For a network that has devoted hundreds of hours to baseless allegations of voter fraud in order to advance their voter suppression agenda, it’s interesting to note that a confirmed case of unlawful voting was completely ignored by Fox News.
The Union Leader of New Hampshire reported Thursday that Sebastian Bradley registered to vote in his home state of New Hampshire, as well as the state of Colorado where he was attending college. Authorities confirmed that he also voted in both locations. Sebastian is the son of Republican state Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, who was running for a seat in the U.S. congress when Sebastian decided to help his dad out with an extra vote.
Fox News apparently found nothing newsworthy in this story of Republican voter fraud, so they avoided any mention of it. First and foremost, it reflects badly on their GOP pals, given the culprit was the son of a powerful Republican politician. Fox is only interested in electoral malfeasance if it can be blamed on Democrats. Secondly, the type of fraud committed would not have been prevented by the onerous voter ID laws that Fox and the Republican Party have been advocating. The voting reforms sought by the right have been carefully concocted to burden mainly citizens who tend to vote for Democrats.
This isn’t the first time that Fox has tailored their reporting to whitewash GOP criminality. Last November Fox reported on a case of voting fraud in Nevada. Unfortunately, they managed to run the whole segment without ever mentioning the fact that the woman arrested for the crime was a registered Republican. That omission resulted in some noxious comments on Fox’s web site by their openly racist audience who simply assumed that the woman was an Obama supporter.
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This is further evidence of the hypocrisy and bias that is employed by Fox in their attempts to suppress the votes of legitimate citizens. They will shamelessly hype any allegation of voter misconduct if it involves a Democrat – even if there was never any actual wrongdoing (as in the ACORN debacle). And they will ignore or misreport any crimes committed by Republicans. Then they will continue to promote reforms that unfairly burden seniors, students, minorities, and the poor, in their efforts to steal elections they would otherwise lose. It’s a coordinated campaign to deny citizens of their right to vote, and it is proudly sponsored by Fox News and enacted by the Republican Party.
Of course FoxGOPTV has ignored it. It’s GOPigs who are committing the fraud. Can’t have the mindless sheep know the truth.
Fox News always engages in selective reporting. If it makes democrats look bad, Fox will hammer it into the heads of their viewers by elevating it to the status of the “worst thing in the world,” but if it makes republicans look bad, Fox will ignore it. When James O’Keefe was found to have tried gaining access to Sen. Landrieu’s office’s communications system (iirc) Fox pretended that nothing had happened. The network did the same thing when O’Keefe tried to run a scam on a female reporter at CNN. It’s no wonder to me why Fox viewers’ opinion/ideas are so far from the mainstream’s opinions/ideas on the same issues. Fox helped republicans lie to Americans about the Affordable Care Act, and it’s beginning to backfire on them. A recent report that former President Clinton spoke about earlier this week shows that republicans are signing more of their older kids onto healthcare through Obamacare than democrats. If these parents didn’t see a need to buy health insurance for their older kids, they wouldn’t be doing it. I hope this means that some of them are no longer listening to the likes of Cruz, Papa Cruz, Jim DeMented, and others who are urging people not to buy insurance under Obamacare.
It could have been worse…they could have said she was a (D)like they normally do!
I guess they also allow posters, to there website, to post the most vile comments I’ve ever seen on mainstream sites.
I don’t understand how a major news network didn’t report this story. Is it because of the source? Is it because of the story? While FOX News is focused on in this post, I found that none of the other major news networks reported on this story, either. I don’t understand how these networks didn’t find this story newsworthy enough to be reported on. I wrote a post about this same story on my blog http://www.dkrotz.wordpress.com. Contact me at dwkrotz1@gmail.com