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Tuesday, November 1, 2005 12:00 AM

The coverup worked

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  • Tuesday, November 1, 2005 11:16 AM

    It's Not About This Cover-up, Stupid!

    GEORGE BUSH WAS NOT "RE-ELECTED." STOP. REPEAT. GEORGE BUSH WAS NOT "RE-ELECTED." STOP. REPEAT. GEORGE BUSH WAS NOT "RE-ELECTED." STOP. REPEAT.

    "A" cover-up worked... it's just not "THE" cover-up to which E.J. Dionne is referring. I know we've read all of the same post-election analyses and have come to different conclusions, and your condescending resident centrist / apologist Farhad Manjoo has contemptuously dismissed those of us who -- if not contested the results outright -- believe there were enough idiosyncracies and irregularities to at least question the overall outcome of the 2004 presidential election.

    Enough of the electorate knew something was wrong, just as we did in 2000. I will contend that the cover-ups by a negligent press now complicit in stolen elections is part of larger vortex of deceit and denial... and that combined with an apathetic public is creating an overall cover-up of reality. THAT is the real problem here.

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