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   From: Whatever@whoever.tv   
      
   Wednesday, December 29, 2004   
   News: Election 2004: Mainstream Media Fails to Report Watergate-Style   
   Burglary at Ohio Democratic Offices Twenty-One Days Before November   
   Election   
      
   By ADVOCATE STAFF   
      
   If credible allegations surfaced about a Watergate-style burglary at a   
   Democratic Party Headquarters -- in a critical city in a critical   
   battleground state, just twenty-one days before the 2004 presidential   
   election -- and if, moreover, there was reason to suspect the National   
   Republican Party was behind or at least was aware of the crime, either   
   before the fact or after it, would the mainstream media find the news   
   to be of sufficient importance to report it to you and your family?   
   Would you ever find out about it? And would it be important to your   
   answers to these two questions that the last time a   
   politically-motivated burglary of a Democratic Party Headquarters   
   occurred, the sitting U.S. President (a Republican) resigned his   
   office in disgrace?   
      
   What if it was not the National Republican Party, but the Ohio   
   Republican Party that was behind this hypothetical burglary? Would you   
   still consider it substantial news that one of the largest state-based   
   organs of the National Republican Party had broken into Democratic   
   Party Headquarters in Toledo to steal sensitive electronic information   
   regarding election security issues? Would you want to know that, more   
   than three decades after Watergate, an outfit of the Republican Party   
   risked the demise of an entire presidential administration in order to   
   feloniously acquire information it deemed worth the risk? Would it   
   affect your answer if you knew that the information deemed worth the   
   risk was information which could swing a presidential election? Would   
   it affect your answer if, regardless of whether the National   
   Republican Party was aware of the burglary prior to the fact, it   
   tangibly and substantially benefited their presidential candidate   
   immediately after the fact?   
      
   What if it was "merely" the Lucas County Republican Party behind the   
   burglary -- would you forgive the national media for not telling you   
   anything at all about it? Would you trust them again, if they never   
   told you? And would it affect your answer if you knew that Ohio was   
   considered one of the two most hotly-contested states in the   
   presidential election, that Ohio ultimately gave George W. Bush the   
   Presidency of the United States, and that Lucas County was one of the   
   largest and (with almost a quarter of a million votes tallied on   
   Election Day) influential counties in the country on November 2nd,   
   2004?   
      
   Wonder no more -- regardless of who burglarized the Democratic Party   
   Headquarters in Toledo just three weeks before the presidential   
   election, stealing sensitive election-related data while leaving   
   wholly untouched readily-observed cash and expensive computer   
   equipment, the mainstream media made your decision for you: you didn't   
   need to know about it. It wasn't, in the final analysis, really so   
   important.   
      
      
      
      
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