Cenk Uygur
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Fox News Host Shames Women Who Aren’t Beach Body Ready
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June 6, 2015
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4:43Now PlayingFox News was talking about a protein campaign in the UK. The UK has a law that forbids ads that may give people body issues, Andrea Tantaros believe that anyone with a functioning brain should care about their beach body. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
"Fox News host Andrea Tantaros defended body-shaming advertisements that had been banned in London for health reasons, saying that “anyone with a functioning brain” would want to make sure their body looked good enough to wear a bikini at the beach.
Londoners launched a campaign against Protein World earlier this year after the company put up advertisements with an image of a thin bikini-wearing model, and asked the question, “Are You Beach Body Ready?”
Over 70,000 people signed a petition calling on Protein World to take down the ads, which were scheduled to come down in April anyway. The Advertising Standards Authority told People Magazine that the ads were eventually banned in the U.K. due to “a range of health and weight loss claims made in the ad.”
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