Aaron Brown / CNN's Newsnight IS A GOOD GUY. HE'S COVERING VOTER FRAUD!!

[pbartch]

Passing this on from the [e-mail]

Digest #55

Important action alert from Portland activist.......keep the faith, jeannie

This is big! Aaron Brown of CNN's Newsnight is joining the lone
voice of Keith Oblermann of MSNBC in covering the election "irregularities". It was only a few minutes but it was
excellent. If he gets positive feedback on this, he will do more.
(Keith Oblermann's ratings are soaring as a result of his coverage,
and CNN is getting stiff competition from Fox news, so you can bet
they will cover this if it improves their ratings.) Write Aaron Brown
at http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?13 and thank him for his coverage, ask him to continue, tell him how important it is to you.

If you have time, mention a few items - articles or links to check out, but make sure what you send is fact- checked, good investigative reporting. "With more than a quarter century of journalism experience to draw from, Aaron Brown is CNN's lead anchor during breaking news and special events."

Transcript from Aaron Brown's Newsnight on CNN, aired Tuesday,
Nov. 23http://premium.asia.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/23/asb.01.html

Below is the excerpt from the show transcript where he discusses
the election:

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN (voice-over): Bev Harris, a citizen activist who first
brought national attention to the problems with voting software, is now in Florida pursuing internal computer records for what she calls a forensic audit.

BEV HARRIS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, BLACKBOXVOTING.ORG: I think we
can talk, you know, until the cows come home about what might happen and could happen and what's theoretical, and the best thing we can do is just go get the records and see what did happen.

BROWN: She's not alone. A number of experts are now looking and
looking hard at not only fraud, but the possible effects of simple computer error, the kind of dumb mistake that ruined the Hubble telescope and sent Mars missions astray. So how accurate was the 2004 vote count?

DR. REBECCA MERCURI, VOTING TECHNOLOGY EXPERT: Basically, 80
percent of our votes, for the most part, we really don't know. We haven't taken the time to look into it.

BROWN: Some examples. In Franklin County, Indiana, a programming error was applying Democratic votes to the Libertarian Party. After a recount, the winner on election night is now the loser. In North
Carolina, over 4,000 ballots are gone forever, lost when a voting
machine passed its arbitrary limit. In South Florida, election officials were horrified to see vote totals start counting down after they hit 32,000.

What is even more disturbing, a statistical study done at U.C.
Berkeley indicates that there could have been similar counting problems in all Florida counties that use touch-screen voting machines.

MERCURI: The type of testing that you need is really being done
at Election Day, as opposed to being done before Election Day.

BROWN: In Washington today, in an office so new you could still
smell the carpet glue, the Federal Election Assistance Commission admits it is only beginning the process of creating national standards.

DEFOREST SOARIES, CHAIRMAN, U.S. ELECTION ADVISORY COMMISSION:
Every voting machine that was used this year was certified against standards that were 1990 standards.

BROWN: The chairman promises intensive federal audits, audits to
guarantee eventually voter confidence.

SOARIES: We're going to go down to the ground on this much
further than we've ever gone before. I don't take the opinion, and neither does my commission, that what you don't know won't hurt you.

END VIDEOTAPE)
BROWN: And the debate will go on.
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[IAMREALITY]

1. Wow Is This Old!!!

I'm disappointed. I thought for a second he was actually covering it again. Didn't know I was just going to be reading such old news...

Ahhhhh well.

[pbartch]

4. November 23 is NOT old. It was just last week.

If EVERYONE on this board and the other DU boards would send Aaron Brown news like they are doing for Keith Olb at MSN......he would have more EXCITING, LATE BREAKING INFORMATION.

come on folks........SEND YOUR EMAILS TO AARON BROWN AT CNN.

[Blue in the face]

10. Done

Thank you for bringing this up again.

[blue neen]

2. Thanks for posting this.

I hadn't seen it yet. We'll take all the coverage we can get! :hi:

[sepia_steel]

3. Thank you!

I sent in my 2 cents. Hope they keep it up!

[bmoney07]

5. new or old

ITS STILL GREAT WHEN CNN IS IN THE GAME

Lets hope that they can play ball???

[Verve]

6. Thanks pbartch. I sent him an email last week after I saw the show.

This is a great reminder that we have to continue emailing media and officials until we get answers! Thanks again. :-)

[Atman]

7. He is still a dick who happened to do a report we agree with.

A broken clock...you know what they say.

[bmoney07]

11. Agree he is a DICK

but at least he reporting it!

[bunny planet]

17. I don't watch CNN ever since it became Faux News 2 but just why is

Aaron Brown a dick? I've heard, mostly from Randi Rhodes and a few others, that he is actually the only fairly decent anchor on cable news. Is this not the case? I watched him during the 2000 election coverage and aftermath. He was less insipid than the others during that time. He has this weird way of looking like he's smiling though, even when he is reporting very sobering news, and that piece on his head geesh! Baldness is always the great equalizer, even for rich people, they just can't get those things to look natural, no matter how much bucks you've got to spend on it.

It is a good thing that Aaron took baby steps in covering our homegrown Ukraine story. Compared to our new deity though, Keith Olberman, Aaron's got a long way to go.

[mirandapriestly]

8. Thanks for bringing this up

I sent them the form telling them how important it is. I didn't know that form was there, so it is good that you linked it.

[scarlett1]

9. Got this in an e-mail

I am not sure if it has been posted or where but seemed appropriate here so here goes;

It is a video piece regarding Kathrine Harris and Florida election

<http://www.bushflash.com/gta.html>http://www.bushflash.com/gta.html

Interesting piece of material. God knows how long it took to make this .

[keepthemhonest]

12. i actually waited that night

for that little four minute clip to come on, and I was disapointed, Bev was on for about 20 seconds. I was just insulted when they cover other dumb stuff whole-heartedly,like Bush pardoning that Turkey

[zann725]

19. Yeah, they edited the whole thing down to nothing.

If they're going to cover it, they need to do it properly...not just bring it up, and dismiss it. That only reinforces that there's "nothing here...move on."
I thought I liked Aaron B. before the election, but since then his tone has changed entirely. He's definitely towing the 'party line.'

[Blue_State_Elitist]

13. He's okay when

he's not crowing about how immoral our society has become.

[Hobbes199]

14. email sent!

thanks for the info and the link.

[texpatriot2004]

15. Message sent and thanks for the link

[nashville_brook]

16. jon stewart had him on

after 9-11 and i liked him a whole lot better on the Daily Show than on his show. but that's just me -- i miss ashleigh banfield.

[Ducks In A Row]

18. it was useless and sorry, it isn't entitled to be called "covering"

the election fraud.