-Caveat Lector- Online Journal - http://www.onlinejournal.com 02-27-01: Bushistas, 1, Miami Herald, 0; the junta moves on, mowing down all in its path By Bev Conover February 27, 2001-Those who get their news from headlines and 10-second TV sound bites will soon be taking as gospel the Miami Herald's sneaky headline and inaccurate pronouncement that George W. Bush really won Florida. Yes, this is the same Miami Herald that a few months ago predicted when the independent recount it had undertaken was completed that Al Gore would be at least 23,000 votes ahead of Bush. Gosh, we are not supposed to remember such things. In a move reminiscent of the late Rosemary Woods' explanation of how she made gone with 18 minutes of the infamous Watergate tape, Herald reporter Amy Driscoll, without even mentioning the paper's prediction based on its earlier findings, much less taking into consideration the Gore votes Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris refused to accept and a heap of other shenanigans, has decreed that "Al Gore would have netted no more than 49 votes if a manual recount of Miami-Dade's ballots had been completed, according to the review, which was sponsored by The Herald and its parent company, Knight Ridder. That would have been 140 too few to overcome Bush's lead, even when joined with Gore gains in Volusia, Palm Beach and Broward counties-the three other counties where Gore had requested manual recounts." To muddy the waters more and give further impetus to the rabid Bush supporters, whose mantra is, "We won. You lost. Get used to it"-kind of makes you want to add, "Cha, cha, cha"-the headline and subhead on Driscoll's story were: DADE UNDERVOTES SUPPORT BUSH WIN Review of ballots by Herald suggests Gore recount effort would have failed Neat, eh? Perhaps we should start a Rosemary Woods Award. Surely, Driscoll and Harris would be two of the nominees. In a letter he fired off to the Herald, Michael Rectenwald, chairman of Citizens For Legitimate Government <http://www.legitgov.org>, wrote: "Firstly, The FL Supreme Court ordered the whole state recounted. But, even based on the recounts that have already been done, Gore wins Florida. The Herald's piece discounts the votes already manually recounted but disallowed by Harris (ironically totaling some 140). The piece discounts the fact that one county reverted back to a their first count and thus cost Gore votes. The story completely ignores the Palm Beach Post article that analyzes the undervotes in that county that alone give Gore the lead (http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/news/election2000_pbgore.html, and instead cites an earlier, superseded article. It disregards the Washington Post article that analyzes over-votes and that shows the thousands of votes lost where the intent off the voters is easily discerned (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53804-2001Jan26.html)." Rectenwald went on to jog Driscoll's memory about the voter purge scandal, which only ace reporter Gregory Palast and the British media seem interested in. "This purge alone cost Gore the election, and it was illegal and carried out by Katherine Harris with the explicit knowledge of Jeb Bush. This alone is a scandal that should reach the proportions of a Watergate, but given the rightwing control of the media, may not reach the light of day in the U.S.A. (though it is reported in Britain by Gregory Palast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/events/newsnight/newsid_248000/248099.stm)." But Driscoll would undoubtedly reject that argument, because purged voters cast no ballots; neither did thousands of African-American voters still on the rolls, but who were robbed of their votes by a variety of tactics. "This Herald article is another attempt by the G.O.P.'s organs to bestow legitimacy upon a fraudulent mis-ministration; it is a very shoddy piece of 'journalism' in that it is utterly incomplete, utterly irresponsible to the whole story, and obviously a piece of G.O.P.-sponsored propaganda. Congratulations, you have sunk to yet new lows," Rectenwald said. But this is only one of the "new lows." The rabid Reich has a two-fold goal in mind for its latest round of trumped up Clinton scandals: 1) Neuter the Big Dog, who is the Democrats greatest fund raiser and 2) Destroy the Democratic Party in the process. The chilling part is that the Democrats in Washington are trotting like cattle to the slaughter. As if these things were not enough, the Landmark Legal Foundation wants the Internal Revenue Service to investigate whether any liberal nonprofit organizations violated their 501(c)(3) tax exemption by opposing the confirmation of John Ashcroft as attorney general. Landmark received funding from several Scaife family foundations, the John M. Olin Foundation -- which former Treasury Secretary William Simon sat atop before his death last year -- and the William H. Donner Foundation. In a Working For Change article <http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=10793>, Bill Berkowitz noted, "The Landmark Legal Foundation is, along with Larry Klayman's Judicial Watch, one of the most persistent conservative litigation outfits in the nation's capital. By virtue of its recent activities, Landmark has become one of the key players in the long-term conservative project aimed at taking government funding away from liberal groups. With more ultraconservative appointments waiting in the wings, liberal organizations are sure to raise their voices in opposition. When they do, they are sure to be confronted by an ever-vigilant, always-outraged Mark Levin." Ironically, despite any evidence, it was the rabid Reich that accused Clinton of using the IRS to go after his enemies. Oops, we keep forgetting that there are different rules for Republicans, especially Clinton-hating Republicans. 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