Read that headline as you see fit. Any way you slice it, we all lost last night when the Associated Press and, a short time later, NBC “News” called the Democratic presidential primary race for Hillary Clinton, based on secret phone polling of super delegates.
I wish I was just making that up, but it’s true. Listen to NBC “News'” director of elections, John Lapinski explaining their decision to call the race to Lawrence O’Donnell last night Chris Hayes last night.
Apparently Mr. Lapinski was on Hayes’, Maddow’s and Lawrence O’Donnell’s shows last night. The first two appearances were posted on the MSNBC website. The O’Donnell segment was not. Perhaps that was because Mr. O’Donnell appeared mortified by their calling an election base on a “secret phone poll”…
“A secret poll of super delegates will tell you, before the biggest state in the union votes, who the nominee is.”
And as of 1:51 pm Eastern, still no statement from Debbie Wasserman Schultz or the DNC on the media’s erroneous call.
Today on the show, Randi Rhodes called in to weigh in on the electoral madness, and we attempted to update you on our studio progress… or delays. Follow that link to see her new site, and click the donate button should you care to help us with the extra funds we need to get the studio build correctly!
And GottaLaff joined me to take some calls from disappointed and angry voters who are mad as hell and not going to take it any more.
One last time, if you’re in Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Jersey or California, don’t listen to the corporate media. Get out and VOTE as if your future depended on it… because it does!
The Clinton spin has been that it’s the Math, but it’s not Math it’s Cheating!
If two apple farmers with everything on the two farms being
equal entered a contest. On a given day all their ripe apples were
picked and combined together. One had green apples while the other grew
red apples. All together there were one thousand apples, six hundred
green and four hundred red. Clearly the farmer of the green won, but
something happened. The sons of the red apple farmer threw out three
hundred of the green apples, giving the context to the red apple farmer.
They could scream all they wanted that it was simple math, but
everyone knew that three hundred green apples had disappeared. Gloat as
the red apple farmer might, nothing could cover the dishonesty and that
night when lighting struck the orchard of red apples, which burned to
the ground, because no one would help this cheater.
Hillary’s people can call it math all they want, but when they refuse
to add in all the votes, it’s not math rather cheating, for if on a
math test you were to leave out part of the equation, such as three
hundred green apples being ignored while only counted three hundred
green and four hundred red apples , 300 + 400= 700 would get you a big
fat F. BTW we have not given up yet, in fact you just might have given
our side reason to let your orchard burn! Think about that.
Am I wrong to say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is just a female version of Alan West?