BLACKBOX JEOPARDY! I demand Bev Harris investigate!!

[ShaneGR]

I've narrowed it down to three reasons Ken Jennings knows every damn thing, and answers every single question.

#1: They've given him the answers before the shows.

#2: They temporarilly disable the answer buttons of the other contestants.

#3: Ken Jennings is actually a computer cyborg, programmed to know everything.




And one possible fourth answer:

Ken Jennings is the anti-christ.

[flying_blind]

1. Greg Palast: "Kerry Won"

(Pardon me reposting this important link twice more, Mods)


Kerry won. Here are the facts.

I know you don't want to hear it. You can't face one more hung chad. But I don't have a choice. As a journalist examining that messy sausage called American democracy, it's my job to tell you who got the most votes in the deciding states. Tuesday, in Ohio and New Mexico, it was John Kerry.

Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. At 1:05 a.m. Wednesday morning, CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. The exit polls were later combined with—and therefore contaminated by—the tabulated results, ultimately becoming a mirror of the apparent actual vote. Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.

So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial, question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.

Here's why. Although the exit polls show that most voters in Ohio punched cards for Kerry-Edwards, thousands of these votes were simply not recorded. This was predictable and it was predicted.

Once again, at the heart of the Ohio uncounted vote game are, I'm sorry to report, hanging chads and pregnant chads, plus some other ballot tricks old and new.

The election in Ohio was not decided by the voters but by something called "spoilage." Typically in the United States, about 3 percent of the vote is voided, just thrown away, not recorded. When the bobble-head boobs on the tube tell you Ohio or any state was won by 51 percent to 49 percent, don't you believe it ... it has never happened in the United States, because the total never reaches a neat 100 percent. The television totals simply subtract out the spoiled vote.

The eclusive Palast report in the USA: http://www.tompaine.com/articles/kerry_won_.php

[ShaneGR]

3. FUCK THAT! I want to talk about Ken Jennings!!!

I hate him, almost as much as Bush!

BTW, das ist die lounge.

[flying_blind]

4. My bad - did not mean to reply to this thread!!

And yeah - this guy = Friggin Genius!

How does he do it?

He could not possibly be that smart and be a Repug could he?

[Spinzonner]

2. Maybe he uses the same tailor as Shrub