote bad things about
Bill O'Reilly and women tales of billow and water sports.
(15:03):
That's next. This is counting. This is countdown, with Keith
Olberman still ahead of us. On this all new edition
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of Countdown. This thing yesterday where the worst person segment
flowed seamlessly into things I promised not to tell, starring
the same people I liked that. So now I'm gonna
try it again. I'm gonna go from Jesse Waters, the
new chief moron at Fox doing something moronic, even dumber
than Hannity, to his old boss and mentor, Bill O'Reilly Billow,
(15:58):
the big giant head. Tales of Waters and O'Reilly and
tails and women and stalking. Next in things I promised
not to tell, and there will be out of mothballs,
the bidd O'Reilly impression first, still more new idiots to
talk about. The daily roundup of the miscrants, morons and
Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days worst persons
(16:22):
in the world, the bronze worse. The New York Mets
baseball's most elaborate merchandized marketing scheme, the City Connect Uniforms,
has been kind of up and down. While down with
occasional ups, maybe one or two ups, okay, a rumor
(16:43):
of one up. The premise is to create new uniforms
and hats and coats and hoodies that bear no resemblance
to the team's traditional colors or logos, but have some
vague connection to its city or region or whatever else,
can be sold at a huge markup. The San Francisco
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Giants have an orange fog on their City Connect uniforms
of Boston Red Sox black and red since the nineteen
thirties are dressed in the light blue and yellow of
the Boston Marathon and also, unfortunately, the light blue and
yellow of the old Boston Yellow Page's phone book. The
whole thing was complicated by this year's baseball uniform crisis,
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in which the industry and the fanatics and Nike companies
decided to redesign all the uniforms to fit worse, look worse,
tear more, easily, retain more sweat, have smaller and more
amateurish numbers and letters, and be delivered late. Several teams
still don't have their City Connect uniforms, which may be
(17:47):
a blessing in disguise anyway. Finally, we come to the Mets.
Their City connects came in on time and are innovative
and went over well. Kind of thick black pin stripe
on a metallic gray with all kinds of purple acts
vents to represent the colors of the seven Line subway
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that goes to their stadium, And unexpectedly there was a
huge response to the Mets' batting helmets. They're a matt
gray with a raised Mets logo in the middle, and,
in an unprecedented innovation, an embossed raised representation of the
fifty ninth Street Bridge, or if you're from queens the
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Queensboro Bridge, or if you're from the nineteen eighties, the
Edcoch Bridge. This miniature bridge goes from one side of
the helmet to the other. It's as wide as the
brim of the helmet, looks like you could drive a
little toy car across it. There's the tall Manhattan Tower
of the bridge on the left and the tall Queen's
Tower of the bridge on the right. The Mets wore
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the City Connect uniforms and the helmets for the second
time the other night. Somewhere along the way of that
second game, it became apparent to a bunch of us
that as dramatic and innovative as that raised model of
the bridge on the helmet was the stadium lights reflecting
off the glittering surface of the little bridge. The shadows
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it casts the suspended deck sweeping from one tower on
the left side of the helmet to the other tower
on the right side of the helmet. It also looked
kind of like something else, a tiara the bridge. Sitting
there on the Mets players batting helmets kind of looks
like a tiara. I mean a well done and very
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artistic tiara, but still a tiara. The Mets are wearing tiaras.
The silver worser Kaylee mcananey, who segued seamlessly from Trump's
worst press secretary to Fox's worst host. Well, it's a tie,
but you know what I mean. If you ask Ms
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mcananney to handle math, she's in trouble. If you ask
her to handle truth, she's in more trouble. If you
ask her to try both at the same time, she's
cooked people, she says on the Jesse Waters Show, which
is I believe titled are you Smarter than the fifth grader? People,
they think back to three years ago and they remember
the good old days of President Trump. Three years ago
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would be May first, twenty twenty one, which would have
been one hundred and two days into the administration of
President Biden. In fact, it was ten days after the
confirmation that Biden had fulfilled his promise of getting Americans
two hundred million doses of the COVID vaccine before his
one hundredth day in office. But Kaylee has a problem
(20:43):
doing those complicated math problems of history. Twenty four minus
three equals twenty twenty one, two hundred and six. Amazingly, though,
she was not the dumbest person on that Fox program
that day, because in terms of stupidity and density, the
host is head and shoulder above the rest of them there.
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And by that I mean he's head and shoulders. He's
just a stack of hair with some shampoo in it
that has achieved sentience. He's not just the head and
shoulders of Fox, though. He's the Paul Mitchell, the propagandists,
and the L'Oreal of the white supremacists, our winner the worst.
Jesse Waters. Jesse Waters says the Trump gag order is
(21:29):
not constitutional. He said, if one of the jurors was
the locked ness Monster, this would deny Trump the right
to say the locked ness monster is real, and that's
not constitutional. The locked ness Monster is real. It's not
just for the record, let me acknowledge that this is
the smartest and most creative thing Jesse Waters has ever thought,
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let alone said out loud the rest of his quote.
He's threatening to throw the Republican nominee for president in
jail for talking for talking during the election, I am
not a lawyer unquote. Well, to be honest, you're also
not a newscaster, and you're not a functioning adult. But
about this not a lawyer part. Honestly, you're not a lawyer,
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but you still think it's unconstitutional. Doesn't that make you
fit to be a member of the Supreme Court? Jesse?
What if the lockness Monster was Trump's running mate? Waters
very possibly the dumbest man in America? More on him
in a moment emphasis of the moron and he is
today's worst part, said dead see the number one story
(23:12):
on the Countdown and my favorite topic, me and things
I promised not to tell, although I've already told this
one years ago. When Bill O'Reilly was still a thing
rather than an occasional guest on an unwatched show on
an unknown television network that usually does not get a
larger audience than does this podcast, Bill O'Reilly used to
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send out one of his junior producers to bluntley stalk people.
This guy would wait around corners and behind bushes, and
he just spring out the cameraman already rolling and confront
the people O'Reilly wanted to scare or humiliate or embarrass
or all the above. He tried it with the chairman
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of GE and thus of NBC, Jeff Immelt, and famously
he almost got himself arrested for following the car of
reporter Amanda Turkele for two hours while she was driving
at the start of her vacation, and then cameraman rolling
they sprung out and confronted her about an article she
had written about Bill O'Reilly. At the next White House
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Correspondent's dinner, another journalist confronted this O'Reilly flack. His name
was Jesse Waters. The other correspondent, using only a phone,
demanded that Jesse Waters apologized to the woman he had chased,
Amanda Turkle. Instead, Waters swatted the phone out of the
reporter's hand and then went on O'Reilly's show to complain
(24:44):
that he didn't understand what the problem was. He was
at the party just to have a good time. As
that suggests, Jesse Waters has always been a deeply stupid man,
so stupid that he has no concept of how stupid
he is. On Countdown we kind of did a piece
about him. Advice from me on video on your options
(25:06):
if you too were to be ambushed by an O'Reilly
stalker chasing you with his car. Can't really rerun it here,
too many sight gags, but it reminded me that one
of Waters's main jobs was to protect Bill O'Reilly from
critical articles that mentioned Bill's little problem with women, the
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one he would wind up paying at least fifty million
dollars to settle with the women involved and losing his
eight pm slot on Fox as well, the slot now
occupied by Jesse Waters, who may be stupid, but who's
no dummy, and who might add who you calling a slot? Anyway,
This has inspired me to revisit my files and offer
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you something that has not seen the light of day
since the spring of two thousand and eight, a countdown
analysis of Jesse's old boss, Bill O'Reilly, virtually word for
word as it aired, and it sounded something like this.
After years of talking out of his seat, Bill O'Reilly
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has finally found a subject to pontificate about in which
his personal knowledge actually reaches to the level of expertise,
a topic in which he is not just hypocritical scold,
but rather battle scarred veteran. Bill oh analyzes Elliot Spitzer,
the New York Governor's resignation only just became official after
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he was caught up in the federal investigation into a
prostitution ring. Spitzer, as you doubtless know, has been accused
of financial shenanigans, possibly employing state funds to pay for
the services of Kristen, the singing prostitute with the Heart
of Gold or at hundreds of dollars an hour, the
Something of Gold, And for reasons known only to our
(26:55):
Fox friend, Billy decided to deconstruct the Spitzer saga in
the latest edition of his not so widely read newspaper column. Again,
when it comes to having your pockets drained and your
name turned into a punchline by your pursuit of a woman,
O'Reilly knows his material. Why he would write this column
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and remind everybody of all this all over again. Well,
maybe in trying to explain Spitzer, perhaps Billow wound up
explaining Billow. We take you back to October thirteenth, two
thousand and four, also known around the news business as
Cable Christmas. His former producer at Fox, Andrea Macris, filed
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suit against O'Reilly and Fox on that day in two
thousand and four for sixty million dollars, claiming he had
repeatedly harassed her by telling her lurid stories of his
own sexual history, describing his fantasies, trying to corral her
into sexual liaisons by phone, in person with others, with loofahs,
(28:01):
and with a falafel. The case was settled just over
two weeks later, with Billow shelling out a reported ten
million dollars. So Billy decided to write about Spitzer. Leave
us quote from the writings of the Bard of Babology,
the Frank Burns of news, the fallowful king himself, and
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then translate for you back into what he really meant.
Let's analyze this Elliot Spitzer situation without emotion, because there
are lessons to be learned here, expensive lessons, embarrassing lessons,
lessons which, even if they cost you ten million dollars,
you might forget and bring the topic up again. Anyway,
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if you watch cable TV news, you will hear the
brain pack talk about Spitzer's arrogances I'm above it all mentality.
But if you examine the facts, this shallow analysis doesn't wash. Hey, pal,
if you're gonna call Greta van Sustrin, Sean Hannity and
John Gibson, the Braying Pack of cable TV News. I'm
(29:09):
gonna have to ask you to step outside. Nover know.
Spitzer had to know that repeated visits with people breaking
the law prostitutes put him at enormous risk. At any time,
any one of those ladies might have been arrested and
facing prosecution. Could have easily offered authorities Spitzer's name in
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return for having all charges dropped. Translation. If you're going
to associate yourself with prostitutes, strippers, porn stars, or other
ladies who might be arrested, make sure you do it
like Billow does. Defendant Bill O'Reilly reads Item forty two
in the Andrea Macris lawsuit without solicitation or invite regaled
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plaintiff and her friend with stories of a girl at
a sex show in Thailand who had shown him things
in a back room that had quote blown his mind
unquote Yes, if you're going to visit with sex workers,
make sure you do it like Billo does. In a
foreign country with weak extradition laws. The ladies also could
(30:16):
have blackmailed Spitzer, could have sold their stories about him
to the tabloid media, could have done many things to
destroy his life. Translation here Bill is saying, trust me,
I know, and for a change he sure does know.
And none there's the money. Spitzer well knew that wired
transfers to offshore facilities are closely monitored because of terrorist surveillance.
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Translation Billo is here in a roundabout way tipping his
hat to the former governor. Mister Spitzer. Paide reported eighty
thousand dollars for a variety of activities. Mister O'Reilly paid
reported ten million dollars to Andrew mackris, and he didn't
even get her into the sack. Spitzer also knew that
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talking on the telephone the pimps people setting up liaisons
with prostitutes left him open to being tapped. There are
many psychoanalytic geniuses insist no coincidences in speech or in writing.
The word tapped is used, it's very close to taped
(31:25):
and just as close to the phrase tapped out. And
by the way, the word tapped also has another meaning,
doesn't it. Item thirty six in the Macris suit defended
Bill O'Reilly proceeded to inform defendant Andrea Macris that he
advised another woman to purchase a vibrator and had taught
that woman how to masturbate while telling her sexual stories
over the telephone. So you're telling me that Elliott Spitzer
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thought he wouldn't get caught. Sure, and I'm Paris Hilton.
Now we have that image. No, what's in play. Here's
what I call the Belushi syndrome. That's when a famous
person who has money and success subconsciously tries to destroy
roy himself. You're seeing all the time movie stars, athletes,
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then politicians doing incredibly stupid stuff, the blushy syndrome. You say,
this is not some dime stores psychoanalysis, unless by dime
you mean ten million. There are many people walking around
who are deeply self destructive and who will hurt themselves
(32:29):
and others around them. That's a fact. A self destructive,
self loathing personality. We'll find a way to blow everything up.
And it doesn't matter what kind of career the person has,
either kind of career, Bill broadcast or cable television. We
all no people like this stay away from them. And
(32:54):
as we digest your analysis of what makes Bill o,
I'm sorry, what makes Spitzer tick? We'd be happy to
stay away from people like this. Bill O'Reilly, you only
you would stay away from us. You can't buy memories
(33:23):
like those. Huh. Only I had other bill O'Reilly scripts
still in my computer. Oh look, there's only thirty eight
of them. I've done all the damage I can do
here for now, Thank you for listening. Countdown. Musical directors
Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil arranged, produced, and performed
most of our music. Mister Ray was on guitars, bass
(33:46):
and drums. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration and keyboards. It was
produced by Tko Brothers. Other music, including some of the
Beethoven compositions, were arranged and performed by the group No
Horns Allowed. The sports music is the Ulderman theme from
ESPN two. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy
of ESPN Inc. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are
(34:06):
by Nancy Faust, the best baseball stadium organist ever. My
announcer today was my friend Larry David, and everything else
was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this,
the one hundred and eighty ninth day until the twenty
twenty four presidential election, and the one thy two hundred
and twelfth day since Diamond J. Trump's first attempted coup
(34:28):
against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use
the justice system, use the mental health system, use the
not regularly given elector objection option, Use the Donald the
Walrus no sleepies bit to stop him from doing it
again while we still can. By the way, did I
ever tell you whose idea it was? When I returned
(34:51):
to MSNBC in two thousand and three to do a
regular feature on what Bill O'Reilly said on Fox that
wasn't true? Do you know who called me up the
day my New then show started in two thousand and
three and said, you've got to do something about him.
He makes up up every night. You've got to use it.
You know you can, You must do it. It was
an NBC News Washington correspondent named Norah O'Donnell, now the
(35:17):
anchor of the CBS Evening News. It's her idea. The
next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins is the news warrants
till then. I'm Keith Olderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night,
and good luck don again Saya No Sleepies. Countdown with
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