{"id":1763689,"date":"2022-12-05T16:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763689"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:17:58","slug":"id-rather-be-fat-john-kennedy-slams-woke-high-iq-stupid-people-who-eat-kale-in-georgia-senate-campaign-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/id-rather-be-fat-john-kennedy-slams-woke-high-iq-stupid-people-who-eat-kale-in-georgia-senate-campaign-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d Rather Be Fat\u2019: John Kennedy Slams \u2018Woke\u2019 \u2018High-IQ Stupid People\u2019 Who Eat Kale In Georgia Senate Campaign Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fid-rather-be-fat-john-kennedy-slams-woke-high-iq-stupid-people-who-eat-kale-in-georgia-senate-campaign-pitch%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763689&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-kennedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Kennedy<\/a> (R-LA) is not a fan of liberals \u2014 or kale, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>While campaigning on behalf of Georgia\u2019s GOP senate nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/herschel-walker\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herschel Walker<\/a>, the wordsmith let known his distaste for all things woke as well as the crunchy produce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you want to eat kale, that\u2019s up to you,\u201d Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2022\/12\/05\/john-kennedy-stumps-for-herschel-walker-n2616741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> a crowd of Walker supporters while slamming liberals who push the vegetable onto others. \u201cI don\u2019t eat kale, you know why? Because kale tastes to me like \u2018I\u2019d rather be fat.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/article\/louisiana-senator-john-kennedy-governor\/41952934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">potential Louisiana gubernatorial candidat<\/a>e also claimed that those lending support to incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) in Tuesday\u2019s runoff election were a special kind of stupid.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus?utm_campaign=dwplus&#038;utm_medium=editorial&#038;utm_source=dwsite&#038;cid=dwplus&#038;mid=z&#038;xid=0\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">TIRED OF THE LEGACY MEDIA\u2019S BIAS CONTROLLING THE NARRATIVE AND OBSCURING THE TRUTH? JOIN US AND SAVE 30%.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese high-IQ stupid people have an answer for everything, you know why?\u201d Kennedy said of Democratic politicians. \u201cBecause they think they\u2019re smarter and more virtuous than the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy also advised Georgians how to spot such leftists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese woke high-IQ stupid people are easy to recognize,\u201d Kennedy continued. \u201cThey hate George Washington, they hate Thomas Jefferson, they hate Dr. Seuss, and they hate Mr. Potato Head. These woke high-IQ stupid people, they walk around with Ziploc bags of kale that they can eat to give them energy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Kennedy is a national treasure: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t eat kale. You know why? Because kale tastes to me like I&#8217;d rather be fat!&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7ZqEYK84p7\">pic.twitter.com\/7ZqEYK84p7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenFreePres\/status\/1599786471765864449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kennedy, an Oxford scholar, has a reputation for telling it like it is \u2014 as evidenced by another classic line he delivered in June about the nation\u2019s then-record-high gas prices.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, he joined Fox News\u2019 Jesse Watters to discuss soaring inflation and the Biden administration\u2019s dismal response to the economic woes that continue to plague the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know about where you live, Jesse, but in my state, the price of gas is so high that it would be cheaper to buy cocaine and just run everywhere,\u201d Kennedy remarked at one point in the interview.<\/p>\n<p>In January, the senator made similar comments about Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration has mismanaged COVID, it has mismanaged inflation, it has mismanaged the border, and it has mismanaged foreign policy, all in one year,\u201d Kennedy said. \u201cIf the aliens landed tomorrow, and said, \u2018take me to your leader,\u2019 it would be embarrassing. Now President Biden is trying to change the subject by talking about race. And he is mismanaging that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for Tuesday\u2019s contest, Peach State voters have been particularly energetic \u2014 but there are no signs that bags of kale are providing that energy \u2014 to cast their vote in this runoff election.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.8 million Georgians have voted early in the state\u2019s Senate runoff election \u2014 including a record-high 353,000 voters on Friday, the final day of early voting.<\/p>\n<p>The official numbers from the Secretary of State recorded 1,868,127\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sos.ga.gov\/data-hub-december-6-2022-runoff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">early voters<\/a>. The total revealed that more than one million female voters voted early, according to the state\u2019s statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The number of early voters fell short of the total from the recent November midterms in Georgia, when about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/georgia-election-2022-25m-early-votes-cast-a-midterm-turnout-record\/R5ZEYSPNMJH3RKVUMUZEGOXG5E\/\">2.5 million<\/a> voters cast their ballot before Election Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) is not a fan of liberals \u2014 or kale, apparently. While campaigning on behalf of Georgia\u2019s GOP senate nominee Herschel Walker, the wordsmith let known his distaste for all things woke as well as the crunchy produce. \u201cIf you want to eat kale, that\u2019s up to you,\u201d Kennedy told a crowd &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1534849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1534849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}