Heavy Lifting: McCain "Family" Recipes Fliched from the Food Network

Ooooh!  Cindy McCain is in trou-ble!

Okay, maybe not so much Cindy McCain as a half-assed intern that did a piss-poor job of plagiarizing recipes, says HuffPo.

About a half dozen recipes, including ones from FoodTV's femme heavyweights Rachel Ray and Giada De Laurentiis, were copied with the barest tweaks and posted on the McCain Campaign Site as (wait for it) "McCain Family Recipes".

HuffPo's side-by-side screen shot comparison of the recipes:

• Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw
• Passion Fruit Mousse
• Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms

Ho, lord.  Where do I even BEGIN? 

1. When did people get SO RETARDED at plagiarizing???  Listen all you lazy, innovation-lacking momos out there: It takes VERY LITTLE effort to reword and change a recipe so that you can't be caught for plagiarizing.  Substitutions, bitches!
2. Great-great-Grandma McCain was rich in passion fruit, napa cabbage, ahi tuna and turkey sausage, was she?
3. When do you suspect the wife of the Republican Presidential Candidate was last home, much less cooking?  Why not just post her method for reshingling a roof, or her secret tricks for getting rid of lime stains???

To the remaining, cowering interns manning the McCain Campaign Site: You actually missed a genuine opportunity here.  Republicans are often accused of being oldsy-timesy and stogy--if you could not procure ACTUAL family recipes for the down-home authentic American facade you were going for, why not just be frank?

WHY NOT just say the McCains are demonstrably busy, harried, and mostly forced to eat on the road, and when they DO have a rare moment and privilege to prepare a meal for themselves, they do what families all across the nation do--they use recipes from the Food Network. 

I'll bet a good number of registered Republicans are Food Network junkies.  And I bet they would appreciate hearing that even their Presidential hopeful's family feels the same constraints that all modern families cope with in getting a homemade meal on the table. 

And if they were SUPER smarty-pants, they would post both recipes attributed to the Food Network and actual recipes from the McCain Family Cardbox, to appeal to a wide range of socioeconomic family situations.

Yeah, it's spin, but at least it would be well-thought-out, inclusive spin.  Truth of the matter is, Cindy was in no danger of talking about real food anyway.

But noooooo...you had to remind us that at the end of the day, presidential candidates (and apparently, potential first ladies AND campaign strategists) don't put a great deal of thought into the significance of what they feed their families.

Or what they allegedly feed their families.

BRAVO.

Comments

[HaggisLuvR]

Damn straight. It would've been much easier to tell the truth in a way that establishes a connection with voters than to tell a lie that rightly alienates them.

Now where's my passion fruit, napa cabbage, ahi tuna and turkey sausage sandwich?! It's been in the family fer years!!!

[Jon Sperry]

Stealing recipes, it's the American way.

[Reavinator]

This woman is the heiress to the Budwiser Empire. Do you think she spends any time in the kitchen at all?

Nada!

Now...it might have been more convincing if she would have added "Just add a cool refreshing Bud Light" as the final ingredient of every dish!

[From Behind]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6yV3wozEs8