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Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:56:00 GMT

Here's the article in Contingencies Magazine containing McCain's line, "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation." (Here's the corresponding Obama piece in the same publication.)Progressive Accountability tallies McCain's pork. Keith introduced Oddball on Friday with the note that it was the anniversary...(read more)

Return of the Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:16:00 GMT

Related, mostly primary source links to recent stories covered on MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann: A lot of people, including NY Times columnist Paul Krugman on Monday night's Countdown, are comparing John McCain's insistence that the economy is fundamentally strong with Herbert Hoover's insistence that the economy under his administration was fundamentally sound on the eve of the Great Depression. The actual Hoover quote is, "The fundamental business of the country, that is, the production...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:28:00 GMT

Politico.com's reporting on McCain's odd answer to the house question is here (with the original audio). Architectural Digest Visits Senator and Mrs. John McCain - Southwestern Style for their Phoenix Family Home Here's a ranked list of the greatest exporters in the world. This list includes the E.U. even though Germany alone ranks higher than the E.U. but Keith's point on Thursday's show holds. China already leads the U.S. in exports. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:01:00 GMT

Major polls referenced in recent shows:Los Angeles Times and BloombergNBC/WSJ (This is not the full poll. More of it will be released tomorrow.)The other big poll out this week is the CBS News/New York Times poll. Not mentioned on Countdown so far but worth including for completeness.Judging by the MySpace page of the East Coast Avengers they are at least aware of Keith's message to them that even in the case of people like Bill O'Reilly, "Nobody's life should be threatened." Wired has a stream of...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:15:00 GMT

These items follow Friday's stories reported by guest host Rachel Maddow.McCain: Audacity WatchPresident McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense Secretary Graham to TbilisiThe stat Rachel quoted Friday night about Obama doing better among all faith groups other than Evangelicals comes from a recent Barna poll.For the most part, the various faith communities of the U.S. currently support Sen. Obama for the presidency. Among the 19 faith segments that The Barna Group tracks, evangelicals...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:36:00 GMT

The Obama campaign's corrections of Jerome Corsi's ridiculous book of lies are linked here.The Georgetown University journalism program investigating the murder of Daniel Pearl is called The Pearl Project.There's no free online version of the newly released Office of Strategic Services personnel records from the National Archives, which is just as well because according to the press release it's 750,000 pages....(read more)

Hey, as long as you're here, take Rachel's advice...

Countdown — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:55:00 GMT

On Thursday's show, guest host Rachel Maddow suggested viewers Google the phrase "Truman Commission." Go ahead.This was in response to the Cooking-the-books-gate scandal in Bushed in which it was revealed that the shockingly large amount of money spent of private contractors in Iraq (as calculated by the Congressional Budget Office) is actually not shockingly high enough because it only accounts for private contractors working inside Iraq and ignored the tens of billions spent on private contractors...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:25:00 GMT

How Bush spent his days in office - This isn't exactly the source of the "2.5 years on vacation" stat but it's a nice clear breakdown of how the days and events tally up for the Bush years.The details of the man who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody are even more outrageous than Keith described in Wednesday night's Bushed segment. The New York Times has the full story, short version at Gothamist.The article suggesting McCain's speech on the Georgia crisis was partly plagiarized...(read more)

Countdown Supplemental

Countdown — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:19:00 GMT

Source documents for some recent Countdown stories:Stabilizing and Rebuilding Iraq: Iraqi Revenues, Expenditures, and Surplus - This is just the summary, the significant bit you heard about on Countdown is:As of December 31, 2007, the Iraqi government had accumulated financial deposits of $29.4 billion, held in the Development Fund for Iraq and central government deposits at the Central Bank of Iraq and Iraq's commercial banks. This balance is the result, in part, of an estimated cumulative budget...(read more)

Since Gerald Posner brought it up...

Countdown — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:16:00 GMT

This was going to be in tomorrow's Countdown Supplemental but since Gerald Posner brought it up on tonight's show, here it is. If you're interested in following up on his recommendation of looking at the Maryland records of Bruce Ivins' therapist, Jean C. Duley, you have to start here and then put her name in the subsequent search (don't worry about the other fields)....(read more)