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The Left Promotes Assertions That Turn Out to Be False
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 11, 2006 | John Leo

Posted on 06/11/2006 6:47:01 PM PDT by kellynla

Writing in Rolling Stone, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. assures us that the 2004 presidential election was stolen. This popular conspiracy theory has attracted many Democrats, from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself. (Professor and activist Mark Crispin Miller of NYU says Kerry told him he believes the election was stolen.)

Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead. He also thinks the Republicans discouraged voters by creating long lines at voting stations in heavily Democratic areas. But bitter surmise isn't proof. And according to a long and detailed analysis on Salon.com -- no hotbed of Republican thought -- the evidence Kennedy cites isn't new, and his argument is filled with distortions and the deliberate omission of key data.

Why would Kennedy damage his credibility this way? This may not be breaking news, but if an assertion reflects a widely shared emotion, it can make great headway in this culture without any need to prove its truth. We have been through this many times. The 2000 election was allegedly stolen, though no credible investigation backed up the claim, not even the one by the Civil Rights Commission, which was then firmly in Democratic hands

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2004election; barkingmoonbat; conservatism; conservatives; conspiracy; conspiracytheory; duh; election2004; left; lyingliar; rfjjr; robertfkennedyjr; rollingstoned; sedition; usefulidiot
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1 posted on 06/11/2006 6:47:04 PM PDT by kellynla
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To: kellynla
This popular conspiracy theory has attracted many Democrats, from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself.

I fail to see the difference between the two.

2 posted on 06/11/2006 6:50:34 PM PDT by edpc
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To: kellynla

Isn't this the same Kennedy who's also worked up about global warming?


3 posted on 06/11/2006 6:50:46 PM PDT by Thombo2
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To: kellynla

A book should be written on distorted headlines.


4 posted on 06/11/2006 6:51:25 PM PDT by ConservativeGreek
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To: kellynla

Who's John Kerry????


5 posted on 06/11/2006 6:52:00 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: kellynla
from the clearly unbalanced to John Kerry himself

That's not a very wide range on the spectrum.

6 posted on 06/11/2006 6:53:00 PM PDT by speedy
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To: kellynla

Easy, BDS= Bush Derangement Syndrome


7 posted on 06/11/2006 6:54:01 PM PDT by cmsgop ( Goodbye Brother Munson!, Goodbye Whore !)
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To: Dallas59
Who's John Kerry????

Vietnam hero I think. At least that's what some say. Larger than life type of guy they say.

/s/

8 posted on 06/11/2006 6:56:22 PM PDT by Wycowboy
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To: Dallas59

Some guy that allegedly served in Viet Nam ... I'm not sure 'served' is the correct word ... the details escape me ... relatively un-important.


9 posted on 06/11/2006 6:56:45 PM PDT by knarf (A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
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To: kellynla
For a while, many people seemed to believe (wanted to believe) that abortions in the United States rose 25 percent after Bush was elected in 2000. Howard Dean was sure of it. Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, too

Interestingly, this assertion was make at the kookie Kos convention this weekend by George Lakoff(rhymes with...). He had a short while before discussed his "framing" approach and added that one must engage one's opponents with respect and kindness. Then he said that Republican positions were resulting in the deaths of babies and told this big fat lie. I understand he is a tenured professor at Berkeley.

10 posted on 06/11/2006 6:57:30 PM PDT by Bahbah (Democrat Motto: Why not the worst)
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To: kellynla
He also thinks the Republicans discouraged voters by creating long lines at voting stations in heavily Democratic areas.

Fact. The son of a Democrat politician slashed the tires of dozens of rented vans outside of GOP offices on election day.

There were dirty tricks in the 2004 election cycle. The media is an accomplice. From reporting Zogby's biased poll sample as "fact" to the unquestioned week long exposure of the forged National Guard memos.

Rats lie cheat and steal. Elections are an "unfortunate formality". Their god complex and dreams of designing a socialist Utopia make it "excusable" in their eyes.

11 posted on 06/11/2006 6:57:46 PM PDT by weegee ("Hitler dead in bunker by own hand, war rages on")
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To: kellynla
The Left Promotes Assertions That Turn Out to Be False

Their latest is the one about taking over The House in November.

12 posted on 06/11/2006 6:57:53 PM PDT by edpc
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To: kellynla

This should come as no surprise. The far left and their liberal stooges in the media approach subjects like this based on their "feelings", their "perceptions", their "suspicions", etc., ad nauseum.

Conservatives, and most reasonable people deal in facts. Facts which can be backed up. That doesn't mean that conservatives can't deal in hypothetical situations, but when it comes to whether or not an election was "stolen", there is FAR more evidence that Democrats made a serious attempt to steal the 2000 election in Florida, something that RFK Jr. would probably conclude was "not likely".

As for John F'in Moonbat, the best thing he can do for America is to inflict upon himself the sorts of imaginary war crimes that he accused his fellow servicemen of when he committed perjury before the U.S. Senate back when he was just a nice young Communist fresh back from Vietnam with his three Purple Hearts for serious scratches, and the rest of that noise.


13 posted on 06/11/2006 6:59:34 PM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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My favorites are:

"Iraq didn't have WMD"

"Iraq wasn't involved in terrorism or 9-11"

"Bush called Iraq an "imminent threat".

Unfortunately, all three are now "conventional wisdom".

Oh yeah, "Bush stole the 2000 election" and "It was just about sex"
14 posted on 06/11/2006 6:59:44 PM PDT by motzman (Let's Go Mets!)
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To: Thombo2

...and thimerisol in vacinations causes autism lawsuits... He's a real ambulance chaser, imho.


15 posted on 06/11/2006 6:59:45 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (.)
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To: Wycowboy

Well Kerry did a lot (of lying) to help Vietnam win the war.


16 posted on 06/11/2006 7:00:16 PM PDT by weegee ("Hitler dead in bunker by own hand, war rages on")
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To: kellynla
Kennedy thinks it's fishy that the recorded vote didn't match the exit polls in four battleground states where Kerry was supposedly ahead.

Conversely, I find it fishy that the exit polls were so skewed toward Kerry when compared to the real result.

17 posted on 06/11/2006 7:05:18 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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Isn't this the same Kennedy who's also worked up about global warming?

Yes,it is.And rumor has it that he's also called for Rumsfeld's resignation,that he wants "justice" for *all* of America's "immigrants",that he demands an end to the torture of islamic freedom fighters throughout the world and that he supports alternative energy sources,unless they're located in Nantucket Sound.

18 posted on 06/11/2006 7:05:59 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: Dallas59

A kept poodle.


19 posted on 06/11/2006 7:06:10 PM PDT by Feiny (Now go bang your heads on your desks until something useful comes out!)
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To: Dallas59

According to James Taranto, he served in Vietnam.


20 posted on 06/11/2006 7:06:16 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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