Gonna make sure the election isn't rigged this time

Someone needs to watch our buddies at Diebold, too.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/18/edwards.florida/index.html

Have you seen F911 yet, Gotham? Thought not. I'll be interested to hear what you have to say about the 2000 election once you have seen the film.

Just keep remembering that Gore won the popular vote. And, had all voters been allowed to vote in Florida (and not turned away due to "screw ups"), Gore would have easily won that state. Ask anyone who lives in Florida--they all know that election was rigged.

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Updated On: 7/19/04 at 08:26 AM

Just ask a Floridian. Everyone of them tells me how odd that day was--the bizarre amount of police at polling stations to name one.

That election was rigged. Without a doubt in my mind. See F911.

I doubt it will happen again though--Kerry is going to woop butt in Florida. Florida will be the last place that will take that treatment again.

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Updated On: 7/19/04 at 08:46 AM

ck, take heart in the fact that disney in their infinite power and wisdon forced the weinstiens into a real sweetheart of a deal. miramax has a 60/40 deal with disney and the only way disney would sell them distribution rights to f911 was if they agreed to not make anymore than that deal. hence, 60% of the take from f911 goes into an escrow account to be distributed to charities to be chosen by disney. so there's a good chance that $.60 of any dollar you spend on the film could go to republican non-profits. it all depends on what the definition of "charity" is, right?

and jrb, even if the supreme court had not stepped in and halted things, under the guidelines by which the re-count was proceeding bush would have won anyway. check the nytimes which participated in the study that determined that. there were only two re-count scenarios under which gore would have won the study determined. those scenarios both would have involved looking at double punched cards and trying to divine what the voter "really" intended. and as far as the people of florida who'll tell you the election was rigged, i can find an equivalent number of floridians who'll tell you that elvis is alive and that they saw him when they were abducted by aliens.

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Updated On: 7/19/04 at 09:31 AM

Actually, I am kind of happy that some of the proceeds will go to charities. The real question here is who gets to decide where the escrow money goes? Disney? The Weinsteins?

On the news here in central texas this morning, they had a piece involving F9/11.some anti=war protesters want to screen the film here..preferably in Crawford.. and want to do it no matter where it will be shown -- whether in a theatre or on the side of a barn. However, no one is willing to provide a place. They even specifially mentioned the fact that all of theatres in the ares have refused to house the movie....whether as part of a protest of in general film circulation.

hmmmmmmmmmmm............

"hmmmmmm, maybe the people of crawford don't feel like being used as props in some propagandistic venture?"


Like how Bush uses them EVERY time he comes to visit??

Honey, Bush spends more time in Crawford than the residents!

I don't care about hanging chads. I care about the peculiar number of African Americans who were wrongly turned away from the polls in 2000. I know we can argue the 2000 election issue until the cows come home. Republicans will never believe it was rigged. Democrats will never believe it was not rigged.

And, boy, papa, you sure are bitter about F911. It must break your heart that it is doing so well--$91 million and counting.

The only way Bush can win is by rigging the election, pulling Osama out of his butt, or playing on the fear of another attack. He has NOTHING else to stand by.

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I (usually a Democrat) don't think that the election was rigged. I think that the closeness of that election revealed pre-existing problems in the electoral system, problems that disproportionately affect African-Americans. I think that there was a lot of partisan crap going on for both sides in the Florida recounts. And I also think that the Supreme Court ruling that ended it all was a load of horse...poo. And I've read it.

But rigged? No. There were conditions that worked in Bush's favor; but he didn't plan them all that way.

As I said before, Diebold is giving me major worries in this election. Look it up.

nope, jrb, it's gonna do my heart good to see those millions going into the the coffers of christian charities who will use them to get out the vote in the lands where the craggy senators who prefer wind surfing to campaigning are not popular. remember, 60% goes to charities of disney's choosing. it's not the movie i can't stand, it's the morons who get taken in hook line and sinker by a self righteous lying huckster who hates america and americans almost as much as he loves the money they will pour into his pockets, but not quite.

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my statement was about the man, not the film, jrb. no, if you listen to the statements that he makes on a regular basis about america and americans, they are the comments of one who despises the people of america because they do not for the most part agree with him. time and again he's railed against americans as the supidest people on the planet. his loathing for capitalism is clear and while he might love his idea of america (what exactly that is i'd actualy be interested in hearing), he hates the genuine article. as his title indicated, "dude, where's my country?" well, mickey, your socialist utopia has never and will never exist in the land of lincoln and truman. yeah, "triumph of the will" was pretty patriotic, too, jrb.

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no! no! stop that, ck! it's all bush, he's the one! he did it all and once he's out of office the world will become peaceful, our allies will love us and our great kerry. the terrorist will stop attacking us because they will know we voted bush out of office just like they wanted us to. i demand you stop spreading lies and deceit, ck! you're worse than rush limbaugh, michael savage, bill o'reilly and ann coulter rolled into one!

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