Countdown Tuesday: It's the Economy Stupor
Posted: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Trail Fix:
Our sister network CNBC reporting that the Fed has agreed to extend an 85-billion dollar loan to the insurance giant AIG in exchange for an 80% stake in the company...Thus, tonight, as the Wall Street's Wild West Meltdown worsens -- Senator McCain having dinner with two families in Youngstown, Ohio... After economist and columnist Paul Kroogman compared his approach, and his language, to that of President Herbert Hoover at the start of the Great Depression... No word yet on whether the menu consisted of a chicken in every pot. Our fifth story on the Countdown: The Democratic Nominee rolled out a plan to try to address the crisis spreading outwards from the Mortgage Industry... The Republican Nominee admitted he had oversight of every part of the economy that has hemmorhaged... he called for a long-term study of some sort.. 
Beyond the Palin:
"I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain," writes Richard Cohen of The Washington Post today. "Guilty," he confesses. "It had to do with integrity," Cohen explains. It all unravelled for him today... Cohen turned him into little McCain pieces. Quotes: "He has become the sort of politician he once despised.... "McCain has turned ugly..." "McCain lied about his lying..." And... "Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both. Our fourth story on the Countdown: Mr. Cohen never even mentioned Governor Palin... New polling on her suggests she has, in Newsweek's terms, gone, quote "from being the most popular White House hopeful... to the least."ODDBALL: Doggie DNA and a woman meets a short man.
Vice is No Defense:
It is almost heart-breaking to consider, but what if all that stood between us and the Iraq War... 41-hundred Americans dead... hundreds of billions gone... American influence, respect, sympathy from 9/11 squandered... was a single lie, behind closed doors, from one man to another? In our third story tonight, this, from the new book, 
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: G. Gordon Liddy, Kevin D. Williamson, and Eddie Burke vie for tonight's top honors.
MacBerry: March 9th, 1999. Asked what distinguished him from fellow Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Bradley, Al Gore started talking about technology in the 21st Century and mentioned that while in Congress, quote, "I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." Thus was born the urban legend that Al Gore ever claimed he had invented the internet. Tonight, in our Number One story on the Countdown, the former Vice President can finally sleep the sleep of he who has been shunted out of the "what-the-what-the" limelight. This will be the day the story began, that John McCain claimed he invented... the blackberry.
