Who Said It: Fox News or Jesus?

[Tom Joad]

Actual verbatim quotes from Fox News regarding poor people.

Nice people aren't they?

Here are some examples that Stewart and others have lifted up of language Fox News has aired to describe "the poor:"

"America's poor are actually living the good life."

"A nation of Takers."

"Entitlement Mentality."

"The moocher class."

"Subsided freeloaders."

"People who sleep 'til noon."

"The handout nation rolls on."

"The image we have of poor people as starving and living in squalor really is not accurate. Many of them have things, what they lack is the richness of spirit." (That was Stuart Varney.)

"These programs do make people lazy."

"The true causes of poverty... are these: poor education, addiction, irresponsible behavior, and laziness"

"Addictive behavior, laziness and apathy all override social justice programs."

"They get food stamps, it makes it easy for them to sponge off of their girlfriends and spouses."

"The more of the leeches that he [Obama] can get to vote for him ..." "the 'Takers' are able to out-vote the 'Makers.'"

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[nailer]

None of this sounds like something Jesus would say.

[CarlV]

During a broad conversation on how to overcome poverty at Georgetown University last week, President Barack Obama made a few comments about how Fox News talks about poor people. Here's what he said:

... over the last 40 years, sadly, I think there's been an effort to either make folks mad at folks at the top, or to be mad at folks at the bottom. And I think the effort to suggest that the poor are sponges, leeches, don't want to work, are lazy, are undeserving, got traction. ... I have to say that if you watch Fox News on a regular basis, it is a constant menu -- they will find folks who make me mad ... They're like, I don't want to work, I just want a free Obama phone -- or whatever. And that becomes an entire narrative ... very rarely do you hear an interview of a waitress -- which is much more typical -- who's raising a couple of kids and is doing everything right but still can't pay the bills.

Sounds about right to me.


Carl

[mpholland]

Not sure what the carpenter guy would say. Never met him and he didn't speak English.

[merrylander]

Matthew 25:40