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reformist2

(9,841 posts)
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:06 PM Jun 2016

The AP really embarrassed themselves tonight. They look so partisan now. Even the article was ridic.


You can tell is was one of those canned articles written weeks in advance, which is why it so weirdly ignored all the scandals swirling around Hillary right now. It's laughable.
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Triana

(22,666 posts)
1. US media = propaganda for the masses, designed to keep Corporate Owners in Control
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:14 PM
Jun 2016

and their massive audiences blinkered to the truth about how badly they're getting f*cked.

AikidoSoul

(2,150 posts)
7. Exactly. And then there is the rigging of elections which
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:15 PM
Jun 2016

has progressively gotten worse over the years.

Let's start here:

SAIC, Bohemoth Military Contractor, Wants to Be inside Every Voting Machine; Three Way Scam on Diebold Review? by Lynn Landes OpEdNews.Com
The voting machine wars are heating up and the implications of vote fraud in America are even more ominous.Another former SAIC board member, also on the board of VoteHere, is ex-CIA director Robert Gates, a veteran of the Iran/Contra scandal.


http://www.opednews.com/landes_voting_machine_fiasco.htm


Voting Machine Fiasco:

THE SECRETIVE WORLD OF VOTING MACHINES
privatizing the vote - sabotaging the system
by Lynn Landes
The most successful coup is one that few notice. Over the last 100 years Americans have slowly but surely surrendered our public voting process to private corporations and their voting machines... in violation of our constitutional right to fair, open, and observable elections. The price paid has been the legitimacy of our democracy.

The use of voting machines should be unconstitutional. Voting machines can be easily rigged and impossible to monitor. Poll watchers have nothing to watch and Federal Observers have nothing to observe. The use of voting machines makes the Voting Rights Act unenforceable. But Congress has failed to act except to pass laws that give billions of dollars to the states to purchase voting machines, while failing to require any mandatory safeguards or standards. Meanwhile, misguided voting rights groups are suing for the right to use the latest most sophisticated computerized voting equipment which are the easiest to rig by the fewest number of technicians.



 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
2. It only HELPS Sanders by possibly depressing Clinton's voters. It's disrespectful to her.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:15 PM
Jun 2016

And feeds into the bogus "rigged" narrative snakeoil Sanders and too many of his supporters try to sell.

So yes, the AP should be embarrassed.

But if you think this helps Clinton, you must be new to politics.

reformist2

(9,841 posts)
6. At this point, nothing helps Clinton except the rigged elections. The people don't matter.
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:26 PM
Jun 2016

If you can't see these elections have been rigged from start to finish, you must be new to politics.

One Black Sheep

(458 posts)
3. Fuck the corporate media. This has been the most corrupt primary process I have seen in
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:19 PM
Jun 2016

decades, and I am a gen Xer.


The whole system is totally corrupt, and that includes the mainstream media as well.

whirlygigspin

(3,803 posts)
4. express your opinion
Mon Jun 6, 2016, 11:20 PM
Jun 2016

Here is the statement from the ap

https://blog.ap.org/announcements/ap-statement-on-hillary-clinton

Feel free to call the AP at 212-621-1500 to ask them to redress their incorrectly reporting that Hillary has garnered enough delegates to be the nominee or email info@ap.org

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
10. Except they forgot liberal use of the word 'Constitution!' and 'Freedom!' Other than that...sure.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 07:23 PM
Jun 2016

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

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