[joyce11111]

Is this really new?

[sierrahome]

Wow...who'd-a-thunk!

[Steven W.]

Karl Rove had called, urging Fox News to call New Mexico for the President to put the Electoral College count over the top. Fox refused, because the numbers were not then sufficient to make the call with confidence.

That's not exactly right - they called urging FNC to call NEVADA and FNC refused.

[xJones]

We are willing to listen to those of the media — television and print — who start with the simple declarative "We screwed up" and follow with a commitment to return independence and objectivity to their news coverage. While we are waiting, we, who have been labeled as idiots and worse, are at least smart enough to find alternative news sources.

Excellent points, but obviously the author doesn't know that being called a pajama wearer by some idiot CBS executive is now a proud title.:)

[luvie]

Something we have known in our hearts all along, but to see it in black and white just cements my decision not to watch any news from those left-wing suck-ups! Now, I can't give up CSI, Judging Amy, or ER, but those are the most honest shows on those networks--it is the news that is fiction!!! Just gimme FOX and C-SPAN for the hard stuff!

[Lancey Howard]

I wish the obsolete old media would just hurry up and die.

[kezekiel]

They ought to just rename the networks to DNC-1, DNC-2, DNC-3, etc.

[nmh]

Shocked I say, just shocked!

;)

[Hi Heels]

By 9:00 PST anyone who could count knew Bush had it. All the stations were quick to call close states for Blue, but didn't call red states for hours. Fox had no choice but to call Ohio. It was obvious and to their credit, they DO report news.....most of the time.

[JoJo Gunn]

[XBob]

1 - Thanks - good post, and nice to know what happened, and more confirmation of what appeared to be happening while we watched the returns live.

I personally had called the election right, for Bush, down to the exact states (Except Iowa) at a little after 10PM CST.

[Congressman Billybob]

Excellent article, though I'd seen the points made in other pieces before this.

The MSM are "invested" as the shrinks say, in the "Blue" culture. They instinctively bury facts which would undercut their cherished (but wrong) beliefs.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest, "A New Stoplight in Town"

[mtbopfuyn]

Allowing Florida to go to Bush in 2000?!? Allowing??? Hmm, I thought the voters determined that.

[Spok]

I've never enjoyed watching election coverage so much in my life. Once Fox and NBC declared Bush the winner, I switched to CNN (first and last time, I promise) to watch Larry King and Wolf Blitzed squirm. Blitzed even had the nerve to proclaim "we're not holding off because we favor any candidate-we just don't want a repeat of 2000". I sprayed my coffee table with Coors Light. CNN knew they were lashed to the deck of the good ship Kerry/Edwards and it was going down. It was ecstacy to watch.

[Dalite]

FWIW, Cue-Ball (Carville), on CNN said it was all over around 12:41 AM EST. He then gave a fairly realistic apraisal of the DNC. Begala, King and Blitzer appeared to be in shock.

[Ben Hecks]

..."Our whole goal was stop the train from moving that way."

This is a minor point but I believe that all of the polls had closed by this time. The only way the outcome could have been changed was by election fraud.

[KoRn]

I don't know, I have my doubts.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

About 2 a.m. on Wednesday morning my daughter and I switched from Fox News Channel to CBS and CNN. Not because we had lost faith in FNC, mind you, but simply for the comic relief.

[edchambers]

Ya know, no one ever has explained 103% of precincts reporting in in New Mexico.Looks like that bannana republic is about as corrupt as old Mexico.

[ladyinred]

Of course the media did exactly what Kerry's team said. It is shocking, outrageous, but they did the same for Al Gore.