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. US TV network CBS has an affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska – KTVA. Naturally KTVA is reporting the forthcoming election for one of Alaska’s two Senate seats. The Republican candidate is Joe Miller who is backed by the Tea Party movement.
Voter Fraud in 2010: Where are the BBC reports this time?
>> MONDAY, NOVEMBER 01, 2010
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.MORE TEA?
In many regards, the success of the Tea Party is a nightmare for the liberal shills in the BBC. On Today this morning James "Inpartiality is in my genes" Naughtie has been over to Pennsylvania "to ask the question; Is the Tea Party here to stay"? The meme was that the Tea Party is fanatical and all about creating a mood of fear to replace the "hope" in 2008. There was even an unspoken but implied suggestion that if they don't get what they want in 2012, we could have civil war in 2012! Hysterical stuff.. Naughtie, like the rest of the BBC, are gradually realising that the Democrats are going to lose BIG tomorrow and so they seek to ameliorate such losses, to try and shift the blame from where it belongs - namely Obama's patronising track record. They can mock all they want, they can portray the Tea Party as uneducated red-necks - come Wednesday morning, the hopeychangy thing will not be that which they want to see. Hope you will be able to join us on the multi-blog LIVEBLOG of the Mid-terms. Should be fun watching the BBC flailing around trying to blame everyone but Obama for Democrat woes. Make sure you have a cup of tea whilst watching it all!The Sun Blasts BBC As "The Pompous Voice Of Defeated Socialism"
The newspaper then carries a long leaderblasting the BBC for its coverage of the cuts:"The Beeb is today the pompous voice of defeated socialism.
Labour lumbered us with terrifying levels of debt. Yet Newsnight relentlessly blames "nasty" Tories for trying to bring it under control.CBS Affiliate TV Station In Alaska Behaves In A Very UnBBC-like Way Over Republican Candidate…
It appears that the following conversation between two KTVA reporters was inadvertently left on the phone of a member of Joe Miller’s staff after a reporter from the station had been speaking to him. The reporter obviously forgot to disconnect from the Miller operative’s phone.FEMALE REPORTER: That’s up to you because you’re the expert, but that’s what I would do…I’d wait until you see who showed up because that indicates we already know something…
[Laughter]
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: Child molesters…
MALE REPORTER: Oh yeah… can you repeat Joe Miller’s…uh… list of people, campaign workers, which one’s the molester?
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE VOICE: We know that out of all the people that will show up tonight, at least one of them will be a registered sex offender.
[Laughter]
MALE REPORTER: You have to find that one person…
[INAUDIBLE]
FEMALE REPORTER: And the one thing we can do is ….we won’t know….we won’t know but if there is any sort of chaos whatsoever we can put out a twitter/facebook alert: saying what the… ‘Hey Joe Miller punched at rally.’
FEMALE REPORTER: Kinda like Rand Paul…I like that.
[Laughter]
FEMALE REPORTER: That’s a good one.
KTVA have not denied that this conversation was between two of their reporters but claim that it has been taken out of context and that they were merely discussing possible scenarios of what might happen at the Joe Miller rally.
Established US media hacks appear to have taken the KTVA statement at face value but the perception that this is yet another example of left wing media bias is beginning to gain traction particularly as Drudge has picked it up.
Have yet to find anything about this at the BBC...but then I expect there would never ever be a conversation like this at the Beeb which is always an exemplar of even handed political and cultural neutrality......
cross posted at The Aged P
Monday 1 November 2010
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