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"Ken [NY]" |
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14 Nov 2004 05:29:35 PM |
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Olbermann Can 'Countdown,' But Can He Count Up? |
Olbermann Can 'Countdown,' But Can He Count Up?
Ann Coulter
November 10, 2004
On Fox News' "Special Report," Brit Hume raised the nut conspiracy
theories circulating on the Web about Republicans stealing the
presidential election. The liberals on the panel responded by quickly
pointing out that no national Democrats - not even Terry McAuliffe! -
had suggested that there had been any systematic vote theft. Hume
admitted the rumors of vote fraud were limited to nutcases on the Web.
Like most Americans, apparently no one at Fox is watching MSNBC!
In a major report on "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" last Monday,
Olbermann revealed that Bush's win in Florida - and thus the election
- was "attributable largely to largely Democratic districts suddenly
switching sides and all voting for Mr. Bush at the same time"! You
know Keith Olbermann is heart-attack serious when he starts using
"largely" twice in the same sentence.
Books
Somberly reporting that "all this data here is from the office of
Florida's secretary of state," Olbermann listed five Florida counties
where the registrations are majority Democratic - and yet (!) the
counties went for Bush.
A quick glance at the Congressional Almanac indicates that all five
counties in Olbermann's conspiracy theory are in the Florida
Panhandle, where most people have been registered as Democrats since
their grandfathers registered them to vote shortly after the Civil
War. This is in contrast to Broward and Dade Counties, where the vast
majority of voters entered their party registrations when they moved
to Florida from New York a few years ago.
As if anticipating Olbermann's idiotic conspiracy theory two years ago
when he wrote the most recent almanac, Michael Barone specifically
notes that these Panhandle counties - though still majority Democratic
in party registrations - have been voting for Republicans for
president for many years. This would include the 2000 presidential
election when the three voting districts at the centerpiece of
Olbermann's conspiracy theory voted for Bush by 69 percent, 66 percent
and 57 percent. The only way Barone could have made this any clearer
to the "Countdown" host would have been to begin the chapter, "Dear
Keith Olbermann ..."
There's no mystery, no scandal. These are what's known as "Southern
Democrats," who have been voting Republican for a very, very, very
long time. Most of them probably don't even realize they're registered
as Democrats. These people are Democrats like Kevin Phillips is a
Republican, like Ashlee Simpson is a singer.
The only scandal is that a purported news program would raise
insinuations of vote fraud based on the party registration of Southern
Democrats living in the Florida Panhandle - without anyone at the show
checking the Congressional Almanac. (It's especially attractive to be
promoting a theory based on a lack of basic information, in the
self-righteous, smug manner of Keith Olbermann.)
No election in the United States can be discussed intelligently
without reference to Michael Barone's Congressional Almanac. At any
half-serious TV news station, the Congressional Almanac is as common
as a phonebook.
But at MSNBC, Keith Olbermann can go on air with the major breaking
story that five conservative Democratic Panhandle counties voted for
Bush, without one person on the show: (1) consulting the Congressional
Almanac, (2) looking at the results of the 2000 election, or (3)
apparently ever having heard of "Southern Democrats." (They're all
Republicans now!)
In case you needed more on the genius theories being hatched on
MSNBC's "Countdown With Keith Olbermann," even if every one of these
counties went unanimously for Kerry - count them up, Keith! – that's
still, at most, about 50,000 votes. Bush won by 350,000 votes in
Florida.
So I guess we can add "math" to Keith's growing "I Don't Do" file,
along with "Reading the Congressional Almanac," "Basic Show Prep,"
"Getting My Attitude in Line With My IQ" ... (By the way, shouldn't
Keith Olbermann be avoiding "time is running out" motifs wherever
possible?)
One cable news network employs Michael Barone as an analyst; one cable
news network does not own a copy of the Congressional Almanac. Guess
which one regularly gets seven times the ratings of the other?
In addition to Olbermann peddling the theory that Bush stole the
election to his viewer, guess which network employs a correspondent
who wasn't sure if the following was a joke?
BUSH AT FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER WINNING ELECTION: "Now that I
have the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing
the one question rule - that was three questions."
BUSH RESPONDING TO A REPORTER'S FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: "Again, you
violated the one question rule right off the bat. Obviously, you
didn't listen to the will of the people."
MSNBC correspondent David Shuster replayed this exchange on MSNBC's
"Hardball" and then grimly remarked: "It was hard to tell at times
whether the president was simply needling reporters, or whether he
really planned to clamp down." It wasn't hard to tell for anyone who
speaks English.
Cordially,
Ken (NY)
email: http://www.geocities.com/bluesguy68/email.htm
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15 Nov 2004 07:58:48 AM |
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"Ken [NY]" <email@Below.Text> wrote in message
news:hfqfp015qtcv22o9dr3pau6c2uucchbmrn@4ax.com...
Why don't you go Iraq and suck a load of Bush's *****.
You queer for George.
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