“Wrong on multiple levelsâ€: WaPo drops four Pinocchios on Hillary’s vote-suppression claims
Ed MorrisseyPosted at 4:01 pm on March 6, 2019
A fake Southern accent wasn’t Hillary Clinton’s only affectation this weekend. The Washington Post’s fact-checkers called Hillary’s claims of voter suppression in 2016 and 2018 “way off-base,†awarding her the maximum four Pinocchios for her speech at the annual Selma March commemoration on Sunday. Among other notably bad arguments, Clinton claimed that a Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act cost her Wisconsin three years earlier:
“I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference. And it doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia; it made a difference in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 [thousand] and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.†…
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/06/wrong-multiple-levels-wapo-drops-four-pinocchios-hillarys-vote-suppression-claims/
