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Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Episode 132: Burst Balloons And Bursting Trump Bombshells [1]

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Date: 2023-02-12  

Episode #132 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio.

OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts)

A preview from the man himself:

A-Block (1:31) SPECIAL COMMENT: We’ll get Breaking Balloon News out of the way: four in eight days IS a lot, but our ability to recognize them grew exponentially after the first one, and experts suggest the Pentagon has been flummoxed by unknown aerial craft for years. Meanwhile, Trump’s newest Classified Documents crime may seem trivial but is extraordinarily important. Giving docs to a campaign staffer to scan into a laptop and a thumb drive is a textbook violation of 18 US Code 798 (a) “DISCLOSURE OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION”. And it raises a peck of new questions: why did CNN identify the staffer in a tweet, then delete the tweet without explanation? What do you mean the staffer they named spent time studying in Russia? Was the laptop attached to the internet? Were the classified documents transferred to ANOTHER computer? What was the thumb drive for?

Actually, Trump with a thumb drive makes more sense than Trump with a hard drive. (Yes, it’s a penis joke.)

And honestly, couldn’t Trump’s newest new newer lawyer come up with a better excuse for Trump having the classified documents folder in his bedroom than “He liked to use it to cover the light on his phone that used to interrupt his sleep”?

Well, at least he knows that people pull down shades when they go to sleep.

CHRIS LICHT EATS PASTE!!!

Okay, with that obligatory graffiti out of the way ...

(24:40) IN SPORTS: Not only was the Super Bowl decided on a penalty that they might as well have called “Defensive Sneezing”, but those gambling ads are going to make outcomes like this look worse and worse.

Yeah, that seemed to be an iffy call to me. But if it hadn’t been made, the Chiefs would probably have kicked a field goal and kept the Eagles from scoring.

Okay, my gripe about the refereeing in the Super Bowl: They took away a Chiefs touchdown and declared a later play was a completion, despite the latter being less of a completion than the first.

(Yes, Dad and I are Chiefs fans.)

Plus one of those commercials seems to have purloined my catchphrase; Fox again finds the worst ex-baseball player (Derek Jeter) to join its baseball show; and ESPN — and I — mourn our veteran producer Barry Sacks.

That catchphrase?

x Premature jocularity https://t.co/NRgrxNtkv7 — Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) June 14, 2019

C-Block (35:30) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY Save St. Louis Pets

Save St. Louis Pets (36:52) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: YOU think the Super Bowl controversy is that lousy holding call with 1:52 left. Today in Washington, the political media thinks the Super Bowl Controversy is the fact that President Biden didn’t do an interview with Fox for the Pre-Game Show! As somebody who hosted that show AND a presidential inauguration in a span of thirteen days, I can tell you that the politicos have no clue how unpopular politicians who inject themselves into sportscasts are. I came THISCLOSE to having to do “that” interview in 2009 and I tried to get them to just cancel it. The President who does not [do?] a news interview on Super Bowl Sunday but instead puts $100 Million of the nation’s money on a series of prop bets and does an interview about THAT will get himself re-elected.

Well, that’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.

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