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You are here: Home / Fox News Compares Number of Calories in Michelle Obama’s Meal to “Eating a Live Raccoon”

Fox News Compares Number of Calories in Michelle Obama’s Meal to “Eating a Live Raccoon”

by Imani Gandy (ABL)|  July 14, 20113:00 am| 70 Comments

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I can’t stop laughing.

I’m sitting here watching The Daily Show, and the moment of zen clip features some assclown on Fox News1 stating that Michelle Obama was seen ordering a burger, fries, and a shake, and then likened the number of calories she ingested to eating a live raccoon.

::spittake::

I’ve been sitting here alternatively laughing and scratching my head — trying to understand how the hell one would know the number of calories in eating a live raccoon.

What if the raccoon were grilled? Served tartare? Would one have to eat the entire raccoon, or just the prime cuts?

This is my problem, people. Sometimes I can’t just accept that people are batshit insane. I have to try and rationalize their batshit insanity, which, in turn, drives me batshit insane (or batshit insaner, if you must.)

I literally was in the bathroom washing my face and muttering to myself: How the fuck do they know how many calories are in a live raccoon? Who the hell eats a live raccoon (besides, like, Bear Grylls)? Why am I talking to myself?

Jesus H. Cheese and Crackers.

Flames. Flames… on the side of my face.

Seriously, though — a live raccoon!?

Fox News is ridiculous.

1 Apparently, said assclown is Greg Gutfeld. Gutfeld is Glenn Beck 2.0, and the new host of “Take Five” or whatever the hell it’s called. I don’t know. I don’t care. See? This is me not caring.

[via Media Matters for America]

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  1. 1.

    Linkmeister

    July 14, 2011 at 3:08 am

    And does gender matter? What if it were Rocky Raccoon?

    I’m gonna be up all night worrying about this.

  2. 2.

    Comrade Kevin

    July 14, 2011 at 3:12 am

    What about a dead raccoon?

  3. 3.

    hhex65

    July 14, 2011 at 3:23 am

    CK: What about a dead raccoon?

    Most of the calories are in the racoon’s soul– so, live it must be.

  4. 4.

    nar

    July 14, 2011 at 3:27 am

    What they really wanted to say was: “nigger!!! nigger! nigger! nigger!!!! ……. niggers eat live racoons!!!!” That’s what it’s all about.

  5. 5.

    BR

    July 14, 2011 at 3:30 am

    Do you think it’s a dogwhistle?

  6. 6.

    Yutsano

    July 14, 2011 at 3:34 am

    @BR:

    Do you think it’s a dogwhistle?

    Is the Pope Catholic?

  7. 7.

    Calouste

    July 14, 2011 at 3:34 am

    So a raccoon weighs about 10 pounds. Say half of it is edible at about 1800 calories per pound, which makes for a rather large burger.

    But I like these kind of comparisons. Let’s make some for Fox News. 5 minutes of watching Fox News does about the same amount of brain damage as drinking two quarts of really cheap bourbon, and an hour of Fox News has the same effect as drilling a 3 inch hole in you forehead with an electric drill. You think those estimates are ok or do they underestimate the effect of Fox?

  8. 8.

    Origuy

    July 14, 2011 at 3:36 am

    Dog whistle, hell. That was a bugle call.

  9. 9.

    Zam

    July 14, 2011 at 3:41 am

    Most of the calories are in the racoon’s soul—so, live it must be.

    This made my drunken night

  10. 10.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 14, 2011 at 3:42 am

    Raccoon, eh? I guess I should be grateful they didn’t call it a coon.

    Yutsy, you still around? What did you do to Lexie?

    Steepman, I been working on relations between Canada and the US (ask Yutsy what I mean), and I’ve been taking a hiatus from politics. I’m easing my way back in.

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    July 14, 2011 at 3:47 am

    @asiangrrlMN:

    What did you do to Lexie?

    The sordid tale is here for your perusal at your leisure. One of us is going to be the death of the other, I just know it.

    I been working on relations between Canada and the US (ask Yutsy what I mean)

    She knocked boots with a Canuckistani. It’s more in-depth than that, but that’s the extreme basic version.

  12. 12.

    Donut

    July 14, 2011 at 3:51 am

    Google: Dave Chappelle – Black & White peoples food

  13. 13.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 14, 2011 at 4:03 am

    @Yutsano: Yikes. That would be a heart-stopper, indeed. Poor Yusty. It’s a damn good thing she’s so cute!

    P.S. I like your basic explanation of where I’ve been while off the grid!

  14. 14.

    stinkdaddy

    July 14, 2011 at 4:06 am

    A live one? That’s oddly specific. Does the caloric content change if it’s dead?

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    July 14, 2011 at 4:07 am

    @asiangrrlMN: She’s being moody right now, which is just ducky by me. But she ain’t going back out there any time soon until I determine if it was an accident or deliberate.

    @stinkdaddy:

    Does the caloric content change if it’s dead?

    The soul of the live flesh must be consumed, else it is nothing but a sack of useless meat.

  16. 16.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 14, 2011 at 4:15 am

    @Yutsano: I hear ya. Now that she’s had her taste of feeeeedom, she’s addicted. How you be?

  17. 17.

    middlewest

    July 14, 2011 at 4:16 am

    I’m sure that poached wild raccoon in a low-sodium broth is actually quite healthy!

    Not a city raccoon, though, those fuckers are all fat.

  18. 18.

    TenguPhule

    July 14, 2011 at 4:25 am

    Not a city raccoon, though, those fuckers are all fat.

    That’s no coon…it’s a Tunchstation!

  19. 19.

    Yutsano

    July 14, 2011 at 4:31 am

    @asiangrrlMN: Pooped. Just made a bunch of Tex-Mex fixins and cooked a light but late supper. I dunno if I can hold out much longer.

  20. 20.

    Pope Bandar bin Turtle

    July 14, 2011 at 4:39 am

    I think he was really trying to say Rac Coon! Get it?

  21. 21.

    asiangrrlMN

    July 14, 2011 at 4:40 am

    @Yutsano: Nom nom nom. I’m eating cherries. They are deee-lish.

  22. 22.

    Spaghetti Lee

    July 14, 2011 at 4:40 am

    So we’ve got the whole “coon” thing, calorie-based shaming, and some haw-haw-them-colored-women-sure-is-fat for good measure. Dammit, Fox! If you’d thrown in a reference to Cadillacs and the hippity-hop music I’d have won this round of Wingnut Bingo (or Wingo, as some call it)!

  23. 23.

    A Humble Lurker

    July 14, 2011 at 4:52 am

    I got to say, if that’s some kind of weird dog whistle, as a white person I would think the whole ‘eating a live raccoon’ thing would fit better with the hillbilly cousin marrying, moonshine drinking, pig wrestling, meth smoking, no teeth having, Appalachian mountain living, deliverance extra white people stereotype. (But enough about the Palins.)

    I can see it now: “Ma, come ou’ ‘ere with the skillet, I gots me a live ‘un!”
    “Nevah mind the skillet, son. Bring it on ‘n ‘ere and we’ll eat ‘er raw.”

  24. 24.

    joeshabadoo

    July 14, 2011 at 5:08 am

    I like how the fat guy absolutely loved the shake.

    The other lady quickly realizes that he’s going off message and insists “its just like McDonalds” to make Michelle looke elitest while the fat guy keeps talking about it being good.

    I know they have their marching orders but how can you possibly make drinking a milk shake elitest? Was it arugula flavored? Did they mixin a $350 bottle of wine?

  25. 25.

    joeshabadoo

    July 14, 2011 at 5:35 am

    I watched it again and I’m almost convinced this can’t be real. “All fat kids turn into models and and actors?” I assume he’s making a sarcastic joke but if he is it attacks the argument he’s making throughout.
    If i was writing for the Colbert Report I would have thrown this skit out because it was too ridiculous.

    “We are also demonizing a great industry. The fast food industry does more to feed people than any government. If McDonalds was in charge of ending starvation in Africa it would have been done in a year.”
    I have no words.

    Is this really the kind of stuff that is on all of Fox news? I’ve seen some Beck and O’Reilly clips online but this is just blowing my mind.

  26. 26.

    lacp

    July 14, 2011 at 5:40 am

    Did they hack the raccoon’s cell phone?

  27. 27.

    scav

    July 14, 2011 at 5:54 am

    I’m with A Humble Lurker to a degree. No matter what they were aiming for, squirrel brains were first and foremost on the list of related foodstuffs that sprang to my mind. Well, after the stunned incredulity and dazed WTFitude wore off , , ummm, eased enough for non-random neural transmission.

    I do wonder about the Fox Cooking Channel though (do they eat the Fox live as well?) Do they eat things live because A) fire is fucking elitist and linked to the Compact Lightbulbs of Satan ™; or B) Killing and then Burning the critters involves too many complicated steps for their demographic; or C) the Real Men and Hedge Fund Managers Eat what the Kill compact forgot to mention that bit; or D) Snowbilly Snookie couldn’t shoot straight on that episode so they had to work with the footage they had available.

  28. 28.

    WereBear

    July 14, 2011 at 5:55 am

    Is this really the kind of stuff that is on all of Fox news? I’ve seen some Beck and O’Reilly clips online but this is just blowing my mind.

    This is why normal people cannot watch Fox News. You either run away screaming; or your brain starts oozing tapioca and you vote Republican.

    The only time I watched it with anything approaching enjoyment was Election Night, 2008. Over my protests, Mr WereBear clicked over: and there they were, looking like they’d been hit upside the head with a freight train.

  29. 29.

    John Puma

    July 14, 2011 at 5:56 am

    Well eating a live raccoon would obviate the calories of any oil one might use to prepare a cooked raccoon.

    But as mentioned above, calorie counting is only incidental in this “story.”

  30. 30.

    alwhite

    July 14, 2011 at 6:35 am

    Maybe they meant to say ‘coon’ – and the graphic was her standing by the President. Sometimes these dog whistles are so high pitched that they are hard to get exact.

  31. 31.

    Linda Featheringill

    July 14, 2011 at 7:08 am

    I could see [trying to] eat live raccoons as a weight loss program. Those cute little beasties might look placid to urban folks but as a country girl let me tell you: They can fight.

    The human would have to struggle so much with the raccoon in order to get more than a bite or two, probably using at least 200 calories there and maybe more. Then there is the calorie cost of replacing blood loss and repairing torn skin, probably about 200 calories a day for at least 7 days or 1400 calories. Then there is the damage to the human’s mouth and lower face that would take at least 5 days to heal and 10 days if the wounds were severe enough to require stitches. It would be difficult to ingest food during this time and the human’s intake would likely be at least 500 calories a day less. If an infection ensued, the human body would need about another 100 calories a day to fight it off for about a week.

    So what do we have here? I calculate that you would lose a pound and a half for every live raccoon you tried to eat.

  32. 32.

    gnomedad

    July 14, 2011 at 7:45 am

    Gutfeld is Glenn Beck 2.0

    So it’s not so much that Beck is too crazy for Fox but that he’s blown his cover.

  33. 33.

    jcgrim

    July 14, 2011 at 8:02 am

    My 5th graders can debate an issue with more depth than these fools.

  34. 34.

    Sko Hayes

    July 14, 2011 at 8:04 am

    Good lord, you really can’t help but laugh, can you? And Dana Perino (these ladies really need to back off the Botox, their faces are frozen into an expressionless mask) defending the First Lady? It was all very weird.
    Then at the end, they start talking about fine dining and all the calories in that food, and how expensive it is to eat healthy and Eric Bolling pipes up:

    It’s actually discrimination against poor people

    See? There are gems among the piles of shit.

  35. 35.

    PurpleGirl

    July 14, 2011 at 8:08 am

    The mocking in all your comments is really great but I have a picture in head that Gutfeld is likening Mrs. Obama to Gollum in TOTR. Especially any scene in which Gollum is eating raw anything. And it is repulsive. They (Gutfeld and his boss Murdoch) may intend for us to be repulsed at Mrs. Obama, but I’m repulsed at them. Can someone pass me the brain bleach?

  36. 36.

    kth

    July 14, 2011 at 8:17 am

    The only major political personage who is on record as having eaten a wild animal that cheweth not the cud, nor parteth the hoof, is Mike Huckabee.

  37. 37.

    mikefromArlington

    July 14, 2011 at 8:32 am

    Fuck these assholes.

  38. 38.

    lacp

    July 14, 2011 at 9:01 am

    Gutfeld eats it raw. And I’m not talking about raccoons.

  39. 39.

    jheartney

    July 14, 2011 at 9:02 am

    Actually it wouldn’t be that hard to determine. A calorie is a unit of heat, and the number of calories in a given foodstuff is measured in an apparatus that burns it while measuring the amount of excess heat from the process. You might need a slightly larger version of the apparatus, but the process itself is pretty straightforward.

    Oh, and the reason the Foxtard said this was that it lets him make a sentence with “Michelle Obama” and “coon” in it. Blackety black black etc.

  40. 40.

    Nemesis

    July 14, 2011 at 9:08 am

    What has more calories than a burger, fries and shake?

    Why not just say her meal was high calorie. Its fail to bring the raccoon into the discussion.

    My experience with eating live raccoon is that its hard to get past the fur and there are too many tiny bones.

    And yes, its about being a coon. Get it Murika? Funny stuff.

  41. 41.

    AAA Bonds

    July 14, 2011 at 9:21 am

    Wouldn’t that BURN calories?

  42. 42.

    dan

    July 14, 2011 at 9:28 am

    Republican comedy. Hyuk yuk yuk.

  43. 43.

    dpcap

    July 14, 2011 at 9:32 am

    I love Prodigy. Thanks for the memories.

  44. 44.

    Halteclere

    July 14, 2011 at 9:52 am

    Raccoon meat is greasy and gamey, and not very tasty. Hence one of the reasons raccoons were never hunted that much for food like, say squirrel, rabbit and other small animals. So most definitely this comparison to eating a raccoon has nothing to do with meal choices.

    So yes, this is one big dog whistle.

    If you don’t recognize the historical racism couched in the term “coons”, or how easily raccoon can be used as a more obscure way of saying coon, then you are lucky to be a young person who didn’t grow up when this ugliness was much more open.

  45. 45.

    boss bitch

    July 14, 2011 at 9:53 am

    Raccoons? That’s probably what they think their viewers eat.

  46. 46.

    honus

    July 14, 2011 at 10:11 am

    In West Virginia we have long known that a raccoon includes its own toothpick:
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Mtn-Man-tooth-pick-Raccoon-penis-bone-drink-stir-stick-/140438180857?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20b2c493f9

  47. 47.

    honus

    July 14, 2011 at 10:13 am

    In West Virginia we have long known that a raccoon includes its own toothpick. The link sent me to moderation, so y’all will just have to google it yourself.

  48. 48.

    daveNYC

    July 14, 2011 at 10:16 am

    How the fuck do they know how many calories are in a live raccoon?

    Light it on fire and see how much it increases the temperature of a set volume of water.

    What’s funny is that my neighbors when I was growing up actually did eat racoons. Shoot one in the course of pest control and it’s free meat. Plus I think you could get a small bit of cash for the pelt.

    As far as dog whistles go, this one isn’t particularly well targeted.

  49. 49.

    ruemara

    July 14, 2011 at 10:32 am

    I love how they assume she’s the one consuming all the fries, burger, diet soda, and a shake. Because the first lady has nothing to do but whizz all afternoon long. She bought take out for a bunch of people, quit trying to say that was her whole meal. And yeah, ‘coon’+obama name=win. Bunch of ass pimples, they are.

  50. 50.

    JR

    July 14, 2011 at 10:39 am

    I have a cookskin hat, tail and all. WVU’s mascot is a mountaineer in full buckskin rig. My hat is from Neiman-Marcus believe it or not, a gift from my sainted Mom one year when we got to go to a bowl game.

    And I do know what you mean when you say the ‘coon comes with his own toothpick.

    When I worked in a print shop several of the guys were ‘coon hunters. They go out in the evening, and build a little camp fire, and let their dogs loose to run the woods, howling and looking for ‘coons, and argue about which dog is doing the best job up on the mountain. And Drink.

  51. 51.

    gocart mozart

    July 14, 2011 at 10:58 am

    There is an epidemic of pathological assholishness at Fox “News”

  52. 52.

    Bubblegum Tate

    July 14, 2011 at 11:01 am

    I’ve eaten squirrel…is that anything like raccoon?

    Also, are they really making Gutfield into Beck 2.0? He used to be Fox News’s Jon Stewart (and yes, he’s every bit as lame as the phrase “Fox News’s Jon Stewart” would lead you to believe) because he’s ostensibly some sort of comedian. Which is a problem because wingnuts are only unintentionally funny.

  53. 53.

    Jimperson Zibb (formerly Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    July 14, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Freaking 4 year olds… I wrote out my well thought out comment, and then had to step away before I hit post, and my 4 year old daughter thought it would be fun to play on the computer and she erased my comment.

    Anyway… So this:

    We are also demonizing a great industry. The fast food industry does more to feed people than any government. If McDonalds was in charge of ending starvation in Africa it would have been done in a year.

    Yeah, since McDonald’s isn’t looking to make money at all. If only those damned uncivilized, cannibalistic, soçialistic, commie darkie dictators over there would just let McDonald’s do their good work, there woouldn’t be any hunger in Africa. Asshole.

    And like everybody else here, I think the “live raccoon” thing was some kind of racial slur, but it sure was a weird one. It was like he was reaching for some kind of “Look at them craaaaazy-ass, wacky negroes, with their watermelon-and-fried-chicken-based diet!” and trying to work “coon” in somehow at the same time, but it just didn’t work out.

    And somebody really needs to teach rightwingers what is and is not hypocrisy. To that end, I’ve come up with a short lesson for them:

    Telling us that we should eat only salads and fruit, and never ever, under any circumstances, eat big old hamburgers and milkshakes, and then going out and eating a big old hamburger and a milkshake: Hypocrisy

    Telling us that we should eat more fruit and more salads and less meat and fewer sweets, and then going out and eating a big old hamburger and a milkshake: Not hupocrisy

    What is it about this that’s so hard for wingnuts to understand? I really don’t get it. To quote my new favorite random wingnut commenter on some blog whose name I don’t know: it’s an abstract failure.

  54. 54.

    gocart mozart

    July 14, 2011 at 11:12 am

    How the fuck do they know how many calories are in a live raccoon?

    He asked his mom.

  55. 55.

    gocart mozart

    July 14, 2011 at 11:15 am

    It’s as if it was a game. “I bet I can use the words ‘Michele Obama’ and ‘coon’ in the same sentence and get away with it.”

  56. 56.

    gocart mozart

    July 14, 2011 at 11:18 am

    Gutfield is like a fake Steven Colbert.

  57. 57.

    Bill O'Reilly

    July 14, 2011 at 11:26 am

    Fuck it! We’re Eatin’ it RAW!

  58. 58.

    Bobby Thomson

    July 14, 2011 at 11:32 am

    I’m sure that poached wild raccoon in a low-sodium broth is actually quite healthy!

    What does the hunting license have to do with it?

  59. 59.

    honus

    July 14, 2011 at 11:54 am

    Hell, JR, You should even know that the present West Virginia Secretary of State used to be the Mountaineer in that buckskin suit, and firing that rifle (not musket) every time WVU scored. And the first female Mountaineer at that.
    As Keyser native John Kruk said about fans from W Va. coming to see him the first his Padres team visited Pittsburgh “They’ll be coming to the game, driving pickup trucks, chewing tobacco, cussing, drinking and fighting, and that’s just the women.”

  60. 60.

    John

    July 14, 2011 at 12:38 pm

    Seriously, though—a live raccoon!?

    Fox News is ridiculous.

    It would appear that this is an attempt at humor and maybe viewers of Fox do actually find this funny. I’m not sure what is accomplished by taking it “seriously”.

  61. 61.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    July 14, 2011 at 1:02 pm

    God, I hate these people. Their racism is just out there, but they think they are sooooo sly.

  62. 62.

    Paul in KY

    July 14, 2011 at 1:10 pm

    Werebear, the only time I’ve ever watched Faux News was on election night 2008, bout 1100 to 1145. Did enjoy it, I must say.

    Maybe I’ll catch em sometime in November, 2012.

  63. 63.

    Paul in KY

    July 14, 2011 at 1:12 pm

    John Puma, any gormand knows you marinate & then grill the raccoon. Of course with a live one, you’ll need some heavy gloves & bungee cords.

  64. 64.

    Paul in KY

    July 14, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    Bubblegum Tate, squirrel is much better than raccoon, IMO.

  65. 65.

    Gustopher

    July 14, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    I’m still not sure if they are saying “She’s so fat she’ll eat anything, even a live raccoon” or if they just want to call her a coon. Probably both.

  66. 66.

    Gustopher

    July 14, 2011 at 2:45 pm

    I’m still not sure if they are saying “She’s so fat she’ll eat anything, even a live raccoon” or if they just want to call her a coon. Probably both.

  67. 67.

    someguy

    July 14, 2011 at 3:26 pm

    They only said “raccoon” because “spearchucker” would have been too obvious.

  68. 68.

    David Wardell

    July 14, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    Some of the letter writers caught on…but the talking head referenced Ms. Obama and a coon. why aren’t people jumping on this? Only two mentions on Google , so far..this being one of them. Is this guy still on the air? Did FOX issue an apology?
    This can’t be allowed.

  69. 69.

    Feather

    July 15, 2011 at 12:21 am

    I love this post. It is made even more fantastic by the fact that you quote Mrs. White in Clue. Melts heart.

  70. 70.

    Neutral

    July 17, 2011 at 9:49 am

    In actuality, you can’t eat a live raccoon unless you are very, very fast. Well before you have eaten the last bite from the “live” raccoon, it will already be dead.

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