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Countdown Thursday: Camp Pain 08

Posted: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Unity Now:   If you have had the sneaking suspicion that, as a Presidential candidate, John McCain might be turning into Bob Dole, but that this was a suspicion you did not dare give voice to -- hit the mute button, quickly, and keep it off until I give you the high sign. Our fifth story on the Countdown: never mind Dole, after the first comprehensive polling in the swing states... he might be turning into Alf Landon. Then again, this could always be June for Barack Obama, the way it was June for Michael Dukakis.

Look Who's Talking:  The Bush Doctrine: If you do it, it's appeasement. If we do it, it's diplomacy. In our fourth story tonight, President Bush today lifted some of the U-S sanctions on North Korea, a member of the axis of evil, about which Vice President Cheney once said, "We don't negotiate with evil, we defeat it." Mr. Bush said he lifted the sanctions after extensive, multi-party negotiations including the U-S, Evil, China, Russia, Japan and South Evil.

ODDBALL: Fireworks demonstrations, and a kid moons his high school class.

The GOP Horserace:  John McCain has yet to address it seriously. Charlie Black has yet to re-surface since it was revealed. But -- in our third story on the Countdown -- former McCain chief strategist Mike Murphy is talking about Mr. Black's revelation to Fortune magazine that a terrorist attack, on U-S soil, between now and the election, would be, in his opinion, good -- good for McCain's chances of becoming President. And Mr. Murphy has somehow turned it into a sexist joke.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Sean Hannity, Antonin Scalia and Bill-o vie for tonight's top honors.

Celebrity-ish Sex Tape:  Number one tonight on the Countdown: the return of, stories my producers are forcing me to cover... and Verne Troyer, a-k-a Mini Me, Has Made A Sex Tape.  Let's start our team coverage with a sound bite gratuitously pulled out of an interview that has nothing to do with the topic.

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Nice oddball lead-thanks for the clarification.  All I know is Germany was a great place to drink.  C'YA at 1AM.

S.Bolinger,St.Louis,MO (Sent Friday, June 27, 2008 3:05 PM)



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