IS TRUMP DYING OR SOMETHING? - 8.21.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

IS TRUMP DYING OR SOMETHING? - 8.21.24 | Countdown with Keith Olbermann

SERIES 3 EPISODE 13: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Did you HEAR Trump yesterday? Did you HEAR HIM TALK? He’s in Howell, Michigan, where it might as well be Alabama in the year 1855, where they marched chanting “We Love Hitler, We Love Trump” a MONTH ago, and he came out at the County Sheriff’s Office, and behind him with the cops as the props and if he had had ten times the energy and ten times the focus you would have said: what’s wrong with Trump? Is he DYING or something? I mean I don’t THINK he’s dying, I think there are intermediate stages between having every single thing in a presidential campaign turn against you in a matter of two weeks and actually dying, but look if this mumble thing continues, at this rate they’re going to have start putting live captions over him.

Trump responded to the overture from the RFK Junior camp about dropping out if Trump would give him a role in his cabinet. “I didn’t know he was thinking about getting out, but if he is thinking about getting out, certainly I’d be open to it.” RFK's running mate Nicole Shanahan appears to be doing the bargaining. Even she has figured it out: "We run the risk of a Kamala Harris and Walz presidency, as we draw votes from Trump. We draw, somehow, more votes from Trump. Or we walk away, right now, and join forces with Donald Trump…” Translation: bribe us and we’ll go away. Looks like what they want is Secretary of Health and Human Services.

THE SELF-DEFENESTRATION OF THE POLITICAL MEDIA: The Times really did it yesterday, with no sense of irony, no meta self-reflection: “Kamala Harris’s tan suit was a surprising choice, our fashion critic writes.” The Post, meantime, did a DNC factcheck and got half a dozen things wrong: the Post insisted that there was no evidence that Trump ever sent love letters to dictators with Kessler writing “we do not know what Trump wrote to Kim Jong Un,” Media Matters went appropriately nuts. Of course we know. Trump showed them to… Bob Woodward of the Post. The factcheck now has its own factcheck.

I recommend to you and will quote extensively from a masterpiece on this topic in The New Republic. Meredith Shiner writes: "after years of watching Morning Joe and searching for their birthdays in the Politico Playbook, they do not see their role as speaking to us, but rather speaking to themselves."

Ex-effing-actly.

B-Block (26:47) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Jesse Watters has rebirthed birtherism. He's sending "Johnny" to Hawaii to get the real story about Barack Obama's birth certificate because Harris. Amy Kremer, a GOP Committeewoman from Georgia, is the sucker born every minute. A liberal trolls the idiot Jack Posobiec by saying she'll have an abortion and a vasectomy onstage at the DNC and Kremer believes her. And Stephen L. Miller - the "other" Stephen Miller - uses the c-word about Mallory McMorrow with no self-awareness that it's used about him.

C-Block (37:10) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: It was a lovely day in Fun City yesterday so I was out all day and I walked right past it: the bar out of which George Steinbrenner stepped one night in 1981 after I had spent the day trying to find... George Steinbrenner.

Original Air Date: August 21, 2024

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[janetkirk]

If RFK Jr trusts Trump he's an even bigger fool.

[chriskilhoffer]

You can watch him rot in real literally degrading by the minute.

[gzjgwjt]

" Trump's mental health is now a national and global emergency." Dr Bandy Lee Psychiatrist.

[daphnebabcock]

I am 62, i remember Walter Cronkite. I remember war correspondents. I remember these breaking stories. We have history happening right now, you would never know it with them letting Trump rant unchecked

[moneyhoney]

So ready, NOT, to hear Trump's voice !

[maryjaneferg]

I can’t believe people are still supporting him, he is so gross !

[lynprmc]

Make
Authoritarianism
Go
Away!👊🔵💯⚖️🇺🇸🎯💙🇺🇸

[joanstepleton]

His voice makes me 🤢🤮. Nails in a chalkboard.

The media makes me so mad, those pathetic interviews where Trump steamrolls people with lies. I’m so happy we are starting to loudly dismiss Trump and be proud of being a progressive!

[ultravirez]

The manipulative foreigner is Rupert Murdoch.

[Angelina-xjzd]

The man behind America's troubles is Rupert Murdock.

[nealsmith]

Trump looks old and tired.Maybe we ought to put him back in the court so he can get some sleep

[xavierhucklenbruch]

Low low low energy trump... whine whine whine .. complain complain complain...

[EasyHeat]

Keith, you are an absolute treasure. Much love from Greensboro North Carolina ❤

[sallysrock]

He sounds like someone who is resigned to the fact that he is going to jail.

[Gorilla_Jones]

Save the United States from the New Confederacy! Vote 🔵

[tvjmkob]

We need to take a line from Trump's repertoire and start calling him "low energy Don"!

[barkingorifice]

You are treasure, Mr. Obermann. Thank you.

[bjlopez]

The Gop is the party of Common sense? WTH?

[SucdeKng]

I've never regretted being a listener of Keith's and episodes like this are why

[jeannedawson]

Praise the gods, I didn't "hear tRump yesterday"!