Posted on 10/02/2016 9:16:13 AM PDT by RightGeek
Donald Trump is being assailed in the media for disparaging comments he made about Alicia Machado, the Venezuelan winner of the 1996 Miss Universe competition.
Machado claims that Trump, who ran the Miss Universe pageant, called her Miss Piggy after she gained weight. Trump himself said earlier this week that Machado gained a massive amount of weight and it was a real problem.
So lets take a look back to the late 1990s, when the Miss Universe organization put Machado on a strict diet and exercise regime, and media outlets flocked to film her working out in a New York City gym. In fact, the medias coverage of the spectacle was every bit as fat-shaming as Trumps remarks.
CNN, for example, would be aggressively denounced today for what the news network wrote about Machado in 1997.
When Alicia Machado of Venezuela was named Miss Universe nine months ago, no one could accuse her of being the size of the universe, wrote legendary CNN correspondent Jeanne Moos. But as her universe expanded, so did she, putting on nearly 60 pounds.
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Some have noticed another interesting aspect of this story, which blew up after Hillary Clinton very deliberately mentioned Machado at the end of the presidential debate on Monday. As it turns out, sympathetic mainstream media outlets had been working on profiles of Machado since last week, causing some to wonder if the press was coordinating all along with the Clinton campaign.
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But seriously, Miss Universe, fashion, models, Hollywood actresses - putting on 60 lbs is not going to be a problem? It would be for guys in similar jobs too.
I wasn’t aware the Miss Universe pageant had a BBW division . . .
Ms. Porno Piggy Narco
Surely it was a coincidence that all those media outlets just happened to interest themselves in an obscure ex-beauty queen with perhaps a not so savory past.
Yeah, but Trump is a Republican running for president, and the media is out to destroy him.
And this: "In the 1990s, Moos began to report on unusual and off-beat soft news stories, which is her current trademark."
The change in her assignment is more than likely linked to her embarrassing CNN at that press conference.
I tried searching using various keywords, but didn't get any hits on the event, but like I said, I saw it live, probably on CNN back when Papa Bush was still President. She was trolling for the Clintons even then.
the media coordinated on the machado story.
the media coordinated on the tax deduction story.
FNC was caught faking the post debate Clinton bump.
if cnn and fnc and msnbc were pacs they would have been sanctioned for being coordinated by Clinton.
The MSM’s name is CRAP in this house. I don’t watch them.
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