{"id":2340,"date":"2014-06-28T19:43:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T19:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2014-06-28T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T21:35:10","slug":"daily-show-skewers-tobacco-farmer-defending-using-kids-to-pick-his-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2340","title":{"rendered":"Daily Show skewers tobacco farmer defending using kids to pick his tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2341\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=2341\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?fit=638%2C540&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"638,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?fit=474%2C401&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2341 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?resize=300%2C253&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?resize=300%2C253&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?w=638&amp;ssl=1 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2228\">reported on this a few weeks ago<\/a> &#8212; a story about migrant kids as young as 12\u00a0working in tobacco fields, some of them getting sick from constant exposure to nicotine.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Show skewers a real dirtbag Republican state senator and tobacco farmer defending kids spending 12 hours a day in his tobacco fields picking in 100-degree weather.\u00a0Daily Show correspondent Samantha Bee does an absolutely ferocious report, skewering a Kentucky tobacco farmer (I hope this guy never lives it down).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9M875oOG38c?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And, just in case YouTube takes it down &#8230; which they will eventually. A link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/videos\/l0fvyd\/nicoteens?xrs=synd_facebook_062714_tds_82\">Daily show takes on tobacco farmer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t make this stuff up. I couldn&#8217;t figure out initially if this POS was for real or satire, but, incredibly, he appears to be for real. His name is Paul Hornback. A real douchebag &#8230; or playing one on TV:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You got long days. It&#8217;s in the heat, it&#8217;s out there in the sun. It might be 100 degrees. But that&#8217;s not bad. You got lots of places to get shade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All kids complain about work! Our society is becoming too soft. You might see a 10-year-old picking tobacco, but you won&#8217;t see him out there all day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Acute nicotine poisoning is not that big of a deal. It&#8217;s no different from having a virus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See, what I mean? Pretty hard to believe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reported on this a few weeks ago &#8212; a story about migrant kids as young as 12\u00a0working in tobacco fields, some of them getting sick from constant exposure to nicotine. The Daily Show skewers a real dirtbag Republican state senator and tobacco farmer defending kids spending 12 hours a day in his tobacco fields &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daily Show skewers tobacco farmer defending using kids to pick his tobacco<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,289],"tags":[191,656],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tobacco-2","category-tobacco-farming","tag-tobacco","tag-tobacco-farming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10445475_10152518178351800_1517781639842762290_n.jpg?fit=638%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-BK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2228,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=2228","url_meta":{"origin":2340,"position":0},"title":"NPR story: Kids are harvesting the tobacco for cigarettes and getting sick doing it","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Outstanding story from NPR today; really powerful stuff. Listen to the NPR report here. Kids, some as young as 12 years old, are helping to harvest tobacco crops through much of the South. NPR interviewed Eddie Ramirez, a Honduran kid who picks tobacco with his migrant family in the South:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;nicotine&quot;","block_context":{"text":"nicotine","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=260"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tobacco-eddie_wide-e14530a54deff1c60b4bd52add9c0ac13be3fb1a-s40-c85.jpg?fit=1120%2C629&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tobacco-eddie_wide-e14530a54deff1c60b4bd52add9c0ac13be3fb1a-s40-c85.jpg?fit=1120%2C629&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tobacco-eddie_wide-e14530a54deff1c60b4bd52add9c0ac13be3fb1a-s40-c85.jpg?fit=1120%2C629&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tobacco-eddie_wide-e14530a54deff1c60b4bd52add9c0ac13be3fb1a-s40-c85.jpg?fit=1120%2C629&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/tobacco-eddie_wide-e14530a54deff1c60b4bd52add9c0ac13be3fb1a-s40-c85.jpg?fit=1120%2C629&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3892,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3892","url_meta":{"origin":2340,"position":1},"title":"Virginia GOP kills bill to stop child labour in tobacco fields","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"May 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Disgusting, just disgusting. 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