This is the Tom Hartman program.

Ideally rant that I wrote a yesterday afternoon in this morning and posted over at HartmanReport.com.

The headline is the hidden secret behind the Arizona ballot counting.

The subhead is Republicans are channeling Joseph Stalin who wants suggested it doesn't

matter who votes, what matters is who counts the votes and of course what I'm talking

about is what's going on in Arizona right now and apparently it's going to be happening

soon in other states as well where this private company is run by some conspiracy nuts

who have never ordered an election before are being brought in by hardcore right wing

Republicans and given the ballots and asked to look them over and figure out if there

was any fraud and in Arizona according to the only news network that is allowed inside

the building is one American news one of these far right you can't even call it a news

network it's a propaganda operation you know on behalf of the billionaire class and they're

saying well we're looking at some preliminary evidence or words the effect of looking

at preliminary evidence of some hanky-panky here there's something that's easy some fraud

you know there's some history here and you could say oh yeah the Republicans they're just

trying to establish that you know the Democrats are up to no good you know the simple fact

the matter is if you just grab some random Republican on the street and say quick tell

me how did Jack Kennedy win the 1960 election eight out of ten of them four out of five

of them will say to you Mayor Daley stole the election for him right I mean this is like

revealed truth to Republicans they all you know right across the board and I you know

I've been hearing this my whole entire life from Republicans Jack Kennedy stole the Mayor

Daley stole the election for JFK in 1980 in Chicago well turned out that JFK beat Richard

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