{"id":595012,"date":"2021-07-17T13:06:46","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595012"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:06:48","slug":"four-pinocchios-top-fact-checker-shreds-jim-clyburn-for-claiming-democrats-never-opposed-voter-id-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-pinocchios-top-fact-checker-shreds-jim-clyburn-for-claiming-democrats-never-opposed-voter-id-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Four Pinocchios\u2019: Top Fact Checker Shreds Jim Clyburn For Claiming Democrats Never Opposed Voter ID Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffour-pinocchios-top-fact-checker-shreds-jim-clyburn-for-claiming-democrats-never-opposed-voter-id-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595012&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1228562709.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Earlier this week, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) absurdly claimed that \u201cno Democrat has never been against voter I.D.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was a head-scratching comment, considering how many times Democrats have claimed Republicans are racist for including voter I.D. requirements in election reform bills, but Clyburn was adamant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know why you guys keep misrepresenting what I said,\u201d Clyburn told Fox News host Neil Cavuto on Tuesday. \u201cI have never said that you should not have voter ID. When I got my voter registration cards, I keep them in my wallet. And when I go to vote, I presented that every time. And I said to them, I am Jim Clyburn, this is my ID, and I want to vote. I have always had voter ID. And that\u2019s why the representative earlier who voted \u2026 no Democrat has never been against voter ID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler began his column, which ultimately awarded Clyburn four pinocchios (the most one can be awarded for telling a lie), by saying the comments, on their face, seemed \u201cabsurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And it was. Clyburn previously compared South Carolina\u2019s voter I.D. law to Jim Crow laws, even though it allowed residents to use a driver\u2019s license, an I.D. issued by the state\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles, a passport, or a federal military I.D. in order to vote. The South Carolina law also allowed anyone without a photo I.D. to cast a provisional ballot if they signed an affidavit explaining why they could not obtain a photo I.D.<\/p>\n<p>As Kessler noted, McClatchy News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article24727258.html\">reported<\/a> in 2012 that Clyburn compared South Carolina\u2019s law with \u201cpost-Reconstruction Jim Crow laws that Southern states enacted, imposing poll taxes, literacy tests and other hurdles to prevent blacks from voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn has issued similar statements in the decade since. In 2019, for example, he posted a video on Twitter with the caption: \u201c55 years ago, the 24th Amendment was ratified, eliminating poll taxes. Yet we are still seeing evidence of poll taxes today in the form of voter ID laws. In a democracy such as ours, we must not have any impediments to voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn in the video said requiring people to purchase an I.D. amounted to a poll tax, even though the South Carolina law \u2013 which Clyburn also said was a poll tax \u2013 provided free identification.<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn\u2019s communications team claimed that Clyburn\u2019s beef is with voter I.D. laws that allow some forms of I.D. but not others, particularly when certain types of I.D. might indicate a certain type of voter. The team said it wasn\u2019t fair to allow hunting licenses but not student I.D. cards, for example. This did not sway Kessler:<\/p>\n<p><em>Clyburn is trying to have his cake and eat it, too. He routinely decries \u201cvoter ID\u201d laws, but at the same time he insisted on Fox News that he has never opposed such laws \u2014 and that every Democrat has supported them. In reality, he appears to be against many types of voter ID laws \u2014 ones that require photos, or a fee for a photo or which favor one voting group over another.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In other words, he\u2019s playing word games. He supposedly is for voter identification but against most of the voter ID laws being adopted by states. Perhaps his contradictory response may be related to the broad support photo ID requirements have in public polling. He appears to want people to think he agrees with the majority even when he is fighting against such laws.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot claim one day that voter ID is a new kind of poll tax and then, on another day, say every Democrat is for voter ID,\u201d Kessler concluded, before awarding Clyburn four pinocchios.<\/p>\n<p>The switch appears to come after polling repeatedly shows a large majority of Americans \u2013 even Democrats \u2013 support requiring people to show an I.D. to vote. It\u2019s also the latest example of Democrats trying to gaslight the American people. A week earlier, the Post\u2019s fact checker gave White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-pinocchios-even-legacy-media-calling-out-white-house-on-defund-the-police-lie\">three pinocchios<\/a> for absurdly claiming that it was <em>Republicans<\/em>, not Democrats, have been working to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d despite a year of Democrats calling for defunding and Democrat-controlled cities following through on the threat.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) absurdly claimed that \u201cno Democrat has never been against voter I.D.\u201dIt was a head-scratching comment, considering how many times Democrats have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}