People in Fat Houses Shouldn't Throw Scones

"Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye." -New American Standard Bible





There are a LOT of things wrong with that clip from Rush Limbaugh's February 21st radio show. Here are just a few I want to address here, as it concerns nutrition/fitness/being a decent human being, things I think all have an important place on this blog:

• He's a straw-man argument, and not only that, the guy is attacking a single meal and demanding that it be the basis by which we judge ALL Michelle Obama's dietary practices, as well as the advice she gives.
• Rush Limbaugh is calling Michelle Obama fat or unhealthy, while he's overweight himself. Don't let the however many years old picture on his home page fool you, you can see right in the video that he's heavy again.
• It shows a profound disrespect of all women who don't meet the strictest of beauty standards. 
• It's the ramblings of a person who is totally disconnected from reality and who is surrounded by people who affirm his willfully ignorant and misleading crap. 
• It's intentionally misleading about the nutritional guidance offered by the first lady through the Let's Move program. 
• It paints the tired old image of healthy food being some variation of flavored air, 1/2 a cup of lettuce, or acorns, suggesting that healthy food is unappetizing and ridiculous. I'm sorry, but the Baconator is ridiculous. My stir-frys are delicious.
• It's not on the path of making this country better. 

I'm sorry, but unless you have a valid medical/scientific backup for your claims, you can't bitch and moan at someone trying to stop obesity and pretend you care about the well being of the United States. You don't care about two sides coming together and improving the nation because all you want is to tear down the other side and never give them credit for doing anything right. It's right to try to motivate people to exercise and eat healthier. It's right to eat a big meal after SKIING, an activity that burns over six hundred calories an hour for a 160 pound person, more if you're heavier. It's right not to mislead your listeners about what someone is saying in order to argue against it. If you have legitimate complaints about this program, address the points of it. You're not stretching the facts, man, you're lying. And that's a real bummer.

Are you kidding me?

It's really a drop in the bucket when it comes to all the unreasonable things Rush says, I know, but because I'd punch a baby in the face to be as fat as Michelle Obama, and because it's really frustrating for people to crap on the good work of others just because they're on the opposite side of the political spectrum, I wanted to address it.

Where are all the berries? Where is the tree bark?

Edit to add:

Apparently any kind of healthy changes intended to promote weight loss are negatively viewed by Mr. Limbaugh:

"I think those of you that regularly exercise -- playing softball, baseball, basketball, soccer, mountain biking, running, rock climbing, skiing, skating, running -- you're the people getting injured.  You're the people showing up at the hospital with busted knees and tendons and skin cancer, ankle sprains, knee and hip replacements, broken bones, concussions, muscle, ligament, tendon, cartilage strains and tears, tendinitis, rotator cuff tears.  All you exercise freaks, you're the ones putting stress on the health care system.  What happens when people don't regularly exercise and keep their weight relatively under control? Nothing! They probably don't even know their doctors' names." -Rush Limbaugh 

That kind of thinking is just scary.