Posted on 01/11/2008 11:34:21 AM PST by jdm
Michael Bloomberg may be mulling a run for the presidency, but he'd better take care to keep the photographers away when he gets the munchies. After pushing through a ban on trans-fats in New York City restaurants, Bloomberg got his photo snapped by Wired Magazine while munching on a bag of Cheez-Its in the office. So what's in a bag of Cheez-Its?
After gaining national media attention for spearheading an almost total ban on trans fats in city restaurants starting last July, Bloomberg was photographed in this month's issue of Wired magazine munching on those very same dangerous fats.No one begrudges Hizzoner the choice to put transfats in his mouth, except that Bloomberg doesn't appear to believe in reciprocity. Rather than just treat New Yorkers like adults who could make their own dietary decisions, and restauranteurs as free-market proprietors accountable to their customers, Bloomberg imposed government bans on those very choices. Even worse, we see that Bloomberg indulges in trans-fat consumption while in the very office from which the Burgermeister issued that very edict.
The photo, which accompanies a short Q&A about technology and politics, features Bloomberg at his City Hall desk, looking thoughtful and serious. Meanwhile, his right hand is seen almost absent-mindedly pulling a Cheez-It out of a single-serving bag of the crackers. ...
The mayor's food choice directly counters the guidance of his own Department of Health, which specifies on its Web site that "there is no safe level of artificial trans fat consumption." The site also points out that trans fats are responsible for at least 500 deaths in the city every year from heart disease.
His spokesman tried to spin this one into a matter of choice, but that won't fly. Bloomberg specifically rejected choice with his government-enforced ban. The mayor used the power of the city to strip that choice from chefs and their customers last year.
Silverman includes the quote about trans-fat killing 500 people in New York every year, the same kind of statistic that Bloomberg used in imposing that lack of choice on the Big Apple. Those kind of scare tactics can allow for unlimited nanny-statism as choices get taken away from us, supposedly for our own good, but mostly because of a condescending paternalism among statist elites that individuals are too stupid to act in their own self-interest. Eventually, that thinking leads to government cheese for the masses -- and Cheez-Its for their betters. (via Michelle Malkin)
Bloomberg is eating that bag of Cheez-Its so you don’t have to.
Well, at least he’s wearing the obligatory American flag lapel pin.
Hey, there’s no hypocrisy here!
The fat ban is to protect YOU PEASANTS who cannot control your appetites!
Maybe he’s really feeding the Cheez-Its to an animal underneath his desk.
Could have been take-yer-dawg-to-work day.
/sarc
Judging by his expression, looks like he ate a bad burrito and passed a wet one.
Not to bust anybody’s bubble, but Cheez-it crackers contain ZERO grams of trans fat.
Must have been a really slow news day...who cares...
What next Bloomie? Gets caught puffing an unfiltered Camel in the boys room?
Bloomberg is a cheese head - who knew.
Fake but accurate!! /s
You’re missing the bigger picture.
What if someone said they were going to take everyone’s guns away, including theirs and yours, but then they were caught on camera with a gun.
Wouldn’t that be the height of hypocrisy?
Given his many bucks, he will probably try to make a deal with God to save his life. lol
He just created a new job for those able to remove stains from $4,000.00 suits .
Looks like 0.5 grams of Trans-fat in original recipe.
http://www.cheez-it.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/fileBlob.pl?md5=8e290473417bbae7a7b705f250d483e5
I’d be more worried about King Arther from the Holy Grail there in the background (by the flags). We all know how that movie ended.
Liberals believe in the Nanny State. Liberals believe in taxes, taxes, taxes to support their vision of the Nanny State. You and myself are the source of supply for the taxes to support their Nanny State. Yours and my health are of utmost importance to the Nanny Statist Leftist/Socialist, Elitist Political Society as we are the source of the necessary taxes to support their vision of the perfect Society.
Without you and myself to provide them the funding as in dead men pay no taxes, they won’t be able to have their Cheez-its, and eat them too.
Universal Healthcare = Veterinary Care for the Farm Animals to provide the milk.
If you like being a farm animal, Bloomberg and his ilk are your choice for “leadership”.
Bloomberg's a life-long Democrat, so who should be surprised that he's a hypocrite?
Come on, it’s Cheez-Its for me but not for thee. That’s usually the way it works for the socialist/communist elites.
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