PROOF!!!11one
Fox News contributor Charles Payne proves that just when you think Fox News has gone as low as they can go, they find a hidden basement and tumble ass-over-elbow downstairs:
Fox News contributor Charles Payne defended Mitt Romney’s lack of concern for the poor by saying, “To supposedly alleviate the very poor, and Mitt was right. The very poor in America do have a lot of programs a lot of benefits. People aren’t dying in America. You know, in fact, the very poor suffer from gout. In fact, in the 1920s and 30s that was called the rich man’s disease, but here’s the thing, the very poor have entered into this sort of Faustian deal where they’ve said, ’Ok, you know what? If I can go to my mailbox twice a month and get paid the same amount of money that I could get at a low paying job then I’m not going to take it. In return, you can have my vote, but give me some political cover.’ You know what, here in this country; think about it, we don’t criticize the people that suck up the lion’s share of government services, government aid, police department services, fire department services. We’re crucifying the people that pay the lion’s share of taxes, so it’s worked out great in that particular point. But here’s the problem, we have generational poverty, and in this country, that shouldn’t exist.”
According to Fox News the proof that poor people aren’t really poor is because they have gout. But the odds have having gout are increased by being poor, or more specifically the diet of many poor Americans. ~snip~
More poor people are getting gout, not because they have money, but because they don’t.
Shorter Charles Payne: Look poor people: You can’t be claiming you’re poor when you’ve got microwaves, refrigerators, Xboxes, and the “rich man’s disease.” Get a job and stop asking for handouts, you lazy-asses!
*facepalm*
[via PoliticusUSA]
My husband has gout. He was raised poor – working poor. They worked like CRAZY. One of the reasons he (and many in his family) have gout? A lot of their food came from hunting, and they ate “nose to tail” because that’s what you do when you’re poor. That means organ meats, used in sausages, meat pies, etc. Add in a lot of beans and peas (also standard po’ folk food) and what you get is a buildup of uric acid, triggering gout attacks, even in very young people.
And that gout? It sticks around. It makes it even more difficult to do those backbreaking jobs which were all that was available to folks in his area (coal country of western Virginia).
Surprise, surprise – poor working people get diseases which make it hard for them to be Working Poor and turn them into just Poor.
The cause of the uric acid inflammation in joints, or ‘gout’ is primarily associated with crappy food and general poor health – i.e. if you’re so poor that your food intake is primarily El Pollo Loco and McDonald’s and your ‘healthcare plan’ is Robitussin, ‘the clinic’ and the Emergency Room, you’re probably gonna suffer from gout and a lot of other diseases that most middle class people only read about in history books or National Geographic.
Where do they find these people? Is there like some sort of breeding pen that Fox and Rush Limbaugh store all these Lawn Jockey talking heads to blather nonsense?
Every single time I see a video clip of Payne on Fox, I refuse to look at it because I know he’s going to say something supremely stupid. He’s gotta earn that paycheck–damn the facts, and empathy? He has none, so he’s a great fit at Fox.
You know, I do believe that is the first time I have ever heard an actual disease being used as a reason why the poor are perfectly fine.
Do they make these black FOX contributors in Karl Rove’s secret laboratory or something?
I’ve been out of the loop for the past few days, so let me see if I’ve got this latest bit right: the right’s new definition of poor is borrowed straight from Charlie Chaplin in “The Tramp.”
I guess gubment cheese and cheap meat filled with hormones and nitrates is just too good for you poor folks, maybe you need to switch to cat food solely made of assholes and eye sockets?
And motherfuck you if you want healthcare to treat it, you already got it too good, you bunch of princesses
So, leave it to FOX to keep beating the narrative that the rich have too little, and those poor fuckers, they got it too good if they’re getting the gout and shit like that.
And here’s another knee-grow being FOX’s bitch and strutting around like he’s a show dog at Westminster’s .
So, poor people are not staving in the streets in America like in the Great Depression, and thats more than satisfactory?
One of the dumbest things I have ever read. Seriously, diets high in nitrates and purines cause gout. You know what has a lot of nitrates and purines? Hot dogs and Bologna. You know what poor people eat a lot of? This motherfucker has no fucking clue. He needs to eat a bag of fuck and shut up.
he is a slave catching Uncle Ruckus.
I’m not a religious person but I think, according to the Bible, God gives everlasting life in heaven to poor people with gout but those who bargained with the Devil to get a paycheck from Fox News will burn in Hell.
Just saying’
I hesitated to comment on this but can’t help myself. When I was a kiddo one of my Dad’s friends got Gout. Papi told us it was from drinking “rotgut whiskey” because this old guy made his own moonshine & sampled his product quite liberally. For years I believed that was the exact cause of Gout until I learned better.
I question if this guy even knows WTF he’s talking about. I grew up poor eating the usual “po folks” fare and no one in my family ever had gout that I’m aware of.
And these AA’s that spout this right wing garbage and make a tidy sum while doing so are traitors and a disgrace to their fellow AA’s.
I really don’t know what the fuck to say. I really don’t. I’ve heard people say some dumb shit before, and some of it has come out of my mouth, but equating gout with doing well in life is a new level of dumb shit people say.