Episode #92 of the Countdown podcast is up. Here’s the summary, with links and an extra dose or two of snark.
A-Block (1:28) SPECIAL COMMENT:
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Okay, let’s insert a Frank Zappa quote about stupidity: “There is more stupidity around than hydrogen and it has a longer shelf life.”
- Their response to the extraction of Brittney Griner — unpatriotic, simple-minded, the Real-World-Is-Just-A-Fantasy-Basketball-League-And-You-Made-A-Bad-Trade — has not only reaffirmed that Republicans ARE stupid, but it has also underscored that when a glimmer of smart might sneak through, Republicans will deliberately pretend to be even more stupid, to appeal to their stupid base full of stupid people. Some are born stupid, some achieve stupidity, and some have stupidity thrust upon them.
- Trump’s stupid statement stupidly reminded people how HE failed to rescue Paul Whelan; Marjorie Greene’s reminded people she wants to give the Russians not just an arms dealer but Ukraine.
- I truly believe this is a choice: their stupidity is a language all its own, a reverse-superiority, an indecipherable code, impervious to logic or intelligence.
- And it was the Lutheran Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from the depths of a Nazi concentration camp after the failure of the plot he participated in to kill; Hitler, who observed “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice.”
Keith, you’re mixing up the mean and median.
B-Block
- (19:37) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Moon, in New York
- (21:02) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: DOJ insists Trump is still hiding documents, wants lawyers cited for contempt; Who the 1/6 Committee will refer criminally
Uh, Keith, you said 9/11, not 1/6.
- (23:28) IN SPORTS: Late baseball signings, and why would an NFL team even think about signing a 49-year old receiver?
- (25:23) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Jim Jordan denies the tweet he tweeted, Eric Trump Trumps, and Paul Gosar’s spokesman is so confident in him, he won’t give the press his name.
Paul Gosar has been working overtime, in addition to two other Arizona GQP losers.
C-Block (31:58) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER:
- My Dad’s favorite, Thurber’s story of the school in which some students repeated the 4th Grade a dozen times and the baseball team was good enough to beat Ohio State: “I Went To Sullivant.”
This one is a long one … The former recitation is broken up into two YouTube videos.
As Keith says: Well, that’s all the damage I can do here for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
