While discussing current affairs with my girlfiend, I realized just how successfully the MSM has downplayed the remarks of Jimmy Carter. (Google news-search of Carter Election Gore — MSM anywhere? Helllooooo.)
Why does MSM do this? Because it is proof that corporate ownership of MSM has created American faux news that promotes corporate policies.
There are those certain instances when the nefarious corporate influence of the MSM shows itself more blatantly than normal and I really think that was one of those instances.
Jimmy Carter and his prestigious Carter Center basically said America suffered a coup (see relevant snips below fold) just days after he and Republican extraordinaire Jimmy Baker very very quietly smacked down the American electoral process (only Fox comes up in this particular search(gotta inform the dittoheads I guess)).
Compare Wikipedia to the article below:
Article:
beat Bush in 2000
Says ‘no doubt’ Al won, ‘country failed abysmally’ in election process
Posted: September 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joe Kovacs
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Jimmy Carter at American University in Washington, D.C.
Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he’s certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush.
“Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process,” Carter told a panel Monday at American University in Washington, D.C. “There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president.”
Those in attendance broke out in applause for that statement.
“[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Florida,” Carter continued. “And the decision was made as you know by a 5-4 vote on a highly partisan basis by the U.S. Supreme Court, so I would say in 2000, there was a failure.”
The year 2000 saw the closest presidential election in American history, as Bush won the electoral vote 271-266, despite losing the popular vote to Gore by a half-million votes.
Carter’s analysis went on to include last year’s matchup between Bush and Democrat Sen. John Kerry, as the election came down to a battle over the electoral votes in Ohio.
“The year 2004 is hard to grade,” said Carter. “I don’t have any detailed information about what actually went on in Ohio. If Ohio had gone one way or the other, it would have changed the outcome of the election. And the only thing that I know about Ohio, was that there’s general consensus that the secretary of state of Ohio, who is responsible for the administration of the election, was highly partisan in his public approach and perhaps even in his private adminstration. But I don’t know about that.” [snip]
The media is scared shitless to cover this, lest they be blamed if blood flows in the streets as a result.
Well, they needn’t worry about that. The predominant reactions would be (1) yawn; and (2) he’s a Democrat, or course he would say that.
Yes, I’m feeling a little cynical this morning!
Just like they “covered” the anti war protest in DC. that (apparently) didn’t happen this weekend. The MSM are simply shills for BushCo. Katrina was a temporary aberration. They simply could not spread the BushCo. line (lie) in the first days of the relief effort due to the compelling (and contradictory) visual evidence that held the nation spellbound.
In my view, the media, like the government has been bought and paid for. (by the winners of no-bid contracts!)
the corporate news serves the corporate interests.
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Daily Kos will ban Jimmy Carter as an election conspiracist.
Becoming part of the establishment, prerequisite is responsible behavior. I’m fortunate to have been banned twice I guess.
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Oui, I hadn’t realised that you had been banned twice by Kos. Guess I haven’t been paying attention. When did the second time happen?
How the hell do you get banned? I’ve been trying and trying and nothing seems to stick.
Trying here or over at DKos?
You’ll have to try harder here…
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Requires no effort at all. First time I was confused and surprised, and made an uproar.
Second time I haven’t got a clue, take it in stride as part of life, and subscribe again. How to be more careful about identity? Perhaps not to cross-post diaries and comments.
Only suggestion as to the reason could be investigative research, also @dKos.
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Well, if I look only at the wiki definition,it certainly wans’t sudden, it was long and drawn out and is still going on right now and they aren’t just replacing top figures, they are replacing everyone, everywhere (see stcking the courts, and all of the insane appointments in dark far away places) — so, imho, what we have going on here is far worse than a coup…
He “conspires” with Baker, who participated in the coup, to further erode our electoral rights, and push the national ID fucking bad idea, then he says it was a coup.
How schizophrenic can you get? I don’t trust him anymore.
Carter has been like this since he left the White House. At times he was Clinton’s worse enemy. Although undoubtedly a brilliant and a good man, he seems to miss few opportunities to stab other prominent democrats in the back. The more prominent the democrat, the more they have to watch their back.
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that the international election monitoring body he serves on would be unable – even if asked – to certify the results. It wouldn’t matter what they observed on Nov. 2.
In other words – without access to source code, machine audits, and paper trails – certification was impossible.
Mission Accomplished!
BTW, I absolutely agree with the earlier comment that Carter’s observations would get him banished from dKos in a heartbeat.
Think for yourself?
Out of lockstep with Markos?
Question what happened in Ohio?
Keep quiet, or Kos will treat you to his extraordinary rendition of “Absolute Power is Safe With Me”.
It seems like it might be more productive to concentrate on getting a solid majority of votes in 2006 instead of re-hashing 2000 and 2004 over and over and over.
In both of those cases the races were very, very close, against a really lousy Republican candidate. No electoral system is perfect, and if the votes come in within a fraction of a percent of each other then the results are always going to be questionable. If Gore or Kerry had gotten 60% of the vote there wouldn’t have been a problem.
So why are we sitting here, 13 months from the 2006 election, without an agreed party platform, a list of candidates, and an active campaign?
How do you know that they didn’t get 60%? I wouldn’t bet my life on that assetion. No way, no how.
I am worried about 2006, I was worried about 2002 and 2004 as well — but I have lost faith that my vote counts in answer to your question, reason enough for me to do all of the rehashing….
No poll showed anything like such an overwhelming Democratic majority, that’s why. They were close elections. No amount of fooling around with the electoral system is going to make it perfect, and worrying about it is a complete diversion from the important thing: The 2006 election.
Why isn’t there a new party platform posted on http://www.dnc.org? The current platform:
The party is still on its old DLC-controlled agenda, when we’re just a bit over a year from the next election. It’s ridiculous to spend time worrying about the 2000 election when we’re in such lousy shape for the 2006 election.
…I’m not one, so I worry about how to make my vote count rather than the lack of a platform from the party I have come to expect nothing from….
Well perhaps there is something that you and I agree on after all… 🙂
Which part would that be? The “expect nothing from” or the “making my vote count”?
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I don’t go out of my way to bash democrats (or at least I didn’t used to, it is becoming all to easy these days) and often times I have voted for them, but as a party, I just don’t have any more faith in them than I do the republicans — party politics is as much of anathema to be as is organized religion!
I agree; we should concentrating on winning by a big enough margin that it can’t be stolen.
I still think it is important to hear Carter’s assessment, though.