Countdown Wednesday: Shoe-denfreude
Posted: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Safety Versed:
Forget President Bush's self-chosen, would-be legacy of keeping America safe after the 9/11 attacks -- though, tragically, not during. His actual legacy...The one with staying power. Might just be in how people -- the world over -- are now protesting abuses of power. Our fifth story on the Countdown: "This shoe is for you!" Flying footwear... officially the new political equivalent of flipping the bird.
Magical Legacy Tour:
We're not sure who first observed "history is written by the winners"...But Winston Churchill said "history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." Either sentiment, of course, is dependant on the idea that one has succeeded, either as history-maker, or history-chronicler. Yet in our fourth story on the Countdown: again today, George W. Bush indicated he is trying to write the history, even though in all its battles save a couple of dubious elections, he hasn't won a damned thing.ODDBALL: Water skiing squirrel and a four-year-old kid breaks into a dollar store.
Decrees of Separation: It is the only thing vaguely resembling a story to come out of the Obama end of the Blagoyavitch scandal in Illinois... A Chicago Sun-Times columnist with a one-sentence mention of rumored rumblings that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is heard in 21 separate conversations recorded by the wiretaps. Nothing nefarious even implied, let alone stated. But -- in our third story on the Countdown -- turns out the columnist's beat is gossip... in print she repeatedly refers to herself in the third person, like some vestige from the Walter Winchell days... and her scrap of a story has been completely denied by a source in the Obama transition team, to Savannah Guthrie of NBC News.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Fox Business, Henner Schmidt and Gretchen Carlson vie for tonight's top honors.
Mein Cake: Hear Our Number One story, one way and it's outrageous: Workers at a store, refusing to make an inscribed cake, for the birthday of a little boy, three years old. Hear Our Number One story, another way, and it's more outrageous: The store workers wouldn't make the cake, because the little boy's name is "Adolf Hitler Campbell." Hear our Number One story, yet another way, and it's more outrageous still: The store wouldn't make the cake. But a nearby Wal-Mart... was happy to.
