July 6, 2023 • 47 mins
EPISODE 240: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: One of Trump’s stochastic terrorists went to Barack Obama’s house to assassinate him. Anybody else notice this, or was it just me? And that a Washington judge was having a hard time last night finding an excuse to hold him without bail? Hold the WOULD-BE ASSASSIN without bail? And that Trump had doxxed Obama and finally found a sucker willing to do his bidding for him? AND park his van full of ammo and weapons a few blocks from Obama’s home. AND livestreamed himself threatening Jamie Raskin and Kevin McCarthy and oh he was going to take his van to Maryland to a federal facility containing a nuclear research reactor and blow up the van and the nuclear reactor and… I mean am I the only one seeing this anywhere?
Trump – crazier and more dangerous by the minute – is finally clearly and inextricably linked to a guy ready to answer Trump’s constant drumbeat to try to get one of his cultists to kill, without TELLING them to kill and thus leaving himself open to prosecution FOR killing or incitement-to-kill, and the Department of Justice remains asleep at the switch. The US Magistrate Judge in DC, Zia M. Faruqui managed to avoid having to release Trump’s figurative flying monkey – his name is Taylor Taranto – by keeping him in stir overnight and putting the onus on the government to answer the judge’s question: if the original charges against this would-be political murderer Taranto were simply left over trespassing accusations from January 6th, and the government wanted him held without bail because he’s a flight risk, what if the Judge finds he’s NOT a flight risk? Is it enough that threatening key Democratic and Republican congressmen and talking about going to a government nuclear reactor and blowing up your van next to – oh and responding to one former president’s publishing of another former president’s address by going there with a van full of weapons of death – is THAT quote “clear convincing evidence” of a danger to the public and even if it is, does that mean the judge can really hold him in jail?
Yeah, you guys let Taranto loose while the lot of you argue over how many angels can dance on the head of this proverbial pin, and, you know, if he goes back to Obama’s neighborhood or, I dunno, tries to ram the White House with his van while screaming “TRUMP IS GOD” as he does so, maybe then prosecutors can indict him for various vehicular and parking offenses.
B-Block (20:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Miles Taylor says Trump negotiated with Erik Prince to form his own private mercenary army to dispatch to Afghanistan and Venezuela; RFK needs money more than power; Steve Bass's new horizon; farewell to Dr. Frank Field and Marvin Kitman. (25:50) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Laura Ingraham wants to defund Jack Smith. How about demoting him to 7 PM? The warmest day since July 4, 122,977 BC. And GQ Magazine first neuters a piece that offended David Zaslav of Warner BROS, then kills the piece completely, then it turns out GQ's Editor is producing a film FOR WARNER BROS.
C-Block (34:10) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Angelina, L'il Bit and Prince in Georgia (35:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Nothing makes me smile more than a week with July 4th in the middle. It's because of that kind of calendar that I got my first network job just 44 years ago. The holiday ate up nearly all the business days they would've had to look for anybody besides me! (Plus that first broadcast from July 1979).
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Anybody
else noticed that one of Trump's stochastic terrorists went to
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Barack Obama's house to assassinate him last week? Or was
it just me? And that a Washington judge was having
a hard time last night finding an excuse to hold
this scumbag without bail, hold the would be assassin without bail,
And that Trump had doxed Obama and Trump had finally
found a sucker willing to do his lethal bidding for
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him and park his van full of AMMO and weapons
a few blocks from Obama's home and live stream himself
threatening Jamie Raskin and Kevin McCarthy, and oh, he was
going to take his vandam Maryland to a federal facility
containing a nuclear research reactor and blow up the van
and the nuclear reactor. And I mean, am I the
only one seeing this anywhere? Trump, crazier and more dangerous
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by the minute, is finally clearly and inextricably linked to
a guy ready to answer Trump's constant drumbeat to try
to get one of his cultists to kill without telling
them to kill, and thus leaving himself open to prosecution
for killing or for incitement to kill, and the Department
of Justice is still remaining asleep at the switch. The
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US magistrate judge in DC, himself a former terrorist prosecutor,
Zia M. Farruki, managed to avoid having to release Trump's
figurative flying monkey his name is Taylor Toronto by keeping
him in stir overnight and putting the onus on the
government to answer the judge's question if the original charges
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against this would be political murderer Toronto, we're simple leftover
trespassing accusations from January sixth, and the government wanted him
held without bail because he's a flight risk. What if
the judge finds he's not a flight risk? Is it
enough that threatening key Democratic and Republican congressman and talking
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about going to a government nuclear reactor and blowing up
your van next to it. Oh, and responding to one
former president publishing of another former president's home address by
going to that address with a van full of weapons
of death? Is that quote clear convincing evidence of a
danger to the public. And even if it is, does
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that mean the judge can really hold him in jail? Yeah,
you guys, just let Toronto loose while the lot of
you argue over how many angels can dance on the
head of this figurative pin. And you know, if he
goes back to Obama's neighborhood or I don't know, tries
to ram the White House with his man full of
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while screaming Trump is God as he does so, maybe
then prosecutors can indict him for various vehicular and parking offenses. Christ.
When a messed up man angry over the leak, over
the impending overturning of Roe V. Wade actually found himself
near Bret Kavanaugh's home a year ago June. Armed to
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the teeth, he called nine to one one himself. He
basically asked them to stop him before he did something
something terrible, and he was arrested minutes later without incident.
And Republicans consider this roughly equivalent to the crucifixion of Christ,
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even though the man stopped, thought, reconsidered, did not act,
did not get close, surrendered to the authorities and prosecution.
That is the vote Brett Kavanaugh assassination attempts and I
don't want to play can you top this with lunatics?
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But that event compared to Taylor Toronto reading a post
by Trump doxing Obama and responding like Reggie Jackson in
the movie The Naked Gun and taking his traveling gun
show to Obama's neighborhood while evading arrest for a day.
And he hasn't shown remorse or concern for anything except
whether or not he had enough bars to keep his
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live stream going. That is what we're dealing with here.
And we were sure that we could keep him in
jail overnight, oh when he was also presumably worried about
whether or not he was pleasing his psychopathic Mari Lago master.
Trump's ultimate intentions have been evident since twenty sixteen. He
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is not a human being in the conventional use of
the term. Other people do not exist to him. They
are either impediments to what he wants or means by
which he can get what he wants. He has a
hit list. It changes from week two weeks, sometimes from
hour to hour. He mused about his Second Amendment folks
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taking care of Hillary Clinton for him. During the twenty
sixteen campaign. He wanted people to kill senators and congressmen
and anybody else they could find at the Capitol so
Biden would not be certified as president on January sixth.
He directed this beam of murder by proxy at the
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He aims at at Jack
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Smith every second or third day, and last week it
was Obama's turn. And not only has nobody figured out
how to hold Trump responsible for this, and this is terrorism.
Donald Trump is a terrorist, but clearly the Justice Department
is struggling just to keep the proxy assassin in jail overnight.
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Toronto is a direct and serious threat to the public,
wrote the assistant US Attorneys in a twenty six page
sentencing recommendation to the judge. Toronto's own words and actions
demonstrate that he is a direct threat to multiple political
figures as well as the public at large. The risk
that Toronto poses if released is high, and the severity
of the consequences that could result are catastrophic. And the
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Judge is openly concerned and worried about what looks like
PTSD from his tour in Iraq and the fact that
Toronto also says he came to DC after Kevin McCarthy.
The Putts made that grand standing offer to show January sixth,
defendants all the exculpatory video that oh, sorry, it isn't exculpatory.
That's why Tucker Carlson only showed three minutes of it,
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And that golly Toronto keeps denying facts in reality, and
he's delusional and that kind of makes him more of
a danger than even the average would be ex presidential assassin.
And it's as if the judge is ninety nine percent
of the way there but just can't find that last
one percent where you at least order him held pending
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psychiatric value. Rather than listen to his public defender explain
that Toronto's wife is absolutely ready to keep an eye
on her husband in their home back in Washington State
while he's out on bail, because naturally, a guy willing
to threaten to blow up a government nuclear reactor and
drive a van full of weapons over to Barack's house,
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he would never harm his wife, would he. This is
from the Washington Post last night. Quote Toronto allegedly recorded
himself walking in the neighborhood, saying he was looking for
quote entrance points and quote tunnels underneath their houses, according
to prosecutors, referring to Obama's and the Podesta's house. Apparently,
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John Podesta, former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, who
lives nearby Toronto, also said he had control of the
block and repeatedly stated that he was trying to get
a shot and a good angle on a shot. Prosecutors claimed,
now he's fine. You don't think he's a flight at
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risk judge, Just let him go. What harm could he
really do out there? I mean, this guy doesn't even
know there aren't any tunnels. Haha, what a loser. Whiskey
sours everyone. This is insane and it remains insane that
we let Trump continue year after year, in venue after venue,
with victim after victim, with his who will rid me
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of this turbulent priest bullshit? Except now there is an actual,
identifiable sucker, the ultimate Trump Mark, the remote controlled buffoon,
stupid enough and demented enough and whacked out enough to
let Trump manipulate him like a drone. Trump is a terrorist.
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He tried to get people to start a violent revolution
to overthrow the government, and his stochastic threats against dozens
and dozens of Americans have become so routine and so
pronounced that if trump UMP's name had been College Shake Trump,
he would have been in Gittmotionince twenty fifteen. He just
trying to get somebody, and this somebody turns out to
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be named Taylor Toronto to go over to Obama's house
and kill him. I mean, I took three days off
from this podcast for the first time this year, and
I wondered if I was letting people down, and our
justice system looks at Taylor Toronto and Donald Trump, it
finds reasons not to put them in jail and lose
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their records. This has got to stop. And if it
has to stop because a judge named Zia M. Ferruki says, yeah,
he's a flight risk. Whatever the government can only hold
him forty years, then so be it. Because this will end.
And if it does not end with somebody standing up
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for the right and you know, against Trump's stochastic terrorism
and the assassination of ex presidents, It's going to end
so other way. And that actually will not be an end.
It will be the beginning of something. And that's something
will be very dark and not at all remote controlled
or at some kind of distance from everybody or via proxy,
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and it will not be stochastic. All right, Let's lighten
the mood and go from Trump inspired assassination attempts to
mere coup attempts. Jack Smith has clearly expanded his investigations
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into the state of and he guesses Arizona. First, ABC
News reported that Trump tried to Georgia in Arizona tried
to get the then governor Doug Deocey to just find
him some more votes, and that Trump had Mike Pence
call Deucy to pressure him. Fence clearly called him. He
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confirms that there is actually no evidence that Pence act
pressured him beyond just the fact of the phone call.
Of course, in an intriguing twist, it does look like
Jack Smith beat the news media to Arizona. The Arizona
Republic newspaper now reporting that the Special Council's Office issued
to subpoenas to the office of the Arizona Secretary of State,
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apparently in May, looking for information about the lawsuits against
the state by the Trump campaign and by the former
Arizona GOP chair Kelly Ward, who is not of this earth,
alleging fraud and errors in the vote in Arizona. This
would suggest this is about the wire fraud charges. Smith
seems to be assembling against Trump for raising money to
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cure a stolen election he knew was not stolen. The
newspaper reports Jack Smith has not contacted ex Governor Deucey.
The Washington Post reports Deucey cannot understand why Smith hasn't.
Also the Tucker Carlson Maria Bartiromo, producer who settled with
Fox for twelve million, she has reportedly been contacted by
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Smith's office, and one of the centerpieces to the Trump defense,
besides trying to get his cultists to kill everybody, is
that all the documents were declassified, that he had a
standing order to declassify anything removed from the Oval Office,
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standing order that declassified everything that was on the Trump
confession tape. Well, guess what. The standing order does not exist.
I know you're shocked. I should give you a minute,
sit down, have a whiskey sour. Bloomberg News filed a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last August asking the Justice
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Department and the Director of National Intelligence to produce such
an order or at least confirm its existence in redacted form.
And they don't have it. So Trump will naturally now
say that he took it with him too, and it
was automatically self declassifying. And if you don't like that,
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he'll sick Taylor Taranto on you. And then there is
the continuing saga of Trump's lawyers. And I think this
is where the whole case is going to break, because
there's nothing more scared than a scared lawyer. The Wall
Street Journal rounds up the usual suspects, Powell again, Jenna Ellis, Cheesebro,
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Mike Roman who may have flipped, and adds in a
Powell associate named Emily Newman who is new on my
scorecard anyway. And if you remember Lynn Woold, the one
who made Sidney Powell seem sane and made Rudy Giuliani
seem sober. On Tuesday, Lynn Wood wrote to the General
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Council of the Georgia State Bar requesting permission to retire.
Retire from being a lawyer, and not just in Georgia.
He would be giving up his right to practice law
anywhere in the country. Why because after twenty twenty there
are two disciplinary proceedings against him and against his law
license in Georgia alone. Retiring is less humiliating. Can't be
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disbarred if you aren't barred in the first place, huh
taps head like in meme and now we go back
to Rudy. There was a nugget in that Wall Street
Journal piece that underscores the whole idea that Rudy's little
proffer meeting where he told them what he'd be willing
to tell them, was neither little nor just a profer,
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the journal wrote. Federal prosecutors also recently interviewed Rudy Giuliani,
who served a Trump personal lawyer at the time, for
roughly eight hours on topics including Powell. They were interested.
Wait wait wait, wait wait wait eight hours, eight hours.
They talked to Rudy Giuliani for eight hours. Do you
understand what is involved in talking to Rudy Giuliani for
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eight hours? The longest I ever managed was eight minutes,
and that was before everybody knew he was crazy. I
keep coming back to this same thought. There is more
to the Giuliani story. There is more to the Giuliani story.
There is more to the Giuliani story. The son of
a bitch must have flipped, Thank you, Nancy Faust. Also
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of interest here nothing else against Trump or about Trump.
I mean I have to have covered all of it.
Uh the way, there is this little bit of breaking
news that, according to Miles Taylor, who says he got
stuck in the middle of this with Trump in twenty seventeen,
that Trump was negociating to pull all US troops out
of Afghanistan like overnight and replace them with his own
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version of the Wagner Group, a private army loyal to
Trump of five thousand mercenaries organized by Eric Prince of
Blackwater infamy, allegiant only to Trump and then ready to
head to Venezuela to topple a government there as soon
as they mopped up the Taliban. But not to worry,
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because if Trump ever did return to the White House,
he'd never actually do that. He wouldn't run a private
army of five thousand guys who'd be his real life
version of buzz Wind Drip's minute Men in It Can't
happen here. He'd have fifty thousand. That's next. This is countdown.
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This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news,
some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, dateline Washington.
Miles Taylor, the former Trump staffer, revealing that in his
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new upcoming book recounting his involvement in attempting to stop
overtures between Trump figures and the notorious Iraq mercenary boss
Eric Prince to get Trump his own private five thousand
men mercenary army akin to Russia's Wagner Group. Trump thought
he could pull US troops out of Afghanistan overnight and
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could replace them with a Trump Prince private army or
use a similar force to then overthrow the elected government
of no not here of Venezuela. Why pay to overthrow
the elected government here when you could just use all
those free militias and Taranto's Taylor's book is called Blowback.
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He will also be joining our little iHeart political covenant
here with a new podcast series called The Whistleblowers that
starts next week and I'll tell you more about it then.
Dateline New York Semaphore News with a little relevant ancient
history about the noble inheritor of the Kennedy political dynasty.
It quotes former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer about the
day in two thousand and six when RFK Junior went
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to Spitzer's office to talk about running to replace Spitzer
as the New York State Attorney general. Quote in a
meeting in Spitzer's office, Kennedy asked whether he could continue
to give paid speeches to outside groups while he was
attorney general. Spitzer told Semaphore the would be candidate explained
that his responsibilities to his six children from two marriages
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had left him with expenses that simply couldn't be covered
by a government salary. Spitzer, incredulous, told him that there
was no way a top law enforcement officer could go
around getting paid for speeches. Kennedy didn't run for office
end quotes. See that's how we get him to drop
this sham trojan horse presidential bid. Remind him the job
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only pays four hundred k plus fifty thousand expenses. Next
thing you'll know, you'll be hearing this good evening. This
is day thirty two of the hunt for Robert F.
Kennedy Junior ran off stage during a campaign speech after
being slipped a note with a dollar figure written on it,
and has not been seen since. Thank you again, Nancy
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Faust Dateline, Portland, Oregon. Oregon Public Broadcasting CEO and President
Steve Bass will step away from that post next year
after seventeen years at it. Bass previously led WGBH in
Boston and Public TV in Nashville, but That's not why
I'm mentioning him. Steve plans to spend more time with
his family now and with his clarinet. He is a
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top classical performer on that instrument. In fact, he started
on that instrument in Peter De Luke's music class at
Farragut School in Hastings On Hudson, New York, in nineteen
sixty six. I know this because I was at the
next desk trying to learn how to work the saxophone
in mister de Luke's music class. Happily, my saxophone had
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a broken read piece, and I could still be blowing
into it today, fifty seven years later, and still not
have made anything that sounded anything like music. Steve's clarinet, obviously,
was just fine. All the best, my friend, Dateline, New York,
two passings to note. Doctor frank Field, a weatherman who
was a New York City television institute for forty years,
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then a national figure on The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson and The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, has died
at the age of one hundred. Doctor Frankfield was an
utterly deadpan weatherman, but that held and hid a deeply
anti establishment sense of humor. After his retirement, Field told
the New York Daily News that the jokes Carson made
at his expense were worth suffering, quoting him, he really
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gave me a safety rope. It was absolutely a lock.
You couldn't fire Frank Field, and in strange juxtaposition, New
York TV critic Marvin Kittman has died at ninety three.
Kitman wrote for the New York newspaper Newsday from Long
Island and liked little of what he saw. He was
also an expert on the life of the first President
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and wrote a brilliant puncturing book called George Washington's Expense Account,
which revealed that the father of the country also was
the father of the creative use of receipts. Kitman was
a favorite of Bill O'Reilly's as O'Reilly grew up on
Long Island, and O'Reilly in fact asked him to write
the authorized Bill O'Reilly biography. Kitman wrote it. It was
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stunningly fair. It praised O'Reilly's success and explained that and
it exposed the fabrications in his resume, and without saying so,
implied that O'Reilly was beaten by his father, as a child,
and that that explained everything. O'reiley disowned the book, and
Kitman Marvin Kittman later asked to write my biography, and
I said, I was flattered, and I thanked him for it,
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but I said, you know, come on, I wouldn't even
read that still ahead, nobody gets anywhere without a lucky break.
Mine was a calendar that looked a lot like this month's.
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July fourth was in the middle of the week that
year too, And when a radio network sportscaster quit, his
boss literally had only like six business days to find
somebody cheap who did not have a job to replace him.
That described me to a t things I promised not
to tell. Coming up first time for the daily roundup
of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruegriffic specimens who constitute
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today's worst persons in the Lebrons. Laura Ingram, bill O'Reilly's
former guest host, reposting a Politico article on the new
Republican plan to defund the police to go after the
FBI and doj Ingram added the dialogue, or to the dialogue,
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this pithy observation, they should defund Jack Smith or or
here's an alternative suggestion, laur just a thought they could
demote him by moving Jack Smith out of primetime and
sticking him in the seven o'clock hour. Just a thought.
Runners up all of us. So where were you and
what were you doing on July fourth, in the year
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one hundred and twenty two, nine hundred and seventy seven BC,
Because according to some scientists interpreting data from the US
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Tuesday, this July fourth, it
may have been the hottest day on Earth in one
hundred and twenty five thousand years. That would be one
hundred twenty nine hundred and seventy seven BC July fourth.
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But no, there's no climate change. It's not accelerating far
faster than anybody is willing to admit. We are going
to render the entire area surrounding the Equator unlivable for
humans within a decade or two and send hundreds of
millions of climate refugees to every corner of this planet.
Let's just dig more oil wells. That'll solve it. But
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our winner will Welch, editor in chief of GQ, a
magazine and website with which I had a pretty good
relationship in twenty sixteen. In twenty seventeen until and I've
never mentioned this before, they one day summarily fired the
producer of our video series, The Resistance, even though The
Resistance had made them at least a million dollars, on
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the pretext that they needed to save money. The producer's
name was Derenna Newton, and from the moment the series started,
we just did not get along. Her experience was fashion
and celebrity videos and mine wasn't. We never agreed on anything.
She tried to get off the assignment. I tried to
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get her removed from the assignment, and then one day
I realized one of her ideas was really great and
much better than anything that I was thinking of, and
like the next day, she realized that one of my
ideas was really great and better than one anything she
was thinking about. And from that day forward we were
a team. We really worked hard to find a place
in the middle. And the series got three hundred and
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seventy five million views for one hundred and seventy episodes,
and it earned GQ money, And so they fired her.
So I quit on the spot that moment. I'm not
loyal to employees. I'm loyal to colleagues anyway, That was
really the last thing I ever had to do with GQ,
and I thought it was the low water mark for
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GQ until this sequence of events broke yesterday. On Monday,
GQ posted a story called how Warner Bros. Discovery CEO
David Zaslab became public Enemy Number one in Hollywood. The
article mentioned Zaslav's recent unprecedented run. He hired Chris lickt
He and licked destroyed CNN. He then fired Chris lickt
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He dismembered Turner classic movies. The article, written by Jason Bailey,
compared Zaslav to the Richard Gear corporate character in Pretty
Woman and to Logan Roy in succession, and it called
him perhaps the most hated man in Hollywood. And then
suddenly it didn't call him that. GQ reposted the article
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with five hundred fewer words in it, without any of
those nasty remarks. The writer, Jason Bailey demanded GQ take
his name off the article. GQ said it didn't publish
articles without bylines and would have to kill the article,
and Bailey said fine. And now the second version of
this article disappeared from the website. Without any public explanation
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by GQ. GQ later claimed the piece had been posted
without proper editing, which might have been believable except a
spokesman for Zaslav's company, Warner Bros. Discovery boasted the quote.
We contacted the outlet and asked that numerous inaccuracies be corrected.
In the process of doing so, the editors ultimately decided
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to pull the piece. The anonymous spokesperson also said the
writer had never contacted Warner Bros. For fact checking, which
of course is not how that works. Wait it gets worse.
GQ is owned by Condy Nast, which is in turn
owned by Advanced Publications. Then Advanced Publications is in turn
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a major shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery. But wait, it
gets even worse than that. Worse variety is reporting that
the GQ editor in chief this Will Welch quote, is
producing a movie at Warner Bros. Titled The Great Chinese
Art Heist. Sources say Welch was in the discussion surrounding
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the removal of Bailey's initial story and made the call
to pull the revamped story. Those same sources say Warner Bros.
Discovery complained about the initial story to two GQ editors,
one of whom was Welch. So Zaz Lab of Warner Bros.
Didn't like a story about himself. So somebody called GQ,
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which is co owned with Warner Bros. And they reportedly
called this editor Welch, who is the producer of a
movie at Warner Bros. And he got five hundred words
taken out of the story and then killed it outright.
Am I reading this correctly? I can't count how many
conflicts of interest.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
There are in there.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I literally I don't know if it's eighty or ninety.
But I've got a really good idea for David Zaslab
and Warner Bros. This will Welch guy. Sounds like you
found your next CEO of CNN. Huh huh. In the interim,
he's simply today's worst Parson hay Broth just ahead. Nothing
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gets me more nostalgic than when July fourth falls in
the middle of a work week, because that, in part,
is why my career got started at all forty four
years ago. This week, I'll tell you that story in
a brand new edition of Things I promised not to
tell first time to feature another dog in need. You
can help. Every dog has its day. Three of them, actually,
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Angelina little Bit and prints three Malteses in Georgia. Their
human mom loved them, Dad not so much. When mom died,
Dad put them in a cage on an outdoor porch
even though it was ninety degrees out. American Maltese Association
Rescue has gotten him to surrender them. They were malnourished,
rotten teeth, matted hair. I think all three will make it,
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but there have been and will be expenses. You know
my feeling towards Malteses. Any help you can be to them,
I'll appreciate it. There's a fundraiser at Giving Grid and
you can find them there under GA Neglected Trio, or
just look for them on my Twitter feeds. Angelina thanks
you a little bit. Thanks you, Prince, thanks you, and
I thank you as well. Now to the number one
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story on the Countdown and Things I Promised not to
tell in my favorite topic me. On Monday, July second,
nineteen seventy nine, a man named Maury Trumbull walked into
his boss's office at United Press International in the Old
Daily News Building in New York and quit. He had
been offered a real job as the sports director of
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the NBC Radio Network, and he would happily finish out
the next two weeks as the sports director of UPI's
Radio network, and then bye, and Maury's boss was screwed.
Maury's boss had three sportscasters. Trumbull was not just the boss.
He also did the evening sportscasting shift, like four or
five days a week. And just four months earlier they
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had moved one of the sportscasters over to be the
new business reporter, and to replace him, they had to
listen to the audition tapes of two hundred sportscasters from
across the country, and not one of them was really
any good, not even as good as Mary Trumbull, and
so they hired the least bad of them, and they
were hoping for the best, and suddenly the new guy
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was the second senior man on the staff. And even
though you have not heard of UPI's Radio Network except
when I've mentioned it in this series, it was a
very big deal. On July second, nineteen seventy nine, there
were about one thousand radio stations affiliated with it in
this country, and though few of them were in the
top fifty cities, and fewer still ran the sports cast
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that Mary Trumbull and Sam Rosan and Jack Russell did
in those fifty cities. The smaller the market was, the
bigger the star Maury and Sam and now Jack were.
And what made it worse, of course, was that it
was Monday, July second, which meant the actual fourth of
July holiday was Wednesday, which meant that nobody, but nobody
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would be in the office almost anywhere in American radio
for at least the next few days. And in those
times when the long three day weekend when he had
got Monday off, was just becoming acceptable, this thing July fourth,
in the middle of the week was an excuse for
a four day weekend, or a five day weekend, or
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I'll just take the whole week off. And that meant
whoever would be doing Maury Trumbull's UPI sports casts as
of Monday, July sixteenth, nineteen seventy nine. He basically he
could not currently have a job because he'd have to
quit it because when he quitted, he would have to
give two weeks notice, And even if Maury's boss figured
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out who to hire in the next hour and got
him approved by his own boss, there was literally no
way the new guy could start on the sixteenth, and
he'd have to get his boss's approval. Then he didn't
know where his boss was because his boss was taking
like an eight day weekend. So now Maury Trumble's boss
was looking at the new guy starting no sooner than
July twenty third, or he suddenly realized, with a shudder,
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what if the new guy had to move to New
York from anywhere further away from them than like Albany
or Jersey or something. So that's when Mary Trumble's boss, well,
he thought that wasn't true anymore. He was Mary Trumblell's
X boss, wasn't he. For all the trouble Maury had
just caused him, at least that part was good news.
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Maury Trumble's X boss made his decision. I'll just hire
that kid from west Chester. Stan Sabek said to himself.
I don't know how I'll convince Shortino to take on
a kid with absolutely no full time professional experience, but
I'll figure it out. Stan Sabek was the bureau chief
of UPI Audio and Shortino was his boss. Frank Shortino
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the network general manager, and Frank was already old enough
to really dislike anybody much younger than he was, which
is why the youngest person in the New York headquarters
that day was thirty three, and Shortino didn't really trust her.
And suddenly it came to him, and Stan Sabek smiled.
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He rolled that phrase over in his head. No full
time professional experience, and he smiled again. My god, we
only have to pay the kids sixteen thousand a year.
We'll save thirty grand on salary. My mother did not
even step out into the warmth and the bright sunshine
of the pre holiday afternoon. Keith Phone, I was lying
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there on our very sketchy front lawn, listening to my
home built walkman and working on my tan, and trying
not to think of the fact that it was now
the week of July fourth, which was the deadline I
had given myself for just sitting around working on my tan.
After I surprised myself and my family and my friends
and especially my professors by actually graduating from Cornell on
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time in seven semesters, the last of which contained twenty
eight credits in ten different courses, a juggling act so
arduous that I will still all these years later, have
dreams in which it is graduation morning, May twenty eighth,
nineteen seventy nine, and I suddenly realized I have forgotten
an entire course, and I must read three thousand pages
or write five hundred pages or both before noon, or
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I will not graduate on time, and I will have
to go back and start all over again. In well,
if it's a really stressful period of time in my life,
I will have to go back and start all over
again in the third grade as an adult. In those chairs,
missus Weiner, I'm stuck in the chair again, possibly because
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I'm sixty four years old. Keith, it's Roger Norum. My
heart suddenly raced. Roger Normm was my contact at a
radio network i'd basically known nothing about even three months earlier.
It was called UPI Audio. A friend of a friend
of a friend of a friend had referred me to
a news editor there named Art Mcalloon, and I went
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into the UPI Audio offices on forty second Street in
my best suit, with absolutely no worry that I'd ever
forget a name like Art Mcalloon, And out came a
very quiet man with a kind face and a big
round beard and a big, round, curly head of hair,
and he proceeded to explain very quietly that he was
not Art Mcalloon, and Art had quit, but not before
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passing me on to him Roger Norum. Before I knew it,
Roger had in turn passed me on to a sportscaster
named Sam Rosen. I have introduced to him here before.
He made such an impression on me that my last
Cornell English paper was supposed to be a quick profile
of somebody interesting I had just met, and I chose
Sam over somebody else I had met the same day,
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and the other guy was named Bob Iger. Anyway, Sam
had been startled at the tape of my college sports
casts and had pronounced it twice as good as the
guy they had just hired, who was now Stan Sabek's
second senior sportscaster. And before I knew it, Sam had
given the tape to Stan, and Stan had invited me
back into New York for a formal interview, and Stan
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had said, you will hear this a lot in this business,
but give me a little time. I think I can
guarantee you six seven weeks of vacation relief this summer,
some sports, some news. If you don't mind doing both.
Roger norm had some interesting news for me on that
phone call. You may have guessed it was about Mary
Trumbull resigning from UPI and going to NBC. It's the
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talk of the place right now. He's already packing. They'll
have to move fast, and with the holiday there's no
way they can bring in people for interviews or have
a full search to replace him. You should give him
till Thursday the fifth and then and call Stan unless
he calls you first. I mean, they really loved your tape.
Stan told people about it. He was very excited. It's
the old cliche Keith about being in the right place
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at the right time. And by the way, if you
can make it over, you are cordially invited to the
annual Norham family Fourth of July bash. We're in Westchester two.
I never once spoke to Roger Norham that he did
not invite me to a Norum bash. He had them
for all major holidays, and I believe for lesser events
like the Westminster Dog Show and Moroccan Independence Day. He
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was a lovely man, and while he was a fine newsman,
he was far better at kindness and favor. He's like
the one he was doing me on that July afternoon
so long ago. Needless to say, I was silent and
pretty much breathless for the rest of July second, nineteen
seventy nine. As hard as that might be for you
to believe, I explained to my folks what might be
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going on, how just as I was going to make
myself start worrying about actually getting a job, maybe in Atlanta,
I might have just gotten a job a forty minute
train ride away. Based on what Stan Sabeg had said
about getting me vacation relief work. I suspected he would
offer me something on a temporary basis to see if
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I could actually do it. But still if even that
actually happened, this was my chance to break into professional
radio at probably the peak of professional radio's post war
importance and competitiveness and expansion, and to break in in
New York City at a network. My rivals for every
job I would seek for the next twenty years, or
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thirty years or fifty years, would be happy to be
breaking in in Keyakuk, Iowa, no offense, Kiacook and I
would be on the network. They would hear as they
arrived to do the morning shift at four thirty am
in keiokook. I do not remember sleeping that night, certainly
not well. Still, I am confident that I remember this correctly.
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On Tuesday, July third, nineteen seventy nine, I was back
out on the Olderman family tanning lawn, twenty feet from
the driveway just afternoon when the front door opened and
Mom said it again, Keith phone, someone named Stan, Keith
Stan Sabek. He laughed. Stan laughed a lot. Stan and
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I had a loud fight fourteen months later that got
me fired and then unfired hours later. Stan laughed in
the middle of all that twice tired of lying around
the pool, yet I lied and said, yes, of course
there was no pool, just my lawn. I don't know
if you've heard. He said it in such a way
that confirmed that he was confident I had heard, and
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noram or Rosen or somebody had called to tell me.
But my sports director quit to go to NBC. I
need a full time sport it's cast here to replace him.
You interested, prepared as I was for the offer of
part time work. I was stunned, on top of stunned.
Full time stand Did you say full time? Stan laughed, yes.
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Sixteen thousand, No negotiations. Mostly nights, some mornings, some ball games.
You get to cover split days off. You're not going
to have a weekend for a couple of years. Probably,
Can you come in Thursday to fill out the job
application for the job I just hired you for? He
laughed again. Ever since, I have associated the fourth of
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July with the start of my career, but especially those
years when the week with the fourth in it is
in the middle of the week, just like that and
makes it more difficult for employers to hire anybody except
the cheap and the unemployed. Turns out that Wednesday, July
fourth calendar is not a frequent thing. Happened in nineteen
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seventy nine, happened again in nineteen ninety one, two thousand
and seven, twenty eighteen, not scheduled to happen again until
twenty twenty nine, barring major breaking news developments. A week
to the day that stan Sebek had called, I was
on the air at UPI. I wasn't supposed to be.
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I was just supposed to be watching the morning shift
with Sam Rosen. And then finally he said, so do
you think you got the hang of it? And I said, ma,
I guess so, he said, good, because you're on at
nine forty five. I was so scared. I had an
out of body experience. Thirty days after Stan Sebic called
on July third, I was on my own on the
night shift, maybe the seventh time, when the Yankee catcher
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Thurman Munson was killed when he crashed his private plane,
and I had to call his teammates for interviews and
still do the sports cast every hour. By October, they
had put me on a plane to go cover the
National League playoffs. Six months after he called, Stan and
Sam Rosen and I were covering the nineteen eighty Winter
Olympics for UPI Radio, and our stuff was playing on
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radio stations around the world. But all these years later,
none of that compares to the sensation of that phone
call and the realization that my career had really started.
At forty eight hours later, I was walking into UPI's
offices as a pro plus, I got the first shock
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of my career. Good news, Stan said and laughed. That's
stringing work you did for UPI. All those Cornell football
games you covered for fifteen dollars a game. The Union says,
guess what they count towards your professional experience, so you
won't be starting at just sixteen thousand. You get credited
with experience for all that stringing, you got exactly six
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days worth of credit. Congratulations, you'll be starting at sixteen thousand,
twenty five dollars a year. And Stan Sabic laughed, and yes,
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I will play you that first sportscast if you want
to hear it in its entirety in just a moment. First,
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Stations Live Sports will begin, preceded by a one second
tone coming up ten seconds from Mark good Morning. Three
members of the Houston Astros named this morning to manager
Tommy Losorda's National League pitching staff for next Tuesday's All
Star Game. Top winner Joe Nicro tapped by Lesorta, along
with Joaquin Andehar and reliever Joe Sambido. Routing out the staff,
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veteran Steve Carlton of Philadelphia and Gaylord Perry of the Padres,
Steve Rogers of Montreal, the Cubs Bruce Suitor, and Cincinnati's
Mike Lacas And speaking of the All Stars you went.
I think Don Baylor and his eighty RBI would be
a shoe in for the al outfield. Baylor drove in
another run last night as the Angels whip Boston six
to nothing. But matter of fact, he placed fourteenth in
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the voting. The most important thing for me right now
is just to win on this talk club. A lot
of people have brought up to the all start thing,
and I can't do anything about that, you know, those
voter any things.
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But I can't do something about this ball club.
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You know, if I produced on this club, we're w
When they did last night is Nolan Ryan struck out twelve.
That puts California at half game up on Texas in
the West. Elsewhere in the American and the Orioles lead
is up to three in the East. They beat Oakland
by the score of seven to three. It was the
Blue Jays seven Milwaukee one, Minnesota over Detroit five to
three as Jerry Kuzman won his eleventh The White Sox
stopped Texas five to four. In Cleveland over KC eight
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to two. The New York Yankees were off, but they
made an important move for their pennant hopes. The activation
of injured relief pitcher Rich Gossage over in the National
Montreal's Eastern lead is up to five and a half.
Bill Lee blank the Dodgers three, zip Phillies over the
Giants four to two. The Cardinals meetings in Sinnati six
to three in Chicago seven Atlanta four. At the Padam
Games in San Juan a big upset and the eight
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hundred meter run American James Robinson shocking Cuban Olympic champ
Alberto Jantarina. The US boosted its gold medal total to
eighty one. Both the men's and women's basketball teams remain undefeated,
and for the second time in his career, crack Montreal
Canadians goaltender Ken Dryden has called it quits. Dryden going
back to the law books at the age of thirty one.
This time it looks permanent, though the haves say the
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big goalie is welcome back at any time. From the
sports desk IF United Press International, I'm Keith Olberman.
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Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Anybody
else noticed that one of Trump's stochastic terrorists went to
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Barack Obama's house to assassinate him last week? Or was
it just me? And that a Washington judge was having
a hard time last night finding an excuse to hold
this scumbag without bail, hold the would be assassin without bail,
And that Trump had doxed Obama and Trump had finally
found a sucker willing to do his lethal bidding for
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him and park his van full of AMMO and weapons
a few blocks from Obama's home and live stream himself
threatening Jamie Raskin and Kevin McCarthy, and oh, he was
going to take his vandam Maryland to a federal facility
containing a nuclear research reactor and blow up the van
and the nuclear reactor. And I mean, am I the
only one seeing this anywhere? Trump, crazier and more dangerous
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by the minute, is finally clearly and inextricably linked to
a guy ready to answer Trump's constant drumbeat to try
to get one of his cultists to kill without telling
them to kill, and thus leaving himself open to prosecution
for killing or for incitement to kill, and the Department
of Justice is still remaining asleep at the switch. The
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US magistrate judge in DC, himself a former terrorist prosecutor,
Zia M. Farruki, managed to avoid having to release Trump's
figurative flying monkey his name is Taylor Toronto by keeping
him in stir overnight and putting the onus on the
government to answer the judge's question if the original charges
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against this would be political murderer Toronto, we're simple leftover
trespassing accusations from January sixth, and the government wanted him
held without bail because he's a flight risk. What if
the judge finds he's not a flight risk? Is it
enough that threatening key Democratic and Republican congressman and talking
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about going to a government nuclear reactor and blowing up
your van next to it. Oh, and responding to one
former president publishing of another former president's home address by
going to that address with a van full of weapons
of death? Is that quote clear convincing evidence of a
danger to the public. And even if it is, does
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that mean the judge can really hold him in jail? Yeah,
you guys, just let Toronto loose while the lot of
you argue over how many angels can dance on the
head of this figurative pin. And you know, if he
goes back to Obama's neighborhood or I don't know, tries
to ram the White House with his man full of
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while screaming Trump is God as he does so, maybe
then prosecutors can indict him for various vehicular and parking offenses. Christ.
When a messed up man angry over the leak, over
the impending overturning of Roe V. Wade actually found himself
near Bret Kavanaugh's home a year ago June. Armed to
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the teeth, he called nine to one one himself. He
basically asked them to stop him before he did something
something terrible, and he was arrested minutes later without incident.
And Republicans consider this roughly equivalent to the crucifixion of Christ,
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even though the man stopped, thought, reconsidered, did not act,
did not get close, surrendered to the authorities and prosecution.
That is the vote Brett Kavanaugh assassination attempts and I
don't want to play can you top this with lunatics?
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But that event compared to Taylor Toronto reading a post
by Trump doxing Obama and responding like Reggie Jackson in
the movie The Naked Gun and taking his traveling gun
show to Obama's neighborhood while evading arrest for a day.
And he hasn't shown remorse or concern for anything except
whether or not he had enough bars to keep his
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live stream going. That is what we're dealing with here.
And we were sure that we could keep him in
jail overnight, oh when he was also presumably worried about
whether or not he was pleasing his psychopathic Mari Lago master.
Trump's ultimate intentions have been evident since twenty sixteen. He
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is not a human being in the conventional use of
the term. Other people do not exist to him. They
are either impediments to what he wants or means by
which he can get what he wants. He has a
hit list. It changes from week two weeks, sometimes from
hour to hour. He mused about his Second Amendment folks
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taking care of Hillary Clinton for him. During the twenty
sixteen campaign. He wanted people to kill senators and congressmen
and anybody else they could find at the Capitol so
Biden would not be certified as president on January sixth.
He directed this beam of murder by proxy at the
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. He aims at at Jack
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Smith every second or third day, and last week it
was Obama's turn. And not only has nobody figured out
how to hold Trump responsible for this, and this is terrorism.
Donald Trump is a terrorist, but clearly the Justice Department
is struggling just to keep the proxy assassin in jail overnight.
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Toronto is a direct and serious threat to the public,
wrote the assistant US Attorneys in a twenty six page
sentencing recommendation to the judge. Toronto's own words and actions
demonstrate that he is a direct threat to multiple political
figures as well as the public at large. The risk
that Toronto poses if released is high, and the severity
of the consequences that could result are catastrophic. And the
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Judge is openly concerned and worried about what looks like
PTSD from his tour in Iraq and the fact that
Toronto also says he came to DC after Kevin McCarthy.
The Putts made that grand standing offer to show January sixth,
defendants all the exculpatory video that oh, sorry, it isn't exculpatory.
That's why Tucker Carlson only showed three minutes of it,
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And that golly Toronto keeps denying facts in reality, and
he's delusional and that kind of makes him more of
a danger than even the average would be ex presidential assassin.
And it's as if the judge is ninety nine percent
of the way there but just can't find that last
one percent where you at least order him held pending
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psychiatric value. Rather than listen to his public defender explain
that Toronto's wife is absolutely ready to keep an eye
on her husband in their home back in Washington State
while he's out on bail, because naturally, a guy willing
to threaten to blow up a government nuclear reactor and
drive a van full of weapons over to Barack's house,
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he would never harm his wife, would he. This is
from the Washington Post last night. Quote Toronto allegedly recorded
himself walking in the neighborhood, saying he was looking for
quote entrance points and quote tunnels underneath their houses, according
to prosecutors, referring to Obama's and the Podesta's house. Apparently,
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John Podesta, former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, who
lives nearby Toronto, also said he had control of the
block and repeatedly stated that he was trying to get
a shot and a good angle on a shot. Prosecutors claimed,
now he's fine. You don't think he's a flight at
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risk judge, Just let him go. What harm could he
really do out there? I mean, this guy doesn't even
know there aren't any tunnels. Haha, what a loser. Whiskey
sours everyone. This is insane and it remains insane that
we let Trump continue year after year, in venue after venue,
with victim after victim, with his who will rid me
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of this turbulent priest bullshit? Except now there is an actual,
identifiable sucker, the ultimate Trump Mark, the remote controlled buffoon,
stupid enough and demented enough and whacked out enough to
let Trump manipulate him like a drone. Trump is a terrorist.
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He tried to get people to start a violent revolution
to overthrow the government, and his stochastic threats against dozens
and dozens of Americans have become so routine and so
pronounced that if trump UMP's name had been College Shake Trump,
he would have been in Gittmotionince twenty fifteen. He just
trying to get somebody, and this somebody turns out to
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be named Taylor Toronto to go over to Obama's house
and kill him. I mean, I took three days off
from this podcast for the first time this year, and
I wondered if I was letting people down, and our
justice system looks at Taylor Toronto and Donald Trump, it
finds reasons not to put them in jail and lose
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their records. This has got to stop. And if it
has to stop because a judge named Zia M. Ferruki says, yeah,
he's a flight risk. Whatever the government can only hold
him forty years, then so be it. Because this will end.
And if it does not end with somebody standing up
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for the right and you know, against Trump's stochastic terrorism
and the assassination of ex presidents, It's going to end
so other way. And that actually will not be an end.
It will be the beginning of something. And that's something
will be very dark and not at all remote controlled
or at some kind of distance from everybody or via proxy,
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and it will not be stochastic. All right, Let's lighten
the mood and go from Trump inspired assassination attempts to
mere coup attempts. Jack Smith has clearly expanded his investigations
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into the state of and he guesses Arizona. First, ABC
News reported that Trump tried to Georgia in Arizona tried
to get the then governor Doug Deocey to just find
him some more votes, and that Trump had Mike Pence
call Deucy to pressure him. Fence clearly called him. He
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confirms that there is actually no evidence that Pence act
pressured him beyond just the fact of the phone call.
Of course, in an intriguing twist, it does look like
Jack Smith beat the news media to Arizona. The Arizona
Republic newspaper now reporting that the Special Council's Office issued
to subpoenas to the office of the Arizona Secretary of State,
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apparently in May, looking for information about the lawsuits against
the state by the Trump campaign and by the former
Arizona GOP chair Kelly Ward, who is not of this earth,
alleging fraud and errors in the vote in Arizona. This
would suggest this is about the wire fraud charges. Smith
seems to be assembling against Trump for raising money to
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cure a stolen election he knew was not stolen. The
newspaper reports Jack Smith has not contacted ex Governor Deucey.
The Washington Post reports Deucey cannot understand why Smith hasn't.
Also the Tucker Carlson Maria Bartiromo, producer who settled with
Fox for twelve million, she has reportedly been contacted by
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Smith's office, and one of the centerpieces to the Trump defense,
besides trying to get his cultists to kill everybody, is
that all the documents were declassified, that he had a
standing order to declassify anything removed from the Oval Office,
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standing order that declassified everything that was on the Trump
confession tape. Well, guess what. The standing order does not exist.
I know you're shocked. I should give you a minute,
sit down, have a whiskey sour. Bloomberg News filed a
Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last August asking the Justice
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Department and the Director of National Intelligence to produce such
an order or at least confirm its existence in redacted form.
And they don't have it. So Trump will naturally now
say that he took it with him too, and it
was automatically self declassifying. And if you don't like that,
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he'll sick Taylor Taranto on you. And then there is
the continuing saga of Trump's lawyers. And I think this
is where the whole case is going to break, because
there's nothing more scared than a scared lawyer. The Wall
Street Journal rounds up the usual suspects, Powell again, Jenna Ellis, Cheesebro,
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Mike Roman who may have flipped, and adds in a
Powell associate named Emily Newman who is new on my
scorecard anyway. And if you remember Lynn Woold, the one
who made Sidney Powell seem sane and made Rudy Giuliani
seem sober. On Tuesday, Lynn Wood wrote to the General
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Council of the Georgia State Bar requesting permission to retire.
Retire from being a lawyer, and not just in Georgia.
He would be giving up his right to practice law
anywhere in the country. Why because after twenty twenty there
are two disciplinary proceedings against him and against his law
license in Georgia alone. Retiring is less humiliating. Can't be
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disbarred if you aren't barred in the first place, huh
taps head like in meme and now we go back
to Rudy. There was a nugget in that Wall Street
Journal piece that underscores the whole idea that Rudy's little
proffer meeting where he told them what he'd be willing
to tell them, was neither little nor just a profer,
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the journal wrote. Federal prosecutors also recently interviewed Rudy Giuliani,
who served a Trump personal lawyer at the time, for
roughly eight hours on topics including Powell. They were interested.
Wait wait wait, wait wait wait eight hours, eight hours.
They talked to Rudy Giuliani for eight hours. Do you
understand what is involved in talking to Rudy Giuliani for
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eight hours? The longest I ever managed was eight minutes,
and that was before everybody knew he was crazy. I
keep coming back to this same thought. There is more
to the Giuliani story. There is more to the Giuliani story.
There is more to the Giuliani story. The son of
a bitch must have flipped, Thank you, Nancy Faust. Also
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of interest here nothing else against Trump or about Trump.
I mean I have to have covered all of it.
Uh the way, there is this little bit of breaking
news that, according to Miles Taylor, who says he got
stuck in the middle of this with Trump in twenty seventeen,
that Trump was negociating to pull all US troops out
of Afghanistan like overnight and replace them with his own
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version of the Wagner Group, a private army loyal to
Trump of five thousand mercenaries organized by Eric Prince of
Blackwater infamy, allegiant only to Trump and then ready to
head to Venezuela to topple a government there as soon
as they mopped up the Taliban. But not to worry,
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because if Trump ever did return to the White House,
he'd never actually do that. He wouldn't run a private
army of five thousand guys who'd be his real life
version of buzz Wind Drip's minute Men in It Can't
happen here. He'd have fifty thousand. That's next. This is countdown.
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This is countdown with Keith Olberman. Postscripts to the news,
some headlines, some updates, some snarks, some predictions, dateline Washington.
Miles Taylor, the former Trump staffer, revealing that in his
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new upcoming book recounting his involvement in attempting to stop
overtures between Trump figures and the notorious Iraq mercenary boss
Eric Prince to get Trump his own private five thousand
men mercenary army akin to Russia's Wagner Group. Trump thought
he could pull US troops out of Afghanistan overnight and
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could replace them with a Trump Prince private army or
use a similar force to then overthrow the elected government
of no not here of Venezuela. Why pay to overthrow
the elected government here when you could just use all
those free militias and Taranto's Taylor's book is called Blowback.
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He will also be joining our little iHeart political covenant
here with a new podcast series called The Whistleblowers that
starts next week and I'll tell you more about it then.
Dateline New York Semaphore News with a little relevant ancient
history about the noble inheritor of the Kennedy political dynasty.
It quotes former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer about the
day in two thousand and six when RFK Junior went
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to Spitzer's office to talk about running to replace Spitzer
as the New York State Attorney general. Quote in a
meeting in Spitzer's office, Kennedy asked whether he could continue
to give paid speeches to outside groups while he was
attorney general. Spitzer told Semaphore the would be candidate explained
that his responsibilities to his six children from two marriages
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had left him with expenses that simply couldn't be covered
by a government salary. Spitzer, incredulous, told him that there
was no way a top law enforcement officer could go
around getting paid for speeches. Kennedy didn't run for office
end quotes. See that's how we get him to drop
this sham trojan horse presidential bid. Remind him the job
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only pays four hundred k plus fifty thousand expenses. Next
thing you'll know, you'll be hearing this good evening. This
is day thirty two of the hunt for Robert F.
Kennedy Junior ran off stage during a campaign speech after
being slipped a note with a dollar figure written on it,
and has not been seen since. Thank you again, Nancy
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Faust Dateline, Portland, Oregon. Oregon Public Broadcasting CEO and President
Steve Bass will step away from that post next year
after seventeen years at it. Bass previously led WGBH in
Boston and Public TV in Nashville, but That's not why
I'm mentioning him. Steve plans to spend more time with
his family now and with his clarinet. He is a
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top classical performer on that instrument. In fact, he started
on that instrument in Peter De Luke's music class at
Farragut School in Hastings On Hudson, New York, in nineteen
sixty six. I know this because I was at the
next desk trying to learn how to work the saxophone
in mister de Luke's music class. Happily, my saxophone had
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a broken read piece, and I could still be blowing
into it today, fifty seven years later, and still not
have made anything that sounded anything like music. Steve's clarinet, obviously,
was just fine. All the best, my friend, Dateline, New York,
two passings to note. Doctor frank Field, a weatherman who
was a New York City television institute for forty years,
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then a national figure on The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson and The Tomorrow Show with Tom Snyder, has died
at the age of one hundred. Doctor Frankfield was an
utterly deadpan weatherman, but that held and hid a deeply
anti establishment sense of humor. After his retirement, Field told
the New York Daily News that the jokes Carson made
at his expense were worth suffering, quoting him, he really
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gave me a safety rope. It was absolutely a lock.
You couldn't fire Frank Field, and in strange juxtaposition, New
York TV critic Marvin Kittman has died at ninety three.
Kitman wrote for the New York newspaper Newsday from Long
Island and liked little of what he saw. He was
also an expert on the life of the first President
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and wrote a brilliant puncturing book called George Washington's Expense Account,
which revealed that the father of the country also was
the father of the creative use of receipts. Kitman was
a favorite of Bill O'Reilly's as O'Reilly grew up on
Long Island, and O'Reilly in fact asked him to write
the authorized Bill O'Reilly biography. Kitman wrote it. It was
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stunningly fair. It praised O'Reilly's success and explained that and
it exposed the fabrications in his resume, and without saying so,
implied that O'Reilly was beaten by his father, as a child,
and that that explained everything. O'reiley disowned the book, and
Kitman Marvin Kittman later asked to write my biography, and
I said, I was flattered, and I thanked him for it,
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but I said, you know, come on, I wouldn't even
read that still ahead, nobody gets anywhere without a lucky break.
Mine was a calendar that looked a lot like this month's.
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July fourth was in the middle of the week that
year too, And when a radio network sportscaster quit, his
boss literally had only like six business days to find
somebody cheap who did not have a job to replace him.
That described me to a t things I promised not
to tell. Coming up first time for the daily roundup
of the miscrants, morons and dunning Kruegriffic specimens who constitute
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today's worst persons in the Lebrons. Laura Ingram, bill O'Reilly's
former guest host, reposting a Politico article on the new
Republican plan to defund the police to go after the
FBI and doj Ingram added the dialogue, or to the dialogue,
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this pithy observation, they should defund Jack Smith or or
here's an alternative suggestion, laur just a thought they could
demote him by moving Jack Smith out of primetime and
sticking him in the seven o'clock hour. Just a thought.
Runners up all of us. So where were you and
what were you doing on July fourth, in the year
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one hundred and twenty two, nine hundred and seventy seven BC,
Because according to some scientists interpreting data from the US
National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Tuesday, this July fourth, it
may have been the hottest day on Earth in one
hundred and twenty five thousand years. That would be one
hundred twenty nine hundred and seventy seven BC July fourth.
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But no, there's no climate change. It's not accelerating far
faster than anybody is willing to admit. We are going
to render the entire area surrounding the Equator unlivable for
humans within a decade or two and send hundreds of
millions of climate refugees to every corner of this planet.
Let's just dig more oil wells. That'll solve it. But
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our winner will Welch, editor in chief of GQ, a
magazine and website with which I had a pretty good
relationship in twenty sixteen. In twenty seventeen until and I've
never mentioned this before, they one day summarily fired the
producer of our video series, The Resistance, even though The
Resistance had made them at least a million dollars, on
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the pretext that they needed to save money. The producer's
name was Derenna Newton, and from the moment the series started,
we just did not get along. Her experience was fashion
and celebrity videos and mine wasn't. We never agreed on anything.
She tried to get off the assignment. I tried to
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get her removed from the assignment, and then one day
I realized one of her ideas was really great and
much better than anything that I was thinking of, and
like the next day, she realized that one of my
ideas was really great and better than one anything she
was thinking about. And from that day forward we were
a team. We really worked hard to find a place
in the middle. And the series got three hundred and
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seventy five million views for one hundred and seventy episodes,
and it earned GQ money, And so they fired her.
So I quit on the spot that moment. I'm not
loyal to employees. I'm loyal to colleagues anyway, That was
really the last thing I ever had to do with GQ,
and I thought it was the low water mark for
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GQ until this sequence of events broke yesterday. On Monday,
GQ posted a story called how Warner Bros. Discovery CEO
David Zaslab became public Enemy Number one in Hollywood. The
article mentioned Zaslav's recent unprecedented run. He hired Chris lickt
He and licked destroyed CNN. He then fired Chris lickt
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He dismembered Turner classic movies. The article, written by Jason Bailey,
compared Zaslav to the Richard Gear corporate character in Pretty
Woman and to Logan Roy in succession, and it called
him perhaps the most hated man in Hollywood. And then
suddenly it didn't call him that. GQ reposted the article
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with five hundred fewer words in it, without any of
those nasty remarks. The writer, Jason Bailey demanded GQ take
his name off the article. GQ said it didn't publish
articles without bylines and would have to kill the article,
and Bailey said fine. And now the second version of
this article disappeared from the website. Without any public explanation
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by GQ. GQ later claimed the piece had been posted
without proper editing, which might have been believable except a
spokesman for Zaslav's company, Warner Bros. Discovery boasted the quote.
We contacted the outlet and asked that numerous inaccuracies be corrected.
In the process of doing so, the editors ultimately decided
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to pull the piece. The anonymous spokesperson also said the
writer had never contacted Warner Bros. For fact checking, which
of course is not how that works. Wait it gets worse.
GQ is owned by Condy Nast, which is in turn
owned by Advanced Publications. Then Advanced Publications is in turn
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a major shareholder in Warner Bros. Discovery. But wait, it
gets even worse than that. Worse variety is reporting that
the GQ editor in chief this Will Welch quote, is
producing a movie at Warner Bros. Titled The Great Chinese
Art Heist. Sources say Welch was in the discussion surrounding
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the removal of Bailey's initial story and made the call
to pull the revamped story. Those same sources say Warner Bros.
Discovery complained about the initial story to two GQ editors,
one of whom was Welch. So Zaz Lab of Warner Bros.
Didn't like a story about himself. So somebody called GQ,
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which is co owned with Warner Bros. And they reportedly
called this editor Welch, who is the producer of a
movie at Warner Bros. And he got five hundred words
taken out of the story and then killed it outright.
Am I reading this correctly? I can't count how many
conflicts of interest.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
There are in there.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
I literally I don't know if it's eighty or ninety.
But I've got a really good idea for David Zaslab
and Warner Bros. This will Welch guy. Sounds like you
found your next CEO of CNN. Huh huh. In the interim,
he's simply today's worst Parson hay Broth just ahead. Nothing
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gets me more nostalgic than when July fourth falls in
the middle of a work week, because that, in part,
is why my career got started at all forty four
years ago. This week, I'll tell you that story in
a brand new edition of Things I promised not to
tell first time to feature another dog in need. You
can help. Every dog has its day. Three of them, actually,
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Angelina little Bit and prints three Malteses in Georgia. Their
human mom loved them, Dad not so much. When mom died,
Dad put them in a cage on an outdoor porch
even though it was ninety degrees out. American Maltese Association
Rescue has gotten him to surrender them. They were malnourished,
rotten teeth, matted hair. I think all three will make it,
(30:05):
but there have been and will be expenses. You know
my feeling towards Malteses. Any help you can be to them,
I'll appreciate it. There's a fundraiser at Giving Grid and
you can find them there under GA Neglected Trio, or
just look for them on my Twitter feeds. Angelina thanks
you a little bit. Thanks you, Prince, thanks you, and
I thank you as well. Now to the number one
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story on the Countdown and Things I Promised not to
tell in my favorite topic me. On Monday, July second,
nineteen seventy nine, a man named Maury Trumbull walked into
his boss's office at United Press International in the Old
Daily News Building in New York and quit. He had
been offered a real job as the sports director of
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the NBC Radio Network, and he would happily finish out
the next two weeks as the sports director of UPI's
Radio network, and then bye, and Maury's boss was screwed.
Maury's boss had three sportscasters. Trumbull was not just the boss.
He also did the evening sportscasting shift, like four or
five days a week. And just four months earlier they
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had moved one of the sportscasters over to be the
new business reporter, and to replace him, they had to
listen to the audition tapes of two hundred sportscasters from
across the country, and not one of them was really
any good, not even as good as Mary Trumbull, and
so they hired the least bad of them, and they
were hoping for the best, and suddenly the new guy
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was the second senior man on the staff. And even
though you have not heard of UPI's Radio Network except
when I've mentioned it in this series, it was a
very big deal. On July second, nineteen seventy nine, there
were about one thousand radio stations affiliated with it in
this country, and though few of them were in the
top fifty cities, and fewer still ran the sports cast
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that Mary Trumbull and Sam Rosan and Jack Russell did
in those fifty cities. The smaller the market was, the
bigger the star Maury and Sam and now Jack were.
And what made it worse, of course, was that it
was Monday, July second, which meant the actual fourth of
July holiday was Wednesday, which meant that nobody, but nobody
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would be in the office almost anywhere in American radio
for at least the next few days. And in those
times when the long three day weekend when he had
got Monday off, was just becoming acceptable, this thing July fourth,
in the middle of the week was an excuse for
a four day weekend, or a five day weekend, or
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I'll just take the whole week off. And that meant
whoever would be doing Maury Trumbull's UPI sports casts as
of Monday, July sixteenth, nineteen seventy nine. He basically he
could not currently have a job because he'd have to
quit it because when he quitted, he would have to
give two weeks notice, And even if Maury's boss figured
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out who to hire in the next hour and got
him approved by his own boss, there was literally no
way the new guy could start on the sixteenth, and
he'd have to get his boss's approval. Then he didn't
know where his boss was because his boss was taking
like an eight day weekend. So now Maury Trumble's boss
was looking at the new guy starting no sooner than
July twenty third, or he suddenly realized, with a shudder,
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what if the new guy had to move to New
York from anywhere further away from them than like Albany
or Jersey or something. So that's when Mary Trumble's boss, well,
he thought that wasn't true anymore. He was Mary Trumblell's
X boss, wasn't he. For all the trouble Maury had
just caused him, at least that part was good news.
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Maury Trumble's X boss made his decision. I'll just hire
that kid from west Chester. Stan Sabek said to himself.
I don't know how I'll convince Shortino to take on
a kid with absolutely no full time professional experience, but
I'll figure it out. Stan Sabek was the bureau chief
of UPI Audio and Shortino was his boss. Frank Shortino
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the network general manager, and Frank was already old enough
to really dislike anybody much younger than he was, which
is why the youngest person in the New York headquarters
that day was thirty three, and Shortino didn't really trust her.
And suddenly it came to him, and Stan Sabek smiled.
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He rolled that phrase over in his head. No full
time professional experience, and he smiled again. My god, we
only have to pay the kids sixteen thousand a year.
We'll save thirty grand on salary. My mother did not
even step out into the warmth and the bright sunshine
of the pre holiday afternoon. Keith Phone, I was lying
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there on our very sketchy front lawn, listening to my
home built walkman and working on my tan, and trying
not to think of the fact that it was now
the week of July fourth, which was the deadline I
had given myself for just sitting around working on my tan.
After I surprised myself and my family and my friends
and especially my professors by actually graduating from Cornell on
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time in seven semesters, the last of which contained twenty
eight credits in ten different courses, a juggling act so
arduous that I will still all these years later, have
dreams in which it is graduation morning, May twenty eighth,
nineteen seventy nine, and I suddenly realized I have forgotten
an entire course, and I must read three thousand pages
or write five hundred pages or both before noon, or
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I will not graduate on time, and I will have
to go back and start all over again. In well,
if it's a really stressful period of time in my life,
I will have to go back and start all over
again in the third grade as an adult. In those chairs,
missus Weiner, I'm stuck in the chair again, possibly because
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I'm sixty four years old. Keith, it's Roger Norum. My
heart suddenly raced. Roger Normm was my contact at a
radio network i'd basically known nothing about even three months earlier.
It was called UPI Audio. A friend of a friend
of a friend of a friend had referred me to
a news editor there named Art Mcalloon, and I went
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into the UPI Audio offices on forty second Street in
my best suit, with absolutely no worry that I'd ever
forget a name like Art Mcalloon, And out came a
very quiet man with a kind face and a big
round beard and a big, round, curly head of hair,
and he proceeded to explain very quietly that he was
not Art Mcalloon, and Art had quit, but not before
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passing me on to him Roger Norum. Before I knew it,
Roger had in turn passed me on to a sportscaster
named Sam Rosen. I have introduced to him here before.
He made such an impression on me that my last
Cornell English paper was supposed to be a quick profile
of somebody interesting I had just met, and I chose
Sam over somebody else I had met the same day,
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and the other guy was named Bob Iger. Anyway, Sam
had been startled at the tape of my college sports
casts and had pronounced it twice as good as the
guy they had just hired, who was now Stan Sabek's
second senior sportscaster. And before I knew it, Sam had
given the tape to Stan, and Stan had invited me
back into New York for a formal interview, and Stan
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had said, you will hear this a lot in this business,
but give me a little time. I think I can
guarantee you six seven weeks of vacation relief this summer,
some sports, some news. If you don't mind doing both.
Roger norm had some interesting news for me on that
phone call. You may have guessed it was about Mary
Trumbull resigning from UPI and going to NBC. It's the
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talk of the place right now. He's already packing. They'll
have to move fast, and with the holiday there's no
way they can bring in people for interviews or have
a full search to replace him. You should give him
till Thursday the fifth and then and call Stan unless
he calls you first. I mean, they really loved your tape.
Stan told people about it. He was very excited. It's
the old cliche Keith about being in the right place
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at the right time. And by the way, if you
can make it over, you are cordially invited to the
annual Norham family Fourth of July bash. We're in Westchester two.
I never once spoke to Roger Norham that he did
not invite me to a Norum bash. He had them
for all major holidays, and I believe for lesser events
like the Westminster Dog Show and Moroccan Independence Day. He
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was a lovely man, and while he was a fine newsman,
he was far better at kindness and favor. He's like
the one he was doing me on that July afternoon
so long ago. Needless to say, I was silent and
pretty much breathless for the rest of July second, nineteen
seventy nine. As hard as that might be for you
to believe, I explained to my folks what might be
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going on, how just as I was going to make
myself start worrying about actually getting a job, maybe in Atlanta,
I might have just gotten a job a forty minute
train ride away. Based on what Stan Sabeg had said
about getting me vacation relief work. I suspected he would
offer me something on a temporary basis to see if
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I could actually do it. But still if even that
actually happened, this was my chance to break into professional
radio at probably the peak of professional radio's post war
importance and competitiveness and expansion, and to break in in
New York City at a network. My rivals for every
job I would seek for the next twenty years, or
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thirty years or fifty years, would be happy to be
breaking in in Keyakuk, Iowa, no offense, Kiacook and I
would be on the network. They would hear as they
arrived to do the morning shift at four thirty am
in keiokook. I do not remember sleeping that night, certainly
not well. Still, I am confident that I remember this correctly.
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On Tuesday, July third, nineteen seventy nine, I was back
out on the Olderman family tanning lawn, twenty feet from
the driveway just afternoon when the front door opened and
Mom said it again, Keith phone, someone named Stan, Keith
Stan Sabek. He laughed. Stan laughed a lot. Stan and
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I had a loud fight fourteen months later that got
me fired and then unfired hours later. Stan laughed in
the middle of all that twice tired of lying around
the pool, yet I lied and said, yes, of course
there was no pool, just my lawn. I don't know
if you've heard. He said it in such a way
that confirmed that he was confident I had heard, and
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noram or Rosen or somebody had called to tell me.
But my sports director quit to go to NBC. I
need a full time sport it's cast here to replace him.
You interested, prepared as I was for the offer of
part time work. I was stunned, on top of stunned.
Full time stand Did you say full time? Stan laughed, yes.
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Sixteen thousand, No negotiations. Mostly nights, some mornings, some ball games.
You get to cover split days off. You're not going
to have a weekend for a couple of years. Probably,
Can you come in Thursday to fill out the job
application for the job I just hired you for? He
laughed again. Ever since, I have associated the fourth of
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July with the start of my career, but especially those
years when the week with the fourth in it is
in the middle of the week, just like that and
makes it more difficult for employers to hire anybody except
the cheap and the unemployed. Turns out that Wednesday, July
fourth calendar is not a frequent thing. Happened in nineteen
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seventy nine, happened again in nineteen ninety one, two thousand
and seven, twenty eighteen, not scheduled to happen again until
twenty twenty nine, barring major breaking news developments. A week
to the day that stan Sebek had called, I was
on the air at UPI. I wasn't supposed to be.
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I was just supposed to be watching the morning shift
with Sam Rosen. And then finally he said, so do
you think you got the hang of it? And I said, ma,
I guess so, he said, good, because you're on at
nine forty five. I was so scared. I had an
out of body experience. Thirty days after Stan Sebic called
on July third, I was on my own on the
night shift, maybe the seventh time, when the Yankee catcher
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Thurman Munson was killed when he crashed his private plane,
and I had to call his teammates for interviews and
still do the sports cast every hour. By October, they
had put me on a plane to go cover the
National League playoffs. Six months after he called, Stan and
Sam Rosen and I were covering the nineteen eighty Winter
Olympics for UPI Radio, and our stuff was playing on
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radio stations around the world. But all these years later,
none of that compares to the sensation of that phone
call and the realization that my career had really started.
At forty eight hours later, I was walking into UPI's
offices as a pro plus, I got the first shock
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of my career. Good news, Stan said and laughed. That's
stringing work you did for UPI. All those Cornell football
games you covered for fifteen dollars a game. The Union says,
guess what they count towards your professional experience, so you
won't be starting at just sixteen thousand. You get credited
with experience for all that stringing, you got exactly six
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days worth of credit. Congratulations, you'll be starting at sixteen thousand,
twenty five dollars a year. And Stan Sabic laughed, and yes,
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I will play you that first sportscast if you want
to hear it in its entirety in just a moment. First,
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank
you for listening. Here the credits. Most of the music
was arranged, produced and performed by Brian Ray and John
Phillip Shanelle. They are the Countdown musical directors. Guitars based
and drums by Brian Ray, all orchestration and keyboards by
John Phillip Schanel, produced by Tko Brothers. Other Beethoven selections
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The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two,
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Musical comments by Nancy Faust. The best baseball stadium organist ever.
Our announcer today was my friend Larry David everything else
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So that's countdown for this the nine hundred and twelve
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as the news warrant still then, I'm Keith Ulberman. Good morning,
good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
Stations Live Sports will begin, preceded by a one second
tone coming up ten seconds from Mark good Morning. Three
members of the Houston Astros named this morning to manager
Tommy Losorda's National League pitching staff for next Tuesday's All
Star Game. Top winner Joe Nicro tapped by Lesorta, along
with Joaquin Andehar and reliever Joe Sambido. Routing out the staff,
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veteran Steve Carlton of Philadelphia and Gaylord Perry of the Padres,
Steve Rogers of Montreal, the Cubs Bruce Suitor, and Cincinnati's
Mike Lacas And speaking of the All Stars you went.
I think Don Baylor and his eighty RBI would be
a shoe in for the al outfield. Baylor drove in
another run last night as the Angels whip Boston six
to nothing. But matter of fact, he placed fourteenth in
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the voting. The most important thing for me right now
is just to win on this talk club. A lot
of people have brought up to the all start thing,
and I can't do anything about that, you know, those
voter any things.
Speaker 1 (46:25):
But I can't do something about this ball club.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
You know, if I produced on this club, we're w
When they did last night is Nolan Ryan struck out twelve.
That puts California at half game up on Texas in
the West. Elsewhere in the American and the Orioles lead
is up to three in the East. They beat Oakland
by the score of seven to three. It was the
Blue Jays seven Milwaukee one, Minnesota over Detroit five to
three as Jerry Kuzman won his eleventh The White Sox
stopped Texas five to four. In Cleveland over KC eight
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to two. The New York Yankees were off, but they
made an important move for their pennant hopes. The activation
of injured relief pitcher Rich Gossage over in the National
Montreal's Eastern lead is up to five and a half.
Bill Lee blank the Dodgers three, zip Phillies over the
Giants four to two. The Cardinals meetings in Sinnati six
to three in Chicago seven Atlanta four. At the Padam
Games in San Juan a big upset and the eight
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hundred meter run American James Robinson shocking Cuban Olympic champ
Alberto Jantarina. The US boosted its gold medal total to
eighty one. Both the men's and women's basketball teams remain undefeated,
and for the second time in his career, crack Montreal
Canadians goaltender Ken Dryden has called it quits. Dryden going
back to the law books at the age of thirty one.
This time it looks permanent, though the haves say the
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big goalie is welcome back at any time. From the
sports desk IF United Press International, I'm Keith Olberman.
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