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NBC’s ‘Today’ Mocks Michelle Obama’s Latest Food Police Push
Newsbusters ^ | May 30, 2015 | Kyle Drennen

Posted on 07/03/2015 8:49:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

On Friday, even the hosts of NBC’s Today had enough of Michelle Obama’s effort to micro-manage people’s food choices as they mocked the First Lady’s attempt to create a healthy version of s’mores.

At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour, co-host Willie Geist explained: “So the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, and the USDA have teamed up for this program called ChooseMyPlate.gov. It's an initiative proposing a makeover, for among other things, this classic campfire treat. So instead of graham crackers with chocolate and marshmallow, they propose graham crackers with, want-wa, strawberries and low-fat yogurt.”

Fellow co-host Tamron Hall declared, “it's not a s'more.” Natalie Morales pointed out: “And the s'more is not all that fattening to begin with. I mean, marshmallows have no fat, graham crackers are low fat, and one piece of chocolate is not going to kill you.” Geist replied: “Thank you. Amen, Natalie. Amen.”

Trying one of the s’more alternatives proposed by Mrs. Obama, Morales observed: “...they get a little soggy. Look at that, it’s falling apart....It falls apart in your hands.”

Geist noted: “So people are not pleased about this....@Texan tweeted, ‘Please tell Michelle Obama this is not a s'more. These are strawberry-yogurt-cracker sandwiches. Put this on a campfire.’”

He concluded: “I admire the First Lady’s initiative to make us healthier, I really do, but come on now. We're keeping the s'more the way it is.”

Here is a full transcript of the May 29 segment:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Food; Government; Health/Medicine; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: children; health; letsmove; michelleobama; nannystate; nutrition; obesity; smores
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1 posted on 07/03/2015 8:49:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; Alia; altura; ...

Bustin’ on the Nanny State PING!


2 posted on 07/03/2015 8:50:55 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Eat yer peas!!!


3 posted on 07/03/2015 8:53:04 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Sorry Al. Sorry Jesse. Rainbow is the new black.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Liberals just can’t bring themselves to criticize Wookie Mooch.


4 posted on 07/03/2015 8:53:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I read today that Michelle is promoting the grilling of pineapples and other fruits in lieu of hamburgers/hot dogs for the 4th. Wonder what the O family will be eating?


5 posted on 07/03/2015 8:55:45 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: EDINVA

Whatever these grifter hobos will be eating...the taxpayers are paying for it.


6 posted on 07/03/2015 9:02:38 PM PDT by ogen hal (First Amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Michelle Obama’s legacy will be that she induced young children to throw away food.


7 posted on 07/03/2015 9:09:54 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ChooseMyPlate?

I’ve got a suggestion on what she can do with that plate.


8 posted on 07/03/2015 9:18:33 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Natalie Morales pointed out: “And the s'more is not all that fattening to begin with. I mean, marshmallows have no fat, graham crackers are low fat, and one piece of chocolate is not going to kill you.”

Apparently, the "nutritional rocket scientists" @ The Today Show believe that eating fat IMMMEDIATELY lards fat on to the body.

Well, at least Natalie Morales, retard, makes enough baksheesh to protect her from the consequences of her own ignorance:

Morales' annual salary: $2 million, or $1,000 an hour.

Natalie only has to work a couple of weeks ($80,000) to afford a top-flight full-time personal trainer to keep her 5'3" little body skinny enough for TeeVee...

9 posted on 07/03/2015 9:18:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
the WhiteHouse chef doesn't follow Michelle's recommendations.
10 posted on 07/03/2015 9:19:35 PM PDT by RginTN
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11 posted on 07/03/2015 9:20:39 PM PDT by Semper Mark (Vlad Tepes was a piker.)
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To: boycott
I’ve got a suggestion on what she can do with that plate.

I would love to see the X-ray afterward.

12 posted on 07/03/2015 9:23:13 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She might have more credibility if her ass wasn’t the size of Texas.

...not him, her other ass.


13 posted on 07/03/2015 9:30:40 PM PDT by bramps
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wonder what Mooch-shell would be eating if we weren’t paying for it?


14 posted on 07/03/2015 9:31:11 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: EDINVA

Don’t mean to me crude...but she can ‘eat this’.


15 posted on 07/03/2015 9:43:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: WKUHilltopper
You don't see much of that dog Barry named after himself and that dragged him around the WH grounds. Know why? Popeye's chicken photo: Popeyes Chicken PopeyesChickenRedlands.jpg
16 posted on 07/03/2015 9:48:31 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

ONE DOES NOT MOCK THE QUEEN!!! NBC will be punished and punished severely.


17 posted on 07/03/2015 9:49:30 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Incredibly, I am going to SLIGHTLY defend her on this, because her intentions are good, but as we all know, the road to hell is paved with those. I really think that she should have pushed fitness more and being the Food Nazi less.

I’m sorry to say that the only kids I see on my street playing outside in the summer are kids who are probably not native US citizens. Those other kids are probably playing XBox inside where they are “safe”, and who will probably need quadruple bypasses by the time they are 30.


18 posted on 07/03/2015 9:50:01 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day".)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Eat what I tell you to eat!!


19 posted on 07/03/2015 9:53:40 PM PDT by PROCON (CRUZing into 2016 with Ted.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Okay, so how do you toast the yogurt????


20 posted on 07/03/2015 10:04:33 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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