IN CASE YOU THINK CNN HAS LEARNED A THING…

…read this transcript of CNN New Day’s host, lifelong Democrat Chris Cuomo, and CNN contributor Errol Lewis, which I pulled from Alex Xenos’s article at newsbusters.org:

CHRIS CUOMO: Is there a second line to this story in terms of what this commission is about other than the obvious, which is trying to put meat on the bones of a B.S. allegation. 

ERROL LOUIS: Well that’s right. They’re trying to put meat on the bones of a B.S. Allegation. They’re trying I think also to sort of show us that they can move quickly. This is done by executive order and, you know, as Shannon points out, they move so quickly they obviously didn’t really sort of look at it because it’s a relatively narrow point they’re sort of getting jammed up on here, which is that they’re supposed to issue a privacy impact statement. Just show us that you thought about what the implications for privacy would be. They didn’t bother to do that, hence the lawsuit. Then there is this question of voter suppression being really sort of the end goal of all of this and there’s a strong whiff of it in all of this because the scenarios if you stop and think about it, how the thing was put together in such haste, you look at the things they’re asking for and the reasons why they’re asking for it, things like party affiliation — which really have nothing to do–

CUOMO: So you’re saying they’re saying its about stopping voter fraud, but these efforts go to voter suppression? 

LOUIS: Absolutely. Absolutely. Because this in some respects, I think the advocates that are calling it suppression or the prelude to suppression have a point which is that this is intended to sort of put up this sort of cloud of wrongdoing which will then give individual states, which is where elections are really controlled anyway, give them the predicate to sort of say, you know, “No more early voting, or we’re not going to accept all kinds of different I.D. We’re going to make it harder and harder for people to register and get their votes counted.” This seems to be really kind of what the end goal is, and, of course, Kris Kobach’s personal history sort of leads you to conclude this is something he’s been associated with all along. 

Let me start by agreeing completely with Mr. Cuomo and Mr. Lewis that the ultimate purpose of this commission is voter suppression.

But whose votes will it suppress, other than illegal voters?  And if it does that, what’s the problem?

Maybe it’s just me, but this comes across as another gratuitous way of  attacking President Trump for the sake of attacking President Trump.

Do these people ever learn?

And regarding the charge that requiring valid Voter IDs is an attempt to suppress Black voting?  Let me remind you of something I have written several times in the past:

From my blog of October 14th, 2014, answering the claims a different “Chris” – MSNBC’s Chris Matthews – made about voter suppression:

–Less Black people have IDs than White people, which means less Black people can vote. 

 

Is that so?  Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t.  But since a valid voter ID is 100% available to everyone, free of charge, and has been for months and months, every legal Black voter who did not have an ID could easily have gotten one.  So how does that suppress the Black vote?  Try again.

 

–It is harder for Black people to get a voter ID than it is for White People, which means less Black people can vote:  

 

Why would that be?  

 

Are you saying there are different, more stringent criteria for Black people to get an ID than for White people?  I hope not, because the criteria are exactly the same for everyone, regardless of skin color.  

 

Are you saying that Black people, in aggregate, find it tougher than Whites to get one – which overtly suggests that Black people, in aggregate, are an inferior race, less capable of performing what amounts to a simple procedure than Whites are?  I hope for your sake you aren’t, because – aside from being dead wrong -it makes you a stone, cold racist.  

 

Or are you saying that a larger number of Blacks than Whites do not have documentation, thus cannot secure voter IDs.  This would also mean they have no birth records, no immunization shots, never enrolled in school, never got a library card, never got a driver’s license, and never did a bunch of other things that people do to establish their identities.  I would think a) there are very few such people in that situation, b) there is no reason to suppose that skin color correlates to those who are, and c) in any event, it is more than a little possible that people who cannot supply such documentation are probably not qualified to vote in the first place.

 

–Demanding a voter ID is the same thing as re-implementing “Jim Crow” laws, such as a poll tax or literacy requirement.  As such they are designed to keep Black people from voting:

 

If the requirements for a voter ID were in any way different for Blacks than they are for Whites, I would agree with you.  But they are not in any way different, so that one goes down in flames.  Next?

 

-Voter IDs are irrelevant, because there is virtually no voter fraud. 

 

No one believes this BS – not even the Democrat political operatives who are barfing it out at us – like you, Chris.  Look at the polls, and you will see that, for years, a large majority in this country, including a majority of Democrats, and Black people, supports a voter ID requirement.  If most Black people are on board with voter ID, how can you then claim voter ID is detrimental to Black people?  Do you think they’re all stupid?  Here we go back to that “Blacks are inferior to Whites” crap I gave you a pass on earlier.  Maybe I acted too hastily.

 

–If Democrats can keep equating voter ID with suppression of the Black vote – i.e. racism – long enough, it will eventually turn the Black population against IDs, and will become an issue that gets more Blacks out to the polls – which is great for me and my pals because Black people vote vastly more for Democrats than Republicans.

 

Hey!!  Waddaya know!! Finally a reason we can agree on.

That wraps it up.