Episode #84 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:28) SPECIAL COMMENT:
- I think Republicans just found a window to push Trump out of the party over Nick Fuentes and Kanye West. His VP, at least a dozen Senators, and others rushed for the exits — and to publicly slam him for dining with the two antisemites.
- Relax. I’m not interested in their flexible and utterly reversible morals. They did this exact same thing with the Access Hollywood tape. They don’t CARE. Trump doesn’t CARE. But when Rick Scott says, “There's no room in the Republican Party for white supremacy and antisemitism,” he’s setting in motion a political timeline that ends with Trump as a 3rd Party candidate who splits the Republican vote.
- It isn’t yet a full-fledged [Sorry, Keith, “full-fledge” isn’t a word.] run on the bank, but it was enough for Mike Pence to demand Trump apologize and even Herschel Walker to run for cover.
- As a footnote, why is it all Fuentes and not Kanye? Last night the host of a livestream didn’t immediately agree with West’s proclamation that “The Media” and “The Jews” were the same, so seconds later West walked off the show in protest.
B-Block
Our first dachshund’s name was Daisy. Nice to see that that name is coming back.
C-Block (26:18) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL:
- Enjoying Alexi Lalas on the Fox Sports coverage of The World Cup? A quarter century ago he and I did a “This Is SportsCenter” commercial. If you’ve ever wondered how much fun it would be to grab a guitar out of Lalas’s hands, in a crowded newsroom that hasn’t been warned, and smashing it against a wall — it pretty much couldn't be MORE fun.
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now [literally, this time]. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.