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By Vanessa Silverton-Peel

Rachel is back in the saddle today after being carted off to TeeVee Land to fill in for Keith Olbermann yesterday.  So thank you to David Bender for filling in and thank you to all of our callers.  If you want to hear more of David you can catch his show Politically Direct every Sunday on Air America Radio.

On today's show Rachel will be talking to sports writer Dave Zirin about how he became a target of state police surveillance and the unceremonious way in which he found out about it.  And then Paul Rieckhoff will be here discussing his latest story up on Huffington Post right now: the ongoing saga of the Pat Tillman cover-up.

KthC: Ya mean this one? "25799429"

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'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for Monday, July 21
www.snipr.com/CountdownTranscripts

updated 11:07 a.m. ET July 22, 2008 ...

MADDOW: Right now, we‘ve got the Iraqi people, the American people, the Iraqi government, the man who is most likely to be the next United States president and, honestly, the U.S. military, all saying that we either should or need to leave or at least drastically scale back very soon. The only people on the other side of the equation right now: John McCain, George W. Bush [ DONT FORGET BARNEY & FAUXnoise FRIENDS ], and the Cheney family.

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OLBERMANN: Extraordinary.

Rachel Maddow, we‘ll do this differently this time. I‘ll be back tomorrow from here, but right now, I have to get back to this convention of TV critics and answer more questions about your eye shadow choices. So, congrats. You get promoted from guest to host. Take it from here.

MADDOW: All right. Thank you, Keith. Sorry about the eye shadow questions.

www.snipr.com/33d0f aka msnbc.msn.com/id/25799429/print/1/displaymode/1098/

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT WILL HAUNT POTUS/CINC BHO:

In "The Government Against the People:

The American Police State," author David Wise wrote, "Under Nixon, an attempt was made to institutionalize ….a blueprint for a police state in America ." (page 154)

He quotes a Huston memo [ aka Houston PLAN aka COINTELPRO on STEROIDS ] that said, "We are now confronted with a new and grave crisis in our country – one which we know too little about. Certainly hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Americans – mostly under 30 – are determined to destroy our society ." (page 270)

http://airamerica.com/blog/2008/jul/22/batman-v-spiderman#comment-460654

BTW:
Dave Zirin, (Press Action's 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year, has been called "an icon in the world of progressive sports" and Robert Lipsyte says he is "the best young sportswriter in the United States.") could be Cenk's cousin, ya think?
www.edgeofsports.com/bio.html#LeftColumn