Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Must not mention that Chris Christie is fat
CHRIS Christie, the plain-speaking governor of the US state of New Jersey, is tipped to be a future president.
He's also overweight, which is why this TIME magazine cover featuring Mr Christie and the headline 'The Elephant In The Room' was savaged as a "cruel" fat joke this week.
The issue focused on the governor's "outsized influence" in the Republican Party - but many commentators saw it as an attack on obese Americans.
"It's fat-shaming," fumed Mary Elizabeth Williams, a writer for the pop culture website Salon in the piece 'Don't call Chris Christie an Elephant'.
Political pundit Emily Shire agreed: "Enough with the Chris Christie fat jokes," she wrote for The Week. "It's immature and it's subeffective to boot ... Tasteless and unfunny."
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I actually thought when I saw the cover that the "elephant" reference was just another snide comment on personal attributes from a magazine bereft of substantive discussion about the merits of the liberal/conservative debate, so while I recognized it for what it was, I knew that most astute observers would likewise realize what a cheap shot it was.
Christie's response:
"Who cares...its certainly not the first weight joke that has been thrown my way."
If fat people cared about their appearance they wouldn't allow themselves to get so fat. This of course doesn't include a small minority with glandular or other medical problems, but wherever American-style fastfood and junkfood is promoted around the world, the populations gradually look more and more like Americans!
Personally, I found the rather clever magazine cover grossly offensive. Not because it was un-PC, which it clearly was, but because of the truly gross hypocrisy of Time Nagazine.
If a right-leaning magazine had done this to a Democrat, the Left would be appoplectic. For fair-minded people any set of rules should be applied evenly across the board. I find the whole concept of PCism offensive, but it is all the more offensive when the folks trying to shove it down my throat gleefully violate their own rules.
My personally experience and the lessons of history make it clear to me that such folks who insist on shoving new rules down their enemies throats, while gleefully violating those rules themselves, are of a distinctively sociopathic mindset, and thus profoundly threatening to my freedom and well being.
Odd how these same leftist "critics" have nothing to say about the gay, Marxist Muslim sitting in the Oval Office.
So, if Obummer had been the underdog in 2008, would a magazine cover that spoke of the Dark Horse been considered acceptable?
I actually thought this cover was pretty clever. The elephant in the room referring to Christie's girth, his political muscle, AND the GOP at the same time. All the caterwauling is meaningless, Christie has seen all the fat jokes there are tossed his way and the steamroller that he his will merely leave them behind, embedded in the pavement. Christie is not a whiner, he is losing weight, he is reasonably fit, and he will move forward toward his goal.
Should have been the RINO in the room, not the Elephant.
Anon 3:37AM - the problem is NOT "fast food" - it is the abundance of available calories married with a sedentary lifestyle. The human body is the result of hundreds of millions of years of "feast and famine" responses - none of which prepared our biological blueprint for "feast and....more feast...and maybe a bit more feast...."
Well, I wasn't referring to the "fast-ness" of the fastfood either, but its general quality and the over-use of it, along with the constant snacks with poor or very bad effects on health. And yes, poor levels of exercise!
Try to imagine the uproar if you put a top Dem leader's head on a characterture of a mule and add the caption "the Dem ass you voted for?"
funny how the left constantly judges others by outward appearance. They are equivalent to racists in their discrimination.
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