By: plankshe

plankshe — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:59:14 +0000

No party wants to air out the dirty little secrets.
It why the polls are low across the board for all parties involved.

By: dwekland

dwekland — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:59:14 +0000

then there would be a light on the republic fraud, quess they didn’t want that to happen.

By: bruhaha

bruhaha — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:59:12 +0000

By the way, you forgot the Democratic theft of the 2004 Washington gubernatiorial election (so ably documented at “SoundPolitics.com”)
You suggested a large part of the reason in your opening: “the broadcasters. . .conspired. . . ”
Well, I’m not too sure “conspired” is the right word, at least not for most of them. (It really only take a few conspirators; the rest may be quite unwitting accomplices.) The basic reason, I believe, is that the media simply has deep CONVICTIONS (or bias!) that it is not able to overcome (perhaps because they are not able/willing to recognize they ARE biased).
Let’s face it — the Old Media is largely on the political left, whereas talk radio, for instance, is mainly on the right. The PROBLEM is that talk radio, right bloggers, etc. ANNOUNCE their bias –’this is where we’re coming from’. But the liberal Old Media, by its very inability (refusal?) to simply admit IT is biased to the left, blinds itself to self-critique and correction.
For the Old Media it is extremely difficult to recognize and highlight fraud by the party they are overwhelmingly sold out to (not literally but in their personal convictions!) … to admit that people who share their convictions COULD do such… it’s too much for them.
Consider also that there are leading Democrats who often go out of their way to leak, plant and spin stories in the sadly unsuspecting press, which rarely thinks to stop to question the motivation of those critcizing or accusing the right. And the sheer constancy (in number and repetition) of ACCUSATIONS — no matter how ill-founded– can, over time, start giving people the impression (without any evidence!) that “there must be something to it”. The MSM is here both perpetrator and victim.
Again, I DO hesitate to call MOST of this “conspiracy” — I believe many in the media (and in the Democratic party as well) are quite sincere. Before anything even happens, they are already so convinced that the Democrats are right, that Republicans not the Dems would SURELY be the ones to try to ‘disenfranchise’ voters that it makes them simply incapable of SEEING things happening under their very noses (and if they are sometimes forced to admit it in this or that instance, they still operate from the deep CONVICTION [almost religious!] that this is an aberration, whereas the Republicans really are committed to using any means, fair or foul, to win… even when NO evidence of it can be discovered.
Compounding this is the fact that much of the liberal media IS living in a “bubble” — they are hardly exposed to anyone who thinks or sees things differently from them. (There is, in a sense, an advantage to being on the right — you can hardly escape being hit with the spin of the left. Many on the left can almost if not completely avoid being exposed to people of conviction on the right… so they simply do not understand them.) There is very little diversity, for instance, in their news rooms, no one to ask the key questions or point out the problems that are OBVIOUS to intelligent commentators on the right.
As evidence of this sort of deep conviction, note that other answers you are getting! Generic accusations or repetition of charges that have been DIS-proven (e.g., many on the left still seem unaware of the major media recounts of Florida in early 2005 and how they showed Bush won on ANY reasonable recount method). Are they lying? Some perhaps. But others are just SO convinced already (and so mad about it all!) that they are UNABLE to look at evidence that doesn’t fit their convictions.
I can think of TWO other reasons or contributing factors.
1) Some of the examples of fraud you cite were SO baldfaced that it is a bit difficult to believe anyone would have tried them! They SOUND like nutty conspiracy theories! (And note that much of the media HAS refused to give much credence to the “Diebold” stuff and other looney conspiracy theories on the left.) It’s much more comfortable and “logical” to accept the explanations of someone appealing to “letting every vote count” and “not disenfranchising people” and not see when those noble sentiments are a cynical cover for electoral shenanigans.
2) Very few Republicans have been willing to wage the sort of campaign it would take to put the spotlight on these things. Some of them seem to be blindsided by it all; others are unwilling to take the sort of attacks the Dems, with the help of a compliant press, will surely launch against them.

By: hazardous

hazardous — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:59:12 +0000

This is a Republican behavior, primarily. Nixon, Reagan, and GWBs adminsitration never played fair.

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