How to Be a Lazy Journalist
By Steve M. has a nice catch on the cavernously stupid notion that Barack Obama might not have enough body fat — acquired from gobbling seals and rummaging the ice pack for carrion — to survive those long, fasting Presidential winters. Aside from the fact that Amy Chozick actually launched the Yahoo discussion thread from which the entire project sprouted, but she also cribbed talking points from the McCain campaign.
McCain campaign manager Rick Davis a couple of days ago:
“…Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand ‘MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew — ‘Black Forest Berry Honest Tea’ and worry about the price of arugula.”
Chozick today:
These days he stays away from junk food and instead snacks on MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and drinks Black Forest Berry Honest Tea, a healthy organic brew.
Unreal. Internet traditions require that I make a joke about Ben Domenech here, but that might — might — be unfair to Ben Domenech.