Knucklehead.

Not me, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., author of the Rolling Stone article I mentioned last week, detailing how the Ohio GOP stole the state for Bush in the last presidential election.

At the time I posted the link, I'd not actually caught the author's name (outrage can do that sometimes, and I'll be the first to admit I'm only super-human, not perfect), but when I saw that it was RFK Jr., I had to go back and mentally add the grain of salt. RFK Jr. is well known for 'quote-mining', significant misrepresentation of data, and skillfully pulling multiple citations that in fact stem from the same source. He did this last year with an incredibly stupid 'expose' about the link between MMR-vaccine and autism, and got fisked for it then. Looks like he's done the same again, at least according to a significant rebuttal on Salon.com.

I will still believe that chicanery of various sorts was going on in Ohio and in other states (and may very well be attempted again in Michigan, Illinois, and other finely-balanced states--I only have to look at Florida 2K to appreciate that), but certainly not to the extent that RFK Jr. makes out.

(First notice of the rebuttal from eac, since then it's cropping up everywhere. I'm seeing more dismay about RFK Jr.'s scaremongering than I did about the original article. That'll teach me to pay attention.)