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.
She later equated Republicans with Tim McVeigh...that comment got her fired from a juicy management position. Happy ending.
I found the poster. If I had made it Chuck the Schmuck would have been on there! He’s such a fool.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Good heavens, you’re not a woman, are you?
Sure, there are a number of conservatives who regret giving women the right to vote as they’ve watched women support Marxism for the last 80-90 years. However, I’ve never heard of a Republican saying women shouldn’t vote. This Thomas Roberts fellow is talking straight out of his buttocks.
I can understand not being able to continue. Had a conversation just a few days ago about how, even when smiling, libs look evil and hateful.
“...what punishment God would inflict.”
He simply wouldn’t let you in. Only one other place to go, right? ;^)
Leftists only smile at the expectation of stealing someone else’s hard-earned money, so if they smile you need to beware.
But yet ? we hear comments from the likes of Hillary Clinton that says “ women are morally superior than men “ ....
Thomas Roberts = “Stupid is as stupid does...”
I hope you were joking “Kas”, I have never heard anyone on this forum exclaim that women shouldn’t vote...
Yes. And it’s never a pleasant smile.
Unfortunately there are some in this forum who think women should not be allowed to vote...
...yeesh...such whining...you sound like a typical Big Ten football fan...
But .. but .. there are so few compared to the taxes needed .. er wanted ... that more than property owners are needed ... er wanted ... to supply the tit suckers.
Yup
Radical mastectomy is prescribed
Wow! Such a stark difference!
MSNBC is the press office of the Obama White House..
I have.
How dare they have their own opinion which won't have any effect on reality or hurt anyone, so terrible.
Are we supposed to have uniform opinions on this site?
Anyway, I bet the number of people who think that are probably very few, many are probably half-way joking
'Hate crime' legislation says otherwise...
Good heavens, you’re not a woman, are you?
Heaven forbid. :-)
I always thought the line, “Dumber than a bag of hammers” was pretty straight forward, and funnier then hell...
Delivered, ironically by a staunch liberal actor...
Wait, liberal...Actor...Almost, but not quite completely congruent...
Muh bad...;-)
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