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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox’s Dr. Keith Ablow Attacks Michelle Obama’s Weight: ‘She Needs To Drop A Few’
Dr. Keith Ablow, a member of the Fox News Medical A-Team on Tuesday asserted that First Lady Michelle Obama was not qualified to fight for better child nutrition because she needed to drop a few pounds.
On Monday, nearly 500 retired generals and other military leaders in the group Mission: Readiness sided with Michelle Obama against House Republicans, who were pushing a measure to allow schools to opt out of nutritional standards.
On the Tuesday episode of Out Numbered, Fox Business host Kennedy Montgomery accused the federal government of projecting these standards upon us. And Michelle Obama is so
shes the duchess when she speaks, Kennedy quipped. Shes kind of annoying though, co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle agreed.
But it wasnt Ms. Obamas tone that bothered Ablow. What is she eating? he asked. She needs to drop a few.
That sentiment elicited a collective gasp from the four women on the panel. You did not just say that! co-host Harris Faulkner exclaimed, wondering if the control room could use its seven-second delay to stop the comments from airing. Were taking nutritional advice from who? Ablow opined. Lets be honest. Theres not French fries? Thats all kale and carrots? I dont buy it. http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/12/foxs-keith-ablow-attacks-michelle-obamas-weight-she-needs-to-drop-a-few/
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Typical RW tactic. Nothing is wrong with the health advice FLOTUS gives, so deflect by going ad hom.
Guess what? Cheap, shitty shots are easy. Watch.
We're getting criticism of of good nutritional advice from whom?
Not to mention that this guy is supposedly a psychologist. Is this what responsible psychologists do? Shame attractive people based on their weight?
BTW, who furnished his home? Dracula? Because, apparently, there are no mirrors.
big_dog
(4,144 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Warpy
(111,359 posts)You owe me a new keyboard.
frylock
(34,825 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)Don't post pictures of Col. Klink's penis
enough
(13,262 posts)the ones with the weight problem.
I know this is a generalization, but we've seen this in the media before, especially with Rush Limbaugh.
MANative
(4,112 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Phrenology?
LordGlenconner
(1,348 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)I've experienced the same ignorance many times myself.
underpants
(182,904 posts)Almost any discussion about Michelle and her food awareness programs include either that direct quote or some clever ( to them) wink wink about her weight
Atman
(31,464 posts)They don't even has a NEWS department, fer chrissake. Seriously...Fox "News" does not have a news division. And yet, millions of Americans still take them seriously.
Dems to Win
(2,161 posts)This makes me mad, very mad.
I'm pleased that even on Fox, the women responded with outrage.
I hope Jimmy Fallon or someone drop kicks this jerk. Gives him a dose of his own medicine.
If Fox had any dignity or respect for itself and its listeners, it would drop this obviously-stupid 'doctor' from its line-up, pronto. From a medical stand point, the First Lady is at her ideal weight, it seems quite obvious. It's only from a Hollywood, rail thin fashion model point of view that a loathsome cur would even say she needs to lose weight.
Course we know it won't happen.
BainsBane
(53,072 posts)Negative comments of perfectly healthy female bodies because they don't fit some media ideal. Naturally he carries more excess weight than she does, but then he's a man. He doesn't need to look like someone on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
enough
(13,262 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Foxnews sucks donkey balls. EOM.
dawg
(10,624 posts)Ablow looks like a poor man's Lex Luthor.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Aristus
(66,467 posts)Unbelievable...