Countdown Friday: Conspiring to Steal
Posted: Friday, October 17, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Breaking: Beating Them to the Punch An election that the Obama campaign today formally, in an official request for a special prosecutor... suggested that the McCain campaign is conspiring to steal with help from the White House and the Department of Justice. Our fifth story tonight with the election itself at stake, Obama tonight setting the stage for a dramatic re-enactment of the battle over Republican corruption of the DOJ, to supress Democratic voting in 2004 and 2006 only this time with this Democrat the battle now being joined before it's too late. It is unfolding by the hour tonight. First, two top officials at the Justice Department leaked the fact that DOJ is seeking evidence that ACORN, a network of community groups... is involved in a coordinated national scam to register fake voters.
The Late Show:
At the second presidential debate in Nashville, Senator John McCain having declared that he knows how to get Osama bin Laden...further, promising that as president he would "get" bin Laden... "no matter what." Finally, more than nine days later, more than nine months after he first made such a claim.... A follow-up question to Senator McCain on the specifics of his claim.... when he was asked... if he had quote, "the advantage of greater information than the current president?" Our fourth story on the Countdown: the follow-up question coming not from Williams, Gibson, Couric, Schieffer, Stephanopoulos, Brokaw...But from... the former weatherman of Channel 13 in Indianapolis.ODDBALL: Sign stealing in Arizona, and a bungee wedding.
Pulling Punchlines: The Al Smith Dinner. An especially curious stop for the Presidential candidates, on this 80th anniversary of the year Smith, a real Maverick, lost the presidency by 357 electoral votes, after a smear campaign that portrayed him as a religious radical who would sell the nation out to a frightening foreign power in a distant land. Our third story on the Countdown: from the Papist of 1928, to the Memorial Dinner of 2008... And, well, you could have knocked me over with a feather about whose name came up in the comedic speeches.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Bob Grant, Governor Palin's Secret Service Detail and Rick Santorum vie for tonight's top honors.
Sarah Night Live: I was so close. In our post-debate Countdown Wednesday night... I referred to Joe the Plumber as Senator John McCain's "invisible friend". Turns out Joe the Plumber is McCain's imaginary friend... Simon is his invisible friend. At least, according to the devastating portrayal by "Saturday Night Live" -- Weekend Update Thursday. And in our number one story on the Countdown, just in time to turn the whole ship around, Governor Sarah Palin will reportedly appear on S-N-L tomorrow night.
