Countdown Friday: Bad to Worse
Posted: Friday, December 05, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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In The Line of Firings:
If even the man he will replace has just broken the strained, agonized, tortured refusal of his White House employees to ever use the word, and called this a Recession... Then, in our fifth story... we're screwed."Today's job data reflects the fact that our economy is in a recession," said President Bush, after that data arrived -- 533-thousand more workers laid off last month. Not his fault, of course..
His Story:
Traditionally, one waits until reality becomes history before one rewrites history. In the case of President Bush, however, as he embarks upon his legacy-building efforts, we have a presidency that boasted of actually creating reality as it went. And so, in our fourth story, at a speech tonight about his legacy in the Middle East... Mr. Bush rewrote history to match the reality in his mind. If any.ODDBALL: ice sculpture goes boom and knut goes boom
Courting Kennedy:
We believe we will know the identity of the next Senator from Minnesota before we know the identity of the next Senator from New York... But maybe not. Our third story tonight: more developments in Al Franken's bid to unseat Norm Coleman... First, a week after Senator Robert Kennedy's son took his name out of consideration for appointment to succeed the Secretary of State Nominee... The name of his cousin seemed to jump to the fore.
Worsties...see below.WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Peggy Noonan, Bill-O and
Lorraine Henderson of Salem, Massachusetts vie for tonight's top honor.
The Prop 8 Players: It's creator has described it as a "viral picket sign"... In our number one story on the Countdown, "Prop Eight: The Musical"... We showed it to you here yesterday and it's already been viewed on the web, millions of times. The musical's auteur, Marc Shaiman... and two of its stars -- Jack Black and John C. Reilly -- will join me presently.
