Countdown Thursdsay: Clock the Vote
Posted: Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Clock the Vote: For Democrats more interested in the election than in the nomination... The distant sound of the bugle, echoing from the horizon. The cavalry is coming! Led by... Harry Reid. Our fifth story on the Countdown: asked by a reporter if he would be forced to weigh-in with undecided superdelegates... The Senate Majority Leader today replying: "I might have to." What is more... the Democratic Leader of the Senate adding that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and DNC Chairman Howard Dean... might be willing to join him. And their contemplated bold action? A letter-writing campaign.
Death Denials: An awful cover-up at the Veterans Administration. Its mental health director insisting fewer than 800 military personnel attempted suicide last year. The same man, in private, in an e-mail even bearing the remarkable admonition "Shhhh," admitting the number of suicide attempts last year was not 800, but more like 12-thousand. Our fourth story on the Countdown: even as one of its hospitals closed its psychiatric ward after a fourth vet killed himself there... the V-A is still treating the crisis, with denial, or deception, or both.
ODDBALL: A mustache competition, a bunch of kitties singing together and Keith on Dave.
Au H20: When Barry Goldwater, Junior, and his roommate at school discussed someday writing a book about Barry, senior, the legendary Arizona senator and conservative icon... neither of them probably guessed that the roommate would go on to become an icon himself... the White House counsel who became a household name during Watergate... only to be "resigned" 35 years ago next week. In our third story tonight, that roommate, John Dean, and Barry Goldwater Junior, who grew up to become a member of Congress in his own right... have finally written that book... containing newly discovered journal entries... and correspondence of the late senator...
Worsties...see below
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: John McCain...Bill-O and Tony Zirkle vie for tonight's top honor.
Bitter Richard: It was quickly reduced to -- and will forever be known as -- the bitter comments. Senator Barock Obama's perception of the frustration and anger of some small-town, working-class voters. Then a barely-noticed, seperate reference, to bitter voters, by Senator Clinton. But in our number one story on the Countdown, don't we all have a hell of a lot... about which to be to be bitter? Comedian Richard Lewis will join us presently to do bitter, one better.
