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That Depends on What You Mean by "McCain Family"
David Weiner of the Huffington Post has uncovered what may be the food-based scandal of the 2008 election cycle. Cindy McCain’s “McCain family recipes,” which now appear to have been removed from John McCain’s official website, are boosted from the Food Network.
Weiner writes:
This past Sunday, Lauren Handel, an eagle-eyed attorney from New York, was searching for a specific recipe from Giada [De Laurentiis], a chef on the Food Network. Yet whenever she Googled the different ingredients in the recipe, the oddest thing happened: not only did the Food Network’s site come up, as expected, but so did John McCain’s campaign site.
The HuffPost offers side-by-side pop-up comparisons between the “McCain” recipes and the eerily identical Giada/Rachael versions.
Commenter gomonkeygo turns the whole thing into a barbed commentary on the two candidates:
Who’s the elitist in this campaign? The black son of the white mother abandoned by his father and fortunate enough to earn scholarships to good schools and then use his innate intelligence, common sense, education and sensitivity to the problems of the underprivileged to work for and with them before becoming a Constitutional law scholar, leading politician of his generation and inspirational Presidential candidate? or….
The guy married to the rich woman who pays people to steal recipes that she can pass off as her own? (I doubt sweet Cindy actually touched a keyboard to Google any of these). Ahi tuna slaw?!!! If that’s not elitist, nothing is. I wouldn’t feed that to my cats.
Look for this scandal to not blow up and distract America’s attention from the ongoing “bitter” kerfluffle that has caused Obama so much angst over the past week.
Posted by | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 12:35pm | 5 comments
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So it appears they scapegoated some poor "low-level" intern. Because of course, what any intern would do when given "family recipes" to post on the campaign website would be instead to search the Food Network and post recipes s/he found there under Mrs. McCain's name. Yeah. Sure. Did the same intern submit Mrs. McCain's Passionfruit Mousse recipe (also from Food Network) to the NYSun back in January? They should have fired him/her then!
Wow thanks James Norton! I love how you post the comments of some random liberal to give us your opinion. John McCain is elitist! well I never. Thanks chow and James Norton to show your distaste for the Republican candidate in this. That quote about elitism did nothing for the article but show your opinion on it james norton. If this was a political website it would be fine and I respect your opinion but please keep it out of chow.
I sense the presence of a frustrated conservative here, digkv. I suggest you slow down and re-read the piece. There is no need to defend your beloved candidate in such a passionate, even inchoate fashion. The writer of this blog is not slamming Mr. McCain. James Norton is quoting another website, and also a commentator, who actually made the "elitist" comments.
This is a legitimate piece about recipes, thus its relevance here at Chow. And you missed the biggest point of all - it's supposed to be funny! :-)
My point is that he posted a comment attacking John McCain as an elitist which was absolutely unnecessary. It's not funny at all and that comment was extremely un-foody. Maybe they do eat ahi tuna slaw why would that be elitist? Am I elitist because I like to eat puff pastry? should I only eat pillsbury cookie dough and emancipate myself from my parents and earn scholarships so I won't be elitist and so Chow can love me? This article could have been written objectively but James Norton choose to find quotes that made the article extremely biased. Also, trust me, I'm not an extremely sensitive conservative. Living in a society where conservatism is attacked on tv, movies, music, and now the internet; I've grown a thick skin but it's unnecessary things like this that irks me. Also watch as this comment will probably get mysteriously deleted...
Dear digkv,
Actually, he was only quoting another person who made the comment.
Maybe McCain is elitist, maybe he isn't. All of that is beyond the point, and personally I don't care what you, he, or anyone else eats beyond hoping you won't eat a lot of meat, dairy and eggs, because eating those things hurts animals.
What MCcain is, however, since you insist in bringing it up yet again, is an establishment tool who would be happy to maroon our troops in Iraq for 100 years, while torturing gay members of the armed services by supporting the ridiculous "don't ask, don't tell" rule. (No, I'm not gay, but I feel for anyone who is forced to hide their most basic nature from their fellow humans, as if it were in any way shameful.)
McCain is weak on human rights, soft on regulating big business, and basically represents more of the same old poop.
McCain is resting on his laurels as a soldier, when he should be standing up and supporting those who are now soldiers. (Information is coming out of Iraq suggesting that the same old crap we did in Viet Nam is being done again in Iraq. Kids are coming home dead-eyed and damaged, from being made to do inhuman acts.) He's supporting the same old "Might is Right" garbage that allows an armed force to treat weaker people horribly.
But . . . perhaps this isn't the place to talk about McCain. Or, for that matter, about conservatism (by which I mean formalized, head-in-the-sand, afraid-to-change-anything, stupidity.)