Comments on: More on the Morgan

By: Del

Del — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 16:52:31 +0000

Sounds like Spurlock is just cashing in on the paternalistic snob crowd’s latest crusade. He’s found an market and he’s giving them the entertainment product they want, and making himself a few million in the process. Good for him.

By: INCITE

INCITE — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 19:44:37 +0000

Super-Size this, bitch Part 2.

I had a conversation this weekend with co-blogger Answerman in which he informed me he’d seen the movie Super-Size Me. He knew it would be of interest to me as I’ve blogged about it in the past. You can easily imagine my surprise, then, when he infor…

By: Evan Williams

Evan Williams — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 14:22:17 +0000

Here’s the single most important line anyone who watches this movie needs to hear:

“He could have eaten 5,000 calories at the best health-food restaurant in New York and suffered the same consequences.”

Exactly. If your body takes in 5000 cals/day, and only burns 1000, then YOU WILL GAIN WEIGHT. If Spur[ious]lock was the least bit objective, he would have also done a sequel in which he eats 5000 cals worth of healthy food, with zero physical activity, and then we’d see what McD’s is about.

It’s like doing a drug experiment without a control group. The results don’t mean one fucking thing if you don’t have a control group to compare it to.

The sad thing is that this jagoff is getting rich from this scam, no doubt about it.

By: Frank N

Frank N — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 11:16:44 +0000

My interest peaked with the mention of Maria Bartiromo. She’s got that Joizey Italian thing going on. Suffice to say, ‘it’s a good thing’.

Some schmuck who eats the same crap for 30 days just proves that he is a schmuck, nothing else. Did I spell schmuck correctly? Perhaps I should have went with prick.

By: Transvigor

Transvigor — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:56:14 +0000

Maria Bartiromo Rocks

I have a longstanding crush on CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo. During the dotcom boom I thought I was going to meet her on three occasions, but each time was a near-miss. (Granted, it was a busy couple of years for her.)…

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 31 May 2004 21:28:31 +0000

Glassman is a hack. I saw the same show, and Bartiromo (or it may have been another show) asked him about lawsuits. His response: He doesn’t think lawsuits are the right thing to do. He thinks that it’s important that “people make smarter choices about what they eat and exercise more.”

Now, of course, that was right after he claimed that 7-11 had a responsibility for selling Big Gulps because “people will buy what you sell them” (Keynes would be proud). The point is, this guy Spurlock is a hack, but by opposing him with hackery a la Glassman and Whaley, our side looks like hacks, too.

By: Pablo Gersten

Pablo Gersten — Mon, 31 May 2004 19:02:20 +0000

I want to make a documentary where I eat at Morton’s of Chicago every day, three meals a day. I would eat some sort of red meat for three meals a day, watch my weight balloon, cholesterol skyrocket, and wallet evaporate. When I released the medical results of such a diet in conjunction with my bank statements I would really be a hero to the left. Not only would my health deteriorate, but I’d be reduced to eating at McDonald’s every day because I would have no more money left.

By: Bronwyn

Bronwyn — Mon, 31 May 2004 16:56:20 +0000

I don’t want to slam on anyone who has a genuine stutter, but this guy sounds (ok, reads) like a complete nincompoop.

How does one tow a tough road, after all? Or even an easy road?

It’s tough row to hoe you farking moron.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 31 May 2004 15:59:43 +0000

How can anyone defend his film when he gives interviews like that?

By: Micha Ghertner

Micha Ghertner — Mon, 31 May 2004 15:21:52 +0000

My favorite Morgon Spurlock quote, from when he was asked if he feels guilty for paying contestants to eat gross things on his previous MTV show:

“No way. Everybody knows what they’re getting into. Everybody has a good time. If somebody walks by and doesn’t enjoy it, hey, it’s a free country. Just keep on walking, man.”