NYTs Reports Illegal Florida Voter Purge - Three Years After Killing Story

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NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS ILLEGAL FLORIDA VOTE PURGE ... THREE YEARS AFTER KILLING STORY
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Monday, February 16, 2004

The New York Times has uncovered Katherine Harris' wipe out of thousands of voters ... only three years after killing the story exposed by the BBC TV and the Guardian. Here, 'News Dissector' Schechter, formerly of ABC's 20/20, asks how the Times could editorialize on a story they never ran in the first place. And note the Times still can't bring itself to say that the color of illegally purged voters is ... Black.


by Danny Schechter

The New York Times lead editorial Sunday was about "How America Doesn’t Vote." It featured proposals for many reforms to guarantee Americans the right to vote and to have that vote counted. Its lead paragraph has as its second sentence:

”In 2000, the American public saw in Katherine Harris’s massive purge eligible voters in Florida, how easy it is for registered voters to lose their rights by bureaucratic fiat.” The editorial goes on to quote the US Civil Rights commission’s findings documenting how people falsely designated as felons were struck from the polls.” When I read this, I called investigative journalist Greg Palast to read it to him. Greg appeared in Counting on Democracy, a film I directed on the voting debacle in Florida. He was the first top journalist to report on the voter fraud, but not in the United States, oh no, but on the BBC in England.

“What? “ he shouted at me on the phone.” You must be kidding.” He couldn’t believe it because the New York Times refused to carry the story at the time when it might have done some good. It didn’t even report on the Civil Rights Commission’s findings it references in the editorial, only on Republican OBJECTIONS to those findings.

You would think that the “MASSIVE PURGE” they cite in 2004 might have been news fit to print back in 2000. The Washington Post carried Greg’s article on the subject but not until June 2001. The NATION ran it and followups earlier. CBS News wouldn’t run it, Greg was told by a staffer, because Harris office denied it. Huh?

Continues: http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=314&row=0

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. I wasn't "fit to print" until now

Now that the establishment wants Bush gone, it's fit to print.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. Exactly n/t

n/t

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. i just feel like....

:puke:ing

[kaitykaity]

4. Maybe this will go the same path as the AWOL story?

Just get hotter and hotter and hotter? Here's hoping.

[buycitgo]

5. yeah.....look where that one's currently going

and can you imagine what would have happened in 92-2000 if Hilary had called the chairman of the GOP a LIAR, as Laura did McAuliffe the other day?

just think of the outrage that would have caused in the good old days, when the media took EVERY word of the WH as the most craven concoction ever uttered, while deriding any assertion of a "witchhunt" (as the heavily medicated pickles calls the inquiry into her husbands failure to do his duty during time of war) as the delusional ravings of a guilty party

again, where's the fricking media?

too busy looking for interns or dangerous homosexual married couples under every bed?

[kaitykaity]

6. The AWOL story got mentioned on all four of the

Sunday gasbag pundit shows this morning. This story
hasn't gone away 'yet'. Not so long as Terry MacAuliffe
has anything to say about it.

[sangha]

7. Yep, and it will keep emerging

as the campaign goes forward. During the 70's, Watergoate would sometimes disappear from the headlines, but that didn't stop it from resulting in Nixon's resignation.

Patience, grasshoppers. Remember "Drip, drip, drip"

[Wapsie B]

8. Stupid question here.

If the voter fraud can be proven, why doesn't this fact negate the entire election? Never mind impeachment proceedings. Why isn't this alone enough to remove chimpy from office right now?

[sangha]

9. Because then every election would be negated

There's some fraud in every election. If fraud negated elections, we'd never have any