The Huffington Post stumbled on a funny mistake on the McCain website. It turns out that some of the family recipes displayed in the "McCain Family Recipe" section of the site (yes, there's a "recipe" section of the site) were ripped directly from the Food Network's website. From the Huffington Post:This past Sunday, Lauren Handel, an eagle-eyed attorney from New York, was searching for a specific recipe from Giada DeLaurentis, a chef on the Food Network. Yet whenever she Googled the different ingredients in the recipe, the oddest thing happened: not only did the Food Network's site come up, as expected, but so did John McCain's campaign site.
On a section of McCain's site called "Cindy's Recipes," you can find seven recipes attributed to Cindy McCain, each with the heading "McCain Family Recipe." Ms. Handel quickly realized that some of the "McCain Family Recipes," were in fact, word-for-word copies of recipes on the Food Network site.
At least three of the "McCain Family Recipes" appear to be lifted directly from the Food Network, while at least one is a Rachael Ray recipe with minor changes.
Update: Blame it on the intern.
2 comments:
This is an awesome story. I love this. What a moron. Is it really possible that they have no family recipes? EVERYONE has them. Ask a friend if you don't. How stupid is this?
I am a good cook and have cooked for my family for 20 years - but I don't have "family recipes". I make something new every day. Everyone is different - and you're a moron if you think everyone has to have family recipes. Who cares if Cindy can cook or not? Why should she anyway - she's rich and can do what the hell she wants - like adopt a child from Bangladesh.
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