Remember when Rolling Stone was cool? Yeah, me neither. But it was once a center of rock ‘n roll rebellion and fighting the system. Now it’s a just another creature of the system. On MSNBC today, RS executive editor Eric Bates came out in favor of a federal ban on large soda sizes. Sounding like a leftist spin doctor, Bates characterized the ban as a “regulation on harmful substances that people take into their bodies, and which cost the government millions and millions of dollars a year in obesity and diabetes.” Others on the panel, which came at the end of Alex Wagner’s show, joined Bates’ logic and call for a federal version of NYC Mayor Bloomberg’s ban on large soda sizes. Only one panelist spoke out in favor of liberty and personal responsibility, and she was quickly ignored as another panelist shouted “It’s public health!”
A Rasmussen poll found that an overwhelming majority oppose banning large size sodas, but that hasn’t stopped the liberals on MSNBC and First Lady Michelle Obama from applauding the ban.
“Bates characterized the ban as a “regulation on harmful substances that people take into their bodies, and which cost the government millions and millions of dollars a year in obesity and diabetes.” ”
So Rolling Stone is now opposed to drug legalization?
Dood. Don’t buzz my harsh.
Wow, what a wild culture they must have at Rolling Stone. Is the readership 90 year old paranoids who start at shadows and then write in a blog about how it made them explore their feelings in a safely locked room?
Is there any video of him leaving the house without a helmet? In his world that’d be like a normal human climbing a live volcano.
By the same logic, why should I not demand people go to church because they are at risk of hellfire and damnation? Or at least poor character?
Rolling Stone, you’ve got to be kidding? No more sugar highs and sugar cubes in the ash trays where everyone kept their minds in between acid tabs? The magazine of the everybody’s got to get stoned epoch? Don’t Bogart that joint my friend, pass it over to me. Damn, there’s nothing worse than a New Age pagan Nazi hippie.
The natural consequence of Gov’t takeover of healthcare.
First they came for the sodas but I didn’t drink soda so I didn’t say anything…
Axelrod first, then Biden’s wife and now this: it’s a first class show, I tell ya.
We will need a lot of shrinks when the totalitarians will lose the elections in November…
Is there any video of him leaving the house without a helmet? In his world that’d be like a normal human climbing a live volcano.
nope… when i climbed to the rim of the cinder cone in the caldera in Indonesia, i did NOT wear a helmet.. then again, Indonesia isn’t a matriarchal nanny state
Jeeeeez!
The possibility of finding someone over at the defunct, obsolete, ad laden, ridiculous ‘Rolling Stone’ with an IQ higher than an Inanimate Carbon Rod are less than finding a gas guzzling SUV or classic VW Van or Beetle in either Berkeley or Marin!