THIS MODERN WORLD

From the Smoking Gun:

OCTOBER 13 — Hours after Bill O’Reilly accused her of a multimillion dollar shakedown attempt, a female Fox News producer fired back at the TV star today, filing a lawsuit claiming that he subjected her to repeated instances of sexual harassment and spoke often, and explicitly, to her about phone sex, vibrators, threesomes, masturbation, the loss of his virginity, and sexual fantasies. Below you’ll find a copy of Andrea Mackris’s complaint, an incredible page-turner that quotes O’Reilly, 55, on all sorts of lewd matters. Based on the extensive quotations cited in the complaint, it appears a safe bet that Mackris, 33, recorded some of O’Reilly’s more steamy soliloquies.

We report, you decide.

Maybe it’s one of these.

Just a thought.

The networks assure us that their new exit polling system will work ever so much better than the old one.

The six news organizations that have formed the National Election Pool — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and the AP — say they’re confident things will go better this time, based on test runs and the experience of people involved.

Still, the TV networks said they would be careful projecting winners after prematurely declaring Florida, and the 2000 election, for George W. Bush. (The AP did not declare Bush the winner on election night). The election wasn’t ultimately determined for weeks after vote recounts and court fights.

Memo to network executives: we don’t need your exit polling or your projected winners, because we’ve already got a system in place to determine the outcome of the election.

It’s called voting.

See, what you do is, you shut up and wait until the votes are counted and — voila — you find out who won. It’s just that simple.

Indeed they will:

Employees of a private voter registration company allege that hundreds, perhaps thousands of voters who may think they are registered will be rudely surprised on election day. The company claims hundreds of registration forms were thrown in the trash.

Anyone who has recently registered or re-registered to vote outside a mall or grocery store or even government building may be affected.

The I-Team has obtained information about an alleged widespread pattern of potential registration fraud aimed at democrats. Thee focus of the story is a private registration company called Voters Outreach of America, AKA America Votes.

The out-of-state firm has been in Las Vegas for the past few months, registering voters. It employed up to 300 part-time workers and collected hundreds of registrations per day, but former employees of the company say that Voters Outreach of America only wanted Republican registrations.

Two former workers say they personally witnessed company supervisors rip up and trash registration forms signed by Democrats.

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The company has been largely, if not entirely funded, by the Republican National Committee. Similar complaints have been received in Reno where the registrar has asked the FBI to investigate.

Email from a reader:

Have you heard about the HBO documentary Diary of a Political Tourist (Alexandra Pelosi)? I’ve watched it twice now, and I need to share something with you. In one scene, Pelosi asks NY Representative Peter King (Repub.) at a 2003 White House event whether he considers Bush a lock for re-election. His response:

“It’s all over but the counting, and we’ll take care of the counting”.

I feel close to 100% certain that was the quote, word for word, though I of course would love to have further verification. I’m still absolutely floored by this.

I haven’t seen the documentary yet. Can anyone else confirm this?