I don’t care who it is. Photos over the years of political candidates eating never shows their best side. They’re all over the media — and they’re seldom lovely. To wit:
This new AP photo of Obama inhaling a sausage:
Vice President Joe Biden eating:
OOPS! Wrong photo:
Mitt Romney eats pork on a stick:
An image that has been widely used on the Internet: Michele Bachmann eating a corndog:
The Rick Perry eating a corndog photo has gotten wide circulation, too:
It’s not much better when Rick Santorum eats ribs:
These real photos (except Biden eating a shoe) are silly enough but there is even a whole website Chris Christie Eats Tumblr featuring photoshopped pix of the New Jersey Governor. Here’s one of the milder ones:
But real or phonied up, let’s face it: eating is shoving food into a hole in your face, and it isn’t pretty, no matter who does it:
No matter who:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.