Cavuto to Matthews: Stick Your Condescending Comments About Christie's Weight Up Your You Know What
As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Chris Matthews took some cheap shots at New Jersey governor Chris Christie's weight while speaking at a radio event last Thursday.
Displeased with the immature condescension aimed at his state's chief executive, Fox News's Neil Cavuto went after the "Hardball" host's lack of decorum on Monday's "Your World" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
NEIL CAVUTO: Not skinny? Well fat chance you will ever, ever get a break, especially if you are a Republican. A certain media icon named Chris, that’s all I’m going to say, going after a certain New Jersey governor named Chris, as in Chris Christie, that’s what I will say. Not over things that matter, but something that should not: the Governor's weight. At a Q&A held at the Ritz Carlton in Washington recently, media Chris says of governor Chris, that he and I quote, "Should not wear white shirts.” Goes on to say, “The Gov must be 300-plus pounds.” That it’s something he has got to deal with because and I quote, "You are not going to say I’m going to cut the budget. Well, how about starting with supper” and other such cheap shots.
Well, media Chris, how about you starting with facts? Like the fact that so-called fat governor has cut the budget. I live in Jersey, so I should know. Balancing it his very first year all by cutting out the fat you abhor without the tax increase you might favor.
Look media Chris, just because you could dye your hair does not mean you can dye the truth, because here’s this fat guy: he is eating his critics alive and putting his very fit and skinny predecessor Jon Corzine to shame, because while Mr. Corzine might have cut a very fine form, he never cut spending, and ballooned the state deficit while eating up every last taxpayer dollar.
It is remarkable to me that those who delight in pointing out someone's girth as if it is some disqualifier for office say not a word about their Party's own heavyweights and never even suggest their weight is a disqualifier for any office. No, Chris Christie is fat, and Haley Barbour weighs too much. I say way too much. Would media Chris have said the same of Winston Churchill? Would he be so focused on the guy's gut to miss the guy’s guts? So concerned Winston wasn’t GQ that he’d miss Winston’s weighty IQ. No, not a clue.
All I know is a lot of thin, fit guys in both parties, both parties got us in some pretty big messes. We could do a hell of a lot worse than entertain not so thin and fit guys to get us out of those messes, because for those who love to quote a visionary who ask we judge men not by the color of their skin but the content of their character, it seems weird that they still judge the weight of that skin before they even get to their character, which makes them characters, and pathetic ones at that.
Judging our leaders not by the qualities that matter but the nonsense like this that does not, where greatness is defined not by who you are but how you look. You know what that is? That is racism – with a scale. That might give some a tingly feeling up their leg. I just prefer they first look in the mirror themselves and stick their condescending comments up their you know what. But again, that is just me isn’t it? Just me: slightly overweight, very pissed.
Nicely said, Neil.
As Cavuto accurately noted, the Democrat Party has had its share of portly statesmen. One of Matthews' heroes is Ted Kennedy, someone that had huge struggles with his weight while he was alive.
More importantly, as Hot Air's Allahpundit pointed out Monday, the presidential appearance standard has certainly changed of late:
The cookie-cutter image of the tall, fit, white, male president has been shattered, not just because of Obama but because his chief rivals for the presidency in both parties are women. If the public’s ready to accept a black president and a woman president, I think they’re ready for a husky one — especially when he has a reputation for trimming budgetary, er, fat.
Couldn't have said it any better except to say: grow up, Chris.
Chiding someone for his or her appearance is what we expect from your colleagues Keith Olbermann and Ed Schultz. Please try to be at least slightly more respectable than them if at all possible.
(H/T Right Scoop)
*****Update: After reading some comments, in particular about how fat William Howard Taft was - upwards of 350 pounds some say - I decided to do a little research on this issue.
The best reference I could find was a ranking of our presidents by height that also lists their Body Mass Index. According to WebMD:
- Men with BMIs over 25 and under 30 are overweight
- Above 30 is obese
- Above 40 is morbidly obese.
With this in mind, our overweight presidents include:
- John Quincy Adams
- James Polk
- Rutherford Hayes
- Harry Truman
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Herbert Hoover
- James Buchanan
- Gerald Ford
- James Monroe
- Chester Arthur
- George Washington
- Bill Clinton
- Lyndon Johnson
Those considered obese include:
- William McKinley
- Zachary Taylor
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Grover Cleveland
Only Taft was considered morbidly obese.
Add it all up, and despite Matthews' concerns about Christie's weight, fitness doesn't seem to be a requirement for the job of president.
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Comments
Yeah, and just look at Charlie Rangle, rotund as they come...
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 11:46pm.
...and probably holding a prominent position in Prissy's secret late-night, self-actuated fantasy fun book, along with Billy Jeff and the former Chicago community pisser-offer.
Nice to see that Cavuto has finally noodled it all out, as there was a time when I thought him to be a lost cause.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
I hardly ever get to catch
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 11:46pm.
I hardly ever get to catch Cavuto........but I alway enjoy his straight-forwardness and his ability to get right to the point. I think he pretty much laid the Leghumper to waste here - although that is getting easier and easier to do lately!!! And doesn't Cavuto get a lot of heat for having a 'big' head, or something??? Well, the Leghumper has a big mouth, with is in direct DISproportion to his IQ!!!
Being stately of build myself...
Submitted by StarAZ on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:11pm.
I don't love weight comments--but I should observe that Mr Matthews is not tripping the light fantastic himself. And I believe he is diabetic, too, As a fashion critic (the white shirt deal), I cannot even comment--it's to laugh! Christie is dark and handsome if you ask me--and quick and smart.
'Stately' is a pretty classy
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:20pm.
'Stately' is a pretty classy word...........I've got to commend you on your choice of vocabulary!!!
I'm dating myself but I read
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:46pm.
I'm dating myself but I read that word and I am reminded of the oft-used descriptive phrase "stately Wayne manor" from the old Batman TV series. And for the record, I was only 3 years old when it initially aired. I really didn't get into it until a regional TV station when I lived at the time aired the syndicated version back in the mid-70s.
Why, thank you
Submitted by StarAZ on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:52pm.
I say fat sometimes--depends on my mood. Or curvy...or well-upholstered. I still like what an old BF used to say--luscious. But it's pretty dopey to say that about yourself.
Isn't the current phrase -
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 2:14pm.
Isn't the current phrase - BBW?????? Or 'more cushion for the pushin'..........or something like that?? Hahahahaha!!!
LOL--my ex
Submitted by StarAZ on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 3:14pm.
My ex used to say-- You can't drive a railroad spike with a tack hammer. Maybe Christie could use it--it is NJ, after all.
So, fat ass matthews
Submitted by RESTLESS 1 on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 11:47pm.
Has the gall, (we know he has no balls), to call somone else fat? Didn't that other fat ass sgt. schultz do the same thing?
Do they have no mirrors at PMSNBC???
The way the Leghumper talks
Submitted by killa37 on Mon, 12/13/2010 - 11:58pm.
The way the Leghumper talks at 100 mph, and spits all over the place, with his mind racing in circles...........I'd have to guess that the mirrors and laying horizontally, and they have some kind of white powder spread out on them......................
leghumpers
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:38am.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one who calls these morons leghumpers, even suggesting a support group called Leghumpers Anonymous. LA, not to be confused with Los Angeles or Lesbian Alliance.
-Jon
PS: I'm in a really bad mood, look out! ;-)
I used to call him
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 2:08am.
I used to call him 'Tinglebelles'........until I realized that he's a lot more like some pathetic dog humping Obama (while panting.....with saliva flying out of his mouth) and the whole loony lib mentality............hence 'the Leghumper'.........and I call any wimpy simpy wannabee poser a leghumper...........it's just that Mathews seems to fit the bill better than any of those other delusional morons.
Need I suggest you observe
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:30am.
Rotund Martin's adonis like figure?
Hey Matthews, if Christie
Submitted by big.league.slider on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:02am.
Hey Matthews, if Christie "shouldn't wear white shirts", then you and your fellow MSNBC political operatives shouldn't wear your brown shirts.
Well put
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:41am.
Great line and understood thoroughly at this address..............
Regarding shirts...
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:15am.
http://inlinethumb43.webshots.com/17194/2872764590061034863S600x600Q85.jpg says a big piece of it.
NVCon
Aside from being mildly
Submitted by Barack_must_go..... on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:05am.
Aside from being mildly retarded Matthew's is an attention whore of a little teeny, tiny man.
He only does this because he's been self reduced to a crusty, disgusting scab on life, who's just been festering, itching to be scratched, spreading his deseased infection over the air waves.
If we resist the itch and ignore him even more, he'll just disappear one day. Hopefully sooner than later.
I would say he's leaned just about as far as one can before falling over.
Barack_Must_Go.....
Someone should turn a hose on
Submitted by Captain Repus on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:14am.
Someone should turn a hose on Tingles and mate. That would shut him up and free up Obammy to do some social engineering.
This country has already had
Submitted by Martin2717 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:18am.
This country has already had a "round" president. William Howard Taft who weighted about 325 pounds as the 27th president.
Taft
Submitted by NevadanConservative on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 11:23am.
allegedly got STUCK in the White House bathtub.
Gov. Christie is big. Fat, maybe. But on his worst day he's got about ten times more class than ALL the leftist rectums en masse do.
NVCon
http://inlinethumb43.webshots.com/17194/2872764590061034863S600x600Q85.jpg
Lardball: Chris Matthews
Submitted by gaymedia on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:33am.
I work somewhere where there are multiple TVs on. When I see Matthews on TV I think he's one of the heavier personalities on air. I have never EVER thought of Matthews as anything but "thick" in his build. He's never going to be attractive to me because he has that holier than thou "Park the car, Andre!" snobby elite affectation that would be knocked right out of him if his money had been with Madoff. Anyway. there are a BUNCH of women who think Cavuto is a cutie-pie who would not be bereft of feminine attention if he were available. As for the New Jersey governor, he does not look like he misses too many meals, but his appeal is in his conviction, clarity, authority, intelligence, and MANLINESS. In short, when it comes to Governor Christie: I'd hit that. And I doubt he's at 300. Maybe 260.
You go, gay!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:50am.
Prissy used to work for the biggest and fattest drunk in Washington, Tip O'Neal! That never seemed to bother him. Maybe that was before he was gay?
I love Cavuto, and give him Five Ding Dongs for his riff last night. I try to never miss his show, and even record it to make sure I catch it.
I love Christie, but I wouldn't "hit that." Not my "type," but if you are so inclined, you go for it! Prissy, on the other hand, I'd love to hit the shiite out of! They just won't come to the bar fight we have planned.
~Gaymedia
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:17pm.
I don't know if anyone's said this yet, but welcome to NB. ;)
Cavuto
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:51am.
Is "about the green. not red or blue"
Ronald Reagan
You forgot the final insult.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:52am.
If it's dead, take everything that's left.
Pun intended?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:58am.
Pun intended?
No!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:15pm.
... but good catch. I totally missed it. Maybe because all the rich libs have sheltered their wealth to make sure that it doesn't go to the government. Otherwise the Kennedy's would still be bootlegging liquor to make a living instead of living off old Joe's ill gotten fortune.
Thanks for keeping me straight. (no pun intended there either)
lol
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:43pm.
Yes & YES!!!
Ronald Reagan
NJ's budget
Submitted by hayate1 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 3:01am.
Mr. Cavuto,
Gov Christie did indeed eliminate the budget deficit without raising most taxes. What he also did is postpone fixing the big problems until 2012. In that fiscal year NJ's budget deficit will be back to $10 billion or so.
"Facts are not decided by how many people believe them. Truth is not determined by how loudly it is shouted."
Oh look a troll
Submitted by Denny Crane on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 7:26am.
Another 1 week wonder.
Care to back that up with anything?
He postponed fixing the big problems? The biggest problem that NJ had was a huge deficit, he fixed it. The next big problem NJ has is the teachers unions. He is getting them back in line, one of the major hurdles to keeping the budget under control.
If NJ's budget stays the way the democratic side of the legislature want it, then yes in 2 years they might have a problem, but as of right now, he still has over a year to figure out how to solve those problems.
We Are The 53%
Don't waste your time on this idiot, Denny.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:58am.
Typical liberal logic - "Don't waste time balancing a budget because it will just be worse later."
Hey Ah Soul! If he can put it off for two years, maybe, just maybe he can come up with a better plan to fix it long term, you jackwagon!
Liberals make me sick.
Ah lookie
Submitted by Iron Tigers Vet on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 8:04am.
A "hit and run" troll, without backing up any thing he said with facts.
The legislative dept. counted all the "mandatory" numbers in which are not real. A major inflation of the actual.
Once the Teacher's Unions have gotten control of the budget will drastically drop.
Come back when you can back your liberal BS up.
Hit and Run troll
Submitted by NVRAT on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 9:30am.
Iron Tiger, the answer is Liberals, they created Stupidity.
I always did like Cavuto. I am happy to say, he speaks...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 5:21am.
for me.
Roto Rooter
Submitted by BuffNBone on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 7:14am.
Gov. Christie is a breath of fresh air on the political scene in New Jersey. He is trying to rectify the situation caused by the years of corruption in the state. You might say collectively their actions nearly wrecked um.
Enjoy the day.
The most obvious point
Submitted by TenSigh on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 8:31am.
Aren't we overlooking the obvious?
Is Chris Matthews the epitomy of thin and slender? Just where does he get off calling another man fat? Maybe CM isn't AS big as Governor Christie, but sheesh, he's not exactly six pack material himself!
Maybe he's jealous that Governor Christie is just comfortable with his size? You'd think Matthews would be razor thin with all those methatemenes that he takes! (Just listen to him talk once and tell me that guy doesn't take some kind of illegal stimulant!)
Dwight Eisenhower overweight?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 8:46am.
Gerald Ford, overweight? Lyndon Johnson, overweight? Harry Truman? We need a new definition of overweight.
I agree, except for
Submitted by Newsbusterbrown on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:10am.
I agree, except for Eisenhower. Not that he was Taft heavy, of course.
“There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
It would be nice if...
Submitted by NVRAT on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 9:27am.
Gov Christie would challange tinklebells to a televised debate on social and monetary issues. Now that is something that I would watch with relish...then we would all get to watch CM tinkle and soil, of course the Gov would have to wear a face shield to keep dry. But, it would be fun.
Matthews, Schultz, et al
Submitted by Cactus Kurt on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 9:50am.
Should pear-shaped angioplasty candidates Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Keith Olbermann really be weighing in on Chris Christie's weight issue?
BTW, what's Matthews' BMI?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:34am.
BTW, what's Matthews' BMI?
I don't know Tingles' BMI but....
Submitted by stratman on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 11:52am.
I believe him to be full of BM.
Ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Submitted by Tomorama on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 10:40am.
Noting more to add, great smackdown Mr Cavuto.
Glad he didn't mention tingles by name.............................
Be prepared to have the spit shield ready, leg thumper is not going to be happy....
Media Myth
Submitted by Rightfromthestart on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 11:54am.
The Media/Dems created this whole fitness fetish in their continuing quest to recreate their most successful creation, Jack Kennedy. A physical wreck with a nice tan. Everything the Media/Dems do can be seen clearly by viewing it through the prism of trying to recreate Camelot. Look at the candidates prior to 1960 and try to imagine them being nominated in the TV age. Truman, Barkley, Stevenson, Kefaufer, Eisenhower, Hoover, Al Smith, none would pass muster after JFK.
The only fat
Submitted by peteydee on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 11:55am.
Is between Chris Matthews ears.
I'll take a silverback mountain gorilla like Christie
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:09pm.
over an effeminate gibbon like Obama anytime.
Phatty
Submitted by seven on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:40pm.
Our surgeon general is one of the pork sistas. They are in it to their elbows when the TSA gopes her.
Ooooo!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:17pm.
Dat be a ugly pitcher, seven! Only thang worse be if Michelle had to fly commercial, yo?
I think we should lable all
Submitted by Bruzilla on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 12:59pm.
I think we should lable all such attacks/comments like these as "Throwing the Gun". This is a reference to the old Superman TV show, where the bad guys would shoot all their bullets at Superman, and watch as they just bounced harmlessly off his chest. Then, as a final, pathetic, fruitless, gesture, they would throw their empty gun at Superman.
Mathews has fired off all the bullets he has at Christie, and none of them had any effect, so now he's Throwing the Gun at him.
And didn't you just love it
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:41pm.
"Then, as a final, pathetic, fruitless, gesture, they would throw their empty gun at Superman."
And didn't you just love it when Superman, after having stood there with his hands on his hips while the bullets bounced off his chest, woud duck when the gun was thrown?
Doesn't apply to Christie of course; he's not ducking. I just couldn't resist mentioning Superman ducking the tossed guns. : - ^ D
And didn't you just love it
Submitted by Model850 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:42pm.
"Then, as a final, pathetic, fruitless, gesture, they would throw their empty gun at Superman."
And didn't you just love it when Superman, after having stood there with his hands on his hips while the bullets bounced off his chest, would duck when the gun was thrown?
Doesn't apply to Christie of course; he's not ducking. I just couldn't resist mentioning Superman ducking the tossed guns. : - ^ D
A Start
Submitted by Utherpend on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:06pm.
We need more of this, stop sitting on the sidelines FOX, blast these blatent SOB's on the other networks.
Libs Live in a Made for TV REALITY SHOW!
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:12pm.
Look who they elected to run this country; he is TV material (POTUS), thin, articulate, dresses well and gives thrills up the legs to someone name Chris (a TV personality show host).
In the end, Liberals avoid reality because is painful. It is easier to live in a make believe world than face the world.
They are children who get angry when one of the parents says "NO" you cannot have what you want unless you pay for it!
Looks do not define who you are....brains and character do! Try to explain that to a liberal who cries rascism if you don't agree with their policies!
I could imagine the Leghumper
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 1:26pm.
I could imagine the Leghumper during the blitz of London...........sitting in his underground air raid shelter............griping about Churchill's rotund figure...............
Gerald Nadler...
Submitted by shooter on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 3:55pm.
...nuff said.
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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein
Chris Christie can lose his
Submitted by Kat Outta the Bag on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 7:20pm.
Chris Christie can lose his weight if he wants to. Chris Matthews can't lose his ugly.
Comedian Ron White: "You
Submitted by Beukeboom on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 10:54am.
Comedian Ron White: "You can't fix stupid."
In the obsessed-by-looks
Submitted by Chris Norman on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 7:34pm.
In the obsessed-by-looks culture we live in, I find the election and success of Governor Christie sort of a refreshing. I don't think he's going to end the obsession, but,maybe, one day, we will get back to judging people by their talents rather than how good they look.
Chris Norman
Submitted by MrShy on Tue, 12/14/2010 - 7:41pm.
but,maybe, one day, we will get back to judging people by their talents rather than how good they look.
Okay, but let's not go overboard with that unicorn vision. Looks count for something. :p
- Shy Looks
Join Mr. Shy and The 1* Percent
Well, if looks count for
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 12:23am.
Well, if looks count for something...........how the hell did ol' purple lips dumbo ears alien fingers Boy Blunder get in.............instead of that pretty boy faggot Edwards???
But then............aside from her gonads and her ability to be 'real' and articulate........I'd have to say that Sarah Palin's looks helped her a lot when she was on the McCain Mutiny ticket.......because he sure as hell is as boring and as non-descript as some weed growing in the back yard......
Mr. Shy,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/15/2010 - 12:33am.
Okay, they do in some things. :)
Seriously, though, it seems that in just about every public profession today, success is based on one's potential for being a spokesmodel on television. As an example, do you really think Hank Williams or Hank Williams Jr. would be as successful in country music if they had started out today? By the way, I'm not a country music fan.