Comments on The Political Story of the Year

In what it's calling "Farfallegate," the Huffington Post breaks a huge story sure to derail Senator John McCain's bid for the presidency.

Oh, totally. Yep. Big time. So, what's funnier? Cindy's plagiarism, or that retarded sentence?

Neither! Your picture of Manwich takes the cake!

Wuvz.

But I didn't "read it here first." I read it on HuffPo yesterday!

I just don't get it. Are there still people on this Earth unaware of the existence and reach of Google? I thought even the Kalahari bushmen now know what searching for "Saute the scallions for 10 minutes" reveals at this point.

If you don't plagiarize a recipe, how do you know you're getting the correct measurements, temperatures and times?

She should have just added an extra half teaspoon of salt and problem solved.

@1 - Mr. Poe,

Tongue ---> Cheek

Sorry Charlie,

Republicans don't want first ladies with good taste; Republicans want first ladies that taste good.

Oh yeah? That's nothing. Michelle Obama discussed race relations in her senior thesis at Princeton!

i've had my share of manwiches in my day -- my boyfriend and i actually plan to have one this weekend -- but how the hell do they fit that into a can?

My general-purpose recipe for Texas-style Anything:

One pound of something from the Meat Group.

One pound of something from Sugar Group.

One half pound of something from the Spice Group.

Mix. Heat. Serve.

Meat Group:
Beef
Pork
Chicken
Beans

Sugar Group:
Brown Sugar
Molasses
Honey
Sugar

Spice Group:
Salt

Plagarism doesn't matter to republicans. They're not known for having ideas of their own, so the concept is kind of lost on them.

Doesn't Cindy know to plagarize recipes you just google and then add something a little different? My white trash tuna casserole using canned salmon instead of tuna and Cascade Jalepeno potato chips crumbled on top with shredded cheese instead of Lay's still seems to get positive comments.

The whole concept of a "McCain Family Recipe" is insane. Can there be people who actually believe that Cindy McCain (who is worth in the neighborhood of $100 million) really cooks this stuff and serves it to her family?

I'm guessing that John McCain didn't dump his first wife for a trillionaire heiress so that he could dine on his new trophy wife's turkey sausage hot dish.

She's a real piece of work, that Cindy McCain! She also got drummed out of her own charitable organization ten years ago, for stealing pills from it. She had the DEA after her, then, but blamed her pill problem on stress stemming from her oily, lying husband's involvement in the Keating Five Scandal.

Will in Seattle has had sex with her.

Giada, on the other hand, gives me a big fat chubby, especially when she bends down in one of those loose tops, which she does about thirty times a show. Does that make me a McCain voter?

Excellent point, Peter F @ 14. The "Focus on the Family" crowd have got to be positively thrilled at having our nation's first admitted wife-dumping adulterer-Presidential candidate with his lovely home-wrecking pill-stealing-plagiarist First Lady-to-be (whose family piles up their millions by distributing beer) at his side as their standard bearers.

But Giada's head is huge! I can't look at her without thinking about the size of her head.

The funny thing is that copying a receipe is perfectly ok, as long as you re-write the directions. You can't copy and ingredient list. It would have taken all of five minutes to make those recipe's perfectly legal, but instead they just cut and paste.

i thought 'mccain family recipes' consisted solely of k rations. isn't that what his book sez?

@15 Will in Seattle had sex with Cindy McCain?

@19: I don't want to know, you don't want to know, nobody wants to know.

I though it was that they tandem-paraglided at Lake Louise.

http://michaelscomments.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/giada-delaurentiis-3-08073.jpg

Other than seconding Fnarf's sentiments, that image is all I will post on the matter.

@19, I think that's what he said. Maybe it was his dad.

Everything that can ever happen in life has happened to Will in Seattle. Or someone he's related to, or a good friend, et al. Just ask him.

Where is Will, anyway? Perhaps he's off meeting with Obama, taking a moment to discuss the "bitter" kerfluffle in between his work on multistory housing projects and a new HIV vaccine.

You can't copyright a recipe. Accusing someone of plagiarizing a recipe is like accusing them of plagiarizing instructions on how to mow the lawn. Sure it's still plagiarism, but it has even less meaning than imputed.

Stay away from my girlfriend and her recipes, you trollop!

Oh yeah? Martin Luther King Jr. was a plagiarist too, in his graduate school papers, and nobody cared about that. So why should anyone care that McCain's wife plagiarized a recipe?

fnarf @ 23, will in seattle had sex with his dad? does his mom know about this?

did you guys get enough sleep?

or are you still high from something?

(shakes head in puzzlement while watching Michelle Obama - more my style - on Colbert)

This has been the greatest thread in ages.

Please, that crack addict has never cooked anything that wasn't in a teaspoon.