FOX NEWS Demonstrates & Exposes The Princeton / Diebold Story

[kpete]

FOX NEWS exposes the Princeton / Diebold story

Imagine my shock to find out today that none other than FOX News had Professor Ed Felten & his team actually demonstrating their study to their right-wing audience!!!



VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JESZiLpBLE

via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/17/33710/0640

[GCP]

1. Just so that those nasty libs don't go stealing any elections

On those new-fangled electronic voting machines! :evilgrin:
Seriously - that's how it'll be spun.

[lostnotforgotten]

2. Maybe OK If It Gets Them Up In Arms

Better to have them deluded into thinking that they are preventing stolen elections for the wrong reasons than no reason at all.

[madokie]

7. you got it

that would be honest on our part and something I could live with.

[davekriss]

14. Don't kid yourself

The only reason Fox News would be showing this is to lay the groundwork to accuse the Democrats of attempting to steal the election. If enough hysteria can be generated da Fuhrur might even postpone the election until he can "correct" the situation. I put nothing past this criminal regime.

(Read Mark Crispin Miller's Fooled Again for an expose on how thoroughly Republican operatives project onto hapless Democrats what they themselves are doing.)

[Wiley50]

24. Correct. It proves that although Rove et al can steal

one or two critical battleground states in a presidential election;
they aren't capable of flipping multiple races in all 50 states at the mid-terms
YET
So they are planting the seed to contest them when they lose in Nov

These guys do NOTHING without ulterior motive involved

[librechik]

34. yeah they know they are going down--this will poison the atmosphere

and allow them to cast doubt on a Democratic win. Bastards!

[NewJeffCT]

3. Prepping their audience for an excuse for losing?

Now, if a republic loses a close race, they can scream "LIBERAL HACKER VIRUS"

[HardRocker05]

10. correct. nt

[SeveneightyWhoa]

11. You mean, as Jon Stewart pointed out recently...

"LIBERAL HACKER VIRUS?"

[NewJeffCT]

17. Ah yes, the "Cavuto"

Best President on Middle East Policy: George W. Bush?

Liberal Media emboldening the terrorists?

Is your mother a whore?

[Nabia2004]

23. Was that last Thursday's show? iT WAS HIS BEST

Is it online yet?

[NewJeffCT]

41. Yes, I believe it was Thursday

And, I'm pretty sure somebody on DU posted the you tube video. Maybe a search of this site for the last 72 hours?

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. That's better than the alternative...

using silence on the topic to provide cover for the real reason for a close "victory".

[bbgrunt]

36. yes. It shows why we need to have checks and balances and

get away from one-party rule.

[annabanana]

4. Not a surprise... The CHAOS is the point....

If no one can be sure who won... There is an excuse to nullify the whole procedure . . no election. . . martial law..

All kinds of mischief come out of chaos. (witness armed contractors during Katrina)

[madokie]

9. I see it as a way to get universal condemnation of the machines

so in that vein we make out like a fat rat.

[notadmblnd]

5. This is a good thing

nt

[kpete]

6. Not Just GOOD -

Excellent!!!

[City Lights]

8. Has Hell frozen over?

:wow:

[davekriss]

12. yea, but surely the piece ended...

...after they cut away from Felten and his team, this way: "Well, there you have it. Now you too can steal votes in 5 easy minute or less. Your Fuhrur insists! We have to steal it over here before we have to steal it over there! Let's roll!"

[Hugin]

13. It's building a case for the RWers to contest the elections...

Demand UnConstitutional Voter I.D.s
Caging Lists.

Oh, heck... To justify calling off the elections entirely.

This is not good, nothing from Fox News is good for Democrats... EVER!

[treestar]

19. Do we get to call them sore losers?

Which is what they say whenever 2004 is discussed or even 2000.

It is positivly Rovian and unbelieveable that when Bush actually had fewer popular votes than Gore that they managed to keep their countenances and utter the words "Sore-Loserman." You'd think it would have at least bothered them that Chimpy got fewer votes. An anomaly of the electoral college that exists, and can cause the "loser" to "win."

[Hugin]

20. It may also be an attempt to reduce Democratic turnout at the polls...

Instill that, "Ah, it won't be counted so why bother..." meme.

[tblue37]

15. Great! The FOX audience are the

ones who are most deluded and most in need of this information.

My brother (ex-Air Force) and many of my other relatives watch FOX and believe everything they hear on FOX. But if they saw real evidence of the way Diebold can be used to steal elections, they would be up in arms.

A lot of FOX viewers/Republicans are on that side still only because they don't know what we know. They are typically hard-headed, so they refuse to watch anything that they consider to be "liberal media." But they do trust FOX, and if they see such evidence on FOX, they will believe it.

The real Bush die-hards are the ones who turn against FOX the minute they see something that goes against their preconceived notions that the Republicans are pure and good and Dems/liberals are evil incarnate. But a lot of FOX viewers are not like that. They are just ignorant and hard-headed and need a smack upside the head with a two-by-four to wake them up.

[niallmac]

16. At this point encouraging electoral mistrust is their best bet.

I really wonder if these November elections will be a little or a large disaster.
I read elsewhere on DU that 80% of midterm voters will be using electronic
voting machines. This is so unbelievable to me considering all the questions
raised. Eighty percent? If as a result the government shuts down will this
benefit the repugs or the liberal progressive who has been stomped on at
every turn since 2000 anyway?

[progressoid]

18. Of course! When they get blown out in November, they'll have someone

to blame.

[Jade Fox]

29. Probably true, but in the long run this will backfire....

If we are able to get fair and reliable voting methods in place throughout this country, the Neoclowns don't have a chance. No more stolen elections means they will lose.

I welcome conservatives getting on the anti-Diebold bandwagon. They will be helping us.

[leftofthedial]

21. the repukes consciously use projection as a propaganda tool

It is a basic tenet of the Lee Atwater school of disinformation (borrowed from Goebbells)

They accuse their enemies of doing or being the evil things that they themselves do or are.

This is innoculating the base against the coming Democratic wins (a 75%-25% or better Democratic win is too hard to game). They'll try to spin elections as false if they lose, especially in blue states. Remember that they called Gore a sore loser and accused him of trying to subvert democracy for challenging the Florida non-count. Meanwhile, THEY sued in New Mexico, challenging the outcome there. Ownership of the media guarantees that their hypocricy will never be exposed. But the net effect is (as always) to cloud the issue and turn the whole election fraud issue into a "he-said-she-said" morass that will confuse, anger and alienate the public.

This strategy would be impossible if the media did their job.

[Hugin]

22. *sigh*

Such a depressing realization... But, true.

Thanks for airing the 'he-said-she-said' morass.

[glitch]

40. All their strategies would be impossible if the media did their job. That

is why they had to control the media first.

[Triana]

25. There is a question mark after "Flawed Voting Systems"

...and there should NOT be.

The fact that it is there just SCREAMS "propaganda".

[SeveneightyWhoa]

35. That's almost funny.

Since that's the case, they should also put a question mark after..

President Bush?

Fox News?

Dick? Cheney

[Triana]

42. Other things there is / should be NO question about.

bu$hit was not elected president

Fox does not broadcast "news" or any viable form of it

...and Tricky Dick II just IS.

[slutticus]

37. Yes.......See here.....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2AT-eo7Succ&mode=related&search=

[blue cat]

26. let this story go where it may

don't forget to rate this on youtube. we need to get rid of Diebold. It's hard to get away that Diebold is run by republican donors.

[lectrobyte]

28. Preparation for overturning Democratic victories in November, no

doubt...

[applegrove]

30. Stirring the pot to create apathy and division amongst Democrats.

[salin]

31. They are setting up an "excuse" for the trouncing the GOP will take in Nov

[kster]

32. kick.nt

[dkofos]

33. Was it just me, or did anyone else

get the impression that the woman didn't
believe what had just taken place, right
before her own eyes??

[helderheid]

38. WOW!!

[boolean]

39. FOX ratings in the crapper. They need liberals to watch them now

And plus they can call themselves "fair and balanced" from this, even though you know OReilly and Cavuto are going to be spinning this like crazy.