Wednesday, June 23, 2004
You spin me right round baby...right round......
Media Matters for America is reporting on a Wall Street journal story that falsely states information on the dreaded Florida recount from the 2000 election.
The long and the short of it:
In a June 23 editorial, The Wall Street Journal erroneously stated, "[F]or the record, Mr. Bush won the last election under every single vote recount, including those painstakingly run by the media." The false claim came in response to comments by federal judge Guido Calabresi that "illegitimate acts" by the Supreme Court put George W. Bush into power.
However, Bush did not win "every single vote recount," according to a study conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (NORC), as The Washington Post reported on November 12, 2001. The NORC study was organized by a consortium of news organizations that included both the Post and The Wall Street Journal. The researchers "examined all ballots that were initially rejected by voting machines" and then applied "different standards for determining voter intent and tallied results based on several scenarios that sought to approximate conditions on the ground in Florida."
The results: former Vice President Al Gore, not George W. Bush, emerged the winner under four scenarios.
I realize that people start rolling their eyes when the FLA recount comes up as a topic again. But this is the kind of stuff that makes it come back. When the press refuses to report the truth of what went on and why...it inflames folks...and rightfully so.
Sometimes it seems that without blogs (the political pamphlets of the internet)...much of the truth would be lost. It's apparent that much of the media doesn't care to report what really went on or what really goes on.
Conservatives have overrun the media but the tide is turning. Ever so slowly people appear to be awakening to the fact that their nation has been sunk into a wreckless war that shouldn't have been fought. They're seeing that they're now in more danger from terrorists than ever before...and that this President and his cohorts aren't interested in taking care of these problems...they're interested in their own agenda.
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The long and the short of it:
In a June 23 editorial, The Wall Street Journal erroneously stated, "[F]or the record, Mr. Bush won the last election under every single vote recount, including those painstakingly run by the media." The false claim came in response to comments by federal judge Guido Calabresi that "illegitimate acts" by the Supreme Court put George W. Bush into power.
However, Bush did not win "every single vote recount," according to a study conducted by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center (NORC), as The Washington Post reported on November 12, 2001. The NORC study was organized by a consortium of news organizations that included both the Post and The Wall Street Journal. The researchers "examined all ballots that were initially rejected by voting machines" and then applied "different standards for determining voter intent and tallied results based on several scenarios that sought to approximate conditions on the ground in Florida."
The results: former Vice President Al Gore, not George W. Bush, emerged the winner under four scenarios.
I realize that people start rolling their eyes when the FLA recount comes up as a topic again. But this is the kind of stuff that makes it come back. When the press refuses to report the truth of what went on and why...it inflames folks...and rightfully so.
Sometimes it seems that without blogs (the political pamphlets of the internet)...much of the truth would be lost. It's apparent that much of the media doesn't care to report what really went on or what really goes on.
Conservatives have overrun the media but the tide is turning. Ever so slowly people appear to be awakening to the fact that their nation has been sunk into a wreckless war that shouldn't have been fought. They're seeing that they're now in more danger from terrorists than ever before...and that this President and his cohorts aren't interested in taking care of these problems...they're interested in their own agenda.
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