Pro-Israel Bay Area Bloggers has an update on the controversy over the Seattle anti-Israel bus ads. A poll was held to see how many supported or rejected the idea. The anti-Israel forces did what their brethren in the Democratic Party and Acorn do-they cheated. At any rate, the Seattle Metro washed their hands of the whole business and declined to run the ads.
http://proisraelbaybloggers.blogspot.com/2010/12/seattle-metro-bus-ads-why-do-supporters.html
Is this any surprise?
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The Gary Fouse Dictionary of Political Terminology:
cheat ' ed: a necessary component of any electoral process which produces a majority vote abhorred by the speaker uttering the word.
Remember the two possible headlines in "Citizen Kane"?
KANE ELECTED!
FRAUD AT POLLS"
ACORN, SEIU, Chicago, the list goes on.
The list of what?
You talk a good line, but the only EVIDENCE you have is that the election went in a direction you personally don't approve of. Like I said about Citizen Kane...
"Many of you are aware that KING 5 TV, which first broke the story, had an on-line poll on whether or not Metro should carry the ads. It very quickly became the most visited page on their website, with tens of thousands of people voting. Blogs across the country directed people to vote in the poll. By Monday evening, slightly more than 50 percent of the votes were against Metro running the ad. Then, between late Monday evening and early Tuesday morning, more than 15,000 nearly unanswered "yes" votes came piling in, supporting Metro running the ads.
StandWithUs Northwest realized that someone had set up a computerized voting application that created unique but false email addresses so that thousands of fake votes could be automatically sent in to the poll. The supporters of the anti-Israel ad were ballot stuffing.
StandWithUs Northwest's co-chairs, Carolyn Hathaway and Sharon Finegold, called KING 5 and explained the problem and showed them that it was statistically nearly impossible for so many no votes to come in so quickly in a legitimate way.
KING 5 responded immediately by investigating the problem and, within an hour, pulled the poll off the web."
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So sorry Jenkins. King 5 investigated and felt the poll was hacked, and they are the final word.
If you follow the link given, there is further documentation of anti-Israeli activists stuffing the virtual ballot box. One holocaust denying jackal, Jeff Prager from Minnesota boasted about voting nearly 2,ooo times on one such poll. When he got caught, wait for it, he blamed "The Zionists"
To which we can only reply, "Haters. get a life"
I have no doubt that the poll was hacked. However, if blogs all over the country were telling people to go to the sight and vote, it was already meaningless. It was not a survey of the sentiment of the people of Washington, or the Metro area, but of blog readers all over the country who had a strong opinion. And with all that, sentiment was running 50: 50? Sounds like the ad should run.
Well, Jenkins, Cindy Corrie had originally sent out the info to dozens of anti-Israel lists internationally, so the poll was tainted from the begining.
No one thinks these polls are scientific, nor are they are barometer of what the local people feel.
But if the purpose of bus advertising is to raise money to enhance services to the people, these ads were an epic failure- they cost the taxpayers much more in time and energy than they would have produced in revenue.
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