Reply #47: Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?

[dzika]

1/20/2005

Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes?

Filed under: Dishonest men and women— Lewis @ 8:04 am

According to those paragons of journalism at Nightline, a die-hard is someone who refuses to believe that George Dummya Warbucks won the last election fair ‘n square. Die-hards favor conspiracy theories. Die-hards refuse to understand that even the best-laid exit polls can fail in the same way that the best players don’t always win baseball games. Die-hards just can’t get over the fact that their team fumbled the ball, lost the scrimmage, wound up in the penalty box. Die-hards should just get over it.

Curiously lacking from the Nightline (rub it in on the eve of the election) coverage was any mention at all of the source of all die-hard anxiety: lack of ballot and paper trail for nearly one third of the voting public, the concerted obstructionist efforts of Republikon operatives in minority precincts across Murka, and no attempt, from either the left or the right, to get to the bottom of any of these concerns. Is it possible that we die-hards can trust the assurances of a goverment and press that led us into a war for non-existant WMD’s? In the Republikon world the only ones who get it wrong, the only ones who lie about anything are those cheese-eating surrender-monkey loving liberals who don’t even have the common decency to respect the great leader when Murka is in a shootin’ war against evil. But I had better give it a rest. I feel my blood pressure climbing.

January in Murka means amnesia for everyone. Television is the implant in the hive mind that will help erase all unpleasent memories of election fraud. Gone as well are the statements about Saddam’s nuke-u-lur weapons. Paul Wellstone, long gone. Get over it you goddamned die-hards. There are new episodes of American Idol to talk about instead. There are new camps being built in Cuba and torture planes flying over the poles. Freedom for everyone or shut the hell up.



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