He's Too Fat For Me

[filkertom]

Sadly, No! lets us know precisely how incredibly fucking stupid the discourse is getting. (Don't miss the follow-up). Again: What "liberal media"?

Comments

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

I think the icon on grayhawkfh's LJ entry about the article (http://grayhawkfh.livejournal.com/335347.html) says it all....

[ericthemage.livejournal.com]

The more they post inflammatory material, the more page hits they get, and the more advertisers pay them...

[maiac.livejournal.com]

This, from the newspaper that regularly cheerleads for Dubya, who spends an inordinate amount of time exercising.

The article's premise is flat-out stupid. Will people reject Obama because he looks good? Oh yeah, just like John Goodman has more "star power" than George Clooney, and Roseann Barr is more popular than Angelina Jolie.

Give me a fucking break.

[shannachie.livejournal.com]

Your election campaigns are a lot more amusing than ours.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

FSVO "Amusing"

[evilsource.livejournal.com]

..........
Wow.

[sdelmonte]

I gotta wonder if this is some kind of codeword thing, where "too healthy" equals "strong and dumb black athlete."

I suppose all those presidents who were, for the most part, physically active, were an aberration.

[nomaddervish.livejournal.com]

I've never understood the whole "people will only vote for someone who looks like them" thing. Seems utterly stupid (and largely unrelated to realty) from what I've seen.

Even if it is accurate, though, then wouldn't being black be a bigger issue anyhow? Most people aspire to being physically fit, so Obama should lose few points for looking different than me in a good way. Very few people aspire to be black[1]...

Not to mention that the vast majority of us stand less than six feet. Will the next article be "Obama too tall to be president"?


[1] Not meant to imply that being black is worse, only that it is different and, unlike the perception of "skinny" as superior to "fat", "black" is not widely considered to be superior to other skin colors.

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

"Even if it is accurate, though, then wouldn't being black be a bigger issue anyhow?"

See sdelmonte's comment above -- I think he may have a point about it being a way to play the race card with plausible deniability.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, he's too tall. If you can think of a SINGLE tall president who did ANYTHING worthwhile for this country, I'll give you 2000 Lincoln pennies.

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

People do tend to like another person more if they look similar to each other, but it's fairly subtle and I'd like to think that it would only affect how a person votes for President if all other things were equal (which they're not by a long shot).

[wizwom.livejournal.com]

heh, Tom, why are you worried?
Honestly, no one will change their vote because of this stupidity.

I think it just goes to show how desperate news outlets are getting, both for content which won't scare the readers too much and for writing talent.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. Honestly, it's not even that I think anyone's vote will change; it's a combination of how utterly banal everything has become, that this drivel is considered acceptable "news" content, and an old trope I first heard expressed by Harlan Ellison: I don't mind them thinking I'm stupid, but I really resent them talking to me like I'm stupid.

[fredhuggins.livejournal.com]

What with this history-making election and the unanimously disastrous He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named administration, most of the media IS turning liberal (thank GOD) - look at how all the major networks followed Obama around overseas.

But there are still a small faction of conservatives who will do ANYTHING, and go to any stupid, desperate lengths, to discredit the guy. Why else would they still be talking about his fucking NAME?

I'm not worried at all, and here's why: ever since Nixon resigned, the presidency has ALWAYS gone to the candidate Joe Schmo most wants to have a beer with. Here, I'll prove it.

Carter/Ford 76: Ford's a clumsy ape
Carter/Reagen 80: "So what's John Wayne really like?"
Mondale/Reagen 84: see above
Bush/Dukakis 88: More like DORK-akis
Bush/Clinton 92: Sax player vs. hip-hop ban, hmmmm....
Clinton/Dole 96: "Bob Dole likes to Bob Dole!"
Bush/Gore 00: "Hey tree hugger, why's your wife such a bitch?"
Bush/Kerry 04: More like DORKerry (I'll work on that one)
McCain/Obama 08: "Where am I? Who took my teeth?"

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

What the WSJ REALLY wants to say:

People like Obama are as healthy as apes. Comes from all those years in the jungles.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Yes! A reference to one of the single, Best, Fucking things MAD Magazine EVER did -- "You Can't Win with a Bigot." I've been looking for that piece everywhere.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Well, I at least found out what issue it's in (http://www.amazon.com/MAGAZINE-March-1973-Planet-Cover/dp/B000IOBUCK). I saw a torrent for an immense Mad collection, and if you can find the Mad CD-ROM collection it would be there. If I could get to mine, I'd upload the pages. Later.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Again, the WTFness defies description o_O

[baphnedia.livejournal.com]

What I find really interesting is what the mainstream press considers important. Several years ago, I used to do regular PR work (mostly for myself and the friends I kept close to at the time), and would average about 100,000 reads per article and get a few hundred media outlet pickups for one low price of... wait for it... FREE. (well, I also put some money into them later on, at a rate of $41.11, but that's neither here nor there).

I went back, as interest in actually writing some decent articles caught my whim, and learned that, at least where I used to submit articles, the prices went from FREE to $80 (to get what you used to get for free), and $360 per press release to get what everyone wants, distribution-wise, in a press release.

I had no problem forking out a few bucks in the good ol' days when I had the option of doing the work for free, but $80-360? Per release? (mind you, I should be doing at least one per week, at that price I could barely afford to do one a month).

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, I didn't think those lax lead pollution laws would bite you lot in the arse quite so fast!

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

Yep. Oh yeah. That hit awhile ago. Oh, about 9 nine years ago, with the Rs starting to moot as a SRS candidate the current Ape-In Office.

I think this makes my point rilly rilly well...



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[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

I was telling someone else just yesterday that since Generation Y came into power, the media has developed the brain of a Valley Girl. This and "Brangelina" make my case.

[danceswithlife]

I'm loving many of his responses to these absurdities..."This is a great milkshake! If I drank one of these every day maybe I'd gain some weight and not be so skinny." Besides, his wife is wonderfully rubenesque. Just put her on camera more. He'll get the BBW vote :-)

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

BBW?

[danceswithlife]

"Big, Beautiful Woman." (Usually) men who are attracted to women who are not skinny or model thin, but of varying larger sizes. And the women like that, of course.

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Speaking as one myself, I've never heard BBW applied to the men who fancy them. I always thought we were FAs ^_^

[danceswithlife]

Yeah that was a little unclearly worded. It seems to me the BBW vote would include the men pleased that Obama married a rubenesque woman

[the-yoyogod.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it isn't some kind of satire? If it wasn't from the Wall Street Journal, I might almost think it was an attempt at some sort of political satire, but I suppose the WSJ doesn't even knows the meaning of satire.

I do, and I suppose I'll point you to:

http://victormus.livejournal.com/1010.html

I wrote it a few weeks ago under a fake name, but I think it's good, though someone might be dumb enough to take it seriously.

[strangething.livejournal.com]

Maureen Dowd mentioned this story in her NY Times column.

And hello, fellow sadlynaught!

[devospice.livejournal.com]

Obama's dick is too big! I'm not voting for any man with a longer dick than mine!

[bryanp.livejournal.com]

Considering that the current President is a known fitness nut I really doubt that sort of thing would have any real effect. It's just another stupid talking point for someone to try to sell a story.