Last night, The Daily Show destroyed — destroyed — Florida Gov. Rick Scott and all of his recent voter suppression schemes in the Sunshine State: onerous restrictions on registration, early voting and his recent attempted voter roll purging in a two-part slam. Here’s PART 1…
As a bonus in the must-see PART 2 of this piece, wherein correspondent John Oliver travels down to Florida, you’ll also get a few moments which highlight Republican mercenary, hack for hire and esteemed “voter fraud” fraudster (and well-paid liar) John Fund for the dangerous mope that he is…
Two of the best lines from the above: 1) Oliver says to Fund after he claims we must stop voter fraud that we don’t know is happening but could be happening: “So voter fraud statistics are limited only as much as your imagination?” 2) Oliver’s last line of the piece: The alleged voter fraud scourge “hasn’t happened, and it won’t happen, and that is why it must be stopped!”
For a more serious take on the latest nightmare(s) for voters in Florida, here’s my interview from last night on the Malloy Show (which I was guest hosting) with the great Leon County, FL Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho. He notes that between this and the failure of the e-voting system, “we are playing with fire”…
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And if, after listening, you’re looking for that “righteous rant” I promised near the end of the above interview, which surprised me as much as anybody, it’s in the very first segment of this subsequent final hour of last night’s show:
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Amazing how humor can expose the absurdity of a John Fund.
Those Daily Show pieces really hit the spot. But not more than your rant, Brad! Thanks for the juice. So great to hear someone expressing some appropriately outraged outrage!
You have to give John Fund credit for being the energizer bunny spokesman on phony voter hysteria.
This is from 8 years ago.
Somebody asking a Governor if he would pee in a cup to justify his public financial burden on national television. A completely legitimate question.
Priceless!