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- duggtodeath, on 11/03/2009, -2/+68Because Americans are ***** fat -- that thin President is an elitist!
- Leminnes, on 11/03/2009, -8/+66I didn't know Drudge Report still existed.
Also, why does Drudge Report still exist? - hokie47, on 11/02/2009, -11/+60I bet Drudge would recommend that he should go on a strict diet of fried chicken, watermelon and malt liquor.
- RobertWright, on 11/02/2009, -4/+43The Presidents age, height, and weight seems to be of perfect health to me. I only wish to be Skinny if this is it!
- splosion, on 11/03/2009, -1/+37This has nothing to do with the president, but it's amazing that america's paradigm has shifted so much to think that someone of a healthy weight is actually too skinny. It's like a backlash movement from the overweight.
- MrBrotato, on 11/02/2009, -2/+32Looks like a tabloid article.
- stevenwalters, on 11/04/2009, -4/+29Can the man do a SINGLE THING without conservatives bashing it? We hated on Bush, but was it ever this bad?
- twiztidsinz, on 11/04/2009, -0/+24Resign?
But then they'd call him a quitter...
While some how defend Sarah Palin in the same sentence.
I've stopped trying to understand the current Republican/(Neo)Conservative party... the sheer idiocracy and lack of logic is absolutely mind boggling. - xero69, on 11/02/2009, -0/+24If I had a team of highly skilled presidential chefs to cook me healthy meals every day I'd probably look slim too.
- Wosat, on 11/02/2009, -4/+26Here's the actual report:
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashbb.htm
Mon Nov 02 2009 07:05:52 ET
Eyebrows raised over the weekend as President Obama walked out of the gym at Fort McNair -- appearing thin as a rail!
Rigorous workouts and high-stress basketball games are said to be behind the dramatic weight loss.
"No, he's not chain smoking," claims an insider. "He's working non-stop for the country... yes, he does occasionally skip meals."
The president explained in Miami last week: "Just because I'm skinny doesn't mean I'm not tough." - iheartbakon, on 11/04/2009, -1/+23What about purple drank?
- Farmer77, on 11/04/2009, -2/+24Drudge also headlined that McCain had a good chance to pull an upset over Obama, on the night before the 2008 election.
- sugarazor, on 11/04/2009, -0/+20"Remember openly calling for his murder?"
--No. But I do know of at least one religious nutjob who claims he "prays" for Obama's death. I also seem to remember some signs mocking the death of Sen. Kennedy just a couple months ago...
"Remember the lies about his military service"
--No. But I remember that he never actually did anything in his "service" and that chickenhawk Cheney got 5 deferments.
"drug use"
--Oh come on, I think we've all come to an understanding that Dubya loved him some booger sugar. It's okay, shame he was too much of a pussy to admit it and actually do something to end the ridiculous drug war, but guess that would've hurt his carefully crafted image.
You're a laugh riot. - j0phus, on 11/04/2009, -0/+19You think this story upsets a liberal? You guys don't even have a slight grasp on reality do you?
- inactive, on 11/03/2009, -9/+28Ignorance supports it.
- bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -1/+18You're comparing people accusing Bush of wearing a wire with Obama being healthy?
Are you ***** stupid? - bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -1/+17Exactly! How can he represent "Real America®" without being 50 pounds overweight?
- Rsulliv1, on 11/04/2009, -1/+16Really?
Show me one other person that thought what you are claiming.
People thought it was a transmitter/receiver so that people could feed him answers off-stage. Also, people showed the unit that fit the look and size of the lump.
I wouldn't put it past that administration for one second to cheat in that way. They fostered such a mentality among their followers that nobody can question anything about the president without being bombarded with hate. That's why so, so much went without overview or public push-back.
Is not having any idea about the issue you're speak on a pre-req for some people? The simplest
of google searches would blow your ***** mind!
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=fire ...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=fire ... - QQMore, on 11/04/2009, -0/+14Which, oddly enough, is a good description of the places that already hate Obama.
_The South is the fattest region. The Northeast and West are slightly slimmer than the rest of the country.
_Mississippi also had the highest rate of overweight and obese children, at 44.4 percent in total. It's followed by Arkansas, 37.5 percent; and Georgia, 37.3 percent.
Give credit where credit is due: Drudge sure knows his fat audience. - bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -2/+15The "Bush Derangement Syndrome" absolutely pales in comparison with how insane the "Obama Derangement Syndrome" has become.
If Obama could walk on water, he'd be accused of not being able to swim. If he solved global hunger or cured cancer, he'd be accused of attempting to overpopu8late the world in the name of Islam.
It's absolutely insane. - Cabose, on 11/04/2009, -4/+17Oh lordy lordy! The president is healthy? Alert the media! This can't be!
/s - monkeysmasher, on 11/02/2009, -10/+22They left out the comparison picture to Rush. If they had placed it next to the photo like they were supposed to, we would see that our president really is as skinny as a Victoria's Secret model.
- KibibyteBrain, on 11/04/2009, -2/+13I think this is an American thing. I used to be quite overweight myself here but have been doing weightloss for about a year. Now I am only a pound or two overweight, but clinically overweight none-the-less(as calculated by a BFA, so its not some trick), but I get pseudo-interventions about my weightloss going too far...when I'm still quite medically overweight! In a country of the overweight normal is too skinny, especially for men it seems.
- Rsulliv1, on 11/04/2009, -0/+10Reads like a tabloid article.
- mannymix03, on 11/04/2009, -4/+14I just like the smear that is in that, "Rigorous workouts and high-stress basketball games"
Or maybe the stress with leading a country that already has been driven into the ground by the previous GOP president. - srs2000, on 11/04/2009, -0/+10Wow... You are in no way connected with reality.
- bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -0/+9As insane as it sounds, that angle has already been pushed.
"Too Fit to Be President?
Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback:"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121755336096303089 ...
"Is Barack Obama too thin to win the White House?
'Skinny' Obama sees poll lead vanish in the land of the fat"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/articl ...
The whole "he doesn't represent fat America" thing has been pumped now for nearly 2 years. Look at the dates on the articles.
It's almost as stupid as being upset about his choice of salad or mustard. - BREZZZ, on 11/03/2009, -2/+11Not me.
- badqat, on 11/02/2009, -3/+12I personally would love a diet like that!
- woofers07, on 11/04/2009, -3/+11The same reason Fox News leads the nation in viewership, idiots, way too many idiots.
- bot001220, on 11/04/2009, -0/+8But that was mostly based on what he *did* (going to war and lying about non-existing WMDs, etc). Bashing someone for being thin is just petty and shows they're scraping the bottom of the barrel.
- genjiworks, on 11/04/2009, -6/+14I see nothing wrong with this... Considering 95% of the people who read and agree with Drudge are illbred, ignorant, religiously corrupt fatasses. God forbid he grows a beard or moustache... they might mistaken him for Hitler.
- maximm, on 11/03/2009, -5/+13yes yes you are all supposed to be fat republicans we get it
Being thin and fit is a preexisting condition in which insurance companies make no money if you have something happen to you they might actually have to pay for it :(.
Won't someone help the poor broke insurance industry? - xero69, on 11/03/2009, -1/+9True that, presidential cheeseburgers are probably pretty close to an orgasm on a bun.
- partysan, on 11/04/2009, -3/+10You can't be skinny and properly represent America!
- circa1015, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7Maybe we were occasionally (but nothing this bizarre and petty), but to be fair, Bush is a war criminal, so he kind of had it coming.
- DasHef, on 11/04/2009, -0/+7Barack Obama doesn't care about fat people!
- hpodity, on 11/04/2009, -2/+9Don't go outside! It's full of blacks, queers and crime! Ohhhh if only Regan was here...
- bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -1/+8@Rsulliv1
Oh, JakeThePimp isn't entirely wrong. Some people WERE claiming that Bush was wearing a medical device.
Those people were Republicans who were trying to deflect attention away from the topic of BUSH WEARING A TRANSCEIVER. Nobody else.
Jake, what keeps you locked in your world of delusion?
/can dish it out and not take it? ***** PUH-LEEZE! - ohplease, on 11/04/2009, -1/+8Sugar. Water. Purple.
- AgeofMastery, on 11/04/2009, -3/+9You mean the Republicans lost a seat they held for 120 years when they lost New York's 23rd District in today's election.And that was despite the help from most of the right's big names.
Or John Garamendi's victory in California? He's considerably more liberal than his predecessor... - Rsulliv1, on 11/04/2009, -6/+11That quote is great. So the drudge "reporter" must have said something like:
"so the pres must be chain smoking in order to lose all that weight, right". - algaeturd, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6This is simple. The entire basis of the far right smear has been this:
He's not like you. He's different. Be afraid of him. He's different. We're not saying it's because he's black, we're just saying he's different and you should be concerned. We think he was born outside of the U.S. and we're sure he's a Muslim so he's DIFFERENT. We just want you to be aware and concerned.
Look at the average republican. Look at the average red stater, for that matter. Obesity is a straight up epidemic in the south. 1 in every 4 people is clinically obese and 1 in ever 5 is very obese.
So what's Drudge doing here? The same they the birthers tried to do and the same thing the people who wanted you to believe that Obama is a muslim. HE'S NOT LIKE YOU. He's different than US.
And it doesn't matter how insignificant or fake this ***** is, republicans buy it because they're dumb enough to buy and it and they're looking for the differences between themselves and Obama. NOT because he's black though. They've already pointed out 1,000,000 times that just because they hate a man for who he is and because he's different, it's not because he's 'black' different, it's just because he's different.
Damn right he's way different than most republians...he's thin, healthy, well educated and successful.
God forbid all these white southerners look up to a successful, healthy man like Obama as a role model. It would do them a world of good. - j0phus, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5This man would not have won the election.
- jd75, on 11/04/2009, -0/+5don't say "we" unless you mean it. unless you personally criticized bush's body type or photoshopped him as a monkey, you personally were not as bad as the LEADERSHIP of the modern republican party is in regard to obama.
sure, the left has some idiotic nuts who'd attack over trivia instead of lie-wars, torture, and illegal wiretaps. but the idiots are not our leaders, and they are not us. the right's idiotic nuts ARE the republican leadership, and they are the majority of republicans, who still think bush did a really great job. - sugarazor, on 11/04/2009, -2/+7And suddenly off-year elections matter when Republicans aren't in complete control. Little victories are all the right-wing has left.
- Amadeus2490, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4Barack Obama's a natural Ectomorph (small frame, low body fat), as most tall guys seem to be. Unless we avoid stress and constantly eat, we'll naturally be somewhere about 20 lbs under the average for our height. Being the president is one of the most stressful jobs on the planet, and he doesn't really have the time or appetite to pig out, so i'm really not surprised that he's lost some weight. Unless he drops down to 100 lbs, find something else to talk about.
- mwrl, on 11/04/2009, -2/+6Drudge Report, no matter where you politics lays, is still the number one source of television news content. If you work in news and you are not watching the site 24/7, you will miss the big story.
That little affair with Clinton, that was all Drudge Report. Matt Drudge and his careful searching of news content on the web and his inside sources deep within the Beltway are a force to be reckoned with. - bjornski, on 11/04/2009, -1/+5And yet BOTH sides still have their feet planted more firmly in reality than the teabaggers.
- ygugsa295, on 11/04/2009, -3/+7@Leminnes: No one is exactly sure why the Drudge Report exists. Legend says that the great Ibn al-Drudge, a Arab astronomer in the 8th century CE, created the Drudge Gazette, completely in hieroglyphics, to annoy Persian and Indian monarchs he didn't like. He spun facts and got the people on his side, and since he was an astronomer, the people assumed he was smart and took what he said to be truth. When he drew Muhammad as a caricature in one issue, he got death threats, and so he drank sulphuric acid and died. Incidentally, this set a precedent for how Muslims dealt with infidelity (but that's irrelevant).
Centuries later, a distant relative of al-Drudge by the name of Field Marshal James Douglas Drudge, 3rd Earl of Drudge KG GCVO GBE VC PC (al-Drudge got busy with a lot of British merchants' wives) demanded that King George III give Quebec back to France, or, as he put it "America's going to go Manifest Destiny on your colonies." Since the Earl of Drudge had post-nominal letters and was a Field Marshal, the King assumed the Earl knew what he was talking about, and did so. Thus, the Front de Liberation du Quebec was born.
The Earl of Drudge line would later impregnante such famous people as Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, Monica Lewinsky and Liz Lemon (sorry, that last one is fictional, just like the Drudge Report). The Drudge orgy eventually gave birth to Robert Drudge, and as they say, the rest is spun history.
Fun (serious) fact: Matt Drudge's mom was an attorney for Ted Kennedy. -
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