No, the Pennsylvania recount effort isn’t “over.” Yes, the mainstream media is lying to you.
Since the recount effort in three states got underway last week, the major media have afforded it virtually no coverage. Even as the Wisconsin recount enters its third day and numerous inconsistencies are being documented, the mainstream media has remained silent. After the Michigan elections board approved the recount go-ahead, nary a peep. Now the major media outlets are finally talking about the Pennsylvania recount effort, but only to report that it’s now “over” – which is not the case.
What actually happened today is that in a desperate last ditch attempt at preventing the recount, the State of Pennsylvania suddenly invented a million dollar bond that third party candidate Jill Stein would have needed to immediately pay for. This came after the state of Wisconsin had surreptitiously increased its own recount price tag from $1.1 million to $3.8 million, for the rather transparent purpose of trying to bankrupt Stein’s recount effort.
Stein had raised millions of dollars, but with so much of that having been eaten up already by Wisconsin’s sudden price hike and the attorney fees required to fight fierce court battles against all three non-cooperating states, it turns out she didn’t have the $1 million cash on hand today to cover Pennsylvania’s sudden ransom demand. Thus she was forced to withdraw her court petition for a Pennsylvania recount. That doesn’t mean it’s over, of course, only that there is now another legal hurdle to fight. Two of them, in fact.
In fact her next step is to fight for precinct by precinct recounts in Pennsylvania until the vote totals have been sufficiently corrected and revised to drop Donald Trump’s lead in the state from the current 0.8% mark to the 0.5% mark, which in turn would trigger an automatic statewide recount under Pennsylvania state law. Stein is also now suing Pennsylvania in federal court. So how many mainstream major media outlets are correctly reporting that the PA recount effort is now continuing with a new strategy? There don’t appear to be any.
If you look at the headlines coming from the major media outlets this evening, they’re uniformly misleading in that they’re attempting to create the appearance that Stein’s recount effort is finished. “Green Party drops court case seeking statewide recount of Pennsylvania’s Nov. 8 presidential election,” states the Associated Press in a tweet which paint the phony picture that there are no next steps. BuzzFeed News falsely claims that Stein put in a “request to discontinue the recount request,” misleadingly suggesting that she pulled the plug on her own effort. And this ABC News affiliate flatly insisted in its original headline that the challenge to the recount is “over” before ultimately changing the headline entirely to focus on Stein’s next move.
It would be one thing for the major media outlets to ignore the recount effort because they simply decided it wasn’t newsworthy. But after spending the past week largely pretending the recount effort wasn’t happening, these same major media outlets are now racing to report headlines which falsely claim the Pennsylvania recount effort is over. In other words, they didn’t want the public to know about that the recounts were even happening, but now they suddenly want to make the public believe that the recounts are “over.” The mainstream media agenda here isn’t entirely decipherable, but it is entirely unacceptable. If you enjoy Palmer Report, consider making a contribution:
I thank all who are trying to at least bring assurances to those of us who since Gore, have felt, whats wrong with a recount. I personally wont forget rither of you. Thank yoi
PLEASE continue recounts!!!
Thanks for the clarification Bill. Even HuffPo is reporting that Jill has withdrawn her request for the PA recount; that it is “dead.”
I’m sick to death of Republican interference and anti-democracy actions.
Go Away GOP
Thanks for the update and the explanation. I would like to know what the likelihood or possibility of getting to the 0.5% threshold, and if it is possible — when that could happen. It seems to me that the opposition is throwing everything they can at the recount effort to run out the clock.
Why is the media not reporting the recounts? And why are they now giving false reports?
Let’s hope we give a better Christmas for America And to Hillary Clinton
Thanks for the Update. I am so glad to know what is REALLY happening and that you are keeping the faith and forging ahead. I am heartened by your strength, courage and perseverance. I am disheartened by the silence of the media. Be blessed.
Sounds like Price Gouging to me!
It is self evident from the padding and cheating already uncovered that the Recount effort is very much needed and is likely to result in evidence that Hillary did , in fact , win in each of the 3 States in question and most likely even in Florida and North Carolina. It is upsetting to Hillary supporters funding this effort to date that she is refusing to get off her High Horse and help in this vital effort. Trump has no problems pelting Stones at it and otherwise denigrating the effort !