Notice how Media won't touch F911 voter scrub by Jeb for Election 2000?

[cthrumatrix]

This is a nice fat juicy topic. Jeb can sue Michael Moore if it's wrong. In fact, Jeb could have sued Greg Palast for his documentary on how he hired a firm to do just that.

It's intentionally done to scrub a predominant democratic block of voters....where is the media challenge?

Where is Hardball talking to the gumdrop GOP guests on this one? Where is Christopher Hichens squaring off with Greg Palast ...or invite Michael Moore themsleves.

If the media had any guts, they would arrange a debate with the GOP'rs and Moore...but they won't..they are cowards running from the truth!

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Be warned. This exclusive interview with Greg Palast will boil your blood. 94,000 people -- over half of them African American --have been on a "scrub list" in Florida, which meant they were blocked from voting in the 2000 election. Remember, Al Gore lost by "537" votes. The thing is, most of them were legally allowed to vote and were prevented from voting by Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State, and Jeb Bush, in a failed attempt to root out felons.

Instead, they blocked legal voters from casting ballots and having their voices heard. Well, certainly Florida would have made sure that all those people who could legally vote, would have their constitutional freedoms restored by this Nov. 5th to vote in the election, right? Wrong.

Florida won't get to it until the beginning of January 2003. McBride and Jeb Bush are dead even. According to Palast, perhaps as many as 91,000 should have their names taken off the "scrub list" and be legally permitted to vote this Tuesday, Nov. 5th. Something is rotten in the state of Florida. This weekend, BuzzFlash interviewed Greg Palast about this shocking revelation and the blatant ongoing assault on democracy.

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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=178&row=2

[bossfish]

1. Oh, you're just being a SoreLoserman...

The press has already covered that story.

And it is so much better that we have a "war president.

</sarcasm>

[cthrumatrix]

2. The sad part is the facts are there....and what do our democratic leaders

do?

They act like it never happened. They have explosive facts and they sit. And we expect the press to carry the torch...haha.

[bossfish]

3. The sad part in the F911 movie...

was the joint session of Congress when the CBC couldn't find a Senator.

Not even Wellstone.

[cthrumatrix]

4. Let's have CNBC , Fox or the Networks talk about this..?

PALAST: You want to have nightmares? See the film "Counting on Democracy" -- which some PBS stations are running in defiance of the PBS network blackout. In this film by Danny Schechter, who followed me around when I was investigating for BBC TV, I discover that the purge of "faux felon" black voters was deliberate: planned and executed with the connivance of the Harris and the Governor’s office.

Another film also delves into the story: "Unprecedented" -- a film that is looking for a broadcast home right now, though you can get copies from the producers at www.Unprecedented.org.

In a nutshell: every time clerks or county officials or the computer company DBT told the state the lists contained innocent people, the Republican functionaries said, "Shhhhh! Don’t change a thing." Because they saw the racial profile of the voters -- which is listed on all Florida registration forms -- BLACK BLACK WHITE BLACK.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=178&row=2

the data is there...Jeb say F911 is all lies and nobody confronts the SOB and calls him out?

[Lefty48197]

5. Moore really seemed to take a shot at the media in Fahrenheit 9/11

for buying into the rah rah rah, yay Bush mob mentality during the most recent Iraq war. Moore seemed pretty pissed at the media for neglecting their duty to be journalists. I get the feeling that one of his major points in the film, is that we can no longer depend upon the media to objectively report facts. We have to develop alternative methods of getting our side of the story out to the American public. "Journalists" are far too often silenced today, probably by their corporate "superiors", to provide balanced reporting. Juan Williams getting interrupted and brow beat by Brit Hume seems to represent the state of television "journalism" today.

[cthrumatrix]

6. Exactly, and this is a "major theme" the media won't discuss....they smile

and send our son and daughters off to war. Who gave them the damn airwaves to use against us ... the media no longer is for the people. It's only for corporations and used by the TPTB to sell their plans.


Everyone should bring up these factoids to repugs looking for some "meat"...they would be shocked.

More from Palast below.
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Winning the Election – The Republican Way: Racism, Theft and Fraud in Florida
The Weekly Dig, Boston, MA
Tuesday, April 22, 2003



Winning the Election – The Republican Way: Racism, Theft and Fraud in Florida

by Liam Scheff

When future historians want to know what happened to America in 2000, they’ll read Greg Palast’s The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. The book follows the paper trail of perjury, deception and incompetence left by the Bush family, and the billionaires who fund them, as they trample through the world – from mining disaster cover-ups to the California energy scandal to the pre-9/11 intelligence black-out that let a handful of Saudi terrorists slip past the NSA, FBI and CIA.

The book also uncovers inside documents on the IMF and World Bank, Pat Robertson‘s unholy money-schemes, and the co-opted US media that won‘t report what the rest of the world gets on the front page.

The book opens with the crime that keeps on stealing – the 2000 presidential election. George Bush lost the popular election by 500,000 votes, but won the electoral vote by winning hotly contested Florida, the state that tipped the scales, and the state where his brother Jeb is governor. His tiny 500-vote win there was accompanied by a torrent of hanging chads and unhappy voters, who claimed their votes were stolen. Last week Palast came to Boston to promote the new edition of The Best Democracy… I asked him exactly what he uncovered.


http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=217&row=2

[cthrumatrix]

7. Watch the video here on how Jeb "kicked off voters" for Dubya in 2000

"Theft of the Presidency"
BBC-TV Newsnight
Thursday, February 15, 2001



by Greg Palast

View the full video here.

GREG PALAST: Washington, the marine band plays 'Hail to the Chief' for George W Bush, 43rd President of the United States. But in Florida, some are singing 'Hail to the Thief'.
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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=29&row=2

[Kahuna]

8. Well, that's been settled to everyone's satisfaction...

There's no reason to bring it up! </sarcasm>

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Let's prod the media -- here's link to Calimary's contact list --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1504379