{"id":99985,"date":"2016-07-03T07:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99985"},"modified":"2016-07-03T07:40:48","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T15:40:48","slug":"steve-sailer-nyt-on-austria-vote-count-scandal-dont-mention-the-scandal-do-mention-the-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99985","title":{"rendered":"Steve Sailer: NYT on Austria Vote Count Scandal: Don’t Mention the Scandal. Do Mention the Nazis."},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments at Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* The decision is good news. The bad news is that there was widespread fraud in the presidential elections of a First World European country with a seven-decade-old (OK, make it six-decade-old) stable democracy. What\u2019s worse, nobody in the media and press thinks this stolen election is the scandal it is.<\/p>\n

Milosevic was thrown out in a violent revolution after he lost popularity and had to resort to electoral fraud. And the stolen election was a leading foreign news story for several days in major international news outlets. Supposed irregularities in the Russian elections were dealt with in the international media, there was even a major opinion piece about Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s gerrymandering, FFS, but a respected EU-member has a stolen presidential election, and\u2026 crickets.<\/p>\n

A healthy democracy is one with no stolen elections. A less healthy, yet still functioning democracy has court rulings like this.<\/p>\n

* I\u2019m surprised that last paragraph didn\u2019t go something like this:<\/p>\n

It was the first time Austria had ordered a rerun of a national election since 1945, when the Nazis, who were led by Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria, were defeated. Hitler was bad. Coincidentally, Donald Trump was born less than a year later, in June 1946. He is of German ancestry, Germany being right next to Austria, especially when it was Nazi Germany and led by Hitler, which was bad. Donald Trump is running for president of the United States, which is really really bad and horrifyingly Nazi-like.<\/p>\n

* I don\u2019t see how a party that won about half the votes in a national election can be described as \u201cfar-right.\u201d Seems an abuse of the word \u201cfar.\u201d<\/p>\n

* I\u2019ve noticed the same issue with language to describe Trump. That prompted a thought: do news sites use words like \u201cfar\u201d or \u201cextreme\u201d to describe the right more often than the left. I did a few simple google queries<\/a> to count references to \u201cfar right\u201d and \u201cextreme right\u201d vs. \u201cfar left\u201d and \u201cextreme left.\u201d He are the percentages of references to far and extreme that are used to describe the political right:<\/p>\n

Time\t93%
\nHuffington Post\t93%
\nGoogle news\t91%
\nLA Times\t89%
\nUSA today\t82%
\nNew York Times\t79%
\nYahoo\t79%
\nNPR\t79%
\nCNN\t70%
\nFox\t34%<\/p>\n

By this simple metric, Fox tilts right, but is the closest to the middle (50%). The LA Times sees about 9 times more right extremism than left, which says volumes about where the editors themselves are. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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