Frank's lesson from spread of universal voter registration falsehood: "[B]e very skeptical" of "right-wing propagandists"
February 04, 2010 4:31 pm ET by Media Matters staff
In a February 3 statement on the House floor, Rep. Barney Frank responded to false claims that circulated in the right-wing media that he had planned to introduce a bill on universal voter registration.
Media Matters for America documented how the claim originated with Wall Street Journal writer John Fund and spread to other right-wing media figures and outlets, including The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.
In his floor statement, Frank recounted how the falsehood spread through the right-wing media: "It begins with a lie from this editorial writer from The Wall Street Journal. It is then a lie repeated by all of his right-wing colleagues."
In concluding his remarks, Frank stated: "I hope people will take from this the lesson to be very skeptical when these right-wing propagandists - Limbaugh, Beck, or The Washington Times, or The Wall Street Journal editorial board -- propagate these vicious smears."
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001140051
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Read the first paragraph here.
Don't you mean to say "What, me worry?".
Projecting much?
Wow. Delusions of grandeur. You put yourself as low as Beck & Co.
and anyother [sic] conservative All [sic] the time.
Our insults are based on facts. You really should try it sometime.
Don't you read?
So says the poster child for illiteracy. My goodness, you are underwhelming.
What's wrong with everyone being registered to vote? Are they afraid illegal immigrants will vote or something?
As are all your "points"
Show me where in the Constitution that you have to buy car insurance? Oh, that's not in there either, but yet, we have to do that.
It IS in the Constitution that you have to pay the Government (ie, taxes).
Find a carrot in the constitution! You can't? Wow, no more cole slaw for you then.
Doesn't appear anywhere in there funnily enough.
1...2...3...
Oh my. What have I done?
He shoves it right back in their faces.
Conservatives then do what they do best: Whine and then run and hide behind their mother's apron.
Please post a link to the actual bill that was going to be submitted in January, especially since it is now Febuary.
BTW What the heck kind of "proof" is a letter to a Mich. congressman from someone in Lansing?
Thanks for linking to that letter. It was hilarious!! I especially liked this part:
Please Mr. Letterwriter, tell us just where this is happening and how much is happening. Surely you have multiple examples of this to show us.
And then he followed up with this:
This is so funny on so many levels it's hard to know where to start. I mean, there's the imaginary legislation he mentions. Then there's the imaginary problems he believes the imaginary legislation will create. But the best part is when he claims the imaginary legislation will address nonexistent problems when it's the problems he believes in that are nonexistent.
Was that letter really meant to be taken seriously?
Please Mr. Letterwriter, tell us just where this is happening and how much is happening. Surely you have multiple examples of this to show us.
Your text to link here...
BUT... a woman's prison movie with Ann Coulter, Michelle Malking, Michelle Bachmann, and Sarah Palin might actually be a productive use of their time.