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.
Roberts publicly acknowledged he is gay while speaking at the annual convention of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association (NLGJA) in Miami, Florida, held on September 8, 2006
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He has been in a relationship with Patrick D. Abner since 2000. On June 25, 2011, one day after same-sex marriage in New York was legalized, Roberts announced his engagement to Abner on his Twitter page. The couple was married on September 29, 2012
I knew a woman in Vermont who was so hot for Clinton she said she would love to sleep with him if the opportunity ever arose. When I asked her what her husband would think, she replied that “he would have to get over it”. Guess we know who SHE voted for...
Liberals push outrageous lies, because they have no facts to support their positions.
[Said with Australian accent]: Maybe a republican ate your baby...
Women are more Marxist than men.
Pray America is Waking Up
Boy, the libs are reaching deep deep into their old playbooks. Now they scooped up the stuff from about 1904.
You could take any large group of individuals and find “some” that believe the mother ship is hovering on the back side of the moon. However, it is a complete load of crap to suggest that there is any statistically significant number of people on this fourm that belive women should not be allowed to vote.
Questionable identification, and the refusal to thoroughly investigate the matter, got us eight years (so far) of the Kenyan usurper. If this womyn is running for governor, she needs to furnish proof of everything. No exceptions.
BTW, how did Chucky miss the opportunity to get his ugly mug on this poster?
I just want to slap women like that.
Great Image/pic.
I was working on a video, set to music (B-52’s, Shiny Happy people). The concept was to create a mosaic of a larger image, that contained smaller images of liberals expressing themselves. I wanted the video to “zoom-in” and “zoom-out” on the still photos of unhinged and happy liberals.
Serious sarcasm.
After seeing hundreds of images of leading liberals, I found myself unable to continue this project.
Which, ironically was my point to begin with. But, targeted to Liberals.
Tell those liberal women that they now can’t get free abortions because of Obamacare failed.
I think we need to start saying that we support all of a woman’s rights except the right to own a gun, just to hear their heads explode.
Truth. Just look at Congress and the judiciary...
...a black child's hand.
Kirsten Powers also tried to nail Ken on God. Said something to the effect that Ken had said God would punish people for abortion and asked what punishment God would inflict.
Damn near as stupid a question as Katie Couric and the “What do you read” crap.
I think that people should have to prove a knowledge of American History and the Constitution before they are allowed to vote. This is not contingent on what hardware resides between their legs.
LLS
Even if there were, so what? They aren't going to be able to change the law, but they are certainly entitled to their opinion...aren't they?
I am not saying that men can’t be manipulated, however ? women are more vulnerable to be manipulated by the MSM, Liberals, the feminist movement with their emotions.
I think women value security over freedom and men value freedom over security. What that means is that I think our nanny state can be pretty much laid at the feet of the female voters, generally speaking.
Take away the female vote, and this country would be much more conservative. I’m not saying I think we should, I’m just sayin what I believe we would have if we did.
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