07.24.13
Posted in Ricin Kooks at 3:45 pm by George Smith
American Gothic, 2013:
A Texas woman accused of sending ricin-laced letters to high-ranking officials, including President Barack Obama, has given birth prematurely while in custody, according to her attorney.
Shannon Guess Richardson gave birth to a boy named Brody on July 4, nearly four months ahead of her due date, said Tonda Curry, her Tyler, Texas-based attorney.
The baby weighed less than 2 pounds when he was born at a Texas hospital and “is in need of a lot of medical treatment,” Curry said.
“I’ve been told he’s in need of heart surgery and of course has issues with his lungs not being fully developed,” Curry said of the baby, who is still hospitalized.
He’ll have a fine time at the hands of school yard bullies nine or ten years from now. An Independence Day child, yet.
Obscured by the ricin cluster there actually has been another ricin indictment in the US. The reason it has not made the press is because the accused did not send a letter to the president, it apparently being only part of a domestic poisoning scheme.
From the wire:
Attorneys for an El Dorado woman arrested last month after authorities said she tried to hire someone to poison her husband [with ricin] entered an innocent plea on her behalf Friday in a Bernalillo County, N.M., court.
No other news. Every day like sunshine, more and more examples of coast-to-coast American fucked-up-itude. National exceptionalism, the global brand.
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Posted in Psychopath & Sociopath, WhiteManistan at 1:43 pm by George Smith
Confederate flag patch wearin’, swearin’, sub-machine gun firin’ Gilberton, Schuylkill County, police chief Mark Kessler, gone famous for the next 48 hours for his major-lapse-in-judgment video.
Gilberton is about half an hour from where I grew up, part of the North Schuylkill school district, where Kessler is a member of the local board.
Kessler uses his police permit to fire restricted sub-machine guns on private property as a personal statement. I’m reasonably sure this will draw attention from the feds, particularly since his personal website, chiefkessler.com, boldly proclaims:
Thus, ALL laws made by Congress, ALL regulations made by the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco (BAFT), are unconstitutional as outside the scope of the powers granted to Congress and to the Executive Branch by our Constitution. Regulation of arms and ammunition is NOT one of the “enumerated powers??? delegated to Congress or the Executive Branch.
Furthermore, all pretended regulations made by the BAFT are also unconstitutional as in violation of Art. I, Sec. 1, U.S. Constitution, which vests ALL legislative powers granted by the Constitution in CONGRESS. Executive agencies have no lawful authority whatsoever to make rules or regulations of general application to The People!
The website appears to be an attempt to recruit for a militia-styled group, the Constitutional Security Force. Ladies, Chief Mark is also looking for models for a “girls of the CSF” calender. Go, dear readers, before it all comes down.
Kessler is also a fan of the Holocaust-denier rock band, Poker Face, out of Allentown. (You can read about Poker Face on this blog, from the archives. I particularly liked the old post — Amusing Fuhrers.)
Chief Kessler is a gift from WhiteManistan, someone custom made for my definition, heevahava, one like many many others, but still an embarrassment of riches for those who follow the American demographic of insurrectionist neo-Confederates bent on patriotically saving the country and Constitution (with a capital “C’) from tyranny.
The white power right horn-of-plenty is all there on his website. Today he’s a star, the burgermeister of Gilberton and the North Schuylkill school board director still not quite grasping what national publicity has done. And the big public relations problem that’s about to fall on them.
From the Morning Call newspaper:
Despite the ensuing media stir and calls to Borough Hall the video generated Tuesday, Mayor Mary Lou Hannon said she saw no reason to discipline Kessler, who said he made the video to draw attention to gun rights. Hannon noted he did it on his own time and violated no laws.
“Each member of council, each employee and each citizen is not only entitled to their own political opinions, but also the right to express them,” she said in a prepared statement. “We will not take action to quash free speech, whether or not each member of council or any member of council agrees with it.”
Charles Hepler, school board president in the North Schuylkill School District, said he had not seen the video. He declined to comment because the board has not had time to review or discuss it.
So, using your photo in police chief’s uniform to recruit members of a Constitutional Security Force while declaring the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, a federal law enforcement agency, unconstitutional is just “drawing attention to gun rights” Mayor Hannon?
[Horselaugh.]
Yes, and the North Schuylkill board of education endorses Civil War 2.
Gone, eventually, even deep inna hart of Pennsyltucky.
And now for a musical interlude, entirely appropriate, given the circumstances.
It took about a week for Kessler’s video to get noticed. Surf out and you’ll see he’s already disabled comments although he has taken time to monetize it with overlay advertising. So hurry, it may not be long until he’s granted exactly what he wants, a visit from the tyrannical government to inquire about the sub-machine guns.
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07.23.13
Posted in Ted Nugent, WhiteManistan at 7:06 pm by George Smith
Because of his well-publicized comments on the Zimmerman trial, Ted Nugent has become the object of a picket to get him out of a gig at Toad’s Place in New Haven, Conn.
The local newspaper, the New Haven Register, came down firmly on the matter. It is the first time I’ve seen a mainstream daily newspaper have the stones to call Nugent a bigot in no uncertain terms. The newspaper runs down the laundry list of Nugent-isms, many of which you have read here. His public record is quite clear.
Excerpted:
Ted Nugent is not welcome in New Haven, and Toad’s Place should cancel the Aug.6 concert he is planning here.
It’s not a question of censorship. It’s about the type of people to whom Toad’s Place, as an institution in a community whose values are the opposite of Nugent’s, chooses to provide a platform.
Nugent is a racist, misogynistic, homophobic hate-monger who has demeaned and even threatened violence against the people who live in our community …
Toad’s Place wouldn’t (we hope) choose to host a lecture by David Duke or a concert by the KKK’s house band. So why do its managers think it’s acceptable to support someone who is saying the same kinds of things …
And this is the key to making people pay a penalty for empowering Ted Nugent in the marketplace of ideas. It’s possible for the New Haven newspaper, the city, and a big picketing group, to hurt Toad’s Place. Maybe not enough to stop the Nugent show this year but enough to guarantee he won’t be back again.
I worked for a newspaper. You hand out enough bad press and you can afflict those who need and deserve affliction.
Media Matters has put together a video chain of Ted Nugent words over the last few years.
Nugent’s speech may be protected but he’s also a certified shit-heel, someone who if he were not famous would be treated with no more deference than a guitarist in a white supremacy punk rock band. In a real democracy, not American democracy, he would be a pariah.
And there’s the thing in 2013 America. It made Ted Nugent’s public hate into a money-maker. He is as much a creature of CNN and the Washington Post as he is of the extreme right wing.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle, Cyberterrorism at 3:48 pm by George Smith
Let’s repeat, again and again until it is crystal clear, Facebook is not your friend. The corporate American web is not your friend. Both practice malicious design in programming for the automation of grasping.
Today’s procedure:
Use Facebook Graph Search to unlike stuff you never should have ‘liked’ in the first place. Type “Photos [your name] likes.” Unlike the embarrassing stuff and pics on ‘friends’ pages who have always ignored you. Collegiality is mostly dead in cyberspace. Your likes of others, unless you actually have a chatting relationship with them, serve only to increase the perception of their popularity. It comes at your expense, too, because Facebook ranks material on this basis. So if you’ve ever wondered why nobody sees your stuff but you see all theirs, this is one contributing reason.
Type “Companies [your name] likes.” Untick most or all of them. Liking companies on Facebook will never do you any good. In fact, it’s bad. Facebook just uses it to insert things you don’t want to see into your “news feed” while it’s hiding your stuff from other people. You do know that, don’t you?
Now type “Movies [your name] likes.” Untick everything if you have more than a few but leave all the boring middle of the road crap that in no way describes you to marketers. Trust me. (There’s another way to go about this although it’s a little more work. Let’s call it signal jamming. You emit a signal for Facebook algorithms, one to be harvested for business. What if your signal makes no sense? Make a list of favorite movies choosing titles from, say, the Al Jolson catalog, or films of the vintage of “Gold Diggers of Broadway.”)
Tip 2: How to find proof Facebook hates you.
Look up at the ‘people you may know’ bar that Facebook uses to push potential ‘friends’ at you. Today or tomorrow you’ll see someone in there, or more than a few, who you either detest outright or who are laughably wrong. Go ahead, check their profiles. See? Facebook algorithms, those you get to “use,” are just to make you stupidly click shit that will never be of benefit.
In line with today’s Tech Tip, readers can tell from the next story that US military police and counter-terror units globally use Facebook’s Graph Search to spy on you, looking for keywords having to do with their units, bases, or other things. And they have no reading comprehension.
“As a joke, a German man recently invited some friends for a walk around a top secret NSA facility [on his Facebook page],” writes The Spiegel. An American military/counter-terror unit assigned to provide security for the NSA facility scans Facebook, netted the timeline post and sent the German federal police to the fellow’s door.
While he got a droll story out of it, if he’d been in the states they might have disappeared him for a bit until it was all sorted out.
The tale is here at The Spiegel.
Corporate American web design mainstreams malicious behavior.
One of the best examples are films, or overlays, which show between you and the sight soon after you browse to them. They serve no other purpose than to get in your face with demands for money, information or to deliver even more advertising on top of the revolving ad content the site already delivers.
A few years ago nuisance overlays were mostly the tool of web bottom-feeders. Now they are everywhere. They are on YouTube videos, forcing you to repeatedly dismiss them. They are dropped into news videos only minutes old. Want to see something about a local fire alert? First you’ll have to watch an advertisement for women’s shoes or a smartphone.
They come with the corporate American web business belief that the company has a right to demand something of you — money or attention to an advertiser, forcefully using what amounts to a denial-of-service attack (if one that can be dismissed, eventually), for the privilege of being there. These are the ethics of a sociopath. (And if you’re reading this and use them, you’re the enemy, too. Enough with the ‘buts’ and excuses. The moment of trust has passed.)
DailyKos, for example and despite the reality that some people of conscience work for it, nails you with an overlay dun passed off as a sincere blandishment every single time you access the page.
There is not much that can be done to eliminate them. You can abandon use of a site or refuse to ever buy something from it or contribute to it because of its use of overlays, making overlay films, on an individual level, counter-productive. You can also just take their stuff and not credit, which is a tactic I feel is justified by any type of push that is effectively denial-of-service or the phenomenon of the infinite download — another type of malicious web design in which a site never stops serving content and unresponsive scripting to the client.
The continuous use of such overlays to harass people constitutes systemic bad behavior rationalized by a corporate philosophy that holds Net users in contempt. When you see them it is a signal you are thought of as someone who ought to be bullied into parting with something, usually money, daily.
This should be enough to tell you that we’re well past the point that some future revision of the web will make the digital automation of mass grasping go away. Instead, it’s time for people to start thinking about ways in which they can show counter-hostility to such American business activity.
American business, from content generation to entertainment and corporate services, has destroyed most of the reality and philosophy of the open web. It should eventually find there is a cost attached to that level of greed, cynicism and bad faith.
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Posted in WhiteManistan at 10:05 am by George Smith
From the Inky:
HARRISBURG – State agency officials raised concerns that strict new voter-identification requirements would disenfranchise voters, according to documents presented Monday in Commonwealth Court.
Plaintiffs’ lawyers produced several memos and other documents that showed state officials expressed reservations that legislation to limit the kinds of acceptable IDs for voting might prevent some groups, such as the elderly and disabled, from voting.
Officials with the Department of Aging and the Department of State, which oversees elections, suggested broad options – such as granting all voters over 65 the right to absentee ballots – as a “good solution to ensure that no qualified elector is disenfranchised because of illness [or] disability” that prevented him or her from obtaining proof of identity.
Among other things, this will eventually result in the public hanging of the GOP. Now people know what it means and they won’t have their vote taken away by wealthy white men who hate people who aren’t. People will show up at the polls and dare the party to not allow them to cast a vote while others walk by. And it will be the end of them.
Another avenue not yet discussed much is the potential for poll workers who may just ignore voter id requirements when they know it may block someone who has voted regularly for years. Poll workers, after all, live in the same cities and communities.
In the end the GOP strategy is unworkable. It only inspires others to work toward the exclusion and destruction of the party. It truly is the party of white male pariahs.
And from the neo-Confederacy, North Carolina, today:
Just when you thought the 2013 session of the North Carolina General Assembly had hit rock bottom, it’s about to get a hell of a lot worse. Click here to see the worse-than-anyone-would-have-ever-imagined voter suppression bill that has emerged in the state Senate. The new 57 page proposal will be heard this afternoon at 2:00 pm in the Senate Rules Committee.
According to good government advocates who have gotten a chance to examine the proposal after obtaining a copy last night, the bill includes dozens of disastrous provisions …
One of the proposed measures are particularly poisonous, patently for the enabling of the citizens of WhiteManistan to disempower all others:
[a] voter can be challenged by any registered voter of the county rather than the precinct
That’s called a straight invitation to a brawl, the GOP’s way of waging its cold Civil War 2 out in the counties.
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07.22.13
Posted in Bioterrorism at 4:27 pm by George Smith
Every mid-Summer, flesh-eating bacteria found along the coast kills and maims a very small number of Americans. Called Vibrio vulnificus, my contribution to science was discovering what it produced that made it lethal. It makes an enzyme, collagenase, that digests collagen, the protein that makes up connective tissue and filler throughout your body. Said another way, this makes it efficient at eating holes in the flesh walls of you. And that’s a catastrophe.
Have you ever spent time working with a pathogen that could kill you?
From the Epoch Times newspaper:
At least one person is dead and three others were sickened in Louisiana after coming down with Vibrio vulnificus, a type of “flesh-eating bacteria.???
They contracted the illness after swimming in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana, health officials told the Houston Chronicle.
Four swimmers were infected with the “flesh-eating??? Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, which is naturally occurring and found in warm water. They were swimming near New Orleans and Thibodaux.
The person who died was an 83-year-old Terrebonne Parish man who had an open wound that was splashed with water containing the bacteria.
“You get bacteria into certain wounds, and they can cause a lot of tissue destruction by virtue of the fact that these bacteria produce enzymes that break down the tissue [I did this],??? Dr. Peter Hotez, an expert at Baylor College of Medicine, told ABC-13 in Houston.
He said that people can also contract it via eating raw shellfish.
Early diagnosis and aggressive treatment with antibiotics are needed to successfully cure V. vulnificus infections. Sadly, this is often not the case and fatality or infection requiring amputation to save life is the result.
When I graduated with a Ph.D. based on the microbiology, no one was interested in continuing or funding the study of it. The small number of people it killed were of no general concern.
It took decades to make it a requirement that people be informed of the risk when eating raw shellfish taken from brackish Gulf Stream coastal waters where good growth of V. vulnificus occurs in the summertime. And many many people still do not know of the hazard which can occur if minor fishing or sea shore cuts are infected with it. Some people, due to underlying conditions, tend to be far more vulnerable to V. vulnificus.
It is a wicked disease.
What I did was innovative. I thought about Vibrio vulnificus and what it might be doing before almost everyone else believed it to be important. I decided to take a risk (and you undertake a thorough think about such things for obvious reasons) and made a hypothesis as to what might be a contributing factor to a fatal disease, did the laboratory work to find an element and define the nature of the product of the bacterium. That’s real science.
Here.
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Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 9:25 am by George Smith
PARIAH Big Sharing Issue! “Powering the We Get Yours Economy!”
At Google images, “sharing economy” returns the Silicon Valley pissed-in birthwater of the future. The sharing economy, as defined here, is just a euphemism for installing network technology that atomizes labor costs, unleashes the economy into free-lance downward bidding wars, taking larger pieces of a stagnant economic pie for the owners of the technology. In other words, they always get the share, no matter how much smaller the total economic swag
becomes. (And, as is always the case with snake-oil sellers, they’re backed up with other fine-sounding euphemisms, in case “sharing economy” just isn’t enough. In this instance, Google offers “collaborative consumption.“)
iTunes and Apple are the greatest examples of the benefit of the sharing economy.
When digital conversion of music resulted in the collaborative sharing of recorded songs and albums, rendering them almost worthless as a way for all individuals not already the very biggest stars in the world to make any money through them, iTunes and Apple were coincidentally perfectly positioned to turn the aggregate into a company enriching form of rent-seeking.
Most can’t make any money in the iTunes store selling music. But the millions and millions of “you’s” who still try to can be used by the globally aggregating tools of the sharing economy to make good money for Apple to launder through Luxembourg.
In this way Apple neatly replaced record companies which, while far from perfect, took on the costs and risks of finding and developing new art. Apple’s iTunes, and similar competing structures, dispense with this as an extraneous cost and risk to be put entirely onto the makers of content. Apple doesn’t develop pop music. When Google gets into a similar business it won’t develop music. No one will.
They broke the method and replaced it with a new one, one in which they get all the spoil.
On Sunday famous Tom Friedman got to the sharing economy, specifically with the example of AirBnB:
The sharing economy — watch this space. This is powerful.
Friedman has been relentlessly pilloried on the web for a certain lack in critical thinking and detail work for the sake of grandiose claims and assertions.
On Sunday, in flugel-horning for AirBnB, he was still in form.
AirBnB, Friedman wrote, was started by Brian Chesky when he and a roommate leased three air mattresses in their place to San Francisco convention-goers who couldn’t find rooms in 2007. The rates were not particularly cheap — $80 for one night on an air mattress (?!) — and there’s no mention on whether or not the buyers were able to give it a good or bad rap on Yelp.
The latter is important because Friedman and Chesky employ it to make the argument that distributed global swarm hospitality service is self-correcting. This is because you can give anyone a bad review if they deserve it in their great automated web of trust.
“On July 12, Chesky told me, ‘Tonight we have 140,000 people around the world staying in Airbnb rooms,” writes Friedman. “Hilton has around 600,000 rooms,” continues Chesky.
Stop right there. The critical thinking cops are here to snap on the manacles.
Hilton invests in maintenance of an infrastructure. AirBnB does not
and advertises this as an asset.
Hilton, and competitors, must maintain a level of use every night and day or slide into ruin and go out of business. AirBnB does not. In fact, AirBnb’s room numbers cannot be realistically compared with Hilton’s because it does not matter whether a majority or minority are stagnant for long periods of time.
This is easily seen by running AirBnB on your town, which probably isn’t a tourist destination.
I ran it on Pasadena and, yes, AirBnB rentals are here in force. But added AirBnB capacity does not add more hospitality business to Pasadena anymore than building new motels and hotels on Colorado Blvd. or Lake. There are times during the year when there are influxes of businessmen and tourists and these follow predictable patterns. AirBnB gives visitors some more options.
AirBnB adds capacity from pre-existing structure. It does not provably increase the size of the economic pie generated by rental of hospitality space because that is a constant (sometimes changing) in most cities, determined by other factors. Occupancy does not directly grow with capacity.
But if you look more closely at AirBnB property, you will see that some of the rooms are also offered as monthly rentals, revealing the desire of the owner to be an apartment manager. Of these, we already have loads in Pasadena — and in your city — and they use Craigslist, too.
Others, when examined, are renting all the rooms in a given house, which may look nice on the outside, turning it into a stealth motel. One must assume that some are illegal. Pasadena and all cities do have various ordnances for apartment complexes, hotels, motels, probably increasing in importance if the rented structures are not built in the business district.
This is the case with granny cottages here.
Most of them are illegal, in one way or another, under strict municipal code enforcement. But they are a staple in southern California where people have converted garages into them in trying to build revenue. And AirBnB makes it easier to rent them out, perhaps not that much easier than Craigslist.
In any case, this puts AirBnB in the role of virtual slumlord, although that may not be the large part of its business.
Hilton, however, cannot afford to be seen as a slumlord.
The model of AirBnB, as it is with seemingly everything in the so-called sharing economy, is in shoving all the risk of the main business off onto the free-lancers and partners.
Friedman:
[Guests] and hosts rate each other online, so there is a huge incentive to deliver a good experience because a series of bad reputational reviews and you’re done. Airbnb also automatically provides $1 million in insurance against damage or theft to nearly all of its hosts (some countries have restrictions) and only rarely gets claims.
Online ratings. Yes, everyone knows that solves everything. And although I do not know the giant hospitality industry intimately, I would be willing to assume the actual insurance liabilities taken on by AirBnB are not comparable with those that must be taken on by a company like Hilton, or even Motel 6.
None of what AirBnB does, in the practical sense for renters and tourists, is innovative. What has been the innovation in the sharing economy is the rapid proliferation of networks tools to distribute risk from a parent business to laborers and resources a corporate business puts no real investment into within the free-lance gig economy.
It does not increase the economic pie. Someone who has seen their income diminish and who is now renting a room (or rooms) in their house in Pasadena … well, most of them aren’t going to flourish on it.
The slumlord experience of mining that for maximum revenue was already well-developed before the sharing economy. I saw it during the census, the carving up of spacious homes into separate living spaces for the servant class. Further empowering it with something like AirBnB isn’t progress.
The rest of the Friedman’s column is given over to the usual veneration of opportunity for the topmost. In this case, the ability to rent Lichtenstein (really) directly through its ruler, Hans-Adam Jerk Peter, or:
Chesky then fires up his iPad and shows me on Airbnb.com the rooms and homes being offered for rent: “We have over 600 castles,??? he begins. “We have dozens of yurts, caves, tepees with TVs in them, water towers, motor homes, private islands, glass houses, lighthouses, igloos with Wi-Fi; we have a home that Jim Morrison used to live in; we have treehouses — hundreds of treehouses — which are the most profitable listings on our Web site per square footage. The treehouse in Lincoln, Vt., is more valuable than the main house. We have treehouses in Vermont that have had six-month waiting lists. People plan their vacation now around treehouse availability!???
This in service to his always larger point: If you can’t be super-special to the American — read global — plutocracy, you’re fucked. So might as well cannibalize your home and shit while you still can.
“[Average] is over — the skills required for any good job keep rising — a lot of people who might not be able to acquire those skills can still earn a good living now by building their own branded reputations, whether it is to rent their kids’ rooms, their cars or their power tools,” he writes.
Chesky emphatically adds it’s time to free up your power drill for the sharing economy.
If you are (or were) a thoughtful American high up in the government you are beginning to become very worried by this train of progress. You’ll know you can’t have a stable democracy of over 300 million where everyone has been turned into a self-cannibalizer or free-lance worker.
Because, inevitably, the sharing economy will come for everyone and you’ll be the worse for it.
AirBnB imagery on Google illuminates the sharing economy culture — which is of plutocracy. Here, for example, we have the rental of a house built with a jet plane fuselage extension and the AirBnB guys, made over from the unbearable to prancing maximum hipster cool.
Addendum, more fine print:
If one checks AirBnB listings for your city (again, use Pasadena) you find that when compared to standard transient rooms along Colorado from the 2-star to 4 and 5 star places, the swarm offerings from the sharing economy are not that great.
In some you don’t get privacy, but location. One had a no alcohol rule — which I bet is a real big attraction for people coming in for the Rose Parade.
Privacy, and a separate bathroom, naturally, are must-haves in real motels and hotels for many reasons which are not necessary to delve into here if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Other listings, if the city actually went into them, I’m betting would clearly be found to violate a municipal code or two. This doesn’t make them bad rentals per se — again this is normal in soCal — but it does separate them from legitimate businesses that invest in hospitality infrastructure.
Others are guest houses mobilized on the wealthy properties around the Rose Bowl and CalTech, the plutocracy doing its grasping thing.
And while some of these deals aren’t bad nothing is particularly cheap in Pasadena.
Other entries in AirBnB’s database are the sublet and subdivided properties of people who want to own and rent their own apartments (or sub-sublet inside something they’re renting).
What they really want are long-term tenants who take on a lease and, one assumes, you can find all, or most of them, also on Craigslist. In fact, at least one the AirBnB rentals listed didn’t want to rent for brief stays at all with a minimum booking of “365 nights.” Ha-ha.
So if many of AirBnB’s “rooms” are also listed on Craigslist, or some other rent-a-room realty service, does that make them all the new paradigm, rising in comparability to Hilton? (Craigslist, one adds, was one of the first into the new economy, taking all the share of newspaper advertising, causing the business model of a sustainable independent free press to collapse. Which it’s still doing, newspapers now having business tech writers enthusiastically covering the sharing economy that’s destroying their livelihood as another round of lay-offs rips through the newsroom.)
[Emit horselaugh.]
You see, this is another of the great magics of the sharing economy. You can be a transparent bullshitter and find someone like Tom Friedman (in the Sunday NYT) to publish all the grand humbugs about your business being like the Hilton without batting an eye.
Watch this space. The sharing economy is powerful stuff.
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07.20.13
Posted in WhiteManistan at 10:34 am by George Smith
PARIAH: “Not letting our worst heritages die without a fight!”
From Philly.com:
[PA GOP party chairman] Rob Gleason has set off a new round of criticism by crediting voter ID with helping narrow Obama’s margin of victory last fall.
In an interview broadcast on PCN-TV, Gleason was asked whether he thought the attention drawn to Voter ID affected last year’s elections.
He replied.”Yeah, I think a little bit. We probably had a better election. Think about this, we cut Obama by 5%, which was big. A lot of people lost sight of that. He won, he beat McCain by 10%, he only beat Romney by 5%. I think that probably Voter ID had helped a bit in that.”
PARIAH — recently.
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07.19.13
Posted in WhiteManistan at 3:06 pm by George Smith
PARIAH: “The magazine for the undying grudge.”
Keywords: National magazine award, Confederate flag, Lexington.
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