Ted Kennedy calls the kettle....

Consumer Freedom ^

[hinj]

This week, Senator Ted Kennedy will be conducting hearings on “solutions” to the nation’s “obesity epidemic.”

Since the Surgeon General’s call to action on obesity was published, food cops, trial lawyers and public health zealots are seeing dollar signs and have pulled out the stops on everything from taxes on foods and drinks to tobacco-style class action law suits against the restaurant industry.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is running the enclosed full-page national ad in this week’s issue of U.S News & World Report to alert consumers that their freedoms of food choice could be the next thing to be taken off the menu.

The ad parodies an ad by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) intended to create hysteria over certain foods by comparing them to tobacco.

[hinj]

Funny ted should pick NOW....

[LurkedLongEnough]

Otherwise known as "Obesity Alarm Ringing Dollar Signs for Food Cops and Trial Lawyers". What a hypocrite.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Teddy holding hearings on obesity is sort of like Teddy holding hearings on alcoholism or drunken driving or ... Well you got the idea!

[lonestar]

Teddy and Gerald Nadler should be in charge of obesity.

[Jay W]

Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun ever has.

[Richard Kimball]

Isn't this like Cindy Lauper calling Madona a slut?

BTW, old Cindy Lauper joke. What's the difference between Cindy Lauper and the Panama Canal?

The Panama Canal is a busy ditch.

[DeFault User]

The Poster Boy for Excess and Gluttony?

Mom (to children): You see that man on TV? You just keep eating all that junk food and that's what you'll look like.

Kids: Argggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh! Waaaaaahhhhhhhh!!

[tomakaze]

The only hearing Kennedy's qualified to conduct would be a seminar on the "efficient aquatic disposal of pregant mistresses who are a political liability."

[hinj]

I resemble that remark strongly!

And if I ever get lost on the way to the ferry, my gun still won't manage to kill anyone....::grin::

[MotleyGirl70]

If there was a fat tax on Ted our nations deficit problem would be eliminated.

[DainBramage]

Ted Kennedy makes obesity look anorexic.

[SGCOS]

check out Senator Lard in this thread!

[goodieD]

Ted had better start working on trying to revive prohibition for his own good, it's the booze that's made him chunky.

[Gurn]

Hey, fat boy! Here's a "solution": eat a salad, you pig.

[visagoth]

[Saundra Duffy]

Thanks for the laugh. I needed that.

[laconic]

Those who can't . . . Teach.

[SGCOS]

[hinj]

now THAT's the picture I was hoping for.

Blech.

TANSTAAFL,
Angela