[Speed Gibson,
Wednesday December 29, 2004 at 2:26pm]
Hugh Hewitt's Unified Theory
Hugh Hewitt's Weekly Standard column entitled "A Unified Theory of the Old Media Collapse" has immediate corroboration in the Star Tribune today. At the bottom of the Commentary page is an article headlined "We may never know what happened in the Ohio vote."
Hugh's premise is that the media has been bending over backward for so long to report minority viewpoints, right or wrong, they can now no longer straighten up to acknowledge the majority. Hence the rise of Rush, Fox News, and the blogosphere who do, along with many of the same minority viewpoints.
Halvorson and Lund contend there are enough questions about the Ohio vote and its counting to delay the January 6 Electoral College vote. But the points raised fall at least one order of magnitude short of closing the 100,000 plus vote gap. As with many government conspiracy theories, a deliberate fraud of that size requires a large number of conspirators, all of whom must remain silent. And if you have to quote Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, who has tilted at many other windmills in the past, you haven't much of a case.
Besides, how is John Kerry going to win if he's lost 32 votes so far from Democrat electors who can't fill out the ballot correctly? No, we know what happened in Ohio. President Bush won, well beyond a reasonable doubt.
Going back to Hugh's point, there are no doubt dozens of articles floating about that the Star Tribune could have selected instead of this piece, but this is the one that fits the Unified Theory template. By printing a specious, unsupportable theory of the few, they the Star Tribune demonstrate their open minds, their fairness, their objectivity. It serves no significant public purpose; it serves only their egos.
Hugh's premise is that the media has been bending over backward for so long to report minority viewpoints, right or wrong, they can now no longer straighten up to acknowledge the majority. Hence the rise of Rush, Fox News, and the blogosphere who do, along with many of the same minority viewpoints.
Halvorson and Lund contend there are enough questions about the Ohio vote and its counting to delay the January 6 Electoral College vote. But the points raised fall at least one order of magnitude short of closing the 100,000 plus vote gap. As with many government conspiracy theories, a deliberate fraud of that size requires a large number of conspirators, all of whom must remain silent. And if you have to quote Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, who has tilted at many other windmills in the past, you haven't much of a case.
Besides, how is John Kerry going to win if he's lost 32 votes so far from Democrat electors who can't fill out the ballot correctly? No, we know what happened in Ohio. President Bush won, well beyond a reasonable doubt.
Going back to Hugh's point, there are no doubt dozens of articles floating about that the Star Tribune could have selected instead of this piece, but this is the one that fits the Unified Theory template. By printing a specious, unsupportable theory of the few, they the Star Tribune demonstrate their open minds, their fairness, their objectivity. It serves no significant public purpose; it serves only their egos.