THANKS SIDNEY POWELL, FOR GETTING TUCKER CARLSON FIRED! 4.25.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 25 April 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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EPISODE 186: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-BLOCK (1:43) SPECIAL COMMENT: Let's all congratulate - and thank - Sidney Powell for getting Tucker Carlson fired. Because of the many final straws in this sad man's case, the MOST final was when it turned out he repeatedly called Powell the C-word.
And it all may be on tape. The real reason Lachlan Murdoch and Suzanne Scott went to Rupert Murdoch over the weekend and Rupert fired Carlson was that producer Abby Grossberg has - per her lawyer - nearly 90 recordings documenting her allegations of a toxic, abusive, misogynistic, sexist workplace in Tucker Carlson's office.
I have stitched together all the reporting on the biggest firing since Bill O'Reilly - including my own - and it boils down to this. Yes, Fox was furious at all the insults against management revealed (and redacted) in the Dominion files. But Grossberg's suit was the real menace. They would not go for a repetition of the O'Reilly or Roger Ailes sexual abuse scandals. And now Carlson may walk away with $20 or $30 million a year - but only if he DOES NOT WORK at any video or news outlet that could be considered a rival to Fox.
Plus: How Don Lemon messed up the chance to get to say farewell on the air, and why he might wind up on MSNBC. Among other reasons, NBC has a lot more money today: they won't pay my lying ex-friend, fired CEO Jeff Shell, a dime. He was fired for cause, and it sure looks like he tried to push his ex-flame Hadley Gamble into re-starting their affair, either by professional carrot or stick.
B-BLOCK (20:42) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Fani Willis basically announces she will indict - or WON'T indict - Trump and company in July or August. She warns law enforcement to make appropriate preparations. The FAA shuts down SpaceX after Elon Musk nearly destroys two Texas towns. And The Wall Street Journal finds an instance where Harlan Crow did TOO have actual business in front of the Justice he bought, Clarence Thomas. (25:42) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Anti-vaxxer, Pharma conspiracy theorist Aaron Rodgers will now be paid by the heir to the Johnson & Johnson Pharma fortune. Marsha Blackburn wants to sell you a pizza-cutter. And somehow Fox's resident idiot Brian Kilmeade thought he should celebrate the Carlson firing.
C-BLOCK (30:15) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: If I'm bringing up Aaron Rodgers going to the New York Jets, I have to flash back to the day a New York GIANTS quarterback nearly kept me from graduating from college on time!
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| 0:48.6 | I'd like to congratulate and thank Sydney Powell for getting Tucker Carlson fired. |
| 0:55.5 | Obviously Tucker Carlson got Tucker Carlson fired but as all of the reporting threads |
| 1:00.2 | of how the highest rated hosting cable news today was thrown off the proverbial cliff yesterday |
| 1:06.3 | were stitched together. |
| 1:07.5 | It became clear there was an entire box full of final straws but the most final of them |
| 1:14.2 | was the one in which Tucker Carlson called Sydney Powell the C word and it may be on tape. |
| 1:21.9 | We do know it is on the record. |
| 1:24.2 | Ocklin Cartwright at the Daily Beast reported last night that the subject of that word and |
| 1:28.4 | that idiot Sydney Powell came up in Carlson's deposition in the Dominion defamation case. |
| 1:34.2 | People familiar said the Dominion attorneys asked quote if this wasn't the only time |
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