The liberal (disguised as non-partisan) voter registration group Rock the Vote received some free airtime in the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour of Friday’s MSNBC Live as host Thomas Roberts welcomed on celebrity backer and vulgar Netflix host Chelsea Handler to promote the group plus her plea for young women to vote so that more abortion-loving judges could end up on the Supreme Court.
The first of two segments Roberts had with Handler touched on the hacking scandal involving photos of Saturday Night Live cast member Leslie Jones and how Handler has found Donald Trump to be “disgusting” and that his supposed “telling black people what's best for them is atrocious.”
That typical MSNBC jargon aside, the second block focused on Rock the Vote which, as groups like National Review and NewsBusters (here, here, and here) have documented for years, is anything but non-partisan looking out for both sides as its celebrity spokespersons and their motives skewer to the left.
Roberts complimented Handler for being “pretty serious” at times in her Netflix show “talking about the importance of voting” and “hav[ing] done more political episodes of Chelsea” to which Handler boasted of how she’s learned recently about gerrymandering and superdelegates before moving to Rock the Vote.
“But yeah, we did Rock the Vote, we paired with Rock the Vote and they said it's really been successful. We’ve registered like over 1,000 voters already, so I mean, it's so important to get the message out there for people to vote. They need to exercise that right. It's very important, especially for women after everything that women went through to get us that right, we need to exercise it,” Handler proclaimed.
Handler later added that it’s imperative for young women to vote because, unlike their babies some abort, “it's your body, it’s choice what you want to do with your body and there's no way we can, you know, go back and have some sort of reactionary movement towards overturning Roe v. Wade, among a million other things.”
With Roberts idly sitting alongside, multi-abortion recipient Handler demanded that voters ensure that politicians are elected who will, above all else, place “that Supreme Court person in there as Supreme Court judge in there is huge and that's going to happen” because “[w]e can’t go back in time” and instead “move forward and everybody who wants to reform.”
Like a true, misinformed, liberal celebrity, Handler stumbled her way through the rest of the interview on questions concerning money in politics as Handler ruled that she doesn’t exactly like it but has been willing to pay up to support and elect Democrats such as a $30,000/plate luncheon with Hillary Clinton:
I mean, I understand. I would pay money to support the Democratic Party and all the Senate races and all the House races. I'd do that, but to give that much money to a candidate like that, I don't know.....I don't love it. It's not the best. It's just been this way for so long so it would be nice if it became — there's a grossness to it. It's a lot of money that people are paying, so I don't know. I don't know the ins and outs of how much these campaigns cost and what's acceptable and what's not...I certainly have done it in the past. I went to an Obama dinner once, you know, and I’m sure whoever I was dating at the time had to pay a lot for that.
The relevant portions of the transcript from the 2:00 p.m. Eastern hour of MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts on August 26 can be found below.
MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts
August 26, 2016
2:48 p.m. Eastern
THOMAS ROBERTS: Meanwhile, we look at the campaign, Chelsea, we’ve had the past 24 hours, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump using race as a referendum on each one of their candidacies and I know you have a strong opinion about white people telling black people how to live and what's best for them in this country. Why do you have such a strong reaction?
CHELSEA HANDLER: Because it's disgusting. I mean, how — I find Donald Trump incenses me because of — his attitude towards everybody is unacceptable, in my opinion. Any minority. And women included. And I think him talking — white people in general telling black people what's best for them is atrocious. Who are we to decide anything? I mean, they make their own decisions. They are people. They are human beings and you are — I feel like you're just kind of diminishing that by even talking in those terms and talking in large speak about something like that and the way he talks to them is racist. It’s the way he says, you guys. We're all together here. This is one big, happy world. Sometimes not so happy, but I think, you know, there's a lot of racism and obviously still in this country and he lights it up. He makes people worse. He gets those people going and that's the last thing we need.
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ROBERTS: Alright, so we’re back with round two of the hilarious and awesome Chelsea Handler. Getting pretty serious for a second there, talking about the importance of voting and using the Netflix show. Also, you’re affiliated with Rock the Vote which is really important because young folks, some aren't paying attention just yet, so what's the feedback you have gotten as you have done more political episodes of Chelsea. The most surprising thing you’ve learned from it.
HANDLER: Oh, I'm learning a lot about politics in general. A lot of things I didn't really know like you know, breaking down things like gerrymandering or superdelegates and having people come on and just explain so you have a clear idea because I’ve heard those terms so many times for so long —
ROBERTS: You think you know them.
HANDLER: You think you know them, but when somebody explains it to you, it's a little bit different than what you thought it was or realize you don't really know exactly what we were talking about in the first place like I feel like all the time. But yeah, we did Rock the Vote, we paired with Rock the Vote and they said it's really been successful. We’ve registered like over 1,000 voters already, so I mean, it's so important to get the message out there for people to vote. They need to exercise that right. It's very important, especially for women after everything that women went through to get us that right, we need to exercise it.
ROBERTS: Well and that's one of the — you know, we went to break on the soundbite and you talk about you're a dumbcicle if you don’t get out there and be a part of this and let other dumcicles, you know, make your way for you. But you bring up the supreme court and you think that's important because there are women who don't recognize that there was a time where there wasn't access to choice and reproductive rights and you think that’s really important for young women to know.
HANDLER: Well, of course, it's your body, it’s choice what you want to do with your body and there's no way we can, you know, go back and have some sort of reactionary movement towards overturning Roe v. Wade, among a million other things, but getting that Supreme Court person in there as Supreme Court judge in there is huge and that's going to happen. You know and that has to be the right person. We can't go back in time. We have to move forward and everybody who wants to reform and, you know, and take us back, it's like that's not the way the world is anymore. You have to grow and move forward and that’s an important — for people who don’t think it’s necessary to vote, that’s something you have consider. It's your future. It’s your children's future and everybody you care about. It's their future and their children's future, so I just want to impress upon it for people to do that.
ROBERTS: And you're a Hillary Clinton supporter. We know that she just had a star-studded Hollywood event. A lunch at the Timberlake's. I think it was $30,000 a head. Yeah, raked in about $3 million from this swing out west. What do you think of big money in politics and do you think it's worth that? Would you pay $30,000 to have lunch with Hillary?
HANDLER: No, I wouldn't, but I mean, I understand. I would pay money to support the Democratic Party and all the Senate races and all the House races. I'd do that, but to give that much money to a candidate like that, I don't know. I feel like that's paying a lot.
