McCain Camp Cribs Recipe For Cindy -- Again!

[Yellowdogtexan]

There is a pattern here http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/mccain_camp_cribs_recipe_for_c.phpAnother crack is showing in the McCain campaign's attempts at crafting a down-home image.

The campaign contributed a recipe to Parents magazine, "Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch Cookies." However, it looks like it was copied directly from the Hershey's site.

The McCain campaign previously got caught copying some other recipes, purportedly from Cindy McCain herself, off of the Food Network's site. Just try to imagine the outpouring of pundit outrage and ridicule if a Dem did something like this once, let alone twice.
:LL

[Trueblue]

That campaign needs some better interns. :lol

[Yellowdogtexan]

That campaign needs some better interns. :lolThey have not blamed this on the intern yet but give them time.

[Matt]

I'm sure Cindy just spends too much time slaving over her hot stove to remember which recipes she developed and which she stole.
Perhaps the botox injections have also removed the creases from her brain. :lol

[Yellowdogtexan]

Here is some more on the latest incident http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/re-heat-offender-cindy-ba_b_107428.htmlHere we go again. Just two months after we broke Recipegate comes news that Cindy McCain is up to her old tricks. The July 2008 issue of Family Circle featured an article in which each (it went to press before Hillary conceded) of the presidential candidates' significant others submitted a cookie recipe. A tipster caught a whiff of something besides sugar after reviewing Cindy McCain's Oatmeal-Butterscotch cookies, and quickly found the original recipe at Hersheys.com (see image below). While McCain, or that same low-level staffer, managed to take the time to switch a few minor details in her version of the recipe this time around, there is no doubt that the recipes are the same.

While Bill Clinton gives credit to the family cook, and Michelle Obama to the godmother of her daughters, Cindy McCain attributes her cookie recipe to "a good friend."

Unless John McCain was a childhood friend of Milton S. Hershey or her beer baron family worked with him on a chocolate beer bar back in the day, it seems Cindy is a plagiarist of the most delicious kind. Again.

Let's hope I don't get another unpaid intern fired this time around...

[Yellowdogtexan]

Some satire from Andy Borowitz is appropriate here Cindy McCain Robot Gets New Head

State-of-the-Art Head Stores 2,000 Recipes

"We have the technology."

That was the message out of the McCain camp today as Sen. John McCain unveiled a newly refurbished Cindy McCain robot, featuring a state-of-the-art replacement head.

While the Cindy McCain robot had been a fixture during the primary campaign, appearing at the senator's side at hundreds of campaign events, a McCain campaign aide went out of his way to indicate that with its newly installed head, the CinBot-9000 was ready "to take it to a whole new level."

"This new head is going to enable the Cindy McCain robot to do things that it could never do before," said McCain aide Davison Matz. "For one thing, it will now be able to talk."

Mr. Davison said that while the robot's previous head had been able to emit simple sentences such as "I've always been proud of my country," the replacement head will have a 400-word vocabulary that will enable the android to simulate human-like speech.

"The robot will be able to talk about the economy as well as Sen. McCain himself," Mr. Davison said.

He also said that the newly improved Cindy McCain robot would have increased data storage, enabling it to store up to 2,000 recipes from a variety of online recipe sites.

Appearing with Sen. McCain at its unveiling, the CinBot-9000's new head appeared virtually identical to the previous one, down to its bleached blonde hair and glassy-eyed stare.

Beaming with pride, the GOP nominee remarked on the new head's resemblance to the old one: "She still plasters her makeup on like a trollop."

Elsewhere, President Bush announced plans to carve Iraq into two regions, "Full Serve" and "Self Serve."

[Diremaker]

Of course, this is one of the burning issues in the American presidential election... recipes.
I'm sure that cookie recipe spells certain disaster for the American housing market, fuel prices, poverty AND the Girl Scouts.
Add this to the list of petty insignificant crap designed solely for the purpose of being able to point a finger at the "other guy". :tv

[issac the dragon]

I think you are right Diremaker. I can't imagine why anyone in the news would ever talk about this crap. I have no doubt Cindy McCain told the campaign the first time they asked for a recipe to go to. So some genius has to find one and put it out in her name. They deserve what they get.

I think presidential wives are abused. They should form a group and draft every woman who's husband runs for office. They could all take an oath to never give anything to the press or any other group seeking to crawl into their private lives.

Politicians are egomaniacal, arrogant, creeps. No woman has ever done anything bad enough to have to live with one. They should not have to pander to the press. Tell the nosy bastards to go to hell, and get on with their lives. And if the creep is caught screwing around, any one of them who tries to drag their wife with them should be punished by being tarred and feathered.