Posted on 07/16/2004 9:18:56 PM PDT by GeronL
| Associated Press: One-sided platform for Kerry, Democrats By Floyd Geron Looney Internet- An article run by the AP allowed the Kerry campaign to make unfounded accusations without any questions being raised. The Kerry campaign argued that 57,000 black Americans were denied the vote in Palm Beach County and one million nationally. These unfounded allegations have been growing more and more ridiculous with each retelling. In actual fact there are about 100,000 voting-age black Americans in Palm Beach County, according to the 2000 US Census. The idea that a majority was denied the vote is easy to dismiss and quite laughable. The United States Civil Rights Commission found no systematic civil rights violations occurred in Palm Beach County. The County is run by Democrats and is heavily Democratic. The very idea that Democrat election officials would discriminate against black voters should be considered ludicrous. The allegation of a million black voters being blocked from voting mationwide is also easy to dismiss, any organized campaign on the scale would have been easily spotted. Indeed, the counties they always bring up are run by Democrats. The only organized campaign to throw out votes were votes cast by overseas military personnel. These votes were most likely heavily Republican. That the allegations came from the Kerry campaign is not a surprise, indeed it is the kind of ‘Big Lie’ we have come to expect from the far-left. The fact that the Associated Press would let this idiotic claim go without comment or balance should worry anyone who believes in free and fair elections. The people who make these claims cannot give you any names, at least names of people who really were discriminated against in the 2000 election. The leftist media, like the Associated Press, have never tried to find these people. They know these people do not exist. The liberal media has become a partisan player instead of an observer, they even allow the truth to be thrown out when it suits their political agenda. It is high time that the media, if it wishes to claim any kind of fairness, to challenge the claims of the left. They should investigate the claim that a million black voters were illegally denied the right to vote. Why have they not done this in the last four years? Obviously they know very well it is a lie. Yet they have no compunction to allow these claims to go unchallenged and unbalanced in their articles. The liberal media gave Joe Wilson a platform and a megaphone to make his now dismissed claims about Iraq attempting to buy ‘yellowcake’ from Niger. He was allowed to come onto television programs and got front-page treatment in the media for many months. When his claims were shown to be nothing more than bald-face lies the media reported nothing. Now the Associated Press is suing the Pentagon for the full military records of President George W. Bush. It is a very obvious and partisan attempt to re-awaken the unfounded claims that he was AWOL in his National Guard days. Yet the Associated Press does not even care that the military records of John Kerry haven’t been released. The controversy surrounded the Kerry service records are more heated and have much more validity that the trumped up claims about Bush. A majority of the swift-boat veterans who knew Kerry dispute his claims and his medals. They have even hired a private investigator, held press conferences and sent out news releases. Yet they are ignored by the liberal media. Yet there is not one major news outlet that cares to find out the truth about John Kerry. Indeed they continue to label Kerry a ‘hero’ for his four months of service. The media will quote Kerry referring to Vice President Cheney’s alleged use of a curse word in a private conversation but they would never mention that Kerry used the same word for publication in a magazine. The double standards on the part of the media are endless, and they are always tilted in favor of the left. If there is anyone who still believes the media is not biased to the very far left, they are just ignorant.
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What scares me more than Kerry's shoveling is the morons he targets who are stupid enough to swallow what he's shoveling.
He tells so much lies, perhaps more than Clinton.
BUMP
It has become a crusade for them.
The hate for Dubya is surprising me, and liberals hardly surprise me anymore.
Its actually kind of scary, but then again the conservatives are the ones who own the guns. Can you help me ping this?
Blame the RATS for disenfranchising voters? I'm game...
no no no.. nobody did. Its all made up and the media know it is. See #14.
this is supposed to be info collection, right? So post, already!
Ask Kerry when Joe the African Tourist was officially added to gis payroll.
Ask Kerry if the Tides Foundation uses his operation for condulting.
Ask Kerry if he is sorry NOW that he didn't speak with the FAA guys who desperately tried to contact him about their fears over the lax security at Logan Airport. He ignored one fellow because he "wasn't a constituent" and the other report, he forwarded directly to the agency where the FAA guy wasn't getting any help and TOLD Kerry to go above it.(IIRC)
I wrote it, someone can do all that =o)
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Right on, and this is exactly why we are living in dangerous times. The mainstream media, that still influences MOST voters, is as crooked and deceptive as Pravda back in the 60's in the Soviet Union. Dangerous Days, I say!
The media MUST BE CLEANSED, but it's a tricky task.
Yesterday he told the NAACP that 2000 had the most tainted election in American history. Somebody in the Bush/Cheney campaign should have responded promptly and forcefully.
As usual, nothing was heard from the Bush/Cheney camp.
Bush/Cheney is answering most of the Democrat lies with utter silence, and silence is a plea of no contest.
Kerry will win by default if this keeps up.
Actually they do answer most of the time, and the media ignores it. The media know its a lie but they simply won't let that stop their partisan reporting.
I do a pretty nice layout huh?
That's great!
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Wow, Kerry sure has a handle on the black issue. I wonder how he came up with that number. Counting fingers only goes to ten.
bttt
There are a lot of people who are too busy having fun to be bothered with knowing the facts of the matter. To them, the more outrageous the charges, the better the laugh. For them all this political stuff is only to get a good laugh and nothing more. If it gets in the way of their fun, forget about it. To them those who care about the future of this country are just a bunch of clowns. I only hope that on November 2nd, going to the polls is for them a waste of gas.
Good question. Should be asked across the fruited plain. Oh wait... Folks in Floriduh are still reading their first grade reading primer on how to punch a ballot.
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