FLASHBACK: The Media's Nasty Attacks on Florida's Katherine Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : "She's been following the law very carefully and scrupulously," he announced on the McLaughlin Group.
54% : The believed certification -- as the Republican Secretary of State sees it -- is coming just hours after a court-ordered deadline for counties to submit their hand count and recount totals.
51% : In a CBS News Special Report that night, anchor Dan Rather went to preposterous lengths to insist the certification was only as Harris "sees it" and "decrees it:""Nineteen days after the presidential election, Florida's Republican Secretary of State is about to announce the winner -- as she sees it and she decrees it -- of the state's potentially decisive 25 electoral votes.
49% : "One of the key questions this morning, is the Florida Secretary of State absolutely wedded to that deadline of 5pm tomorrow?"
49% : So Harris was reading the law exactly right.
46% : Twenty-three years ago, November 2000, the liberal media unleashed their full fury on Florida's Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, for following the election laws of her state as well as various court rulings to certify George W. Bush as the winner of her state's electoral votes in the disputed 2000 presidential election.
40% : "Some of you may know me only as Cruella de Vil," Harris told hundreds of MRC supporters on January 17, 2002, "or the partisan hack, or perhaps even the lackey of the Bush brothers who single-handedly 'stole' the election by taking the inflexible, unfair, outrageous position that the rule of law actually mattered: that the law said what it said, and not what Dan Rather deemed it, or wished it to say.
38% : In the November 18 Washington Post, "Style" columnist Robin Givhan launched an ad hominem attack at Harris's make-up: "At this moment that so desperately needs diplomacy, understatement and calm, one wonders how this Republican woman, who can't even use restraint when shes wielding a mascara wand, will manage to use it and make sound decisions in this game of partisan one-upmanship."Writing in Time magazine (November 27 cover date), Margaret Carlson slashed: "The only person who looks like a character from one of the more usual cable dramas is Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Bush campaign co-chairwoman who mixed the pious certitude of Linda Tripp with the hauteur of a Dynasty protagonist....

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