{"id":9970,"date":"2013-02-15T04:16:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2013-02-15T04:16:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:16:24","slug":"fox-attacked-a-102-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/15\/fox-attacked-a-102-year-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Attacked a 102 Year Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka <em>Faux Noise<\/em>, has a problem.&#160; Because they report so-called news from an exclusively Republican perspective, they usually find themselves positioned in exact opposition to the facts of the story.&#160; When unable to argue a valid position, they attack a person, as they did here.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"15desiline-victor\" border=\"0\" alt=\"15desiline-victor\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/15desiline-victor.jpg\" width=\"362\" height=\"362\" \/>After glossing over state Republicans&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>On Fox News Radio&#8217;s Kilmeade &amp; Friends, host Brian Kilmeade and Fox&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/state-of-the-union-guest-desiline-victor-102-will-be-the-face-of-voting-delays-at-address\/2013\/02\/11\/3b81604a-74a4-11e2-95e4-6148e45d7adb_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">over three hours<\/a> before she was able to cast her ballot. Discussing Victor, MacCallum wondered, &quot;What&#8217;s the big deal?&quot; and said, &quot;This is such a non-issue. Ridiculous.&quot; Hemmer added that at the State of the Union, &quot;They held her up as a victim. What was she a victim of?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But long lines at polling places are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/05\/us\/politics\/waiting-times-to-vote-at-polls-draw-scrutiny.html\" target=\"_blank\">widely acknowledged<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/How_to_Fix_Long_Lines.pdf#page=4\" target=\"_blank\">major issue<\/a> nationwide. In Victor&#8217;s home state of Florida alone, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/01\/24\/florida-voting-lines-report_n_2544373.html\" target=\"_blank\">201,000 eligible voters<\/a> reportedly did not cast ballots because they were discouraged by lengthy wait times\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/fox-mocks-102-year-olds-long-wait-to-vote\/192658\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the audio:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"video-embed\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/embed\/static\/clips\/2013\/02\/13\/28880\/fnr-kilmeade-20130213-lines\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" target=\"_blank\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">In this case, the facts are that Florida Republicans did everything in their power to keep likely Democratic voters from voting, and many suffered severe hardship to exercise their right to vote.&#160; Victor was a very sympatric example of the suffering the Republican War on Voting caused.&#160; These Republican propagandists have no shame.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Ministry of Propaganda, aka Faux Noise, has a problem.&#160; Because they report so-called news from an exclusively Republican perspective, they usually find themselves positioned in exact opposition to the facts of the story.&#160; When unable to argue a valid position, they attack a person, as they did here. 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