Billy Long is Pushing a Plagerized Diet Scam in Men's Health Magazine

Billy Long, who has been avoiding interviews on important subjects like gun control and the purging of conservative members of Congress, seems to have lots of time to conduct interviews with CBS News and Men's Health magazine on his new diet.

Here's Congressman Long from Men's Health:



What caught my interest in this video is Billy Long tells Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL) that he is dieting eating whatever he wants. A diet that you can eat whatever you want? That sounds like a scam if I have ever heard of one. Then of course he goes into one of his corny auction bits, which is strange if you don't know who Congressman Long is.

Now Billy Long claims he knows how to cut fat, since he claims that is what he has done in Washington. I remind readers he voted to fund NASCAR teams, for the debt ceiling increase, and to fund Pigford, which has been said to be the most frivolous lawsuit ever against the United States government. Considering Billy Long's failure to cut fat in Washington, this diet was sounding more like a scam.

So I decided to research it a bit more.

Guess what, it wasn't hard to find that there is some controversy with Billy Long's diet.

FitJerk claims the diet Billy Long endorses for Men's Health Magazine was plagiarized. The diet was taken from Lean Gains and put a Men's Health label on it according to the source. What's interesting is Billy Long voted for bills to prevent pirating and other infringements on copyrights in bills like SOPA.

FitJerk writes of Men's Health's Eight-Hour Diet:


You know, there is a good reason why fitness pros (and even market scammers) take jabs at fitness magazines. It’s because the content has been and always will be, boring and dull. That’s the price you have to pay when you try and appeal to every-freakin-person.

As if that weren’t bad enough, we also have magazines that are exceptionally boring and dull. Almost yawn inducing.

But you know what? I was ok with it all. Magazines gave half-assed advice, but because they had such a massive audience, great trainers kept writing for them to get exposure.

At least the thing ended up with original content.

And at times, when they were desperate for ideas, they actually ended up innovating in the most ridiculous of ways. More power to ‘em.

But today, one such magazine has hit an all time low. I am of course talking about Men’s Health and their recent 8 Hour Diet  announcement.

Driven by the need to stay relevant and provide information that doesn’t put people to sleep, they decided to first rip off a method created by someone else, then name it something else (creative plagiarism) and finally, insult the audience by assuming their readers were too dumb to catch them.

It’s as if Men’s Health only has 2 editors left, named “copy” and “paste”.

Still Billy Long has no time to talk issues with local radio host like Eric Farris or Dave Day on the issues like John Boehner's purge of conservatives from leadership positions and to take a strong stand on the Second Amendment, but he has plenty of time to conduct interviews about his diet. Long was on CBS News earlier tonight plugging his diet.