David Weiner: McCain "Family Recipes" Lifted from the Food Network

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Justin Bobby's Model Behavior
Published 4/15/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... : Did you know that New Orleans is the vagina of New Orleans? Go figure. Cooking the books : What do John McCain and Jerry Seinfeld have in common? Both of their wives have been accused of recipe plagiarism. ...

Cindy McCain Probably Caters Her Home-Cooked Dinner Parties, Too
Published 4/15/2008 by david at Jossip
... Cindy McCain – or, more likely, her husband’s campaign – has some answering to do for seven “McCain Family Recipes” that appear on John’s website. Instructions for whipping up Ahi Tuna With Napa Cabbage Slaw, Passion Fruit Mousse, Farfalle With Turkey Sausage, Peas, and Mushrooms, which are all attributed to Cindy, are actually recipes from The Food Network’s website. One appears to be a slightly modified Rachael Ray recipe. ...

From Seinfeld to McCain, Famous Moms Everywhere Stealing Recipes [Scandal]
Published 4/15/2008 by Sheila at Gawker
... In the wake of the Jessica Seinfeld Deceptively Delicious plagiarism scandal, now John McCain's wife Cindy is being accused of lifting recipies. God, could people possibly find anything more boring to steal? On the HuffPo, David Weiner explains how she copied dishes that she passes off as "McCain family recipes" from the Food Network, of all places: ...

All About Alleged Rapist Bill Cosby, Because April 15 Is About How Other People Need To Start Taking Responsibility! [Crappy Hour]
Published 4/15/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
... all over and being crapped on by other cows necessitating a constant stream of antibiotics to keep them from getting sick before slaughter because, really, it takes a really special slaughterhouse to still slaughter a downer cow and feed it to the populace and the USDA is getting so mean about that these days. What? It's not like we've got BSE in this country. Or, um, but we totally got it from Canada! Only when we didn't! Whatever, everyone should take our meat anyway. MOE: OMG Cindy McCain is totally the next coming of Jessica Seinfeld . And they use them in pork and ...

All About Alleged Rapist Bill Cosby, Because April 15 Is All About How Other People Need To Start Taking Responsibility! [Crappy Hour]
Published 4/15/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
... all over and being crapped on by other cows necessitating a constant stream of antibiotics to keep them from getting sick before slaughter because, really, it takes a really special slaughterhouse to still slaughter a downer cow and feed it to the populace and the USDA is getting so mean about that these days. What? It's not like we've got BSE in this country. Or, um, but we totally got it from Canada! Only when we didn't! Whatever, everyone should take our meat anyway. MOE: OMG Cindy McCain is totally the next coming of Jessica Seinfeld . And they use them in pork and ...

Cindy McCain Also Steals Recipes [Scandals]
Published 4/15/2008 by Ken Layne at Wonkette
Is there anything new first lady Cindy McCain won't steal? The beer heiress stole husband John McCain back when he was relatively young and handsome and needed a new wife, she stole dope pills from her own medical charity, she furtively brought home some orphans from Bangladesh one time, she continues to steal "stray" dogs, and now the Cougar Baroness is accused of stealing recipes from the Food Network! A New York attorney was searching Google for some recipe by famous Food Network chef Giada DeLaurentis — this is what ...

Cindy McCain's Recipegate -- The Intern Did It!
Published 4/15/2008 by TMZ Staff at TMZ.com
... that it was a "low-level unpaid staff debacle" that resulted in a bunch of Food Network recipes being fobbed off as Cindy McCain's on the Senator's web page. [image] We're told that the intern in question has been "swiftly dealt with" and that the site's already been taken down. Apparently, McCain's peeps say, the web intern saw fit to "add Rachael Ray to our policy team" (so droll, those McCainites) and they apologize to the Food Network for the recipe-filching, as first observed by the Huffington Post . Fear not, though: Cindy's "recipes" have generated "a tremendous amount ...

Idle Chatter: Katie Couric, Cindy McCain, more
Published 4/16/2008 by jbercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... -Speaking of News Corp....uh, there's actually no segue here. John McCain's wife ripped off a bunch of recipes from the Food Network's website and tried to pass them off as "family" recipes. [Huffpo] ...