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All The President's Missing Documents

Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:41 AM by Countdown

Some of what we're working on for tonight...



Salon's Glenn Greenwald says the Bush administration has a history of losing key documents relevant to investigations and judicial proceedings. Just in case you thought any of those emails were "routinely destroyed" accidentally, check out his astonishing list of other times key documents have mysteriously gone missing.

IN THE ZONE The video was astonishing. For an even more harrowing account of what it was like inside the Iraqi Parliament cafeteria yesterday when that bomb went off, the Washington Post's Sudarsan Raghavan was there.

THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLFOWITZ World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has apologized for the mistake of promoting his girlfriend and giving her a big, fat raise. No apology though for getting the U.S. into the war in Iraq on false pretenses. That would have been nice, too.

DRAWING THE LINE Now that Don Imus has been fired, Minnesota Senate candidate Al Franken has called for CNN's Glenn Beck to be fired. The best part? He did it on CNN. The folks at Think Progress have video.

HE WANTS THE BOOK And if it's no longer okay to degrade African-American women... Harvey Fierstein is wondering if this nation still plans to consistently make fun of gay men and lesbians. "How do you people choose which hate to embrace, which to forgive with a wink and a week in rehab, and which to protest? Where’s my copy of that rule book?"

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C A, Tuscaloosa- Don't care what those guy's say either, but for some reason i just have to torture myself & tune in just to see what they will say next! Wonder though, how they think this well help the right wing cause at all. Also wonder if the FOX rating's are mostly other's tuning in for the same reason! Alway's good to hear from you C A i realy injoy your posting's hear.
Dear Folks,and Ms Deane Felthauser,please forgive my spelling on my prior post.I take 17 medications a day and yes some for mental disorders and skip like and old 8 track tape player when it comes to typing and grammar.However,we will be paying for the freight bill for these guys lies,The,Rove,Cheney,Gonzo,Trio complete with Bush and Barney on Back up for a long time.No Documents,No emails,No WMDs,No No I didn't do it Gonzo,olay,! But that credit card you all have ran up while in office with those no ne taxes dubya in case you haven't forgot,that's our money Nancy and the crew is trying to protect,that's their Constitutional job.Probably had cheerleader practice that day in school.Your already overdrawn on our account.Then you all got the audacity to say Social Security is in trouble.Duh of course it is,ya been borrow from it for years what ever you need money for and not paying it back to do the no new taxes cha cha.P-A-T-H-E-T-I-C.I may not be all put together and have heart trouble,and cant spell or write,I'll leave that to Keith Olbermann.They never lost that antiwar I wrote to LBJ back in 1966 in fact I sent and got a copy of it. But Rove is typical pastie faced Republican.Seem's like a lot of that Nixon crowd just can't over it and are like the every ready liars still lying.Take a close look at these guys they all seem pastie face dough-boys like they never get much sun.Cheney reminds me of the Penguin on Batman all he needs is the umbrella and cigarette holder the hat.Oh well! Forgive my Ignorance!Mr. Olbermann Your show is awesome my son has served in the lie(whoops what'the mission?) was wounded help save some lives he is ok as you can be.Just after day he signed he was offered a triple A baseball deal that's his spirit,too late. He plays centerfield like Mays.Is small,big heart,and courage.We need more baseball and less documents.
I'm in CA, put me on the show with Pammie and let's discuss the real world. As for the missing emails - send Al Gore to the White House to look for them.. hell, he invented the internet.
Let me see if I understand this correctly.Borat gets nominated for awards and Imus gets axed. Jesse and Al continue to live off public money and the donations of others and Imus who has never done so, raises money for many causes. Jesse and Al "paint" themselves as arbiters of morality and ethics - they are anything but assume that role for themselves. Imus, despite his arrogance, does not pretend to be sanctimonious or even objective. Imus was wrong and admits it, even his multiple wrongs, but Jesse and Al accept no responsibility for their "sins" including interference in the Duke rape case. Jesse and Al continue to claim that they speak for their race, Imus speaks for no one else except himself. CBS, MSNBC and others have bowed to the bullying of Jesse and Al - far worse than the ill advised, sophomoric and distasteful bullying of Imus - who claims to be nothing more than sophomoricand distasteful. In or out of context Imus screwed up. So have Jesse and Al - why are they not held accountable. Who are they that they can march into CBS to have their needs met by spineless execs? Now they will continue to incite without insight; they have been given permission to do so by the collective fearfulness of former I faves. These two men will continue to do the things in their own ways for which Imus was fired. They now have a license to do so. I am saddened by the whole mess, incluing Imus' unfortunate remarks. The continuing disucssion needs to be about more than Don Imus and about everyone's role in a society that rewards Borat, praises Jesse and Al, forgives politicians, pays rap artists to spew sexist garbage, allows an immoral war to continue wasting Amwerican lives? Who is the worst sinner among us. Certainly not Imus. Justice? Ethics? Fairness? Piety? Where?
Larry: You'll be called for the first show if MSNBC agrees to put us on.
I'm glad the team is back, all my pithy-ness was lost to the ethernet, read only by nsa spooks. It is indeed a shame when an ambulance chaser like sharpton gets to decide how to deal with people who plagarize rasist, mysogenistic speech. After all, we all know that in order to "denounce all whites" (set to music) a copyright has been extended to use of slurs, and one must get a written letter of approval, or at least pay for such use to gangsta rappers nationwide. Gee, I wonder if I can copyright terms like honky, whitey, and others. Maybe I can get Pat Buchanan to be my own personal "sharpton-shooter" and go after anyone who uses derogatory slurs against whites! Oh never mind, after watching the ruling class of abundantly wealthy white men ruin this country over the last several decades, maybe I agree with them.
rodney, lake charles, la - Both Reverends Jackson and Sharpton are "ambulance chasers" and your analogy could not be more fitting. I'm still anxiously awaiting both of their apologies to the three Duke Lacrosse players, which Sharpton publicly called "rapists" amongst other things, while Jackson publicly offered her a full scholarship immediately after the attack. When it became very apparent these men were innocent, and very early on, Sharpton continued with his irresponsible comments for the past year plus. Neither of these "men of God" has yet to apologize, and I believe their apologies will come when hell freezes over. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. must be looking down with horror and tears as they continue to disgrace his legacy as civil rights leaders!!
Don, the beltway boys ceased being boys about 30 years ago, and in yesterday's drive from vinton,la to talisheek, la, and back to lake charles, I saw more dead animals than I could count. NONE of which stunk as much as the assinine assumptions on the part of these geezers. Hell, I'm 54, look 44, feel 34, act 24 and get treated like I'm 14, yet in no moment whould I ever refer to myself as a boy. And besides, I'm not out here hunting witches, I'm hunting liars, democraps, repugnicans, party affiliation matters not. Liars are liars and should be denounced as such. And unlike George of the "Stay Put" blog here on countdown, I don't need a real gun to do this hunting. Just a discernable ear, keen eyesight, respectful hindsight, a dash of irreverence and a rapier wit. And all in the name of "cleaning up the corrupt cluture in Washington" to paraphrase yet another full of sh*t joker named george.
Lynn New Orleans: Of course we notice you, your post are factual & your touch of compassion & witt make reading your post enjoyable. Pam, & C A are very knowledgeable, & I have to work hard at what comes easy to them. So just go ahead & be Feisty one of us here will watch your back.
rodney, lake charles, la: Man your to cool, plus every thing Pam said, keep it up your post are very fun to read!
Lynn New Orleans - Thanks, and at least Keith's bar graph would be truthful, not like Sean Hannity's "charts of deception". That man is truly an arrogant jerk (that's being "kind") who knows absolutely nothing except how to yell, scream and preach lies and nonsense!! Keep coming back friend!!


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