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So.......

Have any of you heard of a fellow named Bill Cunningham?

He's a charmer, let me tell you.

I had never heard of him, so naturally I turned to Google for some answers. He's a radio talk show host in Cincinnati; his show is called The Big Show with Bill Cunningham. Wikipedia obviously had an entry on him, because they generally have entries on contemporary personalities. And in an effort to be fair, I headed over to Conservapedia (The Trustworthy Encyclopedia....has this not entered your cyber lexicon? Oh, it's out there) to see what they had to say on the man. No entry available.

So I'll have to go with my initial gut reaction and Wikipedia.

The guy's a yahoo.

Here, and I quote, are his words of wisdom on the poor: "Poor people are not poor because they lack money. They're poor because they lack values, ethics, and morals."

Oh, yeah. I can't make this stuff up. Here, listen for yourself. The sound quality is poor, I'm warning you, but you can decipher what he's saying: (video 1 min, 34 sec)

Nice, right? Did you catch that in this man's world only black people are poor? That women who have children out of wedlock "lack consequences" for their actions because "government will fund bad behavior".

I guess I should just ignore the statistic that says 54% of women who live in poverty have NO children. Obviously, they lack morals and that's why they're poor.

As for black families, well...he's got a bit of a point.

29.2 % of black families with children under 18 lived in poverty in the USA last year, the highest of all the racial demographics offered by the US Census Bureau.

But wait! No one is immune:

24.9% of all Hispanic families with minor children in the home lived in poverty.

9.1% of Asian families with kids under 18 lived in poverty in the USA last year.

And how about white people? Well, 12.5% of white people lived in poverty last year.

By the way, all those percentages go up dramatically in each demographic when it's a (valueless) woman living alone with her kids. 37% of all single women with children live in poverty.

So Cunningham is racist AND sexist. A two-fer! Nice work, dude!

Oh, one more thing: There were 36.5 million people living in poverty in 2006. That number went up to 37.3 million in 2007. I guess that's 800,000 more people living in this country who were affected solely by their lack of ethics and not, say, the beginning of the the nationwide economic downturn. ->