{"id":974,"date":"2004-11-19T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=974"},"modified":"2004-11-19T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2004-11-19T19:47:53","slug":"getting-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=974","title":{"rendered":"Getting Real"},"content":{"rendered":"

The money quote from Mark Crispin Miller’s piece<\/a> from Tuesday…longer quote than usual…because it’s well-deserved:<\/p>\n

To nod agreement that this was indeed an honest win is to forget<\/i> how Bush was shoehorned into office in the first place; to ignore<\/i> the ease with which electronic totals can be changed without a trace; to suppress<\/i> the fact that Diebold, Sequoia and ES&S\u2014the major manufacturers of touch screen voting machines and central tabulators\u2014are owned and run by Bush Republicans, who have made no secret of their partisan intentions; to deny<\/i> the value of the exit polls, which turn out to have been \u201cmistaken\u201d only in the swing states; to downplay<\/i> the weird inflation of the Bush vote in county after county, where the number of votes for president was somehow higher than the number of voters who turned out; to ignore<\/i> the bald chicanery of the Bush supporters who ran the central polling station in Ohio’s Warren County and forced out the press and poll monitors so they could count the vote in secret; to forget<\/i> the numerous accounts of vote fraud coast to coast throughout the prior weeks of early voting; to overlook<\/i> the fact that every single \u201cglitch\u201d or \u201cerror\u201d that has been reported favors Bush; to ignore<\/i> the countless instances of ballots\u2014absentee, provisional\u2014thrown away or left uncounted; to forget<\/i> that the civilian vote abroad (some four million Americans) was being mishandled by the Pentagon (which had somehow become responsible for doing the State Department’s job); and to ignore<\/i> the many dirty tricks reported\u2014the polling places quickly relocated at the last minute, the fake voter-registration drives, the thousands of Americans who found themselves not on the rolls, the police road-blocks, the bullying pro-Bush poll workers, the machines that kept translating votes for Kerry into votes for Bush. And so on.<\/p>\n

To forget or ignore all this and to accept\u2014on faith\u2014the mere say-so of Bush & Company (and our compliant media) is to make clear that you are not a member of what the Busheviks deride as \u201cthe reality-based community.\u201d Those who help discredit false reports are doing that community, and this erstwhile democracy, a precious service. But, those who would abort the whole inquiry in the name of science or journalistic probity and \u201cclosure\u201d are putting that community, and this nation, at grave risk.<\/p><\/div>\n

(Thanks tipster DuffyB for the link!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The money quote from Mark Crispin Miller’s piece from Tuesday…longer quote than usual…because it’s well-deserved: To nod agreement that this was indeed an honest win is to forget how Bush was shoehorned into office in the first place; to ignore the ease with which electronic totals can be changed without a trace; to suppress the […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=974"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}