Posted on 05/25/2008 8:02:23 AM PDT by wm_tate
For weeks now, we've heard a steady drumbeat--from Big Media, from Barack Obama and other Democrats, and now from HBO's "Recount"--that the Supreme Court handed George Bush Florida and the 2000 election, even though subsequent reviews show the recounts Al Gore requested would have increased Bush's margin of victory.
Tom Shales, in today's WaPo, has finally put into words the reason behind that: "If the mess in Florida had been resolved with as much skill and savvy as went into the making of the movie, the world might be a different place today -- presumably a better one...."
In the liberal media's halcyon days of Gore, we would all, somehow be better off. I beg to differ. I have spent almost three years researching and writing an alternative history novel, A Time Like This, that asks what would have happened if the 2000 election HAD turned out the other way.
How would a president whose top priority was international cooperation on Global Warning have reacted to 9/11?
How would a rapid conversion to a Green Economy have affected the nation's economy?
How would the liberal media have reacted to presidential infringements on the rights of other governmental branches and of citizens?
Not to disappoint Mr. Shales and his colleagues too much, but my research has lead me to answers that a liberal administration these last eight years could have lead to a far, far worse world.
Yes, this is a sheer vanity plug, but if you would like to see a very different interpretation of the effects of the Florida recounts than you'll see on HBO--the negative effects if the election had gone the other way--please check out my book, A Time Like This.
I make this direct appeal because I have had incredible difficulty getting media exposure for the book. Most newspapers simply don't want to give attention to a book that challenges their core beliefs.
Why is A Time Like This important?
By implying, or flat-out stating, that the world would be better off if the Democrat had won in 2000, Democrats and their allies in the media are also implying that the world WILL be better off if a Democrat wins in 2008.
As long as that conceit goes unchallenged, the media will succeed in rewriting, not only the history of what happened in Florida in 2000, but the future of this country.
-Wm Tate www.atimelikethis.us
Don’t forget the 2004 Washington State Governors race where Democrats kept “finding” “misplaced ballots” in Liberal King County, until Christine Gregoire was declared the winner (it took three tries).
A commonly heard phrase here then was, “That’s payback for 2000.”
The Sopranos was such a good show, that I held my nose and subscribed to HBO depite Bill Maher, and a lot of other intolerable crap on the network. When The Sopranos finished I could not drop my subscription fast enough, and I doubt if there will be anything they broadcast that could get me back as a paying subscriber.
Concerning the 2000 election my state of Wisconsin was won by Gore with a less than five thousand vote difference out of more than two million cast. Afterwards reports of Dem vote fraud in Milwaukee were confirmed. One Dem operative openly bragged about passing out smokes to people in Milwaukee to vote for Gore. Would a recount have made a difference? Who knows. Gore might have still squeaked it out, but the fact is Republicans never demanded anything like what the Dems demanded.
I was a voice crying here in the Florida wilderness when the push was made to go to 'all-electronic' voting after this fiasco. I said then and say now that voting without any capability of recount of physical ballot is a massive open door to fraud. We are now seeing a costly effort to replace what was bought in haste with something more 'palatable'.
I want to see an 'electronically readable' paper ballot that uses indelible ink to mark the ballot like standardized tests. Yes it is not perfect, nothing is. But it would take a party hack a LOT LONGER to work their mischief there. I'm wondering if someday, in a death's bed confession, we'll have one of these hacks confess.
Somehow I doubt that "Recount" will delve into the teams of lawyers the DNC sent into every Florida county to dispute absentee ballots. They were actually high-fiving each other every time they got a ballot thrown out.
I’ll bet they repeat the same line that Leslie Stahl used in her 60 Minutes piece on Antonin Scalia, that the 5-4 vote amounted to “handing the election to George Bush.”
-Wm Tate
http://www.atimelikethis.us/
my plaintive cry from the heart, "why have we let the libs get control of the MSM???"
If it's any consolation, "we" didn't. At least unless you are a lot older than I am - and I'm retired.The Right to Know presents my thesis on why journalism is "liberal."
The thirtieth reply on that thread discusses William Safire's take on the transformation of the meaning of the word "liberal" from its traditional pro-freedom meaning (still current outside the U.S.) to the socialist, anti-freedom meaning Americans are familiar with and contemptuous of.
They took out a lot in deference to Bill Clinton and his temper. He demanded that they delete a lot of damning info.
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