Countdown Thursday: Bye Bye B-Rod
Posted: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:59 PM by Countdown
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Shame That Tune:
The men of the past were called Robber Barons... The ones who dreamt of cornering the Gold Market, or monopolizing silver, or even of paying 450 million in bonuses to 400 people who caused a company to collapse -- that last example coming from the ancient history that was... yesterday. But in our fifth story tonight, financial treason so injurious to the nation that it makes a beggar out of language, and an angry President out of a heretofore almost imperturbable new chief. 18 billion in bonuses for Wall Street last year... the year you and I gave Wall Street...billions more... as bail-outs. 
Everything Must Blago: Breaking news... And it was unanimous. Rod Blagojevich has been removed from office, by a unanimous vote of the Illinois state senate... and is no longer the Governor of Illinois... in our fourth story on the Countdown. And Pat Quinn -- the state's lieutenant governor just hours ago -- is now the Governor of Illinois. Mr. Blagojevich... having been impeached and then tried... And despite a closing argument before the Illinois state senate... is now the former Governor of Illinois. Expelled from the office from which he refused to resign.
ODDBALL: Horseshoes and dumb criminals.
Rove Against the House: On Monday, the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives served a subpoena on Fox News analyst Karl Rove, the former White House advisor... a legal command for Rove to appear and testify about the Bush Justice Department... how it was politicized, and how it went after a Democratic governor and even Republican prosecutors who refused to play ball. Now, in our fourth story on the Countdown, Rove has announced he will defy the law. I mean he'll defy the law again. And he did so, of course, in a venue that two weeks ago, demanded unquestioning compliance with the US government...
Worsties...see below.
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: The 1st Choice Liquor store in Springfield, Queensland, Australia, Rush Limbaugh and Phil Gingrey
A Countdown Exclusive: When he stepped onto a stage at the Sun Dome at South Florida University this morning to accept the Motorola Coach of the Year award, based on voting by fans.... Coach Mike Tomlin of the Super Bowl Favorite Pittsburgh Steelers was asked, not surprisingly, about President Obama. And in our number one story on the Countdown -- our exclusive interview with Tomlin -- Obama, it turns out was, almost simultaneously, being asked... about Tomlin.
