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TRUMP DIDN'T KNOW VINCE LOMBARDI. HE KNEW VINCE LOMBARDI JR! - 3.30.26
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Keith Olbermann
Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartradio. Trump and Hegseth and Rubio may be sending thousands of American troops into an ambush in Iran. They may also be sending many of them, maybe most of them, to their deaths. Not that they care. Moreover, Trump and Hegseth and Rubio may be lying, wildly exaggerating how well America has degraded Iran's military capabilities while wildly underrating how effective Iran has been at destroying American weaponry, especially aircraft. The last thing I am is a military strategist or analyst. Never showed any aptitude for it, never wanted to. But I am good at distilling the analysis of others into into one big picture. And in the wake of the conservative publication the Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon is preparing for weeks of infantry and special operations raids in Iran while Rubio is insisting it's all going so well we would never need boots on the ground, the recurrent word I see from the actual experts is ambush. One of the recurrent words. The other recurrent word is asymmetrical. A third word is lying. And the conclusion is far from being dead. As Trump put it, Iran is conducting a war designed to destroy our planes on the ground and control or neutralize wherever American troops intend to land or be waiting for them when they arrive there. In short, Trump and Hegseth and Rubio are losing this war and may be about to lose a terrifyingly large number of American troops. Not that they care. The Iranians have destroyed an American awacs, one of the big command and control aircraft. They destroyed it on the ground in a base in the open in Saudi Arabia. The Pentagon lied about this. Flat out lied. They reported the AWACS had just been quote, damaged. Photos of the quote, damage then leaked out. The back half of the goddamn plane is missing, blown off. What the Pentagon said would be a lie. Even if Sean Duffy were running the Pentagon, that AWACS is gone, as are
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multiple KC135 refueling jets.
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Thus the chief foreign affairs correspondent of the equally conservative publication the Wall Street Journal is asking if anybody at the Pentagon, the Pentagon that Hegseth has recalibrated
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to fight the Middle Eastern wars of the 12th century.
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He's asking if anybody at the Pentagon
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has ever heard of Operation Spiderweb in Russia last year.
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I had to look it up too. That, he points out, was when the
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Ukrainians used drones and other low cost, low risk means to wipe out much of Russian strategic aviation while it was
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parked on the ground in the open.
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He suggests that the Iranians learned much
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from Operation Spiderweb, even if we were too stupid to. I hear war transports destroyed while parked.
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And I wonder not if Hegseth didn't
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learn from how Ukraine turned Russia's Four
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Day War into four years of Russian disaster. But if Hegseth didn't learn anything from Pearl Harbor. From the opposite view, it is clear the Department of War is not being credible about how effective American bombing of
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Iranian targets has been.
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Reuters quoted an expert on Iran's missile capacity and the entire Iranian military. Someone named Nicole Grajewski of the Paris Institute of Political Studies, who politely suggested Trump and his liars may have, quote, overstated how much Iran's capabilities have been degraded. Quoting the Reuters story, she pointed to Iran being able to continue to carry out strikes from Bid Kaneh military facility that is in Iran which has been heavily bombed. Quoting her the fact that they've managed to sustain this, I think indicates the US was overstating the success of its operation, Grajewski said, adding she believed that Iran still retained about 30% of its missile capabilities. Grajewski said Iran had more than a dozen large underground facilities where it has been able to keep launchers and missiles. Quoting her again, the big question is, have these facilities collapsed? And oh, by the way, how did
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the Iranians know where we parked our jets, including an awacs basically at a
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meter on the street?
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How did they know?
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Ukrainian intelligence caught the base in Saudi being imaged by Russian satellites three times in the days before the attack. This is what we've been talking about here for weeks. The Russians are providing Iran with the exact location of American assets, including personnel
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in the Middle East.
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Trump's response when this came out was to lift sanctions on Russian oil, which was really helpful to Russia. The Russians could then make more money and not have to cut back on things like, ooh, satellite imaging for Iran. Trump is still essentially giving the Russians money to help Iran try to kill Americans. And then he lifted oil sanctions on Iran too. So they had even more resources to try to kill Americans. Americans killed, funded by Trump. Another analyst notes that it's not just about the aircraft. Look at what Iran has been hitting since February 28th. Radar systems, Satcom terminals, tankers, and now an AWACS. That's not random. It's a systemic attack on the infrastructure that makes US air power function. Iran's running an asymmetric counter air campaign. And then there's this other part. This conclusion seems to be less universally agreed on than the first part, that all American air power in Iran is at risk. Right now this conclusion is the Iranians know or are guessing the American military's likely favored choices to land those how many thousand troops? Looks like 2,500 Marines and 2,500 other sailors per the New York Times. And Iran has attacked the advanced scouting parties, harassed the pre landing troops. That is an ambush. Destroy the opponents communications system, destroy their means of movement and when you force them to meet you on the ground be waiting for them before they get there. And all this is to say nothing of Marco Rubio moving the goalposts again and again on March 9th. Goalpost over here. He said the goals of the mission against the Iranian regime are clear. Destroy their ability to launch missiles. Destroy factories making these missiles destroy their navy. Friday he again said the mission was clear, only this time it's a different mission. Again quoting the same Marco Rubio Our mission is clear. Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon. In my meeting with the G7 foreign ministers, I reiterated that we must meet this moment with maximum partner contributions. Goalposts moved. It goes from destroying the Navy, destroying the missiles to getting everybody else to come fight a war to destroy a non existent nuclear weapon. And they are really pushing this nuclear bullshit. He's lightened up on it the last few days, but Vance has been emphasizing this fantasy of his that Iranians not only have suicide bomb vests that they apparently can bring here, but that they have nuclear suicide bomber vests or will soon have nuclear suicide bomber vests that could kill in the thousands. As somebody wrote this sounds like a teenager vaguely remembering a nightmare he had while he was stoned. Sounds like Vance. Hey, maybe the nuclear suicide vests are being used by Haitians in Ohio JV against your dogs and cats. Or maybe we have reached the true nightmare inflection point. Maybe there are Haitian Iranian dogs and cats wearing nuclear suicide vests
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in Ohio.
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Vance has also just cover all his bases, seemingly been distancing himself from this war and Trump and undercutting Trump. Somebody has twice leaked, once to Axios and once to Britain's Daily Mail. That is the spectrum of news organizations in this world. That Vance had a tense or a difficult phone call with Netanyahu in which he accused the Israeli strongman of overselling how easy the war would be. Wait, you're saying somebody was able to convince Trump something would be easy and bring him glory? No way. You will also Notice that whatever Trump or Hegseth. Hegseth, between his ecstatic religious visions and or blackouts, have cooked up, nobody else is involved. Trump threatened the uk. He cajoled the uk. He massaged the uk. He dismissed the uk. Yet in an interview over the weekend with ITV News, Prime Minister Starmer still isn't biting. And if you have ever wanted to hear somebody politely, elegantly, eloquently telling Trump to F off in a central casting English accent, here you go.
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British Prime Minister (likely Keir Starmer)
Yes, of course there's been some hard discussions with President Trump, but a lot of what he said is designed to put pressure on me to change my mind and to get dragged into this war, but I'm not going to do so. I'm the British Prime Minister and I act in the British national interest and always will. So whatever the pressure, whoever it's coming from, I'm not going to waver on this. I will put the British national interest first. I don't think it's in our national interest to get dragged into this war. It is in our interests to protect British lives and British interests and our allies in the Gulf region. And that's what we're doing.
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Frame that bottom line. Trump and Hegseth may be sending thousands of American ground troops or marines or sailors into an ambush in Iran, and they may be sending many of them, maybe most of them, to their deaths. Not that they care. And why would Hegseth care? Hegseth is fine. He has a giant crusader's cross tattooed on his drunkard's chest. The last crusade was in 1291. The 13th century hegseths lost that one. They lost nearly all of the Crusades. Matter of fact, the premise was Western control of Egypt and the Middle east and the destruction of all the Muslims. The 13th century hegseths lost. They got slaughtered. And for 735 years, the hegseths of this world were largely smart enough not to try this again today. Unfortunately, they are too stupid to not try it again because Hegseth has a tattoo. Yes, ICE at the airports instead of shooting people on the streets is a bad precedent, especially regarding the midterms. Ice at the airports, ice at the polling stations. Not that big a jump, to say nothing of it being a really unfortunate opportunity for ICE to partially rehabilitate its image. On the other hand, on the whole, it's still better to have them in the airports where we can find them and keep track of them, than having them shoot people on the streets. Also, any image rehab is being undone by one of the Dark horse candidates for craziest Trump administration member, certainly most self destructive. Todd Blanch, Deputy Attorney General, who does not know that he personally is poised to violate 18 U.S. code 592, the federal law titled Troops at polls. Let's hear Todd Blanch commit the potential crime. First, troops at polls. And then I'll read you the law.
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Keith Olbermann
Illegals can't vote. If you say, well, no, ICE at the polls is bad, but it's not troops at the polls. Ahem. 18 U.S. code 592. Troops at polls. Whoever being an officer of the army or navy or other person in the civil, military, military or naval service of the United States, orders, brings, keeps, or has under his authority or control any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held, unless such force be necessary to repel armed enemies of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both, and be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit or trust under the United States. Yeah, Todd already violated the wording of 18 U.S. code 592. Any troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held. Armed men. That's ice. And also whoever ordered them there.
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Let's see.
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Be disqualified from holding any office of honor, profit or trust under the United States. It's a little late, Trump, but there you go. And in the interim, bye, Todd. Incidentally, Todd said that to impress the kids at CPAC. CPAC nearly empty this year and reduced to the top 1% or bottom 1% of the MAGA morons.
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How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No, that was the wrong answer. Let me try it again. How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? No.
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Thank you, Matt Schlapp. The real highlight of cpac, though, if you missed it, was Mike Lindell. Mike Lindell being rung up by a female process server in the middle of an interview. He eventually grabs the legal papers she keeps pushing at him and he flings them, which legally means he has accepted being served. And this is especially being ad libbed. This is outstanding dialogue. Most of them break a law within the first three months. Most of them. We're on TV here. Please. We're on tv. Please. We're on tv. Please. We're on tv. Please. We're on tv. Please. Okay, we're on tv. What are you serving him with? What are you serving him with? I'm not accepting. What are you Trying to say we're on tv, please. Okay. By the way, Lindell was also wrong on the other part of that. He wasn't on tv. On tv. On tv. On tv. He was being interviewed by a guy who works for little Jimmy o' Keefe's streaming service.
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If Jimmy o' Keefe's online feed is
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television, then what you are listening to right now is. Is the CBS World News Roundup. I wish. So what has Trump hallucinated lately? Well, the story about the Sharpie pens that appears wholly fabricated. Then there's his claim that he learned about how winning makes people follow you and people following you makes you a leader. That he learned that from the legendary football coach Vince Lombardi, whom he says he knew when clearly he did not know Vince Lombardi. I have figured out something really disturbing though, that explains his phony Lombardi story and lifts it from his usual bunch of shit. The pen's story first. It is pure psychosis. He was offended, he says, at handing out thousand dollar pens at ceremonial bill signings. This is the clown who is pissing away $400 million on a ballroom. His successor will implode, hopefully live on pay per view. So Trump says he called the head of Sharpie pens. Get me Mr. Sharpie. And negotiated a special deal to get special gold colored Sharpies for only $5 apiece. First of all, the thousand dollar pens he got rid of were actually cross rollerball pens, $300 apiece tops. And the count on Sharpies, which let him save hundreds. They sell on Amazon. 40, 40 pens for 24 bucks. That's 59 cents each. But he is Elmer J. Fudd billionaire, so he got them for only $5 apiece. Also after his signature on the drawing of the nude in the Jeffrey Epstein birthday book. Why would he want to launch into a five minute monologue about pens, about Sharpie pens? What the f is wrong with this? And still the Vince Lombardi story is even more frightening. You know, Vince Lombardi was a very tough person, a very tough football coach. He was sort of a violent guy.
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Cino Show Guest
Actually, I knew him.
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Keith Olbermann
But he won. And he got away with things because he won. He didn't know him.
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He didn't know Vince Lombardi.
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He didn't know that Vince Lombardi.
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I'll explain.
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I'll show my math. Give me a moment. First, one other assumption about this is wrong. It turns out this is not a new hallucination.
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This is not a 2026 hallucination.
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It's an anniversary hallucination. A friend reminds me that on March 31, 2016.
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Ten years ago, a decade ago tomorrow,
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in an interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post, Trump told a similar version of this about Vince Lombardi.
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And remember, in 2016, he was only half crazy. I read from the transcript quote, vince
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Lombardi, I saw this.
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He was not a big man.
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And I was sitting in a place
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with some very, very tough football players, big, strong football players. He came in. These are tough cookies. He came in years ago, and I'll never forget it. I was a young man. He came in screaming into this place and screaming at one of these guys who was three times bigger than him, literally, and very physical, grabbing him by the shirt. Now, this guy could have whisked him away and thrown him out the window in two seconds. This guy, the player was shaking a friend of mine. There were four players, and Vince Lombardi walked in. He was angry, and he grabbed. I was a young guy. He grabbed him by the shirt, screaming at him, and the guy was literally. And I said, wow. And I realized the only way Vince Lombardi got away with that was because he won. This was after he'd won so much, okay? And when you have these coaches that are just as tough as him, but they don't win, there's revolutions, okay? Nobody but Vince Lombardi was able to win. And he got. I have never seen anything like it. It was such a vivid impression. You had this big, powerful guy, and you had Vince Lombardi, and he grabbed him by the shirt and he was screaming at him. He was angry at him. The tell, as always, is the line in there about big strong men. And you can say what you want about what his continued woozy obsessions with big, strong men is all about. Big, strong young men, preferably with tears in their eyes. But for our purposes here, it's. It's an indicator that he's just making this story up. All that was missing. There is a.
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Sir.
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It's possible Trump was in a, as he puts it, place, and the greatest figure in football of the 1960s suddenly burst in and started throwing football players around.
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It's interesting.
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Trump doesn't even think to explain if that was, you know, a football locker room place. And if not, where the hell else place could it have been? A bar, Something with a window that a player could be throwing Vince Lombardi out of. So not on the ground floor, so not a locker room in a stadium somewhere? This sounds like something Trump saw on TV in a documentary about Vince Lombardi, NFL Films, and thus the masters of the midway. See, Vince Lombardi retired as coach at the Green bay Packers on February 1, 1968, largely because of what he believed to be ulcers. February 1, 1968, Donald Trump was 21 years old and still at the University of Pennsylvania, not going to class. February 1, 1968. Trump's father was an obscure racist builder and landlord in the outer boroughs of New York. It is unlikely at best, that either of them would have had access to somebody like Vince Lombardi, easily the most famous figure in football at that time, still the most famous figure in football at that time when he came back to the NFL as coach in Washington in 1969, rivaled maybe by Joe Namath. And then Lombardi got sick again. This time, he let the doctors look at him. June 24, 1970, he was diagnosed with cancer, and he died 72 days later. Even then, Trump had just turned 24, and he was still living in Queensland, working for his father. Not only did Trump not know Vince Lombardi, but there was something else in that remark that struck me as deeply, deeply wrong and offensive. The part about, quote, he was a violent guy. Vince Lombardi was not a violent guy. He was tough and intense and he played and coached a violent game. And he actually, yeah, he grabbed football players by their shirts, and that was about it. He was actually a bleeding heart liberal who, among other unexpected things, was a champion for gay rights and gay players in the NFL in the 1960s. So I'm thinking about this for two days, and then it hits me. Trump didn't know Vince Lombardi. He knew Vince Lombardi Jr. He must have known Vince Lombardi's son, Vince Lombardi Jr. And he saw the TV thing about Vince Lombardi Sr. And just put the two of them together somehow. Vince Lombardi Jr. Was a football executive who football people I knew implied might have been kind of a violent guy. My only brief encounter with Lombardi Jr. Was maybe a high or a handshake. When I covered the 1982 NFL players strike, and Lombardi Jr. Was one of the negotiators for the owners. At a meeting in Washington once, I saw two of my friends among the players negotiation team come out to the lounge we used to hang out in between bargaining sessions, and they were ashen. I asked one of them what was wrong. Oh, nothing. One of our guys tried to strangle Vince Lombardi Jr. That's all. Seems one of their guys was a linebacker and a lawyer. He was insisting that players have access to their medical records. That was part of the strike. A New York Giants running back named Doug Kotar had died, the players believed, in part because he didn't know in time, because he didn't have access to his medical records that showed his headaches were a brain tumor. And Doug Kotar's shocking death was the background to that entire strike. And this negotiator for the players, the lawyer linebacker, asked for the records access. And Vince Lombardi Jr. According to my friends there, said, what the hell would you do with medical records? You guys are too stupid to read play charts, let alone medical. And according to their story, Vince Lombardi Jr. Did not get the next word out before the negotiator had leaped over the conference table and gotten his hands around Vince Lombardi Jr's collar, if not his actual neck, before the other players stepped in and broke it up and saved Vince Lombardi Jr.
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Keith Olbermann
But still, did Trump know Vince Lombardi Jr. Was I giving him too much credit? Is this just another Trump lie? It is not. Google still can be. Your friend. Donald Trump did not know Vince Lombardi. Donald Trump Knew Vince Lombardi Jr. I quote from Jeff Pearlman's perfect book, Football for a Buck, on the history of the usfl, the United States Football League, the league in which Trump briefly owned a team called the New Jersey Generals. The first time I met Donald Trump was on a flight to a league meeting, said Vince Lombardi Jr. Son of the legendary packers coach and president general manager of the Michigan Panthers. I didn't know who he was, just that he was a busy young guy. He started asking me all these football questions. Then he told me I had no idea what I was talking about. I thought, who the hell is this guy? Later on, I noticed one very unique thing about the people who worked for him. They only knew two. Yes, Donald, unquote.
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So.
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Keith Olbermann
So there it is. Trump. Trump did know Vince Lombardi Jr. And Trump either thought Vince Lombardi Jr. Was Vince Lombardi when he met him, or he thinks Vince Lombardi Jr. Was Vince Lombardi now. Or it's like everything else Trump lies about or conflates, or his mental illness conflates for him or his brain disease conflates for him. When Trump says Vince Lombardi was a very tough person, he was a violent guy. Actually, I knew him. He. He is not legally lying. You couldn't sue him over that, which is the mantra of Trump's life. If his lie led to somebody trying to steal something or shoot somebody or overthrow a democracy somewhere, you couldn't legally pin it on him because all he said was he knew Vince Lombardi and didn't say which Vince Lombardi. But nevertheless, it's not true. And it's in many ways worse than just a lie. It is Trump pulling one of the crooked deceptions via which he has sailed unstopped through a corrupt and evil life and adding it to the mix utterly, unnecessarily. Sure, Trump knew Vince Lombardi, just not that Vince Lombardi. By the way, while we're here, Trump also destroyed the United States Football League. It was he who insisted on suing the National Football League for antitrust violations and trying to move from the USFL's spring schedule, where they were beginning to get a little traction, into direct competition with the NFL in the fall. They won the lawsuit and the jury awarded them a dollar one dollar. Hence Jeff Perlman's book title, Football for a Buck. Now, to be fair, that $1 was trebled because antitrust decisions are trebled. So Trump and the other USFL owners got $3 in damages. $3, which would buy you five of those Sharpies that that Trump can get you for $5. Also of interest here, more testimony that Scott Jennings is putting on a pro Trump act. More evidence that Bill Maher is putting on a pro Trump act. And what happened to the dean of the pro Trump act? What happened to Rudy Giuliani? I mean this literally. Where the F is Rudy Giuliani? That's next. This is an all new edition of Countdown. 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. Mypolicyadvocate.com bettering your business takes working with the best.
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I went and sat on the little ottoman in front of him.
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Hi dad.
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Keith Olbermann
This is Countdown with Keith Olberman. Still ahead on this all new edition of countdown. So here's a question that came up the other day when I explained to somebody that I was friends with somebody else despite the fact that she was, when I met her, a Rudy Republican, an actual believer that Rudy Giuliani should have been president. I believe in fact, she cast a vote for him in a primary. She and 22 other people. Here is the question that came what the f ever happened to Rudy Giuliani? Next in things I promise not to tell. I'll try to answer that question by going backwards, by telling you my first experience with him now 30 years ago, and I knew he was nuts then. In the interim, we always have more 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. Speaking of people I've known forever and would rather say I never knew at all, Bill. Remember all the talk about him getting the Mark Twain Humor Prize at the Trump Memorial Kennedy center and Grill? Then the White House dismissed it as fake news and those around Maher denied it. Well, of course they're giving it to him. You know, Bill Maher, the guy who had dinner with Trump last year. And then Larry David did the only thing Bill will be remembered for when Bill is dead, Larry's piece for the New York Times, my dinner with Adolph. In fact, it may be given to Marr as the last event held at the Trump Memorial Kennedy center before they close it. So Trump can go over there and spray rust oleum Gold number 340647, 700 cans of it and then use whatever's left over on his own hair and his hand. Now, I hate to provide Trump any comedy material, but he has, as the kids say, the chance to do the funniest thing ever. In fact, he has two chances when Maher gets up on the stage, somebody who is as equally desperate as Bill Maher is, somebody who is willing to give him this tarnished piece of shit award that Maher is desperate enough to receive. And Maher says this is an award just like the Emmys. Only quote where I win because Bill seems to think his half assed low effort show seems to have deserved an Emmy at some point in the last 20 years rather than say Stewart or Colbert or Letterman or John Oliver or Craig Ferguson or Conan o' Brien or Jimmy Kimmel or even Jimmy Fallon or just bars and tone. My point is they have to have somebody else up there with him. Somebody to give him the comedy award who's also desperate just to be in the spotlight to give Maher the comedy award he does not deserve. And I have the perfect choice, Greg Gutfeld, the equally not funny, equally lazy guy from Fox. And then, and then they should take care of 2027 and have Maher give Gutfeld the Twain Award. Anyway, what Gutfield should hand Maher if that's not a good idea? Well, he should hand her the Shania Twain Award for comedy should be just a statue of Shania Twain. Now, if that's not the funniest thing ever, and frankly, saying it out loud, I'm thinking, you know, it's not the funniest thing ever. It sounds like something Bill would have done. 17 minutes on if that's not the funniest thing ever, then this would be the funniest thing ever. The award is scheduled to be handed out June 28. The Kennedy Trump Bar and Grill Rust oleum factory honors June 28. And then the Kennedy center closes. Here's the idea Award on June 28th for Bill Maher. Close the Kennedy center on June 27th. Your welcome, El Presidente. The runner up, Laura Loomer, the first real life professional impersonator of the Family Guy character Glenn Quagmire, the right wing influencer, human science experiment and practice subject for all those aspiring plastic surgeons out there who are still in high school. She is enraged at the appointment of Mark Zuckerberg to Trump's White House tech panel. Quote, so much for accountability. Zuckerberg deplatformed Trump, censored his supporters and then helped steal an election, the Venezuelan one, because there wasn't a stolen election here. I'm sorry, what a slap in the face to maga, writes Laura Loomer. Laura Loomer writes, it's a slap in the face. Careful with that language, Laura. Kind of dangerous to invoke a slap to the face when your own face is made out of old ashtrays and other recycled ceramics. But the winner, have you seen her do a Google search, an image search for her? Oh my God. And then say, is this AI? And the machine goes, nope, she actually looks like that. She looks like a Nintendo character. So anyway, the winner, Scott Jennings. The picture is growing clearer now. We're now up to three frequent panelists on the CNN Abby Phillips show. You know, CNN sets its 46 years of journalistic reputation on fire, starring Abby Phillip. Three panelists on that show who now say Scott Jennings entire shtick, mocking liberals, whoring himself for Trump, defending whatever crimes MAGA commits, lying, slandering, being anti American, being racist, being homophobic, being threatening, being paranoid and mostly, and this is the greatest of all of his many sins, mostly being mediocre. Three other panelists say it's all an act. First it was Miles Taylor, the former Trump staffer and first term anonymous guy. Then MAGA responded to that with outrage and umbrage demanding that Jennings sue Taylor. And Jennings responded by crickets, not even subtweeting him. Now, frequent guest Julia Roginski confirms she can, she says, corroborate accounts that Scott Jennings trashed Trump in the green room repeatedly in front of me. Also have my suspicions that he has a say in getting people banned from the show who stick it to him and make him look like a fool. Well, just as an aside, if that's the case, though, if that's fully the case, how could there be anybody else on the show anyway? That follows the former congressman Joe Wall Walsh, who says, yes, Scott Jennings is a fraud and in Walsh's words, a liar. Walsh also says Taylor gets some kind of veto on the other guests quoting Walsh prior to the midterms. There's no effing way I'll ever probably be invited to sit on a set with him because he's a f ing crybaby. And I have no doubt that he's probably told Abby's producers, don't put Joe Walsh at the table. I think because. So I can corroborate generally with what Miles said. Scott Jennings is a fraud. Continue the quote from Joe Walsh. He's an actor playing a role. Back in the day, Walsh says, when I was evil, Mr. Tea Partier, he was Mr. Rino, establishment Republican Mitch McConnell. And the what, he found out that he can make a shitload of money by being a MAGA tough guy. And that's what he's done. He plays a role. He doesn't believe what he says. He lies. He. He plays the role. And I think it's just disappointing for CNN and folks to give him that platform because he doesn't believe what he says. I'd rather have true believer MAGA folks on those shows than somebody like Jennings. Sadly, Joe, you're gonna get that opportunity
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
sooner than you think.
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Keith Olbermann
But anyway, in the interim, Jennings, as he makes his Kermit the Frog scrunchy face to the cameras, while actual liberals, usually overly serious ones, who should be asking themselves, why am I participating in this bullshit? Who am I that has to be on tv? Who am I? Am I Bill Maher? I would rather humiliate myself this way. Everybody goes on that show. Oh, you did a good job. You're participating in the mainstreaming of maga. You're participating in raising up Scott Jennings, not just maga, but lying, whoring MAGA to your level. You are bringing him up out of the gutter and saying he's the equivalent. His opinions, although they are wrong are the equivalent of Julie Roginski's or Miles Taylor or Joe Walsh's. They're not just go on one night. Let's have it the way it's going to be in the future anyway. Abby Phillip and her guests Scott Jennings. Anyway, so while Jennings makes those Kermit the Frog faces and the liberals stick to the facts and not making shit up like Jennings does, Jennings is the star of the Abby Phillips show. Which raises the question once again that I brought up here, why is she, Abby Phillip destroying whatever reputation she once had by participating in this? She used to do a news show on there. She wasn't very good at it, but at least it was her show and she might have gotten better and she could have stayed in the news business. She is hiding behind the concepts of oh this is political debate and the exchange of ideas in the marketplace. Ms. Philip Right Wing liars have enough platforms as it is. They can exchange their points of view on a dozen right wing news and talk channels and streams where they can lie without any more or less innocent passersby like yourself and your guests getting destroyed. The real problem arises Abby Phillip when the new Bari Weiss or Bari Weiss clone sent in by the Ellison demons takes over CNN and points his or her MAGA death ray at the people Trump still doesn't like. Kaitlan Collins, Jake Tapper, anybody else, even the ones who at times pandered to Trump or didn't fact check him at a debate. Funny, the debate I'm thinking of was co hosted by Kaitlan Collins and Jake Tapper and even the ones who platformed his whores like Scott. The new CNN is going to fire all the people like Abby Phillip and Abby Phillip will then walk out the door, probably with a little money. Good for you.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
But she will then think she has
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Keith Olbermann
a gig waiting for her at Ms. Midas. Touch Nowhere. Abby Phillip has a gig waiting for her nowhere because Fox isn't going to hire her. She's hated by the right. She contradicts Scott Jennings. If your name meanwhile is on the TV show of a whore like Scott Jennings, what does that make you? Abby Phillip? What do they call a person who lets the whore do the work but
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
then collects the money?
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Keith Olbermann
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Keith Olbermann
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Lily Herman
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Lily Herman
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Amber Grimes
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Lily Herman
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
Hi dad.
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Keith Olbermann
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Lily Herman
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Bob Pittman
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Keith Olbermann
Whatever happened to Rudy Giuliani? I'm serious. When was the last time you heard a story about Rudy Giuliani? Look, I am not asking for more Rudy Giuliani. It's nice that there haven't been any Rudy Giuliani stories lately. It's nice that maybe he's disappeared. It's nice that his lawsuits and lawsuits against him are not in the news and Trump isn't talking about him and they aren't trying to pardon him and he isn't trying to sell pardons or and he isn't involved in the Iran war. It's nice. But it does raise a question. And don't say it begs the question. That's not what begs the question means it raises the question, what the F happened to Rudy Giuliani? Well, that's a question that's been asked for a long time with a different meaning, but it's the same question. What the F happened to Rudy Giuliani? Has been asked more or less continuously since about two weeks after 911 to the number one story on the Countdown on my favorite topic, me and things I promised not to tell. And I hear this question about Rudy Giuliani a lot. What the F happened to Rudy Giuliani? When did his life go so horribly wrong? Here was America's mayor the rock in the hours of crisis on 911 and 12 and 13 and 14 and maybe for about two weeks. And what is he now, after literally years of trying to sell the Hunter Biden laptop story who did the Hunter Biden laptop story. Bite him. Four Seasons Gardening, that'll be part of his obituary. The mascara running down his face, gaseous emissions at phony election hearings. The role in the Sacha Baron Cohen film selling pardons, maybe asking for pardons, maybe popping Viagra constantly, maybe fired by WABC MAGA radio in New York by an equally crazy fascist conservative who finally had to get rid of him because Rudy's obsessional delusion about the 2020 election was too obsessional for this just Trump supporting MAGA lunatic. And the guy who fired him, when he fired him, had tears in his eyes and said Rudy was like a brother to him. To which Rudy responded by filing a multimillion dollar lawsuit against him. My brother. I mean Even back then 2008, I thought it was nuts that people actually thought Giuliani was the front runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, which he was widely held to be after Bush's reelection election. So 2005, six, especially 2007. And by the time that Republican presidential nomination came about, he was already on his way to having spent millions to finish last. But it was the last nail in the coffin. He lives in a Democratic debate in 2007 on October 30, before the field shook out everybody but Obama and Hillary. And one of the other candidates was excoriating the Republicans and their exploitation of terror and the Al Qaeda attacks. And he said of Giuliani, quote, there's only three things he mentions in a sentence, a noun, a verb and 9, 11 that also ran candidate was named Joe Biden and Rudy Giuliani's dislike of him turned to hatred at that exact moment, which was also the exact moment at which any hopes Giuliani had of being elected anything ever again vanished. It also explains the entirety of Giuliani's behavior towards Biden afterwards and where Giuliani went when Biden stepped away from the public stage. But anyway, it was clear to me in September 2001 that sadly what we were seeing at that time was a bad man having a couple of good days before that month was out. His response to the attack on democracy was to himself personally and in his own way also attack democracy. To propose that the November election to choose his successor as mayor of New York York be postponed or that he be kept on as co mayor because Rudy Giuliani actually said he was too invaluable to stop being mayor. That whoever was elected by the people, well maybe that should just wait. But if it couldn't wait, maybe that should be like A trainee mayor, while Rudy still ran the city till further notice. There had always been more subtle hints that Rudy Giuliani was never a good man, just a slightly smarter one. The venomous Rudy, the scheming Rudy, the amoral Rudy peaked out from time to time, usually in the context of sports, which is where I met him. You will remember he was a professional New York Yankees fan. Always went to the games for free, mind you. Dug out seats for himself and his wife, wife for his other wife, for his next wife, for the kids, for the friends. When I still had friends at Yankee Stadium, they estimated Rudy used to cost them thousands of dollars every time he showed up. Also, he always left via the clubhouse and got in the way of all the reporters and the players. Always wore a Yankees cap, billed himself as, quote, the number one Yankee fan. And then when the 2008 Republican nomination
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
was still up for grabs and the Boston Red Sox were playing in the
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Keith Olbermann
2007 World Series, Rudy Giuliani was campaigning for president in New Hampshire, Red Sox territory. And Giuliani suddenly announced he was rooting for the Red Sox in the World Series. This is like being a Trump fan
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
and rooting for democracy. You will note that one of Rudy
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Keith Olbermann
Giuliani's successors, distant successors, but successors nonetheless, as mayor of New York, Zoran Mamdani, actually put out a press release about Bronx bus lanes, catered to service Yankee
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
Stadium and said, even the mayor of
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Keith Olbermann
New York has to help, even Yankees fans. He didn't even pander to Yankees fans. And here's Rudy Giuliani, who spent a lifetime pandering to Yankees fans, pandering to Red Sox fans. And that, that moment, 2007, was a decade after I found Rudy Giuliani out. I went back with Rudy even longer than that.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
I think it's 1996. It might have been 1995. I was called at ESPN by the
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Keith Olbermann
Deputy mayor of New York City, Fran Reiter, and the staff of the Baseball hall of Fame.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
And they wanted me to come in from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut, literally to the steps of City hall to emcee an event for what must have been three dozen Baseball hall of Fame members.
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Keith Olbermann
As I got there, and it was a beautiful spring morning, the deputy mayor
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
approached me, the mayor a few steps behind her.
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Keith Olbermann
As she began to introduce us, she
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
realized Rudy had begun to wander off.
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Keith Olbermann
Rudy. Rudy.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
She bellowed. She had quite the voice.
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Keith Olbermann
He wandered back towards us. This is Keith Olbermann from espn. He is going to be the mc. You will have to introduce him after you speak.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
He will introduce the players. The mayor seemed to be having trouble focusing on me. His head was turning from side to side, and I thought of the old joke, just keep your eyes on the
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Keith Olbermann
Oberman in the middle, sir.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
He extended a hand, missed mine, then
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Keith Olbermann
recalibrated as we shook hands, he grunted something. The deputy mayor now roared at him, Rudy, you have to introduce him. His name is Keith Olbermann from espn.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
He's the mc. He turned and looked at her and made a grunting sound again. Deputy Mayor Ryder now screamed at Giuliani,
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Keith Olbermann
repeat it to me.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
He looked at me. Then he looked back at her and
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Keith Olbermann
he said, his name is Keith Olbermann from espn. He's the mc.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
With annoyance, Fran Rider said, thank you. There was also a little relief in her voice. Rudy Giuliani smiled and wandered off again like. Like he'd just discovered electricity.
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Keith Olbermann
I took my seat in the front
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
row of the stage built atop the City hall steps. The president of the hall of Fame spoke first.
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Keith Olbermann
The mayor sat next to me, and
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
Giuliani at one point leaned in while the head of the hall of Fame was talking, and he whispered to me,
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Keith Olbermann
your name is Keith Olbermann from espn. You're the mc. I introduce you.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
I said something confirming that, and he smiled broadly, like a child who was about to get some candy for adding two plus two. The president of the hall of Fame wrapped up, introduced Mayor Giuliani, who bounced up onto the stage and thanked him, and got the name of the president of the hall of Fame wrong. He then launched into a speech taking credit for the great weather, for the great terrific early season performance of the
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Keith Olbermann
Yankees and the Mets and the Dodgers
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
and the Giants who had moved out of New York in 1957. But if he'd been mayor in 1957, then they wouldn't have moved out and New York would have the four teams it deserves. And look at all these great players behind me, and let me now turn it over to a good friend of mine and a great baseball man. And he looked at me and he forgot my name. And finally he looked the other way, behind him, where the deputy mayor had her head in her hands on the other side of the podium, and Rudy Giuliani said loudly, and it was picked up by the microphone. Rudy Giuliani said loudly, what's his name?
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Keith Olbermann
Who is he?
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
As the crowd roared and some of the hall of Fame players seated behind me gave me pats of consolation on my shoulder. I seem to remember Al Kaline in particular getting a good laugh out of this. Fran Rider screamed. And this also was picked up by the mic.
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Keith Olbermann
Keith Alderman for ESPN the mc. You repeated it to me.
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
Giuliani turned back to the crowd as if there had been no way they could have heard or seen any of this. And he said, let me turn it
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Keith Olbermann
over to a good friend of mine
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Keith Olbermann (continued commentary)
and a great baseball man, Keith Obelman, our NC from espm. I just sat there. More laughs and consolations from the players behind me. And now I'm certain I could hear the laugh of the Detroit Tigers great late Al Kaline rising above the others. Al later came over to commiserate with me as I was sitting there in the moment and thinking, should I say thanks, Mayor LaGuardia? And then I concluded, no, I was representing ESPN and the hall of Fame. He said it again. Keith Obelman for me, I just got up and I told the crowd, not on the microphone, in case somebody was recording the microphone. I just got up and told the crowd, sorry, I wasn't sure he meant me. So if you are saying to yourself, what on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani with that brown schvitz pouring down his face and the great disappearance of the year 2026, I am saying to you, he has been this crazy for 30 years. You were just lucky enough to not have noticed. And dammit, it's all true or my name isn't. Keith Ogleman, our NC from esp.
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Keith Olbermann
I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. It'd be a really bad thing if something really bad happened to Rudy and we just didn't know it yet. And I've done this commentary. I mean, it would be a really bad thing. And then I get over it in 10 to 15 minutes. Our musical directors of Countdown are John Philip Chenale on keyboards and handling orchestration, and Brian Ray on guitars, bass and drums. And they had nothing to do with that remark I just made about Rudy. Their work is produced by TKO Brothers. Nancy Foust, the best baseball stadium organist ever, who also had nothing to do with my remark about Rudy, is responsible for the satirical and 50 musical comments. When we play the sports music, it's the old Olmen show. Theme from ESPN2, written by Mitch Warren Davis, courtesy of ESPN Inc. ESPN and Mitch Davis have nothing to do with my remark about Rudy either. Other music was arranged and performed by the group no horns Allowed. And my announcer today was my friend John Dean, who also had nothing to do with my remarks about Rudy. Boo may associate himself with my remarks earlier about Bill Maher. This program was produced by Ted. Everything else was, as always, my fault. That's Countdown for today. Day 435 of America held hostage again. Just 1,028 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term. Unless he's removed sooner by Epstein and all those failures, he says he hangs around so he can feel more successful. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Bulletins as the news merits. Until the next one, I'm Keith Olbermann. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. Countdown with Keith Olbermann 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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Amber Grimes
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