Condoleezza Rice, outgoing Secretary Of State, has been saying how successful she thinks Hillary Clinton will be in the role when she takes over in January.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Is Rice soon to flip over to the Democrats? You'd imagine with all that talk, it's got a better than even chance.
If you think back to, say May and June, with the constant reassurance from the Hillary Clinton camp that she could still get enough delegates to win the nomination, the confirmation from today shows how far we've come.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Are the Republicans coming together, to rebuild their party in the same vein? Oh nooo.
Here's Keith Olbermann on Martha Stewart yesterday.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; As said on the excellent Aaron Sorkin series Sports Night (which was inspired and based on Keith Olbermann's time at ESPN hosting Sportscenter with Dan Patrick), "knock 'em dead on the cooking show tomorrow."
Here's a video of the moment, at 11pm Eastern Time last night, when, as the polls closed in Oregon, California and Washington state, Barack Obama won enough electoral votes to put him beyond the 270 needed to become the next President.
A Nightly News interview with Saturday Night Live head writer and anchor of Weekend Update, Seth Meyers. He talks about the candidates appearances, the show's rediscovered relevance and more.
Barack Obama is scheduled to appear on Comedy Central's The Daily Show tomorrow, in the midst of his 30 minute network ad that is happening on Wednesday as well.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Would he consider doing the double and going on The Colbert Report too?
Possibly the best 'Special Comment', even though it's not that and a 'Campaign Comment', that Keith has done. There was no shouting, but thoughtful comment.
$150,000 has been spent, so far, on Governor Palin's clothes and makeup in her push to win the White House with John McCain. Republicans are said to be outraged. Absolutely shocking.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; And how much has been spent on John McCain's wardrobe, hair and makeup?
McCarthyism is alive in the halls of the US Capitol in 2008. Representative Bachmann of Minnesota wants to find those who are anti-American.
She includes Senator Obama in that grouping too.
Just watch this throwback to the fifties and how Chris Matthews tries his best to deal with it ;
Tell The Truthiness Says ; We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we dig deep in our history and doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular. We can deny our heritage and our history, but we cannot escape responsibility for the result. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.
Was John McCain actually trying to win over just one voter during the final debate?
Tell The Truthiness Says ; John McCain should have tried this in the other two debates, he could have added another two people to his confirmed voters if he'd mentioned say Sandra from Kentucky and Delores from Atlanta. You've lost those two now John, it's just you and Joe.
Despite some small talk a few months back during the primaries, someone has done some serious discussion of the Bradley Effect.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; So is the Bradley Effect real and will it be in this election? Seems to be a difficult variable to factor, if the details of what happened during the primaries is any measure.
In what appears to have been a 'take out the trash day' style move, it's confirmed that George W Bush's White House endorsed CIA torture techniques in memos issued by them.
Not released until now, the memos gave the CIA official written confirmation that the White House supported their torture policies.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; If the election wasn't so close, this news would be front and centre. Seems the current administration is clearing out the smelly trash from the garage before the moving van arrives.
In a one, two punch, here's Keith Olbermann calling out John McCain and Sarah Palin for their indifference to the violent comments being made at their rallies.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; It's surprising McCain or Palin haven't yet been seen raising their eyebrows and shrugging their shoulders at some of the comments. Maybe that's yet to come.
P.S. Is anyone thinking that a crossover edition of Countdown and Election Center, with Brown and Olbermann could be a 'must see' TV event? Someone get CNN and MSNBC on the phone!
As if the McCain campaign couldn't go anywhere else, it just did. Click here for details of William Timmons, the McCain transition team aide who lobbied for Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Who's got terrorist ties now Mr McCain?
David Frum didn't reckon on how comparing apples to uranium would play on The Rachel Maddow Show, when he accused the host of contributing to the low political tone.
It didn't play well, at all, from any angle. We tried, we really did.
Rachel remained calm and reasonable throughout. When she followed up on what he'd said, David didn't answer the question on how what she does is comparable to people at rallies calling for Obama's head.
Tell The Truthiness ; David Frum, from now on, he will be called the apples and uranium guy. Fool. An apple and uranium mouth-filled fool.
The word socialist is the dirtiest of words in the US. So the sudden turn around by John McCain on economic policy, involving buying up of bad mortgages, can only be described as stunning. However, it's unworkable, since what would be deemed bad and what would be deemed affordable would be difficult to define as the economy changes.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Fair enough to announce a change in policy, but back it up with solid substance.
What the hell was John McCain thinking in calling the opposing candidate for President, "that one"?
McCain's u-turn on the economy, which he calls, "fundamentally strong".
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Where was the McCain his campaign said was great at town hall meeting? Perhaps he was in another town hall, playing bingo or something.
McCain first, country, a very distant second, third or maybe even twenty-ninth. Here's Countdown's coverage of the strategy of the McCain campaign to focus on mudslinging and to not talk about the economy, because they'll lose if they do.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; SOS... sinking fast... going down by the head... all watertight compartments breached... send help from GOP head office... if not leave answerphone message... SOS.
With the McCain campaign going negative on unfounded allegations, especially from Sarah Palin, on Obama, the Democratic campaign is now going after McCain's shady financial past.
The Obama campaign is going to push McCain's involvement in the Keating Five corruption scandal of the late 80s and early 90s.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Will McCain began his rebuttal of questions on this with the, "I am a war hero you know", line? Probably. Bets now being taken, odds very short.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; With Sherri Shepherd sitting next to him is possibly the greatest combination of two people who have the least in common being together.
Late night host Craig Ferguson, who recently became a US citizen, couldn't contain his rage about McCain in the last few days and just said what many people were thinking.
Then, John McCain cancels an appearance on David Letterman's show, citing that he had to go straight back to Washington to deal with the financial crisis.
David Letterman thinks it's all rather fishy, then as he's interviewing the fill-in guest, Keith Olbermann, finds out that McCain is at the CBS Evening News, being interviewed by Katie Couric.
It was all the more entertaining as they showed the CBS feed from the news studio of McCain getting himself ready behind the newsdesk, not 'dashing off' to deal with any crisis.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; You couldn't write this.
Just wehn we asked last week whether John McCain's campaign has jumped the shark. It's not only done that, but it's scheduled in a two-hour long fall season special.
John McCain kept saying the economy was strong, then yesterday, suspended his campaign, for the good of the economy. He even suggested unless the economy package wasn't approved, then he wouldn't take part in Friday's first debate.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Who is in charge of McCain's campaign and do they know what they are doing?
Tell The Truthiness Says ; Does anyone know if someone is actually in charge of his campaign and do they know they are employed to plan for and prevent this type of thing happening?
The former head of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina, is to 'disappear' from McCain's campaign for a while after she said this.
As creepy as that sounds, the idea that you push someone out the way because they talk truthfully (as oppose to McCain who thinks the economy is "fundamentally strong" and his campaign manager allows to continue saying).
Tell The Truthiness Says ; We would like Carly Fiorina, regardless of her political views, to break rank and come on TV or talk to a newspaper and give her opinion on being 'gagged'. We'd really like to hear those views.
Last night's 'Countdown' was interrupted with the breaking news of a California bear chase. It was treated with the correct degree of sarcasm and contempt it demanded.
Tell The Truthiness Says ; The current developing story today, an owl and a pussycat have set sail in, what witnesses have described as, a "beautiful pea-green boat". Unconfirmed reports say they have taken with them some honey and plenty of money.
