Joy Behar Asks Michael Moore About Chris Christie: 'Do You Think the Country Will Tolerate a Fat President?'
As NewsBusters has been reporting, America's oh so tolerant media have for months been attacking New Jersey governor Chris Christie about his weight.
On Monday's "Joy Behar Show," the host asked her rather corpulent guest Michael Moore, "Do you think the country will tolerate a fat president?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOY BEHAR, HOST: Chris Christie, they’re begging him to come in. Do you think he will?
MICHAEL MOORE: I don’t know. I don’t know him personally. Should we call him up?
BEHAR: He keeps saying no.
MOORE: Let’s just call him, right now.
BEHAR: This is a terrible thing to say. Do you think the country will tolerate a fat president?
MOORE: Yes, because most of America looks like me. I mean, the majority of Americans are overweight, two-thirds.
BEHAR: But, don’t you think they want someone who looks healthy?
MOORE: No, I think they like somebody that’s like them. When George Bush said, "I’m a c student" and everyone applauded.
BEHAR: Yeah!
MOORE: You know, it’s because the majority of the country are not A students, the majority are B and C sometimes D students, and so he was not making a mistake when he said that and he thought he would get a good response and he did.
Most of America looks like Michael Moore? Hardly.
As the Center for Disease Control reported in 2010:
Results from the 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), using measured heights and weights, indicate that an estimated 34.2% of U.S. adults aged 20 years and over are overweight, 33.8% are obese, and 5.7% are extremely obese, as shown in Table 1. Body mass index (BMI), expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared (kg/m2), is commonly used to classify overweight (BMI 25.0–29.9), obesity (BMI greater than or equal to 30.0), and extreme obesity (BMI greater than or equal to 40.0).
Not at all surprising, Moore was playing fast and loose with the facts.
About 34 percent of Americans are considered overweight. A roughly similar percentage are obese with only 5.7 percent extremely obese.
Without knowing Moore's measurements, it seems rather safe to assume he's what the CDC would consider extremely obese, and is by no means representative of what most Americans look like.
Much like this portly schlockumentarian has never met a cheeseburger he'd say no to, he's never come across a fact or statistic he isn't willing to twist to advance his agenda.
As for Behar, she shouldn't throw stones.
After all, she's hardly the poster child for the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition:
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It is a bit of a stretch to
Submitted by Beukeboom on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:01am.
It is a bit of a stretch to include Joy Behar as part of the liberal MSM.
Liberal? Extremely?
Media? Only in the sense that she appears on television.
That's about the extent of it.
Of course her hatred of conservatives and conservatism and her bitterness & pettiness in general is no big secret.
Unfunny
Submitted by chuckshick on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:01am.
Who better to ask than a pant-load like Moore.
Will we tolerate a "fat president?"
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:26am.
Well, we apparently tolerate a skinny, stupid, RBFSOB president. I think we can trade up to fat, Joy.
By the way, Joy. You passed "fluffy" about 20 pounds ago to cross over to fat, so you might want to throttle back a little, Porky.
PS
If the "majority of Americans" looked like Michael Moore, I'd have shot myself a long time ago!
Bubba
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:37am.
I just heard one about our RBFSOB this morning:
A Muslim, illegal immigrant and Socialist walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What'll you have, Mr. President?"
Excellent, T-boat!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:46am.
Excellent!
Joy and Mikey
Submitted by dr-go on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:58am.
Clueless, just clueless but they would be amusing if they weren't so pathetically ignorant.
Under the heading -
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:06am.
Irony is lost on the Left - you've got Joy Behar, not to be mistaken for 1968 Twiggy, asking morbidly obese Michael Moore a question about fat people.
I was wrong, Joy. You are a comedienne!
Hey Joyless
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:08am.
look in the mirror you sow.
Really, Joy?
Submitted by lesterwink23 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:15am.
No Joy, America would rather tolerate an unvetted, woefully unprepared Socialist who is alienating everyone in sight with his dogma and arrogance as its president.
Gotta love the liberal Hollywood types...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:17am.
In this one instance you have the inspiration for the movies Nutty Professor and Shallow Hal. So these fat asses should love Christie!
a chubby host with a chubby
Submitted by sometimesright on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:27am.
a chubby host with a chubby guest criticizing someone for being chubby. now THAT's rich.
What she meant to say was:
Submitted by Chandler on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:27am.
" Do you think the country will tolerate a president that looks like you?"
Will we tolerate a "fat president?"
Submitted by lkotur on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:33am.
Well we tolerate that fat *******!
I am
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 11:49am.
a red-head and that picture of Beher is a discusting example of red-heads!!!
Have
Submitted by HockeyKid on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:13pm.
no fear, gram. I love redheads, and if Bayhard is a real redhead then Obama deserved the Nobel Prize.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
hockey kid
Submitted by grammajane on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:52pm.
Thank you sweetie and yes, I am a real red-head.
Still waiting for Obozo's grades
Submitted by FistsforLiberty on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:00pm.
I'm convinced his grades weren't any better than Bush's.
HA!
Submitted by Firmworm on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:04pm.
This coming from two people with more chins than a Chinese phone book.
The left seems to tolerate
Submitted by rbosque on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:07pm.
The left seems to tolerate Moore, and there's no way Christie is fatter than Moore. Moore has his own gravitational field.
fat jokes - the debate topic of liberal intelligentsia
Submitted by lotr on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:38pm.
When it comes to Gov. Christie (not exactly the most conservative GOP governor out there), this seems to be the best the liberal intelligentsia can come up with: Fat Jokes. I guess they haven't gotten beyond the 6th grade in their emotional and intellectual maturity.
But wait, I could be wrong about that. It may also be an intentional, concerted effort to dinminsh, ridcule and marginalize an opponent, per Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which now appears to be required reading among mainstream Democrats.
Either way.... yeah... that's the side I wanna be on.
Any comments from the NB resident liberal apologists?
They want Christie in because,,
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:38pm.
they think he'll make them look thin, well, Blowhard and Moore of Michael, guess what? Nothing this side of Dumbo would EVER make you two look anywheres NEAR thin! Moores so fat, from the front, he looks like Christie from the back! And Joyless? Does she REALLY believe shes all that? Theyre not PHAT, just FAT!
Actually, lardass, I DO know
Submitted by killa37 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 12:55pm.
Actually, lardass, I DO know a few 'overweight' people, and they DON'T look like you - and that includes Christie - who, despite his girth, looks a hulluva lot healthier than Michale Moron.
And if Bush was a C student - I've positive that Barry was waaaaaaaaaaaaay below that, although he probably got some passing grades because of his 'race'.
that's cause
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:15pm.
Christie baths, shaves and puts on clean clothes that fit from time to time. oh yeah, and ties his shoes. and gets a haircut.
I guess no one told her how
Submitted by jessieH on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:24pm.
I guess no one told her how fat her ass is getting.
What's more appalling?
Submitted by jpwcpa on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:34pm.
I can't figure out what is more appalling - the fact that Joy Behar is permitted to host a program on a cable news network, or the fact that the crapulous Michael Moore is regarded by any cable news network executive, director or host as an enlightened pundit with words of wisdom on all topics.
They already tried a fat attack in NJ
Submitted by CO2Maker on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 1:55pm.
And Christie won. Corzine tried fat-innuendo and that didn't work out so well. BTW, doesn't "Corzine" sound like the trade name of a psychotropic drug? ("Oh, man. The thorazine isn't working so well. I think I'll ask my doctor for some Corzine.")
Ah, Joey Rebar ... on her own or on the Viewgina Monologues, what a dame And talking fat with Michael Moore (another appropriate name). Don't they have an irony alarm on the set?
Parting thought: Here's a frightening and repulsive image. Michael Moore on top.
tolerate a fat president?
Submitted by misterbee241 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:11pm.
well, why not? we tolerate an ignorant fat cow on tv, and a fat slob of a socialist in our faces telling us how awful we are, dont we? ok, i dont usually do personal attacks. but i didnt say anything here that is not true.
Fat
Submitted by tincan53 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 2:34pm.
Well Joy, the country tolerate you two do-nothing porkers. What's wrong with a man that can get things done for the betterment of the country as opposed to dimwitted racist we now have?
Micky Mouse Moore........
Submitted by BEGRUNT on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 3:39pm.
"Most Americans look like me".........Really!?? I didnt know most of America was born looking like fat, slimy, walrus looking POS's. I guess Moore had to work on it, to perfect the look.
"A nation can suffer it's fool's, but cannot survive the traitor"
Cicero
Ya Think?
Submitted by telecaster on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 4:17pm.
Well Joy, they tolerate your fat ass seated in front of a camera puking up your vacuous, biased ramblings on a regular basis. I'd say Chris Christie has at least as good a shot at being tolerated as a ditz like you.
Hey Joy.....
Submitted by djwolf12 on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 5:52pm.
you could also say the same thing about Americans being able to tolerate a redheaded bastard child.
Joy Behar shouldn't throw stones? Joy is not a poster child?
Submitted by Rush Fan on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 6:19pm.
Why the woman is absolutely gorgeous for her age! Perhaps you are unaware that in her younger day, before she was a talk show host and comedian, Joy Behar was a top fashion model, and appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.
Still I agree it's out of character for Behar to make fun of others who were not born with her beauty. As everyone knows, Joy's inner beauty exceeds her outer beauty. Especially her kindness, consideration and tolerance for others.
Perhaps NewsBusters will in the future treat Joy Behar with the respect she deserves! Otherwise, I will be forced to cancel my subscription to NewsBusters and ask for a refund.
They "tolerated" Taft.
Submitted by CobraMan on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 6:39pm.
"Do you think the country will tolerate a fat president?"
What a stupid question! They "tolerated" William Taft, who was so large that he got stuck in the White House bath tub, didn't they? Let's not forget Grover Cleveland, or Teddy Roosevelt, to name just a few of our, ahh, "rotund" Presidents. Only the image obsessed are concerned about things like how "fat" someone is.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Most Americans don't tolerate you, Joy.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 8:16pm.
You used to be an English teacher and yet you didn't know that C. S. Lewis, one of the most celebrated modern authors of Christian thought, only wrote "kid's books". So we can establish that Americans don't tolerate stupidity like yours.
joy behar
Submitted by papawterry on Wed, 09/28/2011 - 4:22pm.
This broad is nothing more than a back-alley bar bitch.
She was probably licking moore's nutsack during the interview
And no doubt that's the first he's had in a long time...
Liberalism is a terrible disease in our country.
Well Joy, they tolerate your
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 2:25am.
Well Joy, they tolerate your fat ass seated in front of a camera puking up your vacuous, biased ramblings on a regular basis. I'd say Chris Christie has at least as good a shot at being tolerated as a ditz like you.
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Well Joy, they tolerate your
Submitted by bagtree on Thu, 03/29/2012 - 2:26am.
Well Joy, they tolerate your fat ass seated in front of a camera puking up your vacuous, biased ramblings on a regular basis. I'd say Chris Christie has at least as good a shot at being tolerated as a ditz like you.
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