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Bonnie Fuller

Bonnie Fuller

Posted: February 23, 2011 04:36 PM

Shut Up Rush Limbaugh! Stop Implying Michelle Obama Is Fat! Rush, you had the gall to say Michelle Obama doesn't look like she could appear in a Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue and you attacked her for eating ribs. Isn't that a low blow?

Honestly Rush, I've seen your Jabba-The-Hut like photos and you would benefit big time from taking up Michelle's "Let's Move" campaign. Here's what you said when you lashed out at the First Lady on your syndicated radio show on Mon, Feb 21st.

"The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice" he snarled. "And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving... 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".

In other words Rush, you're saying our pear-shaped First Lady is fat?? If so, you're saying a huge number of America's female population -- also pear-shaped -- are fat because they have curvaceous hips.

Michelle's well toned arms have clearly not impressed you, but you probably wouldn't recognize a muscle unless it was right up in your face.

 

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Dave Harpe
Was young, now old.
11:16 AM on 02/27/2011
I quoted the title of one of Al Franken's books and it didn't make it past you know who.
09:41 AM on 02/26/2011
This author is taking a dig at Mrs. Obama. She has a well known bias against the first family.
12:06 PM on 02/24/2011
You missed an opportunity to be more constructively critical of Limbaugh's idiotic commentary. Referring to Ms. Obama as 'pear-shaped' and focusing on her and his appearance as much as he does stoops to his level ... what about criticising the fact that women in the public are held to entirely different (and extremely shallow) standards? That their contributions are frequently reduced to their physical appearance? Or that women -- as with men, as with all of us -- come in all shapes and sizes? Try again, please.
04:51 PM on 02/26/2011
F&F

This author really wanted to take a dig at Mrs. Obama.
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avg american
It's about jobs, jobs, jobs...
09:33 AM on 02/24/2011
Rush Limbaugh/Laura Schellingser... your schtick is tired and old.... good-bye...
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chiodo08
...come off your front foot for a "change"...
02:16 PM on 02/24/2011
...please tell that to your neighbor, boorish family member and so called "friend" that laps it up like 2 dimensional junk/es...until WE alienate and isolate the liz@rd people that have been holding this country hostage for the past 30 years NOTHING will change...turn your collective backs on them all and shut them out of your lives..humans loathe loneliness....
11:40 PM on 02/23/2011
Rush is little more than a controversy machine at this point. I think this puts his comments in perspective. http://bit.ly/fJRxaw
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josephbua
Not a king. I just like this one.
05:34 PM on 02/23/2011
Now I have a violent dislike for the man, too, Ms. Fuller, but I'm remembering some issues of magazines with your name at the top of the indicia that made profit on the back of fat celebs.

Just sayin'.
05:25 PM on 02/23/2011
Saying anything to draw attention, especially anything said and done by the Obamas, is Rush Limbaugh's objective. Mr. Limbaugh and his ilk thrive on this free publicity!

Personally, I do not listen to Rush Limbaugh's radio show. In fact, I never heard of him until the 2008 presidential election. Except for MSM, I would never know what this person says or does.
07:43 PM on 02/23/2011
Where do you live? Under a rock?

It would have been impossible not to have heard of Mr. Limbaugh

Sorry maybe you were in a coma. If so, sorry.
05:00 PM on 02/23/2011
You know, considering the more pressing issues at hand, and some of the more vile things that come out of Limbaugh's mouth, this is a waste of space on Huff's server.....
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chiodo08
...come off your front foot for a "change"...
02:18 PM on 02/24/2011
actually there is a partition dedicated to STYLE which has it's own "space"...there is plenty of lack of control and free anxiety in other sections...just sayin