FLASHBACK: Washington Post Admired Obama’s ‘Chiseled Pecs’ – IOTW Report

FLASHBACK: Washington Post Admired Obama’s ‘Chiseled Pecs’

Newsbusters- Given the intense and sustained media attacks on Donald Trump, it’s sometimes easy to forget just how much journalists loved Barack Obama. Instead of comparing the President to Hitler or NazisThe Washington Post embarrassed itself by drooling over the Democrat’s “chiseled pecs.” 

Eleven years ago this week, on December 25, 2008, The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow gushed over Barack Obama as a “paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness.” The creepy Post headline enthused, “As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases.” 

Saslow’s prose oozed the worst kind of celeb-obsessed tabloid praise: 

Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. He’s not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television, and obsessing over the daily transactions of Chicago’s sports teams. He eat out only once every few weeks. He visits friends rarely, if at all.

But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He has always treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the last few months. Between workout during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off his chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.

The inside-the-paper headline hailed, “Gym Workouts Help Obama Carry the Weight of His Position.” In case you missed the point, Obama is just so darn fit!  read more

26 Comments on FLASHBACK: Washington Post Admired Obama’s ‘Chiseled Pecs’

  1. …wait a minute, I see where the confusion is…

    They MEANT to say he was a chiselER, but it autocorreted to “Chiseled”, honest mistake, that…

    “Chiseler

    Historically linked to thieves, but more recently associated with just about anything. Someone who picks something apart a tiny bit at a time. One can chisel on another’s stash, their money, their air, their space, their game, their well-being…whatever.”

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Chiseler

    …I’m sure we’ll get a correction, any day now…

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  2. Fit? Obama had the unsightly combination of being simultaneously skinny and flabby. I believe this body type is what is known as “skinny fat”. Big Mike had more muscle tone and he/she/it was just regular old fat.

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  3. “…His Faith in Fitness…”

    …probably closer to the truth than intended…Barry worships his scrawny self above all else…having faith in the creation and not the Creator, like any other reprobate mind…

    “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”

    Romans 1:25

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  4. obama:

    wears mom jeans

    golfs like a epileptic

    throws a baseball like a girl

    rides a girls bike, with a bike helmet on

    married a man dressed like a woman

    has a gay men dress him

    works out like a fairycake crossdresser in the gym

    let’s all admire and praise a true millennium man !

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  5. Anonymous
    DECEMBER 30, 2019 AT 12:59 PM
    “Here always looked like a taller version of Curious George. And about as bright.”

    Hey, STOP that! It’s offensive.

    To Curious George.

    I grew UP reading Curious George. My SON learned to read with Curious George. Curious George went to his first surgery with him when he wasn’t even a year old.

    I read with Curious George, I knew Curious George, Curious George was a friend of mine.

    And, “Obama”, sir, is no Curious George…

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  6. Hold on there! That dirt-bag pseudo Republican contributor on PBS was not interested in Obummers pecs he proudly admitted that he wanted to sniff Obummers crotch!

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  7. HungJumper DECEMBER 30, 2019 AT 1:45 PM
    He’s got the physique of a 5th grade boy.

    A fifth grade boy could beat the crap out of him. Causing him to become transparent…

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