Headline of the week
January 09, 2009 12:09 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
"Al Franken stole the election? Prove it or shut up"
It's from Joe Conason's piece in Salon:
These [right-wing] media figures, some of whom occasionally pretend to be journalists, have spewed such accusations repeatedly, without offering any proof whatsoever -- in plain contradiction of the available facts. Not only is there no evidence that Franken or his campaign "cheated" in any way during the election or the recount, but there is ample reason to believe that the entire process was fair, balanced and free from partisan taint.
I think the People of Minnesota should be proud, and should even take a bow, that they successfully counted and recounted their U.S. Senate ballot, and did so without being intimidated pressured or confused by any of the attempts from outside of Minnesota, to do just that, and to maybe confound their recount (like what happened in Florida 2000).
I think the rest of us too, should feel good about the fact that we took no leering peeping busy-body nosy interest in Minnesota's recount, and instead simply waited for the good People of that State to finish this business, uninterrupted and without harrassment.
I think everybody learned a lesson from Florida 2000: that a State's count and recount and ultimate Certification of their ballot, is their own business. And that no pressure should be allowed to bear on that State, either from the rotten putrid privately-owned and controlled national media (with it's own private agenda), or from the Federal government even, the SCOTUS or any other Federal Court included (Anton Scalia especially).
This is the way it's supposed to work. Minnesota stands now as a textbook example of how to shut out all people and all things that are not Minnesota, while they take the time to recount and Certify their own ballot, and get it right. This example now stands in opposition, to the circus that Florida 200 became, under the pressures and influence of the national filthy rotten media, and under the influences of a whole train of private interests who were not residents of Florida (Anton Scalia and the SCOTUS most notably).
And I'm sure the rotten foul national media is terribly frustrated at their impotence in trying to confound the Minnesota recount. I think they must hate the fact that we learned from Florida 2000, and that we have shut them out of the Minnesota recount, as we should have done in Florida back then.
Good. Anything that pizzes them off, delights me... and any impotence of theirs, is just power of ours: because that's all that they do anyway, is to try and deceive us as to our real and true power in these things, and steal elections from us in the process.