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email archive page - updated Dec 15, 2004

Recount opportunity in New Mexico -- Kim Cranston 12-15-04

Note about this page: There is a range of material here representing a small sample of the email I receive on the topic, some of which I might have forwarded, and some of which I might in retrospect have regretted forwarding. Instead, I have chosen to spare my list and post it here.

Perhaps the most interesting outcome of this is that it makes it easy to track the genesis of an urban legend of sorts, a widely circulated message, which I received on Nov 12 (reproduced here with the name of a person I don't know, and who I presume was not the author, but who had mailed it to the person who forwarded it to me). That compilation included a piece that had been referenced in an article on Truthout.org on Nov 8 as being attributed to a posting by TruthAll on the Democratic Underground discussion forum and which I had reposted as such here on Nov 8. The same Nov 12 compilation message, but now containing only the TruthAll segment and the now infamous media "lock-down" segment, but with a new opening about a common bumper sticker, then resurfaced in a reformatted form erroneously attributed to Peter Coyote on Nov 13. On Nov 14 this message was referenced by the MSN correspondent Keith Olbermann himself—with shades of the Monte Python skit, "I'm not dead!"

• November 14, 2004 | 3:05 p.m. ET
I swear: I'm on vacation (Keith Olbermann)
SECURE UNDISCLOSED LOCATION—Golly, I’ve never been the subject of a conspiracy theory before. Yet, there it is, flying around the Internet under the byline of a Peter Coyote: that when I attempted to break the “lock-down” of coverage of the voting irregularities story in the media during Friday night’s edition of Countdown, I was fired, and left the studio in the middle of the program. Um, no, actually. I’m on vacation— it’s been scheduled since August; I’ll be blogging in the interim; Countdown will continue to cover the story in my absence; I not only wasn’t fired for ‘mentioning’ the story - but we covered it five nights in a row; and, I’ll be back on television on the 22nd (earlier, if developments warrant).

So, with that said, here's the links:

Voter Bill of Rights -- Gael Murphy 11-17-04

Bev Harris in Volusia County -- Democratic Underground discussion forum 11-17-04

a theory that counts were reversed in small rural democratic counties in Florida -- Steve Echtman 11-15-04

a widely circulated email (falsely) attributed to Peter Coyote
composed by reformatting the media lock-down compilation below 11-13-04

a widely forwarded message reporting on a "media lock-down" 11-12-04

characteristics of a fascist state -- Dr. Lawrence Britt 11-12-04

clear short message -- John Silliphant 11-10-04

comprehensive call to action compiled by -- Jim Hedddle and Mary Beth Brangan 11-10-04

comprehensive call to action compiled by -- Carly Caryn 11-9-04

Jim's five points observation announcing this site 11-10-04

A reprint of TruthAll's summary critique of the 2004 election results 11-8-04

note: the @ symbol in all email addresses have been converted to (a) to thwart spam crawlers

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