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Brewer falsely portrayed McCain as denouncing voter disenfranchisement in clip she aired
Summary: On MSNBC Live, after citing a New York Times article reporting that voters are being removed from rolls or being blocked from registering, Contessa Brewer asserted that at a campaign stop, Sen. John McCain "was talking about the importance of making sure that voters who register get a chance to go vote." But in the clip she aired, McCain was not talking about alleged voter disenfranchisement or allegations that people were being illegally barred from voting; rather, he was criticizing alleged efforts to register people who are not eligible to vote.
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Posted by oscar the grouch
Looks like I need to lend Ms. Brewer one of my hats, with the hearing aids attached. It's amazing what you can hear if you just listen. (Maybe she already has a John Deere hat.)
Posted Friday October 10, 2008 9:23:00 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983 in reply to oscar the grouch
I think she'd probably go for one with a perfume name on it.
Unwilling or unable to listen. I'm tending for the former.
Posted Friday October 10, 2008 9:38:50 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by DAWUSS
And no one should corrupt the most precious right we have, and that is the right to vote.
Posted Saturday October 11, 2008 8:57:15 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by laissezfairesucks
VOTER SUPPRESSION courtesy the Help America Vote Act, a corrupted federal law passed by the Republican Party and the Bush Administration. But the MSM has successfully brainwashed the American public into believing that the threat to our elections is due to VOTER FRAUD, involving Democratic registrations.
Greg Palast reported over a year ago that the 08 presidential election was already stolen through the GOP suppression of 5 million Democratic voters. After seeing how the MSM is IGNORING VOTER SUPPRESSION, I feel confident that he was correct and the American public will see another election stolen but be almost entirely unaware that it was.
Posted Saturday October 11, 2008 11:00:40 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by roundhouse in reply to laissezfairesucks
Good point.
Posted Sunday October 12, 2008 1:41:32 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by see it real in reply to laissezfairesucks
Related point: Throughout the corporatist conservative Republican Party controlled news media, everyone has refused to air Palast's stories about voter supression/election rigging by the Republicans.
The only exception was the right wing conservative Republican Party controlled Los Angeles Times, who rn the pro-Republican attack on Palast' pieces with the headlines "Critic of Bush alleges vote-caging scheme" and "BBC accuses Republicans of trying to steal election". Taint the source, that's what the right wing conservative L.A. Times was doing.
Posted Sunday October 12, 2008 10:23:28 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by laissezfairesucks
The fact that the mainstream media are ignoring the term VOTER SUPPRESSION is one indication that the 08 election will be stolen by the GOP.
Posted Saturday October 11, 2008 11:02:27 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by see it real
Contessa Brewer is a lying right wing Republican hate hag who wants Liar McCain-Liar Palin to get elected. She did this delibertely. GOP-GE-NBC/MSNBC wants Liar McCain-Liar Palin elected too.
Posted Sunday October 12, 2008 10:20:35 PM EDT / Flag this comment