From the War Room
You may have read about or seen Michael Moore’s “War Room” section on his website, where he posts links and excerpts from articles which “verify” the different messages in his movie. So I was kind of surprised when I read this:
The movie’s statement:
FAHRENHEIT 9/11: Gore got the most votes in 2000.
and Moore’s “proof”:
[A] consortium [Tribune Co., owner of the Times; Associated Press; CNN; the New York Times; the Palm Beach Post; the St. Petersburg Times; the Wall Street Journal; and the Washington Post] hired the NORC [National Opinion Research Center, a nonpartisan research organization affiliated with the University of Chicago] to view each untallied ballot and gather information about how it was marked. The media organizations then used computers to sort and tabulate votes, based on varying scenarios that had been raised during the post-election scramble in Florida. Under any standard that tabulated all disputed votes statewide, Mr. Gore erased Mr. Bush’s advantage and emerged with a tiny lead that ranged from 42 to 171 votes. Donald Lambro, “Recount Provides No Firm Answers,” Washington Times, November 12, 2001.
“The review found that the result would have been different if every canvassing board in every county had examined every undervote, a situation that no election or court authority had ordered. Gore had called for such a statewide manual recount if Bush would agree, but Bush rejected the idea and there was no mechanism in place to conduct one.” Martin Merzer, “Review of Ballots Finds Bush’s Win Would Have Endured Manual Recount,” Miami Herald, April 4, 2001.
Is it just me, or is it a reeeeeeal stretch to try to back up your claim that “Bush stole the election” , when you cite your sources as proof, and they’re titled:
“Recount Provides No Firm Answers,” Washington Times, November 12, 2001.
and
“Review of Ballots Finds Bush’s Win Would Have Endured Manual Recount,” Miami Herald, April 4, 2001
I got a headline for you:
“It’s time for Moore fans to re-evaluate their hero”.
BTW, Speaking of the Miami Herald’s recount, Moore probably should have included this:
The Miami Herald conducted a comprehensive review of 64,248 ballots in all 67 Florida counties. Their count showed that Bush’s razor-thin margin of 537 votes would have tripled to 1,655 votes if counted according to standards advocated by his Democratic rival Al Gore.
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