skippy the bush kangaroo: good news/bad news

Saturday, October 20, 2007

good news/bad news

two weeks ago our good buddy the brad blog broke this story about john tanner, the doj voting rights chief:

unbelievably, the chief of the voting section of the civil rights division, u.s. department of justice, john tanner, contends that while it's "a shame" that elderly voters may be disenfranchised by new photo id restrictions at the polls because many don't have driver's licenses, minorities don't have to worry quite as much. why? because "minorities don't become elderly the way white people do. they die first."

yes, that's what tanner said last friday at the national latino congreso in los angeles and the brad blog was in tow with video camera to prove it...

go over to the brad blog to see/hear tanner's own words.

the good news is, now the asspress has picked up the story.

the bad news is, the asspress (aptly named) incorrectly attributed the source as a generic "youtube video" and didn't credit the brad blog.

we assured the brad blog we would not make such an error.

go, brad blog!

Labels: blogtopia vs. mmm, voting rights

posted by skippy at 12:27 AM |

2 Comments:

John Tanner: Tom Tancredo's "smarterer" brother.

commented by

Carl, 5:00 AM PDT

thanks for picking up on this...
I also wanted to ask you if you would think of airing Randi Rodes tape- it is on a few blogs- where she finally in her own words talks about her injuries- more medical people need to hear her story- it does NOT sound like she just fainted or passed out....
( I wish someone would see if there is surrveilance camera footage from near the pub where she was).

( http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/, has it up , take a listen...thanks..

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enigma4ever, 9:19 AM PDT

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