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October 07, 2002
The Washington Post lies again In a recent story about the US Supreme Court refusing to look at the New Jersey senate ballot issue, the Washington Post writes "The Supreme Court surprised both sides by jumping into the fight two years ago, ending ballot recounts in Florida by a bitter 5-4 vote."
They're lying. The vote was 7 to 2. Seven of nine justices voted to end the Gore monkey business. They come up with saying it was 5-4 on the basis that two justices offered a separate reasoning for why they voted to end recounts.
The Washington Post and other liberal media have consistently described it as a 5-4 vote in what appears after the 10,000th consistent misstatement to be an obviously concerted attempt to de-legitimize President Bush. They want the public to believe that the Bush v. Gore decision amounted to Republican appointed justices stealing the election from Gore over the objections of all the fair minded (ie Democrat appointed) justices.
You can say that the opinion was 5-4, but that is the opinion, not the decision. It wasn't even a 5-4 opinion. Properly, you'd have to say it was a 5-2-2 opinion. Anyway, the justices decided by a 7-2 margin to end recounts, which was the main practical point.
Calling it 5-4 decision once at the end of a story about something else would just be sloppy reporting. Lots of reporters in numerous outlets making the same sloppy mistake consistently does not happen by accident.
Calling it a 5-4 decision amounts to purposefully attempting to mislead the public into thinking that George Bush stole the election by a one vote partisan decision. This is simply not true. They are dissembling. They are misinforming. They are varnishing the truth. They are, to use quaint midwestern terminology, LYING. They should stop doing it.
