{"id":17819,"date":"2013-11-07T23:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17819"},"modified":"2013-11-07T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:29:44","slug":"time-makes-fat-joke-about-chris-christie-on-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=17819","title":{"rendered":"Time Uses Their Cover For A Fat Joke About Chris Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time Magazine is implying <\/a>(but not outright saying) that the interpretation of the cover as a fat joke just didn’t occur to them<\/em>. Sort of the “we’re not assholes, we’re astoundingly stupid” line of defense.<\/p>\n

There really isn’t much to say, other than, “Fuck you, Time Magazine,” is there?<\/p>\n

Of course, Time <\/em>doesn’t stand alone – check out this screenshot of the Laurence O’Donnell show on MSNBC:<\/p>\n

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So fuck Laurence O’Donnell and MSNBC, too.<\/p>\n

To quote my one-time co-blogger Jeff Fecke<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Folks, we\u2019ve been down this road before<\/a>. Attacking Christie for his weight is not just an attack on Christie. It\u2019s also an attack on every fat man and woman in America, a flat statement that we are not welcome on the national stage, no mater our qualifications or ideals. When we lead with fat jokes 0r fat shame, we say that it is Christie\u2019s weight, above all else, that makes him an unacceptable candidate. And that is no better than attacking Nancy Pelosi for being a woman, or Barack Obama for being African American, or Barney Frank for being gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Via Closet Puritan<\/a> and Ethics Alarms<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Time Magazine is implying (but not outright saying) that the interpretation of the cover as a fat joke just didn’t occur to them. Sort of the “we’re not assholes, we’re astoundingly stupid” line of defense. There really isn’t much to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17824,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17819\/revisions\/17824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}