Mass Media In 'Lock Down' Not To Cover Vote Fraud

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Mass Media In 'Lock Down' Not To Cover Vote Fraud

 

 

Mass Media In 'Lock Down' Not To Cover Vote Fraud

By Peter Coyote, 11-13-4

 

There is a bumper sticker I saw months ago that sums up the current

state of affairs in our country regarding what is the biggest news

story you'll never see on the General Media reported. It said " IF YOUR

NOT OUTRAGED, YOUR NOT PAYING ATTENTION " .

On Friday I received a phone call from a good friend who works at

CBS--I've known her for years and she is a Producer for some of the

news programs, one well known one in particular. She tipped me off

that the news media is in a " lock-down " and that there is to be no TV

coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2nd. She said

similar " lock-down orders " had come down last year after the invasion

of Iraq, but this is far worse--far scarier. She said the majority of

their journalists at CBS and elsewhere in NYC are pretty

horrified--every one is worried about their jobs and retribution Dan

Rather style or worse. My source said they've also been forbidden to

talk about it even on their own time but she was pissed and her

journalistic and moral integrity as what she considers to be a gov't

watchdog requires her to speak out, while be it covert and she

therefore asked me to " spread " the word... She said that journalism

and the truth is at stake. She said another friend of hers, a producer

at MSNBC, said that an anchor by the name of Keith Olbermann had

brought it up on his show on Friday eve and the axe came down. He's at

least fighting back and talking about it on his " Blog " , but she said

that people there are worried that he's going to be fired by higher

ups. She said at this point the only way that the " real news " was

going to be if the people started talking about it and made a big

enough stink about it to our elected officials, the FEC, and " noise "

to the international media, that our own media won't have any choice

but to cover it. (Yes, this is really happening in the good ole'

supposed " democratic " free press of the US of A). The only place

you'll see this talked about right now is on the internet and on

AirAmericaRadio.

Everyone--this is serious....I can't emphasize it any more than saying

if there was ever a time to speak up and take action it is NOW. If you

are feeling sick to your stomach (like me) about the possibility of 4

more years under Bush and the future of our country, and yet you feel

helpless, here's your opportunity to take action. Imagine if you saw a

loved one drowning--what do you do? Well, our country's democracy is

drowning and she needs us. In an email I sent you last night, I used

the F-word--FRAUD and mentioned to you that I felt strongly that there

is a lot of mounting evidence that this election was not clean. I say

that not only out of a result of my observations while out in the

field as a poll watcher in the key battleground state of Ohio, I say

it with the knowledge and information of reports that have been

circulating around the country in various voting precincts involving

irregularities and problems with the voting machines and numbers not

matching up with the exit polls or actual numbers of registered voters

in various precincts. I've been busy researching this issue and

compiling for you below some details of these reports and where you

can get more info:

To believe that Bush won the election, you must also believe:

1- That the exit polls were WRONG...(remember--they have been used for

over a decade and considered reliable)

2- That Zogby's 5pm election day calls for Kerry winning OH, FL were

WRONG. He was within a less than 1/2 % point margin of error in his

2000 final poll and previous polls for other elections.

3- That Harris Poll last minute polling for Kerry was WRONG. They were

also within a 1/2% point margin of error in their 2000 final poll.

4- The Incumbent Rule

I (that undecideds primarily break at the end for the challenger)was

WRONG.

5- The 50% Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent doesn't do better than

his final polling)

6- The Approval Rating Rule was WRONG (that an incumbent with less

than 50% approval will most likely lose the election)

7- That Journalist Greg Palast was WRONG when he said that even before

the election, 1 million votes were stolen from Kerry. He was the ONLY

reporter to break the fact that 90,000 Florida blacks were

disnfranchised in 2000.

8- That it was just a COINCIDENCE that the exit polls were CORRECT

where there WAS a PAPER TRAIL and INCORRECT (+5% for Bush) where there

was NO PAPER TRAIL.

9- That the surge in new young voters had NO positive effect for

Kerry, even though it was the largest number of youth voters 18-29

ever and a huge jump from 2000 and they were over 55% in favor of

Kerry. >> 10- That Bush BEAT 99 to 1 mathematical odds in winning the

election.

11- That Kerry did WORSE than Gore against an opponent who LOST the

support of SCORES of Republican newspapers who were for Bush in 2000.

12- That Bush did better than an 18 national poll average which showed

him tied with Kerry at 47. In other words, Bush got 80% of the

undecided vote to end up with a 51-48 majority--when ALL professional

pollsters agree that the undecided vote ALWAYS goes to the challenger.

13- That Voting machines made by Republicans with no paper trail and

with no software publication, which have been proven by thousands of

computer scientists to be vulnerable in scores of ways, were NOT

tampered with in this election.

Some Examples: (There are many more, but I won't list them all

here--this is to give you an idea)

- The City of Gahanna in Ohio discovered a discrepancy that gave 4,000

votes to George Bush. After media scrutiny, city officials have

admitted to an electronic " glitch " that caused the problem.

- In Broward County, FL, errors in software code caused a referendum

on gambling to be completely overturned. The error caused totals to

count backwards after reaching a ceiling of 32,500 votes. The problem

existed in the 2002 election as well however the issue was never

resolved by the manufacturer of the electronic voting machine.

- In North Carolina, a Craven County district logged 11,283 more votes

than voters and actually overturned the results of a regional race.

For more info, go to: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1106-30.htm