Bill Bennett On Olympics In Chicago: "I'm Actually For Rio... In Chicago It's Fat People Eating" (VIDEO)

Conservative commentator Bill Bennett certainly didn't endear himself to the residents of Chicago during a recent appearance on CNN's "The Situation Room." Asked for his thoughts about President Obama going to Copenhagen to personally lobby for Chicago as the sight of the 2016 Olympics, Bennett said that he was actually rooting for Rio, Brazil: "I'm actually for Rio. In Rio, it's beautiful women at the beach, and in Chicago, it's fat people eating."

Bennett (not the slimmest man on television) saw one silver lining in Obama's trip: "He is going to have to say some really very positive things about the United States while abroad, which is not something he has been doing."

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Comments

[bettygg]

04:47 AM on 10/08/2009

That doesn't even make any sense. Chicago isn't known as being overweight. On a recent report, Illinois was considered 'average' in terms of obesity - though frankly the entire country needs help in this regard and he shouldn't be making light of the issue.

[pbarba1969]

09:40 AM on 10/05/2009

What a shock Bill Bennett is another reaganite ass wipe..

[BostonB]

01:10 AM on 10/05/2009

Chicago would have embarrassed the country.

[JessWonderin]

12:55 PM on 10/05/2009

Not anywhere near what the "Conservatives" did . . . .

[miksmaster]

11:42 PM on 10/04/2009

Has anyone checked Bill's pulse, lately? He don't look so good. He looks all rich and white and conservative.

[gakabani]

09:11 PM on 10/04/2009

he does not see himself in the mirror, does he?

[miksmaster]

06:43 PM on 10/04/2009

Hey Bill, come to Chicago and say that. I dare ya.

[lionzion]

04:52 PM on 10/04/2009

Hey, Bill Bennett aka "Shrek", they don't really want you, if you pay for it!

[jcricket]

01:55 PM on 10/04/2009

I didn't know Bill Bennett lived in Chicago.

[RACVC]

12:05 PM on 10/04/2009

Hey Bill "beautiful women at the beach" sounds like the perfect reason that the committee picked Rio.
How stupid and short sighted.

[talkingdog]

12:41 AM on 10/05/2009

Not one of the women on that beach want him.

[Schoolgirl666]

09:51 AM on 10/04/2009

Are the mirrors broken at your house?

[rubicon101]

08:16 AM on 10/04/2009

David Letterman is the 'headline' right now but what resonates with me more is that Republican Americans were against the Olympics coming to our country and that was a major reason why we were voted out.
Imagine our own countrymen, americans, the so called "patriots" denied our own country the opportunity to have a "cash cow" in people from all over the world to aid and assist in our economic development amounst many other things that would make America proud and prosperous!!
Instead the 'right wing' coalition has disparaged our country and us.
The Republican party and their right wing factions have been the "party of treason" since the preparation and invasion of Iraq in the shadow of September 11th.
We need to rid ourselves of this cancer.

[IcedTee63]

07:32 AM on 10/04/2009

Bennett proves that you don't have to be a Squirrel to have Nutz in your mouth!

[prthatrocks]

02:22 AM on 10/04/2009

Do you realize this guy's so far his jowls hang over his mouth?

[FloridaDem]

11:42 PM on 10/03/2009

This is not about Obama losing the Olympics.Its about America losing the Olympics. Watching Rush jumping up and down in joy,tells me he hates America!! The Right Wing wraps themselves in the flag,but they hate America!!

[Badbowler]

11:24 PM on 10/03/2009

Hey Bill, I bet you move there. Wanna Bet?

[DawnK]

01:32 PM on 10/04/2009

We don't want him.