Limbaugh on "bogus statistic that 1 of 50 American children are homeless": "Would somebody tell me the last time you saw a kid sleeping under a bridge?"

Well, considering that some of us _are_ more fortunate that many...

I generally only see the kids later in the day while being carted around by their moms with their shopping carts.

You effing misanthrope.

From Limbaugh to O' Reilly, the standard operating procedure of conservatives for addressing homelessness is to pretend it doesn't exist.

It comes from here: http://www.familyhomelessness.org/

Of course, Boss Limbaugh can't see any homeless people from the sofa in his living room hiding behind his golden microphone.

 

And Drugbaugh first refused to accept the fact of dubyah's approval rating when it hit 30%.

*This Is Conservatism*

When was the last time Rush even went under a bridge, aside from scoring drugs perhaps?

i do think 1 in 50 is at least an order of magnitude off..

What's wrong with Limbaugh's question implying that not many children live under a bridge? The homelessness statistics cited by MM includes "children whose families are staying with friends or family members, in hotels and motels, in trailer parks or in "substandard" housing."

http://www.homelesschildrenamerica.org/pdf/rc_full_report.pdf

But Media Matters suggests, by featuring Limbaugh in this story, that he was way off: