Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I think Vladimir Putin just sent Trump to not very carefully coded messages and to borrow the stylings of Vice President Harris. One began with the letter F and the other began with the letter you. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskoff, as I assume you know, has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Bob Woodward's book is right that Trump did send tests and testing machines early in the COVID Nightmare of twenty twenty to Putin, but quoting Peskoff, but about the phone calls, it's not true. Putin just outed Trump as a liar twice in different direcrections, confirming what he wanted, denied denying what he wanted. Confirmed on Tuesday, Trump's spokesmodel Stephen Chung insisted the report that in the window that must have been between March thirty first and May seventh, twenty twenty, Trump took COVID tests meant for and desperately needed by Americans and sent them to Putin for Putin's personal use. He insisted that was just a story Woodward had made up. The Kremlin spokesman might as well have called the fatuous Chung a liar, and Trump with him. We thus know that Peskov's words also add to the logical extrapolation that somewhere an American must have died because Trump stole the test that might have saved him and diverted it instead to our greatest enemy in this world. The idea that it was just one American denied the test and denied his life that could have led to help that could have saved him. That thought is in fact Louter Chrisley small c Conservative at a time when ten thousand of US were dying per week because of Trump's utter mismanagement of and disinterest in the pandemic. Moscow's denial that Putin and Trump have spoken in the last four years, meanwhile, the estimate from Woodward's source was seven times, also paints Trump as a liar. It was Trump, after all, who insisted to the world in the debate with President Biden that he spoke to Putin about Ukraine after this nation's withdrawal from Afghanistan in August twenty twenty one, but before Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, it was Trump who name dropped Putin while ushering an aid out of his office at Merrik Krapshak earlier this year, according to Woodward, insisting he had to have a private call with the Russian dictator just to dig Trump's metaphorical grave on this a little deeper. Here comes j to the rescue of Trump's post presidency dialogue with Putin. Jd Vance says, quote, even if it's true, is there something wrong with speaking to world leaders? No? Is there anything wrong with engaging in diplomacy unquote Obviously not if you're a diplomat, if you are an elected official of the United States, if you are not violating the Logan Act by freelancing in international affairs, especially if you're contradicting American policy, which Trump not only confesses to daily but boasts about. Trump is not some sort of international statesman nor American spokesman at this point. He's a guy selling bibles on TV. But the Logan Act isn't the point here, and not just because it is a toothless law that has never resulted in a successful prosecution, and has not even resulted in an unsuccessful prosecution since the year eighteen fifty two. As Aaron Blake usefully notes in The Washington Post, throughout his time occupying the White House, Trump continuously accused Barack Obama's second term Secretary of State John Kerry of speaking to Iran and continuously insisted Carrie was breaking the law when he did so, and continuously pressured his own Department of Justice to prosecute Carrie. And while that DOJ managed to stall Trump, it did investigate Carrie while Trump and his dirigible Mike Pompeo kept up public pressure. In September twenty eighteen, Pompeo said Carry was undermining US policy and he called it unseemly and unprecedented. Almost simultaneously, Trump wrote John Kerrey had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian regime. The next May, Trump said Carry should be prosecuted on that. In March twenty twenty, Trump literally accused Carrie of violating the Logan Act. So Trump says he's done the same thing he tried to get Trump prosecuted for, only with Vladimir Effing Putin, and Vance is vague about whether or not it happens, but says it would be fine if Trump has kept talking to the dictator and Putin's spokesman says it never happened, and Trump's minions deny he sent Putent COVID tests, and putin spokesman says, yeah, he did too. And this matters not only because it is added to that list of events that proves Trump has no connection to morality or reality or patriotism, but maybe more importantly, it really is a reminder in public from Putin to Trump as to who owns whom. Trump continuously drops Putin's name as if they are buddies. Who knows, maybe they met at mass murdering dictator night school, and he keeps doing it as if such references somehow helped Trump's image with thinking Americans. I think Putin, by confirming what Trump denied and denying what Trump can firmed, is reminding Trump you should only speak when you are spoken to. Kamala Harris has raised one billion dollars since becoming the Democratic presidential candidate. Is that a lot in retrospect? The corruption and cash before Citizens United was the good old days? But somebody is going to raise a billion dollars in just eighty one days if somebody is in position to buy the election with saturation advertising and get out the vote efforts. You want it to be your candidate billion dollars more than a billion in fact, per the New York Times sources, is more than Trump has raised in all of twenty twenty four. Harris's figure is just since the afternoon of July twenty first most fastest two polls of note yesterday you Gov for The Economist National closed Tuesday. Harris forty nine, Trump forty five. And that is with Trump's Stoog's, Stein and West in the mix, Harris by four. But far more interesting something done by a new polster called Blueprint for the website The Bulwark. It polled Republicans and independents who had supported Nikki Hayley, and Trump is only getting forty five percent of them, and Kamala Harris is getting thirty six percent of them. Lemming's gonna Lemming, of course, But the interesting number here is that in the twenty twenty election, these same voters had gone for Trump by fifty nine to twenty eight. Trump won them the disaffected Republicans by thirty one points. In twenty twenty, he is winning them by just nine points. Now. Haley's support in the Republican primaries this year was twenty percent of the vote's cast, just under four million, four hundred thousand votes. If the polling numbers are correct, and this is obviously a vast oversimplification, I mean, the polling numbers don't even account for nearly a fifth of Haley's supporters who are apparently undecided. But if it's even vaguely correct, just for context, just for a ballpark figure, it would mean that out of four million, four hundred thousand Republicans and independents in this subset, Trump is only getting a net total of three hundred and twenty thousand votes out of four point four million. Any poll which suggests that more than one third of any subset of Republican voters is voting for Kamala Harris is not just an important poll, but a goddamned important poll. The other headlines Trump Again, Kitty kittied out of the second debate with Harris, and by the end of his social media post, he apparently thought he was writing some kind of business letter, because his last sentence reads, quote, thank you for your attention to this matter. I don't know Trump got laughed at on one podcast. Sure you heard that. It was like when it happened at the United Nations. He clearly convinced himself they were laughing with him. They were chanting boomp. On a different podcast, Trump claimed nine hundred million people saw his interview with Elon Musk. By next week it'll be nine hundred billion, or that may be what Musk claims. Rumors continue to fly that Leon really does think he can get into the white He parasitically that he will run the government while Trump is just the front man. You may have noticed by this point that I'm not particularly fond of Trump, but between the two of them, Trump is the smarter one. If Musk thinks that Trump will let him actually run anything. Also, it's been confirmed Trump's special Bibles the only ones that fit the head of the Oklahoma State school Boards requirement for the mandatory Bibles in public schools in Oklahoma. They are made in China, China. They cost three dollars to make and here your price, just fifty nine ninety nine. Those are the sort of things that eventually send people to jail and more evidence. That's funny now because it shows how stupid Trump is and how he never learns, not even from public heath amiliation, but is also ominous because at underscores his knee jerk reaction to criticism, which is to prosecute it. Trump again insisted, and I believe the first time he insisted it was in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, that television news organizations all have licenses and that the licenses can be revoked. This time it's sixty minutes and CBS, and as usual, it is as if he's heard the criticism of him somewhere in the background, in this case criticism of the same washing of his increasingly incoherent language, and assumed they couldn't be talking about him, they have to be talking about somebody else. Quote. I've never seen this before, but the producers of sixty minutes sliced and diced parentheses, cut and pasted Kamala's answers to questions which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought, all in an effort possibly illegal as part of the news division which must be licensed to make her look more presidential or at least better. It may also be a major campaign finance violation. This is a stain on the reputation of sixty minutes that is not recoverable. It will always remain with this one storied brand. I have never heard of such a thing being done in news. It is the very definition of fake news. The public is out of major in immediate apology, like a major apology, please and a major award. This is an open and shutcase and must be investigated starting today. That's the great sixty minutes brand that he backed out of the interview with. There are no news licenses. You don't need one. No license for your pet fish Eric either. One assumes this starts somewhere in the nineteen fifties when young, somewhat less crazy Donnie Trump finds out that individual television and radio stations are licensed by the government to operate over public airwaves. And since he never grows intellectually beyond that point, he thinks that the license's CBS owns to operate Channel two in New York and Channel two in LA and Channel sixty two in Detroit are somehow news licenses. But then again, if Trump actually understood what was happening, given the clumsiness of our nation in defending itself against him, we would be in real danger. Even in an America in which Trump's all too obvious affection for Hitler and the Nazis is actually exceeded by the psychoses of so many of his supporters, it would seem to be obvious that the last thing that even pro Nazi trumpest idiots would want to do would be to invoke February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine was the day when at the previous Madison Square Garden at eighth Avenue and fiftieth Street, also nowhere near Madison Square, the German American Bund held a rally, and twenty thousand showed up for a thinly veiled American Nazi rally, complete with a giant image of George Washington surrounded by swastikas. The problem was, of course, that the event was so close to the media nerve centers of nineteen thirty nine that coverage was everywhere radio, every newsreel, every imaginable way of communicating the news, and much of the nation the next day became newly aware that there were twenty thousand Nazis in New York. More impressively was that part of the nation that did not become newly aware the garden was night surrounded by one hundred thousand anti Nazi protesters who three times nearly broke lines, manned by just under twenty five hundred police. As it was, the Nazi image in New York received fatal damage when a former Navy officer now Plumber's assistant named Isidore Greenbaum sneaked inside the garden and, able to contain his rage no longer, rushed the stage all by himself, him versus nineteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine Nazis who did not know what to do next, and after a few flailed punches at Greenbaum, a handful of police stopped all of them pulled Greenbaum out. He was uninjured and fined twenty five dollars. With that as the history of pro fascism and pro despotism and pro Nazism in New York City at Madison Square Garden, what have Trump and Garden and New York Knicks and Rangers owner James Dolan Dunn, They have scheduled a Trump Nazi rally on October twenty seventh at Madison Square Garden. They hope to get twenty thousand people exactly as many as attended the German American bund Swastikafest on February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. The means of ticket distribution is unclear. If it is like previous Trump rallies, it could easily be sabotaged by phony registrations or even swamped by counter protesters who managed to fake their way inside. Apart from the impact on Dolan's sports teams, I mean, he's got a lot of authoritarian white trash running the hockey franchise, but I'm beginning to think the Knicks players may not be happy about sharing their building with the ever increasingly racist Trump. Apart from that, there is the second half of the nineteen thirty nine disaster that Trump and especially this idiot clown Dolan need to think about, and think about real hard, in time to cancel this thing before it is too late for them. Twenty thousand inside, with five times as many outside Madison Square Garden waiting for them. Oh and compared to the old Madison Square Garden at eighth and fiftieth, the new Madison Square Garden sitting atop Penn Station, has far more open room and space to stand around and wait in. And good luck to you James Dolan. Maybe he'll open for Trump by singing, and then most of the twenty thousand people will leave and there won't be trouble. By the way to clear up a previous point and make a new one with the same topic, Lemmings like Trump idiots showing up in the heart of Manhattan without thinking they may be out numbered five to one or worse, do not actually commit mass suicide. They do sometimes, it turns out, accidentally kill themselves in large numbers because their instinct to migrate in order to mate is so strong. To put it non scientifically, they sometimes don't look where they're going. There's a cliff. There's a cliff. Never mind. So the comp with Trump cultists still fits, just in a different way. Also of interest, here more news about another one of my axes. Nah, not that one, I know, not that one, the one between them, the one with the husband in trouble. Also, Jesse Bruno Waters and Steven Nosferatu Miller suggest men can attract the lady by wearing their Trump support on their sleeves. Maybe at Madison Square Garden. I'm not going to give my main joke away, but it rhymes. Well. Here's coincidence, it rhymes with Deutschland, Deutschland uber ales. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Alberman.

Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of iHeartRadio. I think Vladimir Putin just sent Trump to not very carefully coded messages and to borrow the stylings of Vice President Harris. One began with the letter F and the other began with the letter you. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskoff, as I assume you know, has confirmed to Bloomberg News that Bob Woodward's book is right that Trump did send tests and testing machines early in the COVID Nightmare of twenty twenty to Putin, but quoting Peskoff, but about the phone calls, it's not true. Putin just outed Trump as a liar twice in different direcrections, confirming what he wanted, denied denying what he wanted. Confirmed on Tuesday, Trump's spokesmodel Stephen Chung insisted the report that in the window that must have been between March thirty first and May seventh, twenty twenty, Trump took COVID tests meant for and desperately needed by Americans and sent them to Putin for Putin's personal use. He insisted that was just a story Woodward had made up. The Kremlin spokesman might as well have called the fatuous Chung a liar, and Trump with him. We thus know that Peskov's words also add to the logical extrapolation that somewhere an American must have died because Trump stole the test that might have saved him and diverted it instead to our greatest enemy in this world. The idea that it was just one American denied the test and denied his life that could have led to help that could have saved him. That thought is in fact Louter Chrisley small c Conservative at a time when ten thousand of US were dying per week because of Trump's utter mismanagement of and disinterest in the pandemic. Moscow's denial that Putin and Trump have spoken in the last four years, meanwhile, the estimate from Woodward's source was seven times, also paints Trump as a liar. It was Trump, after all, who insisted to the world in the debate with President Biden that he spoke to Putin about Ukraine after this nation's withdrawal from Afghanistan in August twenty twenty one, but before Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February twenty twenty two, it was Trump who name dropped Putin while ushering an aid out of his office at Merrik Krapshak earlier this year, according to Woodward, insisting he had to have a private call with the Russian dictator just to dig Trump's metaphorical grave on this a little deeper. Here comes j to the rescue of Trump's post presidency dialogue with Putin. Jd Vance says, quote, even if it's true, is there something wrong with speaking to world leaders? No? Is there anything wrong with engaging in diplomacy unquote Obviously not if you're a diplomat, if you are an elected official of the United States, if you are not violating the Logan Act by freelancing in international affairs, especially if you're contradicting American policy, which Trump not only confesses to daily but boasts about. Trump is not some sort of international statesman nor American spokesman at this point. He's a guy selling bibles on TV. But the Logan Act isn't the point here, and not just because it is a toothless law that has never resulted in a successful prosecution, and has not even resulted in an unsuccessful prosecution since the year eighteen fifty two. As Aaron Blake usefully notes in The Washington Post, throughout his time occupying the White House, Trump continuously accused Barack Obama's second term Secretary of State John Kerry of speaking to Iran and continuously insisted Carrie was breaking the law when he did so, and continuously pressured his own Department of Justice to prosecute Carrie. And while that DOJ managed to stall Trump, it did investigate Carrie while Trump and his dirigible Mike Pompeo kept up public pressure. In September twenty eighteen, Pompeo said Carry was undermining US policy and he called it unseemly and unprecedented. Almost simultaneously, Trump wrote John Kerrey had illegal meetings with the very hostile Iranian regime. The next May, Trump said Carry should be prosecuted on that. In March twenty twenty, Trump literally accused Carrie of violating the Logan Act. So Trump says he's done the same thing he tried to get Trump prosecuted for, only with Vladimir Effing Putin, and Vance is vague about whether or not it happens, but says it would be fine if Trump has kept talking to the dictator and Putin's spokesman says it never happened, and Trump's minions deny he sent Putent COVID tests, and putin spokesman says, yeah, he did too. And this matters not only because it is added to that list of events that proves Trump has no connection to morality or reality or patriotism, but maybe more importantly, it really is a reminder in public from Putin to Trump as to who owns whom. Trump continuously drops Putin's name as if they are buddies. Who knows, maybe they met at mass murdering dictator night school, and he keeps doing it as if such references somehow helped Trump's image with thinking Americans. I think Putin, by confirming what Trump denied and denying what Trump can firmed, is reminding Trump you should only speak when you are spoken to. Kamala Harris has raised one billion dollars since becoming the Democratic presidential candidate. Is that a lot in retrospect? The corruption and cash before Citizens United was the good old days? But somebody is going to raise a billion dollars in just eighty one days if somebody is in position to buy the election with saturation advertising and get out the vote efforts. You want it to be your candidate billion dollars more than a billion in fact, per the New York Times sources, is more than Trump has raised in all of twenty twenty four. Harris's figure is just since the afternoon of July twenty first most fastest two polls of note yesterday you Gov for The Economist National closed Tuesday. Harris forty nine, Trump forty five. And that is with Trump's Stoog's, Stein and West in the mix, Harris by four. But far more interesting something done by a new polster called Blueprint for the website The Bulwark. It polled Republicans and independents who had supported Nikki Hayley, and Trump is only getting forty five percent of them, and Kamala Harris is getting thirty six percent of them. Lemming's gonna Lemming, of course, But the interesting number here is that in the twenty twenty election, these same voters had gone for Trump by fifty nine to twenty eight. Trump won them the disaffected Republicans by thirty one points. In twenty twenty, he is winning them by just nine points. Now. Haley's support in the Republican primaries this year was twenty percent of the vote's cast, just under four million, four hundred thousand votes. If the polling numbers are correct, and this is obviously a vast oversimplification, I mean, the polling numbers don't even account for nearly a fifth of Haley's supporters who are apparently undecided. But if it's even vaguely correct, just for context, just for a ballpark figure, it would mean that out of four million, four hundred thousand Republicans and independents in this subset, Trump is only getting a net total of three hundred and twenty thousand votes out of four point four million. Any poll which suggests that more than one third of any subset of Republican voters is voting for Kamala Harris is not just an important poll, but a goddamned important poll. The other headlines Trump Again, Kitty kittied out of the second debate with Harris, and by the end of his social media post, he apparently thought he was writing some kind of business letter, because his last sentence reads, quote, thank you for your attention to this matter. I don't know Trump got laughed at on one podcast. Sure you heard that. It was like when it happened at the United Nations. He clearly convinced himself they were laughing with him. They were chanting boomp. On a different podcast, Trump claimed nine hundred million people saw his interview with Elon Musk. By next week it'll be nine hundred billion, or that may be what Musk claims. Rumors continue to fly that Leon really does think he can get into the white He parasitically that he will run the government while Trump is just the front man. You may have noticed by this point that I'm not particularly fond of Trump, but between the two of them, Trump is the smarter one. If Musk thinks that Trump will let him actually run anything. Also, it's been confirmed Trump's special Bibles the only ones that fit the head of the Oklahoma State school Boards requirement for the mandatory Bibles in public schools in Oklahoma. They are made in China, China. They cost three dollars to make and here your price, just fifty nine ninety nine. Those are the sort of things that eventually send people to jail and more evidence. That's funny now because it shows how stupid Trump is and how he never learns, not even from public heath amiliation, but is also ominous because at underscores his knee jerk reaction to criticism, which is to prosecute it. Trump again insisted, and I believe the first time he insisted it was in twenty eleven or twenty twelve, that television news organizations all have licenses and that the licenses can be revoked. This time it's sixty minutes and CBS, and as usual, it is as if he's heard the criticism of him somewhere in the background, in this case criticism of the same washing of his increasingly incoherent language, and assumed they couldn't be talking about him, they have to be talking about somebody else. Quote. I've never seen this before, but the producers of sixty minutes sliced and diced parentheses, cut and pasted Kamala's answers to questions which were virtually incoherent, over and over again, some by as many as four times in a single sentence or thought, all in an effort possibly illegal as part of the news division which must be licensed to make her look more presidential or at least better. It may also be a major campaign finance violation. This is a stain on the reputation of sixty minutes that is not recoverable. It will always remain with this one storied brand. I have never heard of such a thing being done in news. It is the very definition of fake news. The public is out of major in immediate apology, like a major apology, please and a major award. This is an open and shutcase and must be investigated starting today. That's the great sixty minutes brand that he backed out of the interview with. There are no news licenses. You don't need one. No license for your pet fish Eric either. One assumes this starts somewhere in the nineteen fifties when young, somewhat less crazy Donnie Trump finds out that individual television and radio stations are licensed by the government to operate over public airwaves. And since he never grows intellectually beyond that point, he thinks that the license's CBS owns to operate Channel two in New York and Channel two in LA and Channel sixty two in Detroit are somehow news licenses. But then again, if Trump actually understood what was happening, given the clumsiness of our nation in defending itself against him, we would be in real danger. Even in an America in which Trump's all too obvious affection for Hitler and the Nazis is actually exceeded by the psychoses of so many of his supporters, it would seem to be obvious that the last thing that even pro Nazi trumpest idiots would want to do would be to invoke February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine was the day when at the previous Madison Square Garden at eighth Avenue and fiftieth Street, also nowhere near Madison Square, the German American Bund held a rally, and twenty thousand showed up for a thinly veiled American Nazi rally, complete with a giant image of George Washington surrounded by swastikas. The problem was, of course, that the event was so close to the media nerve centers of nineteen thirty nine that coverage was everywhere radio, every newsreel, every imaginable way of communicating the news, and much of the nation the next day became newly aware that there were twenty thousand Nazis in New York. More impressively was that part of the nation that did not become newly aware the garden was night surrounded by one hundred thousand anti Nazi protesters who three times nearly broke lines, manned by just under twenty five hundred police. As it was, the Nazi image in New York received fatal damage when a former Navy officer now Plumber's assistant named Isidore Greenbaum sneaked inside the garden and, able to contain his rage no longer, rushed the stage all by himself, him versus nineteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine Nazis who did not know what to do next, and after a few flailed punches at Greenbaum, a handful of police stopped all of them pulled Greenbaum out. He was uninjured and fined twenty five dollars. With that as the history of pro fascism and pro despotism and pro Nazism in New York City at Madison Square Garden, what have Trump and Garden and New York Knicks and Rangers owner James Dolan Dunn, They have scheduled a Trump Nazi rally on October twenty seventh at Madison Square Garden. They hope to get twenty thousand people exactly as many as attended the German American bund Swastikafest on February twentieth, nineteen thirty nine. The means of ticket distribution is unclear. If it is like previous Trump rallies, it could easily be sabotaged by phony registrations or even swamped by counter protesters who managed to fake their way inside. Apart from the impact on Dolan's sports teams, I mean, he's got a lot of authoritarian white trash running the hockey franchise, but I'm beginning to think the Knicks players may not be happy about sharing their building with the ever increasingly racist Trump. Apart from that, there is the second half of the nineteen thirty nine disaster that Trump and especially this idiot clown Dolan need to think about, and think about real hard, in time to cancel this thing before it is too late for them. Twenty thousand inside, with five times as many outside Madison Square Garden waiting for them. Oh and compared to the old Madison Square Garden at eighth and fiftieth, the new Madison Square Garden sitting atop Penn Station, has far more open room and space to stand around and wait in. And good luck to you James Dolan. Maybe he'll open for Trump by singing, and then most of the twenty thousand people will leave and there won't be trouble. By the way to clear up a previous point and make a new one with the same topic, Lemmings like Trump idiots showing up in the heart of Manhattan without thinking they may be out numbered five to one or worse, do not actually commit mass suicide. They do sometimes, it turns out, accidentally kill themselves in large numbers because their instinct to migrate in order to mate is so strong. To put it non scientifically, they sometimes don't look where they're going. There's a cliff. There's a cliff. Never mind. So the comp with Trump cultists still fits, just in a different way. Also of interest, here more news about another one of my axes. Nah, not that one, I know, not that one, the one between them, the one with the husband in trouble. Also, Jesse Bruno Waters and Steven Nosferatu Miller suggest men can attract the lady by wearing their Trump support on their sleeves. Maybe at Madison Square Garden. I'm not going to give my main joke away, but it rhymes. Well. Here's coincidence, it rhymes with Deutschland, Deutschland uber ales. That's next. This is countdown. This is countdown with Keith Alberman.

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From Sports Central centered newsdesk Tonight Dateline, New York, twenty twenty four. Lester Patrick Award for Service to Hockey in the United States No. Of America goes to Sam Rosen for being my first boss. I mean, I know that very few people besides Sam could have survived being my first boss. But still a major award for that. Oh. Actually, it goes to the individual who has done the most to grow hockey in this country, and Sam who has been the voice of the New York Rangers so long that when he was my first boss a mere forty five years ago, he had already been the backup play by play announcer for the Rangers for two years, got the TV job full time in nineteen eighty four and has been doing it ever since, and is scheduled to retire at the end of the season.

From Sports Central centered newsdesk Tonight Dateline, New York, twenty twenty four. Lester Patrick Award for Service to Hockey in the United States No. Of America goes to Sam Rosen for being my first boss. I mean, I know that very few people besides Sam could have survived being my first boss. But still a major award for that. Oh. Actually, it goes to the individual who has done the most to grow hockey in this country, and Sam who has been the voice of the New York Rangers so long that when he was my first boss a mere forty five years ago, he had already been the backup play by play announcer for the Rangers for two years, got the TV job full time in nineteen eighty four and has been doing it ever since, and is scheduled to retire at the end of the season.

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I'll believe that when I see it. Lester Patrick. Meanwhile, who began playing big time hockey in nineteen oh four, helped start the sport on the West Coast and was the first coach of the Rangers in nineteen twenty six. Famous in Game two of the nineteen twenty eight Stanley Cup Finals, the Rangers goaltender was knocked cold by a shot and there were no backups in those days, so Lester Patrick, at age forty three and having never been a goalie in his life, donned the unconscious goalies uniform and played goal for the rest of the game. The Rangers won that game in overtime against the Montreal Maroons and then went on to win their first Stanley Cup. Coincidentally, Sam broadcast that legendary Lester Patrick game in nineteen twenty eight on radio, and Leicester was Sam's first color man with the range Wait. I think that No, that's that's it. That's it, sorry, Sam, That's that's a typo. I think it's a typo. Congratulations, Samola still ahead of us on this initiative countdown. Following this Tony da Koppel's story, It's CBS. He attacks an author during an interview and CBS News is ready to suspend him or fire him or something, and then the owner of CBS says no, I like the interview, and she talks to him directly, and the next thing you know, there's a recording of the meeting with his bosses yelling at him, and that goes public. And so everything over there at CBS News is an fing mess. You may know this, maybe you don't. I haven't seen it mentioned a lot. You know who Tony Diacoppel's wife is, right, well, yes, you're correct. The odds are six to five that whoever it is, it's one of my exes. And if you place that bet in this case, you won. Because he's married to Katie terror And when Katie Urr first asked me to write her Trump book for her, and when I said, we'd never get away with that, people would recognize how I wrote. When the book finally came out, she essentially erased me from it, and later told me she had done so so she would not anger her new husband, Tony Dakoppel. Honestly, if my exes continue to make this much news, I'm gonna have to assign them uniform numbers. The Katie book story coming up in More Things I Promised not to tell, should give them numbers number one hundred and seventy four. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Donning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst person in the world, the Brons. Maria Bartiromo the stupidest person in America. It's one thing to deny facts every day, to say up is down, to lie and propagandize and make Tokyo rows look like Edward Armoureau. To sell your soul for I don't know. I don't know what she gets out of it. Shoes, I don't know what she gets out of it. She's on Fox Business. It doesn't pay as well as the original Fox crack channel. I don't know what she gets out of it. But beyond all that, to get owned again and again on your own show by your own guests, even the ones from your own Nazi party who are supposed to be there helping you bullshit America day after day? How is she possible? Maria Bartiromo says, condescension dripping from her nose, that FEMA is out of money, reading a list of complaints against the administration off the teleprompter in front of her as her guest, The Republican Congressman French Hill, and what the f kind of name is that? Nods? She repeats, how is FEMA out of money? Which is when Congressman Hill snaps and Congressman Hill, a Republican, says FEMA is out of money. I can't show you this. This is a podcast and that's video. But Maria Bartiromo was so shocked by the unauthorized truth from french Hill that her eyes and eyebrows shot up so fast her fake eyelashes fell off. The runner up worser, Senator Marco Rubio. That's Mark Rubio, the Mitt Romney of Maria Bartiromo's. This is why spending the entirety of your wasted time in the Senate quietly sowing the seeds of doubt that anything a Democrat says could be true, that anything the federal government says must be a lie. Why that's going to wind up not just killing innocent people, but killing many of the people who voted for you. Last Friday, Marco Rubio responded to the government monthly employment data release by writing, quote, another fake jobs report out from the Biden Harris government today. All the fake numbers in the world aren't going to fool people. Unquote, I'm actually a US Senator, despite my behavior suggesting I'm something closer to a lunatic. When the President came back at Marco Rubio for lying like that, Rubio doubled down on his allegations that it was a fake jobs report out of the government. Then suddenly Marco Rubio's feed turned into please to Floridians to follow what the government says. Do what the government says. Follow government instructions to the letter. Get out of Florida. There's a hurricane, Well, why would they do that. On Friday, he's telling them the government lies to them all the time and all government information is fake. On Monday, he's telling them, well except for right now. Last April this torp Rubio issued a press release praising his own op ed at the Federalist site, which is itself devoted to telling everybody that the government is lying to them. The press release begins quote icee y am I. Rubio takes on elites for defending the deep state. Elites love the deep state because they loathe the American people. US Senator Marco Rubio are Florida that are for Rubio. It comes as no surprise that America is self proclaimed newspaper of record, is leading the charge to defend the deep state left wing elites. This is all the press release. Left wing elites want to protect the deep state because it shields them from accountability as they pursue their own agendas. That's four uses of the deep state and three different references to the elites at the start of his press release, and Rubio insisting to his constituents that those people the government loathe the American people quote unquote, but he thinks his voters will be smart enough to listen and do what the government says. Just about hurricanes, Marco, how smart could your constituents be, after all, they voted for you as a worser. Adjacent there's Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who insists all efforts to make new homes environmentally sound and all new construction more suited to the climate crisis, those are a Biden plot to raise prices so that Chinese can make more money. Now she's urging residents to evacuate, but she's still including her own psychosis in which she says that all of this is being done so FEMA can spend its money on immigrants also, Anna Paulina's real name is Meyerhoffer, right jorm Is Meyerhoffer, and her German grandfather was literally drafted into the Nazi air force, the Wehrmacht. But you're supposed to believe her and Rubio and the government now, not last week, and certainly not next week. It's funny, it's stupid. They are stupid. They could disappear tomorrow and nobody would know that Rubio or Ana Paulina Motherhoffer are gone. But there is tragedy in this and it will be too late to do anything about it when these idiots get some of their own constituents killed and still they're not the winners. The winners Stephen Nosferatu Miller from the Trump campaign and Jesse Eraser head Waters from the other Trump campaign Fox News Miller, who looks kind of like a flat Stanley, only more like he was made out of construction paper, and who genuinely resembles Max Shrek, the German actor who played Count Orlock in the silent film horror classic Nosferatu, a sympa of horror. You know, Miller all the parts of Trump's speeches that have sentences that each feature a noun a verb and a threat against minorities. Miller wrote those. Miller comes on Waters show, and if you're looking for an entertainment comp for him, Waters is the great Eugene Levy as Doctor Tungue's assistant Bruno in SCTV. You know, John Candy is Doctor Tungue in Doctor Tungue's Three D House of Cats, in Doctor Tongue's three D House of Stewardesses and Doctor Tungue's three the House of Pancakes. His assistant in this Eugene Levy is Bruno. That's who Waters looks like. All right, So preamble mercifully over and scene set. Miller comes on and Waters greets him with this quote. We have to address the elephant of the room. We're getting a lot of texts from women about Steven Miller. Our audience believes you are some sort of sexual matador. Quota, Wait, some sort of sexual matador? You mean a bowld gorge Stephen Miller in the genitals. Anyway, Steven Miller is loving this because both of these men are very, very odd, and I don't know about their personal lives, and I don't care about their personal lives, and I don't want to know about their personal lives. But if you are looking for people about whom you will someday hear, nobody in our family knew anything about his so called hobby. These are two first round draft choices for you, Miller and Waters. Anyway, so Water says this about sexual matadors, and Steven Miller, almost drooling, replies to Jesse Waters some advice to any young man out there. If you are a young man who is looking to impress the Laneys, to be the alpha, to be attractive, the best thing you can do is where your Trump support on your sleeve. Show that you are a real man, Show that you are not a betta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter, and your dating life will be fantastic. And yes, he pronounced it as beta, as in better get a bucket, I'm gonna throw up. But setting that aside for a moment, let's reexamine Steven Miller's answer there where your Trump support on your sleeve? Let's see what is it that the fascists and the Trumpists and the Republicans and the original Nazis would wear on their sleeves to show their support for their fewer oh right. Red armbands with Swatsikas Jesse. I like matadors, they wear tight pants. Waters and Stephen, there your Trump support on your sleeve. The armband goes with any attire. Miller two Days Worst Persons in the World. On January twenty second, twenty seventeen, Katie Urr of MSNBC asked me to write her Trump book for her. She was serious, and there are receipts. I'll get back to the bookstory, but first, Since last spring, when her second book came out, I have read story after story that boiled down to one of the headlines I read that was Katie Terr's relationship with Keith Olberman haunted her. Now, the articles have not been overtly negative, except in a passive aggressive sense, although try out that headline on yourself there and see if you like to be described as haunting someone. But she wrote a book claiming that many experiences, somehow, including the time she lived with me, hurt and slowed and limited her career. So all this time I have remained silent about the nearly three years she and I lived together and the eight years after that, during which I remained her good and loyal friend. And I have remained silent even though the day she moved into my place in New York, she expected a New York TV station would hire her with no experience and no audition tape. And I have remained silent about how her father, whom she has never stopped trashing, sent her ten thousand dollars worth of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started. And I have remained silent about how I pushed her to not just sit there staring at all that equipment her dad sent, but to use it to go cover stories so she could at least make a tape. And I have remained silent even though once she didn't like something I told her and she immediately said she was thinking of calling the New York Post gossip page and telling them terrible things about me. And I have remained silent that after I asked her to move out, I paid her rent at a new apartment for a year so she could keep working and living in New York. And I have remained silent even though I paid off her college loans, and when she complained that every time you googled her name, you've also got my name. I loaned her the money to hire a company that altered her Google results, and I have remained silent, even though I introduced her to her first agent and to all the people who hired her at News twelve and WPIX and WNBC and NBC News. And I have remained silent, even though when she happened to be assigned to Trump's campaign announcement and Trump knew who she was because when we lived together, it was in one of these Trump buildings here and she got to do the last great actual interview with him, and NBC promptly offered her the chance to be its reporter on his campaign. She called me and said, no, I'm going back to London. I don't like politics. You know that I was the one who told her she was nuts and this wasn't politics, dark terrible history in progress, and she sighed and said, fine, okay, send me some books about it. And I have remained silent, even though she sent me nearly all of her scripts for her NBC News stories, including her Trump campaign coverage in twenty sixteen, and I edited nearly every one of them, and several times I had to completely rewrite them for her. And I have remained silent even though when her father announced he was transitioning. The friend she called up in hysterics was me, and I have remained silent, even though she twice lied to reporters and editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post, telling them she had asked me on their behalf to do interviews with them about her. And I have remained silent, even though she lied to them that I had declined the interviews. And I have remained silent even those six days after my emergency appendectomy in two thousand and seven, she started punching and slapping me with real intent to do harm because the living room wasn't clean enough in our place, And exactly do you even try to defend yourself against a woman one hundred and twenty five pounds lighter and a foot shorter than you. So yesterday I'm reading stories about her husband getting a massectomy, and I'm sitting there waiting to see how she managed to make this one my fault. When Katie's first book came out, she reduced our entire history to a throwaway anecdote defending Kelly Ann Conway. The story described me as somebody she had dated briefly in her twenties. After the book came out and frankly and calmly, I don't know for certain who wrote her first book. I mean, people who can't write suddenly can find their muse. It's possible she wrote it and her other books too. But after the first book came out that dismissed three or years of our shared life as dating briefly in her twenties, I told her she had been awful to me, and she replied, I'm sorry. You're right, I'm a terrible person, and it is the last thing we discussed. I told her I would not communicate with her again, and I have not, nor have I spoken about her publicly. But I do keep wondering about that book. I still have a text from her from nine to fourteen PM on December eleventh, twenty sixteen, after she had signed her contract for her book, which became unbelievable an ironic title. It reads, do you still want to share your Trump doc with me? Doc? Here? Meaning my trove of documents, my hundreds of pages of Trump notes that I had kept for use in my GQ video series. And I joked back, sure, how much? And she joked back ten twenty dollars and I emailed it all to her for free that night, with only one request, don't leave me out of your acknowledgments in the book. And guess what, she left me out of the acknowledgments in the book too. More than a month later, at two thirty five pm on Sunday, January twenty second, I had just returned home from Los Angeles and doing Bill Maher's show, and Katie Turr text me about why they had never invited her on, and then she switched topics to ask quote, want to write this book. I had taken a nap, so it was not until five thirty two that I replied, what, Well, you're not serious, how would that work? That's when she phoned. She was about to give the advance money back to the publisher. She said, I can't write a book. I'm like fifty thousand words short and it's terrible. I'll give you half the money. I'll give you more than half the money. I pointed out to her that I had written or rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC, and it was not a question of money. It was a question of what we could get away with no viewer and maybe only one executive in a million whatever. Notice that one sentence or one paragraph of script in her two minute report was actually written by me. First of all, she was the one saying it each time I wrote or rewrote in her name for NBC. It was a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody would ever think to look for, even though there is necessarily an email trail ten miles long. But writing a book for her about Trump in my writing style, not read aloud by her, but in print, I have a pretty distinct writing style which I don't think I could ever sufficiently hide for more than about seventeen words at a stretch. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might cancel it or even sue, or if it got published, NBC might notice it and fire her. It was not just a bad idea for her and very dubious ethically, but it stood an excellent chance of destroying her career and damaging mine. Maybe. She said, Okay, you're right, And she told me she was going to talk it over with her boyfriend Tony from CBS that night, and her thought was to give back the advance and cancel the book. And I said ghostwriter, maybe, And she said, like who? And I said I had no idea. I tried to joke her out of these grim prospects by reminding her that at least for the several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, I had cut the price to no dollars and no cents. And anyway, the next thing I knew the book was published. There isn't a paragraph of it that reads like the rest of her writing, and I get reduced in it from the guy she lived with for three years who started her career, to somebody she dated briefly in her twenties, and the dark half of an anecdote defending Kelly Ann freaking con job. I will say, I think the things I glossed over before about the New York Times and Washington Post were genuinely deplorable. The thing about the Post. First, a Washington Post reporter I'd known for more than a decade named Paul Farhee called me up and asked me to do an interview with him about Katie. And I had my doubts, As I said to Paul, this is at least a little sexist. When I broke through at MSNBC in nineteen ninety eight, nobody called up one of my girlfriends, even the ones in the business, to ask one of them about me. This was an unfair gradient for her or any woman that the first thing a reporter or just somebody googling her brought up or found was her boyfriend or ex boyfriend, especially me. It is utter misogyny. In fact, on the other hand, there could be a calculation in which it is useful to Katie if I do the interview and amplify the publicity. It is also one of the things I had warned her about literally the day we started dating, and in fact I reminded her of it the night of the first real date at an Al Gore book event at the Museum of Natural History in New York in the whale room. Sure enough, I went from the whale room to the men's room for a moment. While I was out, an online gossip clown who had been following us around went over and pretended he knew her or something. And when I got back, she was bubbling over telling me she'd met a friend of a friend and told him all about us. And I asked if she had remembered my warning, and she obviously had not. And quote Katie Turr, new girlfriend of Keith Olderman was online before we got home, so when she found there was a way to scrub your Google searches so every time somebody plugged in her name, they would not also get Keith Olderman's girlfriend or Keith Olderman's ex girlfriend. As I said, I helped her pay to use that service. I get it. The sexism prevails. Maybe it'll go away someday, maybe it won't. So anyway, when Farhee of the Post called me up, I called Katie. She said she thought it was sexist, and anyway, she wasn't participating with the Post's story on her, and it would really help if I did not do so either. So I declined the interview, and a week later there in the Washington Post was a big feature on Katie to her because guess what, she did participate with it after all, complete interview and worst yet, she told Farhee that she had encouraged me to do the interview with him, so he put it in the paper that I declined to be interviewed, so I looked like an idiot. And another thing, I'm not mad, Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad. I called her up and I yelled at her, and she apologized, and she promised she would not do anything like that ever again, and then she promptly did something even worse. A month or two later, the New York Times article comes out. It is a huge profile of her, I think in the magazine or a weekend edition, and in it, mister Olberman refused to be interviewed for this story. This is a complete surprise to me. I didn't even recognize the writer's name. I found her contact info and I reached out to her and said, have we ever spoken? And she says no, And I say emails texts, and she says no. And then I say, then, when did I refuse to be interviewed for your Katie Turr article for the New York Times. And she says, oh, I asked Katie Turr to ask you, and Katie Turr asked you, and you told Katie Terr you refused to be interviewed. And I said, none of that happened. And there is a long silence on the end of the phone, and then the writer says, let me call the editor to take that part out. And the Times changed the online version of why I didn't do the interview, although they do not note that they changed it, and I later got a note from a Times editor apologizing she just lied to this reporter from the Times. Just lied. Oh, I'll call him and ask oh, he told me he doesn't want to talk to you about me. Just lied. And I just sat there, and I know, very unlike me, I have to say, I was actually too angry to do anything anyway. As I mentioned, Katie Turr published another book this year, and a lot of the publicity was about how I haunted her and she had to go to great lengths to separate her career from mine, even as she keeps mentioning me, and even though she asked me in dead seriousness to write the first book for her. The book, the second one, is mostly about all the impediments and roadblocks she has faced, while what's the word forging her career? But I will add this last point and then drop the subject. I hope forever. For forty three years full time, I have done this and counting college, it's God help me forty seven years. And throughout that stretch, I have tried to acknowledge anybody and everybody who helped me in my career, even the ones I don't like, even people who are totally utterly politically opposed to me. I still think fondly of Stuart Varney from Fox News, because he taught me, when I was right up against it one night, how to use a teleprompter. I'll always cherish the memory of working with Stuart Varney. He was such a help to me. Politically, we could have a duel, but of course, as I said, the dynamic is different. Still, her book is about people who hindered her, and almost none of it is about people who helped her. She is rapidly turning into a kind of professional martyrdom. I saw this in its earliest stages sixteen years ago, and she is now going from making it martyrdom into a brand. And I'll say this lastly and sincerely. If your story of your career is all about people you think held you back, and not even mostly about the people who bent over backwards to help you along, that is all just very very sad. Okay, I just have to say this. For like three weeks it was Olivia Week. For the last week it's been Katie Week. Are we going to have another week of Katie Week? One of the lawyers coming back in the Olivia case Is the FBI going to get involved? Is the FBI going to get involved in the Katie case? Are they going to be the same agents? Will I know any of them? Because they had something to do with my fake anthrax sender who sent me antracks when Katie was living with me from California. Wait a minute, Okay, I just had to vent that. You date a lot. This is what happens. And I didn't even have to wear my Trump support on my sleeve like Stephen Miller if that is your real name. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. No, Anna, Paulina Luna's grandfather really was a Nazi Wehrmacht remember drafted. Nevertheless, Plea, I've done all the damage I can do here, Thank you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern, and please follow me for the podcast promo videos on TikTok YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, and institube. 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I'll believe that when I see it. Lester Patrick. Meanwhile, who began playing big time hockey in nineteen oh four, helped start the sport on the West Coast and was the first coach of the Rangers in nineteen twenty six. Famous in Game two of the nineteen twenty eight Stanley Cup Finals, the Rangers goaltender was knocked cold by a shot and there were no backups in those days, so Lester Patrick, at age forty three and having never been a goalie in his life, donned the unconscious goalies uniform and played goal for the rest of the game. The Rangers won that game in overtime against the Montreal Maroons and then went on to win their first Stanley Cup. Coincidentally, Sam broadcast that legendary Lester Patrick game in nineteen twenty eight on radio, and Leicester was Sam's first color man with the range Wait. I think that No, that's that's it. That's it, sorry, Sam, That's that's a typo. I think it's a typo. Congratulations, Samola still ahead of us on this initiative countdown. Following this Tony da Koppel's story, It's CBS. He attacks an author during an interview and CBS News is ready to suspend him or fire him or something, and then the owner of CBS says no, I like the interview, and she talks to him directly, and the next thing you know, there's a recording of the meeting with his bosses yelling at him, and that goes public. And so everything over there at CBS News is an fing mess. You may know this, maybe you don't. I haven't seen it mentioned a lot. You know who Tony Diacoppel's wife is, right, well, yes, you're correct. The odds are six to five that whoever it is, it's one of my exes. And if you place that bet in this case, you won. Because he's married to Katie terror And when Katie Urr first asked me to write her Trump book for her, and when I said, we'd never get away with that, people would recognize how I wrote. When the book finally came out, she essentially erased me from it, and later told me she had done so so she would not anger her new husband, Tony Dakoppel. Honestly, if my exes continue to make this much news, I'm gonna have to assign them uniform numbers. The Katie book story coming up in More Things I Promised not to tell, should give them numbers number one hundred and seventy four. First, there are still more new idiots to talk about. The daily roundup of the miss Grants, morons and Donning Kruger effects specimens who constitute today's worst person in the world, the Brons. Maria Bartiromo the stupidest person in America. It's one thing to deny facts every day, to say up is down, to lie and propagandize and make Tokyo rows look like Edward Armoureau. To sell your soul for I don't know. I don't know what she gets out of it. Shoes, I don't know what she gets out of it. She's on Fox Business. It doesn't pay as well as the original Fox crack channel. I don't know what she gets out of it. But beyond all that, to get owned again and again on your own show by your own guests, even the ones from your own Nazi party who are supposed to be there helping you bullshit America day after day? How is she possible? Maria Bartiromo says, condescension dripping from her nose, that FEMA is out of money, reading a list of complaints against the administration off the teleprompter in front of her as her guest, The Republican Congressman French Hill, and what the f kind of name is that? Nods? She repeats, how is FEMA out of money? Which is when Congressman Hill snaps and Congressman Hill, a Republican, says FEMA is out of money. I can't show you this. This is a podcast and that's video. But Maria Bartiromo was so shocked by the unauthorized truth from french Hill that her eyes and eyebrows shot up so fast her fake eyelashes fell off. The runner up worser, Senator Marco Rubio. That's Mark Rubio, the Mitt Romney of Maria Bartiromo's. This is why spending the entirety of your wasted time in the Senate quietly sowing the seeds of doubt that anything a Democrat says could be true, that anything the federal government says must be a lie. Why that's going to wind up not just killing innocent people, but killing many of the people who voted for you. Last Friday, Marco Rubio responded to the government monthly employment data release by writing, quote, another fake jobs report out from the Biden Harris government today. All the fake numbers in the world aren't going to fool people. Unquote, I'm actually a US Senator, despite my behavior suggesting I'm something closer to a lunatic. When the President came back at Marco Rubio for lying like that, Rubio doubled down on his allegations that it was a fake jobs report out of the government. Then suddenly Marco Rubio's feed turned into please to Floridians to follow what the government says. Do what the government says. Follow government instructions to the letter. Get out of Florida. There's a hurricane, Well, why would they do that. On Friday, he's telling them the government lies to them all the time and all government information is fake. On Monday, he's telling them, well except for right now. Last April this torp Rubio issued a press release praising his own op ed at the Federalist site, which is itself devoted to telling everybody that the government is lying to them. The press release begins quote icee y am I. Rubio takes on elites for defending the deep state. Elites love the deep state because they loathe the American people. US Senator Marco Rubio are Florida that are for Rubio. It comes as no surprise that America is self proclaimed newspaper of record, is leading the charge to defend the deep state left wing elites. This is all the press release. Left wing elites want to protect the deep state because it shields them from accountability as they pursue their own agendas. That's four uses of the deep state and three different references to the elites at the start of his press release, and Rubio insisting to his constituents that those people the government loathe the American people quote unquote, but he thinks his voters will be smart enough to listen and do what the government says. Just about hurricanes, Marco, how smart could your constituents be, after all, they voted for you as a worser. Adjacent there's Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who insists all efforts to make new homes environmentally sound and all new construction more suited to the climate crisis, those are a Biden plot to raise prices so that Chinese can make more money. Now she's urging residents to evacuate, but she's still including her own psychosis in which she says that all of this is being done so FEMA can spend its money on immigrants also, Anna Paulina's real name is Meyerhoffer, right jorm Is Meyerhoffer, and her German grandfather was literally drafted into the Nazi air force, the Wehrmacht. But you're supposed to believe her and Rubio and the government now, not last week, and certainly not next week. It's funny, it's stupid. They are stupid. They could disappear tomorrow and nobody would know that Rubio or Ana Paulina Motherhoffer are gone. But there is tragedy in this and it will be too late to do anything about it when these idiots get some of their own constituents killed and still they're not the winners. The winners Stephen Nosferatu Miller from the Trump campaign and Jesse Eraser head Waters from the other Trump campaign Fox News Miller, who looks kind of like a flat Stanley, only more like he was made out of construction paper, and who genuinely resembles Max Shrek, the German actor who played Count Orlock in the silent film horror classic Nosferatu, a sympa of horror. You know, Miller all the parts of Trump's speeches that have sentences that each feature a noun a verb and a threat against minorities. Miller wrote those. Miller comes on Waters show, and if you're looking for an entertainment comp for him, Waters is the great Eugene Levy as Doctor Tungue's assistant Bruno in SCTV. You know, John Candy is Doctor Tungue in Doctor Tungue's Three D House of Cats, in Doctor Tongue's three D House of Stewardesses and Doctor Tungue's three the House of Pancakes. His assistant in this Eugene Levy is Bruno. That's who Waters looks like. All right, So preamble mercifully over and scene set. Miller comes on and Waters greets him with this quote. We have to address the elephant of the room. We're getting a lot of texts from women about Steven Miller. Our audience believes you are some sort of sexual matador. Quota, Wait, some sort of sexual matador? You mean a bowld gorge Stephen Miller in the genitals. Anyway, Steven Miller is loving this because both of these men are very, very odd, and I don't know about their personal lives, and I don't care about their personal lives, and I don't want to know about their personal lives. But if you are looking for people about whom you will someday hear, nobody in our family knew anything about his so called hobby. These are two first round draft choices for you, Miller and Waters. Anyway, so Water says this about sexual matadors, and Steven Miller, almost drooling, replies to Jesse Waters some advice to any young man out there. If you are a young man who is looking to impress the Laneys, to be the alpha, to be attractive, the best thing you can do is where your Trump support on your sleeve. Show that you are a real man, Show that you are not a betta. Be a proud and loud Trump supporter, and your dating life will be fantastic. And yes, he pronounced it as beta, as in better get a bucket, I'm gonna throw up. But setting that aside for a moment, let's reexamine Steven Miller's answer there where your Trump support on your sleeve? Let's see what is it that the fascists and the Trumpists and the Republicans and the original Nazis would wear on their sleeves to show their support for their fewer oh right. Red armbands with Swatsikas Jesse. I like matadors, they wear tight pants. Waters and Stephen, there your Trump support on your sleeve. The armband goes with any attire. Miller two Days Worst Persons in the World. On January twenty second, twenty seventeen, Katie Urr of MSNBC asked me to write her Trump book for her. She was serious, and there are receipts. I'll get back to the bookstory, but first, Since last spring, when her second book came out, I have read story after story that boiled down to one of the headlines I read that was Katie Terr's relationship with Keith Olberman haunted her. Now, the articles have not been overtly negative, except in a passive aggressive sense, although try out that headline on yourself there and see if you like to be described as haunting someone. But she wrote a book claiming that many experiences, somehow, including the time she lived with me, hurt and slowed and limited her career. So all this time I have remained silent about the nearly three years she and I lived together and the eight years after that, during which I remained her good and loyal friend. And I have remained silent even though the day she moved into my place in New York, she expected a New York TV station would hire her with no experience and no audition tape. And I have remained silent about how her father, whom she has never stopped trashing, sent her ten thousand dollars worth of cameras and editing equipment to help her get started. And I have remained silent about how I pushed her to not just sit there staring at all that equipment her dad sent, but to use it to go cover stories so she could at least make a tape. And I have remained silent even though once she didn't like something I told her and she immediately said she was thinking of calling the New York Post gossip page and telling them terrible things about me. And I have remained silent that after I asked her to move out, I paid her rent at a new apartment for a year so she could keep working and living in New York. And I have remained silent even though I paid off her college loans, and when she complained that every time you googled her name, you've also got my name. I loaned her the money to hire a company that altered her Google results, and I have remained silent, even though I introduced her to her first agent and to all the people who hired her at News twelve and WPIX and WNBC and NBC News. And I have remained silent, even though when she happened to be assigned to Trump's campaign announcement and Trump knew who she was because when we lived together, it was in one of these Trump buildings here and she got to do the last great actual interview with him, and NBC promptly offered her the chance to be its reporter on his campaign. She called me and said, no, I'm going back to London. I don't like politics. You know that I was the one who told her she was nuts and this wasn't politics, dark terrible history in progress, and she sighed and said, fine, okay, send me some books about it. And I have remained silent, even though she sent me nearly all of her scripts for her NBC News stories, including her Trump campaign coverage in twenty sixteen, and I edited nearly every one of them, and several times I had to completely rewrite them for her. And I have remained silent even though when her father announced he was transitioning. The friend she called up in hysterics was me, and I have remained silent, even though she twice lied to reporters and editors at The New York Times and The Washington Post, telling them she had asked me on their behalf to do interviews with them about her. And I have remained silent, even though she lied to them that I had declined the interviews. And I have remained silent even those six days after my emergency appendectomy in two thousand and seven, she started punching and slapping me with real intent to do harm because the living room wasn't clean enough in our place, And exactly do you even try to defend yourself against a woman one hundred and twenty five pounds lighter and a foot shorter than you. So yesterday I'm reading stories about her husband getting a massectomy, and I'm sitting there waiting to see how she managed to make this one my fault. When Katie's first book came out, she reduced our entire history to a throwaway anecdote defending Kelly Ann Conway. The story described me as somebody she had dated briefly in her twenties. After the book came out and frankly and calmly, I don't know for certain who wrote her first book. I mean, people who can't write suddenly can find their muse. It's possible she wrote it and her other books too. But after the first book came out that dismissed three or years of our shared life as dating briefly in her twenties, I told her she had been awful to me, and she replied, I'm sorry. You're right, I'm a terrible person, and it is the last thing we discussed. I told her I would not communicate with her again, and I have not, nor have I spoken about her publicly. But I do keep wondering about that book. I still have a text from her from nine to fourteen PM on December eleventh, twenty sixteen, after she had signed her contract for her book, which became unbelievable an ironic title. It reads, do you still want to share your Trump doc with me? Doc? Here? Meaning my trove of documents, my hundreds of pages of Trump notes that I had kept for use in my GQ video series. And I joked back, sure, how much? And she joked back ten twenty dollars and I emailed it all to her for free that night, with only one request, don't leave me out of your acknowledgments in the book. And guess what, she left me out of the acknowledgments in the book too. More than a month later, at two thirty five pm on Sunday, January twenty second, I had just returned home from Los Angeles and doing Bill Maher's show, and Katie Turr text me about why they had never invited her on, and then she switched topics to ask quote, want to write this book. I had taken a nap, so it was not until five thirty two that I replied, what, Well, you're not serious, how would that work? That's when she phoned. She was about to give the advance money back to the publisher. She said, I can't write a book. I'm like fifty thousand words short and it's terrible. I'll give you half the money. I'll give you more than half the money. I pointed out to her that I had written or rewritten dozens of her stories for NBC News and MSNBC, and it was not a question of money. It was a question of what we could get away with no viewer and maybe only one executive in a million whatever. Notice that one sentence or one paragraph of script in her two minute report was actually written by me. First of all, she was the one saying it each time I wrote or rewrote in her name for NBC. It was a fireable offense for her, but one that nobody would ever think to look for, even though there is necessarily an email trail ten miles long. But writing a book for her about Trump in my writing style, not read aloud by her, but in print, I have a pretty distinct writing style which I don't think I could ever sufficiently hide for more than about seventeen words at a stretch. Somebody would notice. Her publisher might cancel it or even sue, or if it got published, NBC might notice it and fire her. It was not just a bad idea for her and very dubious ethically, but it stood an excellent chance of destroying her career and damaging mine. Maybe. She said, Okay, you're right, And she told me she was going to talk it over with her boyfriend Tony from CBS that night, and her thought was to give back the advance and cancel the book. And I said ghostwriter, maybe, And she said, like who? And I said I had no idea. I tried to joke her out of these grim prospects by reminding her that at least for the several thousand dollars worth of research I gave her, I had cut the price to no dollars and no cents. And anyway, the next thing I knew the book was published. There isn't a paragraph of it that reads like the rest of her writing, and I get reduced in it from the guy she lived with for three years who started her career, to somebody she dated briefly in her twenties, and the dark half of an anecdote defending Kelly Ann freaking con job. I will say, I think the things I glossed over before about the New York Times and Washington Post were genuinely deplorable. The thing about the Post. First, a Washington Post reporter I'd known for more than a decade named Paul Farhee called me up and asked me to do an interview with him about Katie. And I had my doubts, As I said to Paul, this is at least a little sexist. When I broke through at MSNBC in nineteen ninety eight, nobody called up one of my girlfriends, even the ones in the business, to ask one of them about me. This was an unfair gradient for her or any woman that the first thing a reporter or just somebody googling her brought up or found was her boyfriend or ex boyfriend, especially me. It is utter misogyny. In fact, on the other hand, there could be a calculation in which it is useful to Katie if I do the interview and amplify the publicity. It is also one of the things I had warned her about literally the day we started dating, and in fact I reminded her of it the night of the first real date at an Al Gore book event at the Museum of Natural History in New York in the whale room. Sure enough, I went from the whale room to the men's room for a moment. While I was out, an online gossip clown who had been following us around went over and pretended he knew her or something. And when I got back, she was bubbling over telling me she'd met a friend of a friend and told him all about us. And I asked if she had remembered my warning, and she obviously had not. And quote Katie Turr, new girlfriend of Keith Olderman was online before we got home, so when she found there was a way to scrub your Google searches so every time somebody plugged in her name, they would not also get Keith Olderman's girlfriend or Keith Olderman's ex girlfriend. As I said, I helped her pay to use that service. I get it. The sexism prevails. Maybe it'll go away someday, maybe it won't. So anyway, when Farhee of the Post called me up, I called Katie. She said she thought it was sexist, and anyway, she wasn't participating with the Post's story on her, and it would really help if I did not do so either. So I declined the interview, and a week later there in the Washington Post was a big feature on Katie to her because guess what, she did participate with it after all, complete interview and worst yet, she told Farhee that she had encouraged me to do the interview with him, so he put it in the paper that I declined to be interviewed, so I looked like an idiot. And another thing, I'm not mad, Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad. I called her up and I yelled at her, and she apologized, and she promised she would not do anything like that ever again, and then she promptly did something even worse. A month or two later, the New York Times article comes out. It is a huge profile of her, I think in the magazine or a weekend edition, and in it, mister Olberman refused to be interviewed for this story. This is a complete surprise to me. I didn't even recognize the writer's name. I found her contact info and I reached out to her and said, have we ever spoken? And she says no, And I say emails texts, and she says no. And then I say, then, when did I refuse to be interviewed for your Katie Turr article for the New York Times. And she says, oh, I asked Katie Turr to ask you, and Katie Turr asked you, and you told Katie Terr you refused to be interviewed. And I said, none of that happened. And there is a long silence on the end of the phone, and then the writer says, let me call the editor to take that part out. And the Times changed the online version of why I didn't do the interview, although they do not note that they changed it, and I later got a note from a Times editor apologizing she just lied to this reporter from the Times. Just lied. Oh, I'll call him and ask oh, he told me he doesn't want to talk to you about me. Just lied. And I just sat there, and I know, very unlike me, I have to say, I was actually too angry to do anything anyway. As I mentioned, Katie Turr published another book this year, and a lot of the publicity was about how I haunted her and she had to go to great lengths to separate her career from mine, even as she keeps mentioning me, and even though she asked me in dead seriousness to write the first book for her. The book, the second one, is mostly about all the impediments and roadblocks she has faced, while what's the word forging her career? But I will add this last point and then drop the subject. I hope forever. For forty three years full time, I have done this and counting college, it's God help me forty seven years. And throughout that stretch, I have tried to acknowledge anybody and everybody who helped me in my career, even the ones I don't like, even people who are totally utterly politically opposed to me. I still think fondly of Stuart Varney from Fox News, because he taught me, when I was right up against it one night, how to use a teleprompter. I'll always cherish the memory of working with Stuart Varney. He was such a help to me. Politically, we could have a duel, but of course, as I said, the dynamic is different. Still, her book is about people who hindered her, and almost none of it is about people who helped her. She is rapidly turning into a kind of professional martyrdom. I saw this in its earliest stages sixteen years ago, and she is now going from making it martyrdom into a brand. And I'll say this lastly and sincerely. If your story of your career is all about people you think held you back, and not even mostly about the people who bent over backwards to help you along, that is all just very very sad. Okay, I just have to say this. For like three weeks it was Olivia Week. For the last week it's been Katie Week. Are we going to have another week of Katie Week? One of the lawyers coming back in the Olivia case Is the FBI going to get involved? Is the FBI going to get involved in the Katie case? Are they going to be the same agents? Will I know any of them? Because they had something to do with my fake anthrax sender who sent me antracks when Katie was living with me from California. Wait a minute, Okay, I just had to vent that. You date a lot. This is what happens. And I didn't even have to wear my Trump support on my sleeve like Stephen Miller if that is your real name. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. No, Anna, Paulina Luna's grandfather really was a Nazi Wehrmacht remember drafted. Nevertheless, Plea, I've done all the damage I can do here, Thank you for listening. We're now back to five episodes a week, posting nightly just after midnight Eastern, and please follow me for the podcast promo videos on TikTok YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, x, Instagram, and institube. 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