Host Chris Hayes had another meltdown on MSNBC s
All In Tuesday night. This time over Republican’s so-called “war against democracy” that only exists in the left-wing anchor s wild imagination. Hayes went on a wild rant in the wake of Senate Democrats failed attempt to hijack the entire electoral system.
He returned to a familiar liberal lie: Republicans want fewer people to vote! During Hayes’ hysterical rant he continued to propagate the proven lie that Republican legislatures in states all over the country are passing laws to prevent people from voting. This is obviously not true, as NewsBusters has previously addressed. But the truth has never been Chris Hayes’ strong suit.
Linking Voter ID to Andrew Johnson Days
“Romney stood by last year as Republican-controlled state legislatures passed voter-identification laws, making it harder for people of color, senior citizens and people with disabilities to exercise their fundamental right to vote.”
Washington Post editorial writer Colbert I. King in his November 3, 2012 column, “Mitt Romney could be the next Andrew Johnson.”
“North Carolina had put in one of those you-have-to-show-an-I.D. rules which, so often in Republican states, are designed to keep some minorities from coming out and being able to vote and they’ve tried to reduce
the number of voting days. The U.S. Court says that will not happen. Those rules will not go into effect in North Carolina this cycle.”
“Last Thursday, [Rep. Lauren Boebert] Zoomed into a virtual congressional hearing with just a mess of guns piled on the bookshelf behind her. AR-15-style rifles, a handgun just laying across a bunch of books….Lots of people immediately noted that the use of guns in that way as props and the implicit threat that comes with them has a….long, not necessarily great history among various movements around the globe. Osama bin Laden, for one liked to pose in front of a bookshelf with a gun prominently displayed. The Irish Republican Army would display guns in its propaganda posters and its murals. Cuban revolutionaries, they posed with guns all the time, too.”