TYT: We Told You This CPAC Story Was Bullshit

[WhoIsNumberNone]

*Tea Party Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) anecdote criticizing government school lunch programs was apparently lifted from a book about an encounter between a student and a private benefactor. Wonkette reported on Thursday that Ryan's remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday regarding a "young boy from a very poor family" relying on "a government program" for his lunches was strikingly similar to the premise of the book An Invisible Thread, which recounted author Laura Schroff's 1986 meeting with an 11-year-old "homeless panhandler" named Maurice, who was receiving lunches through a school program...* Who predicted this story was BS at the time? Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University and Common Room), Eboni K. Williams (attorney and radio host), and Ben Mankiewicz (What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) break it down on The Young Turks.

[SmittynMo]

1. This guy is total bullshit.

How low can one idiot go? Mocking an 11 year old? And he's still wondering why he didn't win in 2010. Did you notice the reference to his buddy Scott Walker? Another loser. Birds of a feather flock together.

[zebonaut]

2. He still effing wanted LUNCH!!!

Thats right; don't feed the kid for a week and see how full of soul he is.

[fasttense]

3. The punch line or take away point from Paul Ryan's made up story

Is, "Yeah, we took an 11 year old boys lunch away and he liked it", And oh by the way, your choices are a full stomach or or an empty soul, no other possibilities exist, you decide.

[Half-Century Man]

4. If you want to make Bill Reilly's face go deep purple

Point out that official recognition of the existence of a soul to be empty or full is a violation of the separation of church and state.
Bodies are secular.

Children exist, hunger exists, and the despicable fact that these two things commonly go together exist. Government can and should step in to correct that. If for no other reason than, souls might exist.