QOTD: Rupert Murdoch
by David Atkins
How did fat lady who fell thru street get to 400 lbs?Welfare, stamps, etc?Then leave us all with 20yrs immense health bills.— Rupert Murdoch(@rupertmurdoch) January 15, 2013
If you haven’t heard, this is the story he’s talking about.
This is the man who runs half of American media, and has the other half scared to cross him because they may need to cross him.
It hardly needs to be said that poor people in a country with a halfway decent safety and easy availability of cheap, processed low-nutrition calories wind up being disproportionately obese. In fact, the availability of these cheap, unhealthy calories is one of the reasons it’s harder to mobilize against income inequality.
No word yet on Rupert Murdoch’s opinion of Chris Christie’s likely 350-pound weight with a foot less in height than 6’5″ sidewalk crasher Ulanda Williams. If he is 350 pounds, that would put him at a higher body mass index than Ulanda.
All of which is interesting for mocking the Australian psychopath but ultimately irrelevant, because judging someone on the basis of their weight, rich or poor, is an utterly asinine thing to do.
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