Six Years After 'Gore's Victory'

[kster]

By Robert Parry
November 12, 2007 (Originally published November 12, 2001)


Editor’s Note: Six years ago on another Veterans Day holiday, eight news organizations published the findings of their unofficial recount of Florida’s disputed ballots. The recount had discovered that Al Gore would have won the decisive Florida election if all legally cast votes were counted.

However, just two months after the 9/11 attacks, the news organizations chose to conceal the obvious “Gore Won” lead, apparently putting their sense of “patriotism” over journalistic professionalism.

Rather than tell already-shaken Americans that the wrong man was in the White House, the big news outlets – including the New York Times, the Washington Post and CNN – structured their stories around hypothetical recounts that would have excluded some legal votes and thus still would have resulted in a Bush “victory.”

To further protect Bush’s “legitimacy” amid the 9/11 crisis, the news organizations mocked those who challenged these carefully structured stories as “Gore partisans” or “conspiracy theorists.”

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/111207a.html

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. But, but...Gore lost...I read it on DU!

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Oh, and :sarcasm:

[Blashyrkh]

2. And this remains the rug to be pulled out November whatever.