Fox's MacCallum Calls Carving Out Black Congressional Districts 'Offensive'
Fox's MacCallum twists herself in knots defending the Supreme Court basically gutting the Voting Rights Act on this Thursday's The Five.
As we already discussed here:
[The] Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act and handed Republicans a big, fat gift, even as the right-wing justices pretended otherwise. This could bring the U.S. back to the Jim Crow era.
“Republicans could ultimately eliminate a dozen Democratic congressional seats in the South as a result, leaving no Democratic representatives or majority-minority districts in states including Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Louisiana—the very places where voting discrimination has historically been most prevalent,” National Voting Rights Correspondent Ari Berman wrote for Mother Jones.
Here's hosts Greg Gutfeld and MacCallum pretending that lumping people into districts where their vote is diluted isn't actually disenfranchising them, with MacCallum calling it "offensive" that anyone would dare make sure there are still some Black Representatives in the House in states that Berman discussed, and defending this latest atrocity from SCOTUS:
GUTFELD: So, Martha, I think you know I was talking to an influential liberal today, and she did not understand that this was not taking away a person's vote. It was just no longer allocating them in a division or a group. They can still vote.
MACCALLUM: Yeah, so...
GUTFELD: I won't name that liberal.