HEY! Found someone in MSM to listen! Talked Fraud in AUGUST!

Laura PourMeADrink

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Mon Jan-03-05 08:36 PM
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HEY! Found someone in MSM to listen! Talked Fraud in AUGUST!

Edited on Mon Jan-03-05 09:12 PM by Laura PackYourBags

Paul Krugman at New York Times. His email on edit: krugman@nytimes.com OR pkrugman@Princeton.EDU Going to send him EVERYTHING

READ THIS -- NATIONAL REVIEW TRASHING OF HIM IN AUGUST ABOUT EXIT POLLS AND FRAUD....

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_luskin/luskin200408250859.asp

Krugman Truth Squad

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The ugliest and bitterest version of this dirty trick is Krugman�s repeated prediction that the 2004 presidential election will be rigged. Way back in December of last year Krugman wrote a column exaggerating problems with touch-screen voting machines (which have only been put in place for this year�s election because people like Krugman exaggerated the problems with �butterfly ballots� in the 2000 election). It�s not just that the machines don�t produce a paper audit trail � no, Krugman warns that they are manufactured by a company whose CEO is a Bush supporter. He wrote, �you don�t have to believe in a central conspiracy to worry that partisans will take advantage of an insecure, unverifiable voting system to manipulate election results.�
Krugman won�t require proof this November. As long as Bush wins, the result will be suspect: �We may never know,� he intoned in a column last week. His loony solution to the predicted election fraud? Check it out:
Intensive exit polling � It would serve as a deterrent to anyone contemplating election fraud. If all went well, it would help validate the results and silence skeptics.
We hardly need to ask what he means by �if all went well.� That means, �If Kerry wins.� And we hardly need to ask what happens if all does not go well � that is, if Bush wins: then Democrats can use their hand-picked exit polls to contest the results (and Michael Moore will have the opening scenes for his sequel to Fahrenheit 9-11 ready made). Such use of exit polling is so manifestly a bad idea that even the New York Times itself rejected it in an editorial last week � when exit polls were used to question the validity of the recall victory of Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez (whom the Times favors because the Bush administration wants him out of power).

What we have here, then, is more than just a self-fulfilling prophecy of �an ugly, bitter campaign.� We have the opening moves in a pre-scripted left-wing game-plan designed to assure a victorious George W. Bush an ugly and bitter second term. Before that second term even begins, Krugman � acting as the primary mainstream-media mouthpiece for the Left � has created the conceptual structure for denying Bush�s fundamental legitimacy. If Bush wins the election, by definition he stole it. If he does a great job in office, that�s just because he managed to keep scandals hidden from view.

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