MSNBC Continues to Portray Voter ID Laws As Racist 'Voter Suppression'
Acting again as a video press release service for the Democratic National Committee (DNC), MSNBC today has repeatedly highlighted the DNC's complaints about new voter ID laws on several programs today.
In the 10 a.m. hour, Jansing & Co. anchor Chris Jansing gave a platform to the DNC's "director of voter protection" Will Crossley to plug he party's new website, protectingthevote.com. The segment was entitled onscreen, "War on Voters?" Jansing failed to bring on either a Republican Party official for a rebuttal nor a state secretary of state to defend voter ID measures.
In the 11 a.m. Eastern hour, anchor Thomas Roberts gave colleague and "civil rights activist" Al Sharpton air time to blast voter ID laws. Anchor Alex Wagner also devoted a segment to bashing voter ID laws in her 12 p.m. Eastern Now with Alex Wagner program.
Roberts misleadingly described the voter ID laws as "tighten qualifications for voters" when in fact they do no such thing, merely requiring those who have the right to vote to establish their identity at the polling place.
"Is voter ID laws -- and I know the right is trying to frame this in the fact that they're trying to help avoid voter fraud in this country -- What's the deeper look that we're supposed to be figuring out here?" Thomas prompted Sharpton as he opened the interview segment.
Unlike Jansing or Roberts, Wagner did have a conservative panelist on her program who defended voter ID laws, but he was outnumbered by panelists who blasted them as unnecessary measures that could "disenfranchise" five million voters, mostly minorities and senior citizens.
"Should people have to show anything?" when they show up to vote to verify their identity, Daily Caller's Matt K. Lewis posed to host Alex Wagner. Neither Wagner nor any of the other liberal panelists answered Lewis's question, although Wagner conspiratorially noted, "It's not just coincidence that all the states that enacted voter ID laws this year were held by Republican governors."
Even there, however, Wagner is incorrect as Rhode Island, governed by liberal ex-Republican Lincoln Chafee passed a law that gradually goes into full effect over the next three years. What's more, Mississippi's new strict voter ID law was overwhelmingly approved in a state ballot initiative.
All the attention to the issue this morning and afternoon is apparently an appetizer for Al Sharpton's week-long focus on the issue on his Politics Nation program:
WAGNER: A programming note: "Block the Vote," a series airing all this week on Politics Nation with the Rev. Al Sharpton. It will investigate new voting laws around the country. You can catch that right here on MSNBC at 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Previously MSNBC has featured partisans who insisted that voter ID laws will amount to "electoral genocide." MSNBC anchor Martin Bashir has also dismissed the voter ID laws as "voter restriction laws."
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Aren't these the same
Submitted by ant on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:38pm.
Aren't these the same liberals that so often 'have trouble' getting ballots out to our troops overseas?
Why, yes they are, Ant.
Submitted by UpNorth on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:41pm.
The same liberals that just hate to see service members vote, at all. That's why ballots are held, until there is no reasonable way that they can be returned to meet the deadline imposed.
And, if they do get returned in time, by some postal service screw-up, the good liberals will attempt to have the ballots not counted for any number of reasons, like a smudged postmark, or a missing stamp. We all know how those rotten service people try to vote many times, and how their First Sergeants or Company Commanders have extra ballots hidden in their footlockers, just so they can try to throw an election.
Block the vote.....?
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:43pm.
Nothing incendiary there at all.
These are the same Left Wing kooks....
Submitted by mrwiffle on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:43pm.
Who see nothing wrong in having the Black Panthers police a polling station and who suddenly find ballots in the trunk of a car when their guy is losing. The truth is, every one should know Obama is a one term President and there is nothing they can do about it...the blind can now see, the deaf can now hear, and the stoned will stay at home.
MSNBC: Leans Forward on Hypocrisy
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:45pm.
Hmmm, let's see...
Having to show your identification = "voter intimidation"...
But Black Panthers standing outside a polling place with baseball bats = "Voter Encouragement"???
The Obamination... A crisis leading to a catastrophe..(please donate to MRC)
DNC says, "Vote Early, Vote Often"...
Submitted by bigdaddy on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 4:57pm.
How do these people get on trains, planes, or buses, without some form of pictorial identification? Oh...that's right...deceased liberals don't travel as much as they used to and verifying Illegals is just "Anti-American"...
Racist! Yawn.
Submitted by Van Halen on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 5:09pm.
Racist!
Yawn.
Of course it's racist!
Submitted by motherbelt on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 5:21pm.
But not in the way you think.
Sharpton and his fellow liberals are saying that minorities and senior citizens are too stupid and/or lazy to get a driver's license or official state ID card on their own!
ID Card
Submitted by Schofield Kid on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 6:09pm.
Even in CA with some of the highest taxes/fees in the country, you can get a first time ID card for $26 and its only $7 if you meet low income requirements and FREE if you're 62 years or older.
You know damn well they have some form of ID for welfare bennies, buying booze, etc. etc....Let's face it, the real reason that they can't say is that it takes away their voting base of non-citizens and dead people.
ex-actly
Submitted by michiganruth on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:39pm.
it's the "soft bigotry of low expectations," as our late lamented president George W Bush put it. minorities are too stupid to play by the same rules as the rest of us. if I were a minority I'd be offended.
Ken . Baker-Carter Commission
Submitted by Gary Hall on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 6:19pm.
. . on Election reform? This is your best witness.
. . supported a national voter photo ID law. Pres. Jimmy Carter supported it. If I remember correctly, something like 17 of the 21 commission members supported it.
Unlike Jansing or Roberts, Wagner did have a conservative panelist on her program who defended voter ID laws,
We don't need a conservative panelist to defend it - national polling has long showed that a super majority of US voters support such laws. And, that many Democrats support them as well. It is a populist measure. The MSM is casting it as only an angry minority that supports it.
The National MSM does't like it. That's why they never invite liberals, like Jimmy Carter on to discuss the issue - from his point of view. Of course, they never invited Carter on to discuss his opposition to abortion, either. Why? To do so, would do considerable damage to their view - that which they present - that only intolerant ignorant conservative religious freaks are opposed to abortion.
Same here with the voter ID law - to reference either that many well known and "respected by the left" Democrats support voter photo ID's. If the MSM let's it be known, then they can't call the 80% of US voters who do support it, racists, can they?
(;~> gary
Good point. Plus, liberals
Submitted by Ken Shepherd on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 6:48pm.
Good point. Plus, liberals often love to point to other countries and insist we need to consider adopting some of their policies. I believe in France voters have to establish their identity before voting.
in this day and age
Submitted by jimtrees on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 10:43pm.
How can you get by doing anything without photo i.d.? If the dems feel that passionate about it, then take everyone that's eligible out and get their pictured identification. It takes about five mins if you do it legal, and it costs about a $100.00 if you don't.
FROM
Submitted by KornKing on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 11:27pm.
MSNBC- the "More smarter" network
Voter ID
Submitted by stratman on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 11:37pm.
Identification has been a part of voting in my county for some time. There are plenty of poor and homeless people in Cleveland and surrounding suburbs. Somehow, despite this racist disenfranchisement, the Democrats continue to be voted into office every election.
Speaking of homless, they have been invisible in the news since Barky was immaculated... except when the homeless were partaking in the free food and amenities of the freeloader Occupy shantytowns.
Are Republicans this stupid.
Submitted by pbthinker on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 12:40am.
How are earth do the Republicans allow the Democrats to control the message on this? In reality, you can't do anything in this country, pretty much, without a picture i.d. these days. If I were the RNC, I would take out a full-page ad, in the NY Times, and make a list of all the things you can't do without a photo-i.d. card and ask the simple question, are the Democrats trying to keep the poor and downtrodden in the minority forever by not encouraging them to get identification.
Then, at the bottom of the ad, they should say that they want everyone to have the advantage of being able to identify themselves for employers, to be able to travel on commercial transportation, and tell them they'll provide transportation to go get the i.d. and, if you can't afford it, they'll pay for it and get you registered to vote.
The Democrats are so disingenuous on this it's pathetic and the MSM refuses to call them on it, when the problem is so obvious. I really hope the Republicans wake up and do it soon.
The republicans let the
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:52am.
The republicans let the democrats control the message because they are in agreement with it. They also fear the word racist. Other than Newt and Santorum none of these GOP candidates can string two intelligent sentences together.
They want to be liked, they aren't interested in being leader.
Voter ID
Submitted by Jersey Girl on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 8:34am.
It's all about fraud suppression. Something the dems cannot allow.
We're going to have to vote in sufficient numbers to overcome the dem cheating.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Submitted by liberalsarefunny on Tue, 12/06/2011 - 1:24pm.
And the Race Industry rolls on....
Hey--it's a job for thousands of people who would otherwise be unemployed.