When conservatives lose, they blame imaginary election fraud.
They can't find it; it isn't there, it isn't anywhere.
They're just bad losers, making excuses, and having a hard time coping with loss and failure. They have such a hard time, they lie to themselves and others, they concoct ridiculous conspiracy theories.
As my esteemed co-blogger noted here previously, there is a lot of projection going on from the right.
They have a need to believe that because THEY engage in election tampering, notably chronic widespread voter registration fraud over multiple election cycles, and dirty tricks that are illegal like mass mailings misinforming voters of voting places or dates, or voter fraud WITH voter ID like Indiana Secretary of State Republican Charlie White, or voter suppressing robo calls, that other people across other parts of the political spectrum as as desperate and immoral as the right.
We have had crazy, stupid claims of polling truthers that polls are secret cabals by left wing media moguls trying to trick people out of voting. Those only make sense to the desperate and delusional who have lost touch with reality through sick and deficient ideology.
It is something that the right would like to do, but so far as I can find, it is not one of the dirty tricks they've projected onto others to make themselves feel better about their unethical conduct -- at least, not yet, not that they've been caught doing. The upshot is that there are a lot of pollsters, and being WRONG is a liability for them in competition for producing statistics.
Then we have crazy crooks making claims that the National Labor Statistics are being rigged. This is another fantasy that only appeals to the desperate and delusional who cannot face reality. The right is increasingly out of touch with objective reality.
Jack Welch is just one of the many crazies among the far right fringies who have tried to claim there is some kind of tampering. Like the fantasy, the delusion, the myth of democratic voter fraud, there is ABSOLUTELY no objective factual basis for that assertion. It is just sour grapes from people who SHOULD be happy that the country is doing better, despite the right wing efforts to sabotage recovery, and to obstruct progress forward. But in the case of Welch, it is also consistent with projection from a CEO who was one of the worst book-cookers of a major corporation in recent years. Welch believes others tamper with numbers, because he did - so he projects his bad behavior, his lack of morals and ethics, onto others. He can't quite manage it that not everyone is as low and immoral and greedy and as willing to commit fraud against others as he is.
They can't find it; it isn't there, it isn't anywhere.
They're just bad losers, making excuses, and having a hard time coping with loss and failure. They have such a hard time, they lie to themselves and others, they concoct ridiculous conspiracy theories.
As my esteemed co-blogger noted here previously, there is a lot of projection going on from the right.
They have a need to believe that because THEY engage in election tampering, notably chronic widespread voter registration fraud over multiple election cycles, and dirty tricks that are illegal like mass mailings misinforming voters of voting places or dates, or voter fraud WITH voter ID like Indiana Secretary of State Republican Charlie White, or voter suppressing robo calls, that other people across other parts of the political spectrum as as desperate and immoral as the right.
We have had crazy, stupid claims of polling truthers that polls are secret cabals by left wing media moguls trying to trick people out of voting. Those only make sense to the desperate and delusional who have lost touch with reality through sick and deficient ideology.
It is something that the right would like to do, but so far as I can find, it is not one of the dirty tricks they've projected onto others to make themselves feel better about their unethical conduct -- at least, not yet, not that they've been caught doing. The upshot is that there are a lot of pollsters, and being WRONG is a liability for them in competition for producing statistics.
Then we have crazy crooks making claims that the National Labor Statistics are being rigged. This is another fantasy that only appeals to the desperate and delusional who cannot face reality. The right is increasingly out of touch with objective reality.
Jack Welch is just one of the many crazies among the far right fringies who have tried to claim there is some kind of tampering. Like the fantasy, the delusion, the myth of democratic voter fraud, there is ABSOLUTELY no objective factual basis for that assertion. It is just sour grapes from people who SHOULD be happy that the country is doing better, despite the right wing efforts to sabotage recovery, and to obstruct progress forward. But in the case of Welch, it is also consistent with projection from a CEO who was one of the worst book-cookers of a major corporation in recent years. Welch believes others tamper with numbers, because he did - so he projects his bad behavior, his lack of morals and ethics, onto others. He can't quite manage it that not everyone is as low and immoral and greedy and as willing to commit fraud against others as he is.
There is NOT 'widespread' distrust of the numbers; there is ONLY distrust from crazy people who also think Obama was born in Kenya. Sadly, unlike Welch, who appears to be senile, they don't have the excuse of geriatric dementia. Maybe Welch is still trying to excuse HIS OWN BOOK COOKING of numbers, to try to make himself look less guilty than the $50 million fraud conviction his company paid because of his corrupt management.
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The right believes other people MUST be as bad as they are. The reality is that the so-called values party doesn't really have very good values. They think the worst of others because they know themselves to be crooked and dirty. They claim better values, and greater patriotism, to try to dress up a party that is not what they claim. It is one more attempt at deception, both self-deception and deception of others.
The one and apparently ONLY President to try to tamper with the National Labor Statistics would be the dirty trickster who solidified the tradition for the right - Tricky Dicky Nixon. Nixon is the reality of not only bad-old-days right wing politics; they may have gotten even dirtier on the right since his disgrace. And those conservatives are just as racist and bigoted as ever. Like Dubya trying to politicize the DoJ, Nixon's anti-Semitic and anti-Democratic efforts to fiddle the stats was met with greater efforts to PREVENT future presidents, especially future Republican presidents, from trying the same thing again when in power. Those conservatives have gotten less and less trustworthy when in power over the decades.
That would be the same fear and bigotry that believes Jews are just one more group assailing our American heritage of exclusively white, protestant, Christian, MALE culture, the one they fantasize about that we never had; that would be the culture where old white christian men engage in corrupt conservative politics.
Gee.......I wonder if the conservatives are going to try to blame the good unemployment stats on Jews again this time, or if they have picked out another scape goat this time.......like racism towards a Black president? Ya think?
The more things change, the more some things stay essentially the same, especially with conservatives.
From the WaPo:
There was one president who tried to manipulate BLS
Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch is getting a lot of attention for an unfounded accusation that the Obama administration somehow cooked the positive jobs numbers issued Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As it happens, there is a historical example of improper political pressure on the BLS by a U.S. president: Republican Richard M. Nixon.
As first recounted by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their 1976 book “Final Days,” the frequently paranoid president — who had a history of anti-Semitic outbursts — became obsessed with the idea that a “Jewish cabal” at BLS was undermining him by issuing negative labor numbers. Nixon ordered his subordinates to tally up the number of Democrats and Jews in the agency.
“There’s a Jewish cabal, you know, running through this,” Nixon fumed in July 1971 to his chief of staff, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, according to White House tapes. “…And they all — they all only talk to Jews. Now, but there it is. But there’s the BLS staff. Now how the hell do you ever expect us to get anything from that staff, the raw data, let alone what the poor guys have to say [inaudible] that isn’t gonna be loaded against us? You understand?”
According to journalistic accounts and documents, the task fell to Nixon aide Fred Malek, who first counted high-ranking Democrats at BLS using voter registration lists and then identified employees with “Jewish-sounding” names. He reported the resulting statistics to Nixon in a 1971 letter that became known as the “Jew-counting” memo, identifying 25 Democrats and 13 employees who “fit the other demographic criterion that was discussed.”
There is continued disagreement on how many targeted employees were demoted and Malek’s precise role in the affair. In 1988, Woodward and Post reporter Walter Pincus reported that two Jewish officials had been removed from their posts and shuffled off to less-important jobs at Labor during the episode. Malek — who quit his new post at the Republican National Committee on the day The Post’s story appeared — expressed regret for conducting a tally of Jews but denied a role in any demotions.
In 2007, Timothy Noah of Slate publicized a previously unreleased 1971 memo from Malek suggesting he was much more closely involved in a BLS purge then he had claimed, outlining a reorganization that resulted in the demotions of at least four high-ranking Jewish employees.The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum has also posted some, but not all, documents related to the affair on its Web site.
Nixon’s machinations at BLS caused an uproar at the time – though the anti-Jewish motive was still unknown — and led to added security measures ensuring that statistical analysis was clearly walled off from politics, according to a BLS history published in 1985. Current security policies include heavy data encryption, daily confidentiality agreements and an eight-day security lockdown for economists in advance of each monthly report.
Malek has remained a prominent adviser to Republicans from George H.W. Bush to Sarah Palin, and is co-founder with former senator Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) of the American Action Network conservative group. He is now a top fundraiser for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
As it happens, there is a historical example of improper political pressure on the BLS by a U.S. president: Republican Richard M. Nixon.
As first recounted by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in their 1976 book “Final Days,” the frequently paranoid president — who had a history of anti-Semitic outbursts — became obsessed with the idea that a “Jewish cabal” at BLS was undermining him by issuing negative labor numbers. Nixon ordered his subordinates to tally up the number of Democrats and Jews in the agency.
“There’s a Jewish cabal, you know, running through this,” Nixon fumed in July 1971 to his chief of staff, H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, according to White House tapes. “…And they all — they all only talk to Jews. Now, but there it is. But there’s the BLS staff. Now how the hell do you ever expect us to get anything from that staff, the raw data, let alone what the poor guys have to say [inaudible] that isn’t gonna be loaded against us? You understand?”
According to journalistic accounts and documents, the task fell to Nixon aide Fred Malek, who first counted high-ranking Democrats at BLS using voter registration lists and then identified employees with “Jewish-sounding” names. He reported the resulting statistics to Nixon in a 1971 letter that became known as the “Jew-counting” memo, identifying 25 Democrats and 13 employees who “fit the other demographic criterion that was discussed.”
There is continued disagreement on how many targeted employees were demoted and Malek’s precise role in the affair. In 1988, Woodward and Post reporter Walter Pincus reported that two Jewish officials had been removed from their posts and shuffled off to less-important jobs at Labor during the episode. Malek — who quit his new post at the Republican National Committee on the day The Post’s story appeared — expressed regret for conducting a tally of Jews but denied a role in any demotions.
In 2007, Timothy Noah of Slate publicized a previously unreleased 1971 memo from Malek suggesting he was much more closely involved in a BLS purge then he had claimed, outlining a reorganization that resulted in the demotions of at least four high-ranking Jewish employees.The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum has also posted some, but not all, documents related to the affair on its Web site.
Nixon’s machinations at BLS caused an uproar at the time – though the anti-Jewish motive was still unknown — and led to added security measures ensuring that statistical analysis was clearly walled off from politics, according to a BLS history published in 1985. Current security policies include heavy data encryption, daily confidentiality agreements and an eight-day security lockdown for economists in advance of each monthly report.
Malek has remained a prominent adviser to Republicans from George H.W. Bush to Sarah Palin, and is co-founder with former senator Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) of the American Action Network conservative group. He is now a top fundraiser for 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
DG- "We have had crazy, stupid claims of polling truthers that polls are secret cabals by left wing media moguls trying to trick people out of voting. Those only make sense to the desperate and delusional who have lost touch with reality through sick and deficient ideology."
ReplyDeleteDid I miss a meeting? When did we start having polling truthers? When did this start? Are there conspiracy nuts claiming that a poll can sway voter turn out? HHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Almost sounds retarded.
Are you still an election judge in MN? Will you be involved in the Same Sex Marriage legislation vote happening soon? Are there adds fighting the good fight? If you don't mind my asking, will you be voting for marriage equality?
You have apparently missed several news cycles of right wingers claiming that polls are rigged; they have been christened with the slang term, polling truthers, which seems to fit.
ReplyDeleteALMOST sounds retarded? It's pathetic, stupid, and delusional; it is the worst kind of excuse making and just one more example of the right trying to cast themselves as victims -- awwww, poooor babies! -- instead of taking responsibility for poor performance or their mistakes and gaffes. Party of taking responsibility for their actions my arse.
Hypocrites.
Yes, I'm still an election judge, and yes I oppose the amendment -- it is not what an amendment should be used for to a constitution (either of the proposed amendments, actually).
There is a lot of outside the state money pushing the marriage restriction amendment; I'm not sure how much opposing it is from outside the state, but certainly at least some of it is. More than the ads (some of which I believe you can find on youtube)is what I consider the inappropriate involvement of the religious right, especially the roman Catholic church establishment. They are being particularly repressive, including to their own.