Fox Business host: Feeding hungry seniors is 'called buying votes'

Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Tuesday accused the AARP of signing hungry seniors up for food stamps as part of a "buy-the-vote campaign" to benefit President Barack Obama.

On Saturday, the Tribune-Democratreported that the Pennsylvania chapter of the AARP launched an effort to sign more people up for food assistance after finding that "almost 350,000 seniors in Pennsylvania do not always have enough money to buy food."

"It's called buying votes," Varney opined on Tuesday. "It's happening in Pennsylvania, Georgia, a couple of other states."

"What about pride?" Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade wondered. "What about pride in not getting food stamps because they don't need them?"

"The AARP, huge supports of President Obama, politically and financially, big supporters of Obamacare," Varney explained. "And now they're out there signing people up for food stamps. This is part of the buy-the-vote campaign. They're really shifting America, changing what America really is."

"But if they're hungry they should get it, and if they qualify," co-host Steve Doocy noted.

"Yeah, should they?" Varney grimaced. "Should people be going out there, 'Give it to me! Give it to me now!' You want that? Is that America?"

"They are acting on behalf of the president and, I repeat, I think it's buying votes with taxpayer money," he insisted.

Watch this video from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast July 30, 2013.

(h/t: Media Matters)