Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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SERIES 2 EPISODE 159: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: There’s nothing better than a good NAP.
“Now: Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head drops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open. My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains my sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, or emptied some dull opiate to the drains."
Honestly: You’re Trump, on Monday they literally catch you napping. How do you possibly go in there yesterday and get caught napping… at least TWICE. One video, or one rapid-shutter sequence of still pictures of “Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again” and we don’t have to WATCH the rest of the trial, he’d be DONE.
Looks like we'll get this started Monday. Seven jurors chosen. I had forgotten what I learned during two days in the NYC jury pool in 2013: it is surprisingly easy to find enough people who don’t know anything about anything to fill up a New York jury. Meanwhile Trump tried out his new defense: He knows nothing. Billionaire businessman, greatest mind of his or any other generation, but when it comes to paying off Stormy Daniels to bury her story and illegally keep bad facts about himself away from the eyes of the electorate weeks before the election, and then turning the thing into a clear crime by trying to write it off as a business expense? He knows nothing. He doesn’t know the accountant. He doesn’t know the lawyer. He didn’t know anything about the document. He didn’t know anything about the deduction. He just signed whatever they put in front of him. Because the billionaire businessman knows NOTHING about his own business!
ALSO: The picture is a rare one of Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene with her mouth shut. It's in The New Republic and above it the magazine's question is: “Russia is Buying Politicians in Europe. Is it Happening Here Too?” After Greene decided to try to fire another Speaker of the House to destabilize our government further, and her screw-up in the Mayorkas hearing, it's a question worth exploring.
B-Block (24:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Baseball's uniform scandal is back. The pitcher is wearing the batboy's pants. The Speaker of the House had his brain trust look at his new bill first: Libs of TikTok and DC Draino and a 1/6 defendant. And I used to think the Supreme Court Justices were merely not there to do justice or defend the constitution. Now I'm not sure they're from this country, nor have more of a legal education than I do (and I took one law class 37 years ago).
C-Block (33:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Just passed the quarter century anniversary of one of the most fun, most unexpected events of my career. How many people do you know who can say this: Tom Hanks, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pulled me on to the Red Carpet at the Oscars - and they broke my cummerbund!
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COLORADO DISQUALIFIES TRUMP; TRUMP LIES, DENIES HE READ HITLER'S WORK - 12.20.23
BULLETIN: COLORADO TOSSES TRUMP OFF BALLOT - 12.19.23
TRUMP REVEALS HOW HE WILL TAKE OVER ALL POLICE - 12.19.23
BULLETIN: TRUMP STOLE BINDER OF INTEL ON RUSSIA; DID HE TRY TO STOP BIDEN INAUGURATION WITH IT? 12.15.23
TRUMP AND GIULIANI PROVE THEY CAN BE BEATEN AND BROKEN - FRI 12.15.23
TRUMP ENDORSES TWO CANDIDATES IN THE SAME PRIMARY - 12.14.23
WE AREN'T SAVING UKRAINE; UKRAINE IS SAVING US - 12.13.23
IF THERE'S PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY, WHY DID FORD PARDON NIXON? WHY WAS TRUMP CONSIDERING PARDONING HIMSELF? - 12.12.23
TRUMP LEAK: VICE PRESIDENT...TUCKER CARLSON? BECAUSE HITLER IS DEAD? - 12.8.23
I'VE GOT BIDEN'S "DAISY" AD - AND TRUMP IS DISQUALIFIED - 12.7.23
JACK SMITH: TRUMP'S JANUARY 6 PLAN STARTED IN 2012 - 12.6.23
INVOKE THE INSURRECTION ACT AGAINST TRUMP BEFORE HE INVOKES IT AGAINST AMERICA - TUE 12.5.23
MSNBC CANS MEHDI HASAN. WHERE'S MADDOW? HAYES? O'DONNELL? - 12.1.23
TRUMP MAKES THREAT AGAINST BIDEN; MUSK IMPLODES - 11.30.23
TRUMP'S NEW DEFENSE: RUSSIA SUBVERTED AN ELECTION BEFORE I DID - 11.29.23
TRUMP'S SHOCKING MISTAKE: REVIVES ATTACK ON OBAMACARE - 11.28.23
TEXAS VS. MEDIA MATTERS IS A PREVIEW OF TRUMP 2025 - 11.22.23
JUDGES SIGNAL THEY WILL GUT TRUMP GAG ORDER - TUE 11.21.23
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