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Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E70: Democrats Kick MAGA’s Ass; Biden’s Good Poll #S [1]

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Date: 2023-11-07

S2E70 on Omny.FM (and links to all of his podcasts)

ivoox also carries his podcast.

YouTube later.

Preview:

x "I am worth Billions of Dollars more than what is on my financial Statements."



Trump once again admitted to committing fraud. If only he had competent lawyers to advise him what to say... pic.twitter.com/Dh8qxfRdxn — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) November 7, 2023

SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump managed to combine stochastic terrorism and his Dementia J. Trump/Elmer J. Fudd split personality in one post, insisting someone “must stop” people who don’t realize he’s worth billions more even than he claims. America’s leading Parking Lot Legal Scholar Alina Habba insists they’ll be filing for a mistrial because they didn’t let Trump talk enough in court (oh, they let him talk enough in court). The good news is, Judge Chutkan shut them down on the latest delaying tactic. They wanted three more months for pre-trial motions; she told them she’ll give them two weeks and they’ll like it. And as more details emerge of Trump’s plan for a military dictatorship, Jeff Clark, the mediocre little man who might be the Attorney General who oversees the transition of the DOJ into the Ministry of Vengeance will finally have to face having his law license suspended.

While most reporting stays focused on Sunday’s New York Times Biden poll crater, there’s a new CNN poll that’s a little better. And everybody ignores the work of a private, right-leaning pollster called Cygnal with eye-opening good news for President Biden. Not only has his net approval/disapproval improved a whopping five points in ONE MONTH but the issue seen as sinking Biden — inflation — is beginning to shrink its dominance. A year ago, 42% said inflation was the key topic. Two months ago, it was still 37%. Now it’s down to 31%. The less it is decisive, the more it points to Biden’s reelection.

Still, Politico reports that after three months the Biden campaign has the results of its almost exclusively positive, issue-focused, non-Trump advertising: It’s failed. Completely. The campaign is being urged to re-focus on Trump but remains reluctant, still convinced that Trump will be torn down enough by his Republican challengers (if it doesn’t happen at tonight’s debate, it won’t). And more over, the question has to be raised: if you ARE selling Joe Biden’s Greatest Accomplishments, isn’t the first thing on that list, the fact that HE beat Trump? Wasn’t the most vivid, youthful, meaningful moment of his presidency his Defense-Of-Democracy speech in Philadelphia last year? Isn’t the greatest image of Biden, “Dark Brandon”?

Joe? You beat him. You’re the only one who has. We need you to do it again. And we need you to TELL US THAT. Not only WHY he and the evil he personifies and spreads MUST be defeated, but, bluntly, that you did it before and you will do it again: that you are the man to … beat the ever-loving shit out of him. B-BLOCK IN SPORTS: Now begins the blowback. Wisconsin says goodbye and good riddance to no-longer-beloved-son Craig Counsell. The President of Mexico knows who the next manager of the Padres should be. And that drying up of the nourishing milk of ever-increasing TV fees for baseball? It just spread to basketball and hockey, where right now 26 teams are making $0 for telecasts during the 2024-25 season.

THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: The Washington Post followed up on its Trump Dictatorship piece with more good analysis and a Bothsidesist headline that would’ve looked stupid even above a travel story. [“ 5 ways Trump and allies plan for a more authoritarian second term”.] There’s yet ANOTHER scandal for new 5th String Speaker Mike Johnson … He does too have a checking account! And yesterday Congressman Max Miller was excoriating Rep. Tlaib for hate and prejudice. A month ago he was promising to turn Gaza into a parking lot. It isn’t which side you’re on — it’s that violence and destruction are fine as long as you’re MAGA.

And in other worst-person news … Marjorie Taylor Greene put forward a bill to cut Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1. It passed … a small part of the House. It will go to the full House for a vote, and then to the Senate if it passes the House. I wouldn’t bet on it making it.

C-BLOCK THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The New York City Marathon ended Sunday night. I swear, there are people walking the streets of my Fun City, still wearing their gold medals indicating they ran the damn thing. It flashes me back to the days when the Marathon had to beg for me to do a preview for CNN, and to the nightmares I still have of anchoring the Los Angeles Marathon … on RADIO.

Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and good luck!

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