Oh look, Yahoo's propagatin' the 2000 Big Myth. [View all]

[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 . . .