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"Jennifer Livingston, a local news anchor in La Crosse, Wisconsin, responded to a viewer's outrageous attack on her appearance on Tuesday morning. Livingston recently received an email from a male viewer criticizing her weight. Her husband and fellow news anchor Mike Thompson posted the text to the Facebook page for "WKBT News 8 This Morning." "I was surprised indeed to witness that your physical condition hasn't improved for many years," wrote the viewer, who said Livingston was not a "suitable example" for young girls. "I leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle." Livingston addressed her bully on-air Tuesday, prefacing her message by saying that she has received words of support from "hundreds" of people...". Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.
Read more here from Katherine Fung / The Huffington Post:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/jennifer-livingston-anchor-obesity-l...
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VoodooVI gotta be honest. Calling the letter-writer a bully is a bit strong. I tend to define a bully as someone you cannot avoid and you are forced to endure and you are helpless.
she is anything but helpless.
I'm sorry, but a bully is not someone who merely says unkind things. The letter-writer is the equivalent of some some shitty comment on a youtube video. Yes words hurt, but she was not helpless and had to endure it against her will.
quantumushroomWhen you break it down, the letter sounds like it was written by a nanny-state liberal. Smokers are already exiled, now it's a war on obesity.
VoodooV>> ^quantumushroom:
When you break it down, the letter sounds like it was written by a nanny-state liberal. Smokers are already exiled, now it's a war on obesity.
troll-bait much?
SagemindCrap no - sorry - Not a Dupe -Didn't notice the TYT tag - My bad.
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charliemsays...Guy writes constructive letter to a woman to try and get her fat ass on the treadmill, in a way that doesnt make her feel like shit by outright calling her a fatass.....and she jumps on him (crushing him perhaps...), and proceeds to justify why her ass is still fat.
He said hes seen her not change weight in 3 years (?)...cmon...youve all the time in the world to address something like that, I didnt feel the letter was mean spirited at ALL. If someone wrote me a letter like that it would inspire me to join a gym and watch what I shovel in my mouth, not justify my sedentary food gobbling lifestyle.
I wonder if she went home and ate a bucket of ice cream that night.....
Please dont mistake my bluntness for a lack of empathy, ive got fatass close family members that I care dearly about...that I too have tried so much to try to get them to change their lifestyle.
Doesnt happen. Too set in on drinking a 40 of coke a day, and doritos, deep fried foods, ZERO excercise etc.
Its just so fucking frustrating to see the ones you love and care about, shitting away a decade+ of healthy extended life because they are too lazy to do anything about it.
"You dont know me!"
No....youre right....but I know plenty of people very very well who have your exact body type. And I can see patterns lady.
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