Last night the Today Show cancelled their morning spot (set for this AM) with Ann Coulter, the conservative writer who is as scathing and anti-Dem as she is wispy & blond. Now, Today is "caving" to charges of "liberal bias," courtesy of Drudge Report, among others, and Coulter will be appearing on Today tomorrow. Got that?Coulter's promoing her new book, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America, which is apparently excessively anti-Obama. Huffington Post reports that Coulter repeatedly refers to the President-elect as B. Hussein Obama in her new tome, and according to Media Matters, she writes that Obama "race baited [his] way to success" in the election. These are just a few of the truly outlandish and hate mongering examples in the book; click the Media Matters link for more blood splatter.
We're definitly looking forward to Coulter's appearance on Today; she was in top psychotic form this morning on CBS's The Early Show. Meantime, we're thrilled to present a page from the Six-Degrees-of-Obama-Foodorama playbook: Coulter has some interesting, idiotic, conservative ideas about food in The White House. Here's a piece of a Q&A she did on Fave Foods of the Famous, a King Features syndicated column by Steven J. Austin:
Fave Foods of the Famous: Say you are in charge of meals at The White House. What's for dinner?
Ann Coulter: If I were in charge of menus at The White House, we'd eat like normal, average, decent Americans. We'd order out for Chinese food every night.
Fave Foods of the Famous: Choose some foods that are typically conservative, and those that are typically liberal.
Ann Coulter: Conservative: Things that taste good. Liberal: Things that are grown within fifty yards of where you're eating.
We'd like to point out that Coulter doesn't even have to order Chinese food specifically to eat "Chinese" food, because America is the largest importer of Chinese food products on the planet (about $325 billion's worth of food in 2007). The jumbled Country of Origin labeling policies in teh US ensure that everyone can eat Chinese food all day, every day, and never even know it. And happily for Coulter, it's conservative, Republican administration free-trade policies that have led us to be dependent on the most poisonous food supply in the world. Melamine contamination is just the latest in a string of food scandals originating in China, and this will, no doubt, be one of the biggest food challenges Obama faces after he takes office. Even better, it was also the Republicans who eviscerated both the USDA and FDA as food safety agencies, making them the tools of Big Ag, and interested more in profit than in protection--another huge food safety challenge for Obama. We hope Coulter keeps this in mind when she's being treated for kidney stones from consuming melamine-laden food, or praying to the porcelain God when she's infected with E. coli. Yep, the conservative faction has been swell for the American food chain!
And as for libs being the only ones who like to eat local: Keep up, Coulter, keep up! In a letter last week to the New York Times, former White House Executive Chef Walter Scheib (pictured) says that both the First Families he cooked for "dined regularly on organic foods." Scheib further points out that "there was a small garden on the roof of the White House where produce was grown..." and "nearly all the product used was obtained from local growers and suppliers." A garden on the White House roof? Sounds suspiciously like food was being grown within fifty yards of where it was being eaten...by conservative Republicans!*Chinese character image is Obama 44 by Chinese contemporary artist Lee Shi-min (oil on canvas, 1.72 m square). It's Chinese characters for Barack Obama, with a dual set of Chinese characters for the number for forty-four.
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