The podcast of last night's broadcast is suffering some delays. It is in the system being processed and will hopefully be available shortly. Thanks for your patience.

UPDATE: OK, it's good to go.

I wasn't able to find (a free online version of) the judge's ruling Keith mentioned in last night's story #4 but I did find the original filing and the ruling in a nearly identical case in the Florida's Northern District.

The #3 item in Bushed last night, "War-Profiteering-Gate" referenced an audit of Pentagon spending. I believe that was based on a report submitted to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as part of a "Hearing on Accountability Lapses in Multiple Funds for Iraq." Lots of interesting source documents linked there.

Only tangential but still interesting, the failure of the stratospheric skydiver mentioned in Oddball doesn't mean no one has ever managed a similar feat. Witness Joe Kittinger's August 16, 1960 jump from the edge of space. (I thought I'd seen a version of this with natural sound that was even better but maybe I imagined it.)

The follow-up item to Tuesday's story about former Senator Gramm serving as both a paid lobbyist for UBS bank and also McCain's top economic advisor was a Financial Times story about some British UBS employees being discouraged from visiting the U.S. for fear of their being arrested. The older version of the story mentions some points not in the newer version.

Here's the full statement from Joe Lieberman on his decision to attend the Christians United for Israel Summit headed by rejected McCain endorser Pastor John Hagee.

Background on the McCain co-chair Phil Gramm scandal handily provided in sidebar of the article published on msnbc.com.

The story is pretty well exploded by now but the Politico story that broke the news of the McClellan book is here.

The GAO report on port security mentioned in the Bushed segment is summarized here or in full in pdf form here.

I wasn't able to find a copy of the IAEA's report on Iran's nuclear capability (just this story) but the Wall Street Journal is hosting a pdf version.

And in case you don't arrive at this blog by way of the Countdown with Keith Olbermann homepage (Countdown.msnbc.com), a new, much improved design went public just a few minutes ago.

Along with the launch of the new design comes new video and audio podcasts. Now you can schedule downloads of the entire show instead of clips. Find those in the iTunes store or on the msnbc.com podcast page at Podcasts.msnbc.com.

Here's the video of Senator John McCain's spiritual advisor Rev. Rod Parsley preaching the evils of Islam.

Here's also the original Mother Jones item and the segment in which Keith debunked Parsley's claim that "America was founded in part with the intention of seeing [Islam] destroyed" was back in March.

The front page article from the Washington Post about the lobbyist problems in the McCain campaign is McCain Adviser's Work As Lobbyist Criticized and there's another in today's paper, McCain's Rules on Lobbying Face Test.

Here's the Gallup poll Keith mentioned that shows Obama ahead in every category except women over 50.

The documentation on FBI Agent Bassem Youssef's testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary's Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security in which he is critical of the FBI's abilities in the war on terror is in pdf form here. (NBC's Investigative Unit interviewed Youssef in December of 2006.)

You've probably seen it all in short clips, but here's the full video of the exchange between Ellen DeGeneres and John McCain.

Keith remarked that the pledge taken by Democratic candidates not to campaign in Florida and Michigan seems so long ago few people seem to remember it (least of all Hillary Clinton). It's interesting to see that the New York Times story on that pledge on September 1, 2007 also mentions, "The decision seemed to dash any hopes of Mrs. Clinton relying on a strong showing in Florida as a springboard to the nomination."

Senator Jim Webb referenced an essay he'd written for the Wall Street Journal in 2004. Thankfully he's hosted a copy on his site so we don't have to deal with any of the WSJ registration barrier: Secret GOP Weapon: The Scots-Irish Vote.

The discussion of voting trends in Appalachia brought to mind a fascinating item in Talking Points Memo pairing a map of the Appalachian region with a map of the counties Hillary Clinton has won by more than 65%.

In case you missed it, the reference Keith made in the flying fish Oddball story was to Lew Zealand.

The audio of John McCain supporter Pastor John Hagee explaining to his congregation that Hitler was sent by God to force the Jews to Israel can be found on the Talk to Action site.

Countown Supplemental is a new feature on The News Hole offering links to source material for some of the stories on Countdown.

The fruit of the calculator of Karl Christian Rove -his electoral map projections. (pdf)

McCain's "Lobbyist Bundlers" according to Public Citizen's WhiteHouseForSale.org.

View the invite to the Al Gore event uniting Clinton and Obama fundraisers.

This is the full Richard Engle interview with President Bush. Here's the White House letter objecting to the editing by NBC News and the response from NBC News.

"[Monday] night, Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, wrote that Fixed News chairman Roger Ailes, 'warned that if Olbermann didn't stop such attacks against Fox, he would unleash O'Reilly against NBC and would use the New York Post as well.' Hours later, Richard Johnson, the editor of the Page Six gossip section of The New York Post, was nice enough to print on his page of fairy tales, a story even the online gossip blogs have disproved, about purported disputes between me and colleagues that never happened. So hats off for the best timing in NewsCorp history, as Richard Johnson proves that he, and his column, and his newspaper, have no actual purpose except to permit Ailes and Bill-O to retaliate against people who call them out. Thanks, Dick."

Educating William Kristol - Another column, another glaring factual error.