Posted on 02/02/2009 7:53:08 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
Apparently, President Barack Obama thought that Jessica Simpson's weight was something he needed to make fun of during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Lauer on NBC Sunday. Seriously. Obama called Jessica Simpson a fatty on national TV.
Lauer displayed for the audience the cover of a recent issue of the tabloid entertainment magazine US Weekly that featured the President's wife and daughters and also had an insert photo pushing a story about singer Simpson.
As he viewed the cover, Obama decided to smack the singer down for being "in a weight battle."
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
I have a hunch the title of the article on the cover is about her having a “weight battle.”
I don’t like Obama, but come on. Obviously he was pointing out how she was addressed in the article, not calling her fat himself.
Still, he is acting very unpresidential here.
Ouch!
Looking online, yes. That is in fact what it was.
Still, he shouldn’t have been talking about that anyway...but using it to knock Obama for being mean is silly.
Hmm - why hasnt he commented on the more pronounced augmentation of Oprah?
0bama = low-down, no-class, ghetto punk.
I changed the channel to the NFL network when the Obama/Laur interview took place.
I feel rather vindicated....
If that’s fat, I like chubbies.
“I’d rather not be put in the position of even appearing to defend obama but it actually seems he was commenting on the cover of a magazine trying to appear well informed because of the magazine saying she is in a weight struggle.”
Then maybe he shouldn’t have commented, a professional controls the interview instead of being lead into such things ... it is often a trap, especially for republicans.
I don’t think much of Jessica Simpson as a performer, but she has a very healthy figure.
Good to see that speaking out on something is not above President Obamas pay level....
Yeah, size 4 is really porked out, huh? Sheesh
Agree, I think she still looks really hot.
Presidential bully pulpit.
btw, Jessica Simpson looks GREAT. She’s an airhead, but she’s also a self made multi millionaire. Why anyone is attacking her for her LEVIS is beyond me.
I strongly suspect those internet ‘hero’s’ attacking her couldn’t pass half this level of personal scrutiny.
I’m not a ‘fan’ of hers, beyond being male and liking hot looking blondes, btw. Same crap was offered up last year regarding Jennifer Love Hewitt...I don’t get it.
All these two woman have done is become sucessful.
This here Presidenshiating shore is hard!
; )
Tempest in a teapot.
![]() "Jessica Simpson's the new Jennifer Love Hewitt, thanks to some much curvier photos of the pop singer performing at a recent Florida chili cook-off" [?!] |
Didn't the planet suffer enough with just one Anna Nicole Smith? |
Nobody’s forcing you to look at her picture.
That may have been the editing for the Super Bowl crowd.
Today showed more of the interview this morning. I specifically heard Lauer ask about Gitmo and what would happen if someone released came back and attacked again.
They also taked about Afghanistan.
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