Ohio 2004 and Keith Olbermann

[Botany]

In 2004 I was working for John Kerry in central Ohio and the things I saw and heard
on a first hand nature still haunt me to this day. The New York Times, the Washington
Post, the local Columbus paper, and the national media kept pushing the meme that only
sore losers who were disappointed in the outcome of the election were pushing conspiracy
theories about dirty work in Ohio and that the exit polls that showed John Kerry winning the
state were just "an anomaly " but Keith Olbermann was one of the very few who stood up
and publicly questioned the official story that bush won because of a strong turn out of
conservative voters.

In Warren County, Ohio (N.E. of Cincinnati) stories of the counting of the votes being
switched to private because of a terrorist threat were getting some but not much play
in the media however Keith put it into perfect perspective with one simple line, "What
the terrorists want to take over King's Island (an amusement park in Warren County)?"

Always remember that Keith Olbermann was one of the very few who publicly and loudly
called out for a closer look into the stink that was coming from a tainted election in Ohio
which kept America's first unelected President in office so he and his cronies could continue
to do damage to this country and the world.

Last Exit Poll Ohio 2004 before CNN started posting "blended polls."
Ohio Male Voters
George W bush 47%
John Kerry 48.9%

Ohio Female Voters
George W bush 47%
John Kerry 51%

Those are the figures I remember .... and they are just about spot on and they were posted @ 1:00 AM 11/3/04

Thank you Keith for telling the truth.

BTW I hope I am wrong but I think Ed Schultz will be the next to go form COMCAST / MSNBC.

[Patsy Stone]

1. Yep.

He had the first interview with Ken Blackwell, the one where he kept calling him "Keef". Also, props to KO for answering a couple of my e-mails wondering about Warren County. He didn't have to, but he did.

[Botany]

4. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fave?

In the years since 2004 Ohio 2004 I have met the lawyers trying to "get out" the
real story of Ohio 2004 and one told me of an email he got 1 week before
the election from a republican in Warren County telling him that the "fix was in"
and that a terror threat warning was gonna be their cover story.

I fear for this country because with the media take overs and this new crop of
republican governors w/ histories of crimes and screwing the people to help
themselves and other rich people we are in for a real fucking. And not a good
one either.

Gotta get Keith out of the way so the nasty stuff doesn't hit the news.

[maryallen]

14. Sad but true ...

[Patsy Stone]

16. I won't tell the others

you know how they can get. :loveya: The one thing I hate about this (in addition to the obvious) is that somehow, after eveything, Bill-O won. :(

[Overseas]

2. K&R ! //nt

[samplegirl]

3. Thanks for the great post.

Like you I worked on the Kerry Campaign as well. These were the numbers I remember as well.
Sometimes I feel like I live in the dumbest state on the map.

I also remember Keith exposing these numbers and it justified what most intelligent people
knew as well.

[Botany]

5. We had bush voters from 2000 coming into the Kerry state HQ begging ..

... to work for Kerry because they were so turned off by that little shit ball.

BTW from 2001 to 2004 Ohio lost more jobs than any other state in the nation
but the voters turned out and voted for bush? But in 2010 w/ the state's economy
still hurting the same voters voted against the party in power because they wanted
change?

[Lady President]

6. I was there too-- spot on

I worked for Kerry in central Ohio in 2004 too. (I wonder if we've met irl?) You're completely correct. I will take my last breath believing that Kerry won Ohio. I could list a dozen reasons. Keith was the only person who told the truth after the election. We've lost an important voice....

[Botany]

9. did you work in the old firehouse on west broad?

I remember doing poll watching on election day and watching a republican and the
presiding judge cheat all day long ... I called my friend @ the state HQ in he told me not
to worry that it was a national landslide and that his aid (the big women from Texas) had
just told bush that he had lost the election so I shouldn't worry.

When the shit went down and i tried to get into the election's fraud reporting hot line the
line was blocked and it played crazy music and you couldn't get through .... after Kerry
conceded the block was replaced w/ a fast busy signal.

To find out later that bush/Rove were in Columbus on election day meeting Ken Blackwell
and Franklin County BOE director Danschroder as thousands of black voters were being
shorted voting machines is just too much.

[janet118]

11. I worked in western Maine in 2004 . . . an area that usually votes Republican

We were the MoveOn poll watchers on election day. There was a local Republican woman watching along with us. During the day, a man with a black overcoat who stood out like a sore thumb in that area kept trying to get the woman to challenge voters. She refused, saying that she knew everyone who had voted. I love Maine, even the Republicans aren't cheaters.

Oh yeah, Kerry won the whole state. I will never believe that Kerry didn't win that election.

[Lady President]

12. I was mainly at the Party HQ

I spent time at the firehouse, but I was mainly at the old Dem. State HQ. I can remember so distinctly that by 6:00 a.m. I was talking to volunteers on my home line and cell phone at the same time, all while I was frantically sending emails to let everyone know that there were major election irregularities. None of us could get through to the fraud hotline. I think you had to be at ground zero to understand just how bad things were.

I went to the election night party and spoke to several members of the foreign press. They were dumbfounded that our voting process was so bad. I can only imagine the articles that were printed later. I care deeply about my state and country. What can be worse than being a worldwide embarrassment? Keith was the only person in the media who would acknowledge that as a country we should be ashamed of ourselves.

[Blue Owl]

7. K & R

n/t

[BlueIris]

8. This is what I will always remember him for. Especially this:

(emphasis mine)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6533008/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/#

"The Judiciary members ask three questions that, in importance, actually transcend the election itself. They want to know if Blackwell has investigated the barring of reporters during the vote count, if Blackwell has identified the FBI agent who allegedly (and despite FBI denials) warned the county of a terrorist threat, and, most pointedly: “If County officials were not advised of terrorist activity by an FBI agent, have you inquired as to why they misrepresented this fact? If the lockdown was not as a response to a terrorist threat, why did it take place? Did any manipulation of vote tallies occur?”

Blackwell needs to answer these questions. He needs to answer them even if his answers aren’t very convincing. Twelve Congressmen from the losing side of a presidential election do not a Warren Commission make (forgive the coincidental historical analogy). The likelihood they’ll even get anything going inside the Judiciary Committee is negligible.

But posterity is a stern taskmaster. At the time, the election disaster of 1876 was wrapped up nicely, with Rutherford Hayes taking the oath early in 1877, and Samuel Tilden slipping into the backwaters of history. But ask any American of any political stripe about 1876, and if they paid attention in one Social Studies class in High School, they’re likely to tell you that was the year the presidency was stolen. A comprehensive study of the machinations that permitted the seating of a man who won neither the popular nor the electoral vote - and the awful consequences for the South of the resulting enabling compromise - was published as recently as last year (Roy Morris’s Fraud Of The Century)."

It took me about twenty seconds to find and pull that post, despite the fact that it was first posted more than seven years ago, despite the fact that I first read it when I was, on average, reading no fewer than four hours a day about election fraud when I first found it. I will remember these haunting words for the rest of my life.

[peace13]

10. Yes,after the stolen election over 200 of us were on the Statehouse corner...

in Columbus, Ohio, protesting. Every Sunday of that December. We would tune in to Keith to see what he was saying. You are correct, he was the only one to mention it!

[bleever]

13. I remember his "Bloggerman" post where he said that while many people suspected a new blackout

on election fraud mandated by the networks, that "he didn't get the memo". And thus he would be interviewing Blackwell and covering the Ohio allegations.

It was a signature moment for so many of us.

[Balbus]

15. "only sore losers who were disappointed in the outcome of the election

were pushing conspiracy theory.."

I still feel that way.

[SaveAmerica]

17. Memories, corner/mind. Those too painful to remember choose/forget

[MelissaB]

18. K&R This brings back a flood of memories

and none are good. Keith covered and questioned that stolen election when nobody else did.

[Kurovski]

19. K&R. (nt)