Althouse: Why are you fat?

December 13, 2012

Why are you fat?

Barbara Walters asks Chris Christie.

He doesn't know why, and if he could figure out why, he'd fix it. Then he says it doesn't mean he's not capable of serving as President. But, come on, when you're President, all the world's problems are yours, and you'd better be good at figuring out what's wrong. These problems are much more complicated than why he's fat! He not just a bit chubby. He's very fat. Whatever the subtleties of why people get fat, a good percentage of what he's carting around has got to be from just plain gorging himself. How can he sit there with a straight, sincere face and say "If I could figure out why, I'd fix it"? At least we have video showing us how he looks when he's lying.

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Anonymous said...: Well then Alex, go fuck yourself.:); 12/13/12, 10:54 PM
Unknown said...: Wow!
I've been busy today and missed this.
Scary ugly thread.; 12/13/12, 10:56 PM
Danno said...: The best reply I've seen so far is if Christie were to snap back and say how can anyone with your speech impediment possibly be a television personality/reporter/???; 12/13/12, 11:23 PM
Palladian said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/13/12, 11:29 PM
MayBee said...: I don't think Garage looks fat. And in this thread, he is completely endearing. Goshdarnit.; 12/14/12, 4:47 AM
Michael said...: Garage is in no way what I call fat. I am often in airports and planes and can observe fat on a regular basis. He might have been fat thirty years ago, now pretty normal for a big guy.; 12/14/12, 7:21 AM
Rusty said...: Those extra pounds are potential muscle,

I'm using that from now on.; 12/14/12, 7:29 AM
Rusty said...: "here check it out."

Dude. You're not fat. I'M fat. And ugly too.; 12/14/12, 7:32 AM
Meade said...: Garage could use his stored body fat for fueling exercise that would enlarge his muscle fibers but fat cells can never become muscle cells.; 12/14/12, 8:26 AM
Ann Althouse said...: We'eve been talking about the subject of my using the word "fat" to refer to fat since 2006. I said::

"I agree that it's a mystery [why people are fat], but you can extract one truth: if you're still fat, you need to eat less. It doesn't matter why other people don't get fat when they seem to eat the same thing. Look at your own situation. If you're still fat, cut down. Eat less, and weigh yourself. Do it every day for the rest of your life. There's nothing wrong with you. It's just the natural impulse that allowed your ancestors to survive through famines. You have a healthy urge and a healthy body, but in times of affluence, that will make you fat. You've got to go against your nature and eat less. Until you're not fat any more. Or, as Roseanne Barr once said: "Just be fat and shut up.""; 12/14/12, 8:43 AM
Ann Althouse said...: Roseanne, btw, is fat.

I like the straight talk.

There's nothing wrong with "fat." It's not a dirty word. We need some fat. It's an important organ. We need to eat some food that's fat.

Stop being such babies about it.; 12/14/12, 8:45 AM
Meade said...: Btw, I love your fat, baby.; 12/14/12, 8:47 AM
Meade said...: Plus, uh, everyone can see that I'm not fat. I mean this isn't scientific stuff. I heard there's not going to be a test. But, I mean, I do want you to support me and be my man.; 12/14/12, 8:56 AM
jr565 said...: Nonapod wrote:

It's worse, he's fat and a Republican. If he was a tubby liberal like Michael Moore it wouldn't even be mentioned.

actually, I'd be ok with asking Michael Moore why he is so fat. And such an asshole. Those should be standard questions every interviewer should ask him.

Plus, I also like the idea of asking Barbara why she has a lisp. Turnaround is fair play.; 12/14/12, 9:10 AM
jr565 said...: Ann althouse wrote:

Roseanne, btw, is fat.

I like the straight talk.

There's nothing wrong with "fat." It's not a dirty word. We need some fat. It's an important organ. We need to eat some food that's fat.

Stop being such babies about it.

but what's the point of the question then? Because it sounds like she is suggesting that being fat is a negative, otherwise there would be no reason to discuss it in an interview, unless the discussion were about why people were fat.; 12/14/12, 9:14 AM
Chip S. said...: 215 comments and not one Cartman reference?; 12/14/12, 9:49 AM
Meade said...: BW: Why are you stoned?

BO: Uh...; 12/14/12, 10:16 AM
Baron Zemo said...: Once again Palladian is exactly right.

It happens every Christmas.

More hits means more people get to see the appeals to buy stuff through the Amazon portal.

The context is $$$$$$$$$.; 12/14/12, 11:31 AM