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Countdown Tuesday: Wydening the Net

Posted: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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In The Line of Firings:  Vice President-elect Joe Biden today calling the transition team's leak of the Panetta pick at CIA -- without having first informed Senators Feinstein or Rockefeller, the top two Democrats on the Intelligence Committee -- quote: "Just a mistake." Yet the transition did not make the mistake of neglecting to inform Senator Wyden -- the one, two, three -- third ranking Democrat on the Committee... Raising the question -- in our fifth story on the Countdown -- of whether the President-elect deliberately did an end-run around Mrs. Feinstein and Mister Rockefeller... Two Democrats who have failed to curtail -- if not enabled -- the Bush administration's policies on the torture of detainees... And the wiretapping of its own citizens.

Not in his Saddle:  The 111th Congress began its historic term today... with a misreading of its own rules... on who can be in the 111th Congress. Our fourth story tonight... breaking news in the lonely saga of hypothetical Illinois Senator Roland Burris...
 
ODDBALL: Naked on the slopes and a power washed robber gets away.

The GOP Horserace:  He's a real doctor nd he plays one on TV. Our third story on the Countdown -- President Elect Obama's apparent choice for Surgeon General? Not Doctor Phil, nor Doogie Howser. But Doctor Sanjay Gupta of CNN. Okay, let it out. Your first thought, possibly something like this... Isn't this like making Judge Judy the Attorney General?

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Tom McClusky, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin vie for tonight's top honors.

Epic Inauguration:   The President-elect has not complained about...  What may be a flat-out insult by the outgoing administration of President Bush. More on that with the reporter who broke this sorry tale, Margaret Carlson, presently. Two weeks from today -- in our number one story -- an inauguration guaranteed to be momentous with the imprint of history...  And tailored to set a new tone from a new president. Preceded by a train procession, a public concert at the Lincoln Memorial, and a day of community service. Then, the Inauguration and that night... the Balls.

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Referring to the segment on Burris... instead of using the phrase, "cluster f",  how about saying, "goat rodeo"?  (I learned this past summer that it means the same thing as "cluster f")
P.S. I have never heard either of these used on TV before.  I was a bit surprised.  

Vicki Walls, Ann Arbor, MI (Sent Tuesday, January 06, 2009 10:38 PM)

i am a bit bothered when i hear the idf people say hammas hides among the people in gaza dont they restric all pallastinians to that peice of land where do they expect hammas to be not even the innocent can leave area

john (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 2:12 PM)

Dear Mr. Olberman: Maybe I'm the last one to notice this, it's not the first I've been the fool; Wiley Miller seems to have captured your likeness in his "Non Sequitur" comic strip. Today's installment shows him and his daughter sucking up to the CEO of the UPS, so that's not the best place to begin research.

James W. Fountain, Sumner WA (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:28 PM)

anytime now guys, let's earn our keep.

paul (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 5:56 PM)

Keith,

Tell Chris that we do not have a monarchy in this country; we do not need nor want another Bush. The photo-op today, it looks as if our guy, Obama has gone bonkers on us. Did you notice how Pres. Carter tried to distance himself from the rest? Why/How could you have lunch with a man that wouldn't let you move into the EMPTY Blai House? From what I have read/seen his administration could be called the Clinton's Part II! How many in this cabinet has been Clintonits?

Doris Robinson (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:27 PM)

Keith-
Sarah Palin is as irrelevant now as she was prior to being selected as the McCain running mate.  Picking her as WPITW makes it seem like you are running out of suitable candidates.

Jeff, Chicago IL (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:50 PM)

About #3 on the Countdown:  Okay, maybe Sanjay Gupta is qualified to be Surgeon General, and maybe Barack Obama has every right to think that he would be great pick for the job, but did everyone forget about Gupta's stance on national healthcare?  Moreover, did you read Paul Krugman's reservation about this choice?
 
I share Krugman's and many other concerns on the left that while Gupta may not have a hand in administration policy, his possible appointment by the new administration should send foreboding chills down the backs of everyone who had hoped to see some progress in the area of healthcare reform.  We just hope his appointment to the bully pulpit is not a foreshadowing of public policies to come.

Brian Raney, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Sent Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:29 PM)



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