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         <P><FONT SIZE="+2"><B>The Unelectable Son, Part
         II</B></FONT></P>
         
         <P><FONT SIZE="+1">By Dave McGowan</FONT></P>
         
         <P><FONT SIZE="+1">November 15, 2000</FONT></P>
         
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         <P>"The outcome of this election will not be the result of
         ... efforts to mold public opinion."</P></CENTER>
         
         <P>George W. Bush robotically reciting a statement to the
         press on November 15, 2000</P>
         
         <P>Actually, that is exactly what the outcome will be the
         result of. While the media continues to make a concerted and
         absolutely shameless effort to steer public opinion into
         supporting a Bush presidency, evidence continues to mount of
         a massive, well-planned (though sloppily executed) operation
         to steal the vote in the state of Florida, brought to you
         courtesy of the Bush family.</P>
         
         <P>As details emerge, it is difficult to tell which is more
         amazing - the brazenness of the fraud perpetrated on the
         people of this country, or the complete refusal of the media
         to acknowledge what is painfully obvious. What is also
         obvious is that the media, and both political parties, want
         the whole thing to go away as soon as possible.</P>
         
         <P>It is not likely that it is Al Gore and his campaign team
         that are delaying the completion of the Bush coup. More
         likely, it is public outrage that has forced Gore to put up
         at least the illusion of a fight. Essentially, he is just
         buying time until public opinion can be sufficiently brought
         under control by the all-powerful media.</P>
         
         <P>One of the more telling details to emerge concerns the
         role played by a Fox News official on election night. As
         readers will recall, the state of Florida was originally
         called in favor of Gore, based on the results of exit polls,
         a very reliable indicator assuming that ballots are
         accurately cast and counted. At that time, the Bush team
         abandoned their prior plans and retreated to the seclusion
         of the governor's mansion.</P>
         
         <P>Not long after, the networks took the state back from
         Gore and declared it "too close to call," offering little in
         the way of explanation. Still later in the night, the
         networks gave the state to Bush, and every effort was made
         to present that as the final, authoritative decision. The
         earlier call for Gore, purportedly, had been a rush to
         judgment.</P>
         
         <P>The first network to swing the state to Bush was the Fox
         News Channel, followed (within four minutes) by all the
         usual suspects - CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC. The call was
         made, strangely enough, not based on reports from the Voters
         News Service, as would be customary, but on the sole
         discretion of a Fox official.</P>
         
         <P>The fact that such a crucial call was made on the
         authority of a single news executive - with no supporting
         documentation - is by itself rather disturbing. Far more
         disturbing is that the official, John Ellis, is a first
         cousin of George and Jeb Bush, and he has acknowledged
         having been in frequent contact with both of the Bush boys
         on election night.</P>
         
         <P>What we have here then is a presidential election that
         hinged on a state controlled by a member of the Bush clan,
         with that state being declared for candidate Bush by yet
         another member of the Bush clan (who had been hired by Fox
         just a month before the election). The media immediately
         fell in line behind this scam, prompting Gore to nearly
         offer a public concession, wrapping things up before anyone
         realized what the hell had happened.</P>
         
         <P>It's almost too obvious a scandal to even be believed. Is
         the Bush family really so arrogant as to believe that they
         can get away with literally anything? Can they in fact get
         away with it? Are Americans so thoroughly conditioned to
         accepting their media-supplied points of view that they will
         allow this to stand?</P>
         
         <P>The corruption evident in Volusia County alone is enough
         to warrant not just a recount, but a re-vote and a thorough
         investigation. At one point on the night of the election,
         Gore was leading Bush by 21,000 votes in the county. Within
         a half an hour, Gore's tally had dropped by 16,000 votes,
         while candidate David McReynolds had somehow picked up
         10,000 of his own. In the final tally, McReynolds - a
         Socialist Party candidate - was credited with a grand total
         of just nine votes.</P>
         
         <P>This discrepancy has yet to be explained. Other
         irregularities throughout the county were explained away as
         harmless error and simple misunderstanding. For example, one
         election worker left the ballot collection area carrying two
         uninspected bags, prompting a call to the sheriff. The
         <I>Washington Post</I> explained though that the worker was
         "merely taking home dirty laundry." Say what? For what
         possible reason would a worker be lugging two bags of dirty
         laundry around a ballot collection area?</P>
         
         <P>Excuse my frankness here, but reading news accounts such
         as that should really piss you off. Implicit in such
         coverage is the message that the media thinks you are stupid
         - a real fucking idiot. So stupid and gullible, in fact,
         that you'll go along with wrapping this up, sweeping all the
         ugliness under the rug, and propping up George Bush as an
         illegitimate president.</P>
         
         <P>At any rate, Volusia County experienced other
         irregularities as well. Six precincts were unable to
         transfer their results due to the proverbial computer
         glitch; the county's returns were not received until 3 A.M.,
         leaving a considerable amount of time during which the
         ballots could have been altered in any number of ways.</P>
         
         <P>On Wednesday, as a recount was underway, a poll worker
         dropped off a bag of ballots that had allegedly spent the
         night in his car. Two days later, three more ballot bags
         were found in a vault, one with a broken seal, one without a
         seal, and the third lying open with ballots spilling out.
         All of this nonsense, we are supposed to believe, is a
         normal part of any election.</P>
         
         <P>Put any election under such scrutiny, the media mantra
         goes, and you will find such irregularities. This is
         absolute nonsense. These were not random, motiveless
         mistakes that were made; this was a concerted effort to
         disenfranchise targeted sectors of the population.</P>
         
         <P>As the <I>Palm Beach Post</I> reported, almost half of
         the disqualified ballots in Palm Beach County came from
         predominately black and elderly precincts. Throughout the
         county, seven percent of ballots were thrown out. In
         precincts where most residents are over age 65, the figure
         rose to ten percent, and in black precincts, sixteen percent
         - one in six ballots - were disqualified.</P>
         
         <P>Similarly, the <I>Miami Herald</I> has reported that the
         same pattern was followed in Miami-Dade County. Countywide,
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