John Fund's Stealing Elections came out a few years ago, and has now been reissued just in time for the election. Although Fund poses as disinterested, he is in fact a propagandist for the GOP, who got his start as a gofer for Bob Novak and went on to the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, where he ran that outfit's smear campaign against Vince Foster. Fund also came up with the tale that Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal had beaten up his wife.
Despite his pretense of impartiality, Fund's book is nothing but a fleshed-out catalogue of GOP talking points, asserting, among other things, that Bush legitimately won the 2000 election, and that the party is, on electoral matters, devoted above all things to the rule of law. If you take a look at his acknowledgements, you'll see that his warm thanks to Grove Norquist, the Journal's Robert Bartley, and the top dogs at the Hoover, Heritage, Cato and Olin foundations. (For my dissection of the book, see Fooled Again, pp. 100-02.) It is, to say the least, unfortunate that C-SPAN should let "Book TV," an excellent show, be thus used to enhance the GOP's huge propaganda drive to charge the Democrats with planning to steal this election. (Fund has been out front assailing ACORN's imaginary "voter fraud" conspiracy.) You may conmtact Book TV through http://www.booktv.org/contact.aspx. MCM From Chris Jonsson: Mark, I am watching John Fund of the Wall Street Journal pushing the Republican line of voter fraud taped on Oct. 20, 2008. Thought you would be interested. It is showing again. He is vile. He sells the Obama community organizer suspicion and criminality of ACORN. Chris <http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9938&SectionName=Politics&PlayMedia=No>http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9938&SectionName=Politics&PlayMedia=No Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy Author: John Fund Upcoming Schedule Monday, October 27, at 7:00 AM Saturday, November 1, at 8:00 AM Monday, November 3, at 3:00 AM About the Program John Fund talks about the problems with the U.S. voting system and the efforts during every election cycle to illegally influence the outcome. He spoke at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. About the Author John Fund is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal's website and writes for the site's "Political Diary." He is also an analyst for Fox News. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
