Baylen Linnekin Discusses Fast Food Advertising and Child Obesity on Freedom Watch

[DAN5675able]

I gave up on junk food a few days ago and i lost 2 pounds already.

[SpeaksToDragons]

It is true that a parent holds the purse strings and not the child, since this is true it more of enough reason to target the parent with advertising and not the child. The child is not mature enough to make such decisions of which products to purchase. Such ads play on the child's ignorance. The child suddenly stops being a child but more of a mouthpiece for the advertiser.

[Wormtail81]

Parents should do their jobs and be forced to take responsibility for whether or not their children's eating and exercise habits endanger their health. That is their fault and it is their responsibility, period, full stop, end of sentence.

[KitSerrone]

Every body should watch the documentary Fathead for a libertarian infotainment view of the harmlessness of Mc Donald's.

[BarryDead]

The (Tax Junkies) love this stuff because it opens the door to a new list of products they can "Sin Tax"

A "Tax Junkie" Is anyone that makes a living off the public dole.

As soon as you hear it is for the (better good) it is about stealing your money

A tax junkie could not care less if you live or die........power to regulate is power to steal

Tax junkies are economy and freedom destroyers and always start out by using children or the elderly attain what the want

[bullpcp]

Any child with parents that can't deny them McDonalds has a much larger problem than obesity. >:(

[TylerNull]

Liberalism: liberty is the problem, and government is the solution.

All denominations of their toxic rainbow hold that core principle as sacrosanct.

[HybridD91]

@TylerNull That isn't liberalism. Left wingers have perverted the word liberalism. Real liberalism is liberity.

[TylerNull]

@HybridD91 Acknowledging that the word has been redefined, as you did, I address it.

Telling people the "real" (historical) meaning of that word, or that of "gay" or "green" or "progressive" or "evolution" or "global warming" or ... whatever, does nothing to address the Liberal fascists' jihad against the English language.

[HybridD91]

@TylerNull liberty*

[UTubekookdetector]

These nanny-state troglodytes think they own your children, the parents are now irrelevant.

[9971explorer]

It is not Mcdonald's fault that parents cannot say no to their kids. Stop trying to be your kids friend and be their parent and say no! It's not hard.

[swinescales]

And it goes to show how foolish people are in thinking that tyranny comes in a dark cloak with red eyes.

[hzane]

And it goes to show how naive Americans are who equate this to tyranny.

[hzane]

It goes to show how priveleged Americans are when debate over nutrition is a hot button issue.

[sevlevboss]

Restricting advertising makes no sense. I would like to see more nutritional information on menus though. If parents are going to make informed decisions, they need easy access to this information. Sometimes products are marketed as a "healthy alternative", but they avoid providing nutritional information, because that would tell a different story.

[markduddridge]

2:00

Food police are here already aren't they? Just ask the Amish farmer who was busted for selling raw milk.

[schmij8]

My wife and I have taught our son to eat right and spend time playing outside (sports or whatever). Guess what? He's not fat. And he doesn't beg for food in ads.

The root word of Parenting is... Parent. Not Government.

[swu880]

Just cuz u are too immature, dont think that the rest of us are not mature.

To do so is HIGHLY ARROGANT AND INSULTING!

[swu880]

economic illiterates especially who think that they can run other people's lives. Those people dont deserve any air of freedom or liberty. If u want to control others tyrannically at the barrel of a gun, then u urself do not deserve any bit of life, liberty or property. 

[swu880]

@violetfae0

lol really? fuck off. its called parenting. if u dont want to do it, then fuck off and leave the rest of us peaceable people alone. Did chucke cheese put a gun to anyone's head forcing them to buy their product? no so dont u dare put a gun at their head forcing them to do this or that

The true essence of freedom is not in having people do what you want, but in allowing and respecting people to peaceably do even what you do not want so long as its peaceable and voluntary

[swu880]

@swu880

So what if i want to tell kids about my product? huh is that wrong? lol if u think it is, then please take a gun, pull it up to your own head and pull the trigger- u naive fool.

govt is not a paternal entity, it aint even a positive entity. to think that some fuckin bureaucrat knows whats best for anyone else & can dictate it so at the barrel of a gun is just ludicrous & crazy. That is the essence of tyranny & FASCISM. That is where corruption starts & begins

[swu880]

@swu880

Why do u think lobbyists lobby govt officials?

[EffieReal]

It is also a ridiculous notion that the US government would have the slightest clue as to what is "healthy". They jump onto all kinds of unscientifically created bandwagons and create policies that are not only oppressive but actually BAD for the people they are trying to "protect". Makes we wonder their true motives on this one. I supposed the real question is; who is getting paid?

[swu880]

@EffieReal

Reasontv or was it libertypen did a stint on how govt uses power. Govt is COERCION & VIOLENCE. So congress, bureaucrats & judges, executives, etc- all govt officials from cops to even govt janitors to union thugs & politicians- they all rely upon the use of this force & coercion.

oftentimes a politician / bureaucrat would THREATEN to pass some measure, make a huge publicity out of it, or even threaten to do some sort of action, in order to extort money from peaceable peoples

[ghostbuddy]

2:10

Will? They're already doing it in some states. Out lawing transfats, and red meat off the top of my head!

[kmg501]

I like Charles Payne and in spite of him cracking his own weight, it looks like he is actually loosing weight.

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[eirefrance]

2:20 Of course, because whenever a law is passed, inevitably the law gets more restrictive. Remember when the maximum speed limit was set at 55? How many more years was it until they set the maximum speed limit to 45, then 35, then 25? I mean, today, we're not allowed to drive faster than 5 mph on any highway. Which must be true because restricting anything legally ALWAYS results in more and more restrictions.

[marinegrunt0341]

Funny because they will never comment on McDonalds' blatant advertising targeting black people who are disproportionately obese.

[sintruder]

How could any one argue this point? Making happy meals illegal is going beyond stupid. The people who like the happy meals don't drive or pay for the food. Responsibility in this country is an endangered species

[saper321]

I wonder at what point we will have smuggle corn syrup & chocolate milk from Mexico?

[swu880]

@saper321

when the sugar tax + the regulators get out of control (oh yeah thats happening right now... )

Can't get a good coke up here in the states- only places like mexico make actually decent Coke made from Sugar Cane rather than corn syrup. its ridiculous

[dispersingweight]

Your child crying? Just give him some candy or fast food. He or she won't mind that obesity or diabetes later. Our healthcare system works flawlessly. Eat on.

/sarcasm off

[Shad0wSquirrel]

now I want some cookies

[warpedwiselegoman]

0:44

ironic,because they'll probably turn right around and say "we're winning the war on drugs!"

but then again,this is Fox Business,and i've seen much more rationality here than on the normal Fox station,so i could be wrong...

[natepepin09]

@warpedwiselegoman Not likely on Freedom Watch because this is usually hosted by Judge Napolitano who strongly opposes the war on drugs and states that it clearly failed. I'm not really sure who this guy is, but I would assume the Judge would put in a libertarian to fill in for him.

[darwinkilledgod]

@warpedwiselegoman As a libertarian I should say that Fox really does have a diversity of opinions. It doesn't have any good leftists, mind you, though those are very hard to find (does Ed Schultz or Olberman really help the left?). But Fox does have a mix of social conservatives (Huckabee), libertarians (Stossel), crazed libertarians (the Judge) and statists (O'Reilly) and straight boring conformist Republicans (Hannity).

[sharinganclan213]

@darwinkilledgod yeah fox always has diverse opinions on its shows, but the main show hosts are almost all conservative leaning.

[dmg46664]

@warpedwiselegoman Stossel is incredibly anti the drug war. So is Freedom Watch. So yes, you're right that Fox Business is more rational. I'd argue that those two programs are more rational than both the rest of Fox and the rest of the media!

[jugeteable]

i blame the north pole

[michael1791]

AHAHAHA it's not the children buying fast food it's their parents. I don't agree with fatty fast foods but that doesn't mean I think they should be illegal. If a restaurant has cockroaches in it's kitchen, refuses health checks and serves food on the floor, that shouldn't be illegal. It's their right to have a disgusting restaurant (as ridiculous as it sounds) but they also know that no one will eat there. If a restaurant is unhealthy that's their choice, not anyone else. Eat somewhere else.

[natepepin09]

Wait, what happens when you give a mouse a cookie?

[S1aptasticSquadalah]

@natepepin09 Yeah I didn't catch that either :\

[qtutoringhelps]

@natepepin09

... the mouse in turn asks for various other favors. It's a reference to a 1985 children's book by Laura Numeroff.

[goingalt]

@natepepin09 He'll want an AK-47. Or is it a glass a milk? Either one.

[natdavi]

@natepepin09 it eats the cookie

[Emidretrauqe]

@natepepin09 You never read that children's story book? When you give a mouse a cookie, as I recall he asks for a glass of milk. If you give him some milk, he'll ask for something more. And so on, and so forth until he's robbing you blind.

[Excelion333]

@natepepin09 You give a mouse a cookie and he wants some milk you give the mouse some milk and he wants more and when you don't give him more he bites you and infects you with a virus and you become a zombie then you crave flesh and soon everyone is dead.

[TheRealFallenDemon]

@natepepin09 You have to brutally murder your husband in order to avert the zombie apocalypse. Don't you watch Robot Chicken?

[andyissemicool]

@natepepin09: He's gonna want some milk. And cheese. And to crawl up your pant leg.

[MooseOfReason]

@natepepin09 He'll want a glass of milk to wash it down.

[shamgar001]

@natepepin09 It's from a children's book.

Then he'll want a glass of milk, then he'll want a bed, and he'll want you to read him a story, etc. Might as well read the book, actually.

[Individualism101]

@natepepin09 ww3.

[AndrewLLFrazier]

@natepepin09 They turn into gremlins.