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Tuesday, 8 April 2003
Unprecedented ::
On Thursday night in San Francisco, I finally saw Unprecedented, the story of the theft of the 2000 presidential election.
The excessively loose name-matching with a database of convicted felons in removing voters from the registration lists—which they didn’t discover until going to the polls on election day—was documented well and was shocking. My friend R commented today:
Jeb Bush’s trick of removing loosely-matching names whose originals belong to felons would not have worked if there were not a positive correlation between name and party affiliation. Karl Marx would tell you as much, as would the News of the Weird guy who tracks the crime history of men whose middle name is “Wayne”, but it sounds un-American to state it so baldly.
I was a bit disappointed that some of the details Michael Moore documents in Stupid White Men weren’t more prominent. I’d been particularly disturbed by the timing of the Supreme Court decision, which shortly followed Bush’s declaration of victory, and this wasn’t mentioned, but the connections between the various Supreme Court Justices and Bush-ites, and how several judges should have abstained because of these conflicts of interest, was covered well. I grimaced when I saw Sandra Day O’Connor on TV this morning, promoting her new book, and talking about how she feels that history will point to the Bush v. Gore decision as a landmark in the history of the Supreme Court, up there with Roe v. Wade etc.
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