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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Episode 175: Justin Time: What Did The GOP Get Out Of This? [1]

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Date: 2023-04-10  

Episode #175 of the Countdown podcast is up.

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

ivoox also carries his podcast.

Preview:

A-Block (1:16) SPECIAL COMMENT: A week ago, frankly, none of us OUTSIDE Nashville knew whether the Tennessee’s State Government had a House, a Senate, an Assembly, a Parliament, a Duma, was inflated or stuffed. Yesterday, Justin Jones was reinstated to the Tennessee House. Tomorrow, Justin Pearson will be.

I am trying to think of exactly WHAT Republicans got out of this. The two young representatives will have been out of office for a total of four days, MAYBE five.

And on three of those days (Friday through Sunday), the Tennessee House didn’t conduct any business.

They went from obscure state legislators to superstar magnets drawing international coverage. They provided energy and hope to the movement, support for which had inspired the racist acts of a racist legislative body, to do SOMETHING about the epidemic of gun violence in this country. The forces of right have not had a real WIN in perhaps two decades and even though this one is just symbolic, it resonates: It shows us that the whole thing is NOT impossible to fight, and that dramatic and important milestones can occur almost spontaneously, virtually immediately, breathtakingly panoramically.

(6:24) Plus: The Senate Judiciary Committee will actually HOLD A HEARING INTO SCOTUS CORRUPTION! Trump and “Rhonda Santis” are at it again.

That’s a revisiting of his comment about “Red States” not contributing financially to the federal government.

C-Block (40:49) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: His ratings debacle at the new CNN reminded me to tell you of the time Bill Maher and I almost had a fistfight at his after-show party, because I insisted I was “aware” of him when we overlapped in college. It turned out my barely-remembered “awareness” of him at Cornell was ALSO of a near-fistfight … in 1978!

Serves him right, the corporate sell-out.

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

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

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