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Keith Olbermann Plays Hardball, Breaks Votergate Story on National, Mainstream Media

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 9 November 2004
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Elections-Elected USA

November 8, 2004

Kudos to Keith Olbermann of MSNBC. Finally, someone in the mainstream media took the story about the rampant evidence of election fraud to prime time. Following the tepid journalism from Chris Matthews, Olbermann reported tonight about the two major stories we have been following since election night.

Olbermann first reported on the events in Warren County, Ohio on election night. Warren was one of the last counties to report and as such, directly contributed to the state being called for Bush. What makes Warren County newsworthy is that election officials decided to lock down the vote count and excluded any observation of the tallying process. The lame excuse given was “homeland security” concerns. Olbermann reported tonight that those concerns actually stemmed from the Department of Homeland Security, who informed them that on a scale of 1-10, Warren represented a 10 in terms of security concerns. Warren County represents a mostly rural district between Dayton and Cincinnati. I would be very interested to hear about the source Tom Ridge used to determine that this small portion of a Midwest state had suddenly become a security threat.

While that is beyond suspicious, Olbermann went on to report on the startling results from 29 Florida counties which had all flipped their vote from their registration. In each of these counties we saw statistically improbable results favoring George W. Bush every time. This story had been on the internet for a week now, but had been all but ignored by all mainstream media until Keith Olbermann finally proved there can be honesty in journalism. Keith’s guest was the Honorable John Conyers, Congressman from Michigan. Mr. Conyers has led the charge for the GAO to investigate the mounting reports of “irregularities”. Mr. Olbermann tried his best to ask pointed questions, referring to the possibility of the election being “rigged” or “fixed”. Conyers tried his best to stay above the political fray but in the end the cold fact remained that something has gone wrong in this election.

Prior to the Olbermann show, we saw Chris Matthews, playing softball as only he can. After the obligatory shock and awe Iraq coverage, Matthews had a segment on “where the Democrats went wrong” and had on Bush Campaign 04 Senior Advisor, Tucker Eskew. Quite the moment of impartial journalism. The only thing separating Matthews from being a Fox host is the “fair and balanced” tag line. The intent is again, quite clear. Pay no attention to the fact that there is mounting evidence of fraud. Ignore the clamoring from the people on the Internet, who are starting to put the pieces together and hold out for the elections to be certified. Chris Matthews should be ashamed.

Today on Democratic Underground, Bev Harris of Blackboxvoting.com posted the following:

“I was tipped off by a person very high up in TV that the news has been locked down tight, and there will be no TV coverage of the real problems with voting on Nov. 2. Even the journalists are pretty horrified. My source said they’ve also been forbidden to talk about it even on their own time, and he was calling from somewhere else. He was trying to figure out how to get the real news out on vote fraud.”

– http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/...

This is what is happening in America folks. They are waiting it out, hoping we all go away like we did in 2000. This election was stolen and now mainstream media is in lockdown, denying you the truth. Keith Olbermann should be commended for breaking this open. Please send him thanks and encourage him to continue to be the sole voice of real journalism in a media that has all but abandoned us:

countdown@msnbc.com

We are not going anywhere this time. We have all fought hard for over a week now to try and get this into the mainstream media and finally it has happened. It cannot stop here though. We need to continue the barrage. Email all mainstream media personalities (except Fox). Demand from your representatives that they get on board with John Conyers in demanding an investigation BEFORE the elections are certified.

Thank you Keith Olbermann, you can teach Chris Matthews a thing or two about playing hardball. The truth must come out and we are not going anywhere this time.

Anthony Wade is co-administrator of www.ibtp.org , a website devoted to educating the populace to the ongoing lies of President George W. Bush and seeking his removal from office. He is a 37-year-old independent writer from New York with political commentary articles seen on multiple websites. A Christian progressive and professional Rehabilitation Counselor working with the poor and disabled, Mr. Wade believes that you can have faith and hold elected officials accountable for lies and excess. Anthony Wade’s Article Archive , Anthony Wade’s Blog
Email Anthony: takebacktheus@yahoo.com

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Forum posts

  • Here’s an audio of the show with Congressman Conyers

    http://news.globalfreepress.com/mp3/fraud04/fraud04.mp3

    Another audio about voting irregularities from Democracy Now with Bev Harris and Avi Ruben

    http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/1513252

  • Thank you thank you thank you Keith Olbermann. You’re my hero along with Randi Rhodes on airamerica.com. There are a bunch of us out here trying to drag people back into the fight...kind of like the tin and straw men trying to get Dorothy to wake up from the poppy field. It’s hard. We’re being told we’re sore losers. So people outside the US: please try to get YOUR press to cover this too. We’re being taken over here and it’s so scary. Support Bev Harris with a contribution at blackboxvoting.org and keep reading and reporting. Thank you to you bellaciao...you were one of the first sites this weekend that I found talking about this. Those darkest days last week made me feel like I was going crazy questioning this. Beverly McClain

    • Everyone needs to email Keith a kudos for having the guts to air this but we also need to email CNN,CBS,MSNBC,ABC and tell guys like Chris Matthews and Wolf Blitzer how sad they really are these days. As for Faux news we know they would never go near this thing. Kick it out people!!!

  • I cannot begin to tell you how elated so many of us have been with Olbermann’s coverage. His daily newsletters and his blog are excellent also. Go to: http://www.msnbc.com, click on MSNBC TV, and go to Olbermann’s blog and newsletter +++ his transcripts of his shows so you can see exactly what he said. More links below.

    My primary reason, though, in posting here is because I wish to apologize to all of you across the world for our failure to expunge the most odious and poorly run presidency, perhaps in history.

    I am so sorry. Who knows what this will mean for the globe.

    We really tried. But it wasn’t enough. I live in WA state, which voted for Kerry — but that’s no consolation.

    NEWS: Bev Harris of Black Box Voting fame is starting a new Web site today. She hopes to get recounts in many Ohio counties, and elsewhere. Ralph Nader is supporting her efforts, which is good because he’s a great consumer advocate.
    http://www.helpamericarecount.org

    — Susan at susanhu@earthlink.net

    See Olbermann’s blog, "Blogermann,": http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/
    See Olbermann’s transcript of 11/08: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6442857/

  • At last, one journalist who’s not playing dumb about Votergate. Why is the media so afraid to deal with the subject? Come on, lockdown in Warren County stemming up from the Department of Homeland Security, Florida’s democrats switching sides in huge proportions and so on. This is definitely not smelling good...

  • Fuck the South. Fuck ’em. We should have let them go when they wanted to leave. But no, we had to kill half a million people so they’d stay part of our special Union. Fighting for the right to keep slaves - yeah, those are states we want to keep.

    And now what do we get? We’re the fucking Arrogant Northeast Liberal Elite? How about this for arrogant: the South is the Real America? The Authentic America. Really?

    Cause we fucking founded this country, assholes. Those Founding Fathers you keep going on and on about? All that bullshit about what you think they meant by the Second Amendment giving you the right to keep your assault weapons in the glove compartment because you didn’t bother to read the first half of the fucking sentence? Who do you think those wig-wearing lacy-shirt sporting revolutionaries were? They were fucking blue-staters, dickhead. Boston? Philadelphia? New York? Hello? Think there might be a reason all the fucking monuments are up here in our backyard?

    No, No. Get the fuck out. We’re not letting you visit the Liberty Bell and fucking Plymouth Rock anymore until you get over your real American selves and start respecting those other nine amendments. Who do you think those fucking stripes on the flag are for? Nine are for fucking blue states. And it would be 10 if those Vermonters had gotten their fucking Subarus together and broken off from New York a little earlier. Get it? We started this shit, so don’t get all uppity about how real you are you Johnny-come-lately "Oooooh I’ve been a state for almost a hundred years" dickheads. Fuck off.

    Arrogant? You wanna talk about us Northeasterners being fucking arrogant? What’s more American than arrogance? Hmmm? Maybe horsies? I don’t think so. Arrogance is the fucking cornerstone of what it means to be American. And I wouldn’t be so fucking arrogant if I wasn’t paying for your fucking bridges, bitch.

    All those Federal taxes you love to hate? It all comes from us and goes to you, so shut up and enjoy your fucking Tennessee Valley Authority electricity and your fancy highways that we paid for. And the next time Florida gets hit by a hurricane you can come crying to us if you want to, but you’re the ones who built on a fucking swamp. "Let the Spanish keep it, it’s a shithole," we said, but you had to have your fucking orange juice.

    The next dickwad who says, "It’s your money, not the government’s money" is gonna get their ass kicked. Nine of the ten states that get the most federal fucking dollars and pay the least... can you guess? Go on, guess. That’s right, motherfucker, they’re red states. And eight of the ten states that receive the least and pay the most? It’s too easy, asshole, they’re blue states. It’s not your money, assholes, it’s fucking our money. What was that Real American Value you were spouting a minute ago? Self reliance? Try this for self reliance: buy your own fucking stop signs, assholes.

    Let’s talk about those values for a fucking minute. You and your Southern values can bite my ass because the blue states got the values over you fucking Real Americans every day of the goddamn week. Which state do you think has the lowest divorce rate you marriage-hyping dickwads? Well? Can you guess? It’s fucking Massachusetts, the fucking center of the gay marriage universe. Yes, that’s right, the state you love to tie around the neck of anyone to the left of Strom Thurmond has the lowest divorce rate in the fucking nation. Think that’s just some aberration? How about this: 9 of the 10 lowest divorce rates are fucking blue states, asshole, and most are in the Northeast, where our values suck so bad. And where are the highest divorce rates? Care to fucking guess? 10 of the top 10 are fucking red-ass we’re-so-fucking-moral states. And while Nevada is the worst, the Bible Belt is doing its fucking part.

    But two guys making out is going to fucking ruin marriage for you? Yeah? Seems like you’re ruining it pretty well on your own, you little bastards. Oh, but that’s ok because you go to church, right? I mean you do, right? Cause we fucking get to hear about it every goddamn year at election time. Yes, we’re fascinated by how you get up every Sunday morning and sing, and then you’re fucking towers of moral superiority. Yeah, that’s a workable formula. Maybe us fucking Northerners don’t talk about religion as much as you because we’re not so busy sinning, hmmm? Ever think of that, you self-righteous assholes? No, you’re too busy erecting giant stone tablets of the Ten Commandments in buildings paid for by the fucking Northeast Liberal Elite. And who has the highest murder rates in the nation? It ain’t us up here in the North, assholes.

    Well this gravy train is fucking over. Take your liberal-bashing, federal-tax-leaching, confederate-flag-waving, holier-than-thou, hypocritical bullshit and shove it up your ass.

    And no, you can’t have your fucking convention in New York next time. Fuck off.

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    • I couldn’t agree with you more! If the "blue" America didn’t civilize the "red" America, they would be one more underdeveloped country in the world. Maybe there would still be slavery there... Who knows?! And look what’s happening now. Instead of being grateful for what we did and helping the United States move on, they keep fuc**** our lives everyday with their war midget! Why are they so worried about terrorism? They weren’t attacked. We were! Do they really think Al Qaeda will attack any of the so called red states? Come on, they’re too insignificant for them! And then there’s also the values stuff... How dare they keep saying we’ve got no values when, in fact, we taught them our values! If you ask me, we created a monster and now we have to deal with it...

    • Grateful?! You personally are taking credit for all the US accomplishments to date? ROTFLMAO! Somebody quick, give the man a fake peace prize with 1 million dollars of monopoly money so that he won’t feel we’re such ingrates.

    • If that’s all you can deliver, I’ll accept it gladly! But let me tell you something, a fake peace prize and 1 million dollars of monopoly money sound better than what you have given us lately, I mean, that fuc**** war midget!

  • Ann Coulter just handed Keith his ASS. I am sorry Keith is so stupid. I am sorry he is so aggresive about deomonstrating his stuipidity in public. Maybe he should just be stupid as possible at home and then he could be only mildly stupid on his stupid show.

    But then, I would only have the stupid Bill Maher show to watch.

    Keith, you stupid bastard, go back to ESPN, where NO NUTHIN jackoffs like you can spout opinions about shit that does not really matter.

    Maybe that would let you be less stupid than your stupid ass stupidity allows you to stupidly be.

    • I have to agree with me.

      Doesn’t anyone on this site see the sickness of your rush to praise, and agree with, a retooled sportscaster whose knowledge of reality is limited and whose rhetorical strengths are those of the "boo yah" "he could go all the way" "the frozen TUNDRA of Lambeau field" and simliar ESPN jackoff catch phrases

      Blue State Losers should admit what they are — it is easy — YOU ARE BLUE STATE LOSERS.

      My great fear after the election was that the Blue State Dumb Shits would GET IT — but they obviously don’T

      I encourage you to continue your masturbatory orgy of denial.

      It makes me happy for 2008.

      Long live Stupid Keith.

      Long Live Pig Face Michael Moore.

      Loing Live Dan Rather.

      Long live denial and conspiracy theories!!!!!!!

  • kudos to keith! tell him to ask the BIG 64,000 dollar question..Sen. hagel is part owner of the voting machines (ES&S) and failed to disclose it. He had to step down from senate ethics committee because of it but is still in office years after the fact. furthermore, papa bush senior of carlyle group and monsanto fame were BIG backers in his 2000 senate run. I smell fish. check out hagels campaign contributors in 2000..rats breed!