Categories
October Surprise 2016

Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E155: Trump Hints At Prosecuting Biden For ’Stealing’ ’20 Election

Episode 155 has been uploaded.

Preview:

YouTube, later

A-Block

So, the AG is going to sit around for three years and do nothing?

  • Everything? Well, what does that mean?
  • It means: Everything.
  • And particularly the thing that matters most to Trump, upon which rests his ability to not feel himself a total failure: that he never loses and everybody else does. That he didn’t lose the 2020 election. It was stolen from him.
  • When his staff says “Biden Trials” they might mean over classified documents or business or Commander the dog.
  • To Trump, it MUST mean: Prosecuting Biden in a dream trial in which a court rules Trump really won in 2020 and it really was stolen from him and Biden was the man who stole it.
  • Also: more of Trump’s antisemitism is showing. American Jews who don’t support him “should be spoken to.” And he’s already confirmed Monday’s “Abortion Ban” video was a lie.

Hmmm … so, was the video a lie, or was his “confirmation” of the content a lie? IOW, was he lying then, or is he lying now? Or both?

Speaking of the Arizona law on abortion …

  • Kari Lake immediately condemned the law and said the Democratic governor should make sure it’s repealed and adjusted, which was hilarious because two years ago Carrie Lake praised that law and said it should be enforced.

It’s hilarious too, because isn’t she the governor, and therefore she can do this herself?

  • And yet another poll shows a significant majority of Republicans believe HE should be allowed to rule without waiting for Congress or the courts.
  • The good news? The polls are now breaking almost entirely in Biden’s direction.

And the headlines are reading: “Biden pulls even with Trump; how does this hurt Biden’s reelection chances?”

B-Block

  1. I decided not to post an image here, but here’s a link to one.
  2. i did Nazi that coming.
  3. I wonder whether “44” will become another code for Nazism.
  4. They should go with XLIV instead. I mean, who can remember “forty-four”?
  • Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy is so tough he still carries a bullet from when he was shot in Afghanistan. Or, from when he dropped his gun in the parking lot and shot himself. Or …
  • And like eight good minutes about Geraldo Rivera and how this little thing between the two of us in the wake of his hilarious self-own while criticizing Larry David, actually dates back to his anger that NBC was promoting my show and not his in 1997, and how he promised to “fight” me in 2007. I know I should fear him: he has a mustache.

And when Keith responded, there was a firestorm on Twitter/X.

C-Block

  • THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The greatest scoop of my sportscasting career came when I did nothing more than continually answer the phone as viewers called in to tell me the owner of the L.A. Kings had just told them he was trading for Wayne Gretzky. But the second greatest scoop of my sportscasting career came because I really wanted some pizza so I happened to be walking past the bar across the street from the pizza parlor at the exact moment the exact guy who had the exact info I needed, stepped out of the bar and started YELLING that info at the top of his lungs. It’s the George Steinbrenner story.