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Lawrence O’Donnell Panel: Chris Christie Must Diet If He Wants To Run For President

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Now that it appears the media is finally over the hill on New Jersey Governor Chris Christie 2012 speculation, the focus on the governor has shifted to what would happen if he actually ran, and naturally the “is Chris Christie too fat?” question emerges front and center. On last night’s Last Word, Lawrence O’Donnell asked his panel– campaign strategist Ed Rollins and columnist Jonathan Alter– what the odds were of Christie making a presidential bid with his figure intact. The consensus? Expect a diet if a campaign was on the horizon.

O’Donnell noted that, should Christie have a legitimate interest in running in 2012, he had a bit of a problem on his hands: “he would have to tell the lie that he is ready to be president or explain why he was lying when he said [he wasn't ready].” Should he jump that hurdle, however, he still had a serious image problem. Showing his panel an ad former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine aired accusing Christie of “throwing his weight around,” O’Donnell wondered whether that line of attack could be useful in a presidential run, and while that particular ad was unsuccessful, the panel did consider weight an issue.

RELATED: NJ Governor Race Is One Big Fat Joke; Do Weight-Centric Ads Go Too Far?

Rollins, who had run the 2008 Mike Huckabee campaign, noted that “my last advice to my friend Mike Huckabee, who lost 100 pounds [before the election, was] he needs to lose forty pounds.” He added that Mississippi governor Haley Barbour had lost 35 pounds while considering a presidential run also, and that it was entirely common for contenders to do so. Alter agreed that it was important because of the rigor of a presidential campaign. “It’s a distance event; it’s a marathon.” He predicted that, should Christie run, he would “announce that he’s going on some sort of diet– like Oprah’s diet,” that would turn into something of an event to work in his favor.

RELATED: The View Dedicates Segment To Chris Christie: Too Fat To Be President?

As for his semi-moderate positions on things like gun control, the panel agreed that they were dangerous positions to take in a primary like the one Republicans are currently in. That said, Alter found the positions somewhat inevitable to find in a blue state Republican: “to survive in the Northeast as a Republican,” he argued, “you have to be fairly progressive on social issues.”

The discussion via MSNBC below:

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  • RACE BAITING@6 RESIST WE MUCH!

    Alter escaped Obama’s colon !!

  • Anonymous

    Puhleeze…if Christie was bald they would be saying he needs to get a toupee. If Christie was too skinny they would say he needs to gain weight. If he was Hispanic they would say the right is just pandering to the Hispanics for their votes. Bottom line..the left has to find something/anything to keep harping on because they certainly don’t want to draw any focus to the economy that has tanked under Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1431811538 Josh Kim

    I thought Christie was already doing something about his weight but perhaps I’m mistaken. I would have no problem voting for him.

  • Anonymous

    …As long as it doesn’t affect Chris Christie’s ability to do his job, why should it matter?

  • Anonymous

    christy vs. OBOZO = a competent, effective fat guy vs. a clueless, shallow, profane,  arrogant, platitude-spouting, corrupt, inexperienced, Marxist, ego-maniacal, drug-addicted, elitist, narcissistic, flip-flopping, racist, anti-Semitic gas-bag.

    Tough choice !!!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_GVWU6V6ORHYQ57UOHAEI52XTVU Dennis

    Wow… Lawrence is an idiot even exploring hypothetical questions. Slow news day. Can we please get a Sarah Palin nipple slip or something?????? shesh

  • Anonymous

    Would depend on who he chose for his VP. If anything happened to him could be an issue.I agree with you about his ability to do his job it should not matter about his weight.People do get fired over weight tho.

  • Susan

    I thought the left were supposed to be open minded and accepting of all people. Based on how they treat people who are different than they are (including political leaning) they are more closed minded as they accuse others of being. Just read a People Magazine someday to see their meanness.

  • SammyC

    How in the hell is this guy going to manage a country when he can’t manage his weight? That fat fcuk ain’t going nowhere. Stay in Jersey!

  • http://twitter.com/CincyChick4Rick CincyChick4RickPerry

    Oh well if Larry O says so…yeah let’s listen to what he has to say. Because it’s not as if he’s on the network where its entire primetime line-up has either been arrested, been in Betty Ford, or been in a hospital like Bellevue.

    Oh wait…..

  • Anonymous

    I understand what you’re point and you’re right partly right. 

    Although, excuse the expression…the matter should be bigger than that and weighted (I’m on on a roll) towards his competency!

    I like that he genuinely cares about his constituents.

  • http://twitter.com/DrunkReport DrunkReport.com

    probably. either way this is a lame topic

  • Anonymous

    Chris Christie must diet if he wants to run period.

  • Dr OZ

    Apparently these dipshits have never heard of Winston Churchill !!
    He was a little on the CHUNKY side as I recall!

  • Tim Tebow

    Why lose weight?

    Obesity is a “job creator” for the health care industry! Maybe he should pair up with the Pizza Prophet?!

    We’ll all get jobs in fast food, get fat, and then…uhm…uhm?

    That’s a real ponzi scheme we could live with..until we don’t.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a common problem that many people suffer from.  Any mumber of medical conditions could be making it more difficult for him to loose weight.  We are’nt privy to his medical records–nor should we be.  Hell, it’s only one trait out of many that make up a personality.  I might factor the weight problem into any decision about him (or not) but, I would’nt write him off because it.

    His policies concern me far more.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4FIXQZ45KDYLOD4QPILHSNP5CQ CSC

    If he ran he could just sit on Obama in the debates.  No way Obama could overcome that.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    No. Morbid obesity is a different sort of bird.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Morbid obesity always affects the fatsos who have it.

  • OSux

    Perhaps Chrisite should eat bananas like Obama does.

  • Anonymous

    Robert recommends his Cheetos/Mountain Dew diet . He lost six dress sizes on this regimen .

    However, he later put a little weight back on, going up eight dress sizes .

    You know BFD has a snit when you use the F ( fatso) word !

  • Anonymous

    “It’s a distance event; it’s a marathon.” He predicted that, should Christie run, he would “announce that he’s going on some sort of diet– like Oprah’s diet,” that would turn into something of an event to work in his favor. – Jonathan Alter

    Oh..oh..oh..! Me..me..me! Why doesn’t Chris Christie use Rush Limbaugh’s famous 80 pounds, in 21 weeks, “It’s not a ruse!” diet?

  • Anonymous

    Did you know that Rush Limbaugh does not think that a “fat” person can be elected President in the 21st century? No, really.

  • Anonymous

    Oh please…Was Obama required to stop smoking before becoming president ? Was Clinton required to quit his sexual daliences before becoming president ? Were Kennedy and Johnson required to quit being unfaithful to their wives?  After Clinton had his sexual dalliences with an intern the liberal’s mantra was “what he does in his private life is no one else’s business and it won’t have any bearing on how he leads as a president”. Now that tune has completely changed, being Christie is a conservative.

  • Anonymous

    Obama did not smoke openly, in public. Clinton’s “daliences”, came after election. Christie’s “morbid obesity” is “in your your face”, now. Pre-election.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    You, have three or four pictures of Obama smoking a cigarette? A habit that the President has “kicked”, since being elected? Bummer for you. There are hundreds, if not thousands of pictures of Governor Christie’s current “morbidly obese” medical condition.

    Governor Christie, for the sake of your family, start listening to your doctor.

  • OSux

    Unfortunately for Barack and Michelle they won’t be around too much longer as they both have sickle cell anemia.  However, I certainly hope they can overcome it.

  • Anonymous

    What so we are all human and can change? DUH! But he has smoked, in Public, while President, you got caught lying again Treason_Detector. He did not quite until Feb. 7, 2011 according to his wife.

  • Anonymous

    Would much rather have a competent over weight person in the WH than a incompetent recovering cocaine addict in the WH!!!

    There is a reason why Oblamer continues to seal his medical records….amongst all his other records he spends millions to keep sealed!!

  • Anonymous

    I agree about Christie. MUCH better to keep our incumbent coke-snorting, cigarette-smoking anorexic right where he is.

  • Anonymous

    Your source for that search result?

  • marigrace

    Clinton was “screwing around” long before he entered the presidential race.

  • Anonymous

    A search engine, try it yourself.

  • Anonymous

    seriously, did you conveniently forget about Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones allegations against Clinton ?   he admitted to them later, but they were out there pre-presidential election 

  • Anonymous

    A search engine, try it yourself.

    Please provide your search engine source, and the key words that you searched for. Thanks for your cooperation.

  • Anonymous

    When did Governor Christie suggest that President Obama should stay “right where is”?  I would like to research this.

  • cdnhawk

    This idiot should be banned

  • john.kliber

    What does that yellow-haired yahoo O’Donnell have to do to run for ‘journalist?”

    A chair with wheels, a seat belt and a teleprompter don’t make the grade for our cutting edge voice of the Democratic Party.

  • cdnhawk

    What is wrong with you? You are pathetic.

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Then use a search engine lazy.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Someone ban this trash.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    I agree that campaigns should be about substantive issues. However, it is simply delusional to think that the way a candidate presents his/her appearance does not make a difference in the election results. I think the Nixon/Kennedy radio/televised debates conclusively gave evidence to that almost a half-century ago.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    I agree that campaigns should be about substantive issues. However, it is simply delusional to think that the way a candidate presents his/her appearance does not make a difference in the election results. I think the Nixon/Kennedy radio/televised debates conclusively gave evidence to that almost a half-century ago.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Thanks, Josh. So we have one vote. Just about 60 million minus one to go…

    This isn’t about any one person’s opinion. This is about how the often shallow larger electorate will handle the issue.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Thanks, Josh. So we have one vote. Just about 60 million minus one to go…

    This isn’t about any one person’s opinion. This is about how the often shallow larger electorate will handle the issue.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    Yeah. Such dipshits! Nobody ever even noticed Churchill’s weight…on the radio. Doh!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/D7SM25L672V2BCGDVP3KM4AI2Q paulo m

    You may not write off Christie, but do you think everyone will think like you do? I think you have a much higher opinion of the electorate than I do. That is very admirable.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: If he takes a Golf trip every weekend like Obama he will surely lose weight.

  • Anonymous

    How would the left react if anyone said that Barney Frank is too gay to be a congressman? Think of Linda Blair in the Exorcist, head spinning completely around, vomiting pea soup and you might be close. Yet they say these things about Christie. They are so transparently hypocritical it’s laughable.

  • cdnhawk

    Hmm…well…you can’t keel over from having a heart attack from being too gay…..so yes being obese is an issue for the leader of the free world

  • expatpatriot

    Liposuction. It’s faster.

  • expatpatriot

    I don’t think anyone has said that Christie is too gay to be president. Just that he’s too fat. You really need to pay better attention.

  • expatpatriot

    Naah. It’s just that he’s fat. The pecadillos of the presidents you cited didn’t show up on their waistlines.

    Yep. He’s fat alright.

  • Anonymous

    Here you lazy person I will provide you with a link.http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1RNPN_enUS395&gcx=c&q=Obama+smoking&um=1&hl=en&biw=944&bih=951&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wiHow hard is it to Google Obama Smoking, and click the images tab?- ToddSheller

    It’s not difficult, at all. Actually I knew it was Google images search. And, I knew that the 16,700,000 individual pictures of him smoking, that you were claiming, was actually being pulled out of your ass. I just wanted you to admit it.

    Most of those images, returned in a Google “Obama smoking” search, either don’t show him smoking, are Photoshoped, or are the same four or five pictures that have been manipulated, rotated, cropped, flipped, etc.

  • expatpatriot

    That leading light of liberal thought ,”People Magazine?”

    This thread is full of dumb comments, but yours is somewhere in the top ten.

  • expatpatriot

    Alternatively, Christie vs Obama: a loudmouthed, bullying, vulgar, morbidly obese tool vs a smart, calm, centered, moral statesman.

    Yep, that choice ain’t to tough.

  • expatpatriot

    Earth to Oz: in the UK, the Prime Minister is not elected by a popular vote of the people.

  • expatpatriot

    Frankly, the fact that he pretends to believe in Republicanism is enough to disqualify him from the presidency. The fact that he’s a heart-attack-head tub o’ lard is entirely secondary.

  • Anonymous

    Great work, as usual, Mr. O’Donnell. Here’s something else, for you and the staff of The Last Word to consider, as the Christie for President story continues to unfold.
    Rush is suggesting, in this 2007 clip, that Hillary Clinton was too overweight to be elected President. What does that suggest about Governor Christie’s “morbidly obese” status? Limbaugh is an expert in weighty issues, after all.
    http://k003.kiwi6.com/hotlink/ig63m606pk/limbaugh_bigpresidents_12192007.mp3

    RUSH: This is North Canton, Ohio. Rick, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
    CALLER: Hi, Rush. Hey, thanks for taking my call –
    RUSH: Yes, sir.
    CALLER: — and thanks for doing what you do. I just wanted to make a comment on the whole Hillary appearance issue.
    RUSH: Yeah.
    CALLER: And I just wanted to say it seems that the left is always willing to embrace appearances, except when it works to their disadvantage, and I’m reminded of the Nixon-Kennedy debate. People that listened to that on the radio thought Nixon was the clear-cut winner. But the people that watched on TV came out with, I think, 60% or just a shade over 60% of the people saying that Kennedy won that debate.
    RUSH: No question about it. It’s exactly right.
    CALLER: Strictly on appearance.
    RUSH: Strictly on appearance. Don Hewitt, who recently retired from 60 Minutes, made Kennedy up. He applied some makeup and didn’t give Nixon any. Nobody thought to use it. It was on black-and-white TV, and of course Nixon broke out with the sweat on the upper lip there, and it was all over. Look, this is my point. Appearance in the visual arts — and politics is a visual art because it’s on television — matters. It just does. Now, it’s a little less important the smaller the election. In a state election, it’s not that big a deal. In a local election, it’s even less big a deal. Nationally, though? This kind of stuff, when you’re talking about presidents, it matters. I can’t remember the names off the top of my head, but if you go back prior to the advent of television, we had some tubs as president. We had some huge guys, fat guys, Chester Alan Arthur. (interruption) Warren Harding. They were pigs by today’s standards. But back then, it was a sign of success. Overweight men, titans, it was a sign of prominence, a sign of power, a sign of great wealth and success. Today, it doesn’t say that at all as an image. It says something else: no discipline, doesn’t care, slob, all these things.
    No matter how well dressed you are; no matter how neatly coiffed you are, if you’re fat, you’re still a pig — and, if you’re on television and you’re fat, you’re either a character actor and nobody knows your name, but you’re not prominent. Well, a couple of exceptions. Well, yeah, look what happened to Orson Welles when he ballooned up. He ended up selling wine on Monday Night Football. Who else out there? Burl Ives made it for a while. Jackie Gleason, but he tried. Jackie Gleason was roller-coastering up and down. He lost the weight. There was a “Jackie Gleason Diet.” But Jackie Gleason used to eat over at Patsy’s. He had all this sausage and stuff. I mean, he would take the stuff over to where he lived. Marlon Brando, yeah, as soon as he ballooned up, it was, “Good-bye, Don Vito Corleone,” and he got a couple roles after it, but it’s just the way it is, folks. You know, aging on women in public, like presidents, probably has the same effect as men who once were very studly, ballooning up. It’s just the way it is. It’s sad, but that’s the way our culture is. That’s all I was talking about the other day.

  • NellieDanica

     Don’t be ridiculous. Being gay is not a choice and it doesn’t lead to heart attacks and various diseases.

  • Anonymous

    Here’s something else that O’Donnell and The Last Word team should investigate when it comes to Rush Limbaugh’s political position on health, nutrition, weight loss, and America’s childhood obesity epidemic. Look deeply, and I mean deeply, into the claims that Rush Limbaugh made, throughout 2009, about his own weight loss.

    Rush Limbaugh did not lose that weight on a 1500 calories a day diet, without exercise, that began on March 9th, as he claims. Science, Limbaugh’s least favorite human discipline (next to exercise) can prove that he is lying about the weight loss methodology that he used.

    The diet must have started much earlier than he claims and was very likely aided by bariatric surgery. It is a very evil thing that Mr. Limbaugh did. He promoted a quick weight loss diet that the medical community already considers dangerous, and made it even more dangerous with his phony baloney, ‘I’m doing it with sheer Republican, personal responsibility, and willpower” cover up.

    He told millions of Americans that they should be able to lose 80 pounds in 21 weeks, without exercise. It is advice based on a year long series of lies. And now, this evil diet pusher that incessantly marginalizes the benefits of healthy nutrition and exercise, while demonizing the people that promote it, wants America to have a morbidly obese Commander in Chief of America’s Armed Services. Many Americans, like myself, think that that would be a terrible message to send out to the children of America, caught in an obesity crisis caused by America’s parents.

    Here’s the day Limbaugh’s 2009 diet “hit the fan”, scientifically speaking…

    “El Rushbo Reveals His Diet: It’s Quick Weight Loss Centers
    “http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/07/30/el_rushbo_reveals_his_diet_it_s_quick_weight_loss_centers

  • Anonymous

    The skepticism begins at ABC…

    “Rush Limbaugh Drops 90 Pounds”
    http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=8234457&page=1

    Here’s Limbaugh complaining about the media questioning his diet claims…

    “State-Run Media Trash Rush’s Diet!”
    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/08/03/state_run_media_trash_rush_s_diet

    But the skepticism was only just beginning…

    A CalorieCount•About•com article, gets under the Maha Rushie’s skin:”Lessons Learned From Rush Limbaugh’s Weight Loss”
    http://caloriecount.about.com/lessons-learned-rush-limbaughs-weight-loss-b331904

    Limbaugh goes ballistic, and does his BS-ing best to put the issue behind him, by calling his skeptics “Limbaugh Weight Loss Deniers”…

    “It’s a Fascinating Phenomenon: Limbaugh Weight Loss Deniers”
    http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2009/08/14/it_s_a_fascinating_phenomenon_limbaugh_weight_loss_deniers

    Now, to solve the mystery of how Rush Limbaugh really lost that weight, and when his “It’s not a ruse!” diet really began, read this. It’s the most bizarre Rush Limbaugh Show ever recorded, and it is the “key” to the mystery. I would post the link, but after posting it here on Mediate about a week ago, it has been moved behind the Dittohead Curtain. Good thing I have a copy.

    Here’s the day that Rush launched his weight loss “ruse”, six months prior to announcing, and explaining, his “laws of nature” defying weight loss…

    From the Rush Limbaugh Show / January 28, 2009…

    Story #1: Rush Off Next Week, Won’t Play Prank on Listeners
    RUSH: Programming announcement: I’m not going to be here next week. 

    Way back in December, with some friends, when we were in Dallas at a Cowboys-Giants football game, we scheduled a week — this next week — golf and football.  It’s gonna involve some trips to the Left Coast and then out to Hawaii for the NFL Pro Bowls and golfing both places, and the reservations have been made, all the accommodations and all this stuff is made, and I’m announcing this stuff today rather than on Friday.  In fact, I want to be honest. The staff — just to show you, my friends, how I totally, fully respect you — the staff wanted me to say nothing, and when Monday came, with me not here, and the guest host, Jason Lewis, they wanted Jason to say, “Rush is gone, and I don’t know where.  Maybe somebody knows where Rush is, but I don’t. I have been told that he won’t be back this week.”

    They wanted me to do this so that you would conjure up all kinds of, “Has he been kidnapped? Is he on a stealth mission someplace?  Did THEY get to him?” But I would not use you that way.  I would not toy at all with the deep bond of loyalty and respect that we have for one another here, and at the same time, if I did that, I guarantee you that the Drive-Bys’ focus next week would focus on me not being able to take it anymore and having left town to avoid the heat.  I just told you where I’m really going.  I’m not going to get specific. If I tell people where I’m going, I’m going to be greeted by a mob.  I’m not going to tell people where I’m going.  It’s not a ruse! It’s not a ruse! It’s not a ruse!  I’m flying to Tampa on Monday morning.  I’m not going to the Super Bowl. 

    I have a suite at the Super Bowl that I put together for clients that are going to be in the suite.  I rented it for the game.  We have a client dinner on Friday night.  I’m going over there for that, and I’m coming back home.  I’m playing golf Saturday. I got a dinner party Saturday night. I got my own Super Bowl party at my house on Sunday, on Monday I’m flying to Tampa to pick up some people and heading to the Left Coast.  Okay? You’re not buying this?  You’re not buying this, Snerdley? Ha!  Back me up on this.  You’ve known since December that next week I’m going to be off.  Okay. You do know that.  Because all over MSNBC next week, the headlines will be: “Has it finally gotten to Limbaugh? Can he no longer take the heat? Did the petition work? Did the petition drive Limbaugh not only off his show, but out of the country?” blah, blah, blah.

    That’s going to be the template. So that’s why I’m telling you now, and I know some of you are asking, “How can you leave now?”  Folks, let me explain this to you.  Under that theory, I could never leave.  We all need to recharge.  “But you were just gone between Christmas and New Year’s.” Yeah, but I really didn’t want to be gone that week.  That’s like a no-ratings week and staff vacations.  But you were still gone.  Yeah, and so were you. I guarantee you weren’t listening to the radio then. You were out visiting the family and so forth and so on.  I know I’m going to catch heat for this.  “How can you leave during…?” Folks, this is an epoch battle.  It’s an epoch battle.  “Epoch” means long.  It will be a long battle. There’s nothing that’s going to happen next week because I’m gone.  I’m sure they’ll try some things, but I will be available.

    Should there be an emergency, I will be available to phone in and so forth and co-opt my own show from the guest host.  I don’t anticipate that.  But using this theory, “But you can’t go! Look at what’s happening,” there’s always going to be something happening with this team in the White House.  There’s always going to be something. They never sleep. They’re 24/7, “How do we take over this country? How do we advance our leftist agenda?” and, believe me, there will be nothing lost. No ground will be lost.  But it’s… What, now? See, I cannot win.  Now I got the staff talking trying to make me feel guilty themselves.  “You’ve just given the Democrats an opening.  Now they’re eagerly planning for next week,” and so forth. Sigh. Anyway, I wanted to be up front and honest with you about it.  Whatever damage and harm accrue to me over this, I’m willing to take.

  • Anonymous

    Lawrence O’Donnell has had a nose job, capped teeth,  hairplugs, and wears turquoise contacts to change the color of his eyes. (and those are just what are evident). So, clearly, he is obsessed with outside appearances. Where was his disapproval of Obama’s smoking habit? The risk to one’s health of smoking one pack of cigarettes/day is greater than the risk of being 100 # overweight.

  • Anonymous

    Obama is looking somewhat anorexic. If he expects to run any semblance of a successful campaign he will need to stop his unhealthy eating and evacuation practices.

  • Anonymous

    As has already been shown on these Mediaite boards, it’s almost impossible for anyone that holds the position that Christie should not be President of the United States, and thus Commander in Chief of America’s military until he loses a significant amout of weight, without the pro Christie forces accusing you of “hating fat people”. That diversionary tactic is “BS”, and it will not work.

    I knew it was only a matter of time before we got a Dittoheaded attempt to use the “Obama smokes” and “Obama is anorexic” arguments. These are arguments from ignorance.

    According to the last published Medical exam of President Obama, dated February 28, 2010, the President was 6′ – 1″ tall and weighed 180 lbs.

    Let’s look at the weight guidelines for the United States Marine Corps for a male recruit, that is 6′ – 1″ tall. Minimum allowable weight: 144 lbs. Maximum allowable weight: 189 lbs.

    It looks like he’s closer to the high end, of the scale, than the low end. So, it looks like attempts to juxtapose the leaness of the President and the not-so-leaness of the Governor, falls a little short. And, dittos on THE attempted “smoking” juxtapositions – the Marine Corps doesn’t seem to mind, terribly, if recruits, or soldiers smoke.

    How about Christie? How much weight would a Marine recruit tell Governor Christie he would have to lose in order to be a “Private” in the Marines. Christie is 5′- 11″ tall, and unless  he’s lost some weight since October 30, 2009, he weighs 550 lbs. Maximum allowable weight: 174 lbs.

    550 – 174 lbs = 376 lbs.

    There’s only one diet in the world that could possibly help Chris Christie lose the weight that he needs to lose, in time for the 2012 Presidential elections.

    Rush Limbaugh’s “It’s not a ruse!” diet. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/lawrence-odonnell-panel-chris-christie-must-diet-if-he-wants-to-run-for-president/#comment-324966349

    ***CHRISTIE-LIMBAUGH 2012***

  • Anonymous

    From Wikipedia…

    Physician to the President

    Orgainization and role:

    The White House doctor has an office inside the White House. The location of his or her medical unit plays an important role in keeping the President of the United States healthy. He or she also oversees a staff is typically composed of five military physicians, five nurses, five physician assistants, three medics, three administrators and one IT Manager. The White House Physician is metaphorically the “shadow of the President” because he or she is always close at hand whether the President is at the White House, overseas, on the campaign trail, or aboard presidential plane Air Force One. The Physician to the President protects president’s health and may also perform emergency surgery.

    The Emergency Services Department that I work in requires a second EMS team to be called for transport of patients over 400 lbs. If the “medics” are the only ones that do the “heavy lifting”, in emergencies, then, if the the 550 lb Chris Christie becomes President, the medical unit will have to add two more medics. They will also have to upgrade all their stretcher equipment to bariatric specifications. These are realities that the Christie for President advocates must face.

  • Anonymous

    He is obese and not a “pretty sight.”  If he cannot get his weight down to a normal size, how can he do anything — such as run a country?.  He would never get my vote.  

  • Anonymous

    After a little more research, I’m seeing some inferences, on the internet, that people think that Christie was joking when he told Don Imus that he weighed 550 pounds. The Maha Rushie didn’t catch the “joke” in his commentary of it (my source). To me, it seems like a pretty weird thing to joke about, on national radio, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, knock 200 lbs right off the top of that, and assume that he meant 350 lbs.

    350 – 174 lbs = 176 lbs.

    That’s still a major major weight loss undetaking. Limbaugh’s “It’s not a ruse!” diet is the only shot he’s got. But, is it too risky? You know, being so “outside the Laws of Nature”, and all?

  • Anonymous

    Ok, all fat kids must diet before they can go to school!

    Ok, all pundits must be able to speak clearly before being on TV!   (Oh, sorry Rev. Al)

    Ok, all pundits must have a discernible degree of intelligenct before being on TV!  (Oh, sorry MSNBC)

  • http://christinebreese.info/SpiritualPages/ChristineBreeseVideoSatsangMeetings.html Christine Breese

    Being overweight is not likely to win the office, that’s just all there is to it. 

  • Anonymous

    Ok, all fat kids must diet before they can go to school!

    We’re talking about the “Presidency”.

    Ok, all pundits must be able to speak clearly before being on TV!   (Oh, sorry Rev. Al)

    We’re talking about the “Presidency”.

    Ok, all pundits must have a discernible degree of intelligenct before being on TV!  (Oh, sorry MSNBC)

    We’re talking about the “Presidency”.

    Enough said.

  • Anonymous

    See the problem with this idiotic comment is that Google is the only search engine that puts the number right on the screen. So no I did not pull the number “out of my ass.” When ever you decide to pull your head out of yours let us know.

  • Anonymous

    Taking into account the documented liberal slanting of Google’s search algorithm, I find basing a search solely on Google and expecting untainted results highly unlikely. That is why Treason_Detector, the fatist, makes his case from their data.

  • Anonymous

    So you are saying there should be more pictures of him then? As Goggle should be reluctant to post said pictures because of their liberal slant?

  • Anonymous

    There are more, undoubtedly, but they don’t want to show any lefty in a negative light.

  • AliveStillKickin

     But….if he loses weight and gets “pretty” he will then get your vote?

    You are a very small….shallow person.
    Do you even know HOW to vote?
    Libs are such tards.

  • AliveStillKickin

    If we could elect a skinny, elephant-eared, Muslim scarecrow made in Kenya……with straw for brains…..I can see us voting for an overweight person with American ideals.

  • AliveStillKickin

    Boy….Liberals sure a bunch of “fat” bigots.
    How about a little of that tolerance you keep  preaching about.
    Hey…..Black folks…Hispanics…..Doesn’t this open your eyes to what  liberals true “color” really is?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    And ex president, William Howard Taft.

  • Anonymous

    Mr. Christie can think about dieting as soon as “Larry” gets some lips and loses some of his forehead.
    Oh yeah, and drop that fake british accent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

    Comparing apples to oranges.  Mrs. O. has a campaign to stop the obesity epidemic. I will not vote for him, but it is based on his arrogance, not his weight.

  • Anonymous

    When Jerry Nadler looses HIS seat to a thinner candidate THEN I’ll agree with Larry

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