I'll be featured on KING 5 News UP FRONT with Robert Mak, this Sunday, April 10, 4:30pm on KING 5, 10:30 PM on KONG 6/16!
The streaming video is online here.
Jim Miller also made an appearance in the segment!
Mak also interviewed a left-leaning blogger whose main claim to fame is that he aspires to be the anti-Sharkansky. i.e. whenever I've done original investigative reporting that uncovers new information and is picked up by professional journalists and policy-makers, his invariable response has been to call me a playground name. His stated goal is to somehow "influence the media". Some free business advice: if you want to influence the media, you need to do more than just offer a more vulgar and less-researched version of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial page.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at April 09, 2005 10:15 PM | Email ThisI certainly hope Mr. Mack didn't try to stifle you in his interview...or try to put a spin on your efforts.... It would just be like King 5 to try minimize the importance of Sound Politics and the incredible work you've done for the State of Washington with regard to exposing the unbelievable errors and fraud in the November election..
I will check it out tomorrow.....
Posted by: Deborah on April 9, 2005 11:40 PMPlus talk about perfect timing:
See latest by David Postman in the Sunday Seattle times. Even J. Vander Stoep is now alluding to the electoral F-word:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002237025_measure10m.html
Methow Ken
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002237050_revote10m.html
Using the one M. Ken posted I got a different article.
I wish I could watch the tv report, but I am out of the loop here in Eastern Washington.
Posted by: JG on April 10, 2005 07:12 AMReading the article, the Dem's sure had alot to offer in statements.....They sounded rather childish.
Posted by: jg on April 10, 2005 07:28 AMGil, I don't understand either, because I think "ballot enhancement" is a bunch of bull.
No matter who does the enhancing (even Republicans)
I understand the reasoning given in the David Postman article, but I think it is a mistake.
I think the Republicans should present everything they can about this election, and let the judge decide.
My family have never met you but please know that we are so thankful for your diligence in exposing so many election irregularities.
We note that you try to give the benefit of the doubt to the democrat side, that you attempt to be fair and we find that approach to be an admirable one. Your work has uncovered so many discrepancies and apparent covers that we can understand how it must be frustrating to stick with this.
Good luck to you in your dialog with the local news media today. We are certain that you will make a good representation for those that are appalled by what they have witnessed in our elections process.
Posted by: Michael on April 10, 2005 08:54 AMShocking! Who's side are the lawyers on???
If King Co illegally enhanced ballots, you must stop the remarking process now before all elections become mail-only. If the 59,000 ballots were not illegally enhanced, don't give us bull**** about priorities. If the Republicans "pull this punch" I cannot take them seriously in their contest.
Posted by: StephenR from Houston on April 10, 2005 12:37 PMWait is this some sort of consipracy? Are you and Goldy brothers or something? Below is what he just posted. Hmmm. Well have fun guys. I am going to guess that the two of you will be having a beer afterwards.
A couple days ago KING-5 sent a camera to my house to interview me for this Sunday’s edition of “Up Front With Robert Mak.” I was told the subject was blogging, and I assume I’ll be on the show, though I caught a promo last night that featured a shadowy shot of Stefan at his computer, so who knows how much. It’ll air Sunday on KING-5 at 4:30 PM, and again on KONG-16 at 10:30 PM.
Hmmm. Well have fun guys. I am going to guess that the two of you will be having a beer afterwards and Washington co-bloggers.
What a hack.
Posted by: bmvaughn on April 10, 2005 04:42 PMSoundPolitics is a rare blog - a blog where the blogger is actually doing investigative work rather than using the MSM for source material. Robert would have been served well by finding someone who has even ever read SoundPolitics.
Posted by: bmvaughn on April 10, 2005 04:47 PMMy bet is the majority of the people around Puget Sound (it's a big place ya know) would be in favor of finding out what really happened in the 2004 election. Just because residents of the city of Seattle have their collective heads up their a$$es doesn't mean everyone else does :-)
We'll be looking foward to your post presenting all the research you've done to refute Stefan.
Posted by: Tucker on April 10, 2005 05:28 PMAs usual, those of your political 'stripe' can form opinions interpreted as facts by reading the cover of the book, or the headline of the story. So sad.
You sould learn to look a little deeper.
Posted by: bigbyrd on April 10, 2005 05:49 PMPosted by Sam at April 10, 2005 04:33 PM "
Sam;
Is it the site layout that counts? Grow up!
"Goldy is a little delusional... he has yet to actually say anything with much truth. Indeed Stefan has called our governor "Fraudoire", but never has he even implied that there was an organized effort by Gregoire to steal the election.
What a hack.
Posted by bmvaughn at April 10, 2005 04:42 PM"
Bravo bmvughn! Indeed, that's right -Stefan NEVER implied that Christine organized the steeling of the alection. Shame on the HORSESASS-GOLDY for intentionally skewing the truth.
P.S. Reading his site - one can count on the F... word (and it is not a fraud) every other line. That's his audience, that's why he attracts hundreds vs Stefan's site thousands.
Just throwing himself under a bus and trying to take Stefan with him! The problem with Goldy at Horsesass.whatever...is that he admittingly does not research anything he posts! His blog is merely an attempt at counter-point to our indepth investigative research here. This is why his readers (our trolls) constantly demand we provide them with proof and reposts and history when they come here....They are only fed the rhetoric from Goldys site - the emotion and loads of lies! They come here posting like they know everything - then have no substance in their messages! Goldy doesn't give them facts and we aren't going to keep re-posting info for them!
This is where I fault Robert Mak. He tried to compare the SP blog (and Stefan's incredible research) with some lame liberal blog that gets a couple hundred hits a day (mostly from public school computers..). In doing so - he tried to diminish credibility of ALL blogs. He would have done better to just compare blogs of the same caliber.
Posted by: Deborah on April 10, 2005 06:39 PMI saw Mak a little different than you. I kind of got the impression that people were shifting to the blogs because they didn't trust the MSM any more. I saw what he was using the philosophy of I'll report, you decide. I think that is why FOX news has passed the network news.
I believe that Goldie hurt his cause by admitting that he did blog to antagonize - not report facts.
However, I guess that we all see things differently.
Posted by: Gil on April 10, 2005 07:25 PMGoldstein is honest about what he is: a propagandist. He tries very hard to appear reasoned and resonable, and Mak seems to allow this misconception to lie, but having on occasion read his blog I know more of the story than Mak was presenting.
Goldstein does, as Deborah mentions, try to minimize Stefan's impact by implying the Stefan is also a propagandist. He seems, however, unable to separate Stefan's work from either the other contributors, and especially from some of the more partisan commentors at SP, from the hard facts and good works of Stefan. Then again, as a propagandist, that would be expected.
Posted by: DeadWood on April 10, 2005 07:27 PMAnd we all know about the divining of votes with mere stray marks and confusingly written names given as votes for Gregoire. Yes, they were trying to get her in. Couldn't be more obvious. They won't get away with it.
Posted by: Michele on April 10, 2005 08:36 PMThe two political bloggers highlighted in Up Front demonstrate to me why blogs will never replace the 'mainstream media' you so shrilly rail against.
You are simply unprofessional.
At least the left leaning blogger made an honest comment. Why would anyone listen to you? You are not journalists. You are propagandists. Those who do waste their time listening to you delude themselves.
You make no attempt to provide a fair and balanced report, the whole time you are decrying the 'MSM' for failing to do so.
You purport to report facts and investigate. You couldn't hold Robert Mak's shoes, and he's a second or third rate reporter.
Posted by: Lance on April 10, 2005 08:40 PMStefan has actually BROKEN news about this election in ways that other news outlets have not. That's very valuable. If he wasn't providing a valuable service, no one would be reading it. Especially not the party honchos. And he wouldn't have gotten the national and local pub that he has.
Posted by: Michele on April 10, 2005 09:06 PMAnd Goldy all out lied when he said that Stefan was basically trying to paint the election as having been a Gregoire organized conspiracy from the top down. That was beyond the pale, and ripe for media consumption. However, if anything, it may leave more viewers believing it than not since many Washingtonions are very rightly upset with a process that is not capable of giving them and assured sense of who won the election.
I'm not saying that I think it is right to allege conspiracy, and I don't believe it was a conspiracy for the sake of winning the election. However, I do believe that KC Elections engaged in willful negligence in preparing the documents for certification and tallying and reporting the election. That's serious business and it should be investigated.
Posted by: Jeff B. on April 10, 2005 09:14 PMTo people not following the election fiasco since the beginning, I'm afraid Mak didn't give them much inducement to dive in to the blogs and get informed. It would have informed the viewers better if Mak had mentioned a few examples of the factual info you have publicized, along with some of the refutation Goldy has attempted.
Just in case he did win you some new viewers, it would be prudent to have some high quality/informative to the uninformed type posts for the next few days to draw their interest.
Posted by: zip on April 10, 2005 09:15 PMOh... and I'm not really the "anti-Snark." I just play one on TV.
Posted by: David Goldstein on April 10, 2005 10:24 PMAnd I agree that this "special election" is clouded so on my envelope, where it says "do not delay" I crossed out delay and wrote "lose."
Who says these mail-ins won't get mixed up with ballots from Nov? OMG! Whacha wanna bet they find more while recieving these, oh geez.
The Henry Farrel that appears on the show as an expert is also a lefty blogger, whom you can find at the group academic blog: Crooked Timber. That said, I should add that I didn't find anything objectionable or biased in what he said. (And I have criticized him in the past.)
Posted by: Jim Miller on April 11, 2005 06:13 AMI agree. Since there is never any real news there, what is the point?
Goldstein is simply trying to shock, insult, and entertain rather than inform or create meaningful dialogue.
As to your snarky comments on Ohio and Florida, take a look at where the problems were in those 2 states. In every case, it was democratic precincts in counties that were run by democrats with democratic election officials and democratic designed ballots. Democrats offered cocaine in exchange for signatures. You forgot to mention Minnesota and Wisconsin where the democrats slashed tires (even a congresswoman's son in one case) and the various precincts had the same problem as King County of more votes than voters and felons voting and in one case even a guy coming in to vote claiming to be such and such a person and the guy he was claiming to be was an election judge at the same precinct. Non-existent addresses, sending in absentee ballots and then voting in person at the same precinct thus voting twice. Voting in the name of dead people was another democratic speciality. Failure to deliver the results of the counting another specialty.
I think King County was the worst this time but it was close with Milwaukee and Racine. I thought Washington was supposed to be the home of clean elections. Guess that was a wrong assumption. This brings up the question of whether Slade Gorton actually lost the election to Maria Cantwell as well. Based on current results and practices, I think it is a valid question, although I am sure Beverly would not agree. We are not supposed to question it when democrats steal elections.
Posted by: dick on April 11, 2005 10:39 AMAre you really concerned about Goldy?
Or is Goldy exactly the putz you want trying to contest The Shark?
Thank about it.
The constant f words detracted from his liberal commentary. I liked the commentary and liked to discuss it with his minions. I miss posting there, but, as I said, the individual went far over the line.
Posted by: swatter on April 11, 2005 12:27 PMGet over it and move on. You lost. We won. Deal with it.
Posted by: Land of Rational Thought on April 11, 2005 12:44 PMSimply put, the Gore campaign did not have proof of the fraud. We do.
I'm sorry, but you lose.
And, hey, lose the 4:20 thing. Columbine was 6 years ago.
Posted by: Big M on April 11, 2005 01:05 PMI thought I clarified the 2000 election even to Unkl Witz approvals. Looks like I have to sepnd a few precious keystrokes stroking that pea brain of yours. All of the election problems occurred in Democratically controlled areas of Florida. Every big National Newspaper admitted that George Bush won. Before spewing off at the keyboard, look at the facts on Google. You do know how to type w w w . g o o g l e . c o m right?
Stefan, nice job on the interview and you are a wonderfully concise speaker unlike Goldy.
I know Goldy reads this so, Goldy what were you really trying to say? Stefan has an end so he identifies facts to create a beginning? What is that? King County Elections Commission has basically validated almost all of his voting pattern guesses to date. Each time they release something he has guessed within 1% of the final number without all of the data? Can you claim that Goldy? He is 99% right without seeing any data. Ron Sims saw the data and he can't even add!!!
Vitriol from Stefan on calling Christine Fraudoire? He never said that. SOme of us respondents have. He won't use the word FRAUD anywhere in her written verbiage. But you are a horsesass Goldy. There is a written rule of information, RESEARCH! Goldy, if you can't refute his facts, then shut up please.
Posted by: Puddybud on April 11, 2005 07:40 PMSorry Stefan, I have no idea how I misstyped that!!!
Pudster
Posted by: Puddybud on April 11, 2005 07:44 PM