On MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry, the panel today discussed voting rights in 2013. The Nation‘s Ari Berman responded to host Harris-Perry suggesting that this year was the worst year for voting rights since Reconstruction.
“I really think this was the worst year for voting rights since 1877 when federal troops pulled out of the south and ended reconstruction.”
He goes on to say it’s not a similar situation. But then he goes on to say it’s totally the same thing. Harris-Perry tries to somehow moderate Ari’s outrageous comparison toward the end of the above clip by putting the words in his mouth that this isn’t exactly the same but sort of the same, but differenty. Or something.
The overall feeling of the panel was that votes are being suppressed across the south because rednecks. They didn’t say it in so many words, but that was definitely the duck whistle.