Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Bill Moyers. Great Video.


BILL MOYERS: Mark Crispin Miller, welcome. You grew up in Chicago where, it is famously said, four out of every two votes are cast Democratic, right? And whereas we learned in 1960 you never count the votes of the deceased until you know how many need, right? So you have some experience with what can go wrong in elections. What can go wrong this election? Do you think the capacity for fraud today is greater than it was, for example, in 1948 when one of my mentors, Lyndon B. Johnson, became "Landslide Lyndon" because he was elected to the Senate on the basis of 87 disputed votes in a single county in Texas? Went on to become President of the United States? I mean, is the capacity for stealing an election greater today than it was then?

MARK CRISPIN MILLER: Oh, the capacity for stealing an election is infinitely greater today than it was then. But it does not involve individual voters stuffing ballot boxes. That's what you might call retail fraud, you know? That's old-fashioned voter fraud of the kind that we are now being told - thunderously - is reached epidemic proportions and that ACORN is the main culprit.

The point I'm making to you here, Bill - and this is the most important thing I'm going to say to you tonight - is that this is a pretext being used by a party, okay, that is itself committing election fraud and vote suppression on an enormous scale. In other words, we have a party that is itself engaged in disenfranchising, actively disenfranchising millions of Americans. It is itself complaining about a group that is supposedly planning to do the same thing but that isn't doing that at all.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hi Mike,

I know this guy jokes around a lot, but he wrote this and it was in line with Bill Moyer´s show. This is just so disgusting and it is bumming me out.

yanqui mike said...

Wow. How 'bout it.

Well, these guys were promised a 1000 year reich (permanent majorities with unitary executive) and now they're a little bit more than just disappointed.

Expect a fresh continuation of the Vietnam dolchstoss.