If anyone needs to "get off the crank" Senator Kennedy, it's you. What a nasty piece of work these two are.
Fox has been lying continuously to their viewers about what's in the so-called SAVE Act, and the impact it will have on the roughly 11% of U.S. citizens — around 21 million people — that lack government-issued photo ID, and that the requirements will disproportionately affect women, low-income voters, elderly people, minorities, and young voters.
On this Tuesday's The Story with Martha MacCallum, they were back at it again with a new twist. Attacking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for following federal laws when it comes to hiring people as emergency snow shovelers ahead of the storm that just came in, before Kennedy accused DNC Chair Ken Martin of being on drugs for rightfully discussing who the law will harm and the fact that it is indeed a poll tax.
Here's the exchange with Kennedy and MacCallum with Kennedy doing his usual phony, good ole' boy, Foghorn Leghorn imitation:
MACCALLUM: So, you know, this is obviously a little problematic for Mayor Mamdani, given the Democrat stance that it would be so atrocious for people to have... for you guys to pass the SAVE Act and have people actually have to show ID to vote.
KENNEDY: Yeah. Well, you know, I don't know the Mayor. He seems like a nice enough guy, but he must think there's an award for being stupid. I mean, the American people look at this stuff and they're aghast.
You're gonna require somebody to show not one form, but two forms of ID in order to shovel snow, but not to vote. I mean, it's a silly dispute. Everybody has ID. Everybody could get ID.
I can tell you the way my people back in Louisiana feel about it. They feel about it. They tell me, if you can't figure out how to get an ID, you probably shouldn't be voting. I mean, it's pretty basic.
MACCALLUM: Well, listen to Ken Martin, the DNC Chair on the Save America Act, because that's what this all brings to mind. Watch this.
MARTIN: There are lots of people in this country that don't have voter IDs, right? Whether it's seniors, whether it's young people, you know, we know that this would have a dramatic impact on married women. [...]
Reality is this would actually be one of the largest poll taxes on the American people, forcing people to go and get an ID to vote. [...]
There is no massive voter fraud in this country, so this is a solution search of a problem that is actually going to disenfranchise millions of American voters. It's not worth it.
MACCALLUM: I know a lot of married women. I've never heard one tell me how hard it is for them to vote because they're a married woman. What's at the heart of this? What's this really all about?
KENNEDY: It's a loss of perspective. It's the attitude that if they're for it, we've got to be against it. Mr. Martin also seems like a nice guy. I don't hate anybody. To him, I'd say, you know, paraphrasing Congresswoman Omar, I love you like a brother, man, but for God's sake, stop and think about what you're saying.
Everybody has to show an ID for everything. And it's this kind of thinking that led Mr. Martin and others to want to debate with a straight face about whether men can breastfeed.
I mean, that's why the American people look at this and go, you know, back off the crank. You know, the only possible explanation for this kind of foolishness is really good drugs. I mean, it makes no sense.
The criticism make perfect sense to anyone who's looked at what the law does and understands they want to disenfranchise Democratic voters. If they thought people would actually support what's in it, they wouldn't feel the need to lie about it constantly.
