Countdown Monday: Crisis Management
Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Renewed Deal:
The phrase was "hit the ground running." The Obama Economic Team is not yet eligible to hit the ground... But despite the proprietor's insistence that the nation only has one president at a time... In our fifth story on the Countdown, it sure feels like that team is running...Running the response to the financial crisis."
Courting Clinton:
What makes you take a new job when you already have a great one? What is the decider, when the old Ernie Kovacs' observation is true: The Money Means Nothing -- The Money Is Nothing, Therefore The Money Means Nothing? Our fourth story on the Countdown: Often, it comes down to access -- and your own staff. Ask Secretary Of State Designate Rumoree Hillary Clinton... who has that imaginary title again after reported "personal assurances" from her would-be boss. And then there are successors for all these relocating Senators -- the one in Delaware, chosen tonight.ODDBALL: A KO political mailer and a robot obstacle course.
More Leftovers:
So last week I'm on this deserted island, see? And there's one television and really wobbly internet, so I get this equivalent of, like, a ship-to-shore message: Governor Palin pardoned a Thanksgiving turkey... But she did it while she was standing in front of a... uh... a turkey-rendering device. Our third story on the Countdown: I haven't seen the tape yet. No, seriously. Came back Saturday, worked football yesterday. I heard some of it -- it sounded like the second-worst political photo-op of all-time -- but I thought, well, if I'm going to watch it, let's try something different. I'll watch it, for the first time, in front of people who've already seen it. You. So with the warning that we're not blurring anything and you might want to get the kids out of the room, to say nothing of the justifiably-offended... And the additional warning that I may signal to stop the tape at any moment by making the time-out gesture or shouting "freeze it!"...Let her -- as it were -- rip.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Mark Halperin, Joe the Independent Senator and Bill-O vie for tonight's top honors.
It's a Keith Thing: At a popular well-known left-wing website...Most opinion polls, no matter the subject, include an extra option: "Pie." At the same site, the ramblings of somebody trying to trash the prevalent philosophy, is greeted by the posting of... food recipes. Our number one story on the Countdown: I spent my morning... making pies... desperately trying to follow recipes recited by... Martha Stewart. It was kind of like being asked to get behind the wheel of one of the racers at the Indianapolis 500. And I don't drive.
