HBO/NBC’s Jim Lampley Continues to Bang 2004 Presidential Election Theft Drum!

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In a follow-up posted yesterday by Jim Lampley at HuffingtonPost.com, Lampley discusses his original blog item which set off a firestorm when he claimed that Election 2004 was “the biggest crime in the history of the nation”.

His latest item suggests what we have been saying here for months: “a mountain of evidence suggests the 2004 Presidential election was decisively tampered with and general media are doing nothing about it.”

He also answers back directly to his critics and once again compares the gaming of Election 2004 to Watergate and even links to a BRAD BLOG story in the bargain…

Among the most interesting observations were those of the large number of conservative critics who defined my position as “liberal”. One website headquartered in Philadelphia called me “somewhere to the left of Leon Trotsky”. That’s fascinating. I had never realized the belief in free, full and fair elections was a socialist or communist tenet. I had thought it was a fundamental element of democracy.

I’ll remind you again that the truth of Watergate was still well-submerged at this point in 1973. But the New York Times and the Washington Post ultimately did their jobs back then. The Post showed its colors yesterday, moving a story about the vast disparity between pre-Iraq war military assessments and what the Bush Administration chose to tell the public from its original placing on page one to a main edition spot on page twenty-six. I don’t think we can count on Katherine Graham to shepherd the truth anymore, and Ben Bradlee’s gone. As for the Times, it is of course the constant target of the right-wing media conspiracy which labors so hard to cover the crimes of this Administration up. The Times will try, but it needs our help.

The cretins in the Bush Administration are no doubt thrilled to have made Amnesty International’s select list of human rights abusers. They’re actually being cited there for some of their smaller crimes. The biggest one was domestic, not international. It’s the one you are reading about, if you care. I pray to all the traditions of democracy that you do.

Jim Lampley appeared for an exclusive interview on our radio program, The BRAD SHOW, recently. You may listen to an .MP3 archive of our interview with him, in which he goes into great detail on this matter, at that page.

UPDATE: HuffPost has now added COMMENTS for each blog item! Go put in a good word for Lampley over there! Looks like the Freepers are trying to (surprise, surprise) avoid, distract and deflect over there. Go get ’em! Tell ’em the truth!

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HBO/NBC’s Jim Lampley Continues to Bang 2004 Presidential Election Theft Drum!

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  1. 1)
    relatives said on 5/26/2005 @ 8:49am PT: [Permalink]

    {ed note: Deleted. Same poster posting as different names. When he posts as Atty Jim again his posts will be allowed to stay.}

  2. 3)
    Charles R Dubord JR said on 5/26/2005 @ 8:57am PT: [Permalink]

    Anyone-

    Check out the breaking story on raw story.com

    Something about the process to start a criminal investigation began todat, anyone know more about this?

    Charlie

  3. 4)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 5/26/2005 @ 1:52pm PT: [Permalink]

    Jim Lampley, you’re terrific. When all this is said and done, two miracles will have been achieved, in order of importance, as follows:

    1) George W. Bush and Dick Cheney will have been removed from office.

    2) Boxing will have become a legitimate sport for the first time in years.

  4. 5)
    noti (205.188.117.137) said on 5/26/2005 @ 3:14pm PT: [Permalink]

    {ed note: Deleted. Same poster posting as different names. When he posts as Atty Jim again his posts will be allowed to stay.}

  5. 6)
    Max said on 5/26/2005 @ 3:18pm PT: [Permalink]

    Moti, you are a moron. But I feel good for you because you are a wingnut moron, who has no actual argument except the same kind of dribble rotated out of Fox News.

    For that reason alone, I actually take pity on you. And to the point of this post:

    http://www.rawstory.com
    http://www.downingstreetmemo.com

    A formal criminal inquiry regarding the Downing Street Minutes has begun.

    And there are new election fraud reports now available via the Incident Reporting System. http://www.votersunite.org

    Max

  6. 8)
    praetorian said on 5/26/2005 @ 4:47pm PT: [Permalink]

    I’m utterly lmao at how Brad uses digital advertisement to deman paper voting ballots. This is one of the worst websites in the world (in terms of content and imagery), but the humor of it all is undeniable.

  7. 9)
    molly said on 5/26/2005 @ 8:30pm PT: [Permalink]

    If you don’t like this website, why are you on it? Like arguments? I think all republicans are stupid, and consequently frustrated that they have miserable lives, so go around fumin’ and fussin’. Brad is a hero.

  8. 10)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 5/27/2005 @ 12:28am PT: [Permalink]

    Please don’t feed the trolls. Ignore them, and they’ll go away. I promise.

  9. 11)
    daveM said on 5/27/2005 @ 1:16am PT: [Permalink]

    At last, small dribbles appearing in the MSM. I tried for months BEFORE the 2004 election to get any friend or family member interested in the potential for voting machine fraud with no success. My partner of many years still places tiny relevance on this matter. Maybe now the tide is turning and my friends will join all the great people at this site. I have HOPE!

  10. 13)
    Roger said on 5/27/2005 @ 5:27am PT: [Permalink]

    You people are pathetic. Get over it. More Americans like Bush then Kerry. Enough already.

  11. 14)
    VeryWorried said on 5/27/2005 @ 5:32am PT: [Permalink]

    The Roger #14 troll just can’t get over its hatred of Americans and the American way of life. It has to spew its hatred everywhere for all to see.

  12. 15)
    Dredd said on 5/27/2005 @ 5:48am PT: [Permalink]

    Jim Lampley is of the BLOG.

    We may reach the point where blogs are the supreme source of news philosophy for the larger body of MSM journalists.

    They will come here out of skepticism but will be won over by the way we document a matter, the way we link to and cite credible sources, and then the way we make reasonable statements and conduct a mature debate of the issue.

  13. 16)
    texaslady said on 5/27/2005 @ 7:47am PT: [Permalink]

    Thank you Jim Lampley ! We need national information to come out about ALL the voting irregularities. So many people are working two jobs and haven’t the time to read the Internet news or they catch bits and pieces and feel it is a once in a while thing.

    Many of us, no matter what your politics are, are appalled the way the United States is headed.
    Did any catch Ann Coulter’s interview on Lou Dobbs? Strong conservative as she is, she has doubts on the administration’s policies. If someone like that is having doubts can many more not be far behind?

    There are moronic Democrats and Republicans, just because they are so vocal doesn’t mean they speak for their party.
    The tide of apathy has turned, by keeping the pressure on we will get an administration that puts America’s needs and interests first.

  14. 17)
    kira said on 5/27/2005 @ 9:00am PT: [Permalink]

    Heh :smirk: #8 – what kind of word is "deman" ??? You rude imbecile.

    Go to Iraq and fight for what YOU believe in instead of parking your lazy non-productive ass here on this blog.

  15. 18)
    davidgmills said on 5/27/2005 @ 10:52am PT: [Permalink]

    My posts today on Myster Pollster with some background info — rBr refers to the reluctant Bush responder, the formal reason given by Edison Mytofsky (the exit poll consortium) why the exit polls showed Kerry to be the winner (prior to early Nov. 3 hour manipulation to conform to the vote tabulation)when Bush won the tabulation.

    __________________________________________

    And if we didn’t have enough statistics already:

    http://www.census.gov/Press-Rel...ng/004986.html

    Where did 3.4 million votes go? (Census statistics post-election predicted 125.7 million voters vs 122.3 million tabulated).

    If the census bureau’s statistics can be trusted, this is just more evidence that the count was off.

    Why when we have so much evidence that the count was off and could have been easily manipulated by the corporate computers of Diebold and ES&S, which counted 80% of the vote, including 30% with no paper trail whatsoever, do the rBr advocates still continue to advance the notion that non responders more likely caused caused this discrepancy?

    Posted by: davidgmills May 27, 2005 12:35 PM

    __________________________________________

    Census stats from above cite:

    Women Voters — 67,269,000

    Men Voters — 58,485,000

    Total — 125,754,000

    Women % of total — 53.4%

    Men % of total — 46.6%

    Very grim for rBr indeed because rBr requires a huge number of men to have plausibility.

  16. 19)
    Robert Lockwood Mills said on 5/27/2005 @ 1:54pm PT: [Permalink]

    Right, David (no relation). But because you rely on statistics and logic in your arguments, you are an "idiot" to certain people and a a "loser" to others.

    Which shows you what we’re up against. Idiots and losers.

  17. 21)
    Rich Leib said on 8/19/2005 @ 11:32am PT: [Permalink]

    I just heard Jim Lampley on the radio and wanted to email him. I live in Solana Beach, California, which is right next door to him and want to congratulate him on both his sports reporting and especially his political views. It is so rare for a sports reporter to be so informed and articulate about political matters and, as someone who has seen him around town for many years, proud that we share the same political philosphy. I just want to email him and tell him to keep up the good work! Could you let me know how to contact him? Thanks.

  18. 22)
    Rich Leib said on 8/19/2005 @ 11:33am PT: [Permalink]

    I just heard Jim Lampley on the radio and wanted to email him. I live in Solana Beach, California, which is right next door to him and want to congratulate him on both his sports reporting and especially his political views. It is so rare for a sports reporter to be so informed and articulate about political matters and, as someone who has seen him around town for many years, proud that we share the same political philosphy. I just want to email him and tell him to keep up the good work! Could you let me know how to contact him? Thanks.

  19. 23)
    Rich Leib said on 8/19/2005 @ 11:33am PT: [Permalink]

    I just heard Jim Lampley on the radio and wanted to email him. I live in Solana Beach, California, which is right next door to him and want to congratulate him on both his sports reporting and especially his political views. It is so rare for a sports reporter to be so informed and articulate about political matters and, as someone who has seen him around town for many years, proud that we share the same political philosphy. I just want to email him and tell him to keep up the good work! Could you let me know how to contact him? Thanks.

  20. 24)
    William said on 6/11/2006 @ 11:36am PT: [Permalink]

    After seeing Lampley\’s remarks, and hearing his opinion on mixed martial arts, it\’s obvious to me why boxing is a dying sport. He\’s doing more to hurt boxing than he could ever know. The UFC is becoming the king of the foght game, absolutely unstoppable. Keep it up, Jim!

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