Said David Alan Grier at the end of Comedy Central’s Chocolate News this week, after being shown a touch-screen voting machine which tries to talk him out of voting for Barack Obama, tells him that he’s Muslim, and then registers the vote for John McCain anyway: “For all you Barack Obama supporters out there, if you see a machine like this, beat it like it stole something. Cause it almost did. Your vote.”
Not that we’d ever advocate the way Grier resolves the problem. (Though we admit it was quite satisfying to watch. Like pornography for election integrity geeks. 2 mins…)
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Thank you. I hadn’t see any of Chocolate News before, and I am going to start watching it. Smart and savvy. I agree that it was very satisfying to see a voting machine demolished by a baseball bat.
I want to watch it … but it will have to be later … because:
Right now I’m watching THE BEST “pornography for election integrity geeks” on LINK TV —
Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: The Clint Curtis Story Starring journalist/blogger Brad Friedman, Clint Curtis, Bob Fitrakis, Cynthia McKinney & a “host of others.”
I missed the news about this film somehow, but found it advertised on bradblog and – WOW! Great Stuff, Brad!
Thank You So Much!!!
The only good EVM is one that has been clubbed with a sledgehammer.
At the Washington Post: The Greedy Old Pricks continue their voter suppression campaign. This time the battleground is the Commonwealth of Virginia. They are freaking out because Gov. Kaine restored the voting rights of 1,484 nonviolent felons that met the requirements for having their voting rights restored. The GOP would prefer that they lose voting rights for life since they all must be democrats. Since it appears that most are ‘white collar’ criminals, I’d bet that most are Republicans. Another data point is the the previous Governor (Warner) restored the voting rights of 3,500 nonviolent offenders. This is actually a full restoration of rights so the ex-convicts can also possess firearms again as well as vote. Hunting is a big deal in VA. This restoration of rights is automatic by law in most states. Only Virginia and Kentucky require an act of the governor to restore voting rights to felons.
The GOP are whining like a bunch of little girls. Perhaps they think that they are about to have their head handed to them.
David Alan Grier is a long time a coming star; been a fan for years. His skits are as he is, always funny.
I wish they’d do a skit regarding conservative right wing religious nuts accusations of Obama’s family back in Kenya. http://www.injesus.com/index.ph...038;paging=all
Are we seeing election theft news becoming mainsteam without any help from MSM and Kos? LUV the smell of freedom in the morning.
Great. That’s all we need. Let the Republicans get a hold of this video so they can portray all black men as baseball bat swingin anarchists who will cause violence on election day. Gee thanks. The vote stealing will get lost in the fear of the angry violent deadly black man theme going on here.
Do you think the McCain campaign is hiring illegals to get out the vote in central Florida?
Ohh — Louie Slobbs would jus luv to see this
Just add a little spin to it and voila!
Hilarious. It wouldn’t be surprising if the baseball bat situation becomes a reality in some areas. Voting machines are not the friendliest, least complicated machines in this country.
As Judge of Elections I swear an oath to administer the election to the best of my abiliy. Now, the fact that my sos pedro cortez and my local election board are ignoring the gross falability of PA’s paperless electronic voting machines and are only now being sued to have emergency paper ballots in place if 50% of the machines break down (which leads to unreasonable wait times for voting and lost votes). I feel that in order to faithfully execute my job it is within my right to unplug faulty machines and have paper ballots ready in the event of problems. I went to my county’s website and printed the sample ballot for my precinct. On my own time and nickle I will print the new number of registered voter ballots. I take my job seriously and if those above me will not address factual evidence and likely probabilities it is down to me the person.
Furthermore, I will stay at my precinct and count the votes with my coworkers and any one wishing to observe the counting. The results will be posted outside my precinct before leaving to drive them to the election headquarters with a witness.
At this moment in time nothing less than the courage of those who have given their lives guides my conscience. Any lawyers feel like commenting?
I give it 2 snaps in a Z formation.
Can’t see it until CTV puts it up 🙁
I hid my IP and get a blank space so they really have covered their @ss, damn pro-Harper that it is!
John Martin, the black man has every right to be angry – to stop being invisible and stop being fearful of unjust incarceration or voter caging.
I agree the message was a little on the “strong” side, but maybe it’s about time!?!
Remember the 15th Amendment to our Constitution?
Section 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Now go back to the years 2000 and 2004 [the years we have the most information on video and documented by people like Bob Fitrakis plus the other Ohio Lawyers, Greg Palast, Brad Friedman and other voting rights activists] and count the number of Black Americans who were purposefully and unjustly disenfranchised.
We’ve been trying to hold each individual in congress to his/her oath of office but they are still not upholding Section 2 of the 15th Amendment.
In 2005 Howard Dean [Chairman of the Democratic Party] admitted he had not read John Conyers’ What Went Wrong In Ohio: The Conyers Report On The 2004 Presidential Election.
Dean wasn’t the only one – if memory serves me, John Kerry admitted the same and there were others. I hope Barack Obama read it, but some of his comments on the campaign trail make me wonder because I don’t think he gets it even yet – or maybe he’s playing his cards close to his chest.
Maybe it’s time for the hard-hitting comedy to bring attention to the anger we disenfranchised are feeling.
Hopefully, this along with the growing disgust for the racist theme of the McFailin campaign will finally spotlight the vile and pernicious slime that calls itself the GOP.
Hey Kira, I think the piece is funny and humor is a good way to get uncomfortable info across, but in these heightened times any excuse for martial law will do for these F****, all of them. Trust me, they’re doing their best to incite it, but MLK, Ghandi and my Mom are still my best role models. 🙂
Ancient – the times seem to be Damned if you Don’t, Damned if you Do.
We’ll just have to wait and see about the Martial Law thing. I hope there will be a revolt within the military if they try it. If not, I guess we’ll all be digging tunnels to Canada.
And … shhhh … the rest of the World Is WATCHING.
Ancient … I’m not advocating violence at all. I’m advocating the use of Theater to express the anger.
Just wanted to make that clear.
Besides, this skit falls so far on the tame side compared to the reThug talking points.
Wilburrr ~ That was a BLast !!!
BTW ~ When You See “(AP)” That Stands For Associated Poppycock !
(AP) Should take one more POLL and stuff it up their ass . . . . . .
These fucking people have finally lost all credibility with me . . .
Kira, BINGO and kkkarl will use his own people to try to do it! I’m just for reasonable people being aware not edgey.
Hey BH, did you see this article?
http://www.democracynow.org/200...eeightcom_nate
Now thats what I call stats, sport fan that I am!
Didja see this article on Oct. 16th? *woot!*
Irish Bookmaker Pays out on Obama as Next US President
DUBLIN, Ireland, October 16, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ — Following the concluding presidential debate in New York last night Ireland’s largest bookmaker, Paddy Power, has decided to pay out on Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America.
This unprecedented move comes almost three weeks ahead of Election Day on November 4th and sees the bookie paying out in excess of EUR1,000,000 [$1,360,000] to Obama backers. Prior to Paddy Power paying out, Obama was practically unbackable at odds of 1-9 to be the next American President (meaning a bet of EUR90 was required to make EUR10 profit)
To date Paddy Power has taken over ten thousand bets on the 2008 US Presidential Election, the majority of which were placed in support on the Illinois Senator over the past 12 months. In fact betting support was so strong for Obama that Paddy Power paid out over EUR50,000 ($68,000) on his successful nomination as the Democratic Party candidate back in January of this year, seven months before the convention.
Paddy Power said “We declare this race well and truly over and congratulate all those who backed Obama, your winnings await you. Although the Senator seemed a little off sorts in last nights final debate we believe he has done more than enough to get him across the line on November 4th. The overall betting trends has shown one way traffic for Obama since the start of the summer and punters seemed to have called it 100% correct….”
[more at link]
Hey Kira, I’m Black Irish! Me Da (German Irish French Canadian) used to love to tease my Spanish Ma about the Southern Spaniard integration of Muslin blood! Man, you should have seen her eyes flash. But my ma was never quick enough in her anger or bugus rightousness to mention when the Spainish Armada crashed on the southern Irish shore, thus Black Irish. I grew up to say what’s the big deal!
I’ve got a bit ‘o the Irish in my background, as well as Native American.
Hey – Do we have enough lipstick in the good ol’ USA to cover the Palin Pig? [Good luck on that 2012 plan oinker!]
Apparently, the GOP has spent $22,800 for Palin’s makeup.
A massive cosmetic budget for the far right’s picks
Don’t take anybody’s word for it , take it for what you know and see.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
See ya tomorrow.
🙂
Hey Kira, I don’t know if you’ll see this but…
my lovely niece is half Eskimo (some of the smartest people I’ve ever met). My brother decided to become a laywer after dealing with it all. He works for a nonprofit now dealing with habeaus corpus and the death penality.
An you know what beats my ass about palin is, she wants one little group to deal with an entire world, where I’d like to see strides made for the whole world together.