I'm sorry, but I would have a lot easier time feeling bad for New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie -- whose supporters think his Democratic challenger, Jon Corzine,
is going out of his way to play up the Repub's portly persona -- if his own party wasn't spending every minute of every day trying to portray our Democratically elected president as a foreign-born Socialist who has robbed us of "the America we know." (They claim the ad uses the term "throwing his weight around" in an obvious reference to his weight, but when I actually watched it it is WAY LESS snarky than it SHOULD have been.) Fat advocates are crying foul, too, yet I can't remember one instance in the past where a candidate has deliberately tried to portray their opponent in a FLATTERING way. (Or were those Willie Horton ads supposed to help Michael Dukakis? I can't remember.) What's more, for someone who thinks he's being discriminated against, he sure has no problem championing anti-women, anti-gay and anti-anyone-who-isn't-exactly-like-him policies.
Here's the thing: If Christie doesn't want to LOOK fat in attacks ads, why doesn't he try being less ... fat.
I'm sorry, but I would have a lot easier time feeling bad for New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie -- whose supporters think his Democratic challenger, Jon Corzine, is going out of his way to play up the Repub's portly persona -- if his own party wasn't spending every minute of every day trying to portray our Democratically elected president as a foreign-born Socialist who has robbed us of "the America we know." (They claim the ad uses the term "throwing his weight around" in an obvious reference to his weight, but when I actually watched it it is WAY LESS snarky than it SHOULD have been.) Fat advocates are crying foul, too, yet I can't remember one instance in the past where a candidate has deliberately tried to portray their opponent in a FLATTERING way. (Or were those Willie Horton ads supposed to help Michael Dukakis? I can't remember.) What's more, for someone who thinks he's being discriminated against, he sure has no problem championing anti-women, anti-gay and anti-anyone-who-isn't-exactly-like-him policies.
Here's the thing: If Christie doesn't want to LOOK fat in attacks ads, why doesn't he try being less ... fat. 
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"Democratically" implies it was solely the Democrats who elected Obama. I believe he had tons of support from independents, as well.
"Democratically elected" means someone was put in office by voting, not by the voting of any particular party.
MediaCurves.com conducted a study among 300 New Jersey residents on the recent anti Chris Christie ad that states Christie is “throwing his weight around.” The results showed that the majority of all political parties do not believe the “weight” reference in the ad was intended to reference Christie’s actual weight. Additionally, the majority of Democrats (59%) and Independents (62%) do not believe the reference to “weight” was inappropriate, while Republicans were split, with 44% of Republicans indicating that the reference was inappropriate and an equal amount (44%) reporting that it was appropriate.
More in depth results can be seen at:
http://www.mediacurves.com/Politics/J7588-AntiChristieAd/Index.cfm
Thanks,
Ben
Ben: Thanks for posting that. Like I alluded to in my post, I was SHOCKED at how little it appeared to be making that connection. But you know how sensitive fatties are :-)
IF they had said "throwing his weight around" AS he got out of the car, I MIGHT have been willing to accept the premise, even though I wouldn't have had a problem with it. (Corzine can't change the way Christie looks coming out of a car.) But it doesn't even do that. And the WHOLE AD is about Christie using his power to get away with stuff -- you know, throwing his weight around. Stupid story.
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