Reporting on efforts by Democratic legislators to promote healthy media portrayals of women, the Daily Caller's Caroline May offers up a gem of a non sequitur:

So much for the obesity epidemic

Despite the obesity epidemic, North Carolina Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan, Wisconsin Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, and Academy Award-winning actress Geena Davis are pushing legislation to encourage the media to produce healthier images of women.

They say women and girls feel overly pressured to be thin.

“Despite the obesity epidemic”? How does “pushing legislation to encourage the media to produce healthier images of women” have anything to do with the obesity epidemic? Rampant obesity and unhealthy, unrealistic portrayals of women are two discrete problems that, to the Daily Caller's apparent and baffling surprise, exist at the same time. Their implication seems to be that we can't simultaneously fight both, and that by encouraging women not be unhealthily thin, we're actually encouraging them to be dangerously overweight.

This is all very silly. Not quite as silly as the Washington Post's ongoing coverage of Michelle Obama's hamburger, but close.