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In the 2000 election, all of the networks “called” Florida for Democrat candidate Al Gore when the polling places in the state’s Eastern Time Zone closed, but while the polls were still open for one hour more in the rabidly pro-Bush Panhandle, which is in the Central Time Zone. It is highly likely that thousands of Bush voters, upon hearing that the race was lost, were discouraged from voting.
While the 2000 early call in Florida did not cause the 36-day Democrat Siege of America, including the chad scam, it did make it easier for the Democrats and their media lackeys to sell the siege.
The ultimate official count, whereby after several recounts George W. Bush won Florida by only 537 votes, was nonsense on stilts. During several “recounts,” Democrat Florida election officials fraudulently took over one thousand Bush ballots and “reinterpreted” them as Gore votes. In some cases, the fraud was obvious; in other cases, officials handled ballots so much that, as one observer noted, the “chads” eventually gave way. (The chads were the semi-attached pieces of paper that were punched out when a citizen voted for a candidate.) Several thousand felons, over 70% of whom registered as Democrats, voted illegally; several hundred students attending segregated, black colleges engaged in election fraud, by voting both from their home and their college addresses; and a few thousand military ballots from heavily Republican-registered voters, were never counted. Hence, Bush’s Florida margin of victory should lawfully have been ten times what it was, without even speculating on the Panhandle losses.
As I wrote on November 13, 2000, in my Toogood Reports column, “Jesse Jackson on How to Steal a Presidential Election, and Live Happily Ever After,” at the end of election night, at 4 a.m., a weary Peter Jennings of ABC News interviewed an exhausted Jackson, who talked in slogans:
"Bush, Cheney, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch, this is the same thing, states' rights, the denial of a woman's right to choose, attacks on affirmative action ..."
At no time did Jackson say, ‘Peter, this so-called victory by George Bush is nothing but a case of voter fraud. My associates and I have been fielding calls all day from black Florida voters who were intimidated out of voting, or barred from polling places….’
By November 9, the Rev. Jackson had heard yet more voices. According to Left-of-Castro columnist, Juan Gonzalez, in the November 10 New York Daily News, "As the Rev. Jesse Jackson told me yesterday, it may be that the television networks projected Florida's results correctly the first time, but failures in the voting systems of Palm Beach and Broward Counties led to thousands of Gore votes not being counted."
But how could thousands of Gore votes be counted, if the voters were barred from, or intimidated out of voting?
About eight hours after Jesse Jackson whined about abortion rights and white racism, he was claiming to have been receiving calls throughout Election Day from black voters complaining that they’d been disenfranchised.
I don’t know if the 2000 Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax was formulated in the middle of election night by Gore campaign strategists, or as is more likely, earlier as an electoral fail-safe, to be unleashed the day after a close election. In any event, Jackson clearly didn’t receive his talking points until sometime between 4 a.m. and noon following the election.
At the time, all sorts of wild stories surfaced. Al Gore’s black campaign manager, Donna Brazille, insisted that Florida police had kept black voters from the polls with guns and dogs. Though Brazille was guilty of foisting a stupendous lie on the world, she did not suffer for it. One month later, she was a guest on Ted Koppel’s ABC News show, Nightline, where she was treated with respect by Koppel, who never brought up her little exercise in racial arson.
The NAACP claimed to have “thousands of affidavits” from black voters who had been “intimidated” out of voting or otherwise “disenfranchised.” To my knowledge, none of the “affidavits” ever materialized.
When champion race-baiter and “historian” Mary Frances Berry, the chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, held public hearings in January, 2001 on black disenfranchisement, only three black voters gave testimony. All three admitted that they had been able to vote without any difficulties. One woman testified that she’d been stopped at a state police roadblock, but that was only AFTER she’d voted. Neither Berry nor the NAACP was able to produce a single disenfranchised black Florida voter. And yet, the legend of 2000 lives on.
Along with the 1987-88 Tawana Brawley Hoax and the Racial Profiling Hoax, which was begun in its present form in 1999 and remains influential, the 2000 Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax was one of the three most destructive race hoaxes in recent American history.
During the 36-day post-Election Day siege of 2000, Democrats used the legal system to subvert the law, e.g., demanding that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris not abide by the legal deadline for recounting ballots, and then using the Democrat-dominated Florida Supreme Court to run roughshod over Florida state law.
At one point during the siege, Democrat Palm Beach County election officials sought illegally to move the “recount” to a private room, where the public could not observe it. When Republican activists protested, and got the election officials to stop the illegal, private recount, leftist politicians and journalists – who previously had never met a rioter they didn’t like – smeared the activists with the charge that they’d “rioted.”
When the Florida case reached the U.S. Supreme Court and in separate decisions, the justices voted 7-2 and 5-4 to put a stop to the endless, illegal recounts, the Dems and their media outlets invented the legend whereby George W. Bush was “selected, not elected.” New York Times staffers spoke constantly of the 5-4 USSC decision, while conveniently developing amnesia regarding the high court’s 7-2 decision, the fact that it was the Democrats who had decided to get Al Gore “selected, not elected,” and the lawless partisanship of the Florida Supreme Court.
Since November 2000, the Democrat party and its house organs have kept hoax alive, and preserved Florida as an example of how to try and steal an election. Indeed, John Kerry announced months before the election, that he would contest the results in Florida. However, Kerry was beaten so soundly in the Sunshine State that apparently he and his brain trust considered instead doing to Ohio, what the Gore campaign had four years earlier done to Florida.
If “calling” only one state an hour early could have the far-reaching consequences the practice had in 2000 in Florida, imagine the opportunities for mischief through calling many states several hours early via fraudulent exit polls.
Nicholas Stix
While the 2000 early call in Florida did not cause the 36-day Democrat Siege of America, including the chad scam, it did make it easier for the Democrats and their media lackeys to sell the siege.
The ultimate official count, whereby after several recounts George W. Bush won Florida by only 537 votes, was nonsense on stilts. During several “recounts,” Democrat Florida election officials fraudulently took over one thousand Bush ballots and “reinterpreted” them as Gore votes. In some cases, the fraud was obvious; in other cases, officials handled ballots so much that, as one observer noted, the “chads” eventually gave way. (The chads were the semi-attached pieces of paper that were punched out when a citizen voted for a candidate.) Several thousand felons, over 70% of whom registered as Democrats, voted illegally; several hundred students attending segregated, black colleges engaged in election fraud, by voting both from their home and their college addresses; and a few thousand military ballots from heavily Republican-registered voters, were never counted. Hence, Bush’s Florida margin of victory should lawfully have been ten times what it was, without even speculating on the Panhandle losses.
As I wrote on November 13, 2000, in my Toogood Reports column, “Jesse Jackson on How to Steal a Presidential Election, and Live Happily Ever After,” at the end of election night, at 4 a.m., a weary Peter Jennings of ABC News interviewed an exhausted Jackson, who talked in slogans:
"Bush, Cheney, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, Orrin Hatch, this is the same thing, states' rights, the denial of a woman's right to choose, attacks on affirmative action ..."
At no time did Jackson say, ‘Peter, this so-called victory by George Bush is nothing but a case of voter fraud. My associates and I have been fielding calls all day from black Florida voters who were intimidated out of voting, or barred from polling places….’
By November 9, the Rev. Jackson had heard yet more voices. According to Left-of-Castro columnist, Juan Gonzalez, in the November 10 New York Daily News, "As the Rev. Jesse Jackson told me yesterday, it may be that the television networks projected Florida's results correctly the first time, but failures in the voting systems of Palm Beach and Broward Counties led to thousands of Gore votes not being counted."
But how could thousands of Gore votes be counted, if the voters were barred from, or intimidated out of voting?
About eight hours after Jesse Jackson whined about abortion rights and white racism, he was claiming to have been receiving calls throughout Election Day from black voters complaining that they’d been disenfranchised.
I don’t know if the 2000 Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax was formulated in the middle of election night by Gore campaign strategists, or as is more likely, earlier as an electoral fail-safe, to be unleashed the day after a close election. In any event, Jackson clearly didn’t receive his talking points until sometime between 4 a.m. and noon following the election.
At the time, all sorts of wild stories surfaced. Al Gore’s black campaign manager, Donna Brazille, insisted that Florida police had kept black voters from the polls with guns and dogs. Though Brazille was guilty of foisting a stupendous lie on the world, she did not suffer for it. One month later, she was a guest on Ted Koppel’s ABC News show, Nightline, where she was treated with respect by Koppel, who never brought up her little exercise in racial arson.
The NAACP claimed to have “thousands of affidavits” from black voters who had been “intimidated” out of voting or otherwise “disenfranchised.” To my knowledge, none of the “affidavits” ever materialized.
When champion race-baiter and “historian” Mary Frances Berry, the chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, held public hearings in January, 2001 on black disenfranchisement, only three black voters gave testimony. All three admitted that they had been able to vote without any difficulties. One woman testified that she’d been stopped at a state police roadblock, but that was only AFTER she’d voted. Neither Berry nor the NAACP was able to produce a single disenfranchised black Florida voter. And yet, the legend of 2000 lives on.
Along with the 1987-88 Tawana Brawley Hoax and the Racial Profiling Hoax, which was begun in its present form in 1999 and remains influential, the 2000 Florida Disenfranchisement Hoax was one of the three most destructive race hoaxes in recent American history.
During the 36-day post-Election Day siege of 2000, Democrats used the legal system to subvert the law, e.g., demanding that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris not abide by the legal deadline for recounting ballots, and then using the Democrat-dominated Florida Supreme Court to run roughshod over Florida state law.
At one point during the siege, Democrat Palm Beach County election officials sought illegally to move the “recount” to a private room, where the public could not observe it. When Republican activists protested, and got the election officials to stop the illegal, private recount, leftist politicians and journalists – who previously had never met a rioter they didn’t like – smeared the activists with the charge that they’d “rioted.”
When the Florida case reached the U.S. Supreme Court and in separate decisions, the justices voted 7-2 and 5-4 to put a stop to the endless, illegal recounts, the Dems and their media outlets invented the legend whereby George W. Bush was “selected, not elected.” New York Times staffers spoke constantly of the 5-4 USSC decision, while conveniently developing amnesia regarding the high court’s 7-2 decision, the fact that it was the Democrats who had decided to get Al Gore “selected, not elected,” and the lawless partisanship of the Florida Supreme Court.
Since November 2000, the Democrat party and its house organs have kept hoax alive, and preserved Florida as an example of how to try and steal an election. Indeed, John Kerry announced months before the election, that he would contest the results in Florida. However, Kerry was beaten so soundly in the Sunshine State that apparently he and his brain trust considered instead doing to Ohio, what the Gore campaign had four years earlier done to Florida.
If “calling” only one state an hour early could have the far-reaching consequences the practice had in 2000 in Florida, imagine the opportunities for mischief through calling many states several hours early via fraudulent exit polls.
Nicholas Stix
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