Recount Fever
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FAKE NEWS:
Mainstream Post-Election Propaganda
The drive-bys are in panic mode. Their roll- ing series of anti-Trump screamer headlines is being ignored by the American public. Ever
since their world was turned upside-down on the night
of November 8, with Trump’s shocking (to them) vic-
tory, they have feverishly tried one narrative after
another, all with the underlying delusional message:
“““““This’ll stop Trump! The last 4,739 may have failed,
but this one will get him!”
House.” — headline, International Business Daily, 11/28/16
“State Recounts Could Alter Election Results.” — International
Business Daily, 12/2/16
“Recounts Barely Making Dent in Election Results; Trump Gains
in Wisconsin.” — Fox News, 12/7/16
“We’re not finding any problems with the machines. The [Jill]
Stein campaign wanted a recount because they thought there was
some problems with our machines and that was not the case.”
— Reid Magney, Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesper-son, Fox News, 12/7/16
“Fake News” Fever
“Trump’s Margin Up After Wisconsin Recount Over Voting
“Google and Facebook Take Aim at Fake News Sites.” — New
Machine Security.” — PC World, 12/12/16
York Times, 11/14/16
“Fake news played a role in this election and continues to find a
wide audience.” — Brian Williams, MSNBC, Daily Caller, 12/6/16
“‘[F]ake news’ means a made-up story with an intention to deceive
… Mr. Trump and some members of his team have promoted
false items…” — New York Times, 12/6/16
“Even if all three [state] recounts had taken place, they were always
unlikely to change the outcome.” — “Jill Stein’s Recount Bid Is
Over,” Huffington Post, 12/12/16
“What Is Fake News? How to Spot It and What You Can Do to
Stop It.” — headline, The [UK] Guardian, 12/17/16
“Could Hillary Clinton Still Win? There’s One More Chance.”
— CBS News, 11/10/16. CBS hyped the Change.org petition that
electors not vote for Trump, to deny him the 270 votes needed.
“It’s Time to Retire the Tainted Term ‘Fake News.’ Co-opted by
conservative media, the label is misleading and useless.” —
“The Electoral College Could See a Historic Number of
‘Faithless Electors.’” — Politico, 11/22/16
Washington Post, via Twitter, 1/8/17
“Google has removed language referencing fake news from its
‘prohibited content’ policy for websites that use its advertising
network. The policy previously stated that these sites cannot
engage in ‘deceptively presenting fake news articles as real.’” —
Media Matters, after the “fake news” gambit against conservatives
spectacularly failed, complaining that Google reneged, 1/12/17
“At least six electors — members of the Electoral College whose
votes actually elect the President — have vowed to cast ballots
that don’t align with the popular vote results of their states …
If they carry out their intentions — in effect, becoming ‘faithless
electors’ — they would narrow Donald Trump’s margin-of-victory in the Electoral College over Hillary Clinton.” — New
York Daily News, 11/22/16. Omitted info: all six electors were
Democrats.
“No, the Presidential Election Can’t Be Hacked.” — CNN pre-election headline, 10/19/16. CNN assured the public that “election
officials and cyber experts say it’s virtually impossible for Moscow
or some other outside group to influence the election outcome.”
“Where’s the Outrage Over Russia’s Hack of the U.S. Election?”
“The Electoral College Was Meant to Stop Men Like Trump
from Being President.” — headline, The Atlantic, 11/21/16
— CNN post-election headline, 12/10/16
“A group of computer scientists and election lawyers are urging
Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to demand a
manual recount of ballots … The activists don’t have evidence
that voting machines were hacked, only a statistical suggestion
that something is off.” — Huffington Post, 11/23/16. The group
included attorney John Bonifaz who is founder of the Soros-funded National Voting Rights Institute.
“Clinton supporters … have circulated petitions to force electors
in the Electoral College not to vote for Trump, and to eliminate
the Electoral College altogether.” — Huffington Post, 11/23/16
“No one is questioning the victory.” — George Stephanopoulos
to Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, who pointed out the
media was attempting to undermine Trump’s Electoral College
win, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” 12/2/16
“The academics presented findings showing that in Wisconsin,
Clinton received seven percent fewer votes in counties that relied on
electronic-voting machines compared with counties that used opti-
cal scanners and paper ballots. Based on this statistical analysis,
Clinton may have been denied as many as 30,000 votes; she lost
“On December 5, The New York Times published an op-ed col-
umn by Republican Texas elector Christopher Suprun entitled
‘Why I Will Not Cast My Electoral Vote for Donald Trump’
… [in the] op-ed, Suprun claimed … ‘as a firefighter, I was part
of the response to the Sept. 11 attacks against our nation’ …
and that he ‘works as a paramedic.’ Neither The Times, which
has published nine other items containing Suprun’s name since
his op-ed, or the Associated Press, which has published three,
have noted that those two statements have been exposed as …
fraudulent.” — NewsBusters, 12/18/16
Wisconsin by 27,000.” — New York Magazine, 11/22/16
“Can Hillary Clinton Still Win? Election Recount in Wisconsin,
Michigan, and Pennsylvania Could Cost Trump the White
“Donald Trump’s opponents need just 37 electors to go rogue
today. A handful have said they plan to.” — Cecilia Vega, ABC’s
“Good Morning America,” NewsBusters, 12/19/16
