MEDIA COMPLICITY ARTICLE 1
1. Not To Cover Vote Fraud By Peter Coyote 11-13-2004
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
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
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
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
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
George Bush. After media scrutiny, city officials have admitted to an electronic
"glitch" that caused the problem.
In
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
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
"If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a friend of mine"
Che Guevara