Proof that the GOP and Fox propaganda is effective.

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COMMENTS:
*  You don't think it's significant that a "news" channel is deliberately concentrating on demonizing the impoverished?  The owner, Australian billionaire Rupert Murdoch, sees to it that the content is sharply slanted to the far right, politically -- supporting the anti-taxers keeps his profits high. And now it's being made clear that it's a policy of the network to viciously insult people who aren't fortunate enough to be born into a well-to-do family. What we're looking at, Ilik, is another skirmish in class war. Insult the poor, sneer at the poor, demonize the poor, and the Faux Fans absorb the contempt. Then they vote that way. After all, why *should* America help people who are "lazy, moochers, sponges, and leeches," eh?   How about, "because we're all Americans, and we deserve a fair change in life"? How about, "because everyone can have some stinkin' bad luck happen"? How about, "because the real spongers, moochers, and leeches are living off of their trust funds and whining about their taxes, and when we in America stop investing in our people is when we create terrible problems in our cities."
*  Fox News at it again. Too bad the other networks are afraid to reveal Fox News congenital deception and pretense like Jon Stewart.
*  If you want to reduce the dependence and entitlement, let's start with those who need them the least. The oil companies, corporations, and the rich.
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Fox News: We don't call the poor "leeches." Jon Stewart: Let me Google that for you!
By Dara Lind, May 14, 2015



After President Obama made some of the most interesting comments of his career at a Georgetown University panel on poverty Tuesday, I worried that the only thing liberals would take from the event was that Obama accused Fox News of calling poor Americans "sponges" and "leeches."

But now I have another theory. Is it possible that Obama, playing a game of eleventy-dimensional chess, attacked Fox News because he knew they'd overreact — only to set up the most damning Daily Show supercut ever?

Because that is what the president — and America — got.
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Obama said Fox News vilifies the poor. Jon Stewart presses his point.
By Hunter Schwarz, May 14, 2015

President Obama said Tuesday at Georgetown University that Fox News portrays the poor as moochers, people who are unwilling to work but want government handouts.

"They will find folks who make me mad," Obama said. "I don't know where they find them. They're like, 'I don't want to work, I just want a free Obamaphone,' or whatever, and that becomes an entire narrative."


Depictions of the poor as "lazy" and "undeserving" are regularly on Fox News, President Obama said Tuesday at a summit on poverty hosted by Georgetown University. (AP)

Fox personalities disagreed with the accusation, but Jon Stewart set out to prove Obama's point Wednesday on "The Daily Show," airing clips of anchors, including some who disagreed with Obama's characterization of the network, talking about the "moocher class," "subsidized freeloaders," our "entitlement mentality," and people who are "lazy," "sponges," and "leeches."

"Are these glaring contradictions a product of a lack of self-awareness or cynicism or stupidity or evil? I don't know anymore," Stewart said.

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