Thread by @Cajsa

Here's an example of that famous unity
From Nov. 2001
economist.com/taxonomy/term/…

Another from October 2001
washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

I cannot find the NYTimes piece. One of their folks interviewed a bunch of people, including Democrats, all expressing relief that Bush was president - because the GOP would not unite with Gore the way Dems did with Bush. Gore gave a speech saying Bush was his president..

It was also when the final recount was supposed to come out from the newspaper consortium and to reveal the truth, the that Supreme Court stopped the count that would have made Gore prez was considered too much post 9/11 so the media outright lied.

Here it is, they focus on the result of a recount of just four counties or a limited recount. But if there were a recount of the whole state, Gore would have won.

IF you read to the end, you learn that under almost every vote count scenario, Gore would have won, but if they limit it to just two, then Bush would have won a recount. So they run with that.
washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…

But who reads to the end. Most read just the headline, maybe the first paragraph. So they knew they were putting out a lie with how they presented the facts.