TRUMP FIDDLES WHILE HEGSETH BURNS - 12.5.24

Countdown with Keith Olbermann

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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SEASON 3 EPISODE 76: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: I'd like to thank the one person doing the most to undermine and derail the Trump transition, and dissipate any momentum he might have.

Trump himself.

He learned nothing from Matt Gaetz and so Pete Hegseth spends another day "twisting slowly, slowly in the wind." We are now reduced to Hegseth's mother pleading directly on Fox to Trump - staring in the camera as she does so - to continue supporting her idiot child for Secretary of Defense. But when asked if she'll testify on his behalf to the Senate confirmation hearings she refused to commit to it.

Amazeballs.

What's relevant here is that among the big names mentioned as Plan B is yet another Republican congressman. If he gets the job rather than Hegseth or DeSantis or Ernst, the GOP will have a House margin of one (1) vote - which isn't a margin at all.

ALSO: I TOLD YOU SO. Sunday night I suggested not only should Biden pardon Hunter but that he should pardon everybody else he thinks of. Last night Politico reported they're talking about it, but that only the names Adam Schiff, Tony Fauci, and Liz Cheney came up.

And in case like me you thought Chris Cillizza and Chuck Todd were the same person, have I got a shock for you.

B-Block (33:43) SPECIAL COMMENT NO. 2 - I have been pondering when we started on the road to Trump - or at least when we discovered that what should be the final guardrail to protect American democracy, the President himself, wasn't a guardrail at all. I've settled on January 19, 2009 and read you what I wrote and said that night and even what sounds awfully like a prediction of the advent of Trump Brand Stupid Fascism.

C-Block (52:00) IN SPORTS: Have you heard about it? The worst sports idea of all-time? "The Golden At Bat" as proposed by Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. It is a gimmick as stupid as if you stopped the 7th Game of the NBA Finals and had the title decided by a free-throw shooting contest. And it's supposed to "attract young people to the game" which is a euphemism for "we expect you fans to be intensely concerned with how much money we owners make."

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0:00.0	Countdown with Keith Olderman is a production of IHeart Radio.
0:18.4	I would just like to go on the record and thank the person who is doing the most to undermine the Trump transition and the most to let the air out of the momentum of Trump's gigantic 1.4% landslide.
0:35.9	I'd just like to thank the person who is making Trump look stupid and
0:41.8	amateurish and failureish. And that person, of course, is Donald Trump. He was humiliated
0:51.9	with the Matt Gates nomination to the degree that when the thing finally became
0:56.9	utterly untenable and potentially destructive to him personally, he didn't even try to blame anybody.
1:06.1	He didn't stamp his feet.
1:09.1	He just moved on.
1:14.4	And he got the famous prosecutor who put Dwight Gooden,
1:23.1	the failed Mets pitcher in jail for seven months. He just punted on Gates. And you know Trump knows he's in trouble when he shuts up. Now he has not said a word. He's just standing there next to Pete
1:33.0	Hegeseth, who will never be Secretary of Defense, who will never run the Pentagon, who right now
1:39.6	is probably a poor bet to get his job back on the weekend edition of the Fox News Morning Show.
1:45.8	And every time Pete Hegseth's dumpster fire goes out or drops down a little bit in intensity,
1:55.7	Trump is there as it reignites.
1:59.9	When Mommy becomes part of your story, when it's mommy who called you an abuser of women,
2:07.8	when it's mommy who suggested you needed psychological help,
2:11.8	and somebody she sent the email to has decided to give it to the media when mom from eight years ago,
2:22.4	seven years ago, it doesn't matter if it was seven minutes ago. When mom is part of the reason
2:28.4	you're not going to get the job. And it's so bad that you have to put mom on TV, and it's so bad on TV that mom, instead of answering the softball questions, the answering of the softball questions was insufficient.
2:43.1	She turned to camera and stared and thanked the furor for his support of her son, the abuser.
2:58.6	And then she blamed the media, the awful media, for having threatened her by calling her up and telling her that they were going to print this and and they wanted to know what her reaction was, and if she wanted to say something,
3:11.3	what evil bastards trying to make it fair to her?
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