Blago Gone Wild: "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I am not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." Substitute the word Governor for President... And, in our fifth story on the Countdown, you pretty much have not what Richard Nixon said 35 years ago last month...But what Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich said today. Of course, the Governor spiced it up with a passage from Rudyard Kipling's famed poem "If"... And perhaps all you need to know about Blagojevich is, he bailed out of the stanza just before Kipling warned "don't look too good, nor talk too wise."

You Say Dubai, I say Hello:  The auto industry was bailed out today...17.4 billion dollars in emergency loans...to prevent G-M and Chrysler from collapsing.  During an 8-minute-long televised announcement timed to end before the stock market opened...President Bush laid out a so-called rescue package...replete with conditions, deadlines and concessions...especially from the union... In our fourth story on the Countdown, instead of bankruptcy for two of the Big Three, the federal government will tap the fund initially set aside to bail out the financial industry.  But unlike the lifeline thrown to the banks...this one has strings attached.

ODDBALL: zamboni goes boom and south korea brawl fest 2008

:  Today is the the day we were meant to learn the true identity of "Deep Throat". A secret which Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein promised they would keep until the man -- or woman -- had died. Instead, he outted himself - thirty three years after Watergate - admitting --quote-- "I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat"  Tonight, in our third story on the Countdown, W. Mark Felt, the former Deputy Associate Director of the F-B-I, has died of congestive heart failure in Santa Rosa, California. He was 95.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Sean Hannity, Gretchen Carlson,  Florida State Department of Revenue and  Carl Lindner, Jr. , Chairman of Great American Insurance Company.

A Big Meth:   A drug bust... in the crystal meth capital of Alaska. Six felony counts -- for a manufactured substance. In our number one story on the Countdown, the Thrilla in Wasilla. And the target -- the future mother-in-law of Governor Sarah Palin's pregnant daughter. Which could mean, really, just by definition... Governor Sarah Palin... pallin' around with drug dealers?

Warren Peace:  As outrage flies over Obama's selection of right wing evangelist Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at that inauguration...Words spoken exactly two weeks ago tonight, would seem in retrospect, prescient. "The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped."The speaker... was Rick Warren. In our fifth story: if Warren represents people to whom agreement with their religious beliefs is the only measure of right or wrong...How can Obama gain anything from their side?And if, in preaching their evangel, Warren compares gay marriage to incest and pedophelia...How can Obama gain anything from his own side?

Vice:  If we ever come to witness the trial of People versus Cheney, an astonishing admission this week by the potential defendant, Vice President Cheney... could very well end up as Exhibit A. Our number-four story tonight... war crimes... and the slowly growing momentum for investigations that could lead... to indictments.

Auto Erratic:  Would you buy a car with a ten-year warranty... from a car-maker in Chapter 11? Less than 24 hours after Chrysler announced it will hold off its own total collapse by closing all of its factories for at least a month... in our third story tonight, Mr. Bush announced he finally has a plan... to come up with a plan... not necessarily to save the American auto industry... but at least to ensure that if Chrysler and General Motors do go bankrupt, their bankruptcies will not be, quote, "disorderly." Rest easy, America, the man who saved New Orleans is on the case.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Bill-O the clown, Gretchen Carlson and the Manatee vie for tonight's top honors.

If the Shoe Fits:   The "farewell kiss" felt 'round the world is far from fading... in our number one story on the Countdown. The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoe at President Bush has now asked... for a pardon. Not from Mr. Bush -- from the Iraqi Prime Minister.

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Safety Versed:  Forget President Bush's self-chosen, would-be legacy of keeping America safe after the 9/11 attacks -- though, tragically, not during. His actual legacy...The one with staying power. Might just be in how people -- the world over -- are now protesting abuses of power. Our fifth story on the Countdown:  "This shoe is for you!" Flying footwear... officially the new political equivalent of flipping the bird.

Magical Legacy Tour:  We're not sure who first observed "history is written by the winners"...But Winston Churchill said "history will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." Either sentiment, of course, is dependant on the idea that one has succeeded, either as history-maker, or history-chronicler. Yet in our fourth story on the Countdown: again today, George W. Bush indicated he is trying to write the history, even though in all its battles save a couple of dubious elections, he hasn't won a damned thing.

ODDBALL: Water skiing squirrel and a four-year-old kid breaks into a dollar store.

Decrees of Separation:  It is the only thing vaguely resembling a story to come out of the Obama end of the Blagoyavitch scandal in Illinois... A Chicago Sun-Times columnist with a one-sentence mention of rumored rumblings that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is heard in 21 separate conversations recorded by the wiretaps. Nothing nefarious even implied, let alone stated. But -- in our third story on the Countdown -- turns out the columnist's beat is gossip... in print she repeatedly refers to herself in the third person, like some vestige from the Walter Winchell days... and her scrap of a story has been completely denied by a source in the Obama transition team, to Savannah Guthrie of NBC News.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Fox Business, Henner Schmidt and Gretchen Carlson vie for tonight's top honors.

Mein Cake:   Hear Our Number One story, one way and it's outrageous: Workers at a store, refusing to make an inscribed cake, for the birthday of a little boy, three years old. Hear Our Number One story, another way, and it's more outrageous: The store workers wouldn't make the cake, because the little boy's name is "Adolf Hitler Campbell." Hear our Number One story, yet another way, and it's more outrageous still: The store wouldn't make the cake. But a nearby Wal-Mart... was happy to.

The Other Shoe Drops:  Having lied about the intelligence during the run-up to the War in Iraq... Having lied about the intelligence after the invasion when no Weapons of Mass Destruction were found... How ironic would it be if -- in our fifth story on the Countdown -- Vice President Dick Cheney, by refusing to join the Bush revisionist chorus and refusing to insist the war might not have been inevitable -- were now the only one telling the truth?

It's Whose Party?:  When it comes to getting things done... President-elect Obama is probably aiming for legislative victories far greater than the Clinton administration and certainly the Carter administration... But the Speaker of the House of his own party... has reportedly made clear, just how she would like him to operate. Meantime, in our fourth story on the Countdown, a leading Democrats' deference to Republicans over the confirmation of Attorney General-designate Eric Holder...might* leave skeptics wondering...  Is the party in power acting like the party in power?

ODDBALL: A naked run in the Phillippines, and a pizza drop.

Power Stripped:  Having systematically stripped Americans of our rights on everything from unwarranted spying to Habeas Corpus....Our third story on the Countdown - President Bush is now trying to take away perhaps the most American right of all. The right to sue.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Eric Prince, Karl Rove and Rush Limbaugh vie for tonight's top honors.

Shoes Fly, Don't Bother Me:  "It's so crazy, it's almost not fun to do anything about it" So said Conan O'Brien last night...speaking, of course, about the shoes heard 'round the world. In our number one story...Not since Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face had the late-night comics been so blessed... Equally blessed have been the web elves... and so will we be blessed in a minute when Joel McHale joins us.

Sole of a Nation:  The official White House transcript of the joint news conference by President Bush and Prime Minister Maliki in Baghdad reeding nothing more than "audience interruption." Also, that it happened just after the president said that although "the war is not yet over ... it is decisively on its way to being won."  Our fifth story on the Countdown: Mister Bush's final trip to Iraq -- perhaps his entire legacy in that country -- likely to be remembered for that "audience interruption." An Iraqi correspondent for a Baghdad t-v network... Throwing first one of his shoes... Then the other... At President Bush's head. Iraqi television journalism: Left shoe and right shoe: Fair and balanced.

Tainted Gov: President-elect Obama's Internal Review of contacts with Governor Rod Blagojevitch is complete... But it will not be released until next Monday, at what has now been confirmed as, the request of the prosecutors... So our fourth story on the Countdown, what might have been dispensed with today... will linger. But with a new poll finding that Obama's approval rating is thus far un-affected... The Republican National Committee might want to reconsider its effort at guilt by association.

ODDBALL: Behold, Barney Cam

Senate News:  The future face of the U-S Senate... and the faces in that Senate... our third story tonight. We'll get to the Kennedy news, but first, late-breaking news from Colorado...

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Faux News, Glenn Beck and  Larry Di Rita vie for tonight's top honors.

The 25 Most Corrupt...the rest of the list. 

Epic Bail:  This is Friday, December 12th...38 Days until the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. And 56 years next month since Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent  General Motors President Charles Wilson to the Senate for confirmation as Defense Secretary. A senator asked Wilson whether he could make decisions that might be adverse to G-M Wilson replied, "I cannot conceive of one because for years I thought that what was good for our country was good for General Motors." Our fifth story tonight, the end of an era, as we learn that Senate Republicans are now willing to kill GM, regardless of whether it's good for our country, in order to kill the union of G-M's workers. The White House today announced that it will take steps to prevent both GM and Chrysler from failing... possibly dipping into the financial-sector bailout funds... the available batch having left, approximately 15 billion dollars-- almost exactly the amount that was in...the bill that fell short in the Senate last night, despite backing from the House and White House and a majority of the Senate.

Endless Guv:  In this season of giving, it's the story that keeps on giving...And in our fourth story on the Countdown: Unless Illinois state officials succeed in removing "Hot Rod" Blagoya-vitch from power -- forcably -- the corruption scandal surrounding the Illinois governor might keep on giving... and giving... and giving... for quite some time.

ODDBALL: Foam at the airport, 2008 undie run, and two bumbling bandits try and rob a 7/11

Decision 2008 Post-Mortem:  "We lost. We were happy it was over." Resignation and relief expressed by John McCain's chief campaign pollster... after being asked whether a few more weeks would have helped pulled out a victory. Our third story on the Countdown... Stunning revelations last night during an election post-mortem, held at Harvard University...Rick Davis, McCain campaign manager had plenty to say about his former client...

Decision 2008, Still Going: For those of you who actually thought the election was over... Our Second Story on the Countdown - Decision 2008. The still ongoing Senate battle in Minnesota.

Riffs and Buts:   Arguably, it was the night the wheels came off John McCain's bid to become president. Cancelling on David Letterman would have been one thing... But cancelling on Dave... Only to turn up on CBS's in-house feed... Doing an interview with Katie Couric instead... When he was supposed to be back in Washington solving the economic crisis...Well, it only got worse from there.And who was it again who filled in for Senator McCain at the last minute? Keith somebody? Our fifth story on the Countdown: Now imagine that none of that had ever happened...

Countdown has obtained a memo entitled "Action Alert - Auto Bailout," and sent Wednesday at 9:12am, to Senate Republicans. The names of the sender(s) and recipient(s) have been redacted in the copy Countdown obtained. The Los Angeles Times reported that it was circulated among Senate Republicans. The brief memo outlines internal political strategy on the bailout, including the view that defeating the bailout represents a "first shot against organized labor." Senate Republicans blocked passage of the bailout late Thursday night, over its insistence on an immediate union pay cut. See the entire memo after the jump.

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Arrested Developments:  The Governor Rod Blagoya-vitch scandal in Illinois has now grown so massive that even President George W. Bush has sat up and taken notice. In our fifth story on the Countdown: The White House, today saying that President Bush thinks the Blagoya-vitch situation is "very serious"... and that the charges he is facing are "astounding." No comment on whether Mr. Bush will accept the evident favorite for a name for the scandal: G-Bay.

Driving in Reverse:  On the same day that the number of first-time filers for unemployment benefits hit a level not seen in a quarter century...  Today we got a glimpse of why the Republican Party is willing to kill the domestic auto industry even if... or, perhaps because it will add hundreds of thousands of union members to the unemployment lines. Our fourth story tonight, after the House last night passed the 15 billion dollar auto bailout bill, with stronger support than expected... Senate Republicans announced their intention to kill it.

ODDBALL: Penguins dressed as Santa, Gordon Brown makes a gaffe and a soccer player gets a red card for helping out. 

Space Between:  The peaceful transition of power, even from one party to another, even after this most politically-intolerant of administrations. It's our pride and joy as a nation. Unless you work for NASA. Our third story tonight: half-hilarious, half-terrifying... Over fears that one of the space agency's pet projects might be cancelled, a NASA administrator now reportedly resisting review of the project by the President-Elect's transition team.... And bad-mouthing its members.

Worsties...see below.
 
WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Steve Rule of Canyon County, Idaho, Bill-O, Gretchen Carlson and Dick Morris vie for tonight's top honors.

Top 25 Corrupt Politicians:   Just how corrupt is Rod Blagojevitch? Trying to place him in the long annals of the financial scandals of American history is like trying to rank the world's greatest pieces of art. Well, the world's greatest pieces of forged art. However, in our number one story, I decided to take a shot. So now we begin Countdown's list of the 25 most financially corrupt politicians in this nation's long, and bribe-filled history. The headline here is -- American politics has in large part been animated by the spirit of Zero Mostel, as he expressed it in the original version of "The Producers"... "Ohhhhhh! I want that money!"

Own a Piece of History:  Even in Illinois, where votes cast by dead men are the stuff of legend...Even in Illinois, where a horse path once built by a corrupt Chicago mayor cost a million dollars...Even in Illinois, where three of his six elected predecessors wound up going to the penitentiary... Even in Illinois, when Governor Rod Blagoya-vitch was arrested today with trying to sell the right to succeed the President-Elect in the Senate, and trying to muscle the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Cubs...Even in Illinois -- in our fifth story tonight -- there rings out, one single question, raised in unison on a million lips... Is this guy the dumbest SOB on the planet, or what?

3 Car Pile-Up:  Even at virtually the drop-dead hour for the American auto industry...The Republicans are ready to let 'em crash... for the sake of Big Oil. Our fourth story on the Countdown: a mini-bailout for Detroit seemingly imminent, but the GOP reportedly still demanding that Democrats excise the environmental part of the deal, the language that would demand automakers drop lawsuits challenging tough emissions standards in several states.

ODDBALL: Runaway Rhino and an athletic mouse.

Bush is History:  President Bush tells interviewers he does not care how history will portray him.  But in our third story tonight, the Los Angeles Times has obtained an internal White House memo giving cabinet members talking points for painting history a rosy portrait of Mr. Bush... even though his image will only get worse, as new, damning facts emerge. What does the memo say? And how are we obliged to correct its bizarre claims? To start, it says Mr. Bush, quote, "...promised to raise standards and accountability in public schools -- and delivered the No Child Left Behind Act."

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Sean Hannity, Billo and George Will vie for tonight's top honors.

Jay Leno Interview:  One show, five nights a week, in prime time, on network television. It's never been done before. Unless you count all those mutations of Law + Order, or C-S-I, or, if like me you're old enough to remember this: the ABC Sunday Night Movie... and the ABC Monday Night Movie... and the ABC Tuesday Movie... etc. Our number one story on the Countdown, Keeping Tabs: original and radical and yet possibly the safest thing a broadcast t-v network has ever done... Taking the highest-rated late night program -- The Tonight Show -- and morph it into a prime-time series.Jay Leno at ten p-m eastern, Monday through Friday... He'll join me, presently.

Roadblockheads:  After a weekend in which it appeared a mini-bailout of the auto industry was imminent... Two monkey wrenches in the assembly line. Our fifth story on the Countdown: is taxpayer help for Detroit being held up by one state that relies on money from foreign auto-makers? And by one final effort by the Bush Administration to kill or cripple... a union?

Veterans New Day:  What President-elect Barrock Obama said about his choice for Secretary of Veterans Affairs...that there is none more distinguished, more determined or more qualified to care for our returning troops... Is no less notable than what the appointee, Retired Army General Eric Shinseki did back in February of 2003.  To that presently. But, in our fourth story on the Countdown, the first part of an answer to the question we have asked nightly since the election and will continue to do so until the inauguration... What do we do now...when it comes to taking care of our vets?

ODDBALL: Virgin Mary in a Cat Scan, and a talking lion talks about the economy.

The American President:  The idea that Barack Obama is not actually a "natural-born citizen" of this country is not just so ridiculous that the Supreme Court, even when pressed by a Reactionary justice like Clarence Thomas, refused today to hear a lawsuit making the contention... It's so ridiculous that even a far right commentator has urged his side to drop it, and drop it fast. Our third story on the Countdown: The Obama Citizenship Blowback... with Arianna Huffington joining me in a moment.

Worsties...see below.

WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Baseball's Veterans Hall of Fame Commitee, Bill-O and Pat Boone vie for tonight's top honors.

Stay Jay:  Breaking news... NBC is expected to announce tommorrow that it has signed Jay Leno to a new contract that will move his show to the ten p-m time period, weeknights, beginning in the fall of 2010. A new format in prime time. Conan O'Brien is taking over "The Tonight Show" in May, as announced five years ago. The new deal would keep Mr. Leno -- who is the ratings leader in late-night -- on the network... Where he will be able to crack jokes about the new administration 90-minutes earlier

In The Line of Firings:  If even the man he will replace has just broken the strained, agonized, tortured refusal of his White House employees to ever use the word, and called this a Recession... Then, in our fifth story... we're screwed."Today's job data reflects the fact that our economy is in a recession," said President Bush, after that data arrived -- 533-thousand more workers laid off last month. Not his fault, of course..

His Story:  Traditionally, one waits until reality becomes history before one rewrites history. In the case of President Bush, however, as he embarks upon his legacy-building efforts, we have a presidency that boasted of actually creating reality as it went. And so, in our fourth story, at a speech tonight about his legacy in the Middle East... Mr. Bush rewrote history to match the reality in his mind. If any.

ODDBALL: ice sculpture goes boom and knut goes boom

Courting Kennedy:  We believe we will know the identity of the next Senator from Minnesota before we know the identity of the next Senator from New York... But maybe not. Our third story tonight: more developments in Al Franken's bid to unseat Norm Coleman... First, a week after Senator Robert Kennedy's son took his name out of consideration for appointment to succeed the Secretary of State Nominee... The name of his cousin seemed to jump to the fore.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: Peggy Noonan, Bill-O and Lorraine Henderson of Salem, Massachusetts vie for tonight's top honor.

The Prop 8 Players:   It's creator has described it as a "viral picket sign"... In our number one story on the Countdown, "Prop Eight: The Musical"... We showed it to you here yesterday and it's already been viewed on the web, millions of times. The musical's auteur, Marc Shaiman... and two of its stars -- Jack Black and John C. Reilly -- will join me presently.

Three Car Pile-up:  In the jargon of our time, the phrases "Car Salesmen" and especially "Used Car Salesmen" are not exactly compliments or assurances. So, in our fifth story on the Countdown: what would you call three men who went back to Capitol Hill for the second time in a month trying to again sell America on saving their industry at a huge public cost? Used Car Bailout Salesmen?

Timeline:  There is news tonight that includes the words "troop", "withdrawal" and "Iraq."  A deal calling for the U.S. to pull out of that country by December of 2011... Bringing to mind another word..."timeline."  In our fourth story on the Countdown, with still over a month to go before Barrock Obama takes office, we wonder outloud -- What do we do **now**... when it comes to the war in Iraq... and torture?

ODDBALL: Bad tree lighting, Knut is back and pole dancing robots.
 
Pranks and Pratfalls:  From saying the soon-to-be Homeland Security Secretary is perfect for the job because she has no life... To hanging up on the President-Elect out of fear that you were being punked like the time the Fake French President Sarkozy called.  Our third story on the Countdown, a whole plethora of political faux pas.  Beginning with the biggest political faux-pas of the year -- playing Color-Forms with a Vice Presidential nominee, on the Party's Dime.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: The Manatee,  Australian Member of Parliament James Bidgood and  Massachusetts State Trooper Michael Galluccio vie for tonight's top honors.

Prop 8 the Musical:   When the civil rights of millions of Californians were extinguished on November 4th by the passage of Proposition Eight -- and by misinformation and intolerance -- no one could have predicted that the issue would become a musical. But in our number one story on the Countdown, it has, albeit in a mini, online incarnation. With the added punch that Jesus Christ is played by Jack Black. And if part of the point is that you can't pick and choose what the bible supposedly prohibits… the video's final message is simply practical: Quoting -- "Every time a gay or lesbian finds love at the parade, there's money to be made." And pay close attention to catch the bevy of celebrities playing their part -- including John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney, Andy Richter, Margaret Cho and Rashida Jones.

Lame Duck and Cover:  They have now begun fabricating the platform on the White House steps on which that inauguration will be conducted. Meantime, inside -- in our fifth story on the Countdown -- the current President, having long argued that history would vindicate him, evidently no longer leaving that to chance... Now personally fabricating the story of his eight years of rule.

Obama & The Governors:  The two simplest, most widely offered economic stimulus suggestions?Spend on physical infra-structure... Have the states spend on almost anything... Our fourth story on the Countdown: the President-Elect trying to arrange for some of the latter, at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association... But oddly, one of those Governors acting again as if she thinks the meeting was actually just another surprise party held in her honor.

ODDBALL: Fireball Tennis...enjoy!

The Nixon Tapes:  If it is any consolation to those who oppose the creation of the George W. Bush Presidential Library, on the grounds of paradoxy alone, a possibly consoling thought tonight. In our third story, it is the Nixon Library that today--as in the past--continues to roll out new material, especially audio tapes, that lets us peer still further under the rock of Nixon's already shady public persona. In today's new tapes, recorded just after his massive 1972 victory over Democrat George McGovern... we get both striking parallels to our current president and, wake up the kids, some unwitting sexual innuendo from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD:  Virginia Republican State Chairman Jeff Frederick, a Utah State Senator named Chris Buttars, and Bill-O vie for tonight's top honors.

Citizen Murdoch:   It is not a simplistic portrait… In our number one story on the Countdown... Rupert Murdoch -- quote -- "never seems to be surrounded by the brightest bulbs, the A-team." His "life is now largely spent around people for whom Fox News is a vulgarity and a joke." And Murdoch... despises Bill O'Reilly? The author of "The Man Who Owns The News", Michael Wolff, is here.

State and the Union:  Abraham Lincoln managed to appoint to his cabinet, four of his rivals for the 1860 Republican Convention. Barack Obama has now made one of his, his Vice President... another his Secretary of State... a third likely to become his Secretary of Commerce. But in our fifth story on the Countdown: as he rolled out his national security team this morning, the President-Elect could now out-Lincoln Lincoln...  He also has a Secretary of Defense fresh from the Bush Administration... An Attorney General and a U-N Ambassador from the Clinton Administration... A head of an Economic Recovery Advisory Board out of the Carter and Reagan Administrations... And a National Security Advisor who appeared at at least one campaign event for the Senator he defeated in the election last month. This is not the dream of Doris Kearns Goodwin's publishers come true -- another "Team Of Rivals"... This is bordering on... a Coalition Government.

Clinton Initiative:  Secretary of State Nominee Hillary Clinton, Day One. Part Two -- to offend lovers of Hemingway -- is.. "Ask Not For Whom The Bill Tolls; It Tolls For Thee." Our fourth story on the Countdown: with his wife poised to become the nation's official point-person on international diplomacy, the former President agreeing to detail not only the 10 million dollars he earned last year, mostly speaking about international diplomacy.

ODDBALL: Romanian Debates gone wild.

Undocking the Doctrine:  If George W. Bush were prime minister of India, receiving intelligence, as India has, that Pakistani elements played a role in last week's terror strike, we might well expect India soon, to attack... well, Iraq, of course. But in our third story tonight, India, instead, is understandably focused... on Pakistan...  And has in its diplomatic arsenal the precedent of the Bush Doctrine, the claim that nations -- at least, those run by Mr. Bush -- have the right to attack countries that might pose a threat. Leaving Barack Obama, and us, to ask the question we will ask nightly until the inauguration... What Do We Do Now?

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WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD: George Will and Bill-O the Clown vie for tonight's top honors.
 
Palin Pitch:  On the eve of the run-off election between Senator Saxby Chambliss and his Democratic challenger, Jim Martin...Their surrogates -- Governor Sarah Palin and the rapper Ludacris -- campaigned in Georgia today. Clearly... a vainglorious attempt to sway voters with gibberish from a so-called younger generation... And I'm not referring to the hip-hop star. In our number one story on the Countdown... it's Governor -- Give Me A Turkey Killin' Backdrop and I'll Talk All Day -- Palin... Stumping for Chambliss... with a vigilant eye on... her prospects for 2012.