Countdown Tuesday: Suspension of Disbelief
Posted: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Stunt McMan:
That a man cannot be in two places at once, one of the axioms of the universe. As a metaphor for opinion, a politician disproves it an average of once every six hours. John McCain today somehow managed to be in three places at once. Our fifth story on the Countdown: the Republican nominee with a metaphysical hat trick. He insisted again this is not the time to be allocating blame for the bailout failure. His campaign, a quarter of an hour later, releasing a commercial... blaming Obama for the bailout failure. And the Republican Party issued its own commercial that only showed up today... blaming Obama for the passage of the bailout -- the one that didn't pass. Senator McCain tonight... is in three places at once.
Vice Squad:
The most recent and astonishing Sarah Palin gaffe is one we have not yet seen. It is an exchange wherein Katie Couric asks the governor about major Supreme Court decisions. Asked to cite one besides Roe vee Wade, Governor Palin reportedly falls silent. No Brown v Board of Education, Plessy v Ferguson, or even Bush v Gore. None of the customary non-sequitors or Tina Fey-esque stammering -- simply crickets. According to Politico dot com -- an unnamed Palin aide is supposedly furious at the network for leaking the contents of the interview. Ms. Couric confirmed the topic, but not the answer, and that CBS will air it, alongside Senator Biden's answer to the same question, tomorrow. Our fourth story on the Countdown: and then... Camp Palin has a debate Thursday. ODDBALL: a teen wins the lottery and a bear goes to the hospital
OH 8:
It sounds horribly familiar to anyone who remembers 2004. Republicans trying to stop same-day voter registration and photographing license plates to try and prove voter fraud. This - in our third story on the Countdown -as early voting gets underway in the state that gave George Bush the last election - Ohio.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Two crooks, Bill-O and Michelle Bachmann vie for top honors.
Mashed Potato: There is perhaps no greater conceivable rebuke. A former speechwriter for the current President, so dismayed by the current nominee for Vice President that he has just said... in essence: "Governor Palin, I knew Dan Quayle. "And you're no Dan Quayle." In our number one story on the Countdown: Governor Palin must be wishing she could trade Mr. Quayle: His potato for her... everything else.
