Countdown Thursday: Go Big or Go Broke
Posted: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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The Fierce Urgency of Mid-February:
Throughout the transition -- the American economy plunging ever deeper into crisis -- The reality that the nation has only one president at a time...and it is not yet Mr. Obama... Never seeming more prohibitive... or surreal...Than this morning... When, in our fifth story on the Countdown: The President-elect, taking the extraordinary step of giving an address to the nation before he takes office... Warning that without swift and dramatic action... The American economy could be mired in recession -- or worse -- for years to come.
Second Opinion:
Some Republican bloggers are grumbling about CNN's Sanjay Gupta as surgeon general... annoyed with his reporting on John McCain's health records... fact-checking his reporting on Reagan's AIDS record. Our fourth story... is not that. But now a leading Democrat... Congressman John Conyers... is asking fellow Democrats to petition President-elect Obama against nominating Gupta.ODDBALL: A Panda that bites, and a bunch of doggies with dots.
Class Distortion: Since the mainstream media has recently blasted Caroline Kennedy for her frequent use of the verbal crutch, "you know" in interviews... And since Governor David Paterson now says that Kennedy's lack of elected experience does not help her...And since a new poll shows that Kennedy's support among New York Democrats is lagging... It is curious, in our third story on the Countdown, that Governor Sarah Palin has now suggested that she and Ms. Kennedy have been treated differently by the media... because of which class -- her term -- each belonged to.
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Brit Hume of Fox News, Michelle Malkin and Bill O'Reilly
Palin Unplugged: No one has ever accused Governor Sarah Palin of being deep... But her personality sure is wide...And her ability to reveal huge and troubled yet eternally entertaining parts of it, seemingly limitless. In our number one story on the Countdown: you've already heard her complaint that she believes Caroline Kennedy is getting a free ride from the media because of the quote "class" to which she belongs. That was just the start of the Governor's latest self-immolation, supporting the contention of right-wing propaganda-producer John Ziegler that elite media bias kept the Governor, and Senator McCain, out of the White House. It began with the blogosphere and ended with me... But there was one continuous thread. Whatever happened, not in a million years, was any of it... her own fault.
