Oh, here we go — another gem from the New York Times, where apparently even caring about your health is now a right-wing conspiracy.
In the latest episode of their podcast The Opinions — yes, that’s really what it’s called — Times opinion editor Meher Ahmad and writer Jessica Grose took a wild swing at conservatives, claiming that fitness and thinness aren’t just health goals but part of some creepy, values-driven obsession by the Right. The episode, titled “Why the Right Is Obsessed with Thinness,” manages to take normal, universal ideas like working out and eating well and recast them as political statements.
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales wasn’t having it. On her show, she broke down some of the more unhinged clips from Ahmad and Grose, starting with Ahmad’s opening monologue about the “resurgence in explicit ‘be thin’ messaging.” Ahmad ties Ozempic, body shaming of actresses like Sydney Sweeney, and conservative culture together in one big conspiracy, saying fitness has become bundled with “religion, morals, and politics.”
Sara’s reaction? Pure sarcasm: “Being skinny is related to Christianity, I guess.”
Then Grose chimed in with an equally ridiculous claim — that conservatives pushing for fitness is really just a reaction to the body positivity movement. Gonzales quickly corrected her, pointing out that the body positivity movement wasn’t about healthy realism; it was about promoting the “fat is fit” narrative, pushing lies like “BMI is meaningless” and “healthy at any size.”
Sara nailed it when she said: “You can have a debate on beauty, but you can’t tell me that being morbidly obese is actually healthy — and yet that is the lie they tried to put on young women.”
But the absurdity didn’t stop there. Grose went on to argue that conservatives want to be fit and attractive because it reinforces “traditional gender roles.” She even suggested that smaller body sizes for women align with the idea that they should “take a backseat to all the powerful men.”
Sara’s response? A well-earned eye roll and a collage of powerhouse conservative women — Candace Owens, Riley Gaines, Lara Trump, Nicole Shanahan, Lauren Boebert, Alex Clark — proving that conservative women are anything but meek, voiceless accessories.
At the end of the day, this podcast wasn’t about analysis. It was about taking ordinary behaviors like working out, eating protein, and wanting to be healthy — things that transcend politics — and framing them as sinister tools of the Right.
It’s almost like the New York Times is desperate to make literally everything a culture war. But if the best they’ve got is “being fit is conservative extremism,” well… they’re running out of material.
