GRINER REACTION PROVES IT ANEW: REPUBLICANS ARE STUPID 12.9.22

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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EPISODE 92: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:46) SPECIAL COMMENT: Their response to the extraction of Brittney Griner - unpatriotic, simple-minded, the Real-World-Is-Just-A-Fantasy-Basketball-League-And-You-Made-A-Bad-Trade - has not only reaffirmed that Republicans ARE stupid, but it has also underscored that when a glimmer of smart might sneak through, Republicans will deliberately pretend to be even more stupid, to appeal to their stupid base full of stupid people. Some are born stupid, some achieve stupidity, and some have stupidity thrust upon them. (3:50) Trump's stupid statement stupidly reminded people how HE failed to rescue Paul Whelan; Marjorie Greene's reminded people she wants to give the Russians not just an arms dealer but Ukraine. (10:00) I truly believe this is a choice: their stupidity is a language all its own, a reverse-superiority, an indecipherable code, impervious to logic or intelligence (11:28) And it was the Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from the depths of a Nazi concentration camp after the failure of the plot he participated in to kill; Hitler, who observed "Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."

B-Block (18:58) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Moon, in New York (19:57) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: DOJ insists Trump is still hiding documents, wants lawyers cited for contempt; Who the 1/6 Committee will refer criminally (22:45) IN SPORTS: Late baseball signings, and why would an NFL team even think about signing a 49-year old receiver? (24:36) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Jim Jordan denies the tweet he tweeted, Eric Trump Trumps, and Paul Gosar's spokesman is so confident in him, he won't give the press his name.

C-Block (29:35) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: My Dad's favorite, Thurber's story of the school in which some students repeated the 4th Grade a dozen times and the baseball team was good enough to beat Ohio State: "I Went To Sullivant."

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1:35.9	Republicans are stupid.
1:51.9	Their unpatriotic, simple-minded, the real world is just a fantasy basketball draft faceplant
1:58.9	about the return of Brittany Griner yesterday has not only reaffirmed that, Republicans are stupid.
2:04.9	But it is also underscored that on the rare occasion when a glimmer of smart might somehow sneak through,
2:10.9	Republicans will deliberately pretend to be even more stupid than they are in order to appeal to their stupid base full of stupid people.
2:20.9	Some are born stupid, some achieve stupidity, and some have stupidity thrust upon them.
2:26.0	Like, you know, Peter Ducey, the legacy hire that Fox News inexplicably sends to get humiliated by the press secretary.
2:34.0	Carine Jean-Pierre at the White House every day.
2:38.0	In this prisoner swap, why did Russia get such a better deal?
2:42.0	Look, you know, I've talked about this, and I'll say this again.
2:48.0	Here were our choices. Our choices was Brittany or no one at all.
2:54.0	Bringing home one American or no American at all.
2:58.0	We gave up a professional athlete, a pro-lific arms dealer who was convicted of trying to kill Americans, who was called the Merchant of Death.
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