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Friday, Jul 3, 2009
I want so badly to believe that this nation didn't elect George W. Bush by any means, fair or foul. I'm a prime candidate to believe RFKjr's argument. But dammit, it's the same with all conspiracy theories. You start thinking about all the people who'd have to sign on, keep their mouths shut, do their work unnoticed, never have second thoughts, etc. It just doesn't fly. But boy, I wish it did and gave us legal cause to storm the White House and drag that little sh!tball out of his office and into the street.
I do think the election was stolen - but Kennedy's research is sloppy, and I'm not surprised. His papers on autism were likewise poorly done, even deliberately slanted. I suspect these papers are political campaigning more than real research or investigative reporting.
Was the 2004 election stolen? Farhad Manjoo says no, even though there is a mountain of evidence to the contrary.
Is Farhad Manjoo a Republican Party hack masquerading as a journalist? I'd say, based on the evidence at Salon.com, that he may very well be. And I really wish Salon would stop hiring GOP hacks like Manjoo and, before him, Jake Tapper, and hire some journalists with real investigative skills, not the ability to rewrite Karl Rove's latest talking points.
pwn3d!
Although I am also less than inclined to come to your same conclusion Farhad, you sincerely and completely laid the smack-down on RFK Jr. Too bad Junior didn't get his old man's abilities, huh?
I wish Salon would assign some of it's other writers to weigh in on this issue, rather than Farhad Manjoo having 100% of the say. There are other recent stories of lesser importance, i.e., JT Leroy and Barry Bonds, that have been covered by more than one writer. As a subscriber, I feel cheated. Maybe Joan Walsh, the editors, and the other political writers agree with Manjoo. But I'd rather not guess, and I'd really like to know what they have to say. Call me nosy.
Manjoo's mind was obviously made up a long time ago, and seems to only see this issue from one point of view--someone who basically trusts the current Republican leadership. As far as I'm concerned, Manjoo can't prove to me it DIDN'T happen. When you take all that this administration has been up to over the last six years, I have no reason whatsoever to trust them. The stuff on Blackwell is all I need to hear, frankly. Also, Kennedy and Miller have only told us what they have been able to find. God only knows what was sucessfuly hidden and or destroyed. And stealing the election is no more astounding or hard to swallow than lying about going to war in Iraq.
In my mind, we are way past the time to be giving the Republican party the benefit of the doubt on this or any other issue. And I wish Farhad Manjoo would apply the same level of skepticism to both sides of this story.
I just want to know why you are working for Salon when you typically write pieces that are nothing more than the usual boilerplate of the establishment/mainstream/mindless media? If you keep being featured here I am going elesewhere for my news. I'm sure the DLC or TNR or perhaps the National Review Online needs someone.
Oh, and uh, don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out K?
I have grown sick and tired of reading anything about how the election was/might have been stolen.
The thing is, the election should never have been close enough to steal. What was the difference? Less than 10 percentage points?
The America I thought I was living in, back when I was a naive child, would never have come within that margin of electing a fuckhead like George W. Bush. The America I thought I lived in would have never allowed Ronald Reagan--a fucking JOKE--to have a viable political career.
The America I thought I lived in would never have allowed Richard Nixon back into the political arena after his "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more" tantrum.
The America I give a shit about doesn't shop at Wal-Mart, doesn't make Scientology a viable religion, doesn't give George W. Bush a snowball's chance in hell of being taken seriously as a political candidate, much less a governor or ...god forbid...the fucking president of the United States?
The problem with majority rule is, the fuckheads take the rest of us down with them.
If I were in my 20s, I would move to France, complete a contract with the French Foreign Legion, take French citizenship, and have done with what has turned into a trailer park of a fucking country.
You will not be surprised if I do not sign my name.
Neither did Benjamin Franklin.
As other writers have said, I want to believe, I almost need to believe, that the election was stolen, and not that many of my dear countrymen and women were deluded, fearful, and easily-led enough to elect that awful man again.
But that doesn't make it so.
However I'd echo the call: Salon, please have some of your other writers weigh in on this. I'd fear much more comfortable with coverage of this issue by as many political and stastical smarty-pants as you can round up.
...has to put up facts, not smears or accusations.
The real problem is that we live in a 50/50 nation. National elections are so close that suspicion of fraud is inevitable. If the Democrats had won, you better believe the Republicans would be crying fraud, and probably a lot louder and with more tears.
What Democrats SHOULD be doing in this divided country is making the case for the Democratic party and for liberalism. Frustratingly, neither the activists nor the mainstream Dems seem to be at all interested in making this case: the activists want to indulge their paranoid fantasies regarding Bush and the mainstream Dems seem bent on repudiating liberalism itself.
The unstated premise of every torture debate -- that it was safely applied to a handful of detainees -- is false
The media outlet's use of Bush euphemisms sparks a much-needed debate on journalistic standards.
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And so are his Fox News pals, who lambasted Sen. Al Franken's "stolen election"
A common affliction: a willingness to opine pedantically followed by a refusal to engage criticisms.
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