Fox's Tantaros Treats Food Stamps As A Diet Plan: "Do You Know How Fabulous I'd Look?"
1:21 pm - 11/21/2012
Fox's Tantaros Treats Food Stamps As A Diet Plan: "Do You Know How Fabulous I'd Look?"
On the eve of Thanksgiving, Fox News pundit Andrea Tantaros mockingly dismissed the plight of hungry Americans, claiming that she would "look fabulous" if she were forced to live on a food stamp diet.
Tantaros' vapid commentary came in response to Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker's pledge to accept the food-stamp challenge and try to subsist on $133 for food per month for an extended period of time, just as food stamp recipients in New Jersey do.
After Fox Business panelists speculated whether Booker's pledge is an effort at "positioning himself for a run for the presidency as a man of the people," Tantaros quipped: "I should try it because, do you know how fabulous I'd look. I'd be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds ten pounds."
Video is here if my embed didn't work.
Tantaros' comments are appalling and uninformed. While most of us feast on turkey and yams, stuffing and cranberries, on Thursday, millions of Americans will go hungry, just as they do every day. The food stamp challenge exists to demonstrate the struggles that food insecure families face trying to live on their monthly allotment of food.
Despite the difficulty in subsisting on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which was formerly known as food stamps, helped keep millions of families out of poverty in 2011.
Tantaros' commentary continues a long and extensive Fox campaign to dismiss hunger-related issues and to demonize SNAP recipients.
In May, when celebrity chef Mario Batali took the food stamp challenge, Fox's Greg Gutfeld asked: "Does this make you want to slap him around?" Around that time, Sean Hannity encouraged those suffering with food insecurity to shun SNAP and instead eat more rice and beans, which he said could be purchased "for relatively negligible amounts of money."
We're still waiting for Fox to take the food stamp challenge.
Source
OP: Ah, food stamps! The ultimate diet plan! So that's why poor people are so thin... If the embed video doesn't work than please go to the source site. XD~
edit: there's no trigger warning for weight so I put body shamming. This tag is per request of a community member.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, Fox News pundit Andrea Tantaros mockingly dismissed the plight of hungry Americans, claiming that she would "look fabulous" if she were forced to live on a food stamp diet.
Tantaros' vapid commentary came in response to Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker's pledge to accept the food-stamp challenge and try to subsist on $133 for food per month for an extended period of time, just as food stamp recipients in New Jersey do.
After Fox Business panelists speculated whether Booker's pledge is an effort at "positioning himself for a run for the presidency as a man of the people," Tantaros quipped: "I should try it because, do you know how fabulous I'd look. I'd be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds ten pounds."
Video is here if my embed didn't work.
Tantaros' comments are appalling and uninformed. While most of us feast on turkey and yams, stuffing and cranberries, on Thursday, millions of Americans will go hungry, just as they do every day. The food stamp challenge exists to demonstrate the struggles that food insecure families face trying to live on their monthly allotment of food.
Despite the difficulty in subsisting on food stamps, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), which was formerly known as food stamps, helped keep millions of families out of poverty in 2011.
Tantaros' commentary continues a long and extensive Fox campaign to dismiss hunger-related issues and to demonize SNAP recipients.
In May, when celebrity chef Mario Batali took the food stamp challenge, Fox's Greg Gutfeld asked: "Does this make you want to slap him around?" Around that time, Sean Hannity encouraged those suffering with food insecurity to shun SNAP and instead eat more rice and beans, which he said could be purchased "for relatively negligible amounts of money."
We're still waiting for Fox to take the food stamp challenge.
Source
OP: Ah, food stamps! The ultimate diet plan! So that's why poor people are so thin... If the embed video doesn't work than please go to the source site. XD~
edit: there's no trigger warning for weight so I put body shamming. This tag is per request of a community member.
ETA: This was on PBS last night, maybe Tantaros should watch this. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front
Edited at 2012-11-21 11:20 pm (UTC)
Also, wondering if this shouldn't have a trigger warning for eating disorders, since this gasbag seems to think starving is a great way to lose weight (
Edited at 2012-11-21 11:33 pm (UTC)
Just be sure to credit
I just see red when it starts and now it is turning to a haze with this shit.
Edited to actually add the right icon. *face palm*
Edited at 2012-11-25 01:01 am (UTC)
Edited at 2012-11-22 12:15 am (UTC)
- Herman Melville -
mockingly dismissed the plight of hungry Americans, claiming that she would "look fabulous" if she were forced to live on a food stamp diet.revealed that she is a shitty human being.If it's such a good deal, then why don't you try surviving on rice and beans, day in and day out? Fuck you, Sean Hannity, you're nothing but an asshole.
Tantaros quipped: "I should try it because, do you know how fabulous I'd look. I'd be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds ten pounds."
Same to you, you insensitive dimwit. Just try living on food stamps... I'll bet you'll be moaning and complaining in no time. And oh, you think the camera adds ten pounds? We'll see what happens then.
WTF is up with these people that they think poverty is a fucking joke, that it becomes a punchline? I can't with these clueless, entitled idiots.
>mouth suddenly tastes like vomit
O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help;
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.
Amen.
It was a good message and this is a good prayer.
*tabletoss*
Luckily money isn't so tight for me anymore (I live with my fiance now, and his slightly higher income makes a HUGE difference on what I can afford to make for dinner) but I have lived on $150/month food budget for TWO adults in the past and it was fucking horrible.
Edited at 2012-11-22 11:15 am (UTC)
It's just human nature. It's been like this for thousands of years (there's a reason why most ancient cultures saw their rulers as God incarnate and/or head of their church.) XD I'm not saying Christianity is like that above. I'm just saying that it's easy for the shallow people amongst us to use Christianity as an excuse in that way and manner.
1. Not being close to a decent market with decent prices.
2. Not having access or being on a very strict budget for being able to drive to a decent market.
3. Not having any help when going to the grocery on the bus or train. Lugging even 2 bags of groceries on the bus can be a real pain.
4. No access to bus or train, and having to spend precious money on a taxi, or walk to a place farther than a 15 minute walk. And if you have a disability or are elderly or have a few children with you...a 15 minute walk might be a harsh barrier to that grocery store "down the road". Again, lugging groceries-whether you appropriate a cart of have something of your own, that is a long 15 minute plus walk.
5. For whatever tactical reasons, you have to shop at 1-3 different very small markets and stores in the nearby area. One might have the milk and eggs, and tortillas and cereal...one might have some juice and some fruit, and the other might have the beans, and rice.
Maybe. Might only have milk, eggs, and some overpriced bananas that are the healthiest available choices for under 12 blocks.
If you're lucky, and they are probably going to cost 150-200% more than most grocery markets would charge.
I bet that most people who do that experiment have decent access to a car or a grocery store near by , and they don't have to lug the precious few bags they can afford on a SNAP budget farther than their car in their parking lot.
It's the cost of food, yes.
It's also access to decent markets with those great deals!