"DONALD J. CHUMP" ENDORSED BY GOP CONGRESSMAN - 4.18.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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EPISODE 180: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Why did Fox wait until the last minute to offer to settle the Dominion defamation suit? I was once in a media lawsuit involving tens of millions and I have a guess: Fox must have known there was SOMETHING WORSE. There must've been a text or an email or something discovered late in the game, worse than Carlson saying he hated Trump passionately, and they were willing to buy their way out of it.
(10:44) THE CLARENCE THOMAS SCANDAL: So Mom is living rent-free, for LIFE, in the house the billionaire Republican activist bought from Clarence Thomas? And Harlan Crow's next mistake? He gave a sit-down interview to a Dallas newspaper and a completely bald and unconvincing account of his friendship with Justice Thomas. Asked if he'd still be Thomas's friend if he wasn't on the Supreme Court, Crow answered that it was a great question and HE DIDN'T KNOW. Ask what they talk about and he mentioned... his dog Otis.
(17:13) YOU ENDORSED WHO? Florida Congressman Greg Steube with a teeny weeny little Freudian slip. For the presidential nomination he has endorsed Donald J. Chump.
B-Block (21:50) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: As was joked on twitter: is Ron DeSantis trying to destroy DisneyWorld because he's not tall enough to go on the rides? And George Santos is running for re-election and has already lied in the press release! (25:43) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: I got a Republican insurrectionist who calls others "pedos" asking a 15-year old boy for nude videos; I got a Republican Congressman sending a link to a Holocaust-denying website in his official congressional newsletter; I got Republican County administrators dreaming of lynching African-Americans.
C-Block (32:00) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Elsa, in New York (33:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Speaking of the perversion of news that is Fox, I was there at the moment cable news went to hell in a handbasket. It was the night three of us (the others were the president of NBC News and the future president of MSNBC) found out that Princess Diana was dead.
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| 1:49.0 | Why on earth would Fox quote news on quote try to settle the Dominion lawsuit now? |
| 1:57.4 | Why on earth would Fox quote news on quote wait until the scheduled eve of jury selection so |
| 2:04.0 | late even against that deadline that the trial itself had to be postponed a day until two day? |
| 2:10.8 | Why on earth after everything that has already come out after we found out Tucker Carlson called |
| 2:16.7 | Trump a demonic force and admitted I hate him passionately and after we found out Rupert Murdock |
| 2:23.1 | called Trump's lies BS and damaging and after Laura Ingram said Rudy Giuliani was acting like |
| 2:29.1 | an insane person and after every text and every email and every other quotation made it clear |
| 2:35.8 | that whenever there was actually any truth or journalism about the 2020 election on its channel |
| 2:42.7 | Fox punished whoever said that truth or did that journalism and after we learned that every time |
| 2:49.5 | somebody on Fox defamed Dominion voting system somebody else at Fox already knew it wasn't true. |
| 2:56.6 | Why after all that and not before all that did Fox make the offer that delayed the trial until |
| 3:06.0 | today? Because obviously there is something else that will come out at trial that is even worse. |
| 3:14.5 | There has to be something else that Dominion found in discovery some other quote from somebody at |
| 3:22.8 | Fox so self-damming that it is worse than Carlson's hatred and Murdock's confession and Ingram's insults |
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