Fit For Office

The morning show clowns at Fox and Friends sunk to a new low in superficiality this morning during an interview with David Zinczenko, an editor at Men's Health. The conversation revolved around the physical fitness of the two presidential candidates. Zinczenko claimed that (and I'm paraphrasing here), "Bush likes running and lifting weights, which makes him the conservative athlete, while Kerry is a liberal athlete because he is into sports that require more in the way of coordination and agility." Zinczenko then added (paraphrasing, again), "Bush would do well to practice more team sports because he doesn't play well with others and Kerry should pump more iron so he won't be such a lightweight." I kid you not, they really talked about this. The "lightweight" remark actually drew claps from the hosts. Its bad enough that extremists of the Fox News variety have deeply divided our country on so many issues, but going after sports is the lowest. Conservative and liberal athletics....puh-lease...