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Conservative activist Barton: Are American children poor "because they only have two TVs instead of three?"
On the November 9 broadcast of the nationally syndicated radio show Janet Parshall's America, conservative and religious activist David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders, a "national pro-family organization" that, according to its website, "seeks ... to rebuild that which makes America strong -- its constitutional, moral, and religious foundations," questioned the statistic that "one out of five American kids live in poverty," asking, "Is that because they only have two TVs instead of three?" Barton further challenged the impact of child poverty, asking host Janet Parshall, "[W]hen's the last time an American kid died of malnutrition?"
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