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 Development country
productivity rankings are in this chart. The GDP per hour worked stat that
Keith described last night is the second column from the right. So again, where
John McCain specifically lists productivity as one of the strong fundamentals
of the U.S. economy, calling us "the most productive" we see that in
fact the U.S. ranks sixth.
Jon Soltz of VoteVets.org mentioned a couple of times to Keith on Thursday's
show that the plan John McCain has on his Web site "equals the
draft." On the
"National Security" issues page of McCain's campaign site, that
does seem to be a reasonable interpretation of the "Increasing the Size of
the American Military" section.
Here
are two
letters to the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration opposing the
appointment of Hans von Spakovsky to the Federal Election Commission. As Keith
pointed out on in Thursday's show, despite his rejection from the F.E.C.,
"the Civil Rights Commission reportedly wants him to oversee its report on
how well the Justice Department is monitoring the 2008 Presidential
Election."
Senators
raise concerns over attorney general guidelines for FBI investigations
The back cover of Chaplain Bill McCoy's book bearing the endorsement of General
Petreaus (See Thursday's Worsts) can
be seen on the Barnes & Noble site. The author does have a blog entry from a
few days ago on Amazon.com in which he says that a new back cover is being
redesigned.
McCain's Flush: There is... a house... in Sedona. And in Phoenix, another one. And five condos been the ruin of many a poor young boy... I forgot... to count... Arlington. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Elections rarely turn now on deep meaning, nor on inter-continental ballistic missile treaties, nor even on war and peace. They turn on symbolism. And John McCain just fell into a big giant steaming pile... of symbolism. When America's housing crisis hit home for him, in utterly unpredictable fashion.
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Major polls referenced in recent shows:
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 the song.
NOTE: Headphone alert. The song probably has curses but they're not very distinct from the overall rap. However, the end of the song has the unedited audio of O'Reilly's "We'll do it live" rant which, as you know, contains distinct F-bombs.
News Corp stock chart YTD as guided by the market omnipotence of Bill-O the Clown.
Among Jerome Corsi's other great hits:
I didn't think I understood this story when it aired. Turns out it's as literal as it was reported by Keith:
Confused sea turtles march into Italian restaurant
Anyone But Cheney:
The Vice Presidential drama -- or comedy -- may yet be overshadowed by an almost off-hand response to a questioner, made by Senator McCain today at Las Cruces, New Mexico, in which he appeared to tacitly endorse the idea of reinstating the military draft. In our fifth story on the Countdown: that sea change has not happened thus so. Thus, full coverage of McCain's comment presently. First, the only shred of fact in the giant, undulating, self-inflating balloon of cotton candy that is the VP talk: Senator Obama has confirmed he will not choose... Dick Cheney. CONTINUED >>
The Veep is Coming: Breaking news tonight that one of the four people left on the Obama short-list would bet his or her life that the Democratic Vice Presidential candidate will be... Senator Joe Biden. On the other hand: Biden today said "I'm not the guy." But he said it quickly and kinda softly. Our fifth story on the Countdown: Senator Obama, returning Saturday to the city where he began his campaign... Springfield, Illinois... where, the Associated Press reports at this hour, that a "Senior Obama adviser" had revealed anonymously that the Vice Presidential choice will appear with the Senator, in front of the former state Capitol building.
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Great unofficial MSNBC news today...be sure and watch tonight for more info.
Now as promised a Special Comment on the remarks of the Senior Senator from Arizona about Senator Obama at the VFW Convention, and about NBC News and MSNBC....
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War More Years: If timing is not everything -- and tonight there is a report that may know the timing of when Barack Obama will identify his Vice Presidential choice -- if not who that person will be..Maybe juxtaposition is everything. Our fifth story on the Countdown: at the same time in the campaign that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee ripped the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for "bad judgment" in Iraq... The New York Times reminded the nation that John McCain's immediate response to 9/11 was... to threaten Iraq and Saddam Hussein.
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These items follow Friday's stories reported by guest host Rachel Maddow.
McCain: Audacity Watch
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense Secretary Graham to Tbilisi
The 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 were the only segment to throw its support to Sen. McCain. Among the larger faith niches to support Sen. Obama are non-evangelical born again Christians (43% to 31%); notional Christians (44% to 28%); people aligned with faiths other than Christianity (56% to 24%); atheists and agnostics (55% to 17%); Catholics (39% vs. 29%); and Protestants (43% to 34%). In fact, if the current preferences stand pat, this would mark the first time in more than two decades that the born again vote has swung toward the Democratic candidate.
Legislation has been introduced in Congress that would require the Department of Defense to grant the press access to ceremonies honoring fallen military personnel. The bill was introduced by Congressman Walter Jones, a Republican from North Carolina, and a member of the House Armed Services committee. It's called the Fallen Hero Commemoration Act, HR 6662 IH.
Ed McMahon's house - now Donald Trump's house. (Same photos, more snark.)
So what happened with the Bigfoot DNA test? Fail.
One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.
The Presumptuous Nominee:
This is Friday, August 15th... 81 Days until the 2008 Presidential Election. Unless, of course, they've already held the election, and the only person who knows the outcome is the winner, our new and current (secret!) president, America's 44th... President-Senator John McCain. Our number-five story, the presumption and perils... politically and geo politically... in John McCain's campaign custom of acting as if he picks up his mail at 16-hundred Pennsylvania Ave.
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