Media conservatives ridicule the uninsured

Limbaugh: “What's wrong with using a dead person's teeth? Aren't the Democrats big into recycling?” Responding to Slaughter's account, which he called the “sob story of the day, Limbaugh stated:

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.”

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, “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.” Echoing Limbaugh's remarks the previous day, Beck stated, “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.” She later added, “You had Harry Reid on the cleft palate with his -- I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous.”

Fox Nation labels anecdote “Summit Insanity.” From The Fox Nation, accessed February 25: