“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.

“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

Introducing: Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 24

We need a caretaker government to take over from this feckless, useless, non-functioning Trump Administration. 

We need to make the planes run on time again - or just MAKE THE PLANES RUN AT ALL AGAIN.

The breaking news this morning is that two months ago the GAO warned the FAA not to rush the upgrade of the internal air traffic control communications system. Yet yesterday at the most disastrous public political news conference in the nearly 40 years since the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania came out before the microphones and shot himself, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had a massive truth emission and removed the doubt the media is still pretending clings to this disaster. Mullin said it directly: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tried to install patches to the computer system and the hardware overloaded and the system crashed.

Duffy did exactly what the GAO warned him not to do.

Duffy shut down flights in America, most of North America, much of the world.

Duffy (former failure on the TV reality show "Road Rules") and Mullin (Associate Degree in Plumbing Sciences from Oklahoma State Tech) take the fall (and they should). Trump remains silent more than 18 hours later. And the head of the FAA? Bryan Bedford? Missing in action, possibly at home watching HIS role in a reality show, the perfectly named "Undercover Boss."

As this buffoon Mullin summarized it: "This is what the leadership of President Trump Looks Like."

You bet, 'Kwayne. We already noticed.

 

BULLETIN: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 24
We need a caretaker government to take over from this feckless, useless, non-functioning Trump Administration.&nbsp;
We need to make the planes run on time again - or just MAKE THE PLANES RUN AT ALL AGAIN.
The breaking news this morning is that two months ago the GAO warned the FAA not to rush the upgrade of the internal air traffic control communications system. Yet yesterday at the most disastrous public political news conference in the nearly 40 years since the State Treasurer of Pennsylvania came out before the microphones and shot himself, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin had a massive truth emission and removed the doubt the media is still pretending clings to this disaster. Mullin said it directly: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy tried to install patches to the computer system and the hardware overloaded and the system crashed.
Duffy did exactly what the GAO warned him not to do.
Duffy shut down flights in America, most of North America, much of the world.
Duffy (former failure on the TV reality show "Road Rules") and Mullin (Associate Degree in Plumbing Sciences from Oklahoma State Tech) take the fall (and they should). Trump remains silent more than 18 hours later. And the head of the FAA? Bryan Bedford? Missing in action, possibly at home watching HIS role in a reality show, the perfectly named "Undercover Boss."
As this buffoon Mullin summarized it: "This is what the leadership of President Trump Looks Like."
You bet, 'Kwayne. We already noticed.
&nbsp;

BULLETIN: FIRE SEAN DUFFY AND MARKWAYNE MULLIN. NOW. - 11.14.26 

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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 23

A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Why ON EARTH would anybody look at this Jensen Huang Chinese Industrial Spy Scandal and not think Trump was in the middle of it, partly or fully aware?

Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Jensen Huang and NOT ask if he was just SELLING AI Chips ILLEGALLY to China VIA his girlfriend the Chinese Spy?

Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Huang, and Huang's girlfriend Huang, and the spy, and the infighting inside the Trump cabinet, and Trump's insatiable insane greed, and not ask if Trump wasn't just making money from both sides of the law: from banning the sales of chips to China, and then profiting as somebody one step removed him from sold them to China anyway?

The official story still is: This Nvidia Trump Whore, worth like $160, $200 billion, Jensen Huang, has had a Chinese mistress for years, she’s also in the A-I business, also named Huang, and turns out she seems to be a Chinese Spy stealing AI secrets. And Jensen Huang didn’t know that or if you want to go more nuanced, a “white glover” as the Chinese apparently refer to half spy/half business people. And Trump bought stock in Nvidia a couple months ago but HE didn’t know there WAS a MISTRESS. And Trump didn’t know she was a SPY. And still thinks the problem here is, Huang is now depressed.

The problem is: there are a couple of news stories breaking out here that contradict the official story. Like 113 different news stories. And nobody’s put them together. (Ok, it's only seven separate stories - including of Marco Rubio rushing aboard Air Force One to tell Trump 'she's a spy' and getting ignored, and Rubio sending Howard Lutnick a memo saying 'she's a spy' and getting ignored again). But the seven stories have 113 details.

B-Block (28:00) BOB BOONE, IN MEMORIAM: One of the straightest shooters I ever met died on Monday. Bob Boone, a baseball All-Star who was the first player in history whose father and son both played in the major leagues, died 10 days shy of what would have been his 79th birthday. I wanted to record this podcast now to make sure I told the story of meeting this singularly impressive man, because his first words to me were "Keith, I'm Bob Boone and I don't like your work." Happily it got better than that, and it focused on him making sure I knew where he stood before I asked a favor of him - which was to meet a fan of mine, his 13-year old son who is now manager of the New York Yankees.

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 23
A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT):&nbsp;Why ON EARTH would anybody look at this Jensen Huang Chinese Industrial Spy Scandal and not think Trump was in the middle of it, partly or fully aware?
Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Jensen Huang and NOT ask if he was just SELLING AI Chips ILLEGALLY to China VIA his girlfriend the Chinese Spy?
Why ON EARTH would anybody look at Huang, and Huang's girlfriend Huang, and the spy, and the infighting inside the Trump cabinet, and Trump's insatiable insane greed, and not ask if Trump wasn't just making money from both sides of the law: from banning the sales of chips to China, and then profiting as somebody one step removed him from sold them to China anyway?
The official story still is: This Nvidia Trump Whore, worth like $160, $200 billion, Jensen Huang, has had a Chinese mistress for years, she&rsquo;s also in the A-I business, also named Huang, and turns out she seems to be a Chinese Spy stealing AI secrets. And Jensen Huang didn&rsquo;t know that or if you want to go more nuanced, a &ldquo;white glover&rdquo; as the Chinese apparently refer to half spy/half business people. And Trump bought stock in Nvidia a couple months ago but HE didn&rsquo;t know there WAS a MISTRESS. And Trump didn&rsquo;t know she was a SPY. And still thinks the problem here is, Huang is now depressed.
The problem is: there are a couple of news stories breaking out here that contradict the official story. Like 113 different news stories. And nobody&rsquo;s put them together. (Ok, it's only seven separate stories - including of Marco Rubio rushing aboard Air Force One to tell Trump 'she's a spy' and getting ignored, and Rubio sending Howard Lutnick a memo saying 'she's a spy' and getting ignored again). But the seven stories have 113&nbsp;details.
B-Block (28:00) BOB BOONE, IN MEMORIAM: One of the straightest shooters I ever met died on Monday. Bob Boone, a baseball All-Star who was the first player in history whose father and son both played in the major leagues, died 10 days shy of what would have been his 79th birthday. I wanted to record this podcast now to make sure I told the story of meeting this singularly impressive man, because his first words to me were "Keith, I'm Bob Boone and I don't like your work." Happily it got better than that, and it focused on him making sure I knew where he stood before I asked a favor of him - which was to meet a fan of mine, his 13-year old son who is now manager of the New York Yankees.

DO YOU REALLY THINK TRUMP ISN'T IN THE JENSEN HUANG SPY SCANDAL? - 11.12.26

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COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 22

A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Do not deceive yourself. 

Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller is not some kind of desperation ploy because there's just nobody else to do the job. This is the Junta's reaction to the clear signs that after the mid-term defenestration, Trump was giving up on being a forever king, and instead receding into his fantasy world of ballrooms and arches and filigree.

The people who help manipulate Trump to manipulate his insanity, NEED Trump to try something akin - at least in spirit - to January 6. They need him to declare Texas "stolen" and threaten to jail the Democrats who are constitutionally obligated to perform oversight in the House. They need to keep his madness at the forefront.

Miller is there to keep Trump insane - and Pete Hegseth is there to supply the violence as necessary.

ALSO: The prospects of impeaching Hegseth (or this idiot Attorney General Todd Blanche who actually thinks the constitution even refers to a job called 'Attorney General') are excellent - but the prospects of getting the two-thirds Senate vote to remove them aren't. But there are plenty of next steps to take now that Alito and Thomas have both indicated they have no plans on retiring from SCOTUS.

PLUS: It is the greatest question any reporter has ever asked Trump, he did nothing but flinch and walk away - and it could never be asked by any American reporter, each of whom could shout it out at every gaggle, but they know their bosses would fire them and try to blacklist them, instantly (because the "Liberal Media" is owned by conservatives.

B-Block (THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL) 45:00. We near the 40th anniversary of one of the great spans of my life. In 1987-88 there was actually, for a months, a multi-station, multi-network, multi-city... bidding war for my services. And it featured one station bidding against itself, while the odds on favor blew the lead, and its boss called me up and swore at me for not accepting his fatally flawed offer. May you enjoy the story, and then some day enjoy a bidding war.

COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN - SEASON 5 EPISODE 22
A-Block (SPECIAL COMMENT): Do not deceive yourself.&nbsp;
Trump's appointment of Stephen Miller is not some kind of desperation ploy because there's just nobody else to do the job. This is the Junta's reaction to the clear signs that after the mid-term defenestration, Trump was giving up on being a forever king, and instead receding into his fantasy world of ballrooms and arches and filigree.
The people who help manipulate Trump to manipulate his insanity, NEED Trump to try something akin - at least in spirit - to January 6. They need him to declare Texas "stolen" and threaten to jail the Democrats who are constitutionally obligated to perform oversight in the House. They need to keep his madness at the forefront.
Miller is there to keep Trump insane - and Pete Hegseth is there to supply the violence as necessary.
ALSO: The prospects of impeaching Hegseth (or this idiot Attorney General Todd Blanche who actually thinks the constitution even refers to a job called 'Attorney General') are excellent - but the prospects of getting the two-thirds Senate vote to remove them aren't. But there are plenty of next steps to take now that Alito and Thomas have both indicated they have no plans on retiring from SCOTUS.
PLUS: It is the greatest question any reporter has ever asked Trump, he did nothing but flinch and walk away - and it could never be asked by any American reporter, each of whom could shout it out at every gaggle, but they know their bosses would fire them and try to blacklist them, instantly (because the "Liberal Media" is owned by conservatives.
B-Block (THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL) 45:00. We near the 40th anniversary of one of the great spans of my life. In 1987-88 there was actually, for a months, a multi-station, multi-network, multi-city...&nbsp;bidding war for my services.&nbsp;And it featured one station bidding against itself, while the odds on favor blew the lead, and its boss called me up and swore at me for not accepting his fatally flawed offer. May you enjoy the story, and then some day enjoy a bidding war.

STEPHEN MILLER'S APPOINTMENT IS TRUMP'S DECLARATION OF WAR ON AMERICA - 11.9.26

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