2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAnother repub liar got away with it
Tamron Hall is interviewing a GOP tool who just claimed that the reason early voting exists in Ohio is that Republicans voted for it and no Democrats did.
Here's the truth:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/us/ohios-limits-on-early-voting-are-discriminatory-judge-says.html?_r=0
The Repub bill was to CURTAIL early voting.
liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)Considering the GOP's efforts to kill such programs.
JustAnotherGen
(31,681 posts)She's just as guilty.
If every 'reporter' came to the table as prepared as Joy Reid does they wouldn't get away with it.
At this point - I'm really only interested in watching Reid because she is fact based and expects truth in response to her questions.
spooky3
(34,302 posts)she is just coming back from vacation AND the history of Ohio early voting law since the election day fiasco in 2004 is complicated (per a quick web search that I did). However, she should have at the very least asked him to clarify what he said. If I as a non-journalist knew that what he said did not sound correct, surely everyone on the air at MSNBC and the behind-the-scenes researchers and aides should have known.
I also agree that Joy Reid is wonderfully prepared AND willing to confront misinformation.