VANCE MUST RESIGN. AND JOHNSON IS STILL CLAIMING TRUMP WITNESSED EPSTEIN - 9.8.25

SEASON 4 EPISODE 11: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:45) SPECIAL COMMENT: Jayvee Vance has got to resign as Vice President.

Relax; he won't.

But you cannot BE Vice President of the United States if you're crazy enough to boast about repurposing the military as a War Crime committing death squad killing probable migrants in international waters. Plus if you’re responding to tweets by the Krassensteins you’re clearly insane and unfit for office. Even under Trump..

MEANWHILE: if Trump was an FBI informant against Jeffrey Epstein that means he was a witness to everything Epstein did with those girls? And yes, Mike Johnson tried to "back off" his claim that Trump was an FBI Epstein agent late Sunday, but a) the "back off" came 72 hours after he blurted it out; b) it still implies that Trump knew about Epstein and went to the authorities about it, suggesting he had first-hand evidence like HE WAS THERE, and c) it is a cardinal tenet of QAnon that if Trump is ON the Epstein client list. "He did it for 'Merica!" might not be the flex Trump and Mike Johnson think it is

ALSO: Trump was booed as he arrived at the U.S. Tennis Open yesterday. You didn’t see it because Bob Iger and ABC and Disney whored themselves out pre-censoring the truth. CBS just did that too - and worse, agreeing NOT to edit out any lies by Trump Gang members. 

THE PRIMARY RESIDENCE WITCH-HUNT? The mortgage app alleged white lie with which Trump hopes to bring down a Fed governor and Letitia James and Adam Schiff? The nut job releasing the alleged evidence is Bill Pulte and guess what public records show HIS OWN PARENTS DID? They ALSO CLAIMED multiple "primary residences" - and you can only have one. Oops.

THERE IS SOME GOOD NEWS: per G. Elliott Morris: mainstream Trump polling is flat, unchanged. But the INTERIOR numbers? Since January Trump’s STRONG approval number - the diehards - has dropped from 34% to 24%. That's down a third. And his STRONG disapproval number - the haters - has grown from 36% to 46%. Also a third. That is unsustainable.

B-Block (41:53) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: "Gunther Eagleman" and the other similarly stupidly named Right Wing influencers now alleged to be on yet ANOTHER country's payroll. Plus the man who killed CNN John Malone may have inadvertently outed a racist: himself. And And a CBS correspondent named Robert Costa let Trump pee on his leg about Russia and all he did was report: “CBS Exclusive: Trump Exclusively Peed On MY leg!”

C-Block (55:20) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: They're going to use A.I. to try to reconstruct the infamous 43 missing minutes in the classic - possible greatest film of all time - "Magnificent Ambersons." I loathe the concept. I will watch the product as many times as they let me! But of more immediate relevance, if they ever release it, I'll be able to say I knew the star of a new 2025 film who died in 1994 and I met in 1985 only I didn't realize it was him. I swear I thought she said "Carlton."

 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. The
Vice President of the United States must resign. You cannot

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represent this country if, as evidence mounts, that your government
simply decided to kill eleven random Venezuelans on a boat
in international waters in the Caribbean and then declare they
were trendy Argua gang drug runners, even though Ragua drug
runners don't travel in groups of more than three, and

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even if there had been thirty of them, it would
have been easy to just stop the boat, board her
seize everyone and everything on board, and at least hold
nominal trials like we used to do it before the
Trump dictatorship. You cannot represent this country in any position.
You are permanently disqualified when you respond to this by asserting, quote,

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killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the
highest and best use of our military in an extra
legal flex that could and hopefully will get you life
in prison from the International Court of Justice. And you
especially cannot represent this country. When a Crassenstein brother collaps

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back on social media, this is called a war crime.
And your reply to that, mister Vance, is quote, I
don't give a shit what you call it. I have
no objection to the profanity so far. That's the nicest
thing I thought of about JV. Vance. I object the
way Rand Paul objects, and my God, when Rand Paul

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and I are on the same side of anything, the
individual on the other side that is necessarily the scum
of the universe, not merely of the earth. Quote. What
a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing
someone without a trial. The senator posted, did he ever

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read to kill a mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what
might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial
or representation? It's an odd poll there, to kill a mockingbird.
I would have gone with the constitution, or I would
have gone with a theoretical that might have meant more
a little bit to JV. If some other dictator besides Trump,

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like say Madurea of Venezuela, were to declare the Trump
cabinet a cartel or a terrorist organization, and Vance were
traveling on board or on a plane in international waters,
Vance would have justified Maduro bombing the boat of the
plane or the yacht or whatever and killing all on

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Ford GJV. You have just invited Maduro to try to
blow you up. Good call, brother. Here is also the
deeper issue here, Eyeliner. Aside, Vance is obviously unstable. What
he wrote is the antithesis of everything America has ever

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stood for. Even in its darkest moments, even George Bush
and Dick Cheney used to present or at least fabricate
evidence that somebody was a terrorist before killing them or
imprisoning them without trial. Vance is not attacking the cartels

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and the poisoners of citizens. He is not standing up
for American drug victims. He is not doing something noble here.
He is not making the Democrats look bad. He is
glorifying and becoming the cartels and the killers of American citizens.
Vance is also so divorced from reality he is also

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actively campaigning for war and campaigning against war simultaneously. On
the same day he decided to repurpose the military into
a random death squad in international waters, he also wrote,
quote Democrats, let's send your kids to die in Russia. Republicans, actually,

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let's protect our people from the scum of the earth.
Setting aside the idea that the scum of the earth
are Donald Trump and people who work for him. No
Democrats have ever said anything like that. Vance also seems
to think there's a difference where your kids die in
Russia or in Venezuela in a war, or let's say

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we call the thing in Venezuela a special military action
that Trump provokes with shit like this illegal bombing a war,
which of course lines up neatly with the Trump Vance campaign,
which was predicated on ending the Forever Wars. Apparently there
was a second half of that sentence that they only
whispered or maybe mined, ending the forever Wars and replacing

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them with new ones. Vance must resign. He won't. But
if you need any more last bit of evidence that
Vance is too mentally damaged to continue to serve in office,
the inarguable proof that he could not pass a sanity test. JV.

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You actually bothered to exchange Twitter jibes with one of
the Crassenstein brothers. I mean, you'll be arguing with the

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colorization bot next. Now, why is all this happening? Why
are we ginning up a war with Venezuela? Well, Trumpstein.
Every time the fuse to Trump's Jeffrey Epstein cover up
time bomb goes out, Trump happily lights it. Back up again,

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Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson. If you miss this,
it goes by quickly, so listen close. I'm not saying
that what Epstein did as a hoax. It's a terrible,
unspeakable evil. He believes in himself when he first heard
rum where kicked him out of Mary Lago, he was
an FBI informant to try to take this stuff down.
The President knows and has great sympathy for the women
who suffered these unspeakable arms. It's detestable to him. And

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I've spoken about this as recently as twenty four hours ago.
Trump was an FBI informant on the Epstein What now?
Trump narked on Epstein. That's what you're going with, Mikey. Actually,
late yesterday, a mere seventy two hours after he said that,

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Mike Johnson issued a clarification. The Washington Post said he
quote backed off his claim that Trump was an FBI
informant unquote. To say that is a generous characterization is ungenerous.
To say that might have been dictated by Trump to
Jeff Bezos is much more believable. Here is what the

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Johnson statement is. Quote. The Speaker is reiterating what the
victim's attorney said, which is that Donald Trump, who kicked
Epstein out of mary Lago, was the only one more
than a decade ago willing to help prosecutors expose Epstein
for being a disgusting child predator. Unquote, that's not what

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Johnson meant. You you heard it. He meant FBI informant.
He said, FBI inmant. He didn't reiterate, he reiterated my
ass Also quote, the only one more than a decade
ago willing to more than a decade ago is twenty
fourteen or earlier, like two thousand and nine, two thousand

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and six. That still puts it in the crimes were
just recently committed window, and it still means Trump was
an informant. You heard of non denial denials. This, for
many reasons I will now outline, is a non backoff
back off. Firstly, actually, this is one of the foundational

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canons of QAnon that Trump has been secretly fighting the pedophiles,
maybe from on the inside, that if he is in
the Epstein files, it's because he was ace Ventura or
something in disguise. Yes, those children were for America. If
that does and push the limits of logic, there is

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this additional question Trump already a Republican during the prosecution
of Epstein, a Republican president during the incarceration of Epstein,
a Republican president during the death of Epstein, was part
of a Democratic hoax adds up and of course, best
of all, there is one small detail Trump overlooked when
test marketing bullshit excuses for when Trump's part of the

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Epstein scandal leaks out some other way, which is what
the Speaker of the House QAnon Blip was test marketing
an excuse. The small detail is this, if Trump informed
on Epstein, Trump had to have witnessed scene, perhaps participated in,
what Epstein was doing. And we know what Epstein was doing.

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He was raping children, trafficking children, destroying children. And Trump
told all he saw, which means he's known all this
all along twenty years worth, according to his own timeline,
since he saw Epstein, and in that twenty years he

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never did anything about it other than hide it from
the public during three different presidential elections he ran in.
And it doesn't stop there. Trump is now writing self
incriminating posts Democrats quote knew everything there was to know
about Epstein, but now years after his death, they out
of nowhere are seeming to show such love and heartfelt

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concern for his victims, who knew everything there was to
know about Epstein. Maybe FBI informant Donald Trump. Then there is,
of all things, a James O'Keefe video of the Trump

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Department of Justice Hancho trying to impress his online date
matchup by explaining that when push comes to shoved, will
simply quote redact every Republican unquote from the Epstein client list,
and that yes, Ghlaine Maxwell was moved to Club Fed
as part of a deal. This guy's name is Joseph
Schnitt of the Office of Enforcement Operations. Schnitt comma as

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in full of and listen, if you are going to
take this country to full dictatorship, could you at least
get the people helping you do it Trump, who have
stupider names even than Trump to change these stupid names.
Who wrote this report? Why it was Deputy Chief of

(11:43):
Staff Schnitt, Sir, It's obviously Schnitt writing all over it.
It's his uniquely schnitty style. This reeks of Schnitt. Trump
narked on Epstein is not the flex Trump thinks it is,

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and if all the rest of it is irrelevant, remember this.
Anything that keeps the Epstein story alive hurts Trump and
lets the cement harden further around the fact that Jeffrey
Epstein is now a permanent part of this Trump regime
as sure as if he were just to take quant
at random Secretary of Education. Then there is Trump not

(12:35):
merely hamstringing the mainstream media, but taking it over by bullying,
an intimidation, and getting now pre censorship. Disney and ABC
capitulated to a Trump demand that any protests to his
appearance at the US Tennis Open final here yesterday not
be shown on live television. They showed him during the

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national anthem, There was mixed reaction to him. They did
not show his arrival, which held up the start of
play and kept thousands of fans outside the arena. And
they did not show the audio or play the audio
of his arrival, which was pretty much all booing and

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in acute twist that was live streamed by Fox. The

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Trump threat to ABC was washed through the US Tennis Association,
the people who have joyously managed to turn their sport
tennis from the third or fourth most popular spectator sport
in this country forty years ago to something like tenth
today below the WNBA UFC. And but make no mistake,
it was Disney that agreed not to show Trump getting

(14:09):
booed except when it was unavoidable during the anthem this
pre censorship. Sure, the Emperor has no clothes, but you
can't say that, or not only will the Emperor punish
your network, but we, the event organizers, will also punish
your network. That went over so well here in New
York that when George Conway joked online that all cell

(14:32):
service would be shut off for the day in Queens
so nobody could use their phones to record Trump getting booed,
it was assumed there was a good chance George was
simply reporting something that had actually happened. I was going
to post another joke about Trump having the finalist, Carlos
Alcaraz of Spain get seized by ice so Trump could

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take his place in the championship match, but I toned
it down because A, No, the Isis raids aren't funny.
They're not at all funny. And be given that Trump
has already taken the World Cup soccer trophy to keep
for his own, this two was far too close to
reality to assume that everybody would get that it was
a joke, especially the part about how Trump would insist

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that before the match even began, he was already up
six love six love five love. The irony in the
drama over Disney, which is now run by an old
man trying to hang on to being chairman at any price,
including the end of democracy. You'll pay that, not, Bob Iiger.
Is that merely making sure real time criticism of Trump

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does not reach any of his supporters watching non political
television is so old fashioned and ludite that it was
only the second worst capitulation of the week, and the
far less dangerous of the two CBS, which has already
lost all of its credibility ya a series of ethical

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collapses regarding and bribes two, Trump took the inevitable next step.
Christy Nome, a dangerous, murderous, soulless individual who also acts
exactly as one would if one were heavily medicated, was
furious that some of her slanders of the job of

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our Times, mister Kilmar Abrego Garcia, were edited out of
an interview on Face the Nation because CBS rightly suspected
they were not only not true but malicious, since it
is still the law in this country that just because
you are the news and you didn't say it, the
brainless Trump humanoid over there with the botox did, that

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does not mean the victim can't sue her and you.
CBS News is supposed to by law added out such
falsehoods unless there is a means of countering them with
real time fact checks of equal or greater weight. Gnome
went into governmental Karen mode. CBS was threatened again, threatened

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again because they capitulated all the other times. That's what
happens when you give into blackmail Columbia University, Claire Shipman,
Apple and all the others, and having already started down
the path to hell, CBS, of course capitulated again just
to open the umbrella. As my grandmother used to say,

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CBS also had to make up an excuse for folding
to this Gnome Trump threat in response to quote, I
love this part. In response to quote audience feedback over
the past week, Yeah, the proverbial audience of one a
mister John barn of Washington, DC. He kept calling in

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three hundred and eighty one times in response to that quote,
Face the nation will now only broadcast live or live
to tape interviews subject to national security or legal restrictions.
This extra measure means the television audience will see the
full unedited interview on CBS. What it actually means is
CBS is now guaranteeing that any Trump official who needs

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to demonize an immigrant, or make up some bullshit about
why they just killed eleven people in the open ocean
in the Caribbean, or needs to scapegoat a Democrat, We'll
get to do so on CBS with no interference from
these silly things called the truth or journalism. CBS is

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now fully in the stenography business. There are holdouts there,
since they are what remains of any CBS news integrity.
Soon or late they will be jettisoned because the next
time Trump complains, who else are these baboons David Ellison
and Jeff Schell going to present as the next human sacrifices.

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There's nobody and nothing left at CBS, not in management anyway.
David Ellison already doesn't have any eyebrows into the volcano
you go boys. Incidentally, and as an assigned before I
get to a greater and somewhat positive point, the dark

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secret at CBS is it has a deep and dark
history of overreacting and showing cowardice just like this in tone,
if not in deadliness. After Edward R. Murrow put the
final stake in the heart of Joe McCarthy in the
nineteen fifty four famous broadcasts of See It Now, CBS

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News dined out on that one month of great programming
and ethics for decades, literally until the Trump bribe over
the Kamala Harris interview. So what seventy plus years CBS
just had to hold up a sign going Murrow McCarthy
and all arguments ended. But in nineteen fifty four, back

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at the ranch, and they did not exactly we publicized
the reality of this. After the season that included Murrow's
episode of See It Now devoted to Senator McCarthy, Murrow
never again anchored a regular news program in prime time
on CBS. Never again. See It Now was sent to

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the wasteland of weekend daytime TV except for a few specials.
In fact, when the quiz show scandal hit in nineteen
fifty nine, CBS President Frank Stanton loudly boasted that CBS
would end all pre rehearsed portions of all its programs,

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like the rigged quiz shows and crazily Edward R. Murrow's
entertainment interview show Person to Person, in which cameras nineteen
fifty nine sized cameras were pushed around the homes of
celebrities while Murrow interviewed them from a New York studio.
If you did not rehearse those camera moves, you could

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have knocked out a retaining wall with a nineteen fifty
nine TV camera. Stanton said that evil rehearsal would cease
Murrow blew his top. It led to Murrow leaving CBS.
And by the way, Stanton was such a fraud that
while he was being grilled by a congressional committee over
the quiz scandal, about which Stanton's mealy mouthed response led

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to Murrow's end. While that was happening, Stanton told the
committee that the overall influence of CBS was still a
positive because of Murrow's See It Now specials. Presidents change,
media comes and goes. Management is forever come to get

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back to today. There is a silver lining, as I mentioned,
behind the cowardice at ABC and CBS. It underscores that
the Trump dictatorship is far less popular than even itch
or the stenographic media claim. If you have to not
only beat up the critics and threaten the bosses, but
make sure your bullshit is broadcast instead of the truth,

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and deny journalists the right to say the truth in
advance your presidency, your government must actually be hanging by
a very frayed thread, which segues neatly into a brief
recap of the polls. Trump's destruction of the economy is
gaining steam, and among the jobs lost since January, half
a million held by native born Americans gone, jobs held

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by immigrants up by fifty thousand. This is heresy in
magaland the impact is showing in the polls. Just a
moment on that manufacturing jobs are down for the fourth
straight month when he promised a rebirth of them. New
jobs in August fifty thousand less than expected, and the
June and July job growth numbers were revised downwards, and

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June is now in rapid unscheduled disassembly mode. June is
now down twenty two thousand. It is so bad that
the idiot Howard Lutnik had a Freudian slip of biblical proportions.
Asked to describe a non existent trade or tariff deal
with the Japanese, he meant to say it was off
the charts, or maybe he was going to be cool

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and say it was off the hook or something. In fact,
Howard Lutnick said, with that stupid used car salesman's grin
frozen on his face, it's off the rails, you bet
your ass it is. It's off the rails again. Not
the flex you thought it was, Howard. So the Trump

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polls are terrible CBS sixty five percent of Americans say
food prices are going up because of Trump's policies. Sixty
six percent say we should not be willing to pay
more for anything if that means supporting Trump's policies. His
approval overall is at forty four in the CBS poll,
up to as Republican support increased for him. That's the

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circle of the wagon's effect. But he's still underwater by
twelve forty three. Approval in NBC underwater by fourteen forty two.
Approval in Strength in Numbers veresite, but Elliot Morris of
Strength in Numbers says we are missing the real poll number.
In January thirty four percent of Americans strongly approved of Trump.

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It is now twenty four percent who strongly approve of him.
In January, thirty six percent of Americans strongly disapproved of Trump.
Now it's forty six percent strongly disapprove of him. His
strong supporters are down by a third, his strong haters

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are up by a third. This is a recipe for
mid term Republican disaster, even if it merely holds at
this point and does not get any worse from the

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end of CBS News and Trump in the polls, getting
back to the cabinet and this second rate gang posing
as a government. If you had to impeach just the
ones who threatened life on the planet, and you could
knock them out at one an hour, it would still
take you a week. Trump advanced body. Hegseeth Gabbard Patel,
but first rfk Jor and then this guy over at

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the Federal Housing Finance Agency Pulty. Rfk Juor is intellectually challenged.
Therefore he must be the savior who exposes who caused
intellectual challenge and altered brain development, because it can't just
have happened due to biology, and it certainly can't be

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his fault, and it can't be the kind of drug
use that would have killed Keith Richards in one week.
Trump evaded military service, dodged it, if you want to
be mean, he skipped Vietnam. So when he escalates his
takeover of the army and his conversion of it into
his personal praetorian guard, and he sits it on Chicago
because that's a democratic city in a state with the

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democratic governor who could kick his ass, and because protesters
have tied him up there for years trying to stop
his giant Trump crap shack tower out there. Of course,
the meme he chooses shows him in Robert Duval's cavalry
hat from the movie Apocalypse Now with the helicopters and
firefights from Vietnam. Because then, somewhere in the empty, infected

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attic that is in his brain, this allows Trump to
believe for a second that he really fought in Vietnam
and didn't run away or find some alternate way to
serve or faked bone spurs or shat his pants or
whatever he did on the pants shatting thing was ted nugent,
wasn't it. I have discussed previously what a friend of

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mine a psychiatric professional explained to me about people like
Kennedy and Trump, the public face private reality people. You
know the types, the homophobe who is a customer of
gay prostitutes, the anti abortion bomber who has paid for
a dozen abortions, the say Bible thumping, anti porn fascist
head of education who has video of naked women playing

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on a monitor in his office during an official state
meeting of the Board of Education. I call my psych
pros explanation the basketball scoreboard theory of rationalization. Whatever you've done,
you then publicly oppose and punish others who do it
so much and so venomously that in your mind, if

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if your gay, porn, drugs, cowardice conduct is say, ninety
points on a basketball game, you simply have to do
so much the other way, to punish, to crush, to
kill those who are doing the same thing you are.
That you're opposite position to what you are doing and
what they are doing is one hundred, and that means
you're not really gay or a porn or drug addict,

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or a coward who evaded Vietnam. And the final score
is one hundred to ninety. See, you didn't do it.
You opposed it one hundred times out of one hundred
and ninety. So RFK Junior is out there selling crack pot, borderline,
salem witch trials, superstitions about where autism comes from. He,

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of course, is the picture of health himself. Face looks
like he's the portrait of Dorian Gray, voice like the
criptake keepers. So Trump puts out a meme of himself
in Vietnam, as if the thing that will still be
in his obituary won't be and he evaded service in Vietnam.
And he puts out this meme with a caption that
he thinks reads Chai Apocalypse now, But normal people see

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and hear in their minds chip acalypse now, chip ooh,
chocolate chip cookies. He's sending Awk with chip cookies to Chicago.
Basketball scoreboard syndrome. The draft dodger becomes the Vietnam napalm dropper.
The man who destroyed his own brain with illegal drugs

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has to find somebody else who damaged other brains with
other drugs. And I wonder today if this mag ass
clown Bill Poulty doesn't suffer from basketball scoreboard syndrome just
as much as Trump and Kennedy do Bill Poulty is
the scumbag NEPO grand baby of the Midwestern real estate
Hancho William Paulty, and scumbag here is used. Ironically, the

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elder Poulty had fourteen children. This grandson went to Northwestern
for broadcast journalism, didn't get a job in media, instead
went into oh his grandfather's company, and then became a
MAGA attack dog and became a donor. And Trump therefore
made him head of something, in this case the Federal

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Housing Finance Agency, where while his job is to at
chief housing built for poor people, af that he has
done only one thing in office, try to get Trump's
political opponents for technical violations on their mortgage applications. It
is Polti who gave Trump the excuse to fire to
try to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook by alleging, I'm

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not convicting, not charging, just a leging that she listed
multiple primary residences on loan apps. Trump has used the
same attack on Senator shiff of California and New York
Attorney General Letitia James, And what did shift? And Tis
James haven't coming all right? James convicted Trump of business corruption.
Here and shiff led the Trump impeachment, the first one,

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not the second one, Not the one in early twenty
twenty seven. The first one. Oh, they may have listed
more than one primary residence to get a tax break
via the homestead exemption in wealthy neighborhoods. Then it turned
out at three of the dumber members of Trump's cabinet
allegedly did the same damn thing, which we never would

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have known of if you hadn't brought up the stuff
about Lisa Cook, the labor clown, Laurie Chavez dreamer who
thinks she was elected labor secretary. She's on this list,
Transportation Secretary Sean Crash, Davis Duffy, he's on the list.
EPA administer Lee the z's for zero Zelden, He's on

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the list. And Trump stooge Ken Paxton, the eye on
the ball. Attorney General of Texas Bill Pulty didn't out
them for multiple primary residences, yet reportedly they filled out
these forms the same way. And now guess what it
has reached its apotheosis, Bill Poulty's father and his stepmother.

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If you miss this, Reuter's broke it quoting them, Mark
and Julie Poulty, the father and stepmother of Bill Poulty,
President Trump's appointee as Director of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency since twenty twenty, have claimed so called homestead exemptions
for residences in wealthy neighborhoods in both Michigan and Florida.
According to the records, the exemption is meant to give

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a discount to homeowners on taxes for properties they use
as their primary residents one primary not residents. No comment
from Bill Poulty as to whether or not he will
press Trump to prosecute his own father or Paxton or

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Zelden or Duffy or de Reamur or whoever is next.
His own father reportedly did this, he's now persecuting other
people who did this. The basketball scoreboard theory of rationalization
and compensation abides this is how one gets hoist on

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one's own petard, Which reminds me that last week I
compared this phenomenon of attacking others for what you yourself
have done to the baboon Laura Luomer, who threatened to
deport the judge who stopped Trump's efforts to traffic children
to Guatemala because the judge wasn't born in America, and
we can't have judges who were not born in America.
And the judge sparkles soup Nanin was born in Trinidad,

(33:27):
and Lumer thinks we should go back, she should go
back there. And Loomer didn't even bother to google foreign
born judges when Trump's concierge, Judge Eileen Cannon, was born
not just abroad, but in Colombia. Callie, aren't we blowing
up drug runners, suspected drug runners, people who we just

(33:47):
claim are drug runners? Isn't Jade v Vance asserting the
right to blow up Aileen Cannon? Well, just to button
this up, I didn't bring back Judge Cannon just for
the hell of it. News Max sued FI News let
them fight on antitrust charges. Now there is an irony

(34:10):
in this. I must note a suit buy Newsmax against
Drupert Murdoch, pivoting on the word trust. Anyway, the case
has now been thrown out on technical reasons. It can
be refiled, and it was thrown out by the judge.
Judge is Lean Cannon long and the last laugh for you,

(34:38):
Pam Blondiem is DEI at the DOJ with the unnaturally
deep voice as a team working on some way to
make sure transgender people lose their rights to possess firearms.
Setting aside the prejudice and what it warns about a
Nazi style approach to trans people and trans issues, the

(35:01):
Trump administration is going to propose to fighting the gun laws,
which naturally means that the NRA has had to come
out with a statement defending trans people. As my late
friend William Hurt will say for all time in the

(35:23):
movie Classic Body Heat, sometimes the shit comes down so heavy,
I feel like I should wear a hat. Also of
interest here, the guy who destroyed CNN may have just
admitted he's prejudiced against black people. Oops. And if you

(35:45):
think I was kidding about CBS News and Stenography, its
chief Washington analyst got an exclusive with Trump in which
Trump made his same transparently nonsensical claim that something would
happen soon with Ukraine and Russia. And instead of this
guy asking haven't you already said that one hundred and
eleven times, this guy just let Trump pee on his

(36:06):
leg and then he put the story out as exclusive
Trump peas on my leg by Robert Costa, CBS News.
That's next. This is Countdown, Bill hurt wherever you are?
Can I borrow your hat? This is Countdown with Keith

(36:28):
Olberman still ahead on this edition of Countdown. Have you

(36:52):
heard about this? The all time classic film from nineteen
forty two that got butchered by its studio, the Orson
Wells follow up to Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons. Those
who saw the original cut claimed it might have been
better than Citizen Kane. They all said it was fantastic,

(37:15):
it was indescribable, and the studio cut forty minutes out
of it. Apparently the fantastic parts they didn't think would sell,
and they tacked on a happy ending. Now, an AI
company is going to use production still photographs and scripts

(37:36):
and other actors dressed like the original characters, and computer
generation to change their faces and all the nightmares of
AI to try to recreate the original Orson Wells version
of The Magnificent Ambersons to see if AI can do

(37:57):
it and not put Marvel comic book characters in it
or something. It's a hauling. It opens Pandora's box. It's
a terrible precedent, and if they make it, this new
AI version of the Magnificent Amberson's available to me. I
will only watch it eighty one times. I'm conflicted in

(38:21):
part because I met the star of the film. Orson
Wells does not appear in The Magnificent Ambersons other than
a couple of voiceovers. Tim Holt and Dolores Costello and
Joseph Cotton are the stars. And I actually met Joseph
Cotton forty years ago this Christmas. And when I met him,

(38:45):
I didn't realize it was him. Isn't Citizen Kane And
I thought he that, Oh God, it is one of
my favorite Keith is an idiot stories from my days
in Hollywood. Next in things I promised not to tell first,
believe it or not, there's still more new idiots talk
about besides myself. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and

(39:07):
Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days other worst
persons in the world, Lebron's worst, Gunther Eagleman, and those
like him. Gunther is actually a disgraced ex cop named
I don't know. It's on the internet. Who cares? He

(39:29):
posts crazed maga Trump fascist bullshit, and he chose, he
chose there wasn't some sort of community service involved in this.
He chose the name Gunther Eagleman as his new name.
I guess because Twerpston Howling Asshole the third was already

(39:51):
in use. That's my only conclusion. You would choose Gunther
Eagleman to get the gun and the eagle in your name.
Guy has an IQ of of an eagle. Anyway, I
have no idea if any of this is true, but
to use his approach to the world. This confirms my suspicions,

(40:13):
so I'll report it quote the people who reported it. Anyway,
my suspicion has always been that if and when we
survive all this and jd. Vance is in jail with
Hannity and the Ukrainians have led a coup that kills putin.
You just fell out the window, I don't know, excuse

(40:34):
the ninetieth floor or whatever. And we find the Rosetta
Stone of the last ten twelve years, it will simply
be a ledger with a series of bank transfers and
deposited checks in it. It's all about money. It's all money.
It's easy to buy people. It's easier than you think.
Some of them will sell their souls for two hundred dollars.

(40:57):
A libertarian conservative Twitter account called at ankh aesthetics handle
Esthetica posted the following the other day with examples, but
I'm just going to read the lead one list of
paid propaganda accounts who took money to shill for India. Well,

(41:19):
that adds a new element to this, and the list
is from Esthetica. I have no idea about the validity
of any of this. At Gunther Eagleman at Election whiz
at Chuck Colesto. Chuck Colesto is the guy with the
picture with the sunglasses perched on top of his head

(41:40):
at ianon Patriot at Ryan A. Fournier. Ryan A. Fournier
is like the teenager with the big duck's ass hairdoo
at d C Draino. We know about him. He's one
of the guys the Trump administration used with the fake
Epstein folder that they bought it, Staples and a couple
of other names. I don't defiant l's I've heard of them.

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Then the account asked if they'd left anybody out. Oh,
the answers were interesting at anc lower case hyphen what
is that called underscore at anc esthetics ae st h
E t I CS If you want to follow up
on that, The runner up worser John Malone. You remember John,

(42:29):
the guy got lucky enough to put cables in the ground,
the fascist who bought and destroyed CNN. John kind of
said the quiet powered out loud on a podcast while
insisting that CNN which now puts the liar Scott Jennings
on for hours at a stretch and refused to fact
check Trump in a presidential debate and hasn't fired the
deplorable Jake Tapper yet and leaves the ninny Dana Bash

(42:52):
on the air. I saw her on my block the
other day. She's about three feet tall. Anyway. CNN, which
used to have an audience Malone, who effectively owns it
through his company, which owns the majority of the David
Zaslav Warner Bros. Discovery outfit. Malone still thinks CNN is

(43:15):
biased against Trump, which means, of course, in Maga cuckoo Land,
that CNN is not actively lying for Trump twenty four
hours a day, which is what this fascist billionaire Malone wants.
It's only lying for Trump like ten hours a day.
But in doing this he made a huge mistake, a
little butch too much information about himself, the old TMI syndrome,

(43:39):
the old, Your sins will eventually come out because you
can't maintain the energy levels necessary to contain them. John
Malone quote, Look, the trouble with bias is it's almost invisible.
And the person who look these are good people, meaning
the ones at CNN. These are people who believe they're
not biased. Okay, they really believe that. It's just like

(44:02):
an awful lot of US white folks say we're not
biased about blacks, okay, but it's it's embedded. Uhh, who's
this us? Malone? You're saying, you claim not to be
biased about blacks, but it's embedded in you. Is that
what you're saying. It's just like an awful lot of

(44:24):
US white folks say we're not biased about blacks, okay,
but it's it's embedded. I'm shocked that he said this.
I'm shocked that an evil, fascist, old man who thinks
he owns the world would admit something like this rather
than just keep it to himself like his contemporary Trump
dries to do. That's what I'm shocked about, not that

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he would be biased about blacks, but our winner, the worst,
Robert Costa of CBS News. I have never, for one
minute gotten it about Costa. He basically started at the
National Review. He moved to the Washington Post. Then Larry c.
Low put him on TV, and suddenly he had a
rep and not for having worked at the far right

(45:09):
facts optional National Review. Then he went to CBS News,
and they somehow still think, through several different bosses, they
still think he's a reporter of some kind. In fact,
they think he's like a star reporter. Costa and CBS
and again they are in transition, and the cockroaches of
the place, like Costa, are doing their best to survive

(45:31):
what will be the new right wing world of CBS News,
in which Barry Weiss may be brought in to put
the final spikes into CBS. As mentioned earlier, Costa had
an exclusive bit of stenography. He talked to Trump. He
interviewed well. Interviewed is a little strong. I wouldn't want

(45:52):
to accuse Robert Costa of interviewing anybody, because that might
imply that Robert Costa asked Trump questions Trump couldn't answer
or lie his way through, or couldn't say things that
an ordinary reporter would recognize as simply being bullshit. And
as sure as hell, Robert Costa didn't do any of

(46:12):
those things. He didn't ask any tough questions. He just
wrote stuff down. The Costa headline on this exclusive bit
of stenography, Trump commits to pursuing Russia Ukraine piece. They
are not ready yet, but quote, something is going to
happen unquote like what's the weather for tomorrow, Bob, There'll
be weather, Thanks Bob. Now here's sports, here's here's here's

(46:38):
what Costa wrote. Quote. President Trump told CBS News on
Wednesday that he remains committed to pursuing the peace agreement
between Russia and Ukraine despite mounting uncertainty over the prospect
of face to face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin
and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenski. And you know this is

(46:58):
good reporting by Bob Costa because Zelensky spelled with two.
Why's he got that right. Mister Trump characterized his position
as both realistic and optimistic, and said he is closely
monitoring how both leaders are handling this crossroads in the negotiations. Quote.
I've been watching it, I've been seeing it, and I've
been talking about it with President Putin and President Zelenski,

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Mister Trump said in a phone interview. Something is going
to happen, but they are not ready yet. But something
is going to happen. We are going to get it done.
That's the whole goddamn story. It's an exclusive bit of stenography.
I know what you're thinking. Did this cost to follow

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up by asking if it isn't obvious by now that
Trump has simply been stalling about Ukraine for seven months,
maybe at Putin's instructions, certainly to Putin's benefit, and that
Trump's references to two weeks, He's got two weeks or
fifty days or soon, or something's going to happen. These
are meaningless lies, and only a right wing propagandist or

(48:04):
a moron would repeat them as if they had any
value other than serving to perhaps save the right wing
propagandist's job at CBS when the new regime comes into power.
He did not follow up, Oh what a shock. And
he did not follow up because Robert Costa is not

(48:24):
a reporter. Trump is stalling about Ukraine, and he's now
used you Costa to help him stall, to regurgitate this
same nonsense that something's going to happen soon, when it
didn't happen the last twenty eight times Trump said something
was going to happen soon. Because Trump's a liar, and
some people are willing to say that, and some people

(48:45):
are not. And then there's that third category of people
who are too stupid to recognize that it's true. I
prefer the people who are lying about it to the
people who don't recognize it. I suspect Costa is too
stupid to recognize it. He's stalling about Ukraine. That is
his job that Putin gave him to do. That he

(49:09):
has help, but not according to Robert Cockroach. I'm sorry,
Robert Costa. Two day's other worst far sudden and the
word what'd you think of that one? Stevie? Is that

(50:03):
a good show? Was I any good? Did you like
the baseball part? What do you think? You've had enough surgeries?
Do you need Tommy John surgery? Too? Well? You only
have the three bad legs. What I know I went

(50:24):
too long. I shouldn't add lib. I'm much better when
I pre write everything. Me for notes is well, you
better have an hour. You're right, and it's that I
could be talking to you guys. What December nineteen eighty

(50:45):
five was already weird enough. I was doing well. In LA.
Being three thousand miles away from everyone and everything I
knew had been surprisingly helpful, and there was no ramp
up time for my work. I'd already won a couple
of best Sportscaster awards, and then the top all news
radio station was asking me to come over every afternoon
and split the afternoon drive sportscasting shift with a guy

(51:05):
who'd been on the air there literally for thirty years,
who's one of the voices in the background and The
Godfather Part two? And now somehow my producer, Ron Greulnick,
and I were headed to the Beverly Wilshire Hotel to
go interview Mickey Mantle for the average LA sportscast. Here
there really wasn't much reason to interview Mickey Mantle, which

(51:28):
is why all of them at the bigger three network
stations had turned down the offer of a sit down interview.
But I was a New Yorker and had been three
months earlier, and thus Mickey Mantle was my idol. And moreover,
when I became a baseball fan in nineteen sixty seven,
my folks bought tickets specifically behind first base at Yankee

(51:48):
Stadium because they had just moved Mantle there from the outfield,
and as my dad said, when you are an old man,
you will say the greatest thing you ever saw in
baseball was Mickey Mantle, so you might as well see
as much of him as you can. Well, I'm an
old man now, and my dad was exactly right. Mantell
was on a tour publicizing some kind of hitting video

(52:09):
and he would do one exclusive interview with an LA
station at like exactly five pm on that night in
December nineteen eighty five, and to get it you had
to agree to give the video exactly one plug and
ask him one question about it, but otherwise you could
ask whatever you wanted. He had fifteen minutes then he
was going out to dinner. Yeah, yeah, that was it. Dinner.

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So Ron and I pulled up to the Beverly Wilshire
in his car, and I had never been in, but
I had walked past it a dozen times and I
knew there was a new wing and an old wing.
And as Ron tried to park, I tried to find
the room where Mantell would be waiting for us, so
I could be there to meet the camera crew that
was joining us from some other shoot somewhere and also
because he was Mickey Mantle. I had met him before,

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I had even interviewed him briefly for CNN, but nothing
like this, nothing like a sit down interview, just me
and him. The room number it was something like eight
ninety seven, could have been five ninety seven, could have
been twelve ninety seven, but it was basically the highest
number there could be on a given hotel floor. And

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I saw the elevator just pass the registration desk and up.
I went to the eighth floor, and it was a
deserted labyrinth, turn after turn and nobody there. And then
suddenly I turned to corner, and walking towards me was
the most elegantly dressed older couple I had ever seen
to that point or since. She was wearing a mink

(53:38):
stole atop a beautiful gown, and she had a diamond
necklace big enough to induce cramps. She had a piercing,
glistening set of deep brown eyes. She looked to be
in her mid to late fifties, but might have been older.
He was older, maybe eighty, but with a full head

(53:58):
of thick and wiry hair. He was tall, thin, extraordinarily
elegant in a perfect tuxedo. But all of this was overwhelmed,
almost erase, by one fact that startles me still thirty
seven years later. This man was wearing a cape. I'm

(54:19):
pretty confident that I had never seen a man wearing
a cape before. I know, I have not seen one
since I have been looking, And yet it looked so
good on him that I can recall briefly thinking, Keith,
maybe you should buy a cape. This couple was perfect.
We seem to be the only people on the floor.

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The hallway wasn't all that wide. I said good evening
as I passed. She said good evening, and in so
doing revealed a British accent, and he mumbled good evening
and revealed what sounded like the lingering minor aftermaths of
a minor stroke. They walked their way, I walked mine,
and my focus returned to finding Mickey Mantle in room
eight ninety seven. The numbers of the rooms I was

(55:03):
passing were like eight eleve I've been an eight fourteen,
And after a few more turns of the labyrinth, that
dawned on me that I must be in the old
wing of the Beverly Wilshire and the high numbers like
eight ninety seven must have been in the new wing
of the Beverly Wilshire. I also noticed that I had
not passed a doorway or a vestibule or some kind
of connecting bridge to the new wing, so I had

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better make it back to the elevator and the lobby
before Ron or the camera crew made the same mistake
I had. Because Mickey Mantle was waiting my reversed course,
I began to trot. After three or four more of
these labyrinthine turns, I found, to my shock that the
perfectly elegant older couple he was wearing a cape, was

(55:46):
standing exactly where I had left them. She laughed. She
mentioned something about the higher numbers being in the new wing,
and everybody made that mistake. I thanked her, and then
she said, you're the young man who does the spots
on the television, aren't you. And I had gotten pretty
popular pretty fast there, but being recognized was still very
so uprising and pleasantly so. And I said that, and

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I introduced myself, so nice to meet you. She said,
I'm Patricia Carlton, and this she pointed to the guy
in the cape is my husband. He slowly extended a
hand but shook mine vigorously, and I'm Joseph Carlton. Missus
Carlton was very excited. You know, Joe and I we
really are not fans of the sports, but whenever we're

(56:29):
at home in Palm Springs, we make sure we stay
up until the end of the ten o'clock news so
we can watch you. Joe nodded and smiled in the cape.
You know, so clearly enjoying yourself that we find ourselves
enjoying it too. That's really quite remarkable. I was genuinely
touched and remain so I explained my dilemma. I treated
them as you were supposed to treat viewers, gratefully and solicitously,

(56:51):
and I asked them if they were going to the lobby,
and if I might walk with them so I didn't
get any further lost. We'd be delighted. I must ask you,
mister Fishman, who does the news on your program? Is
that his real hair? She saw my shock at the question.
Joe and I have often won wigs, and we can't
be certain. That means if it is a wig, it's

(57:11):
a good one. We reached the elevator bank and I
pushed down he was walking slowly. He must have had
a stroke. Still, he was an imposing figure of a man,
and not just because he was wearing a cape. As
I steered them away from the subject of our anchorman's
to pay and talked instead about my Mickey Mantle interview,

(57:31):
I realized he looked extremely familiar, like I knew him.
Joseph Carleton kept rolling the name over in my mind.
And Patricia Carlton, who are they? The elevator light went
off and a very loud bell sounded. The doors opened,
and there was my producer, Ron and the two man

(57:54):
camera crew and the reporter who had been with them
on the previous story, Sam chu Lynn, who had stayed
with him because he wanted to meet Mickey Mantle. And
as I joked to my new friends Joe and Patricia Carlton,
oh look, here's my camera crew. It's four members made
no motion to even leave the elevator. They all looked
dumb struck. Sam Chulin's eyes looked like they were about

(58:16):
to pop out of his head. I assumed this was
because my new friend Joe was wearing a cape. Finally
I got the crew to move. I held the door
open so Joe and Patricia could get into the elevator.
I actually said, such a pleasure to meet you, and
of course, thank you so much for watching Channel five
News at ten, and she smiled warmly, and he managed

(58:37):
to quick wave and the doors closed. And only at
that exact moment did it dawn on me where I
knew him from the blood now drained from my face
as I turned to talk to the camera crew and
Ron and Sam. Uh, you guys knew who those two
people were, right, Sam laughed at me. Of course he did,

(59:01):
didn't you? And I sighed, oh my god. And her
name was Patricia Carleton and that was her husband, Joseph Carleton.
And she said it that way because she's British, and
that's how if you're British you would say the name Cotton.
She's Patricia Cotton, and he's Joseph Cotton, who was in

(59:22):
Citizen Kane. I remember actually put my hand on the
law on my face in my other hand. I just
met Joseph Cotton, and I didn't recognize him. And the cameraman,
Martin Klancy. You also often said things like this, said
pretty stupid of you, huh, And I said, you know,
you have no idea how stupid. I mean, obviously I

(59:43):
know who Joseph Cotton is. And Sam Chulann said you
sure about that? I gave him a dirty look and
I said, no, it's worse than this. In nineteen forty eight,
the president of the International Joseph Cotton Fan Club was
my mother. There is a picture of that man with
my mother from like thirty seven years ago at the

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Stork Club. They all laughed. Then Sam Chulin said in
that photo is he wearing that cape? My gaff did
serve to relax me a little for the interview with Mantle.
My gaff. When I get over it, i'll let you know.

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So anyway, we all reached room eight ninety seven or
whatever it was in the New Wing the Beverly Wilshire
and as the crew set up, I managed to tell
the story of the Cottons to Mickey Mantle and he said, yeah,
I saw them in the lobby a couple hours ago.
He's a great actor. I met him in New York,
must be thirty years ago. Did you say hi? Oh right,
you just told me you didn't recognize him. Mickey Mantle

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was busting my chops as I said I had met
him before even interviewed him before, but this was our
first sit down, and he was in a good mood,
even expansive and playful. And at one point he stunned me.
I said, I know you only have a couple of
minutes left, so forgive me if I'm bringing up something
that takes more than a couple of minutes. And he interrupted,
and he said, take as much time as you need.
I'm enjoying us talking. So I asked him about this

(01:01:16):
one subject, how he felt about what he did in
his career, considering how injured he was. When he retired.
Mickey Mantle was third all time in homers. He hit
three hundred and ten times. He played in twelve World
Series on one bad knee and one worse knee. Mantle
got very reflective and self critical. We use this sound

(01:01:38):
bite at the end of his obituary that I would
do for ESPN a decade later. If I'd known I
was going to live so long, he told me, I
would have taken better care of myself and done better.
I said, well, he'd done pretty good. I could have
done better. I thanked him. Then, as the cameraman moved

(01:01:59):
to get the shots of me nodding and repeating a
question or two. Mickey Mandle said that was really good.
I flushed. I got to ask you something. Can you
give me some pointers? I suddenly had no idea what
the word pointers meant? Pointers? What are pointers? Mantle said
he was going to do some Yankee games the next

(01:02:20):
year on cable with Mel Allen. I'm doing interviews after games.
I'm no damn good at interviews. Just now, you were
moving from topics to topics so smooth. How do you
keep all the questions in your head? Now? I laughed,
I didn't keep them in my head. Didn't you see
my cheat card? And he laughed and he said no,
And I showed it to him. I said, it's just
a business card with like seven keywords written on the back.

(01:02:42):
If I think I might freeze up because I'm nervous
because I'm interviewing Mickey Mantle, or I just met Joseph
Cotton and I didn't recognize him, I make one of
these cards. I hide it in the palm of my hand,
and if I get stuck, I could just look down
quickly and see one of the words, and I've got
the question. I've got this card to remind me. Mickey
Mantle's eyes glowed. But wait, he said, we're using these mics,

(01:03:07):
and he pointed to the clip on on his shirt,
So you don't have to hold mike. What do you
do if you have to hold the mic like I'll
have to in an interview after a ballgame? What if
the card would fall out or you have to shake
hands with the player. And I said, well, just write
the words on your hand whichever hand is holding the mic,
like below the thumb. Mickey Mantle looked at me as

(01:03:29):
if I had just given him the secret of eternal life. Wow,
he said, that's great. I'm going to write this down. Thanks,
and we were packed up, and he actually walked me
to the hotel room door and gave me a double
handed handshake. So it had been a big day, even
if I didn't realize it was Joseph Cotton. Mickey Mantle

(01:03:50):
had asked me for advice about anything. Somehow I had
thought of something to tell him, and he was really
happy about the advice, and of course this provided a punchline.
The following spring, we were in the studios at KTLA,
watching on the satellite feed as the Yankees first cable
telecast of the nineteen eighty six season ended, and sure

(01:04:10):
enough they threw it down to Mickey Mantle on the
field interviewing some player, and one of our producers said, oh,
let's see if he remembers the lesson you gave him,
and another one said, here's your student, Mickey Mantle. And
sure enough, after the first answer, Mickey Mantle pauses, and
I know he can't remember what he wanted to ask next,
And sure enough I see him cheat his look down
slightly towards the head holding the microphone. And the next

(01:04:30):
thing I see, he's kind of tilted the microphone sideways
and he's asking the question, but you can barely hear
him because the mic is pointing off at a forty
five degree angle, because he has written his key reminder
words not below the thumb on the outside part of

(01:04:52):
his hand, but on the palm side of his hand,
and he's had to move the mic out of the
way to read the words on the palm of his hand.
And the producer says, Hall, Mickey Mantle hates you. I

(01:05:20):
swear I heard her say, Carlton. If they released this
new AI version of The Magnificent Amberson's, I'll watch it.
Perhaps if you're lucky you're younger than I am and
you missed all this. But forty five years ago we
were playing this same game, only with colorization. Ted Turner

(01:05:44):
wanted to take all the great black and white films
and put them into colorization processes and colorization processes. In
those days, it was like asking you to hold up
a piece of wrapping paper, clear plastic cellophane of one

(01:06:04):
color or another, and just hold it up and look
at a black and white film through the cellophane. Oh,
it's colorized. It looked like crap, And I thought, this
looks like crap. On the other hand, even then there
were people who would not watch black and white movies
and suddenly because they were colorized, however badly, and obviously

(01:06:26):
they've gotten better with time. People were watching Casablanca, Citizen Kane,
and all the other great films. The early Hitchcock films
say nothing of silent movies that were colorized. They colorized
greed and put it on Turner on TNT or TBS greed. Anyway,

(01:06:49):
Maybe AI will do for the magnificent Ambersons what the
colorization of the early black and white classic films did
for them a new audience. Even now, the magnificent Ambersons
is a magnificent film imagined what it would be like
to see it again. Plus I can then go around
and post I know the star of that film, Joseph Carlton.

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just one two hundred and forty days until the scheduled
end of his lane. Duck On lame brained term unless
he is removed sooner by Matt and Epstein, or the
pavement on his hand, or the actuarial tables, whatever. The
next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Till then, I'm Keith Olberman.
Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown

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