Countdown Thursday: Purpose Driven Strife
Posted: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Warren Peace:
As outrage flies over Obama's selection of right wing evangelist Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at that inauguration...Words spoken exactly two weeks ago tonight, would seem in retrospect, prescient. "The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped."The speaker... was Rick Warren. In our fifth story: if Warren represents people to whom agreement with their religious beliefs is the only measure of right or wrong...How can Obama gain anything from their side?And if, in preaching their evangel, Warren compares gay marriage to incest and pedophelia...How can Obama gain anything from his own side?
Vice:
If we ever come to witness the trial of People versus Cheney, an astonishing admission this week by the potential defendant, Vice President Cheney... could very well end up as Exhibit A. Our number-four story tonight... war crimes... and the slowly growing momentum for investigations that could lead... to indictments.
Auto Erratic: Would you buy a car with a ten-year warranty... from a car-maker in Chapter 11? Less than 24 hours after Chrysler announced it will hold off its own total collapse by closing all of its factories for at least a month... in our third story tonight, Mr. Bush announced he finally has a plan... to come up with a plan... not necessarily to save the American auto industry... but at least to ensure that if Chrysler and General Motors do go bankrupt, their bankruptcies will not be, quote, "disorderly." Rest easy, America, the man who saved New Orleans is on the case.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Bill-O the clown, Gretchen Carlson and the Manatee vie for tonight's top honors.
If the Shoe Fits: The "farewell kiss" felt 'round the world is far from fading... in our number one story on the Countdown. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at President Bush has now asked... for a pardon. Not from Mr. Bush -- from the Iraqi Prime Minister.
