Wednesday, November 03, 2004
"During Election Day, the Times...conducted exit polling. Those polls query voters as to their choices when they leave polling stations.
"A veteran New York Times U.N. correspondent of 30 years conveniently... repeated the "prediction" several times throughout Election Day (that Kerry would win the 2004 election), though official paper policy was not to disclose such results till after polls closed.
"...When John Kerry conceded the election late Wednesday morning, the Times ignored the story...(and) let its edition from 6 a.m. local time remain as its final edition for the day... (with the) headline "Bush Holds Lead - Kerry Refuses to Concede Tight Race."
"Times readers were forced to wait almost 19 hours to be informed that John Kerry had conceded."
From Peggy Noonan:
"George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.
"...The president received more than 59 million votes, breaking Ronald Reagan's old record of 54.5 million...
"Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? ...I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America.
"It was Agincourt."
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Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Begrudgingly-hee, it can editorially emerge,
even in the Bush is Bad New-hoos:
"Those whose candidate was defeated yesterday, and that includes this page, must recognize (the) political reality and figure out how to deal with it. It's a profound challenge.....
"We entered this election season discouraged, as usual, by the caliber of the candidates running for president. As time went on, we were forced to admit - perhaps a little grudgingly - that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry shared the steely discipline and self-possession that are critical requirements for the most difficult job on the planet."
Anybody hungry?
"A veteran New York Times U.N. correspondent of 30 years conveniently... repeated the "prediction" several times throughout Election Day (that Kerry would win the 2004 election), though official paper policy was not to disclose such results till after polls closed.
"...When John Kerry conceded the election late Wednesday morning, the Times ignored the story...(and) let its edition from 6 a.m. local time remain as its final edition for the day... (with the) headline "Bush Holds Lead - Kerry Refuses to Concede Tight Race."
"Times readers were forced to wait almost 19 hours to be informed that John Kerry had conceded."
From Peggy Noonan:
"George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate and the House and to increase his own vote (by over 3.5 million) since Franklin D. Roosevelt, political genius of the 20th century, in 1936.
"...The president received more than 59 million votes, breaking Ronald Reagan's old record of 54.5 million...
"Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? ...I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America.
"It was Agincourt."
*******************
Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Begrudgingly-hee, it can editorially emerge,
even in the Bush is Bad New-hoos:
"Those whose candidate was defeated yesterday, and that includes this page, must recognize (the) political reality and figure out how to deal with it. It's a profound challenge.....
"We entered this election season discouraged, as usual, by the caliber of the candidates running for president. As time went on, we were forced to admit - perhaps a little grudgingly - that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry shared the steely discipline and self-possession that are critical requirements for the most difficult job on the planet."
Anybody hungry?
