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Who is "obesity expert" Mimi Roth and who pays her to be such an irritating nag?
O'Reillyfactor | 10/01/09 | Mamzelle

Posted on 10/01/2009 5:24:53 PM PDT by Mamzelle

I see this skinny blonde with her grating voice now and then. She was on O'Reilly tonight. Who is she? Who pays her to run around bashing the fat and thinking up government schemes to control their behavior? I wikied her, I googled, there's some out there who claim she's an MD. I figure there's someone on FR who can inform me.


TOPICS: Education; Society
KEYWORDS: annoying; obnoxious; slapher
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1 posted on 10/01/2009 5:24:54 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Liz

Anyone who’s this nanny-state antagonistic is probably working for Soros.


2 posted on 10/01/2009 5:25:36 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

Do you want to attack her or her argument?


3 posted on 10/01/2009 5:36:28 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Mamzelle

Yeah she is far too Shrill for me to watch.. I saw her a few times call for the banning of Santa Clause because he was fat.. lol

Shes a raving nutcase and advocates for big brother banning everything under the sun... and as another person mentioned I would not be shocked to find out she was Soros Funded.


4 posted on 10/01/2009 5:38:30 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Mamzelle

Basically, she’s just some food nazi nutter who can’t leave any one else alone. She’s called the obesity problem in the U.S. “a matter of national security” and once got thrown out of a YMCA for trashing an ice-cream bar. She’s also tried to get the Girl Scouts to stop selling cookies, and considers junk food a form of child abuse.

I think her zealot stand is as much about getting fame as it is genuine nutburger-ness, but either way, she’s an annoying twit. Here’s a long article about her:

http://www.elle.com/Beauty/Health-Fitness/MeMe-Roth-s-War


5 posted on 10/01/2009 5:39:20 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: DemforBush

Edit: I don’t know who bankrolls her, but it might be in the article I linked to.


6 posted on 10/01/2009 5:40:21 PM PDT by DemforBush (Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
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To: Raycpa

I really want to know who finances her. I wonder if she’s part of the whole Shadow Government.


7 posted on 10/01/2009 5:40:26 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

So basically you have no beef with her argument, just who funds her?


8 posted on 10/01/2009 5:47:28 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Mamzelle

I want BOR to have someone follow her with a hidden camera 24/7 to watch what she eats/drinks......


9 posted on 10/01/2009 5:48:08 PM PDT by hsmomx3 (GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: Mamzelle

I found this on her site.. Ill do more digging.

“MeMe Roth made her career in marketing and public relations—as a VP for Edelman Public Relations, and Ogilvy Public Relations before that. In the nineties during Jack Welch’s tenure, Ms. Roth headed up PR for one of the twelve General Electric Companies, GEIS. Over the years, there were stints at Philips Electronics, IBM and a number of Net start-ups. In 2006, Ms. Roth handled publicity for the gathering of Nobel Laureates in Petra, Jordan on behalf of King Abdullah II, Holocaust-survivor, author and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, and Publicis.”


10 posted on 10/01/2009 5:52:00 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Mamzelle

Oh and forgot the link. Her site is at http://memeroth.net/


11 posted on 10/01/2009 5:52:35 PM PDT by eXe (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Raycpa
She's a fanatic who is so scared of gaining weight that she wants to make it everybody else's problem, and it looks like her obsession is helpful to some other people.

(PS, in case you're perishing of curiosity, I'm not fat.)

I do get sick and tired of punitive attitudes toward the obese. It gets in the way of actually solving the problem. She's not going to get very far with her attitude, at least not in a positive way.

Her shtick seems to be "It's OK to hate Fatty cause he's costing YOU money." She is allied with Soros.

12 posted on 10/01/2009 5:55:32 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: eXe; DemforBush
Thanks--your Elle link helped. She is in bed with Center for Science in the Public Interest, a Soros foundation linked with abortion, human stem cell issues, etc. Here's more:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2313847/posts

13 posted on 10/01/2009 5:58:09 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

You started out picking on her voice then her backers. Such arguing methods is the tools of liberals. By all means go after her arguments and show them to be illogical or unsubstantiated by facts and leave the character attacks to the experts.

In the meantime here is a source for her own organizations:

http://www.actionagainstobesity.com/NationalActionAgainstObesity/National%20Action%20Against%20Obesity.html

http://weddinggownchallenge.blogspot.com/

Study her words and then attack them. You will be more effective.


14 posted on 10/01/2009 6:02:09 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Raycpa
I'll pick on her screechy voice and self-righteous mannerisms as much as I please. She's rude and condescending.

She complains about her fat mother and fatter grandmother. In addition to weight obsession, perhaps she got her bossy bad manners from them, as well.

15 posted on 10/01/2009 6:04:55 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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To: Mamzelle

Well you convinced me. She is rude and condescending.

However, is she wrong?


16 posted on 10/01/2009 6:08:56 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: DemforBush

If Obamacare ever comes to pass, people like her will rush to the top echelons of power and ask to play the puppeteer. Navy SEAL enlistees will have it easier since all they have to do is say “I quit!” and ring the bell three times...and they get sent to more traditional jobs. Not so with the rest of us who will be taxed, imprisoned (debtors prison), etc. if such women hold power.

If she is so obsessed with staying fit and forcing everyone else to stay fit, let her join the Marines and be a drill sergeant.


17 posted on 10/01/2009 6:09:54 PM PDT by Soothesayer9
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To: Raycpa

Illogical? Unsubstantiated by facts?

Hmm...”Nunnayerbizness” works okay for me.


18 posted on 10/01/2009 6:11:30 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: eXe

Hmmmm, General Electric? Immelt? MSNBC? Jus sayin . . .


19 posted on 10/01/2009 6:12:06 PM PDT by jazminerose
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To: Raycpa
Her approach is shallow and simple-minded. But, then, she went to journalism school in the US.
20 posted on 10/01/2009 6:13:43 PM PDT by Mamzelle (Who is Kenneth Gladney? (Don't forget to bring your cameras))
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