Topic: Jim Sensenbrenner

Why Fat Conservatives Love Calling Michelle Obama Fat

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It's not considered very nice to be mean to people just for being fat anymore, but there's a lot of pent-up desire to call fat people fatties that gets unleashed when a fat person like Jim Sensenbrenner really has it coming.

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