Olbermann's Blog - good reading!

[Chimpanzee]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/



November 9, 2004 | 12:55 a.m. ET

Electronic Voting Angst (Keith Olbermann)

NEW YORK - Bev Harris, the Blackbox lady, was apparently quoted in a number of venues during the day Monday as having written “I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2… My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time.”

I didn’t get the memo.

We were able to put together a reasonably solid 15 minutes or so on the voting irregularities in Florida and Ohio on Monday’s Countdown. There was some You-Are-There insight from the Cincinnati Enquirer reporter who had personally encountered the ‘lockdown’ during the vote count in Warren County, Ohio, a week ago, and a good deal of fairly contained comment from Representative John Conyers of Michigan, who now leads a small but growing group of Democratic congressmen who’ve written the General Accountability Office demanding an investigation of what we should gently call the Electronic Voting Angst. Conyers insisted he wasn’t trying to re-cast the election, but seemed mystified that in the 21st Century we could have advanced to a technological state in which voting - fine, flawed, or felonious - should leave no paper trail.

[WestHoustonDem]

1. Best read of the morning!

[Willy Lee]

2. Excellent. nt

[Ivote]

3. Great Job Keith

I especially liked the part that he confirmed his information from Government web sites

[berner59]

4. wow Keith wow....

I like the part where he says by Kerry concededing - it got the press off the story...maybe our (some of us) thoughts of the chess game was right... And he crypticly referred to Conyers comments as "contained"...which we also thought was right, playing his hand close - this story has legs!!!

[blue neen]

5. Keith's not going to hide the truth! The investigation lives!

This is fantastic news. I called 8 people yesterday alone and told them to watch him. Today it will be more!

[NoSheep]

6. I was elated last night ! 16 minutes of truth from Olbermann.

I'm psyched. I'm writing letters to newspapers today to ask them to keep this story alive!:bounce:

[wadestock]

7. He's so good....it's going over most people's heads....

I tape his show every nite. There's so much information I have to watch it a couple times to assimilate it all.

Keith should become a real benchmark for competence vs. incompetence in this political talk show industry.

A real man, an open mind, with no fear of the truth.

By contrast, the rest of the industry is becoming a bunch of spineless pant-loads ...aka Chris Matthews....who talks the talk every once and a while but can't walk the walk.