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Isn't it funny when I read the Huffington Post as well today, and saw all the outrage to the email comments about this news anchor's weight...however, I can easily find threads about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on HuffPost mocking his obesity...many of the HuffPost posts attacking his weight with the most vicious invective?
1 posted on 10/03/2012 5:51:19 AM PDT by RochesterNYconservative
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Ask any sailor—anchors are supposed to be heavy.


2 posted on 10/03/2012 5:57:34 AM PDT by TruthShallSetYouFree (When the Obama poster fades, the portrait of Che Guevara beneath it shows through.)
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The viewer was obviously a Michelle obama in the making!

PHOOEY to her, and TRIPLE-PHOOEY to Michelle obama, the weight Nazi!!!!


3 posted on 10/03/2012 5:57:38 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Their FCC license should be revoked.

You don’t spend 15 minutes of broadcast time lambasting a private emailer without offering rebuttal time.


4 posted on 10/03/2012 5:58:39 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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The letter quickly went viral after her husband, fellow WKBT anchor Mike Thompson posted it to his Facebook page Friday, telling followers that it made him "sick to his stomach."

Oh, grow up and stop begging for attention.

Ms. Livingston actually has no public responsibility regarding health or fitness (although she has a responsibility to herself and her family). If her employer finds her appearance satisfactory, that's that, as far as the public is concerned.

I'll bet the station management is cheering all this free publicity! One even wonders whether the whole thing might be a setup to increase ratings and page views at the station's website ...

5 posted on 10/03/2012 5:59:24 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Optimism is much shallower than hope.)
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Good for Jennifer! She stuck up for herself nicely and it’s nice to see someone who doesn’t look like a stick figure on a news program.


7 posted on 10/03/2012 6:00:06 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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With so many hot news babes on air, why would you willing watch a fat one?

PS - I get my weather from the spanish language channels.


9 posted on 10/03/2012 6:01:04 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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She’s fat. She can either accept it or change it, but instead she and her husband decided to make an issue of it. Their choice.


10 posted on 10/03/2012 6:01:24 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Calling someone ‘fatty’ or ‘obese’ a hate crime in Britain

British MPs have suggested that calling someone “fatty” or “obese” should be considered a hate crime on a par with racism or homophobia. Generations of children have traded banter - or bullying, depending on your perspective - about body weight in the schoolyard, and Enid Blyton even named one of her characters “Fatty” in her Five Find-Outers series.

http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report_calling-someone-fatty-or-obese-a-hate-crime-in-britain_1695765

just don’t call me late for dinner, fatty.


11 posted on 10/03/2012 6:01:50 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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I don’t watch newscasts because I’m so sick of their preaching to us about health and environmental hazards. If this chick was getting a dose of her own medicine, I don’t feel so sorry for her but I presume that, at a small town station, she probably has other reasons for her size, not the least of which is enduring those Wisconsin winters.


15 posted on 10/03/2012 6:05:42 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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The good news for the station is that now everyone is going to watch the program to see how fat she really is.

My bet is that it was some Lib writing this letter. Those oh so tolerant Libs are usually the ones who mock fat Red State Americans who shop at Walmart.


16 posted on 10/03/2012 6:05:53 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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lol

“struggle”

...

Yeah... it’s such a struggle to stop cramming food into your fat face!


18 posted on 10/03/2012 6:06:25 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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First- The person who sent the email is rude and an insensitive clod. Its not his business (or anyone elses) what a person weighs (this is especially true of the government).
Second- The news anchor protests too much. Every idiot with an opinion has email capability. If you dont make an idiot’s opinion public it fades into nothingness. That what should have happened here. If she was offended, confront the clod in private, dont broadcast it


19 posted on 10/03/2012 6:06:51 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (We won't stand for biased umps fixing a ball game but we allow a biased media to fix elections.)
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I worry about Chris Christie’s liberalism...not about his weight.


20 posted on 10/03/2012 6:07:44 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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She's a morning anchor, probably mostly watched by women who will feel better about themselves in comparison to her.

21 posted on 10/03/2012 6:07:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Charlie Daniels - Payback Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwTJj_nosI)
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This woman is NOT on the air to be a “role model”. It’s a job. “Role models” come in many different forms. Manager of a department store, a chef, a barber, a carpenter. Should they lose weight because it might have a negative impact on those that see them?

What’s next? Stop smoking? Dress better? Get a toupee?


22 posted on 10/03/2012 6:08:59 AM PDT by albie ("Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow." Benjamin Frankli)
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I guess people don't get out much. Her appearance, is 'normal' for parts of the country.

She can look however she wants and her employer can determine if she is 'qualified' and does a 'good' job as they see fit.

This is another first world problem, where people have nothing else to bitch about or complain about except some person trying to make a living and pay the bills.

29 posted on 10/03/2012 6:12:16 AM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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Isnt that what the first lady is doing..in the schools


30 posted on 10/03/2012 6:12:52 AM PDT by dalebert
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I see both sides at fault here. On the one hand, I don’t think Jennifer Livingston should have spent all that time responding on the air. She could have just as easily shot back an email to the guy saying the same thing. On the other hand, after seeing the guy’s comments to her, I get the impression that he is an arrogant jerk who probably makes a habit of looking down his nose at other people, and finds reasons to tear them down.


32 posted on 10/03/2012 6:15:00 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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There are a couple of female anchors here who routinely get dumped on for being fat. Both of them have at least five kids.

Coincidence????? (especially when women like Camryn Manheim get a pass)


36 posted on 10/03/2012 6:22:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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What a coincidence that this should come up during anti-bullying month & give them another PC platform to stand on.


37 posted on 10/03/2012 6:22:55 AM PDT by certrtwngnut (It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. (Josef Stalin))
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