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Was the 2004 election stolen? No. (Salon debunks RFK Jr's article)
Salon.com ^ | 06/03/06 | Farhad Manjoo

Posted on 06/03/2006 2:33:15 PM PDT by raccoonradio

...If only someone with Kennedy's stature would outline this need.

If only. Whatever his aim, RFK Jr. does not appear intent on fixing the problem. He's more content to take us through a hit parade of the most popular, and the most dismissible, theories purporting to show that John Kerry won Ohio, theories that have been swirling about the blogosphere ever since the race was called. I scoured his Rolling Stone article for some novel story or statistic or theory that would prove, finally, that George W. Bush was not the true victor. But nothing here is new. If you've spent time on Democratic Underground or have read Mark Crispin Miller's "Fooled Again," you're already familiar with everything Kennedy has to say.

If you do read Kennedy's article, be prepared to machete your way through numerous errors of interpretation and his deliberate omission of key bits of data...Such techniques are evident throughout Kennedy's article. He presents a barrage of seemingly important, apparently damning data to show that Kerry won the race. It's only when you dig into his claims that you see what thin ice he's on.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2004election; kerry; ohio; rfkjr; rollingstone; salon; voterfraud

1 posted on 06/03/2006 2:33:18 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

oops--meant to click "this is an excerpt"--click link above to read.


2 posted on 06/03/2006 2:33:41 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

>>But to prove Blackwell stole the state for Bush, Kennedy's got to do more than show instances of Blackwell's mischief. He's got to outline where Blackwell's actions could possibly have added up to enough votes to put the wrong man in office. In that, he fails.

Pretty pitiful that fellow libs are debunking RFKjr.


3 posted on 06/03/2006 2:35:56 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Be still my heart.


4 posted on 06/03/2006 2:46:23 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: synbad600

Once Teddy goes to that "Big Highball Glass in the Sky", I doubt the masses will rally around what is left of this pathetic, criminal family.


5 posted on 06/03/2006 2:56:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: raccoonradio
If you do read Kennedy's article, be prepared to machete your way through numerous errors of interpretation and his deliberate omission of key bits of data... Such techniques are evident throughout Kennedy's article. He presents a barrage of seemingly important, apparently damning data to show that Kerry won the race. It's only when you dig into his claims that you see what thin ice he's on.

Such techniques are evident throughout the Kennedy families lives. All of them.

6 posted on 06/03/2006 3:04:17 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()....tag line under consideration...... ()
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To: raccoonradio

Anything that signed by anybody named "Kennedy" is highly suspect at best.


7 posted on 06/03/2006 3:22:11 PM PDT by Emmett McCarthy
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To: ThreePuttinDude

I've read that sweet Caroline is on the up-an-up. Despite being a lib. Jackie-O raised her right.


8 posted on 06/03/2006 3:28:27 PM PDT by synbad600
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Disagree on Caroline. She was involved in an incident
involving Laura Bush in NYC, and pulled the old Kennedy
stunt of saying something to the effect that she didn't
know her father, so she couldn't make any comment about him.

I don't remember the event, but I won't forget the little
brat making that statement, and about Laura. Sheeesh I hate libs.
9 posted on 06/03/2006 3:37:59 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()....tag line under consideration...... ()
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To: digger48

>>around what is left of this pathetic, criminal family.

Howie Carr refers to them, and rightly so, as The Kennedy
Crime Family.


10 posted on 06/03/2006 3:39:43 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: ThreePuttinDude

Yea, but that was just being a lib. She is not a criminal or substance abuser like the rest.


11 posted on 06/03/2006 3:42:20 PM PDT by synbad600
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True, she is a good solid traditional family mother.
I guess I have to give her that....I hate to do it tho


12 posted on 06/03/2006 3:44:32 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()....tag line under consideration...... ()
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To: ThreePuttinDude

C'mon! Have a heart for a lib!


13 posted on 06/03/2006 3:59:05 PM PDT by synbad600
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Can't do it...8^)


14 posted on 06/03/2006 4:01:42 PM PDT by ThreePuttinDude ()....no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself...... ()
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To: raccoonradio
This stolen election BS stuff is a terrible precedent that the libs have set.
15 posted on 06/03/2006 4:13:57 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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To: Echo Talon

Anyone want to post the entire article? Can't get in unless you register, and I don't want to.


16 posted on 06/03/2006 4:30:36 PM PDT by 9999lakes
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To: 9999lakes; RWR8189
Anyone want to post the entire article? Can't get in unless you register, and I don't want to.

Here it is.

Posted last night by RWR8189.

17 posted on 06/03/2006 6:58:41 PM PDT by derlauerer ("The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice-versa." - RAH)
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To: derlauerer

Oh, good. thanks...actually in my case I was able to see the whole article without registering--I just had to sit through a Salon ad of some kind.


18 posted on 06/03/2006 8:40:45 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: derlauerer
Thank you. Know what's going to happen now? Libs everywhere are going to forget all the evidence in the Salon article {The Liars}, and quote instead the Kennedy article, as proven truth {The Fools}. The two categories that encompass every single liberal -- The Liars and The Fools -- It's just sometimes difficult to tell which is which. Sometimes though, one of them will admit, I'm not a LIAR, and then you know.
19 posted on 06/04/2006 3:21:15 AM PDT by 9999lakes
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To: raccoonradio

It's fairly hilarious that an ultra-left publication like Salon.com finds this embarrassing enough to debunk.


20 posted on 06/04/2006 2:48:30 PM PDT by gopgen
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