LET THEM EAT APPLESAUCE: RIGHT WING MEDIA MOCK UNINSURED HORROR STORIES. Media Matters, February 27, 2010
RIGHT-WING MEDIA FIGURES MOCKED DEMOCRATS DESCRIPTIONS OF HARDSHIPS FACED BY CONSTITUENTS WHO LACK HEALTH INSURANCE, INCLUDING A STORY BY REP. LOUISE SLAUGHTER WHO TOLD ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WORE DENTURES THAT PREVIOUSLY BELONGED TO HER DEAD SISTER. SAID RUSH LIMBAUGH: “SO, IF YOU DON’T HAVE ANY TEETH, SO WHAT? WHAT’S APPLESAUCE FOR?”
LIMBAUGH: You know I'm getting so many people -- this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I'm getting so many people -- this is big. I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it's so stupid. I mean, for example, well, what's wrong with using a dead person's teeth? Aren't the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?
Limbaugh previously told a caller who could not afford the $6,000 it would cost to treat a broken wrist that he "shouldn't have broken [his] wrist."
Glenn Beck mocks Slaughter's story: "I've read the Constitution ... I didn't see that you had a right to teeth." On his February 26 radio show, Glenn Beck played an audio clip of Slaughter's account then said:
BECK: I am wearing George Washington's dentures right now. I'm wearing his teeth right now." He later added, "I just like wearing dead people's teeth. But in America -- I'm sorry, I didn't know that that was -- I've read the Constitution before. I didn't see that you had a right to teeth. The environmentalists should be all over Slaughter. 'How dare you say that?' My gosh, they're just recycling. They're just reusing."
Beck sidekick uses baby voice to mock letters Obama receives. On Beck's February 25 radio show, co-host Steve "Stu" Burguiere stated that Obama "gets 10 letters, Glenn, every night." Co-host Pat Gray asked, "From 2-year-old girls?" Then, one of the co-hosts started speaking in a baby's voice: "I have no health care, Mr. Pwesident, and I have no feet and no tonsils because doctors took 'em out."
Conservative blogger Pamela Geller linked to an audio clip of the segment, which she wrote was "[d]a best! the funniest thang evuh!"
Gateway Pundit attacks Slaughter's "sappy lib sob story of the day, hands down." On his Gateway Pundit blog, Jim Hoft linked to a video clip of Slaughter telling the story about the dentures under the headline, "Horror! Lib Dem Claims Her Constituent Wore Dead Sister's Teeth (Video)." After declaring the account the "sappy lib sob story of the day, hands down," Hoft wrote: "Will Obamacare buy me glasses and contacts? Will Obamacare buy me a gold tooth in the front of my mouth with a little heart on it?"
INGRAHAM: “Louise Slaughter won the Olympics of sob stories."
On Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, radio host Laura Ingraham said she "liked the dueling sob stories, OK? One Democrat was trying to outdo the next on the sob story about how rotten our health care system is. Louise Slaughter won the Olympics of sob stories by saying one of her constituents had to wear her sister's dentures. OK? It got so bad with the health care system…You had Harry Reid on the cleft palate with his -- I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous."
LIMBAUGH: You know I'm getting so many people -- this Louise Slaughter comment on the dentures? I'm getting so many people -- this is big. I mean, that gets a one-time mention for a laugh, but there are people out there that think this is huge because it's so stupid. I mean, for example, well, what's wrong with using a dead person's teeth? Aren't the Democrats big into recycling? Save the planet? And so what? So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for? Isn't that why they make applesauce?
Limbaugh previously told a caller who could not afford the $6,000 it would cost to treat a broken wrist that he "shouldn't have broken [his] wrist."
Glenn Beck mocks Slaughter's story: "I've read the Constitution ... I didn't see that you had a right to teeth." On his February 26 radio show, Glenn Beck played an audio clip of Slaughter's account then said:
BECK: I am wearing George Washington's dentures right now. I'm wearing his teeth right now." He later added, "I just like wearing dead people's teeth. But in America -- I'm sorry, I didn't know that that was -- I've read the Constitution before. I didn't see that you had a right to teeth. The environmentalists should be all over Slaughter. 'How dare you say that?' My gosh, they're just recycling. They're just reusing."
Beck sidekick uses baby voice to mock letters Obama receives. On Beck's February 25 radio show, co-host Steve "Stu" Burguiere stated that Obama "gets 10 letters, Glenn, every night." Co-host Pat Gray asked, "From 2-year-old girls?" Then, one of the co-hosts started speaking in a baby's voice: "I have no health care, Mr. Pwesident, and I have no feet and no tonsils because doctors took 'em out."
Conservative blogger Pamela Geller linked to an audio clip of the segment, which she wrote was "[d]a best! the funniest thang evuh!"
Gateway Pundit attacks Slaughter's "sappy lib sob story of the day, hands down." On his Gateway Pundit blog, Jim Hoft linked to a video clip of Slaughter telling the story about the dentures under the headline, "Horror! Lib Dem Claims Her Constituent Wore Dead Sister's Teeth (Video)." After declaring the account the "sappy lib sob story of the day, hands down," Hoft wrote: "Will Obamacare buy me glasses and contacts? Will Obamacare buy me a gold tooth in the front of my mouth with a little heart on it?"
INGRAHAM: “Louise Slaughter won the Olympics of sob stories."
On Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, radio host Laura Ingraham said she "liked the dueling sob stories, OK? One Democrat was trying to outdo the next on the sob story about how rotten our health care system is. Louise Slaughter won the Olympics of sob stories by saying one of her constituents had to wear her sister's dentures. OK? It got so bad with the health care system…You had Harry Reid on the cleft palate with his -- I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous."
sOME TIMES THAT BEST WAY TO GET THIS STOPED IS TO SUE FOR PAIN AND SUFFERING...tHIS IS THE ONLY THING TAHT IS GOING TO GET THE MESSAGE THORUGH TO A DRUG BURNT OUT BRAIN...tHIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET THESE PEOPLE TO REALIZE THAT ALL PEOPLE ARE NOT DEMS OR REP, BECAUSE THEY ARE 4 AND 5 AND 13 AND 20, 60 YEARS OLD PEOPLE THAT ARE FAR TOO SICK TO BE TREATED AS NON FEELING HUMAN AS THE PEOPLE LIKE THIS GET ON OUR PUBLIC AIR WAVES AND SAY THINGS YOU CAN NOT EVEN SAY TO ANOTHER PERSON OVER THE PHON BECAUSE IT IS AGAINST THE LAW AND BECAUSE ALL SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECHE...
BUT, SERIOUSLY LIKE TOYOTA NEVER THOUGHT THEY WOULD BE NOW BEFORE CONGRESS TRYING TO PROVE THEY WERE NOT TO BLAIN FOR DAMAGING SO MANY PEOPLES AND BROKEN UP SO MANY HAPPY FAMILYS BECAUSE THEY HAD PAID THEIR LOBBY MONEY DUES...BUT AS THAT SAYIG GOES, "EVERY DOG HAS ITS DAY"..."WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND". ETC.