Friday, May 8, 2009

Is this what the U.S. has come to? Dijongate?

Posted by Owen Morris on Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM

Lots of people buy burgers every week without creating a controversy. It's hard to see how you could create controversy by ordering a burger. But Barack Obama has managed to.

First people griped that he ordered his Hell Burger medium-well. But now there's a true outcry because he ordered mustard on the hamburger he got with Joe Biden last week.


Did you hear what he said? He didn't ask for Joe-everyman-yellow-mustard. No he asked for dijon mustard and as everybody knows dijon mustard is elitist!

Yes, Cornell Law Professor William Jacobson is busily tracking what he calls "Dijongate" and has posted several videos of the president ordering his fancy-nancy bourgeoisie mustard.

Where some of us might interpret this as showing that Obama has good taste in mustard, Jacobson says, "dijon mustard on a Hell Burger had a very John Kerry-ish quality about it."

This blog doesn't cover politics but it does cover mustard -- and that yellow bottle of French's goo is hardly a mustard. The only one who should be offended is the Hell Burger, since a strong dijon just covers up the true flavors of the meat.

I understand criticism of the president is natural and even healthy. But picking on his love for dijon -- that doesn't pass the mustard.

If you have a couple of extra hours today check out the comment flame war that has erupted on Jacobson's blog. One person has called this Obama's attempt "to run socialism in through the back door," while others are hoping it's all a joke.

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The Left is just keeping this 'Mustard story' alive, the Right had a chuckle and moved on. There are many much more important things to criticize this administration about. The Left doesn't want people focusing on the big stuff, because that's where it's most dangerous to them. The Truth will bring them down, God willing.
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Posted by USpace on May 10, 2009 at 12:26 AM

Let's see, two wars, economic recovery, health care all going on. What is the nutcase right wing talking about? Mustard. I guess as long as you let these bed-wetters work themselves into a trivial froth, making utter FOOLS of themselves to the rest of America, we should just give 'em some more rope... The far right is hijacking (thus ruining) the GOP.

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Posted by tdub on May 8, 2009 at 1:24 PM

Fellow Americans, this only proves what my good friend Rush Limbaugh has been trying to teach us all along. That Barak HUSSIEN Osamabinladen is a card carrying communist working with the islamofacist terrorists because only a muslim would order his hamburger with mustard. The sooner we impeach him and restore Republican rule and Family values in Washington DC, the sooner we can turn this country around from the socialist path of destruction Hussien has put us on!

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Posted by Bush / Cheney 2012 on May 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM

Fellow Americans, this only proves what my good friend Rush Limbaugh has been trying to teach us all along. That Barak HUSSIEN Osamabinladen is a card carrying communist working with the islamofacist terrorists because only a muslim would order his hamburger with mustard. The sooner we impeach him and restore Republican rule and Family values in Washington DC, the sooner we can turn this country around from the socialist path of destruction Hussien has put us on!

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Posted by Bush / Cheney 2012 on May 8, 2009 at 10:09 AM

This is crazy! We all know the most ridiculous part of all of this mustard craze is the fact that these twits actually set up a photo op with MSNBC at a burger joint. Tools.

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Posted by Joseph on May 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM

This is crazy! We all know the most ridiculous part of all of this mustard craze is the fact that these twits actually set up a photo op with MSNBC at a burger joint. Tools.

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Posted by Joseph on May 8, 2009 at 9:57 AM

For the record, I have no problem with dijon mustard only the medium-well order.

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Posted by Bull E. Vard on May 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM

So in other words, he's being criticized for not being food snob enough (medium-well) and for being too food snob (dijon).

The mustard people are the same ones who talk shit when I dare order a Belgian beer instead of a Bud Light. Screw 'em.

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Posted by jjskck on May 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM
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