MSNBC Analyst Smears Conservatives as Racist for Caring About Food Stamp Fraud

[txradioguy]

MSNBC’s Ari Melber was up in arms Wednesday night, as he filled in on The Rachel Maddow Show, at Fox News for daring to report that food stamp fraud was up to roughly $70 million in 2016. But the outrage at Fox gave way to outrage at the white working class for falling for the racist “dog whistle” of caring about said fraud. “Why is this all coming up again now,” he inquired to his radical leftist guest Joan Walsh from The Nation.

“Well, why now is because we have Fox News, which is awaiting a President Donald Trump by rerunning their greatest hits,” she declared, “I mean, Fox has done this before. They did it under Obama. They chased this idea of food stamp fraud.” Walsh completely wrote off the facts and pretending like the fraud was not happening, while smearing everyone who brought it up as racist:

But it goes way back, it goes back to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan in the '60s talked about strapping young bucks buying T-bone steaks with their food stamps and everybody knew who he was talking about. So when Newt Gingrich talked about Obama that way, it's a dog whistle. We've heard it before. We'll hear it again and hear it a lot under President Trump.

Walsh’s cries of racism shifted into a pseudo-intellectual critique of President-elect Donald Trump’s supporters, implying that they didn’t understand they were voting against their self-interest (a common smear from liberal elitists looking down on the working class). “First of all, seven out of ten states that are top food stamp recipients are red states,” she opined to Melber, “They voted for Donald Trump. So the politics of this is very interesting.” 

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/12/29/msnbc-analysts-smears-conservatives-caring-about-food-stamp

[andy58-in-nh]

How the Left keeps up its charade about the supposedly "nonexistent" fraud in Federal programs is beyond me. The documentary evidence is mountainous, including sales records, receipts, audio and video. But somehow, no matter how meticulously documented the evidence happens to be, it is always explained away as anecdotal, fabricated or, of course, racist. 

[skeeter]

How the Left keeps up its charade about the supposedly "nonexistent" fraud in Federal programs is beyond me. The documentary evidence is mountainous, including sales records, receipts, audio and video. But somehow, no matter how meticulously documented the evidence happens to be, it is always explained away as anecdotal, fabricated or, of course, racist.

The Gods of government must be continually plied with ever more amounts of taxpayer money. To suggest it could do with less is tantamount to begging for pestilence, famine and assorted other really bad things to descend upon the land. Only a bigot would be so foolish.