Obama's Blago Story on A3, But His Exercise and 'Chiseled Pectorals' On Page One

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/12/26/obamas-blago-story-a3-his-exercise-chiseled-pectorals-page-one ^

[chessplayer]

Here’s a textbook definition of bias by story placement in a newspaper. On Christmas Eve, the Washington Post placed the release of the Obama’s transition team’s report on contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich on page A3 – headlined "Obama Report Clears Dealings with Blagojevich." Centered right underneath the headline in this four-column story was a gray two-column box with a sidebar headlined in capitals "OBAMA ATTENDS SERVICE FOR GRANDMOTHER." But on Christmas Day, this Obama story was on Page One of the Post: "As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases."

The December 25 front-pager, written by Obama-friendly Post reporter Eli Saslow, began by showing how devoted the new president will be to the people’s business:

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.

[chessplayer]

But when Bush exercised, the msm criticized him for it.

[joejm65]

Obama doesn’t appear to have ‘chiseled pectorals’. The picture that I saw showed the early development of man-breasts. Sorry, just calling it as I see it....

[screaminsunshine]

News Stories??? No sadly these are love letters.

[pabianice]

[EagleUSA]

Washington Post — no need to go any further....

[freekitty]

Who is paying for Obambi’s lavish vacation?

Is he paying for it through his campaign money which I believe is illegal?

Is a private party paying for it and why?

[Cyber Ninja]

Soon to be on page none.

[gimme1ibertee]

Who is paying for Obambi’s lavish vacation?

George Soros,perhaps? JMHO....

[gimme1ibertee]

Yuck. Chiseled pectorals, my hindend!
Nothing’s chiseled on that man.

[sharkhawk]

This is starting to get weird. I wonder if tomorrows story will be how the dear leader shot a 43 with 7 holes in one at the golf course.

[I. M. Trenchant]

You're not alone in your perception. I'd guess, based on the photos I've seen, that Obama has a condition that used to, and maybe still does, go under the name of gynecomasty. There is an amusing incident in Ben Bradlee's book about his conversations with JFK in which, after Bradlee took a photo of the bare-chested JFK, Bradlee was told to get rid of it, or, in the immortal words of John Ehrlichman,to 'deep six' the photo because it revealed that JFK had what you refer to as 'man breasts.' My memory on this point fails me at the moment, but I believe, in keeping with Bradlee's reportorial zeal, he may have included the 'forbidden' photo in the aforementioned book. Why Bradlee would do so, knowing JFK's wishes that it should be kept out of public view, I would have to attribute to a customary lack of gentlemanly sensibility and restraint in his genus (professional reporter). The condition isn't, of course, all-that-unusual, but it isn't a condition most men who are concerned to project a virile masculine image (e.g. JFK) are pleased to put on display. What is unusual is that in spite of the immense coverage given to the subject of Obama's chest development in the media, your post in this thread is, so far as I know, the first one to make this explicit comment.

[It's me]

Agreed!

[TheThinker]

Yeah, I commented about those man-breasts on another thread. They were worse in the original picture in Hawaii during the election. It looks like he’s not doing enough decline bench press exercises.

[MadelineZapeezda]

As my teenage girls call them....moobs!!

[Anti-Christ is Hillary]

‘Chiseled Pectorals’? They looked more like man boobs to me. Putin looked more manly the the boy one with the man boobs.