File this in your He’s Got To Be Kidding file:
Democrat Dennis Kucinich, who won less than 2 percent of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, said Thursday he wants a recount to ensure that all ballots in his party’s contest were counted. The Ohio congressman cited “serious and credible reports, allegations and rumors” about the integrity of Tuesday results.
Did I miss something?
Where were the reports from Newsweek, the AP, the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and MSNBC about these “serious and credible” allegations that New Hampshire’s votes were not fairly or correctly counted? MORE:
Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan said Kucinich is entitled to a statewide recount. But, under New Hampshire law, Kucinich will have to pay for it. Scanlan said he had “every confidence” the results are accurate.
In a letter dated Thursday, Kucinich said he does not expect significant changes in his vote total, but wants assurance that “100 percent of the voters had 100 percent of their votes counted.”
Oh.
Kucinich alluded to online reports alleging disparities around the state between hand-counted ballots, which tended to favor Sen. Barack Obama, and machine-counted ones that tended to favor Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also noted the difference between pre-election polls, which indicated Obama would win, and Clinton’s triumph by a 39 percent to 37 percent margin.
So Kucinich’s main source of information about how the entire news media, the state of New Hampshire, all the politicians (why haven’t THE OTHER CANDIDATES demanded a recount?) have been so blind comes from blogs? That’s where the main controversy has raged.
Or could his information have come from that flying saucer?
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS MAJOR SCANDAL SEE:
Business Wire, Michelle Malkin
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.