Oh, man. This makes me want to just yoke these twerps right up through the screen!
from Media Matters:
Desiline Victor attends 2013 SOTU
Fox Mocks 102-Year-Old's Long Wait To Vote
After glossing over state Republicans' role in exacerbating long lines at the ballot box, three Fox hosts mocked the hours-long wait and multiple trips a 102-year-old woman endured in order to cast her vote in 2012.
On Fox News Radio's Kilmeade & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade and Fox's Martha MacCallum and Bill Hemmer laughed off the difficulties 102-year-old Desiline Victor endured in order to vote in the 2012 election. Victor, who was invited to the State of the Union address and whom President Obama applauded for enduring a long wait to vote, had to make two trips to the polls and wait in line for over three hours before she was able to cast her ballot. Discussing Victor, MacCallum wondered, "What's the big deal?" and said, "This is such a non-issue. Ridiculous." Hemmer added that at the State of the Union, "They held her up as a victim. What was she a victim of?"
But long lines at polling places are widely acknowledged as a major issue nationwide. In Victor's home state of Florida alone, at least 201,000 eligible voters reportedly did not cast ballots because they were discouraged by lengthy wait times.
. . . Prior to the 2012 election, as The Huffington Post explained, "Florida's GOP-led legislature cut the number of early voting days down from 14 to eight last year, eliminating the traditionally heavy Sunday before Election Day but keeping the number of maximum hours the same. The move was signed into law by Scott and approved by federal courts." Governor Rick Scott refused to extend early voting hours even when asked by county election supervisors -- and Detzner, his secretary of state, rationalized this refusal by arguing that he was only allowed to extend early voting hours during a state of emergency, and "fortunately, no such situation currently exists in the State of Florida." However, past Republican governors found that prohibitively long voting lines met this standard and subsequently extended early voting hours.
read more/watch clip: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/02/13/fox-mocks-102-year-olds-long-wait-to-vote/192658
related:
When I saw Desiline Victor sitting in the first lady's box . . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022365818
President Obama:
"When she arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours. And as time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say. Hour after hour, a throng of people stayed in line in support of her. Because Desiline is 102 years old. And they erupted in cheers when she finally put on a sticker that read 'I Voted.'"
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the next time he goes to vote and it takes him 6 hours to get help?
exercise her right to vote!
You are not just very bad, Fox news, you are monumentally STUPID!
