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Jun 9, 2021Liked by Eric Boehlert

The AZ secretary of state said the "audit" has compromised the state's voting apparatus to the extent that significant changes in machinery and procedure will have to be implemented to ensure the integrity of the next election. AZ taxpayers should be enraged and should bill My Pillow for the costs. And while the media is happy to quote Republicans and tools like Joe Manchin saying they won't vote for "partisan bills," where is the push back about the GOP's partisan bills suppressing the vote?

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Imagine the outrage if the super bowl final score was "audited" by a group of sports bar patrons, and supported by a coalition of team owners and television networks. They could review every play from dozens of new and never-before-seen camera angles, re-examine the whole event including the military fly-over (the slot guy lagged a bit on the break), and though they couldn't change the final score, the poor Zebras would be running for cover, getting death threats, and stadiums would have to hire armed goons to keep the fans from rioting and killing each other at every game.

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Knowledgeable people know that what is going on in Arizona is a federal crime. Where is the DOJ?

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With all due respect, WTF is a "conservative extremist"? I sincerely appreciate your efforts to hold the big corporate media outlets responsible for the language they use in their headlines and their articles, but the "media watchdogs" have to also practice what they preach. The right-wing-nut racist bigots and religious fanatics who have hijacked the Republican Party are NOT "conservative" and it is very important that people consistently get that message loud and clear. A true "Conservative" would never agree to waste millions of dollars of public money conducting a fraudulent "audit" of an already determined and thoroughly-litigated election, AND do so at the expense of their hard-working taxpayer constituents. That is a point I rarely hear made that needs to be hammered home relentlessly by the media and all the true "conservative" politicians.

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This is how democracies fall. The Arizona fraudit is undermining the belief that our elections are free and fair. In fact our elections for many have never been free and fair but now the right wing is just blatantly attacking our election process in the open and with the media's witting or unwitting assistance. This is a strategy the Republican Party is embracing because in a fair election, they lost and they will continue to lose. They are out of touch with a country who's majority is becoming more and more progressive. Yet with a system of representation that disproportionately represents underpopulated areas of the country, a minority is given powers they should not have. Trump is gone but the mess he helped ignite is still with us.

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Thanks Eric--I'll do you one better, let's call it a crime. Because it's a crime,-as Merrick Garland has declared.

On February 9 the Trump appointed USAtty Michael Bailey resigned based on Biden's request. Anthony Martin became acting USAtty, approx. March 1-April 24. So, the obvious question here for the press to be asking?

Following Martin Glenn McCormick became acting USAtty on April 24, 2021. And, well, what is he doing? The US District of Arizona has a sub division of the Criminal Division called the Public Integrity unit, specifically tasked with prosecution of "election-related" offenses.

I mean, the criminal activity is on TV.

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As Rachel pointed out last night--Why won't Merrick Garland intervene to stop this?

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When I am at the gym in the morning, "The Faulkner Report" is on one of the monitors, and it's such obvious Nazi propaganda. But for years Fux Noise "reporters" claimed that outside of the prime-time Goebbels gang, they were doing journalism. So that brings us to the real issue: Those who are supposed to be real journalists continuing to view the people at FUX as though they are journalists when they are not, and letting them help drive the narrative. Of course, Peter Douchey is too obtuse to realize that Jen Psaki is both satirizing and mocking him.

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I totally agree, Eric. There is a problem with the headlines normalizing what is essentially after-the-fact election fraud/tampering.

There is also an optics problem if —as others here have pointed out— the DOJ comes crashing down. It will look like their beloved boogyman “The Deep State” is suppressing their attempt to "find out what’s going on."

Maybe the term our Failed Political Press ™ should use is “fishing trip.” I dunno, I’m stumped as to how to define a mass hysteria.

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"Malarkey" might be an appropriate word to use.

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Was waiting to hear the evidence behind why this "audit" is illegitimate. Reading left-leaning msm headlines is hardly backing up your case. Of course they agree with your presupposition. You just sound like a broken record in an echo chamber. Also, recounting ballots is still a recount even if it wasn't a close election. If this audit is illegitimate, I want to know why. And your expose isn't helping to actually elucidate the issue.

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Interesting how you are wetting your pants over the election audit. Why is it such a big deal? If you're so confident that it's a farce why not just let it go on and allow the other side to make fools of themselves? It's common sense. A primary tenet of the Art of War is to NEVER stop your enemy from destroying themselves. I know why you're trying to convince people that the audit should stop - it's because you're mortified that the truth will come out. Well, something's comin' and you can't stop it. Cheers!

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