Novak: "the Indians stole" South Dakota's 2002 Senate election

[wicket]

http://mediamatters.org/items/200411010011

On the October 30 edition of CNN's The Capital Gang, panelist Robert D. Novak claimed that "the Indians stole the election" for U.S. Senate in South Dakota in 2002. As Media Matters for America has noted, South Dakota's attorney general -- a Republican -- dismissed allegations of election fraud after incumbent U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) narrowly defeated his challenger, U.S. Representative John Thune (R-SD) and called the affidavits that supported the Republican charges "flat false."

This is the third time Novak has made the discredited allegation. In January, Novak drew fire from South Dakota's Republican governor, the chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party, and the manager of Thune's 2004 Senate campaign for making similar claims. On the January 6 edition of CNN's Crossfire, Novak stated that South Dakota's 2002 U.S. Senate "election was stolen by stuffing ballot boxes on Indian reservations" and admitted to calling Native Americans "election thieves".

According to a January 8 report in the Rapid City Journal, when South Dakota's Republican Governor Mike Rounds was "asked whether he found Novak's statements offensive, Rounds replied, 'I find it ignorant.'" Thune's campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, stated, "Robert Novak's comments were inappropriate and certainly do not reflect John Thune's commitment to work hard for the Native American vote in 2004." Wadhams also said that Novak's "accusation overall is just off the mark." State GOP Chairman Randy Frederick called Novak's statements "appalling" and "insane."

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God, this man makes me so sick!!!!!

[Zensea]

1. and we stole the Indian's Land

or is that just too obvious a response?

[cheezus]

6. the land theft is nothing compared to the GENOCIDE

nobody ever mentions the ethnic cleansing that WE did

[tjdee]

2. Agent Plame?? What?

Nofacts needs to be in JAIL, much less bitching about people voting.

I mean, I know he's a Republican and all, and they don't much like "those people" voting, but geez.

[porphyrian]

3. novak's a fucking traitor.

Who gives a fuck what he has to say.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Why isn't Novakula in jail yet?

[WI_DEM]

5. Aw, shut the F*CK up, Nofacts

[DuctapeFatwa]

7. Deport them

[OneTwentyoNine]

8. Awww....go glue your eyebrows back on Novak....

Piece of shit.....

[PROGRESSIVE1]

9. Traitor to America Novak should shut his mouth!

Novak is a racist to say that American Indians excersising their right to vote is equivalent to stealing votes. This is the type of shit that existed in the 60's. Sadly, it's still here.

:argh:

[denverbill]

10. As usual, Republicans play fast and loose with facts.

In 2002, there was a minor scandal because someone hired by the Democratic party to register voters tryed to make more money by forging some registrations (defrauding the Democratic party) and Republicans called it 'vote fraud'. It doesn't matter to them that nobody voted illegally because of what that person did. In their tiny little brains, the mere fact that there was some peripheral fraud involving the Democratic party is rock solid proof the Democrats stuffed the ballot box and stole the election.

Meanwhile, Republicans are throwing away voter registration forms of Democrats, purging eligible voters from voter rolls, and doing everything in their power to prevent people from voting.

[Ladyhawk]

11. How long must we listen to this douchebag for freedom? nt

[gratuitous]

12. In Republican Fantasyland . . .

Voting for the other guy and having those votes counted and total more than the Republican dickhead means that you stole the election. When a court-ordered and law-mandated recount is short-circuited by the most partisan and unconstitutional decision ever handed down by the Supreme Court installs your monkey in office, that's good clean politics!

I still haven't ascertained whether a lobotomy is required to register Republican, or if the mere promise that you'll get one within 90 days is sufficient.