{"id":3041,"date":"2006-07-07T16:52:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T23:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=3041"},"modified":"2006-07-07T17:11:54","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T00:11:54","slug":"court-tvs-catherine-crier-on-electoral-crisis-a-full-frontal-attack-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=3041","title":{"rendered":"COURT TV’s Catherine Crier on Electoral Crisis: ‘A Full Frontal Attack on Democracy’!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>I missed this a week or so ago when it originally aired, but caught it just now (hat tip Mary Macelveen<\/a><\/i>).<\/p>\n

Catherine Crier offered a devasting<\/i> editorial recently on Court TV in regard to election integrity. Her piece was spurred by RFK’s Jr.’s Rolling Stone<\/i> expos\u00e9<\/a> on the theft of the ’04 Presidential Election, but covers a panoply of current threats to our electoral system — described as “a full frontal attack on Democracy” — including guys like Ohio’s J. Kenneth Blackwell, convicted RNC\/White House phone-jammer<\/a> James Tobin and the Electronic Voting Machine Menace of Diebold and other private companies who have usurped our public election system.<\/p>\n

Links to the highly-recommended video editorial titled “Defending Democracy: Can we promote democracy in Iraq while our own is under attack?” are at the bottom of this article, courtesy of David Edwards.<\/p>\n

Here’s a selection of extremely<\/i> choice quotes from Crier’s report…<\/p>\n

Is this not an attack on Democracy? If 357,000 Americans were killed by al Qaeda, we would call that<\/i> an attack on democracy and freedom. The press would headline such an event and it would shape our policies for decades<\/i> to come. In a democracy, when 357,000 votes are effectively killed at the voting booth, what do you<\/i> call it?
\n…
\nThe national character of this scandal is unprecedented<\/i> and threatens to turn us into little more than a banana republic, where candidates appear on the ballot in name only because the election has already been determined.<\/p>\n

If we are willing to send our troops around the world to secure freedom at the ballot box for others, shouldn’t we fight for that right here at home?<\/p>\n

Partisanship has no place in this battle. For the sake of democracy…for the sake of America<\/i>…it is time all citizens demand the sanctity of our election process.<\/p>\n

With the November elections almost upon us, we haven’t a moment to lose.<\/p><\/div>\n

It looks like American democracy has yet another new champion in the mainstream media!<\/p>\n

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\nVideo in Streaming Flash format…<\/a>
\nVideo in Windows Media format…<\/a><\/p>\n

…CONTACT…<\/b>
\nEmail: Crier Live<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I missed this a week or so ago when it originally aired, but caught it just now (hat tip Mary Macelveen). Catherine Crier offered a devasting editorial recently on Court TV in regard to election integrity. Her piece was spurred by RFK’s Jr.’s Rolling Stone expos\u00e9 on the theft of the ’04 Presidential Election, 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":[93,3,63,8,28,16,11,15,7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catherine-crier","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2000","category-election-2004","category-election-reform","category-florida","category-kenneth-blackwell","category-ohio","category-rfk-jr","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041","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=3041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3041"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}