Comments on: Shame on Morning Joe for encouraging obesity

By: Ethics Bob

Ethics Bob — Thu, 27 May 2010 18:40:29 +0000

Our culture may figure it out someday, but meanwhile millions of Americans are wrecking their health and that of their children, many out of ignorance. I think it’s a public responsibility to get information out there, as the US government and many non-profits and for-profit companies are trying to do. Morning Joe behaved foolishly and unethically by joking and ridiculing the problem.

By: sasoc

sasoc — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:11:43 +0000

I agree with your sentiment Bob. Americans eat like pigs and then wonder why they can’t lose weight. Human biology doesn’t help, as the body tells itself to keep packing it away for a potential starvation episode long after the fat layer is big enough to last 10 years.

But each of us has the ability to not give in to this. Other cultures have figured out how not to, why can’t ours.

By: Ethics Bob

Ethics Bob — Thu, 27 May 2010 14:28:13 +0000

And I have a Five Guys whenever I can, which fortunately is only every month or so. But there are lots of people who do it regularly. Obesity is an epidemic, and Joe was joking about it and saying it’s fine to gorge oneself.

I don’t remember Amos and Andy on TV, but I listened to the radio show regularly. It WAS funny. When I was growing up in segregated Delaware I thought Negroes were a race apart and talked like that. And my favorite comedian was Joe E. Lewis, whose shtick was drunkenness. (“You’re not really drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”)

But the old jokes about wily Negroes, drunks, and obesity don’t seem so funny to me any more.

By: Jack Marshall

Jack Marshall — Thu, 27 May 2010 08:20:53 +0000

Well, the question is whether eating one of these belly-busters is dangerous if you do it just once. Who would eat this stuff regularly? Every few weeks, I might have a Bic Mac, and not eat dinner, since it sits like a bowling ball in my gut.

By the way, Bob, the Amos and Andy TV show is terrific, and featured wonderful black comics who have been forgotten because of politically correct censorship. There’s no reason why that show should be any more taboo than “The Beverly Hillbillies” or “Green Acres.”