Episode #150 of the Countdown podcast is up at iHeart Radio. (The timings are shown below.)
OnMy.FM link (which also links to his previous podcasts)
ivoox also carries his podcast.
Preview:
A-Block
- (1:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Tucker Carlson’s Trump Derangement Syndrome Dance Party went into re-runs last night, then was cancelled, and then the star ran away. Carlson literally ran out of new 1/6 video and re-ran much of his Monday segment; his conspiracy theory rant went from the rage and drama of Monday to something closer than kvetchy. It ended with not a bang but a whimper.
- Did Carlson sense that his schtick was less gaslight and more stomach gas and it couldn’t have done more damage to himself and Fox “News” if it had planned that way? Did somebody at Fox tell him to stop? There certainly was no mistaking what Carlson did after bailing on 1/6: he had a reporter do the softest, squishiest, credulous report on Trump’s promise that if elected everybody would get their own new “Freedom City” — and a flying car. The message was obvious: Trump heard about the “I hate him passionately” text and exacted retribution.
- But while Carlson bailed out, America piled on. Carlson was slammed by everybody from Ben Shapiro to Joe Biden. Liz Cheney attacked the possible new investigation of the 1/6 Commission by tweeting “bring it on”; and four presidential ethicists asked the House to investigate the McCarthy/MAGA Congressmen/Carlson deal.
B-Block [clipped very briefly at the start at iHeart]
- (15:52) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Comer and Marjorie Traitor Greene are going to jail. Unfortunately we think they won’t be staying. In Paste Eating news, CNN’s boss Chris Licht tells his employees not to go for the “sugar high of ratings.” He needn’t worry about the ratings — there aren’t any.
Chris Licht undoubtedly knows that paste has sugar in it.
What’s so bad about getting your wife from a website? Here’s a screenshot from an old website featuring future wife Melania. (Yes, that Melania.)
C-Block
- (25:02 and 26:42) EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY: Basil, in New York
- (26:33 and 28:02) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Somebody asked me the other day: “Where In The World Is Matt Lauer?” And I said I didn’t know, but I hoped it was somewhere unpleasant. Before the ugly violent stuff came out, everybody at NBC knew he was a dangerous manipulative vindictive jackass. One day I got a scoop he thought he deserved (concerning Terri Schiavo), so he tried to get me fired. We should have done more to stop him.
That’s all the damage for now. Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck.
