Welcome back to the show. One of the
major questions being debated in our
country today is whether it's ok for the
president to lie his fucking face off 24
hours a day.
Somehow the jury is still out on that
(JOHN) What do you do when he says something
like millions of voters voting illegally
in California when you know that that's
not true? (REINCE) I don't know if that's not true, John
(John) there is no evidence. When you're
president, can you just offer a theory
that has no evidence behind it or does
he have to tighten up his standards of
proof?
(REINCE) I think he's done a great job
You do? OK, guess that answers my next question --
is it ok for the White House chief of
staff to lie his fucking face off? I'll
put you down for yes
how could anyone believe three million
undocumented Californians would get up
early and risk arrest and deportation to
perform an onerous task we can't even
get our own citizens to do?
OK, point taken. For the record, massive
voter fraud is a lie, but this lie didn't
spring Athena-like from Donald's
collapsing pumpkin of a head.
He is a marketer, his big lies are like
his buildings. He doesn't build them, he
just slaps his brand on them and tricks
the press into promoting them for free.
I'm sure they'll stop taking the bait
any day now. Where does that three
million number come from? Two places: one,
a study which was widely rebutted, even
by the managers of the opt-in web survey
it's based on and whose authors said
Trump had misread their results as proof
of massive voter fraud -- though I'm not
sure about that mis-reading theory.
the other source?
I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the
water that turn the friggin frogs gay!
Do you understand that? CRAP!
Of course, noted Sandy Hook truther and moon-landing
denier Alex Jones, who, despite
protests, got approval to build a
bullshit pipeline straight into the
president-elect's brain. The Secretary of
chemtrails got his three million figure
from the proceedings of the Academy of
some dude on Twitter who totally has
data to back up his claim, but you can't
see it because it lives in Canada. Greg
Phillips is the creator of Vote Stand,
an app that lets anyone document
suspicious activity at polling places
and report it to... just Greg. He'll probably tell
the Election Board or something. Cool app!
I wish it had a better name though. How about...
Pokemon go to the polls
That's great. How did she lose the youth vote? But Greg
didn't invent the lie either. To
understand where it came from,
we have to go back decades, to the eve of
Reagan's election, when Heritage
(SAM VOICEOVER) Foundation founder and plus-size
forehead model Paul Weyrich gave us his "I have a dream" speech
have a dream speech they want everybody
to vote
(PAUL) I don't want everybody to vote. Elections
are not won by a majority of people, they
never have been from the beginning of
our country, and they are not now. As a
matter of fact, our leverage in the
elections, quite candidly, goes up as
the voting populace goes down.
By those standards, I guess the best American
election yet was the one in 2000. Look, I
get it,
that's just politics. Republicans win if
they keep people from voting especially
Democrat people. But how do you look at a
group of voters and pick out the
Democrat? If only there were
some way to tell them apart.
There are right now 20-plus states in
implementing voting restrictions to try
to take two to reduce the number of
people who can vote, which we know will
have a disproportionate impact on poor and
minority communities, including black
people. (GLEASON) We cut Obama by five percent
which was big, maybe McCain by ten
percent, he only beat Romney by five percent.
I think that probably photo ID helped a bit in that.
Shhh, shut up, you can't
say what voter ID is really for! If you
want to sell something slightly shameful,
you need to package it as a cure for
something else. And that is how
Republicans discovered a national
epidemic of neck pain, AKA voter fraud.
(MARTHA) Stealing your vote? Alarming reports of
voter fraud are running rampant right
now, drug money even said to be involved.
(ABBOTT) and the reality is, voter fraud is
rampant across this country.
(MCGRATH) I don't think there was voter fraud, I know there was voter fraud.
We're talking about
probably over a million people that
voted twice in this election, the first
concrete evidence we've ever had of
massive voter fraud.
Two questions: one, did you get your makeup done at the American
Girl Doll store, and two, how do you find
concrete evidence of the thing
Republicans made up?
Electoral officials in 27 states have launched a massive new
campaign against voter fraud. They are
using a computer name matching system
to claim that more than 3 million
citizens may be registered to vote in
more than one state. Now, the lists are
based on common names like John Jackson or David Lee
What? Under that system, the
only people safe from voter purging are
Whoopi Goldberg and Yahoo Serious.
If Trump manages to smash America's
institutions, it will only be because GOP
termites have been knocking away at the
foundation for years with baseless
claims of election shenanigans. Remember,
all the party wanted was an excuse to
pass voter restrictions, but once you put
a lie out there, it grows and takes on a
life of its own
You want to know what your little fib did? Behold.
Voting is a privilege in this
country and you need to be legal, not
like California with three million
illegals voted. --so where are you getting
your information from? --the media. Where else would we...
Which media? --some of it was CNN, I believe
CNN said that 3 million
illegal people voted in California? --well, it was coming
all across the media
I don't know, maybe I heard it here maybe
here. It was on a screen and it activated
my endorphins so it must be true.
Now if you'll just excuse me, I'll just
forwarded to all my nieces and nephews. I
mean, unless someone I trust tells me it's bullshit.
Trump tweeted in the last
week or so that he had actually won the
popular vote if you deduct the millions
who voted illegally.
Do you believe that? --I don't know, I, I'm
not really focused on these things
Aaaand send. Oh, what is pizzagate? We'll be right back