http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/02/24/hannity-selmas-john-legend-doesnt-know-anything/202650
Fox News Host Sean Hannity is criticizing singer John Legend's Oscars speech, which invoked the civil rights movement and the ongoing fight for racial and social justice. In response to Legend's completely accurate statement that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is under attack today, Hannity disagreed and appeared to argue that the seminal civil rights law was irrelevant to strict voter ID laws.
On February 22, Legend and co-writer Common won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Glory," from the film Selma, a historical drama about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s fight for equal voting rights. In his acceptance speech, Legend noted that the civil rights struggle represented in the movie continues "right now": "We wrote this song for a film that was based on events that were 50 years ago, but we say that Selma is now, because the struggle for justice is right now. We know that the Voting Rights Act that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised right now, in this country, today."
On the February 23 edition of his show, Hannity complained that Legend "decided to make all things political." Even though Legend didn't explicitly bring up voter ID laws in his speech, Hannity went on to suggest that it was inappropriate for Legend to "equate the Voting Rights Act with showing an ID to get to vote so we can keep honesty and integrity in our elections ... I like John Legend as a musician, but he doesn't know anything about politics":
But Legend is absolutely correct when he says that the Voting Rights Act "is being compromised right now," and it's Hannity who is flat wrong.
In 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, which required states that had a history of racially discriminatory voting practices to secure "preclearance" from the Department of Justice before making changes to their election rules.
Just days after that decision, states that had previously been subject to preclearance began introducing unnecessarily restrictive voter ID laws, despite the fact that in-person voter fraud -- the only kind of election fraud that these laws would prevent -- is virtually nonexistent. Right-wing media and activists are now looking to challenge the constitutionality of the remainder of the Voting Right Act's enforcement mechanism, as part of their continued assault on over fifty years of civil rights precedent.
As for the relation between the law and strict voter ID, contrary to Hannity's assertions, this form of redundant identification has always been subject to the Voting Rights Act and still is litigated under this statute.
this my friends is creating their own news putting words in mouths of those on video tape and you don't have the master to alter lip movement is just plain ignorant like paying 3 couples to rant against ObamaCares it can be researched something those at Fox are like republican politicians they don't want to and don't read anything longer than a paragraph, it's what makes them such obvious liars they keep ignoring their own history and keep repeating it.
they would improve their image over years if they would just research and scrutinize their lies it would save them so much time and embarrassment if they just read something or check their archives maybe it's too many of them for us to expect them to read them much easier to fabricate but in doing that you need to keep records or you build that proverbial tangled web.
