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own dicks. Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, and on Elon Musk, Tody David Sachs, and on Peter Tiel. The point isn't whether Bannon still has a tenth of the sway he used to have among the fascists. The point is is less than a tenth of these slime is the angry, violent tenth, and Bannon has escalated his war on Musk over those h one b visus. Bannon doesn't just want Musk exiled from the White House. Because Bannon and the rest of the nativist lunatics hate all foreigners.

And Musk wants to not hate foreigners who can make him more rich. Bannon now wants Musk and the others to be the first immigrants thrown out of the country. He actually told this to Italy's most read newspaper, Corriere de la Sala, which is not one of the newspapers Mussolini owned, but it did give out the Mussolini Prize, and all this must have been Bannon's entry to the

judges in the Mussolini Prize. I am quoting, believe it or not, Brightbart's coverage of this well, because well, the New York Times headline would have been Bannon praises minorities. Steve Bannon, I will do anything to keep Elon Musk out of the White House. Rome Former Breitbart News executive chairman Steve Bannon has declared war on Elon Musk, vowing to have the tech billionaire kicked out of the White

House by the time Trump is inaugurated. Quote. I will have Elon Musk run out of here by inauguration day. He will not have a blue pass to the White House. He will not have full access to the White House. He will be like any other person. He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down before because he put money in I was prepared to tolerate it. I am not prepared to tolerate it anymore. Wait, there's more.

This thing of the H one B visas. It's about the entire immigration system is gained by the tech overlords. They use it to their advantage. The people are furious. Seventy six percent of engineers working in Silicon Valley are non Americans. No Blacks or Hispanics have any of these jobs or any access to these jobs. Peter Teel, David Sachs, Evon musk are all white South Africans. He should go back to South Africa. Why do we have South Africans

the most racist people on earth? White South Africans. We have them making any comments at all on what goes on in the United States unquote, ah, so trouble in Maga Paradise. Well it's Maga so trouble in Maga Hell. It does not matter whether or not Bannon succeeds in kneecamping Muskets that he tries and that we help, because a week before the inauguration and the entirety of the machinery of the rage fire that fuels Maga hatred of immigrants,

especially of Hispanics. But anybody will do. Look, Bannon just hit South Africans. The entirety of that machinery has already broken down repeatedly. First it was the blowback against Musk and those specialty visas and remarks by Vivek Ramaswami Nitwit. Now CNN reports that the borders are this cartoon villain. Tom Homan has warned Republican lawmakers that, sorry, the initial deportation plan is not going to be like fifteen million people or whatever it is Trump said. And it's not

going to be two million. It's not going to be one million. It's going to be more like the way we did math in my day. It's going to be more like sixty thousand people. You heard me. Highlights of a sourced story from CNN.

GOP Rep. Darryl Isa, who was in one of the meetings with Holman, said, quote, Holman has been telling some of the members that, hey, if you want me to do all these things that you're talking about, this costs money, and it's not being done with the cr continuing resolution that's in place now. One GOP lawmaker told CNN, now

here is the math part. Quoting again, Holman said he would need a minimum of one hundred thousand beds to detain undocumented immigrants that would be in the prison camps, more than doubling the forty thousand detention beds ICE is currently funded for, and it would require more ICE agents. The agency has around six thousand Immigration enforcement officers. Quote.

It all depends on the funding I get from the Hill, Holman said, So the increase in deportation from Biden levels, which the MAGA mad Men think is at least two million immediately before Trump finishes his speech next Monday, in fact, would be one hundred thousand minus forty thousand. That's sixty thousand. That's sixty thousand beds in the concentration camps now, depending on turnover in ten weeks, that could be six hundred

thousand people moved in and out. Could be if deportations actually did anything more than ruined lives and spread fear and violence and destroy our economy and drive up the price of everything, if there was not a reasonable chance. But just like last time, they're not actually going to deport nearly anybody more than the average, because the point of the deportations is just to scare people about foreigners. You can't deport all the people who may or may

not be here legally. They take all the cheap, crappy jobs, like sending food to all the rich Republicans. Maybe also the deportations were the fascists we met along the way. This funding that Tom Holman wants is supposed to take place as Doge cuts two trillion dollars in ways. Oh no, it's now down to one trillion. Maybe if Steve Bannon doesn't kill and eat Elon Musk. Musk has already dropped the number. He can only find one trillion to cut.

He can't find his ass with both hands. So a week before the administration starts, a week before they even take office, and the Trump junta has already failed at day one mass roundup deportations. They've already failed and infuriated the fascists who voted with all three fingers to end legal immigration because Musk wants those h one b's because Ramaswami called natives dumb and lazy, and now Bannon is

targeted Musk. The Trump junta has already confessed there is no way to unilaterally lower grocery prices, instance lear even non instantly. The universal tariffs aren't happening anytime soon. He's not going to dig up the Panama Canal and move it to Mari Lago on inauguration day. He ain't buying Greenland and coercing Canada. And guess what. He didn't settle Russia's war on Ukraine in twenty four hours before he even took office, and he won't be able to do

it after he does. And what are Democrats doing with this all you can eat buffet of Trump pre failures.

Forty years ago, the Republicans perfected a very simple formula, an American version of tasks. Whatever happens, claim credit for it, or blame the Democrats for it, or both. Fill in the details. Later somebody will think of something, and we have to play the same stupid game, especially since Republican failures are so plentiful, Republican brains are so rare, and usually it really is their fault. No backfilling imagination required. I don't mean do it one hundred percent of the time.

MAGA and the GOP really are selling the idea that the southern California fire disasters don't indicate in the slightest the burgeoning atmospheric catastrophe, but instead are all Gavin Newsom's fault. More on this in a moment. But why aren't Democrats blaming the wildfires on Trump's first presidency and the undermine of forestry services and National parklands and environmental protections? Is it true? In part? It is true? Does it matter? No,

it doesn't. The formula is simple. A something happens, b blame Trump for it. C figure out exactly why later, d if any of it sticks, figure out more reasons why it's his fault. Brian Boiler writes on his site, quote, First, do not help Republicans, not in any way on any issue. Republicans can't pass a budget or raise the debt sealing tough luck. Do not provide them any bailout votes on

any issue period the end. Second, make Donald Trump own every bad outcome that happens anywhere in the world, while paying special attention to areas where Republicans are particularly vulnerable, like housing and Ukraine.

If he did that, they would have beaten him up non stop, starting an hour from now and ending never get to work. Who's paying your salary? Vice President Walls? Instead, Vance gets to preempt the criticism by going to hyperbole. Quote hopefully everyone is cool with me skipping the inauguration, Beard Ough wrote, so I can go to the national title game. Ha ha ha. So so witty, But seriously, what would the Republicans have done with that? Tim Walls is

so irresponsible. He's not only making you pay his salary while he goes to watch a football game, he's mocking you for criticizing government waste.

of the FISA Act. That is, the section that lets us eavesdrop on non Americans outside the country, even if they happen to be talking Americans in the country, like just to pick a name at random Trump. Eight years ago, section seven zero two was the end times among MAGA. Now Langford and other Republicans are willing to throw Telsey Gabbard under the bus, which could do no damage to her, especially if it hit her hair over section seven oh two.

Mandatory support of seven oh two. Telsey no like Langford of the others, none too subtly told her skunk hairedness to get with the program or not get confirmed, and Friday she endorsed section seven oh two, and Langford then endorsed her She's going to be Director of National Intelligence

and a totally poor advertisement for her own department. As to Pete Hegseth's nomination, I don't know a lot of play was given to the story that he was in trouble because the FBI was interviewing everybody he ever met, But we want that that's what the FBI didn't do with Drunkie Kavanaugh. I don't think the interviews mean anything, unless, of course, the FBI finds something anything, any of the hundred things the rumor mills contend and continue to contend,

he might have done. Now to the Republicans and the increasingly evident truth that the MAGA fascists are trying to take the disaster in southern California and build it into a new template for conditioning government disaster relief on political compliance.

Exploiting a fire, where have we seen that before? And no, I don't think the Republicans set the LA fires, but I do always shudder at the memory of the nineteen eighty two Boston arson nightmare, in which three cops, two firemen, and some of their friends set at least one one hundred and sixty three fires in Boston and environs in hopes of preventing cuts to the police and fire departments. Don't say it's impossible, because it happened back in the

good old days. I also shuddered the other day when I saw a climate change expert on the BBC explaining that such an obvious and catastrophic disaster as this continuing hell on Earth, which may well continue through the end of this month, always awakens the doubters in a nation to the reality of atmospheric crisis and climate change. And

I thought, you, poor bastard, you don't realize it. But what three out of every ten Americans, maybe four, maybe five have already been hypnotized by the Republicans and the media into thinking that southern California burned because it became too woke. The Republicans, including that idiot who a week from today will be Vice President of the United States, are making up, fabricating, misleading, lying, lying and lying blaming a literal firestorm like the ones in Dresden in World

War two on. The Democrats and their cult members are happy to believe because the idea is just as stupid as they are, and it boils over with the confirmation bias that is their mother's milk, and it allows them to continue to live in denial of the fact that someday, soon a metropolitan area in a red state will be erased by a natural disaster, even after Trump sinks into Moses like hallucinations and holds up his hand and claims he can stop that tornado or that hurricane or those

floods simply by using the force of his superior mind and a Bible, a Trump brand Bible, obviously, Vance, who really is just a urine specimen jar with a beard, and both of them full quote. Some of these reservoirs have been dry for fifteen twenty years. The fire hydrants are being reported as going dry while the firefighters are trying to put out the fires. There was a serious lack of competent governance in California. It's part of the reason why these fires have gotten so bad. No, it

is an asshole, a complete lie, utter, unmoored, uncaring. If it were under oath, Vance would be going to prison for perjury. Lie, stick to trying to successfully navigate going to a football game, you moron, Reality is too difficult

for you to deal with. JV Vance and then their Senator Bill Haggerty of Tennessee, who is as phony as his jet black hair when he is just seven months younger than I am, whose biggest accomplishment in public service to date has to be to bring a soccer team to Nashville, Bill Haggerty yesterday, that failure of leadership in California that's been egregious, whether it's Gavin Newsom prioritizing a fish over his citizens, or a leader like Karen Bass

who prioritizes DEI initiatives over the readiness of first responders. It's pathetic. What's happened here. None of that happened Grecian formula boy, But go on, tell me more about your area of expertise, being pathetic. Before we put funds into place, we've got to find out exactly how we're going to hold these leaders accountable and what sort of policy changes are required there. It is, there's the Reichstag Fires style exploitation I referenced earlier. You and I being human beings.

We see southern California and viscerally feel the pain and loss and fear as certainly as if it were bad weather going through trailer parks. Somewhere, the Maga robohumans see only opportunity. Trump merely dipped his toe in these waters last time, more correctly, had somebody do it for him. He can't really move his toes on his own. But this is a preview from Senator Haggerty. Hold the leaders

accountable and policy changes required. Those are fascists, speak cliches for use public anger and panic to attempt to prosecute Democrats when disasters unfold, and to demand political fealty to Trump and the Republicans before aid is given by the government. Now, this will lead us down a path where eventually the resistance will have to cut off Blue state funds to the federal regime. Whether that's done by the states themselves or an a taxpayer strike, I don't know we will

get there. It is now inevitable if they actually try to hold back funds in California, California will simply respond in kind. It is unavoidable. I don't know if it'll take a year to get to this point, or it'll take one hundred years. But this is the route by which the United States of America dissolves, not a civil war, not violence, simply the states that have money and resources saying we're not carrying you assholes anymore. But before that happens,

here's more haggardy and more somewhat comforting Republican incompetence. Quote when Vivek Ramaswami and Elon must take a hard look at how we effectively deploy resources here, we're going to have to see some very real changes. Elon Elon, who poor Haggarty is not in the Inner Party. He does not know of Bannon's plan to make Musk the first immigrant to be deported, but he does inadvertently raise a philosophical and moral questions. Not that the Haggartys of this

world think about those questions anymore. But it is simply this. If you were Elon Musk, worth four hundred and sixteen billion dollars and rising, what would you do with this choice? You could spend forty four billion dollars to buy Twitter, never get any of that money back, by the way, and start a laborrinthine heavy lift. All work, no fund, bad Bond movie plot to gain more power and more money.

For some reason, you need more money, as if four hundred and sixteen billion can't buy you all the ketamen in the world, you could spend forty four billion on that. Or you could spend forty four billion and personally give fifty thousand dollars to eight hundred and eighty thousand different people in southern California to help them rebuild their lives, and oh, by the way, to buy yourself unassailable goodwill and even worship for all time. Those are your choices.

Why would you do the labyrinthine heavy lift bad Bond movie plot instead of the charity which if you had four hundred and sixteen billion would you choose. The correct answer, of course, is both, because three hundred and twenty eight billion dollars would still be the most in the world, and in fact, you could throw another one hundred billion into the ocean of gofundmes in Southern California and your

wallet would never ever know the difference. As I've already referenced, we are living in the gotcha times, the whining times. Never mind solving a problem or putting out a fire, exploit the problem and point at the fire and tell the mora on who is to blame for the fire. And this is being exacerbated by the accelerating media crisis. You have a fire in LA. You got a fire at the New York Times? Did the Times merge with

the onion and not tell anybody? I'll just quote this piece by a man named Santul Nrkar, which was apparently intended as media criticism but wound up unintentionally becoming the New York Times criticizing the New York Times quote. How outlets on the left and right have covered the Los Angeles wildfires. Media outlets reported similarly on the destruction caused by the fires that raced through southern California, but partisan publications attributed them to very different causes. Ah so it's

partisan publications. We're gonna have democratic underground here right. As deadly wildfires raged across southern California this week, conservative and liberal media outlets reported similarly on the law devastation, but found vastly different culprits for it. Right wing outlets blamed

much of the devastation on Democrats. They assailed the political leadership of California, which is heavily democratic, They also blamed the destruction on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives undertaken in Los Angeles. Liberal outlets criticized President elect Donald J. Trump's reaction to the fires, which they described as insensitive. Some attributed the intensity of the fires to climate change. Where did they get such as stupid ideas?

from two thousand and three, there's still in business. Call me, you owe me money, You owe me money. But their equivalents in the arrogance bubble in which The New York Times exists, MSNBC and Salon. Their parallels through the looking glass are The Daily Wire and Breitbart. The Daily Wire

and Breitbart are fascist propaganda sites. I mean New York Times you couldn't get Russia at RT and North Korea nightly news in there instead, or at least work in something about Mark Zuckerberg as the new leading right wing propagandist. Turns out, before he turned Meta into Maga, he went to Musclago to pledge fealty in person from Semaphore News. Meta CEO Zuckerberg met with Trump at Mari Lago on Friday.

A source familiar with their encounter confirmed a Semaphore he'd been spotted earlier at Trump's Florida compound, and the person familiar with the meeting and a Trump aid both declined to detail its contents. The visit comes just days after Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes at the company that ended two irritants to Trump and his supporters, fact checking programs and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The new metapolicy also relaxes restrictions

on speech. Zuckerberg said in a video announcing the shift that the changes came amid too many mistakes and too much censorship and too much time at the hair salon. Then Zuckerberg went on with Joe Rogan, the artist formerly known as Uncle Fester, and lamented the rise of culturally newted companies that have sought to distance themselves from masculine energy, adding that it's good if the culture celebrates the aggression

a bit more. No, No, it's the same Mark Zuckerberg talking talking about masculinity.

think that that's all good. But I do think the corporate culture sort of had swung towards being this somewhat more near dird thing.

I hadn't been able to pin it down until just now when I watched the video of that clip again. Elizabeth Holmes, the farnose con woman with the fake voice, and Hank Fines the Third Force and the dead eyes, and Mark Zuckerberg with the fake voice and the dead eyes. Have we ever seen them in the same place at the same time. Ah, The role of Mark Zuckerberg will now be played by Elizabeth Holmes. Also of interest, here are we in Hell because of this reason, the formerly

married couple David Shipley and Naomi Wolf. He's at the Washington Post forcing out prize winning political cartoonists and boasting about it. Now she's online insisting the planes spreading the fire suppressant over the fires aren't spreading fire suppressant. They're spreading I can't tell you, but you won't believe it. Now. That's a tease, And that's next. This is countdown. This is countdown, with Keith Olberman still ahead on countdown Southern

California is a blaze and apparently will remain so. Compulsive liars will be sworn in to run the country into the ground in one week. There is not one rebel leader, or at least not one rebel leader who said anything of note in the last two months, except John Fetterman, who's gone over to the other side and thus desperately needs a stroke recheck. But I'm still going to make you smile with two words soccer breakdown ahead in things I promised not to tell. If you've never heard it,

please enjoy. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the mis grants, morons and Dunning Krueger effects specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, The Bronze worse Joe Scybra Good God, has no one sent him the clippings from the newspapers, or any of the editorial blowback or any of the responses from his viewers and his regular guests. Joe Scarborough

has now doubled down on the founding of MSNVS. He had an argument on the air with Michael Steele in which Michael Steele made sense, in fact, made all the sense in the argument, Scarborough went on the air and said that Obama's handshake with Trump ben their lighthearted conversation was not the end of the world at the Carter funeral, and no, it was not the end of the world.

It was something Obama should never have done under any circumstances, because Trump is the blight on mankind who may erase all records of the Obama presidency when the world ends because of the crap Trump does. But it's not the

end of the world at the moment. So he got into an argument Scarborough did, sort of defending Obama against Michael Steele, who raised again the point of Scarborough and missus Scarborough, this missus Scarborough heading to marri Lago and once again switching sides for the fifth sixth time on the issue of Trump going there and pledging fealty to the monster. Michael Steele said, why do we have to

be sibyl to Trump? And then Scarborough denied somehow that he'd ever said we had to be sibyl, when of course he said, we had to open up a dialogue and we had to talk about not just talk about Trump, but talk to Trump. Scarborough is still rationalizing this Ordinarily I would look at this scenario, and knowing Joe Scarborough, I would assume he's being blackmailed. But Joe doesn't need to be blackmailed to perform services like this for fascists.

He's done it his whole life. What he sees is which way the wind is blowing, and hopefully it's blowing him right off the roof. Runners up Politico this headline, along with an extraordinary picture of one firefighter trying to put out the blazes in California, seemingly all by himself. There's a bunch of palm trees on the left, There's a house. It is bright red inside the windows on the second floor above the garage, and there is one man holding a fire hose. And the graphic over this

picture trump Comma mush unleash on California Democrats over wildfires. Mush, you know, elon mush. They deleted this picture and changed it on their website. Elon mush. Why'd they delete it? But our winner, Naomi wolf Funny I invoked her ex husband David Shipley last week. He is the opinion editor

of the newly merged Washington Post and Penny Saber. He's the one who killed the Antellnay's cartoon on bezos kissing Trump's ass because it was repetitive, even though George Will has been writing the exact same opinion column in the Washington Post week after week since roughly April nineteen seventy four. And then Ann tel Nay's one of the many people to Washington Post who quit without another job lined up quit. Well, here is that guy's ex wife, Naomi Wolf, was, among

other things, an adviser on al Gore's presidential campaign. And once again we find out these clues a quarter century later as to how in part we started on this path to this effing disaster, this America of twenty twenty five. And one of the clues was Naomi Wolf was an adviser on Al Gore's presidential campaign. She reportedly handled political

issues and feminist issues and how Gore dressed. Sometime I will tell you about his other advisor who became his business partner, who was the man who actually hired me and gave me all the money to go to current TV. And his was the advice that throughout the two thousand campaign, al Gore needed to stay away from Bill Clinton, who was the most popular Democratic president since FDR. Anyway, back to Naomi Wolf, the last quarter century has not been

kind to her. Her Twitter handle is now doctor Naomi Wolf, eight New York Times bestsellers. I wouldn't even do that. She has chimed in in her new way of finding something crazy that no one is being crazy about elsewhere? With this? Are your friends in LA not reacting to danger in an expected way? Are they almost in a trance? Multiple confirmations independently that suggests this is the case, including from a therapist who says her patients are not reacting normally. Well,

that's it. Naomi Wolf knows a therapist who says this is true. Therefore it is true. Multiple confirmations that the entire Los Angeles and southern California community is not reacting normally to danger. This leads her, even though it's not true, to something even more not true. Could a mood stabilizer of some kind be in what was sprayed? Or do weather manipulation waves and train human thought patterns in some way? We are there in history and must ask the questions.

Spoiler alert, we are not there in history, you, Naomi Wolf. You are there in history as a matter of fact, what you are in is not history. It's just you in a hallucination. There are no weather manipulation waves, and there is no mood stabilizer being sprayed during a disaster in which a fire is consuming the nation's second largest city. Yeah, the LA fires were made just as an excuse to spray clouds of mood stabilizing drugs, something that you know isn't The LA fires were set so that you could

spray large quantities. Who knows how much this would require, if there were such a thing, to spray them all over southern California instead of if somebody were to do this, and presumably this would be Democrats who were doing this, well, you would have a choice of spraying it over southern California or over Magaland to make people comply or mood stabilize, or you're using your space lasers on them. Marjorie Taylor, Naomi Wolf. Here's the point. If these things exist, and

let me just quote them exactly again. A mood stabilizer of kind in what was sprayed or weather manipulation waves designed to entrain human thought patterns. We are there in history and must ask the question. Here in history, I have this question, why not just save all this crap and spray them all over Naomi Wolf, whose mood has not been stable this entire century, and who is today's worst person.

and he had no filter. He and Dan Patrick were great friends in Atlanta, and then Gary and Dan left for ESPN within months of each other nineteen eighty nine, nineteen ninety This has been said of me, and so I say it of Gary with affection. He suffered no fools gladly, and though his elbows were always up, he made sure that ninety nine percent of the time when they bumped into somebody, that somebody had well deserved it.

As near as I can piece together, Gary was doing the eleven PM Sports Center on Friday night, June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four. Typically, Dan and I did the eleven Sunday through Thursday, the story of soccer's nineteen ninety four World Cup. At least in the first week, was a preponderance of player ejections red cards handed them by the referee.

In those days, the eleven PM's four Center included a feature two or three minutes long on a story that had drummed up a lot of interest during the first show planning meeting around three point thirty PM. It was a feature called Breakdown. It provided long form analysis in today's when we didn't have a lot of that. Could be a coach getting fired, could be the relative credentials of Baseball Hall of Fame candidates, could be one fantastic play in a game. Once we did a deadpan, serious

breakdown about injuries to mascots. A producer or the anchor himself would write the script. They would pre record the narration, and then the producer would edit it. This is pre digital. It was done tape to tape. It could take hours to edit it, and the key was to track it to record that narration, which was done in a tiny wood paneled room wreaking of mildew that looked and smelled exactly like every suburban basement wreck room in America circa

October nineteen sixty five. That's where Garry Miller found himself on the night of Friday, June twenty fourth, nineteen ninety four, reading a script about soccer players from around the world, none of whose names he had ever seen before, let alone tried to pronounce. It was the Soccer Breakdown in all senses of the word. The raw tape, the original version of his tracking session for the script for Soccer Breakdown,

is easily the most beloved bootleg in ESPN's history. In fact, it is so popular that there are several different cuts of this bootleg. People have sat down with the original tape, which runs nearly twenty minutes, and edited it down to only the best or worst parts. Now, I'm not going to say I have a copy of the original. I'm simply going to note that Dan Patrick ran it on his radio show in twenty seventeen and posted the whole segment to YouTube. So yeah, that's where I got my

copy of it. Uh, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm going to annotate for you what happened, So let me present this to you in three segments. It did not start well for Gary and it got worse from there, although mister Miller gave it its eternal title and life by going sibilant on the s. For the word soccer, I'll note only one thing, the acronym of International Soccer's outfit FIFA Gary. It's pronounced FIFA.

that was him. I think he's mistaken. It doesn't matter much, but there was no reason for Dan to have been there on a Friday night, especially if we were not doing the show. And also there has never been a microphone ever. But Dan has not spoken into anyway. We have already met Rigobert Mahanog's song. Now meet my guy, the Italian goalie John Luca Poaliucca.

and on Football night in America. And then when I returned to Sports Center in twenty eighteen, if you heard me say John Luca Paluca while we were showing a player making an error or arguing with an umpire or official, I was actually implying that the player had just said John Luca Paaluca. There's another punchline to this story, of course, the idea to do this soccer breakdown that so bedeviled Gary Miller, the story of red cards in the first week of the nineteen ninety four World Cup. The idea

to do that came from Gary Miller, never volunteer. I've never been vinced that Gary was really happy about his immortality, certainly not in the way my ESPN pal Steve Levy not so secretly glorious in the day. He once tried to say that a New England Patriots player had a

bulging disc, but didn't quite get disc right. But Gary Miller has been a good sport about this through the end of his ESPN career in two thousand and four and afterwards, in his days at Channel two and Channel nine in Los Angeles and most recently at Channel two in Cincinnati. It isn't hard to understand why this tape is so famous and the pleasure derived from it so enduring. As John Clees once said about the real life hotel manager on whom he based his character from Faulty Towers,

he had this wonderful bad temper. But there are two more things. One, this occurred exactly a week to the day after the OJ Simpson car chase, and people forget now just how disturbing that was in an America, especially sports America, like at ESPN, that with the accept of a few of us who knew, nobody knew how rotten a human being OJ Simpson was. So even a week later, we all needed this laugh, and Gary gave it to

us and even larger. The essence of soccer in every country in which it is played is that it always allows and encourages and even demands that its fans complain about it. And so while we cherish soccer breakdown and three two one and Rigobert Mahananng's song and Bibto and John Luca Paluka, to me, it is really about five words that anybody who hates the game will say. But there are also five words that any fan of the sport will certainly use at some point in his life,

possibly at some point today. And they are the five words with which I will leave you for now. A foh God, might I hate soccer? Since I first told you this story, I have, as I mentioned, rediscovered an artifact that I thought was gone forever. Right after the Soccer Breakdown saga unfolded, an ESPN colleague made me a copy of the original raw tape of Gary and we put it on a cassette and I couldn't find it. There were things on it that were somehow lost from

all subsequent copies of Soccer Breakdown. So this is not as high depth, but I think it's even more high comedy.

Seven ejections for three two one after a nineteen ninety World Cup marked by physical play and low scores. Fifhus Soccer's governing body sent out the decree for the nineteen ninety four Cup to be better police. The result, the red card has become the calling card for this year's tournament. Seven ejections through the first twenty three matches and a direct message that rough play will not be tolerated and more teams will be playing.

Chalcop Bolivia's Luis Cristaldo for both on three to one. Chalk up bolivia Is Luis Cristaldo for both on this case, as he receives a yellow card and then uses a foul or abusive language to draw a second yellow and be ejected against South Korea. A tone was set in the first match of the tournament when Bolivia's Marco Antonio Etcheveri was ejected for this illegal kick against the Germans. But the most notable red card of the tournament came an Italian goaltunder Jean Luca.

Roberto Baggio, who is now a liability, even if he is one of the world's most talented offensive players. The gamble paid off Italy still live in this year's World Cup, but the flurry of red cars thus far has taught coaches and players alike to control their play if they'd like to.

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Everything else was as ever, my fault. That's countdown for today, A week until we inaugurate a constitutionally ineligible president who is mad as an effing hatter and on the good side, just one four hundred and sixty nine days until the scheduled end of his lame duck term. If he lasts that long. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, bulletins as the news warrants till the next one. I'm Keith Olberman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and wait,

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