We cats don't care for bones (they're for dogs), but we sure have one to pick with the press for not pushing back on Republicans' outrageous and derogatory claims about their fellow, but less fortunate, citizens.
The latest Republican in question is Rick Brattin, a jackass in Missouri, who's one of the state legislators behind that state's hateful bill to restrict how the poor can spend their food stamps. As with the so-called "religious freedom" bills, this legislation is a solution in search of a problem — although Brattin has screamed, "I have seen people purchasing filet mignons and crab legs!"
Really, Rick? Well, you know what they say in Missouri: Show Me.
Or rather, show the press. But we saw no evidence that reporters immediately responded with, Oh yeah? When and where have you witnessed these purchases, Representative Brattin? We'd like dates, times, store names and addresses, please. And then we'll look at the supermarkets' security videos, thank you very much.
This is the kind of crap that Ronald Reagan started back in 1976 with his tall tales of "welfare queens" who were out to game the system. Sadly — and shame on the GOP for this — their demonizing of other Americans has not only never gone away, it's gotten much, much worse.
We have two thoughts here. First, that it would be nice if reporters would do their freaking jobs and stop taking these Republican claims on face value. Second, that the world would not be a worse place if this Brattin guy happened to be the next Missouri Republican to kill himself. We cats HISS.
1 comment:
Couldn't agree more. One of the most troublesome aspects of American today is the lazy media. Instead of actual hard-to-secure, needs-to-be researched news we get sound bites which are often political lies.
Where are the reporters of yesteryear?
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