Oh look, Yahoo's propagatin' the 2000 Big Myth.

[HughBeaumont]

Wow, is this some foreshadowing I'm seeing . . . . . ?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/could-bush-gore-election-night-mess-happen-again-102011604.html

It was a mess for the country and also for the major news organizations who create complex mathematical models to match vote results and exit polls to determine the inevitable winner. But in 2000, the result was anything but inevitable. Each of the three television networks incorrectly declared Al Gore the winner of Florida initially, only to withdraw that decision, later giving the state to George W. Bush — and finally withdrawing that decision as well.

"We managed to make two mistakes that night like everyone else did, but it was shocking," said David Westin, who was president of ABC News on that historic night.

In his new memoir, "Exit Interview," Westin explains, "We believed that our 'decision desk' was better than anybody, and that we got it right every single time and we got it right earlier than just about anybody did."

Er, Gore DID win Florida. The highly partisan SCOTUS Filthy Five, the Florida Election Fixers and Faux News stole it from him. The End.

Of American progress, that is . . .

[PDJane]

1. The media catapults the propaganda,

And they assume that the American People have the memory of a Goldfish.

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Bush: "You Have To Keep Repeating Things To Catapult The Propaganda"

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2005/260505newbushism.htm

[Egalitarian Thug]

2. Liberals don't let friends use Yahoo! Their tech sucks anyway. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

3. Their Komment Kleegle is a cesspool of AOL transients, Freepers and Stormfronters.

From racists to unreachables literally too stupid to type, this is Yahoo's base. No wonder they're the pigshit hog waller of the Internet.

[wandy]

10. What is Yahoo? (Ha Ha) n/t

[HughBeaumont]

11. It's where AOL took a dump.

The results are floating around in their comment section.

[deutsey]

4. No surprise here

It's actually becoming "common knowledge" that Bush really "won" the 2000 election.

I hear it all the time from people I thought knew better, including many Democrats.

[cthulu2016]

6. The excerpt is about network projections of a winner

Who eventually "won" has nothing to do with it.

The vote was so close that both projections were faulty. No projection should have been made either way.

The excerpt is correct.

[Drunken Irishman]

8. Agreed. The networks jumped the gun...

But Yahoo! still sucks by suggesting this race will be like 2000. I doubt it'll be that close. 2000 was a once in a lifetime election, IMO.

[OnyxCollie]

7. IT'S NADER'S FAULT!1!!eleven!

Daah duh derp.

That is all.

[Initech]

9. Worst election ever and I'll be damned if our tyrannical billionaire overlords attempt it again.