{"id":2902,"date":"2006-06-02T05:40:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2902"},"modified":"2006-06-11T13:32:21","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T20:32:21","slug":"video-robert-kennedy-explains-2004-stolen-election-to-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2902","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO &#8211; Robert Kennedy Explains 2004 Stolen Election to Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Guest blogged by <b><a href=\"mailto:david@edwardsdavid.com\" target=\"_blank\">David Edwards<\/a><\/b> of <b><a href=\"http:\/\/veredictum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Veredictum.com<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edwardsdavid.com\/media\/msnbc\/images\/msnbc_tc_kennedy_election_stolen_060601a1.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_tc_kennedy_election_stolen_060601a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/bb_play_video-a.gif\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/video\/flvplayer\/FlvPlayer.html?file=http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_tc_kennedy_election_stolen_060601a_320x240.flv&#038;width=320&#038;height=240&#038;OrigWidth=320&#038;OrigHeight=240\">Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ameratsu.com\/media\/vid\/msnbc\/msnbc_tc_kennedy_election_stolen_060601a_320x240.wmv\">Video in Windows Media format&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tucker Carlson hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last night on <i>MSNBC&#8217;s The Situation<\/i>. Kennedy has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/news\/story\/10432334\/was_the_2004_election_stolen\">an extensive new article<\/a> in <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> which exposes how the the Republicans planned, coordinated and executed a plan to subvert the will of voters and put George Bush back in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, Carlson conducts the interview with the attention span and intellect of a 3-year old (and that may be an insult to 3-year olds). Before Kennedy is allowed to speak, Tucker begins pulling out thinly veiled Republican and corporate media talking points designed to halt any post-election debate. In his lead-in, Tucker says, &#8220;Is it really possible that a conspiracy of this magnitude has been kept quiet this long?&#8221; Seconds later, turning to Robert Kennedy, Tucker asks, &#8220;You are alleging a <b>massive<\/b> (Carlson&#8217;s emphasis) conspiracy to, as you put it, fix the 2004 election. A conspiracy of this size would have required the complicity of literally thousands of people. Why have none of those people come forward to admit they were part of it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By ignoring the evidence and repeatedly putting together words like &#8220;conspiracy&#8221; and &#8220;massive&#8221;, Tucker uses one of the first and favorite talking points for those wishing to discourage the truth about Republican electioneering. Tucker implies that a conspiracy to steal a presidential election is logistically impossible. Anyone who believes such theories are irrelevant &#8220;crack pots&#8221;, internet kooks, partisans and wear tinfoil hats to block out the mind control signals. <\/p>\n<p>Tucker&#8217;s next trusty talking point minimizes the evidence: &#8220;I have no doubt &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think that anybody would &#8212; that there were voting irregularities in this election as there are in any election. Probably some crookedness, again, as there are in any election .&#8221; Carlson is implying that liberals, frustrated by Kerry&#8217;s loss, are blowing normal election imperfections way out of proportion.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker Carlson continued an assault on Kennedy and his article throughout the short interview. Kennedy fights for time to respond and does a good job indicting the media (and Tucker) for ignoring a very obvious problem. Tucker responds by saying that if the stolen election were real then it would have been a news story &#8212; as if truth and reality only exists if the media reports on it. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., managed to remain poised and believable. This interview alone may have done little to prove to MSNBC&#8217;s viewers that there is significant evidence of a stolen election &#8212; but the piece did prove one thing to us: Tucker Carlson is a complete ass.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE FROM BRAD:<\/b> Speaking of complete asses&#8230; Wolf Blitzer is scheduled to interview RFK Jr. tonight at 7pm ET (4pm PT) on <i>The Situation Room<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by David Edwards of Veredictum.com Video in Streaming Flash format&#8230; Video in Windows Media format&#8230; Tucker Carlson hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last night on MSNBC&#8217;s The Situation. Kennedy has written an extensive new article in Rolling Stone which exposes how the the Republicans planned, coordinated and executed a plan to subvert the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[8,33,7,34],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2004","category-msnbc","category-rfk-jr","category-tucker-carlson","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2902"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}