I’ve been hearing about this Olbermann Countdown, and I’ve been trying to find a transcript, and thanks to Pandagon, here it is.
The gist of it is a fairly brilliant timeline showing the coincidence of political events unfavorable to the Republicans and terror alerts (generally two to four days later). This is a “top ten” that doesn’t even include last week’s little liquid crisis.
Here’s an excerpt, just to whet your appetite.
No. 9, July 29, 2004, at their party convention in Boston, the Democrats formally nominate John Kerry as their candidate for president. As in the wake of any convention the Democrats now dominate the media attention over the subsequent weekend.
August 1, 2004, Monday morning, three days later…
The department of Homeland Security raises the alert status for financial centers in New York, New Jersey, and Washington to orange. The evidence supporting the warning, reconnaissance data left in a home in Iraq. Later proves to be roughly four years old and largely out of date.
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Read the whole thing. Seriously.
