Fox News meets the PsakiBomb

Fox is trying to minimize the harm from the GOP's new Jim Crow law in Georgia by ignoring the legislation's intent: To take the vote away from African-Americans.

Fox News did something rather crafty today. Their correspondent Peter Doocy was at the daily White House press briefing, and asked Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki a question about Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game to Denver in response to Georgia having just passed a new Jim Crow voter suppression law in order disenfranchise Black voters, and others.

Note that Doocy’s question is itself is a lie. Georgia doesn’t have similar voting rules to Colorado — Psaki addresses that point head on in her reply. But there’s something even more insidious about what Doocy is doing. I’ll get to that after the video clip.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

PETER DOOCY: Is the WH concerned MLB is moving their All Star Game to Colorado, where voting rules are very similar to Georgia? PSAKI: Let me refute that. CO has same-day registration, universal mail voting... it's important to remember the context. The GA bill is built on a lie

The outrage isn’t simply over what Georgia’s voting rules are in comparison to other states. The reason Georgia is in so much trouble is because in response to the 2020 election, in which the Democratic presidential candidate won Georgia’s electoral votes, and two Democrats won its open US Senate seats — a Jew and an African-American, no less! — Georgia Republicans decided to make it harder for Democrats to win in the future. And their main target? Black voters.

Georgia Republicans are trying to steal elections by de facto taking the right to vote away from African-Americans. And that’s all too familiar territory, and motive, to ignore.

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Speaking of GOP election lies, a new poll about the January 6th Insurrection shows that “about half of Republicans believe the siege was largely a non-violent protest or was the handiwork of left-wing activists ‘trying to make Trump look bad,’ a new Reuters/Ipsos poll has found.” Sigh.

Also, forty-five percent of White Evangelicals say they won’t get vaccinated against Covid. Their reasoning is varied, and interesting. In a nutshell, they believe all the lies they’ve been told by the Republican party over the past fifty years, from disbelieving science, distrusting government, and thinking that thoughts and prayers are more effective than a vaccine.

In related news, in Texas, 59% of Republicans are either reluctant to get the vaccine or have refused outright.

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Other Interesting Stuff

Biden is doing an amazing job vaccinating Americans, as compared to how other countries are faring:

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 @aravosis

Oh what a difference a Biden makes.

ian bremmer @ianbremmer

Major economies. Covid vaccine doses administered per 100 people: UK 56 US 50 (big gap) France 18 Germany 17 Canada 17 Brazil 10 China 10 Russia 8 Mexico 7 India 6 Australia 3 Japan 1 -via NYTimes

Republican governors behaving goodly, for once:

Axios @axios

GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson has vetoed a bill to criminalize gender-affirming care for trans kids in Arkansas — calling it "a product of the cultural war in America," a "vast" government overreach and "extreme."

axios.comArkansas Gov. vetoes bill banning gender-affirming care for trans kids, calling it “extreme”Hutchinson called the bill a “vast” government overreach.

I just found this data point interesting:

The Spectator Index @spectatorindex

US Presidents during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II - Harry Truman - Dwight Eisenhower - John F. Kennedy - Lyndon Johnson - Richard Nixon - Gerald Ford - Jimmy Carter - Ronald Reagan - George H. W. Bush - Bill Clinton - George W. Bush - Barack Obama - Donald Trump - Joe Biden

The happiest story you’ll hear in a while:

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 @aravosis

These people are saints. (And don’t worry, the story has a very happy ending!)

And I’ll leave you with new fabulousness from Randy Rainbow:

John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️‍🌈 @aravosis

As always, brilliantly hilarious.

See you all in a few days.
JOHN