Fox Nation’s Backup Plan: Election Fraud Lies

[babylonsister]

Fox Nation’s Backup Plan: Election Fraud Lies
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Posted by: Mark @ 12:48 pm

With less than a week to go before the midterm elections, Fox Nation is split between wanting to crow about the glory of their anticipated victories and needing to have ready excuses should that victory fail to materialize.



So here is how the Fox Nationalists decided to address this dilemma. They start with an unambiguous headline that boasts of the upcoming “Midterm Blowout: Dems Headed for Massive Losses.” Then they temper that prediction with the following headlines:

* Voting Shenanigans Rampant
* Angle Camp: ‘Reid Intends to Steal This Election’
* SEIU in Charge of Voting Machines

That should cover it. First announce that Democrats will be on the receiving end of a blowout that will devastate their party. The purpose of this is to excite the Republican base and promote turnout. At the same time it portrays the Democrats as weak and bound for failure. This a theme the GOP wants to focus on because of the general reluctance of voters to get behind a loser. And Fox is all too happy to peddle the GOP’s theme.

But just in case there is an unexpected upset and Democrats retain control of congress, the Fox Nationalists are lining up excuses they can raise to account for their electoral disappointment. And all of those excuses center around trumped up charges of election fraud. Even without ACORN to kick around, the right-wing media is already fabricating a scenario wherein Democrats steal the election via manipulation and illegality.

The only problem with their accusations is that there is no evidence of any of it. They are transparently attempting to plant these allegations in the public mind in case they need to assert them after November 2. If the Democrats hold their position, look for the the right and their media proxy, Fox News, to blast these fallacies day and night for as long as anyone will listen. If the Republicans assume congressional control, don’t expect to ever hear of these allegations again (or until the next election).

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http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=3074

[marmar]

1. Faux reminds me of........

[Kurovski]

2. The only response to that is...

Transparency in machine voting.

C'mon FOX, let's fucking get to it then, shall we?

ACORN is gone, let's get to the damn secret proprietary voting machines NOW.

[babylonsister]

3. Pipe dreamin'. That's exactly what they don't want to happen. nt

[Kurovski]

4. Of course.

But if they play with fire long enough, well, you know.

How did you know I was smoking a pipe? Is this camera on?!...WHAT THE...

[babylonsister]

5. Your pic is hysterical! As for the pipe...wild guess! nt

[Kurovski]

6. Howard Dean can't help looking that way.

But laugh if you must.

[babylonsister]

7. Hahaha!

:spank:

[Kurovski]

8. See how you are?

Remind me not to get near curbs when we're out walking. :scared:

[babylonsister]

9. You mean

you wouldn't throw your cape down to protect me from mud splashes, like the good ole days? :D

[Kurovski]

10. I'll do anything you want baby, but don't tell any of my other DU girlfriends.

and ESPECIALLY don't tell my boyfriends.

[babylonsister]

11. !

You own a cape? :rofl:

[Kurovski]

12. I do.

it's an old veteran's cape I found in my grandaddy's attic.

It has a hat too! For parades.

We'll look so fine as we sashay down the avenue. Oh, do let's!

Unfortunately, I haven't a hoop skirt for you.

[babylonsister]

13. lol, you funny guy!

I'll take care of the hoop skirt; I'll find a seamstress and use a hula hoop! When? Do let's!

[Kurovski]

17. OMG, and where you live would be just perfect.

You're all nuts in the south, right? I'd love it.

I dunno, maybe one day. Or come to the Chicago area for the gay parade. actually, that would be a GREAT DAY FOR a DU meet-up.

[babylonsister]

18. This place would absolutely qualify; I'm in the south, but not 'of'

the south; I'm from New Yawk. Long story.

Chicago gay parade sounds fantastic! What month? Not the winter, I trust.

[Kurovski]

19. It's in May.

Or early June. Are we seriously going to consider organising a meet-up? How do we do that?

[babylonsister]

21. From Jawja? No. Are there a lot of participants on the IL

forum-do you ever go there? I think a few (or maybe more than a few) years ago there was a meet-up there. It's doable; there have got to be a lot of DUers from the area.

Something to think about; if I had enough heads-up, I'd love to go and meet some DUers for fun, but I'd need a place to crash (getting my dibs in early-ha!).

[Kurovski]

23. There used to be some regular meet-ups.

i moved away, now i'm back for family reasons, trying to get to FLA after the new year, not sure where i'll move next but move i shall...we'll see i guess. I miss many things due to health concerns--drunkeness--no, make that health concerns--who said that?

[babylonsister]

25. Hey, you are swell in my book, Kurovski, and

you can spell!
Health concerns...sigh. My biggest concern is I'm out of insurance.

[Freetradesucks]

14. Wait a sec,

I thought that we were out in front of voter fraud? When the machine goes from R to D that's OK?

You say that there is no evidence of it, yet there are thousands of posts about it right here on DU.

[marmar]

15. Self delete

nt

[Kurovski]

16. what are you talking about?

voter fraud is basically non-existent. It could never in two-million fucking years throw an election the way machine voting (ELECTION) fraud can.

Only righties believe in the "power" of voter fraud.

We need accountability on the machines, we don't have it. Who, and where in the fuck do you see machines going from R to D? but let's just demand transparency in all machine voting and we can lay it all to rest.

[Freetradesucks]

20. This whole post is about E-Vote machines...

and specifically about Harry Reid.

My response has to do with new allegations coming from the right. Please feel free to us Google, but here is a taste,

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Voting-machines-in-Clark-County-Nevada-automatically-checking-Harry-Reids-name-Voting-machine-technicians-are-members-of-SEIU-105815608.html

[Kurovski]

24. Transparency is all we've asked for for many years now.

Not just for Dems. Election fraud is a serious crime. This can be fixed, no one will ever know what happened with their vote without changes.

Pukes are free to demand change. They won't. I'm not so sure that anything a fucking righty says these days is "credible". It's a little late in the game for that.

The post is about accusations and creating a pre-perception of fraud.

sorry for jumping down your throat, but it is called "Election fraud". "voter fraud" is innaccurate. Too many assumptions.

Sorry, kiddo.

[Marr]

22. And yet, if you demand voting reform to assure that votes are counted properly...

they'll back off immediately, I expect. Just as they do with discussion of the Fairness Doctrine.

I once heard a man call the Hannity show in the middle of one of Hannity's rants about the "liberal media". He said that since Conservatives are so excluded from the media, he was (and Sean should be) in favor of reinstating the Fairness Doctrine. Hannity fumbled around about patriotism for few sentences, dropped the call, and never acknowledged it again.