MSM fails to report voting irregularities in Palestine

Captain Ed reports on the amazing lack of media coverage on the suspicious activities during the Palestinian election. He writes:

Now that sounds pretty suspicious to me. They only got one-third of eligible voters to the polls during the entire legal time that they were open -- but managed to find almost the same amount to vote in the next two hours? Had this happened in Iraq, the American press would be screaming "FRAUD" in 32-point headlines, and everyone knows it.

A bit hyperbolish, I think, but essentially correct. The MSM has a soft spot in their brains for Arafat's selected - not elected - successor and they would never sully his "good" name.

Captain Ed ends with the following:

All in all, the response of the Western media comes to nothing short of a whitewash. The mid-stream rule changes and the subsequent voting pattern gives a pretty good indication of rampant fraud. The American media climbs all over Ohio for a few long lines at polling stations but misses this altogether. It's a shameful performance by the mainstream media.

Shameful, yes. Surprising, no.