Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.
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SERIES 3 EPISODE 52: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN
A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: I suppose it is possible that Trump’s brain has liquified, and he’s cancelled half his events and all his interviews, and that he is now frantically demanding somebody FORCE Kamala Harris off the ballot and Joe Biden back ONTO it because he’s just been shown internal polling indicating he’s going to WIN two weeks from Tuesday.
Or nah. He's just been shown internal polling indicating he's going to LOSE.
Why else would he demand that she "be investigated and forced off the campaign, and Joe Biden be allowed to take back his rightful place" because 60 Minutes screwed up the editing the editing of its Harris interview?
Trump is crazy and getting crazier, but this reeks of somebody showing him internal polling indicating he’s going to LOSE two weeks from Tuesday which means that he might avoid ONE of the criminal cases that would send him off to die in prison but he ain’t going to avoid BOTH of them and as the expert on cults and cult leaders Matthew Remski wrote the other day, Trump has become one of those quote “cultic leaders who – exhausted, ill – and at the end of their cognitive rope” reduced to a “shrinking repertoire of melted talking points.”
Especially given that a network idiotically edits a clip with a presidential candidate means the. Presidential candidate has to drop out? So Harris has to drop out, and of course since Fox edited out the part where Trump talks about the enemy within, Trump also has to drop out so two Tuesdays from now it’s the presidential election between Tim Walz and Jayvee Vance?
MEANWHILE, IF SHE WINS it will have been sealed by the 24-hour span in which she looked authoritative and righteously indignant while on Fox News, followed by the moment some pro-Trump hecklers crashed her rally in Wisconsin and her response was... well, put it this way: There were no heckler survivors.
B-Block (19:04) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: BBC News cancels one of the most informative news programs in the world: "HardTalk" dead after three decades. Dead inside: Christina Bobb predicts a surge of celebrities endorsing Trump after the election because...they're all pedophiles? So she's not just One America One Reich television crazy but QAnon crazy? And Chris Licht is tanned, rested, and ready, to help rebuild the fractured media landscape he personally helped fracture.
C-Block (28:21) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: He never wrote a novel, he did write a history of The New Yorker, he did write epic short stories like “The Greatest Man In The World” and at least three that became movies. But then there are his miniatures – his polished gems. His fables. There is more cynicism, more criticism, more liberalism, per square inch, in these – than in any other examples of his writing. So this week three of the Fables of James Thurber: "The Unicorn In The Garden," "The Moth And The Star," "The Rabbits Who Caused All The Trouble."
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Previous episodes
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534 - TRUMP TRYING TO FORCE KAMALA OUT? HOW BAD ARE HIS POLLS? - 10.18.24 Fri, 18 Oct 2024
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533 - KAMALA HARRIS KICKS BRET BAIER'S ASS - 10.17.24 Thu, 17 Oct 2024
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532 - HAS TRUMP FALLEN INTO A DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE STATE? - 10.16.24 Wed, 16 Oct 2024
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531 - KAMALA GOES ON FOX? PROVES TRUMP IS A P**** A** B**** - 10.15.24 Tue, 15 Oct 2024
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530 - TRUMP WILL INVOKE "ALIEN ENEMIES ACT" TO EXPEL HISPANICS - 10.14.24 Mon, 14 Oct 2024
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529 - TRUMP EXPLICITLY THREATENS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - 10.11.24 Fri, 11 Oct 2024
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528 - PUTIN CONFIRMS TRUMP SENT HIM OUR COVID TESTS - 10.10.24 Thu, 10 Oct 2024
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527 - AN AMERICAN DIED SO TRUMP COULD SEND THEIR COVID TEST TO PUTIN - 10.9.24 Wed, 09 Oct 2024
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526 - TRUMP NOW AT THE EUGENICS STAGE OF BECOMING HITLER - 10.8.24 Tue, 08 Oct 2024
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525 - IT'S TIME TO CANCEL MUSK'S GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - 10.7.24 Mon, 07 Oct 2024
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524 - THE MEDIA IS IN THE TANK FOR TRUMP; IGNORES 3RD COUP EVIDENCE - 10.4.24 Fri, 04 Oct 2024
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523 - "MAKE THEM RIOT. DO IT!!!" THE JACK SMITH BOXED SET DROPS - 10.3.24 Thu, 03 Oct 2024
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522 - "THE RULES WERE YOU GUYS WEREN'T GONNA FACT CHECK!" - 10.2.24 Wed, 02 Oct 2024
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521 - WALZ MUST SEIZE THE DEBATE AND METAPHORICALLY GUT VANCE LIKE A FISH - 10.1.24 Tue, 01 Oct 2024
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520 - IF THERE'S NO HELL, I HOPE THEY MAKE ONE FOR TRUMP - 9.30.24 Mon, 30 Sep 2024
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519 - HAS JACK SMITH FOUND A WAY AROUND IMMUNITY? - 9.27.24 Fri, 27 Sep 2024
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518 - WHITE TRASH CONGRESSMAN TO HAITIANS: GET OUT BY JAN. 20 - 9.26 Thu, 26 Sep 2024
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517 - TRUMP STARTS DROOLING DURING CAMPAIGN SPEECH - 9.25.24 Wed, 25 Sep 2024
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516 - SENATOR SAVES ELECTORAL COLLEGE; YES, I LIVED WITH OLIVIA NUZZI - 9.24.24 Tue, 24 Sep 2024
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515 - TRUMP: BEAT ME IN NOVEMBER AND I WON'T RUN IN 2028 - 9.23.24 Mon, 23 Sep 2024
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514 - TRUMP ACTUALLY SAYS IF HE LOSES, BLAME THE JEWS - 9.20.24 Fri, 20 Sep 2024
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513 - TRUMP ON VERGE OF NEW CAMPAIGN TACTIC: MELANIA NUDE - 9.19.24 Thu, 19 Sep 2024
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512 - IS KAMALA PULLING AWAY FROM TRUMP IN THE POLLS? - 9.18.24 Wed, 18 Sep 2024
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511 - TRUMP'S NEW THREAT: "THE BULLETS ARE FLYING AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE!" - 9.17.24 Tue, 17 Sep 2024
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510 - TRUMP SORTA SHOT AT BY ANOTHER MAGA - 9.16.24 Mon, 16 Sep 2024
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509 - DONALD DUCKS KAMALA; GOP ADMITS DEBATE DEFEAT - 9.13.24 Fri, 13 Sep 2024
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508 - TRUMP CHICKENS OUT OF SECOND DEBATE - 9.12.24 Thu, 12 Sep 2024
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507 - SO WHO DO THE REPUBLICANS GET TO REPLACE TRUMP? – 9.11.24 Wed, 11 Sep 2024
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506 - WHICH TRUMP DEBATES? THE CRAZY ONE? OR THE CRAZIER ONE? - 9.10.24 Tue, 10 Sep 2024
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505 - TRUMP TO "BLOODY" IMMIGRANTS...AND ARREST YOU - 9.9.24 Mon, 09 Sep 2024
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504 - PENCE MAY GET THE CHANCE TO METAPHORICALLY HANG TRUMP - 9.6.24 Fri, 06 Sep 2024
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503 - FOLLOW THE MONEY: MAGA INFLUENCERS LINKED TO RUSSIA - 9.5.24 Thu, 05 Sep 2024
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502 - TRUMP IMPLIES ARMY IS LYING ABOUT HIS ARLINGTON SCANDAL - 9.4.24 Wed, 04 Sep 2024
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501 - COVER-UP OF TRUMP'S ARLINGTON CEMETERY SCANDAL ESCALATES - TUE 9.3.24 Tue, 03 Sep 2024
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500 - TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON DEFILING ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY - 8.29.24 Thu, 29 Aug 2024
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499 - TRUMP ACCUSES HIMSELF OF RIGGING THE 2020 ELECTION - 8.28.24 Wed, 28 Aug 2024
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498 - 'RED STATE' POLL: KAMALA BY SEVEN - 8.27.24 Tue, 27 Aug 2024
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497 - THE SPECIAL GUEST WAS THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - 8.23.24 Fri, 23 Aug 2024
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496 - CHERYL HINES HOLDS UP RFK JR'S ENDORSEMENT OF TRUMP - 8.22.24 Thu, 22 Aug 2024
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495 - IS TRUMP DYING OR SOMETHING? - 8.21.24 Wed, 21 Aug 2024
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494 - TRUMP DOUBLES DOWN ON MEDAL OF HONOR SLUR - 8.20.24 Tue, 20 Aug 2024
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493 - BULLETIN: TRUMP INSULTS MILITARY MEDAL OF HONOR HEROES - 8.16.24 Fri, 16 Aug 2024
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492 - TRUMP "NEWS" "CONFERENCE" WITHOUT QUESTIONS - 8.16.24 Fri, 16 Aug 2024
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491 - MORE KAMA-LAPALOOZA: AHEAD IN ALL BUT ONE SWING STATE - 8.15.24 Thu, 15 Aug 2024
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490 - TEXAS AND FLORIDA ARE IN PLAY - 8.14.24 Wed, 14 Aug 2024
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489 - TRUMP POLLS CRATER; HIS "IRAN HACKED ME" STORY DOESN'T HOLD UP - 8.13.24 Tue, 13 Aug 2024
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488 - TRUMP'S POLL NUMBERS COLLAPSE - 8.9.24 Fri, 09 Aug 2024
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487 - J.V. VANCE IS GOD'S GIFT TO THE DEMOCRATS - 8.8.24 Thu, 08 Aug 2024
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486 - KAMALA'S SECRET WEAPON: PEOPLE REALLY LIKE TIM WALZ - 8.7.24 Wed, 07 Aug 2024
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485 - KAMALA DOUBLES POLL LEAD - UP BY 4; FAVORED BY NATE SILVER - 8.6.24 Tue, 06 Aug 2024