Fatty Fatty Two By Four
link Chris Matthews says Barbour, Christie too fat to be president | Washington Examiner.
People who read what I write may not be that familiar with Chris Matthews. Matthews is the MSNBC correspondent immortalized for his famous quote of ” I get a tingle up my leg when I hear him (Obama) speak”. MSNBC is also home to other commentators wandering back and forth across the line of sanity; Keith Olbermann for example. This cable station has long been the home of left leaning views on social and political issues. When I say left, I mean laughably partisan. Now that Comcast has taken over the station, it’ll be interesting to see what becomes of the format. At the moment, it may as well be the Comedy Channel.
But the real point of amusement are the techniques common to all left wing commentators in criticizing conservative personalities. Unable to attack specific platforms, the predictable default tactic consists of ad hominem attacks on the individual. The popular approach is to label them stupid. Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, George W Bush and recently of course, Sarah Palin have been tagged with this characterization. It’s most humorous when Joy Behar and Cher describe conservatives as dumb, you can’t make that up. Sometimes, it’s more subtle, as in Barbara Walters asking in sneering, condescending tones during her interviews with both Obama and Oprah on whether Palin was qualified to be President. Recently the D list comic Kathy “Gutter Mouth” Griffin, called Bristol Palin, fat. Well, sticks, stones and all that stuff, but it gets old. These are the persuasive arguments from….12 year olds? So now, the articulate Matthews thinks that Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is too fat to be president. He’s obviously never heard of William Howard Taft, the 340 pound 27th president of the U.S. In his time, he too was derided for his weight. According to lore, William G. Harding famously commented,
“…He’s not fit to be in that office… No Really, he can’t even fit in the damn office!…”
In fact he actually did get stuck in the White House bathtub and had to be pried out. Subsequently a wider tub was installed. Like Christie of New Jersey, Taft was able to poke fun at his own weight and it certainly did not prevent him from being an effective president. It’s particularly pathetic that lefty commentators have so little material that they regress to the juvenile schoolyard taunts of their youth. Labelling people fat and stupid; this from the side who has Michael Moore as a hero. It is this same side of the political spectrum that bemoans the lack of decorum and civility in political discourse. For fine examples of articulate statesmanship, check out the Dem clowns, er congressmen Alan Grayson or Anthony Wiener on Google, I won’t bore people with their shtick here.
Christie may be fat, but Matthews is a jerk. At least Christie can always lose weight. We’re better off having a principled fat guy than a skinny… well you know.