That "election"

[jbor]

Though I don't personally care whether Mayor Quimby or Sideshow Bob finally
gets the nod as "leader of the free world" (!), and sincerely doubt what
difference it will make to anyone else on the planet which bozo does get in,
just for the sake of poetic justice I'd like to think that the margin that
George W. eventually wins by is *precisely* the number of votes Gore has
lost due to the transparent hate-mongering and mud-slinging against Bush
carried on by so-called "professional" commentators -- particularly
"on-line" -- as they impersonate "rigour and seriousness". What a farce.

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>From: "Bill Millard" <wbm1 at columbia.edu>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Tarpley/Chaitkin material about Bush ties to Nazis
>Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2000, 5:00 AM
>

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> Adult thinking: discovering, with the rigor and seriousness of the
> professional historian or journalist whose independent judgment
> hasn't been bought by corporate power or clouded by conspiratorialist
> hoo-hah, whether Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker were in fact
> Nazi sympathizers and collaborators, leaving a legacy that calls
> their descendants' actions into serious question.
>
> Adolescent thinking: picking up some odd details, e.g. Skull & Bones
> lore involving the allegedly mystical number 322 (see one of Ron
> Rosenbaum's articles on these idiots,
> http://www.nyobserver.com/pages/story.asp?ID=2943), and then watching
> the election returns to see whether GWB might squeak into office by a
> 322-vote margin, and then trying to link it up to some mystical X-
> file-ish horseshit out of Nostradamus.