Ms. Bad Example
Our establishment media either don’t do their phony baloney jobs at the time or they lie about it afterward. Pick one of those appealing options:
Martha Raddatz of ABC News:
“I was in the Abu Ghraib neighborhood of the infamous prison, but it’s a Sunni-dominated area–you had people there never before voted, coming forward, holding up the finger proudly and all saying, `No, no, no, we didn’t vote for the constitution.’ What’s hard here, however, is we still do not know the definitive results. It was supposed to be out in a couple of days, but there are some irregularities and I can tell you right now I witnessed them. When we went into the polling places–and it was interesting, the first polling place wouldn’t let cameras in. The second one was, `Come on in, come on in.’ I thought, `This’ll change under democracy. We’ll come back in four years. This’ll never happen again.’ We were behind the voting booth. My cameraman was back there and there was a man who took seven ballots, at least, because we have it on camera and marked yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes…
Remember the scandal when ABC News ran that story at the time of the vote on the Iraqi Constitution? No? How come? They didn’t run it? Oh.
(Hat tip: Hesiod.)
Comment by Rich Puchalsky —
October 26, 2005 @ 9:36 am
According to the wingnuts, our media never wants to report on what’s going right in Iraq. This particular incident supports that viewpoint. Since election-fixing is the only thing that the Bush administration is good at, the media decided to not report on it.
Comment by Nell —
October 26, 2005 @ 10:04 am
Iraqis were allowed to vote for others in their household. Not an ideal practice, but reasonable in a situation where there was an absolute lack of transport, distant polling places, and high physical risk. The ’registration’ requirement was the ration card.
I learned that from an Iraqi blogger’s account of election day, in particular the discussion of who in their household would go carry their votes. (The father, and I’d bet there were many fewer women at the polls in all provinces this time as compared with January.)
A major scandal to me is that overseas Iraqis were not given the opportunity to vote, unlike in January.
Comment by Barry —
October 26, 2005 @ 3:21 pm
Excellent Catch, Rick. Whereas, if they *had* reported it, it’d be proof of their anti-BushAmerica bias. (Wow, this stuff almost writes itself!)