Heh. I turned on MSNBC briefly this morning and heard Joe The Scar say that the Republicans Are So Good At Painting Democrats as Elitists and Republicans Really Are For the Common Man and Common Values (or something to that effect). After I finished snorting in laughter, I got to thinking about why anyone in the world who wants to, according to the Republican playbook (and yes, that includes you too, Hillary Clinton, who ought to go join the Republican party) say somebody else is an elitist wouldn't be pointing their big Common Folk fingers at McCain! McCain has a NERVE saying anyone in the WORLD is an elitist.
Let's just start with this big gaffe. I guess in some lame desire to paint Cindy the Bimbo McCain as Just Folks, somebody, and highly doubt it was Cindy McCain, decided to put recipes that were lifted word for word from Food Network on the johnmccain.com website. And what recipes they were! I went to look, because I thought, were they, say, Meatloaf recipes? Chicken Pot Pie? Oh, no. They were friggin Hotsy Totsy recipes, like "Ahi Tuna With Napa Cabbage Slaw". Now, there may be people out here in Glen Rose that regularly, perhaps every night, go fix recipes like that, and I myself have made recipes from the 2 FoodNetwork books I have, but my FAMILY recipes are stuff like Hungarian Goulash, or Swiss Steak, you know, meat and potatoes type cooking. Dare I say, COMMON FOLK cooking like Chicken Fried Steak.
(Click on this for a close up screen shot of McCain's recipe page) Let's just see what those recipes are: Farfelle Pasta with Turkey, Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms; Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw; Rosemary Chicken Breasts and Warm Spinach Salad with Bacon; Crab Scampi and Whole Wheat Spaghetti; Homemade Guacamole; Mixed Fruit Tart; Passion Fruit Mousse.
Can I tell you what I find utterly hilarious about this? The Passion Fruit Mousse, for example, references Passion fruit puree, but who the heck has passion fruit puree in their local rural grocery store? Now, mind you, I've never looked in the local Brookshire's here but I'm dead certain there's no passion fruit in the produce section. And not just tuna but *Ahi* Tuna and "Napa cabbage". heh. (Okay-we could all load up in the car and drive for an hour to the Central Market in Fort Worth, right?) And yesterday McCain tried to make fun of Obama by saying Obama was a guy who "thinks the whole country is worried about the high price of arugula", which, um, is GROWN in the farm belt and sold in stores all over, for example, Iowa. Don't you just know that McCain might not be worried about the price of arugula, but you know his Cook is!
Somebody needs to ask Cindy McCain IF she ever cooks and IF she does, how many times she has made those *family recipes* which were plagiarized off Food Network. But oops, I guess the McCain campaign has decided that those really are NOT Cindy's Family Recipes because they've DELETED THE PAGES OFF THE JOHNMCCAIN.COM website! Could it be that having them there not only looked like they were plagiarists but elitists?
One of my favorite new blogs to read is Betty Cracker, who has a hilarious take on this.
If she eats at all, she gets a servant to whip up something for her. And that fact need not even interfere with the "Maverick" image the media helps McCain cultivate. According to one of McCain's knob-slobbering pet reporters, one of the things that makes McMaverick so "cool" is that he married "a rich girl, 17 years his junior."
Campaign reporters are so in the tank for McCain that they almost never mention the one time we know of that Mrs. McCain actually ingested something: pilfered narcotics from her own charity. (As I mentioned earlier, I can't say I blame her. If I were married to a comb-over gnome who occasionally called me the c-word, I'd be scarfing down handfuls of Vicodin too. That or ripping the fire extinguisher off the wall of the Straight Talk Express and bashing his head in.)
Secondly, such hoity-toity recipes! Just yesterday, the McCain camp, trying to make whatever hay out of Obama's "bitter" comment that Hillary hasn't already eagerly gathered and baled, mocked Obama as "a guy who thinks the whole country is worried about the high price of arugula." O'Rilly? Passion Fruit Mousse? Farfalle with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms? Not exactly standard diner fare. People who live in fancy-pants "Napa Cabbage" cottages shouldn't throw arugula stones, ya know?
