NBC's Andrea Mitchell claims Supreme Court "denied Gore the Presidency."

NBC Nightly News | 12/09/04 | Andrea Mitchell

[Timmy]

On NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw earlier this evening, during the story about Gore's endorsement of Dean, Andrea Mitchell referred to the Supreme Court's decision "which denied Gore the Presidency."

[Michael.SF.]

This denied Gore the Presidency,....

Although what you say is correct, the chosen phrase just sounds wrong.

The implication is that the Presidency would have been Gore's had the Republicans not taken the actions that they did (preventing the dems from stealing the election).

Thus the term represents the Dem POV that the election was theirs, inspite of the fact that at no time was Gore ever in the lead in Florida. It smacks of sour grapes and incessant whinning.

[DustyMoment]

Blasphemy, sir, BLASPHEMY!!!

If they give up THIS lie, well . . . well, they may as well accept the fact that the 60s ended over 30 years ago.

OMG, did I just SAY that!!?? The 60s are over!!?? What am I supposed to do with the 5,000 Flower Power bumper stickers I just ordered?

[Paul Atreides]

This is hilarious: W is fighting a war on terrorism, in the present, while the Dims are still whining incessantly about 2000. We need to form moveonalready.org, in a response to these people.

[optimistically_conservative]

Two problems with that statement which proves bias:

It assumes an outcome which can not be substantiated by fact.

It misrepresents the Supreme Court decision in which they did not deny an application for the Presidency, but determined that the Florida Supreme Court exceeded its constitutional authority in rewriting Florida law.
Bush won the popular vote in Florida. IIRC, the Florida legislature, which would have decided the electors in a contested election past the certification date was majority Republican. The Republican executive, Secretary of State, had certified the vote count on the date codified.

Despite all this, "Bush stole the election" and he was "Selected not Elected."

/preaching to the chior

[zencat]

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html

http://www.florida2000election.com/sections/1.htm

Enough of the Election 2000 controversy. Bush won. End of story. Gore was the one who tried to steal the election.

[Paul Atreides]

(Clinton's Penis Endorses Dean

I woulda thought it'd endorses bush.

[hope]

The only thing the SCOTUS did was prevent Gore and his minion lawyers from stealing the election...Funny how these lawyer hacks were on the ground in Florida before you could say Hanging Chads!

[calljack]

I'm sure you have a point. Let's hear it.

[Dog Gone]

Her comment would have sounded a lot more accurate if Gore had been leading in any of the recounts in Florida up to that point.

The accurate statement would have been "denied Gore the opportunity to keep recounting in various fashions until he finally came up with one which give him the Presidency."

[PISANO]

What a shame that Al Gore did NOT concede the race for THE GOOD of his party and his country. BOTH would be so much better off today if he had done so. Instead THREE years later we have GROWN men and women from all walks of life that live in the past and dream of what could have been instead of living in the present and facing reality. Leftists are truly sad specimens of humanity.

[optimistically_conservative]

SYLLABICATION:	de·ny
PRONUNCIATION:	d-n
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: de·nied, de·ny·ing, de·nies 1. To declare untrue; contradict. 2. To refuse to believe; reject. 3. To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow. 4a. To decline to grant or allow; refuse: deny the student's request; denied the prisoner food or water. b. To give a refusal to; turn down or away: The protesters were determined not to be denied. c. To restrain (oneself) especially from indulgence in pleasures.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English denien, from Old French denier, from Latin dnegre : d-, de- + negre, to say no; see ne in Appendix I.
SYNONYMS:	deny, contradict, contravene, disaffirm, gainsay, negate, traverse These verbs mean to refuse to admit the existence, truth, or value of: denied the rumor; contradicted the statement; contravene a conclusion; disaffirm a suggestion; trying to gainsay the evidence; negated the allegations; traverse an indictment.
ANTONYM:	affirm

[BenLurkin]

Well, in a sense they did. SCOTUS stopped Algore and the corrupt Florida judges from stealing the election.

[Political Junkie Too]

The problem is with the newspaper and media outlets that commissioned the independent recount that also found Bush to win. It is (or is it?) also these media that are still denying their own findings and repeating the lie that Gore won.

-PJ

[Michael.SF.]

But not in Bush v. Gore.

Had SCOTUS not ruled the way they did, then the Democrats would have succesfully stolen the election from Bush.

Although good points have been made by some authors (Bugliosi), there are several pertinent facts conveniently overlooked:

1. Dems sought to throw out ballots under questionable circumstances.

2. The Democrats sought to change the rules of play during the counting.

3. Increased handling of ballots results in manipulated ballots.

4. Dem operatives have published papers or articles explaining how they can manipulate elections to their side (Count, recount and keep counting, until your ahead, then stop and declare you won).

5. Democrats have a history of illegal or questionable methods used to sway elections (Nixon 1960, Missouri 2000).

6. Democrats have voted to seat their own man in spite of no proof that he actually won the election (Indiana 1988 Cong. race).

Maybe Scotus was wrong, but the outcome was not. The Dems got what they deserved and America got the right man.

[optimistically_conservative]

I woulda thought it'd endorses bush.

It depends what the meaning of endorse endorses.

[StarFan]

This is becoming a recurrent lying theme and even Matthews said something similar last night as did some pundit last week. Am I dreaming or didn't the media do their own independent count in Florida and determined that GWB GOT THE MOST VOTES? I wish I could put my finger on the article and pass it along whenever I hear this lie being perpetuated.

[Michael.SF.]

We need to form moveonalready.org, in a response to these people.

But, if they move on they just might discover some real issues. Let them focus on 2000, while we focus on a future free of terrorism, and an America with a veto proof Republican majority in the Senate.

[txhurl]

Greenspan/Mitchell is hands-down 10X weirder than Matalin/Carville.

You know anything weirder?

[optimistically_conservative]

MEDIA RECOUNT: BUSH
WON THE 2000 ELECTION
April 3, 2001
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html


In the first full study of Florida's ballots since the election ended, The Miami Herald and USA Today reported George W. Bush would have widened his 537-vote victory to a 1,665-vote margin if the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court would have been allowed to continue, using standards that would have allowed even faintly dimpled "undervotes" -- ballots the voter has noticeably indented but had not punched all the way through -- to be counted.

[txhurl]

Other than Zeta-Jones/Douglas?