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Saturday, June 3, 2006 12:00 AM

Was the 2004 election stolen? No.

In Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argues that new evidence proves that Bush stole the election. But the evidence he cites isn't new and his argument is filled with distortions and blatant omissions.

By Farhad Manjoo

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Monday, June 5, 2006 07:09 PM

Farhad Manjoo writes these baiting articles now and then

If you look at his history you will see that Farhad goes through phases where he generates articles that apparently are designed to provoke Salon readers. He's a gifted writer but for some reason indulges in serial baiting. This time he has also turned up the baiting intensity, and this torrent of messages is the result.

One can only speculate about why Farhad might be doing this (maybe Salon gives writers some reward for generating large numbers of reader messages?) but viewed with the perspective of history his provocation appears very calculated. His articles used to bother me until I realized this.

—postprevarication Read postprevarication's other letters

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