The Fat lady Has Sung, But it's not over

With the dust settling around the free-for-all that we called the 2004 presidential election, Kerry conceded by telephone at 11:05 AM this morning and Bush is expected to talk to us in a little while.

Kerry has been hiding all morning in his palatial townhome in Boston’s Beacon Hill district and appears to be as arrogant in addressing his resounding loss as he has been over the past six months of the campaign. President Bush has waited patently for Kerry to go first. Many people see the only remaining tasks to be a little “housekeeping” regarding the provisional ballots in Ohio and swatting a few lawyers on the nose that are sniffing around other states looking for signs of “disenfranchisement” and “intimidation.”

Not me.

With the conclusion of the election follies, I am ready to demand some answers from the mainstream media regarding what, if anything, they intend to do about policing their ungodly, unmitigated, unrestrained, brazen liberal bias that was exposed during this election cycle. Specifically, where are the results of the “independent” investigation regarding Dan Rather’s forged documents? What is CBS going to do to prevent such obvious, calculated, malicious behavior from occurring in the future? Can you say N-O-T-H-I-N-G?

Then there is this matter of election day coverage and the newly revised, so called independent, “exit polls.” Polls that were used as the exclusive basis of the early proclamations of a large Kerry lead. Just like the early calling of a Florida victory for Al Gore in 2000, the large leads shown by all TV broadcast and cable outlets, supported by the exit polls, were bound to have adversely affected voter attitudes and could have caused mid-American and west coast voters to not vote at all because of the huge Kerry lead. (It might have actually helped Bush) Further, if you stopped watching and went to bed at 10:00 PM, you awoke this morning to the surprise news that it was in fact Bush, not Kerry that was going to lead our country for the next four years.

At the core of the new and improved exit poll consortium is one of “the usual suspects”--the Associated Press. In my opinion the whole thing was designed and implemented as a last minute media assault on the election outcome. If that was in fact not the pure intent, in light of the other indiscressions committed through the campaign, it was certainly the result and it needs adressing.

Need I say more? Beam me up, Scotty…

Update: November 12, 2004

If I'm not accurate, I hope to be the first to admit it--and I was wrong.

I was premature with my declaration of Kerry being arrogant in making us wait for his concession speach. I don't blame him for waiting for the facts, and he was in fact quite humble in conceeding the election to President Bush and not filing an endless chain of lawsuits.

Damn good try Mr. Kerry, you almost won the most powerful position in the world, something I will certainally never have the opportunity to aspire to. For that, you deserve a salute. Here it is ....S-A-L-U-T-E!