Jim Lampley's response to Byron Yorks idiotic comparison ...

[Roxy66]

Byron York is such a jerk......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/2005/05/with-apologies-to-byron-y.html

05.10.2005 Jim Lampley

With Apologies to Byron York
In an attempt to refute the logic of my previous post about the stolen Presidential election of 2004, Byron York compares the handicapping of the Kentucky Derby to oddsmakers' responses to the exit polls which demonstrated John Kerry was the actual winner on November 4. This is typical neocon disingenuity, a shunt designed to ignore the real question.

Handicapping a horse race is sophisticated alchemy, the highest form of tea-leaf reading but tea-leaf reading nevertheless. To compare the data in the Daily Racing Form directly to the kind of scientifically disciplined information that comes from time-honored exit polls is intellectual garbage and York knows enough to know that.

Did Rep. Conyers' hearings on ballot irregularities truly "fail" to turn up useful evidence of tampering, or did Republicans both in Ohio and on Capitol Hill successfully (at least for the time being)obfuscate, disinform and discredit the earth-shaking charge that a Presidential election was criminally currupted? Hey, what's the point of controlling both houses of Congress if you can't use that for the ultimate Machiavellian insurance?

York's posting proves nothing. Neither, for that matter, does mine, but I think I know who is warmer. What is needed is for legitimate news media, whether old style or new age, to commit to the investigative process of getting to the bottom of what happened in November. At this point in 1973 Watergate was still a brewing story, Alexander Butterfield was months away from revealing to Senate investigators that there was an audio-taping system in the Oval Office. But the truth emerged. So too will it emerge here, if only the fourth estate will do its job.

Byron York won't scare me off. Not with lightweight stuff like that.

[bertha katzenengel]

1. Is this the same Jim Lampley who used to do TV sports news out of L.A.?

If so: Dude. You've come a long way.

[Roxy66]

2. Yes!!!!!

[Mojambo]

3. My sentiments are the same

As a sportscaster I always got the impression that he was kind of a tool. Boy did I misread him.

[frylock]

4. he's always held a progressive point of view ..

sometimes he will guest host The Jim Rome Show and get a few barbs off at bushco. When Rome took a week off right before the election, Lampley told him he couldn't host the show because he felt he wouldn't have been able to hold his tongue.

[Amaryllis]

5. kick

[kster]

6. Maybe Jim Lampley

should challenge Byron,by writing an article asking for full investigation into 2004 election and challenge Byron to do the same.If Byron believes he is right he shouldn't be afraid to ask for an investigation to prove it..

[TruthIsAll]

7. Jim Lampley, welcome aboard the Truth Train.

You ought to call Christopher Hitchens from Vanity Fair who often appears on the (M)oronic (S)creeching (N)onsensical (B)ushit (C)rap network.

And don't forget Robert Koehler of the Chicago Tribune.