Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Last night — nearly three years after it was first reported by the BBC — PBS’s NOW finally exposed the Republican Party conspiracy to steal the 2004 Presidential Election. Whaddayaknow?
The 15 minute segment concentrates on “Voter Caging” and features appearances by Greg Palast and former US attorney David Iglesias. Readers will recall that Palast, who originally broke this story in 2004, has written BRAD BLOG exclusives on voter caging and on Tim Griffin, who was one of the leaders of the illegal scheme.
For even more on the NOW story, voter caging, and the Republican conspiracy to steal the 2004 election, listen to the replay of Brad guest hosting on the Peter B. Collins Show yesterday. Brad speaks to Palast in the first hour and interviews Bryan Myers, who produced the NOW segment, in the second hour.
Thanks for posting this video. Not having cable hook-up, I never would have seen this, w/o it having been put on one of the sites I get my information from.
PBS has moved to the right and thus ignorance (ignoring real stories) is part an parcel of the PBS system now.
It is the faux snooze thingy.
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Make no mistake about it. PBS is also a corrupted fascism-leaning enterprise beholden to vile corporate entities for funding.
thanks for posting this news. I always watch NOW on Friday nites and this was a good surprise. Though most of us who were paying attention knew this was happening during the voting in 2004. there were even videos made by BevHarris/Black Box Voting folks of Young Republicans harassing black voters in Ohio voting places, telling them wrong info, etc. It was good cause they chased them off. But it is hard to understand why honesty takes so long to be made available to all of us. The neo-cons have had a pretty strong vise-grip on PBS these years. They were political appointees and very very bad for freedom of information. Happy days, let us have more of this kind of news.
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And this coverage Alan points out in this thread is a sign they are moving back towards the center.
Don’t you just love PBS. I believe that if every young American Voter were forced to watch PBS Frontline and NOW there wouldn’t be people like GW BUSH and Company.