{"id":1264,"date":"2004-11-02T12:17:49","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/11\/election_day_rumors\/"},"modified":"2004-11-02T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T17:17:49","slug":"election_day_rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/election_day_rumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Election Day Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_10_31.php#003906\">Josh Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To start with, for instance, don&#8217;t rely on right-wing agit-prop sites for your news about alleged instances of &#8216;voter fraud&#8217;. Wait till you hear real information from real news outlets.<br \/>\nThe GOP is going to be pulling this stuff through the course of the day trying either to use it to ramp up their suppression activities or lay the groundwork for challenges to what some are starting to fear won&#8217;t be good results. (For more on how that works, see Josh Green&#8217;s always invaluable expose of the Rove election shenanigans playbook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep.  Earlier I saw Fox News Channel reporting on a supposed controversy regarding some ballot boxes in Philadelphia.  Their source for the story?  GOP campaign workers.  At the time, FNC hadn&#8217;t yet been received verification from any official government source, nor had it even obtained a response from any Democratic officials.  But they ran with the report anyway.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s Fox&#8211;dutifully conveying the GOP message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/11\/election_day_rumors\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Election Day Rumors\"><p>Josh Marshall: To start with, for instance, don&#8217;t rely on right-wing agit-prop sites for your news about alleged instances of &#8216;voter fraud&#8217;. Wait till you hear real information from real news outlets. The GOP is going to be pulling this stuff through the course of the day trying either to use it to ramp up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}