Yesterday, Michelle Obama did something really nice. She went to a homeless shelter in Washington D.C. and served meals to the homeless. She even brought with her food donations by the White House. You would think this would be a nice little blurb about how the First Lady is doing good works.
You would think so but noooooooo............. the wingnuts are at it again with false outrage directed at the homeless. It's all because of this picture:
Andrew Malcolm (former press secretary to Laura Bush) writes a political blog on the Los Angeles Times website and today he commented on the above picture:
If this unidentified meal recipient is too poor to buy his own food, how does he afford a cellphone?
And if he is homeless, where do they send the cellphone bills?
I'm happy to say that 95% of the commenters on the site call Malcolm out on his being completely out of touch with cell phones, the poor and homeless and an all around douchebag. However now this is being picked up by other higher profile perpetrators of stupidity. Michelle Malkin weighs in:
Some folks are wondering where the cell phone bills get sent.
The answer is obvious: ACORN headquarters.
The worst comments by far have come from Fivefeetoffury blogger
Today's "poor" are the rich Jesus warned you about: fat, slovenly, wasteful of their money and other people's.
I prefer to call them "the broke."
A lot of (really naive) people are wondering (or pretending to wonder, when they're in public) how this "homeless" guy could "afford" a cellphone:
It would be better phrased: why is a guy with a cellphone homeless? Because then the question answers itself.
He spends all his (our) money on cellphones and, most likely, tattoos and drugs and booze and other crap, and has no money left for a home and food. And why should he bother? We pay for his shelter and food anyhow.
And so far there's no government "free cellphone for poor people" program.
What's really funny in that news story by the way is what they're serving at the soup kitchen: risotto with brocolli. Obviously some rich white liberal did the cooking that day, feeling all proud of herself, and what thanks did she get? Some lowclass loser going, "You expect me to eat this weird crap?!"
How is a homeless person supposed to be available for work if they don't have a phone which potential employers can contact them on. There is something patently disturbing about people that obviously are lacking in simple human compassion and understanding.