"60 MINUTES" DIVA-STYLE
What
If I Were Al Gore's
Political Stunt
Double?
Stahl: Make your best
case. You're talking to the American people tonight. Make your best case for
why you should go on with recounts, assuming these court decisions do go
against you and you want to proceed. What’s your best argument.
Gore: Well, it's not
a recount. We want a first count.
Calling a machine’s refusal to count legally cast ballots a “count” is
like calling “bald” a hair color. I
think we all know, to a scientific certainty, that more Floridians went to the
polls to vote for me than for the Village Idiot. The exit polls reflect that truth, as do all the affidavits
submitted by voters, and those voters are going to remember how badly they
were screwed the next time they vote.
What I don’t think we all knew was how utterly FUBAR the election
processes in Florida would actually be.
That is the real story here—how Americans can go to vote, and have that
vote ignored and marginalized.
Stahl: You make it
sound like they never were counted. They did go through the machine count and
came up as no vote. That doesn't mean they didn't go through the process.
Gore: The
process? You mean the process of using
outdated, discredited technology that, in its own patent papers, admits the
necessity of a hand count? And then
refusing to perform that hand count?
That process?
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