Countdown Friday: Commander in Thief
Posted: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:58 PM by Countdown
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In a campaign of Non Sequitirs, Senator McCain has tonight reached a new high, in low. First announcing in Denver today that Senator Obama has failed the so-called Commander- in- Chief test... Then on television...endorsing Obama's plan for bringing U-S forces home from Iraq. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Senator McCain now saying a 16-month withdrawal "timetable based on conditions on the ground" is "a pretty good timetable."
Fox in the White House: It is one of those things you kind of assume to be true all along... and yet are shocked when hard confirmation actually comes. Our fourth story tonight, from the former White House press secretary himself, word that the Bush White House routinely sent--and as far as we know, still sends-- literal talking points to Fox News for its primetime propagandists, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and others... to spout, as if ventriloquist dummies, as if they had thought of it themselves, as if they had come to those opinions independently, as if there had been a process either fair... or balanced.
ODDBALL: A couple that robbed the church they were married in, and a baseball brawl.
Impeach Fuzz: It was officially a House Judiciary committee Hearing on --quote-- "Executive Power and its constitutional limitations". Yet in our third story on the Countdown - even though the Speaker of the House has explicitly said that Congress will no impeach the President - that was the theme of the day.
Worsties...
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Rupert Murdoch, Bill-O and David Asman vie for tonight's top honors.
Beach Buddy: The cliché of a vacation is to get away from it all... Most notably work, and the rattle and grind of everyday life. But in our number one story on the Countdown... an amusingly narrow poll... finds that fourteen percent of 'people' would evidently like to stay away from me. Not to worry, I'm not taking it personally, and you'll soon see why. And all of it will be leavened by Jason Bateman, who is here -- right here.
