McCain "Family Recipes" Lifted from the Food Network (tsk tsk Cindy)

[catgirl]

David Weiner at Huff Post:

What will they call it? Farfallegate? Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal? Perhaps something with the ubiquitous Rachael Ray in it.

It seems that Cindy McCain, John McCain's perfect, blonde beer-baroness wife is about to find herself painted as the latest example of plagiarism on the campaign trail.

This past Sunday, Lauren Handel, an eagle-eyed attorney from New York, was searching for a specific recipe from Giada DeLaurentis, 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.

On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find seven recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the heading "McCain Family Recipe." Ms. Handel quickly realized that some of the "McCain Family Recipes," were in fact, word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site.

See Cindy's recipes at this link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/mccain-family-recipes-lif_b_96666.html

[myrna minx]

1. Someone should inform the McCain campaign how the google internet tubes work.

It seems kind of metaphorical that the McCain family recipes are cut and paste.

[MADem]

2. Who will get fired, I wonder? This sounds like a sloppy staffer's work to me.

Anyone who thinks that the beer distribution heiress actually COOKS is higher than she was before she kicked her painkiller habit!

[patrice]

3. Oh Shit, this IS serious. McCheney just lost the Foodie vote!

There ARE people who are a little extreme about Food and who thought up what about which ingredient. Really!

[oviedodem]

4. Heaven forbid this was Michelle. Barack would have to have a speech on food in the USA.

[dancingme]

5. Not the first time Cindy McCain was caught stealing

:P

[KittyWampus]

6. touche. Maybe I'll recommend this story. It's got a certain weird element of whimsy

[grytpype]

7. OMFG!!!!! RECIPE-GATE!!!!!

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[lynnertic]

9. welcome to my ignore list

your nickname for Mrs. McCain was just too much for me, yuck!!!

[zbdent]

10. hey, it's John's word, not mine ... the "Straight Talker" said it, so it must be true ...

[tabasco]

11. McCain obviously trying to peddle the propaganda that wifey toils in the kitchen

like a good little woman!

[catgirl]

12. Update: Cindy McCain blames in on the intern

UPDATE, 1pm EST, 4-15:

It took less than 12 hours from the time the media caught wind of Cindy McCain's recipe theft for John McCain's campaign website to scrub away the offending pages (screen-captured below). That's 12 hours more than it took Cindy to come up with the recipes... (In the meantime, you can still see the listing of recipes as it originally appeared on the campaign website through the Google cache.)

It also turns out that Mrs. McCain submitted "her" Passion Fruit Mousse recipe to the New York Sun for an article that ran on January 16th. Just like on the McCain campaign site, there is no sourcing other than McCain herself...

CNN (and TMZ) are now reporting that Recipegate was the work of an intern, and that according to McCain's campaign, the whole thing is a "low-level unpaid staff debacle."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-weiner/mccain-family-recipes-lif_b_96666.html

[catgirl]

13. Too funny...

David Weiner:

Personally, I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain "family" recipes. Did the intern lose Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes? If only we could all steal and lie and lay it off on the unpaid help.