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.
America's decent into liberalism started when women got the right to vote. Through emotion based voting, progressives found a rich vein to mine, emotions to strum and a trumped up male female class war. Sorry if the truth hurts...IMHO that is.
Cats out of the bag now, so it's to late to do anything about it.
now accepting all hateful replies....come one, come all.
Or serve on juries!
Would it surprise you to believe that there may be a liberal troll posting that nonsense on our forum to be picked up by our enemies.. I have never read a post of that kind by a poster that I know from my many years on these boards..
Or a preponderance of such.
I hope you’re right, but I have seen a lot of posts lately calling for “repeal of the 16th, 17th and 20th Amendments.”
Double that!
The weepy pious liberals can go to the Daily Kos!
If womyn in America are going to fall for hysteric crap like this meme (which has been building steam for weeks in the socialist networking sites), then maybe they SHOULDN’T vote.
There is no suppression. Just liberal blather.
Will you please lay off Chief Justice Roberts. He agreed once with the liberal justices, and you act like he does it every time. It’s getting old
“...I have seen a lot of posts lately calling for “repeal of the 17th Amendment...”
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You talkin’ to me?
Only the liberal women!
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That’s totaally off subject.....but again, if you make a statement - or in this case an accusation - and can’t back it up, it might as well be crickets.
MEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. Women should take away the right of men to vote. Men can't think - they just want war all the time to kill people. Many are wicked and vile.
(I am sick to death of men who think they have the power to let women vote or not.)
If women kept men away from them, there would be no more people on this earth. “I'm not saying I think we should, I'm just sayin what I believe we would have if we did.”
There are many of our neighbors that have diverse views on one or more of the amendments, including the most obvious bigoted and or narrow, but my point is that I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY BY POSTERS THAT I HAVE EXCHANGED WITH IN MY 12 YEARS ON THESE THREADS..
I have witnessed some more questionable by agitators, that appeared out of the mist with early dates on the sign-up that never post until election or high priority topics, and stir derision amongst the faithful.. When I see it I call it out, you should do the same, we all should..
Geeeze Marcella. that's playin dirty, lets not get carried away, this is just a discussion.. Ha!
Many of us men are sick to death of hysterical and emotional women, and more to the point, sick and tired of their emotional voting patterns that have put this country in the condition it’s in right now.
Many cowardly and despicable men are to blame as well, but whether or not you choose to accept the fact the emotional women voters are the primary reason liberalism has succeeded in this country or whether you choose to ignore that fact means nothing to men like me.
You know something, I hav totally forgotten what we’ve been talking about...
Oh yeah...The women’s movement...
I am in full support of the women’s movement, especially from behind...
[Steve runs for effective cover!!!]
Not to mention, if men kept their flies zipped and stopped making babies they don’t intend to parent or support, the abortion rate would drop to nearly zero.
My wife volunteers to surrender her right to vote if it’ll help prevent the election of communist fascist white hating racist homos.
MEN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. Women should take away the right of men to vote. Men can’t think - they just want war all the time to kill people.
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