June 9, 2025 • 53 mins
SEASON 3 EPISODE 134: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Call this what it is. This is Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles - and his terrorist threat against every other American city not yet infected with MAGA fascism disease.
It is taking what even the paranoid L.A. police department considers a minor event and trying to manufacture a crisis worthy of burning down our constitutional rights and sending National Guard and perhaps Marines to shoot at civilians on the streets of an American city... and to warn every other city that it could be next.
What else do you call it, when the fiendish, demented, Hispanic-hating advisor and bigot calls all this quote “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States” when it is in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional rights in the parking lot of a goddamned Home Depot?
It is terrorism.
It is designed to cause terror and panic and to either use violence or the threat of it to effect political change, extra-legally, by masked and helmeted, faceless men and women, with weapons of war, on the streets of America’s second largest city, to stage an ICE riot and then show what are literally seconds of self-defense by civilians again and again on what are nominally television news channels subverted and perverted into propaganda machines… to warn with unstated menace that THIS will be re-enacted every day for the next month in Southern California and then - where? New York? Chicago? Washington
YET there IS a way to stop Trump, here, and to destroy his plans and perhaps his presidency. Right now. Governor Gavin Newsom and the state government of California have proposed leading what is in effect, a TAX STRIKE. "We pay over 80 billion dollars more in taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off," Newsom says. says State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas is more specific: “We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.”
California pays $692 Billion a year in federal taxes. If the blue states withheld federal taxes the red states would be figuratively starving by next week. DOGE THIS, Trump.
Do it. Stop the dictatorship. Stop the terrorism.
B-Block (35:40) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Dinesh D'Souza and "Buck Millions" hilariously can't process the Musk-Trump fight. There's reportedly something amiss with the book sale figures for the Jake Tapper tome. And last month, New York mayoralty candidate Jessica Ramos branded fellow contender Andrew Cuomo as "The Democrats' Trump." Now - she's endorsed him.
C-Block (45:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I saw a video of one of "our" newscasts the other day. He was the stentorian-voiced anchorman. I was the 19-year old intern. He remains one of my favorite people I've ever met in the business, and not just because he dedicated himself to being a thorn in the side of management everywhere. In memory of Bill Jorgensen, this time until next time.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. Make
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no mistake about what this is. This is Donald Trump's
terrorist attack on Los Angeles and with its undercurrent of
warning and preview to and against all the other metropolitan
areas still free of MAGA fascism. It is also Donald
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Trump's terrorist threat against all of America. What else do
you call it? What else can you call it? When
you send in an unknown number of massed gestapo, fired
with authoritarian and racist fervor, their consciences muted by decades
of hateful rainwashing to seize, violate, and disappear civilians largely
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from one ethnic group, from their homes, from their streets,
from their children's high school graduation ceremonies, and then send
them to anywhere. Send them to torture camps in lethally
dangerous foreign countries. Send them to the basements of the
ice facility in La overnight without water or food or electricity.
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Send them to wherever you want to keep them, while
often farcical legal cases are manufactured against them, as in
the story of kilmar Abrego Garcia. What else do you
call it? When, on top of this preliminary stage of
ethnic cleansing, you begin to beat and threaten and seize
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those patriotic Americans protesting Donald Trump's use of the Constitution
as something with which he can wipe his ass. What
else do you call it when, after these unforgivable, disqualifying acts,
you bypass the Police Department of Los Angeles, and you
bypass the Mayor of Los Angeles, and you bypass the
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Governor of California, all of whom correctly describe the proportions
of the clashes over the Nazi like raids as minor events.
When you bypass these clear and sober conclusions, and you
nationalize two thousand California National Guardsmen and pit them against
their fellow residents, and pit them against perhaps their own relatives,
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and then you get the unstable, hallucinating Secretary of Defense
ready to send in active duty Marines because people tried
to save their neighbors and their relatives from existential life
and death kidnapping by ice. What else do you call it?
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When the fiendish, demented, Hispanic hated advisor and Bigot refers
to all of this as quote an insurrection against the
laws and sovereignty of the United States, when it is
in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional
rights in the parking lot of a goddamned home depot.
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It is terrorism. It is designed to cause terror and panic.
It is designed to either use violence or the threat
of violence to effect political change, extra legally performed by
masked and helmeted, faceless men and women with weapons of
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war on the streets of America's second largest city, to
stage an ice riot and then show what are literally
seconds of self defense by civilians, again and again on
what are nominally teleb news channels now subverted and perverted
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into propaganda machines, to warn with vague, unstated menace that
this will be re enacted every day for the next
month in southern California and then where New York, Chicago, Washington, DC,
where by coincidence, there will be a parade of military
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hardware at the end of this week, of parade that
would have made Stalin and the Kremlin blush, to celebrate
the birthday of the quote commander in chief unquote, the
one who did everything he could five times to avoid
serving in the military, to avoid even the kind of
lip service service completed by the George W. Bushes of
this world it is terrorism. It is Donald Trump's terrorism.
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It is Donald Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles on
all of us call it what it is. The reality
of the events on the ground in southern California is
something altogether different. The LAPD, fantastically fascist and reliably racist,
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almost without interruption for nearly a century and a half,
says there is no threat, No National Guard is required,
no goddamn marines. They have it covered. The news in
Los Angeles, used to true disaster and threat as recently
as the wildfires, and as far back as the Watts
riot and the Rodney King Riot and the zoot Suit riots,
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gave as much coverage yesterday to the Pride Parade in
West Hollywood, largely because there were more people on the
streets at the Pride parade. The all news radio station,
which we'll switch to wall to wall disaster coverage anytime
an earthquake hits more than four point five on the
Richter scale, moved quickly yesterday from the clashes and the
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calls from liberal government officials for calm and non violence,
from the trumpest deliberate escalation to the Stephen Miller wet
dream of using the American military to shoot American civilians
on the streets of American cities. They moved from their
coverage of all that to reporting instead on a true
urgent threat in the community. It is graduation season and
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forty six hundred customers lost power in Westminster, California, over
the weekend because too many people lost control of too
many metallic congratulations balloons and they shorted out overhead power lines.
That is the reality of what it's like in southern
California right now. It's pretty much like every other day.
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Send in the Marines to deal with that. Pete Hegseth.
Let's see your warrior ethos applied to the fight against shiny,
unidentified flying objects that might be an attack because they're
going first for the infrastructure. Let's see heg Seth against
the balloons, the warrior ethos embodied by an idiotic Secretary
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of Defense who uses more hair product than Lady Gaga.
Make no mistake about what this is. I first warned
about this sequence of events early in two thousand goddamned sixteen.
First Trump activates racism against Hispanic people, or against any people,
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then he invents an excuse to demonize them. Then he
starts to round them up. Then his cronies profit off
the private concentration camps that have to be built for them.
Then he starts to round up anybody who tries to
defend the rights of his victims. Then he cuts to
the chase and sends in the National Guard and finally
the Army, and hopefully shoots them all. Then he declares
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there's an invasion, and he says the threat, the threat
he manufactured and the prostitutes in his bureaucracy would nurture
and escalate. He says, the threat is now national, and
everyone is now at risk, and your constitution will have
to be suspended one right at a time. Trump's attack
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on southern California, his invasion of Southern California, means we
are at about square two of this sequence. Even the
usually hapless Politico made no mistake about what this is
Trump's Rubicon moment. It wrote, well, it is essential Trump
and his dreams of dictatorship do not make it to
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the other side of that river. But believe it or not,
almost miraculously, there is a way to stop Trump here
and now and to destroy his plans and perhaps his
presidency immediately. And by chance, this way was voiced before
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Trump began down the path that will end with either
America or Trump here, but not both. This literally came
out the day before. It was on Friday. It was
in Gavin Newsom's unexpected spine growth at his embracing something
else I have been talking about since two thousand goddamn sixteen.
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There is one certain, nonviolent, unstoppable way to undo everything
imposed upon the people of this long suffering nation by
this dictatorial, fascist, minority bullshit regime. Gavin Newsom and the
state government of California have now threatened to lead a
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tax strike. Newsom and California's State Assembly are ready to
defund the Trump dictatorship.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Donald Trump is threatening to defund California, but it's econ
one oh one. California is a donor state. We provide
over eighty billion dollars more in tax revenue to the
federal government than the federal government provides to the people
of the state of California. We help pay federal bills.
So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten forty
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million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider
it withholding those resources.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
God yes, especially after the Iice Gestapo riots in La
there's more. Quote. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool
available to defend California, says the State Assembly Speaker Robert
Reebos in the wake of the Trump threat to cut
off any federal money that he can that is owed
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to California, quoting again, we must look at every option,
including withholding federal r taxes. That's six hundred and ninety
two billion dollars in federal taxes paid by California and
its residents per year. The figure that Newsom quoted there
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the eighty billion. That's the gap. Eighty billion is what
California donates to the Red States or has stolen from
it by the Red States. The actual figure paid every
year into the federal government by the state of California
is six hundred and ninety two billion dollars. Doje this, Trump,
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Governor do it? Do it now? Do it in every
Blue state. The gap is bigger in New York. Do it,
and they will be metaphorically starving in the streets of
the Red States by this Friday. I have been saying
for eight years that ultimately it will come down to this,
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that the last line of defense of this country and
its future and its democracy is not civil war or
mass protest or judicial resurrection, but rather shutting down the
Blue state ATM I have said that ultimately, if this
means you and I have to stop paying our federal
taxes and run those risks, so be it. Of course,
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there is an obvious problem with that. If one hundred
percent of US stop paying our federal taxes, the administration
falls and Trump flees the country by the end of
the week. If one percent of us stop paying our
federal taxes, you and I will get arrested and prosecuted.
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I hate to break this to you, but this is
not the greatest generation. And the number of us who
would actually take that risk now in this America, well,
that one percent figure I just quoted my be wildly optimistic,
to say nothing of the increasingly automatic nature of federal
tax deductions. How many of us can actually stop paying
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our federal taxes. But what Newsom and California speaker Rivas
are talking about is way different, and way better, and
way more deadly. It is not you and I taking
the risk now. It is the state of California taking
the lead. It is not a consumer tax strike. It
is a declaration of economic war by the most economically
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powerful state in the nation, the fourth biggest economy in
the world, against Donald Trump and the leech states that
put him in power and currently control the country as
a minority and control us the majority, and are endeavoring
at this moment to make slaves out of us. But
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here it is Gavin Newsom taking the risk, California taking
the risk, leaders leading. Damn governor. If you do this,
if you just carry this threat out far enough and
long enough to break Trump, I'll not only forgive you
your sillery pandering to the fascists on that podcast, I'll
work for your presidential campaign. I'll nominate you myself. I'll
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carry you to the convention. This is the best option
to defeat Trump and restore the vaguely fair of America
of twenty sixteen that we have seen since twenty sixteen.
Biden and Garland screwed the pooch on convicting Trump, and
he might have run out the clock anyway, And even
if he didn't, he would have run from prison. And
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even if he didn't do that, somebody else would have
run on a promise to pardon him and restore him.
In many ways, but especially this one, Donald Trump is
a cockroach but this, this is gold gold, because there
are no nuclear options left to Trump with which he
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can get withheld taxes out of the hands of California.
You can't do it with the National Guard. You can't
do it with marines. You can't do it with Pete
Hegseth's hair moose. You can't do it with court orders.
You can't do it without the state's cooperation. And even
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though I am sitting here looking at New York's key Democrats,
likely being not just Kathy Hochel but also Andrew Cuomo,
it could even inspire the other Blue states in the
same boat to reassert economic control of this nation and
break the Red states tomorrow. That economic disparity is extraordinary.
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Calculating it is extraordinarily difficult. Newsom's number. California pays in
eighty billion a year more than it gets out in
the federal funds Trump has threatened to cut off. That's
almost certainly better and more accurate than anything I could
come up with. A decade ago, Business Insider produced a
startling number. The twenty two reddest states in the country
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were taking out four hundred and twenty five billion a
year from the federal government, more than they were putting
in New York's figure as a so called donor state,
essentially by itself kept the state of South Carolina alive. Texas,
where fully a quarter of state revenue comes from the
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federal government, does not go bankrupt every year only because
that money that the taxpayers in California and Illinois and
Minnesota put in never see again and goes to Texas
goes to Texas. And on top of the pure economics,
there is the unmitigated hypocritical gall of the Maga states.
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They survive because of that part of our nation that
has always been socialist share the wealth. Florida is socialist.
Florida gets a kind of state to state social security
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or medicare. Perhaps is the more accurate comp socialist hell socialist?
From each according to his ability, to each according to
his needs. Florida is communist. As a worthwhile aside. Search
that phrase and you will see that a lot of
people seem to think from each according to his ability
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comes from the Bible. Back to the point, Newsome, we
pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we
get back. Maybe it's time to cut that off, Speaker Revas.
We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.
Oh hellelujah. This is the Manhattan Project of the war
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against Trump. This and maybe just the threat of this,
maybe just the first steps towards this. They are enough
to get almost any concession needed from the Red States,
because the government in those states would literally run out
of money within months at most. The Rockefeller Institute of
Government has the stark numbers, and they will amaze you.
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Nearly a third of the budget in Montana is federal money,
yours mine, California's thirty percent, in Kentucky, thirty percent in Louisiana,
twenty nine percent in Alaska and Wyoming, twenty seven in
West Virginia. The entire framework of Republican deceit and the
maga cloud of cult worship would crumble before the economic
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reality of everything suddenly tomorrow shutting off in Louisiana. But
the Blue States, wouldn't the federal funds stop arriving in
the Blue States? Too? Sure? They would, too bad. There
wouldn't be any handy pot of you know, say, money
California did not send to Trump, which would be eighty
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billion dollars larger than it would have been otherwise. Seven
hundred billion, probably just sitting there because the Blue states
keep the Red ones alive out of patriotism and goodwill.
And if Trump really wants to f with our generosity,
he will find out, and he will find out so
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fast that I think historians will never find any trace
or record of him or his presidency. Let's circle back
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to Ice and Los Angeles and the man who is
rapidly becoming the Colonel Dreyfus of our twenty first century. Prejudiced,
morally bankrupt, racist prosecution, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There are two
remarkable things about this persecution. One is that Trump and
Trump's whores spent weeks insisting that even if he was
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kidnapped without cause, there was now no way to ever
get him back from El Salvador. Oh wait, there he is.
He's in Nashville now. The second is how have his
attorneys not yet filed a suit charging the government with
what Trump and his idiots are almost boasting about that
they have now maliciously prosecuted him. This is a crime.
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People must go to jail for this. Pam Bondi would
be an excellent choice, and mister a Brigo Garcia must
receive millions in damages period, traffic stop years ago, no evidence,
no case, no charges, no nothing. You may leave. He's
then kidnapped by Ice disappeared out of our country. Even
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the Trump lawyer admits to the court that they grabbed
a man not deserving of prosecution, let alone rendition, and
while they try to keep him in a torture chamber
for the rest of his life, they manufacture a case
for him based on the traffic stop which produced the
conclusion of his innocence. Sue them, Sue them now. Also,
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you're not paying him his money with any of California's money.
As the weekend in La underscored so brutally, Ice is
out of control. Its brown shirts are out of control.
The fiends directing them directing Ice are out of control
and making it all worse. They are all incompetent morons.
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They are simultaneously insisting that protesters cannot wear masks nor
shield their identities, while insisting that their own agents must
wear masks and shield their identities, a violation of every
tenet of law enforcement in this country's history. Not protective helmets,
not life preserving vests, masks, masks for one purpose, masks
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so they can be masked and unidentifiable men with guns
who say they are from the government and operating lawfully,
except they are dressed as terrorists dress. Online, Trump congratulated
these his stormtroopers on how well they had done in LA.
He posted this hours before they got there. Naturally, because
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Trump is effing crazy and Trump unilaterally declared as dictators
do that masks cannot be worn anymore by US civilians
at protests. What do these people have to hide and why?
He asked, ask that of Ice, shithead. Happily Trump and
Ice are so bad at this. Tom Holman said he
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thinks somebody is going to lose their life during this
stuff in LA. If you want to volunteer, Tom, it's
over there. The US Marshal Service has now confirmed it.
Last month, while raiding the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona,
as cynical and diseased a tactic, as could be imagined,
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Ice seized a US marshal. He quote fit the general
description of a subject being sought by Ice the Marshal's Service,
and I'll translate that he was Hispanic. Then there is
this buffoon Lions who runs the Gestapo, who is complaining
about the risks that his bullies and racists are subjected
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to because they are doing the same thing terrorists do,
because they are enforcing a laws that are not laws,
or be in the best possible interpretation, they are enforcing
laws that are not just, that are not American. This
guy went on Fox News and tried to martyr himself
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over the comments by the mayor of Boston. Quote what
Mayor Wu said was disgusting. She actually compared us to
a neo Nazi group. Here I am on January sixth. Yeah,
it was June sixth, and he said January sixth. Here
I am on January sixth. The comparison to a neo
Nazi group immediately threw todd Lyons into a form of
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Freudian slip in which he thought of January sixth and
Trump's other neo Nazi group on that subject, it has
noted that Trump's main defense for his deliberate inactivity on
January sixth was that he had no means of knowing
how to call in the National Guard for something that
was blocks away from where he was sitting on his fat,
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useless ass eating cheeseburgers. And yet he just called in
the National Guard from where he sat on his fat,
useless ass eating cheeseburgers for something twenty seven hundred miles away.
And we've been saying Trump can't learn. And of course
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then there is the mondanity of hypocrisy on the personal level,
the individual bankruptcy of those involved in this. The mobilization
of the California Guard had to go through Homeland Security
Secretary Christy shoot 'em Upnome now with eight new action
dress up outfits. It had to go over the head
of the individual actually in charge of the California National Guard,
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Governor Newsom. Secretary Nome was all four riding roughshot over
the States. Here's Secretary Nome while Governor February first of
last year, quote, South Dakota is united in our support
of our state's constitutional rights to defend itself. Democrats are
encouraging Biden to federalize the National Guard to take that
power away from the states. I will always stand to
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defend states rights. Christinome eight forty one a m. Two
one twenty four. Well, now we know exactly how long
forever is the time between two to one twenty four
and six eight twenty five. I would suggest Christy nom
has sold her soul. But Obviously that happened long ago.
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Presumably they removed it last time she went in for
a touch up. And lastly, on the subject of personal
failure and the mundanity of hypocrisy, there is the chairman
of Disney, my former friend, Bob Iiger. You will recall
Bob sold his soul months ago when he turned Trump's
idiotic lawsuit against ABC News over a George Stephanoppolis interview
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into an opportunity to wipe the illegality off of a bribe.
And this is what Bob bought with that. Terry Moran,
the reporter the White House agreed to after Eiger seated
even more of ABC's independence in arranging an interview with
the dementia patient in chief. Terry Moran wrote a sober, clear,
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cool headed, accurate analysis of the emotional disturbance inside Stephen
Miller that is suggested daily by Miller's public hysteria about LA.
In about a thousand matters before LA, but of course
Miller is from LA. Moran posted this, then deleted it.
I'm not sure why Terry did that. Miller went on
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and on online about this Sunday, insisting it proved media
bias and blah, blah blah, we get it, your nuts
and it'sisted. The most important part was blah blah blah,
we get it. The Hispanic girl at Santa Monica High
School wouldn't go out with you. What Miller did not
do was deny anything that Terry Moran wrote about him. Meanwhile,
all the White House and its resident nitwit Caroline his
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name was Hilter Levitt wanted to talk about yesterday was
how ABC better punished Terry Moran, and it did. Bob
Eiger's company suspended him. Time frame undecided, pending further evaluation.
A reporter reporting the truth gets suspended by Bob fing Iiger.
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Jesus H. Christ. Bob, the people of ABC News and
the people in every ABC newsroom in America, and the
people at ESPN and at every other Disney property dealing
in the coverage of the world should walk out in protests,
should walk off their shows today because guess what. My
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old friends in both shops, guess what. Robin Roberts, guess what,
Chris Berman, guess what? Everybody You'll be next. Bob has
no choice but to sell you all out. Now he
is a Trump whore. Now, when I met Bob forty
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seven years ago, he told me his dream was to
be on the air sportscaster. Circumstances, he said, led him
instead into management, and he would have had no complaints
about the life he expected he would then lead, but
it would still be his second choice. He would still
die still wanting to be a sportscaster or a newscaster
and having never done so. Well, here's a chance, Bob
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really whore yourself out. Bob, take everybody at ABC off
the air whom Trump doesn't like, and Bob, that would
be everybody, and Bob just go on the air and
do all the effing newscasts yourself. By the way, for
thirty odd years, from nineteen seventy nine to like twelve thirteen,
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I believed what Bob had told me in his office
at Wide World of Sports about why he stopped being
on air and went into the business and budgeting end
instead and what would happen to him as a result.
And then I met his longtime assistant, Pat Philly when
Pat was president of News for Comcast, and I told
her that story and how much I admired Bob because
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he gave a great piece of advice with that, and
Pat Philly laughed and said, oh, Bob Keith, he told
you that he stopped being a sportscaster because he sucked.
Also of interest, here, what do you mean? Jake Tapper
claims his Biden book sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
but the official Nielsen book scan data says it's less
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than half of that. What could have caused that kind
of discrepancy? You don't think a former newscaster who sold
his soul to please Trump would would No, it's unthinkable.
That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I saw
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him the other day, a videotape of him. It may
not have the biggest audience on YouTube, but my god,
if you ever wanted to see one out of every
newscast from say, the year nineteen seventy eight, you now can.
And there he was anchoring the Channel five ten o'clock news.
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And if I didn't find myself on this videotape of
that edition of the Channel five ten o'clock news, often
that year, if you looked in the background of the
news room shots during the Channel five ten o'clock news,
you would see me Keith the nineteen year old intern.
His name was Bill Jorgensen, and in a matter of speaking,
he was my first anchor. Man. Boy, was he terrific
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and over the top and an inspiration to every one
of us who was ever anti management, you know, like
I have been once or twice a week for half
a century. Anyway, let me tell you about my summer
as an intern for Bill Jorgenson, including the story of
the day they fired him and he allegedly said, if
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I have to go, I'm taking all of you with me.
Next in things I promised not to tell first, believe
it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.
The roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects
specimens who constitute two Day's other worst person in the
world Lebron's worse. Some leftover takes from those with Maga
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disease who could not process the musk Trump crap just
too good to ignore, two of them from denesh De'suza,
and a troll account with four hundred or so followers
that got amplified when Alex Jones replied to this the
troll first Buck millions, that's the name of the account
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buck millions. Now you understand the pain in Dan Bungino's
eyes when you see him on any public media. He knows,
he knows the reasons the Epstein list won't drop. He
knows the assassination was faked. He knows the level of
the grift with foreign money in Middle Eastern countries. Sad
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to see, to which Alex Jones replied, maybe two words, maybe,
oh my god, though that phrase. The pain in Dan
Bung's eyes, The pain in Dan Bongino's eyes comes from
a having to work for a living for the first time,
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and b when, just like Rudy Giuliani, the mascara he
uses to draw in his hair begins to run and
runs into his eyes. The pain in Dan Bungino's eyes.
Then quit, Go back to whatever the hell was you
were doing before Christ The Decusan one was even wilder.
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Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the
release of the Epstein files? How great it would be
to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed? Then
Trump and Elon break out the Champagne. Elon says, told
you I could get Democrats to screen for that list. Laughter,
exclamation point The confidence from this idiot that that was
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four d chess by Trump and Musk to publicly expose
a horde of bad guys when Trump and Musk are
the bad guys lasted only ten minutes. Even Desuza came
back to announce literally ten minutes later, five forty one
pm five to fifty one pm. Keeping your team together
is one of the great challenges of leadership. Is it
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even conceivable the Democrats would alienate George and Alex Soros
the way the GOP has alienated Elon Musk. Doesn't matter
whose fault it is, this is an unmitigated disaster for
our side. So okay, first off, you've just compared your
man Musk to George Soros. Still, the best part of
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this is Desuz's first tweet and his conclusion that this
was some sort of wrestling, fake fight move, ending with
the quote laughter the runner up worser good old Jake
Tapper and Alex Thompson and their BBB Bullshit Biden Book.
I'll read what Lachlan Cartwright wrote about this in breaker quote.
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Despite claims it has sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Biden book, Original Sin has
sold seventy thousand copies through the end of May. Per
Nielsen Book Scan data, the duo sold seventeen thousand books
last week, down fifty three thousand copies from the first week,
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thanks in large part to NonStop promotion on CNN. There
wasn't the promotion on CNN that caused the drop. It
was the promotion. You know what he means now, you know,
an exaggeration of book sales by more than say, fifty percent.
That makes Jake Tapper and that gossip columnist Alex Thompson
look pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing
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actually nefarious here. Maybe Jake Tapper is just beginning to
have mental acuity problems. Anyway, I'm sure the book will
sell so much better when to steal the old Chevy
Chase joke from Saturday Night Live. When it will sell
so much better because they bypassed the traditional paperback version
and the publishers go straight to confetti. The runner up
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worser New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and disgraced ex
governor but still Sleezbag Andrew Cuomo, both of them candidates
for mayor here in fun City. They are also reprehensible
political reptiles. Friday Ramos endorsed Cuomo. She has the right
to do that. It of course means you are dead
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in the Democratic Party, even here in New York with
the worst Democratic party in a blue state in world history.
But you go right into the garbage disposal politically in
this one for doing this. But you can do it.
It's okay, go ahead, endorse him. But Ramos's perfidy is
special because there were reports that her campaign has not
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been paying its bills, and then suddenly, right after this endorsement,
rumors that she'd been promised to spots in a Cuomo
administration if the Democrat in name only, hell human in
name only wins city Hall. To continue our lovely streak
of finding the worst possible people to run big town,
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Jessica Ramo said, with Trump threatening to bulldoze New York
and take us backward, we need someone in city Hall
who knows how to hold the line and deliver under pressure.
Even that is kind of normal, even though Cuomo is
clearly Trump's choice in this election here and Trump opened
an investigation of Cuomo, but not charges, so he can
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always blackmail Mayor Cuomo with charges into selling the city
out to save his own worthless ass. But there's more
here about Ramos the idea that she endorsed Cuomo on
June sixth as the best person to defend New York
City against Trump. Politico New York for Jeff Colton posted this.
It was a fundraiser email from Jessica Ramos. That's the
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same Jessica Ramos about Cuomo. That's the same Cuomo. On
May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos, Cuomo is the Democratic Party's Trump
full stop. So on May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos describes Cuomo
correctly as the Democratics Party's Trump full stop. June sixth,
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twenty two days later, twenty two she endorses him as
the only candidate to save New York from Trump. That's
the kind of total moral nihilism, total corruption, total hypocrisy
that is so rare in today's world. Bravo, Jessica Ramos.
You may be too unprincipled even to be a republican.
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Jessica Ramos and Andrew, don't worry. I'm not too unprincipled
even to be a Republican Cuomo. Today's other worse Bison's
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It's ten pm. Do you know where your children are?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
The tragedy on twenty eighth Street with nine Nixon talks
about the dumping of Spiro Agnew Money lives still on
the line in Holland Tonight, I'm for the Gossips, Jackies,
German Friends, Sanville Jorgensen's this is the ten o'clock News.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
That was who anchored the newscast on which I was
an intern when I was nineteen years old, And you
can probably understand my uncertainty that I had the skills,
or the voice, or the shock of white hair to last, say,
one hour in the business. Thankfully, they did not all
sound like Bill Jorgenson. He was a news anchorman in Columbus,
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Ohio in the fifties, Cleveland starting in nineteen sixty one,
and New York from nineteen sixty seven through nineteen eighty three.
He pioneered the concept of the ten o'clock news here,
when all the other stations had network dramas on or reruns,
The newscast aimed to tell you everything that happened that
day in one hour, seriously everything. This was made more
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plausible by the fact that Bill Jorgenson kinda sounded like God.
He did not suffer fools gladly, and he thought all
television executives were fools. I'd like to say I got
that from him, but I doubt it. By nineteen seventy eight,
year twelve for him in New York, he had pretty
much run out of patience with the executives at Channel five,
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and he was beginning to lash out, and everybody agreed
a month or two off would be a good idea.
So he bought a win of Bago and he and
the wife took off to see America on a sabbatical.
They laughed about a week or ten days before my
internship at Channel five started. My story with Bill Jorgensen
can be summarized in four phone calls. My first week
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at the news assignment desk. The phone rings. I am
a clank call for anyone from Kansas City, Missouri, from
Bill Jorgensen. Will you accept the charges impulsively? I made
an executive decision, we will operator. The next voice seemed
to be coming not from the phone, not from Kansas City,
but from some sort of pa system vibrating above the city,
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from way above my head, this is Jorgensen. Get me Monsky, please, Monsky,
Mark Monsky, or as it said in the credits to
our newscast, Mark bvs Monsky, Director of News, Mark B
von Summer Monsky, the boss, the news director. The bad
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news was Mark Bee von Summer Monsky carried a gun.
The good news was he liked me. I told his secretary.
His secretary handled the call got Monsky. Three minutes later,
Monsky came out and said to all of us at
the desk, me included for God's sake, Jorgenson just called
from Kansas City. They were having breakfast at the International
House of Pancakes. They come out, he and the wife
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to the parking lot, and somebody has stolen the winebago.
We got to get them out of there. They have nothing.
Wire them some cash or something. Hereupon, the news director
reached into his pocket and grabbed a stack of bills.
Here's five hundred bucks. The sabbatical had not started all
that well. On the other hand, only once before in
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my life had I seen five hundred dollars in cash.
The sabbatical had been noticed. However, We interns were given
instructions on what to do when we got phone calls
like well, like phone call number two. What happened to
Belle Jargenson asked the woman who said she was from Booton,
New Jersey. He's on assignment, ma'am, I said, we expect
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him back in I believe two weeks, perhaps sooner. She
laughed at me, Yeah, sabbatical like you bastards assigned George
Sharmon to a sabbatical. There had been three primary anchors
of the Channel five ten o'clock news, Jorgensen, his deputy
George Sharmon, who also had a shock of white hair,
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and their deputy, Bill McCreery. And then one day George
Sharmon was gone and a new kid from California had
replaced him. They did this to the assignment desk one
weekend as well. I was interning for Steve, the assignment editor,
on Friday and said goodbye and have a nice weekend
to him, and he said the same to me. And
then on Monday, I was working for Joe, the new
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assignment editor. I said to my first mentor at Channel five,
a researcher named Stanley Pinsley, as as quick as death.
And Stanley paused and he congratulated me. You figured out
the entire news business and you're only nineteen Bill Jorgensen
came back to the newsroom soon after. I had not
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known him before, I didn't really know him now. He
came out of his office only occasionally, might as well
have won to worn a hood over his head, no
eye contact. He ducked out a side door one night
that they didn't fire the assignment editors. So at nine
forty five we all sat back and prepared to finally
exhale after a crazy day and watch the actual newscast
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in progress. And now comes phone call number three Channel
five News. This is Jorgenson. Who's this? I thought quickly,
I'm an intern. You wouldn't know me, he thought quickly.
Fair enough. Tell Gary, Kay and Trophy and Jay tell
them the elevator to the studio is stuck. Use the stairs. Goodbye.
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Told I went back to producer's row. Hey, Bill just
called to tell you the elevator to the studio is stuck,
so use the stairs. Jay, who I believe was the
director that night, looked up optimistically. Is he on it?
When I shook my head no. The look of disappointment
verging on tears on Jay's face remains to this day indescribable.
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Towards the end of my internship, things went south with
Bill Jorgenson and he took another sabbatical. Now the newscast
was anchored by the kid from California whose name was
John Rowland and Bill McCreary, and they were great to me,
as was Bill Mazer, the sportscaster for whom I interned
half the time. They were all great to me. My
friend Stanley Pinsley was the writer, Bobby Campbell, all of them.
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Bill McCreary also did the sports on Fridays, and one Friday,
he and Bill Maser were going to both be off
and their backup was to and they and the sports
producer Cliff Gelb decided I should do the sports cast,
and they were serious. Mark bvs Monsky told them, no, no,
you're not serious. Even he said, soon enough, kid, you'll
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do it. Soon enough. I went back to Cornell for
my senior year, and I realized our newscasts, which were
unsurpassed for a college radio station, We're running at about
nine miles an hour, while Bill Jorgenson's ten o'clock news
was doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty sometimes two
hundred and fifty miles an hour. I thought to myself
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you're gonna have to step it up a little. Anyway.
One night the next March, there's a ring in my
apartment at two oh seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York,
and it's a phone call, phone call number four, and
it's my friend Stanley Pinsley calling from channel five. And
I'm going to emphasize this is what he told me
in nineteen seventy nine. It was only later confirmed for
me by one other source. So who knows, Uh, you
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missed it, Bubby Stanley said, Jargonson's back. Well, he was back.
He comes in, he does a week, he's shaky as hell.
Monsky and the general manager take him to lunch. They
tell him we're letting you go, and he's like, okay
with it. He's very calm. He has a little meeting
with the senior staff and he thanks everybody and he
apologizes and everybody does, ah great, But you know, he
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just wasn't right, even for him. So today, evidently before
I got in, he's got a little practical joke to
play on everybody. And from what he said as they
took him out of the building, he thought this would
show everybody he was handling his firing. Okay, so I
guess about five, he comes out of his office carrying
this big box and on each side of the box
it's got one word stenciled on it, Dynamite. And he
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stands by producer's row and he says, if I have
to go, I'm taking all ues with me. And the
box doesn't look real, but who knows with Jorgensen. So
Choffey hits him high and Gary Kay hits him low,
and Jay grabs the boxes. It falls, and that's the
last we've seen at Jorgenson. I understand when he's resting somewhere.
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I'm sorry you missed it. On March fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
Channel five in New York announced that Bill Jorgensen had resigned,
and his lawyer told The New York Times he had
quit to go do something better. And I just assumed, well,
even as crazy as I found television news in my
slice of my internship, that would be the end of him.
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And then on April sixth, Stanley calls me again, Bobby,
guess who's the new anchor guy at Channel eleven? Jargonson?
What a business? You sure you want those job referrals?
He started on the Channel eleven news at ten on
April twenty third, nineteen seventy nine. He'd barely been off
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the air one month. He lasted four years. He was
ninety six when he died, according to his daughter, on
March thirteenth. Nobody noted this, but March thirteenth. This March
thirteenth was the fifty seventh anniversary of the first edition
of Channel five to ten o'clock News with Bill Jorgenson.
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Even his obituary in The New York Times said, quote,
mister Jorgenson struggled with station management. Clearly he did not
struggle enough, however, to outweigh his skill and his drive,
and his brilliance and his dedication to journalism, and his voice,
and especially his sign off. He was, now that I
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think of it, the last newscaster I knew who had
his own sign off.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
There's our report for tonight, Bill Jorgenson, for Channel five News.
Thanking you for your time this time until next time.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
I've done all all the damage I can do here.
Thank you for listening. He was the best, and in
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That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and forty one
of America held hostage just twenty three days until the
scheduled end of Trump's leafy duck and lame brained term
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unless putin or Musk remove him sooner, where the actuarial
tables do, or we do, or a bluestate tax boycott
and strike do. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow for
the latest on LA and on a subject that went
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from a ten on everybody's radar to a zero. Remember
Trump versus Musk Till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman.
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no mistake about what this is. This is Donald Trump's
terrorist attack on Los Angeles and with its undercurrent of
warning and preview to and against all the other metropolitan
areas still free of MAGA fascism. It is also Donald
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Trump's terrorist threat against all of America. What else do
you call it? What else can you call it? When
you send in an unknown number of massed gestapo, fired
with authoritarian and racist fervor, their consciences muted by decades
of hateful rainwashing to seize, violate, and disappear civilians largely
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from one ethnic group, from their homes, from their streets,
from their children's high school graduation ceremonies, and then send
them to anywhere. Send them to torture camps in lethally
dangerous foreign countries. Send them to the basements of the
ice facility in La overnight without water or food or electricity.
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Send them to wherever you want to keep them, while
often farcical legal cases are manufactured against them, as in
the story of kilmar Abrego Garcia. What else do you
call it? When, on top of this preliminary stage of
ethnic cleansing, you begin to beat and threaten and seize
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those patriotic Americans protesting Donald Trump's use of the Constitution
as something with which he can wipe his ass. What
else do you call it when, after these unforgivable, disqualifying acts,
you bypass the Police Department of Los Angeles, and you
bypass the Mayor of Los Angeles, and you bypass the
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Governor of California, all of whom correctly describe the proportions
of the clashes over the Nazi like raids as minor events.
When you bypass these clear and sober conclusions, and you
nationalize two thousand California National Guardsmen and pit them against
their fellow residents, and pit them against perhaps their own relatives,
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and then you get the unstable, hallucinating Secretary of Defense
ready to send in active duty Marines because people tried
to save their neighbors and their relatives from existential life
and death kidnapping by ice. What else do you call it?
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When the fiendish, demented, Hispanic hated advisor and Bigot refers
to all of this as quote an insurrection against the
laws and sovereignty of the United States, when it is
in fact a handful of people exercising their protected constitutional
rights in the parking lot of a goddamned home depot.
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It is terrorism. It is designed to cause terror and panic.
It is designed to either use violence or the threat
of violence to effect political change, extra legally performed by
masked and helmeted, faceless men and women with weapons of
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war on the streets of America's second largest city, to
stage an ice riot and then show what are literally
seconds of self defense by civilians, again and again on
what are nominally teleb news channels now subverted and perverted
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into propaganda machines, to warn with vague, unstated menace that
this will be re enacted every day for the next
month in southern California and then where New York, Chicago, Washington, DC,
where by coincidence, there will be a parade of military
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hardware at the end of this week, of parade that
would have made Stalin and the Kremlin blush, to celebrate
the birthday of the quote commander in chief unquote, the
one who did everything he could five times to avoid
serving in the military, to avoid even the kind of
lip service service completed by the George W. Bushes of
this world it is terrorism. It is Donald Trump's terrorism.
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It is Donald Trump's terrorist attack on Los Angeles on
all of us call it what it is. The reality
of the events on the ground in southern California is
something altogether different. The LAPD, fantastically fascist and reliably racist,
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almost without interruption for nearly a century and a half,
says there is no threat, No National Guard is required,
no goddamn marines. They have it covered. The news in
Los Angeles, used to true disaster and threat as recently
as the wildfires, and as far back as the Watts
riot and the Rodney King Riot and the zoot Suit riots,
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gave as much coverage yesterday to the Pride Parade in
West Hollywood, largely because there were more people on the
streets at the Pride parade. The all news radio station,
which we'll switch to wall to wall disaster coverage anytime
an earthquake hits more than four point five on the
Richter scale, moved quickly yesterday from the clashes and the
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calls from liberal government officials for calm and non violence,
from the trumpest deliberate escalation to the Stephen Miller wet
dream of using the American military to shoot American civilians
on the streets of American cities. They moved from their
coverage of all that to reporting instead on a true
urgent threat in the community. It is graduation season and
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forty six hundred customers lost power in Westminster, California, over
the weekend because too many people lost control of too
many metallic congratulations balloons and they shorted out overhead power lines.
That is the reality of what it's like in southern
California right now. It's pretty much like every other day.
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Send in the Marines to deal with that. Pete Hegseth.
Let's see your warrior ethos applied to the fight against shiny,
unidentified flying objects that might be an attack because they're
going first for the infrastructure. Let's see heg Seth against
the balloons, the warrior ethos embodied by an idiotic Secretary
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of Defense who uses more hair product than Lady Gaga.
Make no mistake about what this is. I first warned
about this sequence of events early in two thousand goddamned sixteen.
First Trump activates racism against Hispanic people, or against any people,
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then he invents an excuse to demonize them. Then he
starts to round them up. Then his cronies profit off
the private concentration camps that have to be built for them.
Then he starts to round up anybody who tries to
defend the rights of his victims. Then he cuts to
the chase and sends in the National Guard and finally
the Army, and hopefully shoots them all. Then he declares
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there's an invasion, and he says the threat, the threat
he manufactured and the prostitutes in his bureaucracy would nurture
and escalate. He says, the threat is now national, and
everyone is now at risk, and your constitution will have
to be suspended one right at a time. Trump's attack
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on southern California, his invasion of Southern California, means we
are at about square two of this sequence. Even the
usually hapless Politico made no mistake about what this is
Trump's Rubicon moment. It wrote, well, it is essential Trump
and his dreams of dictatorship do not make it to
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the other side of that river. But believe it or not,
almost miraculously, there is a way to stop Trump here
and now and to destroy his plans and perhaps his
presidency immediately. And by chance, this way was voiced before
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Trump began down the path that will end with either
America or Trump here, but not both. This literally came
out the day before. It was on Friday. It was
in Gavin Newsom's unexpected spine growth at his embracing something
else I have been talking about since two thousand goddamn sixteen.
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There is one certain, nonviolent, unstoppable way to undo everything
imposed upon the people of this long suffering nation by
this dictatorial, fascist, minority bullshit regime. Gavin Newsom and the
state government of California have now threatened to lead a
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tax strike. Newsom and California's State Assembly are ready to
defund the Trump dictatorship.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Donald Trump is threatening to defund California, but it's econ
one oh one. California is a donor state. We provide
over eighty billion dollars more in tax revenue to the
federal government than the federal government provides to the people
of the state of California. We help pay federal bills.
So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten forty
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million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider
it withholding those resources.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
God yes, especially after the Iice Gestapo riots in La
there's more. Quote. I'll use every legal and constitutional tool
available to defend California, says the State Assembly Speaker Robert
Reebos in the wake of the Trump threat to cut
off any federal money that he can that is owed
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to California, quoting again, we must look at every option,
including withholding federal r taxes. That's six hundred and ninety
two billion dollars in federal taxes paid by California and
its residents per year. The figure that Newsom quoted there
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the eighty billion. That's the gap. Eighty billion is what
California donates to the Red States or has stolen from
it by the Red States. The actual figure paid every
year into the federal government by the state of California
is six hundred and ninety two billion dollars. Doje this, Trump,
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Governor do it? Do it now? Do it in every
Blue state. The gap is bigger in New York. Do it,
and they will be metaphorically starving in the streets of
the Red States by this Friday. I have been saying
for eight years that ultimately it will come down to this,
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that the last line of defense of this country and
its future and its democracy is not civil war or
mass protest or judicial resurrection, but rather shutting down the
Blue state ATM I have said that ultimately, if this
means you and I have to stop paying our federal
taxes and run those risks, so be it. Of course,
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there is an obvious problem with that. If one hundred
percent of US stop paying our federal taxes, the administration
falls and Trump flees the country by the end of
the week. If one percent of us stop paying our
federal taxes, you and I will get arrested and prosecuted.
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I hate to break this to you, but this is
not the greatest generation. And the number of us who
would actually take that risk now in this America, well,
that one percent figure I just quoted my be wildly optimistic,
to say nothing of the increasingly automatic nature of federal
tax deductions. How many of us can actually stop paying
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our federal taxes. But what Newsom and California speaker Rivas
are talking about is way different, and way better, and
way more deadly. It is not you and I taking
the risk now. It is the state of California taking
the lead. It is not a consumer tax strike. It
is a declaration of economic war by the most economically
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powerful state in the nation, the fourth biggest economy in
the world, against Donald Trump and the leech states that
put him in power and currently control the country as
a minority and control us the majority, and are endeavoring
at this moment to make slaves out of us. But
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here it is Gavin Newsom taking the risk, California taking
the risk, leaders leading. Damn governor. If you do this,
if you just carry this threat out far enough and
long enough to break Trump, I'll not only forgive you
your sillery pandering to the fascists on that podcast, I'll
work for your presidential campaign. I'll nominate you myself. I'll
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carry you to the convention. This is the best option
to defeat Trump and restore the vaguely fair of America
of twenty sixteen that we have seen since twenty sixteen.
Biden and Garland screwed the pooch on convicting Trump, and
he might have run out the clock anyway, And even
if he didn't, he would have run from prison. And
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even if he didn't do that, somebody else would have
run on a promise to pardon him and restore him.
In many ways, but especially this one, Donald Trump is
a cockroach but this, this is gold gold, because there
are no nuclear options left to Trump with which he
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can get withheld taxes out of the hands of California.
You can't do it with the National Guard. You can't
do it with marines. You can't do it with Pete
Hegseth's hair moose. You can't do it with court orders.
You can't do it without the state's cooperation. And even
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though I am sitting here looking at New York's key Democrats,
likely being not just Kathy Hochel but also Andrew Cuomo,
it could even inspire the other Blue states in the
same boat to reassert economic control of this nation and
break the Red states tomorrow. That economic disparity is extraordinary.
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Calculating it is extraordinarily difficult. Newsom's number. California pays in
eighty billion a year more than it gets out in
the federal funds Trump has threatened to cut off. That's
almost certainly better and more accurate than anything I could
come up with. A decade ago, Business Insider produced a
startling number. The twenty two reddest states in the country
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were taking out four hundred and twenty five billion a
year from the federal government, more than they were putting
in New York's figure as a so called donor state,
essentially by itself kept the state of South Carolina alive. Texas,
where fully a quarter of state revenue comes from the
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federal government, does not go bankrupt every year only because
that money that the taxpayers in California and Illinois and
Minnesota put in never see again and goes to Texas
goes to Texas. And on top of the pure economics,
there is the unmitigated hypocritical gall of the Maga states.
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They survive because of that part of our nation that
has always been socialist share the wealth. Florida is socialist.
Florida gets a kind of state to state social security
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or medicare. Perhaps is the more accurate comp socialist hell socialist?
From each according to his ability, to each according to
his needs. Florida is communist. As a worthwhile aside. Search
that phrase and you will see that a lot of
people seem to think from each according to his ability
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comes from the Bible. Back to the point, Newsome, we
pay over eighty billion dollars more in taxes than we
get back. Maybe it's time to cut that off, Speaker Revas.
We must look at every option, including withholding federal taxes.
Oh hellelujah. This is the Manhattan Project of the war
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against Trump. This and maybe just the threat of this,
maybe just the first steps towards this. They are enough
to get almost any concession needed from the Red States,
because the government in those states would literally run out
of money within months at most. The Rockefeller Institute of
Government has the stark numbers, and they will amaze you.
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Nearly a third of the budget in Montana is federal money,
yours mine, California's thirty percent, in Kentucky, thirty percent in Louisiana,
twenty nine percent in Alaska and Wyoming, twenty seven in
West Virginia. The entire framework of Republican deceit and the
maga cloud of cult worship would crumble before the economic
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reality of everything suddenly tomorrow shutting off in Louisiana. But
the Blue States, wouldn't the federal funds stop arriving in
the Blue States? Too? Sure? They would, too bad. There
wouldn't be any handy pot of you know, say, money
California did not send to Trump, which would be eighty
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billion dollars larger than it would have been otherwise. Seven
hundred billion, probably just sitting there because the Blue states
keep the Red ones alive out of patriotism and goodwill.
And if Trump really wants to f with our generosity,
he will find out, and he will find out so
(19:36):
fast that I think historians will never find any trace
or record of him or his presidency. Let's circle back
(20:14):
to Ice and Los Angeles and the man who is
rapidly becoming the Colonel Dreyfus of our twenty first century. Prejudiced,
morally bankrupt, racist prosecution, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. There are two
remarkable things about this persecution. One is that Trump and
Trump's whores spent weeks insisting that even if he was
(20:37):
kidnapped without cause, there was now no way to ever
get him back from El Salvador. Oh wait, there he is.
He's in Nashville now. The second is how have his
attorneys not yet filed a suit charging the government with
what Trump and his idiots are almost boasting about that
they have now maliciously prosecuted him. This is a crime.
(20:59):
People must go to jail for this. Pam Bondi would
be an excellent choice, and mister a Brigo Garcia must
receive millions in damages period, traffic stop years ago, no evidence,
no case, no charges, no nothing. You may leave. He's
then kidnapped by Ice disappeared out of our country. Even
(21:19):
the Trump lawyer admits to the court that they grabbed
a man not deserving of prosecution, let alone rendition, and
while they try to keep him in a torture chamber
for the rest of his life, they manufacture a case
for him based on the traffic stop which produced the
conclusion of his innocence. Sue them, Sue them now. Also,
(21:42):
you're not paying him his money with any of California's money.
As the weekend in La underscored so brutally, Ice is
out of control. Its brown shirts are out of control.
The fiends directing them directing Ice are out of control
and making it all worse. They are all incompetent morons.
(22:07):
They are simultaneously insisting that protesters cannot wear masks nor
shield their identities, while insisting that their own agents must
wear masks and shield their identities, a violation of every
tenet of law enforcement in this country's history. Not protective helmets,
not life preserving vests, masks, masks for one purpose, masks
(22:31):
so they can be masked and unidentifiable men with guns
who say they are from the government and operating lawfully,
except they are dressed as terrorists dress. Online, Trump congratulated
these his stormtroopers on how well they had done in LA.
He posted this hours before they got there. Naturally, because
(22:52):
Trump is effing crazy and Trump unilaterally declared as dictators
do that masks cannot be worn anymore by US civilians
at protests. What do these people have to hide and why?
He asked, ask that of Ice, shithead. Happily Trump and
Ice are so bad at this. Tom Holman said he
(23:18):
thinks somebody is going to lose their life during this
stuff in LA. If you want to volunteer, Tom, it's
over there. The US Marshal Service has now confirmed it.
Last month, while raiding the immigration court in Tucson, Arizona,
as cynical and diseased a tactic, as could be imagined,
(23:39):
Ice seized a US marshal. He quote fit the general
description of a subject being sought by Ice the Marshal's Service,
and I'll translate that he was Hispanic. Then there is
this buffoon Lions who runs the Gestapo, who is complaining
about the risks that his bullies and racists are subjected
(24:01):
to because they are doing the same thing terrorists do,
because they are enforcing a laws that are not laws,
or be in the best possible interpretation, they are enforcing
laws that are not just, that are not American. This
guy went on Fox News and tried to martyr himself
(24:21):
over the comments by the mayor of Boston. Quote what
Mayor Wu said was disgusting. She actually compared us to
a neo Nazi group. Here I am on January sixth. Yeah,
it was June sixth, and he said January sixth. Here
I am on January sixth. The comparison to a neo
Nazi group immediately threw todd Lyons into a form of
(24:45):
Freudian slip in which he thought of January sixth and
Trump's other neo Nazi group on that subject, it has
noted that Trump's main defense for his deliberate inactivity on
January sixth was that he had no means of knowing
how to call in the National Guard for something that
was blocks away from where he was sitting on his fat,
(25:07):
useless ass eating cheeseburgers. And yet he just called in
the National Guard from where he sat on his fat,
useless ass eating cheeseburgers for something twenty seven hundred miles away.
And we've been saying Trump can't learn. And of course
(25:30):
then there is the mondanity of hypocrisy on the personal level,
the individual bankruptcy of those involved in this. The mobilization
of the California Guard had to go through Homeland Security
Secretary Christy shoot 'em Upnome now with eight new action
dress up outfits. It had to go over the head
of the individual actually in charge of the California National Guard,
(25:52):
Governor Newsom. Secretary Nome was all four riding roughshot over
the States. Here's Secretary Nome while Governor February first of
last year, quote, South Dakota is united in our support
of our state's constitutional rights to defend itself. Democrats are
encouraging Biden to federalize the National Guard to take that
power away from the states. I will always stand to
(26:14):
defend states rights. Christinome eight forty one a m. Two
one twenty four. Well, now we know exactly how long
forever is the time between two to one twenty four
and six eight twenty five. I would suggest Christy nom
has sold her soul. But Obviously that happened long ago.
(26:37):
Presumably they removed it last time she went in for
a touch up. And lastly, on the subject of personal
failure and the mundanity of hypocrisy, there is the chairman
of Disney, my former friend, Bob Iiger. You will recall
Bob sold his soul months ago when he turned Trump's
idiotic lawsuit against ABC News over a George Stephanoppolis interview
(27:00):
into an opportunity to wipe the illegality off of a bribe.
And this is what Bob bought with that. Terry Moran,
the reporter the White House agreed to after Eiger seated
even more of ABC's independence in arranging an interview with
the dementia patient in chief. Terry Moran wrote a sober, clear,
(27:23):
cool headed, accurate analysis of the emotional disturbance inside Stephen
Miller that is suggested daily by Miller's public hysteria about LA.
In about a thousand matters before LA, but of course
Miller is from LA. Moran posted this, then deleted it.
I'm not sure why Terry did that. Miller went on
(27:47):
and on online about this Sunday, insisting it proved media
bias and blah, blah blah, we get it, your nuts
and it'sisted. The most important part was blah blah blah,
we get it. The Hispanic girl at Santa Monica High
School wouldn't go out with you. What Miller did not
do was deny anything that Terry Moran wrote about him. Meanwhile,
all the White House and its resident nitwit Caroline his
(28:10):
name was Hilter Levitt wanted to talk about yesterday was
how ABC better punished Terry Moran, and it did. Bob
Eiger's company suspended him. Time frame undecided, pending further evaluation.
A reporter reporting the truth gets suspended by Bob fing Iiger.
(28:34):
Jesus H. Christ. Bob, the people of ABC News and
the people in every ABC newsroom in America, and the
people at ESPN and at every other Disney property dealing
in the coverage of the world should walk out in protests,
should walk off their shows today because guess what. My
(28:56):
old friends in both shops, guess what. Robin Roberts, guess what,
Chris Berman, guess what? Everybody You'll be next. Bob has
no choice but to sell you all out. Now he
is a Trump whore. Now, when I met Bob forty
(29:19):
seven years ago, he told me his dream was to
be on the air sportscaster. Circumstances, he said, led him
instead into management, and he would have had no complaints
about the life he expected he would then lead, but
it would still be his second choice. He would still
die still wanting to be a sportscaster or a newscaster
and having never done so. Well, here's a chance, Bob
(29:42):
really whore yourself out. Bob, take everybody at ABC off
the air whom Trump doesn't like, and Bob, that would
be everybody, and Bob just go on the air and
do all the effing newscasts yourself. By the way, for
thirty odd years, from nineteen seventy nine to like twelve thirteen,
(30:06):
I believed what Bob had told me in his office
at Wide World of Sports about why he stopped being
on air and went into the business and budgeting end
instead and what would happen to him as a result.
And then I met his longtime assistant, Pat Philly when
Pat was president of News for Comcast, and I told
her that story and how much I admired Bob because
(30:28):
he gave a great piece of advice with that, and
Pat Philly laughed and said, oh, Bob Keith, he told
you that he stopped being a sportscaster because he sucked.
Also of interest, here, what do you mean? Jake Tapper
claims his Biden book sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
but the official Nielsen book scan data says it's less
(30:49):
than half of that. What could have caused that kind
of discrepancy? You don't think a former newscaster who sold
his soul to please Trump would would No, it's unthinkable.
That's next. This is countdown. This is Countdown with Keith
Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. I saw
(31:29):
him the other day, a videotape of him. It may
not have the biggest audience on YouTube, but my god,
if you ever wanted to see one out of every
newscast from say, the year nineteen seventy eight, you now can.
And there he was anchoring the Channel five ten o'clock news.
(31:56):
And if I didn't find myself on this videotape of
that edition of the Channel five ten o'clock news, often
that year, if you looked in the background of the
news room shots during the Channel five ten o'clock news,
you would see me Keith the nineteen year old intern.
His name was Bill Jorgensen, and in a matter of speaking,
he was my first anchor. Man. Boy, was he terrific
(32:21):
and over the top and an inspiration to every one
of us who was ever anti management, you know, like
I have been once or twice a week for half
a century. Anyway, let me tell you about my summer
as an intern for Bill Jorgenson, including the story of
the day they fired him and he allegedly said, if
(32:42):
I have to go, I'm taking all of you with me.
Next in things I promised not to tell first, believe
it or not, there's still more new idiots to talk about.
The roundup of the misgrants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects
specimens who constitute two Day's other worst person in the
world Lebron's worse. Some leftover takes from those with Maga
(33:08):
disease who could not process the musk Trump crap just
too good to ignore, two of them from denesh De'suza,
and a troll account with four hundred or so followers
that got amplified when Alex Jones replied to this the
troll first Buck millions, that's the name of the account
(33:29):
buck millions. Now you understand the pain in Dan Bungino's
eyes when you see him on any public media. He knows,
he knows the reasons the Epstein list won't drop. He
knows the assassination was faked. He knows the level of
the grift with foreign money in Middle Eastern countries. Sad
(33:51):
to see, to which Alex Jones replied, maybe two words, maybe,
oh my god, though that phrase. The pain in Dan
Bung's eyes, The pain in Dan Bongino's eyes comes from
a having to work for a living for the first time,
(34:12):
and b when, just like Rudy Giuliani, the mascara he
uses to draw in his hair begins to run and
runs into his eyes. The pain in Dan Bungino's eyes.
Then quit, Go back to whatever the hell was you
were doing before Christ The Decusan one was even wilder.
(34:33):
Is this some sort of perverse scheme to force the
release of the Epstein files? How great it would be
to have a horde of bad guys publicly exposed? Then
Trump and Elon break out the Champagne. Elon says, told
you I could get Democrats to screen for that list. Laughter,
exclamation point The confidence from this idiot that that was
(35:00):
four d chess by Trump and Musk to publicly expose
a horde of bad guys when Trump and Musk are
the bad guys lasted only ten minutes. Even Desuza came
back to announce literally ten minutes later, five forty one
pm five to fifty one pm. Keeping your team together
is one of the great challenges of leadership. Is it
(35:22):
even conceivable the Democrats would alienate George and Alex Soros
the way the GOP has alienated Elon Musk. Doesn't matter
whose fault it is, this is an unmitigated disaster for
our side. So okay, first off, you've just compared your
man Musk to George Soros. Still, the best part of
(35:46):
this is Desuz's first tweet and his conclusion that this
was some sort of wrestling, fake fight move, ending with
the quote laughter the runner up worser good old Jake
Tapper and Alex Thompson and their BBB Bullshit Biden Book.
I'll read what Lachlan Cartwright wrote about this in breaker quote.
(36:08):
Despite claims it has sold one hundred and fifty thousand copies,
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's Biden book, Original Sin has
sold seventy thousand copies through the end of May. Per
Nielsen Book Scan data, the duo sold seventeen thousand books
last week, down fifty three thousand copies from the first week,
(36:30):
thanks in large part to NonStop promotion on CNN. There
wasn't the promotion on CNN that caused the drop. It
was the promotion. You know what he means now, you know,
an exaggeration of book sales by more than say, fifty percent.
That makes Jake Tapper and that gossip columnist Alex Thompson
look pretty bad. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing
(36:52):
actually nefarious here. Maybe Jake Tapper is just beginning to
have mental acuity problems. Anyway, I'm sure the book will
sell so much better when to steal the old Chevy
Chase joke from Saturday Night Live. When it will sell
so much better because they bypassed the traditional paperback version
and the publishers go straight to confetti. The runner up
(37:17):
worser New York State Senator Jessica Ramos and disgraced ex
governor but still Sleezbag Andrew Cuomo, both of them candidates
for mayor here in fun City. They are also reprehensible
political reptiles. Friday Ramos endorsed Cuomo. She has the right
to do that. It of course means you are dead
(37:39):
in the Democratic Party, even here in New York with
the worst Democratic party in a blue state in world history.
But you go right into the garbage disposal politically in
this one for doing this. But you can do it.
It's okay, go ahead, endorse him. But Ramos's perfidy is
special because there were reports that her campaign has not
(38:01):
been paying its bills, and then suddenly, right after this endorsement,
rumors that she'd been promised to spots in a Cuomo
administration if the Democrat in name only, hell human in
name only wins city Hall. To continue our lovely streak
of finding the worst possible people to run big town,
(38:23):
Jessica Ramo said, with Trump threatening to bulldoze New York
and take us backward, we need someone in city Hall
who knows how to hold the line and deliver under pressure.
Even that is kind of normal, even though Cuomo is
clearly Trump's choice in this election here and Trump opened
an investigation of Cuomo, but not charges, so he can
(38:46):
always blackmail Mayor Cuomo with charges into selling the city
out to save his own worthless ass. But there's more
here about Ramos the idea that she endorsed Cuomo on
June sixth as the best person to defend New York
City against Trump. Politico New York for Jeff Colton posted this.
It was a fundraiser email from Jessica Ramos. That's the
(39:10):
same Jessica Ramos about Cuomo. That's the same Cuomo. On
May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos, Cuomo is the Democratic Party's Trump
full stop. So on May fifteenth, Jessica Ramos describes Cuomo
correctly as the Democratics Party's Trump full stop. June sixth,
(39:30):
twenty two days later, twenty two she endorses him as
the only candidate to save New York from Trump. That's
the kind of total moral nihilism, total corruption, total hypocrisy
that is so rare in today's world. Bravo, Jessica Ramos.
You may be too unprincipled even to be a republican.
(39:55):
Jessica Ramos and Andrew, don't worry. I'm not too unprincipled
even to be a Republican Cuomo. Today's other worse Bison's
(40:27):
It's ten pm. Do you know where your children are?
Speaker 3 (40:35):
The tragedy on twenty eighth Street with nine Nixon talks
about the dumping of Spiro Agnew Money lives still on
the line in Holland Tonight, I'm for the Gossips, Jackies,
German Friends, Sanville Jorgensen's this is the ten o'clock News.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
That was who anchored the newscast on which I was
an intern when I was nineteen years old, And you
can probably understand my uncertainty that I had the skills,
or the voice, or the shock of white hair to last, say,
one hour in the business. Thankfully, they did not all
sound like Bill Jorgenson. He was a news anchorman in Columbus,
(41:12):
Ohio in the fifties, Cleveland starting in nineteen sixty one,
and New York from nineteen sixty seven through nineteen eighty three.
He pioneered the concept of the ten o'clock news here,
when all the other stations had network dramas on or reruns,
The newscast aimed to tell you everything that happened that
day in one hour, seriously everything. This was made more
(41:37):
plausible by the fact that Bill Jorgenson kinda sounded like God.
He did not suffer fools gladly, and he thought all
television executives were fools. I'd like to say I got
that from him, but I doubt it. By nineteen seventy eight,
year twelve for him in New York, he had pretty
much run out of patience with the executives at Channel five,
(41:57):
and he was beginning to lash out, and everybody agreed
a month or two off would be a good idea.
So he bought a win of Bago and he and
the wife took off to see America on a sabbatical.
They laughed about a week or ten days before my
internship at Channel five started. My story with Bill Jorgensen
can be summarized in four phone calls. My first week
(42:20):
at the news assignment desk. The phone rings. I am
a clank call for anyone from Kansas City, Missouri, from
Bill Jorgensen. Will you accept the charges impulsively? I made
an executive decision, we will operator. The next voice seemed
to be coming not from the phone, not from Kansas City,
but from some sort of pa system vibrating above the city,
(42:44):
from way above my head, this is Jorgensen. Get me Monsky, please, Monsky,
Mark Monsky, or as it said in the credits to
our newscast, Mark bvs Monsky, Director of News, Mark B
von Summer Monsky, the boss, the news director. The bad
(43:07):
news was Mark Bee von Summer Monsky carried a gun.
The good news was he liked me. I told his secretary.
His secretary handled the call got Monsky. Three minutes later,
Monsky came out and said to all of us at
the desk, me included for God's sake, Jorgenson just called
from Kansas City. They were having breakfast at the International
House of Pancakes. They come out, he and the wife
(43:29):
to the parking lot, and somebody has stolen the winebago.
We got to get them out of there. They have nothing.
Wire them some cash or something. Hereupon, the news director
reached into his pocket and grabbed a stack of bills.
Here's five hundred bucks. The sabbatical had not started all
that well. On the other hand, only once before in
(43:52):
my life had I seen five hundred dollars in cash.
The sabbatical had been noticed. However, We interns were given
instructions on what to do when we got phone calls
like well, like phone call number two. What happened to
Belle Jargenson asked the woman who said she was from Booton,
New Jersey. He's on assignment, ma'am, I said, we expect
(44:15):
him back in I believe two weeks, perhaps sooner. She
laughed at me, Yeah, sabbatical like you bastards assigned George
Sharmon to a sabbatical. There had been three primary anchors
of the Channel five ten o'clock news, Jorgensen, his deputy
George Sharmon, who also had a shock of white hair,
(44:36):
and their deputy, Bill McCreery. And then one day George
Sharmon was gone and a new kid from California had
replaced him. They did this to the assignment desk one
weekend as well. I was interning for Steve, the assignment editor,
on Friday and said goodbye and have a nice weekend
to him, and he said the same to me. And
then on Monday, I was working for Joe, the new
(44:57):
assignment editor. I said to my first mentor at Channel five,
a researcher named Stanley Pinsley, as as quick as death.
And Stanley paused and he congratulated me. You figured out
the entire news business and you're only nineteen Bill Jorgensen
came back to the newsroom soon after. I had not
(45:19):
known him before, I didn't really know him now. He
came out of his office only occasionally, might as well
have won to worn a hood over his head, no
eye contact. He ducked out a side door one night
that they didn't fire the assignment editors. So at nine
forty five we all sat back and prepared to finally
exhale after a crazy day and watch the actual newscast
(45:40):
in progress. And now comes phone call number three Channel
five News. This is Jorgenson. Who's this? I thought quickly,
I'm an intern. You wouldn't know me, he thought quickly.
Fair enough. Tell Gary, Kay and Trophy and Jay tell
them the elevator to the studio is stuck. Use the stairs. Goodbye.
(46:04):
Told I went back to producer's row. Hey, Bill just
called to tell you the elevator to the studio is stuck,
so use the stairs. Jay, who I believe was the
director that night, looked up optimistically. Is he on it?
When I shook my head no. The look of disappointment
verging on tears on Jay's face remains to this day indescribable.
(46:31):
Towards the end of my internship, things went south with
Bill Jorgenson and he took another sabbatical. Now the newscast
was anchored by the kid from California whose name was
John Rowland and Bill McCreary, and they were great to me,
as was Bill Mazer, the sportscaster for whom I interned
half the time. They were all great to me. My
friend Stanley Pinsley was the writer, Bobby Campbell, all of them.
(46:53):
Bill McCreary also did the sports on Fridays, and one Friday,
he and Bill Maser were going to both be off
and their backup was to and they and the sports
producer Cliff Gelb decided I should do the sports cast,
and they were serious. Mark bvs Monsky told them, no, no,
you're not serious. Even he said, soon enough, kid, you'll
(47:15):
do it. Soon enough. I went back to Cornell for
my senior year, and I realized our newscasts, which were
unsurpassed for a college radio station, We're running at about
nine miles an hour, while Bill Jorgenson's ten o'clock news
was doing one hundred, one hundred and twenty sometimes two
hundred and fifty miles an hour. I thought to myself
(47:38):
you're gonna have to step it up a little. Anyway.
One night the next March, there's a ring in my
apartment at two oh seven Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York,
and it's a phone call, phone call number four, and
it's my friend Stanley Pinsley calling from channel five. And
I'm going to emphasize this is what he told me
in nineteen seventy nine. It was only later confirmed for
me by one other source. So who knows, Uh, you
(48:01):
missed it, Bubby Stanley said, Jargonson's back. Well, he was back.
He comes in, he does a week, he's shaky as hell.
Monsky and the general manager take him to lunch. They
tell him we're letting you go, and he's like, okay
with it. He's very calm. He has a little meeting
with the senior staff and he thanks everybody and he
apologizes and everybody does, ah great, But you know, he
(48:23):
just wasn't right, even for him. So today, evidently before
I got in, he's got a little practical joke to
play on everybody. And from what he said as they
took him out of the building, he thought this would
show everybody he was handling his firing. Okay, so I
guess about five, he comes out of his office carrying
this big box and on each side of the box
it's got one word stenciled on it, Dynamite. And he
(48:47):
stands by producer's row and he says, if I have
to go, I'm taking all ues with me. And the
box doesn't look real, but who knows with Jorgensen. So
Choffey hits him high and Gary Kay hits him low,
and Jay grabs the boxes. It falls, and that's the
last we've seen at Jorgenson. I understand when he's resting somewhere.
(49:08):
I'm sorry you missed it. On March fourteenth, nineteen seventy nine,
Channel five in New York announced that Bill Jorgensen had resigned,
and his lawyer told The New York Times he had
quit to go do something better. And I just assumed, well,
even as crazy as I found television news in my
slice of my internship, that would be the end of him.
(49:31):
And then on April sixth, Stanley calls me again, Bobby,
guess who's the new anchor guy at Channel eleven? Jargonson?
What a business? You sure you want those job referrals?
He started on the Channel eleven news at ten on
April twenty third, nineteen seventy nine. He'd barely been off
(49:51):
the air one month. He lasted four years. He was
ninety six when he died, according to his daughter, on
March thirteenth. Nobody noted this, but March thirteenth. This March
thirteenth was the fifty seventh anniversary of the first edition
of Channel five to ten o'clock News with Bill Jorgenson.
(50:15):
Even his obituary in The New York Times said, quote,
mister Jorgenson struggled with station management. Clearly he did not
struggle enough, however, to outweigh his skill and his drive,
and his brilliance and his dedication to journalism, and his voice,
and especially his sign off. He was, now that I
(50:36):
think of it, the last newscaster I knew who had
his own sign off.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
There's our report for tonight, Bill Jorgenson, for Channel five News.
Thanking you for your time this time until next time.
Speaker 1 (51:04):
I've done all all the damage I can do here.
Thank you for listening. He was the best, and in
retrospect he was the most fun. Most of our countdown
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That's our sports music. Other music arranged and performed by
(51:45):
the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my
friend Larry David. Everything else was as ever my fault.
That's countdown for today, Day one hundred and forty one
of America held hostage just twenty three days until the
scheduled end of Trump's leafy duck and lame brained term
(52:07):
unless putin or Musk remove him sooner, where the actuarial
tables do, or we do, or a bluestate tax boycott
and strike do. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow for
the latest on LA and on a subject that went
(52:27):
from a ten on everybody's radar to a zero. Remember
Trump versus Musk Till the next one. I'm Keith Olderman.
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