THE TUCKER CARLSON STORY MAY NOW BE OVER - 4.28.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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EPISODE 189: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:42) SPECIAL COMMENT: No, I also don't have any idea WHAT Mike Pence told Jack Smith's Grand Jury yesterday but boy do I hope he incriminated everybody. On the other hand, I have a pretty good idea that barring the unforeseen, the terms of Tucker Carlson's contract with Fox will be such that the vague, poorly-lit, dog-whistle-filled twitter video from Wednesday night may be the last we see of him for awhile, and it may mark the beginning of his firing slipping out of our (often thankfully) breakneck news cycle. As a warning: the remainder of this episode is the reprise of five separate Carlson commentaries from the last five months, tracing his ascent to madness and his fall from employment. If you don't want to hear stuff you've already heard, you can cut out at about the nine minute mark and I won't take it personally :-) (9:20) November 22: When Tucker Carlson tried to get Trans people and drag performers and allies shot (20:51) February 21: The McCarthy-January 6th video deal is made and it is time to de-platform Tucker Carlson - and de-platform Fox "News."
B-Block (39:42) March 13: The Carlson gaslighting of the January 6th Capitol video was so clearly an attempt to foment obstruction of justice and rebellion that Carlson could've been indicted and arrested (58:12) But on March 14 it became clear - as Carlson re-ran several clips for the third time and obviously had nothing of interest to show anybody - that he not only wouldn't be arrested, but with THAT video, as they say, he COULDN'T get arrested.
C-Block (1:13:10) April 24: SCHADENFREUDE. The firing of Carlson as it happened, including me singing "Ode To Joy" with the original German lyrics.
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| 0:48.4 | No, I have no idea what Pence told the grand jury either. I hope he incriminated everybody, |
| 0:54.4 | including mother. He did testify for five hours and we've said something. |
| 0:59.8 | Meanwhile, I come not to praise Tucker Carlson but to bury him. To start, let me point out that |
| 1:06.7 | Rupert Murdoch is currently paying this guy at least $40 million to not be on his television network. |
| 1:15.0 | And unless Murdoch and Fox agree to some kind of buyout, Carlson cannot do any form of political |
| 1:19.8 | commentary from which he derives income and depending on the exact wording of the language of |
| 1:25.3 | his contract, he also cannot make any appearances in any medium considered competition to Fox |
| 1:31.6 | without Fox's consent, which obviously they will not give. This explains a the Twitter video |
| 1:39.3 | Wednesday night and be the lack of a Twitter video Thursday night. Good evening. It's Tucker Carlson. |
| 1:45.7 | One of the first things you realize when you step outside the noise |
| 1:48.8 | is how many people I'm unemployed on Wednesday. Lots of vague, veiled references to telling the truth |
| 1:57.8 | and repeated sour grapes about television and his own show and a couple of dog whistles to the |
| 2:03.3 | QAnon and 4chan H and crowd like demographic change and nothing else. Every platitude imaginable |
| 2:11.5 | crammed into two minutes and 15 seconds except employees must wash hands. |
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