mill, cheese and butter in the world. if you wanted to explore wisconsin, you would go straight to the wtf. wtf. this was a personally harmless acronym, and now wtf, omg, rotflmao. caving in to overwhelming cybersnark, the tourism conversation will be now known as the tourism federation of wisconsin. we didn t want it to distrakt from our mission. what about the william town theatre festival or the wild turkey federation. should these and countless other organizations have to jump through hoops just because some wise acre on a block think they mean something dirty? serio seriously, wtf? will you do the wild turkey sound for me? i will, just for you. [ turkey calling ] we ve known each other for a long time. i don t take any anti-prozacs or anti-depressants in lashlg part because i know i can call you up at anytime and you can make that news for me. countdown with keith olbermann starts right now. which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? 122 more am
relationship was the chicago politics aside and daly and obama aside, these guys are not particularly close, there is not any great reservoir of gratitude on the part of obama toward the mayor. there was a big dinner tonight, and i asked the simple question, did the mayor call the president and an e-mail from copenhagen just before this guy was going to bed was that yes, the mayor called personally to make the case. i like the mayor of chicago, is it possible we can get the olympic bid, we can win it? can we win it by tomorrow night? can we? is it worth a try? we came from way back, rio and madrid were clearly the front-runners and now it s exceedingly close, it s a wacky voting system. key to this is two thing. and the african block, what will they do, because they re basically the independent voters in this, they don t have any real skin in the game, they don t have a candidate, and where will the losers on the first round go? i think we are going to get it? i thi
roads disturbed that the angry mobs at the town halls have been called angry mobs. i don t remember hearing these words coming from the bush white house. no, it only called people disloyal, unamerican, treasonous, morally or intellectually confused, and unable to tell right from wrong. all that and more now on countdown. no hard feelings now. we re talking television. good evening from new york. not nearly spreading lies but convincing a dissatisfied portion of the population to believe their propaganda and to act out in anger. our fifth story on the countdown. when hamas or hezbollah does it, it is called terrorism. why should republican lawmakers and the astroturf groups organizing on behalf of the health care industry be viewed differently especially now that far too many tea party protestors are comparing president obama and health care reform to hitler and the holocaust? and when a former republican vice presidential candidate actually says out loud that the refo
worst, our modern day lonesome roads disturbed that the angry mobs at the town halls have been called angry mobs. i don t remember hearing these words coming from the bush white house. no, it only called people disloyal, unamerican, treasonous, morally or intellectually confused, and unable to tell right from wrong. all that and more now on countdown. no hard feelings now. we re talking television. good evening from new york. not nearly spreading lies but convincing a dissatisfied portion of the population to believe their propaganda and to act out in anger. our fifth story on the countdown. when hamas or hezbollah does it, it is called terrorism. why should republican lawmakers and the astroturf groups organizing on behalf of the health care industry be viewed differently especially now that far too many tea party protestors are comparing president obama and health care reform to hitler and the holocaust? and when a former republican vice presidential candidate actua
lieutenant general william boykin, former deputy under-secretary for defense under bush 43. and executive vice president of the family research council. it s great to have you here, general. let me ask you. thank you. dana: there are so many moving parts in this region. we were just talking about china. the south koreans are very keen to get this done. japan, anxious and coming to see the president next tuesday in advance of the summit. you have what is going on in the south china sea and india. from your perspective, laymen, viewers like me watching all of this, what are you looking at to determine what is the most important thing to be focused on? first, we have to focus on china. i think china is a key player in this whole thing. i think china has tremendous influence over kim. i also agree with the c.i.a. assessment that it s unlikely that kim made a decision to give up his nuclear program. i think what is going to be important here is that we come out of this with some gener