TRUMP ATTACKS ISRAEL; GOP IS SPEAKER-LESS - 10.12.23
Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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🗓️ 12 October 2023
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SERIES 2 EPISODE 53: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Well, could YOU choose between Rep. Beelzebub or Rep. Lucifer? Jordan and Scalise both eminently define different kind of evils of the Republican Party. But the knives are out and they're steak knives: Jordan's allies are trying to sink Scalise by revealing his campaign has spent half a million dollars at DC's Capital Grille since 2011 (unfortunately that amounts to a nightly purchase of just two Filet Mignons, a side of spinach for the table, and no tip).
While Trump's lawyers file their latest delay against Jack Smith by claiming there are "missing documents" from he January 6th Committee, and his Colorado lawyers explain Trump isn't subject to the 14th Amendment because the president doesn't have to "support" the Constitution, Trump goes off the deep end on Israel. He claims that Israel was attacked because of the 2020 election "rigging," keeps repeating "Barack Hussein Obama," and attacks Prime Minister Netanyahu claiming Israel was neither smart nor tough. The cheese whiz is slipping off the cracker - again.
B-Block (20:00) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The internet is not kind to Tommy Tuberville: never joke about POTUS falling down if there's video of YOU falling down. Clouds begin to gather around Gary Bettman after he caves to the homophobes and Russians. And there's a shooting war between Israel and Hamas so what's exactly the right thing for a Charlie Kirk Turning Point USA "ambassador" to do? Compare "zionism to communism."
C-Block (29:43) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: I missed the anniversary, but to be fair - so did ESPN. 30 years ago on the 1st of this month we debuted ESPN2. Nobody noticed this month. EVERYBODY noticed then. We were voted the 7th worst thing in sports for 1993!
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| 0:00.0 | Countdown with Keith Ulerman is a production of iHeartRadio. |
| 0:16.2 | Well, if you were the Republicans who had a choice of making the guy who covered up the |
| 0:20.9 | rape of college wrestlers, your new speaker of the house, or of making the guy who gave a speech |
| 0:26.4 | to David Duke's white supremacist organization, your new speaker of the house, but not both, |
| 0:32.4 | how could you make up your mind? I mean, they're both perfect in their own ways, right? |
| 0:39.2 | The only relevance of the choice Republicans completely failed to make yesterday, |
| 0:45.6 | Representative BL's above, or Representative Lucifer, is that Trump endorsed Jim Jordan |
| 0:52.3 | and even in conference, House Republicans rejected Trump's endorecy, 113 to 99, with two caveats. |
| 1:01.4 | The first caveat being it was a secret ballot, so those who betrayed the will of their lord and |
| 1:07.2 | savior and voted for Scalise will be unknown to him, until their colleagues wrapped them out, |
| 1:14.7 | and one wonders if it had been a voice vote in public and on the record if anybody would have |
| 1:19.3 | voted for Scalise. The second caveat is, unless the Republicans have changed the numbers, 113, |
| 1:28.6 | plus 99 is 212, and at least 217 have to vote for the nominee for speaker, and Ken Bucks said he |
| 1:38.6 | didn't vote for either of them and won't vote for either of them on the floor, and Bobert and Max |
| 1:43.1 | Miller and Barney Rubble and Bob Good and a couple of others say they'll vote for Jim Jordan, |
| 1:47.4 | at least not for Scalise, and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and yes, |
| 1:51.4 | that name is chosen ironically, says he's not sure, and George Santos put out a press release, |
| 1:56.8 | literally saying he will vote for whoever will not expel him from Congress, and Congresswoman |
| 2:02.6 | Sparks of Indiana says, quote, I cannot tell you what I'm going to do on the floor right now, |
| 2:09.2 | and nobody has ever better summed up the Republican agenda more concisely. Oh, and Nancy May says, |
| 2:15.6 | she's voting Jordan anyway in that quote, I've actually talked to Democrats who trust him, |
| 2:21.1 | and clearly that A that she wore on her shirt Tuesday, that was for Ambian. And now what does Jordan do? |
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