{"id":21421,"date":"2014-10-26T05:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21421"},"modified":"2014-10-26T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T16:16:07","slug":"rachel-maddow-deliciously-unravels-the-fox-news-voter-fraud-frankenstein-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21421","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow Deliciously Unravels The Fox News “Voter Fraud Frankenstein” Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Tuesday Megyn Kelly of Fox News hosted a segment on what she characterized as a frightening assault on democracy in Colorado as Democrats plotted to surreptitiously turn the “red meat state”<\/em> blue. Setting aside the fact that Colorado has been a solid purple state for years, Kelly’s alarm was grossly misplaced and indicative of her extreme right-wing bias. She led off with a dire message for her easily spooked audience.<\/p>\n

“Breaking tonight. With two weeks to the midterms we are getting warnings that a new law has opened the door to possible voter fraud in a critical senate race that could decide the balance of power in Congress.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Saints preserve us. What malevolent disaster is looming over us now? Kelly “reported”<\/em> that Colorado’s Democratic governor and legislature passed a new “first of its kind”<\/em> law that “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers.”<\/em> And with a chastening glare she facetiously asks “What could go wrong?”<\/em><\/p>\n

What indeed? Well, the first thing that could go wrong is that Kelly’s reporting is entirely false. When local reporters with KUSA TV contacted<\/a> Colorado’s Republican Secretary of State he told them that there was no truth to the story. Rachel Maddow covered the misleading reporting by Kelly in a brilliant segment that broke down the shameless dishonesty that is the hallmark of Fox News:<\/p>\n