Listen: ‘One-Hundred Percent American’ From Texas Explains What’s Good For The US

var addthis_config = {“data_track_addressbar”:true};Michelangelo Signorile is a veteran journalist who began his career in the 1980’s. Today, he hosts his own daily show on SiriusXM Radio’s progressive channel.

A man who says his name is “John” called into Signorile’s show today, and shared his thoughts about a wide variety of subjects, including immigration, taxes, Texas politics, and Bush, Romney, Rick Perry.  “I’m not Republican, I’m not Democrat, I’m 100 percent American,” John says. “I want to see why’s best for this country, I don’t care if it’s left, right down the middle, whatever,” he claims.

Yeah, right.

Apparently, Fox News-fueled ignorance is running rampant in the Lone Star state.

“How many ‘Hispanics’ as you call ’em, come over here and I’ll give you an example of the people that I know, they come over here and haven’t worked a day in their lives, and they’re getting welfare, they’re getting social security –”

Signorile then stops him to explain that undocumented immigrants cannot get welfare or social security.

“The people who are getting the lion’s share of federal dollars, because they are poor, are white people,” Signorile schools John. “The majority of people on welfare are what John is: ‘one hundred percent’ white people.”

John, who claims Obama “lied about what he said,” then wonders why Signorile is “against rich people.” When he’s told that Romney paid 12 percent in taxes but the average American pays 30 recent, John of course has a come-back.

“What I’m saying is that if ten percent is good enough for the good lord, why isn’t it good enough for the American government?”

So of course Signorile has to educate John on that fallacy.

And then calls Texas Gov. Rick Perry a “moocher,” and Texas a “sloppy-assed state.” And then Signorile slams former Texas Gov. and former President George W. Bush.

The clip is just six minutes long and pure awesome.

Listen:

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