{"id":7005,"date":"2009-04-04T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=7005"},"modified":"2009-04-03T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T15:14:19","slug":"congressman-chides-ashtray-less-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/congressman-chides-ashtray-less-gym\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Chides Ashtray-less Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our public servants in Washington, D.C. get some pretty nice perks. But one such benefit, the congressional gym, isn’t to the liking of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI).<\/p>\n

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Rep. Thaddeus McCotter<\/p><\/div>\n

When going to the gym<\/a>, McCotter can’t stand it if there are no ashtrays available. The congressman told Fox News that he doesn’t \u201cgo there very much because A, they don\u2019t have ashtrays… And B, the one time I was there, my first trip, someone sort of was talc-ing themselves, and offered their hand and I just said, ‘Hey, we’re cool, dude.'”<\/p>\n

McCotter didn\u2019t reveal the name of the senator… or why he’s so uptight about talcum powder. But thankfully, the video tape of the interview with him revealed that he said all the above in a deadpan, tongue-in-cheek manner. We have all kinds of reasons to lose faith in our public officials, at least in this case the representative from Michigan isn’t the clueless jerk one would think when reading the video transcript out of context.<\/p>\n

(via: Fox News<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our public servants in Washington, D.C. get some pretty nice perks. But one such benefit, the congressional gym, isn’t to the liking of Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI). When going to the gym, McCotter can’t stand it if there are no … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1307,152,1043],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-congress","tag-gym","tag-smoking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}