Collusion: The Day Before the 2000 Election

A Publius Essay | 18 December 2003 | Publius

[Chad Fairbanks]

Yeah. THey have people to do all those voices and stuff!

[HaveGunWillTravel]

I'm quite certain that you are mistaken about fox calling the election for Gore. I was watching at the time at my Democrat brother in law's house. Naturally, he had the tv tuned in to some left wing network. When they started calling it for Gore, he laughed and I insisted that we change the channel to Fox. Fox was calling it for Bush and never looked back. I insisted that we keep the channel on Fox.

[Publius]

Paladin, my memory gets a bit befuddled thinking about that night. (It was not a pleasant evening after NBC handed it to Gore.) But I think you're right. I remember something about a Bush cousin keeping Fox News from falling for the Big Lie.

[Publius]

Somebody needs to get the URL for this article to Limbaugh. If nothing else, he'd get a good laugh.

[hosepipe]

LOL... good post.... if only...

[SW6906]

Well done, sir, well done!!

[Darksheare]

LOL!
I love it!

[teeman8r]

i concur, fox was unabashedly for bush... i stopped watching cbs news coverage when someone said "we lost florida" after having said for hours that gore won florida...

teeman

[Publius]

The open bias at the networks was frightening. It was obvious they thought they had it in the bag.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bigfootbob]

Excellent read. The early call has really bugged me since it happened. I was in my precinct on my way to pick up several elderly and several registered voters I knew who would not vote unless taken to the polls when the call came out about Florida. I couldn't get a one to go vote.

[Publius]

That was the plan. An insidious way to throw the election without getting caught. It was a case where perception could be fashioned into reality.

[Recovering_Democrat]

ping for later read.

[Publius]

Ping. My first Publius Essay in two years. What do you think about the premise?

[Congressman Billybob]

Good evening,

I read your essay before I left for Tennessee for Christmas things. While the logic is there, I tend not to find intent and malice where simple incompetence is sufficient to explain the events.

I know that Democrats cheat in elections, especially in big cities. However, I don't think the networks are out to cheat. On the otehr hand, they are not out to do their job competently. A competent director would know that states like Florida and Indiana have multiple time zones, and therefore a chance of multiple poll closing times.

IMHO.

John / Billybob

[ThePythonicCow]

no the Elian debacle was a scam

Would you be so kind as to answer the rhetorical questions you ask? I have insufficient memory of the event to make head or tails of what point you are making, and what evidence you are enlisting.

I googled about a bit, and found such as the following, at South Coast Today , but I am still unable to connect your implied dots:

Child rescued after days at sea

By Terry Spencer, Associated Press writer

MIAMI -- Sam Ciancio and Donato Dalrymple planned to spend the early part of their Thanksgiving hoping to hook dolphin fish off the Florida coast.
Then they saw the inner tube.
Clinging to the inflated ring was 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez, one of three survivors from a boat carrying 14 Cubans that sank two days earlier in the Atlantic Ocean.

Ciancio said the child was appealing for help even as he pulled him to safety and cradled him in his arms about 2 miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.
"If there's anybody who doesn't believe there's a God alive, today they do, on Thanksgiving," Ciancio said.

[cars for sale]

sent ya a private detailed freeper mail

[ThePythonicCow]

Why do you not post publically what you freeped me in private? I saw nothing private in it.

[cars for sale]

because I've posted it 5 times in the last 4 months to no avail