PROTECT GEORGE SANTOS AT ALL COSTS
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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EPISODE 102: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT No. 1: George Santos is the Brian Williams of politics. I joked last week "If that IS your real name." Now there's question as to whether or not it is. And about where he went to HIGH SCHOOL. And the time he claimed he was black. And about how he could get Kevin McCarthy elected speaker - and get him fired later. As the Feds begin to follow his equally dubious campaign money, I repeat my plea to Democrats: don't try to keep him from being seated by the House of Representatives next Tuesday. After it dawned on me that the comp for Santos is my unfortunate former friend Brian Williams, it also dawned on me that there might still be a way for Santos to worm his way out of it. And that's also reflected in the saga of the George Santos of 1954: Congressman Douglas Stringfellow of Arizona.
B-Block (18:36) SPECIAL COMMENT No. 2: There is method to the January 6th Committee's madness of waiting until the Christmas-New Year's Break to release its final report and these fascinating deposition transcripts. I think they did it to shield the recommendation to invoke the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment. As a bonus yesterday we got testimony that Kim Guilfoyle is an idiot, and that Melania Trump lived in mortal fear of being seen in her robe by Rudy Giuliani.
B-Block (33:51) IN SPORTS: The death of Pele, an analysis of the athletic gifts that made him his game's greatest ever, and his surprising legacy in New York and the United States. (37:55) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Bad reporting at The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Politico is no match for - as Scottish tweeter Al Kennedy wrote - "I have to hand it to Andrew Tate, this is the first time I've seen someone be so outwitted by a teenager that they end up in jail without it involving a dog that solves fake ghost mysteries."
C-Block (43:21) FRIDAYS WITH JAMES THURBER: His most reprinted story: "The Night The Bed Fell."
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Ollerman is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.2 | Protect George Santos at all costs. |
| 0:22.3 | I have a lot of thoughts about the January 6th committee report and especially the |
| 0:25.8 | revelation that Melania Trump was terrified that because of the coup Rudy Giuliani was going to |
| 0:31.5 | see her walking around in her robe. But first, I love George Santos with every fiber of my being. |
| 0:41.2 | American political history is filled with other congressmen, other candidates, other senators, |
| 0:46.7 | other presidents, other pundits who have been walking time bombs for their own party. But George |
| 0:53.2 | Santos is unique. All previous walking time bombs have eventually detonated and then dispersed. |
| 1:02.0 | But George Santos is the syphus of walking political time bombs. He blows up, he does his |
| 1:08.4 | collateral damage to this Republican or that one, the smoke clears and then he blows up again. |
| 1:15.2 | He is the bomb cyclone of congenital liars. It has now become evident as newly as last night that |
| 1:24.9 | Santos could not only become the poster boy for not just Republican dishonesty but Republican |
| 1:30.7 | Moronic dishonesty and Republican laugh out loud stupid dishonesty and he could not only cost Kevin |
| 1:37.2 | McCarthy the house speakership but he might be able to first get McCarthy a hamstrung speakership |
| 1:44.0 | beholden to lunatics like himself and he might then be able to get McCarthy fired later. |
| 1:52.1 | Because per political McCarthy's support for the speakership vote will be so razor thin |
| 1:58.8 | that he will have to bow to the freedom caucus. And if Santos has to quit at some point, |
| 2:05.6 | that support will get thinner and thinner and the freedom caucus will be able to force McCarthy |
| 2:10.6 | out the first time he does not do what they want. And remember, the freedom caucus does not exist |
| 2:17.2 | to legislate nor even to block democratic policy. It exists only to get its members reelected |
| 2:24.8 | by keeping their supporters in a perpetual state of paranoid xenophobic agitation. |
| 2:31.8 | Between them George Santos and the freedom caucus can reduce the Republican House majority |
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