Comments on: LAT Columnist Prefers Presidents that are Fat and Undisciplined

By: Environmental Republican: 07/17/2005 - 07/23/2005

Environmental Republican: 07/17/2005 - 07/23/2005 — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:13:31 +0000

[…] ane columns such as this, the guy must have some serious issues.Update: The very good site Independent Sources has an excellent take on this story:But to answ […]

By: MzEllen & Co.: What?

MzEllen & Co.: What? — Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:08:07 +0000

[…] You said: (is it just me)?No, it’s not. We wrote about this too: LAT Attacks Bush For Working Out!”We tend to keep an […]

By: Les Enfants Terrible: 2005-07-17

Les Enfants Terrible: 2005-07-17 — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:58:00 +0000

[…] 172″> Chait Needs Exercise Too… Independent Sources has a challenge for Jonathan Chait, who appears […]

By: Insider

Insider — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:54:56 +0000

“If George Bush were see walking on water, Jonathan Chait would write an article about how Bush can’t swim.”

Great quote.

By: david shimm

david shimm — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 14:48:58 +0000

What do you expect from an author who published an anti-Bush article in the NEW REPUBLIC titled “Chaitred.” Kinda tells you that he’s already made up his mind about the man - don’t confuse him with any facts. If George Bush were see walking on water, Jonathan Chait would write an article about how Bush can’t swim.

By: kent

kent — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:30:54 +0000

I analyze the vacuous daily @ RightFromLeft.blogspot.com. Please check in early and often.

Now I’m off for my morning jog. Like the President, I have lots of time on my hands.

By: Insider

Insider — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 03:44:58 +0000

Re: the comment above, I think the link to Pat Thorton should be www.patthorntonfiles.com/

By: Pat Thornton

Pat Thornton — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 00:49:21 +0000

I totally agree. Chait is way out in left field with this one. I have my own response going at my site, www.patthorntonfiesl.com

Hopefully, Chait excepts this fitness challenge.

By: marco

marco — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 03:08:57 +0000

I read this at the Let’s Run website. This is crazy. I’d cancel my subscription to the Times if I had one. I picture a bunch of crusty old farts who stopped exercising after they took their last PE class 50 years ago and view running somehow below their journalistic excellence they practice so much.

Support running not fatness!

By: OKIE on the LAM™ - In LA

OKIE on the LAM™ - In LA — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:09:02 +0000

Better Stock Up On The Mental Butt Wipes . . .

. . . if you plan to keep reading the new Op-Ed section of the Los Angeles Times. At least that is what you could glean from the comments section to my post on past inanities from John Carrol, the Times’ retiring Editor. Actually, I was just trying to…

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:50:00 +0000

I disagree. Ample amounts of excercise is not creepy or obsession. Its called STAYING HEALTHY. We are the fattest country in the world and probably in history…we need to start getting obsessed with excercise. But if you want to get fat than proceed to eat your big macs cause whats really creepy is seeing these people at the beach…now THATS creepy.

By: Philip

Philip — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:32:00 +0000

Thanks for commenting on my posting on this topic.

By: Pam M.

Pam M. — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:19:02 +0000

I heartily agree. Here is my take on the same topic:

http://blogmeisterusa.blogspot.com/2005/07/jonathan-chait-bush-exercises-too-much.html

By: Calblog

Calblog — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

is either a little tired of dinner-hour calls from the paper’s telemarketers or perhaps it was just a run of shoddy, biased reporting that prompted the posts. Either way, the critiques were flowing: LAT Columnist Prefers Presidents that are Fat and Undisciplined Jonathan Chait’s Times op-ed “The (over)exercise of power” stated that he thought President Bush’s discipline of getting regular exercise and encouraging others to do so were

By: Theep Doughts

Theep Doughts — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

one of the primary solutions to it. Contradictions abound. I haven’t even mentioned Clinton yet. I don’t recall similar articles when he jogged daily (and stopped in McDonalds on the way). See, I said it was too easy. I’ll stop now. Read it. UPDATE: Independent Sources has more.

By: Paperworth

Paperworth — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

by the comparisons between Kerry falling off his 10-speed on a Washington street and Bush falling off a mountain bike riding up a hill composed of soft sand? I’d be checking into the reasons behind all of your concern. We don’t buy it any more. independentsources.com also thinks it odd that Bush is critisized for something worthy of praise. I guess I’m not the only one who is disturbed at their being disturbed. Do we have the makings of a Monty Python sketch here?