IT'S TIME TO CANCEL MUSK'S GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - 10.7.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

IT'S TIME TO CANCEL MUSK'S GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS - 10.7.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

SERIES 3 EPISODE 43: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: It is time to cancel or suspend all of Elon Musk’s government contracts and subsidies. SpaceX, NASA, StarLink, Teslas, all of it. Musk and Trump are interfering in FEMA recovery efforts post-Hurricane Helene by spreading life-threatening disinformation, and are coordinating a political campaign with Trump which at its heart Trump advocates for the overthrow of the duly-elected government of the United States of America – by violence if necessary. And if all of that is insufficient to re-investigate and/or change his immigration status here in order to deport him back to South Africa or Canada, if it is insufficient to take ALL of his money from him, it is NOT insufficient to tie him up in court cases for the rest of his life.

He's also immorally transforming the Twitter-X platform he owns into a massive donation-in-kind to Trump’s campaign of lies, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, hatred, and fascism. A donation-in-kind which the government should value at 44 billion, not the current number Musk has driven it down to which I haven’t actually checked lately but is probably down to about 50, 60 bucks. Oh and President Biden? The Starlink equipment and the network behind it and the rockets and the satellite access and the actual platform hosting X or what’s left of it? Seize it. If he wants it back, let him go to court. If he tries to shut it off, arrest him for tampering with evidence in a criminal case. Remember: Presidential immuuuuuuuuuuuunity! By the way his buddy Trump? Trump doesn’t know what Starlink is.

TRUMP IS SO GONE EVEN THE NEW YORK TIMES NOTICED: "Trump’s Speeches, Increasingly Angry and Rambling, Reignite the Question of Age." They gingerly refer to computer analyses and the uncertainties of others, but given the number of other news outlets that think the Times is infallible, this could open a floodgate of coverage.

NOT THAT EVERYBODY GETS IT: Andrea Mitchell stopped herself midway through finishing the word "miscegenation" while whining about Vice President Harris not doing enough interviews. Politico thinks 60 Minutes, an Univision Town Hall, Howard Stern, and especially the "Call Her Daddy" podcast aren't real interviews. It also implied Harris shouldn't be appearing on a podcast that has included sexual content. That's pretty funny given that the editor of Politico Playbook - once fired by The New Yorker over sexual misconduct, is now on leave, accused of trying to blackmail his fiancee into more sex and when she refused, hacking her phone and leaking her sex life. So Politico, does "Call Her Daddy" have too MUCH sex, or just not as much as "Politico Playbook"?

B-Block (26:16) SPECIAL COMMENT NUMBER 2: Did "working the refs" work with The New York Times? Did all our complaining finally pierce the walls of the paper? Let me tell you a story from my past in which years of complaining to the Los Angeles Times not only got my complaint listened to, but corrected - and with the admission that the editor in charge never read anything written by the guy I was complaining about.

C-Block (43:40) GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK.

Original Air Date: October 7, 2024

✨ KEEP IN TOUCH WITH :

CONTENT:
00:00 Countdown with Keith Olbermann is a Production of iHeartRadio
01:44 A-Block
26:16 B-Block
43:40 C-Block

“Countdown With Keith Olbermann,” the landmark news and commentary program that reordered the world of cable news, returns as a daily podcast. Olbermann’s daily news-driven mix will include his trademark “Special Comment” political analysis, the tongue-in-cheek “Worst Persons In The World” segment, and his timeless readings from the works of the immortal James Thurber. The man who turned SportsCenter into a cultural phenomenon will broaden the content to include a daily sports segment, a daily call for help for a suffering dog, and a remarkable series of anecdotes covering a career that stretched from covering the 1980 Olympic Miracle on Ice a month after his 21st birthday, to anchoring the 2009 Presidential Inauguration and the 2009 Super Bowl pre-game show in a span of just twelve days, to rejoining ESPN as a “rookie” baseball play-by-play man at the age of 59.

New episodes weekly on iHeartRadio.

#CountdownwithKeithOlbermann #CountdownwithKeithOlbermannPodcast #KeithOlbermann #CountdownPodcast #KeithOlbermannPodcast #KeithOlbermannshow #Countdown #Podcast #iHeartPodcast #iHeart #Olbermann #OlbermannPodcast #iHeartPodcasts

[Pond_Maven]

Making Monday Tolerable Again! Honestly, I miss the Countdown over the weekend, and I am very glad to have 5 days of it again. Thank you!!!!

[jackthetoad]

"CHARGE MUSK'S MOTHER TOO" gets my vote for Bumper Sticker of the Week.

[Brightlightsgroupllc]

I don't drive a Tesla and don't have an X account, never did, never will!

[BDot-dvlq]

Many people are saying that leon muskrat is absolutely the worst thing to ever come out of S Africa, including apartheid.

[DennisMoore]

Somewhere Howard Dean is shaking his head in confusion and muttering "All I did was shout one excited noise and I was done. How is this Trump weirdo still running and still so popular?"

[Maggiecerminara]

THANK YOU, KEITH!!
Deport that traitor! Starlink has worried me for quite some time.

[concernedrabbit]

Don't forget musk disabled Starlinks for ukraine army in the middle of a battle.

[kenrickkahn]

For real.. It been passed time to cancel Leon's contracts once he publicly sided with Stinky..

[JaceHarnage]

I agree! Cancel ALL of his contacts! 🤬🤬🤬

[FranciscoRodriguez-vnfb]

I agree, and many millions of Americans agree with you

[WillNotSubmit-Johanna_RN]

We are not going back to “crazy town.” Thank you Keith.

[efslaman]

You're the only person calling the strikes, Keith, thank you!

[MaryJo-xi]

Whoa, your on fire this monday morning, Keith !! I love it !!

[sandratothemax]

Another great SHOW, please don't stop.I just wish you had 10 million viewers Keith, you deserve it.❤

[kimberlysheridan]

Reminds me of an observation by the great Dorothy Parker: "If you want to know what God thinks of wealth, look who he gives it to."

[fretish]

We’re about 3 years too late for canceling SpaceX contracts and tax subsidies for Tesla. Elmo should have been removed from all operating and board roles at those firms based on his erratic and illegal pump and dump crypto schemes.

[gailascari]

Love you, Keith! You make me laugh all the way from here in Italy.

[lhnowell]

Keith Olbermann, you were on fire this morning! You're one of the all-time greats.

[matrixrevolution]

The same I suggested for Keith Rupert Murdoch!

[gfear]

As a Canadian, we sure as fuck don't want Musk here.