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So Matt Drudge Is Just Going To Go With This—That Cool?

Oh everyone look at Matt Drudge’s new failing meme: Obama, he’s so skinny right?, because of the exercise and the oversized t-shirts he likes to wear while exercising. Wrong. He is definitely chain smoking and throwing up all the low-calorie food he isn’t eating, and definitely not simply working out, as he is pictured doing in the photo accompanying Drudge’s story. [Drudge Report, image via The Awl]


10:22 AM on Tue November 3 2009
By Juli Weiner
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  1. snideinplainsight says at 10:25 am, November 3rd, 2009

    See but he’s just commenting on Ralph Lauren’s “retouched” photo of him.

  2. ManchuCandidate says at 10:27 am, November 3rd, 2009

    I suspect that Drudge is masturbating into his beloved hat over this pic.

  3. Not_So_Much says at 10:30 am, November 3rd, 2009

    That Matt, he likes him some serious meat on his men…

  4. norbizness says at 10:33 am, November 3rd, 2009

    “Fedora-ed Self-Loathing Reactionaries Ruining Online News.” Can I get that in 48-point font with exploding kitten sirens?

  5. AggieDemocrat says at 10:35 am, November 3rd, 2009

    I prefer Barack ‘n’ Roll, but only during Rocktober.

  6. FlownOver says at 10:35 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Love the juxtaposition of this item with the “Acai Berry Supplement and Colon Cleanser” ad… but isn’t Drudge already the most effective colon cleanser?

  7. smitallica says at 10:36 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Wow, just when I think the GOP truly has nothing, they unearth a bombshell like this.

  8. Lascauxcaveman says at 10:36 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Heh. He’s American; he’s not obese. Ergo: he must have an eating disorder.

  9. Mr Blifil says at 10:36 am, November 3rd, 2009

    There’s only one kind of dude who needs to stay rail thin into his late forties. Only sayin’.

  10. PrairiePossum says at 10:38 am, November 3rd, 2009

    I would like to see a picture of Rush waddling out of a drug store with a bottle of Oxycontin in one hand and a bag of pork rinds in the other.

  11. AggieDemocrat says at 10:38 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: Maybe that’s proof that Oily Taint is right! He can’t be an American, he’s not a big fat fuck.

  12. proudgrampa says at 10:40 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Marlowe: Brooke is HAWT!

  13. mookworthjwilson says at 10:45 am, November 3rd, 2009

    I think he’s back on his steady diet of coke and baby blood. That’s not fattening.

  14. You know what they say about the skinny dudes…

  15. I tell myself every year that I shall give up Drudge for Lent (Catholic guilt AND liberal guilt, I know)because of stupid shit like this.

    I never do.

  16. bynrdskynrd says at 10:48 am, November 3rd, 2009

    ‘Cause you know, yer not ‘Murikin ‘less you wear a thirty-eight waist from Wal-Mart (dey cut ‘em big), and you look like a walrus on legs…all that damm faggidy exercisin’. What is he, a girl?

    –a quote from the fatass who threw a full beercan at me while I was jogging on the sidewalk, just because I was jogging.

  17. gurukalehuru says at 10:49 am, November 3rd, 2009

    He’s compromised on health care to the point where whatever passes won’t be worth a damn, he’s failed to jump start the economy, unemployment is through the roof, he hasn’t caught Bin Laden, he still isn’t operating with a full team 10 months in because he can’t get his appointments confirmed by Congress, he hasn’t prosecuted anybody from the Bush administration, and Afghanistan is out of control, but dammit, the man looks good.

  18. Barry White Zombie says at 10:50 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: I believe the subspecies Tweaker Americanus, the migratory meth head, sometimes appears quite thin. This I believe is the one flaw in your argument. Barry is obviously on meth.

  19. Monsieur Grumpe says at 10:50 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Matt is just jealous because his raw egg and cabana boy diet is not working.

  20. DC Hates Me says at 10:51 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Farewell, Drudge. We remember when your crazy panic stories mattered to the entire internet.

  21. Aflac Shrugged says at 10:53 am, November 3rd, 2009

    In comparison to a Chris Christie, or a Newt Gingrich, or a Jonah Goldberg, or a Glenn Beck, or a Grover Norquist, or… Oh.

    It’s called BMI, Republicans. Look into it.

  22. Matt Drudge, the Perez Hilton of faux headlines.

  23. JeffGoldblum says at 10:55 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Using that Gatorade bottle as a benchmark, I’d say Obama is about 19 feet tall. That is something that I did not know before.

  24. FreshCliches says at 11:02 am, November 3rd, 2009

    So it’s established; Matt’s into bears.

  25. Rev. Peter Lemonjello says at 11:03 am, November 3rd, 2009

    So that’s what Sickle Cell AIDZ looks like

  26. AnnieGetYourFun says at 11:04 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Obama spends a lot of time on pro-ana web sites.

  27. Hey now, Drudge was right that one time about the blowjobs, so it’s important that the media treats every ridiculous rumor he peddles with total credulousness. He must still rule their world.

  28. Flanders says at 11:09 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Lascauxcaveman: He’s not obese, means, he isn’t from America. Ergo, Orly is right.

  29. couchbound says at 11:12 am, November 3rd, 2009

    bynrdskynrd: That wouldn’t be in the Southwest, would it? ‘Cause I had a soda can thrown at me in Albuquerque for the crime of riding a bicycle and an ice cream cone thrown at me in Phoenix for for the crime of walking. Both from moving cars. Or maybe I’m just a dweeb.

  30. CapnFatback says at 11:14 am, November 3rd, 2009

    You know what’s going on, don’t you? Bill Ayers is ghost-eating Hopey’s food for him. Check the teeth marks on his Zinger! Classic Ayers overbite.

  31. SayItWithWookies says at 11:14 am, November 3rd, 2009

    He also smiles like he’s happy — instead of that “I just peed in your geraniums” dumbass frat-boy smile that that other dude used to have. You remember, the failure who’s now a famous $19.00 motivational speaker?

  32. When was Obama NOT skinny?

  33. OReillysVibrator says at 11:16 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Seems odd… why would Matt Drudge obsess over a man’s body?

  34. house of the blue lights says at 11:17 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Mama Robinson needs to make him clean his plate! And stop eating all those communist “greens” from that socialist garden out back– get some good ole Murkin meatnpotatoes.

  35. OReillysVibrator says at 11:19 am, November 3rd, 2009

    JMP: Agreed; now when is Kerry’s intern scandal going to crack the MSM?

  36. Snarkalicious says at 11:20 am, November 3rd, 2009

    PrairiePossum: Too fat to go. You’ll have to settle for his man-servant.

  37. bynrdskynrd says at 11:32 am, November 3rd, 2009

    couchbound: No–this happened in Vancouver, Washington, which is a suburb of sorts for Portland, Oregon. We called it Van-tucky for a reason; but I can see why it happens in the SW, living here in Arizona for the past six months.

    Barry White Zombie: Tweekus Americanus has a maturity issue when metabolic rate matches intake, and no matter how much substance abuse occurs from this human subset, they balloon into land whales with the noticeable cave-in of the maxillary sinuses and loss of teeth. My cousin was 580 lbs. and used to slam meth (use needles for the good folk reading this)…and fall asleep.

  38. DoctorCulturae says at 11:34 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Classic cry baby tactic: Me, fat as a slobbering hog. You, not a me-type, must be like me. Hence, skinny is bad, oh so very bad.

    Transferable to all of wingnut culture?

  39. Naked Bunny with a Whip says at 11:34 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Obama should be nude at all times so we can properly monitor his health.

  40. thefrontpage says at 11:35 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Drudge, don’t be such a cocksucker.

  41. magic titty says at 11:38 am, November 3rd, 2009

    William Howard Taft would be rolling over in his grave if he saw this picture. Because’s he rotund.

  42. I’d still hit it. (Can a woman say that?)

  43. proudgrampa says at 11:39 am, November 3rd, 2009

    What is that the President has in his hand? A TAB?

  44. El Pinche says at 11:40 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Hahaha, OMG, I can’t believe he published that. It is very clear that Drudge lusts for Barry. Being in the closet is a sad situation, Matt.

  45. the problem child says at 11:41 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Somehow, I doubt the manorexia rumours. Now pig aids…

  46. PrairiePossum: Snarkalicious: Hey now, Rush has lost 80 lbs. And he did it the real American way: starving his body of nutrients by eating overpriced pre-packaged meals. None of this faggy exercise shit.

    Also, saggy deflated Rush moobs, FTL.

  47. El Pinche says at 11:45 am, November 3rd, 2009

    proudgrampa: Yeah, I was wondering that myself. That’s the real story. What POTUS would drink TAB? At least it’s not Fresca…which is definitely a fascist commie beverage.

  48. Jumping Jim says at 11:47 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Noonan: Do you “miss it!” Noonan?

  49. Hooray For Anything says at 11:48 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Maybe Drudge is subtly implying that Obama is on the Lindsey Lohan/Nicole Richie diet and is spending a large part of his time in office doing coke in the West Wing bathrooms.

  50. hobospacejunkie says at 11:49 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Katydid: Oh yes, a woman can say that. Not enough times, in my estimation. Confidence is sexy, I used to tell my girlfriends, between character-building volleys of verbal abuse.

  51. It’s cause he’s poning all the white women of the office– Clinton shared his lessons learned and you can burn a lot of calories drilling and filling while yelling “Take that Fox News. Who’s your daddy?”

  52. proudgrampa says at 11:52 am, November 3rd, 2009

    El Pinche: I know - maybe he could reach out to the right by drinking Mountain Dew.

  53. Matt Drudge clearly has him some deeply repressed manlove for Barry. Who would have thunk it, from a guy who affects a snap-brim fedora and has to make a tough guy face when he’s photographed.

  54. El Pinche says at 11:54 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Cicada: I suspect he’s on another narcotics diet. I heard part of his show the other day, and he’s definitely on something. And I know….oh i know.

  55. AnnieGetYourFun says at 11:55 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Katydid: We can, and frequently do. Both say, and hit.

  56. lawrenceofthedesert says at 11:55 am, November 3rd, 2009

    Predicted Malkin spin: “His weight is just further proof of his Kenyan citizenship; he’ll probably run a marathon any day now — and win.”

  57. BigDupa: I don’t care if “poning” is a typo, it’s now in my lexicon as shorthand for “presidential boning”.

  58. Does the president have an eating disorder? “SOME” (armchair pundits) say he does. FOX NEWS is next.

  59. AnnieGetYourFun says at 11:57 am, November 3rd, 2009

    OK, so I just looked at the Drudge Report for maybe the second time in my life, and… so, it’s NOT a farce? I mean, it’s not intentionally ironic and bad?

  60. CapnFatback says at 12:00 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    The Pres has said that he’s been getting a lot of food, eating out a lot at Applebee’s. BUT WHERE’S THE GIFT CERTIFICATE?!

  61. So, not only is dead tree journalism failing, but blogs are also beginning their proto-fail? We shall be forced to rely on news delivered via the two-tin-cans-and-string network.

  62. Holybalheadedchrist says at 12:01 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    Chris Christie will not stand for this!

  63. BlueStateLibtard says at 12:01 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    He looks normal to me in those photos. But I don’t live in a Red State, where they put cheese on corn on the cob, then slather it in mayonaisse, and finally top it off with a good spraying of aerosal butter.* Nor do we see the need to put cheese on our Freedom Fries.

    *This is an actual Paula Dean recipe.

  64. Typical right wing diversion tactic. “LOOK OVER THERE! OBAMA IS SKINNY! DEMOCRATS HAVE A WEIGHT PROBLEM!”

    Meanwhile, Chris Christie is planning on eating ALL of New Jersey.

  65. WarAndG: Or the NY Times / CNN report: Does the President have an eating disorder? Some critics say he does; the White House says that’s a load of crap. We’ll continue collecting quotes to allow both sides to tell their story while diligently avoiding looking at any actual facts to determine the truth of the matter.

  66. Country Club Jihadi says at 12:08 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    The leaner the Barry…

  67. JamesMichaelCurley says at 12:14 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    proudgrampa: Looks like Gater Aids or something like that.

  68. finallyhappy says at 12:30 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    Oh, the typical fat people response. I was questioned at my daughter’s school - “is she anorexic? She is so thin” I looked around at the table(just saying these were your typical mcdonald’s eating sort) and having seen the other girls in the school(because a 12 year old should be wearing size 18 jeans and weigh 180 pounds)- I said “my daughter weighs what I did at her age. Perhaps if you were used to seeing more normal sized pre-teens and teens, you would not ask that question.” Fatness/early(breast) development has become the norm so a kid who actually eats healthy food and is not sitting on her butt playing video games, watching TV, and playing sports is abnormal now(I guess if she had been on a school tema they might not have asked?).

  69. Accordion-o-rama says at 12:36 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    Conservatives just want Obama to meet them half way, at say 260 lbs.

  70. proudgrampa says at 12:44 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    finallyhappy: Yeah, I remember that bullshit when my daughter was in gymnastics. 12 years old and the coach said she was too heavy at 83 lbs. I wanted to shoot that fucker.

  71. Hooray For Anything says at 12:44 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    JMP: “We’ll have to leave it right there….”

    Politico, of course, will run a story saying that it could hurt Obama politically. And somebody on Kos or FiredogLake will write how Obama’s exercise regimen is further proof that Obama is just like Bush and that wasn’t the change they voted for.

  72. yellowdogdem says at 12:46 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    couchbound: I feel better knowing about all this stuff thrown from cars. I had beer cans thrown at me in Ft. Lauderdale (at night) for walking down the street with my arm around my daughter. We were apparently taken for teh female ghays.

  73. Paul Tardy says at 12:47 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    He’s so losing weight because Sec. Gates is eating his lunch. ba da bump

  74. What about that giant 69 to the left of Obama’s head in that one Drudge photo on the linked page? Hennngghh?

  75. bynrdskynrd says at 12:54 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    finallyhappy: Size 24 ass in a size 18 bag o’ jeans. Remember the spillage over of said hip-huggers…I blame stores like Torrid who invented this gawd-awful concept — HAWT clothes for the morbidly obese. “Muffin Tops,” I believe, is the parlance for the spillage of flesh over the waistline…

  76. bynrdskynrd says at 12:57 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    Paul Tardy: That’s what he deserves for not putting “Barry” in bold Sharpie-written capital letters on the brown bag…

  77. NopantsMcGee says at 12:59 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    We, Mr Drudge, maybe if you exercised and ate right, you wouldn’t be so pudgy. We told you that Total Sperm Diet wasn’t going to lose you any weight.

  78. Cue the Drudge siren: The President is also black!

  79. digibal235 says at 2:45 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    Is he drinking a Tab?

    You should have pictured Matt Drudge, he looks like a cool uncle who years later is exposed as a child molester when the kids grow up and agree to hypnotherapy after the nightmares won’t stop.

  80. engulfedinflames says at 2:49 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    If thin is the new black where does that leave the thin and black?

  81. CapnFatback: To take it one step further: WHERE’S THE GIRTH CERTIFICATE?

  82. blinky_twinkie says at 3:35 pm, November 3rd, 2009

    BlueStateLibtard: Needs more Bacos.

  83. In this picture mr persident in black looking thin and smart and what is in this hand?.. http://bit.ly/4qWtwA

  84. LowerdPeninsula says at 1:57 am, November 4th, 2009

    Katydid: Yes, you can say it; please say it, more, in fact. It’s hot.

    hobospacejunkie: “Oh yes, a woman can say that. Not enough times, in my estimation. Confidence is sexy, I used to tell my girlfriends, between character-building volleys of verbal abuse.”

    This may end up being the comment of the year, in my book.

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