Posted on 11/06/2004 12:25:33 PM PST by forest
The first thing we have to realize is that media liberals tried to throw the election for the party of the ass again. Of course, this newsletter's readers were alerted[1] back in issue 321 (Another Election Reporting SNAFU Coming Up).
In a nutshell, the failed Voter News Service was replaced by two groups headed by former CBS News reporters with their election results funneled to Associated Press to tabulate and disseminate to media outlets.
So, we had the very-left (Bush Administration haters) AP essentially programming most news outlets on election results. AP will never be confused with fair and balanced reporting. Anything they publish should be taken with a few grains of salt. Or, like Reuters, AP articles should be disregarded as little more than socialist propaganda.
With this background, we can get down to the nuts and bolts of how to affect an election. Two words nail it this time around: exit polls.
Most of the media were provided exit poll data last Monday. The idea was to create an expectation of a Kerry win within the media. The liberal New England states, of course, would report early and go for Kerry, which would tend to verify the exit poll data and further boost the media's willingness to subtly act as if Kerry were to win a large majority in all states. With that, the exit poll mania quickly spread and the liberal media were happy to report, early on, that first data showed Kerry on top in key states.
Their idea in this closely programmed propaganda ploy, of course, was to suppress the conservative vote in many states outside of New England by demoralizing Republican voters.
That was the plan. Except, it didn't work very well this time around.
They called some states for Kerry as soon as the polls closed, but would not call states for Bush (like Florida) even after 92% of the vote was counted and Bush had a clear win. Even Fox News got in on that scam.
Tuesday, while polls were still open, Susan Estrich said on Fox News that she had spoken to Kerry headquarters and that either all the exit polls are wrong, or John Kerry is the next president. All the networks trotted out their far-left spinmeisters to back up the AP exit poll lies. Which means, all television networks were involved in spewing propaganda aimed at demoralizing those who would vote Republican.
Tuesday evening (EST), the scam was in full swing -- and by then, the bogus "news" was heard by Midwestern and Western voters. Most polls throughout the country were still open, yet the talking heads could hardly contain themselves from declaring Kerry's grand slam. Exit polls all favored Kerry, of course. Or, so talking heads thought, anyway.
They might just as well have had the Kerry campaign and the Democratic Party count the vote. They would have done it free. Instead, the media had the Democratic media cheerleaders do it, and actually paid big bucks for the false information.
But, by this stage of the game, the American people were well advised of the strong liberal bias in the media. After so many news outlets ran with the obviously forged Bush National Guard documents perpetrated by CBS News and seconded by many other news outlets, people took notice. Then came another totally bogus story, again disseminated by many news outlets around the country, concerning "380 tons" of "missing" explosives in Iraq. These were just two instances of out and out fabricated stories designed to affect the Bush campaign. Yes, the American people noticed.
And so too did voters notice the glee displayed by the talking heads as they talked of exit polls and did just about everything but declare a clean sweep for Kerry last Tuesday -- even while all polling places were still open.
Fact is, few of us believed the talking heads. Sure, many of us became concerned. That just made the plan backfire on AP & company. It made even more conservatives go vote. No matter how long the lines were, the exit poll lies gave determination to conservative voters.
So we have three major media scams in as many months. All propaganda ploys. All backfired in the face of major media. We know Old Media for what they are.
Old Media, babble on. But remember that few Americans believe you anymore. Your days are numbered. New Media is taking over.
1. <http://www.uhuh.com/reports/headsup/fron321.htm>
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AP is never fair and balanced. Ditto Reuters.
How to affect an election: Exit polls.
The idea was to create an expectation of a Kerry win.
They called Kerry states early, but not Bush states.
The American people are noticing liberal media bias.
So we have three major media scams in as many months. All propaganda ploys. All backfired in the face of major media. We know Old Media for what they are.
Bloggers are taking over.
What are the odds of this big of an 'accidental' screw up in the exit polls, which would benefit the DIMs, four years after the last big 'accidental' screw up, the latter causing people not to go out and vote Republican in the Florida panhandle in 2000, which also benefited the DIMs? Something smells funny.
As intended, they succeeded in suppressing the Republican vote in the west where the results were too close for comfort.
Can you imagine how large the president's victory would have been if the rats had not succeeded in suppressing the vote. It would have been a 56 to 44 Bush victory...unheard of in modern times.
Kerry leading Virginia? North Carolina too close to call? As soon as I heard the MSM spinners putting this garbage out, I knew the fix was in. Fortunately, they failed.
I'm just glad that ,for the most part ,everyone here at FR kept their heads and seemed to notice something was wrong with the first exit polls.
And as a P.S. - Couldn't this have backfired by Democrats saying Kerry was going to win so they didn't need to go vote?
We shouldn't. I don't.
You'd think so, but there's a lot of research that says the major impact is that it causes the underdog's supporters to get discouraged.
So much for research!!
Where is that Susan the Witch since election night. She was bragging how she is always right and is all knowing. She is probably in a rubber room about now.
Don't let your guard down or let them get away with the crap they tried to pull in the 2004 election.
Everything from shooting up GOP campaign offices to vandalizing homes, cars, and businesses that had Bush-Cheney signs. It was tantamount to burning a cross in a yard or brownshirts throwing stones through windows.
Also the media lies and distortions (outright fabricated hoax news). Abu Ghraib had genuine abuse that was under investigation but it was not HARSH enough for the media. They had to pose photos of British soldiers urinating on "prisoners" and pull photos from a porn site to show evidence of Americans "raping" "Iraqis". No wonder America lost respect for this war and the terrorists consider us disciples of Satan.
The media is vile/evil and heads MUST roll. My term for what they did is Zogbyism.
The difference between McCarthyism and Zogbyism is that there WERE communists in government whereas President Bush WON the 2004 election.
Probably not. Also, the late voting undecideds were probably affected as they would have been more likely to pull the lever for the "already declared" winner.
The reports that Kerry was having such an early election success and the reports of being so far ahead in PA, and comfortably ahead in FL and OH probably cost Bush PA, WI, and NH. I voted in the morning but I can tell you that I was plenty depressed when I saw the early exit polls being reported and then that being translated into "body language" by the television pundits.
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