Fox News: Surgeon General “Fat” and “Lazy,” Eats too Many “Dinner Rolls” (Video)
July 22, 2009
(ChattahBox)—In a none to subtle display of sexism and underlying racism, doctor Regina M. Benjamin, the new surgeon general, is being criticized for being too “fat” and “lazy” for the position by Fox News, with ABC news jumping into the fray as well.
For the record, Dr. Benjamin is a highly accomplished physician and a MacArthur Grant genius, who also happens to be a full-figured black woman.
Alabama doctor Regina M. Benjamin, 52-years-old, was recently tapped as President Obama’s choice to become the nation’s next surgeon general. Dr. Benjamin brings to the post, years of experience as a practicing physician and as the founder and chief executive of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, set up to help the poor after Hurricane Katrina.
Besides her medical degree, Dr. Benjamin also holds an M.B.A. from Tulane University. Instead of focusing on her credentials, certain news outlets and blogs have highlighted her full figure and chubby cheeks, claiming her weight disqualifies her for the position, at a time when obesity is a growing health problem in our country.
Was C. Everett Koop, the former beefy Surgeon General under the Reagan administration, ever critized for his weight? Of course not! He was not a woman and he wasn’t African-American.
Despite the anorexic models on the covers of fashion magazines who are a size 0, the average U.S. woman weighs 162.9 pounds and wears a size 14.
In a disgusting display of sexism and ignorance, Fox News host Neil Cavuto, opened a segment on Dr. Benjamin’s weight saying, “The President’s Pick for Surgeon General is Fat.” Cavuto then introduces his guest, Michael Karolchyk, wearing a “No Chubbies” T-shirt, founder of a Denver based “Anti-Gym” that gets its members in shape for sex.
Karolchyk starts off the segment by saying, “Dr Benjamin is 50 pounds overweight, she is obese she’s a size 20.” Cavuto stopped him and suggested that Benjamin’s weight may provide her with empathy towards others who suffer from obesity.
Karolchk responds: “Would you then want the head of the Federal Reserve to be a guy in a cardboard box who lives underneath the highway because he understands the plight of poor people and he understands how to make money work?”
The discussion descends further into outright contempt towards Dr. Benjamin.
“The bottom line is it’s a symbolic position and obesity is the number one issue facing our country in terms of the health and wellness and she has shown not that she was born this way, not that she woke up one day and was obese, she has show through being lazy, and making poor food choices, that she’s obese,” said Karolchyk.
Cavuto suggested perhaps Dr. Benjamin suffered from a slow metabolism to which Karolchyk responded: “You don’t get 60 pounds overweight by all of a sudden having a slow metabolism ” “just because you eat a lot of dinner rolls doesn’t make you a roll model.”
Sen. John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain recently appeared on “The View” and responded to criticism about her weight by uttering, “I’m like, Kiss my fat ass!”
What an appropriate sentiment for the likes of Fox news, Neil Cavuto, Michael Karolchyk and others who seek to denigrate Dr. Benjamin’s accomplishments by calling her fat.
Watch the Video below:
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Meghan McCain? You included in your article a quote from the endlessly self-absorbed, dumber-than-a-box-of-rocks Meghan McCain? That’s funny.
“this issue had already been broached by left-leaning Salon.com, and further advanced by ABC News. But what do Fox haters care about that?”
Is Regina Benjamin too fat to be surgeon general?
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/07/15/regina_benjamin/index.html
Critics Slam Overweight Surgeon General Pick, Regina Benjamin
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=8129947&page=1
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“What really exposes this kerfuffle as an empty shell is that it’s obvious that Cavuto is defending Regina Benjamin. He says to his guest:”
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