So let me get this straight. The wife of a Presidential candidate

[rzemanfl]

says the election was stolen and it's not news. We are supposed to believe that a Toyota was going a hundred miles an hour on the "most dangerous road in Iraq" at night, in the rain, and is shot up, killing a passenger and yet does not crash.

Can somebody explain? If the wife of the losing Presidential candidate in Botswana said the election was stolen it would be all over the U.S. news. The military's version of the behavior of the Italians would be like paying a million dollars for a vase and then walking home with it balanced on your head.

Is there not one soul in the media with the courage to say the word bullshit?

[Cuban_Liberal]

1. There's the small matter of proof, unfortunately.

:shrug:

[BigBearJohn]

2. Lack of proof never stopped the MSM from spreading pug lies

[Junkdrawer]

4. You mean the stuff they find in investigations?

Haven't you heard? Only Bush-sanctioned investigations are permitted in Single Party Amerika.

[rzemanfl]

6. I don't think proof is an element of whether something is news.

Are the Italians supposed to "prove" they weren't going one hundred miles an hour in the rain in the dark in a Toyota?

[atreides1]

7. It's more a matter of a media that has been bought and paid for

With the "media" as it is, finding someone who has the courage to actually look for the proof is where the real problem lies.

Most of the media will not question what the military says, for fear of being called anti-soldier or losing their job, just ask the guy who recently resigned from CNN.

[MenofWar04]

9. It's been on the news

but only to make fun of her. She was asked in Seattle if she had any evidence or proof and she said no, maybe that's why.

[Zenlitened]

3. And yet, every smear, allegation, and "some say" speculation...

... directed at a Dem is picked up, amplified, analyzed, scrutinized and LEGITIMIZED by what passes for our news media on a daily basis.

[whistle]

5. Propaganda and control of public opinion....

....Joseph Goebbels Communication 101.

[applegrove]

8. The election was stolen through "fixing" emotion in the voters too.

There is bullshit all over the place. Do not concentrate on the details in one area (an election day). The crap is everywhere. To get out of the pile of garbage you have to take a step back and look at the broader patterns. Then you nail them on that. Because that is where the truth is easier to see. The truth of their ruthless and heinous ways.

[sandnsea]

10. Actually, she didn't say that

She said she doesn't trust the system, which is not the same as saying the election was stolen. For her to accuse the Republicans of stealing an election would be libel and she's not that stupid.

COUNTING THE VOTES: Heinz Kerry is openly skeptical about results from November's election, particularly in sections of the country where optical scanners were used to record votes.

"Two brothers own 80 percent of the machines used in the United States," Heinz Kerry said. She identified both as "hard-right" Republicans. She argued that it is "very easy to hack into the mother machines."

"We in the United States are not a banana republic," added Heinz Kerry. She argued that Democrats should insist on "accountability and transparency" in how votes are tabulated.

"I fear for '06," she said. "I don't trust it the way it is right now."

[rzemanfl]

11. You're right, but the implication is there. I don't think a person

can "libel" a political party, but she didn't say "stolen." Funny how folks on DU are careful about precision in language while the Repugs lie their heads off with complete disdain.

[sandnsea]

12. I don't want Teresa in more hot water

It doesn't help her to have people putting words in her mouth. If she wanted to say "Bush stole the election", she would have. She didn't. Don't put words in her mouth.

Has not one thing to do with Republican lies or anything else.

[rzemanfl]

13. She said what she said. n/t

[lonestarnot]

14. STOP WATCHING THE SHIT! Encourage people to stop watching

every chance you get! Offer alternatives....

[rzemanfl]

15. I watch 5 minutes of CNN in the morning to see if the World is

coming to an end and I can stay home from work. That's it. I get most of my news from the paper and the net. Even the net was almost deviod of comment about Teresa Kerry's comments which I exaggerated to "stolen" and I have been chastised for that. I am interested that no one has commented on the sheer unbelievability of the 100 mile an hour story.

[lonestarnot]

16. I don't know what is wrong with people either...The only way news going

to pay attention is sweeps ratings etc...stop watching 5 minutes and turn on AAR in am instead of CNN

[rzemanfl]

17. Don't get it here except on my PC and by the time I'd boot up and

get online I'd be late for work.

[lonestarnot]

18. Darn, wonder if you could get it on a shortwave radio? They're cheap

and you could always use it for when we get nuked.

[rzemanfl]

19. I have a shortwave. Never tried. Thinking about satellite radio

but hate the thought of another monthly bill.

If we get nuked I'd rather listen to CD's.

[lonestarnot]

21. I have a short wave radio... wish I had a mars station...I'd do some

bootlegg broadcasting lol might even sing my messages...liked Michael Moore in the icecream truck... Shortwave radio at radioshack about $25.00 to $30.00 and will charge it's own battery.

[alfredo]

20. Remember, a front tire was shot out.

Of course the driver was Italian, such conditions are child's play to them. He was probably steering with his knees so he could comb his hair while talking on his cellphone.

[lonestarnot]

22. Whose front tire was shot out? n/t

[alfredo]

26. The car carrying the journalist and her rescuers.

Look at the pictures of the car

[Malingerer]

23. maybe...

The soldiers shot at the car because people have been driving car bombs into checkpoints and killing the soldiers guarding them.....

:shrug:

Just a thought.

[ultraist]

24. Or maybe...

SOMEBODY ordered them to "warn" the Italians and the world NOT to defy the US. They knew they were coming through that checkpoint.

[Paintedlady]

25. It made the news in Sweden

http://aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,614672,00.html

Not a big article, but better than nothing.
My translation;

Kerry's Wife Blames Election Fraud

New York. The Republican cheated to get the election victory in last years presidential election in the USA.
That is according to the wife of george bush's opponent.
Theresa Heinz Kerry, who is known for speaking her mind, believes the computers that was used in some districts were hacked.
At a meeting in Boston she said - 80 percent of the machines are owned by hardcore republicans and the system is very easy to get in to.

[GetTheRightVote]

27. Thank you for spreading the word around the world

:kick: