In wake of President Biden huddling, on Thursday, with radical left-wing activists who pretend to be “civil rights leaders,” MSNBC on Friday touted National Urban League President Marc Morial coming out after that meeting and hurling the vile accusation that Republican-sponsored voting reforms and the U.S. Supreme Court were conspiring to create “American apartheid.” Rather than fact-check such a horrendous lie, the partisan cable channel endorsed the disgusting rhetoric instead.
“Civil rights leaders gathering with President Biden....We know they want more action on federal voting rights,” anchor Chris Jansing announced while filling in for Stephanie Ruhle in the 9:00 a.m. ET hour. She eagerly pointed out that “all of this is happening after the Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting restrictions and the president of the Urban League, Marc Morial, talked about that after the meeting at the White House.”
A soundbite ran of Morial standing outside the White House Thursday afternoon spewing invective: “When we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of American apartheid. You use the nullification of the Supreme Court, which just recently undercut the Voting Rights Act, to try to thwart the power of this grand and glorious multi-cultural nation.”
Jansing followed up by turning to another unhinged activist, Black Voters Matter co-founder Latasha Brown, and repeating Morial’s trash talk: “To anybody who listened to that press conference after the meeting with the President, it was sobering, I thought, Latasha, to say the least. Is Marc Morial right? Is this an effort to impose a system of American apartheid?”
Brown predictably agreed with every word: “Oh, absolutely, he's 100% right....We have to have federal legislation that can protect the rights of voters in this nation, and if that means that the Democrats have to end the filibuster, whatever we have to do to protect democracy at all costs...”
Doubling down on MSNBC’s support for Morial’s nasty attacks, in the 10:00 a.m. ET hour, fellow anchor Hallie Jackson actually interviewed him and lobbed nothing but softball questions about the meeting with Biden. At no point did she mention his apartheid comments, let alone challenge him on them.
There’s no insult a left-wing hack can launch against conservatives that will scare off the liberal media. In fact, the press routinely reward such incendiary language.
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Here is a transcript of July 9 exchange:
9:32 AM ET
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CHRIS JANSING: Yeah, and Peter, let’s talk about what’s going on in Washington. Civil rights leaders gathering with President Biden while all this is going on in Austin. We know they want more action on federal voting rights, but realistically, is there anything more the White House can do to make that happen?
PETER ALEXANDER: Yeah, Chris, that meeting that was scheduled to last an hour going close to two hours yesterday behind closed doors with both the President and Vice President yesterday. And in my conversations with White House officials, you really do hear that acknowledgment of the challenges they face for anything to happen at the federal level, even really a pessimism about their ability to get anything done right now, given the Republican recalcitrance as it relates to the one bill that was blocked from further consideration in the Senate, the John rights – the John Lewis Voting Rights Act as well, that effort, obviously, not getting anywhere at this point.
But the President, I’m told, is likely, as he has promised, to go out and try to use the bully pulpit on this issue, acknowledging the limitations, nonetheless, as the potential discussions happening here at the White House that he may deliver another speech on this issue as early as next week. And just yesterday, at Howard University, her alma mater, we heard from the Vice President, Kamala Harris, who announced that the DNC would be spending $25 million to protect voting access, to improve voter education as well.
All of this ahead of the 2022 midterm elections here. But this, at the end of the day, is going to have to be about more than legislation, many of these folks say. The DOJ getting involved to try to find legal remedies here, and beyond that, they’re hoping to have a repeat of what happened in the last election, even in the midst of a pandemic where the Democrats were able to boost voter turnout by really working to get out the vote efforts around the country, Chris.
JANSING: Yeah, in the meantime, Latasha, all of this is happening after the Supreme Court upheld Arizona voting restrictions and the president of the Urban League, Marc Morial, talked about that after the meeting at the White House. Let me play it.
MARC MORIAL [NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE PRESIDENT]: When we look at what is happening in this nation, we see an effort to impose a system of American apartheid. You use the nullification of the Supreme Court, which just recently undercut the Voting Rights Act, to try to thwart the power of this grand and glorious multi-cultural nation.
JANSING: To anybody who listened to that press conference after the meeting with the President, it was sobering, I thought, Latasha, to say the least. Is Marc Morial right? Is this an effort to impose a system of American apartheid?
LATASHA BROWN [CO-FOUNDER, BLACK VOTERS MATTER]: Oh, absolutely, he's 100% right. You know, we have to accept that right now, democracy – American democracy is being tested and we’re going to have to decide, as a country, as a nation and the leadership of this nation, how we’re going to respond to it. What I experienced and saw and talked to people in Austin, Texas, as I was there yesterday, people are very concerned. Here it is that you have a special session essentially to be able to suppress the vote. It’s a leading issue, agenda issue.
We’re seeing the same kind of legislation, we’re seeing the proposal of legislation in 47 different states. The bottom line is there is no way around it. We have to have federal legislation that can protect the rights of voters in this nation, and if that means that the Democrats have to end the filibuster, whatever we have to do to protect democracy at all costs, we have to be willing to do that because I think this is the biggest threat that we’ve seen around democratic participation in this nation in my entire lifetime.
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