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And amychozik apparently inspired the article.
LOL, pretty funny: Too Fit to Be President? Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback By AMY CHOZICK August 1, 2008; Page W1 Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn't give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track. "Listen, I'm skinny but I'm tough," Sen. Obama said. But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them. The candidate has been criticized by opponents for appearing elitist or out of touch with average Americans. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted in July shows Sen. Obama still lags behind Republican John McCain among white men and suburban women who say they can't relate to his background or perceived values. "He's too new ... and he needs to put some meat on his bones," says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. "I won't vote for any beanpole guy," another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12175533... Rating :
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I just noticed Amy Chozik WROTE it. And I also noticed amychozik and onlinebeerbellygirl's profiles were last updated on the same date - July 15, 2008.
Does the WSJ troll these boards often? Do WSJ reporters make up fake IDs and make up fake quotes? Rating :
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In this case, the "low-level reporter," Amy Chozik (whose byline is on many WSJ political stories) started topics here and 3 hours later in the "Weight Loss" board, both titled "Is Obama too skinny to be president?" She got one positive response about an hour after posting the WL message from "onlinebeerbellygirl" in the topic here, and responded to that message gushingly the next day. No one in WL thought that topic worth discussing or even sneering at until after the story ran. The only other participant in either thread prior to the story being published was one person noting the stupidity of both Chozick and "onlinebeerbellygirl" in 2 posts. Neither Chozick nor "onlinebeerbellygirl" has made any other posts on Yahoo before or since, and both profiles appear to have been created on 7/15, the day Chozick started the topics.
It certainly looks like Amy Chozick constructed the whole thing. Even if the spectacularly ungrammatical Hillary fan "onlinebeerbellygirl" isn't a Chozick sockpuppet, she was responding to a leading question by Chozick and was the only person on two message boards who even acknowledged the question as worth discussing prior to Chozick quoting her post in the WSJ. Rating :
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I absolutely agree, this is a case of lazy journalism, with the intent of trying to smear Obama with a ludicrous tag of being 'too skinny'. I've had work published, I know the industry well enough to know that this practice is severely frowned upon - ie, its the type of thing that a uni student writer might attempt to meet a deadline. This writer has had enough experience to know better, but chose to invent a quote to further her article's premise. I say sack or reprimand her.
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They have people surfing the web 24/7 blogs boards and anyplace they can pick up anything.Most people get the News from the Internet now.It's not hard too believe they read this board and quoted it.
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I also noticed it was not the full quote but you can't bash Obama properly if you use the full quote now can you? Disgusting hackery.
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