Less than 24 hours after throwing an infantile temper tantrum on CNN NewsNight by calling the New York Post’s Lydia Monyihan a “child,” far-left New York Times columnist Charles Blow falsely claimed Thursday on CNN’s The Arena during a debate on election integrity that doctors’ offices do not require proof of identification and, by requiring ID, airlines discriminate against poor people.
The panel was previewing President Trump’s upcoming primetime address that was expected to include mentions of new information about the 2020 election when former Congressman Garrett Graves (R-LA) expressed hope the President would focus on ID and emphasize any “new evidence about foreign interference.”
Initially, Blow replied “we’ve always known” hostile foreign actors “try to influence elections,” and the only beneficiaries of Thursday’s address would be Trump and Republicans seeking to “poison the American public’s view of the election system.”
Graves countered this was why he “hope[s] he brings up voter ID laws,” adding: “I have to show my ID to get on the airplane today, and I hope that he brings that up as well in terms of improving election integrity.”
It was here Blow blew past reality and into his typical cockamamie, often race-based chicanery.
“You know why poor people never get on an airplane? Because they can’t afford [an ID],” Blow declared, ignoring the part about airlines and the government needing to ensure no criminal actors or terrorists board planes who might seek to use them as weapons.
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