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fifty four. The mistake deciding you and your lies are more important and will be more successful than the military's truth that destroyed Joe McCarthy. It could conceivably destroy Donald Trump. Quote. There was no conflict or fighting at Arlington National Cemetery last week. It was a made up story by Comrade Kamala and her misinformation squad. She made it all up to make up for the fact that she and Joe, etc.

Et cetera. Before that, the Trump position had been that there was an incident that a woman staffer having per spokesclown Stephen Chung a quote mental health episode had caused the incident. A staffer who for Chris Losavita, the one who does not know its hallowed ground is a quote disgrace and does not deserve to represent the hollowed grounds

of Arlington National Cemetery. Chung had also insisted nine days ago that exculpatory video existed and the Trump campaign had it and was prepared to release it if the quote

defamatory claims continued. There has been no release video. There's been no evidence provided that any video exists, except, of course, the video that Trump's campaign illegally recorded at the grave sites of other dead American war heroes whose families did not give permission for such filming, and which in any case cannot legally be used for political purposes, which is exactly what Trump's gang promptly did. But this from Trump,

this is an escalation. Regardless of how crazy he is or how crazy what he wrote sounds, Trump has now painted himself into a corner. He has entirely changed his version of this story. This is no longer a staffer overreacting or worse, this is a story quote made up by Kamala Harris that in turn implies that there is not any Trump videotape, exonerating the Trump team of what the Army has previously stated was an incident which at least one Trumpist at least put hands on the woman employee.

This was already enough to put the two Secretaries of Defense, Lloyd Austin at the Veterans' Affairs Dennis McDonough in a position of no longer just having to defend a cemetery staffer who is justifiably terrified of retribution from Trump's psychotic

cult and from Trump himself. Trump has now just said the whole thing was made up, made up by the Vice President, that implies that all statements from the military are fictional, that the army's public support for the employee is part of some kind of smear campaign against Trump. In some that the staff at Arlington National Cemetery, that the executives at the VA, that the Pentagon, that the

military itself, that all of them are lying. And then the Fox Nickel Dime bullies chimed in and somehow made this worse for Trump. In terms of the incident, said Jesse Waters, the one who stalked a Think Progress writer on orders from Bill O'Reilly years ago, there was no

incident from what I understand. A woman had a mental issue, and I don't know if it was TDS or something else, but it was handled if there was an altercation, said Janine Piro, the one who was charged with driving one hundred and nineteen miles an hour in a sixty five mile an hour zone. Get yourself an affidavit that's sworn to file yourself some criminal charges, or shut the f up, unquote advice. Miss Piro has never taken herself. At this point,

the Pentagon does not have much choice. Trump has called everybody from the unnamed staffer at Arlington through the Pentagon to the Vice President not just liars but fabricators, part of a conspiracy against him. I am not usually big on in the honor of the military, but I do come from a line of veterans, literally stretching back to Ferdinand Lewis Jacob, my second great grand uncle on my mother's side. He fought in the Civil War, he survived three months as a pow at the Confederate death camp

at Andersonville. And all those related veterans I knew, including my father and for all I know great grand uncle Ferdinand, were proud of their work in the military, but they all warned about the dangers of worshiping the military for its own sake, but Trump's pattern, sequence series compulsion to smear those who sacrificed anything for this country, whether it was voluntarily or because they were drafted, whether it was just a few months of annoyance at Fort Dix, or

it was managing to not starve to death at Andersonville because he found a hidden onion bush like Ferdinand Jacob, or like getting shot down over Hanoi like John McCain, or it was dying like those Trump literally walked all over to take a campaign photo. There is a line here, even for the most cynical among us. There is a

line here, and Trump has once again crossed it. There are means to protect the actual reputation of the military while also protecting the staffer, the woman who was verbally and physically abused in some way in real time and was then immediately slandered in acts of unvarnished misogyny by Stephen Chung and Chris los Avida. And if the orders have to come from the commander in chief, President Biden

should give them. There is a woman here, the latest among thousands physically and or emotionally abused by Trump and his thugs. There is an American institution here, however flawed it has been at many times which Trump has suddenly decided and yet another episode of delusional paranoia he must break. They all deserve to be defended. The fundamental decency of this country demands they be defended. There needs to be

a Senate hearing on this event. Start it immediately. If the VA or the Department of Defense have to investigate and report, do it, and do it now. If there is security video at Arlington, and one cannot imagine there is not, it must be released with the woman's image blurred and her identity otherwise protected. And the idea that just leaving this alone now will protect her is naive at best. These are Trumpsts. They have the selfishness and

amorality and animal cunning of stalkers. They will identify her sooner or later, or maybe worse still, they will identify the wrong woman sooner or later. And the most certain and most complete way of defending this employee and the VA and the Department of Defense and the nation is to once again prove that Donald Trump's entire Patriotism Act

is a bitterly cynical and corrupt confidence trick. That the last man in this country who should be able to pretend to be the victim of some sort of complex scheme concocted by the Vice president and the army. Is this creature Trump who evaded military service with bone spurs that go on and off like a bad Neon sign. The incident alone was enough to make a seventeen year

service veteran, a first lieutenant erupt in righteous indignation. Yesterday the Trump campaign event at Arlington, was the first lieutenant told CNN a quote violation. It just blows me away. These men and women that are laying in the ground there have no choice unquote whether or not to be extras in yet another Trump sales video. The first Lieutenant's name is Jimmy McCain. He is the son of the

late Senator John McCain. He says he has changed voter registrations and is now because of Trump, a Democrat who will vote for Kamala Harris. It was seventy years ago this past March, the last time a cheap, mentally ill politician tried to take on the American military, Even though it was one of those rare occasions when the military

was entirely right and the civilian was entirely wrong. On that occasion, it was Senator Joseph McCarthy, at the height of his perversion of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, the pinnacle of that edition of the Red Scare, and McCarthy

began to accuse the military of subversion by communists. He started it in nineteen fifty three, and as nineteen fifty four loomed, he had his Chief Council imply that the Army had drafted a McCarthy staffer, a man named G. David Shine, to try to hamstring McCarthy's investigation of the Army.

The Secretary of the Army, in turn said that McCarthy and his lawyer had pressured the Army to give this Shine guy preferential treatment, even a commission, even it was rumored a deal by which McCarthy would slow walk its investigation of the Army if the Army gave Shine better treatment. McCarthy then insisted the Army had made that accusation in bad faith and as retaliation for his investigations. The next thing you knew, the Senate called hearings the Army. McCarthy.

Hearings began on March sixteenth, nineteen fifty four. Soon they were being televised, gabbled to gabble all day on multiple television networks when there were only four of them. By June ninth, the army's civilian lawyer, Joe Welch was famously asking McCarthy, have you no sense of decency? Sir? By December second, the Senate had censured McCarthy. By nineteen fifty seven, hopelessly broken by alcoholism and almost forgotten, Joe McCarthy was dead.

I go into such detail not to suggest that is what will or should happen to Trump just because of this, but because you would think Trump would remember that it was what happened to Joe McCarthy. Joe McCarthy's chief counsel, the man at the center of all this was, after all, the future Trump mentor Roy Cone. Roy Cone, venomous as he was, would have probably told Trump to make sure that there weren't security cameras at Arlington before implying that

the entirety of the Army was lying about this. There probably was some point in Trump's life when he would have listened to roy Cone telling him that. However, I believe that today we are many decades removed from that moment. The other investigation I urged here yesterday has begun, albeit in the wrong chamber, with little hope of a meaningful

outcome unless the Democrats take the House. But at least Congressman Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia, representing the minority on the House Oversight Committee and the National Security Subcommittee, have launched an investigation into the report by The Washington Post that Trump may have been bribed with ten million dollars by the Egyptian president ELCSI in the waning weeks of the twenty sixteen campaign, and that his own Department of

Justice covered it up. The Democrats could very well take the House, in which case this will not be some sort of Jamie Comer stage show with Marjorie Barney rubble Green holding up enlarged porn. Right now, it is a stake hammered into the ground, the way an announcement from the Defense Department or a Senate committee about releasing Arlington's security video would be a stake hammered into the ground.

But as an aside, it is fascinating to contemplate just how much will rain down on Trump's head legally if he loses on November fifth. Add Egypt to that list. And now we must make sure somebody adds the Trump Arlington Cemetery scandals to that list. And as to the event central to the trials of Donald Trump, polling news continues consistent and strong but hardly conclusive. USA Today and Suffolk University Harris now leads Trump forty eight to forty three.

That is, within their margin of error. One in ten voters say the televised debate next Tuesday might lead them to change their mind or they are undecided. The booze for Democrats USA Today concludes has extended down the ballot. In June, registered voters said they supported their local Republican congressional candidate over the Democrat by forty seven forty five. Now it's the local Democrat over the Republican by forty eight forty three, a swing of seven points for the

House candidates. In the vote poll in June by USA Today and Suffolk, Trump supporters were twice as likely as Joe Biden supporters to report being very excited about voting for their candidate. The enthusiasm score was Trump fifty nine, Biden thirty now, while Trump's enthusiasm remains at sixty percent In the new poll of likely voters, Enthusiasm among Harris supporters is at sixty eight percent. Biden was a thirty percent. Some other interior numbers of importance. Voters favored Trump on

the economy by six, it was fourteen. They favor him on immigration by three. It was thirteen. On national security and China, they favor him by four. That was ten. There is something of a scare from Michigan polling yesterday, but it is safe to take it with a grain of salt. The Detroit News and Channel four there did a Michigan pole with Glen Gariff Group. It's Trump forty four point seven Harris forty three point five, or, as the newspaper headlined it, presidential race a toss up in Michigan.

The same polster had found Harris ahead by three tenths of one point in July, and that two needed a grain of salt because at the five thirty eight rankings of pollsters, Glen Garriff Group, which did the Michigan Pole, got a poll score of minus zero point two. It ranks one hundred and seventy fifth out of your top fifty polsters, and on a scale of one to three stars, it gets one and a half. There is also the other kind of number, and I'll just read this from Politico.

The leader of House Republicans' biggest super pac told donors last month he needed thirty five million dollars more to compete with Democrats in the fall. Senate GOP campaign chair Steve Danes used his primetime speaking slot at the Republican convention to lament that massive spending from Democrats was keeping him awake at night, and his House GOP counterpart warned that their party's challengers trailed Democratic incumbents by a collective

thirty seven million dollars at the end of June. The money quote panic is starting to set in. Oh no, not panic, Not panic by the Republicans. Oh damn well, at least for the sake of fairness. The Republicans and their propaganda channels have the game plan to win back

the White House. The searing attacks on Kamala Harris's record and personal integrity that come day after day and week after week, that absolutely, under no circumstances make anybody an authority erupt in rage at them, nor anybody at home burst out into uncontrollable laughter. Fox White House quote correspondent quote Peter Doucy to Press Secretary of Karine Jean Pierre. Since when does the vice president have what sounds like

a Southern accent? I have no idea what you're talking about. Well, I mean this is she was talking about unions in Detroit using one tone of voice. Is this same line, okay, Peter? Did she She's the same line in Pittsburgh, And it sounded like she at least had some kind of a southern at all. I mean, do you hear the question that I mean, do you think Americans seriously think that this is an important question? Yeah, she used a Southern

accent in Detroit. You say Detroit, which I believe was the capital of the Confederacy, if my second great granduncle remembers correct. Peter Doocey, son of Fox's Steve Doocy, Peter Doocy, whose pre Fox resume consisted of work at Polestra dot net and of course other places. Well, no, no other places, just Polestra dot net. Then right to take your son to work day at Fox. What we need is Peter Doocey at the White House podium being asked why Fox has a NEPO baby covering the White House, to which

his best answer would be day. I use the phrase money quote earlier, I will use it again here in an entirely different context. There is this for those of you so into campaigns and elections at politics might as well be porn. Mark Robinson is the sometimes out loud, stupid, sometimes dangerous Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina. The some folks need killing guy, a born again who is

already lieutenant governor. There the North Carolina News outlet. The Assembly reports, according to Lewis Money, who worked in several of Greensboro's window list twenty four hour video pornography stores, Mark Robinson was a frequent customer in the nineteen nineties and early two thousands. As an asidal note it's a free country, resuming the quote, Money fifty two told the Assembly that Robinson came in as often as five nights a week to watch porn videos in a private booth.

Never shake this man's hand. Five other men who said they were former employees or customers during this period also told the Assembly that Robinson visited two of these stores, Gents Video and News and I forty Video and News. In addition, in addition Money said, Robinson purchased hundreds of bootleg porn videos that Money sold on the side. Quote, he was good for at least one a week, Money said.

The last one he described as a compilation of super hardcore films he acquired in New York City that were too risk to be sold in North Carolina. To risk to be sold in North Carolina, you say, but sold in New York and then brought back to North Carolina. Sold in New York. Well, just for the sake of argument, I'm gonna guess that he means the ones that were

shot at Trump Tower. Just a guess. A spokesman for Lieutenant Governor Robinson called that whole thing fiction, and the reporters quote degenerates, Oh, degenerate, reporter's gone wild, save a copy for Mark Robinson. And there is a punchline upon punchline, mister money. That's mister money, presumably of gents video and news says that the final super hardcore compilation video, the

Sizzle Reel, the New York stuff. He charged Robinson twenty five dollars for it, and Robinson still hasn't paid him. Also of interest, here, Tommy Timmy Tammy Laren steps into the worst persons Spotlight. They can't figure out why the Vice President of the United States can't take a phone call while on wireless earbuds like everybody else. And Elon Musk believes the world should be run only by high status males. Now, why would he want to exclude himself

like that? That's next, This just countdown. George Carlin, pleasure to have you here. Thank you. This is the best news show ever. I toilet to one of your producers, and I want you to know that I've seen them all and it's just for especially the first thirty five minutes. Thank you. It's just unparalleled. I got bad news between you and I. We got six minutes to completely still that in. Yeah, that's good. Tell ahead of us on

this initiative. Countdown. Football starts tomorrow night to continue a week long celebration of the beginning of yet another season in the National Football League. Permit me, the former host of Football Night in America, to tell you the saga of the year. The season started and then suddenly stopped because the players' union walked out on strike, and I went with them, and I got to go get drunk with all of them. The impossible sagas of Me the

Rookie Reporter, and the nineteen eighty two NFL strike. Next 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 Dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst persons in the world. He could go all the way, the brons, he could go all the way. We'd be satisfied if he just went away. Elon, Elon Musk, you remember Elon Musk. This one would be higher,

but for two reasons. First of all, it's from Sunday, so it's getting a little stale. I mean, it's stunk to begin with it. It's not stinking that much more than it was Sunday, it's just old. The second reason, I'll note in a moment, you'll notice that Elon Musk turns out not to have been very bright, just very lucky with other people's ideas. He's made billions of dollars, and now he's burning through billions of dollars at a rate that will leave him on a fixed income by

some time in the year twenty thirty one. If there is a year twenty thirty one, and if Elon has his way, there probably won't be a year twenty thirty one. His rockets don't work, his cars don't work, and his website doesn't work, but that's not stopping him because all he has is people around him telling him everything's better than ever, and he's now reduced to the level of

a mediocre QAnon person online. Now we know why he bought Twitter to turn it into a right wing website that would argue that rich right wingers should be allowed to rule the world, and if we don't let them, they'll simply buy the world from us and rule it anyway.

Somebody with the account titled autism Capital put this out and added also known as the Reich effect, and Elon retweeted it with the number three of his thirty observations on all tweets that's interesting or deserves thought or very interesting. This is interesting observation. Elon says, people who can't defend themselves physically, women and low team men parse information through a consensus filter as a safety mechanism, writes autism Capital.

They literally do not ask is this true? They ask, will others be okay? With me? Thinking this is true? Well, this is provably false. The number of people who actually do this I don't know, but they're all Trump supporters. This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus. If every screen they look at says the same thing, they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it. Well, that's the

premise of Elon Musk's website. Anyway. The conclusion here is only high t alpha males and a neurotypical people hey, autists, are actually free to parse new information with an objection objective. Rather is this true filter that's also provably untrue. This is why a republic, here's the punchline. This is why a republic of high status males is best for decision making democratic, but a democracy only for those who are

free to think. Well, first of all, what a novel idea, Elon, a republic of high status males only because we've never had any government in this world. No country in the history of civilization has been run only by men who

thought they were high status, usually erroneously. We've never had that before, even though there's never been up to this point a woman president of the United States, or see there's only been what three women prime minister is in the United Kingdom, and one of them didn't last as long as the head of Lettuce and that you know that whole thing. Yeah, I'm sure what a novel idea. Let's have some Let's have some high status males who are wrong about that too, being the ones making all

the decisions. So not only is it stupid, not only does it go right into Elon Musk's ego, but the second issue is this guy autism capital is on four Chan, which is for people who are not smart enough nor discerning enough to be in QAnon. They want a democracy to exist solely of high status males because that would be best. Well, what on earth would that have to do with Elon Musk high status male? Does Elon Musk really consider himself a high status male with that haircut? Anyway?

The runner up the Silver Act devote and alleged polster. We can thank for this a former poster named Adam Carlson who says he has signed up for Active Vote via their app. He said he said his name was Gregor Mendel and that he lives in Arizona and he put as his home address city Hall Phoenix, Arizona. There was zero verification of any of these things. He adds, my candidate preferences will be reflected in their next Arizona poll. He says, he then deleted all of the information. He

was just doing this to prove a point. The activision folks are active vote folks, not activision. That was a game console, if I remember correctly. The active vote folks say that this is all part of the process and it allows the full range of voters, the real ones and the fake ones, to express their opinions. And I want to just thank Adam Carlson for revealing that we don't need to take seriously Active vote any further. Congratulations also,

mister Carlson on supporting Reuben Diego for Senator. I guess we should call you Abbot Mendel, not Adam Carlson. And congratulations Abbot Mendel on your work with peas and heredity. Sadly, some of those recessive genes that you discovered all those years ago apparently gathered together to form Active Vote. But our winner, right wing troll Tommy larn you know her, blonde number three hundred and eighty nine on the right, I really can't get over Kamala using old school Apple

headphones to avoid talking to the press. Tommy's life is in one long assumption. She's got a photo off c Span in which the Vice President of the United States is being escorted either to the helicopter or off the helicopter, while wearing attached to a phone, a pair of Apple iPad phones or iPod phones, or just Apple iPhones, but with the wire not the buds. We've seen a lot of shenanigans from this lady, Tommy writes, but this might

be the most pathetic to date. Feels like her campaign specifically had her use those old school headphones instead to make the point she was on the phone and that's why she couldn't interact. Well, she did interact number one. Number two Tommy again is assuming several things that she's already stating as facts because she's assuming them, Which sends me back to that first group, that guy who said that we should be run by a bunch of high

functioning something or others. In any event, the photo just has Kamala Harris waving to the press and not stopping for questions. You know, the headphones, Timmy, are there because the vice president of the United States is on a phone call, which is presumably not about dry cleaning. It's presumably about something you know important, and that's a secure

mobile device that the phones are attached to. And if you were to wear earbuds or other wireless connections, Tammy, the conversation could be intercepted electronically, and you'd know that, Tony, if you'd ever had an important phone conversation or any kind of important conversation in the entirety of your worthless, useless life. Tommy Laren just not right. Two days worst person in the world. I thought I could see it through the swinging kitchen door of the Il Vagabondo restaurant

on East sixty second Street in New York. What I thought I saw seemed to be an extraordinarily large man standing over one of the large kitchen sinks, holding one of the kitchen's big, flexible rubber water hoses and drinking from it. It was an unusual enough sight, but there was also a complication. That extraordinarily large man was one of my dinner guests, and his name was Gene Upshaw, the just retired offensive guard of the Oakland Raiders and

president of the National Football League Players Association. Jean was six foot five, two hundred and sixty pounds, but he seemed much larger than that. If he wanted to drink out of one of the giant kitchen hoses, I wasn't going to stop him, Nor was anybody in the kitchen, nor was everybody combined on East sixty second Street, nor was anybody in the city on that Saturday night so

long ago. Two nights later, Jean and the executive director of the National Football League Players Association Ed Garvey and its outside council Chip Yablonski, would officially take their union out on the last successful strike in pro football and introduced to the entire world of sports what was then and I literally mean then that evening on CNN, just before our trip to the restaurant whose kitchen hose Jen was now drinking out him would then introduced to sports

what was then described by an nationally prominent sports writer live on TV as quote communism. Executive director Garvey had proposed a deal with the owners that would be based on giving the players a percentage of gross income fifty five cents out of every dollar taken in by football. It would be given to the players and within a structure allowing for individual players to negotiate individual contracts. The players would basically figure out how the rest of their

fifty five percent would be divvied up among them. The owners would keep forty five percent and divvy it up any way they wanted to. Today, this is the basis of the contract offers made by the sports owners to the players' union. But in nineteen eighty two, on September eighteenth, nineteen eighty two, live on CNN with me as host, this was called communism by the Atlanta Journal Constitution sports writer Furman Bisher, whom I had been reading since I

was a kid. Bisher was one of the guests in a space show which I anchored from New York with Garvey and Upshaw in the studio with me, Bisher went further. He called Garvy a communist, and I apologized, and Garby said, I have been called worse today. This was why we were all out to dinner at Il Vagabondo, an Italian restaurant so Italian that there was a BATCHI ball court

in the middle of the main dining room. Our CNN executive sports producer Rick Davis had said that if I could talk Garvey and upshaw into going on our show on a Saturday. I could take them out to dinner, he added, no, and I mean it a nice restaurant. Garvey had already turned into a great source and a great friend with whom I would stay in touch for

thirty five years. The day before, he had matter of factly told me, and only me, a sports reporter from an obscure TV cable network called CNN, that when the union's executive council met the following Monday, that there was only one option on its table, a strike. It was a huge scoop. Later, Garvey would tell me that the union had made a deal with Ted Turner, who happened

to own my network. If the union could get the National Labor Relations Board to rule that the owners had forced that strike, the union would be entitled to break all its contracts with the National Football League and sign a new deal where the players and Ted Turner would co own all of professional football in this country. What you like to do? Play by play? Ed said, It didn't happen, obviously, but that also was a great scoop,

and they tried it out in miniature. They played two glorified pickup games, one at the LA Coliseum one at RFK Stadium in Washington under the greatest sports league acronym of all time, All Star Season yep ass. It was also Ed Garvey. A month later, in the middle of a press blackout imposed by the National Labor Relations Board mediator who sneaked into my hotel room outside of Baltimore

and gave me an exclusive interview. Anyway, Garvy arrived just after a housekeeper had knocked on my room door, and without waiting for an answer, had entered. That housekeeper saw the following scene, me in a suit sitting on a chair, the CNN cameraman sitting at a table with his big bulky camera and tripod, and the videotape deck operator who happened to be a woman lounging atop my still unmade

bed watching her favorite soap opera on TV. The housekeeper took one look, literally shouted Lordie, and she backed out of the room, nearly knocking down ed Garvey in the process. Later in the strike, the mediator quit the talks one night, then the owner's guy also walked out, leaving Ed Garvey and the players by themselves. I sat Garvey down for another interview and I asked him, will the absence of the media and the league's negotiator make any tangible difference

in the negotiations? And Garvey laughed without interruption for ninety seconds. Gene Upshaw, who in telling this story, I have left in the kitchen drinking from the hose all this time, And it's actually almost how long he did drink from the hose that night. He was just as good a friend and a source, whip, smart, and often too honest

for his own good. Five years later, when he had succeeded Garvey as executive director and the players again went on strike against the NFL, I had a tip that the strike was collapsing because the owners had brought in scab players and they kept playing games anyway. I called a lawyer I knew in the union, and he was hemming and hawing when I heard him say, wait, Gene

wants to talk to you. All Gene Upshaw did was off the record confirm that the strike had indeed collapsed, and he expected lots of union players to cross the picket lines the next morning. I said, I can use this, He said, You've always been honest with me. The least I can do is be honest with you. Matter of fact, you can say high placed union sources told you. Ah, screw it, you can quote me Keith. But wait till

after midnight, my time, I got to call these guy. Unfortunately, this meant that when I interviewed the now Los Angeles Raiders team union rep live on TV a few hours later in Los Angeles, and I asked him if the strike was in its final hours, he said no, and I said, he kind of is. And it was the head of his union who had told me so. Anyway, that night at il Vagabondo, Upshaw and Garvey and Chipyablonsky told me twenty stories I would have killed to use

that night, but they were all off the record. I think I can mention a couple of them now, since it's Check's watch. Forty years later, at one bargaining session, one of the league's lawyers, Vince Lombardi Junior, was arguing with one of the player bargainers, linebacker Stan White of the Detroit Lions, who was also a lawyer. The players were asking for something that is still a bone of contention between the two sides, full access to their own

team medical personal records. Vince Lombardi Jr. Looked at White and said, what are you going to do with them? Even if we gave them to you, You guys are too stupid to understand them. At that point, White, who might have been a lawyer but was also still a linebacker, leaped over the bargaining table and tried to get his

hands around Lombardi's throat. There were also a few hours of shared insults about top NFL announcers and executives and players, and a good deal of wine at this dinner, and periodically, when there were no more breadsticks at the table, or antipasto at the table, or water at the table, Gin Upshaw would simply get up and go into the kitchen

and get it himself. When the evening was over, my diary notes that we had spent for four men, four large men, of whom I was the smallest, with wine, with a generous tip at a top New York restaurant on CNN's dime. The staggering figure of one hundred and fifty five dollars still translates only to about four hundred and seventy bucks today. It was a lot of money then CNN was paying me twenty six thousand dollars a year. Anyway, we all walked out into a lovely New York September

Saturday night. Garby, Pupshaw, and Yablonski were all staying in a hotel, not from where we had eaten and not far from where I lived, So I walked them back and Upshaw had one more immortal memory left to create. It happened that he was on the cover of that

week's edition of Newsweek magazine. And as we passed one of the old, ubiquitous Manhattan newstands, which were just tiny shacks on nearly every corner of the city, Jean leaned down and into the little window through which the newsstand operator peered out, and he said, politely but firmly, have you got a copy of the one with me on the cover? Face? It nowhere else in the news world or in the sports world? Are you going to get

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else was pretty much my fault. Let's countdown for this the sixty third day until the twenty twenty four presidential election. And yes I'm saying sixty third, others will say sixty second. Today I am including election day itself, because that is the day when a terrifyingly large number of people actually decide who to vote for on election day, on their way to the polls, or sometimes while they're standing there.

In any event, the sixty third day until the election also the three hundred and thirty first day since convicted felon Donald J. Trump's first attempted coup against the democratically elected government of the United States. Use the September eighteenth sentencing hearing if it happens, use the mental health system. Use presidential immunity. The Supreme Theocratic Court has given it to you. President Biden. I say, if it's official, it's legal.

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