How Karl Rove fixed the FBI investigation of his theft of the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio

[Cliff Arnebeck]

223. Good media coverage without achieving critical mass--until SCANDAL

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Media coverage of our investigation and litigation could be a long thread itself.

Of course, Karl Rove had a sophisticated media control plan in play from the beginning. Prolonging the Iraq war provided cover: message to Kerry, the Dems, the FBI, and the publishers and political editors: Do you really want to question the legitimacy/integrity of the President and Commander in Chief at a time of war?

Professor Bob Fitrakis (with Harvey Wasserman & Steve Rosenfeld) had the first book out--comprehensive as to both the evidence of widespread vote switching, voter suppression and exit poll discrepancies. Our investigator Richard Phillips expressed unhappiness to the publisher of Bob's book that contained a number of articles written by Phillips that had already been published in the Free Press. The publisher, New Press, canceled the promotional budget for Bob's book. So, Bob had a major academic book publisher--but there was no normal professional promotion of the book. Richard's subsequent book provided a lot of detail and, of course the digital archive of actual 2004 ballots, but was self-published and promoted by Richard.

Bobby Kennedy's June 2006 Rolling Stone article was sensational, but not acknowledged and broadly shared as it should have been by the main stream media. Ohio's largest newspaper the Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far as to assure their readers that they had looked in the matter at the time, and there was nothing to it.

There was some (actually a lot of it: Bobby Kennedy, Jr's article contained a great many mainstream newspaper cites) courageous, aggressive, first-rate main stream media investigation and/or coverage, however it did not get passed on, around and repeated as when a major story builds a achieves critical mass. I attribute this to Rove's sophisticated containment strategy directed from his pivotal position within the White House.

We had many front page stories in the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, McClatchy News, New York Times etc. . . . just not together with legs so as to build and achieve critical mass. The New York Times acknowledged Bob Fitrakis' Free Press as a major Internet publication and source for news on the 2004 election. In the 2012 election the Free Press achieved main stream status by breaking multiple cutting edge stories that were picked up with attribution by major media like Forbes, Fox, CBS and others. And, Dr. Cynthia Boaz published an excellent preelection story in Huffington Post, including reporting upon Richard Charnin's cutting edge statistical evidence of multi-year, multi-state PResidential election vote count rigging.

Our side of the story is the only side that was thoroughly documented by a large number of independent documentary filmmakers and by evidence filed in court.

Critical mass for this subject has now been achieved through the ABC TV series SCANDAL which candidly exposes serial election theft and political assassination for all the world to see and discuss.