Fahrenheit 9\11
Was it all just a dream?
God bless you, Florida.
Thank you!
Did the last four years not really happen?
Look, there's Ben Affleck.
He's often in my dreams.
And the taxi driver guy.
He was there too.
he seemed so happy,
like a miracle had taken place.
Was it a dream?
Or was it real?
and everything seemed to be going as planned.
In New York,
Al Gore is our projected winner.
The Garden State is green for Gore.
We project that Mr. Gore
is the winner in Delaware.
This state has voted with the winner in...
Mike, you know I wouldn't do this
if it weren't big:
Florida goes for Al Gore.
CNN announces that we call Florida
in the Al Gore column.
Then something called the Fox News Channel
called the election in favor of the other guy.
Sorry to interrupt you;
Fox News now projects George W. Bush
the winner in Florida
and thus it appears
the winner of the Presidency of the United States.
All of a sudden the other networks said,
"Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.
All of us networks made a mistake
and projected Florida in the Al Gore column.
It was our mistake.
Now what most people don't know
is that the man who was in charge
of the decision desk
at Fox that night,
the man who called it for Bush
was none other than Bush's first cousin,
John Ellis.
How does someone like Bush
get away with something like this?
Well first,
it helps if your brother
is the Governor of the state in question.
You know something,
we are gonna win Florida,
mark my words.
You can write it down.
Second,
make sure the chairman of your campaign
is also the vote count woman.
And that her state has hired a company
that's gonna knock voters off the roles
who aren't likely to vote for you.
You can usually tell 'em
Then make sure your side fights
like it's life or death.
I think all of this talk about
legitimacy is way overblown.
And hope that the other side
will just sit by and wait for the phone to ring.
And even if numerous independent investigations
prove that Gore got the most votes...
If there was a statewide recount,
under every scenario,
Gore won the election.
It won't matter,
just so long as all of your daddy's friends
on the Sue-preme Court vote the right way.
While I strongly disagree
with the Court's decision,
I accept it.
What we need now is acceptance.
We have a new President-elect.
Heh.
It turns out none of this was a dream.
It's what really happened.
On the day the joint-session
of both the House
of Representatives and the Senate
was to certify the election results,
Al Gore, in his dual role
as outgoing Vice President
and President of the Senate,
presided over the event that would
officially annoint
George W. Bush as the new President.
If any Congressman wanted to raise
an objection,
the rules insisted that he or she
had to have the signed support
of just one Senator.
Mr. President,
and I take great pride in calling you that,
um, I must object because
of the overwhelming evidence
of official misconduct, deliberate..
The chairman must remind members
Title 3 of the United States Code,
no debate is allowed in the joint-session.
Thank you Mr. President,
to answer your question, Mr. President,
the objection is in writing,
signed by a number of members of the Houseof
Representatives,but not by a member of the Senate.
Uh, Mr. President it is in writing
and signed by several House colleagues on behalf
and myself of the twenty-seven thousand voters
of Duval County in which sixteen thousand of them
were African-Americans
that was disenfranchised in this last election.
Is the objection signed
by a member of the Senate?
Not signed by a member of the Senate;
the Senate is missin'.
Mr. President,
it is in writing and signed by myself
on behalf of many of the diverse constituents
in our country,
especially those of the 9th congressional district
and all American voters who recognize
that the Supreme Court,
not the people of the United States,
decided this election.
Is the objection signed by a Senator?
Unfortunately, Mr. President,
it is not signed by one single senator.
Unfortunately,
I have no authority
and no Senator has signed.
Mr. President,
it is in writing and signed by myself
and several of my constituents from Florida.
A Senator is needed, but missing.
Is the objection,
uh, in writing and signed
by a member of the House and a senator?
The objection is in writing,
and I don't care that it is not,
it is not signed by a Member of the Senate.
The Chair will advise that the rules do care,
uh, and...
Not a single senator came to the aid
of the African-Americans in Congress.
One after another they were told
to sit down and shut up.
It's a sad day in America,
Mr. President,
when we can't find a Senator
to sign these objections...
Gentleman will suspend,
the gentleman will suspend.
Inauguration coverage 2001 on a nasty
but it could be worse kind of day in Washington.
On the day George W. Bush was inaugurated,
tens of thousands of Americans
poured into the streets of DC
in one last attempt to claim
what had been taken from them.
They pelted Bush's limo with eggs
and brought the inauguration parade to a halt.
The plan to have Bush get out of the limo
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