Jason Linkins is reporting in The Huffington Post on the latest right wing talking point:
Obama Mustard Attack Becomes Full-Blown Right-Wing Talking Point
Yes, its true. They are attacking the president for ordering dijon mustard on his burger.
From The Canadian Press:
The United States is in the midst of a devastating recession, mired in two overseas wars and grappling with a swine flu outbreak, but conservative critics are assailing President Barack Obama on another pressing issue: his choice of burger topping.
Dijongate is in full force, with Fox News and a conservative blogger leading the charge against the president for his choice of the apparently un-American mustard atop his cheeseburger during a recent impromptu lunch stop with Vice-President Joe Biden.
Can you believe this? With the Republican Party being a group of dinosaurs going extinct, of all the things they decide to pick as an attack, MUSTARD ON A BURGER is where they feel they are going to get their opening.
You see, apparently in Republican circles, Grey Poupon is some sort of effete, elitist mustard. This despite the fact that its the largest selling Dijon mustard in the U.S thanks to its manufacturer, Kraft Foods. I suppose Hannity thinks Kraft is one of those high class San Francisco outfits that imports its mustard from French noblemen.
Fox's Sean Hannity has been telling his viewers that MSNBC - and reporter Andrea Mitchell in particular - are trying to hide Obama's Dijon-loving ways from the public.
Hannity has been referring to the president's lunch as his "fancy burger."
"It was Grey Poupon, which is equally snotty," alleged one commenter on Hannity's website.
William Jacobson, a Cornell law school professor who has also been blogging about Dijongate, noted that Mitchell "didn't mention one arugula-like fact" about Obama's order earlier this week at Ray's Hell Burger in Arlington, Va.
Jacobson said the MSNBC video of the stop at Ray's cuts out just as Obama asks for Dijon. He refers to MSNBC as "Obama's favourite network."
"MSNBC edited out the audio when Obama ordered his Hell Burger just at the moment when Obama asked for Dijon mustard," Jacobson wrote in a Thursday post entitled "Thou Shalt Not Mock Obama's Mustard."
"Now, I have nothing against Dijon mustard, but the image didn't fit with the image being spun by the White House and MSNBC. Dijon mustard on a Hell Burger had a very John Kerry-ish quality about it."
Jacobson blogged about other incidents in which Obama has revealed his weakness for the spicy French condiment.
It's a key ingredient, for example, in the president's favourite tuna salad, and he also had the gall to request it during his first trip on Air Force One.
"And the mainstream media didn't cover it," Jacobson wrote.
Seriously. This is what its come down to. Listen to this conservo-blogger:
Like most of my posts, Dijongate could have and probably should have fallen into the black hole of internet punditry, never to be seen or heard of again. But the reaction from the nutroots was widespread and swift, and they have kept the story alive.
Dijongate!!!
Let me explain this shit. You see this:
This is some mass produced bullshit. You can find it on the shelf of any fuckin Wal-mart, in any pundunk town of any ass-backward state. It's not high class, its generic crap.
Now, you see this:
This is Edmond Fallot mustard from France. This shit is twenty bucks a fuckin jar. This is some expensive high class shit. You can't find it anywhere. Only at the finest stores in the best neighborhoods of the great cities of the world. THIS IS ELITIST MUSTARD.
Sigh. Well, I enjoyed that. Now back to things that matter.