Silence of the Lambs: the election story never told. All along, it’s seemed that this was the bigger travesty in Jeb Bush’s Florida, as investigative journalist Greg Palast reports:

Here’s how the president of the United States was
elected: In the months leading up to the November
balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary
of State, Katherine Harris, ordered local elections
supervisors to purge 64,000 voters from voter lists on the
grounds that they were felons who were not entitled to
vote in Florida. As it turns out, these voters weren’t
felons, or at least, only a very few were. However, the
voters on this “scrub list” were, notably,
African-American (about 54 percent), while most of the
others wrongly barred from voting were white and
Hispanic Democrats.

Beginning in November, this extraordinary news ran, as
it should, on Page 1 of the country’s leading paper.
Unfortunately, it was in the wrong country: Britain.

An examination of the docility of the American press. mediachannel.org