Liberal Media Scream: ABC analysts huff at justices over voting decision

Liberal Media Scream: ABC analysts huff at justices over voting decision
Paul Bedard
This week’s Liberal Media Scream features two ABC This Week commentators making a new argument for wide open voting -- some people can’t afford enough gas to get food and vote.
The Thursday Supreme Court ruling, upholding two provisions of Arizona’s voting rules which required people to vote at their own precinct and barred ballot harvesting, irked the two who cited anecdotes about difficulties encountered by poor and minority voters.

LZ Granderson, an ABC News podcaster, ESPN contributor and Los Angeles Times columnist, said the justices were out of touch because they are not poor: “They’re all privileged.” He recalled his “mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store” and so “now you’re forcing minorities to decide” between getting to a polling place or buying groceries.

Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan cited misdeeds she saw in Mississippi with “all kinds of dirty tricks being played about closing polls, switching where you’re supposed to be, telling people they’re in the wrong place even if they’re in the right place.”

From the Sunday, July 4 roundtable after host Martha Raddatz characterized the ruling as “not exactly in line with public opinion,” as assessment based on an ABC News/Washington Post poll:

LZ Granderson: “No, of course not, but they don’t really care about public opinion, right? If they did, then all of this legislation would be looked at differently. You know, the thing that really frustrates me most, is the justices acknowledged that these new laws does impact minorities. They didn’t deny that aspect of it. They just said that the inconvenience of it isn’t so great. Well, they’re all privileged. And I grew up poor. I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store. When you do that to polling places, now you’re forcing minorities to decide whether or not they’re going to invest money, gas money, to get to the polling places that are now further away or do I use this gas money to get to the grocery store or do I to get to work. They’re privileged, saying that this doesn’t inconvenience them enough. Well, how do you know? When was the last time you were that poor?”

Mary Jordan: “I’d like to talk about, I went down in Mississippi and I saw this. And on the morning of the election, people would turn out and the polling place would be closed in the place where there were a lot of Democratic voters. And so the question then was do I drive, so I spend another 45 minutes in the car to go there and wait in a really long line? There’s all kinds of dirty tricks being played about closing polls, switching where you’re supposed to be, telling people they’re in the wrong place even if they’re in the right place. I think if people really knew what was going on, because it differs state by state and county by county, they would think, you know what, it’s July 4th here. It’s all about voting, right? It’s the most fundamental of rights. We had the Boston tea party because we couldn’t vote and we were getting taxed. And it’s kind of shocking that right now a lot of people don’t have the same access to votes as other Americans.”

Media Research Center Vice President Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “Granderson and Jordan seemed to be searching for anecdotes to justify their position against very basic voter integrity rules, and came up with pretty weak ones. Making everyone vote at their local precinct is the ultimate in fairness and requires the least bus money while eliminating lots of opportunities for confusion and fraud. As for all the misdeeds Jordan saw in areas ‘where there were a lot of Democratic voters,’ which force people to ‘spend another 45 minutes in the car,’ that is just what the Arizona local precinct rule is meant to prevent. And which party controls the election systems virtually everywhere where minorities and Democrats are the majority? It’s not rich, privileged Supreme Court justices.”

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The democrats want to invite the whole planet to vote in our presidential elections

Bull Poop!
Around here the democrat machine hauls every democrat who wants to vote to the correct precinct free of charge.

They even haul them on busses and buy them Kools and Magnum 40oz. on the way home.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Bull Poop!
Around here the democrat machine hauls every democrat who wants to vote to the correct precinct free of charge.

They even haul them on busses and buy them Kools and Magnum 40oz. on the way home.

same here. I think the repubs and dems have a "race" to see how many of each they can get to the polls.

I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store

Not a good analogy. If she had money to buy groceries why couldn't she take the 50c out of that?

Red Lily wrote:I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store

Not a good analogy.  If she had money to buy groceries why couldn't she take the 50c out of that?  

Those are made up stories meant to try and shame whites......it ain't working

stjames1_53 wrote:

Red Lily wrote:I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store

Not a good analogy.  If she had money to buy groceries why couldn't she take the 50c out of that?  

Those are made up stories meant to try and shame whites......it ain't working

Only a nimcompoop would be shamed by that nonsense. These people think everyone around them is stupid and more than a fair share of them actually are.

stjames1_53 wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Bull Poop!
Around here the democrat machine hauls every democrat who wants to vote to the correct precinct free of charge.

They even haul them on busses and buy them Kools and Magnum 40oz. on the way home.

same here. I ithink the repubs and dems have a "race" to see how many of each they can get to the polls.

Personally, I've never seen or heard of the local GOP hauling voters.  Not to say it's not occurring.

But I have been sitting in front of the court house and watched bus loads of folks get out to vote.  I can assure you, they were not GOP voters.

Republicans don't wear those kind of hats, and have their pants pulled up.

LZ Granderson: “No, of course not, but they don’t really care about public opinion, right? If they did, then all of this legislation would be looked at differently. You know, the thing that really frustrates me most, is the justices acknowledged that these new laws does impact minorities.

Day does, does day?  Idjit.  No wonder you think justices should base their rulings on what's popular, rather than on the rule of law.
Our justice system isn't a mess enough for you already?
 

They didn’t deny that aspect of it. They just said that the inconvenience of it isn’t so great. Well, they’re all privileged.

Yup.  Privileged enough to know how to read and write ...and sometimes even think straight.

Red Lily wrote:I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store

Not a good analogy.  If she had money to buy groceries why couldn't she take the 50c out of that?  

What?!  And be forced to choose between bread and JoQuanda's favorite Moon Pies?!  You have no more sense of what's popular than these S.C. justices.  <Shakes head.> Mmm. Mmm.  Mmm.

2cent wrote:

Red Lily wrote:I remember my mom scraping together 50 cents, 75 cents, a dollar just for gas to get to a grocery store

Not a good analogy.  If she had money to buy groceries why couldn't she take the 50c out of that?  

What?!  And be forced to choose between bread and JoQuanda's favorite Moon Pies?!  You have no more sense of what's popular than these S.C. justices.  <Shakes head.> Mmm. Mmm.  Mmm.

Loves me some melted Moon pies.

When i was a kid, we had Moon Cakes too. They were a large cookie about 4 inches around made by Jack's Cookies, and sold to retailers in bulk. They just dumped them into a large see-thru container and you dug them out yourself.
One cent each..