Episode #76 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:27) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- New leak to Washington Post clearly confesses Trump stole documents, but insists he didn’t do it for evil reasons, he did it for EGO. He’s not a TRAITOR! He’s just a hoarder! He’s not a foreign spy who might face the death penalty. He’s just a collector! He’s like YOU: YOU’D keep a White House cocktail napkin wouldn’t you? So HE kept a White House Ultra-Classified Document (or 200 of them).
- This transparent attempt to minimize the charge and the sentence again suggests it’s not only unbelievably bad for Trump but it’s far worse than we could possibly imagine.
- “He seemed motivated by a more basic desire not to give up what he believed was his property,” the Post writes, and suddenly I’m watching Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck breaking into the den of the 40 Thieves and Daffy sees all the diamonds and gold and screams “IT’S MINE! DOWN, DOWN, DOWN! GO, GO, GO! MINE, MINE, MINE!” He’s not Julius Rosenberg! He’s Daffy Duck!
And Melania is fucking Goofy! No, she’s not insane, she’s sleeping with … okay, it wasn’t as funny on the screen as it was in my head. Back to the regular rant.
Mo Brooks isn’t too happy with that possibility, either.
B-Block
Jay Leno was burned in a garage fire. Don’t confuse this with the GOP being burned by a dumpster fire whose initials are D.J.T.
C-Block (27:24) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL:
- Not one but two of my ex-ESPN colleagues entered the media wing of hockey’s Hall of Fame last night. One saved my scoop about the retirement of Mario Lemieux, and the other was in the booth the night New York player Sergio Momesso was called “Sergio Mimosa.”
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.