Mark Crispin Miller: "None dare call it stolen - Ohio..."

[reprehensor]

None dare call it stolen - Ohio, the election, and America's servile press

July 24, 2005

While commentators, prompted by Republicans, claimed Bush won the 2004 election through the votes of a silent majority concerned with “family values,” Mark Crispin Miller writes that when voters were asked to state, “in their own words the most important factor in their vote,”only 14 percent named “moral values.” He details how the press (except for Keith Olbermann on MSNBC) ignored “the strange details of the election—except, that is, to ridicule all efforts to discuss them…It was as if they were reporting from inside a forest fire without acknowledging the fire, except to keep insisting that there was no fire.”

Then he lists the copious evidence pointing to a stolen election, easily available on the web or in paperback, from Michigan Representative John Conyers’ report, Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio. More than dirty tricks, it covers “the run-up to the election, the election itself, and the post-election cover-up,” listing “specific violations of the U.S. and Ohio constitutions, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, the National Voter Registration Act, and the Help America Vote Act.”

The Conyers report details the disenfranchisement of Democrats through “intentional misconduct and illegal behavior, much of it involving Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, the co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign in Ohio.”

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...In this nation’s epic struggle on behalf of freedom, reason, and democracy, the press has unilaterally disarmed—and therefore many good Americans, both liberal and conservative, have lost faith in the promise of self-government. That vast surrender is demoralizing, certainly, but if we face it, and endeavor to reverse it, it will not prove fatal. This democracy can survive a plot to hijack an election. What it cannot survive is our indifference to, or unawareness of, the evidence that such a plot has succeeded.

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What Went Wrong in Ohio (audio of forum at link)
http://harpers.org/WhatWentWrongInOhio.html

What Went Wrong in Ohio (Conyers report, with copies autographed by Gore Vidal)
http://www.buzzflash.com/premiums/05/06/pre05066.html

[samdogmom]

1. This is just so unfair! There are days when I feel like giving up and

trying to accept "popular" wisdom. But it's so obvious to me, I don't understand why everybody can't see the elephant in the living room. Bush never won in 2000, nor did he win in 2004! I hate the way the main stream press keeps trying to perpetuate this notion that he did. Come on guys, take off the blinders and start asking the right questions! And the leaders on our side need to stop pretending that they don't know what's going on. Let's call a spade a spade!

Once and for all, we need Kerry, Dean, Edwards, and other big names to start talking about fraud. If Bush's entourage was able to slime Kerry's war record, lie us into a war, out an undercover CIA agent, spend billions of our dollars under the table not checked by anyone, why can't people also believe that this administration is capable of doing absolutely ANYTHING to stay in power?