[srmorton]

I remember being completely horrified when I heard the major networks announce that the polls had closed in Florida when even I knew that the panhandle is in the Central Time zone. Of course, they corrected their mistake, but only after hundreds of voters in line or still on their way to vote assumed that their vote would not matter and did not bother to cast them. The article mentions how it affected the vote in Florida, but I have always believed it affected the vote totals in other states as well. This outrage is no longer mentioned and younger voters may not even be aware that it happened so it is appropriate that C. Boyden Gray reminds us that Bush was not "selected" by the SCOTUS. He was cheated by the MSM. The stakes are too high to let the Democrats succeed in stealing this election!

[Carl Vehse]

The fifth-column leftist media, including the major networks, have demonstrated time and time again they will give aid and comfort to the enemy whenever they can.

[FiddlePig]

The early call for Gore in Florida was NOT an accident or mistake... it was deliberate! It was not just to swing Florida but other states as well. Since 2000, the media has become even more brazen and corrupt! God bless America!

[Former Proud Canadian]

I stopped listening to them because they either can't get things right or they have simply become propaganda outlets. Either way, I do not let them pollute my mind with their misinformation.

Like Hillary, they are either lying or incompetent. They should wither and die.

[Carriage Hill]

Wonder what the “final count” of dozens/hundreds of lib-dem-controlled precincts, which voted at 100-105-110-115% of registered voters, actually was?

[Jim Noble]

Anyone who doesn’t know when to vote should not be allowed to vote.

And the incredible power grab by the Supreme Court must never be allowed to happen again. Of course the Court “selected” Bush, and by foreclosing the perfectly clear constitutional process, under which Bush would have been legitimately elected, they caused his administration undue misery.

[Gaffer]

As I recall, neither the Media nor the Democrats wanted a full state-wide recount - only about three major counties/precincts.

Some time long after that whole mess there were at least two newspapers that did an exhaustive recount state-wide and they had to suppress the results because Bush won.

[ronnietherocket3]

IMO, there should be a law that states no precinct may publicly disclose its results until all polls in the country are closed. In addition, every single vote should be counted. I have heard there are some states that stop counting once it is known who the victor is.

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[blueunicorn6]

We used to have basic respect for one another.

You maybe didn’t vote the way I did, but I still had basic respect for you.

The Democrat leaders (including the press) have lost this basic respect for other Americans.

We don’t vote the way they want us to.

They don’t consider that that may be because we have different experiences and knowledge than they have.

They just easily prejudge us and label us as stupid.

They have no basic respect for us.

[Arm_Bears]

Democrats are horrified by voter disenfranchisement only when democrat voters are disenfranchised.

Bush should have pulled the broadcast licenses of all those networks and ordered IRS audits of their employees and advertisers.

[nfldgirl]

The article mentions how it affected the vote in Florida, but I have always believed it affected the vote totals in other states as well.

Agree with what you said here. Possibly part of the "strategy" all along, to keep Bush from the presidency. I recall that night so vividly, what with the vote counting so close. In fact, I stayed up all night, and not even one single time did Bush's total drop below Gore's. In fact, in the wee early hours of the following morning, when supposedly all votes had been counted, Bush led Gore by around 245 votes. What a nail-biter. Even with the recount, at no time did Gore ever lead.

[Fester Chugabrew]

[Zuse]

There ought to be a media blackout on election day.
Wait until the last vote is cast.

[ChildOfThe60s]

What was more significant was the several counties run by Rats that refused to count thousands of military absentee ballots.

A lib I knew quite well at the time (we lived in Central FL in 2000) said he knew it was cheating and denying the rights of members of the armed forces, but that he was fine with that if it got Gore elected. I lost a lot of respect for the man. Never forgave him.

[Publius]

Collusion: The Day Before the 2000 Election

[Thank You Rush]

“”Given that 357,808 votes were cast that day in those ten counties, thousands were surely disenfranchised, the vast majority of them Republicans””

Am I reading this right? 357,808 votes isn’t telling us anything without telling us how many registered voters WOULD have voted....if not for the intentional SNAFU....

It’s been a lot of years but for some good refreshing of the memory, the book “At Any Cost” by Bill Sammon is a good read.

[jch10]

The first thing I noticed in the article is that the “ten Panhandle counties were Republican.” That is wrong. Maybe three or four were, the rest were Democrat counties.

In the sixteen years since then, it is slowly changing. Hillary may win some of these counties though.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

voters would do well to be skeptical: distrust, until a story is verified.

IOW, heavily discount “breaking news.” Better yet, compare

”No News Is Good News” (because good news “Isn’t news")

unfavorably with

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

. . . and scale the attention you pay to “The News” back.

Way, way, back.

[faucetman]

What difference, at this point, does it make?

[GOPJ]

It's 'odd' how the press makes their 'mistakes' in a way that consistantly helps democrats and hurts Republicans. We could write a book on the fake hates crimes they've published against conservatives - only to quielty do a 'retraction' a few weeks later. Remember the Oberlin "KKK student" who was really a liberal? Or the lesbian who carved hate messages into her own skin, then blamed 'conservative white men'... or the Matthew Sheppard lie?

Hundreds of examples... to the point that it feels like the press is lying. Just like Hillary lies.

When 'mistakes' only hurt ONE side, it's a scam. Or the press is stupid. Like Hillary's too stupid to know how to read classified markings. Oh, and eff you Washington Post and New York Times.. and NBC and CBS...