GOP and the City Comments
Actually, he got the news from this Washington Post Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp...-
2004Oct30.html
An excerpt:
"...in Allegheny County...election officials received a flurry of phone calls about fliers handed out at a Pittsburgh area mall and mailed to an unknown number of homes. The flier, distributed on bogus but official-looking stationery with a county letterhead, told voters that "due to immense voter turnout expected on Tuesday," the election had been extended. Republicans should vote Tuesday, Nov. 2, it said -- and Democrats on Wednesday. A criminal investigation has been launched."
Took me about eight seconds to find that.
Toodles!
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Show me an article where the perp behind these fliers has been found. Allegations are easy to make, it seems that a flier like this would make its rounds on the internet much like this one. As they say in Missouri, show me. I have yet to see or hear anything of the sort. These same sort of unsubstantiated allegations came up after the 2000 election.
http://gopandthecity.blogspot.co...utes-
flyer.html
I merely pointed out that the allegations of voter fraud were not printed merely in The Onion. A reputable news source (reputable to the entire world except rabid conservatives, of course) also printed the story.
And, no, I haven't seen these fliers; nor have I seen the phantom voter registration cards from Ohio filled out by Mary Poppins and Betty Boop.
Brilliant Onion spoof, bud.
Terrence - How about the dead people voting in Washington, the GOP volunteers carting off ballots, the Diebold conspiracy, exit polling theory, the military votes not counted, etc.... There are 1001 conspiracy theories that switch back and forth between different parties. Hell in the 1800s I am sure that some WHIG activist claimed that a Federalist had told them they could not vote if they wore a powdered wig.
The Man -- I don't know what you're talking about. This web site said John Kerry thought an Onion article was really, and I linked to an article which proved that it at least made real newspapers, not fake ones.
I don't know if the allegations are true or not, and neither do you. I'm just saying an actual news source printed it.
It is much funnier to think he pulled it from The Onion, like when the chinese thought our congress was going to redesign the capitol to look like a ballpark. Anyways, "an actual news source" does not mean much these days (We have memogate, the left has gannon-hookergate)....
Yeah, it's really funny. Except when people who don't know as much read your blog, or Michelle Malkin's, and believe what they read, then make a totally uninformed decision on who to vote for because they've been reading fake shit.
Terrence, those people probably went to vote on Wednesday (it all comes full circle)
The fact that 'some people' are using this as an example of 'conservative bias' or 'misinformation' is kinda silly. See, Terrence just doesn't understand that we couldn't care less if Kerry really got that from the Onion or not. The thing that IS funny is that it's the newest in a string of 'election frauds' that never seem to get substantiated. And the fact that people might have actually fell for it and showed up on Wednesday is REALLY sad.
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