Countdown Monday: Veteran's Day
Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Veteran's Day: It is the most solemn and ceremonial of remembrances for our fallen dead and surviving soldiers, dating from the time of our first grim venture into international combat in World War One, the beginning of our role as, if not the policemen of the world, then rather its moral force. The ceremonial laying of the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National Ceremony on Veterans' Day. And where was the President of the United States? In Waco, Texas. Our fifth story on the Countdown: the Commander in Chief who has sent our troops to their deaths on nonsense intelligence throughout a presidency of loopholes, who has described his own grief at the soldiers' suffering so much he has made a brand name out of it, who has exploited every wound as an opportunity to sell his agenda of fear and his politics of hate...He couldn't be bothered to lay the wreath on Veterans' Day. Why does George W. Bush hate the troops?
You Say Dubai, I say Hello: That FEMA news conference last month -- featuring answers from FEMA, to questions from FEMA -- was rightly ripped, even by the head of Homeland Security. So what happens now that the Clinton campaign has acknowledging planting two questions for their candidate at Iowa events?
ODDBALL: A loose roo, the French and German foreign minister sing, and the tallest guy in America is crowned
Ghost Flights: A mind-numbing, tear your hair out story from England tonight. And from about a dozen different angles. You're an airplane passenger? You've been hit by a gas surcharge? You've had to pay through the nose for a seat? Watch this -- and you're gonna wanna punch somebody. You're an aviation safety expert? You're terrified at the ballooning number of planes in the sky, which traffic controllers have to try to keep from plowing into each other? Watch this -- and you're gonna wanna punch somebody. You're aware of global warming or just of pollution? You keep hearing the major international carriers claim they're going to reduce emissions? Watch this -- and you're gonna wanna punch somebody. Our third story on the Countdown: Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a British Airways plane crossing the Atlantic... with nobody on board. From our affiliated British network ITV we bring you the revelations of so-called ghost flights, by correspondent Mark Eddo...With one final warning....watch this -- and you're gonna wanna punch somebody.
Tame Tom: Tom Bruise... or rather Cruise... leading our number two story, Keeping Tabs. His latest star turn raising questions about whether his star power has been wounded.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Delay, Huckabee and Limbaugh vie for tonight's top honors.
Fox Gone Wild: Bill O'Reilly's words often require translation. So "culture warrior" turns into "smut peddler"... just as fast as you can say "great video". And in our number one story on the Countdown, it isn't just Bill-o showing soft-core porn while railing against soft-core porn. It's the entire Fixed Noise establishment. The latest recorded example -- 4:24 P-M Eastern Standard Time, today. And film-maker Robert Greenwald (who will join us)... has documented a telling slice of it in his four-minute video production. "Family Values"... as seen in the Alice-Through-The-Looking-Glass kaleidoscope that is, Fox News.
