{"id":5550,"date":"2008-01-11T23:23:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T07:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2008-01-12T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T06:00:00","slug":"bill-maher-on-nh-primary-im-bothered-that-a-private-company-diebold-runs-machines-only-ones-who-know-what-went-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5550","title":{"rendered":"MAHER VIDEO: ‘Private Company (Diebold) Only Ones Who Know What Went on in NH’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher<\/i>, with guests Catherine Crier of CourtTV, Mark Cuban of HDNet, and Tony Snow of Fox “News”\/White House. On the topic of concerns about the New Hampshire primary results, and Diebold’s sole-control over 80% of the ballots in the state…<\/p>\n

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Some key quotes from the video…<\/p>\n

MAHER:<\/strong> I’m not saying something went wrong, but it does bother me that a private company runs the polling machines and that only they certainly, seem to know what went on in that [New Hampshire election].<\/p>\n

CRIER:<\/strong> What I’m glad about is that whole controversy’s come up and that they’re going to go back and take a look. It’s going to elevate the whole voting machine issue in the minds of the American people before the elections<\/p>

[APPLAUSE<\/em>]<\/p>

MAHER:<\/strong> We have so much debate, and there’s so much interest in this election\u2026but it all comes to naught if we can’t trust what the result is.<\/div>\n

Tony Snow then immediately<\/i> brings up Photo ID, completely and entirely out of context, and suggests, incorrectly, that the issue is “voter fraud.” It’s not. It’s election <\/em>fraud. The voters are doing fine. Leave them alone.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Maher quickly destroys Snow in return. As does Crier.<\/p>\n

Cuban raises key points about the stunning Dan Rather investigative report, (complete video here<\/em><\/a>) on “The Trouble with Touchscreens,” which ran on Cuban’s HDNet network last year (and which the entirety of the corporate mainstream media subsequently ignored.)<\/p>\n

The Real Time<\/i> clip was very good.<\/p>\n

Hey Bill – If ya ever need me, I live about 5 minutes from your studio, and would be happy to share more with your viewers on all of this, if you really<\/i> believe what you suggest about elections coming “to naught if we can’t trust what the result is.” You are, of course, absolutely right. Thanks for mentioning it.<\/p>\n

For related coverage, please see our index of notable New Hampshire-related BRAD BLOG articles<\/a>, since the ’08 Primary.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From tonight’s Real Time with Bill Maher, with guests Catherine Crier of CourtTV, Mark Cuban of HDNet, and Tony Snow of Fox “News”\/White House. On the topic of concerns about the New Hampshire primary results, and Diebold’s sole-control over 80% of the ballots in the state… Some key quotes from the video… MAHER: I’m not […]<\/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":[93,3,122,6,170],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catherine-crier","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2008","category-election-irregularities","category-new-hampshire","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","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=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}