Following McDonald's decision to offer "more nutritionally-balanced" Happy Meals and First Lady Michelle Obama's praise of its move, the right-wing media jumped to attack McDonald's for supposedly bending to the will of the "fat police" and making Happy Meals "less happy." However, numerous studies show that childhood obesity leads to significant health problems, and moreover, McDonald's reportedly made their decision in part so that parents could feel "less guilty" about buying their kids Happy Meals.
Follow the link to read the original McDonald's press release and the ensuing ridiculous freakout from the bat shit brigade.
Seriously, I know some people are slowly starting to wake up to it, but what will it really take for people to finally realize that the Republicans are a bunch of unhinged lunatics? These people are just idiots. They don't want the EPA enforcing or expanding the Clean Air or Clean Water Acts because they want to be free to drink and breathe carcinogens and don't want no gubmint bur'crats tellin em what cancer they can and can't get. They mock and deride Michelle Obama for having the audacity to take up a cause so timelessly controversial as nutrition and childhood obesity prevention because they want the freedom to raise little fat asses if they damn well please, because this is America goddammit.
The default Republican position is always anti-whatever-Obama/Democrats-say, no matter how stupid or childish it makes them look. The President or first lady could comment on how they encourage Sasha and Malia to brush their teeth before going to bed and you'd have Fox News screaming about the tyranny of government imposed dental hygiene and the teabaggers staging tooth decay protests.
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