Three weeks before the presidential election of 2008, Newsnight hired far-Left political activist Greg Palast to do a couple of video reports (which can be viewed here and here) about voter fraud in the US. This was a strategically-timed effort to create suspicions in the minds of the public in case Sen. McCain won the election. The BBC could raise the specter of 2004, and point to Palast’s “investigations” as evidence that this election was stolen by racist Republicans who didn’t want a black man as President. This time around, the margin of fraud in individual election races is going to have to be much larger than usual in order for people to trust the outcome. But this time around, the BBC has been utterly silent.
UPDATE 5 Nov.: Meirion Jones has kindly responded in the comment thread and pointed out a serious error I’ve made. I was wrong about him thinking that the Republicans stole the election in 2004. He thought it was stolen from Al Gore in 2000. That’s my sloppiness, for which I apologize.
But seriously, I do want to thank him for taking the time to address this, even though he denies being a co-conspirator of Greg Palast. I define that as someone who works together with another person on projects for a specific cause. Mr. Jones has worked with Palast in the past, and it’s that relationship which leads to Palast being featured on Newsnight.
As for ACORN’s voter fraud, my point that both Jones and Palast deny that their activities are intended to or have had any effect on election outcomes still stands. Would whichever defender of the indefensible who alerted Jones to my post please pass this along to him. Thank you.
Newsnight producer Meirion Jones is a co-conspiritor of Palast’s, having worked with him previously on an investigation of voter fraud in Florida in the 2004 elections (this wasn’t mentioned in the report, nor did the BBC admit on air to Palast’s activist assocation with Robert Kennedy, whom they show as an independent voice – so the BBC’s dishonesty is there for all to see). Jones and Palast are convinced that Bush stole that election, so Newsnight hired Palast to do these reports, produced by Jones.
Needless to say, both reports were made with the intent to convince you that only Republicans engaged in voter fraud, usually with the goal of preventing poor black people from voting. In the second report, Palast actually whitewashes the now defunct ACORN, even going so far as to say that, while ACORN had been indicted for and a couple people convicted of voter fraud, there was no evidence that they actually influenced an election. Palast’s report also took the standard far-Left activist/denier’s line that all registered voters that were purged from the rolls for breaking various rules were in fact innocent. He provided no evidence for this.
I commented on it here at the time, and sent a complaint in to the BBC. Meirion Jones actually responded, and after exchanging a couple of emails it was clear that he believed that Bush stole the election, and that ACORN engaged in voter fraud for kicks, with no intent to affect the outcome of an election. He couldn’t offer any valid reason why they would do such a thing if it wasn’t to effect election outcomes. I knew at the time that if there was ever any evidence of voter fraud from the Democrats in future elections, the BBC would keep shtum, because of their political bias.
Now that we’re having the second-most important election in human history (to judge from the hysteria at the BBC), I’m still waiting for the BBC to make a single report about the increasingly widespread Democrat voter fraud going on now.
Below the fold are several stories the BBC doesn’t want you to know about.
Poll Watcher Witnesses Misconduct in Houston
This is eyewitness testimony to voter fraud in the form of a poll worker casting votes on behalf of voters, captured by True the Vote and aired exclusively at PJM/PJTV.
The above link also includes evidence that some faculty at the University of Texas in Brownsville is going to take students directly to the polls for early voting. The leader of this illegal act is Selma d. Ysanga, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Leadership, and founder of Texas Counselors for Social Justice. Anyone care to guess which way they are directing their students to vote? Ysanga’s email to her colleagues includes this little fascist gem:
Starting tomorrow, tallies will be taken by college for student, faculty, and staff voter turnout. Let the College of Education lead the way!
Bucks election board to hear GOP allegations of absentee-voter fraud by Democrats
A petition seeking the hearing asserts that a Democratic program intimidated some voters into needlessly, and sometimes fraudulently, applying for absentee ballots. The Democrats then flooded the county elections office with the applications, hoping that many fraudulent forms would go undetected, the petition says.
Democrats have accused Republicans of demonizing a legal get-out-the-vote campaign in an effort to disenfranchise voters. They say that of more than 600 absentee-ballot applications rejected as defective by the Republican-controlled elections board, more than 80 percent bear the names of Democrats.
Notice that these are the same kind of fraudulent voter registrations that Palast claims were purged from the rolls for purely racist and political reasons. Where’s the BBC now? Looking under Christine O’Donnell’s bed for a Harry Potter costume, probably.
Did Harry Reid Commit Voter Fraud?
Leader of the Senate and co-architect of ObamaCare and the Democrat agenda against which the Tea Party movement is motivated, Democrat Harry Reid is facing a serious challenge from Sharon Angle (barely mentioned by the BBC in between full-length features about Christine O’Donnell, who is challenging nobody even remotely important). Apparently Reid is offering free food and Starbucks gift certificates in exchange for votes. Where’s Greg Palast now?
Significant Election Complaint Filed in Nevada
The complaint alleges scores of union tactics designed to undermine the integrity of the voting process and intimidate voters.
Specifically, the complaint notes that union officials are busing in union workers, leading them to the polls, deterring or preventing the union member from going to unobserved polling locations set up in Las Vegas, etc.
Raul Grijalva ally committing voter fraud in Yuma County
The group responsible for this is the racially-oriented Mia Familia Vota. Of course, we recently learned from Beeboid Andy Gallacher that it’s a perfectly natural instinct to vote with one’s own kind – when they’re not white – so it’s cool. However, this particular racially-oriented group has it’s Arizona headquarters at the same address as the SEIU. This is the same White House-connected union trying to influence the election in Nevada.
Grijalva’s opponent, Ruth McClung, is supported by the Tea Party. And she’s a rocket scientist. Put that in your biased pipe and smoke it, BBC.
Where is Newsnight now? Where is any mention of this voter fraud by Democrats – including the top dog in the Senate? Instead, the BBC is continuing with the White House propaganda about the Tea Party movement. Tomorrow will be interesting.
UPDATE: Voter Fraud in Minnesota
On Friday, October 29th, 2010, a member of the Minnesota Freedom Council witnessed apparent voter fraud occurring at the Crow Wing County Courthouse in Brainerd, Minnesota. Upwards of 100 residents from a local group home for mentally disadvantaged individuals were brought into the County Courthouse to cast absentee ballots. The witness reported that supervisors were telling voters to cast a straight Democrat ticket. There was even a report of a voter prematurely leaving the voting both and a supervisor casting the ballot for the voter.
