Bill O’Reilly, Mike Buckabee, Al Gore and Chris Matthews all had scathing statements about the election and the process of casting votes.
O’Reilly didn’t mince words on Fox News when he said the demographics of the country have changed and are no longer in line with “traditional America anymore.”
“The white establishment is now the minority,” O’Reilly said. “And the voters, many of them, feel that the economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff … People feel that they are entitled to things and which candidate, between the two, is going to give them things?”
O’Reilly’s comment mirrors controversial comments by Mitt Romney about 47 percent who “believe that they are victims.” Romney was able to rebound from those comments to gain momentum in the final weeks of his campaign.
Minutes after O’Reilly’s comments, Huckabee said the Republican party had done a poor job of “reaching out to people of color.”
“That’s something we’ve got to work on,” he said on Fox News. “It’s a group of people that frankly should be with us based on the real policy of conservatism.”
While O’Reilly and Huckabee commented on the vote, Matthews and Gore added their opinions on the voting process.
Gore criticized voting laws, calling them “un-American” and a “disgrace” on Current TV.
“It is a strategy that is a direct descendent of the racist Jim Crow tactics that were used in the wake of the Civil War to prevent black people from voting,” Gore said. “It’s more sophisticated now, it’s dressed up in different kinds of language, but it is un-American.”
Matthews, who anchors for MSNBC, said the U.S. was beginning to act “like a Third World country” in regards to early voting laws.
“What’s going on in our country?” Matthews said. “We begin to act like a Third World country – and I mean no disrespect to Third World countries here – when we start having elections you can’t trust because they keep changing the game and the rule.”