Countdown Wednesday: Same Sleaze, Different Day
Posted: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Disconnect the Dots: On the day that Senator McCain's campaign pretended to be suspended... it ran 1,300 ads. On the day that Senator McCain's campaign pretended it would no longer focus on William Ayers -- Today -- it released a statement about Mr Ayers... and the Senator himself -- as well as his running mate both "responding with gusto" to a question about Mister Ayers... in a joint interview with Fox News. Our fifth story on the Countdown: The Republican nominee, an apparent prisoner -- the word is chosen deliberately -- of his own mixed messages.
On Board with McCain: Why do William Ayres and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright matter? The answer, we are told, has to do with Barrock Obama's judgment and character... Judgment in choosing to associate with them... Judgment in choosing to serve on a board with Ayres...Character in choosing not to walk out on Wright's rhetoric. In our fourth story, what we learn applying this litmus test to John McCain. We told you last night about the U-S Council for World Freedom, on whose board McCain sat for years. But while Ayres was a rehabilitated terrorist when Obama served on a board with him, what about McCain's fellow board members in the '80s?
ODDBALL: Putin Judo, Monkey Waiters, Neck Tattoo Bandit
Poison Pill: John McCain is right. If elected he will get you a five-thousand dollar health care tax credit. He didn't mention, if you don't have a family, the credit will only be 2500. He also didn't mention that you'll probably have to give most of it back, to pay for the new taxes he'll sock you with, if you get health benefits at work, which he'll consider income. He also didn't mention that his plan is so top-heavy, scholars at four major universities have concluded that this conversation will be academic for as many as 20 Million Americans -- because a McCain Presidency would eliminate their health care. Our third story on the Countdown: John McCain may be hazardous to your health... as revealed in last night's debate.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Kathryn Jean Lopez, former Maryland police superintendent Thomas Hutchins and Bobby May, McCain Campaign chair in Buchanan County, Virginia.
Seanabler: When a hack bases an entire show around a transparent quack... it may seem cartoonish, but it must be taken seriously... Particularly by the communications director of that show's target -- Senator Barack Obama. And in our number one story on the Countdown, the Obama campaign's Robert Gibbs delivered unto Sean Hannity a two-fer. Deflating the argument about Obama's so-called associations... and skewering Hannity's supposed investigation... all at once.
