I love this guy: can anyone, particularly from the Chicago area, confirm or refute Palast's claims around the voting machine issues, as well as the lack of coverage of it? GNN: What’s new in this edition of your book? Palast: Well, there’s nothing new in the sense that it’s the same old thieving ********s that have been walking away with everything in our nation that isn’t bolted down, plus hunks of Mesopotamia. That ain’t new. What’s new is the information that I have on exactly how they do it. What’s new on the election story? It’s grim. Our president has signed the Help America Vote Act. When George W. Bush is going to help me vote, I’m concerned. They’re pushing it to go digital, and I think a lot of people are getting distracted worrying about the hacking. The real game is what the Civil Rights Commission calls the “no count,” which is machines that don’t work, power failures, machines that lock up. Hey, you have a laptop, right? Your presidency is hanging on it. This isn’t about whether the machines work or not—they work perfectly. That’s where I investigated. I went into Broward County’s white precinct where touch screen voting works just wonderful, like a coconut oil massage. Real smooth. And you go into the black precincts and it’s like plantation whips brought out in digital form. Precincts were shut down for hours while they told people, come back tomorrow. Power failures. You name it. In the black community, thousands of votes were lost in Broward County with the touch screen vote. In the new edition of the book, I am revealing something that was discovered by the Civil Rights Commission in their raw data. 1.9 million votes were cast and never counted in the last election. Thrown in the friggin’ garbage cans. Half of those were cast by African-Americans. And it’s state after state after state, with all kinds of different machines. The biggest game they play is saying “blacks don’t have education, they can’t figure out the ballot.” That’s a wonderful little racist out. If you give black people the same machines, they have the same vote count as white people. Election supervisors told me they told the Jebster about it beforehand. You can’t find this stuff in mainstream newspapers. Ted Koppel runs this story and it’s, “blacks is too dumb to figure out how to vote.” Dig: You’re one thousand times more likely to lose your vote if you’re black than if you’re white. GNN: Have you seen concrete evidence of this happening in other black counties in the country? Sure. Chicago, Illinois is the worst place in the country. I watched as the machine totals on the back of the lever machines were simply read off differently in the black precincts. Chicago has the worst spoilage rate—that’s what they call it, the “spoilage rate.” That’s because the Daly machine can’t allow a black majority of the Democratic Party to take back their party from the white folks who maintain the political plantation in Chicago. Basically it’s like political cotton pickin’ out there. That’s an old one. GNN: So what’s the solution? Palast: Kill the white people, we know that. But since that’s not going to happen, we have to say that we know. And we have to say we’re not buying this jive ass **************** they’re doing with the Help America Vote Act. GNN: Has their been any mainstream coverage of this story? Palast: Absolutely none. The L.A. Times ran this big story about Greg Palast, one of the world’s greatest investigative reporters. Big story. Whoa, I can send that to my mom! But then I go to the editor and say, if I’m such a great investigative reporter, why don’t you run my story? “Well, what story?” A million black votes missing. “Oh, we’ve run that story.” You’ve run that story? What, in the invisible ink edition? See, when you defend black people, you suddenly became an invisible man, like black people are. You’re invisible. You’re behind the glass. That’s not unrelated to what I found on Iraq. What I found on Iraq was a document that’s the Iraq strategy, post-conflict plan for the economy. These little weasels had been working on it, as far as I can tell, since before they returned the rented tuxes from the inaugural. This is why we’re there. Why are kids there getting their asses shot off? Saddam’s gone. What the ******** are we still doing there? That’s a simple question and nobody’s answering it. The Left is still arguing about whether we should have gone in. Forget all that ****************. The reason we’re still there is to “sell off all the state assets, especially in the oil industry”— that’s a quote. They don’t want you to know that when your kid comes home in a box, it’s because of Appendix B, which says we need 360 days to grab their oil. Big problem. In those 360 days, there’s a lot of angry Iraqis. We can call them old Baathists. We can call them Al Qaeda agents. But I’d call them Vietnamese. It’s coming...