So Be It

By David Kurtz

October 24, 2013 1:03 p.m.

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Stupendous Daily Show segment last night on North Carolina’s new voting restrictions is a must watch — plus it led to today’s resignation of the local Republican official who said of the new voting restrictions: “If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.” Watch.

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