The Case of 1,000,000 Missing Votes

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Greg Palast,
The Palast Report
Air America Radio - on Clout with Richard Green
April 4, 2008

 

Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Armed Madhouse and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. Palast's investigative reports for BBC Television are compiled in the new DVDs, The Election Files: Theft of 2008 and The Assassination of Hugo Chavez. Hear The Palast Report weekly on Air America Radio. www.GregPalast.com

By Greg Palast
Sunday, March 23, 2008, Forest City, PA

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The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for black coffee and a[37]

newspaper.

I think even Norman Rockwell would have found this place too sticky sweet, too postcard: the weathered barns, the fallow fields perfectly snow-frosted; red, white and blue flags already up on the clapboard farmhouses and the white-washed church in the valley already full for Easter prayers.

At a gas station, I scored the paper and coffee, spilled some on the front page – the closest thing I’ve got to a religious ritual – then parked in front of a row of insanely pretty salt-box houses shining like mad teeth on the river bank.

One was missing a pick-up in the driveway; its screen door was left half-open, and there was a letter taped to the window. The Sheriff’s Notice of eviction. Another foreclosure.

God damn America.

I know that’s what Obama’s spiritual guide would say.

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