During an appearance last week on the Allan Handelman Show on WSJS in North Carolina — a state, like almost every one in the union now, where non-corporatist, non-wingnut views are almost non-existent over our public airwaves — I was discussing the state Republicans’ new voter suppression law, which is, hands-down, the most draconian in the nation since the era of Jim Crow was supposed to have ended.
While a Rightwing caller, apparently, was on hold to participate in the show, I detailed the fact that the polling place Photo ID restriction part of the GOP law (just one part of their horrific anti-voting statute) would do nothing to prevent so-called “voter fraud”, since polling place impersonation is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent in this country, as this 2012 study by a non-partisan news consortium, detailing every known and/or reported incident of election or voter fraud in all 50 states going back to 2000, illustrated once again.
Once the caller “Jay” finally made it to air, his admission was quite revealing — and even courageous — yet illustrative of just about everything that is wrong with our corporate media (and the politics it has created) these days.
What he had to say is not what you’d probably expect. Give it a listen…
Download MP3 or listen online below. [Appx 9 mins, lightly edited to cover for a commercial break between two segments]…
[audio:http://Bradblog.com/audio/AllanHandelman_BradFriedman_CallerJay_FoxNewsLies_071414.mp3]
These folks never get in the way of actual facts to support their opinions. I’m glad you were on Allan’s show. He does a nice job of actually presenting facts.