"Chain of Fools " This is what we should be reading in OUR papers!

[in_cog_ni_to]

NOT the Moscow freakin' Times! Chris Floyd LOVED Mark Crispin Miller's book. Too bad this is The Moscow Times and not The New York Times.:grr: Good article.


Global Eye

Chain of Fools

By Chris Floyd
Published: January 20, 2006

Things are looking a bit grim for the Bush faction these days. Their chief bagman, Jack Abramoff, is in the clink, naming names. Their top congressional enforcer, Tom DeLay, is in the dock, sinking fast. Their "war of choice" in Iraq has stalled in murderous quagmire. Their poll numbers are plummeting as scandal after scandal turn the American people against them. What, then, will be the fate of these brutal, bungling, bloodstained goons when they face the voters in the coming elections?

Why, victory, of course!

In fact, this year's congressional races and the presidential contest in 2008 are already over, and the Bushists have won. It's true that some of the candidates have not yet been chosen -- including whatever frontman the goon squad picks to replace the kill-crazy klutz from Crawford -- but the vast machinery of electoral malfeasance that propelled this extremist faction to power over the wishes of the electorate in both 2000 and, yes, 2004, is not only still in place, it's growing stronger all the time.


No one has laid bare the malodorous innards of this democracy-devouring monster better than Mark Crispin Miller, whose new book, "Fooled Again," takes us back to the dastardy of Election Day 2004 and the hydra-headed campaign of vote-rigging that preceded it. This second heist of the White House is one of the great untold stories of our time -- even though it was largely carried out in plain sight. Miller performs the simple but increasingly rare act of journalism and gathers a mountain of overwhelming evidence from publicly available material. This is no "conspiracy theory" stitched together from anonymous sources, strained inferences and dark innuendo, but a solid case based on official records, sworn testimony, eyewitness accounts, news reports and the Bushists' own words.<snip>

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/01/20/120.html

[acmavm]

1. Hope you get more of a response than I did. This article is important.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=186124&mesg_id=186124

[in_cog_ni_to]

4. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see your post. I've been on & off of DU all day.

This IS an important article. It pisses me off that I had to read this in The MOSCOW TIMES. The corporate media here is useless and COMPLICIT in the downfall of this country.:grr: I'm OUTRAGED!:grr:

[acmavm]

10. I'm just happy that people are reading it. I got NO responses when I

posted it. I'm glad you posted it again.

[lady lib]

2. I just sent the link to the DNC

and asked them to please read the article and Miller's book. I also reminded them that nothing is going to change until we have hand counted paper ballots.

You might want to do the same.

http://www.democrats.org/page/s/contact

[The Doctor.]

14. I keep trying to think of a good subject line attention-grabber...

that Representatives and Senators haven't already seen a billion times... but I can't.

"You MUST read this"
"The future of our Country"
"You're nearly unemployed"
"Want to be remembered as a patriot?"
"A voter's concerns"
"Please review"
"A matter importance for your Good Offices"
"Refinance your Mortgage now!"
"Free 72" Plasma TV!"
"Your credit report online."

Just can't think of a good header.

[lady lib]

16. ((Big smile)) Go with Free 72" Plasma TV!

My turn:
"Confidential: pregnancy test results - Jenna Bush"

Doth I sinketh too low?? :evilgrin: :+

On a higher note:
"Honest leadership comes from honest elections"

[The Doctor.]

18. Low? No. - I am the limbo king...

"Affordable Anthrax Protection..."

-Hell, I might actually use that.

:evilgrin:

[jimshoes]

3. I fully intend to buy and read

this book. It sound like this needs wide distribution cuz the MSM is avoiding it like the plague. Thanks for the heads up.

[Pithy Cherub]

7. The msm management is firmly against truth and justice.

They are however a thin-skinned lot who are deeply disturbed that their influence is akin to w's approval ratings. Anything that does not prop all the fatuous rightwing lies that went before is regarded as heresy and not fit to print. That is where the Truth and Justice now rest - outside the poisoned ivory tower that is the msm.

This is a most excellent article written by a real reporter who values relevance, truth and justice.


on edit: To spell or not to spell, that is the question...

[IDemo]

5. Chris Floyd nailed it in this article

"Despite the scandals, the indictments, the mounting death toll in Iraq and the ever-deepening unpopularity of Bush and his minions, the faction's tools for "manufacturing consent" -- so ably exposed by Miller -- are greased and ready, unchallenged by the clueless, spineless Democrats and the dollar-dazzled media. So look for more "astonishing upsets" and poll-confounding "surprises" in the coming national elections, as brute power rapes reality once again."

[Karenina]

8. Chris Floyd

ALWAY NAILS IT TO THE WALL. Jell-o can't even evade him!

[StClone]

6. Nominated: Election fraud is the cornerstone of BushCo

Crooked little machines, threats by thugs, too few voting machines, SCOTUS selections, etc = Election Fraud. It is the biggest obstacle to the people regaining our Democracy.

[IDemo]

9. Nominated n/t

[MelissaB]

12. Piling on!

:kick:

[Hubert Flottz]

11. K&R

Should be on the front page of any American newspaper that serves the people instead of the dollar!

[Raster]

13. I wanted to do a Harry Potter and climb through the television...

"The game was actually given away long before the balloting, when one of the faction's congressional waterboys, Representative Peter King, was captured -- on film -- boasting that the fix was in. At a White House chow-down in summer 2003, King was asked who he thought would win in 2004. "It's already over," King said. "The election's over. We won. ... It's all over but the counting. And we'll take care of the counting."

and slap the living shit out of this guy.

Seriously. And the look on dumbya's face when this juiced-up idiot shot his mouth off was precious. For a split second it was the classic bush*-in-the-headlights "oh Shit" look.

Great review. A gritty and honest appraisal of the current state of affairs.

edit: oh yeah, :kick:and nominated

[cosmicdot]

15. in the article, it should be "Howard" Ahmanson

"...of these, the notorious Diebold and lesser-known but equally shadowy ES&S, were kickstarted by right-wing tycoon Harold Ahmanson, once the major backer of the Christian Reconstruction movement..."

"Avenging angel of the religious right"

Quirky millionaire Howard Ahmanson Jr. is on a mission from God to stop gay marriage, fight evolution, defeat "liberal" churches -- and reelect George W. Bush.
~snip~
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/01/06/ahmanson/

Ahmanson, like Falwell, Oliver North, Jack Abramoff, Richard Scaife, etc. ... all have been party to the secretive Council for National Policy. http://watch.pair.com/database.html http://www.seekgod.ca/topiccnp.htm

[Auntie Bush]

17. Thanks for the post. I'd buy it but then I couldn't read DU in my

spare time. I really don't have to read it to know everything he said was true. YES...BUSH STOLE 2 ELECTIONS AND SOON IT WILL BE THREE!

[DemoTex]

19. K&R: "Brute power rapes reality once again."

Andy Stevenson knew. Now I know it's rigged. You know it's rigged. Mark Crispin Miller and Chris Floyd know it's rigged. Dogs and cats know it's rigged.

Now WTF can we do about it? Or is it too late?