“Food Stamp President” is Race-Baiting [Fox News]
In which I take Newt Gingrich to task for triggering the inherent racial biases of voters — while, mysteriously, talking about people needing to “put food on their families”. Huh???
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i like the new girl she should go to msnsnbc i know yall gonna fire her come on over to the other side.
How do you keep your head from exploding? Seriously. I keep checking your mouth for tongue blood. As your Fox tenure proceeds, the viewer tension will similarly escalate, as your fans wait for the breaking point and an inevitable, full on, bitch-slapping smack down of one of these blonde talking-point Stepfords.
If as you stated the majority of new food stamp dependence is from whites, how can calling Mr Obama the food stamp president be racist. I think that liberals with all their code words for race and the automatic assumption that every time poor people are mentioned that it means people of color.is inherently racist. Plus I fail to understand how the simple statement of a fact, such as food stamp use has increased is viewed as racist. A very great man said once, “the truth shall set you free” stop using the poor as a tool to further your agenda.
[...] Not to mention that if anyone were to try and use this information to their advantage, it ought to be Obama; the wealth flowing in to energy states proves that the administration’s regulations aren’t too onerous for business, while the fact that income growth in poor southern states stems largely from government assistance ought to kill and bury the “food stamp president” slur once and for all. (It won’t, of course, because that line’s largely about race.) [...]
[...] Not to mention that if anyone were to try and use this information to their advantage, it ought to be Obama; the wealth flowing in to energy states proves that the administration’s regulations aren’t too onerous for business, while the fact that income growth in poor southern states stems largely from government assistance ought to kill and bury the “food stamp president” slur once and for all. (It won’t, of course, because that line’s largely about race .) [...]
[...] Not to mention that if anyone were to try and use this information to their advantage, it ought to be Obama; the wealth flowing in to energy states proves that the administration’s regulations aren’t too onerous for business, while the fact that income growth in poor southern states stems largely from government assistance ought to kill and bury the “food stamp president” slur once and for all. (It won’t, of course, because that line’s largely about race.) [...]