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Cunningham: ‘People are poor in America…because they lack values, morals, and ethics.’

On his radio show yesterday, far right talker Bill Cunningham — who Sean Hannity considers a “great American” — claimed that people who are poor in America are not poor “because they lack money.” “They’re poor because they lack values, morals, and ethics,” said Cunningham. Listen here:

This is the second day in a row that Cunningham has verbally attacked the poor. On his Monday show, he declared, “Among the so-called noble poor in America…[b]irth control is not used so illegitimate children can be brought into the world, so the mom can get more checks in the mail from the government.”

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