O’DONNELL: Liberals are the least charitable with their money. Really, Ann? Consider the response of this program’s audience, which surely has some liberals in it, to my plea for donations to the K.I.N.D. Fund, Kids In Need of Desks. Last week I announced this unique partnership between MSNBC and UNICEF to raise money for desks for school children in Africa who now sit on dirt floors or cement floors. The desks we are supplying to these schools are made in Malawi. So the contributions to buy a desk also helps stimulate the Malawi economy, provide jobs for the workers who will make those desks and enable them to feed their families.
The response to my announcement as I reported last night has been more than we could have ever reasonably expected. As of last night, UNICEF had processed over $600,000 in contributions to the K.I.N.D. Fund, and in the last 24 hours, we’ve raised even more. So far, UNICEF has processed contributions in the amount of $727,991.
O’Donnell then discussed how the charity works, and where donors can go to contribute. He eventually came back to Coulter:
O’DONNELL: So Ann, I’m not going to fight with you about who is more charitable. I’m going to allow the astonishing kindness and generosity of my audience to serve as the response to your statement, “Liberals are the least charitable with their money.” And I beg you, Ann, to now show us just how charitable conservatives can be with their money. $48 a desk, $720 for a classroom. Come on, Ann, you can afford a classroom. And hey, if you can get Rush involved, he can buy desks for every kid in Malawi. And Ann, that e-mail that you just got from UNICEF, that’s not spam. I just bought you a desk for Christmas. Merry Christmas, Ann.
Quite possibly O'Donnell didn't want to fight about who is more charitable because he knows that studies have shown conservatives to be far more giving than liberals. He might even have been aware of the book Coulter referred to in Monday's "Factor" segment detailing the facts.
Never met O’Donnell, but stepped in something similar once.
At least we know that Creepy Liar O’Donnell reads Ann Coulter. Olberdork probably does, too.
BTW, I’m against desks in classrooms. They lead to back problems later in life. Sitting on the floor is much more natural for the human body.
A real tizzy over nothing. Liberals must be really sensitive if they get upset about who gives more in charity. Who cares? Nobody is supposed to know how much they give anyway. My wife and I refuse to take the donation deduction on our taxes because the Bible says you should not brag about generosity. So why say anything. Just keep doing what you are doing and who cares what people donate. It is so funny how people get themselves worked up about things.
The problem is that they give other people's money.
ML/NJ
I’m sure glad I did not give to his charity. He just branded everyone who did a “liberal.”
Right. To their own liberal agenda charities like the ACLU for starters. How about the local food bank for one?
O’Donnell can complain all he wants, but FACTS are stubborn things, and there have been several studies done of this over the years, which back up Ann Coulter’s contention.
Arthur Brooks, “Who Really Cares,” proved this beyond question. The more conservative you are, and the more religious you are, the more you donate not only money but time to causes.
When lieberals are not being charitable by getting the govt to donate our taxes to their favorite causes, they are being charitable by ordering conservatives to donate their income to the lieberals favorite causes.
I notice Crazy Larry didn’t attempt to claim that libs give more charity than conservatives, he just plugged some charity that he’s got his name on. Not the same deal, Larry.
Giving money to the bureaucrats at the UN is not the same as helping children.
I read a story a couple of years ago about this very thing.
The most generous; lower middle class with guys from Alabama gave a huge amount in proportion to their incomes to the poor
(less church giving) than the high income men in Massachutes.
In fact in state rankings, Alabama was 1st and Massachutes was dead last.
Another typical “do as I say, not as I do” liberal rule.
If you look at this charity a year from now, you’l be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find almost no desks delivered and the funds siphoned off to who-knows-which-corrupt official.
He dares bring Rush in on this? Rush is the guy who auctioned off Harry Reid’s letter criticizing him for $2.1 million, matched that $2.1 million with his own money, and donated it all to kids. And there are all of those charity cigar auctions and golf tournaments he continually does.
As of last night, UNICEF had processed over $600,000 in contributions to the K.I.N.D. Fund... Since I have fought in Africa, I KNOW each and every cent was spent on the military, the ‘GOVERNORS” or the bureaucrats who begged for this moohlah. In order for the “desks” to have arrived, been shipped and installed,it would have cost 8 times what this asshat is spouting.
And if they do, he'll count that as liberal giving?
Interesting though that he pretty much admits that only liberals watch his show. After all, he used the giving from his show as proof that liberals give money, so he must be certain that there aren't any conservatives in his audience.
Sounds like lots of administrative costs per desk!
Also, I checked his audience numbers, and one source said he had over a million viewers at some point.
Which means the average giving for his audience is around 70 CENTS.
Way to go, liberals. Giving up the foam on your latte for a day!!!
I remember when Bill Bradley was a serious contender for the Dem presidential ticket. His income was reported as somewhere over a quarter mil, and he had donated like $1000 to charity. All of his compassionate rhetoric really fell flat for me then.