In completely related news…Yesterday, the NYTimes‘ statistical wunderkind Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight tweeted: “Our model currently projects … an exact tie in Florida. #SignsOfMayanApocalypse”.
Little wonder then that Florida’s Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Sec. of State Ken Detzner are more than happy to blatantly mislead the public, the media and the federal court system, as The BRAD BLOG detailed exclusively last week, about their attempted purge of suspected “non-citizens” from the voting rolls.
And it’s similarly no surprise that, as University of Florida political scientist and founder of ElectionSmith, Dr. Daniel A. Smith detailed on Friday, the “Failed Florida Secretary of State’s Voter Purge” has, to date, earned a 98.4% failure rate in its initial list of 2,625 voters identified as “potential non-citizens.”
That, of course, is if you take the Sec. of State’s word for it that the 41 registered voters they claim to have confirmed as “non-citizens” actually are. (How many of them even knew they were registered or actually ever voted is another question.) To date, the state has provided no actual evidence to verify those 41 non-citizens voters they say they’ve identified. And given both Scott and Detzner’s documented track record of blatant dishonesty, we see no reason to give either of them the benefit of the doubt.
It takes great lies to get away with this stuff, but it also takes a compliant media to disseminate it. I don’t know anything about media environment in FL and guess I could start doin’ some ‘net searches, but my guess is there’s something pretty screwed up with the noooooze reporting down there when the former head of the Columbia/ HCA hospital chain that in the 90’s was immersed in the largest Medicare fraud case in history.
Scott’s former company ended up paying 1.7 billion dollars in fines and penalties and he literally got off scott-free, only having to resign.
Here in Wisconsin, Scott “John Doe” Walker, is fully propped up by media shills and propaganda. This state is a vast-wasteland when it comes to reporting.
But don’t take my word for it, please scroll down these links documenting the media’s complicity (approaching 150 and still growing) with the criminal rise of Scott Walker
Did a Compliant Media Create “Rock Star” Scott Walker with Propaganda? You Decide
p.s. BradBlog contributor Sue Wilson’s good work on the FCC and 24/7 propaganda tools WTMJ and WISN is included – thanks!