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with Keith Olberman is a production of iHeartRadio. Trump calls America Stupid I'll get to his delusional Iran speech last night in a moment, but honest to God, forgive the ego just this once, but everybody else is burying the lead. Trump called America stupid after the birthright citizenship oral arguments at the Supreme Court. He called America stupid. He didn't call the Supreme Court stupid. Not the Constitution, not John Roberts, not the immigrants, not the Democrats. America. You and me and Kristi Noem's husband and everybody else. All of us. The whole country stupid. We are the only country in the world stupid enough to allow birthright citizenship. Seriously, asshole. For better or for worse, you are the President of this country. President of the United States of America. And you just called the United States of America stupid. You are a disloyal, deranged, dying moron with a melting brain who just said he thinks library is just another word for hotel. And we're stupid. You make a fool out of yourself and this country on an hourly basis and we're stupid. With the words and the stories you make up and the tests they have to keep giving you to make sure your brain hasn't completely melted yet. F you you greasy makeup slathered twerp. Which one of us went to the Supreme Court with three Justices on it that you or us appointed and had to watch them kick the living shit out of your Solicitor General? Or was it our Solicitor General? Which one? You or us? The audacity, the imbecility of this semi alive bastard to use that word stupid about this country. F you pal. The real Trump. And my God, which Democrat will have the simple presence of mind to run a campaign or just one commercial showing that post and the words we are the only country in the world stupid enough and emphasize Trump thinks America is stupid and go with a new acronym, massa Trump make America stupid again while we are here. And honestly F you and Junior and Eric and this clown granddaughter you're trying to force on this country like she was even just as unbearable as a Kardashian. Eff the lot of you. While we are here. Trump in fact got smoked at the Supreme Court yesterday and the racist attack on birthright citizenship. Which is why Fred Trump was an American citizen and why Marco Rubio is an American citizen. Birthright citizenship. The attack on the 14th Amendment by the fascists is over. The Supreme Court will not rule on it until June. But the questioning in the oral arguments was such from everybody but Alito and Thomas that he and the other racists and the quizzlings like Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio doesn't know how much of MAGA thinks he's illegal. The Supreme Court will rule seven to two or maybe eight to one against the attempt to overturn birthright citizenship. And the entire majority decision might simply be quote. You're kidding, right? This was the tell. Chief Justice John Roberts not having any of this shit from Trump's Solicitor General, another one of his former civilian life ambulance chasers named John Sauer. John Sauer is the one in this clip who sounds like he gargles with flaming jokes, chainsaws. It certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century. No, but of course we're in a new world now, as Justice Lito pointed out, to where 8 billion people are one plane ride away from having a a child who's a U.S. citizen. Well, it's a new world. It's the same Constitution. Turn your sets off there now to Iran and that 9pm Eastern speech last night. That could have been Trump surrendering or Trump declaring victory, or Trump sending 20,000 more troops, or Trump announcing the war is over, but it will go on indefinitely. I'll be damned if I know which it was. He came out, squinting desperately towards a teleprompter that had been placed far too far away for him to see it clearly. He said it's all close to completion now and that America would be hitting them hard in the next two to three weeks unless they make a deal. He said the doubling of gas prices is all Iran's doing. We have all the gas we need. Not explaining why on earth the price would have gone up if we're only using our own gas and we have all we need otherwise. He didn't mention the economic crisis he has put this country into. He called America not stupid this time, but dead and crippled and quoted stock prices from two months ago before he tanked the economy. The rest of the speech was insults about Obama, fabrications about previous presidents, the insistence that everything was like nobody's ever seen before and never seen before, and this straining, failing voice that suggested the thrilling possibility that Trump might fall asleep while standing at the podium. Maybe the best part was when he claimed he killed a guy when he kept invoking, saying Iran was about to get nukes even though he personally ate their nukes or something. I couldn't follow it. Then he repeated a bunch of his truth social posts. Then he explained the Strait of Hormuz would just open naturally someday. You know, the way he said Covid would just go away naturally one day without him doing anything. And he complimented himself because this has not taken as long as World War II did. And back to his favorite cliche. He says he has all the cards. Well, not the Hormuz card or the Car island card, but he has all the jokers in that one card with the girl on it.
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Military Analyst or Commentator
We have all the cards. They have none. It's very important that we keep this conflict in perspective. American involvement In World War I lasted one year, seven months and five days. World War II lasted for three years, eight months and 25 days. The Korean War lasted for three years, one month and two days. The Vietnam War lasted for 19 years, five months and 29 days. Iraq went on for eight years, eight months and 28 days. We are in this military operation so powerful, so brilliant, against one of the most powerful countries for 32 days.
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Keith Olbermann
32 days. See, he's great because he bombed Iran and the war is shorter than Vietnam. Well, I'm sold when it ended. After every cliche except your mileage may vary and employees must wash hands, Trump said good night and then forgot to leave the podium. He may still be standing there, by the way, about having this country, you know, America is stupid, says Trump, about having this country pull out of NATO because none of our NATO allies decided to join in on this. And incidentally, although he did take a shot at them, he didn't mention NATO or pulling out of it once. He didn't mention NATO at all. I hate to break it to the isolationists, but this whole question of us pulling out of NATO may be too late. The British Prime Minister Keir Starmer already said flat out, this is not the United Kingdom's war. Now from the inewspaper in England comes word that the British are holding back intelligence from this country because they do not trust America with it. The Germans, the Italians, the French, the Czechs have already either refused to participate in Trump's folly in Iran or they are shying away from this intel question Right now. There is no NATO. Or worse yet, there is a NATO and we are not in it anymore because of Trump. That's the same Trump who said on Tuesday that Iran wasn't even shooting back at us. It is clear the story with which I led this program a week ago today about the video they show him every morning that that story was correct. That two minutes of highlights of American aircraft blowing stuff up in Iran, that's all he sees of this war, all he knows about it. That and how many days it's been. Look, he's an imbecile and a sadist and because they didn't send him to jail instead of the New York Military Academy, he thinks he's a general when my dogs literally have a better understanding of battle than he does. But on top of this, it is obvious they are keeping reality from him. They have not shown him the AWACS command and control craft, the flying radar destroyed on the ground in Saudi Arabia. They have not told him his multi million dollar missiles are being wasted trying to shoot down $20,000 Iranian drones. And why would they tell him? What would that get Hegseth other than the crazy old guy shouting at him and saying we are the only country in the world stupid enough to have Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Anything. Instead, Hegseth humors him and shows him the videotape and Trump thinks we're winning when we are in fact still losing. And then Hegseth goes and calls off track war betting or whatever it is Hegseth does in his spare time. Three other things to note here before we get to the boobs in Trump's cabinet, so to speak. Approval disapproval. UMass Amherst poll. He's down to one third of this nation. He is at 33% approved, 62 disapprove. That is 29 points underwater. And this would be the point where the Baywatch crew says, dude, we did the best we could. Same poll a year ago. He was 44 approved, 51 disapproved. He's lost 22 points in exactly one year. No wonder he issued another executive order that reeks more of panic than of fascism. Demanding the creation of a federal list of citizens, demanding that the post office then only send mail ballots to people on the list. Check each envelope against this list of 300 million people. One assumes the reaction at the US Post Office is you want it when? This November? How about the the midterms in the year 2054? Also, Alderman will have that envelope from your accountant at your house no later than next January. February latest. There's also the fact that such a list, such unconstitutional theft of the authority over elections, which is the state's authority, is incredibly illegal. Also, just to ratchet up the larfs, who does Trump want to make the list? He wants Homeland Security to do this. Homeland Security where John Wayne Gacy Mullen now presides and where the poor new secretary is presumably discovering very unfortunate things in the nooks and crannies of his office that were left there by his predecessor and her family. Why the hell's there being so much balloons in my desks? One bit of international news now. He could completely cancel the election there or find other ways to alter this. He is the role model for Trump after all on this. But all the polling says the Hungarian would be dictator. Viktor Orban will get his clock cleaned in the elections there on the 12th. His opponent, Peter Magyar, surrounded by enthusiastic crowds. Or Orban pretty much has just Trump and Tucker Carlson showing up. Magyar has grown his lead to 56 to 37 in the polls. Magyar has added a net five points to his lead in the last three weeks. The problem here, of course, is Orban is about three years ahead of Trump in killing off the lingering melody of democracy in his country. So no lead is automatically safe. And now back to Trump, that Paula White, the smarmy evangelical who is this close to snake handling while serving as Trump's religious fluffer, whose gnome or Gates or Patel, like scandal, has yet to be revealed. Get your bets in now. Will it be girlfriends? Will it be a chain of abortion clinics that she has money in? Will it be a tape of her sleeping with atheists Will it be three husbands? Oh, wait, I'm sorry, she's had three husbands. Anyway, yesterday, Paula White made the big leap on behalf of the evangels. Trump, it turns out, is Jesus Christ. Mr. President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life. You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It's a familiar pattern that our Lord and Savior showed us. Jesus H. Christ. So Trump is the equivalent of Jesus video or it didn't happen. Time for our regular check in on the perverts in the Trump administration. Hacked video of Cash Patel sound sashaying around a room in short shorts. Still pictures of Lindsey Graham at Disney World, aged 70 by himself, no kids, carrying a bubble wand. Press secretary Caroline Levitt getting Getty Images to delete a photo taken of her at a White House Thanksgiving photo op where she was the host for the photos, where photographers were encouraged to take photos where she was dressed as a pilgrim. For the photos, the photo was shot from a low angle. There was a turkey, there was Levitt, and I guess she thought it was difficult to tell the difference. In the photo, Rubio impaired means as yet unidentified, insisting there is no birthright citizenship. Under the Constitution, your parents have to be citizens. Even though his parents were not citizens and he is a birthright citizenship citizen. And of course, the cornucopia of images of Kristi Noem's husband and his extramarital fetish for women who have had plastic surgery out of proportion with all reality. I mean, we're talking about women who now look like they were constructed out of Legos. And also images of Kristi Noem's husband in drag wearing balloons under a T shirt to simulate enormous women's breasts. Again, so cartoonishly sized that someone wrote that those puppies were so big, it's a surprise Christy didn't shoot them. Or as the great Frank Dakova cried on F Troop, it is balloon. So anyway, turns out both members of the gnome marriage like to pretend to look like a woman. Realistically, this may force us to reassess why Kristi Noem has had her body redesigned more often than a Cadillac. To say nothing of why Mr. Noem was at Noem's career ending house hearing where she sat next to Corey Lewandowski while Mr. Noem sat behind them watching them. On the other hand, it raises the interesting reality that she turns out to have had only the second most augmentation in her own family. So Graham Patel, Noem, Marco Rubio, and then there's Trump himself, unveiling his memorial library and hotel. He says what? According to the video released by one of his idiot boys, his sons. I forget which one looks like a 200 story tall building in Miami. I'm thinking it will eventually be built rather in Caracas. Anywho, the highlight of the thing is a statue of Trump in the lobby. Apparently it's about 60ft tall. Making a fist pump gesture. It is gold head to toe. And it's interesting, his head in real life has been gold, his buildings have been gold. Yet this a giant 10 times life sized statue of him. This being gold. This is the first time the gold has made me think of this. The statue looks like Trump just really peed himself. Just saying. Seriously. Of course, the gnome story, like the Patel video and the Graham images and the sound bites of poor Rubio underscore three things about this administration and the entirety of maga and the cult part of the Trump cult, say nothing of a lot of human nature. One of these things is obvious. We may never know how blackmail fits into Trump's nomination, support, election, the conversion of Lord knows how many formerly reasonable or at least intelligent and critical conservatives. Graham was always a frontrunner throughout his life, but he did predict Trump would destroy the Republican Party. Rubio almost took a swing at Trump once and instead these people have become unstoppable advocates and enablers for Trump, to say nothing of the judges, probably some of the Supreme Court justices, God knows how many media figures who are his virtual slaves, certainly his whores. But the Patel video and the Mr. Gnome story certainly would seem to confirm the blackmail is in play here and always has been. Before Jeff Bezos gave in to some kind of pressure from Trump in the last few years, Bezos not only defied Trump, but he revealed on the record the attempt by Trump's ex crony David Pecker and the National Enquirer to force Bezos to turn the Washington Post pro Trump. In 2018 and 2019, they tried this on him by attempting to coerce Bezos over his extramarital affair with his now second wife. My ex colleague Lauren I look a lot like Kristi Noem Sanchez. As I noted then and I will note again, do you expect anybody to believe that the first time somebody tried to blackmail somebody else on behalf of Donald Trump, they ran into the one guy out of thousands who would say, f you, I'll just give my wife all the money in the divorce settlement? Really? The first would be blackmail. Victim said no, that's not how blackmail works. That's not why blackmail works. So once again how could Trump get loyalty from the Cash Patels and Kristi gnomes that rivals that which was given to Dracula by his guy Renfield? Wow, I haven't the faintest idea. Does it start with a B and end with male? There's the second part of this. Of course, Trump's primary currency is less the threat than it is the pardon. There isn't another political figure in America who would trust RFK Jr. Long enough to pose for a selfie with him. Yet there he is in the Cabinet. We forget now, but Trump's choice for Attorney General was Matt Gaetz, who now says that the government not only has aliens from other planets in its possession, but is breeding them with humans. He didn't ask how young they were. How many members of the Trump circuit have you looked at? Especially as they have fumbled to kiss their wives or awkwardly patted their children on the elbow and said the number of closets in this administration may be infinite. It's not just the question of blackmail or exposure. It's Trump pardoning that behavior. He's not gay, she's not lesbian. They just have same sex sex. Sure, whatever. You can now become secretary of whatever in my administration. I'll help you keep your lie going. Your lie to the public, your lie to yourself, or you failed at everything. Your spouse is a crook, your heroes are Hitler and Ted Bundy. Your beliefs are just Internet conspiracies. Cool, cool, I'll back you up. I'll legitimize you. Hell, I'll put you in charge of protecting Israel or prosecuting criminals. Just serve me. Just do whatever I tell you to do. I will protect you from jail, from humiliation, from exposure, and most importantly, I will protect you from your own conscience. Why does this work? Why is every Trumpist accusation a confession? Why is there a chicken in every maga pot and a skeleton in every maga closet? And why is the skeleton often a drag queen? I turn to A friend of 28 years, a psychological professional doctor, why do these people who get abortions for their mistresses and hire gay hookers and do coke in their bathrooms, why are they the ones who are the most loud, the most angry, the most vindictive about trying to criminalize abortion, about trying to punish homosexuality, about trying to send people to jail for life for doing drugs, why are they serving Trump a nihilist who believes in nothing and believes in none of this? Her answer was not what I expected. I had studied some of this stuff in college. I assumed, maybe you still assumed that it was projection or compensation or a Desire to get caught and maybe even to force their own hands and get help or anything else. That was psych speak for every maga accusation is a confession. No, not at all. She called this the scoreboard theory of personal behavior. Say you have been taught since childhood that sex out of wedlock is wrong and abortion is wrong, and you've had sex out of wedlock like 350 times and there have been a dozen pregnancies and you've talked the women into and paid for half a dozen abortions and you're a conservative congressman and your constituents are every day getting a little lighter on that forgiveness of the Lord stuff, but they're getting a little heavier on that wrath of God stuff. And to make it worse for your own sanity, maybe you really believe sex out of wedlock is wrong. Maybe you really in your heart believe abortion is wrong. And yet here you are, you are, the local distributor of sex out of wedlock and of abortions in your own congressional district. Your unconscious, my shrink explains, hits on an ingenious solution. You have 350 sexes out of wedlock and six abortions on your scoreboard. You can make that number irrelevant, virtually wipe it away, make it look like nothing. Simply act and Talk and legislate 3,000 anti abortion things, persecute the doctors, encourage neighbors to rat out people who help women in need, accuse the other side of killing viable infants after birth, or take it to the final step, accuse them of pedophilia and eating babies, and run for office on a platform of exposing those secret baby torture chambers in the basements of the pizza restaurants that not only don't have torture chambers but don't even have basements. Why, that proves you can't be an adulterer and an abortionist. You're an anti adultery, anti abortion activist. You can't be an adulterer. Well, maybe once or twice in your life, or 356 times, you made a simple human error that God long ago forgave you for. You heard him. But look, you've closed a thousand abortion clinics. You've forced a thousand women to give birth. You've accused a thousand liberals of eating babies. That's a score of 3,000 to 356. See, on this scoreboard you are so anti abortion it's as if those abortions you paid for never happened. 3,000 to only 356. And that, my shrink friend said, is the gist of works on almost anything that society shies away from, from balloons under your shirt to sex with your own gender or somebody dressed as the other gender or just it works on failure and embarrassment. Pam Bondi, Kellyanne Conway, Roger Stone, you name em, they were punchlines. Failure works though. Secret sex lives give Trump more to work with. If Trump says, I know you're gay, but your public self is so homophobic that it erases all that, so you're not gay. You are his for life. Which brings us back to the idea that the threats and the pardons may not actually be coming from Trump. This is a very sophisticated idea. Even if Trump did figure it out years ago when he still had a lot of his brains to work with. It just sounds really too complicated from him. And then if it's not him, who are these ideas coming from? Who is this rather complicated and kind of clever exploitation of people's weaknesses? Who is this coming from? Not from Trump, but from somebody above him. The threats and the pardons may be coming from somebody who is right now still forever, not only blackmailing the Kristi Gnomes of this world and the Lindsey Grahams, but somebody who is right now still blackmailing Trump. Also of interest here in all time, a married couple makes worst persons. I'll give you a hint as to their identities. One of them anchors the CBS Evening News and the other one asked me to marry her. That's next. This is Countdown.
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Keith Olbermann
This is Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Still ahead on this all new edition of Countdown. Since I am about to trash her again, I will tell you a story of how my one time girlfriend Katie Tur actually took good care of me. Maybe even above and beyond girlfriend duty's good care of me. I had a twinge in the general physical area that I'm going to describe the other day. So I'm going to tell you the saga of the day. My appendix exploded and I thought it was just a little indigestion. I was a youth of just 48. Yet another thing I promised not to tell next in the interim, we always have new idiots to talk about. The roundup of the miscreants, morons and Dunning Kruger effect specimens who constitute today's other worst persons in the world, Bronze worse, Mr. And Mrs. News, Tony decouple and Ms. Turr herself. Her first again with the caveat that she was not only living with me and proposed marriage. But I declined. Well, Katie did a segment on Ms. The other day in which she asked, is Donald Trump well, is his head in the presidency? Does he have the mental acuity to lead this country? Why didn't I think of any of those questions? Actually, I did 2016 in a very long article for Vanity Fair and an even longer video for gq. But Katie Tur's segment on Trump's insanity was treated in some quarters as some sort of burst of revelation, something new and daring and insightful. I mean, hundreds of people, including a bunch of psychological professionals, have written about Trump's insanity as long ago as 2015. Hell, George Conway wrote an article for it in the Atlantic. So long ago he was still a Republican. It's like 2019
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Martha Stewart
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Keith Olbermann
Let me just be clear here. It's annoying to me, but I'm not complaining about the segment, nor the credit Katie got for it. I'm mentioning those things for context. When she and I were still talking, when she and I were still very good friends, before she deliberately lied to me about the articles in the Washington Post and the New York Times. And then she lied to the Washington Post and the New York Times about me, claiming she had asked me to talk to them about her. But I had refused wildly untrue before I dropped her as a friend and ghosted her tur and I talked about Trump's mental instability starting in 2015, before I even went public with it. I mean, every time we talked or texted, this was one of the topics. And we talked or texted about once a week, which included the seven or eight months that NBC had her covering Trump's campaign, during nearly all of which Trump spent the time trying to stochastically get somebody to kill her. Gosh, Katie, is Donald Trump? Well, I don't know. Katie, was he? Well, when he used to point at you at his Bund rallies and encourage his fascist mob to attack you and you had to get Secret Service protection. And I used to get those midnight emails and texts and phone calls about this. And is there a reason you waited 10 years to do a segment on his insanity? Then there's her husband, Tony decopal, still defying the odds and still remaining as the anchor of the CBS Evening News. I mean, probably the last anchor of the CBS Evening News before the Ellisons and Barry Weiss kill it off altogether. Unless she fires him and puts in Sage Steel to replace him. If you think I don't like Tony dicopol, read the Columbia Journalism Review article on it. Him man named Amos Barshad is the writer, and he seems to do a great job of keeping his own feelings out of this, but the several dozen people he quotes pretty much don't. I will spare you most of the gory details they provide, but I am indebted to Mr. Barshad for including a fact that I have known for a while, but I have felt uneasy about bringing up myself, namely that Tony decouple has two kids from a previous marriage and those kids live in Israel. Now. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, obviously, unless your boss, Bari Weiss, selected you for your job because you have kids who live in Israel, or because she believes you have tailored your approach to news on American television to make it more supportive of the Israeli government, then it's a problem whether there are kids or an ex wife or not. Anyway, the second fact is just way more fun. I didn't know this. I don't know why I didn't know this. I'm ashamed. Let me quote from the piece. Jessica Bennett, now a contributing writer at New York Magazine, worked there alongside decouple. Tony has a great head of hair, she said. We used to mock him for being too pretty for print. In fact, prior to his professional journalism career, do Copel had stints as a part time hair model. First of all, I do have a question about sentence construction. Part time hair model. Is that someone who occasionally models hair or is that somebody whose hair is only there part time? Mr. Trump, what's shocking here isn't that a TV figure, my friend John Madden, the late John Madden from football, used to derisively refer to the ones he didn't like, especially a primary CBS sports anchor, as quote, hairdos. It's not shocking that a TV figure has had stints as a part time hair model. So what? Tony decouple was a hair model. My shock comes from the use of the past tense. What do you mean he was a hair model? The runner up Werser, a Navy commander. Commander Tim Parlatore, Special advisor to Secretary of Gambling on Wars. He started Brill Cream. Pete Hegseth, you will recall the New York Times and other news outlets sued Pete Hegseth and the Department of the all New Spanish Inquisition for censoring news reporting on Pentagon Y type stuff. And the court ruled against crusader rabbit Pete Hegseth. Commander Parlatore then whined to Eric Wemple of the New York Times about this. Parlatore said the Times had prevailed in the lawsuit because of, quote, creative misinterpretations by the New York Times lawyers. Wemple said that to him it sounded like the Pentagon was trying to throttle investigative reporting. Parlatori responded, quote, asking somebody to provide top secret information is the way I see it. Now, if his name sounds familiar, Tim Parlatore. Commander Tim Parlatore. It should. He's back in the Navy now. That permits him to work for Hegseth at the bar. I'm sorry, work for Hegseth at the Pentagon. But four years ago, Parlatore was Trump's first lawyer handling the FBI search at Mar A Lago after Trump got himself charged under the Espionage act for taking and keeping classified documents that we now learn may have been useful to him in business. Then Parlatori quit. He briefly was a CNN analyst and now he's in the Navy. But I'm sure that in the CNN post and in the Navy job, he's not lying for Trump again. But the winner, Rhonda White. Anyway, that's the name on a Threads account with the handle a new day2026, Rhonda White has a placeholder gray avatar, the large circle with the small circle sitting above it representing the head. However, based on what Rhonda wrote, it is possible this is not a placeholder avatar, but in fact an actual photo of her one other notice Preface Whether sock puppet or shill or foreign clickbait, farmer or bot, Rhonda doesn't try very hard. Permit me to read this in its entirety from threads I just listened to Cory Booker speak on Meet the Press. He has such a positive attitude a D D I T u D E that the left and right can come together and form new ideas to move our country forward. He just wrote his second book. His new book out is called Stand. I researched his education in political science from Strafford and a master's in sociology. Am I the only one out there that is impressed with Cory Booker? Rhonda Short Yes. Also in addition to that word attitude, starting with add his education at Strafford. You say S T R A F O R D. In this country we call that university Stanford. Now that Rhonda has been found out, watch her dump Cory book tour and move on to instead support Rahm Emanuel Rhonda, you may be impressed with Cory Booker Rhonda but not as impressed as Cory Booker is impressed with Cory Booker White, today's worst person in the world. Foreign.
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Keith Olbermann
When I was diagnosed, all I wanted to do was get back to work. I wanted to get back to that trajectory that I was on prior to the cancer. I always felt like I had value. I had a place on the team to just be treated with dignity. It means everything. Research shows there is a significant connection between the ability to continue to work and cancer recovery. We can make work a better place for healing, learn more and sign the pledge@workingwithcancerpledge.com. Sometime on Wednesday, September 12, 2007 I began to feel bad, all strained on my right side. But my girlfriend at the time, Katie Turr, and I had just moved only a few weeks before into our new apartment and I was still pushing boxes around and I thought I'd just Strained something. The next morning, the 13th, I was still feeling like crap, but now my stomach also hurt and I thought I was bloated or constipated or something and maybe some sit ups would help. And actually they felt like they had relieved some of the pressure. And Katie's father, who was among many, many things an emt, happened to be in town. He gave me a Vicodin or something and I took a nap and went into work a little later than usual at msnbc, which I could get away with that day because President Bush was speaking that night and almost all of my work that night would be ad libbed before his speech and then after his speec. I wrote what I needed to write quickly. And at about 7:15 I went out to the show line producer Greg Kordick, who sat in exactly the right place that he could make certain that I had left for makeup and was going to the studio on time. I had to walk right past him and I said, I'm exhausted. I'm just going to close my eyes at my desk for a couple of minutes. If you don't see me go past by like 7:40, come in and wake me up. And I sat down, I put my legs up on my desk, I folded my hands behind my head and I just closed my eyes more to rest my eyes than in any real hope of sleeping. I am a fickle sleeper. There is not a chance I could snooze like that. Next thing I know, it's 7:40 and I'm feeling somebody shaking me and seriously, a hand on each shoulder. Apparently it took Mr. Kordick a little while to wake me up and I thanked Greg and staggered to the makeup room. And I realized now I had a little fever, but it was too late to do anything about it. So I got my makeup, went to the set, did the lead into Bush's speech, took some notes during it, did the Post speech wrap up with the analysts. And after two hours on the air I got in the car, car that they sent for me to go home to New York from New Jersey. And I fell asleep again in the car. I still thought, this is some weird stomach flu and I'm bloated beyond belief and I really don't feel good. But I bet that's just from listening to George W. Bush one time too many. I'll just go to bed. I found it was too difficult to lie on my stomach or my side, which presented a problem because rarely can I fall asleep on my back. But I had to try. And the Next thing I knew, it was morning. I slept like a stone, but I still felt really bad. In fact, a little bit worse. On top of all which, Katie was yelling at me about something, and I had a checkup for something unrelated at my doctor's office, and I left early so I could go buy something for the constipation. And then when my doctor called me and he said, you look terrible. Are you okay? And I said, no, I got this really sore stomach. And the last night I had this fever for a while and he kind of gasped and now he looked terrible. And he said, when was the last time you ate? I said, you know, funny, I haven't thought about food for a couple days. And then he asked me when was the last time that happened? And I said, when I was in the womb. And he had me stand up and he pushed his finger into my stomach about 5 inches to the right of my navel. And holding the finger there, he said, does this hurt? And I said, not at all. And then he said, does it hurt now as I take my finger away and I don't remember if I said anything or not because I saw the proverbial stars in front of my eye and I let out a scream. So he said, get back in your car and you go to our other office at 59th and 10th and go see our gastro specialist. And I said, sure, just don't poke me again. And when I got there, they showed me right in and she taps me and she says, why are you hunched over like that? And I said, I'm hunched over. And she says, if you haven't eaten in two days, how come your stomach is hard as a rock? And I said, is this a medical quiz? Because you're the doctor? And she says, I want you to go across the street to the hospital emergency room. I'll call them while you're walking. Just go right in and tell them you're the one Dr. Lu called about, because, boy, your appendix burst. And although I think you'll be fine, technically, you've got about 8, 10, 12 hours to live. Well, that got my attention. And as I'm grabbing my jacket, my bag, I say, wait, if this isn't just constipation, how come it felt better when I did the sit ups? And she says, because when you did the sit ups, you only had an infected appendix that was going to burst when you did the sit ups, dummy, that's when the appendix burst. You burst it. So I said, wait, I went on TV for two hours after my appendix Burst. Shut up. She explained. She was right. The ER people saw me immediately. They ran a bunch of tests and reminded me that if I hadn't already, I should probably call in sick for a couple days. And I said, wait, what day is today? And they helped out and they said, Friday. So I called msnbc and I called the producer of Football Night in America, which I was doing for NBC on Sundays. And I said, hey, sorry, looks like I'm technically dying from a burst appendix, and they're gonna operate on me as soon as they can get a surgeon in here. And they say it's real unlikely I'll be out of the hospital by Sunday or Monday. Have a nice day. I called Katie, who had already gotten to her job in local cable news in Brooklyn, and she turned around to come help me out at the hospital. And then I just waited and got goofier and goofier and goofier and. And goofier. I think they operated around 7 or 8pm the surgeon introduced himself. He was a big sports fan. Fred Kimmelsteel, the surgeon named by prophetic parents. And I went to the anesthesiologist, and I warned him. I said I'd once woken up from anesthesia during an endoscopy and could he make sure that that didn't happen again. In fact, I said that the other day when I had my knee operated on and this guy did the same thing. They both of these anesthesiologists just laughed when I challenged them to knock me out a little bit harder. So Dr. Kimmel Steele asked me about the latest Met Choke job. This is the one in 2007, not the one in 2022. And I started to talk about David Wright. And the next thing I knew, I was freezing cold and trying to open my eyes. And it was three hours later and the surgery was over. What a mess, said Dr. Kimmel. Steele never had one that bad before. Thank God it abscess. You'll be here all weekend. And I was. The next day, they made me get out of bed, and I think it took me half an hour to walk about 20ft down the hallway and back. And there was a morphine drip and a new bag of intravenous antibiotics every two hours. And at one point, the phone rang, and I really did have to go back the following week and ask the producer if this actually happened or I merely hallucinated it. But the phone rang, and it was the Football Night in America people. And they said they were going to shoot video of the hospital. I was in And I said, I don't think you can see me from the street. And they said, right, we know that. We're just pretty much doing this for a laugh at your expense while you're in the hospital and we're on tv. And then finally, my appetite came back on Monday and I was able to eat some pancakes, and they sent me home in the afternoon. And for two days after that, I was still sweating out the poisons and the antibiotics and the painkillers, and, I mean, I was so warm, I could not bear to have a shirt on. But by Thursday, I was able to go back to work, and just to show off, I wrote a special comment about Bush. From my first show back, I was extremely pleased with myself. Now, there are three postscripts to this. Now, obviously, I learned, and I've just taught you the test for appendicitis, or burst appendix. If you poke it and it doesn't hurt until you stop poking it, it's your appendix. Fat lot of good that'll do me. Now I don't have an appendix. Second weeks later, I was at dinner with my friend John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus, and he said he'd heard the story about my appendix and he was very upset with me. I did the exact same thing. John said it blew up, and for two days, I had no idea how serious it was. Thought it was a cold, but don't tell people that. Don't undersell it and call it a burst appendix. You and I, we were both dying of septicemia. Never let anybody forget that, and I haven't. And the last and best postscript was, while I'm lying there recovering after the surgery, the phone rings and it's my executive producer. And she says, good news. When you anchored before and after Bush's speech and you got sick or after you got sick, you beat CNN in the ratings by like 25%. And as stoned on the painkillers as I might have been, I was still able to say to her, I beat cnn. I beat CNN with one appendix tied behind my back. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. I swear to God. Epspm. Our musical directors of Countdown are John Philip Chenale on keyboards and handling the orchestration, and Brian Ray on the guitars, bass and drums. Their work is produced by TKO Brothers. Nancy Foust, who is the best baseball stadium organist ever, is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. When we play the sports music, it's from the old Olbermann show on ESPN2. The theme was written by Mitch Warren Davis and it appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Other music arranged and performed by the group no Horns Allowed. And my announcer today was my friend Johnny Banks. This program was produced by Ted it and Stevie and Rose and Kit. Everything else was, as always, my fault. That's Countdown for today. Day 438 of America held hostage again, just 1,025 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term unless he's removed sooner by Epstein and all balloons everywhere. The next scheduled countdown is Monday. Bulletins as the news merits until the next one. I'm Keith Olbermann. Good morning, good afternoon, good night and also, I might add, hit the post. Hit the Post. Good luck. Foreign. Countdown with Keith Ulberman is a production of iHeartRadio. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Keith Olbermann
Most people think their insurance will cover them when disaster strikes. The truth? Many are wrong. You pay premiums and assume you're protected until the fine print hits. Exclusions, limits, loopholes. Suddenly that coverage isn't coverage at all. My policy advocate reviews your policies Home, Auto, Life and breaks them down in plain English. They show what's really covered and what isn't. It costs just 27 cents a day, less than a cup of coffee. For peace of mind. Before you assume you're covered, go to mypolicyadvocate.com you might be shocked at what you find.
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Martha Stewart
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Keith Olbermann
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