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New IWTnews
interview with Pamela de Maigret
A Lifelong Republican Speaks Out
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to see and hear the interview
Posted by IWTnews
Staff on Oct 5, 12:06pm.
Pamela de Maigret is a filmmaker,
producer and journalist. Previously a foreign correspondent and
US Congress liaison, she is currently writing a book about the
disenfranchisement of the moderate center in American politics,
drawing on her experience as a life-long Republican activist.
Length:
15:57
Format:
400x300 Quicktime
Excerpts: Journalist, film-maker and life-long Republican
activist Pamela de Maigret: "I think you have to ask the
question, do we have free elections in this country? I don’t
think we do. And the media is not covering this. This is one
more of those stories that Independent World Television needs
to stick with." Watch the video interview now.
Some additional selected quotes from the interview transcript:
Pamela de Maigret:
"There used to be this firewall up between the news department
and the entertainment part of television. Of course, this has
come down and now news has to pay for itself, and unfortunately
you don’t get news when news has to pay for itself."
"I can tell you from my own experience that fraud took
place in Florida, that I saw it with my own eyes, that I was
threatened with arrest by the police, that the polls were manipulated,
that the voting machines would stick or they would skitter. They
weren’t taken offline when they didn’t work. I can
go on with this long litany about what was wrong with the election."
"It was very hard for me not to come back from Florida
absolutely paranoid. I mean, everything that I was seeing was,
at best, the worst kind of mix up and confusion. And that would
be at best. And at worst it was straight fraud. I can’t
believe that the machines that are made by the same companies
that make our ATM machines cannot get it right. I just don’t
believe it, it’s not possible."
"I was a loyal Republican, I grew up with a loyalty to
the Republican Party, and now I’m extremely critical of
these people in Washington who call themselves Republicans and
they aren’t. They’re radicals, they’re not Republicans."
"I don’t think that anybody from the White House
is calling up someone at CBS and saying, 'Look, you gotta kill
this story.' That’s not what’s happening. There is
a pervasive sense that journalists get about what their editors
want, what will help their careers, what will get on television,
and what won’t get on television. It’s more an attitude
that’s fostered."
"I think we need Independent World Television because
it’s a place that people like me can rally around. As you
know I’m a life-long Republican and I think it’s extremely
important that we not be disenfranchised. There’s a whole
mass of people out here who don’t have anything to do with
these radicals in Washington. They’re not Republicans, they
have nothing to do with the Republican Party, they have nothing
to do with the traditional Republican."
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