NPR Game show wisecracks that Bush won 2004 w/ massive vote fraud

[HamdenRice]

I know it's lame, but I have to admit, I often listen to the NPR quiz show, "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me." It has actually gotten better, in the last few years, because the host seems to be increasingly pissed off at the shrub administration.

At the end of each show, they have a segment called "Panelist Predictions." So they asked the panelists, what story will newsweek have to retract this week?

One answered something to the effect: "That George Bush won the 2004 election without significant electoral fraud." The audience burst into applause!

Word is getting out. It is now assumed by your typical NPR listener that Shrub stole the 2004 election.

You can hear the segment here:

http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/thisweek.html

Click on the last segment, panelist predictions.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. that actually is the way you try to kill this story

you make it comedic

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. It's about the only way to get it past Standards (sic) and Practices

Have a cartoon say "Commander Cookoo Bananas" and it's alright. Have Wolf Blitzer say it... It'd be a breath of fresh air, but highly unlikely.

[Us vs Them]

3. I agree.

When I first started dropping this subject into conversations with classmates and casual friends in November, December, January, and even February, the reaction was very frosty. "Nooooo. I don't think that could be true."

Now? I hear strangers stating it as a common, accepted fact. Very casually, at that.

People understand it is very plausible. Now it is time for our politicians with a voice to start casually dropping it into their own conversations.