Last night O'Reilly had on his show some bubble head blonde named MeMe who, masquerading as an NGO, is fighting what she would like you to believe is a moral crusade of some sort against obesity. She has the temerity to castigate all those out there who do not share her views on food consumption. From what I can tell, MeMe thinks that it might be a good idea if the government charged fat people a higher price for health care.

Sputtering to O'Reilly she said, and I paraphrase: "fat people are free to eat what they want, but they can't expect extreme measures to save their lives if they have a health problem." Typing that out, however, can't capture the shrill condescension and scorn of her manner and twangy nasally voice.

The fascist of the hour, as it turns out, is MeMe Roth, AKA Meredith Clements. Such a nice lady, she admits to having been ashamed of her fat family when she was growing up. In an interview with The Guardian, a UK paper, in May, she recalls: "no one taught me to be ashamed of obesity, but the day, on my birthday, that my mother was to bring cupcakes to my class, I put my head on the table because I knew that within minutes my mother would be there and everyone was going to know that my mother was fat. I felt ashamed. I was grateful that down the block there was another mother who was fatter than my mother."

How nice.

It would be tempting to dismiss Miss Roth/Clements as just one more of the overly plentiful modern absurdities that we are confronted with each and every day. Tempting, except that she manages to get herself airtime with the press that she can use to sling her outrageous insults at the American people. O'Reilly is a case in point -- why bring this loudmouth onto his show in front of a national audience? She is a one woman marketing effort, and nothing more, out for her place in the limelight.

Moreover, she would use the power of government to compel her fellow citizens to live the way she thinks they ought to live.

I called her a fascist above, but really I was wrong. She is almost certainly not a communist in the sense of being a party member bearing a card stamped with the images of Lenin, Stalin and Mao -- but her outlook, that people should be compelled by government to live the way some apparatchik thinks is best, is straight out of the red playbook.

Perhaps she should move her office to the Empire State Building.

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