THE LINDER LETTER WILL THWART JIM JORDAN 1.9.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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EPISODE 108: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: The Rules Package the new Speaker of the House/Hostage Kevin McCarthy will present today will include a subcommittee with which Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz insist they can investigate ANYTHING the Justice Department does, including active criminal investigations. What these toads don't know is that they're not the first half-baked fascists to try this, and something called The Linder Letter will protect DOJ from testifying, supplying evidence, or prosecuting anybody for contempt of Congress for ignoring the Gaetz-McCarthy masturbatory star chamber. Trump can't escape justice - not this way. Though the Holman Rule, which in theory could allow the House to zero out the salary of anybody in government, is a little more of challenge, there's a way to work around that, too. So as you hear the Taliban 20 and their puppet McCarthy emit dire threats today, have a good laugh.
B-Block (15:40) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Waffles in Shreveport. (16:52) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Deport Bolsonaro back to Brasil? Why? Deport Bannon and Jason Miller to Brasil - DETAIN Bolsonaro here. And, just when you thought Matt Schlapp had lost his grip. (19:23) IN SPORTS: Now we have to worry about the popular baseball pitcher Liam Hendriks. (21:52) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: How to delete an offensive tweet and get others to disseminate it for you, by a Florida MAGA Congressmen, plus the National Hockey League has an idea for its All-Star Skills Competition: ALLIGATORS.
C-Block (25:49) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Two happy anniversaries, within days of each other. How I helped to launch ESPN Radio, and then days later while traveling FOR the new network, happened to meet the lovely, delightful, gifted actress - the late Elizabeth Montgomery.
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Overnon is a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:17.6 | Insurrection. No, not the one in Brazil, the one here. |
| 0:22.5 | Still in full flower, two years and three days after the Trump slabs were beaten back. |
| 0:28.1 | And this time the combatants will include not the proud boys, but the Holman rule and the |
| 0:34.2 | Linder letter. It starts today when the Taliban 20 forces its combination speaker of the house |
| 0:39.9 | and hostage Kevin McCarthy to pass a house rules package dressed up in patriotic |
| 0:46.0 | purseflage, but actually designed merely to keep the insurrectionists from being prosecuted. |
| 0:51.6 | The 2023 battle will be less mob rule and more Roberts rules of order, but it will again take |
| 0:57.9 | place at the Capitol. The House rules for the 118th Congress will establish something to be |
| 1:03.2 | early called the subcommittee on the weaponization of the Justice Department or something stupid like |
| 1:09.2 | that when in fact it should be called the House obstruction of justice subcommittee. |
| 1:15.4 | This subcommittee will give itself the right to review quote ongoing criminal investigations, |
| 1:19.9 | which is a nice way of saying insurrectionists serving in the House like Jim Jordan and Matt |
| 1:26.0 | Gates and Perry and Green and Gosar to say nothing of Trump or anybody else being investigated for |
| 1:32.8 | their complicity in the January 6th coup attempt, they will be able to use a congressional subcommittee |
| 1:37.7 | to stop those investigations of themselves or at least they think so. Gates and Jordan who are |
| 1:46.6 | behind this are trying to dress it up as some sort of protection for political free speech and |
| 1:51.5 | rights this and First Amendment that when in fact it is an attempt by Jordan and Gates to keep |
| 1:57.2 | Jordan and Gates out of jail. The problem with clever but lazy fanatics like Jordan and Gates |
| 2:05.4 | is that they only read the headlines. They will hit the Department of Justice with demands for |
| 2:10.0 | testimony, for evidence of hearings, for witnesses and the Department of Justice will be able to |
| 2:15.9 | tell Gates and Jordan to shove it up their base. A deputy assistant attorney general will write |
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