Andrea Tantaros found a new way of unloading her hate for America today: cringing at the thought of all Americans voting.
On today’s Outnumbered, one of the pretexts for condemning President Obama was his suggestion that this country consider mandatory voting.
Most of the hosts hated the idea of being forced to vote. But there was also a strong undercurrent of suggestion that people who don’t vote are too stupid or ignorant to vote (as opposed to having work or family commitments because voting is not a holiday or even lack of inspiration).
Cohost Melissa Francis said, “If you’re not engaged enough to vote, please don’t. Please, please, please don’t. Stay home.”
Cohost Kirsten Powers said, “You shouldn’t be voting if you aren’t informed about everything that you’re voting for.”
But leave it to Tantaros – the woman who asked her radio show listeners to “do me a favor” and punch an Obama supporter “in the face” – to express the most contempt for her fellow citizens. “I mean, we’ve all seen Watters World,” she sneered, referring to a regular Fox segment in which Fox’s Jesse Watters deliberately tries to make Americans look stupid. “Do we really want everybody voting? I don’t think so!”
And these folks have the nerve to accuse Obama of not loving America?
Watch it below, from today's Outnumbered (H/T Talking Points Memo)
LOVE the idea of universal gun ownership
HATE the idea of universal health care or voting
.
Bear in mind this was a STATE election where the total population is about 7/8ths that of Wyoming, yet the voter turnout was more than 1/3 MORE than Wyoming’s turnout in the 2012 PRESIDENTIAL election (and Wyoming’s 2012 turnout was about 2% less than 2008).
I don’t really see any problem with it (obviously, if FoxNoise and its talking
Hell, you want to get people out to vote? Put a box on the tax forms for people to check with a $5 or $10 deduction for having voted (finally a reason to merit getting one of those stupid little “I voted” stickers—you just apply your sticker to your tax form, along with the copy of your W2; someone would need to figure out how to prove it for online tax forms) and there’d be such a turnout, it’d set records. Of course, failure to check off that box and you pay $5 or $10 (which would result in that much less of a refund).
I remember around 1982 when the Democratic lead Congress wanted to raise the minimum wage which was at $3.35 at the time and the Reagan administration countered with either lowering and/or completely elimination of the minimum wage. Both sides didn’t get what they proposed but that was end result of what Reagan wanted to happen and leave it as it was as the federal minimum wage was never raised during his 8 years until states like they did in California raised it.
I don’t agree that anyone should be forced by law to vote in the same way no one should ever be forced to attend church once a week, however we do to make voting easier for those who choose to and not be forced to play any ridiculous voter ID hoops when that problem is near zero.
I agree, we don’t need FOX watchers, the most uniformed people on the planet voting.