Fox News' reporting on the NAACP's "electioneering" typifies the network's racial agenda.
"Voter fraud monitors on high alert," announces Fox News, which delves into "the latest allegations" of "vote fraud and funny business" across the country.
As it turns out, "the latest allegations" were a couple of days old. And though Fox News could cite no specific claims--substantiated or unsubstantiated --that voting machines were showed "Obama" when voters chose "Romney," it led with the allegation.
And to amp up the racial volume, Eric Shawn reported how, in Houston, Texas, people from the NAACP had the audacity to hand out bottles of water to people waiting in line to vote! It seemed to confirm what True the Vote had been saying for some time: "Eric Holder is supportive of the NAACP's efforts to get the United Nations involved in our elections."
But, as Eric Shawn reports, True the Vote's Eve Rockford was on hand to put a stop to all of it:
Rockford said that the NAACP representatives also were moving people to the front of the line, angering others at the polling site. But she said the judges on site were unable to stop them. "The NAACP basically ran this poll location and the judges did nothing about it," she said.
Both the head of the Texas NAACP and the local sheriff's department refuted Rockford's allegations. and though there was no evidence that Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart was at the scene, he backed up Rockford's claims. As
Stanart explains:
With all the talk about Photo ID and securing the ballot box, we need a strong conservative Republican who will make sure our elections are secure and fair. This is critical to Republicans staying in power county wide.
True The Vote has been the driving force behind the new Texas voter ID laws.
Shawn carefully excludes any information that touches of the political agendas of True the Vote or Stan Stanart. For the same reasons that, on Fox News, you will never see any coverage referring to the criminal investigations in Florida, North Carolina, Virginia and Colorado implicating the former head of the Arizona Republican Party, Nathan Sproul, whose firm had a multimillion dollar contract with the Republican Party.
Shawn goes on:
Perhaps the most memorable incident of voter intimidation -- or at least the most controversial -- from the 2008 election was the appearance by New Black Panther Party members at a Philadelphia polling site. One of them was holding a billy club -- it resulted in a federal case, though the local leaders faced no serious punishment.
According to the Philadelphia Daily News, New Black Panthers leader Malik Zulu Shabazz has said the group will "consider" whether to monitor polling places again this year. Shabazz said on WABC Radio that the group wants to watch for "intimidation against our people," but said nobody will have any weapons on them this time.
But wait, on this very morning from Fox News:
JUST IN: Member of New Black Panther Party Watches Philadelphia Polling Place.