Amy Chozick’s 1400-word “Too Fit to Be President?” (WSJ, 1 Aug ’08) is based on a Yahoo[“!”] message board thread, “Is Obama Too Skinny to Be President?” with a total of five messages (totaling 179 words); two of them (the first dated 15 July) are from Chozick herself (10k .zip of the Google-cached message board HTML here). Her question was lifted from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis’s outpourings.
Of the remaining three messages, Chozick quoted the only semiliterate sentence she could extract from this message (in full):
