Tonight! 11 pm EST - Mark Crispin Miller on Theft of 2004 Election!!

[IndyOp]

Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Communication at New York University, gives a speech at U Mass: Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election

11 pm EST on C-SPAN 2. Stream it here: http://www.cspan.org/watch



For Republicans, the 2004 presidential election was little short of miraculous: Behind in the Electoral College tally in the days leading up to the election, behind even on the very afternoon of the vote, the Bush ticket staged a stunning comeback. The exit polls, usually so reliable, turned out to be wrong by an unprecedented 5 percent in the swing states. Conservatives argued-and the media agreed-that "moral values" had made the difference.

In his new book renowned critic and political commentator Mark Crispin Miller argues that it wasn't moral values that swung the election-it was theft. While the greatest body of evidence comes from the key state of Ohio-where the Democratic staff of the House Judiciary Committee found an extraordinary onslaught of Republican-engineered vote suppression, election-day irregularities, old-fashioned intimidation tactics, and illegal counting procedures-similar practices (and occasionally worse ones) were applied in Florida, Oregon, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, and even New York. A huge array of anomalies, improper practices, and blatant violations of the law all, by a truly remarkable coincidence, happened to swing in the Bush ticket's favor.

This pattern-not one overwhelming fraud but thousands of little ones-is, in Miller's view, the new Republican electoral strategy. This incendiary new book presents massive documentation that the election was stolen and describes the mind-set, among both the major parties and the media, that could permit it to happen again.

Fooled Again - Amazon.com

[marmar]

1. On CSPAN?

:shrug:

[IndyOp]

3. C-SPAN 2 (sorry!) n/t

:kick:

[marmar]

7. No problemo...

I was glancing at the TV earlier today and thought I saw a promo for it, but wasn't sure which of the SPANs it was on. Thanks for the update!

[Pierzin]

2. Where? What Channel?

Just like to know where to catch that.

[IndyOp]

4. C-SPAN 2 (sorry!) n/t

:kick:

[DanCa]

5. I am readding fooled again right now.

I am both amazed and appalled at our elected leaders for letting this happen.

[cspanlovr]

6. I watched this earlier today,

What a great lecture he gave. Why the Dems aren't all over this is a mystery (to me, at least)

[Grateful for Hope]

8. Thanks for the heads up, IndyOp!

Definitely worth watching.