August Harper's article: "None Dare Call It Stolen"!!!!

[Stevepol]

This is an update of an earlier post by AtLiberty about the article as reported on in the Free Press.

The article's sub-title is "Ohio, the Election, and America's Servile Press" and that's the real focus of the article.

The mag is out now and the article, by Mark Crispin Miller, is a real looloo. I don't think it's available on the IT, but I'd suggest everybody interested in election reform buy the mag and support Harper's, maybe get a subscription if you can afford it. Lewis Lapham, editor, has been from the beginning one of the few journalists who could see the truth and was unafraid to write about it. There's also a topnotch article "The Christian Paradox: How a Faithful Nation Gets Jesus Wrong" by Bill McKibben about the religious right in America and its effect on politics.

A few highlights from the article:

After detailing the oddities of the 04 election, that is, that Bush could supposedly win by 3,000,176 votes when so many other demographic and other factors were stacked against him, Miller says:

"The press has had little to say about most of the strange dteails of the election -- except, that is, to ridicule all efforts to discuss them. This animus appeared soon after Nov 2, in a spate of caustic articles dismissing any critical discussion of the outcome as crazed speculation: 'Election paranoia surfaces: Conspiracy theorists call results rigged,' chuckled the BALTIMORE SUN on Nov 5. 'Internet Buzz on Vote Fraud is Dismissed,' proclaimed the BOSTON GLOBE on Nov 5. 'Latest Conspiracy Theory -- Kerry Won -- Hits the Ether,' the WASHINGTON POST chortled on Nov 11. The NEW YORK TIMES weighed in with 'Vote fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried' -- making mock not only of the 'post-election theorizing' but of cyberspace itself, the fins et origo of all such loony tunes, according to the Times.

snip

The final paragraph gives a hint of the focus:

"In this nation's epic struggle on behalf of freedom, reason, and democracy, the press has unilaterally disarmed -- and therefore many good Americans, both liberal and conservative, have lost faith in the promise of self-government. That vast surrender is demoralizing, certainly, but if we face it, and endeavor to reverse it, it will not prove fatal. This democracy can survive a plot to hijack an election. What it cannot survive is our indifference to, or unawareness of, the evidence that such a plot has succeeded."

[Melodybe]

1. Awesome! Big kick!

[Vincardog]

2. I have called it stolen since Nov. 2. Kicked and Nominated.

[juajen]

3. I'm certainly demoralized

I know it's what they want, but it seems we are blocked at every turn and I am tired of butting my head against a brick wall.

I hope I'll be better soon, but I'm still heartbroken over this last theft, and so many other things, i.e., the arm-twisting CAFTA vote, etc.

[Time for change]

4. I must see that article n/t

[mod mom]

5. Finally some press at the national level. Went out + bought 5 copies to

leave in public places. Once the sheeple find out the details of rove/plame/Iraq War this story will fully come out. There will be a ton of people going down when it does!

[i miss america]

6. The article is about his forthcoming book which comes out in October

Details here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465045790/qid%3D1121112021





:kick:

[kster]

7. KICK.NT

[tgnyc]

8. Kick

[WhoWantsToBeOccupied]

9. Hooray for Harper's!!!

THANK YOU, Harper's, for actually doing what the media purports to do... research and report important news!

Their homepage currently spotlights another insightful article... "Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that 'God helps those who help themselves.' ...Asking Christians what Christ taught isn’t a trick... America is simultaneously the most professedly Christian of the developed nations and the least Christian in its behavior."

I nearly subscribed six months ago. I'm signing up now!

[freedomfries]

10. KICK

[Tuesday_Morning]

11. Re: the dismissive tone of the press...

The headline in the Miami Herald on Nov. 3 was:

"No Doubt This Time"

That's been stuck in my mind as a really disgusting piece of propaganda.

[intheflow]

12. And another kick!

155 years of liberal thought. Harper's rocks!

[Fly by night]

13. Just spoke w/ a Harper's editor. MCM excerpt will be on-line Monday

and the full article will be posted in about three weeks. The editor said that Harper's is getting TONS of positive feedback for the article.

Ya'll keep buying out the August issue at all your local newsstands and subscribing to Harper's.
(Less than $15/year -- cheap.)

[Stevepol]

15. Any magazine or newspaper or public figure that picks up this issue

and runs with it will have the same rush of interest that greeted Howard Dean when he had the guts to come out swinging against the illegal and immoral war in Iraq.

I believe Harper's will get flooded in money and subscriptions up to the gills as long as they stay on the hunt.

Lapham has mentioned the fraud a number of times and made it clear what side he's on, but the August issue is the first time he's really come out swinging. Earlier versions of the article by MCM have been on line and posted on DU in the past. Maybe we could set up an underground information railroad between DU and the Harper's editorial office.

It would be really great if Harper's would make this a number one priority in every issue, one or two articles about it every month. It wouldn't be long before these deaf and dumb Democratics would begin to sit up and take notice.

Look where the money and political currents are flowing, baby. That could be yours if you had enough guts to take a stand.

[mom cat]

14. E-mailed around!...Great!

[jarnocan]

16. thnaks for kicking this and PDA letter- to support HR550

http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/bills/?bill=6979696 also here is a list of many PDA and many of our concerns we can take action on...https://ssl.capwiz.com/pdamerica/mail/gateway/s1122693818/ I know most of Ya'll have it but if not here ya go.

[Fly by night]

17. kick

[dchill]

18. Stolen is as stolen does -

my mama always used to say.

They'll do it again in 2006 - mark my words. It's the only way they can possibly "win" the House or Senate.