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Fox Anchor Cries Foul On Fat-Shamer

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MarshalCosta
07/14/09

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The latest estimation is from 2006 and it says that children born 2006 are going to live longer than ever. So much for obesity killing off our younglings. So much for "shaving off decades".

Their mental well being would probably be better off if people didn't spew stuff like this.
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St. Francis of a Sissy
07/13/09

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Slow clap, Stuart Varney. Slow fuckin' clap.
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JennaW
07/13/09

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I never thought I'd say this about anyone on Fox News, but I love him. Maybe just for today, and maybe it's partly the accent, but I love him. Very much.
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Mama Penguino
07/13/09

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Some evenings when I don't have anything to do, I ask myself, "Shall I watch an interview with MeMe Roth on the Internet or shall I furiously pound my left hand with a ball-peen hammer?" Hammer wins, every time.
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suzannelb
07/13/09

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I believe la petit Meme is holding up a pair of high-waisted, off-white, pocketless trousers. With pleats.

Like any self-respecting fat girl would be caught DEAD in those.

Someday -- soon, I hope -- I will sit my own size-24 ass on this woman's inexplicably tiny head, and she will feel the pain as the back rivets of my dark-rinse Svoboda jeans drive my fat cooties into her hollowed-out cheeks. VENGEANCE IS MINE, MADAM.
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Dudezebel
07/13/09

@suzannelb: Plus the old hold up a pair of pants flat in front of you is so disengenuous. Your own pants are wider than your body when they are held up because people are 3-dimensional and not made out of paper.
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coconanas
07/13/09

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People with glasses shouldn't be allowed on TV because the strong lights might reflect off the lenses, burn my eyes and make me blind. Stop blinding me with your yukky glasses MeMe... How's that for a safety issue??

Sense: Ur doin it rong
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MerlinJalooloo
07/13/09

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Well- I don't disagree with her argument entirely.
I wish that she'd been allowed to express her opinion in complete sentences. The interviewer barely let her get a word in edge-wise!
I found it funny that he tried to tell her what the job of a flight attendant entails (getting people to sit down comfortably, I believe?) when he seems unclear about what his own job as an anchor/journalist entails- asking questions and letting guests answer!
Why bother having her on if he was just going to rail against her anyhow.
Thanks, old white male for being the voice of equality and justice for all, teenaged girls included! I'm curious what his (most likely much younger and buxom) girlfriend or wife (second? third?) looks like... she's probably not a size 24....
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Dancingfrog
07/14/09

@MerlinJalooloo: This "old white male" is attempting to see how people who aren't "old white males" live, and what kind of things they have to deal with. That's a good thing. We don't know how his partner looks, or what size she is, but we do know that he's trying to understand about the effects of discrimination.
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pesematology
07/13/09

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I know I've already commented on this topic a lot, but it just occurred to me that she's not only advocating that people should be made to fit clothes and not vice versa, but also that people should be made to fit *airplanes* and not vice versa. If there's a safety issue because the aisles are too narrow, that is a problem of engineering, not B(S)MI!
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KLondike5
07/13/09

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If the issue is physical fitness - in a sort of firefighter/police officer fitness for the job way - it also stands to reason that a really small person should have to prove their ability to yank open the doors, haul heavy stuff, etc.

But I bet they make uniforms in extra-small, no problem.
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Eric Northman is mine
07/13/09

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This guy and Shep Smith i can dig. Shameful and disgraceful indeed, making shoddy arguments or arguments without solid facts are frowned upon in these parts and this lady (who's not a doctor or has any medical background but an alleged advocate) decides to go on national television and BS her way through an argument. If you're going to be crazed nutjob at least be eloquent.
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pesematology
07/13/09

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Oh, and I think a tag category needs to be created for stories about this kind of thing, the "That, Madam, is disgraceful" category.
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thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.
07/13/09

@pesematology: Fab idea!
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VaginaWig is A Merkin
07/13/09

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I just want to know why she cares so much if people are overweight. Is it hurting her? She's blathering on and on about how it's self injury and they're hurting themselves, but I fail to see how that affects her life. If that's how she feels about obesity (whether that opinion is right or wrong), she's entitled to her belief, but why does she feel it necessary to go on TV as an activist against it? If she truly sees it as self harm, why does she care so much if fat people are hurting themselves? Other people's appearance shouldn't, and doesn't, affect the way she lives her life in the least.
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Helen Valentine
07/13/09

@VaginaWig is A Merkin: I was pondering this as well. To me it really does seem like it's that childish mentality of putting other people down in order to raise one's own self esteem, i.e. "If I'm skinnier than most Americans, I am therefore better than they are and have license to pick on them for not being as skinny as me."

It's a crusade that allows her to simultaneously flaunt her own so-called healthiness (I won't even go into her obviously disordered attitude toward eating) and come across as some kind of a noble figure--in her mind, at least.

...Actually you know what, fuck it, I think she's just mean.
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MagsCO
07/13/09

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I hate that the media is so hung up on obesity and weight. There are so many pieces discussing the roots and implications of obesity, or on weight loss in general. On the one hand, it is a health problem for many people (and "epidemic," apparently) worthy of some discussion and analysis, but it has become so highly politicized. You don't see people on the cable news channels yelling at each other over health issues like cholesterol, diabetes or tooth decay. It has to be because our culture associates fatness with so many bad qualities; laziness, stupidity, lack of discipline, etc. Therefore the obesity epidemic is equated with some fear of our entire nation turning into fat, lazy Jabba the Huts or something.

I guess also because it's a health problem where people can conveniently blame the patients because they "brought it on themselves." Kind of like many peoples' attitudes about lung cancer. Yeah, people's own choices may lead to their health problems, but that does not mean it's some kind of karmic punishment that they deserve. Or that they can be openly mocked and shamed by people like MeMe here.
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Suffragettestream the Office Hussy
07/13/09

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Does MeMe work for Ask Men?
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thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.
07/13/09

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She was just chomping at the bit to pull out her little prop.
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