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...is that it reeks of the bowing to the right that NPR's All Things Considered has engaged in for the past five and half years. But in NPR's case they have good reason. The Bush administration has their nuts in a financial vise. I, like many other readers, expected more from Salon. Although I have to admit that I was disappointed enough by Mr. Manjoo's past treatment of the '04 election controversy to let my subscription lapse.
Many of us Democrats are frustrated by patronizing sentiments, such as Manjoo's, that scold us to "get over it." Even our own party has written us off as "conspiracy nuts" and "sore losers." Remember that John Kerry himself fled to a ski resort while thousands of his supporters were fighting for a recount in Ohio. Even Al Franken and Arianna Huffington have scoffed at us disgruntled voters. It seems that anyone who has earned enough status or success to have something to lose shuns the election fraud issue. I would feel differently if the Democratic Party and "liberal" pundits at least heard us out and engaged in a serious dialog on the questionable election results in 2000, 2002 (Cleland in GA), and 2004.
I had already the entire Rolling Stone story before reading Mr. Manjoo's article. I knew there wasn't anything new in Kennedy's story, but I thought the clear encapsulation of the issues and the name of a high profile Democrat attached to the charges might cause Manjoo to reconsider. It's obvious that when Manjoo "scoured" Kennedy's piece, he did so with the intent to find points to rebutt rather than attempting to at least understand why many Americans are so concerned about the state of U.S. elections. And why we dread continued abuses from the Republicans in future elections.
