• [O'Reilly Factor] Is Our Political System Rigged?

    From Ubiquitous@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 26 05:04:06 2016
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    "With two weeks left in perhaps the nastiest presidential race in
    history, many Americans just want the whole thing to end. But Donald
    Trump has raised the specter of a fixed election, he says the system is
    rigged. Bernie Sanders got hosed by his own party because many of the super-delegates were locked in for Hillary, so that primary system was
    rigged for sure. Trump sees it a bit differently, believing that the left-leaning media combined with suspect voting patterns is how the
    system is rigged. So let's look at the facts: With more than 100
    million Americans voting, it is virtually impossible for the actual
    vote tally to be rigged. But a Pew study says that there are serious
    problems involving voter registration. On the media front there is no
    question that Americans are not getting objective reporting because so
    many journalists are committed to the left. Also, there is growing
    evidence that our justice system has been compromised. Because Hillary
    Clinton is in the middle of that, a case can be made that the election
    had been rigged in her favor. The latest story involves the number two
    man in the FBI, Andrew McCabe. His wife, Dr. Jill McCabe, received
    close to $700,000 from a close friend of Hillary Clinton's, Virginia
    Governor Terry McAuliffe. Dr. McCabe was running for the state senate
    in Virginia and a McAuliffe-controlled PAC gave her the money. At the
    time Hillary Clinton was being investigated by the FBI and Andrew
    McCabe was involved in that investigation. So McCabe should have
    recused himself. Talking Points is not saying there is corruption, but
    the optics are awful and FBI Director James Comey had to know that. If
    you combine the McCabe stuff with Comey not calling for a grand jury
    and basically giving Secretary Clinton every benefit of the doubt, you
    have the appearance of impropriety. So it's no surprise that many
    Americans, including Trump, believe the system is rigged. Did I mention Attorney General Loretta Lynch meeting with Bill Clinton during the investigation? I mean, come on. Again, the vote cannot possibly be
    rigged, and Mr. Trump should accept whatever happens unless there is
    compelling evidence of corruption. But overall, if you don't think the
    federal political and justice system has severe problems, you're living
    in the Land of Oz.

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