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TRUMP IS GIVING IRAN $14B WITH WHICH IT CAN TRY TO KILL AMERICANS - 3.23.26
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Keith Olbermann
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Keith Olbermann
aisle in Walmart Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a production of iHeartradio. President Shitstain is paying Iran to try to kill Americans $14 billion he is giving to Iran 14 billion for oil Iran can now sell per Trump. What's that called again? If you are adhering to our enemies, giving them aid and comfort at a time of war. President Shit Stain, who celebrated the death of Robert Mueller just as he celebrated the death of Rob Reiner, who Friday said the Strait of Hormuz would open itself and then Saturday said he would destroy Iran's power grid unless Iran opened it. Who then compared the majority political party of this nation to Iran, who announced he is sending his ICE terrorists into the airports now because anybody can be a TSA agent. And apparently he forgot all about his mass deportation plan and who's had some sort of hallucinatory dream in which he has decided this was the death of Iran when Iran is not only winning but most Americans recognize that Iran is winning. President Shit Stain has freed up $14 billion of Iranian oil that Iran can now sell because that will lower the price of a barrel of oil by like a dollar for like a week and Iran will get the money. And I don't know, I really thought one of those fops in his college of half baked knowledge would have tripped over Article 3 Section 3 CL1 of the Constitution at some point in their wasted lives, Article 3, Section 3, Clause 1, which reads Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. Giving Iran monetary aid for the war Iran is levying against us would seem to cover most of that definition. Also, Iran's response to the demand to open Hormuz or he will destroy the power plants Hormuz, which President Shitstayn said would be self opening Iran, noted that those power plants also supply the region and destroying them would plunge United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar and a lot else of the Gulf into darkness. And also Iran would respond by attacking Israel's power infrastructure if now we're deciding that attacking power structure is okay, and attacking the desalination plants of Iran's neighbors would also be on the table and that would mean having to immediately evacuate cities like Riyadh. And oh yeah, Iran would then also completely close the Strait of Hormuz and oil would be what, $175 a barrel by Friday. Certainly even those in his Cabinet, let alone those in his cult, must realize that there l lives are in danger because of this disintegrating creature, President Shitstain, and that this nation's only hope is for Republicans to remove him from office now by any nonviolent means available. I could spend an hour going through all the individual ominous developments from the Middle east and from the equally bomb scarred surface that is Trump's brain, but by the time you hear this, they may have all been newly altered by new empty threats from President Chitstay, and more importantly by not so empty responses by Iran, beginning with that obvious one if we do blow up their energy grid, a war crime by the way, on top of everything else that's going to happen in the Gulf area by result of this. In addition to that, they might try to take our energy infrastructure offline via cyber attack. To say nothing of the reality that the average freedom seeking Iranian who Trump is still waiting on is way less likely to greet us as liberators if he can't see us because the entire Gulf region is pitch black and Pete Hegseth made it that way. Still, there are a few particularly nightmarish scenarios developing at this hour, and they are the the separation between Trump and reality is growing and growing fast. There was yesterday's post about the death of Iran, as if he can decide such things solely by thinking of them with his superior mind. There was the earlier post declaring NATO cowards while he is begging NATO to save him from the unfolding disaster at Hormuz. And not only did he attack Robert Mueller in death, and most of America had forgotten, he attacked Rob Reiner in death and attacked the Kennedy family after JFK's granddaughter died. And while lots of us have refused to praise people who have recently died who we have viewed as evil, and there is no law saying, you can't say Charlie Kirk sucked. There's no law. Yet none of us responded to such a death as Mueller's with, good, I'm glad he's dead. And if any of us did, hey, guess what? We're not president. Our words are not comparable. Additionally, since Trump posted that, he's continued to post anti Mueller screeds and lists of Mueller's supposed crimes, not only did he say that, but Trump's mindless rage about Mueller seems to have let the cat out of the bag. He has spent eight years repeating the lie sculpted for him by Bill Barr that Mueller had exonerated him. Say, buddy, if. If Mueller exonerated you, why are you celebrating his death? And not only did he say that, but where were his key cabinet members to defend him in the middle of a war? Marco Rubio, awol, Hegseth, mia. Yesterday, only that fop Scott Besant went on NBC and he screwed the whole thing up. They asked him about the I'm glad he's dead quote, and Besant launched into his standard dilettante, insisting that Trump's insane petulance was understandable given, quote, what may have been an illegal raid on his home at Mar a Lago. They were going through his wife's wardrobe. And when even Kristen Welker realized Besant somehow thinks Robert Mueller had ordered the search, when in fact it happened four years after the Mueller report and the search was ordered by Merrick Garland and Judge Reinhardt and not Mueller. Besant ignored her and he again said, I think given what has been done to him, and she corrected him again. And this idiot still for a third time, in effect, insisted Mueller and Jack Smith were the same person. The crazy has been coming down so fast, you already forgot about this other thing, too. You already forgot about this, didn't you? This, this from way back when in ancient history. Last Thursday. Why didn't you tell US allies in Europe and Asia, like Japan, about the war before attacking Iran? So we are very confused about who knows better about surprise than Japan. Okay. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl, Pearl Harbor? Okay. Right. He's asking me. You believe in surprise? I think much More so than us. With the new Prime Minister of Japan cringing next to him, this episode is still a soul shaking crisis in Japan right at this moment. Now, as you know, I'm a glass half full guy, me. I. I'm just happy Trump said this with her here and not the Chancellor of Germany. Lost in this disaster is yet another sign of Trump's accelerating mental crisis. Six years ago, in their book A Very Stable Genius, Philip Rucker and Carol Lennig reported that when Trump went to Pearl harbor in 2018, he knew where he was. He had heard the words Pearl and Harbor before. He just didn't know what had happen. He knew it was a battle. And as they approached for a private tour of the USS Arizona Memorial as sacred ground as we have in the United States of America, Trump asked his chief of staff John Kelly. Hey John, what's this all about? What's this a tour of? Again, I'll be the optimist here. Trump did not ask Kelly, who is this Pearl harbor anyway? So Trump is nuts. More nuts than he was Friday. And the people defending him like Bessant also appear to be nuts. No, Jack Smith's a different person. Which brings us to the second point. Besant is on TV on the war. They also had Julius Sugarbaker on. That would be Secretary of Agriculture Rollins and poor dense lost Sean Duffy. Where the hell are Rubio and Hegseth and even those random passersby? Trump has turned to to try to resolve the war he stupidly started. People like this jerk off Steve Witkoff and this other jerk off Jared Kushner and the official jerk off Howard Lutnick. Nevermind the A team. He doesn't have an A team. Where is the F team? While the White House is leaking like a sieve that it's trying to get a ceasefire deal with Iran and its demands are basically what Trump turned down just before he bombed it last month. And basically what Trump turned down when he tore up the Obamacare treaty with Iran last term. Oh, and oh, by the way, Iran keeps saying we don't want a ceasefire. We're not done with you yet, Trump. The third point of importance, Trump's inability to stick to one plan for more than 12 hours is not simply the practical application of Richard Nixon's old madman theory where Henry Kissinger was told to convince the Soviets that Nixon was actually unstable and he could do anything at any point, take whatever deal you can get from him. This isn't a madman theory, this is a madman fact. Since Friday, President Shitstayne has said the war is over. It was basically won. Iran is dead. He would bomb Iran's energy infrastructure if they don't open the strait. But he also said the strait would open itself and that it was all winding down. This while the UAE's foreign minister told Marco Rubio his country is prepared for nine more months of this war. And the president of United Airlines, who is after all in the oil and gas consumption business, told every one of his employees in a company wide email that his company is preparing for oil to hit $175 a barrel and not get back down into two digits before the end of next year. The fourth point there is not only no plan about the, you know, boom boom part of the war, there is no plan to try to undo the damage to the world energy economy. $175 a barrel. The Notus news outlet reports that six months before he started the war, Trump had the Department of State fire all nine of its in house oil and gas experts. So there was nobody to tell Trump or these morons like Besant who really when he goes on TV should dress up like a courtier at Versailles. When Louis XIV was big, there was nobody there to tell all of them that if everything is ablaze in the Middle east, the uae, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, others would have nowhere to ship or store the oil and gas they produce, so they'd simply stop producing it. They have a place to store it in the interim. It's called under the ground, meaning that if the war was settled during the opening day of the Major League Baseball season Wednesday, prices would keep going up through like the World Series. And they still think the treason part of this? Sure, we just take the Iranian oil that's stuck at sea and embargoed and we take off the embargo and then we let it sail into Indian and Chinese ports and the money magically somehow does not get to Iran because the Chinese will certainly let us mess with their economy or steal their oil. Or because PayPal doesn't work in Tehran at the moment. They still think the treason part giving Iran $14 billion in the middle of a war against Iran. They still think this is genius, this monkey in a suit. Besant actually said, in essence, we are jiu jitsuing the Iranians. We are using their own oil against them. No, Scotso, we are using their oil against us to kill Americans fighting a war against Iran. Nah, it could be worse. Scott Perry could be the Treasury Secretary rather than Scott Besant, the fascist. Congressman Perry thinks we can bill Iran for the Bombs we are dropping on Iran. I would actually like to see Iran pay for this, whether it's 20 billion or 200 billion, whatever it is. Look, they've been at war with us for 47 years and it's finally being ended by the President, which is awesome, but it comes at a cost. They have resources. They could pay that bill. He would actually like to see Iran pay for this. I would actually like to have eternal life. I don't think it's going to happen. We should no longer question whether Scott Perry, Congressman of Pennsylvania, is a foreign asset. He is so disconnected. We should ask if he is in fact an asset from a different planet. Planet stupid. The fifth point, there is a rush to try to backfill this now treasonous war. We're giving the enemy money to backfill it with anything. New Face the Nation poll. 60% of Americans disapprove of the U.S. taking military action against Iran. 57% think it is going badly. From the files of the pollster G. Elliot Morris, Trump has lost his moron base. White voters making under 50k backed him by 22 points in 2024. They now disapprove of him by 4. That is a swing by 26 points. The swing among Hispanics is minus 34. So they are desperate to retrofit Iran with any idea. They think of something fast, fellas. The latest story among the neo neocons is that we have now discovered. Oh, yes, Trump was right. It was true. Iran was trying to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile, as one analyst noted. Sadly, no. As he pointed out, the sequence was Iran was developing one years ago when the Ayatollah that Trump just, you know, murdered imposed a range limit, 2,000 km. He believed. I'm not a big fan of, of of religions running countries, but he believed it was not morally justifiable to shoot a rocket that could go more than 2,000 kilometers. So they changed. They stopped the ICBM program and turned it instead into a space program. Shooting up is apparently morally justified. Then Trump bombed Iran last summer and the Ayatollah said, effort. I was wrong. And last October, he lifted that limit. And now they are building ICBMs. Trump did that. Those are Trump's Iranian ICBMs. And why not? He's giving them $14 billion. Oh, and the new Ayatollah, George W. Ayatollah is way less worried about moral justification for any of this. Also, the old one was 86 and he was barely staving off cancer. And he and his advisors wanted to see him Succeeded by somebody who was like him, except President Shitstain blew him and his advisors up. And now everybody is mad for some reason. The sixth point, there is another rush to try to get seriously Putin in to fix everything. Among other things, Putin was generous enough to offer to go in and after we destroyed Iran, to extract the remaining enriched uranium, whatever, we didn't blow up, or as it occurred to me, I hope to somebody else, whatever, the Iranians didn't blow up themselves as some sort of kind of doomsday vengeance act against their neighbors. Politico also reports Putin's thug, Kirill Dmitriev, pitched Witkoff and Kushner, the moron twins, with another fabulous limited time offer. The Kremlin will stop sharing intelligence with Iran, like the exact coordinates of where all our military assets are in the Middle East. And again, we have given the Kremlin more money by freeing up their embargo to oil. So we're paying the Iranians and their assets, the Russians. Trump is funding both sides of this war. They would stop sharing the intelligence with Iran about where our troops are if Washington would simply shut off all the intel about Russia that it shares with Ukraine. The real danger here, of course, is the absolutely plausible scenario in which Trump doesn't, or maybe didn't know that we were still sharing intel about Russia with Ukraine. Huh? The seventh point now, the reverse of that idea, the reverse version of that trade. This might be the first good news of the war. The President of Finland, Alexander Stubb, was at a think tank in London and a reporter asked a really, really simple question. And I can't tell if Stube is genuinely surprised by this or he had to pretend to be surprised because this is all they're talking about behind closed doors. But it doesn't really matter which.
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Just following on from that and your point about indulging in real politic now, why doesn't Europe go to Trump and say, if you want assistance in the Gulf, here's what we want you to do on Ukraine?
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Keith Olbermann
I think it's a really good idea. I might pick you up on that. No, I think it's actually a really good idea. So I'm available for advice. Can my team take your phone number? No, but, I mean, yeah, I'll think about it. I'll talk about it with my colleagues. Some of them are here in London today. In other words, why not get Trump out of this disaster by offering him a trade? You want EU and the European nations to help you with boats and service personnel and whatever else, and rockets in Iran get Off your ass, break with Putin and save Ukraine. I don't think they hadn't thought of that already. Also, how in the hell in the presidential world lottery, how in the hell did we get Trump and Finland got that guy? He went to high school in Florida, by the way. And he went to Furman on a golf scholarship. And Trump likes him because he plays golf. I wonder how many putts he had to miss intentionally, given that President Stubbs set out in life to become a professional golfer and he's still really good. And as we know, at Trump golf courses, only Trump is allowed to pretend he isn't having any trouble with his putts. The guy went to high school in Florida. The eighth point. ICE at the airport. This is great, actually. How could anybody just arriving today to run the security lines ever live up to the gold standard of efficiency and courteous professionalism established by the tsa? Trump, of course, said they would be there primarily to arrest Somalians. The rest of his cabinet said, no, no, they'll check IDs and try to keep the lines from, you know, spilling over. Look, this means one thing. ICE will not be terrorizing Minnesota or anywhere new. Not as much anyway, because they're all at the airport like everybody else, doing nothing. It's so obvious that even Laura Ingraham noticed it and railed against this. Why aren't we departing? Laura, at the end of the day, remember, sending ICE to the airports is supposed to put pressure on Democrats to fund ICE and dhs. Because the last thing Democrats would want is a bunch of thugs at the airport rather than out on the streets killing protesters. Once again, this is hell. But thank God Trump's administration of derelicts is an administration of stupid derelicts. And the ninth point, this is really just a mixture of paranoia and conspiracy theory. I know. These guys really are this stupid. They are stupid derelicts. But to twist the old phrase, just because they're stupid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Given that Trump has now reposted a meme that reads third term for Trump as a reward for a stolen election. I told you so on that. I can never shake the feeling that when I see this much failure, I cannot help but allow for the possibility that it is intentional, that it was deliberate, that Trump is throwing this war. I mean, what could help him more now since he is too stupid to achieve a military triumph, no matter how pointless? What could help him more now than an Iranian cyber attack that really did shut off parts of our energy infrastructure or anything else domestic? He could pin on the Iranians, especially as this chaos drags into the summer with the midterms growing larger and larger at the horizon. Start at the end. Trump cannot let himself be impeached and removed from office. He can't. And there are enough state charges right now to put him in prison rather quickly that way. He can't let it happen. His rage at the death of Mueller is a reminder of how far he has gone to prevent that from happening. That third term meme is a reminder of how far he would go to prevent it from happening in the future. So never mind his problem in 2029. What's the easiest way to not be jailed? Well, don't get impeached. Well, what's the easiest way to not be impeached? Well, don't lose the midterms. Well, what's the easiest way to not lose the midterms? Not have any midterms. Jif of guy tapping forehead what's the easiest way to not have any midterms? This bullshit save act that slowly disenfranchises people that even some Republicans will not support a military coup over a vague terror threat that he makes up. Now he needs to save that for 29. But an actual Iranian caused domestic crisis. Oh, there you go. You know what would really work for Trump? Maybe a sneak attack like Pearl harbor. Pearl Harbor, Mr. President. No, you were, you were there. No, no, no, Mr. Harbor. No, no, Mr. President, you did not meet. You did not meet Pearl harbor at Epstein's house. One other important note not related to Iran buried in all of the Trump disasters news. The Wall Street Journal reports there is a palace coup attempt against Chuck Schumer. Let me just read this quote. Senator Chris Murphy. Okay, you have me already. There's more. Senator Chris Murphy was dining with progressive activists at a French restaurant in Washington's Georgetown neighborhood when the conversation about how to advance their legislative priorities turned to a thorny what to do about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. To the surprise of some attendees, the Wall Street Journal continues, the Connecticut Democrat, a rising star in the party's left flank, responded that some lawmakers had been doing informal counts to see whether enough votes existed to remove the New York Democrat from his leadership position. According to people familiar with the mid February dinner, Murphy explained that Schumer had enough backing to remain as leader. Oh, please, please, please. A wartime concierge oh, please, please, please. Minority Leader Chris Murphy. Please. The article points out that a major Democratic concern is how badly Schumer has handled the run up to these midterms and that's where it gets sad. More from the Journal quote. In more than four dozen interviews with Democratic senators, candidates, current and former congressional aides, activists and advisors, many said the concern about Schumer's leadership was. You bet your ass. Meetings between Democratic chiefs of staff on Senate business often veer into erring discontent with Schumer. You bet your ass. And how to pressure him to step aside as leader after November's elections. Well, way to harsh my buzz. What's the point of changing wartime consiglieres if you wait until after wartime is over? I mean, the moment to force Chuck Schumer out is now, now, now, now. First of all, it'll be easier to force him out now because Schumer is still deep in his annual winter hibernation. But he'll be waking up, emerging from his cave soon and beginning his search for cocktails. Replace him now. By the way, I think the Georgetown French restaurant they mentioned there, it has to be 1789. That was the name of the place. And that reminded me of a fantastic Ted Turner Goes on a date story about 1789 from my youth when I worked for Ted Turner. That I'll have to tell you, I'll have to do this in a future episode. Oh, my God, was that a great story? I'm sorry to tease it like that, but just keep that in the back of your mind. Anyway. Also of interest here, the deliberate sabotage of CBS News by Barry Weiss and the Ellisons extends to the destruction of the place where American broadcast journalism was born, CBS Radio, where the first broadcast news organization was created by Bill Paley and Paul White and then Edward R. Murrow. A lot on that coming up, including the day the head of CBS Radio in New York made my career possible. Tangible. But there's also good news for cbs. Bari Weiss has her latest dream, host of the morning show for tv, Stephen A. Smith. Because in a stupid contest, Barry Weiss and Stephen A. Smith would finish in a dead heat. That's next. This is countdown. 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Keith Olbermann
Still ahead on this all new edition of countdown. Sure, the Ellisons and that putz Barry Weiss are turning CBS into the czarist broadcasting system. But the first reason they are all going to hell is they just killed off CBS Radio, one of my many alma maters, KNX in LA, CBS Network Radio 1987-91 and one of my foremost inspirations. And long before I worked there, their chief newsman in radio in New York single handedly convinced me I wasn't just kidding myself when I thought I could get a career out of this. It was one of the most dramatic events of my life. And it was just a letter. The Lou Adler Letter. Next in things, I promise not to tell about why the Ellisons and Barry Weiss are going to hell for killing CBS Radio News. 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, the Bronze Worse. You know what an eggcorn is? Eggcorn, as in egg and corn. It's a malapropism that kinda makes sense, but not really eggcorn. If you don't say egg fully and you just say eggcorn, it sounds like acorn, like Extreme Court or Doggy Dog World. Well, here's a new one. It's new to me. I find it is on some extant eggcorn lists. It was about Jack Hughes, the Olympic hockey hero who threw it out the window by demanding they give him the puck from the Golden Goal instead of leaving it on permanent display for all time at the Hockey hall of Fame, where he could always go spend some of his money and visit it. And then somebody from his team, the New Jersey Devils, evidently got to him and said, jack, ixnay on the Reed Gray, and he pretended to apologize. This is about Jack Hughes, or as I like to call him, Jack Hughes on Twitter X from a guy who is named Chris 950003 but his handle is hris302795 so I'm assuming he's a robot with a split personality problem. Anyway, Chris, whatever your number is, if that is your real number, I own up to it myself. He writes, I wanted him and his pre Madonna ass off the team prior to Milan. I wanted him and his pre Madonna ass off the team. P R E New Word Capital M A D O N N A Calling Jack Hughes a pre Madonna is. It's wonderful. It's just. It's wonderful. They used to call Jose Canseco that the runner up Worser Peter Navarro. Talk about a pre Madonna. The ex con member of both Trump administrations. He's obnoxious, he's tiny, he's loud, he's stupid and most importantly, he's always wrong. He is supposed to be some sort of economic advisor. He's not gotten anything right about the economy and he first appeared in the middle of it in 2017. He's always wrong. Obnoxiously, loudly and stupidly wrong. This is from the Wall street journal just 11 days ago. An opinion commentary US By Peter Navarro Mar 12, 2020 6Posted at 5:17pm Eastern dummy time from Peter Navarro Headline Iran war will lower energy prices. Oh what? Lower it to 5 foot 4? Peter the risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas and everything else. So when we don't get rid of that regime and the price gets baked back in and the price has gone up because we destroyed the distribution system and it got so bad that Trump had to start funding Iran and the United States in the middle of the same war so the prices will go up again. So you're not only wrong about the Iran war will lower energy prices, but you're going to be wrong about it again. Shouldn't you have the Wall Street Journal delete this? Pete Speaking of which, just delete your career. Peter is thinking nailed it. But our winners oh look, it's Barry Weiss and the Ellisons again. They've done it once more. They have yet to be pressed for why the problems at CBS have accelerated after the changes they made to supposedly stop the problems at CBS began to take effect. Of course they didn't do any of this to fix things. They brought Bari Weiss in to destroy CBS and then take the rap for it and leave only its name and slap the skeletal name, the vestigial name, the walking undead name CBS onto Bari Weiss's moronic fascist bullshit. Like Bezos did to the Washington Post for Trump, like David Zaslav did for CNN and Trump. And of course now the Ellisons are gonna buy CNN and do it again. Because CNN doesn't quite suck enough yet, though. I dare you. Watch that Abby Phillip crap some night and then come back to me and tell me it doesn't suck enough yet. Or Jake Tapper. Anyway, part of the mass layoffs at CBS Friday so their corporation could afford to pay this nitwit Weiss $150 million for her website for dummies. The Free Press. It's called that because it's free of thought, free of good writing, free of journalism, and free of quality. Part of the mass layoffs. So they could do this. They are shuttering CBS Radio. And particularly they are shuttering CBS Radio News. The place where American broadcast journalism was born. That's where it started. Before that, it was occasionally the reading of headlines on radio. And then CBS got tired of being restricted by the wire services as to what they could actually report. And they invented, at William Paley's insistence, their own news operation that was in breadth and scope the equivalent of United Press, of International News, of the Associated Press. But they did it just for themselves and their stations and their key people also had to be able to read on the air. That was where Murrow started and everybody who followed it. That is where American broadcast journalism was born. CBS News, NBC copied that, then ABC and Mutual and all the others, and CNN and everybody since, and me and everybody else in the business now, and they have just wiped it out. I will be talking about this next in things. I promise not to tell, as I may have alluded to earlier. But for now, this sure is working well for them. Because they don't want money. They just want Trump to. I don't know. I don't know what they want of him anymore. I don't know what they want him to do or what he thinks he can do. Not destroy them. Well, he destroys things deliberately. And then of course, he destroys things accidentally because he's an idiot. How are you going to avoid that? No, no, no, no. You have to destroy his presidency. That's your only option. Ellison's if you want to survive, Bezos, if you want to survive Musk, you're on the wrong side of this equation. Cuz this idiot you're backing is going to accidentally blow you to effing smithereens. Accidentally. In any event, new ratings from the CBS Evening News and CBS Mornings are in. And it begins to look like it would be a good move to save money by not putting the lights on in the studios anymore. Got any candles? The mornings are now down to 1,688,000 viewers. That's average for the week of March 9th. The Today show is just under 3 million. And like everything else in broadcast television, it's dying. This is nothing compared to what it was 10 years ago, let alone 30 years ago. But CBS is getting to the end faster. Cbs, where you can watch Gayle King Vichy. Gayle King disintegrate just a little bit more every morning. They are down 5% in total viewers and 2% in the demo. That's viewers under 55 compared to the week before. So they lost 5% of their audience in one week. They're down 10% in total viewers and down 18% in that demo year to year. So the week of March 9, 2025, they had 10% more viewers. CBS Mornings, the only morning show that declined in both of those categories since last year. Meanwhile, on the Tony decouple comedy Half Hour and I'm Almost Crying show and CBS Evening News, they have fallen under 4 million viewers. The last time that happened, Paramount fired the anchors of the CBS Evening News. The overall audience for the program for the five days ending March 13 was at about 3,830,000, 468,000 in the demo. But the real nightmare baby yet to come at Breaker. Lachlan Cartwright reports that Bari Weiss really, really, really wants to fix that morning show by bringing in a new, vibrant young co host to take over for poor Vichy Gale. To quote Lachlan Cartwright, the Free Press's founder. Latest obsession, trying to hire ESPN broadcaster Stephen A. Smith, who inked a five year, $100 million plus contract extension with ESPN just last March for the rebooted breakfast show. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is perfect. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. You're trying to kill CBS while the rest of us are trying to save ESPN from itself. Please, please, please, please, please make this happen. Please. Stephen A. Smith to CBS in the mornings pulled off ESPN where he's annoying as f, but he can't really do any harm other than the reputation all of us who ever worked there precluded from this vanity run for president. Or more likely, from being manipulated because Stephen A. Smith is really, really not smart. More likely being prevented from being manipulated into running as a stalking horse to pull votes away from the 2028 Democratic candidate. Oh my God. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Can you imagine it? Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. This is the CBS MORNING SHOW with Stephen A. Smith. Oh my God. Oh my God. Can you bring this McAfee guy along too? Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Oh my go. This is the CBS MORNING SHOW with Gayle King reporting from Vichy. Stephen A. Smith and the stupid guy in the sleeveless T shirt and Charles Kuralt on the road. Please, please, please make this happen. Please somehow make it happen. Stephen A. Smith on CBS Mornings. Oh, please. This is how much I want to see this. I will get up and watch it. That's how much I want this to happen. I will wake up. I can't even say the early to watch Stephen A. Smith try to do a news morning show. However, the Ellisons and Bari Weiss I know Stephen A. Smith through the mornings of CBS won't happen. But a feller can dream, can't he? Today's other worst persons in the world. 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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Keith Olbermann
As I have mentioned, if there was any doubt that the Ellisons and their fascist broadcasting company and this dim bulb buffoon Bari Weiss are going to hell. They removed that doubt last Friday with the news that among the lethal cuts they are taking to CBS is the elimination of CBS Radio News. This would be worse if Barry Weiss had any idea that journalism in this country had begun any earlier than the day she first correctly managed to count her toes. Which I believe was last year. But the gist is there is no iconography in broadcasting history in this country equivalent to to CBS News and CBS News began with CBS Radio News. I have worked for them all. NBC had Calton born and huntley and brinkley. Abc. Well, abc was actually just NBC's second network. Did you know that NBC in the 30s had two radio networks, red and Blue, and it was forced to spin off the Blue network in the 40s. Cause antitrust. That's what ABC is. It's really NBC junior. There are other legends in other venues, but none of them put together amounted to what CBS has provided to this day to American journalism. Murrow, Severide, Harlett, Douglas Edwards, Cronkite Rather, Alan Jackson, David Jackson, Dallas Townsend, Robert Trout, Charles Osgood. The list is almost endless. And all on it have two things in common. Radio and New York. How many people now trying to save this nation were inspired to try via broadcast journalism because of CBS News and those names and the successors to those names. I cannot begin to guess how many were in particular launched by the flagship station of that operation, WCBS Radio in New York. I also cannot estimate, but I can recount how one of them literally went from hoping to succeed in that business to being confident he could because of one small gesture from one big man at that station, which the previous geniuses who ran CBS radio took off the air just canceled it one day in 2024. To the number one story on the Countdown and the Adler Letter. Sunday, April 8, 1979. I had just survived a nine or ten hour drive in a blizzard right after my friend's dad had helpfully removed his snow tires. I had lived to resume my desperate bid to graduate college two months hence and get a job somewhere in radio in three months hence. Against all odds, amid all the snow and the Mess and the 360s on the highways of the central southern tier, I was still alive. I had walked the last five minutes through the snow drifts to my apartment and as I reflected that it was only six hours until my next class. Guess what? I was going to cut it. I then stomped off the snow on my porch at 207 Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, New York. And I opened the door and I dumped my bag inside. And then I reached back out onto the porch into the mailbox and I saw it. I saw it almost immediately peeking out. The return address on the letter read Adler, WCBS, CBS Radio, a division of CBS, Inc. 51 West 52nd Street, New York, NY 10019. And I could barely breathe. The Adler letter. And it was addressed to me and Lou Adler, its author, was Radio news in New York City. You're listening to News Radio 88. This is WCBS. Good morning. I'm Lou Adler. Good morning. I'm Jim Dudley. Sunny, breezy, comfortably cool day Today, the high 50s to 62. Clear skies overnight and a low of 41 to 46. Beautiful day tomorrow. Mostly sunny, very pleasant. The high 59 to 64. And Friday pretty nice. Hazy sun continued quite mild. High in the upper 60s clear and 52 degrees at 6:48. Among the stories we're watching, they're still walking that last mile in the long, long New York City newspaper strike. Lawyers for the striking pressman and for the New York Times. Times and the Daily News are going over contract language line by line this morning. The paper is still hoping to be able to publish Sunday editions. Art Athens is at the talks and we'll be hearing from him. 200 technical and professional employees at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. Lou Adler had begun on WCBS the year I was born. In 1967, the station went all news and it immediately became the best all news station in the country. Lou Adler co anchored the mornings and eight years earlier he had become the station's news director. He was the best. His co anchor, Jim Donnelly, was the best. His sportscaster, Ed Ingalls, was the best. His reporters were the best. His weatherman was the best. His traffic guys were the best. His jingles were the best. I listened daily in high school and when I was home from college. I did not take literal notes, only mental ones. My college graduation, if I made it, was seven weeks away. I had never worked on television in any form, but I had been on radio two or three thousand times by then and I thought I was pretty good at it. In the preceding months I had flooded every radio station in every major market in the Northeast with a demo tape and a resume. I figured I might as well start in my home of New York and not eliminate a potential job, no matter how long a long shot it might have been if I wasn't good enough to work there. I concluded I should let the people who ran New York's radio stations decide that, since that's what they were paid to do to this point, they had decided that by not responding. I got a few nibbles from some of the smaller stations, but as April 8 turned to April 9, I had no job prospects. Other friends were getting offers in Waterbury, Connecticut, and Laconia, New Hampshire, the thought of which, and nothing against either of those cities, filled me with terror. And now, after this ordeal by snow and without snow tires, after the WNEW woo woos and George's father's near fatal decision to remove those winter tires, here in my hand was a letter from the man who was, to my mind, the best radio newscaster I had ever heard. Obviously it would be a rejection, but even in that moment, even at my age, 20 years, 2 months and change, I was awestruck. Not only that Lou Adler had replied, but that he alone of all I had written to, he had been the one who replied. I believe I did not remove my parka before opening the envelope. I did put on one lamp in my apartment, and I read WCBS, CBS Radio, a division of CBS, Inc. 51 West 52 Street, New York, NY 1001-921297-54321. April 3, 1979 Mr. Keith Olbermann, 207 Delaware Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850. Dear Mr. Olbermann, this will reply to your letter of March 27th with which you included a tape of your sports work on WVBR fm. Sometimes it's hard to know what a man can do by listening to a brief tape. I stopped. Wait. A man Wait. Which? Which? Oh, me? I'm just a kid. Sometimes it's hard to know what a man can do by listening to a brief tape. But I must tell you I was excited by what I heard of yours. I think you have exceptional talent and poise, considering your age and experience. You read well and you write well and you know how to use tape. If the short tape is truly representative of what you can do, and if your knowledge of sports is broad and if you can perform under pressure, well, then I feel you have an excellent future in this industry. By this point my heart was beating so furiously I could hear it. I was this close to hearing it make the woo woo sound. I think it might be a good idea for us to meet. Let me know when you can make it to New York. I have nothing here for you, and I know of nothing solid. But if I feel as strongly about your potential after we meet as I do now, a meeting certainly could do you no harm. Sincerely, Lewis C. Adler, Director, News Operations and Programs, LCA PP George, I screamed into the phone. Can we drive back to the city right now? He swore. I read George the letter. He paused. No, we shouldn't go tonight. You're not going to see him tomorrow. Wait till you get your appointment. But Jesus, this is like the manager of the Yankees asking you to stop by the stadium and bring your glove and bat, just in case. I think I got to sleep at sunrise. I had read the Adler letter 20 or 30 times, and not until the 15th or so did I stop expecting it to have turned back into some courteous form, letter rejection, badly xeroxed and slightly off center. Slowly it dawned on me that my own assessment of my radio skills were not predicated on ego or even the context of what else I could hear in Ithaca, which was then the 351st largest radio market in the country. Good, but still 351st. I cannot now describe the sense of validation, except to say that I half seriously considered not taking Lou Adler up on his offer to meet him at CBS World Headquarters, blackrock itself, where Bill Paley would be working upstairs. Because short of offering me a job, there really was no chance Mr. Adler could do or say anything more that could make me feel better or more confident that my dream of becoming a sportscaster would not lead me to starvation or to Laconia, New Hampshire. In fact, in person, Lou Adler found more things to say. If I had an opening for a sportscaster right now, I would seriously consider you for it. I would hesitate because of your age and your lack of practical experience, and then I'd probably do it anyway. He was as warm and supportive and informal as his letter had been structured and serious and tempered. Let me take you on a tour. We saw the live studios, the production studios, the writers area. I wasn't just speechless again. I was breathless. And you should probably recognize this man by voice, if not by sight. Keith Olbermann, meet our sports director, Ed Ingalls. Ed, this is Keith. This is the fellow with the tape. Ed Ingalls took a moment, then his eyes widened. Hi. What a tape. Jesus, Lou, don't tell me you've hired him. Did you fire me? I must admit, I thought for a second it might have happened. I did not shrink entirely from that fantasy. Lou Adler laughed. No, Eddie. Then he paused. It was irresistible. Not yet. We went back to Lou Adler's office. Have you got any job prospects? I explained that a month earlier, thanks to a chain of recommendations that stretched from my internship at Channel 5 Television the year before through a young ABC sports executive named Bob Iger. I think it was to a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. I had met everybody at the radio network of United Press International, and I was supposed to go back and see them about working there freelance as summer vacation relief for the year ahead in sports and in news. Oh, that would be ideal for you, lou Adler said. It's a tough place to work. They don't pay well at upi. But it's here in the city and every other radio station in this country will hear you on the feed. That's where we hired Ed from Ed Ingalls. So if we have an opening. He smiled broadly. I can poach you and get you here in less than two weeks. Can I? Mr. Adler then suggested that the CBS station in Atlanta would be needing a sportscaster in a few months. I'll stay on top of that. They already have a copy of your tape. I hope you don't mind. I made several copies of your tape. If UPI does not work out, I am confident you will be offered a job in Atlanta and maybe quite a few other jobs. I hope I've been of some help. Stay in touch. It's one of the privileges of this job to be able to help, but frankly you're not going to need that much help. I may have taken the train back to my folks house or I may have just walked the 20 miles or floated the UPI job worked out full time. Two months later, at the first game I covered for money, I walked into the press box at Shea Stadium and there was was Ed Ingalls. Thank God you went to upi. The way Adler went on about you, I seriously wondered if he was planning to bring you in and kick me out. The Atlanta offer Lou Adler arranged came. I turned it down. About a year later I got a call from Adler's assistant saying they were going to need a new afternoon sportscaster at WCBS and would I send a new tape. But by that fall when the job opened, Lou Adler was leaving WCBS to become news director and vice president of another New York radio station, wor. His successor would choose somebody else for the job, just as I heard from the people who ran the radio network that the WOR folks had started the year before. It was not coincidental. Lou Adler had sent these people starting this new network, my tape. There is inevitably, from the distant future, a punchline. In 2006 or 2007, when Countdown had become the highest rated cable news program that wasn't on Fox, an email appeared in my inbox. I could not believe the name of the sender. Lou Adler. He began just as formally as he had in 1979. He actually felt it was necessary to remind me about his letter. He said he watched every night, and when he found other viewers of the program, he told them the story proudly. He said he asked if I remembered. I wrote back immediately. Remembered, remembered. I told him I still had his letter and I still had the sense of confidence it had given me, that it was central to my decision to more or less give up my sports career at the age of 38 and try news. And I told him the whole driving back to Ithaca and the snow tire story just for fun. Lou wrote back again within minutes. He had just retired after running the mass communications program at Quinnipiac College, and he said he'd had a strong sense of his career having been the proverbial punch into a pail of water. Now it was my turn to reassure him that the people like me, who he had supported and taught and broadcast to, had long since begun to support and teach the next generation. And that generation was already supporting the one after that. And there would be people in this business beginning their careers after both of us were dead, who would owe a debt of gratitude, whether or not they knew it. To Lou Adler, as I always will. Lou Adler died five years ago at the age of 88. There are letters and photos in the hallway that leads in from the front door of my home. They are from Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden and Lou Adler. Sam, The first thing you see when you come into my home. The Adler letter. It and the light switch. I've done all the damage I can do here. Thank you for listening. Burn in hell. Barry Weiss. Our musical directors of Countdown are John Philip Chenale on keyboards and handling orchestration, and Brian Ray on guitar, bass, drums and whatnot. And their work is produced by tko. Wrote Nancy Foust, the best baseball stadium organist ever is responsible for the satirical and pithy musical comments. The sports music is the old Olbermann show. Theme from ESPN2. It was written by Mitch Warren Davis. It appears courtesy of ESPN Inc. Till they hear what I said about Stephen A. Smith. Other music arranged and performed by the group no horns allowed. And my announcer today is my friend Larry David. This program was produced by Ted and Stevie and Rose and Kit. Ted is training new assistants. Everything else was, as always, my fault. That's Countdown for today. Day 428 of America held hostage again. Just 1,035 days until the scheduled end of his lame duck and lame brained term. Unless he is removed sooner by whichever side he's supporting in the war with Orion or well, I'm putting my money on the ghost of Robert Mueller. The next scheduled countdown is Thursday. Bulletins as the news merits. Until the next edition, I'm Keith Ulberman. 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. 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. 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Martha Stewart
Stewart from the Martha Stewart Podcast. Ever wonder how to make hosting look effortless? Here's a secret Getting ahead of the mess with new Reynolds Kitchens countertop prep paper just Lightly wet the counter beforehand so the paper grips and stays in place. Then lay down the Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper so drips and spills stay on the paper, not all over your kitchen counter. You can roll out dough, prep a party spread, or cook alongside family. When you're done, cleanup is as simple as lifting the paper and revealing that clean counter underneath. Effortless. You can use it for cooking and baking, prep and even crafting, especially when you need extra working space. Because when the mess is already handled, you can focus on what matters the food, the people, and the moment. It may look effortless, but now you know. It's Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper. Take a tip from me. Wet it, set it, prep it. Done. Make it easy. Make it with Reynolds Kitchen's countertop prep paper available now in the Reynolds Wrap aisle in Walmart.
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Keith Olbermann
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