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Government Cheese (Mike Bloomberg caught on camera munching Cheez-Its!)
Captain's Quarters ^ | Jan. 11, 2008 | Ed Morrissey

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?

Newsday columnist Justin Rocket Silverman notes the hypocrisy:
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.

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.
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.

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)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; hypocrite; nannystate
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BUSTED!

1 posted on 01/11/2008 11:34:24 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm
If it is Obambi Vs. Huckster , this is your next POTUS .
2 posted on 01/11/2008 11:36:45 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: jdm

Bloomberg is eating that bag of Cheez-Its so you don’t have to.


3 posted on 01/11/2008 11:40:39 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: jdm

Well, at least he’s wearing the obligatory American flag lapel pin.


4 posted on 01/11/2008 11:42:04 AM PST by delacoert
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To: jdm

Hey, there’s no hypocrisy here!

The fat ban is to protect YOU PEASANTS who cannot control your appetites!


5 posted on 01/11/2008 11:42:45 AM PST by Redbob
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Maybe he’s really feeding the Cheez-Its to an animal underneath his desk.

Could have been take-yer-dawg-to-work day.

/sarc


6 posted on 01/11/2008 11:44:25 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: kbennkc

Judging by his expression, looks like he ate a bad burrito and passed a wet one.


7 posted on 01/11/2008 11:44:37 AM PST by duckman (I refuse to use a tag line...I mean it.)
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To: jdm

Not to bust anybody’s bubble, but Cheez-it crackers contain ZERO grams of trans fat.


8 posted on 01/11/2008 11:44:52 AM PST by Bob Buchholz
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To: jdm

Must have been a really slow news day...who cares...


9 posted on 01/11/2008 11:46:40 AM PST by econjack (Some people are as dumb as soup.)
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To: jdm

What next Bloomie? Gets caught puffing an unfiltered Camel in the boys room?


10 posted on 01/11/2008 11:47:57 AM PST by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: jdm

Bloomberg is a cheese head - who knew.


11 posted on 01/11/2008 11:48:47 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Bob Buchholz
Dude, it doesn't matter whether the charge is true or not; it's the seriousness of the charge that counts.

Fake but accurate!! /s

12 posted on 01/11/2008 11:50:23 AM PST by liberty_lvr
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To: econjack

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?


13 posted on 01/11/2008 11:50:24 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: kbennkc
It doesn’t really matter to him if his arteries are blocked, and he ends up “ded, d-e-d, ded.”

Given his many bucks, he will probably try to make a deal with God to save his life. lol

14 posted on 01/11/2008 11:51:23 AM PST by GOPologist (When you can't find a path through the wilderness, make a new path.)
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To: duckman

He just created a new job for those able to remove stains from $4,000.00 suits .


15 posted on 01/11/2008 11:52:02 AM PST by kbennkc (For those who have fought for it , freedom has a flavor the protected will never know)
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To: Bob Buchholz

Looks like 0.5 grams of Trans-fat in original recipe.

http://www.cheez-it.com/cgi-bin/brandpages/fileBlob.pl?md5=8e290473417bbae7a7b705f250d483e5


16 posted on 01/11/2008 11:52:48 AM PST by loungeSerf (If the theatre is on fire it's ok to shout Fire!)
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To: jdm

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.


17 posted on 01/11/2008 11:54:10 AM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Redbob

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”.


18 posted on 01/11/2008 11:55:57 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: jdm
"Wouldn’t that be the height of hypocrisy?"

Bloomberg's a life-long Democrat, so who should be surprised that he's a hypocrite?

19 posted on 01/11/2008 11:56:39 AM PST by mass55th
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To: jdm

Come on, it’s Cheez-Its for me but not for thee. That’s usually the way it works for the socialist/communist elites.


20 posted on 01/11/2008 11:56:55 AM PST by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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