Comparing Scotland to Florida.

NPR Check are really heading out to the liberal fringes!

In one of their latest posts, they comment on a commentary from NPR Weekend Edition essayist Diane Roberts. I have issues to take up with her too! But first, to NPR Check.

They end their commentary by saying...

"...Really the offense of calling the Scots election Floridaesque is that it belittles the accomplishment of the Bushists in Florida. Scotland was a bungle, a snafu - Florida was a democracide."

What happened in Scotland was not a mere bungle or snafu. I was blogging this live at the time, the posts are still here for anyone to read. AT THE TIME, I dreaded to think that we were going to have an electoral incident like the Florida "hanging chads" debacle, but as the night and day wore on, it became clear to me that this was the British equivalent of "hanging chads".

However much extreme liberals like to say that the election was stolen from Al Gore, what happend back then, CANNOT be changed now. It is history, consign it to there!

And in terms of the size of the bungle, the hanging chads debacle only affected one state in an election that was run nationwide. However much you tabloidize it, it did not affect the 49 other states, because it did not HAPPEN in those states. The Scottish Spoilt Ballots debacle affected the WHOLE Scottish Parliamentary Election! We will have no idea how those 142,000 spolit ballots would have affected the election had they not been spoilt. And perhaps, it's better for our collective sanity, that we don't.

Now, for Diane Roberts!

I understand she is in the UK for the summer, and I understand that she is a Florida native. She felt offence that the Scottish debacle should even be compared to the Flordia one. As she herself described it on her commentary, "...it has become a byword for Electile Dysfunction!", primarily by the 24/7/365 media that we have in this world today. Diane, wake up and smell it! She tried to turn it against us by saying "...we faced our voting demons, we got help!".

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK THEY'RE DOING NOW???

The real offence you should be feeling, is that something as bad as the hanging chads debacle even HAPPENED in the first place. By taking out your anger on the comparisons, you are doing nothing more than defending the debacle! Hey, it might have been a debacle, but it was our debacle and don't you ever compare your piddling little incident which will only affect 6 million people to something which affected the entire world! is the attitude I got from the commentary.

Diane, if BBC analysts were comparing it to Florida's hnaging chads, then there IS a comparison to be made. LIVE WITH IT!

Now, back to NPR Check...

If you find her commentaries out of place, why don't you have a go at the commentaries and shows of rabid conservatives, such as Rush "Limburger" Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. THESE are the people you really need to be commenting on, rather than a public service like NPR.

But as usual, it's one rule for the public broadcasters and no rules for the commercial ones. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. IF you are going to hold public broadcasters like NPR, CBC and the BBC to one high standard, then you MUST hold the commercial broadcasters to the SAME high standard. Otherwise, don't bother.