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Reason I actually know about this is because I don't drink mediamatter's kool-aid.

I don't recall those two guys ever actually stopping anyone from voting. At most, they were loitering. Ask older black Americans about voter intimidation, and you'll hear the real story.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

It is illegal to carry a potentially deadly weapon within a certain distance of a polling place, that night stick more than qualifies...

Is that your opinion, or the qualified opinion of a federal judge?

It is illegal to carry a potentially deadly weapon within a certain distance of a polling place, that night stick more than qualifies...

Black electorate responds mightily to perceived voter-intimidation efforts

For many African Americans, this election was not just about holding on to history, but also confronting what they perceived as a shadowy campaign to suppress the black vote.

Black voters responded with a historic turnout here in Ohio and strong showings across a range of battleground states, according to exit poll results. Buoyed by the Obama campaign’s sophisticated ground operation, African Americans helped provide the edge in Virginia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and perhaps Florida, which remained too close to call Wednesday. Their support narrowed President Obama’s losing margin in North Carolina.
Analysts, voters and politicians said that a series of episodes here in Ohio — where exit polls showed black voters accounting for 15 percent of Tuesday’s electorate, up from 11 percent in 2008 — were seen by African Americans as efforts to keep them from voting, stirring a profound backlash on Election Day.

“That was a strong motivator because we know we got here through blood, sweat and tears,” said state Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland).

She was among those who fought for the removal of dozens of billboards that appeared in largely black enclaves of Cleveland and Milwaukee declaring “Voter Fraud is a Felony!” and threatening jail time and hefty fines for violators.

Decisions to limit early voting to weekdays also stirred ire, as did a widely reported comment by Doug Preisse, chairman of the Republican Party in Franklin County, who said in an e-mail to the Columbus Dispatch, “I guess I really actually feel we shouldn’t contort the voting process to accommodate the urban — read African-American — voter-turnout machine.”

When the Obama campaign successfully sued to open polls on the final weekend of the early-voting period, black voters thronged many polling stations. ....

African American voters had more concrete relationships with Obama in this election and had benefited from his first term, said David Bositis, a researcher with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. Obama’s health-care overhaul, in particular, offered a disproportionate benefit to African Americans, 36 percent of whom previously lacked health coverage, as opposed to whites, 12 percent of whom lacked coverage, he said.....

We don’t have a choice but to vote,” he said, noting the struggles of black people to achieve that right.

The effort to enact a voter ID law in North Carolina — which passed the General Assembly but was vetoed by Gov. Beverly Perdue (D) — was arguably the biggest factor in getting black people to the polls, said William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP...

And, here is a summary of Sean Hannity's nonsense

http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/0 ... ars/190130

Thank you for reminding me what a pit of lying vipers Fox is. I needed something to rekindle my rage.
And you know something, to attack the President is one thing - that's what political opponents do - but to attack the first lady is going below low. I don't recall Democrats attacking Republican first ladies.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

If media matters is your star source your case is in serious trouble considering they declared a proverbial jihad against Fox News which is a highly partisan act, and in violation of Federal Law considering their tax-exempt status.

Everything ArrantPariah's source said was backed up with direct quotes from Fox News. Sort of hard to get around that point.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You mean like the partial quotes like the last time where you guys were claiming Glenn Beck was advocating that people should shoot liberals in the head, when the full video demonstrated that wasn't even remotely what he was saying....

I really don't feel like having to waste my time to demonstrate mediamatters' blatent dishonesty when the two of you should know better by now...