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Was it all just a dream?
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God bless you, Florida.
Thank you!
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Did the last four years not really happen?
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Look, there's Ben Affleck.
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He's often in my dreams.
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And the taxi driver guy.
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He was there too.
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And little Stevie Wonder,
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he seemed so happy,
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like a miracle had taken place.
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Was it a dream?
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Or was it real?
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It was election night 2000
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and everything seemed to be going as planned.
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In New York,
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Al Gore is our projected winner.
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The Garden State is green for Gore.
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We project that Mr. Gore
is the winner in Delaware.
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This state has voted with the winner in...
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Mike, you know I wouldn't do this
if it weren't big:
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Florida goes for Al Gore.
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CNN announces that we call Florida
in the Al Gore column.
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Then something called the Fox News Channel
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called the election in favor of the other guy.
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Sorry to interrupt you;
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Fox News now projects George W. Bush
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the winner in Florida
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and thus it appears
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the winner of the Presidency of the United States.
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All of a sudden the other networks said,
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"Hey, if Fox said it, it must be true.
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All of us networks made a mistake
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and projected Florida in the Al Gore column.
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It was our mistake.
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Now what most people don't know
:01:43
is that the man who was in charge
of the decision desk
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at Fox that night,
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the man who called it for Bush
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was none other than Bush's first cousin,
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John Ellis.
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How does someone like Bush
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get away with something like this?
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Well first,