Countdown Thursday: Auto Motives
Posted: Thursday, December 04, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Three Car Pile-up:
In the jargon of our time, the phrases "Car Salesmen" and especially "Used Car Salesmen" are not exactly compliments or assurances. So, in our fifth story on the Countdown: what would you call three men who went back to Capitol Hill for the second time in a month trying to again sell America on saving their industry at a huge public cost? Used Car Bailout Salesmen?
Timeline:
There is news tonight that includes the words "troop", "withdrawal" and "Iraq." A deal calling for the U.S. to pull out of that country by December of 2011... Bringing to mind another word..."timeline." In our fourth story on the Countdown, with still over a month to go before Barrock Obama takes office, we wonder outloud -- What do we do **now**... when it comes to the war in Iraq... and torture? ODDBALL: Bad tree lighting, Knut is back and pole dancing robots.
Pranks and Pratfalls:
From saying the soon-to-be Homeland Security Secretary is perfect for the job because she has no life... To hanging up on the President-Elect out of fear that you were being punked like the time the Fake French President Sarkozy called. Our third story on the Countdown, a whole plethora of political faux pas. Beginning with the biggest political faux-pas of the year -- playing Color-Forms with a Vice Presidential nominee, on the Party's Dime.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: The Manatee, Australian Member of Parliament James Bidgood and Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Galluccio vie for tonight's top honors.
Prop 8 the Musical: When the civil rights of millions of Californians were extinguished on November 4th by the passage of Proposition Eight -- and by misinformation and intolerance -- no one could have predicted that the issue would become a musical. But in our number one story on the Countdown, it has, albeit in a mini, online incarnation. With the added punch that Jesus Christ is played by Jack Black. And if part of the point is that you can't pick and choose what the bible supposedly prohibits… the video's final message is simply practical: Quoting -- "Every time a gay or lesbian finds love at the parade, there's money to be made." And pay close attention to catch the bevy of celebrities playing their part -- including John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Margaret Cho and Rashida Jones.
