They had some guy from Nevada claiming that a Republican official ripped up his stack of absentee applications (or registration forms, I forgot which). He said he rescued them from the wastebasket and held them up, all scotch-taped together. In light of the DNC's pre-emptive falsified complaint strategy, I have to wonder if this is a legit story. One thing is certain: Nobody at PBS was wondering.
I saw probably the same thing on CBS last Friday. PBS taking leads from SeeBS - that's a great combination.
Anyway - Here is part of a previous posting that shows how this incident was protrayed to the public on SeeBS:
Just for curiosity – I watched the CBS Evening News with Dan RatherElectKerry on Friday night to see what they were spoon-feeding their ideologs. Did CBS give the public the “real” real political story of the week?
No – instead they did a 2-minute segment on voter registration fraud. In this segment they filmed an employee of Nevada’s Voter Outreach Registration Program claiming that his supervisor was tearing up Democratic voter registration forms. CBS made sure that it filmed the employee, Eric Russell, showing some torn up registration forms. CBS made sure that they made the “Republican connection” by stating that Voter Outreach was created by former head of the Arizona Republican committee and that he was given over half a million dollars for work he had done in “swing states”. CBS spent about 1 minute of the 2-minute segment “painting” the Republicans as the villains. CBS did make the comment that it was reported that Eric Russell had torn up the forms himself because he was angry over a back pay issue – but they did not put a live person on to make this statement thus not giving a “face” to the story. Is this important? What has more impact on a jury – a deposition or a person giving live testimony?
For the next part of the segment CBS switched to the Oregon Secretary Of State telling of registration shenanigans at a library – but they fail to mention whether it was Republicans or Democrats committing the crimes.
Just to be fair and balanced, CBS did spend 15 seconds of the 2 minutes on a very vague and "faceless" comment that in Florida Republican registration forms had “allegedly” been torn up.
You can see for yourselves what I am talking about if you go to this web site and watch the news clip: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?channel=eveningnews