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Countdown Tuesday: White House Whitewash

Posted: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Lame Duck and Cover:  They have now begun fabricating the platform on the White House steps on which that inauguration will be conducted. Meantime, inside -- in our fifth story on the Countdown -- the current President, having long argued that history would vindicate him, evidently no longer leaving that to chance... Now personally fabricating the story of his eight years of rule.


Obama & The Governors:  The two simplest, most widely offered economic stimulus suggestions?Spend on physical infra-structure... Have the states spend on almost anything... Our fourth story on the Countdown: the President-Elect trying to arrange for some of the latter, at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association... But oddly, one of those Governors acting again as if she thinks the meeting was actually just another surprise party held in her honor.

ODDBALL: Fireball Tennis...enjoy!

The Nixon Tapes:  If it is any consolation to those who oppose the creation of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, on the grounds of paradoxy alone, a possibly consoling thought tonight. In our third story, it is the Nixon Library that today--as in the past--continues to roll out new material, especially audio tapes, that lets us peer still further under the rock of Nixon's already shady public persona. In today's new tapes, recorded just after his massive 1972 victory over Democrat George McGovern... we get both striking parallels to our current president and, wake up the kids, some unwitting sexual innuendo from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Virginia Republican State Chairman Jeff Frederick, a Utah State Senator named Chris Buttars, and Bill-O vie for tonight's top honors.

Citizen Murdoch:   It is not a simplistic portrait… In our number one story on the Countdown... Rupert Murdoch -- quote -- "never seems to be surrounded by the brightest bulbs, the A-team." His "life is now largely spent around people for whom Fox News is a vulgarity and a joke." And Murdoch... despises Bill O'Reilly? The author of "The Man Who Owns The News", Michael Wolff, is here.

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How could anyone believe GW Bush didn't know. He had his pardon written into a bill that had to be passed so that he and his cronnies wouldn't be accountable for anything they did since 9/11/2001...Why isn't anyone screaming this at the top of their lungs to get this traitor out of office?

JT Riffe Largo Floridaq (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:19 PM)

... to revive "a dull sport"?  Keith, baby... you are obviously not a tennis player!

ddh, Danbury, CT (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:32 PM)

Congratulations on the chris Hayes interview.  Finally - on air discussion of the Bush Administration's responsibility to exercise judgment concerning its Iraq intelligence.  Now - I hope you will make the further connection between the failure to critically evaluate the intelligence and the Administration's hypocritical profession of concern for human life.  

Paul, San Diego, CA (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:40 PM)

Remember, Bush uses the press to spread BS.  He was never out of the loop, as Olbermann speculated.  Never take Bush at his word, especially when he's pretending to be apologetic. Olbermann is helping Bush convince the dodos by repeating the crap he puts out there.  It's all spin. There is always an agenda.

P. M. NY, NY (Sent Tuesday, December 02, 2008 11:10 PM)

re: Bad Intel

There was no good or bad intel.  Those involved in executing U.S. foreign policy only wanted intel for the pre-ordained agenda at hand.  Ask Joe Wilson (Nigeria report) and Valerie Plame (exposed for retribution, a treasonous act in itself).  

George Cocorelis, Athens, Greece (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:28 AM)

The current President of the United States is the worst ever.  I am very upset over the push to get new laws into effect before President-Elect Obama gets into office.  Apparently these new laws will effect workers safety, our planet, and security.  Why is this President and Vice President not being charged with criminal charges?

Paula Sell Fargo ND (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:22 AM)

Bush will forever be known as the American President that encouraged and lied about torture, defiled the Constitution and lied to Pat Tillman's Mother. He is the biggest coward in our history.

American Citizen (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 2:09 PM)

It does not matter if I was told Marry Chrismass, happy Holiday, Happy Eid, or Happy Hanukkah since they are wishing me the happiness. But what really matters is when they say the war in Iraq is called by God as Sara Palin said or this a Crusade war as Bush said. Then I will say No. Don't force your sick twissted mind on me.

Y.D., perkasie, Pa (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:53 PM)

The hell with Dubya's fairy tales.  I'll settle for somebody saying RIP to the incomparable Odetta on the broadcast tonight.

Fairweather Lewis (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 5:03 PM)

Go back to the campaign of 2000 and view file video of the likes of Condoleeza Rice, Karen Hughes and Bush's inner circle of that campaign.  All of them talked about "weapons of mass destruction", WMDs, Saddam Hussein having WMD, "we" would not hesitate to go to war against Saddam to make sure WMD were removed...ad nauseum.  It was never ending during that entire election cycle.

It is disturbing that the collective memory of the so-called American people is so short.  Even more disturbing is the fact that Bush is attempting to package the lie of WMD as something "the media" and others were responsible for.  Digging deeper, I think you would find that the entire fabrication of WMD lies squarely at the feet of Cheney and Rove.

So, the bottom line of the legacy of the Bush administration is that he is the worst president in the history of the United States and that the people that he had surrounding him (or were pulling his strings) are the most extreme criminal element in any cabinet or inner circle.  It is staggering!

J. Lefebvre (Sent Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:30 PM)

Keith - instead of wasting time naming state senators who recommend pointless resolutions (not laws) as the worst person in the world, maybe you should name someone who actually did something terrible – like the disgusting people who trampled a man to death, caused a miscarriage and stepped on police performing CPR all to save $20 on a crappy DVD player.

Anyone in that melee qualifies as The Worst Person in the World.

J, NY, NY (Sent Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:21 AM)

Season's Greetings (no, not Merry Christmas), Keith and Countdown personae;  As a more than four year viewer, I thank and applaud you for your insightful, fearless, and often unpopular yet (in my opinion) correct stances. Like you (Keith), I am an avid baseball fan. However, I must take issue with your frequent malicious and mean-spirited attacks on another of my personal favorite sports...hockey. Before Sarah Palin did more in a New York Ranger/Islander minute to drag down my beloved sport, you have taken potshots for years now. As a former sportscaster, you should (at least pretend to) appreciate all sports, even those which you apparently do not understand. Today (12.3.8), you held up Sean Avery as a typical example of what NHL hockey represents today. Nothing could be further from an accurate depiction of reality. Sean Avery is a self-promoting jerk on the level of Bill-O, a mere one of hundreds of decent and conscientious professional hockey players. Yes, Avery is the Bill-O of the NHL. Anything for a moment in the media spotlight. But I encourage you, Keith, to please refrain from desecrating hockey because of this one guy. Consider it my (albeit petty) Special Comment. It is like saying all TV is reprehensible because of Bill-O. If I'm not mistaken you draw yourself quite a (well deserved) hefty salary from said same medium? To put more precisely, my highly respected Mr. Olbermann, please refrain from trashing the exciting and historically rich (almost as much as baseball!) sport of hockey.
Sincerely,
Ron Hulka
Lincoln City OR
ps: how 'but referring to him as Bill Oh, Really?

Ron Hulka Lincoln City OR (Sent Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:21 AM)

In response to the “worst person in the world” featured on Tuesday’s show regarding Utah state senator Chris Buttars, I think it is also worth noting that this is the same individual who came under fire recently in the local media for blatantly racist comments made on the floor of the state senate. Buttars described a bill, which was being compared to an “ugly baby” by other senators, in this manner; “This baby is black. It's a dark, ugly thing.”

Matt Jones, Clearfield, Utah (Sent Thursday, December 04, 2008 10:00 AM)

Is it possible Keith to do a special comment on Bush interview on ABC, about how Iraq is not a do-over if the intelligence was right and Iraq had no WMD. I mean he didn't say no, I would not have invaded if the intel was right and there were no WMD. So it's almost like saying, "I would have invaded anyway!"

Buy the way I've read your book Truth and Consequences and chance of a squeal with all the Special comment from 2007-2008, especially the election ones.

Eric Sommers, Scranton PA (Sent Thursday, December 04, 2008 2:11 PM)



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