Is the Obama administration completely incapable of being open and honest? I only ask because the White House is making a habit out of deception, even when deception isn’t necessary.
The produce used on the Food Network’s Jan. 3 Iron Chef of America two-hour special White House show was billed as being from the White House garden. But the show did not disclose that “stunt double vegetables” were used and not produce from the First Family’s garden.
The much ballyhooed show featured a cameo by First Lady Michelle Obama who invited the chefs to pick what they needed from the White House garden in the opening scenes. Mrs. Obama agreed to appear –and give the show access to the garden — because the episode promoted her healthy eating themes and the garden, her signature first-year project. Iron Chef also reaches an audience that would be interested in Mrs. Obama’s local food, anti-obesity and exercise agenda.
This was a stupid, stupid thing for the White House to do. The notion that Michelle Obama’s Victory Garden could produce behenoth veggies in just one growing season beggared belief.
The kicker is that the deception simply wasn’t necessary. All the White House had to do was ask the Food Network to say that, due to scheduling, the food used during the show did not come directly from the White House garden but was representative of what was grown there. Better yet, the show could have gotten the veggies from local markets, doubly-reinforcing the whole “buy local and sustainable” message Michelle Obama wanted to push in the first place.
This ain’t brain surgery, folks. If I, a writer so far out on the long tail of the blogosphere that I need a telescope to see its rump, can figure this out, then I’m pretty sure one of the people making six figures to do this for the White House should be able to figure it out, too.
Maybe they should can the dolts they have and hire me instead.
Instead, the adminstration chose to dissemble and deceive. Again (and again, and again, and again, and again, and again).
Tags: Corruption, Democrats, Michelle Obama
The fact that you think this is a big deal is really sad to me, it makes we wonder if we are ever going to stop being petty. I’m not a big Obama fan, but come on.
We’ve wasted billions in Iraq behind Bush’s lies & you are actually going on about stand-in vegetables? Well, at least you have your priorities straight.
I never said it was a big deal. It’s just another example of how the administration refuses to be transparent in any fashion, big or small.
I expect that you’d be willing to excuse them, though, since you cling stubbornly to a long-debunked progressive myth about George Bush.