Why Does Encouraging Healthy Eating Inspire So Much Hatred? The Anti-Michelle Meme Picks Up Steam

Rush Limbaugh said ...
"The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice.  And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving... I'm trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you."  

Michelle Obama said ...

"We want to make sure that people understand this is about overall health and physical fitness is... something that I stress in my household. It is a part of that. It's a natural part of your life,"  

Obesity costs America $270 billion dollars a year in lost productivity, increased medical costs, and it costs taxpayers around $50 billion a year. Yet high profile conservatives from Palin to the Micheles (Malkin and Bachmann respectively) spent last week attacking the other Michelle, the First Lady, over her efforts to get more mothers to breastfeed. Despite studies indicating that children breastfed longer have a lower tendency to be obese, and the fact that these ladies breastfed their own children, they pounced. Instead of seeing Obama's call to action for what it is -- a preventative measure that could save us all dough down the road -- they argued it was further proof of her efforts to advocate for the nanny state. 
Sarah Palin said ...
"Take her anti-obesity thing that she is on. She is on this kick, right. What she is telling us is she cannot trust parents to make decisions for their own children, for their own families in what we should eat,"