Bill Maher Blames Conservatives for America's Obesity Problem
Is there anything liberals won't blame on conservatives?
On HBO's Real Time Friday, host Bill Maher actually accused the Right of being responsible for the obesity problem in the country (video follows with transcript and commentary):
BILL MAHER: You think conservatives should take some responsibility, because they sort of have made this a political issue that somehow eating lard out of a can is a virtue because "It’s about my freedom. You know, there are some freedoms in this country that are important: speech, assembly, religion, and eating s—t. And if you try to tell me." I mean, Sarah Palin showed up with sugar cookies.
And this guy considers himself to be a Libertarian.
How many Libertarians have you met that advocate government control of any human behavior?
Funnier still, this is the same guy that believes drugs should be legal because people should be allowed to smoke, shoot, or ingest any chemicals they want.
It is after all "their body."
But folks that feel the same way about food are destroying the country.
Great logic there, huh?
Fortunately for those that still have functioning brain cells, Grover Norquist was on the set to offer some much-needed sanity:
GROVER NORQUIST: I saw how you dropped the second amendment out of that little list there. Look, I do think that people should be free to make decisions good and bad, and I’m all in favor of people nagging them, but not with the government forcing them to tell them what to eat or ingest or not eat.
Maher would of course agree with this if it included drugs.
Go figure.
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"It’s about my freedom. You
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:12pm.
"It’s about my freedom. You know, there are some freedoms in this country that are important: speech, assembly, religion, and eating s—t. And if you try to tell me."
Um... sex, drugs, and rock and roll? Did everyone forget the 60s and imagine that conservatives were in power for 50 years?
Eating too much used to be looked at as a moral issue, and not just a health issue.
Lib educrats dropped PE from public schools
Submitted by frank14 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 2:23pm.
In California it is no longer required for juniors or seniors in high school and none at all at the UC system.
Lol. You can stay within
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:25pm.
Lol. You can stay within healthy weight with only two years of PE , that's what I had in high school in LAUSD. There were no obese students that I remember, I don't even remember anyone that was overweight.
In general, I think the obesity problem is overstated, and is more due to changes in obesity guidelines than anything else. But there are still people who have problems and more super obese people than existed before, and I think people are looking to the wrong things to help them. The clue is very obese people tend to have more than one vice; many are smokers for instance.
PE requirements
Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:14pm.
Well, then the educrats must have done that many, many moons ago, because we were not required to do PE as seniors back in the late 1970s. And I will tell you that I was not upset at all that I didn't have to take it!! Maybe that is one thing they did right. Sorry, but I never was the athletic type. Not everyone is.
wish
Submitted by grammajane on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:12pm.
there was someway the Palins could sue this lard a$$
suing Lard a$$
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:27pm.
Just do it in a State where there is no law demanding 'loser pay' costs. What difference does it make if Palins lose? Do what the Libs do...appeal, appeal appeal. Who cares if he wins each new challenge? Bankrupt the SOB. And if Soros or anybody else steps in to help, find some way of doing the same to them. Sure you may not bankrupt them...just keep 'em buried in paperwork and further demands on their time. Oh yeah..AND BE RELENTLESS NEVER QUIT HOUND THEM INTO WHATEVER. Who are they gonna turn to for solace ? YHVH? They're friggin' athiests.
Why sue? Maher and big mouth
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:46pm.
Why sue? Maher and big mouth leftists like himself hurt nobody but their own cause when they say things like this. They should be left to their own devices and every insane and toxic thing they say should be broadcast to the public.
So according to Maher, eating
Submitted by tcm14 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:29pm.
So according to Maher, eating brownies is bad, but pot brownies, GO FOR IT!!! Maybe that is how obese people could get Maher's approval, by jamming their food full of drugs first. Man, his scrawny ass is just dying to use the government to tell people what to do so they can be exactly like him.
It's my fault you're fat?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:30pm.
Is it because you sit on your butt munching government cheese nachos, in your government housing unit . . . on my dime?
i guess Michael LardAss Moron
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:34pm.
i guess Michael LardAss Moron now has an alibi...................he's blamed everything on us EXCEPT his corpulant corpse.
Maher said that Michael Moore is a conservative with no will
Submitted by TheHistorian on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:17pm.
That is what he said, Michael. All fat a$$es are conservatives and take no responsibility.
Why don't yhou make a new movie, Michael? The title should be Haybrain Donkeyface. And Maher could play himself.
Dennis Prager
Really?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:37pm.
Explain this.
➚ No way, SOL
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:41pm.
I guarantee you I know exactly what picture that is, and it serves as my family's "syrup of ipecac" reserve.
~O.M.O.
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:08pm.
Is that it's navel peeking seductively from the hemline?!
Jeeminy Christmas, SoL!!!!
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:08pm.
Jeeminy Christmas, SoL!!!! I've got to stop reading NB first thing on a Saturday morning over here in Asia/Hawaii!!! First it's BKeyser's photoshop, and now this!!! My day is ruined!!!
And what the hell is that hanging out from under her (or is it a 'him') dress, anyway???
I need to find something better to look at!!!!
Surely, killa
Submitted by panzerakc on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:27am.
You can find a video of somebody butchering a hog or something . . . .
And I don't even want to know what's hanging out from under that person's (not gonna go there) garment.
Huh?
Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:42pm.
EEEEEeeeewwwwww!!! EEW EEW EEW!!
~Ironic twist
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:45pm.
Doesn't smoking pot give you "the munchies"? I once had a co-worker who indulged in a heavy pot habit, and she was perpetually 30 lbs overweight.
I"ve heard rumors that
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:04pm.
I"ve heard rumors that pakalolo (pot) smoking can give you the munchies, but I can't attest to it - 'I didn't inhale'!!!!
Yes, Bru, smoking pot does give you the munchies.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:28pm.
As a matter of fact, marijuana contains tetrhahydrocannabinol or THC for short. A pharmaceutical product containing a purified and standardized form of THC, with a generic drug name of dronabinol (trade name is "Marinol") is approved by the FDA for stimulation of appetite (and resulting weight gain) coming from chronic nausea/vomiting from chemotherapy, radiation therapy and wasting (cachexia) at the AIDS clinical stage of HIV infection. Of course, it is a schedule III narcotic denoting that it has significant abuse potential. It used to be a schedule II drug (reserved for the most addictive drugs/narcotics like oxycodone, morphine, etc.), but was reclassified with the AIDS epidemic of the 80s/90s.
And of course, there are all of the miracle claims about marijuana for everything from nail fungus to a severed limb. None of those claims are backed up by literature sufficient for FDA approval.
Medical minute over.
God bless those poor
Submitted by ray johnson on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 12:55pm.
God bless those poor folks...clearly, they simply need some help and understanding...not derision.
Stupid Ain't Funny
Submitted by rammingspeed on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:02pm.
He's making himself more and more irrelevant. Go, Billy Boy!
If he's Libertarian, I'm a
Submitted by LinTaylor on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:14pm.
If he's Libertarian, I'm a monkey's uncle.
➚ Libertarian?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:24pm.
No, Maher's a libertine.
Bill Maher - $10 words stuffed in a penny brain
Submitted by powers2be on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:46pm.
My brother first introduced me to this guy when he had his "politcally incorrect" sorry fest on the networks. I watch one and only one show with my brother and had to laugh listening to his progressive diatribe and then hearing him proclaim he was a libertarian. I thought, at the time, that he was simply stupid and actually thought that libertarian was smart people speak for liberal. What saddened me most was my brother liked the show and wasn't smart enough to realize he was being brainwashed by a moron.
ha' penny
Submitted by frank_andrini on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 2:00pm.
Dude belongs in Eng Gah Land or possibly Canada where I'm sure the BBC or the CBC would give him a show on broadcast televison.
Right said Maher! You can go
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 1:58pm.
Right said Maher! You can go ahead and blame Conservatives for obesity, and I will continue to blame festering assholes like you for rampant stupidity.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
I always wondered about
Submitted by ozarkian on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 11:58pm.
I always wondered about Moochelle picking the "cause" she did...Seems like it is (at least sometimes) more of a black female problem, which fits right in with her only interest -- race (well, and vacations....and "expensive wines...") Anyway, I'm not sayin' that out of my own thoughts; but more because I see headlines like the recent one here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/opinion/sunday/why-black-women-are-fat...
Seems it is a political statement, according to the writer of this piece, one whom I doubt is to the "right," writing for the NYT as she does. And it has to do with pride in one's racial group...again, a fixation for the left, not the right.
Pesky Fact Club....Checking In
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 2:27pm.
Per Tablespoon:
Lard = 115 Calories
Butter = 426 Calories
Crisco Shortening = 110 Calories
Canola Oil = 120 Calories
Dumbass strikes again!
For the record, lard doesn't taste like pork, has a very high smoking point, hence it is preferred for flaky stuff like biscuits and pie crusts. And of course, if you save your pork lard from yummy stuff like my mexican roasted pork butt, you can save it and then do cool things like saute your mushrooms in it.
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Personal observations on blubber
Submitted by Gary Hall on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 2:39pm.
Well, let's see here.
Visiting a Walmart in a conservative white area of Texas, a few months back, allowed me to observe that someone down there is eating too much Texas BBQ, as well as drinking too much Shiner Beer.
On the other hand, walking into a Target store here in LA, in the South Central area - gave me a clear indication that the black liberal folks are even worse off.
Survey competed - it's diet and exercise ideology - not political ideology that adds weight.
(;~/ gary
Now, Gary, in Texas "barbecue" is a vegetable.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:32am.
So is Chorizo and anything else made with pork.
And let's not forget that good beer is made with hops and barley--servings of whole grain.
Dr. Robert Atkins said for decades
Submitted by Paarl on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:33pm.
Eating fat does not make you fat.......Way back in the way back when my mother wanted my old man to slim down ...and I am talking 1960 to 1969...out went the potatoes and bread and pasta and noodles and in came the sour cream and meat and chicken and veggies smothered in butter...
Soda pop was never in the house....high sugar consumption via direct consumption of the sugar itself and via cheap and plentiful carbohydrates is an issue in diets ....
but the REAL REAL REAL REAL cause of obesity is the growing number of children born and raised
in single parent families........buying..preparing..cooking...cleaning ..for just one dinner is a lot of work
and even the most conscientious single parent just cannot do it as well and as frequently as a mom/dad family...sorry... the arithmetic of how many minutes there are in a day does not allow single parent families to prepare proper food 5 days a week..let alone having eggs/bacon a few morns a week instead of carb/sugar laded cereal...
AND eggs fried in bacon fat is one of the finest gifts of life on God's green earth !!! ;>)
Paarl of Rhodesia
Preparing food is easy unless
Submitted by redfish on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 8:49pm.
Preparing food is easy unless you do a big dish -- just throw some stuff on a pan and grill it / stir fry it. It takes 5 minutes to prepare fish for a single person, you just put some seasoning on the fillet put it in the pan, flip it a few times and that's it. If you want do do more at once, get a bigger pan. You don't need to make a rack of lamb for dinner.
Pasta is also easy and quick to make, and baking a potato you just need to let it sit in a toaster oven.
I don't know whether you're talking from experience, but in general I think people make a bigger deal out of this than there is. And buying prepared food or eating out will actually cost you more money, so its bad all around. But among people I know, there is kind of a laziness in eating habits; snacking, eating soda, not even trying to prepare food. And a laziness in spending habits; buying a $4 starbucks coffee each day for instance. You know how much that costs in the long run?
Billy Boy. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 3:06pm.
. . . wonder what your audience at home looks like? And I bet they ain't conservative.
I blame Bill Maher for contributing to America's ever-
Submitted by Dave. on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:09pm.
...expanding dumba$$ problem.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
BMI
Submitted by Blorg on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:24pm.
In 1998 the BMI (body mass index) values used to define "overweight" and "obese" were redefined downward. This, of course, resulted in more people be defined as overweight and obese. Redefine, then wait a few years until most people have forgotten the lowered standards and bingo: an epidemic of obesity. Add in to that mix the fact that BMI is mostly BS anyhow. Michael Jordan in his prime was classed as overweight.
much the same issue with cholesterol levels
Submitted by Paarl on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:46pm.
i am 60...have had my cholesterol level tested since 1970 when I wAS 18....it has stayed much the same over 4 decades by in recent yrs has been said to be too high...my cholesterol level did not change...the standard changed....one MD suggested lipitor or some other overpriced and over used statin drugs...I SAID NO DICE...I have no idea of my cholesterol now..havent been to a MD for a lipid test in 3 years/4 years...
I am 5 9" 168 32w 68 standing pulse and 105/70 blood pressure...eat dietary fat by the kilo ..but exercise and stay away from sugar and cheap carbs.....I intend to live until the Rhodesian Republic is re-established north of Limpopo and south of the Zambezi !! ;>)
Paarl of Rhodesia
I blame Bill Maher
Submitted by katiejane on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:31pm.
for making me think there possibly is an argument for really late term abortion of some people. The man is a pig and people who excuse his assinine rants because "he's a comedian" are pigs too.
Hey SoL how about a "WARNING"
Submitted by MWK on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:31pm.
Hey SoL how about a "WARNING" sign next to that, good God we're about to eat meat from a bone over here(mmmmm BBQ ribs).
Killa37 nice riff on Michael LardAss. My name is Michael Killa not a reference to what I'd do to that particular Michael, or any other for that matter....Oh and Maher is nothing but a hate-monger plain and simple
Peace out!!
Hey there Michael
Submitted by killa37 on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 1:17am.
Hey there Michael Killa.............aloha from Asia/Hawaii. So what kind of name is 'Killa', anyway?? Mine is just a nickname from some of my local surfing buddies............it is the local pronounciation of 'Killer', you know??? And I can't tell you what the '37' means, because NB put that on my handle. I think maybe we 'talked' once before................
OK, cool............keep in touch, and don't be shy about making stupid comments - I do it all the time!!!!
We indeed chatted a bit about
Submitted by MWK on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 5:07pm.
We indeed chatted a bit about your ID here. I'm still holding out to find another with the name I have that isn't my close kin...Ahhh a dreamer I am.
I'm a bit Ger/Pol/Nor so take your pick as to it's origin lol.
( I always chuckle at the exchange from Robin Hood Men In Tights when Latrine changed their name from Shithouse...Maybe we changed it from Tepes or something like that.)
As far as stupid comments, you folks are way out on my league so all I have are stooopid comments. ;)
The mass majority here articulate what I can't, and I thank you all for that.
Peace friend, Mike
Flaky Bill, That $19 Quiche wedgie is loaded with LARD.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 4:57pm.
Reservations required.
In your case you are what you eat.
You Didn't Build That.
Obesity is common in prosperous societies
Submitted by JanineC on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:34pm.
To be honest, obesity is the result of our prosperity and overabundance of choice. I still think that it should be individual choice and if people want to be overweight, that is their own business--not government's. I struggled for years and years trying to be the perfect weight and it just wasn't in my genes. I never got like some of the people (a lot of people today are huge massive blobs), but I was also never stick thin either. Some people are just not naturally thin. A lot of it depends on your early years too. People form all the fat cells they ever will have when they are children. You don't necessarily have to be very fat as a kid to have a lot of fat cells, but once you form those cells, they are always there and it is harder to lose weight when you are older. I don't think PE in the last two years in high school really makes much of a difference with regard to keeping thin. Besides, I don't remember getting all that much exercise in PE. We mostly participated in various sports or gymnastics, but half the time you still had to wait on the sidelines for your turn. I hated running laps because I would get horrible side aches.
➚ Let's be more like Sudan!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:45pm.
I'm waiting for a government-funded study to prove if we would just adopt the economic system of Sudan, we could eradicate morbid obesity in our lifetime.
Better yet, Moms Mabley can head up a movement.
Low carb...very little sugar
Submitted by Paarl on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 7:49pm.
and a diet heavy in protein and dietary fats will change your life...it takes time...about 5/6 weeks before the first pound comes off...try it...Dr Robert Atkins...
Paarl of Rhodesia
One Thing
Submitted by TXTRUTH on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 8:39pm.
There is one thing we can blame on conservatives, having to listen to Bill Maher.
Obesity
Submitted by 46Blitz on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 9:03pm.
I'm sure there are obese people because they lack control, however, I think obesity in many may actually be a treatable physical disorder. So, like we would someone with Lupus, we need to go easy on the ridicule.
Mr. Creosote
Submitted by ZuccoZoid on Sat, 05/12/2012 - 11:24pm.
Creosote speaks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlfcF1I5e_g
Maher is a die hard liberal
Submitted by CobraMan on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 10:09am.
Maher is a die hard liberal. True to form, he blames Conservatives for someone else's individual choices. Someone is over weight? That's not their fault, it's the fault of the Conservatives for allowing them their own choice of what to eat, how much to eat, ect. It's far better if the federal government make those types of choices for us. Unless, of course, the Conservatives are in control of that government. Then it's "keep your hands out of my pantry, Conservatives!" Isn't that right?
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.
We know with Maher fat above the neck doesn't count
Submitted by StarAZ on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:12pm.
But then YOU "weigh in" with unflattering pix. Cliche! I expect more, NB.
Expect more? ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Sun, 05/13/2012 - 6:33pm.
NB's will have to put up pics of whales and elephants. :o)
MD
There HAVE been meds that
Submitted by ozarkian on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 12:15am.
There HAVE been meds that help, no matter what your "cause" theory is. I remember when phen-fen was legal, and everybody I worked with went to the same Dr. and were all gettin' thin. Then they took half of i (one of the meds in the combo) off the market and everybody went back. Funny how a drug that really works for weight loss is taken off, but others with side effects five pages long stay on. The diet/obesity industry rakes in billions, and they don't want people to find a way not to have to buy/try their products. And that goes for everything from silly pills that don't do anything to weight watchers to the produce and beef industries.