Suck it up and move on

To support their views, they cite academic-sounding treatises claiming the GOP tinkered with the results. Bloggers fan the flames. E-mail spreads the accusations. And even though newspapers have knocked down the conspiracy theories of widespread voter fraud, the paranoia won't subside. Reporters are going about it the wrong way, the conspiracists contend, trying to prove why the exit polls were wrong.

They so distrust the mainstream media that they consider them to be participants in a cover-up orchestrated by Karl Rove. To them, the Internet constitutes a parallel world that dares to tell the truth. In the media, only brash Keith Olbermann, a former sports reporter hosting an MSNBC program, has had the courage to speak the truth, they say. Urgent e-mails claim he's been fired for speaking up. The truth is, he was just on vacation.
Liberals, the election is over, live with it