Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Episode 146: 10 Secret Steps You Can Take To Kill Fox “News”!

Episode #146 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio.

OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

Preview:

That preview reminded me of what the Dead Kennedys wrote in In God We Trust: “Home taping is killing big entertainment industry profits. We left side two blank so you can help.”

A-Block

• (1:46) SPECIAL COMMENT: As Rupert Murdoch prepares to scapegoat Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott for the Dominion documents scandal, a reminder that no matter how hopeful we might be right now, Fox “News” isn’t going to destroy itself! There are recommendations for actions by Democrats invited to appear as guests, for what the White House Correspondents Association and RTCA should do, what the Senate should do, what prosecutors should do, what media should do, what the network should do. Plus: there are three steps YOU can do at home to hasten the demise.

And here are those ten “secret” steps:

1. Senate hearings about Fox “News”. Not nice ones, either.
2. Prosecute Rupert Murdoch for showing Biden election videos to Jared Kushner, with a possible threat to deport Murdoch.
3. The White House Correspondents Association should revoke Fox’s credentials. And the Radio-Television Correspondents Association (RTCA) should as well.
4. Democrats should boycott all NewsCorp properties. Don’t show up on their TV programs, since Democrats are bad at messaging and viral moments.
5. No non-news media people on Fox “News”.
6. TV reporters need to stop covering Fox as a news organization.
7. TV news stations shouldn’t compare their ratings with Fox.
8. * Shame all Fox journalists (even the “good” ones). Boycott Fox and their advertisers.
9. * UnFoxMyCableBox.com or cancel your cable carriers and sign up for a streaming service.
10. * Mock the name of Fox News. (“Fox Nudes”, “Fox ‘News’ “, ...)

• Plus I will answer the question: How does Sean Hannity sleep at night and tell you that the man most responsible for Fox “News” existing today is, of all people, Rudy Giuliani?

• It’s almost forgotten now, but what he did as Mayor of New York in October 1996 saved this godforsaken poisoner of this nation from vanishing almost before it began.

B-Block

• (27:29) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Jim Jordan’s “Weaponization” Committee is coming apart at the seams; DOJ says yes you can sue Trump over 1/6. But that doesn’t mean you’ll win, and Daniel Ellsberg says goodbye.
• (32:01) IN SPORTS: Did the New York Rangers’ social media director abuse an LGBTQ fan because other LGBTQ fans complained when the Rangers screwed up Pride Night?

feels like the perfect time to reveal that after the pride jersey fiasco nyr admin messaged me asking me to control my “contemporaries” (aka rightfully upset queer ppl)

AND THEN she told me that actually homophobes are nicer than the queer ppl who were upset pic.twitter.com/zySrfR5wBU

— the kreidbanejad manifesto (@rangerstrash) March 2, 2023

• And the ESPN offer of a true public service: a centralized place where you can find your game, no matter who’s streaming it.
• (36:14) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Jacksonville Jaguars, whose players say rats ran the practice facility; who would’ve guessed Marjorie “Traitor” Greene’s press flak Nick Dyer is an asshole; and the Florida legislator who wants to force bloggers who write about Ron DeSantis to REGISTER WITH THE STATE OR FACE HUGE FINES.

C-Block

• (43:08) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: The only Thurber character who owns his own pet … Thunderstorm: “The Black Magic Of Barney Haller”

That’s all the damage for now. I expect more of it (aimed at Fox, of course) tomorrow.

EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY

(Side note: Is anyone else having trouble using the DK search engine? Every now and then, it won’t come back with any stories with search terms that undoubtedly would appear somewhere.)