Countdown Friday: Primary Numbers
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Primary Numbers:
As the Super-Delegate tide turns for Obama...It is the kind of illogical inevitability that made Joseph Heller coin the term "Catch-22." Slate dot com, quoting campaign finance law, reminding all, that Senator Clinton has to pay virtually every bit of the 11-million dollars she's loaned to her campaign, before the convention in August, or she loses it forever. The New York Times reporting today that the likelihood is increasing that Senator Clinton will loan her campaign still more of her own money. Our fifth story on the Countdown: In order to pay off her debt to herself... she needs to keep her campaign running. But in order to keep her campaign running... she needs to spend more money.... that she does not have... thus increasing her campaign debt... debt she owes... to herself. 
AZ's Senior Senator:
It's one thing for Bill O'Reilly, who is Catholic, to call out John McCain for accepting the endorsement of a reverend who calls Catholicism, quote, "the great whore." But when even O'Reilly challenges McCain because of that same reverend's remarks about gay people... you know someone on the Straight Talk Express needs to get out and ask for directions. Because in our fourth story tonight, John McCain is not driving that bus.ODDBALL: Ducks on the Lawn and pants jumping.
Buried Truth:
The fourth anniversary passed -- all too quietly -- late last month. The death... by friendly fire... of Army Ranger, and N-F-L star, Pat Tillman. Our third story on the Countdown: it was newsman Boake Carter who insisted that in war, truth is the first casualty. In Mr. Bush's wars, obviously, it multiplies... Pat Tillman's mother has been told so many different versions of the truth -- while the government tried to twist her son's death into a recruitment tool -- that she has now chronicled her ordeal, an ordeal greater even than solely a son's death -- in a new book. Mary Tillman joins me in a moment.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Managers of the Phillips-66 gas station on 69th Street in Merriam, Kansas, Roger Ailes, an Bill-O vie for tonight's top honor.
Mort Sahl: As if the political world needed them, three more dumb headlines breaking at this hour.-- Senator Joseph Lieberman is personally vouching for Senator John McCain's bearings. -- 178 Republican members of Congress have voted against honoring Mothers on Mothers' Day. -- And the Legend of political satire Mort Sahl was among several friends of the Bush family not invited to the Jenna Bush wedding. In our number one story, Mort Sahl is here to help make sense of it all... If possible.
