Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I'm suggesting, mister President, says Kirk Douglas, is jaw straighter line even than usual. There's a military plot to take over the government. That is the fulcrum in a movie called Seven Days in May. When it came out, was terrifying political science fiction.
And yet now as Trump brings the plot points of that film to life, this life, in this America today, it is clear that the military plot to take over the government posited in that film undersold the idea because
it left out what is now evident. After Trump's purge of the Pentagon over the weekend, and after what his Secretary of Defense just said about removing eagle roadwalks to what they intend to do, I'm suggesting there's a military plot to take over the government orchestrated by the government.
Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and replaced him with a junior officer he brought back from retirement, whom he claims once wore a Maga cap in his presence, a retired lieutenant general named Dan Raisin Cain. Trump likes the nickname the way he liked Mad dog mattis because Trump as the brain of a not very bright fourth grader. Trump fired the judge Advocate of the Army, the judge advocate of the Navy, and the judge advocate
of the Air Force as well. Friday. Trump also fired the chief of Naval Operations and the Vice chief of the Air Force, and fifty four hundred civilian Pentagon employees. To start, what you have been told by news organizations, even ones that still have good reporters, is that this is part of the Trump racism orgy. The fired Joint Chief Chairman Charles Q. Brown is black. The Chief of Naval Operations was a woman. Their identities are cover stories
and red meat for the Trump cult. And I'm sure that pleases Musk and the rest of the apartheid gang, but they are incidental to the real purpose here. Trump fired the head of the military and replaced him with somebody he believes, though General Caine denies it war the
I am a Trump slave cap. Trump looked at the top lawyers at the Army, Navy, and Air Force, the ones who would tell him, no, you cannot have the Army shoot civilians, and know you cannot have the Navy blockade Vancouver and Greenland and the Panama Canal, and you can't bomb the next Democratic convention, and he fired those people. At least six different reporters and commentators regularly on the mid Terry Beets said the same thing. Firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is bad. It is a red
flag firing the t jacks. The judge advocates the lawyers who tell you when something you are going to do with the military is illegal, that that can mean only one thing. You are planning to do something with the military that is illegal. You fire the people who would say it's illegal and replace them in advance with the people who would say it isn't illegal. Where am I
getting this from? There is one positive and one positive only if you happened to have made a guy who may have brain damage from alcoholism your secretary of Defense, he would not know when to hide the secret parts. Why did they fire the t jags? Pete Hegseth on Fox yesterday, quote, we want lawyers who don't exist to
attempt to be roadblocks to anything that happens. Thing that happens, Pistol Pete, anything in particular General Barry McCaffrey with whom I briefly worked at MSNBC, and who I found unexpectedly complete and very civilian ish. What even further quote, This has nothing to do with confidence. This is creating an oath of loyalty by the armed forces to the leader. You will recall that more than two months ago a
story appeared, burst across our horizons and then vanished. Prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon were at the New York Times were asked, quote which candidate the applicants had supported in the three most recent elections, what they thought about the events of January sixth, and whether they believed the twenty twenty election was stolen. Then, with dry, macabre wit not usually associated with the New York Times quote, the sense they got was there was only one right
answer to each question. No one who answered any of the questions with the the truth got the job. This is not complicated. I'm suggesting there's a military plot to take over the government, orchestrated by the government, and it starts not with any military, but with a private military loyal to Trump, beholden to Trump because it is nominally run by incompetence and drunks and people who not only have skeletons in their closets, but had to build additions
to their homes. Were extra closets spaced just for the skeletons. If you put Pete Hegseth, who could never make the giant career leap all the way from weekend propagandist on Fox to weekday propagandist on Fox, if you put him in charge of all this, he is going to thank his lucky stars and you. And by thank you, I mean he will kill people for you. Now, there are
different degrees of hell here. In the best case, sinner, what Trump did Friday night, firing Joint Chiefs Chairman Brown and the Advocates General and the others was a complete and self contained act. Trump is still stinging from Mathis and John Kelly and Mark Milly, and he wants his generals. He's no specific use for them right now, no specific plan, not yet anywhere, not near term anyway. He likes Russia. He likes Putin's relationship with the military. Russia is great
if you're Putin. Russia is great if you're Trump and the rest of you can go f yourselves. Trump wants military parades with tanks. He wants a big hat like Kim Jong un has. He wants a world in which everybody not only calls him sir, but everybody has to call him sir. Because of all the successful men in the history of the world, Trump is easily the unhappiest.
Muscus second, but Trump is the unhappiest, and he needs to be saluted because nothing convinces him he's not a draft dodger more than having generals call him sir and having his own army of suck ups would fill that hole where his life should have been. Well, it will fill that hole for a minute, the vanity army. And that is if we are lucky. The next best case, the Pentagon over to the dark side. Is there to
be a political weapon. The generals generally will not say, yes, we could overtake Greenland in three four days, we could defeat Canada in a month. No, not that we're going to Maga generals. That would be my American generals again, generals under Raisin Cain. They would say all that. The problems, though, really arise if it's the next level, if this is not about literal saber rattling, having your private Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and not just the military equivalents of
Pam Bondy or cash Pattel. We telling you, yes, sir, you sure can use the army that way, sir. Is that when Trump sends them to shoot migrants and refugees and babies at the southern border, or when he sends them to Panama, or when he sends them into Mexico or into Canada. Because all dictators in each country on each page of history always eventually descended to territorial expansion.
When Trump says, go invade Canada, they would snap a salute and give him another medal and another braid of gold, and they'd go invade Canada. Still, it can get worse from here. No, I am not defending or even theoretically tolerating invading Canada or quote taking back the Panama Canal. But if that's the limit of Trump's plan for his private Pentagon, those things could be undone. The next scenarios cannot.
The next scenario is when Trump goes to the judge advocates and says, I want you to legally approve Operation Undetectable Combover, and they say Undetectable Combover is legally approved, and he hands it to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and he says, I serve at the pleasure of the President, and the Chairman of the Joint chief engages, and that's when we all find out that Operation Undetectable Combover is the revelation of a fabricated crisis, or a
fabricated insurrection plot, or a fabricated coup attempt against Trump. And the military rolls onto the streets in the Blue States and starts rounding up politicians and governmental leaders, and it starts shooting Democrats, and of course the road Trump took his first big steps down Friday night could go
one mile further, one nightmare worse. It's now Operation Perpetual Stability we are talking about, and it's all the previous fake plots and non eg existent threats, and it includes every right wing paranoid conspiracy theory, and it reprises all those good old fake Bush era terrorist threats with exploding ATMs and the guy who thought he could snap the Brooklyn Bridge using only a lug nut wrench, only this time Trump's Army and Trump's Navy and Trump's Air Force
and Trump's new elite gold Bronzers storm troops probably are not there to shoot their weapons. They're just there to point them because Operation Perpetual Stability requires that Trump stays in office indefinitely and that the elections be suspended. And if you don't like it, tell it to the tank. I'm suggesting there's a military plot to take over the government orchestrated by the government. Where are the Democrats on this, Well, it was the weekend, what wereptum? There's no overtime paid
defending democracy against the dictator. Besides which, all of our visual aids and easel boards are still at ADIAMA for the big news conference this week about egg prices. Because I mean, weren't you here in November fifth. This whole democracy thing just does not sell as a campaign issue.
And you may be suggesting there's a military plot to take over the government, But I'm suggesting every one of our forty three million democratic consultants agrees we can't do more than one thing at a time, and we can't, under any circumstances, prioritize anything over this graphic that shows the cost of a gallon of gas. So in response, we need democratic leg breakers out there. Metaphorically, the courts
can slow this down. The lawsuits can buy time until the midterms, but the Democratic electeds have to rip up the railroad tracks. I'm not going to start again about impeachment. However, finally, finally, a sign from a Keem Jeffries yesterday that he may get some of this. He went on the Sunday shows and said, the Republicans have the White House, they have
the Senate, they have the Congress. They are the ones who have to pass the budget and pass everything else, and that his job as the leader of the two hundred and fifteen Democrats in the House is to find just three Republicans to sink the budget, or sink the latest giveaways to the billionaires, or sink just about anything apartheid.
Clyde Musk tries finding three Republicans, quoting Jeffrees. That is going to be an ongoing effort over these next few days to identify those individuals whoo at minimum, Jeffreys and other Democrats at all levels can piss Trump off because nobody makes mistakes like Trump, and nobody makes worse mistakes than a pissed off Trump. I give you as an example of that. Democratic Governor Janet Mills of Maine telling Trump she would see him in court over this imaginary trans athlete crisis.
The NCAA has complied immediately, by the way, that's good. But I understand Maine is the main here, the governor of Maine out here. Are you not going to comply with it state federal laws? Well, I'm we are the federal law. Well, you better do it. You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all.
If you don't.
And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing in women's sports. So you better you better comply because otherwise you're not going to any any federal funding. See every state. Good, I'll see and I look forward to that. That should be a really easy one. And enjoy your life after governor, because I don't think you'll be an elected.
Politics few fats.
Usually when states go to court rights the civil rights lawyer Matthew Siegel alleging federal coercion in violation of the Tenth Amendment, there is not a literal video of the president doing it. There's something else to impeach in four. There's something more to impeach in four put.
It on the list.
And a reminder, by the way, Democrats, you do not have to wait until he has violated every amendment and each clause to impeach him. Tenth Amendment a real quickie quote. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, respectively or to the people. Thank you for the on camera confession, Donald Krasnov. There are other Trump
owned goals to celebrate. Republicans are openly cheering the illegal dismantling of the government by Musk and the in cells, but Politico reported that privately, they are all using back channels everyone they can find to make it stop, especially when veterans are fired, where Department of Agriculture employees are fired, as bird flu decimates the farms, or as more and more polls show the public is not all on board
with any of this. CNN poll, sixty six percent say Trump shouldn't freeze funding without congressional approval, sixty six two thirds, fifty two percent say he's overstepped his powers, and fifty seven percent say he's exceeded his authority. By the way, talk about polling the new Nazis in Germany, the AfD party, Musk's stormtroopers, the ones he campaigned for, they underperformed polling
in yesterday's elections. There, then there's Musk and this reply to this email with the top five things you did this week or you have resigned email, which it will be clear very shortly was Trump's idea, but which Trump intends to let Musk take the fall for. While the emails were still fresh in the inboxes, leadership in the State Department, at the VA, at the FBI, at other government arms had instructed their employees to ignore the email.
For Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. Somebody at OPM the government Office of Personnel Management saw all this coming last month and put out a preliminary warning then last month that the threats in any emails carried no weight, and responding to Doge was entirely voluntary. Turns out Musk is not a strung out and flawed genius. He's just strung out and flawed. You got to protect the First Amendment. It's not much more important than that.
Yeah, I got a lot of Chris criticism, and Peel said, well, that proves he is a huge idiot from a you know, like like you know, voter four whatever forty four billion dollars and US worth like eight cents and.
Its sense. But you know that's.
But the Yeah, it was essentially to you know, by freedom of expression.
Sure whatever you say, chainsaw boy, Kat got your tongue. Why is Musk so nuts? I don't travel in these social media circles, so I am new to this info, which I guess is more than a week old now. But the rapper Azalea Banks, may have answered that question while answering a Randos question about why it seems and we are covered by the fog of war here, but why it seems Musk fathered another baby with a right wing influencer. But did it? By in vitro, the rando wrote,
I heard he has a botched penis implant. Azalea Banks retweeted this and added five crucial words to I heard he has a botched penis implant. Grimes told me this too.
Oh there we go.
That friend would explain everything for most of us guys. Just the phrase botched penis implant can cause sixty eight weeks of clouded, irrational thinking. Imagine actually suffering one e long musk am.
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You would try to destroy the world. Two two notes before we get to the joy Reid firing. This is also media news. They may still supply useful reporting from time to time. I just quoted them in fact, but you must now officially be suspicious of anything you hear
from Politico. Not only did the new European owners of that company praise JV Vance's attack on European leaders, but the new White House Bureau chief of Politico, Dasha Burns, legitimized a discussion at the latest Seapack fascist rally Ms Burns of Politico as Miss Burns of Politico did a one on one interview with a crowd with all purpose trumpest idiot Rick Grennell at Seapack. She's done, They're done.
It's journalistically disqualifying. I can never trust another word, she says, what do you mean you did an event at Sea Pack?
At Sea Pack, I can only suggest that this would be identical to Miss Burns sitting down at some gigantic gathering of the Communist Party or maybe the American Association of Cannibals and interviewing the head to Chief Cannibal if her name Dasha Burns rings a bell, she was at NBC when she and Kristen Welker and ten other top political reporters violated every possible journalistic ethic by accepting a free meal the night before the twenty twenty three Republican
presidential debate in Milwaukee from Trump thug, Stephen Chung, Slasovita, and Jason Miller. Hope everybody watched their drinks. So anyway, if you were thinking, what about dash of Burns, his own personal standards don't got any. And then there's this we know Trump looks at our form of government, points at all the humans in it, and thinks it divides evenly into two parts. Those parts he can grab for himself,
and those parts he can privatize and sell off. The Post Office turns out to be one of the latter. The first step to look for this week is for him to dissolve the leadership of USPS and fold the service into the Commerce Department. One online wag suggested the first result would be a brand new postage stamp that would honor Donald Trump. I would add that a Trump stamp would be the first one ever designed that could.
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I right, also of interest here on an all new edition of Countdown, and I hope you have some time for Segment B is about half an hour long. MSNBC fired Joy Reid, and yes it is racist and maybe worse. Yes, it is designed to keep out people who might think differently. And it is designed to reward professional political salespeople like ex party chairman and former press secretaries who will do
what they are told by their bosses. But most of all, since they also fired Alex Wagner as they fired Joy Reid, at least The New York Times says this, it means that four women of color have solo hosted prominent shows on MSNBC, and all four of them have now been fired. And then there is the turmoil around Hockey's Wayne Gretzky, or as he is now known, the Man without a Country. That's next. This is his Countdown.
This is Countdown with Keith Olberman.
I heard the new Saturday night Joy Reid out at MSNBC and it turned out to be much bigger than that. Joy Reid per The New York Times to be replaced from her seven PM show by moving a weekend show on MSNBC featuring Michael Steele, who is a politician and brand salesman, although he has not been active recently in the Republican Party. He's a salesman. Simone Sanders a politician and brand saleswoman from the Democratic Party. She's a saleswoman.
Alicia Menendez, who is the daughter of the senator from New Jersey. You may have heard about him, who's a different kind of salesman, and she has largely been a party salesperson. Nothing wrong with that show. It's been on for several years on the weekends on MSNBC, and it's kind of interesting. I suppose there's nothing wrong with it unless you want insight or commentary or new people you
have not heard from before. It is textbook MSNBC. They lost the idea I gave them and thought this is what it was, salesmanship as opposed to commentary or insight. They're also offering Alex Wagner in addition to Joy Read. Alex Wagner will not return after what happens to Mattow happens at the end of the one hundred days. They may replace her with Jen Saki and if anybody body on television, besides her counterparts who are all on Fox. Anybody is a salesperson as opposed to an analyst or
a commentator. It's Jensaki. Jensaki who recently said that she was wondering if maybe maybe she had oversold Merrick Garland, and if perhaps she regretted She was beginning to wonder if she regretted doing such a good job convincing people Merrick Garland should be the Attorney General of the United States, And one wonders if everything that we're going through now ends up in the worst possible place, if as we all get marched into the camps, Jensaki will be still
wondering if she made a mistake supporting Merrick Garland. These people are salespersons. Salespersons doctrinaire, and often it's doctrinaire bullshit. If you have been a salesperson, a press secretary for a politician these days, you have sorry lied. Some people managed to swerve back from this to become decent human beings,
believe it or not. One of Bush's secretaries, Scott McClellan, actually one day woke up and said I'm better than this and wrote a tell all book and promptly disappeared from politics, and I'm sure he's had a happy life since. Because if you're going to sell politics to people, if you're actually going to sell things that you don't believe in, that you haven't analyzed, that you can't find flaw in that you feel like you shouldn't mention the flaws in,
you're irrelevant. Michael Steele was the chairman of the Republican Party, and as much as he's come to be an anti Trump voice and a useful one, every time I see him, I think, what is this guy trying to sell me? Also, that's a nighttime version three hosts of The Scarborough Show in the morning. But I'm wandering off the main topics here. I've had lots of problems with Alex Wagner. I've told
you the stories. I told you that she was not when I tried to bring her in as the guest host who would have succeeded Lawrence O'Donnell after Laurence o'donald succeeded Rachel Maddow as the guest host on my show. I told you that it was apparent from the beginning she was not interested in doing the harder parts of the job. Very smart, insightful, obviously very good on television,
but just not interested. I told the story about how she did not want to learn how to use the teleprompter and was confident she would pick it up, and that's when we sort of bailed out on her, and on her first show on MSNBC just twelve years later, the prompter failed and she did not know what to do and stood there for several moments waving at the prompter as if she could get it to move by waving at it, and nobody would notice. So I have
lots of problems with her. But Alex Wagner was not a salesperson for some politician or political point of view. That political points if you might have coincided with her opinions. Yes, that was true of me too. I was not a salesperson for the Democratic Party and all things Democrat. And if you doubt that, ask Hillary Clinton how she feels about me as a salesperson for all things Democrat. But I am moving away from the main topic here. Joy
Reid was fired by MSNBC. There's lots of other ways to phrase this, and I'm sure they will dress this up to some degree and I'm sure she will get some money out of the deal, but I don't think we are really understanding the impact this is going to have on the MSNBC brand inside, the new company that's running NBC or MSNBC and the ex NBC cable networks inside that this is a big day for them because they've just removed a pain in the ass, just like
when I agreed to leave after they breached my contract, even though they had to give me roughly twenty million dollars over the course of several years because they've breached my contract, they were so happy that I went. They are still happy even though we spent the next ten years dancing about possibly me coming back because things were so bad over there. But where is the reaction here? Where's the reaction from the MSNBC host who didn't get
fired in a Saturday night massacre? In all small letters. The reaction from the MSNBC hosts is no surprise. It's no surprise because there's been no reaction. Mattow, nothing, Al Sharpton. Have we heard anything from Al Sharpton, Because there's something about joy read that I haven't gotten to yet that's kind of important here. In addition, to the fact that, just practically speaking, the conduit to bring people to MSNBC,
and thus to what remains of mainstream television news. The conduit the person who said, let's book this guest, and let's bring in that guy, and let's bring in this woman and let's talk about this topic, which would have been different than every something else on the air on MSNBC. That was Joy Reid. And I had lots of problems with lots of stuff she said. And I thought lots
of stuff she said was absolutely crazy. And so what going back and looking at my shows from two thousand and seven, eight, nine, ten eleven, I don't agree with everything I said then myself, let alone what other people said. It's not supposed to be like that. It's supposed to be inconsistent. It's supposed to be poking different areas to see what holds up and what doesn't. It's supposed to be saying, yeah, I like this Occupy Wall Street thing. No,
this is bullshit. It's supposed to be like that. It's not supposed to be. Here is today's show. We could record this and play it back to you two years from now, and you wouldn't know the difference. That's not what it's supposed to be. And unfortunately the entirety of the MSNBC lineup has become that, except the Morning Show, which is of course MSNVS. Because there's a problem here, a larger problem, and nobody is going to say this. Do you remember Melissa Harris Perry, she used to be
on My Show, later known as Melissa Harris Lacewell. They gave her her own show in large part because she did such a good job as an analyst on Mine and a couple of other shows, and she got her own show, and they fired her. You remember Tiffany Cross. Now there was somebody who liked to poke at things and see whether or not they were true, and again lots of things she said, I went holy crap wrong. But so what you have to have room for that, And what they're saying in MSNBC is we're not going
to have room for that anymore. She got fired. So Melissa Harris Lacewell Perry or Melissa Harris Perry Lacewell. I'm sorry, Melissa, I could never keep it straight. She got fired. Tiffany Cross got fired. Remember Tiffany Cross, among the other things, Tucker Carlson attacked her. She was the one who go back and say this was on Fox the way I used to Tucker Carlson claimed that Tiffany Cross was inspiring
genocide like Rwanda. Seriously. MSNBC's response, rather than to come at Tucker Carlson with five million metaphorical machine guns, was to fire Tiffany Cross, because you can have controversy as long as it's controversy trademark, and you can sell it trademark, and you can put a smile on its face trademark, and you can give it a little silly grin or a kind of sad grin or a feel good grin, and then you can say, now here's Lawrence O'Donnell. They
fired her, They fired Melissa Harris Lacewell. Now they fired Joy Reid. Now they fired Alex Wagner. Humm, Melissa Harris, Perry, Tiffany Cross, Joy Reid, Alex Wagner. For women, what did they have in common? Well, let's see, they all had had their own shows solo hosts on MSNBC, and they were all women of color, and they've all been fired. I believe I'm not certain of this. I didn't I spent enough time wondering about MSNBC firings. I don't need to go through the list again. Forgive me if I've
gotten this wrong, but I do know. They're the last four, if not the only four women of color who have hosted shows on MSNBC, and they've all been fired, and they've all been replaced by well, but you're what's Michael Steele is a man of color, and Simon Sanders is a woman of color, and Alicia Menendez is a woman of color. Yeah, they are official, they are safe. They are not going to do crazy things or bring on people you've never heard of before who turn out to
be better than the people you've heard of. And they also may hire a professor from Columbia's a woman of color. And they fired the only remaining women of color who were solo anchoring political commentary shows on prominent national television networks. Alex Wagner, I think probably is relieved by this. And it doesn't mean that just because you're a woman of color or a person of color, your show should be held to a lower standard and you should get twenty
five years to improve it. No, at some point, guess what, I don't care who it is. I don't care if it's Jesus Christ fresh off the cross, a man of color, that you would say, hey, you know, Jesus, I'm sorry. It doesn't quite work. And the new Woodworking segments they weren't any good either. That's not the point. The point is not you must protect all people of color who
get television shows. But if the show is of value, and the ratings for Joy Reid's show went up and down, just as MSNBC's overall ratings went, and is it possible that maybe she wasn't best for the seven o'clock slot, Maybe maybe later in the evening, maybe there might have
been a greater audience, maybe at ten o'clock. Now what they saw was people have been sharing clips of the nightmare that is the Scott what's his name show Scott Jennings on CNN, which is nominally Abby Phillips show, and poor Abbi Phillips goes out there, Abby Phillip, excuse me, Abby Phillip goes out there and gets tortured by this
racist Scott Jennings. It's his show, and it's a bunch of people talking about how much of a racist he is, and he leans back in the chair and rocks back and forth and mugs to the camera and creates viral clips. And somebody at MSNBC said, wouldn't we rather have that than Joy Reid, who's now bald, appearing on television every night at seven o'clock? Don't we want this? Won't this make it easier to sell this company when we want to?
Won't it make it easier the next time Trump threatens NBC and MSNBC for us to say, but we fired Joy Reid. More practically, MSNBC's problems in terms of its profitability and its ratings had nothing to do with Joy Reid. As I said, her ratings went up and down, exactly as Chris Hayes's ratings went up and down, and Maddow's ratings went up and down, and Maddow's replacements like Wagner, their ratings went up and down. Lawrence O'Donnell went up
and down. A weekends went up and down, including the Simone Sanders, Michael Steele Alishamanendez show ratings went up and down, all in the same sign curves. The problem at MSNBC is Joe Scarborough, and until you fire Joe Scarborough and get Rid of msn V. She and what that told people who watch that network, which I'm talking about largely because A. I did invent it. B. It is the only liberal network. It is the only thing even close
to being a liberal network. And the better it is, the better it is for our society as we attempt to keep democracy or some shred of democracy alive. We need a strong, vibrant, loud, fearless MSNBC and not the view forgive Me at seven clock every night. We need
people like Joyreid. Even if you sit there and go, I'm not watching that, it's important that she's there for the people who want to identify with somebody who looks like Joyreid and say that woman is out here trying to argue my point and is talking to me and is bringing people who look like me and look like her onto television for the first time, and some of
them are going to become superstars. And if we ever get out of this goddamned mess caused by lack of courage, often on places like MSNBC, often in places in the public discourse, we're ever going to get out of this mess and restore this democracy. It's gonna be because of people like Joyreid, even if you don't agree with a goddamned word. She said, no, keep Joe Scarborough um now supporting Chump again. You've heard me talk about Chump being
Hitler all this time. I guess I was wrong. Remember when I was trying to be his vice pasident take somebody off his show to put him on in primetime Michael Steele. Not take somebody off his show, Joe Scarborough and put anything on, including bugs Bunny cartoons would be a better political statement at seven o'clock in the morning on MSNBC, and much more consistent and eloquent, and Bugs
Bunny did not have a deviated septum either. One last procedural thing about this about MSNBC and it is I think of it the way I do ESPN, not like an ex spouse, but really as and it's a little pretentious, but as a child, as a child that sometimes I have had good relationships with and sometimes I have not. And to some degree it's the same thing in limited doses with ESPN. I did not father ESPN. It was
well established before I got there. But there are aspects to that relationship in which I go, oh boy, that's not going to work out for you later on. Take it from an old man, and I feel that way about MSNBC. And the other part about this is okay, you've had turmoil. Now at nine o'clock, Mattow retired. Mattow went to once a week. They didn't know what to do about Mattow. Matto's going to be replaced four days week by Alex Wagner. Oh no, that's not working. We're
going to bring Matto back for five days week. She's not going to do it long term. We'll bring Alex Wagner back after this in April. Oh no, we're not bringing her back. It's probably going to be Jensaki. You know what. Jensaki is going to prove to not really be a television person. There's going to be somebody else
needed at nine o'clock. Oh and let's now create chaos at seven o'clock, because, honest to god, the first thing I thought of when I was told on Saturday night that they might get rid of joy read or that it was done already. The first thing I thought of, you now they're going to try to bring back Chris Matthews.
Because they've tried to bring back Chris Matthews in the morning with Joe Scarborough, because we need Chris Matthews right now because the shallow, random firings of the few electtions Trodden's in his brain, something actually getting across those synapses, knocking his references to himself out of the way for a brief second. That's exactly what MSNBC and the political
dialogue needs right now, Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews. When we go to the camps and the doors open, the guys in the hats with the keys will be Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews. But back to the point about Joy Reid, and I would love to see I would love to come to you again on Thursday and say, you know what, I apologize to this MSNBC anchor, and I apologize to Al Sharpton, and I apologize to this group that I said they were going to say nothing.
And look at this, there's a five thousand person encampment outside thirty Rock protesting Joy Reid getting fired. I'd love to say that to you. I do not expect to have to do it. I'm not writing notes down for Thursday's show about the big backlash within MSNBC about Joy Reid. Because Joy Reid threatens all their money. Joy Reid says something controversial. Rachel Maddow thinks I have twenty five million
dollars coming to me. I want my money. But the chaos is the real legend, the real history of MSNBC. I don't know that I've ever shared this with you. It took a friend of mine named Rainy and I several days' worth of going through old memos to compile this list. I've told you many times that I worked, and this is my story about Joy Reid getting fired. It of course comes back to me. I worked at MSNBC from its second year nineteen ninety seven through the
end of its third year nineteen ninety eight. I did the eight o'clock show. It's the first show anybody paid attention to on MSNBC. And eventually I couldn't stand doing
it anymore. It was all about Bill Clinton, and I couldn't do it anymore, and they sold me to Fox and I got out, and then that didn't work and I went to see it in for a while and they shows Connie Chung to host their eight o'clock show instead of me, so that didn't work out, and NBC was short an anchor at MSNBC and invited me to come over for a couple of days, and the next thing I knew, I signed a contract to do the
eight o'clock show again five years later. And my friend Rany and I before it was a parent that I was going to stay there when it looked like I was just there for a couple of days filling in because they were short of anchors. We compiled this list of all the shows that had been on after I left the network on December fourth, nineteen ninety eight. And this is my fear of what is going to happen MSNBC in the next couple of years. The Revolving Door,
the Game of Musical Chairs. Just listen to this. So they had started the network with a show called Internight, which had like sixteen different hosts. They'd try to get somebody to sit down and do an hour long interview, and they had everybody from Bob Costas to Bill Moyers. They had sixteen different hosts and it was filmed. It was on at eight o'clock at night, and nobody watched it.
So they needed a live television news show before the Brian Williams newscast at nine o'clock and I was it October first, nineteen ninety seven to December fourth, nineteen ninety eight, and then I escaped and they replaced me with a guy who they thought was exactly the same kind of show,
John Hockenberry. John lasted from December of ninety eight all the way through to February of ninety nine, and then eventually they moved him to the afternoon and when they fired him in August of nineteen ninety nine, and his last show, he asked rhetorically how much does cable suck? And the answer is still being played out. John had all kinds of problems dealing with women, as in he was a sexual harriser. Okay anyway, so he gets fired.
The show that replaced me lasted three months. Then they put on two half hour shows equal time with Oliver North, premiering in February of nineteen ninety nine and The McLaughlin Special Report John McLoughlin from the mclaffelin Report wrong that guy. They did two half hours that lasted a month. They decided Oliver North needed half an hour, but he needed a rotating set of co hosts. Now, I want to clear this up. None of the co hosts sat there
and rotated. They had different hosts, they were on a rotational basis. I think in retrospect they regret this that it should have been Oliver North with a co host who rotated. The co hosts included Cynthia Axney, Peter Fenn and Keky Moore. I can picture two of these three people.
And at eight thirty they replaced Special Report from McLaughlin that was canceled and they brought in Time and Again, which was reruns of old NBC news features in April of nineteen ninety nine, so a month later it became a permanent hour long show with Oliver North and Paul Begala as co hosts. May thirtieth of nineteen ninety nine, so six weeks later it became North and Begala shortened to half an hour, and Time and Again came back, so it was Time and Again. It's Time and Again.
Another month later, in June nineteen ninety nine, they replaced the whole thing Oliver North out special edition with Ann Curry in filmed recuts of Ann Curry pieces from Dateline and other shows. Now. I love Ann Curry, I worked with her in Los Angeles, A great person, a wonderful human being to my mind, and again at eight thirty time, and again. Then they expanded in about a month. In July of nineteen ninety nine, the Special Edition with Ann
Curry went to an hour. Then Ann Curry left the program in May of two thousand, and they made it Special Edition with Louri Do. Then in August, so now what three months later it became MSNBC Investigates, and the joke was NBC Investigates, What happened to Lori Do? On September twenty eighth, two thousand, they made MSNBC Investigates a four day a week show, So Monday through Thursday it
was MSNBC Investigates. Again, this is all the eight o'clock after I left, We're on show twelve so far year two, Show twelve in the eight o'clock slot MSNBC Investigates. But on Friday it wasn't MSNBC Investigates. It was a weekly show called Missing Persons with Diane Diamond. Soon it was Missing Missing Persons with Diane Diamond. It was canceled after one month, so they go back to an hour of MSNBC Investigates. A pre tape show every night in October
two thousand. Then as the election approached, it became News Force with Forests Sawyer News Force. I don't want to know who thought Force was a good name to put in a newscast. So that evolved into Decision two thousand in December because there was no decision in the election, and it became Decision two thousand with Forest Sawyer. And when they finally, to MSNBC's great resil regret, resolved the Gore Bush election in January two thousand and one, it
became MSNBC Investigates again till July. And in July two thousand and one they solved the crisis of what to do at eight o'clock, only two and a half years after I had left the news with Brian Williams at eight o'clock for nearly fourteen months, and then he said I don't want anything to do with MSNBC ever again.
In September two thousand and two, at eight o'clock they premiered The Phil Donahue Show, which lasted until February two thousand and three because the show cost more money than they could possibly make in advertising, and they replaced it with Countdown Iraq with Lester Holt and segments with Pat Buchanan and Bill Press. In the middle of a show Getting America Ready for War at eight o'clock, MSNBC had
Countdown Iraq with Lester Holt and Buchanan and Press. And then they had to move less your Holt to the network and so Operation Iraqi Freedom with Keith Olberman. Soon that was not enough, the news from Iraq was no longer interesting, and we made it Countdown with Keith Olderman March thirty first, two thousand and three. So that was twenty shows me twenty new shows in four years, and
then me again because you can't have this. And then after I left in twenty eleven, it was the last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell for a while, like nine months. Then they put ed Schultz on instead. Then they put in Chris Hayes in twenty thirteen. The idea here is
to return finally to the subject of joyread. You put people on TV who you, the executives can control when the chips are down, when the company is in trouble, when the boss goes to the anchor and says, don't say this, they say, don't say what and then they don't say anything when the company is in trouble, when a dollar might not be earned. You won't hear crap out of Madow or O'Donnell or Hayes or Sanders or
Steel or Menendez or Jensaki. My version of this, and it might have been stylistically philosophically, it might have been the Only thing I shared with Joy Read was that when the chips were down in this circumstance and a dollar was at risk, I felt it was my job to say what they did not want me to say. Not always, there are sometimes management is right. But if they don't want you to touch a controversial topic, grab
it with both hands. That's your job. If not, if you're not willing to do that, you can be replaced. You can be replaced by missing persons with Diane Diamond. Nothing against Diana. Used to work with her in Radio Lovely Woman. You could be replaced by news Force. News Force, we break down your door and drag you away. It is your job as a political commentator to get yourself into trouble whenever possible, now, whenever necessary. I did that.
Joy Reid did that. I'm sure she looked at my times in trouble and went, what are you doing that for? And I know I've looked at her in some occasions and gone, what are you doing that for? Doesn't matter.
The other thing you're supposed to do is you are supposed to spend your political capital, your small p political capital, your business capital inside your own operation, defending your colleagues or becoming a pain in the ass to management, develop a reputation with management, to get people they didn't want hired hired, or to get people they didn't want on the air on the air. Matdaw is a perfect example
of that. I'm not going to belabor that point, but Joy Reid did that with a dozen people, and they might as well have been all of them might as well have been Hughey Newton from the eyes of MSNBC management from the day they put her on the air on the weekends to the day they put her on at eight o'clock with the current executives who just sold the thing off so they could distance themselves from anything
good in television news. Again, I will be delighted to come out here and apologize profusely and for an hour, and this has been half an hour. Here I will profusely apologize to anybody at MSNBC who stands up in defensive joy Reid and says this stinks. This makes us white. This is contributing to the entirety of the Trump racism enveloping this country. And it is part of a stampede to see which formerly liberal company can get to the head of the racism line, the approved racism line, as
fast as possible. And joy Read getting removed from the primetime lineup of MSNBC is MSNBC's biggest contribution yet, although Scarborough could top it at any moment. But honestly, what do you expect to hear about joy Read from the other people who count at MSNBC. You want to hear it again? Worst persons next, and the sad self destruction of a man named Wayne Gretzky formerly of Canada, now the man without a country. That's next. This is Countdown.
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Ulberman from the sports ball Central centered news desk tonight, Dateline, Boston, Massachusetts. Hello, Okay, when I get him wrong, I get him wrong. That irrelevant NHL four Nations face off exhibition series that I complained about last week before it happened. Turned out to be as big a hockey event as anything since probably
the nineteen eighty Miracle on Ice. Three hundred thousand viewers on ABC last Thursday night for the final game between the US and Canada, which was won by the good guys. You heard me. These days, Canada is America if America had not dropped out of school anyway. Now that the tournament is over, and it isn't really over, the Canadians are still talking about it. Oh my god, this is the one downturn to this. The Canadians will be showing the highlights of that overtime winning goal for the next
sixty seven years. As the planet burns to a cinder, the last thing seen on Canadian television will be that goal. But in the interim, there are two questions. Were the circumstances for this unique could it be replicated and institutionalized or was it a one off? Was this just about Trump's fifty first state and tariff idiocy? And what is perceived in Canada as a mortal threat to the nation.
Oh yeah, well we're thinking of invading Canada. That's not the way they see it because the US Canada rivalry has always been gigantic in Canada, but here it's more like, all right, I guess we're rivals, all right. I guess they would be offended if we're going to invade them, I suppose. So, what's that newest movie being made out of a comic book? Avenger Action Star Wars Galaxy comic book.
Canadian hockey figures often break her up the twenty ten Olympic gold medal game, which was decided by Sidney Crosby's golden goal Canada over the US, as if it would hurt you as an American very badly. I don't think. I don't know what percentage of Americans know about the twenty ten Olympics. It's got to be something like one tenth of one percent. In Canada, something like ninety nine
point nine percent. This registered. This tournament registered probably because of the booing the American anthem stuff with a lot
of morons in this country. The morons who think it just sort of happened, the booing of the American anthem at National Hockey League games, and it was not instigated, provoked, entirely created by Trump's insane threats or the smarter ones know that this started with Trump's threats, but they still reacted viscerably or viscerally in English, as if no provocation could possibly justify booing our beloved national song that all Americans know by heart. Well, no almost nobody can sing
it here. Ninety percent of American professional singers who go out and sing it at ballgames get at least one wrong word, usually instead of saying or the Land of the Free, oh hyphen er, oh apostrophe er, it's an abbreviation for over invariably that is sung as for the Land of the Free, usually twice. Anyway, from a hockey viewpoint, the whole thing was gold. But the problem is gold, as in Olympic gold. The NHL is going to interrupt its season next year for the Winter Olympics in Italy.
Then the NHL plans to resume the World Cup of Hockey in twenty twenty eight. Now it's players want this four nations faceoff to return. That would presumably be in twenty twenty seven, but the Swedes and the Finns are demanding that some games be played in Scandinavia. Oh, that's right. The Swedes and the Finns had teams in the four Nations faceoff too. You may not have noticed them. They were, as we say in trade filler. Now, this is all well and good for a hockey championship. Of course there
should be games in Europe. It's a Swedish team and a Finnish team, and it's all good for Canadian hockey fans who think the idea of going to Finland in February for Canada Finland game is a reasonable vacation. But the NHL has already forgotten the real lesson of the success of the tournament last week. In the United States, sports fans they don't really care about the Olympics. When they do care about the Olympics, it's about the American
team about to win in the Olympics, nothing else. If that had been America versus Finland in the final, that would not have been nine million, three hundred thousand viewers. It might have been nine hundred and thirty viewers, because you know, we didn't threaten to invade Finland yet, Which brings me to my second question. The NHL has this history of not just failing to exploit marketing gifts, but absolutely erasing them. The league did almost nothing after the
Americans won the nineteen eighty Olympics. It would have required contractual and legal gymnastics, but the play would have been to take that American Olympic team that beat the Russians intact and give it its own franchise, put it in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and see how it does against the pros. Of course, nobody even contemplated doing something like that, or some sliver of that. The players were instead scattered among all the other teams and fell back into obscurity.
Nice movie, not nice playing careers. In nineteen ninety four, though, the New York Rangers won their first Stanley Cup in fifty four years, not that they really tried for most of that time. I mean, their owners owned the arena, and the owners would still refuse to give up valuable money renting Madison Square Garden to the Wringling Brothers Barnum
and Bailey Circus every April. Their New York Rangers made the Stanley Cup Final in nineteen fifty and they had to play all seven games on the road because their home arena, owned by the team, was busy is being used for the circus, so the Elephants could take a dump on Center Ice still in nineteen ninety four, the Rangers winning was a story that, in the utterly New York centric advertising world of thirty one years ago, completely blotted out basketball and football and baseball at least for
a couple of weeks. Madison Avenue was prepared to go to Madison Square Garden and spend all of its money there the next season, and of course, the next season, the NHL owners locked out the players. The next hockey game after the Rangers hoisted the Stanley Cup was two hundred and twenty one days later. They didn't play till the following January, and by then the momentum was not
just dead, it was forgotten. If the NHL is really interested in taking the unlikely success of the four Nations Face Off and turning it into increased popularity and profits, it would make it a an annual event b and make it into the Two Nations Face Off, a best four out of seven series scheduled over two weeks America versus Canada period Finns, Swedes, Russians. Here here's a home version of the two Nations Faceoff game you can play in your basement if you insist that some of the
greatest players are not North American. Fine, you can have the coaches and the captains of the American and the Canadian teams draft two or three non North Americans as honorary Americans or Canadians if you insist. If you have to have Alex Ovechkin there, although I'd rather have them on the Canadian team than the American team, I don't want anything with that guy. They won't do this. The Canadian teams would never accept this. They want this tournament.
They want this tournament. They want to beat the world, especially US, but not just US. I mean America is satisfied to beat the Canadian team. We don't need to beat the Finns. Seven and eighths of our population doesn't know what a Finland is. We're morons here. We dropped out of school in the ninth grade. I'm not saying the Canadians are wrong, the franchise is No, they're not wrong. The commissioner and the Canadian influencers in the NHL, they're
not wrong. I'm just being bloodless and mercenary. I'm pretending I'm a businessman. But there are thirty two franchises in the National Hockey League and twenty five of them are in the United States. That's seventy eight percent, or if you prefer seventy eight percent or seventy eight percent Celsius Dateline,
Los Angeles or Brantford, Ontario or somewhere. There was one awful, terrible, serious component to the Four Nations Cup, the public disintegration of the man who is probably Canada's greatest living hero, accelerated and may not be reversible. Now, Wayne Gretzky for a nation still grieving from the day he was traded away by Edmonton thirty six years ago last August. It is almost impossible to believe, but Canada is now furious at Wayne Gretzky. The Canadians had pretty much come to
terms with Gretzky's lurch to the right. His son in law has been a Trumpist, his wife is in one. Okay, he was still Wayne Gretzky. He wore a Maga hat, but Wayne Gretzky, he was Wayne Gretzky. He took over the role of Gordy Howe after Gordy Howe died, So he's both Wayne Gretzky and Gordy How's ghost. So what he went to Trump's election night, victory party and the inauguration.
It happens, white guys get old. But when Trump turned on Canada and threatened it and threatened to invade, to buy it, or turned it into the fifty first state or pressure it, Gretzky said nothing. Then Trump said Gretzky was his great friend, said Gretzky should run for Prime Minister. Gretzky laughed. Then Trump said no, Let's make a governor of Canada of our fifty first state, and Gretzky said nothing. Then, when this tournament played out in the middle of Trump's threats,
Canada's standing up metaphorically symbolically for its national existence. Gretzky, the honorary captain of Team Canada, not only did not wear a Canadian jersey at any point, the honorary American captain American jersey. But he didn't stick up for the place that made him a hero, literally a companion of the Order of Canada. He didn't even visit the Canadian
team before the game and before the game. Before the title game against the US last Thursday, Gretzky was seen recorded on camera giving a thumbs up to the American team after the Canadians beat the American team. Gretzky stopped by the locker room, as The Toronto Star wrote, after the win, quote he handed the Canadian players' hats that said be great. I hope somebody threw it at him and said, we are great. You're the one who's no
longer great. Terry Jones, a sportswriter who covered Gretzky's entire career with the Edmonton Oilers and covered the team for fifty five years, has now written I authored books on Wayne Gretzky. I covered him for a decade in Edmonton in the WHA and NHL, and extensively after he departed. I have viewed him as the greatest player in history and as a great Canadian. He needs to face the nation and explain his relationship with Donald Trump, and more
than that. Perhaps there is a freeway in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada named for Wayne Gretzky, Named for Wayne Gretzky, and there is a group of locals there now trying to get his name removed from the freeway. Known Wayne Gretzky since nineteen eighty eight, I broke the story of him getting traded from Edmonton to Los Angeles. I always liked him. Not a big effusive guy, but stood up when accounted. Not anymore. Gotta make a choice here now, Gretz. It's your time do or die. It's Trump or your soul.
You clearly cannot have both, and clearly you already do not have both. Before I wrap this up, boy, this has been a long edition. Believe it or not, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the misigrants, morons and dunning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's other worse persons in the world. As if there's anybody left. Here are the nominees. They are all elected officers, and two of them are Democrats. I
guess bronze worst runner up. Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina.
Two tweets.
From yesterday, President Trump has accomplished more in one month than Joe Biden did in four years. Well, if you knuke a country right, you can be said to have accomplished more in one second than all the other presidents combined. Also from Senator Tom Tillis, that's Tom with an H. Donald J. Trump is our President, Pam Bondy is our Attorney General. Cash Patel is our FBI director, It's a great time to be an American. If that's a point of view, it's a damn shame. Trump, Bondi and Patel
aren't Americans anyway. What's so special about this? I mean, he's a Republican. Tom tell Us is not necessarily ever a never Trumper, but as late as twenty twenty three, he was censured by the North Carolina State Party, the GOP in his home state for not being maga enough Jesus, So what is this rancid toadying? It's a great time to be an American. Pam Bondi is Pam Bondy put Dwight Gooden in jail and as a good stylist. Those are her life accomplishments. So what's all the rancid todying
about from Senator tell Us? With guess who's up for election next year and maybe a primary? The technical term for what Tillis is is gutlass scumback the runner up worser, Governor Jared Poulis of Colorado, nominally a Democrat, He went on Morning Collaborators MSNV. She alongside Kevin Skitt, the fascist governor of Oklahoma, who looks even more fascist now that he's grown a beard, because he's trying to look like Lincoln. Trying to look like Lincoln. You know what he's accomplished
looking like Lincoln. He also looks like he was born in eighteen oh seven. Governor Polis saying he agrees with Trump about saving money and about how flawed FEMA is not the wrecking ball part. But I want to commend Trump and I want to command like f you. Governor. First off, you're on Morning Joe. Grandpa Joe is off that day. Grandma Joe was there though, And you're sitting next to Kevin Stitt. First off, his name is Stitt.
He's the governor of Oklahoma, where they are trying to put the Bible in the classroom in lou of all the textbooks. And you're sitting next to this guy and he's selling Musk talking points as if these were the opinions of human beings. And he's the one Jared Polis who saw great promise in Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior, F you Pal, get the f out of my country, you collaboratist Vshi, son of a bitch and stupid son of a bitch. Resign. But the winner of the worst,
Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey. I want to thank President Trump and Secretary Duffy. I mean, that's enough, right, you don't need need to even hear the rest of this. I want to thank President Trump and Secretary Don't you do that and get the hell out of the Democratic Party, asshole. I want to thank President Trump and Secretary Duffy rites with Governor Murphy for their efforts to halt the current
congestion pricing program. While I have consistently expressed openness to a form of congestion pricing, this is the tax that is being charged, as it has been done in countless cities around the world, on people who don't live in a state and yet come in and commute into the city that's already too congested and choking on its own pollution and needs money for transportation, that is being threatened by President Trump and Secretary Duffy. This is the New
York City means of coping with that. And Governor Murphy is spitting all over and I don't mean spitting. While I've consistently expressed openness to a form of congestion pricing, the current program lines the end pockets at the expense of New Jersey's You know who runs on the MTA. You know what sort of trains, what people run or ride on the MTA. People from New Jersey do, and people from Connecticut and people from New York. It is
the greatest mass transportation system in the world. It is the only thing that makes the City of New York functional. And it's underfunded. And it also costs nothing. It costs less than three dollars, and you can go in one day and come out like six weeks later for three dollars. Governor Murphy, get out out, Get the f out. I mean, I suppose you think the City of New York should pay for your Jersey residents train fares into the city too.
We have a lot of nerve charging you for congesting our streets that you don't do anything to improve, or giving you some place to go when otherwise you and your people would have to spend your entire lives in New Jersey. I used to commute to this city from Westchester County. It was a privilege. I got to live in a spacious, open area with trees, and for a nominal cost, I used to get the train in here or a car, pay the tolls come on in. I used to commute from the city to New Jersey and
there was never any traffic going to New Jersey. Know why, because who in the hell wanted to leave New York City to go to freaking Jersey on purpose? Unless you've been served at subpoena, why are you going to New Jersey? Seriously? Congestion pricing has made New York City livable again. Traffic now flows. You can go across town, you can go up, you can go down, you can go east, you can go west. There are fewer bridge and tunnels vomiting outside
clubs at two o'clock in the morning. We're funding improvements and safety measures for the subway. And I'm sure business has picked up in places like Secaucus, New Jersey, the only city in America that is entirely devoted to factory outlet stores, Burbury factory outlet store, London Fog factory outlet, Major League Baseball factory outlet, etc. Governor, Phil governor, shut up or resign.
I don't care.
There's one thing about governors of New Jersey we learned from Chris Christy and all who preceded him. There's always another governor of Jersey waiting to happen. Murphy two Day's other worst person, and I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening, and goodbye to all of you who are from New Jersey. I'm sorry, you know it's true. I understand. Just say you don't want to pay the money. I'd have greater respect if you just said, we don't want to pay this money.
It costs too much. A congressman named Gottheimer said, oh, there's environmental concerns. Bullshit, you don't want to pay the money. Just say it. Since why has anybody from Jersey been reluctant to say I don't want to pay sixteen dollars? I mean, you're from Jersey, you don't want to pay sixteen cents?
I get it. It's fine.
I wouldn't want to pay sixteen dollars to go to Jersey either, although it be a hell of an excuse not to go there. Okay, I've done enough damage here to myself. Thank you for listening. Ryan Ray and John Phillip Shanelle musical directors have Countdown Range, produced and performed most of the music. Mister Chanelle on orchestration and keyboards, mister Ray on guitars, bass and drums, and it was
all produced by Tko Brothers. Our satirical and pithy musical comments are by the best baseball stadium organist ever, Nancy Faust, who is not from New Jersey. The sports music is the Olber theme from ESPN two, which has never been located in New Jersey, written by Mitch Warren Davis courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group No Horns Allowed. My announcer today, wash, Oh, here's
I'm in trouble now. My announcer today is my friend Stevie van Zandt, who has portrayed someone from New Jersey. What everything else was as ever my fault. That's countdown for today, Just four and twenty seven days until the scheduled end of the lame duck, lame brain term of Donald t Rump, unless Musk removes him sooner or the
actuarial tables do. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. As always, bulletins, as the news warrants, remember impeach trumpe It will not work now, it will win the Democrats the midterms if we have midterms, if we ever have an election again.
Maybe in congestion. Pray saying is any it's.
Lining the brockets. You don't want to spend the sixteen dollars, Just say it. Until next time. I'm Keith Alderman. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good effing luck. Countdown with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.