rojo
I am an oldtimer, white male LIBERAL, but honesty and integrity are, I pray, non-partisan values. Rojo's initial post really disappointed me since his equating Gore's behavior in 2000 seems, frankly, close to dishonest. After all he is intelligent and well-educated - and surely not trolling his own site.
I get that. Robert should be more thoughtful with his words at times but I understood the point. The WSJ wrote an editorial with similar thoughts to Robert but less inflammatory.
Online Headline:
The Media Do Scarlett
Trump’s election threat is dumb, but the outrage is over the top.
It's probabbly behind a paywall so here's where they start talking about Gore.
"In fact, Mr. Bush won the original count and the mandatory mini-recount. Virtually all serious attempts to finalize the Florida vote came to the same conclusion. Mr. Bush won. It was Al Gore who pushed the result into the courts of Florida in an effort to have the initial result overturned. Finally, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that enough was enough.
The Florida recount fight made for great melodrama, but it was a media circus, and a destructive one. The partisan divide created by that sensational event is responsible in part for the divisions that endure to this day.
Four years later, Democrats again argued extensively that George Bush stole the election from John Kerry because the President’s campaign surrogates engineered the vote in Ohio against John Kerry. Mr. Kerry conceded the election, and it must be noted that he kept his own qualms private for many years.
Both parties have since created a cottage industry dedicated to bird-dogging future election results in precincts around the country. And that’s fine. Keep the politicians honest.
Now comes Donald Trump, with his usual rank amateur flair, suggesting that if he loses it will be because the entire U.S. electoral system—presumably encompassing all 50 states—was fixed against him. As always, it fell to post-debate surrogates to make the distinctions he himself is incapable of making between discrete events—Illinois in 1960, Florida in 2000—and the legitimacy of the entire system."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-media-do-scarlett-1477006199?mod=wsj_review_&_outlook