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CBS News affiliate calls 2012 presidential race for Barack Obama weeks ahead of election
The 2012 presidential election is still more than two weeks away, but on Friday a CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the race for President Barack Obama.
For 17 seconds, Phoenix, Arizona CBS News affiliate KPHO ran a lower third graphic that showed that Obama had won the Nov. 6 election over Gov. Mitt Romney with 99% of the precincts reporting. The lower third graphic appeared around 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19, during an episode
of “The People’s Court.”
scribble
October 22nd, 2012
Oops! Somebody accidentally hit those preloaded election result chyrons a little early.
scribble
October 22nd, 2012
Must have been an SEIU employee loading those chyrons.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 22nd, 2012
Don’t forget that the United Nations is sending in vote monitors for this election. Maybe CBS was just showing the UN folks what they expect the outcome to be.
Unruly Refugee
October 22nd, 2012
Maybe they have a traitor among them who wants the world to know the truth about Soros-funded propaganda media, and the whistle blower managed to hold them off for 17 seconds before they could get the cat back in the bag.
Mr. Happy
October 22nd, 2012
So all the people I called nut job conspiracy theorists yesterday are actually ‘tuned into reality’?
Dang, I really hate to hear that!
spymyeyes
October 22nd, 2012
nice going guys.
either way it PROVES that someone has the story ready to unfold “unexpectedly” 3 weeks before the election is even held.
It speaks volumes about where we are as a nation today and it is a pity that more good people are too busy keeping their heads just above the water to do anything about it except vote for the same guy with the same policies in a 2 party system that will keep you exactly where you are right now….. on the way down!
DesertViking
October 22nd, 2012
This is the same station that back in the late 90′s did an Emergency Alert stating that Elvis had been seen driving down highway 93 north of Kingman, AZ. Apparently he was on his way back to Vegas.
RosalindJ
October 22nd, 2012
I’ve been thinking about this. I offer that the reason Obama did so poorly in the first debate is the believed (and probably still does) that he didn’t have to try – the election is a done deal. The judicial decisions regarding voter ID, in PA for example, that will be enforced after the election..stories from True the Vote..a story out of NC has an that has an amazing 758 votes cast by people who are 112 years old in early voting records. ‘Either we’ve uncovered the Fountain of Youth or voter fraud.’..Obama’s choice to have his election night venue held at McCormick place. I’ve been there. It’s a much more easily controlled and safe environment than a standard outdoor one.
KPHO isn’t the only station doing this: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/breaking-cincinnati-ohio-tv-station-wcpo-shows-election-night-results-with-obama-win-on-its-website/
Call me a conspiracy nut. I don’t care. I will not rest easy until 7 November, or until the lawsuits are over.
RosalindJ
October 22nd, 2012
While I’m at it, what authority does the UN have in ‘monitoring’ our election? None? Alrighty then.
Toaster
October 22nd, 2012
Along with all of the other obvious media bias, this does not paint a good picture.
At least CBS seems to have one reporter that’s not completely in the bag for 0bama. Sharyl Atkisson reported that there were reconnaissance assets over the Benghazi embassy as the attack was going on, and the 0bama “leadership” just watched as our ambassador and other embassy staff were murdered.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-33816_162-57536611/could-u.s-military-have-helped-during-libya-attack/
The article quotes a retired CIA officer Gary Berntsen who believes that help could have been provided earlier if the people in charge hadn’t just sat there and done nothing.
They didn’t even attempt to send help.
This seems to reinforce the planned kidnap theory. But what’s a few more dead bodies to dEar Leader?
Death_By_Farts
October 22nd, 2012
EPIC FAIL.
Looking forward to CBS’s comments after Obama loses by a painful landslide.
dba_vagabond_trader
October 22nd, 2012
lmao. Welfare offices in AZ immediately flooded with gimmee gimmees looking for Ubama-stash.
Brooke
October 22nd, 2012
I can’t wait until Romney has this moment:
http://emergingcritic.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/34569547.jpg
Edith McCrotch
October 22nd, 2012
These are said to be “test screens” for the upcoming elections by some commenters on that linked page.
Why then make it so Obama wins?
This was a preemptive strike to rattle some of the extremely paranoid into some kind of “action” and to shake the conservative’s resolve in my opinion.
Look for more “oddities” reported as the election gets closer….”armories locked out”,”military convoys”,”ham radio signals blocked”??
Whichever the outcome of the election, I fear there will be a call for martial law. If that happens, the true Americans will be the ones who will record history.
WiscoDave
October 22nd, 2012
Edith, you are a beautiful and intelligent woman.
I, too, fear that things will be “interesting” after the election.
3 percent anyone?
Edith McCrotch
October 22nd, 2012
Thanks Dave..
My wife, The Lady McCrotch, thinks that of me also at times…at least that’s what I hear from her mouth when she calls me a fag when I cry while watching “It’s A Wonderful Life” or “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King” when Aragorn says the hobbits…”My friends. You bow to no one.”
dba_vagabond_trader
October 22nd, 2012
@RosalindJ:
They are trying to demoralize R voters, FAIL! We shall vote come he11 or high water. If anything it’ll be lazy unmotivated Ds who figure, oh we won, no need to vote. lol, if they even saw these “oopsies.”
Bob M.
October 22nd, 2012
Sounds like 99% of the UN-dead vote in Philthy & Chicago, anyways…
66chevelle
October 22nd, 2012
Obviously some whacked out Ronulan at the station, fantasizing about a 17% write-in vote for their idol, with a touch of “Suck it, Repubs, we made your guy lose!” thrown in for good measure…because Dems and Repubs are really just the same, y’know?
Necrophidius
October 22nd, 2012
I think it was supposed to distract from the bailiff. Looks like he’s unzipping for the judge.
Jerry Manderin
October 22nd, 2012
“DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN” in the digital age.
AbigailAdams
October 22nd, 2012
Contact Info for CBS 5, KPHO – Arizona
General Manager – cbs5gm@cbs5az.com
Contact telephone – 602.264.1000
You can also send them a copy of the screenshot above to their crack investigative news team:
See their website:
“5 INVESTIGATES
For your concerns of criminal or unregulated activities and investigative tips”
You know what to do. And while you’re at it, call you local CBS affiliate and ask them what’s up with their sister station in AZ. Detail the KPHO incident so that you’re on the record as having questioned it. And if you have the time, call CBS NY. This is something that should not go unchallenged particularly given CBS’s proclivity for Leftist bias.
Ohio Dan
October 22nd, 2012
RosalindJ posted this upthread. Open the link. I posted it a week ago at AoS. It is a serious WTF.
http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2012/10/21/breaking-cincinnati-ohio-tv-station-wcpo-shows-election-night-results-with-obama-win-on-its-website/
AbigailAdams
October 22nd, 2012
@Ohio Dan — I read your link at AoS. This isn’t right and we should all look into it. I saw WCPO’s web page this morning and they say it was “just a test” but you better believe they knew exactly what they were doing.
RosalindJ
October 22nd, 2012
Good catch, Ohio Dan. I think I caught it @ the gateway pundit..
Just get it out there. If there were a ‘test’ showing Romney or Johnson as the winner, I wouldn’t be so unsettled by the media dry-runs.
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
October 22nd, 2012
Just getting the computers in sync is such a challenge. The script has already been written. No matter what the real tally, the ending is ready to roll. How did America get so corrupt?
Death_By_Farts
October 22nd, 2012
It isn’t going to matter. Especially if this landslide is a repeat of 1972, or 1980. Romney will be so far ahead with electoral votes all of this won’t matter.
The only thing we should be on the lookout is mass voter fraud.
I say every single bus that pulls up to a voting center needs to be WATCHED, THEN FOLLOWED to see if it goes somewhere else with the same voters and try to vote more than once. Then move in and arrest every single one of their asses on the spot.
Mountain Dog
October 22nd, 2012
Maybe these are subliminal messages, like using the power of suggestion, to sway voters subconsciously.
But it makes me wonder if all the liberal media stations were not given the same script in advance because 0bama already knows he will have to steal the election by fraud in order to win.