Something Fishy In McCain "Family Recipes"

Washington Post: Bloggers Find Recipes Attributed To Cindy McCain On Web Site Were Plagiarized

(Washingtonpost.com)  This story was written by Michael D. Shear.

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Ahh, the home cooking of Sen. John McCain's wife, Cindy. You can almost smell her Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw or her rosemary chicken with warm spinach salad as you peruse the recipes on her husband's campaign Web site.

Or you could have, until yesterday, when that part of the site was taken down after bloggers revealed that several of the "McCain Family Recipes" were, in fact, copied word for word from the Food Network.

Cindy McCain's tuna recipe was actually developed and submitted to the Food Network by cookbook author and former "Cooking Thin" host Kathleen Daelemans. The recipe for farfalle pasta with turkey sausage, peas and mushrooms was a "quick pasta classic" from the TV show "Everyday Italian." That old McCain standby -- rosemary chicken -- was a creation of TV chef Rachael Ray and was lifted, with a few changes, from the same Food Network site.

All three were listed on a McCain Web page titled "Cindy's Recipes."

"Apparently a Web intern added Rachael Ray to our policy team without her knowing it," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds deadpanned yesterday. "He was swiftly dealt with, and the page is down for revision."

But not quickly enough to avoid becoming the latest "gotcha" of the presidential campaign. McCain's advisers dismissed the gaffe as irrelevant; it was revealed on the same day that their candidate gave a wide-ranging speech about his economic philosophy.

But it was unearthed as McCain and his rivals -- Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton-- continued to argue about who is more in touch with working-class Americans, in the wake of Obama's comments about "bitter" small-town voters at a fundraiser last week.

Even if the recipes had been Cindy McCain's own, it's hard to see how the campaign thought it could win over Middle American voters with dishes such as crab scampi served over whole-wheat spaghetti.

A blogger for the Huffington Post, freelance writer David Weiner, first reported the plagiarism, mocking the incident as "Farfallegate? The Rosemary Chicken Dome Scandal?" He attributed the discovery to Lauren Handel, a New York lawyer who had been searching the Internet for recipes and found identical ones on the Food Network and McCain campaign sites.

"Personally, I'm not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain 'family' recipes," Weiner wrote. "Did the intern lose Cindy's recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes?"

Daelemans, who is developing a new cooking show for public television, said yesterday that she created her Ahi tuna recipe after living in Hawaii for five years. She said she ran to her cookbook to compare her recipe with McCain's when she heard the news.

"Am I offended?" asked Daelemans, a Democrat who said she voted for Clinton in the Michigan primary. "Absolutely not. I'm flattered. I'd love to cook it for them personally."

[Gary Kempf]

Oh come on now, Maybe Cindy''s personal aid lost Cindy''s recipes and instead of coming clean, quickly went to the web to find replacements. I surely can picture Mrs. McCain in the Kitchen cooking, Can''t You???????

[mswolfestock]

This is hilarious! Cindy McCain looks like she''d need a road map to find her own kitchen, much less ruin her manicure by actually cooking something. McCain sure has some mental giants on his campaign staff. But then again, McCain is so old and out of touch anyway; this is exactly what you''d expect from somebody as clueless as he is about American life in the year 2008. Discussing the wives'' homemaking skills went out of fashion when Eisenhower ran for President. And I''ll bet that most Republicans think that whole wheat pasta is a communist plot, too.

[briannorwood]

It was the "eye of newt" in the "witches brew" recipe that gave her away!

[kissamaarse]

Elitist recipes by Cindy McCain, used without legal permission. LOL!

[Syndicate]

McCain has to take down recipes, Obama had to remove the Black Panthers. If this is all they can find on McCain we got it made. Besides do people really have recipes with names like "Ahi tuna with Napa cabbage slaw"?

[thinkharder-]

haha...this is too funny.

If this is all they can find on McCain we got it made.
Posted by cbscrash07 at 12:57 PM : Apr 16, 2008

And believe me friend...this is hardly all we''ve got on McCain. How about his beligerent adherence to a supply side economic philosophy (that he once opposed) that is burying the lower and middle class? How about his 100 years in Iraq? With 70% of the country opposed to the war, that is some pretty intense reverse psychology he''s trying to work out there. How about his repeated inability to accurately distinguish between different sects of Islam? Now there''s a man with his finger on the pulse of the middle east. Oh...I could go on, and on, and on.

[perceptions5]

Well this story is "really" important.

Of course it''s a lot more important then the fact that the AFL-CIO came out today and endorsed Hillary.

Way to go Post and CBS for "censoring" that information................in the tank, STILL

[Gary Kempf]

When ask by a reporter today, Cindy McCain reponded proudly "In back of the house Somewhere." Turning back to her aid briefly, She again turned to the camera Smiling with renewed confidence. "Yes definitely somewhere in back of the house."

[Gary Kempf]

CBS deleted part of the question, From When ask by a reporter today, Do you know where your kitchen is?

[armydog2]

perception5

I am trying to find where afl-cio came out to support hillary, do you have a link

[j-whitman]

Cindy, come on now,,,, Elitists don''t go near the kitchen

[element51]

Does anyone in their right mind really believe that Mrs. McCain spends hours slaving over a hot stove? This woman is worth over a hundred million dollars. It''s a pretty sure bet that she has a housekeeping staff, probably illegals, taking care of her house. The efforts of all three candidates to convince us that they are "just like us" makes me LMAO. If any one of them had to trade places with "one of us" for a month they wouldn''t last a week. Come on guys, quit trying to give us the mushroom treatment. (Keeping us in the dark and feeding us a bunch of *****.) Do you think we are all low grade morons?

[j-whitman]

The McCain''s probably take a full kitchen staff on camping trips.

[jsilver2th]

Fakes and Liars- the McCain''s veneer is slowing peeling off-

[sassalin]

Who cares!!! This has nothing to do with the election!

[samthetvcat]

Check out the size of the diamond earring in that picture! They don''t look fake unlike her recipes and her taut complexion :o (meow!)

[alexma50085]

Hahaha, this is too funny. Did anyone really think that Cindy McCain has ever cooked a meal in her life? Best joke all day!

[vastr-wcon]

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Plagiarizing by AMNESTY-JOHN? Doesn''t he realize that the MSM allows only Sen. "God Da,mn America" hussein to get away with such low-life behavior?

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[blackspirit3]

Here is what is fishy - Amongst all the media teeth-gnashing over the question of whether McCain did special favors for his blondie lobbyist, his wife%u2019s sweetheart deal for massive narcotics theft in the 1990s has been forgotten.

If a poor black woman from Anacostia had committed the crimes that Cindy McCain committed, the black woman might have been sent to prison for the duration of her life.

John McCain has never shown any courage on the drug war. As long as people like his wife don%u2019t need to fear jail time for crimes, there is no reason to reform the law to cease the persecution of other Americans.

Here are the details from an article I wrote for Playboy in 1997. The McCain excerpt is about a third of the way down, in bold.

Re-reading the article, it is from a whole different era %u2014 one in which it was acceptable to joke about hanging politicians.

[blackspirit3]

Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine. McCain stole the pills over several years. She became addicted to the drugs after undergoing back surgery. But rather than face prosecution, McCain was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish on her record. McCain did suffer from the incident, though: Shortly after the scandal broke, a Variety Club of Arizona ceremony at which she was to receive a humanitarian of the year award for her work with the medical team was canceled because of poor ticket sales.

[blackspirit3]

Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine. McCain stole the pills over several years. She became addicted to the drugs after undergoing back surgery. But rather than face prosecution, McCain was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish on her record.

[Syndicate]

We have already decided that plagirism is Ok after Obama ripped off several speaches. I guess its alot better to have to take down recipes than to have to remove the endorsement of the Black Panthers.

[jntlw-2009]

I have to ask what the heck is wrong with the media? Who cares of Mrs. McCain plagiarized some recipes? I am not a McCain supporter at all but this is junk/trash media coverage. I get recipies from friends and pass them along to others all the time and never know who or where they originated. Maybe someone is giving me credit for a recipe I got from someone else. Who cares? It is just recipes. Now if she plagiarized a book of meaning, that would be a different story. Stop with the stupid lame stories about nothing and go out and uncover some real story like some new crime the WH has committed - there is plenty of stuff out there on that. Give me some story with substance and not some who cares piece of junk story!

[amazedd]

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition! How utterly embarrassing. She ought to bake a platoon of gingerbread men, as a show of repentance.

[canyoutellme-2009]

We have already decided that plagirism is Ok after Obama ripped off several speaches. I guess its alot better to have to take down recipes than to have to remove the endorsement of the Black Panthers.


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Posted by cbscrash07 at 02:31 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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Actually, Obama didn''t plagarize. He had full support from those he "borrowed" from before and after the fact. The person he allegedly STOLE from told the world that Obama can use exactly what he said. THAT is not plagarism. However, what the McCain site did was copy it and NOT have the owners permission. THAT is plagarism. Please look up the difference. As to the black panthers... yeah, like Obama can tell the Black Panthers who they can support LOL.

[canyoutellme-2009]

Cindy McCain, the wife of Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.), admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine. McCain stole the pills over several years. She became addicted to the drugs after undergoing back surgery. But rather than face prosecution, McCain was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish on her record.


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Posted by BLACKSPIRIT3 at 02:31 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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Please provide a link to a reliable source for this please. I have not seen this before and before believing you, i would need to see it from a credible source.

Thanks in advance

[tomanyt]

Why does anyone care about this?

[forthepeopl1]

this is more important to debate, than this s/h/i/t/


if it aint MR. POTATOHEAD, LOOKS PRITTY SCARED DOENT HE. ITS FUNNY TO HAVE THIS INSIDER OF WALLSTREET HAVE SO MUCH POWER..


LISTEN IF THEY ( CONGRESS) WOULD DO THERE JOBS WE WOULDN''''''''''''''''T BE IN THIS MESS.

ANYONE THAT TOOK OUT LOANS FROM 2000 TO 2007
REGARDLESS OF WHAT THERE CREDIT LOOKS LIKE RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF THIS MESS MOST HAVE LOST THEIR GOOD RATING.


THEY NEED TO COME OUT AND TELL ALL MORTGAGE COMPANYS

TO RE-FI EVERYONE NOW. NO EXCEPTION IF THEY HAVE A
MORTGAGE THAN TAKE 60% OFF THE BALLANCE AND RE-FI THEM AT 1 PERCENT OVER PRIME AND STOP ALL THE BLEEDING FOR ONCE..THAT IS ALL THAT HAS TO BE DONE, SIMPLE,FAST,AND IT WOULD STOP ALL FORCLOSEINGS,BURNINGS OF HOMES,AND STOP 10''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''S OF MILLIONS FROM BEING ON THE STREET..

THIS IS MORE INPORTANT, THAN THIS ***.

OR HOW ABOUT REPORTING THAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THIS FROM CLINTON AND MCCAIN. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SAY TO THE 374,298 AMERICANS DEAD,HURT,MAIMED IN THIS WAR YOU SUPPOTED FROM THE START..HOW ABOUT ASKING THEM THIS


TIME TO MARCH DOWN AND TAKE THEM OUT..

[speakinup]

This soooooooo ranks right up there with, Ms Obama''s comments.

Talk about reaching.

[canyoutellme-2009]

Plagiarizing by AMNESTY-JOHN? Doesn''''t he realize that the MSM allows only Sen. "God Da,mn America" hussein to get away with such low-life behavior?

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Posted by VastR-WCon at 02:28 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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Between you and Obama, the only one i see saying "God D*mn America" is you... you keep repeating it in your posts so apparently it is YOU who is saying "GOD D*MN America". I have seen/heard Rev Wright saying it and i have seen YOU say it, but i have never heard or seen Obama say it. Please send me a link or something to anything showing that Obama has said anything remotely close to that. Many thanks in advance.

[stephenapple]

Is this how elections for president are decided ... "stolen" recipes. Come on folks ... is that what this comes down to ... Chose between someone whose "spiritual advisor" of 20 plus years spews hatred of America or someone whose wife "steals" recipes? How many ways are there to bake a cake, anyway? Hope you folks think about the real issues when electing someone to the most powerful office in the world today.

[zorar-2009]

If one cheats on their website..that''ll give you an idea what the''re like in politics.."honest as the day is long" from the (S.Z. Sakall ie: Rick''s Cafe manager in Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart)
This is a problem for rich old men & women politicians
who don''t realize every thing they say or do is going to "googled" thank god for "GOOGLE"

[zorar-2009]

All politicians are ego maniacs that will lie for power..why should the McCains be any different?!

[notblue]

I suppose CBS thinks this news if it sheds a negative light on the republican candidate. What a bunch of agenda driven crappp brought to us courtesy of leftwing central.

[mcvet]

I suppose CBS thinks this news if it sheds a negative light on the republican candidate. What a bunch of agenda driven crappp brought to us courtesy of leftwing central.


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Posted by notblue at 02:44 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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You seem to have a real hang up with the PEOPLE having Information. Now I never have heard you utter a word when it''s a Democrat or "Liberal" but when it''s a nazi or one of your fascist buddies you seem to want to put the FREE PRESS under the control of the Gestapo. Maybe you should try to care a little more about your COUNTRY and a little less about your Party there swastika breath!! Sieg Heil Bush!!

[mcvet]

This soooooooo ranks right up there with, Ms Obama''''s comments.

Talk about reaching.




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Posted by speakinup at 02:37 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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You know that comment seems to matter ONLY to you fascist... I mean those who listen and can understand the english language understand what Obama was trying to say. You Nazi??? Not a chance! Has it ever occured to you that when you are down to trying to develope HATE based on ONE misspoken word, especially when you have been in power for 8 years, you really are the one''s reaching??? Sieg Heil Bush!! ROFLMAO

[honestabe8]

blackspirit: why would McCain show courage on the drug war when his wife''s wealth is directly connected to pushing legal drugs?

[mcvet]

Is this how elections for president are decided ... "stolen" recipes. Come on folks ... is that what this comes down to ... Chose between someone whose "spiritual advisor" of 20 plus years spews hatred of America or someone whose wife "steals" recipes? How many ways are there to bake a cake, anyway? Hope you folks think about the real issues when electing someone to the most powerful office in the world today.


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Posted by nothing2do at 02:39 PM : Apr 16, 2008
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How about we talk about the ISSUES... after all we are 9.3 TRILLION DOLLARS in Debt, going deeper at the rate of 1 million a minute. We have a needless war going on costing us 12 Billion. The Dollar is near worthless, SS and Medicare are in deep trouble, we have lost ALL our good paying jobs to countries paying 30 Cents a day... I''d say those are the things we should be talking about here, not any of this garbage including your stupid stunts as well. Sieg Heil Bush

[bestillandno]

Even if the recipes had been Cindy McCain''s own, it''s hard to see how the campaign thought it could win over Middle American voters with dishes such as crab scampi served over whole-wheat spaghetti.



I think maybe the author of this article is an "elitist" also. What say you?

[ricknuber]

notblue:

So, if CBS is left wing and biased, who should we get our news from? Which news source is free from bias? You post all kinds of screechy, moronic drivel about CBS "bias", yet you''re here every day.

Why don''t you just keep to the news sources you actually believe? I can tell you why: you''re a troll. You''re here to libel and shriek, not to engage in a thoughtful debate. Go astroturf for your party elsewhere.

[blazercoach1]

This is funny. Some of you are acting like, "Oh I would have voted for McCain, but this is the last straw!" PUHLEASE!

On the one hand, EVERYTHING matters. People who are dishonest in small matters will also be dishonest in large matters. This was nothing which McCain himself said or did....but it reflects poorly on his staff.

So basically our choice is this:

Candidate A: the candidate who states that small town Americans are "bitter" and "cling to guns and religion".

Candidate B: the candidate under Sniper fire who promoted a free trade agreement that she claims she doesn''t support while her chief campaign strategists works FOR the trade agreement

Candidate C: the candidate who''s staff plagiarizes recipes and attributes them to his wife.

While it shows that dishonesty is not monopolized by any party....I think Americans will have to prioritize what is more egregious.

[parrot123-2009]

"Am I offended?" asked Daelemans, a Democrat who said she voted for Clinton in the Michigan primary. "Absolutely not. I''m flattered. I''d love to cook it for them personally."

Only a Dem could be this gracious ..... Cheers !

[blazercoach1]

rafterman,

Some whiners also complain that they have to answer the first question all the time. Some whiners have whiner husbands who seem to think that their spouse shouldn''t be expected to be honest or have a good memory at 11pm.

Let''s hope that candidate isn''t expected to handle a 3am phone call!

[blazercoach1]

Only a Dem could be this gracious ..... Cheers !

Posted by parrot123 at 03:13 PM : Apr 16, 2008

Parrot,

Perhaps only a Dem could claim to monopolize a good trait and thus ignorantly and divisively demonize others they disagree with? I don''t think so....but you''re making it hard for me.

I don''t think either Obama or McCain would paint each other or their political opponents like that.

[willymack]

Last time I heard, the democrats were in the majority in congress, the body that funds wars, and Hillary voted for funding (twice). So sieg heil to the Democrats including the consulting husband who is on the Arab gravy train, not to mention Hillary who is Pro Nafta in one town and Anti Nafta in another and who took big campaign bucks from a known Fellon. You have heard trading guns for butter? Why not Bullets for Democrats.

[flajoe1]

I wonder in which of their eight houses do they have the kitchen staff prepare these meals

[idnnsg]

"A: the candidate who states that small town Americans are "bitter" and "cling to guns and religion". ... "While it shows that dishonesty is not monopolized by any party..." - blazercoach1

No, this just shows that you have accepted the blatant lying and twisting of "candidate A''s" statements. There is absolutely NO DOUBT that small towns that have lost their manufacturing jobs are ripe with bitter people. There is NO DOUBT that bitter people in small towns cling to their guns and to their religion for security. How in the hell is that supposed to be an example of candidate A''s "dishonesty"?

It just AMAZES me how effective the republican mouthpieces (FOX, et. al.) are at creating negative images of their opponents, based on the flimsiest of misrepresented factoids!

[parrot123-2009]

===While it shows that dishonesty is not monopolized by any party....I think Americans will have to prioritize what is more egregious.===
Posted by blazercoach1

You''re right. For instance, here''s another priority:

President A who lied about a BJ in the WH

or

President B who lied about a war that got 4000 Americans killed

Now, which one should get impeached? Hmmmm...
Posted by rafterman1 at 03:25 PM : Apr 16, 2008

Dude, you''re trying to Kill Coach - There''s nothing like reality in his World or better yet, admission of any kind of mistake made, most ignorantly. Cheers!

[idnnsg]

Here''s the REAL scoop on McShame:

http://dickipedia.org/***.php?title=John_McCain

[parrot123-2009]

Last time I heard, the democrats were in the majority in congress, the body that funds wars, and Hillary voted for funding (twice). So sieg heil to the Democrats including the consulting husband who is on the Arab gravy train, not to mention Hillary who is Pro Nafta in one town and Anti Nafta in another and who took big campaign bucks from a known Fellon. You have heard trading guns for butter? Why not Bullets for Democrats.
Posted by willymack4 at 03:28 PM : Apr 16, 2008

You''re trying to change History and don''t sound very Intelligent - if i might add. Buzz Off with your BS.