{"id":4503,"date":"2009-10-01T06:35:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2009-10-01T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T10:35:59","slug":"chicanerism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/chicanerism","title":{"rendered":"Chicanerism"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d read how the NYPost and other papers in Our Fair City have policies of not crediting blogs<\/a> for, um, reporting on stories that they can then publish in their papers, but this morning’s rip-off by Page 6 could at least have come up with an alternative to “chicanery.”<\/p>\n

From the NYPost<\/a> on Oct. 1:<\/p>\n

Even the Democrats in Minnesota now realize their new US Sen. Al Franken was elected with the help of ACORN chicanery. The disgraced, pimp-friendly community organizing group claims it registered 43,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1 percent were fraudulent but survived the recount process, that’s 430 votes, almost all cast for Franken, who won by just 312 votes. Asks Katherine Kersten in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, “Did ACORN folks pull some fast ones to help get their favorite son Franken elected — a win that handed Democrats the 60-vote, veto-proof majority that they needed to enact their liberal agenda?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From Mickey Kaus’ kausfiles<\/a> on Sept. 29:<\/p>\n

Did ACORN chicanery elect Al Franken? That’s the import of this tactfully phrased Minneapolis Star Tribune column.** Franken won by 312 votes. ACORN claimed to have registered 48,000 new Minnesota voters. If just 1% were ineligible but cast ballots, or had ballots cast for them illegally, and survived the recount process … that’s 480 votes, almost certainly overwhelmingly cast for Franken. … Maybe in pristine Minnesota even ACORN is clean. If so, the state would apparently be an outlier. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To the Post’s credit, they did fix Mickey’s typo of 48,000 voter registrations. The original column<\/a> they cut-and-pasted from says it was 43,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d read how the NYPost and other papers in Our Fair City have policies of not crediting blogs for, um, reporting on stories that they can then publish in their papers, but this morning’s rip-off by Page 6 could at least have come up with an alternative to “chicanery.” From the NYPost on Oct. 1: … <\/p>\n

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