One consequence of a gym membership is that, for better or for worse, you see TV you would otherwise never see. I would never knowingly sit down and turn on the Today Show. The last thing I need is to ingest intellectual rot that makes me stupider by the second. But when you climb on the elliptical to do 30 minutes of cardio, the machine's built-in TV doesn't have MLB Network. Yeah. I know. And this morning, for some reason, Fox Sports Detroit wasn't replaying last night's Tiger game.
So what's a guy to do during his workout? The last poor slug who used the machine had tuned the TV to Channel 4, which is our local NBC affiliate here in the Detroit area. So as I'm getting the settings right on the machine, I find myself involuntarily exposed to the Today Show. And what do you know? Their star of the morning is one Alicia Machado, the 1996 Miss Universe who was mentioned by Hillary during the debate as the innocent victim of awful fat-shaming by Donald Trump. Supposedly this led to her having an eating disorder and brought great harm onto her life.