Stories reported almost exclusively by the Blogosphere which are mostly ignored by the mainstream media have become such a recurring theme recently that it deserves to be filed under the category of "Blogosphere Roars, MSM Snores." And the latest entry in this category is the report from the Catalan Europa Press in Spain relayed via the Babalu Blog about an attempt by former Honduran president Manuel (Mel) Zelaya to fix the results of a planned referendum via programmed computers on the very day he was ousted. Here is the translation of the story which has yet to appear in the English language press here in North America:
Several computers containing the results of the referendum Zelaya wanted to conduct are seized at the Presidential Palace
Are you taking notes, ACORN? And now for the rest of the story:
The National Directors of Criminal Investigation seized various computers from the Presidential Palace that had recorded the supposed results of the referendum to reform the constitution that the deposed leader, Manuel Zelaya, was planning to conduct on June 28, the day he was removed from office.
Or, as the Babalu Blog put it, taking a page out of the Hugo Chavez playbook:
The official investigation now deals with the possible crime of fraud and falsification of documents due to the fact that some of the certified voting results had been filled with the personal information of individuals that supposedly participated in the failed referendum that did not take place because of the coup.
One of the district attorneys that participated in the operation that took place this Friday showed reporters an official voting result from the Technical Institute Luis Bogran, of Tegucigalpa, in which the specific number of people that participated in table 345, where there were 550 ballots, 450 of which were votes in favor of Zelaya's proposal and 30 were against, in addition to 20 blank ballots and 30 ballots, which were nullified.
And how many of those table 345 ballots were cast by dead Chicagoans? Sorry, I just couldn't resist:
The seizure took place on the third floor of the building attached to the Ministry of the Presidency that had been rented to the ex-minister of the Interior, Enrique Flores Lanza. The deputy district attorney, Roberto Ramirez, declared this area as a "crime scene" and, although he did not want to provide further details, said that further evidence had been found that could be categorized as crimes of fraud, embezzlement of funds, falsification of documents, and abuse of authority.
In addition to the Babalu Blog, this story was also reported by Fausta's Blog, Atlas Shrugs, and Capitol Hill Cubans among others. And has anybody yet heard a peep about this "inconvenient" story breaking through the wall of silence maintained by the MSM?
—P.J. Gladnick is a freelance writer and creator of the DUmmie FUnnies blog.



















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PJ... I haven't heard one
July 18, 2009 - 17:56 ET by bigtimerPJ...
I haven't heard one peep about this anywhere via television...thank you for this, or I may not have known until later myself.
Of course we all know why the msm isn't reporting anything on this...Obama of course.
ACORN are you listening indeed.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Gee I didn't even know
July 18, 2009 - 18:02 ET by kangarooGee I didn't even know about the protests here in this country against health care.
I am a betting person, I say odds on that it will be the same here, come next election.
I mean come on, remember last election.? Just remember what Glenn Beck said to the distressed Repub voters that called in. Just wear a Demoncrat T shirt and vote Repub and she'll be right mate.
The media in the US are pathetic
July 18, 2009 - 21:33 ET by kg"DumbAssity of Dope"
A quick contrast of reality on Honduraus
July 18, 2009 - 18:09 ET by Gary HallThere were two very contrasting pieces in the LA Times in recent days. The first here was an op-ed by Miguel A. Estrada, on July 10th.
The second one, an editorial from the LA Times editorial board, yesterday - July 14th, goes to show that they didn't read the op-ed, in their own paper, from the 10th.
And I apologize for lifting this paragraph from another source this week, without the proper credit. I added the final ...."bam."
(:~/ gary
Gary... ... the final bam
July 18, 2009 - 18:14 ET by bigtimerGary...
... the final bam you added needed adding.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
How can Zelaya be the
July 18, 2009 - 18:25 ET by motherbeltHow can Zelaya be the "legitimate" President when even standing for re-election is against the Constitution?
I guess no one at the LAT read Miguel Estrada's article before they printed it.
He says:
the Honduran Constitution may be amended in any way except three. No
amendment can ever change (1) the country's borders, (2) the rules that
limit a president to a single four-year term and (3) the requirement
that presidential administrations must "succeed one another" in a
"republican form of government."
In addition, Article 239 specifically states that any president who so much as proposes
the permissibility of reelection "shall cease forthwith" in his duties,
and Article 4 provides that any "infraction" of the succession rules
constitutes treason.
That means not only is Zelaya illegitimate, his so-called "referendum" is illegitimate, and he is guilty of treason.
I wonder which part of that the LAT editors don't get. Did they find their answer in a "penumbra" somewhere???
Zelaya is lucky he just got kicked out of the country. He probably could have been hanged.
Our President Supports Fascism
July 18, 2009 - 18:16 ET by slickwillie2001Our pusillanimous President's position on Zelaya is wrong and outrageous. I wish that the EU or Canada or Australia would come out publicly against Zelaya's illegal attempts to take over Honduras. From his bumbling foreign policy on Iran, Israel, and Honduras, it seems that whenever he has to make a decision, he throws in with the most radically leftist, anti-democratic and facsist leader available. Little wonder when you look at the wackballs in his czar department.
And where are Republicans on this? All the Republicans from the foreign relations committee or whatever it is called should be down there on a fact-finding mission, meeting with Micheletti and forcing Honduras into the news. They are as negligent as the Bamster is evil and incompetent.
LOL, Don't expect OZ to come
July 18, 2009 - 18:38 ET by kangarooLOL, Don't expect OZ to come to the rescue at the moment for Honduras, the nick name for our PM is commie rudd, or 747 rudd cause he has done more travellin than any PM so far, (sound familiar) seriously you can't make this stuff up
Are the Democrats taking notes?
July 18, 2009 - 18:26 ET by pbthinkerI'm sure the Democrats would love to implement this plan for 2010. Has anyone noticed that, if you have a police car on the way to a polling station, in Florida, it's voter intimidation. If you have Black Panthers outside a polling station threatening people, it gets shoved aside by Democrats. Ah, what a difference winning makes in the way you do investigations.
Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.
pb... I was and still am
July 18, 2009 - 18:35 ET by bigtimerpb...
I was and still am outraged with what the O-Team did via Holder regarding the Black Panthers...talk about infuriating.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
HMMMMMMMMMM
July 18, 2009 - 18:57 ET by rick007Pay back can come in 2010!!!!!!!!
One of the reasons this won't make the news
July 18, 2009 - 19:05 ET by FastEdis that the demolibs will want to try the same thing, very soon.
Look at the intimidation that is already going on by the WH and the other hanger-ons in the admin - people who read or can interpret the news know that this "healthcare" bill is just a power grab and a freedom killer. What I have the most problems with is trying to understand how the media is going to benefit from this bill and other like it? Can the "fix" be in? Have promises been made? What other answer can there be, other than the media is part of the power grab, I just don't know what exactly they will receive - free carbon credits and healthcare from admin, off the books docs, a 51st state only for bad reporters?
There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V
How much do you wanna bet
July 18, 2009 - 20:56 ET by ConservativeRexHow much do you wanna bet Barry Soetoro is taking notes. On second thought, he doesn't have to take notes, the SRM has all the crib notes he needs and if he doesn't, they'll be more than glad to fill in any gaps.
Prototype
July 18, 2009 - 22:30 ET by nadadhimmiMerely Obamas prototype for the fixed '12 election. Acorn can only cheat so much you know. The rest will have to be done by cyber means. Obama will never willingly cede power. He is a usurper that is destroying the Constitution with the assistance of fellow socialist travellers. Every single law and executive order he signs is illegal. WHERE'S THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?
P.J. - I did catch an interview where CNN's Rick Sanchez had as
July 19, 2009 - 00:09 ET by Rush Fanhis guest Otto Reich, former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. I'm no fan of CNN or Sanchez, but his interview with Ambassador Reich regarding Honduras appeared to be a very fair depiction of the facts. Here are some excerpts from the Transcript:
SANCHEZ:...Let me take you back to the late 1950s, Fidel Castro kicked out of Cuba, returns to Cuba. There he is. He lands in Santiago, begins a revolution against the government of Fulgencio Batista. He was barely even taken serious by the way when he was doing this by the United States or the rest of the world.
Well, guess what? They should have taken him serious, because the rest is history. Now, fast-forward 50 years, Castro still in power and another Latin America leftist leader may be trying to follow that Castro model. That guy in the big white hat, see him right there? That's Manuel Zelaya, technically still the president of Honduras. But he can't go back to his country. He might be arrested by the people who took over Honduras last month in a coup.
And now today a spokesperson for the ousted President Zelaya says he intends to return and set up an alternative government, much like Castro did on Granma, and fight the new leadership. Wow, that does sound familiar. It's our segment we call "Conexion."
Well, when I want to know about stuff like this, there is nobody else better to call on than the guy you are about to meet right here. He can better explain what is happening in Honduras than just about anybody else.
Otto Reich is who I'm talking about. You see him there sharing the screen with me. He is a former ambassador to Venezuela, former White House insider for Presidents Reagan and Bush I. This guy is the ultimate insider, because he has had a hand in U.S. policies for decades....
REICH: Well, Rick, first, Zelaya did become a populist president, but not a popular president, first of all. The public opinion polls clearly that it is the minority of Hondurans who support him.
But that's not the important point in the removal, his removal from power. Even if he had been terribly unpopular and had been removed illegally, that would still have been a coup. But no less an authority on Honduras than the archbishop of Honduras, Cardinal Rodriguez, said today that to call this a coup is absurd -- and I quote -- absurd. It was not a coup.
The Supreme Court of Honduras voted 15-0, unanimously, including people named by Zelaya's own party to declare Zelaya to have violated the constitution and to be no longer president of Honduras.
SANCHEZ: Why? Because this guy was trying to pull a fast one. I mean, he was trying to stay in office a la Chavez, wasn't he? And back to the issue of whether this was a coup or not. You make a good point. We at CNN have been arguing this amongst ourselves an awful lot. We are used to seeing a president removed through Congress or an impeachment or a process. Maybe that's the process they use down there. The Supreme Court says you are out, you are out, right?
REICH: Well, they don't have an impeachment process in their constitution. Instead, they have an article, Article 239, that says that, if a high official such as the president violates the constitution, he is automatically removed from office. He automatically removes himself from office.
It is self-activating, as a lawyer said at a hearing we had last week. I testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. And one of the members of Congress who is a lawyer said this is a self-activating clause of the Honduran constitution.
So, in effect, as the Honduran congress then ratified by a nearly unanimous vote the next day, including, by the way, almost all the members of Zelaya's own party, so that he was no longer the president.
SANCHEZ: Right. No, listen, you make a great point, and probably a point that needs to be made on network television and in the media in general, because it's a point that has obviously often been overlooked. And that's why we have you on the show.
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I never thought I would say this, but kudos to Rick Sanchez and Ambassador Reich for telling it like it is. Here is a
YouTube video of the interview.
The conclusion is obvious
July 19, 2009 - 09:11 ET by locomotivebreath1901The mostly liberal MSM doesn't like Brown people.
It's the only explaination.
http://www.locomotiv...
Where's the MSM outcry?
July 19, 2009 - 10:10 ET by CobraManWhere's the Liberal outcry about "diebold" computers "flipping" the recorded votes (US 2000 Presidential elections)? Where's the Liberal outcry about "rigged" elections (Ohio, 2004)? Where's the liberal outcry about cheating? Or do they cry out against Conservatives? (That's a rhetorical question, BTW)
Oh and I wonder what the results of the Exit Poll will be? You know that the cheater had an exit poll ready and waiting.
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