Olbermann's Warren Me Out (More of his conspiracy numbers not adding up)

[montereyp1]

Moderator: I'm listing these under news because no one else is covering this fool and these are new facts and figures.

Dirty Harry writes: Olbermann's Warren Me Out

Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter was on "Countdown" last night encouraging Olbermann to keep going after the vote fraud story. "You're doing a good job, keep at it." Of course Newsweek isn't putting anyone on the the story. Newsweek isn't covering it. Newsweek understands that this is the normal course of election business in an imperfect world and that you simply can't overcome a 136,000 margin in Ohio to make Kerry president.

Poor Keith doesn't know when he's being patted on the head and patronized. Benefits of a super-ego, I guess.

Keith's latest crusade (He's running out of them so fast, he's making them up - see below) is Warren County Ohio - who locked the media out of their counting room election night claiming homeland security concerns that appear to be questionable. Olbermann finds the fact that Warren was the last county to report suspicious. In otherwords: Were they waiting to see what margin Bush needed to win? Hmmm? Well, let's do what Keith finds inconvenient; look at the facts.

This is from the Ohio Secretary of State website. (Yes, these numbers were easy to get)

In 2004 Bush received 66,523 votes from Warren County. Kerry received 25,399. A 41,124 net vote lead for the president.

So, if Warren was sitting on it's vote count to put Bush in the lead, he was already 100,000 votes up. Did they really need to risk a scandal and felony? Uhm, no.

In 2004 Bush won 62% of Warren County. In 2000 He won 53%. At worst a few thousand votes were slipped to Bush, hardly worth the risk. But there's something else Olbermann isn't telling you...

Behind those nefarious closed doors were Republicans AND Democrats counting votes.

And finally Dirty Harry writes....

Olbermann's Priorities Say A Lot

From Olbermann's blog last night:

"David Cobb of the Green Party told a California radio station late yesterday afternoon that he is “quite likely to be demanding a recount in Ohio,”

...a recount would cost the Greens around $110,000, on a basis of approximately $10 per precinct. As you’d probably guess, Mr. Cobb’s doesn’t have the money lying around - but as a presidential candidate, he does have the right. Whether or not he can raise the cash is the operative question."

So, Olbermann's willing to cough up 100k to hear O'Reilly talk dirty but not for this oh-so important national scandal that threatens to--

Forget it. Read into it what you want.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Folks, I hate to rain on everyone's parade, but GW Bush won re-election for one main reason, his defense against terrorism. The American people realize that the current "Traitor" Democrat Party will not lift a finger to defend America. I am not saying that other issues did not matter, just that defense against terrorism was the number issue. Of course, it didn't hurt that the Democrat Party is Godless, Secular, Anti-war and anti-American!!!

[BOOTSTICK]

Olberman is a smirking idiot, and is desperate to lift his ratings from it's present .1% share.

[Lori675]

You hit it on the head. Also, Paula Zahn has the same problem. O'reilly has such better ratings then them.
I guess there trying to get some attention.

[BohDaThone]

In 2004 Bush received 66,523 votes from Warren County. Kerry received 25,399. A 41,124 net vote lead for the president. So, if Warren was sitting on it's vote count to put Bush in the lead, he was already 100,000 votes up. Did they really need to risk a scandal and felony? Uhm, no. In 2004 Bush won 62% of Warren County. In 2000 He won 53%. At worst a few thousand votes were slipped to Bush, hardly worth the risk. But there's something else Olbermann isn't telling you...

Actually, the math is better than this. The author is wrong on the 2004 figures -- the numbers are right, but the %, as shown by any calculator, is about 72%. AMERICA VOTES (the standard source) shows bush got 69.9% in warren in 2000. In other words -- a strong gop county, which went up about 2 points -- very consistent with all other gop counties n rural-exurban ohio!!

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I am no fan of Alter at all. However, please be aware that he lost his hair due to chemotherapy treatments for cancer.

[Former Proud Canadian]

We should not go on defense on this issue. We should be on the ATTACK. There certainly was vote fraud in the election last week. But it did not take place on the repub side. Ballots were forged and stuffed and defrauded as usual in Cleveland and Detroit and Milwaukee and Philadelphia and St. Louis and the vote fraud there should be exposed and expunged.

[montereyp1]

Math fixed. Good call.