{"id":1106,"date":"2004-09-26T04:10:59","date_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/26\/fox-news-lies-claims-students-registering-to-vote-is-a-felony\/"},"modified":"2004-09-26T04:10:59","modified_gmt":"2004-09-26T12:10:59","slug":"fox-news-lies-claims-students-registering-to-vote-is-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1106","title":{"rendered":"Fox News lies, claims students registering to vote is a felony"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ms. Musings has the full story.<\/a> In a nutshell, however: An Ariizona Fox News station reported on a U of Arizona feminist group’s “Get Out Her Vote” effort with a quote from a local official “who said that students can’t register to vote where they attend college. The word ‘felony’ was used.”<\/p>\n

(Fox somehow neglected to inform viewers that the Supreme Court answered this question a quarter century ago – students have – or should have – the right to register to vote where they attend college.)<\/p>\n

It turns out – according to the local official Fox quoted – that Fox used out-of-context quoting to distort his meaning. From Katha Pollitt<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Roads says he was “shocked when it blossomed into a story about prosecuting people” for registering — in fact, he told me, no one has ever been prosecuted in Arizona over residency requirements. What is residency, exactly? “Residency means you intend to remain,” he went on.<\/p>\n

“So it’s a subjective thing?” I asked. “You look into your heart?”<\/p>\n

“That’s right,” he said. “You look into your heart.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Can you imagine the fuss if CBS lied about the law in a blatant attempt to drive down Republican voter registration?<\/p>\n

(And while I’m on the subject, do read through People for the American Way’s report on GOP attempts to keep black voters away from the polls<\/a>. Or Salon’s <\/i>article<\/a> on the same issue, via Mouse Words<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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