. . . but there is something odd about people whose diets clearly aren’t working telling American children and their parents how they should be eating.
The food nazis are starting to come across like that stock religious character from a liberal’s screenplay: the priest or minister who preaches the most about whatever his own biggest temptation is, and makes a point to secretly indulge that temptation over and over again when no one is looking.
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Give wingnuts enough time and their anti-Semitism will come out eventually.
You forgot raaaaacism, since the First Lady is included in that critique. And sexism.
Um, calling a Jewish Congresswoman a Nazi on Memorial day is in poor taste, LMA.
Even for a wingnut.
Ask Instacracker if you don’t believe me.
I grouped her in with the other food nazis–lower-case “n,” to make the distinction clear, a la the “soup nazi” on Seinfeld, which had plenty of Jews on-staff.
And Memorial Day 1) isn’t until tomorrow, and 2) isn’t particularly relevant to Anglo-Jewish relations.
Because you hate her for her ethnic thighs?
How do you feel about her nose?
P.S. Seinfeld is Jewish.
P.P.S. Plenty of Jewish American have died in America’s war.
Hole, stop digging, so forth.
“Ethnic thighs”? That’s borderline antisemitic, Ponce.
And because plenty of Jewish Americans died in “America’s war” (that single one that this nation was involved in), there’s a concrete connection between Jewishness and Memorial Day, which is tomorrow. That tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that killed the rat, that ate the mouse that lay in the house that Jack built . . .
Since Ponce’s every post concedes that ad hominem argumentation is OK with him, I offer him a personal evaluation.
At first I believed him to be a callow youth. I now believe him to be one of my boomer contemporaries–the left wing type who doubled down on his preference for authoritarian government when he turned fifty or sixty, rather than let the failures and tyrannies of the progressive project give him pause.
A young person would demonstrate more flexibility.
Attila the Hon, I wonder why you choose to put up with him.
Gosh, I hate to change the subject, but there is something I’d like to say about Debbie Wasserman Shultz’s thighs. And Michelle Obama’s backside.
I don’t particularly care for Debbie Wasserman Shulz, and I don’t believe that having the Federal Government determining what foods are allowable is the solution to health issues related to excess weight.
But I am distressed by the increasingly common denouncement as “Hypocrite!” of people who claim concern about nutrition and fitness, and try to change attitudes and behaviors, because they themselves have not attained this year’s ideal proportions.
Not everyone is blessed with even the potential for an ideal figure, regardless of diet and exercise. Since puberty, I have always been a size larger in the hips than the waist, — underweight, overweight, and “just right” — and I have a dear friend who is slowly recovering from the eating disorder she developed trying to get her thighs “right” while the rest of her wasted away.
I know nothing about Debbie Wasserman Shulz and her personal fitness plan, but her carrying her weight disproportionately does not necessarily mean that she lacks metabolic fitness, strength and stamina. And I don’t think that anyone can look at Michelle Obama (for whom I also care very little), whose muscular arms garner as much snark as her backside, and honestly doubt that she takes her own physical fitness seriously.
Why does it not occur to more of us that it is quite possibly because some people know how difficult it is to get fit, get slim, get “presentable” , that they get passionate about healthful eating? That some people must overcome a childhood of unfortunate food choices on the part of their own parents, and so become advocates of policies and programs they believe would benefit the children they see around them?
Whether they are correct in the information that is the basis of their recommendations, or reasonable in the way they would like to have their recommendations incentivized, are separate issues. But their inability to be ideally thin doesn’t make them hypocrites.
Every site worth visiting seems tohave its own version of Ponce. Always obnoxious, sometime amusing, seldom if ever correct.
Hmm. Really didn’t mean that to sound so rant-y.
I had thought of continuing this entry a bit, and explaining that I do, in fact, accept nutritional advice from my obese relatives, because I know that they keep up with nutritional trends, and because their struggles have made them experts. They know where the pitfalls are.
But those who preach too loudly, and appear to desire to control others, open themselves up to scrutiny; it’s the way of the world.
Deb Wassername is not simply proportioned funnily. She is clearly unfit, completely unexercised in fact, and has too much fat on her frame. Michelle O. may be doing lots of biceps curls and surely likes to let us see her armpits, but she is obviously not aerobically fit; she cannot stand or walk gracefully, her legs don’t have good muscle definition, and there’s at least twenty pounds more of her than there should be.
Excess fat is excess fat. Perhaps these women’s body shapes wouldn’t allow them to be models no matter how trim and fit they were, but that is a different issue than the obvious reality that both of them are overweight and out of shape. Yet they relentlessly try to force the rest of us, at the point of a legal gun, to do what they can’t and won’t do.
At snack time, Obama’s food police are attempting to cram GREEN ONIONS down the throats of trapped, hungry schoolchildren while Obama stuffs her face with fatty, sugary, luxury foods on camera and at taxpayer expense. Then she shakes her oversized, tackily swagged booty at the rest of us while her groupies rave about her supposed verve and panache. No wonder most of America simply snickers and then changes the channel on these nagging harpies!