Republicans just don’t give a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut whether the stuff they say has any resemblance to the truth or, for that matter, relevance. If it’s a negative comment about the Obamas, they will make it, repeat it, refuse to condemn it and continue to believe it long past the point where all the intelligent people have moved on to another conversation.
Approximately 50% of them still believe that Barack Obama was not born in the United States, well over 50% of them think tax breaks for the rich are a good way to create jobs despite more than 10 years of evidence to the contrary, they keep bringing up that teleprompter nonsense even though every talking head who makes a teleprompter joke is probably reading it off a teleprompter, and now…
Rush Limbaugh
Well, the latest Republican talking point, if you can believe it or not, is that Michelle Obama is
Michelle Obama
fat. Lots of conservative commenters now refer to her as Mooshell, enough that you know they didn’t all think of it themselves, and recently Andrew Breitbart ran a cartoon on his blog showing an enormously fat Michelle Obama with a huge stack of hamburgers in front of her, shouting at Barack (who was pictured with ridiculously large ears, but that’s legit – the man has big ears) “SHUT UP AND PASS THE BACON!”
Now, first of all, this wouldn’t be a very nice way to portray her if it were, in fact, accurate. Secondly, it’s completely irrelevant. She’s the first lady, not the president. Third, it’s wildly inaccurate. She doesn’t look like that, she doesn’t talk like that. Fourth, although some Republicans might say “lighten up, it’s only a joke,” it’s not. A joke has to be funny. A joke also has to have some relationship to reality. Otherwise it’s not funny, it’s just stupid. Fifth, this whole”Michelle is fat” meme is in response to her Healthy Eating campaign. I can understand people who say “eh, healthy eating, I’m not going to bother” but who is actually against healthy eating, like they would fight it? Republicans, it would seem. Sixth, let’s consider the sources. Andrew Breitbart is not exactly Brad Pitt, but Rush Limbaugh also weighed in on the controversy a couple of days ago, with this gem of a statement:
“The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice….I’m trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.”
Now, just take a gander at the two pictures on this page. Which one of the two do you think has a weight problem?
www.gurukalehuru.com 
You’re right on. Fat-so Limbaugh has no business calling anyone ‘fat’, nor ‘big mouth’, nor being ‘bossy, since he himself is the worst offender in all these areas. The Republicans are showing themselves openly to be what they have always been secretly, ignorant, arrogant, self-centered, greedy, usually overweight and bossy and ‘proud of it’. They take pride and pleasure in shouting down anyone who disagrees with them in any way….because they have no facts nor helpful suggestions to solve actual problems. Criticizing healthy eating is just ignorant, and not good for their children. But then healthy dieting is based on science and genetics….things Republicans seem not to believe or care for anyway. Hurling insults at our first lady is as low as they can go, and they would never have done this if she were white.
I’m highly opposed to putting all Republicans in the same category. But if you had asked if the people (from any walk of life) who think Rush is worth listening to are morons – heck yes! He seems to feed their primal bully instincts. It’s a sad commentary on our society that he has such a large listening audience. We humans haven’t come as far as we’d like to think we have.
Gee, and him so slim and good-looking – NOT.
If she was on the cover of sports illustrated or dating Alex Rodriguez that would really give them something to talk about. Got any pictures of Rush Limbaugh’s wife?
Never mind, she’s a fox