The stupidest news story EVER
August 1st, 2008 by Jonathan Maziarz in Current Affairs, Editor's Desk, News, PoliticsRupert Murdock’s greasy little meat hooks are all over this one.
There’s a story in the Wall Street Journal, and mind you, this is posited as a news story, not an opinion piece, that speculates that Barack Obama may be a poor presidential candidate because he is too physically fit.
I’ll just let that sink in for a minute.
Here’s what the WSJ is saying: Many Americans are overweight and, as such, can’t identify with a physically fit person like Obama; i.e., body type is now a major factor in picking a president.
Never mind that our current president, George W. Bush, is himself very fit and makes his personal physical fitness a point of personal pride. This admirable dedication to personal health did not seem to hurt him in either the 2000 or 2004 elections.
This story officially marks the point where the WSJ jumped the shark.
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