McCain Website Pilfers “Family Recipes”
EmailABC News’ Jan Simmonds Reports: While most of the political world has been focused on controversy surrounding Barack Obama’s "bitter" comments, there has also been another scandal brewing in the political kitchen.
A savvy New York Attorney noted and cited a report on the Huffington Post website yesterday that a batch of recipes listed on John McCain’s campaign website, under the headline "McCain Family Recipes", were actually taken word for word from the website of the Food Network.
The recipes in question – including Ahi Tuna with Napa Cabbage Slaw, Passion Fruit Mousse, and Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms — were all credited on the website to McCain’s wife Cindy. Another recipe also appears to be very similar to a recipe of TV personality and chef Rachael Ray.
When questions over the pilfered recipes were brought to the attention of the McCain Campaign, they noted that an intern was at fault.
"Apparently a web intern of ours appointed an unknowing Rachel Ray to be our Senior Director for recipe policy," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds in a statement. "The intern was dealt with swiftly and the site has been taken down for revision. Our humble apologies to Food Network."
ABC News’ Brett Hovell contributed to this report.
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thanks ABC,
You will nevvvvver see this on all the other darling of the media McCain outlets
Posted by: jAYjAY | April 15, 2008, 5:39 pm 5:39 pm
I’m not fan of McCain at all, but this is a really boring scandal. I can’t imagine people actually care about this.
Posted by: Kit | April 15, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
“NO ORGANIZATION OF ANY NOTE WOULD HAVE AN INTERN PUBLISH WORK ON A WEBSITE WITHOUT APPROVAL OF A REAL EMPLOYEE.”
Meanwhile, a statement of support from the Black Panther Party was allowed to stay up on the Obama campaign website until news outlets brought attention to it. Yeah, let’s talk about organization….
Posted by: Bilford | April 15, 2008, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
Who is Norman Hsu?
Posted by: Dan Tana | April 15, 2008, 6:01 pm 6:01 pm
Why not steal recipies? He is stealing all of the President Bush plans to continue the war and sticking it to the middle class.
Posted by: FormerRepublican | April 15, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
Sounds like the big three Hillary, McCain, and Obama are filled with lies and pandering. It only illustrates how sad it is that one of these three will be the next president. If Americans really wanted someone with principles and integrity, Ron Paul or someone of that mold would be the frontrunner. We get what we vote for I suppose.
Posted by: Ben Straub | April 15, 2008, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
Obama copied multiple speeches from Duval Patrick.
Just words remember.
Talk about hypocricy from the left.
Posted by: Jason | April 15, 2008, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm
Apparently McCain’s web team needs instruction on protecting intellecutal property and the managers need some basic management guidance.
While a minor point and somewhat comical, it might be symtopmatic of a bigger problems on teh depth of knowledge of his campaign team.
Posted by: scott jeffries | April 15, 2008, 6:51 pm 6:51 pm
The real question should be:
where the recipes any good?
Did anyone try them?
John McCain will not back down on recipes if they are good ones, regardless of their source.
He’s the man!
Posted by: YeahBut | April 15, 2008, 6:52 pm 6:52 pm
Hey Obama worshippers
Wait until Obama kisses Mashaal, Nasrallah, and ahmadijjan. I would like to see your comments here. Wake up naive Americans.
The Patriot
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
“Still, its better than what interns did in the Clinton white house!”
so Bob I did not say where he would be kissing them.
The patriot
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
This is ‘NUTS” ……….. PERIOD! This oldman has nothing better to offer.
Posted by: Che-3 | April 15, 2008, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm
# 1 Recipe for disaster: Obama 4 prez.
# 2 Recipe for disaster: Hillary 4 prez.
Posted by: Lance | April 15, 2008, 7:31 pm 7:31 pm
Man this is boring. – Be careful boring may get hitched to his name “Old and Boring”!. Silence is often golden – We can’t wait to see the Republicans out of the picture and they are going, going, going..come November.
Posted by: Sherrie | April 15, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
Bet if you asked Clinton, she’d claim they were here recipes that her grandmother passed down through Sir Hillary – or some other BIG whopper of a story. Obama would definitely find fault and let us know he knows so much more than any of us about recipes and cooking!
Posted by: Mary | April 15, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
In shoes of our repub friends I wouldn’t have been so cocky: the digging hasn’t started yet. Since our dem friends are busy drowning each other full time, nobody pays much attention to Mr. McCain’s existence. And there is a LOT to dig out on him if do it right; Obama’s Rev. Wright excepts would look like Sunday School staff compared to McCain personal, military and voting history…
Posted by: toroid | April 15, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
Ha Ha- a fake as the rest of McCain’s facade–
Posted by: John S | April 15, 2008, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm
As a card carrying democrat and one who will not be voting for McCain I have to say, who cares?
Posted by: Harry Tuttle | April 15, 2008, 7:47 pm 7:47 pm
OMG this is so important. Here is the recipe for a glass of milk. Get a nice tall cool glass fill with milk. Now comes the good part. Pick up glass and drink it.
Now if McCain uses this recipe remember you saw it here first. haha.
Maybe McCain likes the recipes to eat. So this guy looks up the recipe and copies it from the internet and puts it into a blog.
If this is the worst we have on McCain he will win in a landslide for sure.
I am a Democrat.
Posted by: DemocratForever | April 15, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
Mr. disabledOIFvet,
In any of your IRAQI freedom tours, did you ever noticed Obama fighting side by side with the insurgents?
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 7:55 pm 7:55 pm
This is irrelevant as Obama’s bitter comment. Too bad Hillary is too busy trying to mess up the Democratic party right now to deal with McCain. If she weren’t, she’d try to make this into a big deal, and some Americans would be stupid enough to think it really was a big deal. This campaign is just depressing.
Posted by: Marilyn | April 15, 2008, 7:57 pm 7:57 pm
I’ voted for Kerry and will be voting for Big Mac, simply because they truly defended this nation not cursed it and was ashamed of it
The patriot
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
Oh man, I wonder if anyone is already downloading and copying my mash potato recipe!!! LOL
Is this a political news?
What about ABC following up the Rezko trial where this week the witness placed Obama and his wife attending a party at Rezko house, another of the things Obama denied!
Posted by: Mary_Chicago | April 15, 2008, 8:02 pm 8:02 pm
Marilyn,
you wrote: “some Americans would be stupid enough to think it really was a big deal. This campaign is just depressing”.
I agree! some Americans are stupid, but not all of them, only those who are supporting Obama
The patriot
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 8:03 pm 8:03 pm
What’s the matter? McCain doing too well in the polls?
Posted by: Neo Politicus | April 15, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm
McCain is just reaffirming the republican base that he too is corrupt. Gotta firm up the doubters. -wink-
Posted by: disabledOIFvet | April 15, 2008, 8:10 pm 8:10 pm
The Democrats are preparing their own recipe and it is a recipe for disaster come November. The recipe is called Obama. Just add a little Obama bigotry and denial of voter rights and the Dems should be done by election day.
Posted by: beo | April 15, 2008, 8:18 pm 8:18 pm
did any one of you heard, on MPR radio, this morning @ 7:00 A.M Pacific Time a reporter (faux pas)asking Obama, should he become a president (god forbid), whether or not he would transfer troops from IRAQ to Afghanistan in order to defeat the Taliban and Obama bin Laden.
Posted by: Tony | April 15, 2008, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
This is a non issue. People make mistakes…get over it
Posted by: Lauren | April 15, 2008, 8:34 pm 8:34 pm
This is the best you can do to poke shots at McCain? I could have done better – and I’m voting for him.
Posted by: Mark | April 15, 2008, 8:43 pm 8:43 pm
Suspended Manamation – Oh yeah, that too.
Posted by: Sanity Man | April 15, 2008, 8:59 pm 8:59 pm
The terrorists win.
Posted by: disabledOIFvet | April 15, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
The outrage! Darn liberal cookie eating republican. Evil ! I tell you, first it’s cookie recipes and next he’ll draft us all to fight Iran so we can help rebuild Iran in addition to rebuilding Iraq. Unthinkable liberal republicans want to put the entire mid-east on welfare.
Posted by: Greg McDonald | April 15, 2008, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
On the point of Elitist. McCain’s dad was a high ranking admiral in the 60′s and you don’t get much more elitist than those demographics. I have admired McCain’s honest opinions in the past but in the race for the White House he and his wealthy wife have certainly caved on opinions. Did he really leave a crippled wife for a rich blonde???
Posted by: Elites Alight | April 15, 2008, 9:28 pm 9:28 pm
jpm1977, so it’s okay for McCain to lie because he’s yours, but it’s not okay for any other candidate? Lying is lying…and building some kind of mytholocal fantasy about the candidate or his spouse is typical Republican hypocrisy.
Posted by: Two-cats | April 15, 2008, 9:39 pm 9:39 pm
Typical smear that really isn’t a smear.
If this is all they can find on the guy, then he has my vote.
Sorry big O, McCain is squeaky clean!
Posted by: Tim Wells | April 15, 2008, 9:41 pm 9:41 pm
What about the children? It’s all about the children.
Posted by: Greg McDonald | April 15, 2008, 9:45 pm 9:45 pm
I am a democrat but I think Mrs. McCain will make a great first lady.
Posted by: bobby | April 15, 2008, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Yay for Cindy, I mean, go Rachel Ray!
Posted by: Allen | April 15, 2008, 11:04 pm 11:04 pm
It will be good to have a first lady (Cindy) who loves this country instead of one who loathes it (Michelle)…
Posted by: Jo | April 15, 2008, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm
Maybe Cindy didn’t know it would be easy to find the real source of her ‘family recipes’ on the “internets”
Posted by: Kira | April 15, 2008, 11:57 pm 11:57 pm
So, does this mean I can’t claim those are some of my favorite family recipes?
Posted by: gamongrel | April 16, 2008, 7:46 am 7:46 am
I didn’t realize that when you have family recipes you are supposted to actually make them up yourself. The majority of our family recipes came out of recipe books, shocker! This is an idiotic “scandal”.
I always go to the food network when I want a recipe.
Posted by: Shanna | April 16, 2008, 7:48 am 7:48 am
to everyone that says get over it. substitute cindy McCain with Michelle Obama or Hillary, you & the media would be all over this as a character flaw.
Posted by: jAYjAY | April 16, 2008, 8:12 am 8:12 am
this is not news, this is rediculous…
Posted by: Nestor in Miami | April 16, 2008, 11:00 am 11:00 am
I wonder if he had to sit on flak jackets and dodge snipers throwing cream puffs at him as he flew into “dangerous” airports?
Do you imagine that this is “the first time ‘Cindy’ has been proud of America” because of the way John dodged RPG’s shooting doughnuts at him after he landed?
Being called a “War Hero” after putting his life on the line defending America is something McCain is going to have a real tough time living down. lol
I don’t like everything McCain stands for; but by God I am proud he is an American, and that’s a whole lot more than anyone can say about the Dems running for POTUS!
RUN ON INTEGRITY JOHN: THE DEMS DON”T UNDERSTAND THE WORD. lol once again
Posted by: Ken | April 16, 2008, 12:24 pm 12:24 pm
If this is a “non scandal” as claimed by one person on this blog, then why wasn’t Obama’s using his friend’s speech material a ‘non scandal” instead of the national press harping and harping for weeks on Obama’s ‘plagiarism’?
Why is it non-news for McCain but horrible and flaming for Obama?
Another example of mainstream press bias in favor of McCain.
Posted by: Dr_Detroit | April 16, 2008, 12:45 pm 12:45 pm
First of all, recipes are copyrighted materials. Even if it weren’t, stealing them is plagerism and dishonest. How can a low level staffer do this? Someone high up in McCain’s staff must have authorized the web site. Someone assigned a staffer to put up the recipies and told them were to get them.
Plagerizing recipies doesn’t seem like a big deal, but the fact that Republicans think that stealing and dishonesty is OK (see many of the previous posts) is worrysome. Perhaps if Republican voters had a higher standard for ethical conduct, they could find Republicans who were a bit less tempted by corruption and dishonesty.
Posted by: Tammy stickers | April 16, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm
I wish she would make BUSH a BIG pitcher of GRAPE Koolaide.
Posted by: Pat M | April 16, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm
Hey, what do you expect? Do you want Cindy to sweat out something creative and original?
Gosh! She only distributes beer: She doesn’t create it! And she makes $millions. So all is well, you bitter poor people!
Posted by: chokora | April 19, 2008, 11:31 am 11:31 am