72 Hours Of Propaganda
Scylla & Charybdis
By BummerDietz
When you wake up Sunday, the Iraqi voting will be completed.
Effete thugs with immunity -- the MSM -- will post headlines using these, and other, phrases:
"Illegitimacy"
"Irregularities"
"Spotty turnout"
"Inconclusive"
"No mandate" etc.,. etc. The MSM headlines are already written; the facts won't matter.
Focus on Overall Turnout.
In US Presidential Elections, only about 50% of eligible voters actually vote. (About 2/3 of eligible US citizens register , and about 2/3 of registered citizens actually vote). In midterm congressional elections, only about 40% vote. (In Tennessee, 25% vote; in Arizona, 33%. Are Tennessee and Arizona Senators Bill Frist, Lamar Alexander, John McCain and Jon Kyl all "illegitimate?" Or somehow "without a mandate?")
What percentage of Iraqis will vote?* To the MSM, it simply doesn't matter. The MSM will ignore actual voter turnout, and will try to damn the entire election, and the Bush policies underlying the election, on account of likely lower turnout in some Sunni areas.
nb: In the 2000 Presidential election, with a 55% overall voter turnout country-wide, 70% of Minnesotans and Alaskans voted (a shocking 30% over-representation for these ballot-box-stuffing white northerners). Only 45% voted in Nevada and Arkansas (a shocking 20% undervote of these disenfranchised folks).
Was the 2000 US Presidential election illegitimate and spotty, on account of the wide disparity in voter turnout among regions of the country? As the MSM blasts the differential in voter turnout among Shi'a, Kurd and Sunni areas of Iraq, will any MSM dare compare such Iraqi differentials to like-kind data in the US?
Of course they won't.....but you knew that already. |
