Countdown Supplemental for June 9 and 10
Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:38 PM by Countdown
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Slate has a nice write up of the
"fist pound" or "dap." A popular photo in the rampant online mocking of the suggestion by Fox News and others that bumping fists is somehow a terrorist gesture is this one of
Former President Bush with tennis star Anna Kournikova.
(FYI, the popular Bush/Pope fist pound photo is an illusion. Bush is putting his glasses in his pocket and the Pope is just gesturing.)
In his second appearance on Countdown, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan explained that he received a letter from Congressman John Conyers to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. If you're curious what it looks like to be invited to testify before a Congressional committee, you can
read the letter yourself in pdf form here.
Following up on the Rupert Murdoch quote that Bill Moyers threw in the face of Bill-O's ambush producer, it's interesting to see the context that followed the quote in the coverage by the UK's
The Guardian newspaper dated February 11, 2003:
Mr Murdoch said the price of oil would be the war's main benefit on the world economy.
"The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That's bigger than any tax cut in the any country."
Today a barrel of Brent crude costs $31.68 while US light crude costs $34.53. During the last war on Iraq in 1991, the price of oil doubled to $40 a barrel. A $10 increase in the cost of oil is seen as the equivalent of a 0.2% cut in economic growth in America and Europe.
The articles of impeachment of President Bush, introduced to Congress by Representative Dennis Kucinich, can be read on his official site.
You can find his
articles of impeachment for Vice President Cheney there as well.
