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We covered this in our No.1 story tonight...and we are not above making our own stupid mistakes...but here is the Lincoln Douglas Debate Fox News Style.
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We know most newsholers don't always enjoy the Britney news, but when the politics of a court spokesperson creep into his address to the media, it's our job to bring it to light....(see video here )
Don't worry...we'll still have Sen. Hillary Clinton, Howie Kurtz, and more tonight...just thought you all might enjoy this.
Plus...a few lost oddballs after the jump.
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The Newshole gets the distinct feeling that whoever is putting out those Rudy Giuliani ads where the guy driving a car yammers randomly to the camera are a direct descendant of the "Jimmy the Cab Driver" MTV from the early 90's.
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Here are a few of clips from this afternoon's contentious White House briefing. Of course, we'll have a whole lot more of this tonight, but we couldn't wait to share some of it with you before the big show.
This first clip is Tony Snow taking on himself to apologize (with tongue planted firmly in cheek) to the American people for the outing of a covert CIA agent...
Q Tony, I want to go back to the issue of an apology, and I want to stay issue-focused and not blaming. Are there -- is the American people owed some kind of apology from someone in this administration for the leaking of a CIA person's name, personnel's name?
MR. SNOW: Yes, it's improper to be leaking those names.
Q You say it's improper, so you're saying someone in this administration owes the American public an apology?
MR. SNOW: I'll apologize. All done.
Q No, it's not. That's flippant, that's a very flippant way of doing something very serious -- it was a very serious matter. That was very flippant.
MR. SNOW: Well, no, I think in some ways the characterization -- because there are so many complex issues involved in this, including the provenance of it, and furthermore, the fact that in the Washington culture things get leaked all the time. And I'm not aware --
Q Does that make it right?
MR. SNOW: How many of you have apologized for a controversial name appearing under tough circumstances in a news story? I daresay the answer is zero.
And in this second clip, Tony Snow just plain runs out of steam...
Q How does the President justify this commutation when there are thousands of others in jail with a similar request?
MR. SNOW: I'm not sure that -- thousands in jail with similar requests?
Q Three thousand.
MR. SNOW: Three thousand in jail with similar -- I'm not sure that you can take anybody who has a perjury count and say that they're all the same. Every count has to be considered differently. The President, as you know, looks very carefully at these things. And furthermore, not every one of these cases comes before a President, as you're well aware. Attorneys quite often petition for these and that is one of the procedures by which they do it.
Q Can I follow on that? There are more than 3,000 current petitions for commutation -- not pardons, but commutation -- in the federal system under President Bush. Will all 3,000 of those be held to the same standard that the President applied to Scooter Libby?
MR. SNOW: I don't know.
don't need to know.Watch this video to see what's really important to "the folks", then send it to everyone you know so we can all be as minimally informed as possible.
We missed this yesterday, but thankfully, the good people of the internets did not. President Bush's hero's welcome by a massive crowd in Albania involved cheering, groping and maybe a little petty theft.
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We must have missed Part I of this contest, but we have to say Hillary Clinton and her peeps seem to
get the whole YouTube thing a little better than the rest...
It's especially good once you take a look at the competition. Here we have some of the other contenders, and some helpful hints for the field:
Senator Dodd, have you been arrested? Are you being held hostage somewhere, forced to do this video against your will? Hint: Get a plant or something. Congressman Tancredo, kudos for trying to mix it up a bit. But could you stop the car please ? We'll hitch a ride with someone less obsessed with illegal immigrants. John Edwards, getting a big star was a good call. Might have picked one without a Hugo Chavez issue at the moment, but hey... Senator Joe Biden wins for sheer volume : 83 videos and counting! This one's 13 minutes long . Not bad, but think about editing it down a tad for the average YouTuber's shorter attention-span. And maybe show a kid getting hurt on a skateboard or something. Oh, we take that back -- Mitt Romney's got 144. Of course, the whole point of YouTube video is to actually have video , but when you're this good looking, we guess it's ok to go with still photos over lousy audio about radical Islam. Mister Giuliani, the whole "they hate us for our freedom " thing is actually pretty much univerally mocked on the internets. Highlighting it as a campaign position will get you that one-star rating everytime. Ron Paul, we sorta hoped the big "internet candidate" would have more than one lone YouTube videothat guy who teaches you how to use your computer. Update: Ok, we missed Ron Paul's current crop of video, including a nice one called "Educating Rudy". Mister Kucinich? Mister Kucinich? Can I go to the bathroom? (Please don't let our good natured ribbing prevent you from actually hearing today's lesson . There should be a test on this stuff.) Finally, Mike Gravel teaches us about the "fair tax". Nothing terribly wrong with his video , except that we keep expecting him to offer us a hard candy from the dish next to the sofa. Is that all of them?
Close enough.
With George Bush & Tony Blair sharing a
final walk through the Rose Garden this afternoon, we thought it might be nice to reminisce a bit with this oldie but goodie...
click for VIDEO Countdown salutes Keith's debate night tag-team partner Chris Matthews, with a condensed version of Thursday's coverage... Ha!
