{"id":8175,"date":"2010-11-03T13:07:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T20:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8175"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T20:08:38","slug":"i-wonder-why-fox-news-cancelled-its-thursday-plans-for-coverage-of-democratic-voter-fraud-in-nv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8175","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder Why Fox &#8216;News&#8217; Cancelled Thursday Plan for Coverage of Democratic &#8216;Voter Fraud&#8217; in NV&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is amusing. At least it would be, had not their entire phony, shameless, anti-democracy campaign been built on hopes of suppressing the legal votes of American minority voters.<\/p>\n<p>But I guess that &#8220;epidemic&#8221; of &#8220;MASSIVE DEMOCRATIC VOTER FRAUD!!!&#8221; that Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and their easily duped viewers had been warning us all about for weeks\/months\/years (here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3JkOv7b3cho\">one recent example<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8132\">another<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8082\">another<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2010\/10\/lawyers_group_with_close_ties_to_rnc_features_para.php\">another<\/a>) didn&#8217;t exactly materialize yesterday. Who could have guessed it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201011030027\">Via Media Matters&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><b>Fox News cancels Thursday segment on NV &#8220;Voter fraud&#8221; after Angle&#8217;s poor showing<br \/>\n<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Las Vegas Sun<\/i> political columnist Jon Ralston <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FRalstonFlash%2Fstatus%2F29593441712\">posted<\/a> the following to his Twitter profile this afternoon: <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/Images\/RalstonTweet_FoxCancelsNVVoterFraudSegment_110310.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At least we know what Fox News was planning had the Senate race between Majority Leader Harry Reid and tea party darling Sharon Angle been tighter. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Media Matters&#8217; headline avers the segment was spiked due to &#8220;Angle&#8217;s poor showing&#8221;. There&#8217;s another possible explanation for cancellation of the segment: No actual evidence of <i>any<\/i> such &#8220;voter fraud&#8221;. Of course, that&#8217;s never stopped Fox &#8220;News&#8221; from making a whole bunch of it up in the past. So perhaps Media Matters is more right than wrong there.<\/p>\n<p><center><i><b>* * *<\/b><\/i><\/center><!--BB-DONATEPITCH-START--><\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f5f0e0; border:2px solid #6b5a2e; border-radius:6px; padding:10px 14px; text-align:center; font-family:Georgia,serif;\"><span style=\"display:block; margin:0 0 8px 0; color:#3a2e0e; font-size:0.95em; line-height:1.5;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> covers your electoral system, fiercely and independently, like no other media outlet in the nation. 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But I guess that &#8220;epidemic&#8221; of &#8220;MASSIVE DEMOCRATIC VOTER FRAUD!!!&#8221; that Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and their easily duped viewers had been warning us all about for weeks\/months\/years [&hellip;]<\/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":[169,420,106,14,303,188,356],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dirty-tricks","category-election-2010","category-election-fraud","category-fox-news","category-harri-hursti","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-nevada"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175","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=8175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8175"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}