Colbert: Take food away from MO pol who opposed children’s lunches

Stephen Colbert gave “a tip of his hat” to Missouri State Representative Cynthia Davis on Wednesday night for her opposition to funding children’s lunches during the summer holidays.

A Missouri state program provides “food during the summer for thousands of low-income Missouri children who rely on the school cafeteria for free or reduced-price meals during the regular school year.”

In a newsletter this month, Rep. Davis stated:

Who’s buying dinner? Who is getting paid to serve the meal? Churches and other non-profits can do this at no cost to the taxpayer if it is warranted … Bigger governmental programs take away our connectedness to the human family, our brotherhood and our need for one another … Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals? Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break.

“Representative Davis knows these kids don’t need a handout, they need a pep talk,” Colbert said on Wednesday’s Colbert Report. “It was like Jesus said in Matthew: ‘I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was sick and you visited me. And I was hungry and you said — get a job’.

“Representative Davis, she’s truly looking out for Missouri’s children,” Colbert continued. “But who is looking out for Representative Davis? Could it be she’s … developed the anti-motivating habit of eating? We must help her, folks. People of Missouri, if you see Representative Davis at a restaurant or a hot dog stand or even through the window of her own dining room, do the right thing and take her food away.”

Colbert then went on to address Fox News’ flub last week when the network identified South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, a Republican, as a Democrat.

“Look, I get it,” Colbert said. “When someone misbehaves it’s natural to assume he’s a Democrat, even when he’s the head of the Republican Governors’ Association. After all, Fox made the same mistake with Mark Foley and Hurricane Katrina.”

This video is from Comedy Central’s Colbert Report, broadcast July 1, 2009.

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