Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Episode 320: Trump Implies Army Is Lying About His Arlington Scandal

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• SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump completely changes his Arlington Cemetery Scandal story. He had already single-handedly reignited his Arlington National Cemetery scandal by implying the Veterans Administration and the Department of Defense are LYING about it, when Fox News doubled down on his lie, and basically put the entirety of the military establishment in the same position Senator Joe McCarthy tried to put it in, in 1954. The mistake — deciding you and your lies are more important than the military’s truth — destroyed McCarthy. And it could conceivably destroy Trump.
• If one day your spokesclowns insist there WAS an event at the cemetery, only it was the fault of an unprincipled woman having a mental health episode, and that you have an exculpatory video proving so, and then you suddenly change the story and insist instead that “there was no conflict or ’fighting’… It was a made up story” by Vice President Harris, you give Senate Democrats and cemetery officials and the entirety of the Defense Department only one option: to investigate it fully.

I had a thought about this incident and the non-investigation by the Army. There was more than one crime committed here, the desecration, and the assault. The employee doesn’t want to press assault charges, but doesn’t (shouldn’t?) have a say on whether the desecration charges are pressed.

• You would’ve thought Trump would’ve remembered not to take on the military with lies. The man who led McCarthy to his doom was none other than McCarthy’s chief counsel — future Trump mentor Roy Cohn.
• And by the way: why is anybody — especially Trump — assuming that there is no security video from that day at Arlington National Cemetery that the military could release immediately? Why aren’t news organizations demanding confirmation or denials that it exists, and copies of it if it does?

I think I can answer that last one: They want a close horse race, and this story would kill any chance of that.

• POLLING: Harris by six nationally and closing gaps on Trump in all issue categories, per USA Today. A Harris three-tenths of a point lead in Michigan turns into a Trump 1.2 point lead (but the pollster is one-and-a-half stars).
• AND A DIFFERENT KIND OF POLLING: A North Carolina news outlet quotes six employees and customers of the city’s video porn stores of a quarter century ago as saying current Republican candidate for governor Mark Robinson was a five-nights-a-week customer.

But there’s more to it than that. The DK story provides all the salacious details.

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• THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Elon Musk advocates for the world to be run only by elite males. Why would he exclude himself like that? The newest participant in the Activote “poll” is Abbot Gregor Mendel (Died, 1884).

Adam needs to watch out for Inspector Dim of Scotland Yard:

Dim:(momentarily thrown) None of your smart answers ... you think you’re so clever. Well, I’m Dim.

(A caption appears on the screen ‘DIM OF THE YARD’)

Everyone:(in unison) Dim! Consternation! Uproar!

Dim: Yes, and I’ve a few questions I’d like to ask Cardinal so-called Richelieu.

Cardinal: Bonjour Monsieur Dim.

Dim: So-called Cardinal, I put it to you that you died in December 1642.

Cardinal: That is correct.

Dim: Ah ha! He fell for my little trap.

Courtesy Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

• And Timmy Tammy Tomi Lahren doesn’t know that airbuds aren’t secure and Vice Presidents can’t use them.

I guess that flushes Fox’s latest attempt to smear Kamala Harris down the toilet.

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• THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Continuing our preview of the National Football League season, let’s flash back to the one that started and suddenly stopped. The 1982 NFL strike and how I — as a 23-year old rookie reporter — somehow became the confidant of the union leaders, to the point of going drinking with them!

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