On the Friday edition of his Countdown with Keith Olbermann podcast, the host hard harsh criticisms for Turning Point USA founder and talk radio host Charlie Kirk.
Olbermann called Kirk a “balloon head” and “the evil Charlie Brown” before staying the Salem Media Group radio host was “not the best and not so brightest young conservative troll”.
The criticism comes after Kirk called the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate a “military occupation” and Kirk’s insistence that Republican-backed states refuse to cooperate with the Internal Revenue Service after a recent push to hire as many as 87,000 new agents.
“Kirk says the red states should defund the federal government,” Olbermann said before quoting Kirk. “‘State’s should say — Arizona should say — the IRS is not welcome in Arizona. Just an idea’. Yeah, and a good one. The last calculation from Business Insider said the state of Arizona gets $41 billion more a year out of the federal government than it puts into the federal government. While everyone in New York state, pays an average of $3,000 into the national kitty. It costs me three grand a year to keep the other states in business!
“Every man, woman, and child in Arizona is basically paid, by the government, $4,400 per year to be an American citizen. So keep the IRS out. Watch Arizona’s government go bankrupt in a week to 10 days, and save me the $85 or so bucks a year I pay to keep just Arizona alive.”
