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Tonight on Countdown
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It's like Christmas here at Countdown.
Keith is all over the Deep Throat story. :)
John Dean returns tonight: Was Felt a hero or a turncoat?
Here are some of the other guests we have planned.
Professor Bill Gaines - who did a 4 year study at University of Illinois and determined Deep Throat was Fred Fielding... How did he get it wrong?
Chase Culeman-Beckman, who was only 8 years old when, he says, Jacob Bernstein, a son of Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, revealed Deep Throat's identity to him during playtime at summer day camp.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/David von Drehle, Washington Post.
And Keith's Questions... The Seven Big Questions that must be answered.
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Keith blogs:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7873141/#050516bA Kentucky judge has been offering some drug and alcohol offenders the option of attending worship services instead of going to jail or rehab _ a practice some say violates the separation of church and state.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8045925/The San Francisco 49ers' front office is under fire for an in-house training video that including lesbian porn, off-color racial jokes, a parody of gay marriage, topless blondes, and star linebacker Julian Peterson playing the part of a panhandler,the San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8059077/That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.
Finally,
Eighty-eight South American migrants rescued at sea after tying a message in a bottle to another boat's fishing line were returning to Ecuador on Wednesday, Costa Rican officials said. The migrants, who were trying to reach the United States, were adrift for three days after being abandoned by smugglers because their vessel began taking on water. The migrants from Ecuador and Peru were out of food and water when they saw the long lines of a passing fishing boat and decided to write a message for help. They put the message in a bottle and tied the bottle to one of the lines.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/COSTA_RICA_MESSAGE_IN_BOTTLE?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME-- Carey Fox
Keith blogs:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7873141/#050516bCountdown Home:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/More:
New statistics show that a spike in militants attacks in May took a bloody toll on ordinary Iraqis and U.S. soldiers alike, with nearly 200 more Iraqis killed last month than in April and the highest American military death toll since January.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8050339/A landslide sent at least six multimillion-dollar homes crashing down a hill and damaged at least a dozen others Wednesday in this Southern California beach town.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8060263/More than a fifth of the planet's bird species face extinction as humans venture further into their habitats and introduce alien predators, a conservation group said on Wednesday.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8058650/U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan fired a staffer for his role in the oil-for-food scandal, a world body spokesman said Wednesday in the first dismissal stemming from alleged corruption in the multibillion-dollar program.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8061073/Indonesia's embassy in Australia was closed on Wednesday after receiving an envelope that officials feared contained a "biological agent," as a public backlash rages against the conviction in Bali of an Australian on drug charges.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7999493/Young spellers competing for biggest prize ever. $28,000 in prizes up for grabs in two-day competition.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8056419/