Wednesday KOEB, 7/6/05

[RevCheesehead]

Fasten your seatbelts, folks - this should be good! :loveya:

[Sydnie]

1. Hi Rev

I made it right on time tonight! :hi: :loveya: Keith.

I am loving this female reporter. She just said that all this might wake them from their slumber. :woohoo: There is hope for us yet!

[RevCheesehead]

2. Hi Sydnie

I got to listen to Air America today (on my way home). Everyone is abuzz about this - and somebody is going to go down. (Please - let it be Rove!)

[spooky3]

3. Carol Marin was doing fine until she spoke admiringly of what

Miller is doing, "for our profession."

[spooky3]

4. I'm sure Miller has a nice payoff waiting for her when she gets out,

courtesy of her Rethug friends. A nice house with English gardens, a little hush money, perhaps.

[Sydnie]

13. and a book deal and a job.

She will be keeping a diary for her book as soon as she gets processed. What else will she have to do anyway?

[Sydnie]

6. I was listening to Air America on my way home too and

They brought up some good points. What, exactly is she testifying or not testifying about? Did she take the fifth or did she just refuse to testify?

They were making the point that Felt was different. He was a whistleblower, exposing a crime. What Miller is doing is harbouring a fugitive and obstructing justice.

I was glad to hear that obstructing charge being said out loud, both there and by our wonderful Keith!

Glad to have you join us spooky3! :hi:

[Berry Cool]

70. It doesn't matter what the journalist is doing...

...one man's crime exposure is another's obstruction of justice.

That's why journalists deserve shield laws.

Sorry, but as an old J-school vet I have to part company with you on this one. Note that even Keith, although he mentioned the obstructing charge, is on Miller's side in principle--or he would have chosen a different "World's Worst Person." He realizes that if you don't shield journalists who might be charged with obstruction of justice for protecting their sources, you also can't protect those trying to expose crimes.

Consider a theoretical journalist of 1950 who refused to reveal a "source" who was identified in a story only as a member of the Communist Party. Such a journalist could easily be jailed and charged with all manner of crimes, simply for refusing to name a Communist.

As for tonight, I don't think he has to hold a "World's Worst Person" contest. I think we all know who the winners would be, hands down. *sigh*

[RevCheesehead]

7. Hi there, spooky!

Welcome to the KOEB :hi:

[spooky3]

8. Hi, Rev and Sydnie! I love Keith.

[Sydnie]

17. Then you have dropped in to the best place to be from 8 - 9 every night

We :loveya: Keith too!

[Botany]

5. Drive by blog .....

Please let Rove go down (and not on Jeff Gannon either)

Bush's Birthday and he has a bike accident? Somebody might have
been bumped from the wagon ...... Rumors are in an earlier speech he was
slurring his words........

BTW you are my FAV EDV ...... fresh gull bay for you .......

Off to pool

check in @ 9:00 to see all the great things people have written about me.

Snark Me! Snark Me!

:rofl:

[Sydnie]

9. I read yesterdays Gull Bay and it was

supercalifragalisticexbalidosious! :rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

10. Hi, Cuddles.

Q for you: When blivet falls, does the air dog go with him? :evilgrin:

"Let Rove go down, and not on Gannon." :rofl:

[Sydnie]

11. Maybe it's the air dog that keeps tripping him Rev!

:rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

14. Damned invisible dog...

Never know where he is. Ouch! :spank:

[RevCheesehead]

12. I love how Keith introduced John Dean tonight:

"frequent guest and soon-to-be co-host."
Is there more to this statement, or was he snarking on Dean's frequent appearances on Countdown?

[Sydnie]

15. Snark at it's best I suspect.

He is enjoying every minute of this, you can just tell.

[RevCheesehead]

16. And he admitted to "speed-reading" Woodward's book.

He probably snatched up a copy at midnight. :)

[Sydnie]

18. But I am sure he will revisit it again in the next month

and read deeply from it. (That sounded like something our dear Botany would say! :rofl: )

[RevCheesehead]

19. Heh -

They didn't keep Tom Brokaw in mothballs very long, did they? :)

[Sydnie]

20. No but you know what? I would LOVE to see them bring

Walter Cronkite out for a special on Watergate. After all, he was there every night. He knows the story inside and out I bet. It would be great to see some of the old footage used with commentary by Walter, wouldn't it?

[RevCheesehead]

21. I adore Walter.

I'm a little like Jane Curtain: "Walter, this is for you..." (sound of bodice ripping)

[Sydnie]

22. Me TOO!!!

I thought I was the only one! :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

62. Well, I save that kind of behavior

for Keith...especially when he does the "C'mere" upper-lip tap...

...ahhhhhh... :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

23. "The Vince Lombardi rest-stop of Journalism"

Yea, Keith! :loveya:

That's MY shout-out. :)

[Berry Cool]

63. And the Rev gets two again...

Vince Lombardi first, and then the Cheese Roll reference at the end.

But that's OK. Any reference to a dead Cleveland Browns fan getting into a fistfight with a dead Pittsburgh Steelers fan I consider a shout-out.

[RevCheesehead]

24. The baby pandas

have trouble surviving because they're so weird-looking...
then he says they share a birthday with the blivet! :snark: :spray:

[Sydnie]

28. He is right on target tonight n/t

[WolverineDG]

42. poor l'il pandas n/t

[RevCheesehead]

25. Today, he gave his unnamed nominee a babysitter...

Keith is truly full of snark tonight!

[Sydnie]

26. Tucker Carlson - The Dirk Diggler of network news

That commercial was WAY over the top. :puke:

[RevCheesehead]

27. ROFL!

You got that one right!

[RevCheesehead]

29. Keith says "potpourri"

Has he been visiting our restrooms? :)

[Sydnie]

30. Viagra Gum???????

Keith did the "come hither" to the camera again. I like that way too much.

[RevCheesehead]

32. Someone pass the smelling salts to BerryBush.

You know she missed that entire story. :)

[Sydnie]

33. ROFL

Too true. It was about chewing gum BB. :rofl:

[Berry Cool]

65. Chewing gum????

My mom gave me a nickel
So I could buy a pickle
I didn't buy a pickle
I bought some chewing gum

My mom gave me a quarter
So I could tip the porter
I didn't tip the porter
I bought some chewing gum...

(sorry, I'm feeling the need to be silly in the middle of sadness)

[Berry Cool]

64. Actually, last night's "C'mere" moment was a bit less intense

because he was curling his lips inward and being so mocking about it.

But still...I was sitting there babysitting the nieces (who were kind enough to let me watch my own TV until 9 pm this time around rather than subjecting me to endless Disney Channel programming) and thinking "My tape at home better be working."

And I liked it so much I even stayed up for the re-air. Thinking "I sure hope he's not planning on having a 'C'mere' moment every night from now on. I don't think my constitution can take it." :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

31. What the hell was the point of the gum story?

That should have been Oddball, at best.

[Berry Cool]

71. Not visual enough to be Oddball.

Oddball needs to be highly visual. No visuals there except a bunch of people smacking gum, and the cow.

[Sydnie]

34. I am somewhat glad that we didn't get the games this time

Too much on our plates to be worrying about that.

[RevCheesehead]

35. A pseudo-Python reference.

"I blow my nose in your general direction."

I guess it's the best he could do.

[Berry Cool]

66. And not only that, but

he blew his nose in their general direction with a French accent.

Gotta love that.

[Sydnie]

36. Keith does Monty Python!

I consider that my shout out tonight. I was here, I claim it. :rofl:

[RevCheesehead]

37. Sydnie - it's been fun.

Don't tell anyone else that we cleaned out the bar. :toast:

[Sydnie]

38. Mums the word

:hug:

[Botany]

40. I think of mums as an early fall flower .....

..... LOL

Well reading over some of the thread I see that you and Rev went
snark hunting and bagged you limit .....

I will try to catch the late KO ......

:bounce:

[Botany]

39. You cleaned out the bar?

sic 'em air dog!

[Botany]

41. One more this thread is soaked in Estogen ...

:rofl:

[Berry Cool]

67. Not as "soaked" as it would have been

had I been here for Berry After the Show at my usual hour...

[crispini]

43. Hi ladies, if anyone's still around!

:hi: Just got here. Phew, I'm tired, but hoboy, this is a great show so far and KO's lookin' goooooooood! :loveya::loveya::loveya:

[Greylyn58]

44. Howdy crispini

I'm here. :) :hi: I've been kinda lurking lately.

[crispini]

45. Hi Grey!

I can't wait for Rove to take his perp walk. Perp walk! Perp walk! It sounds so great!

LOL, KO is making a big ol' point of John Dean being a virtual co-host of Countdown lately. Yes, we'd noticed, Keefie! :evilgrin:

So how ya doing lady?

[crispini]

46. Ok, I just have to say --

this parking lot scene is SO X-FILES! :rofl:

[Greylyn58]

50. That's funny

I was thinking the same thing. I kept looking for Mulder and Scully! :rofl:

I'm fine. I've been sorta backing off of all news for the last little bit and haven't watched or listened to it as much. I started feeling like I did right after the Nov elections. Too much crap...so I've been kinda laying low. Haven't posted much either. I just felt the need to back away from it all. Kind of like a vacation.

But I'm feeling much better now! :evilgrin:

[crispini]

51. I know what you mean about feeling burnt out on news and on DU.

I'm feeling a little fried myself, but I'm really enjoying the fact that this Plame story has gotten out in a big way! I think things will be going really well for us soon! :7

[Berry Cool]

72. I think whoever is programming SCTV on TV Land is a Keith fan.

Elsewise, how to explain one of the episodes they ran last Friday, on which...

--Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok appeared

--a plotline took place in which a thick-eyebrowed newscaster has a clandestine conversation with Fred Willard in an underground parking garage?

They're paying attention, I tell you.

[CC]

47. Hi Crispini & Grey

What until you see the come here part of the show. :loveya:

[crispini]

48. Hi CC!

"When he dies he'll achieve total consiousness.... he's got that going for him, so that's nice!" :rofl:

What movie is that from?! I can even SEE Bill Murray saying that, but I don't remember which movie it's from. The golf movie?

[CC]

49. I'm the wrong one

to ask about a movie line...though I thought the Dali Lama is reincarnated into a new body on earth when he dies.

[crispini]

52. Yeah, that's right.

Keith was just riffing off a quote.

Ahhhhhh.... "c'mere for a second." :loveya: Mmmmmm.... NICE!

[CC]

53. I hope Berry

recorded the show tonight. The come here a second and close up camera angle would be a nice nightly thing.

[crispini]

55. Berry's passed out somewhere.

Due to the 'come here' ... she couldn't even make it to the thread! :rofl:

[CC]

57. I'm thinking she needs it and last

nights burned to DVD so she doesn't wear the tape out. Though can't blame her a bit. Need to give her the fainting smiley.

[crispini]

59. "I blow my nose in your general direction!"

:rofl:

This is for you, KO!

Hee! We should ALL have that burned to DVD. Lemme see if I can find that fainting smiley...

[Berry Cool]

69. Oh, yes, CC, can you please give me a "fainting" smiley?

Someday there will be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover...and it will be easier to smile.

When that day comes, I will sure be able to use a fainting smiley.

[CC]

73. Here you go

or





I looked for a swoon smiley but no luck there.

right click, properties then copy to use. unless you are on a MAC then however you get to properties on it.

[crispini]

58. Schadenfreude!

My fave word. :loveya: Oh, Keth, you are just too school for school. :loveya: But you know that. :P

[Berry Cool]

68. Nice theory, but I actually made it through this one better than the first

Perhaps because not only was he more snarky when he did it, but he did the conventional "finger crook" rather than the upper-lip tap.

I spent half the previous night asking myself "Who on earth have you ever seen before who ever told you to 'come over here' by TAPPING HIS UPPER LIP? Saying 'C'mere' softly and tapping your upper lip means only one thing in my body-language dictionary...'Plant one right here, sugar!'"

Even so, Keith is going to have to stop doing this every night (I don't imagine he will tonight, for sure, but I am concerned about the future) or I may have problems staying conscious during the entire program.

[Greylyn58]

54. Hi CC

Glad to see Keith still continues to be my all time snarky tv newsperson.

He's the best :loveya: KO :woohoo:

[CC]

56. Hi Grey

he hopefully will never change, unless it is to be snarkier. Though looking through some pics he could let the suspenders show once in a while again.

[CC]

60. Going to call it a night

and head for bed. Sweet dreams you two, C'mere dreams maybe. Have a good night and great day tomorrow.

[crispini]

61. Night CC!

:hi: