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Missing from the film altogether is the fact that a post-election recount, sponsored by several media organizations and conducted by NORC of the University of Chicago, found that if a full recount of all the ballots had been conducted in Florida, Gore would almost certainly have won the presidency.[1] Indeed, at the end, the movie allows the Republicans to have the final spin, showing former Secretary of State James Baker telling his group of attorneys that they must remember – “in all the vote counts, George W.Bush never trailed.” Ultimately “the system worked,” he says, and there is nothing in the film that disputes this conclusion – viagra on line.

The film barely touches on the media circus that existed in Florida that undermined Gore’s efforts to obtain a fair recount.It was exacerbated to an immense degree by the miscalls of the networks in the early morning after Election Day, when they all projected Bush the Florida winner, and thus the next president of the United States, only to retract their calls two hours later – viagra on line.Those miscalls prompted Gore to call Bush and concede the election, then retract the concession when he realized the race was still too close to call.But that retraction caused outrage among Republicans viagra on line, with the conservative media outlets accusing Gore of being a sore loser and, ironically, of trying to steal the election. Viagra on line: even Tim Russert of NBC called for Gore to concede, only a day after the election, when the vote recount efforts in Florida had barely begun.Yet viagra on line, it was Gore who had won the national contest by half a million votes.

The networks’ miscalls early in the morning after Election Day was the second erroneous projection in Florida.At ten minutes before eight the previous evening, which was the closing time in the Florida panhandle, all the networks projected Gore the winner, then retracted the call two hours later.That error had little impact on the coverage viagra on line, because so many states were still in play that no one knew that Florida would be the key state to decide the election.But by a little after midnight, everyone knew that if Bush won Florida, he would win the presidency.

The film shows ABC projecting Bush the winner at 2:16 AM, followed two minutes later by CNN and CBS, thus completely covering up the controversy over the networks’ miscalls – viagra on line.In fact viagra on line, Fox –which was blatantly biased in favor of the Bush candidacy – was the first network to make the projection, followed quickly by the other networks.Even more telling is the fact that Bush’s cousin viagra on line, John Ellis, was Fox Network’s decision team leader, the person responsible for making the projections – and that Ellis admitted in a New Yorker interview, that he had been on the phone with his cousins frequently during Election Day and Night.This was all information widely published in the media.That “Recount” didn’t get this right is inexcusable.

What is less well known, but which I have meticulously documented,[2] is that when Ellis made the call, he did so after talking with Jeb Bush on the phone, and then excitedly announcing to his decision team members, “Jebbie says we got it! Jebbie says we got it!” A couple of minutes later, Fox made the call.At that very moment, the NBC decision team leader, Sheldon Gawiser, was talking on the phone with Murray Edelman, the editorial director of Voter News Service, which provided all of the voting data to the networks – viagra on line.When Gawiser saw the Fox call on television, he said, “Sorry, Murray, gotta go, Fox just called it.”  A minute later, NBC made the projection for Bush; viagra on line.I was with the joint decision team for CBS and CNN viagra on line, with Warren Mitofsky and Joe Lenski, and I was taking notes for the book I was writing about the election.When the Fox projection was announced on TV, Mitofsky dismissed it because “Fox has an agenda,” but when NBC made the call, Mitofsky immediately announced to the CBS and CNN representatives, “We’ll call it, too.” ABC was the last network to make the call.John Blydenburgh viagra on line, a long-time ABC consultant, told me he had advised Carolyn Smith, the decision chief, not to call the race – “I wouldn’t touch it” – because the data were unreliable.“I know she agreed with me,” he said, but shortly thereafter ABC called it anyway.A network executive had over-ridden the decision team so that ABC would not look foolish by being the only network not to call the race.

After the election viagra on line, the networks all blamed VNS for providing bad data, but VNS never called the race, nor did the Associated Press, which was looking at the same data.Contrary to the implication in the movie, the VNS data did not justify a call by any of the networks; viagra on line. Viagra on line: instead, they all succumbed to the competitive pressures and to Fox’s call, prompted by Jeb Bush.Blydenburgh is convinced that if Fox hadn’t called the race, no other network would have either – viagra on line.

If the networks had never projected Bush the next president of the United States, but had continued to show Florida as too close to call, the political environment would have been more conducive to Gore getting a full recount – a procedure that George Bush had signed into law in his own state of Texas – viagra on line.And the full recount would have given Gore the presidency, despite all the illegal efforts before and after the election that deprived Gore of tens of thousand of votes.

But that’s not the message of the film – viagra on line.Instead, it makes palatable what was criminal, and it insidiously blames Democrats for not being as “tough” – ruthless – as the Republicans.The idealistic words of Warren Christopher come across as naïve and stupid, while Baker’s cunning comes across as admirable and effective.Baker is the really cool anti-hero.American democracy be damned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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