With the constant buzz of helicopters and blimps overhead since dawn this morning (No, not “Black Helicopters”…I’m about two blocks from the Kodak Theater where the Academy Awards were tonight) and two old schoolmates of mine nominated (Hoffman and Huffman – nice going guys!), granted I may have a touch of the Oscar Fever.<\/p>\n
But the winner of the best song tonight, “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”, couldn’t help but remind me, to remind you — in case you missed it — of our new Special Guest Diebold Comment Troll\/Pimp calling himself “Wally O’Diebold”.<\/p>\n
While he may be too cowardly to give his real name publicly — even while sliming folks like myself, Bev Harris, Jim March, Avi Rubin, Sen. Debra Bowen and others who are not<\/i> afraid to put our real names on our work and behind our beliefs — he’s a Diebold insider with a lot of knowledge of the systems, and (WARNING) a lot<\/i> of mis\/disinformation he’s suddenly very eager to spread.<\/p>\n
He also seems to be, as he referred<\/a> to Rubin, “a self-serving tool”. And I don’t mean that in the pejorative sense in which he meant it.<\/p>\n Interestingly, while the Diebold “company line” has always reportedly been<\/a> to dismiss Election Integrity Advocates like myself, and March and Harris et al as “conspiracy theorists,” it’s the faceless “Wally O’Diebold” who now cowers in the shadows of anonymity because BRAD BLOG<\/a> readers, according to “Wally” in comment #56<\/a>, “would not hesitate to stalk me to my home and possibly try to kill me.”<\/p>\n Watch out for them Black Helicopters, “Wally”! Unless you’re also near the Kodak Theater, eh?<\/p>\n But forthrightness, honesty and openness has never been much of a hallmark for the Diebold corporation. At least during their Voting Machine Years of Shame. Their latest spokesperson\/mac daddy\/anonymous slimer is no exception. Secrecy, disinformation and cowardly scurrilous attacks on those who have nothing to gain but the free and fair democracy their country once promised…ah, yes, that’s Diebold all over. They never rest.<\/p>\n The desperation displayed by “Mr. O’Diebold” is entertaining sure, but not particularly becoming…especially when it’s accompanied by ad hominem attacks and knowing disinformation — lots of it, very cleverly drawn, I might add — all launched from behind the veil of secrecy. But that’s his company’s business model after all, so who are we to quibble now that he’s willing to offer us a reminder.<\/p>\n If they would only call me back when I call them<\/i> for comment, they’d be able to actually put such comments on the record under their own names<\/i> for a bit of credibility. But I guess it’s easier to talk to journalists who don’t ask follow-up questions, and who are easily fooled by the company spin. Which is to say, most of the non-BRAD BLOG<\/a> media out there.<\/p>\n So if you’re in the mood and have the stomach for it (and before I lose my patience, and remove this guy’s feeding tube all together) pull up a chair, grab some popcorn and enjoy the BRAD BLOG<\/a> nominee for Best Original Comment Thread Hijacked by a Diebold Pimp Based on Stuff That Sounds Like Fact, But Actually Isn’t<\/a>.<\/p>\n And the Oscar goes to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the constant buzz of helicopters and blimps overhead since dawn this morning (No, not “Black Helicopters”…I’m about two blocks from the Kodak Theater where the Academy Awards were tonight) and two old schoolmates of mine nominated (Hoffman and Huffman – nice going guys!), granted I may have a touch of the Oscar Fever. But […]<\/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":[26,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-dieboldpremier","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506","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=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}