Countdown Friday, Stop the War: 2
Posted: Friday, June 29, 2007 8:08 PM by Countdown
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Stopping the War: When it comes to putting pressure on the White House to end the war in Iraq... Democrats in Congress would seem to have no problem with the first step: introducing measures that would bring the troops home. The hard part comes in actually having the spine to pass the legislation once President Bush starts threatening to veto it, and generally bad-mouth the opposition when he does so. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Stopping the war, take two...
Picadilly Bomb Scare: The London bomb scare. The intent was clearly the real thing. But what these people put together and left parked, and, authorities say, twice failed to "go off"...Did it even constitute a bomb or would it have been at worst, a car fire? The former State Department deputy head of counter-terrorism has his doubts...
ODDBALL: The internets have had their way with that freaked out hamster, and elephants are cleaning up.
Mad Murdoch 2: In 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought from its family ownership, what had been, for thirty years, the country's strongest, self-proclaimed liberal newspaper -- and promised not to change it. It was The New York Post. It could now no longer be described, either as "liberal," or even as a "newspaper." Our third story on the Countdown -- thirty one years later, Murdoch wants the Wall Street Journal, and is negotiating with it's family owners on editorial control.
I I, captain: It's come to this. The guy at the head of the line in New York City, waiting to buy his I-Phone at exactly 6 PM prevailing local time tonight, was an inveterate compulsive publicity hound, Greg Packer, known as New York's Official Man On The Street Interviewee. But in Philadelphia, the third guy on the line there, had a little better resume. Mayor John Street.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Who else would take Friday honors, but our very own eye patch wearing conservative bomb thrower...enjoy.
Pets and the GOP: No matter how grand its ambitions, politics often has the feel of a dog and pony show...So it's a good idea to be **kind** to the animals. In our number one story on the Countdown... a disturbing trend: Good Ol' Pets -- and other animals -- mistreated by the Grand Old Party. Most prominently, the case of presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney...
