Reply #53: "one of the best magazines in the world"

[OnTheOtherHand]

One shudders to think that that might be true. Naw. It has run some good stuff over the years.

Kennedy probably should have jumped the shark with me when he wrote that screed on autism -- which ran in the same magazine. Didn't happen, because I never read it.

So, it happened when I read about a mythical 7:54 pm briefing in which the exit pollsters supposedly told the networks that Kerry had an insurmountable lead. Source: a table of Steve Freeman's own exit poll extrapolations. I have no effin' clue where the 7:54 briefing shtick came from. But the exit pollsters' own report that they warned the networks in the afternoon that they didn't believe their own numbers is contemporaneously corroborated by, of all sources, Wonkette.

Sort of thing an investigative reporter, and/or a decent fact-checking staff, might figure out. Just like one or the other might figure out that judicial candidates often do get more votes than presidential candidates in some counties. It ought to be embarrassing to quote Kucinich saying that that just doesn't happen. Yet no one is embarrassed. I don't get it.

This new article is shorter, at least. I wouldn't mind putting Kennedy and Palast under oath to find out what, if anything, they think they mean when they talk about "the elimination of nearly one of every six of voters." I'm happy to report that Colorado still has plenty of voters. Would it really hurt us to talk sense about voter purges?