Yikes! Who needs The Onion anymore when madness like this gets attention. But thanks to Jess Zimmerman at Grist for calling out Daren Jonescu, a conservative blogger at the appropriately titled American Thinker. He believes he has uncovered a the Obama Administration's secret plot to infect young white lungs with illnesses.

Nearly 26 million Americans are affected by this chronic respiratory disease, including 7 million children, especially minority children and children with family incomes below the poverty level. Asthma rates of African American children are currently at 16 percent, while 16.5 percent of Puerto Rican children suffer from the chronic respiratory disease, more than double the rate of Caucasian children in the United States.

Consider very carefully the wording of this bizarre expression of the problem: seven million American children have asthma, “especially minority children and children with family incomes below the poverty level.” What does “especially minority children” mean in this context? That minority children suffer asthma more severely than white children? That minority children and poor children are of greater concern than white children?

As Jess says, it could all mean that 7 million children in the United States have asthma, especially minority children and children with family incomes below the poverty line which is the real problem.  "But no, that’s just what they WANT you to think," she writes. Read her story HERE and remember to vote for air pollution. 

 

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