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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Episodes 334 and 335 [1]

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Date: 2024-09-24  

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A-Block Yeah, the Nuzzi Nudes News Network stuff is included. But the ACTUAL lead story is: There are heroes among us and even in politics and even in the Republican Party and no, their motives do not have to be absolutely pure, they don’t even have to be a little bit pure and such a man is Republican State Senator Mike McDonnell of Nebraska,

Although he was a Democrat until he was thrown out of the party this year.

and what he has now done, quoting a proponent “kind of closes the casket … kind of closes the lid” on the Trump bid to reshape the Electoral College just six weeks before the election by changing how Nebraska CASTS its five electoral votes from a split-them-by-district method that will probably give Kamala Harris ONE electoral vote and Trump FOUR, to winner take all which would give him all FIVE. He has killed it. He won’t vote for it. “It is clear to me that right now, 43 days from Election Day, is not the moment to make this change.”

And in things I promised not to tell and boy is THAT true this time. When the RFK Junior/Olivia Nuzzi relationship story broke, I thought, oh here we go. Eventually and inevitably this story will get around to me because long ago she and I lived together. We had dogs and tattoos and rings. And when this story broke I decided: if nobody asks, I’m not volunteering this. It’s difficult to be even the most marginal public figure and keep any part of your life private. And nobody knows that better now, than does Olivia.

On the other hand, if I’m asked about this by the media, if somebody is going to write it, I’m not lying. I’m also not giving THEM the story. Especially not The New York Post, which called yesterday. I confirmed we dated and said I thought it was pretty general knowledge that we had dated but that nobody cared and that if they didn’t know this, well, to paraphrase Arthur Conan Doyle writing Sherlock Holmes’s lines for him: “I am not retained by the gossip columnists to supply their deficiencies.” In other words, I am not the Nuzzi Nudes News Network over here, giving away free stories! So I’ve put a few details in this podcast. And they are stunningly normal.

Did she do anything right here journalistically? No. But the bottom line: Olivia is responsible for me being born again in dogs. She will always have my support if she needs it.

Speaking of which … it’s been a while since Keith did an “Every Dog Has His Day” story.

B-Block THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: His career died seven years ago, but when a reporter asked him about the cause of death last week, Bill O’Reilly stormed out of the interview and threatened to sue her for, I dunno, telling the truth. The New York Times’s newest bothsideist nonsense has taken a natural disaster bent, in which fascism sought by Trump has “erupted” along “fault lines.”

x The presidential race has exposed a fault line in American political culture over the deeply personal decision to have children. https://t.co/RGhyGMGvG7 — Katie Rogers (@katierogers) September 22, 2024

And the leading bothsidesist of the paper, Maggie Haberman, has helpfully revealed that there is a Left Wing Industry devoted to trying to tear her and her colleagues down. Which raises a vital question: WHERE IS MY MONEY, VAST LEFT WING INDUSTRY?

x Maggie Haberman: "There's a vast left wing conspiracy against journalists." Fact check - False. https://t.co/6GUrY1GyHP — John James (@musicman495) September 20, 2024

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