TV station reports that Bush has been elected President!

[charlie105]

I kid you not. WBAY TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin is running an AP article reporting that Bush has won the election, weeks before the election is to take place.

Apparently this was a 'test article' done by AP.

Here's the link and the details:

http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/07/tv_station_reports_t.html

[freetobegay]

1. Are they trying to tell us the fix is in?

[high density]

2. God, if that is a real article late on Nov. 2nd...

...I am going to feel absolutely terrible. Just seeing that fake "test article" gave me a preview of how nasty a Bush win would make me feel.

[AspenRose]

3. "Dewey defeats Truman?" Or October Surprise....?

eom

[saracat]

4. Dewey Wins!

[havocmom]

5. Mr Pitt noticed an AP 'report' of last week's debate hours BEFORE

it took place. He did a nice bit on it in his essay about that debate.
It Was a Rout

One of Pitt's greatest lines in that one

<snip> The most amusing aspect of the whole debate came several hours before it began, when ABCNews.com posted an Associated Press article discussing the debate in the past tense. "After a deluge of campaign speeches and hostile television ads," wrote AP, apparently putting the Way-Back Machine they've been building to use, "President Bush and challenger John Kerry got their chance to face each other directly Thursday night before an audience of tens of millions of voters in a high-stakes debate about terrorism, the Iraq war and the bloody aftermath."

<snip> "The 90-minute encounter," continued AP reporter Nostradamus from his post somewhere in the space-time continuum*, "was particularly crucial for Kerry, trailing slightly in the polls and struggling for momentum less than five weeks before the election. The Democratic candidate faced the challenge of presenting himself as a credible commander in chief after a torrent of Republican criticism that he was prone to changing his positions."

* underline and bold mine

They must be using some defective crystal ball if they can see a bush* win. If the votes get cast and counted, KERRY IN A LANDSLIDE. Any other outcome will be through criminal act, pure and simple. And the people just might not bend over for it this time around.

[cal04]

6. from Kos, where apparently the article was first noticed

Wow, you guys work fast


This is funny:
Correction: President Bush Did Not Win Election on October 7

With less than a month before the presidential election, an Associated Press test article declaring President Bush the winner was picked up by WBAY.com's automated system. The headline of the AP story apparently did not bear that all-important word for the automated filters... "test."

The mistake was picked up by a discussion group on Daily Kos, prompting a phone call that alerted us to the problem. Our web host, WorldNow, removed the story in less than five minutes. The article appeared on WBAY.com for 35 minutes.


All of this happened in the two hours I was away from a computer.

Me, I loved the part that says, "President Bush Did Not Win Election on October 7". Let's work hard to make that sentence prophetic.


http://www.dailykos.com/

[Kingshakabobo]

7. This is scary.....was this reported anywhere else? n/t

[TrueAmerican]

8. AP bias?