Why deal with rumors? Let's focus on facts. Al Gore is a liar and deciever. Do we really want him for President?
Lying like a loser
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The election is over, and Al
Gore has won, or so he keeps
saying, and yet he and his
advisers continue to dissemble
as they did when they were
trying to fool voters before
they voted.
It's one thing to tell whoppers
during the campaign, as Gore
did, over and over, to get
elected. But if the chips (or
chads, in this case) fell his
way, there should be no need to
torque the truth anymore.
Unless, that is, you're still
trying to fool people. Look at
his post-election whoppers,
starting with the biggest:
"Thousands of votes that were
cast on Election Day have not
yet been counted at all -- not
once," Gore insisted Monday
night.
The claim is a critical one,
because Gore's entire hopes of
overturning the election now
rest with it.
But it's a howling lie.
Despite the image Gore is
trying to impress upon the
public, there are no boxes full
of ballots screaming to be
opened in the elections offices
in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade
counties.
In fact, all ballots have been
run through counting machines
there -- not once, but twice --
and Gore knows it. No voter's
ballot has gone uncounted. And
every single vote that was cast
on those ballots has been
recorded.
This is a verifiable fact.
Yet the media elite nourish
Gore's lie by leaving it up to
partisan surrogates for
President-elect Bush to set the
record straight. Instead of
saying the truth on their own,
they attribute it to
"Republicans," which leaves a
residue of doubt in the minds
of voters watching from a
distance.
Personality journalists also
cloud the issue by using
inexact terms. There's a big
difference between uncounted
votes and ones that have been
disqualified due to voter error
or simply left blank.
Yet the talking heads on TV use
"uncounted" to mean both votes
that have never been looked at
and ones that have been
rejected or unrecorded.
At Gore's Tuesday press
conference, reporters had a
chance to call him on his "not
yet been counted" lie -- which,
again, is central to his legal
case right now -- yet no one
even came close. Even if they
believed it, as paid skeptics
they should have at least
tested his underlying
assumption by asking him to
speculate on how many boxes of
ballots he thinks remain locked
in those counties. Instead,
they just let him get away with
it, wholesale.
If Bush tried to sell that
canard, rest assured the press
corps would have snuffed it out
in a heartbeat.
But that's not the only
post-election whopper Gore has
told.
In his Monday night chat, he
lubriciously suggested that
unruly Republicans bullied
Democratic officials in
Miami-Dade County into shutting
down their hand recount.
"Elections officials brought
the count to an end in the face
of organized intimidation,"
Gore said.
Yet the chairman of the
Miami-Dade canvassing board has
said the demonstration by
Republican observers, who
merely protested being locked
out of the recount room, was
not a factor in his decision to
stop the recount.
"It had nothing to do with the
protest," Judge David Leahy
said. He and other officials
just gave up after seeing they
couldn't meet the high court's
deadline.
Note the Clintonesque parsing
of words in Gore's statement.
He said officials ended the
count "in the face of," and not
because of, the demonstration.
So technically, he can say he's
not lying if challenged.
But such linguistic maneuvering
suggests he knew in advance of
no connection, but decided to
leave that impression anyway.
In a way this is worse than an
unparsed lie, because at least
then there's a chance he didn't
know he was really lying.
On Tuesday, Gore implied there
was some kind of racist
conspiracy to disenfranchise
minority voters in the
Democratic counties in Southern
Florida where he wants manual
recounts to go forward.
Isn't it funny, he said, that
those "low-income" counties
still use the old punchcard
voting method, which lends
itself to error, while richer
counties up North use the newer
bubble-scan method.
What a reach. Palm Beach County
uses punch cards and it's the
third-richest county in the
nation. It boasts more golf
holes than any other U.S.
county. So much for that race
card.
No matter. No one in the press
corps corrected him, so the
notion was broadcast unmolested
to the unknowing masses.
There have been other spasms of
dishonesty, and the media have
pretended not to notice them,
either.
For example, Gore and his
surrogates have suggested that
Gore has some claim to the Oval
Office based on his winning a
fraction more of the popular
vote than Bush.
Of course, the popular vote has
no legal relevance. The
Electoral College decides the
presidential election, and Bush
won more state electoral votes.
But the Gore camp presses the
issue by adding that Gore won
more popular votes than any
other president besides Ronald
Reagan.
Yes, and George W. Bush comes
in a close third in popularity.
In fact, he won more votes than
Clinton and Gore did in 1992
and 1996.
Then there's the disingenuous
assurance by Gore legal adviser
Warren Christopher that the
founders wouldn't want us
fretting over all his lawyers
and their endless legal
challenges that are delaying
the resolution of the election.
He claims the founders spread
out the transition period
between administrations
expressly to allow time to work
out tight elections like this
in the courts.
Anyone who's studied the
Constitution -- and I assume
Christopher has -- can tell you
that's a facile argument.
The main reason for the long
interregnum was to accommodate
travel.
Transportation and
communication were so slow when
the Constitution was written
that it would have been almost
impossible for officials
elected in November to reach
the capital in time.
After the country switched from
horses to cars, politicians
grew weary of the "lame duck"
period and shortened it. The
20th Amendment, ratified in
1933, moved the president's
inaugural day from March 4 to
Jan. 20.
Expect more specious claims and
shameless lies as Gore grows
more desperate.
He's not acting like a man who
won, but like someone who's
trying to pull one over on the
American people.
Paul Sperry is Washington
bureau chief for
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