Mandrake, have you ever seen a commie with a glass of water?
by digby
Michelle Obama is encouraging people to drink more water. And the right is having a full blown meltdown. Here’s Roy Edroso with the evidence:
Wait for it…
Regardless of the wisdom of public-health campaigns launched by the first lady in general, this one is silly in its own right: There isn’t good scientific evidence that people should drink more water. The first lady’s claim that one more glass of water per day will “make a real difference” for “your energy” and “how you feel” is homeopathy, not public health. (Who’s the party of science, again?)
That’s Patrick Brennan, who apparently picked the short straw at National Review.
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Several commenters suggest the First Lady start other common-sense drives, such as Don’t Stick a Fork in a Light Socket and Don’t Whack Yourself in the Crotch, so conservatives will stick forks in light sockets and whack themselves in the crotch. No, no, it would only end up hurting the little people — Brennan would write about it, but in the end it’d be those poor saps in the tricorner harts and knee breeches who’d be contusing and electrocuting themselves. I realize my lack of ruthlessness goes to the heart of the liberal dilemma.
But then, this may be happening regardless: Commenter D Johnston tells me Brennan’s commenters are actually talking about how you can hurt yourself by drinking too much water — a ridiculously remote possibility that these doofuses now treat as a clear and present danger (“without clear guidelines this is actually a dangerous suggestion”) because Moochelle. I can imagine them fainting in the hot sun, their last coherent thought “can’t let the socialists overhydrate me,” a LIVE FREE AND DRY banner clutched in their blistered hands.
There’s actually nothing all that new about this. The right has hbeen suspicious about water for a very long time: