Funny thing about that is we're in Florida and the local news had just reported that Bush was taking a pretty large early lead.
Dan just can't seem to tell the truth when the truth hurts! Not to early to call the Laut the winner, but just couldn't bring himself to announce any good news about Jeb.
Sorry Dan - BUSH WINS BUSH WINS BUSH WINS
Another Florida Freeper making noise and ticking off my neighbors!
During the 1988 election, I was a CBS-TV news reporter covering a critical precinct in Indiana. Following a breakdown of the voting machines, the votes at that precinct had to be recounted three times, keeping the CBS report on the Hoosier state from being reported conclusively. My boss on the other end of the phone line asked in desperation if I could give a 90-second live report on the hangup, hoping I was a radio or TV guy...nope! Pure newspaper guy, all the way- but The Show Must Go On, so I agreed, wrote out a quick piece, timed myself reading it [85 seconds- close enough] and gave him the go. There was a TV on in the polling place [a veterans club] that they'd helpfully turned the volume down on for me, but I could see Dan Rotten reading the state results off, and when they showed ours as *results still not yet in* they started the five-count for me to begin, four...three--two--one, and I was on.
I told how the beautiful weather had resulted in the highest numbers of voters turning out in the memory of most of the poll workers and observers, certainly the largest turnout since the end of WWII. And that there were important local issues at stake, including a bitterly-fought mayoral race with an independent challenger. So those were factors in the breakdown of the mechanical vote-counting machinery, resulting in the additional delay as the certified clerks manually tallied the voters' choices. And their job was made even more difficult due to the large number of voters in this particular precinct, including residents of a local nursing home, and those residing in the nearby cemetary, several of whom had risen from the dead to cast their ballots....which was true; there were later vote fraud issues raised that had registered, deceased voters using the Willow Street address of the cemetary as their *home address*....
I saw Rather's face on TV as he cracked up giggling. It was promised that I'd never work on TV again, which was a lot like telling B'rer rabbit that he was gonna be tossed into the briar patch.
And Dan didn't send me a Christmas card, either. But I got paid for my coverage, and surprisingly, the CBS check didn't bounce.
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