Is obesity a left-wing issue? (Query about Fox news)

[econ21]

But... we don't have "a black female senator"....

Good point - maybe Congresswoman? But you don't have too many of them either. She seemed not too old, fairly knowledgeable and pleasant, but maybe I completely messed up on her position.

Maybe the "Brit presenter" was a fill-in for one of them on that particular night.

I may also have been wrong about the Brit part - he sounded like the kind of accent-less presenter we get on ITN or Sky, but could well have been an American without a marked accent. The chap whose show followed the interviews and who seemed to be attempting (and failing) a right wing Daily Show routine was Beck. I haven't been able to place the one who actually did the interviews (a website of Fox news presenters seems to show them almost all to be female).

Unless it's because of logistics(ie. the cabin crew won't fit in the plane....), I really can't see why on earth a persons looks should determine their job.

The guest who supported the airline was arguing that a morbidly obese person would be a hindrance if there was a need for an emergency exit of the plane.

[Meneldil]

As far as I know, there's way less obeses in France than in the US, despite a much more developped 'nanny state'.

It all comes down to the food lobby. As long as fast-food, McDonald's, and eating at midnight will rightly be regarded as utter garbage in France, we'll be spared of too much obesity.

[Fragony]

French are the most slender folks of europe. Obesity is alower class problem, less lower class in western europe, except the uk.

[Furunculus]

The guest who supported the airline was arguing that a morbidly obese person would be a hindrance if there was a need for an emergency exit of the plane.

that is a false argument imo that serves no purpose but to pander to the PC consensus, that there must always appear to be a fair and equitable reason for every decision, regardless over who agrees on how "fair" and "equitable" should be defined.

morbidly obese people shouldn't be airline stewards because they would block isles full stop, making it damned inconvenient for me to go for a pee. the whole emergency thing as a justification for discrimination is a sham in which i won't participate.