What now?!?

Jessica Clark

Today's "Now What?!?" moments: ITT writer Silja Talvi calls in with a tip: A bogus letter, supposedly issued by the NAACP, is circulating in South Carolina. It claims that voters with outstanding parking tickets or unpaid child support will be arrested at the polls, and claims that all voters will need to bring two forms of ID, a Social Security card, a voter registration card, and a handwriting sample. AP report Orrin Hatch just told FOX News that if John Kerry wins, we'll have terrorists "coming out of our ears" hold on, what was that…Tallahassee bomb threat, office of elections? Jesus, America take a break! I haven't even finished my coffee yet. More to come as the caffeine takes effect.

Jessica Clark is a writer, editor and researcher, with more than 15 years of experience spanning commercial, educational, independent and public media production. Currently she is the Research Director for American University’s Center for Social Media. She also writes a monthly column for PBS’ MediaShift on new directions in public media. She is the author, with Tracy Van Slyke, of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (2010, New Press).
The text is from the poem “QUADRENNIAL” by Golden, reprinted with permission. It was first published in the Poetry Project. Inside front cover photo by Golden.
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