{"id":4630,"date":"2008-08-02T01:35:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T08:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/02\/journamalism\/"},"modified":"2008-08-02T01:35:59","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T08:55:47","slug":"journamalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4630","title":{"rendered":"Journamalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow. You remember the awesome \u201cIs Barack Obama too skinny to be president?\u201d<\/a> story from yesterday? It just took a weird turn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the on-the-ground research that enabled Ms. Chozick to pose such a bold and allusive query:<\/p>\n

Welcome to Yahoo! Message Boards<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amy Chozick starts a thread:<\/p>\n

Is Obama too skinny to be president?
\n15-Jul-08 06:04 pm<\/p>\n

Does anyone out there think Barack Obama is too thin to be president? Anyone having a hard time relating to him and his \u201cno excess body fat\u201d? Please let me know. Thanks!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A reply is posted:<\/p>\n

Re: Is Obama too skinny to be president?
\n15-Jul-08 10:21 pm<\/p>\n

Yes I think He is to skinny to be President.Hillary has a potbelly and chuckybutt I\u2019d of Voted for Her.I won\u2019t vote for any beanpole guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amy responds:<\/p>\n

Re: Is Obama too skinny to be president? 16-Jul-08 09:12 am<\/p>\n

Love your response and your username (onlinebeerbellygirl). Would you mind shooting me an email so I can ask you a few more quesitons? My email is [redacted] Thanks so much!<\/p>\n

-Amy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The entire rest of the brief thread consists of people saying that the question is stupid, and\/or making fun of Chozick.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"wallstreet.JPG\"<\/a>Just like the internet reaction!<\/p>\n

This is unbelievable shoddy journalism, the kind that would get you in trouble at the Hicksville Poultry-Gazette<\/em>,\u00a0 and should get you fired at the Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Next: Is Barack Obama too handsome to be president? An in-depth look at a blog I just created says yes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow. You remember the awesome \u201cIs Barack Obama too skinny to be president?\u201d story from yesterday? It just took a weird turn: Here\u2019s the on-the-ground research that enabled Ms. Chozick to pose such a bold and allusive query: Welcome to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}