AFTER HE KILLED THE POST, WE MUST DESTROY BEZOS FINANCIALLY - 2.6.26
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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SEASON 4 EPISODE 56: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: In destroying The Washington Post yesterday, Trump-fluffer Jeff Bezos has gone far enough. Democratic leaders must commit to using anti-trust laws to destroy Amazon, Prime, Blue Origin - and Bezos, financially. Every would-be president, senator, representative must vow to break the oligarchs - Bezos, Musk, Trump, and all the rest.
Bezos first hollowed out the Post to make it servile to Trump and his gang. Now he's destroyed its foreign and sports desks, and its viability as a counterweight to the anti-democracy forces abroad in the land. All so he could spend $75,000,000 or more on a vanity project designed to tell Trump a life: that his wife is an attractive "movie star."
We are not going back to the America of 1885. We must bankrupt Jeff Bezos.
(And I apologize for the slipshod nature of this episode. I'm under the weather, throat bad, was planning to postpone this episode but this could not wait. Please forgive for the extemporaneous nature of the commentary; the rest of the show is interesting but not new)
B-Block (30:00) OLYMPICS TIME: As the 2026 games begin in Italy let me take you back to the most famous winter games yet: the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics, which I covered as a 21-year old rookie with United Press International (while my bosses tried to teach me how to work and drink at the same time).
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio. We must financially destroy Jeff Bezos. |
| 0:28.9 | We, and that includes the Democratic Party, must bankrupt Jeff Bezos. |
| 0:34.9 | I don't mean to bring him any physical or personal harm. I just want his $240 billion to go away. I want him to be |
| 0:43.8 | living in a one-bedroom apartment somewhere in a non-fashionable part of a non-fashionable town, |
| 0:52.2 | hopefully in a different country. |
| 1:02.2 | Jeff Bezos is one of the true villains of this era, one of the evildoers of the 21st century. |
| 1:03.3 | Because at the initial stages of what we have seen in the destruction of this country by |
| 1:08.7 | Donald Trump since 2015. |
| 1:15.4 | In the initial stages, Jeff Bezos was on the right side. |
| 1:17.8 | When they went to Jeff Bezos and said, we know you're having an affair with this sportscaster Lauren Sanchez. |
| 1:24.4 | We know you're having an affair with her. |
| 1:26.4 | We're going to expose it unless you take this Washington Post that you just bought and turn it in the direction of Donald Trump. We are going to expose this and your wife is going to divorce you. And instead of doing that, Jeff Bezos initially and for a period of about six years, maintained this position. |
| 1:46.3 | He said, screw you guys. If I'm going to give up half of my money to anybody, it's going to be |
| 1:51.7 | my wife. She certainly earned it, no matter how you judge what I did, there's no reason why I should |
| 1:57.4 | be giving you the money or trying to keep it for myself when I certainly can |
| 2:01.0 | handle it having the $200 billion that I do. So he told them to shove the Trumpist blackmail |
| 2:07.1 | up their asses. And it basically put the Trump blackmail machine out of business for time. |
| 2:15.3 | Something has happened in the last year and a half, and now we have reached the climax |
| 2:19.1 | where, in essence, yesterday, Jeff Bezos, took the Washington Post, not a vital to the |
| 2:25.1 | continuation of the nation publication, but an important aspect of our media firmament, |
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