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Rush Limbaugh criticizes First Lady Michelle Obama’s weight, nutritional campaign

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Not to put too fine a point on it, but Rush Limbaugh is talking smack about First Lady Michelle Obama’s weight? Rush Limbaugh? And Michelle ‘you-can-cut-glass-with-my-chiseled-biceps’ Obama?

As you well know, Michelle Obama has been taking plenty of criticism from the right for her nutritional campaign to encourage kids to move more and eat healthier fare. Joining her in the campaign is retail giant Wal-Mart, which recently announced it would begin reducing the sodium and fat in many of its prepared foods.

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Listen to the audio, above, as Limbaugh ridicules Michelle Obama’s healthy-eating campaign, flat out calls her a ‘hypocrite.’ On one hand, Limbaugh said, she is encouraging children to get healthy and eat ‘roots, berries, and tree bark’ but was recently seen enjoying a high-calorie meal of fatty ribs.

The conservative radio talk show host took it further when he wondered whether Michelle Obama was even following her own words of wisdom, and remarked that she couldn’t stack up against the women in the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.

‘The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice...I’m trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.’

So, what do you think? I especially want to hear from the dittoheads (are they still called that?). Do you think Limbaugh went too far with his comments? Or do you chalk this up to the liberal media’s favorite pastime: Criticizing Rush.

But more importantly, do you think Michelle Obama is a hypocrite?

Leave your thoughts in the comments section below. And then, let’s wait for the next turn in this story: The media peppering President Obama for his reaction. (Should the president challenge Limbaugh to join him on the White House lawn for a fist fight to defend his wife’s honor.)

[Updated at 10:02 a.m.: Limbaugh defends his attack on Michelle Obama as ‘highly civil’, via Media Matters]

Want to read more on this? Here are a few more stories you’ll find on the Web:

--Eater: Rush Limbaugh calls Michelle Obama a big, fat hypocrite

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--CNN: Rush Limbaugh takes aim at Michelle Obama’s waistline

--Huffington Post: Rush Limbaugh: Michelle Obama ‘doesn’t look like’ she eats healthy foods

--Rene Lynch
twitter.com/renelynch

Video via Media Matters

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