Axelrod Calls Out Wallace Over False Claim About Blocking Military Voters

[RedStateLiberal]

From: Crooks and Liars

Top Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday called out Fox News host Chris Wallace after he repeated a claim made by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney that President Barack Obama was trying to block military voters in Ohio.

---SNIP---

"Your campaign is suing the state of Ohio for giving members of the military extra time to vote early, to the Monday before the election while other voters are going to have only until Friday," Wallace told Axelrod on Sunday. "You don't think that members of the military who are serving this country deserve special consideration to vote?"

"I absolutely do and the way you stated it and the way, frankly, Gov. Romney has stated it is completely false and misleading," Axelrod shot back. "What that lawsuit calls for is not to deprive the military of the right to vote on the final weekend of the campaign -- of course they should have that right. What that suit is about is whether the rest of Ohio should have the same right."

"And I think it's shameful that Gov. Romney would hide behind our servicemen and women to try and win a lawsuit to try and deprive other Ohioans of their right to vote," he added.

Read more:
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/axelrod-calls-out-wallace-over-false-claim-a

---

Wallace deceptively framed the issue the same way Mitt Romney has on his Facebook page which you can find here:
https://www.facebook.com/mittromney/posts/10150981967501121

It's good to see Axelrod smacking down this blatant lie and calling them out for misleading the American people as well as using the military to spread this falsehood to cover for their voter suppression efforts.

[freshwest]

1. This needs to get out to all the veterans who may think Obama is discriminating against them.

[formercia]

2. Keeping the Right from getting ahead of the narrative

and bending it for their own purposes is very important.

Nice to see the Dems calling BS.

[malthaussen]

3. This is shameful, Mr Axelrod?

Mr Romney has been hiding behind our servicemen all his life.

-- Mal

[Zoeisright]

6. Yes, this is shameful.

As is just about everything else R(money) does.

[Jessy169]

4. Has Romney attacked Obama with anything but lies?

I can't remember even one "theme" that Romney has pushed against Obama that is not based on a distortion of fact or on an outright lie. This example is just more of the same.

[George II]

5. They ALWAYS resort to that..

........claiming the Democrats don't want military personnel to vote - tried it in Florida back in 2000 and it worked. Of course, there are thousands more citizens outside the country that are NOT military personnel - no word about that (I think the majority are in Israel)

The hypocrisy of it is that most of those whining about the "military not getting to vote" never served in the military themselves!!!

[HowHasItComeToThis]

10. VERY GOOD

[rocktivity]

7. This is what he should have said:

Last edited Mon Aug 6, 2012, 09:54 AM - Edit history (2)

"The state of Ohio has NOT given members of the military extra time to vote early. They have passed a law that TAKES AWAY early voting time from Ohio's NON-military voters. It's also a blatant attempt at weakening Democratic voting power, and THOSE are the reasons we filed the suit."

P.S. Here's to you, Stimpy!




rocktivity

[Cryptoad]

8. WE must,,,

keep exposing these Lies the GOP keep spitting out over, over and over....!

[RedStateLiberal]

9. The more we expose them the more the American people

will see them for what they truly are - LIARS!

Welcome to DU!


And, all hail to your bro the mighty Hypnotoad!

[Cryptoad]

11. Never,,,,,

met a Toad I didn't like!

Thanks for the welcome