Jesus weeps fat tears

[womzilla]

From Talking Points Memo:

Fox News: Surgeon General Too Fat

In what has to be among Fox News' all-time lowlights, Neil Cavuto had a segment a short while ago on whether the new surgeon general nominee, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, is "too fat" for the post. Seriously. In support of this argument, they had on as a guest some guy wearing a "No Chubbies" T-shirt. Again, I'm serious. Watch.

Late Update: It's not just Fox. ABC has a straight news story about Benjamin's weight. I don't remember C. Everett Koop being svelte. But then he wasn't black or a woman.

It gets better by getting worse.

Later Update: The Fox guest is quite a character. His name is Michael Karolchyk, and he runs an outfit in Denver called the Anti-Gym. . . Looks like Fox screens its guests well. The Anti-Gym was raided by the IRS in January, its assets seized and shut down, according to the CBS affiliate in Denver.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

At this point I remember what Wm. F. Buckley once called Oprah: "The black woman who is alternately fat and thin, I forget her name."

[avram]

Now, was Koop left alone because he's a white man, or because he'd already been in office more for fourteen years when the Wingnut Propaganda Channel launched?