'Think Progress' Smears BRAD BLOG Coverage of Voting Machine Concerns as 'Conspiracy Theory'
To be frank, while it's no secret that the Center for American Progress has always been an outside extension of the Democratic Party, their important blog site, Think Progress, has served as a crucial, and journalistically sound fact-checker on the excesses, inaccuracies and blatant fabrications of the Right over the past several years.
I have been more than happy to cite their excellent work on a number of fronts over the years and take no pleasure in calling them, their new Senior Editor Judd Legum, and one of their writers, Aviva Shen, out here on The BRAD BLOG for an egregious and, frankly, outrageous journalistic failure.
It is one thing to make an error. We all do it. It is quite another thing indeed --- and what, in my opinion, separates real journalists from hacks --- when, once called out with independently fact-based and verifiable evidence of those errors, one sticks to the original error come what may.
That's exactly what Legum and Think Progress have decided to do, as the email discussion between Legum and me illustrates below...
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What in the world are u talking about
Go here and look at the map:
http://verifiedvoting.org/
A BILLION was spent (so-called Help America Vote Act--2002) to bring UN-verified, UNreliable, vote-switching, Republican manufactured, secret "proprietary" coded DRE touchscreen voting to America. They are being replaced completely in Maryland, as they have been in Germany and Ireland--in favor of ye olde paper optiscan. But they are still in use across the country. Check the map.
The issue is RELATED to suppression and cheating tactics--you know, election rigging is a multi-pronged strategy--helped out by the Dem party as well-- as you illustrate.
PLEASE--just READ the Harpers article--that is ALL I ask.
--And then, after that I would suggest Bradblog and the DU Election Reform forum--but the Harpers article gives it to you in a nutshell.
when you have more time. It might come in handy if we have any more FL or OH scenarios then. Be prepared.
great article to pass around -- (right now of course it's only available on paper)
Well I guess Brad Friedman is used to that treatment. He's been dealing with The Elephant in the Room for a long time--since 2000 at least. He's well-respected and his work is solid.
Brad
Yeah --even progressives DON'T want to acknowledge that we are "working against ourselves" --if we don't address the myriad ways that our election process is compromised.
Our system is severely compromised --and increasingly, under Republican control.
