Wrong Again, Maddow - Ohio Law Doesn't 'Kill' Early Voting
Those working at MSNBC probably believe they are providing a valuable public service. The network might actually have a chance of doing that if its executives hired an ombudsdman.
Should this unlikely scenario ever occur, the person hired for the job would inevitably focus on Rachel Maddow. (audio clip after page break)
For example, any ombudsman acting in good faith would take Maddow to task for a deceitful claim she made repeatedly on her show Friday.
Here's what Maddow said about legislation enacted earlier this year to change Ohio's early voting law (audio) --
Gov. (John) Kasich and the Republicans did have a plan for that too (Ohio as key battleground in 2012). They passed a law earlier this year to severely curtail early voting in Ohio, to make it harder and less convenient to vote in the state of Ohio. And that, of course, political common wisdom says, hurts Democrats and helps Republicans.
Having claimed the new Ohio will "severely curtail" early voting, Maddow then said this --
Well now Ohio voters have done it again, they are going after Kasich's kill early voting law as well, Ohio's secretary of state confirming today that the more than 300,000 valid signatures submitted to recall John Kasich's Republican kill early voting law in Ohio are sufficient to put that issue on the ballot for recall in November. That means the law is on hold until it can be voted on, which means early voting is saved in Ohio for the presidential election next year. And it means that Ohioans will be voting on whether they want to repeal John Kasich's kill early voting law on the same day they will be voting for president.
Well, which is it -- curtails or kills? Can't be both, even at MSNBC on those infrequent days when they play it straight.
According to the Associated Press, the law shortens early voting in person from 35 to 17 days -- five weeks to two and a half -- and absentee voting from 35 days to 21 -- five weeks to three. The law also eliminates a five-day waiting period "during which new voters could both register and cast a ballot on the same day," the AP reports. "People would be allowed to vote in person on Saturday until noon, and not on Sundays or the three days before Election Day."
Whether the law "severely curtails" early voting is arguable. Those given to hyperbole would undoubtedly agree. But what it doesn't do is "kill" it, no matter how many times Maddow repeats the claim while wishing upon a star.
This from an MSNBC host with the laughable gall to trumpet her alleged "devotion to facts that borders on obsessive." More accurately, Maddow obsesses on appearing obsessed with facts while casually tossing them aside when ideology beckons.
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Join Occupy MSNBC
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:09pm.
I'd be happy if MSNBC's 1%er hosts paid their taxes.
The NY Post reports that Sharpton owes the US $2.6 million in back income taxes.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rev_al_deep_in_the_red_FFFX...
The Liberal Looney Tunes out in full force
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 11:01pm.
Since they HAVE NOT, CANNOT OR WILL NOT defend President Drone Occupier's actual record of what he has done, they are trying to claim VOTER FRAUD! Ed "Wrong Way" Schultz-head is leading the way on this rediculous issue. .......and speaking of which, didn't he say that he would committ voter fraud to make sure Scott Brown didn't win that special election against Martha Coakley? Again, Schultz-head and Madcow get it wrong. I am still waiting for the ACME anvil to fall on these 2 bozos.
Jack, you got a tough job.
Submitted by ant on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:35am.
Is it wrong that I hate everything about her? Her voice, her inflection, her gestures and body language, her smirk,... just everything. Like nails on a chalkboard... I just had to tell somebody.
BTW, maybe this annoying, lying little....ugh.....should save that 'down the rabbit hole' screen graphic for some time when she gets around explaining to her 3 viewers what Obama did with our money.
Maddow went to the Goebbels school of lies and disinformation.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 1:34am.
Repeat the lie until people believe it is practically her mantra. She did the same thing with Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, calling it the 'kill Medicare plan" numerous times.
Rachel Maddow is a consummate liar.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Rachel, Rachel, Rachel
Submitted by NotFondOfLibs on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 1:35am.
Rachel Maddow has never let the facts get in the way of her objective to show another wheel barrow of B.S. on the American public. She is lucky she works for an outfit that has no standards for performance, only the ability to mis direct people in her pursuit of progressive goals.
Hideous
Submitted by Kleenex on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 5:34am.
If they ever need someone to play Tony Danza in a movie she's the man.
harder and less convenient to vote
Submitted by Injest on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 6:53am.
They passed a law earlier this year to severely curtail early voting in Ohio, to
Why does early voting exist? Who are these people who have to vote early?
"to make it harder and less convenient to vote in the state of Ohio."
Oh please millions of American's vote on Tuesday November with no problem,
why can't these early voters vote when everyone else votes?
"And that, of course, political common wisdom says, hurts Democrats and helps Republicans".
How does this hurt Democrat and helps Republicans?
Because political common
Submitted by ant on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 11:44am.
Because political common wisdom says so...whatever the heck that means. I guess being a Rhodes scholar grants you the ability to invent new terms.
mental illness.
Submitted by USA4freedom on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 7:52am.
I am really (seriously) starting to believe that liberalism is a MENTAL ILLNESS.
It’s the politics of emotion.. non-stop emotion..
They bounce from talking point to talking point.. no logic.. They say thing like: the corporations want to kill everyone.. (I respond with: whom will they sell their products to Zombies?) // Rep. hate the middle class// they want everyone to drink dirty water// Conservatives want to force their religion on you..// Rep. want poor people to die..// They want everyone to breath dirty air.// they want to feed your Grandmother dog food.// Rep. want wars//
It’s just nuts.. (And they believe it..)
I’m not sure we can beat these people, they are truly brain dead, I don’t know if it’s the education or what but their seems to be no reaching them. Then when all fails they go straight to calling names.. (or something new.. I’m paid by the Koch Bros for posting)..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, the Republican party.
Curtails, kills.....same
Submitted by motherbelt on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 7:59am.
Curtails, kills.....same difference.
Just like requiring ID to vote "prevents" people from voting, not allowing people to vote whenever they want, wherever they want, "kills" early voting.
Why use the boring truth when a ridiculous exaggeration is available?
I never
Submitted by BBallleaper on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 8:01am.
watch him. He's way too androgenous!!!!!!!!!!!
Never
Submitted by John21 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 8:35am.
Never expect truth or facts from "Madcow" you will be disappointed every time. She is a far left propagandist and her reports are always based on that premise if the facts don't fit, she makes up her own.
Liberals are like Christmas lights, half of them don't work and the others aren't very bright
Early voting should be banned
Submitted by ohio granny on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 10:42am.
You can vote absentee if you cannot make it to the polls on election day. Democrats and cheaters (oh, wait the same thing) like early voting because it makes it easier for dead people to vote and for unions and democrat cronies to vote more than once. That is also why they hate picture id's before you can vote.
Only democrats want dead people, felons and illegal immigrants to vote. They cannot win elections honestly, they have to try to steal them.
shemale
Submitted by tomolson3 on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 12:04pm.
what kind of parents would name there son "Rachel" ?