On January 3 the usually non-partisan Food Network had its closest brush with politics, with predictable results. Bait and switch, Washington style.
Food Network aired a two hour Iron Chef: America featuring Michelle Obama. Our choleric FLOTUS was there to provide a message about Childhood Obesity and tell the chefs what the secret ingredient for the competition was. And the ingredient? Why, produce from the celebrated White House garden:
The chefs included White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford and star chefs Bobby Flay, Mario Batali and Emeril Lagasse. Mrs. Obama showed up in an orange dress that looked like it would be very fashionable on runways. The kind planes land on. You half expected her to bust out some flags to wave at some passing aircraft. Then she declared they had to harvest the ingredients from the garden in order to create “five ultimate American dishes.”
Through the magic of TV, you’d think they plucked the veggies in Washington, DC and high tailed it over to the Kitchen Stadium in New York to whip up the grub. That would be as truthful as a campaign promise. The crops were picked in late October. The cook-off took place the following week in New York. Since the produce wouldn’t be fresh, they had to use “body double” veggies.
And there’s a great reason for that. The food in the White House garden has been deemed toxic. They knew this last year, so the whole scene of picking food from the White House garden was as fraudulent as President Obama’s promise to put the health-care debate on C-SPAN.
The problem stems from a previous administration’s having used sewage sludge for fertilizer. Which means it will never be certified organic. Before you commentators start typing up anti-Bush screeds, the previous administration was the Clintons. Yes, one vainglorious administration passed on their agricultural legacy to another. The irony is almost as funny as a Joe Biden gaffe.
It’s nice to see the Democrats continue to show America their talents for improving the land with their “wise policies.” Leadership by example, and all that.
But then, we can’t exactly say that Iron Chef is anymore real than one of Obama’s political sideshows. After all, you didn’t really think that the White House chef was going to lose that battle, did you?
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Just goes to show that everything coming out of the White House is toxic these days. Do you suppose Michelle was trying to match her dress to Mario Batali's crocs?
Oh yes..the Iron Chefs produced many dishes that will be prepared across the continent tonight in small kitchens that have a ready supply of lemon grass at hand..what a farce. I would love to see someone in D.C. with (1) one lick of sense.. you want to do something special. Get them to take a pound of hamburger..I said hamburger..and make a nutritious dish for a family of four at a reasonable price..that kids will eat. Now, that would be special.
Wait! Those aren't flags she's wearing on her shoulders? You know, the blue squares … Who let her dress in that color combo?
I did have a lot of fun watching this battle although I missed which team won, but I enjoy a lot of things on Food Network.
Actually, if you live in a reasonable metro area, lemongrass isn't that hard to find. One of our local Price Choppers always has it in stock. Of course, if you know enough to drive to the Asian market downtown, you can get it much cheaper.
I agree that calling this a reasonable expectation of what most people would make with garden veggies is laughable.
Hey! A bigazz "pumpkin" – right in the middle of that top pix!
I think that's a "frock". Don't quote me om that – I'm no "chef".
Does Brand Obama really matter when no one will be able to afford cable television anymore because of the economy. Out of touch liberals.
She looks ghastly. She is not First Lady material.
That chef to her left stole here matching shoes! GASP!
I swear my mother used to make gourmet meals outta thin air. I don't know how she did it. She worked a lot of miracles.
That's hunter orange, I'm thinking. Hmmm. What's she fear?
You are all being a little hard on Michelle. Do you have any idea the sacrifice involved in flying to Copenhagen? (I'm not even sure they had time to stock the kobe beef and caviar.) No. I didn't think so.
That's the problem with you people. What FLOTUS and Oprah endured on that flight – the drama from the airport to the rooms – and what the sacrifice meant for the children. It touched her.
And wait until the children get THE BILL.
I find it hysterical that the Clintons polluted the ground and Moochelle grew her veggies in it. The educated gardner that she is. The left propogating the left. Thank you for my evening laugh. Can anyone sayl "dumb " and "dumber"?
LOL I was thinking the same thing. But, do you think MO would even consider wearing Crocs? They only cost about $40, much less then her usual $600/pair.
She looks like an ol' HOJO's (Howard Johnson's).
If the President and First Lady's job was to be displayed on TV and in magazines, these two would be the greatest President and First Lady in the history of the galaxy. But then again, so would two properly lit wax figures of them. Too bad the President's job is to serve and lead, not smile and wave.
These two think so little of the American people, they sincerely believe all they have to do is "show up", and they'll get a big electoral pat on the head no matter what grossly unpopular nonsense their party foists on us and what openly corrupt means they use to do it.
They're all in for quite an awakening. The clock radio sounded off on September 12th in D.C., the Dems hit snooze until November in New Jersey and Virginia, then again right up to next week in Massachusetts.
And in November comes the fire alarm.
I KNEW I remembered seeing those colours somewhere before, thank you!
"Good Eats" is one of the few television shows I watch, I've used Alton Brown's recipe for Thanksgiving turkey for nearly 10 years now, and hear "Perfect turkey, Mom" every year. Haven't watched "Iron Chef" since about 2003. Meh.
I second that. Nancy Reagan, Laura Bush…so demure and classy. And respectable…
We use his turkey brine for years now as well…VERY good!
What in the world are you talking about??? You are boring.
That's sounds pretty racist to me. You sound like a ethno-supremist.
They could belong to an orange smurf? Are there orange smurfs?
Hilarious! Yes, the Clinton sewage contaminating Michelle's hyped-up garden. Priceless!
Great last sentence, bitterweed.
The left always resorts to those pathetic accusations when they don't have the thought processes to come up with any relevant points.
A muumuu made by Omar the Tent Maker.
I made sure we were watching something else. I emailed Food Network at the time of the taping that we would not watch this episode in particular. What a farce.
I'm done with the "Iron Chef" program. I used to like Alton, Bobby & Emeril. Sorry fellas, you are in bed with some real "TURDS" lol
Nobody really cares unless it's GW Bush holding a plastic turkey for all of ten seconds. Then, you could expect some media pandemonium at the sheer dishonesty of it all.
I don't watch Food Network anymore. Paula Deen slobbered all over noted anti-semite and former failed president, Jimmy Carter for a two-part episode. And then another show (I forgot which, sorry) got Laura Bush to give them her guacamole recipe and then took it to various snooty chefs so they could rag on it on TV. They apparently were appalled that it used lemon juice instead of lime. They'd never heard of such a thing. Forget the fact that at least half the recipes I've seen for guac use lemon, the whole exercise was unnecessary and just another excuse to bash one of the Bush family. Food Network was the last TV I watched. Buh-bye.
I'm sorry, but Mario Batali is a pig. The guy wears a dress and orange Crocs to the White House. I don't care if that is your sissy trademark – give it up for four hours like any self-respecting man would do.
Give's "Clinton's Toxic Legacy" a new meaning, doesn't it?
I think she is color blind, those shoes do not go with that outfit.
The heck with Iron Chef, get her on What Not to Wear.
Yeah, mousiemarie – I don't know if you saw the episode of Huckabee about a month ago where he had Paula Deen come on to talk about her giving food to needy folks program through Smithfield. The two of them kept saying how close of friends they are – and they could very well be – but dang it was awkward watching the two of them interact knowing how bad she has is for Jimmy Carter. Mr. Jimmy, as she calls him. I stopped watching Food Network a long time ago. Up and got rid of cable, too, because that was the only channel I really watched other than FNC.
I just threw up…I didn't know she had a thing for Dimmah Carter…
Funny you mentioned that. Chef Batali made such an effort to suck-up — he over did his flattery on MEME's orange dress. (A kindergarten aged family member asked if FLOTUS was dressing up as a carrot!!)
Chef B explained that his orange shoes were his trademark and he called the color Batali Orange BUT NOW he would call the color Obamatali Orange — or some such nonsense like that….I didn't hear anymore as the remote was busily engaged in changing channels –
He needs to rip that American Flag patch off his dress sleeve…
Like the author of this post commented —
'. . . you didn’t really think that the White House chef was going to lose that battle, did you?'
Although I was never a regular viewer, I liked watching Iron Chef from time to time. When I saw the previews of this show, I decided I would NOT tune in. Makes me laugh that the Clintons contaminated her precious garden. When did the photo op planting the garden at the WH, I thought it was a bunch of crap. (Little did I know how correct I was!) Funny it was to promote going green and healthy!
was an apron over below-the-knee-pants. . .his trademark cooking clothes.
Dressed as a Jack O'Lantern, the FLOTUS ”promised that people will be hearing a lot from her this year about childhood obesity. "
….this is from a woman who, when she bends over; half the Nation goes into Daylight Savings Time.
How come Food Network took the Japanese version of Iron Chef off the air? It was much more entertaining then this current ego festival .
Once again, Desiree Rogers, the social secretary to the Whitehousedemonstrates her lack of attention to detail and incompetence by dressing FLOTUS’ in a clownish circus outfit for a photo op. THEN adding insult to injury she juxtaposes Michelle's loud colors with Mario Batali’s signature tasteless shoes! Fabulous!
I freaking love ICA and will continue to do so. I am not bothered by the idea of having the First Lady as a guest (would have loved to have seen Laura Bush on for a Texas themed battle- maybe Battle Steak?) But the whole photo op garbage really pisses me off. Food Network dropped the ball on this one.
The inmates are running the asylum………….
At least his shoes didn't clash with MO's dress……..
BWAAAA………HAAAAA……….HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Yep. Two-part episode. And then she went to the Carter compound or some such place in another episode. She was all gaga. Broke my heart.
Wow more proof that everything in Washington is TOXIC.
I noticed they let there pet dog run without a leash, and there is no fence around the garden…
It is not politicly correct to tell the First Lady her green taste like peepee.
It didn't. That show ran it's course in the ratings over in Japan. But it owns part of the American version. That's probably why Morimoto is one of the chefs.
As do we…
OH MY GOD…!!
2 for 1 at the restaraunt…!
Lots of flavors of Ice Cream…!
Chewbacca with polluted veggies, doin' the Obama two-step bait-and-switch on the Food Network…!
What's next? Gaki no Tsukai…?
Even that won't be as humiliating as the Obama getting his and his Congressional flunkies heads handed to them over the next two years…
Honestly, this ding-fest writes itself…!
Looks like a drogue parachute draped over an escape pod…
ROTFLMAO!
Ooohhh…that hurt…
A +1 to you, sir…!
As I said before…
She looks like a drogue parachute draped over an escape pod…
OMGosh! Didn't they say something about how they had been giving that food to a local food bank??? And doesn't this mean that the first family has been eating bad stuff? What about those kids who came and worked the garden and took produce home?
The article at Politics Daily says the produce picked from the garden were donated to a local food pantry, is this true? If so, the whitehouse should be sued for subjecting innocent people to produce that has been deemed toxic. What heartless bastards.
Ugh. Glad I didn't try to watch that one.
I'm sure she wears much more expensively ugly shoes.
1) Why didn't they test the soil before planting? That's gardening rule #1: know what's in the soil!
2) Why, after they realized the veggies shouldn't be eaten, did they not just set up a greenhouse and use planters to grow edible veggies? They could have said it was because winter was coming – oh, wait… they would have had to admit it was going to get COLD. Never mind.
3) Still, why not just admit it and use it as a teachable moment? It's not like the Obamas love the Clintons. This is all so silly!
When something like the Food Channel get politized you know it's time to give in to Al Quada… There is no hope…We lost, throw in the towel… if the Islamonazis take over, we can at least shoot them…
with our drones.
If you know the codes?
They play it live on the opening of the stock whatever
Release conrad black..
YOU STUPID DISRESPECTFU CITIZENS OF AMERICA, YOU ARE SUCH A BUNCH OF WHINY BABIES. LIKE YOU KNOW HOW TO DRESS. GO TO WAL MART I SEE YOU EVERDAY AND U DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRESS. THIS IS AN EDUCATED , BRIGHT ARTICULATE RESPONSIBLE LOVING PERSON. MOST OF U DON'T HAVE ENOUGH CLASS TO FILL HER LITTLE TOE. AND AS FOR HER SIZE FUNNY HOW OUR WHITE MASTERS OF OLD LOV THAT.
So, the way I read this, is that the Clintons left their poop in the White House garden? How appropriate.
Greetings Mjolnir! …or Ma’am…
…..what good are having nice fingernails if we don’t use them for special circumstances? lol
~ Big Bird says he wants his Halloween pumpkin costume back because you are stressing the seams…..
….and Malia needs her green sweater.
*covers eyes* Not again! I swear every time I see a picture of the first lady she is in one tacky outfit or another…. Has she no friends!?
Well, this is a new show for FARTUS!
lol – The holes or strips for the drogue’s stability, and to reduce the load are discretely consealed by her 8 year old daughter Sasha’s green sweater. And the do note playful green shoes are artfully applied to divert the attention from the long lengths of chain.
Green and Orange…..Of course!
O’Bama, is Irish. ….very clever those Black Irishman.
Hey..
I guess you did not read where it was her IDEA to save money and the Chicago Hospital she worked at by sending them to CLINICS in the area… BECAUSE they were costing the HOSPITAL too much money in the Emergency Room.
Sort of like the the ObamaCare we are going to be eating.
And you probably never put two and two together and figured out HOW she got into Princetorn and HARVARD.
I do not think it was because she was brighter, more articulate and MORE INTELLIGENT than thousands of others that were better qualified and DID NOT GET IN.
Read both their histories and then make comments about class, intelligence and being articulate.
We already know that OBAMA can not talk without a teleprompter.
That's gardener, you idiot.
…..they are his trademark shoes prolly designed to both divert attention from his face – and to clearly mark the direction of the floor during his bacchanalian gorge-a-thons. .
Mario Batali's orange Crocs…. are his trademark shoes. They were conceivably designed to……
1.) Match his beard
2.) Divert attention from his face –
3.) and, to clearly mark the direction of the floor during his uncouth, bacchanalian gorge-a-thons.
Except the GW fake turkey story is completely made up. It has been established for many years now that the turkey was indeed for DISPLAY purposes only, but was a REAL edible turkey.
"Mrs. Obama showed up in an orange dress that looked like it would be very fashionable on runways. The kind planes land on"
LOL.
The White House used to be respected…now it's being turned into some trashy 3rd rate VH1 reality show…except they are acting in this one…
Oh this is just the funniest story!!! I love it!
Oh crap!
Ordinarily I would recommend a little leeway when dealing the first lady. I mean, the color of her dress is hardly important, is it? But when I think of what her rotten, communist, criminal, piece of sh*t husband is doing to my country, I say scorn her and him every chance we get. "Cry Havoc! And let slip the dogs of war!" They deserve no quarter nor will they be given any when judgment day arrives.
Catapult, trebuche or air cannon? I can get any one you want….
CJONES,Sounds like you might be negro.What masters of old did you know?
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Thanks for giving me a good laugh this morning. I really needed it!!
Old saying….."When you shovel shit, you often end up knee-deep in it!"
So glad I found this story! Made me laugh and I needed that. Thanks so much!
Ohhhh, that was tacky……delicious!
This is the HARVARD LAWYER that had to give up her license to practice law because of a 'possible' ethis violation???
About what you can expect out of the White House. Continue PHOTO ops that are all LIES.
She adorned all the famous magazines as a PHOTO OP.. yet no one DARE question her attire.
I guess no matter how well educated you are and what schools you attend.. Class still can not be a Fairy Tale.
She is an basically a Chicago Politician out of her element.
God Bless America and God Damn…
You are correct – the WH put out a press release that the food was donated to the local food bank. Speculation is that no one in the first family eat anything from the garden because of the lead levels in the soil!
All she needs is a big red clown-nose and she's all set.
I think the point is that anything the Obama's touch turns dry and rots.
She looks like a carrot. Her fashion sense is horrible.
The left does not HAVE thought processes. They just read from the talking points then go recharge their batteries.
Can't they put some raised beds on the White House Grounds to get above the toxic sludge used previously? They still have great weather and some good direct sunlight.
Michelle embodies the most deadly kind of obesity…that between her ears. A family of fatheads.
Well the Clintons only used sewage because the first President Bush didn't leave them any fertilizer … I mean, because he gutted the Clean Air Act … I mean … the Bushes must have done something to make them do it … it's that Vast Right Wing Conspiracy!
We catch the Japanese version on the Fine Living Channel
China feeds its billions from 'night soil' enriched fields. That the toxic soil causes retinal impairment, diminished color acuity, and the loss of any sense of style is readily apparent in the spectacle of Mamabama and any state gathering in Tienanmen Square, except Mamabama is wearing a flag instead of waving one.
The night the episode was on tv I whipped this video up. It's has almost 6000 views. If I had known I might have put more effort into it: Michelle Obama Reveals the Secret Ingredient on the Iron Chef
Iron Chef America filmed an episode at the White House, They led you to believe that the vegetables used on the show were from Michelle O's garden. Not the case. They used stunt-double vegetables from supermarkets. Another Obama lie! At a health fair for kids on the White House lawn she (Michelle Obama) told them not to complain about eating fresh produce.Dont whine, just eat it, she told them. One can imagine a poster of a kid facing a cornucopia of produce with the slogan, Just Eat it!
The music is Eat It! by Weird Al.
a tpyo on the intrnet? OMG- call the cyber-grammar-cops!!!
troll.
how about Queer Eye for Really Angry Bitches?
they were spreading it so thick in those days the overflow had to go somewhere.
my explanation for this and all fashion disasters, etc: they're vampires. no reflections, no photographic images. it explains everything.
It's called double speak.
As long as the right message is sent it matters not the truth.
Michelle seems to go for this same kind of look over and over. Not only are the colors ridiculous, but the style is so corny. Teeny, tiny half-sweaters over a dress that looks like something a 6 year old would have worn in 1958. For someone who isn’t purposefully trying to look outlandish, she has the worst fashion sense of anyone who is supposed to be “fashionable” that I have ever seen.
CJONES:
If you continue to cast your lot with these fraudster you are defending and don't look beyond their media veneer, you will always be an unhappy, hand wringing drone….
Well, it's not as if the toxic salad bowl out back was news. We accepted responsibility for
inheriting this mess from our predecessors
way last July.
If all you morons on the knee jerk right have in your tiny brains is picking on Micheles dress and some lame Public Relations celebrity chef stunt it only shows the extreme poverty of your politics and your intellect. Grow up! The country has mega problems and while the President is heroically attacking everyone of them you idiots are atacking the clothing choices of his wife??? . We need everyone on board conservatives and liberals alike or we will not fix wars , economy, healthcare, environment. Man up will you!
"The country has mega problems and while the President is heroically attacking everyone of them"
LOL of the day!
That is really unfair! Michelle is one of the best dressed klingons in the administration!!
So what is stopping the WH from spending hundreds of thousands of tax dollars to remove the current un-organic soil and bringing in 'virgin soil' from somewhere in the West Indies?
This 'organic' thing with regard to our food supply is almost laughable at times. In many instances the organic produce is inferior and in other instances the 'organic produce' is not truly organic – just labelled that way so the supplyier can charge 50% as much for it and then the grocer can charge double over regular produce!
Oooooh, not nice! Funny as hell but not nice at all!!!
Well, you got part of it right, the President is attacking everyone. And since most of the current problems he created or made worse, I don't see him fixing any of them.
Why is Michelle dressed as a HoJo's waitress?
Anyone who thinks this woman is intelligent, is just fawning over her ( that includes Bill O'Reilly!) for their own personal reasons! #1…if she's so smart WHY did she NOT have the ground tested, before even allowing children to get on their hands and knees, to 'work for her'??
#2….Who the hell dresses her?? She was horrid looking at the innaugration, dressed in that black and red monstrosity! She has the money to hire a fashion designer…this orange dress makes her look like a pumpkin.. I can' believe she is trying to tell people how and what to eat with those huge hips!!
Adios, Iron Chef.
How dare you! Don't you know that she is a fashion icon now! The wise and wonderful fashionistas of NYC and DC have said so!
They mocked Laura Bush's outfits while giving a pass to the "Great Pumpkin'.
Bobby Flay, Alton Brown, and the greasy one, Mario, weren't enough of a turnoff? They had to throw in our fashionable First lady too? Gads! Wouldn't touch that episode with a ten foot pole.
I wonder how many government employees and hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars it takes to maintain this garden with unsafe products?
Please note: We should be coming here for "journalism," in particular "big journalism." This, ah, report is petty and small. I know the talent at BigJournalism.com can do much better.
The Clinton's fertilized with what?!? And the Obama's didn't know not to plant a garden there? And they're… EATING the stuff?
Wow, talk about "don't sh*t where you eat"….
THAT was PRICELESS.
Democrats are always feeding sh*t to the poor. NOthing new here….
1) That would've required common sense and planning. Not hallmarks of this admin.
2)Yes, and gardens are better photo op settings than greenhouses. It's about APPEARANCES, not RESULTS.
3) The Obamas do not apologize, peasant! They are perfect and infallible! Apologize? Ha, ha, ha!
Just shows to what degree you HAVEN'T been paying attention! There is a great wealth and diversity of things "Obama" that we're complaining about here on Breitbart, and we manage to make time to complain about "Avatar" too!!! We're busy little bees here, yes sir.
Your spelling and grammar are terrible, BTW.
That's a "he"? I thought it was Ludmilla ("The Elderberries").
Umm…did you read the article you linked to? The veggies aren't toxic. They do have elevated levels of lead (93 ppm), but that's way below EPA guidelines of 400ppm.
There are plenty of real things to criticize. Please don't be intellectually dishonest.
All you people make me sick!
Hey, remember all those underpriviledged kids who were trotted out to plant the garden with MO last spring? Shouldn’t they all be treated for exposure to toxic waste? Heh.
By the way, republicandouchebag, you’d be more successful trolling if you picked a less OBVIOUS screen name – duh! Go drink more of your Kool-Aid, you’re running low. Maybe you ate too many of the toxic Obama vegetables!
OMG, that dress is hideous for anyone over 21.
Eating White House veggies will do that to you.
Yes, I read it. Did you read mine? I said it would never be certified organic. I never said they were poisonous.
Use of sewage sludge for white house fertilizer would seem to put any democratic congressperson visiting the wh in jeapardy of becoming fertilizer.
That would clash. She needs a blue nose to match the sweater and shoes.
"The problem stems from a previous administration’s having used sewage sludge for fertilizer."
OOOOPS!
"Night soil" by it's self, is not a problem, not if it's properly aged. The problem is that people and businesses dump toxic chemicals into the sewer system, and sometimes cities run storm drains into the sewer plant. Storm drains = road run off and whatever poisons run off the lawns.
She should stick to traditional Klingon costume, it suits her. Human clothes don't.
Hmmm, wasn't it the Clinton/Gore admin who along with Babbitt et al who started pouring multi-millions of our tax money into the environmental "crisis"… it seems they missed the WH lawn.
"Heroically."
…riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. You must be from California, isn't that where pot is legal?
At least the Chairman wasn't there.
No, they are not eating it. One of the links in the story mentioned that Michelle donated the WH veggies to a food bank, so the hungry poor of DC are eating it.
Boy, you would think with all of the bullcrap around the place that there would be no need to use raw sewage…..
Can't put lipstick on the nouveau riche
my mom has lemon grass on hand, she grows it in a pot outside, then brings it in during the winter. she's vietnamese, so she needs it for some of her home cooking.
[...] show for me, Big O) were “replaced” by fresh, non-toxic “doubles.” From Big Journalism: And there’s a great reason for that. The food in the White House garden has been deemed toxic. [...]
Mr. Hudnall, Your articles loses all credibility when you lower yourself to bashing the First Lady because of her attire. It makes you sound little and petty. How about just sticking to the facts and leaving the unnecessary and ugly commentary to the Republicans–it doesn't make you a better writer, even if it gets you read.
Orange and light blue…. UN colors… Clinton wears them too…
Hey all you sheeple, havn't you noticed everything is going Orange & Blue.
It's the New World Order's One World colors they want you to be conditioned to.
w w w dot thepowerhour.com/news/unblue_watch.htm
Really, check out that website, as well as it's parent "home" site.
Wake up Amerika, we are being conditioned to accept every thing via brainwashing, including terrorism and H1N1.
Useful blog post definitely a good contribution to the web.
I really really like Lady Gaga, so hot. I have still to see the girl in concert. Hopefully in the near future.