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To: DMaA who wrote (53487)	7/8/2004 8:59:13 PM
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John Kerry Is Telling An Ugly Lie vodkapundit July 08, 2004 I noticed this line from one of John Kerry's recent speeches at NRO's Kerry Spot: <font color=blue> "Don’t tell us disenfranchising a million African Americans and stealing their votes is the best we can do." <font color=black> Um, what? Let me rephrase that: WHAT?!? <font size=4> Exactly why hasn't this little tidbit been noted by the national press? With a banner headline?<font size=3> That's not just rhetoric, it's the electoral equivalent of a blood-libel. <font size=4>For one thing, it's a flat-out lie<font size=3>, as reluctantly found by the partisan Democrat-dominated US Civil Rights Commission, which despite months of investigation, noted only 26 people with "disenfranchisement" complaints, most of which were found to be specious (link is to a .pdf file of the minority dissent, see page 32). <font size=4> Not <font color=blue>"a million disenfranchised,"<font color=black> but 26 people with complaints, not all of which were valid.<font size=3> Kerry isn't just lying, he's indulging in blatant, ugly race-baiting (it's noteworty he says nothing about the military personnel whose 2000 absentee ballots were voided at the demands of Gore lawyers--now they were disenfranchised, but since they didn't vote correctly, it's below French John's notice). Why isn't he being called on it by the press? Scratch that--you already know the answer. The press is on his side. Let's try again: Why isn't he being called on it by the blogosphere? If this flat-out ugly lie isn't in the same league with Trent Lott's stupidity, I'd like to hear one legitimate reason why not. Posted by Will Collier at July 08, 2004 07:23 AM \| TrackBack vodkapundit.com