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than that. She may repeat, may caveat may warning. Even if so, keep your foot on the gas. May be pulling away from Trump. There may be new polls today reflecting Trump's Sunday, when a twenty sixteen Trump voter with a gun tragically snuffed out the life of Trump's round of golf. It was only five holes.

to focus him on policy. You know, policy like mandatory childbirthing, with Sarah Huckabee Sanders attacking the Vice president last night for only being a stepmother, even though she Huckaby has endowed her unfortun child with the name huck huck Huckabee, although what a lectern he will inherit someday policies They want to keep Trump on policies, killing off another Senate attempt to protect in vitro fertilization yesterday, and Vance's clever

revelation that under Trump Bamacare, that would take people with pre existing conditions and put them in their own insurance pool so that they can't afford healthcare and the insurance companies don't have to pay for healthcare, which is just the old Monty Python joke about how they'd love to pay you your claim, but unfortunately you signed up for their never pay policy. Back to the Vice President's polling,

and it is so good. Even Axios was forced to write an article headlined Kamala Harris's polling renaissance and lead with the fact that, according to the five thirty eight average of polls yesterday, for the first time since July of twenty twenty one, her net favorability moved into positive territory forty six point six percent approval to forty six point five percent disapproval. Now that is about as not a landslide as you could get. But I can't believe

I'm saying this. As Axios notes, it is an almost unprecedented turnaround. Vice President Harris, whose net approval is plus zero point one above water, was on July fourteenth at minus seventeen, and again Axios is sticking to averages of large numbers of poles. It also highlighted the five point thirty eight polling average, where she's up by three, and its electoral college model, in which Harris wins sixty one times out of one hundred, and the Economist polling average,

which shows her up by four. And Nate Silver's Okay, maybe I did pull this number out of my ass model, which he acknowledges went from last week giving Trump a two thirds chance of winning to Nate now saying to Axios that Harris is quote moving up in the polls enough that the model is converging back toward fifty to fifty in the electoral college. There is one other number of note inside the ABC poll from Sunday in that Harris is at forty five percent among likely voters who

are white. So what that's not a majority? Well, if accurate, forty five percent would be the largest white support for any Democratic nominee since Jimmy Carter in nineteen seventy six. Is that number accurate? I don't know the five thirty eight net approval number who knows Harris by six in Morning consult seven to eight in Big Village got a six point swing in the Mark Penn poll. I don't know.

You know what we need? We need some poll numbers on whether or not the poll numbers are at all reliable. I see them chiefly, not as some sort of guarantee, nor even a disincentive to work harder, work harder than that. I see them chiefly as everybody involved getting to sleep more and spending more time trying to get her elected and less time trying to choose move to Montreal or move to Toronto. Oh Toronto, Because there's baseball no Montreal

because that baseball is the Blue Jays. Oh, there goes the Canadian audience. Actually they know, they know about the Blue Jays. They know. Meanwhile, I wish there were a kind of all purpose omnibus polling number to indicate just how much of a gift from a divine providence JD. Vance really is. I mean, maybe his IQ plus the number of points Harris has gained since Trump picked him. I bet the number is like up to eighty seven or eighty eight by now. Because JV is a freaking moron.

I mean, he may be functionally dumber than Trump. He certainly has an advantage on Trump of being generally aware of what those sounds are that are coming out of his mouth. Yet he is magnificently unaware that what is coming out of his mouth is wildly unpopular, totally untrue, and additionally far too complex for the idiots who are going to vote dictatorship because they have convinced themselves it's freedom. At Sparta, Michigan, yesterday, JV doubled down on the Republican

lies about the immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. Never mind that Senator Vance senator from Ohio is literally terrorizing residents of his own state. And I don't even mean the immigrants here, I mean the multi generational Springfield residents, Jebediah Springfield himself, who have seen their city shut down over this nonsense. Vance is insistent that the Democrats and the media owe him and Trump apologies because all those bomb threats, not one of them has turned out to be a bomb, not yet.

Vance is insisting that the Haitians come from some foreign land, a land that exists only in JV's mind, a land called Haitia. Oh And then he has a surprise for Trump prostitute Robert F. Kennedy Junior.

at least as complicated as ancient Rome. The laws favored the native citizens Spartiates, moth acts, other mixed heritage residents with full rights, and then there were the Periacoy, who were non Sparta natives of the town. And then there were the slaves, the helots. The helots were made famous again in the Frank Capra Gary Cooper film Meet John Doe, in which Cooper's sidekick played by Walter Brennan, calls people

he doesn't like helots. When pressed for a definition, Brennan finally explains helots a lot of heels, which brings us back to Vance and Trump helots a lot of heels. The leads story tomorrow might yet be Trump's Arlington National Cemetery defilement. ABC News, which has been way ahead on this story after NPR broke it, originally says the investigation is still alive even though the Army considers the matter closed.

Quote the investigation is ongoing at Joint Base Meyer Henderson Hall by base authorities, the Pentagon told ABC, which translates as the police department at the base that has jurisdiction over Arlington National Cemetery is still on the job. ABC says it has yet to get hold of Trump campaign officials for necessary interviews. You will recall NPR identified two of the key ones two weeks ago as the deputy campaign manager, Justin Caparrale and Trump advance man Michelle Picard.

Picard was reported the one who shoved a female cemetery staffer out of the way after she tried to tell them it was against military rules to film while standing atop the graves of our war dead. Meanwhile, the lead story today might have been Trump Junior, but he deleted it. You will recall the guy in charge of social media for the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire who tweeted that anybody who murdered Kamala Harris would be a hero. He then deleted that. Then the FBI came to say hello

to him anyway yesterday. And Jeremy Kaufman, who turns out to have some connection to that New Hampshire town of Grafton that the Libertarians took over like twenty years ago, until the lack of laws or rules, or the lack of even a willingness to submit to organized garbage pickups led all the humans to have to flee when the bears came out of the woods and attacked them for their food. Jeremy Hoffman posted video of the FBI explaining assassination threats to him, and he wrote, you can see

the shame on their faces. You couldn't and this is the democratic regime manifest It wasn't initially Trump, Junior Ouday retweeted. Kaufman added quote a masterclass on how to handle what appears to be regime intimidation tactics. I don't know anything about Jeremy, but everyone should take note and handle themselves

accordingly when they inevitably come knocking on your door. Junior was real proud of this until somebody apparently pointed out to him that he had just praised a guy who had praised assassinating presidential candidates and sooner or later talking about lead stories, the sheriff of Portage County, Ohio, which is between Akron and Youngstown. He will be the lead story,

or somebody like him will be. Bruce Zakowski posted to Facebook over the weekend quote, when people ask me what will happen if the flip flopping laughing hyena wins, I say, write down all the addresses of people who had her signs in their yards. So multiple o's. When the illegal human locust when which she supports, need places to live, we'll already have the addresses of their new families who

supported their arrival. Mister Zukowski incidentally has a fu Man chew mustache, a cowboy hat, badly dyed hair, and a large collection of chins. His post included a close up shot of this story being told by Laura Ingram on Fox. He now says, you and I have gotten it all wrong. His newest Facebook post quote, As the chief law enforcement officer of Portage County, I have sworn to protect all citizens of my county. Recently, I placed a post on

my personal Facebook page that may have been a little misinterpreted. I, as the elected sheriff, do have a First Amendment right, as do all citizens. If the citizens of Portage County want to elect an individual who has supported open borders, which I personally visited twice and neglected to enforce the laws of our country, then that is their prerogative. With elections, there are consequences. That being said, I believe that those who vote for individuals with liberal policies have to accept

responsibility for their actions. I am a lawman, not a politician. So he made a veiled threat against Harris supporters. He called legal immigrants into his own state quote locust unquote. He insisted he had been misinterpreted, and then he said all of it again. Good God. Maybe we shouldn't make him the lead story, because if jd. Vance has to withdraw from Trump's ticket for some reason, they could put this helot Zakowski in as the new running mate and

nobody would know the goddamned difference. Also of interest here, if you're wondering why Elon Musk, I'm sorry Leon Leon Musk. If you're wondering why Leon Musk has done the crazy anti American things he's done lately. No, he's not running for sheriff of Portage County, Ohio. But it turns out one of his anti Ukraine memes, one that's been retweeted eighty six thousand times, it was designed by, according to

Radio Free Europe, the Kremlin. That's next this discountdown. This is countdown with Keith Olberman Stella ahead of us on this editiontive Countdown. I just told this story again at lunch on Monday and the listener was somebody who is now in this business, who said he was just a kid, just a nightly viewer fifteen years ago, and he had absolutely no idea that this drama was playing out behind the scenes as he watched that it consumed nearly the

entire summer of two thousand and nine at MSNBC. That was the year that the CEO of the International Monolith Corporation ge General Electric nearly shut down MSNBC like he was hitting the off button on a remote, simply because his mother was a Bill O'Reilly cultist, and Billo had said mean things about her boy, and she had called

him up and yelled at him. And for some reason, the chairman did not like my idea, which was to go over to his mom's house in Cincinnati and yank the cable out of her wall so she would not hear Bill O'Reilly say any more bad things about her boy Jeff. Instead, he's wanted to fire all of us and give back the two hundred million dollars a year in profit coming up in things I promised not to tell. Business is a matter of business. The business of America

is business, except if my mom is upset. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute two days Mommy's really mad at me? Worst persons in the world. I still can't get over it. It's fifteen years ago. I still can't get I'm not even near getting over it. The last things I say on Earth may be can you believe this idiot, Jeff imilt AnyWho speaking of idiocy at NBC The Bronze Worst.

Meghan Kelly, No, this is not about her ongoing death struggle war against Carrie Lake. One of them will corner the market on camera filters and the other will be left unfiltered. God help us all. No, no, this is about what she said this time. Megan Kelly was never really talented. She used to have a somewhat icy allure to her. Now she's just getting a little bit more kareny everyfing day. I'm allowed to criticize Taylor Swift and I don't give a s. I don't like putting the

word S in women's mouths like this. I don't give a who gets upset this is disgusting. If she wants to vote Harris Wallas. She can do it all she wants, but say, the reason she's doing it is because of Tim Walls's position on LGBTQ. F you, Taylor Swift, this is unbelievable. Megan has a screw loose and i'd say f you back, Megan Kelly. But Fox fired you and NBC fired you, and your television careers over at age fifty three. So what's the point of saying FU two?

Life has already done that to you? The runner up worser. Maybe she can get a job with this guy, Leon Elon Musk to you Leon, Donald Trump per Julia Davis, the invaluable columnist of The Daily Beast, creator of the Russian media Monitor. She watches, as she says in her bio, she watches Russian state TV, so you don't have to god.

Is that true? She's quoting Radio Free Europe. A trove of leaked records from a Russian disinfo campaign reveals how Moscow sought to discredit Ukraine and Western governments that support it, while also trying to boost support for far right political parties in the European Union. The documents highlight the internal

operations of the Social Design Agency the Social Design Agency. Wow, that sounds kind of twenty second century, doesn't it No, it's just a Moscow based company that the United States says has led the propaganda campaign at the Kremlins behest the design in the Moscow Social Design Agency its memes.

The campaign to continue Radio Free Europe includes a diverse mix of memes, falsified videos, and government documents, and a network of websites impersonating legitimate news outlets to disseminate fake

stories aimed at undermining Western support for Ukraine. In the records, there is the production trail kind of the a family tree of one particular meme which shows President Zelenski of Ukraine his face tense, he's sort of coiled, he's staring as if angry, as if he's looking for an email to come in on a computer screen, and the caption reads when it's been five minutes and you haven't asked

for a billion dollars in aid. The meme was posted by Elon Musk on October first, twenty twenty three, and it has been retweeted eighty six thousand times since and Julia Davis and Radio Free Year Report. It was created by the Kremlin's own social design agency. I'm beginning to think Musk was created by the Kremlin's own social design agency. Musk might as well be Benny Johnson at this point, Kremlinny Benny. He might as well be doing the work

of a Russian agent inside this country. And this is forty eight hours after he asked on his own website why nobody had yet tried to assassinate Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and then deleted it without explanation except the lame excuse that, oh, you didn't left at my joke. Well, that's because we're not as stoned as you are. Elmo, why do we permit Leon to stay in our country? I'll compromise in this. I mean he can stay in

our country, but only in jail. Arrest Elon Musk today for threatening the lives of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and investigate him just on this meme created by the Kremlins. Memesar, but our winner, And yes, somebody's worse than that. He's the worst. But he's the worst because he always manages to do something horrible, but to do it so badly, so self destructively, so self owningly that we all manage to get enraged and then we get a great laugh out of it and him and we are laughing at him.

And that is none other than Bill Ackman. Bill Ackman is the billionaire hedge clipper manufacturer. Oh I'm sorry, I read that wrong, hedge fund manager. His company is called Pershing Square. If you have money in Pershing Square, I'm suggesting you get it out now. I know nothing about hedge funds, but all I know is this guy is an idiot. And if he's decided to do what he's done and he's managing money, I would when you put your money in, I'd give it a nice long kiss

goodbye and wish it a happy existence somewhere else. This is the guy who remember trying to destroy his alma mater, Harvard, because I forget exactly what he wanted, but it would not make him king of Harvard or whatever he wanted. I don't know. I went to Cornell. We're simple country folk. We're the ones who helped prosecute the anti Semites on our campus last year. We don't understand your city slicker, Havid Yawd ways. Bill Ackman has now taken this pathetic,

obvious fake ABC whistleblower Affidavid about the debate. It's supposedly from a technician or somebody at ABC, full of redactions like the guy's name or his job or any facts that he might have at his hands. And at one point he says he's worked there ten years. No, it's thirty years since Disney took over ABC. No, it's ten years. And the deal, he says they made with Kamala Harris was she was not to be asked any questions. This

was her deal breaker. You could not ask the vice president in the ABC debate about when she was Attorney General of San Francisco. Well, she never was the attorney general of San Francisco, because there is no such job as attorney general of San Francisco. Whoever made this thing up didn't know the fundaments that the job she had was was attorney general of the state of California. You'd have a district attorney that was a different job in

San Francisco, a different controversy with a different person. Morons. So Bill Ackman puts out half a dozen tweets about a really badly done fake, clearly does not read any of the replies, because the moment he put out this one. Everybody jumped on and even the ones who supported him and said, Bill, you've topped yourself. Here's here it is

it forbade him? Come to think of it, I am going to alert the at SEC directly about at Disney, at ABC and their misleading response to the whistleblowers accusations about the presidential debate. Six fifty seven am, September seventeenth, twenty twenty four, seven hundred and twenty three thousand views, three point three thousand retweets, nineteen thousand likes. I'm going to alert the at SEC. At SEC is the Twitter x handle four No, not the Security Is and Exchange Commission,

which Bill seems to think. At SEC is the two handle for the Southeastern Conference College Sports League, the sixteen universities of the Southeastern Conference, the SEC most recent football champs, Alabama. I'm sure they'll they'll say, thanks, Bill, we'll send some

refs right over and look into it. Ten yards for getting the handle wrong, Say Bill, did you really go to college and get to your current age of eighty five or whatever you are without knowing that the Twitter handle for the Securities and Exchange Commission is sec GUB Did you even check Bill, where's all that money in your hedge fund? Could you've asked your twenty year old wife about it? Maybe I'm sorry for the Southern accent. It just it went with the Southeastern Conference thing. Anyway.

I would bet professors Dunning and Krueger would pay millions for the rights to study Bill Ackman. Two days.

to Izzy, Sundry imprecations and reminiscences eight freaking months? Is we spent twelve freaking months forcing them to create meadows show It last eight months, all the crap prompter practice getting her over her fears rockets past. CNN only eight

months of show, and now it's all gone. Izzy reminded me it was not just Rachel's show that was threatened, which was why poor Court Harson from Hardball was already upstairs, along with poor Ed Schultz and Phil Griffin and Rachel's executive producer, Bill Wolf and some clown from Morning Joe and a couple of other MSNBC executives and us. I know, I know, I did the line from the drunken Irishman

from Hitchcock's The Birds, complete with the bad accent. It's the end of the world, I said, Jeff Immelt is going to take MSNBC off the air. I didn't need any of my overwrought visions from two years earlier of the future of liberal news commentary falling out the NBC window to its death on the rink. This was the real thing. The chairman of General Electric was threatening to open the window himself, throw us out the window himself, and then race down to the pavement to stomp on

our dying remains himself. Poor Ed Schultz heard Jeff Zucker say those words, and he had screwed up his face and tilted his head like a puppy hearing a car crash. He had not believed it the first time. He had not believed at the second time. Zucker said it a third time. Immelt is going to take MSNBC off the effing air at, Schultz groaned. After weeks of Griffin's coaxing, he had finally just moved from Nebraska to New York the preceding weekend. Yet he was still, somehow only the

second most strung out person in the room. You, Zucker shouted at me, You're the smartest one in the room. What the f do we do now? I'll confess I was shaken by this because it appeared for once that Zucker was not being sarcastic. I had never before seen him flush nor flustered. This was a guy who wore fleece in July. Now he was beat red and sweating. Sometimes he knew what he was doing, and, as his opposition to hiring Matdow had proved, sometimes he didn't know

what he was doing. But he always acted as the most confident man in the galaxy. But now he literally had no clue what to do next. And he not only could not ignore my advice, he desperately needed it. This situation and that color on his face were almost worth watching the corporate fascists nuke my network. I asked Zucker to explain what happened? You got Dan, Well know what happened. Zucker moved towards me, and I stood up and I told him I would see myself out. He stopped,

remembering that he did indeed actually need my help. I'm sorry, I apologize. This isn't Rachal, this is this is immelt. Last week sometime Bill O'Reilly snapped. He told Murdoch he wasn't gonna take any more of what you were saying

about him on the air. So he did a piece last night accusing GE of manufacturing the components that been used in roadside bombs that were built in a rand to kill Americans in Iraq, which is which is true legally, that's legally they found roadside bombs that had like thirty year old GE transistors or TV tubes from nineteen fifty four or is something in them. Legally, GE did manufacture components that were used in roadside bombs that were built

in around to kill Americans in Iraq. So o'reiley puts this on his effing show as a lead story and then Fox sent two camera crews in this little crap producer from a Riley show, Jesse Waters something to steak Emmelt out and chase him around the GE shareholders meeting in Charlotte. Zucker finally came up for air, and I jumped in, Why didn't emmelt have six camera crews to stake out the two Fox crews and chase them around

in Charlotte? I mean, isn't that one of our news hubs Charlotte doesn't emmelt own like twenty camera crews?

and Matthews is fired. And he pointed at poor Ed Schultz and you're fired, and Ed whimpered, So smart asked, what the f do we do. I feigned all the nonchalants I could feign. If I could have lit a shroot by striking a match on the sole of my boot, I would have. It's manageable. But Jeff, why is Emmelt so worked up about what O'Reilly said about him? Only O'Reilly's nutjob viewers actually believe any of that crap. Nobody at GE, nobody investing in GE could possibly believe we're

building components for roadside bombs. Zucker inhaled deeply. Emmelt's mother believes it. All the heads in the room turned toward the press. In of NBC Missus. Emmelt back in Cincinnati is a devoted Bill O'Reilly viewer watches him every night, sees this, calls him, says, Sonny, why are you manufacturing components that were used in roadside bombs built in Iran

to kill Americans in Iraq? I had not expected that, I said to Zucker, So so he'll really burn what two hundred million a year in profits just between Rachel and me? Because his mom watches Bill O'Reilly, Zucker got angry again. You bet your effing ass he will now you said it was manageable. How how the hef do we manage it? Ulberman? Just a minute? How old is she? Zucker summoned all his annoyance. How old is who Emmelt's mother? How old is she? Jeff Zucker was really annoyed. How

the f should I know? You're missing the point? I had him really worked up, nearly to the boiling point. Great guess, Zucker spluttered, I don't know. He's in his mid fifties. She's got to be eighty ninety something. I stifled a fake yawn. Yeah, you're right, probably closer to ninety now that I think of it. So the problem is she watches O'Reilly. She tells him what's on Fox? What O'Reilly's saying about ge? Well, I think you have

a simple solution. I'd say, the first thing you do is you send over a couple of big guys to her house and you pull the freaking cable out of the wall. Zucker actually gasped. My producer is Hepovich unsuccessfully stifled a laugh, and I saw Rachel crack a smile.

Zucker regained himself. This isn't funny, Olderman. I crossed my legs. Oh, it's a little funny, and anyway, it's not essential if the problem is emailed is threatening to take the network off the air because O'Reilly is avenging himself against me by attacking him and attacking ge. The short term solution is easy, and in fact it is manageable. The long term solution that's not easy, and that's not manageable. But the short term one that's simple. Rest of this week,

next week, maybe the week after that. Even we just don't mention Fox News on MSNBC. Something resembling a smile cross Zucker's face. It made him look a little less like a lizard person and more like a monkey with glasses. You do that forever? No, not forever. I would not do that, I said to Bias time. Yes, but remember who was it who was in my office last winter telling me that I should go on the air and

just to f with Fox? I should ask why Rupert Murdoch was still running a huge international media company like News Corp, despite all the reports that he's suffering from dementia, even though there haven't been any reports that he's suffering from dementia. For everybody's sake, here, who was that again, who told me to do that? Zuker's goodwill was gone again.

Obviously that was me. What's your point? My point is, we built this new brand of ours organically on a couple of themes, a couple of statements of principle, and one of them is to use your words just to f with Fox. If we don't f with Fox for a couple of weeks at the start of the summer, who's going to care. Who's gonna notice? But like after two weeks, three weeks, our viewers are gonna notice, and the TV writers are gonna notice, and then the crap

we'll hit from every direction. You can think of temporary freeze on mentioning Fox and mentioning O'Reilly and mentioning Murdoch. Fine, permanent freeze. Might as well let Immelt turn us off in the morning. After all, I don't think Zooker actually heard the last part about em Milt turning us off. After all, the lack of color was returning to his face. Okay, breathe, he kept saying to himself. Breathe, breathe, Okay, breathe. He looked at me and nodded. He pointed at Izzy and

at Phil Griffin and me. You you, and you and I. We will talk tomorrow, maybe tonight, and we'll all meet again next week. Until then, nothing about Fox, anybody, are we clear? Nothing on the air about Fox. Silence in the room. Then the assorted noises of people rising, mixed with attempts to resuscitate poor Ed Schultz. Somebody Matthew's guy, Harson I think, was almost at the door out of Zucker's office, an office so big that it was to steal the Ring Lardner line, the size of the Yale Bowl,

but with lamps. And then a voice spoke up, quietly but firmly, Excuse me. It was Rachel Maddow. Excuse me. I will not have the content of my show dictated by any corporations, including the one I work for. Remember this is June two thousand and nine. She still felt that way then, and especially one I don't work for. I will walk out first. I cannot have the audience wondering what else I have not told them. I don't do a lot about Fox on my show. But if there is a story about Fox, I will not honor

this freeze. I will report that story. And if I'm prevented from reporting that story, I will leave. Whereupon she left, Zucker barked Phil Alderman, is he stay? When the rest of the room had cleared, Zucker blew air out of his mouth as if it were smoke. He gestured violently at me with his right arm. I told you she was a mistake. You didn't listen to me.

And it's the problem of the CEO of the fricking sixth largest corporation in the world, who makes his business decisions involving hundreds of millions of dollars of profits based on what his mother says. At this point, Phil Griffin managed to pull Zucker away and Izzy and I made for the door, saying nothing until we were in the elevator. Finally, she asked, what are you going to do about Rachel? I look straight ahead. I have depth perception issues while

traveling forward, backwards, up or down. Yeah, if I know what I'm gonna do about her. But I got an idea. I mean, the only person she was really talking to in there was herself. This isn't a brand new surprise success for her anymore. This is successful. This is what nine ten months she's successful. She said she was once a dancing cell phone outside of cell phone store outside of Boston. She ain't going back to that. I went to talk to Rachel about an hour later and reassured her.

I mentioned that powerful as Fox was, they were not going to be able to re invade Iraq by themselves, and unless she moved it way closer than it had been, nobody would cross her censorship line. And I said, just give me as much time as the French government took before fleeing during the Nazi advance in nineteen forty. I said, give me, what was it, thirty three days? Give me thirty three days. If we aren't back where we were this morning, we can both quit on the air. I mean that'd be fun.

for the time being. A couple of weeks later, I had to sneak in a script that blasted Fox, and at ten thirty at home that night, I got a call from a drunk can Phil Griffin shouting into the phone. I of a family. Zucker had to go meet with Roger Ayles secretly inside thirty Rock, and I hope they remember to clean the room afterwards. And mlt even had

to meet with Murdoch. And then, happily, some idiot Ge executive decided to boast to The New York Times about getting us little talent children under control and a big deal with the executives over at Fox and how they'd settled everything, which blew up the whole deal instantly, because the moment the deal went public, NBC looked so stupid,

and even NBC News was now risked. The only point of the whole thing was to keep the Immelts and the Zuckers and the Griffins and the ales Is from throwing us and our little island of liberal commentary out of that window at thirty Rock. But as Rachel Mattow and I would be constantly reminded in the ensuing years, thirty Rock has a lot of freaking windows. I've done all the damage I can do here as I await Bill Ackman reporting me to the Southeastern Conference, thank you

for listening. We are now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern. Once again, there is a Monday Countdown. If I can do that, you can send this to somebody who doesn't listen or subscribe. I mean somebody who'd like it, or somebody who wouldn't like it. That works too. Brian Ray and John Phillip Chanel are the musical directors of Countdown and they arranged, produced and

performed most of our music. Mister Chanelle handled orchestration in keyboards, Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums, and it was produced by Tko Brothers, And yes, Jeff mL really was going to take the network off the air, and the guy who was stalking him really was Jesse Waters, and they really were proud that they had made a deal with Fox in which they let Fox decide what NBC thought was news and what wasn't. And the moment it hit the fresh air of the real world, half

a dozen NBC News executives threatened to quit anyway. Our satirical and fifty musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, who had nothing to do with ge. The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN, Inc. And of course they're hearing about everything involved in this show right now from the Southeastern Conference thanks to Bill Ackman. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed.

My announcer today is my friend John Dean. Everything else was pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for this the forty ninth day until the twenty twenty four presidential election, counting a election day for those of you who say no, it's the forty eighth and the forty fifth day since convicted felon domestic jay terrorists first attempted coup against the

democratically elected government of the United States. Use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity if you have to to keep him from doing it again while we still can. And please, Maga nuts, please stop trying to shoot at Trump. Please. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletin says that it requires until the next one on Keith Olderman good Morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.

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