Check this out regarding former Prez Bill Clinton on the South Beach Diet

[Catherine Vincent]

This article from Channel 2 in Houston:
http://www.click2houston.com/news/2769964/detail.html

Junk Food's Out For Slimmer Bill Clinton

NEW YORK -- We'll be seeing a little less of Bill Clinton.

He's on a diet.

So, no more junk food for the ex eater-in-chief.

The now trimmer former president was asked Thursday about his weight-loss secret. He deadpanned, "No beer."

During a news conference at his Harlem office, Clinton's dark business suit jacket swung open to reveal a flatter stomach. Clinton said he's been following the low-carb, low-fat "South Beach Diet."


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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2004-01-15-clinton-weight_x.htm
This is from USAToday:

Bill Clinton Following 'South Beach Diet'
NEW YORK (AP) — No more junk food for Bill Clinton — at least not for now. The former president, whose White House tenure was accompanied by the staples of America's fast-food industry, showed up at his Harlem office Wednesday looking lean, but not mean.
With a wide grin on his face after a news conference to announce a new AIDS initiative, he deadpanned: "No beer." His dark business suit jacket swung open to reveal a flatter stomach, replacing the onetime presidential paunch.


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They both print that it is from the Associated Press. Why do you suppose the Houston website called him the ex-eater-in-chief? He stopped in McDonald's once and ever since then they branded him as some greedy junk food junkie.

[kskiska]

1. Letterman was one of the worst

He played up the "fat" jokes for years – when Clinton wasn't fat at all – after those McDonald's clips.

[MetaTrope]

2. No more McDonald's hamburgers...hmmm

Does he know something that we don't? (Or that, at least, we're ignoring?)

[PDittie]

3. Houston's Channel 2 is THE worst of a bad lot

Imagine the sleaziest, most sensationalist TV station in your town.

Then imagine how much worse it could get if it were located in good-ol'-Bush-boy Houston.