"If you really cared, if you really wanted to save the population from dying of COVID, you would encourage people to slim down." - Tucker Carlson October 5, 2020.

1/2 https://twitter.com/amalhotra2/status/1313273063627206672

"Why would you want to raise your own kids when Michelle Obama will do it for you, in fact she'll do it at gunpoint." - Tucker Carlson Feb. 15, 2011, about Obama administration efforts to "encourage people to slim down."
2/2 https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/tucker-carlson-why-would-you-want-raise-your-own-kids-when-michelle-obama-will-do-it

"Masks are fascism. Instead of masks, we need ... urgent efforts to do something else that we also previously called fascism to score a different stupid political point."

The Atlantic quoted Rush Limbaugh in 2010 denouncing Michelle Obama's encouragement of exercise and instead urging Americans to eat Twinkies - all to prove "liberals lie." https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/11/only-believe-the-good-things-you-hear-about-twinkies/343493/

Fox News, talk radio, Sarah Palin hated, hated, hated the anti-obesity campaign of the Obama years, treated it as the end of American freedom then and there. https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/11/in-war-against-the-obamas-palin-drops-cookie-bomb/343471/

The sudden rediscovery that Michelle Obama was after all right about obesity ... it's head-spinning. Anyway, I wrote this about the issue in 2012. https://davidfrum.com/article/why-we-re-getting-fatter-and-what-to-do-about-it