Just looking at the hypocrisy of the media. So what else is new? But sometimes you just have to point out the obvious.
Christmas day the Washington Post slobbered (metaphorically speaking) all over it's front page about Obama's workout:
"The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
Now, if that doesn't make you wanna puke in your cornflakes, I don't know what would.
The subtitle of the piece is "Gym Workouts Help Obama Carry the Weight of His Position." The WaPo just gushes about how wonderful it is that Obama stays in shape.
Flashback to Pres. Bush's workouts and how the WaPo described them.
Former Post writer Jonathan Chait famously attacked Bush three years ago in an opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times headlined "The (over)exercise of power."
Recounting how President Bush ran 3.5 miles a day and preached more cross-training to a federal judge, Chait fumed: "Am I the only person who finds this disturbing? . . . What I mean is the fact that Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the creepy."
Chait argued that Bush's passionate devotion to exercise was a dereliction of duty. "Does the leader of the free world need to attain that level of physical achievement?" he jeered. "It's nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron. Unfortunately, most of us have more demanding jobs than he does."
Can you imagine any member of the Obamedia mocking the incoming gym-rat-in-chief this way?
The IBD editoral gives more examples of the press knocking Pres. Bush and his workouts but it comes down to this:
Fit Republican president = Selfish, indulgent, creepy fascist.
Fit Democratic president = Disciplined, health-conscious Adonis role model.
Mainstream media, thy name is hypocrisy. Which is why you are dying.
—Kathleen McKinley is a blogger whose posts appear at Rightwing Sparkle.
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These "journalists" would
December 29, 2008 - 11:58 ET by HockeyKidThese "journalists" would be laughed out of any high school newspaper club for their ludicrous writing (even though most high schoolers these days think it's spelled "Ludacris"). I predict the WaPo follows the NYT in '09--sayonara, "news"papers.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Okay, Barbara Cartland is dead, so...
December 29, 2008 - 12:00 ET by Chris Norman"The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
Did the writer of this WaPO piece happen to be Jackie Collins?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
An exercise in the double standard of the MSM
December 29, 2008 - 11:59 ET by Tom in NChttp://michellemalkin.com/2008/12/27/tale-of-two-presidential-workout-fanatics/
Possible
December 29, 2008 - 12:01 ET by krendlerPossible antidote...
YouTube satire (Uncle Jay) that actually dares to take a couple of big swipes at The Anointed One in its Year-End Review...
http://www.youtube.c...
Did Obama Miss Church Again?
December 29, 2008 - 12:06 ET by pearlWhat church did Obama attend while in Hawaii?
How did they celebrate the birth of Christ?
"The sun glinted off
December 29, 2008 - 12:06 ET by Clear thinker"The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
As my granddaughter is fond of saying "OMG"!
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I have heard of another
December 29, 2008 - 12:10 ET by TD in FLI have heard of another politician who has chiseled pectorals and I think he runs a state out on the West coast somewhere. How's that working out?
There is no positive correlation between one's physical fitness and fit-ness for office. However, it will be interesting to watch this unfold... to see how Obama's workout routine will be impacted once he actually has to start accomplishing things. The bilines will probably script like this in a year: "Russia invades Georgia again; refused to wait until President Obama finished his spin class as previously negotiated"
At first I thought that was
December 29, 2008 - 12:12 ET by RR GOPAt first I thought that was a satire...but it's for real?
My God, that's disturbing.
Weight of what position? Perpetual political candidate? President-Elect? God of the Liberals? What?
One of the 24% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 89% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Smerconish
December 29, 2008 - 12:34 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsI noticed a similar take from Michael Smerconish, who gushed over the Obama workout (and for 8 years said nothing similar about Bush). He (Michael Smerconish) is going national soon, now that he has gone over to the 'dark side' (ohh, is that racist?), I have noticed a slow slide to the left in his thinking/actions. He also praised Obama for stopping his church visits, concurrent with his November win. Is that not telling? 20 plus years of churchgoing suddenly stops when elected President.
D
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Maybe he doesn't need to go
December 29, 2008 - 12:55 ET by Scuba DudeMaybe he doesn't need to go to church, he is the "One" after all.
Either that or he's breaking out his prayer rug after all these years and awaiting to hear "that most beautiful sound" of being called to prayer.
Correct, Scuba D
December 29, 2008 - 13:03 ET by Mica the MagnificentIt wouldn't make sense to go to church and pray to yourself.
Obama: Dear Lord
Obama: Yes?
Obama: Thank you for your support in the presidential election.
Obama: No problem.
REminds me of George Burns
December 29, 2008 - 13:46 ET by motherbeltREminds me of George Burns in "Oh, God!" when, being sworn for tesitimony he said "So help me, me." LOL
→ Fabio Obama
December 29, 2008 - 12:34 ET by Cool ArrowThis Harlequin series could easily eclipse the Harry Potter books.
We need a picture of him in one of those ruffled colonial shirts completely unbuttoned while he cradles a swooning Helen Thomas in his arms.
Now that's a mellerdrammer for ya'
Fabio Obama
December 29, 2008 - 13:07 ET by Gothampc"We need a picture of him in one of those ruffled colonial shirts completely unbuttoned while he cradles a swooning Helen Thomas in his arms."
Title it "Land of the Free, Home of the Necrophiliac"
Re:
December 29, 2008 - 14:32 ET by Andante"We need a picture of him in one of those ruffled colonial shirts completely unbuttoned while he cradles a swooning Helen Thomas in his arms."
Now there's a visual I could have done without.
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December 29, 2008 - 12:40 ET by lotrcrickets
And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Here ya go lotr, this is
December 29, 2008 - 12:57 ET by Scuba DudeHere ya go lotr, this is the link you want to use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8E_zMLCRNg
Brain Child
December 29, 2008 - 13:04 ET by UtherpendWeren't these the same Brianiac's that compared a man in his 60's to a man in his 40's and wondered why there was such a disparity in their physical appearence? Classic stupidity.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you."
The Carbon KId
December 29, 2008 - 14:29 ET by Andante"The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games."
The guy smokes. His lungs probably look like carbon footprints.
Can you imagine the MSM's response to a Republican president who smoked? "OMG the hypocrisy, the pollution, he's a weakling, an addict, he's killing our children with his bad example, he's a tool of big tobacco...yadda yadda.
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I think Cool Arrow owes me
December 29, 2008 - 14:50 ET by thebutlerdiditI think Cool Arrow owes me a new keyboard! I have spewed coke about 3 or 4 times after some of those oh so witty comments! I'm glad to know that Bush is no longer "deranged" from working out, though, that's a relief. You know what I wish Obama would do regarding the whole smoking thing? I wish he would just say, Hey, I'm trying to quit, it's a bitch to do, and occasionally I am going to fall off the wagon. So get over it. I actually would respect that, as a former smoker, it was really rough to quit, and you do have a million false "quits." I taught my teenagers that it was a horrible thing that I hated, and that I felt weak, and that I had to pray for strength to quit, and that I was doing my best. I tguess I just prefer people to be honest, warts and all.
And yes, I do believe it was Jackie Collins writing that column, she has obviously written many of the Obama articles using a nom de plume.
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December 29, 2008 - 16:06 ET by AndanteCongratulations on quitting...it took me sixteen years.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
Mainstream media, thy name
December 29, 2008 - 17:03 ET by bigtimerMainstream media, thy name is hypocrisy. Which is why you are dying.
Bingo Kathleen...and they can't die soon enough for me, guess I'll just have to be satisfied with watching their self-inflicted slow death...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I wonder exactly what use Obama's chiseled pectorals will be
December 29, 2008 - 17:39 ET by R D HelmI wonder exactly what use Obama's chiseled pectorals will be when Iran gets ready to launch its missiles at its neighbors, India and Pakistan prepare to start lobbing nukes at each other, the Russians decide its time to re-build the old USSR for real, and Israel's enemies decide to make a serious move to wipe it out?
Nice to see that those shallow, mindless goobers at the Washed-up Post have their priorities straight by putting this mindless drivel on the front page.
Or on any other page.
-Dave
Excellent article Kathleen
December 29, 2008 - 17:35 ET by cocodrieThere is one more thing I would like to know. Did the Chosen One swim to Hawaii or did he run there on top of the waves?
MSM joke
December 29, 2008 - 23:02 ET by AndanteOld one but, remember when Bush was fishing with the Pope and the Pope's hat blew off. Bush offered to swim after it but the Pope arranged for Bush to walk on the water to retrieve the hat. Having seen Bush walk on water, the MSM reported that...Bush can't swim.
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"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
when I read that quote
December 29, 2008 - 17:42 ET by Jnoble..I got this visual of the MSM on the beach with thier notepads looking at Uhhbama with little cartoon hearts over their heads giggling and sighing like love-struck high-school girls watching the QB of the varisty team practice
"*giggle* OMG, I think he was looking at ME!!! How's my hair look???"
(insert old footage of screaming hysterical girls behind a chain link fence from when the Beatles first arrived to America)