The Daily Show Did A Public Service

[Minimalist]

I remember this episode.  I recall thinking at the time " at least he's honest."

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/ex-gop-o...er-id-law/

Ex-GOP official goes bonkers after court cites his ‘Daily Show’ remarks to kill NC voter ID law

Former North Carolina Republican official Don Yelton is back in the news again for all the wrong reasons.

Yelton was fired from his job way back in 2013 after he told The Daily Show that his state’s new voter ID law would hurt Democratic voters. Specifically, he said that if the law “hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.”

An appeals court last week found that the voter ID law was indeed designed to be discriminatory and it even cited Yelton’s remarks to The Daily Show as part of its case for striking down the law.

[Rev. Rye]

I remember an episode of The Newsroom where Will McAvoy tried to get supporters of Arizona SB 1070, and they're all so incompetent that he actually has to make their arguments for them in a desperate attempt to at least maintain the illusion that there are reasons for it that don't involve fucking with the Mexicans.