Damn the lies

By Capt. Fogg

(Ed. note: It's not just Shannon Bream spewing this lie, it's Fox News generally. And if it's damned lies you're looking for, you need look no further than Mitt Romney, who once again, with the truth against him one more, is smearing the president with his trademark dishonesty. -- MJWS)

If some day someone erects a cenotaph somewhere in the arid and polluted desert that used to be called the United States of America, some inscription marking two vast and trunkless legs of stone, it should give credit to Fox News. Amongst the other factors that contributed to the fall of "The Greatest Country there Ever Was," Fox must stand out. Fox must at least be in gilded letters or garish neon lights, because no day and few hours have passed since its inception wherein some grotesque lie, libel, or hyperbolic defamation designed to undermine truth, decency, and democracy has failed to appear. 

“If President Obama gets his way, the special voting rights of some of America’s finest will be eliminated,” host Shannon Bream said Friday night. “The campaign is suing to keep members of the military from having extra time to cast their ballots in one key battleground state.” 

No it isn't. The suit does not seek to impair voting rights for anyone but seeks to reinstate rights taken from the general population by the Republican-controlled Ohio legislature, and if there were a God anything like the fire-and-brimstone scourge of iniquity people dream about, the earth would open up and swallow Ms. Bream and Roger Ayres and Rupert Murdoch would become pillars of shit.

The suit by the Ohio Democratic Party and the Obama campaign argues that Ohio's new law creates an unconstitutional tiered voting system, where early voting is only allowed for military personnel. As Jonathan Terbush writes at Raw Story:

The suit would not prevent military members from "having extra time" to vote, as the Fox report insinuated. Rather, it asks that the court, by blocking enactment of the new law, reinstate the extra time all voters used to enjoy for casting their ballots.

You may suspect that I've lost faith in this truth-forsaken land and its lunatic tribes, and you'd be close to the truth. Our once powerful and always dishonest country won't be powerful forever, nor will its self-righteousness last forever. The worms, the maggots chewing on the gangrenous flesh of America are employees of Fox, and Shannon Bream is a liar -- if not damned by God, then at least damned by decency. God damn Fox News. God damn them all to hell.

(Cross-posted at Human Voices.)