Some real facts about Election 2000

I believe that the root of almost all the Bush hatred that comes from the American left stems from what they see as a stolen election in 2000, I keep finding myself in a position where I have to discuss it again, and again, and again...Ironically, MoveOn.org was created specifically with the mission of “helping he country move on” after the Clinton sex scandals.  In other words, just forget that, let’s move forward.  Now they can’t let go of Florida 2K.

Anyway, reader Megumi spotted this article in the New York Post. It does a good job of addressing the situation, and if I catch anyone commenting without having read the article first, I will find your house, cover it in cow dung, call it art and demand a federal grant for the project.  That is to say RTFA (Read The Fucking Article).

The first half interests me, but not as much as the close.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush stole the election for his brother by removing African-American voters, who were likely to vote for Gore, from the rolls. Again, Moore ignores documented fact.

Some background: Florida bans felons from voting (unless they’ve been granted clemency). Before the 2000 vote, the state hired Database Technologies to purge rolls of felons and dead people. Some non-felons were erroneously removed from the rolls — but the errors didn’t “target” minorities.

The liberal-leaning Palm Beach Post found that “a review of state records, internal e-mails of [Database Technologies] employees and testimony before the civil rights commission and an elections task force showed no evidence that minorities were specifically targeted.”

The law against felon voting does have a racial impact, since African-Americans make up the greatest share of felons (nearly 49 percent felons convicted in Florida). But the application of that law in 2000 skewed somewhat the opposite way — whites were actually the most likely to be erroneously excluded.

The error rate was 9.9 percent for whites, 8.7 percent for Hispanics, and only a 5.1 percent for African-Americans.

Whaaaaaaat?  Could this be true?  Could Moore be talking directly out of his ass, doing a damn fine Ace Ventura impression but at the same time be spreading a line of bullshit so thick it’s like the first shake of the day out of the machine at McDonalds?  The error rate was HIGHER for whites?

Well, slap my ass and call me Sally.  Michael Moore, being wrong about something.  Who would have thunk it?

Of course the inherent flaw in the entire theory is that Florida officials would have A: had to have known the vote would be close, B: known Florida was going to be the swing state and C: known all of this precognizantly.  But why let a little thing like logic or truth get in the way of making a hundred million dollars?

Coming in summer 2008: my first feature film entitled “Michael Moore Likes To Have Sex With Farm Animals.” Who needs evidence...I have a theory!