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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNC GOP Official fired after bragging voter ID law would "kick democrats' butt."
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/24/nc-gop-official-fired-after-bragging-voter-id-law-would-kick-the-democrats-butt/Check out the video.
In the interview, which aired Wednesday night, Yelton tells Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi that the new voting law, which mandates voter identifications, the curtailing of early voting operations and does not allow college students to vote using their school ID, is going to kick the Democrats in the butt. He also dismisses concerns that the law will particularly affect communities of color by saying, If it hurts a bunch of lazy Blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.
The Daily Show ROCKS.
tanyev
(42,571 posts)from The Daily Show. I imagine when they're done taping they even think to themselves, "Nailed it!"
cui bono
(19,926 posts)wasn't really a conservative? I think it was Delay...
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)cui bono
(19,926 posts)hootinholler
(26,449 posts)Screen cap of poll results about the backwash joke:
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Probably everyone he knows, within a 15 mile radius, agrees with these things so he assumes that everyone else in the country does too. Maybe even that black best friend of his says that he agrees.
They have such limited lives they have no idea that the world is so much bigger than them.
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)The more experienced R politicians know to keep it to themselves when in a public setting. That's the only difference between this guy and all the others pushing this voter ID bullshit.
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)h
jeff47
(26,549 posts)Getting those can add additional fees - to get a copy of my birth certificate from CA would cost me $40.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)the real outrage is the law not his words IMO
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)THAT stupid.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)The voting rights act was no longer needed
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)In other words, the repunks are supposed to use dog whistles instead of overt racism.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)malaise
(269,057 posts)but he is not the first ReTHUG to say that publicly. Didn't that moron in Pennsylvania brag that the voter ID would give Pennsylvania to Rmoney?
The man spoke the truth
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)malaise
(269,057 posts)IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)I hope it ruins them in the elections! "..bunch of lazy blacks" indeed! That sort of slander ought to keep everyone home and happy on election day for sure. Y'know one of the main visuals I remember from the last presidential election day? The sight of that pregnant lady standing in line to vote after her water broke instead of dashing off to the hospital. That was absolutely noble.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Mandvi's facial expressions as Yelton rambles on; not only burning bridges behind him, he was napalming the surrounding countryside. I'm surprised there isn't a bill before the North Carolina legislature to rescind Mr. Yelton's NC citizenship.
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)with him. The governor - not Yelton - is responsible for the voting fiasco. Yelton just told the truth about GOP motives. Mustn't have the truth
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)I'm still giggling about that "pro-life" chick who Jason Jones interviewed. What a twit she was!
barbtries
(28,799 posts)was when Mandvi said, "You know we can hear you, right?"
i really had to see that to believe it. but what really got him fired is that he accidentally told the truth about why the republicans have made this terrible law.
a classic - i had to watch it again.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)everyone in my house stopped what they were doing to come listen. That was priceless. And the guy, what an embarrassment for this state. Sadly, one of thousands.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)laws, using that video as evidence of intent to rig elections by violating certain groups' civil rights--including the civil rights and particularly the *voting* rights of specifically *protected* groups.
Johnny Ready
(203 posts)It's funny to watch someone with a high IQ play with someone who just thinks they are smart. Wow, I will never forget that quote.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)leeroysphitz
(10,462 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)This interview just gives them more to work with.
Federal authorities are challenging four parts of the state law, passed soon after the Supreme Court invalidated a key part of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act in June. Those provisions include: the state's decision to cut back on early voting by a week; the elimination of same-day registration during that early voting period; the prohibition on counting certain provisional ballots that are not prepared in a voter's specific precinct; and the adoption of a strict photo identification requirement without protections for voters who lack that required ID.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/30/227591062/justice-department-to-sue-north-carolina-over-voter-id-law
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)He was so confident in the idea that he is normal and his way of thinking is a good thing. He was practically looking at the interviewer like *he* was crazy and out of the norm.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... their party to challenge his thinking
Stryder
(450 posts)that clip on Rachel. "You know we can hear you, right?"
Priceless.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I will never understand why conservatives allow themselves to be interviewed by the Daily Show. They have to know how it will turn out.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)bubble. They only listen to their own media sources, treat opposition parties like they have the plague, and they lose sight of real American values. He didn't think what he said was bad. Don't you get it. He didn't slip up. He thought what he said was okay. And FWIW, he's my kind of bigot. Admits it openly and doesn't hide behind the Bible or code words. I have way more respect for him that I do the Bible bigots, or the "not in public" bigots.
tblue37
(65,408 posts)craves these days.
Change has come
(2,372 posts)Thanks for the post.
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)pepperbear
(5,648 posts)You GD right he did!
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)earlier in that same show
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)ananda
(28,866 posts)That's because the name on the ID has to match the name on the rolls.
If it doesn't, the person has to sign an affidavit or vote on a provisional
ballot with only six days to correct the name officially.
This is really affecting married women who changed their names, but
it's also affecting many others as well.
I can't believe people are OK with this. There should be a lot of anger
and outrage, but for some reason we've been conditioned to just roll
over and take it.
patricia92243
(12,597 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Here this idiot told the truth. The real purpose of these laws is to suppress the vote of groups who voted or democrats
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Sad. Now, he'll never make to the eleventy-seventh order of the money-garter.
randr
(12,412 posts)He was fired for letting us know how many assholes are in the Republican party.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Love it.
tridim
(45,358 posts)I bet his producer winked back.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)It's so awesome.
packman
(16,296 posts)I do believe the local FOX station has created a new opening in Human Resources.
TlalocW
(15,384 posts)Republicans on the Daily Show and Colbert Report
I think maybe the older generation (that this guy belongs to) doesn't fully realize the combined power of the Daily Show and the internet so they think they're doing a podunk little show that can't possibly hurt them. That might change since this guy was fired.
I think with the Colbert Report, a lot of them just don't get the humor. Conservatives are humor-impaired, which explains why FOX's attempt at a Daily Show like show bombed so badly. Plus, typical conservative humor is often mean-spirited and aimed at the most vulnerable of society. Anything else is foreign to them.
The famous conservatives actually think they can "hang" with Stewart/Colbert - Like O'Reilly. There's no doubt in my mind that he thinks he's as smart AND as funny as those two, which is why he keeps having them on his show and going on theirs.
TlalocW
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)I thought it was fake at first. Jeez....I can't believe he really admitted that stuff about him thinking that young people and Blacks being too lazy to vote. He's too stupid to even work for Republicans!
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)Isn't this a smoking gun admission that the motivation behind the law is to disenfranchise voters of a particular party? As such, does this not expose as false the "official" rationale that the law's purpose is to ensure voting integrity?
And, if so, then isn't this illegal and shouldn't it be investigated and prosecuted as a violation of voting rights?
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)Governor McCrookie hired a GOP crony at $360/hr to represent him:
The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the state of North Carolina, charging the elections law discriminates against minorities. Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat and likely 2016 gubernatorial candidate, is charged with defending the state in legal actions. But his public disfavor for the lawCooper has called it "regressive elections legislation" that would make it more difficult for working people to voteprompted Gov. McCrory to hire his own counsel. Karl "Butch" Bowers, a South Carolina public policy attorney with strong GOP ties, is being paid with state funds at a rate of $360 an hour.
Ryan Tronovitch, deputy communications director for the governor's office, said Bowers' hourly fee is a discounted rate. Bowers will be paid using "state funds," Tronovitch said, without clarification.
Tronovitch would not say whether there is a cap on Bowers' pay, citing that as "privileged information."
....
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/mccrory-hires-political-operative-to-defend-state-in-doj-lawsuit/Content?oid=3738660
frylock
(34,825 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)SaveOurDemocracy
(4,400 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)Alan West or the pizza man?
Thucydides
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IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)how much Yelton even LOOKS like Archie Bunker?
radicalliberal
(907 posts). . . so we won't have to look at his stupid face!
IrishAyes
(6,151 posts)NuttyFluffers
(6,811 posts)mere cover your ass firing. never forget that they truly believe this -- that's why they are gleefully implementing so many voter laws so fast.
Johnny Ready
(203 posts)That is the weirdest part of all this non sense. Does he have an IQ even close to room temperature? Why are these people (extreme conservatives) having such a hard time with basic common sense and decency? At this point it's hard to watch.
Stupid people yelling very loudly are still stupid.
NorthCarolina
(11,197 posts)North Carolina GOP precinct official Don Yelton participated in a segment on the state's controversial voter ID law -- legislation which he argued was not racist. He also criticized "lazy black people that want the government to give them everything."
"Now you have a black person using the term, "N***** this and n***** that, and it's OK for them to do it," Yelton added.
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/don-yelton-racist_n_4164763.html
IkeRepublican
(406 posts)They do more damage to themselves than most democrat campaign efforts can ever seem to do.