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McCain Camp Cribs Recipe For Cindy -- Again!
Another 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.
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Cindy plagiarizes!!!
June 16, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
i would have been kicked out of college for plaigerizing
http://sensico.wordpress.com/
June 16, 2008 4:42 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oooh... not be so foamifying at the mouf.
It's OK. She liftered dat peece from Maureen Dowd!
June 17, 2008 4:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ahh, c'mon. Does anybody really believe Cindy McCain has ever set foot in a kitchen? Of course, she pilfers her recipes. The real problem is that the staff can't keep from getting caught.
June 16, 2008 7:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
How dumbfuck can they get? Plagarixing from the net? Geez...someone tell'em how the Internets work.
BTW:Making Cindy look human is humanly impossible.
June 16, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotta love how desperate and disingenuous they are in their attempt to remake Cindy to look more human:
http://www.thepersonalispolitical.com/2008/06/cindy-mccain-like-rachel-ray-only.html
June 16, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans stealing and cheating? Yawn, that's not news...
June 16, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
"That's not cooking we can believe in."
June 16, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
June 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
rotflmao
June 16, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
This snark is made of awesome. :)
June 16, 2008 4:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
SPEW!!! Thanks for that guffaw!
June 16, 2008 6:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
The same can be said about something McCain has done or said virtually every day so far.
June 16, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obama '08: Cookies We Can Believe In
June 16, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
They didn't even try to make it look original. You'd think that they could have at least changed the order of the ingredients list or have slightly modify amounts. But no, they copied the thing verbatim right down to the prep and cooking instructions. F for originality.
June 16, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Reading the comments at Parents Magazine about these cookies, most readers like Mrs. Obama's recipe better. They are having a contest.
June 16, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
No No No, her recipe calls for UNSALTED butter or margarine - the Hershey recipe just calls for butter or margarine.
June 16, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yaaawn.
Please. Like this is the first time Cindy McCain has stolen something.
Wanna get my attention, Cindy? How about a brownie recipe that incorporates that Vicodin that you do love so much. Sweetie.
June 16, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is any one up to the challenge of walking the McCain's through resetting their cookies?
June 16, 2008 4:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
Brilliant!!
June 16, 2008 4:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haha, now there's an internet joke I can get behind!
June 16, 2008 5:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
After or during the whole health care bill debacle with Hillary in the first term Clinton White House, she suddenly came out with this recipe for her favorite cookies. I don't get it. What is it with the cookies? Does anyone really think a cookie recipe makes them look "homey?" and "down-to-earth?" Listen, when Cindy McCain comes up with hints on how to get knots out of toddlers' sneaker laces with her teeth, I'll begin to think she's done something "down home."
June 16, 2008 4:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's all part of the "Who's more of a Real American?" contest between candidates. This particular variant may date from 1992, when Hillary defended her professional accomplishments by saying she hadn't wanted to stay home and bake cookies. That threatened to undermine Bill's Real American credentials, so later in the campaign she turned around and came up with a cookie recipe.
Ever since, you can't be a contender if your spouse doesn't make a strong showing in the cookie primary.
June 16, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not as bad as when the Drug Enforcement Agency was after her and hubby was able to her into a diversion program.
June 16, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
seriously. no one's too worried about her stealing a few RXs, but if she thinks she's getting away with pilfering recipes? holla, that is a serious crime.
June 17, 2008 2:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
They'll just blame the help, oops, I mean the interns again.
Those damn interns wrote his economic, and foreign policies too... It wasn't hard though... a little copy and paste from Bush without the salt.
Must be his heart.
June 16, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
What if the magazine just asked for the recipe of Cindy's favorite baked cookies? Nobody is going to mistake her for a cookie baker - so she gave them a recipe of baked cookies she likes.
This is a silly issue.
June 16, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
June 16, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HERSHEY'S!!!
June 16, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
C'mon we all know that St. John didn't cheat on his permanently disfigured first wife b/c of Cindy's baking skills...
June 16, 2008 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why does anyone think someone as wealthy as Cindy McCain bakes or cooks anything? The only thing she makes for dinner is reservations.
June 16, 2008 4:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's a trollop to do?
June 16, 2008 4:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
when is the msm going to call out cindy mccocaine for the phoney that she is?
June 16, 2008 5:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy's Tollhouse Cookies
4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
3 T butter
4 OxyContins
3 Percodans
5 Vicodins
Combine in bowl. Get baked.
June 16, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 16, 2008 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, man, that's some viciously good snark!
June 16, 2008 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
And then wash it down with the beer that made her rich!
June 16, 2008 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Has anyone seen this video yet? It's about McCain Calling his wife the c-word and why it isn't being covered in the media. It's brilliant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euu_DMhsXQo&eurl
From the makers:
"McCain's freaky-mean '92 outburst is a well-sourced story found in Cliff Schecter's book "The Real McCain." Due to the particularly profane nature of the offense it would probably be useless to wait for the press to give it the full-on, endlessly repeating, 24-7 Reverend Wright treatment. So we'd love to help."
June 16, 2008 5:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now that's funny.
June 16, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
bitch, please. in the age of the interwebs, make sure your cookies are vetted!
June 16, 2008 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Shouldn't the headline here be:
"Wife of Hillary-Praiser McCain Cribs Cookie Recipe"?
June 16, 2008 5:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
So, when are Cindy McCain's patent phoniness, iciness, and drug-addled past going to become legitimate campaign issues? You know, the way every utterance, glance, or telegraphed thought of Michelle Obama is? We're waiting.
June 16, 2008 5:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's not a cookie recipe you can believe in. That is a cookie recipe you can Xerox.
W
June 16, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
You'd think that she could come up with a recipe using beer batter. Just get one of her employees to write up one. Her inability to think out of the box for recipe ideas further shows that the McCain's aren't capable of new ideas.
June 16, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, don't laugh about these candidate wives' recipies. One of my mainstays still, one frequently requested by my kids, is "Muriel Humphrey's Ground Beef Casserole" from Parade Magazine in 1968. I forget what Pat Nixon's contribution was - I made it too but wasn't impressed. (Of course, I was biased.) Mrs. Humphrey, however, cooked a mean casserole!
June 16, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
How in the hell did she get 5 and a 1/2 dozen, and the Hershey folks can only squeeze out 4?
June 16, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Elizabeth2: Are you sure it was a casserole? She was much more famous for her Beef Soup. http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1848,155160-238193,00.html
June 16, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy plagiarized this receipt from Kodos and Kang, her space alien friends who drive the Phoenix Lights vessel.
June 16, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Geez, the McCain campaign is even inept at plagiarizing.
June 16, 2008 7:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
ohh my god...who freakin cares!
June 16, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do any of you people actually cook? I despise the smarmy McCains as much as anyone on earth, but does having a favorite recipe always have to mean you developed it yourself? Maybe the heiress cooks and maybe she doesn't, but using someone else's recipe doesn't make her a plagiarist. Do you all think your sainted mother personally created her meatloaf recipe?
June 16, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I cook. And sure, I often use other people's recipes, but I never pretend they're mine.
June 16, 2008 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
No, but when you publish a recipe in a major magazine that is attributed to you, the assumption is, it's yours. More than that, if you publish a copied recipe without giving credit to the source, it's plagiarism. It's not a big deal by any means. It's just funny. But at the same time recipes are intellectual property, so are knitting patterns, etc, and you cannot republish one without attribution. It's a little bit mindboggling that they would do it again--especially in a major magazine where if something is plagiarized the lawyers get a wee bit ootsy.
June 17, 2008 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cindy McCain: Cookies we can heave in...
to the toilet
June 16, 2008 9:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, c'mon, everyone. my3sons is right. There are a finite number of recipes in the world, and very few cooks create a recipe from scratch. If I contributed a recipe, it would certainly come from someone else--whether a published source or not. At a minimum, this may be stupidity on the part of someone in the campaign--maybe they didn't even ask her for a recipe but grabbed one that was handy. In either case, to attack a candidate's wife over this is tacky and makes our side look bad.
June 16, 2008 9:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
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I cook, and yes, my mother did create her meatloaf recipe. I watched it evolve over the years.
I've created a few original recipes myself, usually when I was wandering around the supermarket searching for something in the veg. section which looked appealing. Curried green beans, anyone?
Leave Cindy McCain alone. She's already got enough troubles. John, for one.
June 16, 2008 10:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't know if they are still on the website but Cindy had recipes that called for ahi tuna and lump crabmeat which certainly don't make for inexpensive meals.
If anyone has access to the photos of John and Cindy McCain in the 7/07 issue of Harper's Bazaar, I'd like to hear from you. When I first saw the pix, I remember thinking they'd be a lot of fun to goof on if McCain was the nominee.
As I recall, Cindy and John are posed like high fashion models. They look like wealthy elitists who have nothing better to do than pose for vanity photo shoots.
June 16, 2008 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ya, my favorite choco chips cookie recipe is off the back of Hershey's choco chips, too. Non-issue.
Next? Fave pea soup?
June 16, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait, is toll house nestle's?
my bad -
June 16, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
What the F do you expect from Republicans... they have never seen a lie too big nor the a false-hood not compatible with GOP taling points.. The GOP is by definition liars and delusional....
June 17, 2008 5:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
bawhahahahaha...now that's hillarious.
June 17, 2008 9:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
SHE COOKS ?
Why would you ask for a recipe for anything from someone like Cindy McCain? Anything from a drug stealing addict should be viewed as highly suspicious.
June 17, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
SHE COOKS ?
Why would you ask for a recipe for anything from someone like Cindy McCain? Anything from a drug stealing addict should be viewed as highly suspicious.
June 17, 2008 10:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
converse --- It was definitely a casserole: layers of ground beef mixed with egg & onions, whole kernel corn, and tomatoes. But THANKS for that soup recipe!! Can't believe I never heard of it. (If you see this and want the recipe, just post and I'll put it up here.)
For the rest of you (since obviously I cook), most recipes come with a 'pedigree'. One you got from your neighbor Sue would be attributed to Sue, even though SHE may have copied it from a book. "My" casserole is always attributed to Muriel Humphrey and Parade magazine. When they ask candidate's wives for their favorite recipe, I don't think anyone would think a thing of it if they said "my favorite recipe for choc chip cookies comes from the ________ cookbook" (or from my mother, or from my next door neighbor in 1990) -- but if you don't attribute it somewhere, then you are implying that it's yours.
I agree we should lay off Cindy, but it's a little unnerving that the McCain campaign doesn't have more brainpower. --- Look, if you're going to steal a recipe, grab one from an old 1940s cookbook and maybe saw that it's been in the family for generations. Even if they found the source, *she* could have gotten it from her mother and thought it was original. But to go to an easily-found web site ............. If this is the outfit that wants to run our country, I'd like to think that there is a little more brainpower at work (especially when it's the second time, for gosh sake!!)
June 17, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink