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NBC's Andrea Mitchell claims Supreme Court "denied Gore the Presidency."
NBC Nightly News | 12/09/04 | Andrea Mitchell

Posted on 12/09/2003 5:30:34 PM PST by 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."


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No liberal bias here. Just move along.
1 posted on 12/09/2003 5:30:35 PM PST by Timmy
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To: Timmy
Andrea Mitchell is a liberal puke.
2 posted on 12/09/2003 5:31:39 PM PST by jackbill
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To: Timmy
I wonder how much Alan Greenspan has to drink to cope with all her nagging of him to intentionally tank the economy so Bush loses in 2004.

3 posted on 12/09/2003 5:32:05 PM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: Timmy
These LIARS! Do the American people really remember what happened in Florida? I hope so, they will be as digusted at this as I am.

GORE DIDN'T WIN ANDREA MITCHELL!!!!
4 posted on 12/09/2003 5:34:15 PM PST by ladyinred (The Left have blood on their hands!)
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To: Timmy
Occasionally SCOTUS does it right.
5 posted on 12/09/2003 5:36:40 PM PST by Kay Soze (As society must bear huge medical costs of ones "recreational activities", it must exert influence)
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To: 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."

The alternative would be the decision 'which provided or allowed Bush the Presidency'. I think the former sounds better than the later. Bush earned the Presidency. I would prefer no other words be used to describe it. How they describe Gores loss, I can care less.

6 posted on 12/09/2003 5:38:05 PM PST by ClintonBeGone
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To: Timmy
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GORE started the fight to settle the 2000 Presidential Election in the Courts.

BUSH finished it...

...in the Courts.

All so very, very Simple.

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7 posted on 12/09/2003 5:42:00 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 www.LZXRAY.com)
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Add in the courts, making Florida go by their own laws that were in place during the 2000 election;

End result: Gore lost.

Take the courts out of the 2000 election;

End result: Gore still would lose.

What part of that don't the Democrats understand?
8 posted on 12/09/2003 5:43:29 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (Proud member of the right wing extremist Neanderthals.)
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To: Timmy
Gore LOST the election, count after count. If they had their way we would still be counting.
9 posted on 12/09/2003 5:44:02 PM PST by HoundsTooth_BP
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To: Timmy
I know what you're saying, and I'm sure Mitchell's bias influenced her phrasing, but in a way, what she said is accurate.

The Supreme Court's decision let stand the electoral count as it had been ratified. This denied Gore the Presidency, because, according to the legally-certified electoral count, candidate Bush received more electoral votes, which, in our system, is how the President is chosen. Another way to say this is that the electors denied Gore the Presidency (by a tally of 271-266 as I recall). Or, that the voters (when their votes were counted and weighted appropriately, according to the rules set up by the Constitution) denied Gore the Presidency.

In a very similar way, Bob Dole was denied the Presidency in 1996 by the electors, George H.W. Bush was denied the Presidency in 1992 by the electors, Dukakis was denied the Presidency in 1988 by the electors, etc. Similarly, I was denied the Presidency in 2000 (by not even being a candidate), and so were you, and so was Tom Cruise, etc.

All quite plainly true.

The only thing which made 2000/Gore different from all these other cases is that at Gore's behest, the Florida Supreme Court ignored Florida's election laws for some reason, and tried to extend a legal vote-counting deadline to reverse Florida's legally-certified result. The U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to it, and thus, denied Gore an (illegitimate) Presidency.

10 posted on 12/09/2003 5:46:31 PM PST by Dr. Frank fan
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To: Timmy
Tell the lie; tell it often enough and, sooner or later, people will think it's the truth.

Page 1 of the Clinton play book.
11 posted on 12/09/2003 5:46:57 PM PST by DustyMoment
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When will this stinky hippie liberals figure out that Algore did not win!
12 posted on 12/09/2003 5:48:08 PM PST by MizzouTigerRepublican (82nd ABN Gulf war vet)
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To: Timmy
Ralph Nader denied Gore the Presidency. Period. Case Closed. End of Discussion.
13 posted on 12/09/2003 5:48:21 PM PST by America's Resolve ("We have prepared for the unbelievers, whips and chains and blazing fires!" Koran 76:4)
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Add in the courts, making Florida go by their own laws that were in place during the 2000 election; End result: Gore lost. Take the courts out of the 2000 election; End result: Gore still would lose. What part of that don't the Democrats understand?

I think they understand that the recounts, if allowed to continue happening, would not have had the same result as any of the media-conducted recounts. They know that Gore's goons would have eventually been able to manipulate enough ballots to swing it his way.

14 posted on 12/09/2003 5:48:31 PM PST by alnick
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To: Kay Soze
Occasionally SCOTUS does it right.

But not in Bush v. Gore.

15 posted on 12/09/2003 5:48:51 PM PST by Jim Noble
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To: jackbill
With bruised knees.....
And, a messy bib...

Semper Fi
16 posted on 12/09/2003 5:49:14 PM PST by river rat (War works......It brings Peace... Give war a chance to destroy Jihadists...)
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The U.S. Supreme Court put a stop to it....

As did a number of Freeper poll watchers, as I remember, who wouldn't let those Florida chad counters take a bunch of ballots into a private room for doctoring.

17 posted on 12/09/2003 5:49:20 PM PST by Ciexyz
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To: Timmy
Send off a quick objection to the show: You can email them at Nightly@NBC.com

I wrote in part: "The voters of the United States denied Gore the presidency. Every Florida recount, including those by Bush haters long after Bush was inaugurated, came to the same conclusion. Florida went for Bush.

"Your bias is unbecoming. Please try to get over it."

18 posted on 12/09/2003 5:49:45 PM PST by PoisedWoman (Rat candidates: "What a sorry lot!" says Barbara Bush)
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To: Ciexyz
that is the whole missed point even by our best freepers.
The U.S. Supreme Court did NOT ,repeat DID NOT
lay the law down,they stood on a Florida Federal Judge
named SAULS. The dems and Boise lost all seven issues
and those ballots never left the basement
19 posted on 12/09/2003 5:52:05 PM PST by cars for sale
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
What's so disgusting...and that these people ignore, is that Gore lost just about every case in Forida's lower courts. It was the Florida SC that overuled its own Democratic judges...and continued to allow recounts to be done beyond even their proscribed time line. Hell, N. Sander Sauls found that Gore wasn't even entitled to a "hand" recount based on Florida's Contest Laws. There was no fraud, deciet or willful neglect that could be proven. There was only one court that was out of step with all other courts, and that was the FSC who changed the rules after the game was played. If any one should be pissed, it should still be Republicans who watched the Democrats "almost" succeed in overturing an election.
20 posted on 12/09/2003 5:56:45 PM PST by cwb
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