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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E21: Trump Weighs 215? Maybe In Celsius [1]

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Date: 2023-08-24  

S2E21 on Omny.FM (which also links to his previous podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

YouTube, eventually.

Preview:

Wrong “Never Surrender” Graphic. But did you really want a picture of Mr. Trump here? … That’s also why I’m not posting his mugshot.

A-Block (2:06) SPECIAL COMMENT: The “Never Surrender” graphic and the “Never Surrender” $47 T-Shirt and the “Never Surrender” return-to-Twitter post all feature a photo taken literally AS TRUMP SURRENDERED. At least the Trump measurements — 6’3’’, 215, strawberry or blonde hair — are accurate. So long as they were determined from a satellite in high space orbit.

And as long as you call THAT hair.

Though the idea of the MUGSHOT is new, for most of us, the booking of Donald Trump is by now a ritual as old as time itself, passed from one generation of Americans to the next. To his supporters it is something they seem to have convinced themselves was not going to happen, and about which they take DIRE umbrage. Ned Ryun, the onetime George W Bush speechwriter and now head of one of the three million different organizations there to fight against the lack of conservative representation, went on Fox and said we were in a “cold civil war” and Sarah Palin, a dope, went on Newsmax and said, “Do you want us to be in a civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen. We do need to rise up and take our country back,” and one is inclined to remind the Witch from Wasilla who has all the tanks. Well, if this means Civil War at least it’s about something important.

The real news from Atlanta: another step taken by Kenneth Chesebro to put Donald Trump in jail before the election. I wish I understood his game here. B-Block (18:40) IN SPORTS: Shohei Ohtani is potentially facing the end of his pitching career — because unicorns don’t exist — at exactly the same time the equally-hyped Stephen Strasburg retires due to an injury that his limited him to eight games since 2019. All of which reminds me of the greatest pitcher you’ve never heard of: Harry Krause. And Taylor Swift is too big to do the Super Bowl halftime show.

(23:38) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Another year, another CNN streaming service (“CNN Max”). Plus Riley Gaines doxxes a librarian and the library gets a bomb threat. And just when we thought we had all debunked last year’s “Litter boxes in schools” urban legend, Fox “newscaster” Shannon Bream announces it — as if it were true.

Most things on Fox are announced as if they were true. So, par for the course.

I think Gaines won the gold today.

C-Block (31:57) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: It’s what I turn to whenever it is the Dark November of my Soul: “A Box To Hide In”.

And, video from 2010.

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

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

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