Pet Health Test
NBC Food Police Ask: ‘What Does Congress Have Against Healthier Lunches For Kids?’ (News busters)
At the top of Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams scolded
Congress for opposing new Obama administration regulations on school lunches:
**”And out to lunch. Does pizza really look like a vegetable to anybody? The
better question may be what does Congress have against healthier lunches for
kids?”**
Correspondent Anne Thompson later began a report on the supposed controversy
by showing images of pizza and sarcastically remarking: “Look at this picture.
What do you see? In this week’s Washington Rorschach test, Congress sees a
vegetable.” She lamented: “…this week Congress rejected the Department of
Agriculture’s attempt to make school lunches healthier.”
A sound bite followed from Margo Wootan of the left-wing Center for Science in
the Public Interest leveling this accusation: “Congress has put the interest
of the pizza and french fry industries before the interests of our children
and before our children’s health.”
The new school lunch regulations are a pet issue for congressional Democrats,
evidenced by another sound bite featured in the piece from Democratic
Congressman Jared Polis: “What’s next? Are twinkies going to be considered a
vegetable?”
Thompson went on to use the issue to praise Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move”
campaign:
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