KAMALA HARRIS KICKS BRET BAIER'S ASS - 10.17.24

from compulsively interrupting her. The moderator Chex's notes again, Brett beher, and despite the fact that when she called out Trump for threatening to use the military against citizens and jailing those who criticize him and about the enemy within, the anchor claimed to be playing a clip of Trump pertaining to that. Only they did a bait and switch. The anchor played a Trump clip about a different topic. The anchor Chex' notes a third time.

an inner democracy. The president of the United States, in the United States of America should be willing to be able to handle criticism without saying he'd lock people up for doing it. And this is what is at stake, which is why you have someone like the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff saying what Mark Milly has said about Donald Trump being a threat to the United States of America. He's quoted in the Bob Woodward book that way.

on its lies. On Fox. Although I give bare credit, he is apparently not resigned nor realized that until last night he had not actually been out in the real world talking to people who weren't sycophantic towards him in his propaganda channel and the poisonous bastard who owns it, Rupert Murdoch hadn't been out in the real world since he was a local newscaster in Charlotte in nineteen FN ninety eight. He hasn't quit the business nor fled the country.

Well done. At the other extreme, Trump yesterday went on a Fox women's town hall with actual Republican Party officials among the questioners. They didn't reveal that, and when he was still asked by somebody why the government had any authority over a woman's body. He answered by lying again that everybody wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. And then he went on Univision and did a town hall with questions from the people he is the most prejudiced against him? Boy?

Is that saying something? Hispanics one man asking one question in Spanish about this bullshit about the legal immigrants in Ohio eating pets that resulted in Trump denying that he had ever said that was happening. He was just repeating reports the central dehumanizing and degrading theme of his a vance's campaign of hate and violence and nightmare, and Trump disabout it completely. Do you really believe that these people are eating the people's pets?

the debate but are now minus ten. Vance was again asked about his repeated endless, nauseating tiptoeing around the question of whether or not he believes Trump lost in twenty twenty, and he finally answered it, and the answer was not great. Not great JV on the election of twenty twenty. I've answered this question directly a million times. No, I think there are serious problems in twenty twenty. So did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I

would use. So it's Harris fresh off of victory over Fox News on Fox News and over Trump by proxy on Fox News versus Trump of the famous Trump pre recorded concert series and his running mate, a lunatic election denier wearing eyeliner but back for a moment to bear and the vice president. Throughout the interview, I kept flashing back to thirty six years ago. May have been this month. I was trying too hard in a brand new job

at Channel two in Los Angeles. I did an absolutely terrible, long satirical segment about a top draft choice who was in the middle of a contract holdout from a local sports team, and then I ran it again and only shortened it a little bit, and it was terrible, not funny, not clever, not worth it. Bill Stout was one of

my friends and role models at KCBSTV. He had been on the air doing news in LA at that point for thirty nine years, and he was still in the office every day though he was desperately ill, and he would die still on the job almost exactly a year later. Bill had been involved in my hiring. He was very supportive, and as I walked back to my desk after the disaster of the Danny Manning satire, he looked at me and said, I know, I know, look at it this way.

You have far more courage than I do. My boy, if I had just put that on the air, I'd have gone home and nobody would have ever seen me on TV again. And I laughed and I thanked him, and I said, next time, tell me beforehand, and he agreed in that spirit. Brett Vair Next time you're going to try to bully and talk over and play gotcha with and smear the Vice president of the United States

and the likely next president of the United States. My advice to you is, first quit your job and go right to a monastery to atone I say the likely next president for a reason. As the Harris interview aired on Fox News, Fox put out its new polling. Last month, Fox had Harris up by two fifty to forty eight. Now it has Trump ahead by two fifty to forty eight, a four point swing. However, Fox's polling registered voters shows Harris ahead in the battleground states by six points. Six

points in the battlegrounds, that's all they say. Surprisingly enough, they did not break this downstate by state, nor after the initial mention in a very long story full of very pretty graphs, did they ever circle back to the point that she's winning in the battle ground states according to their polling, by six points. They made only one further point way at the end, namely that if their current polling is correct, Trump would win the popular vote,

but Harris would win the electoral College. I don't know about you, but if Trump wins the popular vote and Harris wins the Electoral College, I would be laughing so long that they would have to tape my mouth shut during her inauguration address. Also on polling you gov for the Economist, polling concluded Tuesday Harris forty nine Trump forty five, Harris by four. But more importantly, last week in this poll among Hispanic voters you gov for the Economist, it

was Harris forty eight Trump forty three. This week in the Economists poll among Hispanic voters, Harris sixty Trump thirty five. That is a swing in Hispanic voters of twenty points to Harris in one week. Economist average of polls Harris forty nine point eight Trump forty six point seven, Harris by three and change and almost at fifty percent. Also fairly Dickinson University poll Harris fifty Trump forty seven, and two other polls to mention. As analyzed by the former

top Republican strategist Matt Dowd. He notes the most accurate national poll from twenty twenty tip it had Biden up by four, and Biden won the popular vote by four and a half, now has Harris up by three. He notes that the most accurate poll from twenty sixteen, Marrist had Clinton up by two in the popular vote. Clinton won the popular vote by two point one percent. It Marrist has Harris up by five. He concludes, very simply, this race has been very stable for six weeks. For once.

The actual numbers, even the ones Dowd does not cite mean something. In that Mari Harris pole, she is up by five. She's up fifty two to forty seven. In that Tip pole. He mentions, it's Harris fifty to forty six. I mentioned Fairley Dickinson in that one. It's Harris fifty Trump forty seven. That is three prominent poles where she is at fifty percent or more. We don't know what the number is in the Swing States in the Fox pole, but if she's winning by six, she may be at

fifty in the Swing States. In the Fox pole. The five point thirty eight average of poles has her up by two point six. That is her biggest margin in eight days. This crap turns on a dime. The Swing States in other polling still nauseatingly tight. No matter what Fox says. That's so beneficial to Kamala Harris. But there is unquestionably a polling surge going on right now, and as of this moment, it is towards Kamala Harris, not that you would know that from the new Ouse outlets.

It continues the lead at Politico yesterday, Harris and Trump exit their comfort zones, quoting actor sticking mostly though not entirely, with more liberal friendly shows and podcasts. Sixty minutes is a liberal friendly show, univisione town Hall idiots. She'll be in for a drastic change on Fox. Pete Buddha Jedgiside. Party leaders rarely appear on the network because they think the risk isn't worth the reward. You even absent the hunt of the neck and neck presidential race, she kicked

their ass. How does Politico think Trump exited his comfort zone, by the way, by being interviewed at the Economic Club at Chicago? Politicoat you had a wellness check lately? Is this whole Liza thing really destroyed the place? I find that hard to believe. When self proclaimed super business man Trump sits down to talk business at an economic club with a business publication Bloomberg whose Twitter handle is at Business,

and he takes business questions from the business editor. He did not just leave his business comfort Business Zone, Harris kicked Brett Bear's ass, Trump crashed and burned in front of an audience full of of businessmen. Also of interest here, Oh, there's still more newsy nudes news. There's so much revenge popcorn and has caused the lining of my stomach to burst in some places. And it's cold revenge popcorn too. And if that is not nightmare fuel, were you? Maybe

this will be? How about CNN being sold to Elon Musk. That's next? Ted didn't like it. This is countdown.

same with the shrug emoji. Now it might not be funny, but to deconstruct the effort. Phrasing it that way, I could have meant same as in that was also my plan for her, or same that it was rfk's plan for me. Anyway, you decide if it's funny. I think it was. But they wrote an entire article about this

incredibly crass because they were punishing me. When The New York Post attacks someone, if that person fights back, the rule there is and I have been told this by people who work and worked there, they have to attack harder. You're supposed to accept the Post's punishment and shut up. This is Murdoch. Murdoch runs his operation like the mafia runs their operation. Anyway, I don't do that. They were about to report if you'll remember that Olivia and I had dated, so I beat them to it. Rupert mad,

excuse me? Ope? It mad? So this was my punishment. Yesterday, they make up a story. They've been doing this fake scandals followed by reactions to fake scandals if I thwart them. They've been doing this since nineteen ninety six. To me, they've been doing it to everybody since Murdoch bought the paper.

The process coming up and examples of it in things I promised not to tell first, there are still more new idiots to talk about, the daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Dunn Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's last passions in the world, the Bronze Worse. Okay, why not, we're here anyway, new Zy, Ryan Lizza, and

RFK Junior. Again, I don't know what day of this is, but seriously, they are now in the Washington Post, and clearly somebody gave the Washington Post the entirety of my ex's ex's self defense filing to the court because this

is new and quoting the paper. Quoting this filing by Ryan lizab and a document filed with the court Friday and made public Tuesday, Liza said Newsy's allegations were quote defamatory lies that were meant to create sensational headlines, damage my reputation, and distract from press attention about ms Newsy's catastrophically reckless behavior. Unquote uh oh, catastrophically reckless behavior. You say, yeah,

that's her. I'd recognize here anywhere. All right, So this might change again, but right now I'm leaning towards Liza being less wrong than Newsy. And by the way, Liza Newsy, can we somehow work Lizo into this story. Also, there's this from the wa Po, quoting the paper during tuesdays virtual court hearing, Newsy's video showed her in a tastefully decorated room, wearing a black crew neck shirt with her hair loose. She kept a straight face throughout the attorney's negotiations.

Liza appeared seated with his attorneys in a blue sweater with a gray jacket. He looked disappointed when the judge decided that the trial would be postponed until November. Two things. Once again, The Washington Post cannot look at Donald Trump with makeup on his face where he's missed the whole spot near his ear and say he put on his makeup badly today, or whoever put it on for him

did it badly today. They can't say that. They can't listen to him being insane every day of the week for the last nine years at least, and say the man is insane. They can't publish historial, though they came closest to it, describing what happened in Pennsylvania on Monday night, what happened in Oaks Pennsylvania. When he went into that fugue stayed and just decided to play all the hits. They can't do that, but they can say that Ryan

Lizza looked disappointed when the judge decided it. Did he say something or you just saw the smirk on his face changed slightly. You're basing the phrase he looked disappointed, which is now in the Washington Post as fact based on a reporter interpreting what they saw. Why don't you do that with Trump? Why don't you all do that with Trump? Interpret what you saw? That's why you're there. Otherwise they could just send the tape recorder and a

guy who presses the button and then goes second. Aside with the popcorn I have already consumed during this story, I have regained ten of the forty five pounds I had lost, thanks a lot of kids. The runner up worser James Dolan, you know, the owner of the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, and the home of the only most famous arena in the world that he is now responsible for having rented out to Nazi in two

consecutive centuries, Madison Square Nazi Garden. Dolan's name has popped up again where trash like him should probably try to avoid it. First, it was renting the garden to Trump for a fascist rally and fundraiser eight days before the election.

It'll be like when the Elephants used to come in for the circus during the playoffs, the Stanley Cup playoffs, and you'd go to a Rangers playoff game which had to be rescheduled because the elephants had been taking huge dumps on top of the garden over the ice, and all you could do was go get a shovel. As I once said in radio in college. Yeah, elephant crap

and Trump. That's about the same now, in an event, the Legal Defense Fun for New York's possibly doing this deliberately as some sort of prank for a TV series or something. Mayor Eric Adams Eric Adams, who has an approval rating of not and whose city leadership divides evenly now into his appointees who have resigned, some under indictment

at his appointees who have not yet resigned. Dolan has given the Eric Adams Legal Defense Fund five grand, and another Dolan at the same address named Aiden, who appears to be his son, has given another five grand, so they have James Dolan, on the one hand tied to the disastrous, messianic mayor of New York and on the other tied to the disastrous, psychotic presidential candidate of the Republican Nazi Party. Let's go Rangers, but our winners David

Zaslav and Evon Musk. David Zaslav, Warner Bros. Discovery chieftain, the man who has run CNN into the ground to the point where Lachlan Cartwright has reported now that they couldn't afford raises for all their quote stars un quote. The best anybody's getting is the same. They're already being paid in new contracts, and they may let Chris Wallace go. You know how old Chris Wallace is. He's two hundred

and six US more. Though, Oliver Darcy reports in his newsletter that David Zaslab is courting Elon Musk, Yes, Daddy Warbucks himself Elon Musk, As Darcy notes in his newsletter's status in March, Musky wrote, as mind blowingly tragic as this sounds, some poor suckers still believe CNN. Yet Darcy scoops that when Musk and Zazlab were seen on the telecast of Tennis's US Open last month, sitting next to each other, it was actually just part two, again quoting Darcy.

Earlier in the summer, Zaslab had hosted Musk at his ocean side estate off Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton. People familiar with the matter told me Musk was traveling in the Haptins for a Michael Milken event and Zazlab urged him to drop by regardless, Zaslav's relationship with Musk extends beyond the occasional meetup. When not spending time together in person, the two have been regularly exchanged For a second,

I thought it was FaceTime. In New Zealand, Lizzig and an RFK Junior, thank God, have been regularly exchanging text messages. One of the people familiar with their relationship told me they have a relationship. What kind of a relationship. No, don't, don't, don't tell me. Oliver Darcy seems to think courting Musk is just a mistake by Zaslav, And I mean that's a valid thought. Zaslav makes mistakes by the car load lot. But I think mister Darcy may be missing the real

purpose here. Musk was willing to throw away billions to buy Twitter, just to be the king of Dung Mountain and turn the place into a huge contribution in kind to the Trump campaign. If Musk is that dumb or that stoned, why wouldn't he be dumb enough and stoned

enough to buy CNN from Zaslav. Can you imagine CNN owned by Elon Musk, the new lineup CNN Mornings with the team of Elon Musk, Elon Musk and Elon Musk, then the Midday Musk, then a phone in show called Musk Hotel I like that one, Anderson Cooper Tonight with Elon Musk, and of course the Situation Room with Wolf Flitzer with Elon Musk, And of course every time you click over to CNN, your TV would explode. David, I swear I don't look for these disasters. They choose me

Zaslab and Elon. I know we could close CNN, Musk CTV. You get it must only with a K, you get it K instead of T. I'm funny. I'm funny. You will laugh now K for ketamine, No, forget that part, K for Musk Musk CTV, laugh now Musk two days worst person and no wa he the number one story on the countdown on my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. And here we go again, Rupert Murdoch's quote news outlets unquote shooting themselves in the groin yet again while they were aiming at me. A

little timeline is required on this one. April eighteen sixty five. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, was assassinated May twenty twenty, maybe earlier. May twenty twenty was the earliest I remembered or found. Trump started claiming he had been treated far worse than Abraham Lincoln had. March sixteenth, twenty

twenty four. Trump said it again. Then Biden Harris Headquarters tweets the clip, adding Trump says he's been treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated also March sixteenth, twenty twenty four. I retweeted that, adding there's always the hope.

March eighteenth, twenty twenty four, Fox News publishes a story first headlined Keith Olderman appears to hope for Trump assassination, but the headline was then changed to Keith Olderman's sparks outrage by hinting at trump assassination with a blue stripe over my face reading Blue Blood Bath, meaning on some level I am the same as Trump to the New York Post and the Fox News and all the rest

of Murdoch's outlets. While I was tempted to answer this by saying I was just referring to the auto industry, in reality, obviously I was and am hoping that Trump will be right, and that he will be treated worse than Abraham Lincoln, something worse than assassination, which would be that Trump is convicted and dies in prison. I don't know how many times I have said this, maybe more than Trump's ludicrous charge that he's been treated worse than Lincoln.

I may have actually said it more than he has said that. I think I first said I hope he dies in prison. I expect he dies in prison in twenty sixteen. This is because I hope he dies in prison.

But of course the point of this is Murdoch and Fox and especially the New York Post have been doing this to me since about nineteen ninety six, always always getting it wrong, ever since I caught the Post in a lie that year about a couple of hockey players that it claimed had been thrown out of a New York City bar for knocking over tables to the horror of customers, when in fact I was with them, and they left the place in their own form of horror

because as one of them, Eric Lindross, stood up, he almost knocked over the chair he was sitting in. He said to the other, John Leclair, I think I've had enough. We got to go home, Johnny, and they politely left, but not before asking if I needed a lift. In two thousand and one, the Post slammed me because I attended a New York Mets game while wearing cargo shorts.

A few years later, the Post showed a picture somebody had snapped of me leaning against one of the gates of Central Park here in New York and said I was alone and depressed. Actually, I was alone and early to my dental appointment across the street, and I was trying to talk myself into actually going into my doctor's office.

There was a brief interruption in the year during the two and a half years or so that I worked for Murdoch in Sports, a brief interruption in these constantly hilarious stories before Murdoch personally fired me after I had reported with his office's full approval in advance that he was working behind the scenes to sell the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, which he was. Murdoch later boasted about

firing me, but he didn't say that. He didn't boast about it until after he had sold the La Dodgers baseball team. The origin of the post's quarter century of

badly aimed shots at me stems from that firing. When Murdoch fired me, his minions did it slowly in stages over the course of a couple of days, in hopes that they could get me angry and bait me into attacking Fox and News Corp. In the newspapers, so that then they could fire me for cause that way they wouldn't owe me the rest of the money on my

contract instead. As I've mentioned here before, given the choice between waiting eight months to insult someone and getting a lot of money, or getting no money and yelling at them right now, I'll always wait the eight months. I remained quiet for eight lovely months, and Rupert had to pay me one one hundred thousand dollars a month to do that best job I ever had. So whenever this happens and somebody says, why don't you sue Murdoch Go,

sue News Corps, sue the New York Post. I always say, what kind of money could I get from them that could hurt them more than that eight hundred thousand dollars back in two thousand and one. Also, most of the stuff they do is so hilariously wrong, like the worse than Lincoln story, that it's transparently desperate. But twice they threatened me with stories that I had to take some

action about. Once they completely made one up, and once they ran a story even though the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security specifically asked them not to run it. The obligatory reminder before I tell you those two stories, you should never believe any source story you read in The New York Post or indeed on any mets me outlet owned by the Murdochs. Like Fox, they occasionally report real things, but just as often they make stuff up.

Not exaggerate or get slightly wrong or twist, but utterly fabricate. On April eleventh, two thousand and five, the New York Post was to run exactly the kind of story I'm talking about, only under threat of multiple lawsuits did they actually spike it. I hadn't told this story before, but I was reminded of it. I think going through the mechanics of it will illustrate just how evil an organization News Corp. Actually Is and more importantly, how unreliable it

is as a source of news. As a New York Post Page six gossip story, this one, though, had everything. It attacked MSNBC. It had quotes from informed sources, and even at one point it had a witness. Now the witness disappeared during the evolution of this story, but at

one point it had a witness. It had somebody prominent insulting Peter Jennings, the newscaster, right after he had revealed he had lung cancer, and it was constructed in such a way that if I did not comment on it, they could print the story, then come back the next day, rehash it and add that I was still refusing to comment on it. But there was one overriding problem. It was a complete fabrication, and thus it was full of events that didn't happen and people who did not exist.

New York Post Page six contacted MSNBC's then media relations guy, Jeremy Gaines on Thursday, April seventh, two thousand and five, with the following story. Keith Olderman, a quote frequent critic of President Bush, had refused to anchor the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul the Second, pretended to be ill and called in sick instead. There was, as I suggested earlier, a major problem here. I had anchored the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul the Second.

I had been anchoring the primetime coverage four hours each weeknight, day after day, leading up to the potiffs passing. There were viewers who had seen me. There were studio staffers. Carl Bernstein was there. He was the inn studio papal expert. He was on the air with me every night for like six nights in a row. There were video tapes. Joe Torre, then the manager of the New York Yankees, called me to compliment me on my reverential coverage of

the Pope's illness. That did not stop. The New York Post in the first version that page six told us it was going to print their unnamed source had been on board an Amtrak Acella train going from Washington, DC to New York, sitting near my agent. As my agent talked to somebody on a cell phone. This is apparently a very favorite construction when the New York Post wants to make up a story about somebody their witness said.

My agent complained that I had had a quote meltdown after quote calling in sick rather than anchoring the papal coverage, which I anchored, but there was more quote. Alderman, a frequent critic of the president's policies, said it was better in sports. They quoted my agent quoting me into the phone. I'll be dealing with this all day now. Apart from the fact that I had anchored the coverage, they said I had not anchored. There was another major flaw in

this story. My agent was not on a train from Washington to New York on the day in question, or the week in question, or the month, or in fact, the year in question. My agent told me she thought she had once been on a train from Washington to New York in the year nineteen sixty seven. My agent at that time lived a top Mount Shasta in California, and so seldom left there that when she once drove to town to get the mail, I asked her for the details of her trip because I jokingly suggested to

her we should lead the newscast with it. So the next day, Friday, April eighth, two thousand and five, New York Post Page six came back with a different version of this same story. They had misheard their source. Of course, it wasn't my agent on the train from DC to New York. It was a woman who worked for my agent,

a woman named Susan. A woman named Susan whom I had, they would report, already phoned three times that morning, and I was to meet her urgently at the boat House in Central Park, presumably because meeting her in the middle of Penn Station when she got off that train would have been a little too public. MSNBC's Jeremy Gaines responded again with some irrefutable refutations. Nobody named Susan worked for my agent. In fact, nobody at all worked for my agent.

She was independent. She had a working relationship with a small agency in Los Angeles, and basically they covered her phone calls when she was on vacation, which she almost never was, because she never left the top of Mount effing Shasta. We called that agency and they confirmed that not only did they not have anybody working for them named Susan, but nobody from that agency was even on the East Coast or had been so far that entire year.

At this point I called the television columnist of the New York Post and off the record, explained to him that I was kind of furious, and this time I was actually going to sue, but that NBC was far angrier than I was, and that they were going to sue as well, and sue the editor of page six. Personally, I calmly went through the facts of this. This guy, the TV guy, had a conscience, he sighed. He said he got those kind of calls more often than I

would believe. And I said, no, I believe it. And he said he would go to the editor of page six and explained somebody was lying to him, the editor, and he was going to get himself sued into bankruptcy over a really obviously untrue and completely disproved story. Okay, So now a couple hours later, New York Post Page six calls again demanding a comment from me on the third different version of their exhaustive papals scoop. No. The woman their witness heard, who they first said was my agent,

then said she had gotten it wrong. It was a woman named Susan who worked for my agent. She had now become a woman who worked for my agent, whose name the witness never heard. But she was talking to somebody else named Susan. And there was an additional quote now thrown in, I'll be dealing this all day now, had morphed into I'll be dealing with this all day now.

The same week Peter Jennings makes his announcement about having lung cancer, this idiot, a frequent critic of President Bush, is sitting around in his pajamas calling me about this. I'll spare you how I know this was not true. It has something to do with the fact that I

don't wear pajamas. Years later, a former gossip reporter in Murdoch's employ explained to me that his celebrity and gossip people are taught never to back down from a confrontation, and that if the subject of one of their hit jobs fires back or tries to refute, or especially threatens legal action, to keep making the story worse and worse for them. And in the first decade of this century, anyway, you were supposed to try to work in a defense of George W. Bush but there's also what she said.

They called an emergency exit. If there is no question that the story is nonsensical, if the basic spine of the story does not line up with provable facts, just abandon it. Abandon it. Don't tell the subject of your attack that you are abandoning it. Just don't make any more phone calls, don't send it any more emails about it. Just vanish. Just disappear the story, and then send the name of the subject of the story that you've just punted.

Send it around to all the other Murdoch operations to see if they can come up with any dirt on the subject, to punish them for fighting back against Rupert Murdoch's lies. So they abandoned the story, and it took the New York Post a year and a half to get me back, and to get back the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. On September twenty six, two thousand and six, I opened an envelope bearing a California

postmark at my home in New York. I shouldn't have done it, but bluntly, I'll confess to this, I thought it was some baseball cards I had bought off eBay Well it wasn't. The envelope contained a sticky substance looked like draino mixed with talcum powder, and it fell out, and accompanying notes said it was anthrax. Now I and other Liberals would get a taste of our own medicine.

Even reading those chilling words and having covered the actual anthrax letters terrorist attacks of two thousand and one when I was with CNN, I knew it was an anthrax. The guy who supposedly sent the actual anthrax in two thousand and one was an expert in the field, and even he masshandled the stuff so badly that supposedly he gave himself anthrax and died of it. On the other hand, I know the odds were impossible, but what if I was wrong. My apartment building was filled with little old

ladies who had lived there since Roosevelt was president. I only assumed that meant Franklin, not Theodore. The odds were. I don't know one in a billion that it was anthrax. But who was I to dismiss this one in a billion chance that these little old ladies were going to get anthrax? Who was I to make that call? So instead I made a call. I called the FBI. Well, it was quite an evening. The cops showed up, the FBI showed up. They said, of course it's not anthrax,

but we have to act like it is. Welcome to our new world. The hazmat squad came in. They set up a command post in the building. They swept my apartment and they said, okay, now you have to go to the emergency room for tests. And I said, it's not anthrax. You just said so. And they said, if we have to do this, you have to do this too. I laughed. Plus, if you don't, we can arrest you as a threat to public health, and we can make

you go to the hospital. So out I went into an ambulance dressed in a hazmat suit one size too small that really cut in the groin. I spent the night getting checked out. The FBI then called and said,

it's like it's like draino with ivory soap flakes. But they also said there had been other letters that had arrived that night and the night before, sent to people like the chairman of CBS and David Letterman's office, and Nancy Pelosi and some poor guy who happened to have the name John Stewart, who was not the John Stuart.

And they couldn't make me do this, but it would really help if I did not report what happened on my TV show that night, just for the one day, do it tomorrow, because they had a lead on the guy who had sent all these letters and they didn't want to scare them off. And I said, sure, I'm

a patriot. The next day, while we were still observing the embargo on the story, my story, planning to run it at eight o'clock at night, New York Post page six led with a picture of me with the headline powder Puff spooks Keith and making sure to identify me as quote, a frequent critic of President Bush's policies. The New York Post mocked me for not just assuming it was fake antrax and ignoring it, and claimed I insisted

the cops should take me to the hospital. Quote whether they gave him a lollipop on the way out isn't known. By the way, one of the actual anthrax letters in two thousand and one, one of the letters with actual anthrax in it that got some people sick and killed a little old lady, had been mailed to the New York post and one of their staffers had contracted anthrax,

and still this was their attitude towards anthrax threats. Anyway, as it turned out, there was a guy in California sending out these threatening letters, each with fake antras, to about a dozen people. He sent me four of them. Ultimately, I soon knew the FBI guys by their first names. I pointed out to FBI Doug that the last envelope

I received had a bar code on it. Maybe they could track the guy that way, and he said, oh, you're right, And the next time I knew the FBI had just videotaped the suspect mailing yet another letter to me, the fifth from his home in Woodland Hills, California, and I swear to god he actually lived in his mother's basement at age thirty seven or something. And FBI Doug said, do we have your permission to pull a letter out

of the mailbox and open it? I said sure, And the next thing I knew the guy was sentenced to prison for like eighteen months, but not before FBI Doug said, by the way, that barcode, you noticed it. It connected to the post office here, and that's where we found his address, and we also found the fact that he purchased a postal money order for fifteen dollars made out to the Catherine Harris for Florida Senate campaign, if you remember her from Gore V. Bush and his online history.

We looked that all up. It's all about how she Catherine Harris and some woman Na Laura something or another. They are the most beautiful women in history. And I said, Laura, Laura Ingram, and FBI Doug said, yeah, that's it, Laura Ingraham. And if that isn't ten years of my life in one sentence, courtesy of the New York effing Post, I don't know what is. I've done all the damage I

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Kit and Ted sat through these last two segments. Ted is already asleep, and Kit, who is four months old, is looking up at me quizically like what the hell are you talking about? As often Brian Ray and John Phillip Shaneil the musical directors have countdown, have looked at me. They have arranged, produced and performed most of our music. Mister Shanelle handling orchestration and keyboards. Mister Ray was on the guitars, bass and drums. It was produced by Tko Brothers.

Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust. The sports music is the Olderman theme from ESPN two, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today was my friend Dennis Leary, and everything else was as usual,

pretty much my fault. So that's countdown for today. Two weeks and five days until the twenty twenty four presidential election, the one three hundred and eighty first day since convicted feldon dissociative fugue Jay Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States, use the election, use the mental health system, use presidential immunity to keep him from doing it again while we still have a

chance to do so. The next scheduled countdown is tomorrow. Bulletins as the news requires. Till then, I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast.