Dec

18

The NY Times Decided The 2004 Election?

[From The J-Walk Blog]

Interesting read: The Big Stall: How Bush gamed the media to get re-elected in 2004.

Now, the Times — again, at the request of the White House — has held onto a national security bombshell: President Bush’s unlawful authorization of domestic spying on international phone calls and emails of hundreds and possibly thousands of people inside the U.S.

The story in and of itself is a shocker, even as it comes right after the NBC report that an obscure Pentagon agency has monitored the activities of peaceful anti-war protestors. It’s too early to gauge reaction, but we expect that it will be highly negative, not just from the usual suspects on the left but also from the vast political middle — the heartland types who just barely propelled Bush to re-election in 2004.

And there lies the real story behind the story. Because it appears it may have been possible for the Times to publish at least some of the details of the Bush-ordered domestic spying before Nov. 2, 2004, the day that the president nailed down four more years. Although Bush won by 2 percent nationally, a switch of just 59,302 Ohio voters from Bush to John Kerry would would have put the Democrats back in the White House.

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