Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next

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Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why

They'll Steal the Next One Too

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October 28, 2005

 

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Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll

Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)

by Mark Crispin Miller

 

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Thinking back to election night last November, something just didn't

seem quite right. The discrepancy between exit polling that showed

Kerry winning 5 battleground states, including the crucial state of

Ohio – and therefore the presidency – and the final vote tallies that

miraculously flipped Ohio and other battleground states to allow Bush

to " declare victory " seemed, well, extraordinary.

 

That nagging feeling in your gut that perhaps something wasn't quite

right in the last presidential election, or even worse, that something

truly nefarious might have taken place, is validated by a stunning new

book from Mark Crispin Miller.

 

" Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and Why They'll

Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them) " is Miller's meticulous

and thorough account how the numbers just don't add up to a Bush

reelection. Miller's sharp analysis points in one direction: George W.

Bush did not rightfully win the 2004 election and Bush's " victory " was

borne out of vote suppression, manipulating the electoral process,

fraud and theft.

 

Mark Crispin Miller, author of " The Bush Dyslexicon " is a leading

public intellectual and professor of media studies at New York

University. He is also one of BuzzFlash's most admired thinkers and

writers today.

 

" Fooled Again " demonstrates Miller's uncanny ability to weave

circumstantial evidence together almost as damning as a smoking gun.

For example, Miller highlights Bush's dismal approval ratings all

under 50% days before the 2004 election as well as record democratic

voter registration and voter turnout. He debunks the myth that waves

of evangelicals came out of the woodworks to carry Bush to victory or

account for the host of statistical miracles that no pollster can seem

to adequately explain. And Miller astutely observes that it was the

progressive and liberal bases that were united whereas the

conservative base was fractured. Miller's book is best thought of as a

closing argument, and if one approaches the topic like a juror with an

open mind, its difficult to conceive of any other verdict for the

Republican Party other than guilty as charged for stealing the 2004

election.

 

Miller zeroes in on irregularities in Ohio as ground zero in the

right's theft of the 2004 election. Miller skewers Secretary of State,

Kenneth Blackwell, who like Katherine Harris in Florida, was

determined to tip Ohio in Bush's column despite his responsibility and

duty to oversee a fair election.

 

Although Miller's tone at times construes the reader to think " Fooled

Again " is a partisan diatribe, Miller's true purpose is a plea to

reform America's broken electoral system to preserve our democracy – a

policy that unifies all Americans regardless of political affiliation.

Miller calls for doing away with all electronic voting, using

standardized paper ballots, and federalizing the electoral system " so

that its workers are trained civil servants, not local bigots or

politicos. "

 

BuzzFlash strongly recommends " Fooled Again " by Mark Crispin Miller

because our democracy simply cannot afford another fraudulent or

stolen election.

 

As George W. Bush said, " Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool

me — you can't get fooled again. "

 

Our thoughts precisely.

 

 

Other Reviews

 

" Fooled Again is a must-read for anybody concerned about the health

and preservation of our democracy. "

-- Joseph Wilson, author of The Politics of Truth

 

" Miller gathers enough well-documented evidence that anyone who cares

about fair play should find this book revelatory. "

-- Publishers Weekly

 

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