Posted on 10/29/2013 11:13:11 AM PDT by Kaslin
The liberal claim that Republicans are engaging in a perpetual “war on women” seems to have taken a new turn on MSNBC. No longer does the term “war on women” apply only to access to abortion but now encompasses voting rights as well.
Appearing on MSNBC on October 29, liberal MSNBC host Thomas Roberts claimed that Republicans are trying to restrict a woman’s access to the ballot box. This comes one week after fill-in host Michael Eric Dyson made a similar complaint on The Ed Show. [See video after jump.]
MSNBC's Roberts: Republicans Want To Stop Women From Voting
Speaking with Terry O’Neill, president of the liberal National Organization for Women, Roberts introduced a segment that initially centered around abortion before quickly focusing on new voting laws in Texas. O’Neill began her talking points by claiming that:
The Republican Party in Texas is not only waging war on women's access to reproductive health care, they're even waging war on women's access to the ballot box. They are now enforcing rules that are aimed to stop women from voting.
Roberts seemed happy to take Ms. O’Neill’s bait playing a clip of State Senator Wendy Davis (D-Fort Worth), who is running for governor of Texas, complaining that:
I was required to sign an affidavit because the name on my voter registration card is slightly different than the name on my driver's license. My driver's license includes my maiden name. My voter registration card does not.
Roberts continued the narrative asking:
So are women getting the wake-up call that they need about what's taking place for Republicans there trying not just to restrict access to affordable health care, health care that they want, but their vote?
Nowhere in the segment did Roberts or O’Neill explain how Wendy Davis or any woman was prevented from voting, only that the state senator was required to sign an affidavit proving that she was who her voter registration says she was. In fact, according to the Texas Secretary of State website, if there is a confliction regarding your name when you vote, “You may continue to vote during this period. If you do not have your certificate in hand, you may sign an affidavit at the polls and present a form of identification.”
Rather than actually inform viewers of the provisions of the Texas law, Roberts and Ms. O’Neill seemed perfectly content misleading their audience, all the better to poison their viewers, particularly women, against voting Republican.
At MSNBC, the network has moved far beyond reporting the news with a liberal spin. Instead the goal is distorting the news to further a liberal agenda. Roberts should be ashamed of himself for sacrificing journalistic credibility in service of reliably toeing the party line.
Not me.
And of course, Republican WOMEN think this is just a dandy idea and are sitting by watching their menfolk work to do any with THEIR right to vote as well.
I swear, sometimes the stuff dhimicrats come up with is so mind numbingly stupid it physically hurts.
Wow what a great dart board.
So when the libs stop the military from voting doesn’t that make them ANTI- AMERICAN?
You mean along with being cheats and liars?
If she is a leftist, she is just saying what they think. They truly believe there should be no dissent from leftists allowed.
Some of them are women.
you mean Alinskyite Cheats And Scumbag Liars?
-PJ
I see your funny bone bypass was a raging sucess....was it covered under obama care?
...double lol...another good one...several on this thread already...
Yup! Them!
You do know the context of that teaching, right?
...off the top of my head, I don’t recall...enlighten me, s’il vous plait...
Duh...but your post indicates that you think someone is....who is it?
What's even worse is when this isn't happening, and yet, some of us think it is and agree with the left that it is..AHEM.
Calm down, libs...she's definitely NOT a Republican.
I believe I heard Ann Coulter say that she’d gladly give up her vote if it meant that millions of “single moms” couldn’t vote either.
Bring back the property ownership requirement!
Let me tell you how that happens... it’s not our own wives that are disenfranchising us,
it’s the wives of Congressmen and Senators that are disenfranchising us.
“If you keep up that right wing Tea Party stuff, we’ll never be invited to another party here in DC!”
Oh, I have seen plenty of evidence of it. Don’even get me started on all the jokes about fat people and fat women.
Go somewhere else if you do not like it. I wish all liberal women (and men) could not vote.
:)
Oh, I have seen plenty of evidence of it. Don’even get me started on all the jokes about fat people and fat women.
...the horizontally challenged have been the ‘butts’ of jokes throughout the ages...I hardly think this forum has that market cornered...
...besides which, almost all notable distaff widebodies are lefty loonies, which makes for natural targeting in this forum...
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