Wonkette
This is an actual fat cat named “Chunks” who is, of course, hiding under a chair in the green room of the MSNBC studio. Here’s how this obese monster got famous: “BLACKWOOD, N.J. — Turns out, the economy is the reason a 44-pound cat found lumbering the streets of New Jersey became homeless. The Camden County Animal Shelter said the cat’s owner came forward to say she had to abandon the tubby tabby because her home was foreclosed.” Naturally, no one cares about the owner having lost her home.
Millions of Americans have lost their homes in the past year or two, during which time they also have not eaten or driven a motorcar. But until an animal, one whose basic description doubles as a common metaphor for rich people, allowed journalists to write cutesy, ironic and most importantly obvious headlines like, “Fat Cat Is Victim Of Foreclosure,” no one cared.
This slide show, with the captions, of the bum cat at MSNBC… is astonishing. The cat’s “publicist” gets 15 calls an hour from random people about this idiot cat.
Fat Cat Is Victim Of Foreclosure [WNBC]
Fat Cat Visits MSNBC Green Room [WNBC]
…that is one fat pussy! Oh C’MON you knew that was coming!!!!
Run, it’s a cougar! Oh, never mind, it’s just a cat.
Maybe the retarded owner could have avoided foreclosure by putting the fucking cat on a diet. Jesus.
Homeless dude in NBC Green room? Nobody writes or calls.
Cat?
“STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES YOU CRUEL BASTARDS.”
Ha, that cat is now a celebrity like Britney and Hopey. When can we expect a revised WALNUTS! ad?
In the near dystopian future, Americans will roam the abandoned suburbs hunting fat cats, living off their meat, and using their skin to construct crude shelters.
A 44 pound cat? No wonder the cat owner went bankrupt.
Nom nom nom.
Dear dumbass rich lady –
In light of your inability to either move your cat with you, have a friend care for it, or give it to the SPCA, please refrain from causing any other animal to be dependent on you. Oh, and get your damn tubes tied. And then please whack yourself in the face with an iron skillet.
Yours,
SIwW
Advocatus_Diaboli:
No Walnuts Ad about this. Fat cats support Walnuts. Oh, wait… So do Britney and Paris. Carry on.
NoWireHangers: Mmm…cat meat. Taste anything like mice taint?
Barry’s family should adopt this cat instead of a dog. And put it on a diet. By November, it’ll be as sleek as the head of the Obama household himself.
44 lbs.! You’ll need a shitload of bricks to get that pillowcase to stay underwater.
Maybe Americans would be more supportive of offshore drilling if someone ran a story about all the shorebirds that are unable to stylishly slick their feathers back because they don’t have adequate access to oil.
Which reminds me of how there were people who went more batshit in worry over the stranded pets than the actual humans during the Katrina disaster.
teh cat has a “publicist”??
AngryBlakGuy: yes, and I’m glad that it was you who took it on, again, selfless..
NoWireHangers: Or… the cats will take over the Earth and we their debt-ridden slaves a la Planet of the Apes… but with cats… lolcats.
I call shenanigans. How could this cat have been both turned in by its elderly owner and found wandering the streets of Voorhees?
That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.
ICANHAZTENCHEEZBURGER?
freakishlystrong: I CAN HAZ SUBPRIME MORTGAGE?
It can haz cheezeburgers?
shortsshortsshorts: Now, that made me laugh out loud, as the kids say today!
…at 44lbs its no longer a house cat; its a room mate! And should be paying freakin rent!!!
“…you don’t understand. ‘Chunks’ is my *cat*.”
I believe that old jokes should be condensed to just the punchline, since people can fill in the details themselves.
Why didn’t they just live inside the cat?
KevoTron: INVIZABLE HAUS!
Powder of Projection. Can’t wait for the “true story” book.
Was this cat, until recently, a consultant to Hillary Clinton?
Not that I’m a hater but maybe the forty four pound cat is the reason she couldn’t keep up the mortgage payments. That’s a lot of kibbles and bits.
Dammit! That is not a tabby! You can see enough of the cat to tell that!
Oh, and yeah, it’s just awful that that lady lost her house. But more importantly, IT IS NOT A TABBY.
Larry McAwful: You are right. Good call. Also, is that cat so fat the chair’s lifted up? When that cat sits around the house, it really sits around the house. Providing there’s a house to sit in, of course.
uncletravelingmatt: I think the crowd that continue to use pomade and spit already vote Rep.
NoWireHangers: I think I read that book. It was featured on Oprah’s book club.
Garfield?
Solution: Transport all teh kittez down to The Everglades, where everyone has been dumping their former pet Burmese Pythons. Fixed.
The Real JR Revisted: DIABEETUS
Solution: Transport all teh homlez….
More creative headline: Pussy Galore
WadISay:
I find it ironic that Chris Matthews is probably sharing an office with Patti Solis Doyle’s cat.
SayItWithWookies:
Well said. Might I suggest, as an additional punishment, that the dumb shit lady be force fed the same diet that got in Chunky the Cat in her condition.
polar_bear: hehehe… ah my kingdom for a photoshop of Wilford Brimley’s head on an obese cat body. Or maybe an lolcat with a “mai bucket” caption.
Dag. I’ve been on the internet for too long.
itgetter: “Massive pussy needs a home”?
itgetter: MEOW!
Tubby tabby takes tacky television tour
i for one support the plight of this fine feline. its not her fault she’s a fat tub of lard like her sub prime grizzle eatin owner. and who doesn’t have a publicist in this day and age. i stopped paying my mortgage like 6 months ago so i wouldn’t miss my publicist payments. damn…if you lose your home, only your bank and neighbors know. if you lose your publicist, like the whole world (or at least bored, lazy, or out of work, wonketteers know)
Maybe it’s just pregnant with subprime mortgages.
polar_bear: Diabeastus? Meowabeetus?
Rev. Juan MessyCan:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v192/tamgerine/type2diabeetus.jpg
TYPE 2 DIABEETUS
I just…can’t get too exercised over people calling about the cat. We are angry at people for not falling over themselves to adopt homeless grownups? I am all for people-focused charities and give every month, but I would adopt a cat in trouble (and did, come to think of it — our cat was a pregnant stray when we took her in) one hell of a lot more quickly than I would invite a homeless stranger to live in my home. People problems are too big for one average person to fix. Pet problems, usually not so much.
KevoTron: WIN
KITTY!
Am I the only one concerned about how ugly MSNBC’s green room chair is? I think I had the matching couch to that in college. It smelled terrible. Come to think of it, it smelled like a 44-lb homeless cat.
But how are Leona Helmsley’s cats holding out? Were they willed adjustable rate mortgages?
This is the cat that made the front page of The New York Post while the DOJ hiring scandal was on page 17. Go figure.
Jesus fucking Christ. It costs what, $5 a week to feed and house a healthy cat? And this woman decides that she can’t afford that anymore so the only alternative is to leave a ten-year-old, morbidly obese housepet on the street and hope that somehow it isn’t eaten by dogs or attacked by cruel children or hit by a car or just totally unable to function? That’s complete and utter bullshit. No matter how awful that woman’s situation had become, she still could have found some way to get that animal to a shelter. She gets no sympathy from me.
FAIL!
Fucking MSM. I have a dog and love animals and all that, but this is the definition of a non-story. Get back on homelessness and foreclosures instead.
magic titty: Cat meat’s a lot like rabbit. Mmmmmm… “rabbit” stew.
Spirochete: Dude, she needed the money for menthol cigs and Werther’s Originals.
SayItWithWookies and Spirochete are right. This lady is a super irresponsible punk. How the crap did she fat this cat up to 44 lbs? And then just abandoned it? It’s not like you forget you have a 44 lb cat, whether your losing your house or not.
Domesticated animals don’t have a lot of control over their lives, that’s why it’s depressing. They can’t ask friends for help, or hop on a bus, and they are not morans who buy truck nutz or whatever.
Jim in your fury over people caring about cats you missed this bullshit headline: Goddesses: Attractive Female Olympians. Puke!
Plus what else are you going to say about foreclosures and homelessness besides “look there’s still some mortgages and homelessness going on and it sucks”?