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Countdown Thursday: SEC Ya Later

Posted: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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It's the Economy Stupor:  The Presidential candidate said if he were in office now, he'd respond to the financial crisis by firing the chairman of the SEC... evidently not knowing the president can't fire the chairman of the SEC. The Vice Presidential candidate responded by apparently demoting him... referring to an administration in which her name comes first. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Senator McCain and Governor Palin -- or Governor Palin and Senator McCain -- pretty much squeezed Senator Obama out of the headlines today. And with headlines like these... one would assume Obama's pretty happy with that.

Map Quest:  For the third day in a row, starting with Sarah Palin's tanning bed... the McCain camp's explanation for some problem or other... is causing even more problems than the original problem. In our fourth story tonight, is Spain in Europe?  Is it in Latin America? Or is it in the Axis of Evil?

ODDBALL: Bear-chase ends, and baseball hazing.

"It's a Stretch":  The prominent Senate Republican who traveled with Senator Obama on his trip to Iraq and Afghanistan... and who later skipped the GOP convention... has now answered the question so few have been willing to bluntly address. In our third story on the Countdown... Is Governor Sarah Palin ready to be President? Quoting -- "I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States." That, from... Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska.

Worsties...see below.


WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Bill-O the clown, Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, and the Virginia GOP vie for tonight's top honors.

Palinanity:   In two weeks, support for the McCain-Palin ticket by white women dropped... 21 points. The presidential candidate learned, at age 71, that the White House can't fire the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. One of his converts from Senator Clinton's camp said Mr. McCain would be nicer than would Obama, to quote "rednecks," un-quote. The Vice Presidential candidate confirmed she installed a tanning bed in the governor's mansion, revealed she didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was, wasn't sure if she'd immediately accepted a spot on the ticket or had a family vote first, and listed herself before the Presidential candidate. And we haven't even gotten to the stuff on Fox News in the last 24 hours. Our number one story on the Countdown: for the G-O-P and its television network, a kind of perfect storm.

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tonight,Fri/19 there was no more mention of de Rothschild remark
about "Rednecks". please do not let this story be squashed or ignored
it is so perfect.Also tonight please continue the saga of Palin's
preacher. This is a honey....keep it going. Thank you, and thank you
for Keith Olbermann, the only place we get these jewels.

mrs. Paula King Henderson, Nevada (Sent Saturday, September 20, 2008 2:53 AM)

Mr. Olbermann: your show continues to use straight talk with panache and precision-a delight to behold. Have you noted the Michael Luo piece in NYT of 9/20? It really fits into McCain's devious "FEC" so-called misspeak! Cheers, Colin Mills-Cannon

Colin Mills-Cannon, Talent. Oregon (Sent Saturday, September 20, 2008 8:29 AM)

Hey Keith,

How 'bout a worst person in the world for John McCain about this?

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

SteveH, Columbus, OH (Sent Sunday, September 21, 2008 6:33 PM)

Does it strike anyone else as strange that Palin is being given access to foreign leaders at the UN that is usually available only to official US ambassadors?  Has any presidential candidate, let alone a VP candidate, ever been given this type of access before?  This certainly ties McBush-Palin to the current administration if further ties were really needed.

Karl Lueck (Sent Tuesday, September 23, 2008 4:25 PM)



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