Gop cries Fraud in New Mexico over voter Duran Duran, white pages in turn cried "Fail!"

Right-Wing Pundit On Voter Fraud Claim: Never Mind
By Zachary Roth - October 20, 2008, 5:37PM
Here's a funny example of how "voter-fraud" hysteria is starting to make some conservatives look kind of foolish.

In a post Friday on the website of the conservative magazine National Review, Jim Geraghty touted the New Mexico GOP's no-longer-operative claim that 28 people had voted fraudulently in a Democratic primary in June.

Then, attacking Adam Serwer of The American Prospect, who in an earlier post had questioned Geraghty's obsession with vote fraud, Geraghty wrote:
Now, unless A. Serwer thinks that there is actually a registered voter named "Duran Duran" in New Mexico, he ought to refrain from sputtering that those who disagree with him are 'racist' and 'paranoid.'
The person who is "Duran Duran" almost certainly voted under their real name, and thus got two votes in the primary. God knows how many of those 27 others exist; for all we know, one person might have cast all of them. Anybody who voted once had their vote diluted by the guy who cheated to vote two to twenty-seven times.

Geraghty sourced the Duran Duran claim, via link, to a column on the conservative web site Townhall.com, which described an Associated Press report that we weren't able to find. (What appears to be the original AP story on the GOP's claims contained no such detail.)

But it looks like what Geraghty and Townhall thought was a cut-and-dried example of fraudulent voting was no such thing. Some time later, Geraghty, was forced to correct the record, crossing out the quote above and adding the following update below his post:
I am floored by the fact that the white pages for Albuquereque, New Mexico has a listing for "Duran Duran." Mea culpa.
And sure enough.

The larger point is that, as we noted earlier, since Friday, ACORN has produced election officials to confirm that the "fraudulent" voters cited by the GOP were in fact valid.

Looks like both Republicans and conservative pundits might want to be a little more careful before throwing around claims of voter fraud. Not that we're holding our breath.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/right-wing_pundit_on_voter_fra.php


edited to add my favorite Duran Duran song, from the group, not the voter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-recskrzunI

Though I heard he was afraid of der Kommisar when he went to the polls.

:rofl:

:)

Come to think of it...being dead didn't really stop repugs from voting in the past.

Assuming he's male.;)

Recommended!:thumbsup:

And boy do these pukes look sillier and sillier.

but repukes NEVER change their minds when it comes to those nasty "anti-american" facts...

And his parents were Duran Duran fans with a warped sense of humor. Kinda like the Palins with their kids names. :rofl:

Was a teen afflicted with the Durannie fever in the 80's, and love seeing the repugs making themselves look stupid. What a delightful way to see it happen!

btw, saw them in concert here in April (at the WAMU theater, which was a little overboard with the advertising and reps on hand, now I know why) and they still put on a great show, still looked hot too. Could see John's balding spot with the binoculars, cute.

But I might be concerned about Arcadia on ELECTION DAY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNv5s-ik6GA

:P

"The band Duran Duran takes its name from the mad scientist Dr. Durand Durand. O'Shea repaid the compliment by appearing (as an older version of Durand Durand) in Arena, the band's 1985 concert film. (Though the Arena DVD subtitles spell the villain's name as "Duran Duran".)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarella_(film)

Simon Le Bon is one thing, but a crazed, evil scientist is almost certain to be a Republican.

(edit: hmm, why won't the image show?)

Well, all they do to me is Talk Talk!

Do they have something against Mexicans?

I really think somebody in the Duran family had a sense of humor with that first name. Then again, lots of people in the Loomis family name their children Loomis. Usually because they are a Loomis on their mother's side. I have no record of a Loomis Loomis. I do however, have a record of somebody in the Sadd family who named one of their daughters "Happy".

Just imagine the troubles Sodapop Curtis has trying to vote. He'd be treated like a total Outsider.

and I approve this thread. :thumbsup:

Jethro Tull? Anyone?

Wow, that would be a prescription for the end of wingnut radio and Faux Noise. They make up shit on the fly all the time, and then they all believe each other's made-up shit.

:D