Over the past year, the liberal media have invested so much time and effort in selling the lie that Georgia’s election law is racist and suppresses votes that they are actively beginning to warp reality to fit with their flawed vision. For hapless MSNBC hack Joy Reid on Monday night, this took the form of some truly impressive lies, logical inconsistency, and outright racism as she tried to claim that record-high early voting ahead of Tuesday’s Peach State primaries didn’t change the fact that those who oppose Democratic gubernatorial nominee (and future President of United Earth) Stacey Abrams are white and racists salivating at the chance to block minorities from voting.
After having started by calling Georgia’s election “Jim Crow version 2.0,” Reid moved from strength to strength, arguing that, “Republicans, with the help of some in the political press, are now using the huge turnout in the primary so far to push a new Big Lie that the record turnout, which is mainly from Republican primary voters, means that Georgia’s suppressive voting law is not suppressive at all, despite the fact that the voters that it was meant to harm most, are not voting in contested primaries.”
Reid introduced Abrams. She then decided to take her claims that the media is biased towards Republicans even further.
It feels like there is some kind of narrative that is congealing in much of the political media, which comes from Republicans. But it’s settling in among many people in my profession because lots of people turnedout…there isn’t voter suppression in Georgia. As I mentioned in my intro, it is overwhelmingly, you know., significantly more Republicans.
It is hard to believe Reid even considered the Georgia races. Most prominent race in the Republican gubernatorial primaries is between Trump-endorsed David Perdue and Mike Kemp, who is being supported by Pence, while Abrams runs unopposed. And Reid is crying “voter suppression” because of increased GOP voter turnout? Occam’s Razor is clearly not a part of Joy Reid’s cognitive toolset.
Reid then undercut her entire argument by admitting, “Maybe the real test for how the law affects them will come in November.”
Undeterred by her own tonal whiplash, Reid pitched a softball question about voter suppression which she primed by telling Abrams, “They are not the ones who have long lines.” If there is one sign of a suppressed electorate, it’s long lines of voters waiting to vote for which candidate they want to be elected. But as for Republican voters, “They get to breeze right through. They are not the ones who have suppression.”
Reid seems to believe that Georgia’s law provides a unique VIP line for Republican voters.
Abrams agreed with Reid’s rambling, employing her new favorite simile of throwing people in shark-infested waters.
After giving Abrams an opportunity to explain her comment about how Georgia was “the worst state in the country to live” (which Abrams admitted was “inartfully delivered”), Reid decided to conclude her interview with a dash of casual racism:
The feeling is that a lot the Republican rhetoric, even in several states, speaks to only one Georgia. Kemp and Perdue, there’s one Georgia they’re speaking to, and it doesn’t look like us and it — it feels exclusionary, that, like, we’re happy with what we have. Nobody who is — who doesn’t have money, no one who isn’t wealthy, no one who isn’t white is part of their Georgia.
It is only a hope that Georgian voters will recognize this as the divisive, racist rhetoric it really is.
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For the complete transcript click on “Expand”.
MSNBC’s The ReidOut
5/23/22
7:02 PM ETJOY RED: Georgia was also the victim of the Big Lie by President George W. Bush. Its Jim Crow Version 2.0 voter law, which Republicans imposed last year based on a false assertion that fraud, has led to it becoming the epicenter for voter suppression. And Republicans, with the help of some in the political press, are now using the huge turnout in the primary so far to push a new Big Lie that the record turnout, which is mainly from Republican primary voters, means that Georgia’s suppressive voting law is not suppressive at all, despite the fact that the voters that it was meant to harm most, are not voting in contested primaries. The real test of how this law impacts them may be in November. Stacey Abrams is the Democratic candidate for Georgia governor. Thank you, Leader Abrams. Because I feel that a narrative seems to be congealing in much of the media, which comes from Republicans. But it’s settling in among some people in my profession. That is because many people turned out, 857,000, and that is proof that there isn’t any voter suppression in Georgia. As I mentioned in my intro, it is primarily, you know. substantially more Republicans. They don’t have to wait in lines. They can breeze through. They’re not those who suffer from suppression. It is in person voting. This is not mail-in. This isn’t mail-in.
STACEY ABRAMS (Well, it’s important to narrow down the issue to this. It is the equivalent to saying more people vote means that there isn’t suppression. This is analogous to saying people that sharks are not present if they go in the water. More people will get into the water to see fewer sharks. This is not the case. It’s about preventing or limiting certain kinds of voters from taking part in elections. You pointed out that Republicans are currently the most popular party. But, what do we know about the postal ballot rejection rate?
REID: Right.
ABRAMS: How are people experiencing difficulties? We do however have very concrete examples that show the impact of this law.
(….)
7:05:12 p.m.
2 minutes and 7 secondABRAMS: But, that said, we do know that we are seeing outrage driving voters of color to the polls and that’s the other thing that we used to say, and I said constantly. Turnout of voters is the best antidote against voter suppression.
REID: Yeah.
ABRAMS: They’re going to try to make it hard, so the more of us who show up, we overwhelm the system with our presence, but to let them off the hook —
REID: Yeah.
ABRAMS — for what they have done, simply because they didn’t do it as well as they thought —
REID: Yeah.
ABRAMS: — is, I think, nonsensical.
REID: Well, and also because the law they put in helped some — more of their voters turn out…
ABRAMS: Absolutely.
REID: — well, that doesn’t say there’s no voter suppression against the other voters. They said it helped them. Anyway, let’s move on. It seems like you are getting a lot from everyone. I mean, I have been — when I get to the states, I always watch local TV —
ABRAMS: Yes.
REID: — because I just want to see what’s on local TV. Well, it’s all political ads, of course. It was incredible to me, that you were featured in all of the ads. They’re like, but that Stacey Abrams, I’m going to fight her from this dogcatching spot. Brian Kemp and others have been taking a lot of heat about what you’ve said. Let me play the game. It was something you spoke at a Gwinnett County Democratic gala. This is it.
ABRAMS [on 05/21/22]: It is tiresome to hear about the greatest state to conduct business. When in fact, we are one of the worst places to live. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] Now, somebody’s going to try to PolitiFact me on this, so let me contextualize. When you’re number 48 for mental health, when you’re number one for maternal mortality, when you have an incarceration rate that’s on the rise and wages that are on the decline, then you are not the number one place to live.
REID: Find the lie. I mean, where’s the lie? I mean, where’s the lie?
ABRAMS. It was not in a professional manner. My point was a point that I have made many times and my passion in making this point is important, because we are listening to Brian Kemp give a — give narrative about a record that does not reflect reality. As I travel around the state more, I meet people in deep pain.
(….)
7:07:47 p.m.
31 secondsABRAMS: And so my point is well-intended, which is that, for so many Georgians, this is not the number one place to be, but we have the capacity for greatness and if people didn’t splice the pieces they like and actually listen to my entire narrative, my point is that I want more for Georgia. Our greatness is what I believe. My parents took me here my first time. I came back the second time because this is where I want to live and I think there’s a phrase in the black church that I love. It’s like, charge it to my head, and not my heart. Georgia is my heart.
(….)
7:12:26 p.m.
35 SecondsREID: You know the thing about — I do love Atlanta. It’s a great city. But you — it feels like a lot of the Republican rhetoric, not just here, in a lot of states, is speaking to one Georgia. Kemp and Perdue, there’s one Georgia they’re speaking to, and it doesn’t look like us and it — it feels exclusionary, that, like, we’re happy with what we have. Nobody who is — who doesn’t have money, no one who isn’t wealthy, no one who isn’t white is part of their Georgia. It just — to me, as a person that’s just visiting here, that’s what sort of troubles me.
ABRAMS: I believe the problem is more complex. They don’t care about rural Georgians, regardless of color.
REID: Yeah.
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