I'm my 40's, and have seen the rise and fall of various left wing conspiracy theories over the past two and a half decades, so I think it incumbant upon me to provide a bit of institutional memory to the Palast/caging debate.
Greg Palast claims to have several thousand names of voters illegally denied the right to vote. He says he is working with the BBC, and that basically we are a few weeks away from his blowing the lid off the Republican voter suppression movement.
I don't doubt for a minute that the Republicans tried to cage votes.
I also don't doubt that Bush avoided service in Vietnam, and then was a deserter while in the National guard.
But shoddy journalism helped Rove brilliantly defuse that issue and take it off the table during the election of 2004 by punking Dan Rather.
Palast's penchant for self promotion and grandious claims makes me suspect that his treatment of the caging issue will, in a similar way, do more damage than good.
Here's why...
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