Bush has been re-elected, so you can just shut DU down now

[russian33]

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/07/tv_station_reports_t.html



I'd say they jumped the gun a bit.

[jerryman814]

1. wow...

I didn't even get to vote! I want a recount!

[MadChatter]

31. You didn't get to vote?

Ya think they planned it that way?

[LizW]

2. That makes my stomach hurt

:cry:

[mediaman007]

3. Send it to "The Daily Show"

They should be able to make something of this.

[Junkdrawer]

4. Coverage you can count on...

In many more way than one...

[RummyTheDummy]

5. Interesting

That story isn't even written in AP style, and yet it says it's an AP story. Sounds like Carl Cameron has been playing around again.

[buff2]

6. That must have come from the KKKarl Rove WH......

Damn....that's a nightmare,isn't it? :puke: :scared:

[UpsideDownFlag]

7. is that a fucking joke?? kerry only wins 103 votes?? nt

[flowomo]

8. THIS CORRECTION NOW ON WBAY WEBSITE:

Correction: President Bush Did Not Win Election on October 7
Email to a Friend Printer Friendly Version

With less than a month before the presidential election, an Associated Press test article declaring President Bush the winner was picked up by WBAY.com's automated system. The headline of the AP story apparently did not bear that all-important word for the automated filters... "test."

The mistake was picked up by a discussion group on Daily Kos, prompting a phone call that alerted us to the problem. Our web host, WorldNow, removed the story in less than five minutes. The article appeared on WBAY.com for 35 minutes.

WBAY apologizes for the error, and we took quick action to correct it.

The Associated Press tests election results about four times a week leading up to elections, especially one as crucial as a presidential election, to help TV stations and newspapers make sure they are receiving the numbers. The numbers are random with every test; if this error happened a day sooner or a day later, it could've been Senator Kerry or even Ralph Nader who was declared the winner.

[flowomo]

9. site is:

http://www.wbay.com/

[Booster]

11. I bookmarked the story before they took it off so after

the elections, if Bush happens to win (shudder) we can check and see if the numbers were correct. If they were we can start the rebellion immediately.

[flowomo]

13. good move!

I used software called "Sbag-It" to grab a screen shot.

[Arancaytar]

24. What happens

If the numbers are correct? Wouldn't that sort of suggest some sort of advance fiddling with the results?

They say that the more centralized the government, the earlier the election results are known. In some countries, it's a day later, in others, it's at the end of the day, hours after the stations close, in others, minutes. In a dictatorship, it's weeks in advance.

[radwriter0555]

25. No no no, that would another COINCIDENCE you see.....

and we know how the bush regime is with "COINCIDENCES...." (wink wink)

[SoCalDem]

Sure.. it "would have been" Nader or Kerry

:eyes:

[camero]

16. Busted

Tell them so:

[e-mail]

[flowomo]

17. I did, immediately

n/t

[Sterling]

20. Ok that makes it a lot worse.

This is really scary.

[aquart]

22. Suuuuure, baby, we believe you.

Coulda been Kerry. Uh huh. Tell you what, fella, you save some of those tests and forward them.

[Stryguy]

28. Random my a$$

Yeah Random.. hahahahaha

It's more like some conservative's wet dream.

[walldude]

10. Funny how many of these "fake" articles

have been popping up in the past week or 2. Also funny how the only place I have seen these is on DU, when the Dan Rather "mistake" was on every newscast on every channel for a week solid. It's that damn liberal press at it again... /sarcasm off\

[are_we_united_yet]

12. Think it is a

trap? (see Copyright notice)

[flowomo]

14. how so?

n/t

[frylock]

15. i hope you are making preparations for when this shit does happen..

when junior says he doesn't plan on losing, do you think he is just being glib?! I will die like a fucking dog in the streets when they pull this shit. REMAIN VIGILANT!

[Junkdrawer]

18. Damn. Now they're going to have to adjust the whole Diebold plan...

There's always some idiot that doesn't get the message.

[Guaranteed]

19. Remember those numbers, folks, and print that sucker out and send it

to yourself through the post office.

[Sterling]

21. I think Junk is right

now they have to change the deibold figures. Hopefully this makes it harder fpr them.

[nickgutierrez]

23. "Um... oops."

http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=2401948&nav=51s7Rkzl

It's funny - but if it's any more than another indication of the conservative media bias in this country, I'll, to quote Stephen Colbert, "stick any foreign object you can name inside myself".

This is just a projection of the political beliefs of whoever wrote out this 'test' file (yes, I do believe this explanation - it's far more likely than Kerry getting only 105 electoral votes, Diebold or not). Maybe I missed the irony, but it appears to me that the writer of this story is *gasp* a conservative! I thought we didn't have those in the 'liberal media'?</sarcasm>

Ok, enough of that.

[myrna minx]

26. Good Lord, this "report" indicates a *

landslide. Yeah right, Dan Rather should resign, but AP can report a Bush landslide weeks before the election? I guess Diebold will have to retool their numbers.

[russian33]

27. kick

[djohnsper]

29. This is hoax.......

Look closely at the paragraphs. Each one is white-outed or dubbed.
you can see the blotch marks around each paragraph. This is a re-typed section to look like an authentic. No need to worry.

[MallRat]

30. 47% Bush, 43% Kerry, 1% Nader... ummm...

...where's the other 9%? Badnarik? Peroutka? :eyes:

If they're testing some system which automatically plugs numbers into a form-letter report, I'd be worried that 9% of the voters are missing.

-MR

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. You Might Have A Point Or So Scatttered Among Fringe Candidates

but not 9%

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