On her 1 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Monday, host Andrea Mitchell touted
Attorney General Eric Holder "speaking about the national battle for
voting rights" in the wake of new state voter I.D. laws and lead off a
panel discussion on the topic by wondering: "How will the President take on those voter suppression laws?"
Mitchell eagerly seized on former Secretary of State Colin Powell
"speaking on the political effects of these voter suppression attempts
by the Republican Party." Following the Face the Nation sound bite in
which Powell slammed the GOP for passing measures to curb voter fraud,
Mitchell posed this question: "Does the White House think that the Republicans are actually doing the Democratic Party a favor by taking on, you know, these issues and passing the laws that they've now passed in Texas and in North Carolina?"
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
