{"id":7673,"date":"2012-07-27T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7673"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:53:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T16:53:25","slug":"new-fox-news-promo-asks-everyone-should-vote-answers-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7673","title":{"rendered":"New Fox News Promo Asks: Everyone Should Vote? Answers: No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a promotion for a new John Stossel program on Fox News, the viewer is asked whether <em>&#8220;everyone should vote.&#8221;<\/em> That question, which by itself belittles the traditional American value of Democracy and civic participation, is followed by a loud game show style buzzer and a big red circle with a line through it &#8211; the universal symbol for the negative.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kWli8NP-Lik\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So once again, Fox is taking a position in favor of shrinking the electorate. It&#8217;s a position that is consistent with their campaign to help states purge their voter rolls of undesirable voters like minorities, seniors, students, and the poor. The evidence of their determination to undermine free elections is overwhelming. The vast majority of those on the purge lists of states like Florida and Pennsylvania are citizens who would be likely to vote Democratic. And just this morning a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/07\/27\/fla_republican_we_suppressed_black_votes\/singleton\/\" target=\"_blank\">report revealed<\/a> that the former head of the Florida Republican Party admitted in a court deposition that the party openly discussed plans aimed at <em>&#8220;keeping blacks from voting.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Conservatives have long had an aversion to full participation in Democracy. They believe that the right to vote is extended too generously to members of society that they don&#8217;t happen to like. Here is a brief sampling of their recent remarks on the subject beginning with Stossel himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>John Stossel (Fox News):<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Let&#8217;s stop saying everyone should vote.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Vadum:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;Registering [the poor] to vote is like handing out burglary tools to criminals. It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rush Limbaugh:<\/strong> <em>&#8220;If people cannot even feed and clothe themselves, should they be allowed to vote?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Judson Phillips (Tea Party Nation):<\/strong> <em>&#8220;If you&#8217;re not a property owner, I&#8217;m sorry, but property owners have a little bit more of a vested stake in the community than not property owners do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Doocy (Fox News):<\/strong> <em>&#8220;With 47% of Americans not paying taxes &#8211; 47% &#8211; should those who don&#8221;t pay be allowed to vote?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans know they can&#8217;t win elections honestly, so they plot to steal elections by preventing, discouraging, and obstructing legitimate citizens from voting. And this new program on Fox is further evidence of their brazen disrespect for Democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a promotion for a new John Stossel program on Fox News, the viewer is asked whether &#8220;everyone should vote.&#8221; That question, which by itself belittles the traditional American value of Democracy and civic participation, is followed by a loud game show style buzzer and a big red circle with a line through it &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[33,1027,301,1039],"class_list":["post-7673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-john-stossel","tag-republicans","tag-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1ZL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29729,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29729","url_meta":{"origin":7673,"position":0},"title":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Opposes Theocracy &#8211; Except For America And Christians","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The dean of Fox News hypocrites has once again demonstrated why he is so revered for his ability to be oblivious to his own self-contradictions. 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An op-ed by John Stossel was published today that took the administration to task for the seat belt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7298,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7298","url_meta":{"origin":7673,"position":2},"title":"Fox Nation&#8217;s Lopsided Reporting On Florida Voter Purge","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/11\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Threats of litigation were flying today between federal agencies and the state of Florida over Florida's efforts to disenfranchise voters who disagree with the state's Republican leadership. Governor Rick Scott's plans to throw people off the voter rolls has been revealed to be a blatant attempt to illegally prevent minorities,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9987,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9987","url_meta":{"origin":7673,"position":3},"title":"Gutting Voting Rights: Supreme Court Gives Racist Republicans Just What They Wanted","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/25\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning the Supreme Court issued their decision on one of the most highly anticipated cases of the year. The Court ruled that Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, that provides for review of potentially discriminatory practices in jurisdictions with a history of voter suppression, is no longer necessary.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7527,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7527","url_meta":{"origin":7673,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Latino: Voter ID Laws Could Block Thousands in November","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/8\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In another example of Fox News pandering to Latino audiences, the Fox News Latino web site featured an article today that contradicted everything that Fox News reports to their non-Latino audiences. This article is a reprint from the Associated Press and it covers the issue of voter suppression in a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6942,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6942","url_meta":{"origin":7673,"position":5},"title":"Fox News Distorts WikiLeaks Data To Advance Phony Voter Fraud Claims","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/24\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Republicans have lately been busy pushing a manufactured fallacy that there is rampant, in-person voter fraud destroying fair elections across America. Of course, they haven't put forth any evidence of it, but they are pushing nonetheless. 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