WashingtonPost.com | Portfolio.com Howard Kurtz says in his chat that "I don't think
that story will be winning a Pulitzer Prize. Even as a light feature, it seemed pretty silly. I can confirm, from first-hand observation, that Obama is pretty skinny. So what?"
Jeff Bercovici writes: "I don't agree in the least with Slate's
Timothy Noah, who argues that
Amy Chozick should've known that her article 'can't avoid being interpreted as a coded discussion of race.'"