The left wing media isn’t content to have lawyers make good faith arguments in court that Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act might be unconstitutional. No, they must accuse the lawyers of racial animus. Consider the dishonest racialist attack by Zack Roth at MSNBC on a good man and upstanding lawyer William Consovoy.
Under a headline designed to inflame – Push to overturn Voting Rights Act tied to GOP voter suppression efforts -Roth ascribes racist motives to Consovoy for bringing the Shelby County case:
“The Washington D.C. lawyer representing the Alabama county that wants to strike down the heart of the most effective civil-rights law in history specialize [sic] in cases aimed at making voting harder for minorities.”
William Consovoy “specialize[s]” in making it “harder for minorities” to vote in the upside down, inside out world of crackpot racialism. That’s what one concludes in a world without a Constitution, in a world without law, where political victory follows skillful incitement of a mob. Roth inhabits the world where untruth knows no penalty. Where personal attacks have more currency than substantive policy debates.
Roth blows another dog whistle to the racialists: “Consovoy, a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, is a partner at Wiley Rein, a Washington, D.C., law firm.” Ah ha! The scandal. Thomas, you see, is on his resume, and we all know what he represents.
The piece says “Consovoy, who did not respond to a request for comment from MSNBC.com.” That’s too bad, because my experience with MSNBC tells me that when the drones who watch the network see reports like this one without any competing narrative, the drones go wild, make threats, send nasty threatening emails even to elected officials in the Alynsky cross-hairs at MSNBC. The lies gather steam, and the personal attacks intensify across the blogosphere.
Make no mistake – this MSNBC incitement is designed to throw Consovoy off his game during preparation for Wednesday’s argument. The emails, calls, and who knows what else from the drones is intended to follow. It is the tactic of dishonest thugs, like the snarky 30-something Zachary Roth.