(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Episode 142: Garland To Be Quizzed On Russia’s Guy In The 2016 FBI [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-26 Episode #142 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts) ivoox also carries his podcast. Like they said about Chickenman, “He’s everywhere! He’s everywhere!” Preview: A-Block (1:34) SPECIAL COMMENT: Merrick Garland is going to appear in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning. And it looks like there’ll be yet another new and big and shiny thing to ask him about, about the arrested ex-FBI man Charles McGonigal and the Russian linked via Paul Manafort to Trump, Oleg Deripaska. Once, McGonigal was in charge of investigating Deripaska. The next thing you knew, he was WORKING FOR Deripaska. Exactly WHEN that happened keeps changing. 2020? 2019? Now it’s 2018? Could it have been 2016? Judiciary Chair Dick Durban and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse want to know, and they want to know if Garland knows if McGonigal was aware of his FBI New York Field Office and how it was already trying to fix the 2016 election for Trump by forcing James Comey to re-smear Hillary Clinton eleven days before the election. Meanwhile Trump CAN get the GOP nomination because the GOP hierarchy is moronic: it actually believes it has “cornered” him by demanding a pledge of all would-be nominees to support whoever gets the nomination because OF COURSE he always lives up to his promises. And Tucker Carlson doubles down on the January 6th video scam. B-Block (19:00) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: First you could say “Dilbert” isn't funny. Then you could say it isn’t appropriate. Now, after Scott Adams’s racist rant, you can say it just … isn’t. Happily Elon Musk is there to defend him. And the Department of Energy says Covid-19 was a lab leak? Oh, they say it with “low confidence” that they’re right? And it’s the Department of ENERGY? And Penguin Publishing will keep the original text of Roald Dahl’s works in print. (22:21) IN SPORTS: Baseball’s pitch clock seems to work (I’ll be DAMNED), but where is it going to come up with the money to pay Manny Machado? Four more regional sports networks pumping baseball (and the NBA and NHL) full of cash say they will likely go bankrupt within a month. (25:41) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Did the anti-Drag governor Bill Lee [I don’t trust that name. — P ] of Tennessee dress up IN drag in high school? Hmmm. Bill “Billee” Lee probably doesn’t want you to see that picture (which was on the 1977 Franklin High School yearbook). So here it is, with a hat tip to the Reddit poster who found it. First George Santos, now Bill Lee … The whole party’s full of “degenerates” !!! Why does writer Dylan Byers keep calling CNN’s Chris “Maybe Ate Paste” Licht a genius when he’s never finished higher than last in the ratings? How about calling him a stable genius instead? The standard for that is pretty low. And how do you spell “NINTH” and “TWELFTH”? Don’t ask the Florida Department of Education — the folks there have no clue. x The FL Department of Education released a list of approved books for K-12 probably to distract from all the books being banned in this state. The list has ninth and twelfth grade misspelled in a moment of symbolism that shouldn't be lost on any of us. Per https://t.co/hXZCN5iy0u pic.twitter.com/pNb2pHmi4P — Sarah Leonardi (@sarahmkleonardi) February 24, 2023 Maybe they need to change the name of their state to Flori-dumb? (Incidentally, I had trouble with “fifth”, spelling it “fith” ... in the fourth grade.) C-Block (33:21) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY GivingGrid as well. GivingGrid as well. (34:42) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: On one day in 2011, I was supposed to have coffee — at her invitation, as a prelude to a date, with Uma Thurman, AND the president of Current TV was taking me to dinner to explain how we could get rid of the idiot co-owner who didn’t know what “DVR” was and so bought ratings showing only “Live” viewers, not “Live + DVR” viewers. If I tell you I had coffee and dinner alone, can you guess what happened? That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155142/-Countdown-with-Keith-Olbermann-Episode-142-Garland-To-Be-Quizzed-On-Russia-s-Guy-In-The-2016-FBI Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/