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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: SF Chronicle:Liberals, the election is over, live with it |
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Saw this recently posted in another forum...kinda tells a tale but overlooks the reality that "The Big Lie" is at work here as well.
| Quote: | Liberals, the election is over, live with it
by Carol Pogash
San Francisco Chronicle
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Part of the liberal establishment has gone mad. Sophisticated citizens, many laden with multiple academic degrees, are firing off angry e- mails, convinced that the GOP has stolen the presidential election and that the naive media is participating in a widespread coverup.
Their paranoia won't be washed away by any investigation. They so distrust the Bush presidency that they fall prey to almost any rumor of GOP malfeasance.
I have a personal way to measure the level of liberal paranoia. I call it the Dr. Hager method. For the last year or so, I've received e-mails alerting women to the news that President Bush plans to appoint Dr. W. David Hager to head the Food and Drug Administration's Reproductive Health and Drug Advisory Committee. Hager is a pro-lifer and author who has written that PMS can be helped through prayer.
The truth is, Bush appointed Hager to the committee, first in 2002 and then again in June. The rumors of his impending appointment as chairman were fueled by an Oct. 2002 time.com story that said Bush might appoint Hager as committee chairman. The Hager rumors should have been quashed two months later when the president appointed Dr. Linda C. Giudice of Stanford Medical School to chair the committee through June 2006. But no matter, petitions from concerned women continue to flood my in-box, and the FDA's. Few bother to type Dr. Hager's name into Google, where the first reference is "urban legend."
I like to think liberals are logical. There are plenty of reasons for them to doubt the election's outcome, including the sleight-of-hand performed in Florida four years ago and the exit polls this time round that seemed to indicate a Kerry victory.
Lefties just can't imagine how citizens of Ohio, where the unemployment rate in some areas is as much as 15 percent, could vote for Bush. Gay marriage and abortion not withstanding, these liberals contend that the only rational explanation for a Bush victory this time is voter fraud.
To support their views, they cite academic-sounding treatises claiming the GOP tinkered with the results. Bloggers fan the flames. E-mail spreads the accusations. And even though newspapers have knocked down the conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, the paranoia won't subside. Reporters are going about it the wrong way, the conspiracists contend, trying to prove why the exit polls were wrong.
They so distrust the mainstream media that they consider them to be participants in a cover-up orchestrated by Karl Rove. To them, the Internet constitutes a parallel world that dares to tell the truth. In the media, only brash Keith Olbermann, a former sports reporter hosting an MSNBC program, has had the courage to speak the truth, they say. Urgent e-mails claim he's been fired for speaking up. The truth is, he was just on vacation.
Reporters and producers from National Public Radio to Fox News are bombarded with e-mails asking why they're not investigating the GOP theft of votes. The answer is that, with a few exceptions, the allegations have proven to be untrue.
Under the subject: "You Have the Power!!!!" a friend of a friend of a -- you get the idea -- urges in an e-mail, "Anyone who cares about our democracy," to read on: CBS and the other major media outlets are in "lock- down," ordered by the White House not to report or even discuss among themselves the issue of voter fraud. Any reporter who discusses the issue risks being fired.
Quick, someone tell Fox News. Their reporters were discussing it the other day. Oops, too late: they probably lost their jobs.
How could intelligent people fall for this blather? Don't they know that any memo of such gravity would turn up online 27 seconds after its author pressed, "send?" Don't they think that if 3 million votes had been fraudulently cast, Sen. John Kerry and the Democrats would demand a recount? They have their answer to that, too. Another e-mail claims Kerry is in stealth mode. Just you wait.
Oakland's Grand Lake Theater marquee promotes "Polar Express" and "The Incredibles" on one side. On the other, screams this warning: "COMPUTER VOTING IS FRAUDULENT/DIEBOLD PROMISED BUSH A WIN/ELECTION FRAUD IS TREASON!"
Liberals wallow in a never-never-land of their own making. Rove couldn't have developed a better diversion. Their hatred for Bush, their belief that he has curbed civil liberties, trampled the environment, and plans make abortions illegal leads them to believe the GOP will do anything to succeed -- and that almost everyone else is a willing dupe of its ambitions. They see no gradations.
This morning, I received two Dr. Hager e-mails. Another bad day for the Democrats.
Carol Pogash is an East Bay writer and a contributor to the New York Times
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MSeeger
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Gee, and here I thought all along that the MSM was liberal and working against conservatives.
Ain't it nice to know it's really the other way around?
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blue9t3
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| Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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 Like the "BEAST" said. Its a vast right-wing thing! 
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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| Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Liberal paranoia began four years ago with the insistance that "sleight of hand" as this article calls it, won the election for W. in 2000. WAKE UP MOONBATS your friend the OLM re-counted the Florida vote every which way they could in 2000 and W. ALWAYS WON! It's therefore only logical, that after deluding themselves that W. didn't really win in 2000, Moonbats have snookered themselves into believing W. didn't win in 2004. More Hollywood Moonbat nonsense has blamed the failures of "Alfie" and "Alexander" on a Bush led conservative GOP. Try this on for size Moonbats, both films failed because they are lousy films! Radical thought isn't it?  |
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scotty61
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I'm amazed that anybody could be as whacked out as these people. Itshould be fun to be around if they ever come to their senses. But they didn't after 2000, so maybe it has become a chronic condition.
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GenrXr
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Is she implying a person is sophisticated if he or she has multiple degrees or that these are sophisticated people who just happen to have multiple degrees? hehe
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