Why the fat guy should lose his privilege (Going after Rush, Haley, Newt and Chris Christie)

Salon ^ | April 29, 2011 | David Sirota

[2ndDivisionVet]

Not a word about Michael Moore or any other corpulent lefty, of course.

[freedomfiter2]

The average obese person costs society more than $7,000 a year in lost productivity

How much productivity does the average lawyer cost society?

[Venturer]

Where do these crapheads come up with these wild figures?

[Cicero]

Or what about Regina Bejamin, Obama's Surgeon General. Is she a good example in the health field?

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Where do these crapheads come up with these wild figures?

They pull them from their wazoo apertures, taking care to remove it so as not to injure their craniums which are impacted in their wazoo apertures.

[Clintonfatigued]

Would this include Jerold Nadler, Ted Kennedy, Michael Moore, and others?

[LiteKeeper]

Do the words, “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” mean anything to the advocates of the Nanny state?

[RockinRight]

Or Jerrold Nadler.

[Ronin]

Rush is “morbidly obese”?

I know he had trouble with his weight 20 years ago, but I also heard he slimmed down considerably.

[MPJackal]

Well if they cost 7k more per year, but die early, isn’t that a wash?

[ken21]

lol!

[ken21]

ditto.

[The Pack Knight]

What a nauseating load of feminist dreck. This paragraph is particularly laughable:

Similarly, in big-time sports, our male superheroes are often super-fat. Harvard University, for instance, found that 55 percent of Major League Baseball players are overweight, while the University of North Carolina found that 56 percent of National Football League players are obese. These whales, of course, are interposed on TV between beer commercials featuring super-thin female models and are often playing in front of impossibly dimensioned female cheerleaders.

I didn't look up the UNC study on NFL players, but I do know the Harvard study on Major Leaguers is based on the Body Mass Index, an utterly useless standard when discussing athletes (or really anyone else for that matter). Under the BMI, players like Albert Pujols, A-Rod, and Ryan Howard are considered borderline "obese". Would anyone seriously call those three "superfat"?

How typical that an author who wails about demands of "physical perfection" from women cites a study that employs a standard which makes no allowance for differing body types.

[Viking2002]

David Sirota can kiss my ample white ass.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[Randy Larsen]

ROTFLMFAO!

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’m 51, weigh 340lbs and stand nearly six feet tall. Until a few years ago, entertainment venues paid me money to keep their patrons from becoming unruly and ejecting those who couldn’t follow house rules. If I was a big, soft marshmallow, how was that possible?

[rodguy911]

Rush just lost 90 lbs but i guess that does not count.

[Secret Agent Man]

I wonder if they forgot there are more fat poor people than fat rich people. The poor eat tons of crap junk food, buy all sorts of garbage with their WIC cards and electronic food stamp cards. Far more crap than average people. Hell McDonalds allows people to buy stuff with govt food cards.

Wonder if they thought about this. I am damn certain they would not have if they realized that most of their target audience is the liberal poor.

[matt04]

“Obesity is responsible for more than 160,000 excess deaths a year”

So if they weren’t “obese” they would live longer and still die eventually? I call BS.

[Secret Agent Man]

Anyone woh lifts weights and eats properly will be overweight.

Just because one is “overweight” - doesn’t mean it’s an unhealthy overweight.

Big fat mama spilling out of capris versus athlete with a lot of muscle mass, no comparison - certainly not equal just because technically both weight more than whatever the average weight is for their height.

And ps what is average changes over time. So it isn’t even consistent.