I'm a pretty regular MSNBC watcher and I keep seeing an ad by Andrea Mitchell where she makes it clear she is against attempts to supress voting. While this is laudable, she starts out by saying that "political parties and interest groups" are working to keep people from voting. This is a lie and unfairly smears the Democratic Party with the exclusively GOP efforts to suppress voting. I've emailed Andrea and MSNBC a few times to complain about this but the ad keeps running.
Tonight, on Hardball, Chris Mathews also took on voter suppression efforts by GOP state legislatures and at least made it clear that this was solely a Republican effort to suppress voting. I emailed Chris and asked him to talk to his own network and colleague Andrea to stop maligning the Democratic Party by falsely accusing it of participating in these reprehensible efforts. I hope you will join me in contacting MSNBC and Andrea Mitchell to complain about the use of "parties" in her commercial. Attacking efforts to suppress voting is great but wrongly saying that "parties" are working to do it is simply wrong.