Oh, dear. Fat-shaming, WaPo? This is what happens when you assign the Style section to cover Gitmo.
https://twitter.com/jasonrmcintyre/status/393009441240805376
I am thickset, not muscular. RT @emmersbrown: Best Wash Post correction ever? Yes. pic.twitter.com/Gy4bOgnCQ0
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 23, 2013
@houston_foodie RT @emmersbrown: Best Wash Post correction ever? Yes. pic.twitter.com/mXeVax170H thickset = muscular just like fatass = curvy
— tracyfm (@tracyfm) October 23, 2013
@lisagartner @emmersbrown This made me imagine the phone call that prompted this correction. "I'm not thickset, I'm muscular!"
— Tony Marrero (@TMarreroTimes) October 23, 2013
Assuming that muscular-yet-not-thickset guy threatened to punch out the pencil-necks at the WaPo if they didn't make that correction.
— John McQuaid (@johnmcquaid) October 23, 2013
What is the journalistic euphemism for fatheads?
Background:
some lively comments to @washingtonpost Style piece on #Guantanamo image, including a correction to who is 'thickset' spokesman
— Ben Fox (@benfoxatap) October 16, 2013