"all the news that's fit to print"-- aint always the news that fits in print

So when the "traditional" media could no longer ignore the internet web bloggers and alternative online media unamimously screaming a loud and ugly cry of "FRAUD " concerning the theft of the presidency on nov 2 by george dubya bush , the good old boys finally decided it was time for a spin...enter stage right wing ---the good old new "yoke" times.


Vote Fraud Theories, Spread by Blogs, Are Quickly Buried
By TOM ZELLER Jr. / NY Times

The e-mail messages and Web postings had all the twitchy cloak-and-dagger thrust of a Hollywood blockbuster. "Evidence mounts that the vote may have been hacked," trumpeted a headline on the Web site CommonDreams.org. "Fraud took place in the 2004 election through electronic voting machines," declared BlackBoxVoting.org.

In the space of seven days, an online market of dark ideas surrounding last week's presidential election took root and multiplied.

But while the widely read universe of Web logs was often blamed for the swift propagation of faulty analyses, the blogosphere, as it has come to be known, spread the rumors so fast that experts were soon able to debunk them, rather than allowing them to linger and feed conspiracy theories. Within days of the first rumors of a stolen election, in fact, the most popular theories were being proved wrong - though many were still reluctant to let them go.

no need to post the whole pile of manure , but i think you get the gist from a "whiff" of it ...we're all a bunch of hair-trigger , shoot from the lip, paranoid loonies who need to be under a "net" rather than on the net bitching and moaning about "aliens" and vast rightwinged conspiracies to steal elections , loot the public treasury , wage civilian-slaughtering petro-wars for bogus reasons and at home disenfranchise the voters in order to steal elections and continue the rightwing -extremist agenda ...

anyway ,the zeller article goes on to quote one idiot in particular smugly trying to spin away the members of alternative internet media ...an idiot whose name rang a bell because of some of the reading i had been doing while following the heroic attempts of the people in america to reclaim their rights to choose their leadership... the name of one matthew damschroder to be particular...

"It becomes a snowball of hearsay," said Matthew Damschroder, the director of elections in Columbus, Ohio, where an electronic voting machine malfunctioned in one precinct and allotted some 4,000 votes to President Bush, kicking off its own flurry of Web speculation. That particular problem was unusual and remains unexplained, but it was caught and corrected, Mr. Damschroder said.

"Some from the traditional media have called for an explanation," he said, "but no one from these blogs has called and said, 'We want to know what really happened.' "

---ny times article


so as i mentioned , while reading the zeller ny times article the name matthew damschroder struck a memory chord ...which led me to dig up this concerning the smug-ass mr damschroder from free press.org

"In Franklin County, where Franklin County Board of Elections Director Matt Damschroder is also the former Executive Director of the county’s Republican Party, the county Board of Elections building looked like a bunker. Scores of city buses blocked parking spaces on the street outside, numerous concrete barricades surrounded the parking lot, and a metal detector was stationed at the only entrance. A phalanx of armed deputy sheriffs swarmed the only site where provisional voters could cast a guaranteed ballot. The Columbus Dispatch confirmed an Election Day Free Press story that far fewer voting machines were present in predominantly black Democratic inner-city voting wards than in the recent primary election and the 2000 presidential election, with their lighter turnouts. The reduced number of machines caused voters to wait up to seven hours and wait an average of approximately three hours. One Republican Central Committee member told the Free Press that Damschroder held back as many as 2000 machines and dispersed many of the other machines to affluent suburbs in Franklin County."--free press.org article



ANY BLIND MAN CAN SEE "WHAT REALLY HAPPENED" ! And until i see otherwise , FUCK Matt Damschroder and FUCK the shitbag New York Times and the rest of the 'traditional' media for abandoning their vital responsibility by continually barfing up on command, like trained dogs, the REPLUTOCRATIC PARTY's official party line .

media in a democracy is supposed to be the people's advocate by being the advocates of transparency and honesty .

they are supposed to ask the hard questions...

instead we have a bunch of media-lapdogs and news anchor yes-men masquerading as honest messengers who swallow whatever slop they are fed by government in order to spin away the common sense of the public...

NOTHING i have seen has convinced me other than that the nov 2nd election was stolen by republican voter suppression and fucked up voting machines that across the country were recording kerry votes as bush votes...also nothing i've seen says otherwise than that votes in key areas where there was no paper trail were being tabulated by central computers that a highschool kid could hack into.