Ever notice how the left has no problem using the word “jihad” to describe the right but would never in a million years use it to describe anything related to Islam?
Via Newsbusters:
On Tuesday’s All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes complained about an “anti-food stamp jihad” by House Republicans, and attacked the GOP for putting on a “shameful spectacle” in trying to cut the food stamp program.
With the words “War on the Poor” and an image of House Speaker John Boehner displayed on screen behind him, Hayes railed:
And no one in Washington, particularly on the Republican side, seems to be at all concerned about the continued economic misery of millions of our fellow citizens. So it seems to me that the very least, the absolute least, a decent wealthy society can do amidst an unprecedented period of economic stagnation and vastly unequal prospects for our people, is to just make sure our fellow citizens don’t go hungry. What a shameful spectacle to watch Republicans prove their ideological bonafides at these people’s expense. […]
“Food stamp President” is nonsense, of course, as even the right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page pointed out: “The food stamp boom began with the George W. Bush Republicans who expanded benefits in the appalling 2002 farm bill.” But with Barack Obama in the White House, the House Republicans are now on an anti-food stamp jihad.