{"id":1178,"date":"2005-02-09T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T17:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2005-02-09T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T17:05:09","slug":"hitchens-something-wrong-about-the-ohio-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1178","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens: ‘Something Wrong About the Ohio Election’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The Nashua Advocate<\/i> — which has been doing some excellent reporting on Election Irregularity stories for some months — breaks the news<\/a> of Christopher Hitchens’ story in the March 2005 Vanity Fair<\/i><\/a> finally joining the chorus of folks questioning the Ohio results.<\/p>\n

The subscription-only magazine lists the article in their contents as such:<\/p>\n

OHIO’S ODD NUMBERS Are the stories of voter suppression and rigged machines in Ohio to be believed? Christopher Hitchens presents “non-wacko” evidence that something went seriously awry on Election Day.<\/div>\n

The Advocate<\/i> offers some quotes from the VF<\/i> piece, as well as a few quotes from Hitchens in the past regarding George W. Bush.<\/p>\n

Since we are otherwise busy working on some other stories, we associate ourselves with their reporting<\/a> on this matter for the moment.<\/p>\n

A quick quote from the Hitchens story via The Advocate<\/i>:<\/p>\n

Whichever way you shake it, or hold it up to the light, there is something wrong about the Ohio election that refuses to add up. The sheer number of irregularities compelled a formal recount, which was completed in late December and which came out much the same as the original one, with 176 fewer votes for George Bush. But this was a meaningless exercise in reassurance, since there is simply no means of checking, for example, how many “vote hops” the computerized machines might have performed unnoticed….there is one soothing explanation that I don’t trust anymore.<\/div>\n

Hitchens was one of the many nay-sayers about Election Irregularities in the past. Here he is in a previous post-election story<\/a> in Slate:<\/p>\n

Many are the cheap and easy laughs in which one could indulge at the extraordinary, pitiful hysteria of the defeated Democrats.<\/div>\n

…And finally then, here’s Hitch on John Kerry:<\/p>\n

“I did not think that John Kerry should have been President of any country at any time.”<\/div>\n

The Advocate<\/i> piece<\/a> offers more and includes some of the Republicans<\/i> in Congress who are now beginning to question Ohio’s Sec. of State and Bush\/Cheney Re-Elect Co-Chair, J. Kenneth Blackwelll, on his motives and behavior. Please check it, and the rest of their fine reporting, out.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2\/21\/05:<\/b> The entire Hitchens article has just been posted online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Nashua Advocate — which has been doing some excellent reporting on Election Irregularity stories for some months — breaks the news of Christopher Hitchens’ story in the March 2005 Vanity Fair finally joining the chorus of folks questioning the Ohio results. The subscription-only magazine lists the article in their contents as such: OHIO’S ODD […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}