Fox News Analyst: Michelle Obama ‘Needs To Drop A Few’ Pounds (VIDEO)

Start your day with TPM.
Sign up for the Morning Memo newsletter

Dr. Keith Ablow, a member of something called the Fox News Medical A-Team, doesn’t think First Lady Michelle Obama has any business promoting childhood nutrition.

“And how well can she be eating? She needs to drop a few,” Ablow said during Tuesday’s episode of “Outnumbered.”

The comment drew a collective cringe from the same four female panelists who had called the first lady “annoying” for her health initiatives only seconds earlier.

Despite the ridicule from his fellow panelists, the show’s “one lucky guy” dug in.

“Well, no, let’s be honest. There’s no french fries happening? That’s all kale and carrots? I don’t buy it,” Ablow said, adding that he would welcome nutrition advice from President Obama.

Ablow did not respond to TPM’s request for comment.

Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) tried to make the same argument in 2011. It went over about as well as Ablow’s observation.

“She lectures us on eating right while she has a large posterior herself,” Sensenbrenner said. The Wisconsin Republican said later that he sent a personal apology to the first lady.

With Obama taking on House Republicans over new school lunch standards, the first lady’s efforts to reduce childhood obesity are once again the focus of Fox’s coverage.

Fox host Neil Cavuto even tried to bait a Super Bowl champion into criticizing Obama on Monday, but Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson made it clear that he wasn’t interested.

Latest Livewire
79
Show Comments

Notable Replies

  1. He looks like he could afford to lose more than a few himself.

  2. I would suggest by losing those totally useless pounds located between and above his shoulders.

  3. Fox news is the gymnasium for the high school dance that never ended.

  4. Avatar for marby marby says:

    Ablow is so lacking in self awareness - not only about his own physique, but also about the very medical profession he represents. He is a psychologist/psychiatrist who diagnoses individuals he has never met and stereotypes groups of individuals on a daily basis. He does such disservice to the mental health profession.

  5. Avatar for jw1 jw1 says:

    Hi. My name is Keith Ablow.
    My job? To be a prick.

    Nope. Nothing more. Paid prick.
    Prickprickprickety-prick.

    jw1

Continue the discussion at forums.talkingpointsmemo.com

73 more replies

Participants

Avatar for austin_dave Avatar for pluckyinky Avatar for marby Avatar for pac Avatar for oldvet Avatar for jloomis3 Avatar for rich_in_nj Avatar for leftflank Avatar for chammy Avatar for gjdodger Avatar for teenlaqueefa Avatar for bradbennett Avatar for henric668 Avatar for meangreen Avatar for daveyjones64 Avatar for grawk Avatar for xpatriate Avatar for kitty Avatar for serendipitoussomnambulist Avatar for dickweed Avatar for bigdaddydrj Avatar for darrtown Avatar for benthere Avatar for joefromlowell

Continue Discussion
Masthead Masthead
Founder & Editor-in-Chief:
Executive Editor:
Managing Editor:
Deputy Editor:
Editor at Large:
General Counsel:
Publisher:
Head of Product:
Director of Technology:
Associate Publisher:
Front End Developer:
Senior Designer: