TWO FROM THE HOMEPAGE OF GREG PALAST
On the Disenfranchisement of African-Americans
And the Theft of the Presidency in 2000
 
My favorite muckraking journalist, so despised by both the political and news media establishments in the United States that he has to work in England, is pounding away at the potential for a repeat of Jeb Bush's vote-stealing scheme that gave the election of 2000 to brother George. 
 
First, an essay by the man himself on how white Democrats are beginning to accept the unacceptable, that they were literally robbed of the White House:
 
BLACK AMERICANS DISCOVERED BY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
 
Here's how Senator Kerry got the message. Two weeks ago, when I was in Chicago, Jesse Jackson asked me to join him for breakfast at the Marriott Hotel. To my surprise, he'd also invited Senator John Edwards. Jackson had made copies of my editorial for the San Francisco Chronicle on the missing one million votes ... and wouldn't let the wannabe Veep touch his bagel until he'd read every word.
 
Just when Edwards thought he could have a sip of coffee, Jackson required him to watch the segment of our BBC television special, "Bush Family Fortunes," with the latest analysis on the non-count of Black votes in Florida. In the 2000 race, 95,000 African-American votes were dumped in the Florida swamps, marked as spoiled.
 
Edwards, succumbing to hunger, caffeine deprivation and Reverend Jackson's intense interrogation, caved in and promised to take the message of the missing Black votes to the white side of his party.
 
Congresswoman Corrine Brown joined us. When she read the story and saw the film, she was ready to spit bullets. She was especially upset that British television covered the story while, in the USA, the Black story was blacked out.
 
The film clip would get the Congresswoman in hot water.  
 
Click here for the rest.
 
And for the inside scoop on the hot water in which Ms. Brown was thrown, Mr. Palast runs a BuzzFlash action alert on the Congressional ordeal:
 
The Political Lynching of Congresswoman Brown
 
Last Wednesday morning Corrine Brown watched an advanced copy of our new DVD, Bush Family Fortunes, including the details on how the Republican party stole the election in 2000. After seeing these facts, Congresswoman Corrine Brown, a black woman w/ a height end sense of justice, walked over to the capital on Thursday and put on the record the facts she had seen.
 
And
 
NBC News first reported tonight about an "outburst" on the floor of the House. Turns out it was Corrine Brown (D- Jacksonville, FL) debating the request made by five Representatives to have the UN monitor U.S. Elections (see article re/their original proposal below). Turns out that House leadership answered their call with legislation forbidding any U.N. money be used to monitor elections in the U.S.
 
Rep. Brown then said that the House leadership had participated in a "coup d'etat" in 2000 by stealing the election and that we would need monitoring to make sure it didn't happen again. They played a tape of the leadership then shouting Brown down, slamming the gavel and telling her to get off the floor.
 
The House then voted along party lines - now here is the big news - TO HAVE HER COMMENTS STRICKEN FROM THE RECORD:
 
The House's presiding officer, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, ruled that Brown's words violated a House rule.
 
"Members should not accuse other members of committing a crime such as, quote, stealing, end quote, an election," Thornberry said.
 
Click here for the rest.
 
The reality is that the Republicans really did steal the election of 2000, and there's a mountain of evidence to prove it, thanks to Palast's investigative journalism.  Four years later, the conspiracy of silence upheld by politicians and journalists alike is starting to show some signs of strain, which is making the conspiracy become all the more obvious: the Republicans punished Brown for speaking the truth about their illegitimate President; then, in an act straight out of Orwell's 1984, changed the truth into untruth. 
 
Are you mad yet?
 
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