Everything’s staged: Michelle Obama’s garden food was fake
They stage their health care town halls.
They hand out lab coats to make their doctor donors look authentic.
They treat soldiers as “pretty good photo ops.”
So, this Iron Chef revelation about Michelle Obama’s produce is entirely in keeping with Obama Theater:
For months, the Food Network ran ads about a forthcoming episode of “Iron Chef America,” its flagship chefs plus secret ingredient versus time competition. The show would take place at the White House garden, with Michelle Obama making a cameo and plugging her responsible-eating initiative. The network promised it would be its biggest episode ever.
The buildup matched the reality: The Jan. 3 “Iron Chef America” drew 7.6 million viewers, the highest-rated show in network history. In it, superstar chef Mario Batali teamed with Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay with White House chef Cristeta Comerford to cook five dishes using the secret ingredient: produce from the White House garden.
Except for one thing: As first reported on AOL’s Politics Daily blog, the fruits and vegetables used on the show weren’t from the White House. They were stunt produce. Ringers.
At the beginning of the two-hour special, the chefs were shown picking sweet potatoes, broccoli, fennel and tomatillos from the White House garden. Then the chefs were seen walking into Kitchen Stadium, produce in hand. One problem: The show is filmed in New York City.
No doubt they’ll argue it was “Fake but accurate.”
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That entire presidency is a facade . . . that appears to be crumbling at an alarming rate.
Doesn’t surprise me. The whole Presidency is fake.
Why?
Why do these clowns feel they have to lie to us about EVERYTHING?
That’s just sad.
Ditto that!
re pic: That’s a good one for the “testicle Lockbox”.
Glad that I’d decided not to watch even a snippet of the episode once I’d seen who would make a cameo/”where” it would have some connection to.
Dangerous phonies; they infect everything/everyone that they come into contact with.
It’s all Bush’s fault. Or something.
from zero on down, this administration is little more than a typical scam. it’s shameful this country is stuck with this incompetent poser. overhyped, and can’t even meet the ridiculously low standards set for him, as even those are way too high for him.
The 0bama’s have had luxurious dates in New York City, so just sit back you tea-baggers and take it!
re pic: Oops! No need for James Carville to run through that airport scanner now!
omg, this admin think this is all a game/tv show.
i am actually scared to go to bed at night nowadays, not knowing what the next day will bring is discomforting.
Like all things Obama….. it makes a laughing stock of the Presidency.
The man a joke…. his wife is a bad joke.
The man hasn’t had a press conference since July 22nd. It’s pretty obvious why. Everything has to be prepared for him and be controlled. In other words, he’s more of a puppet and figurehead than a President.
The story goes on to say
So food grown in the White House garden using our tax dollars isn’t even eaten by the White House. The entire garden is soley a stage prop.
Furthermore, last time I checked food pantries only wanted non-perishable foods, not fresh produce.
Dan Quayle: Is that a potatoe?
And who gardens in an outfit like that? If you’re going to deceive people at least dress the part. What an entitlement prima donna. The evolution of these creatures is a jaw-dropping event in itself.
Not entirely true. Many food banks will accept carrots and sweet potatos, anything with a decent shelf life.
I called this back in the summer.
For the first time in my adult life, I was proud of the White House garden… and then this.
So it turns out that the only thing “realistic” about that episode was when Emeril referred to Obama as “Chairman”…
If this was ONLY as bad as it could get. Sadly…
Apply to Obama-careless…rinse…repeat
Speaking of Obama-careless, Olberdork is linking the Haitian disaster with the need for Obama-careless. MSNBC should be ridden off of the planet.
Truth and reality are not the currency of our government and business leaders these days. It’s all about “green shoots” and “animal spirits”, the same philosophy practiced by Chairman Mao when he engaged in propaganda campaigns depicting wheat fields so choked with crop that you could walk on top of it without sinking to the ground. It’s not about facts anymore. It is about “feelings”.
That is also why the government is rigging the stock and bond markets with $2 trillion of newly printed money. This market can’t go down. Too much cash to absorb. They are re-inflating the bubble to make us feel as if everything is fine. It’s all fake.
“Stunt Produce” “Vegetable Ringers” “Cameotatos” “Stealthtubers”
Besides all that – I would like to know the person that gathered the perfect produce and replanted the items in this persons garden.
What gets me is how all through the eighties, the media and Democrats criticized President Reagan as being a “produced” president, quick to cloak himself in the flag when cameras were rolling and dripping w/ patriotic rhetoric too lofty to be genuine.
Well where are those voices now that we know we have a staged presidency?
Potemkin vegetables?
Certainly a Potemkin Presidency.
Remember when Bush went to Iran and had Thanksgiving Dinner with the troops? He stood with a platter nearby that had a fake turkey on it, and the press went wild about it.
Like that?
why not? That’s what got him elected. If it ain’t broke……
Never let a crisis go to waste, no matter how tasteless it is.
I’m so disappointed! On the other hand, seeing all those Amish folk in overalls and flowery dresses helping tend the garden should have raised suspicions that this was all just a photo-op.
Poor Dan Quayle. At least he has his mind about him. Not like some other former vice president I could name…
Its one of those “green jobs” the WH has created from your tax dollars. How’s that working out for ya?
Amsih folk or actors?
Apply…rinse…repeat
HAHAHAHAHA! Perfect. They probably came from Mexican farms too.
Meh. This is more about making a TV show than the Presidency.
It would have been better, IMO, had they been cleared to do the entire show at the White House, or at least some studio in DC or even a makeshift Kitchen Stadium in some convention center or the like.
But really, what’s the point of trying to politicize a “reality” TV show that has already been shown to be, at times, “enhanced”. I’ve read that the Secret Ingredient reveal is given a few takes, and that the chefs get a modicum of time to devise their five dishes after the Secret Ingredient is revealed.
If there’s any target of finger-pointing, it’s with the show’s producers, not the produce producer.
No wonder The Chairman had nothing to do with this episode. It was an insult to the purity of Kitchen Stadium!
I thought it was really funny all the boutique veggies in the WH garden.
I still don’t believe they have produced anything in that ‘garden’. I just don’t.
Show me.
No surprise at all. This is our president and first family; plastic fakes, made in another country.
The American people have the president they deserve. I sincerely hope that they are waking up from their stupor.
The taking over of the food banks occurred when the Food Csar heard Obama say, “I want control over all the banks in America.”
He thought, “this is my moment to show Dear Leader my worth to the Party!”
So which vegetable was fake again?
The one using the teleprompter?
Mea Culpa.
The alleged produce producer.
Well, they did not come from the “The Valley That Hope Forgot”
From Obama being a usurper of the office of president to the White House garden, I second those who have said everything about this presidency is fake, a scam, a cheap flim-flam of the American people, some of whom are finally waking up.
Uh…. fresh Brocoli, from an outside, Natural, Washington DC Garden, IN JANUARY??? Especialy after THIS WINTER?
Honestly, I thought they had found that there was too much manure in the soil, left over from the Clintons’ attempt to grow veges, etc., with “organic” sewage. It seems that the garden was still over-saturated with the stuff. Wrong? Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
I understand that her jewelry is fake, too. Why pretend that her jewelry is real gold, silver and actual stones. Has she publicly stated that her jewelry is real or fake? She should immediately admit that pieces of her jewelry are costume, and stop pretending.
sarcasm off/
LOL. Shaking head in disbelief. How petty.
OK, she should have said, ‘The secret ingredient(s) are vegetables like the ones that are grown in the White House garden.’
Someone on FNC made an excellent point of how quickly and passionately Obama is reacting to the Haitian crisis, after it took him days to say anything about the Undy Bomber.
Now I fully support his acting to bring relief to those poor folks in Haiti, but it would have been more reassuring had he reacted w/ the measure of urgency & swiftness in addressing this nation’s recent crisis.
Also, I didn’t think Amish allow photographs to be taken of them…. just sayin’.
C’mon folks, I think you’re making a mountain out of a hill of beans. Of course for the production schedule and the results of the dish they had to use stunt veggies. The show went a bit overboard with the gravity of the secret ingredient, but Iron Chef always does. I personally find it admirable that home gardening is spotlighted by this presidency. It is one thing they have done well.
Can’t a girl just eat her fennel?
RedDog #16
To reinforce your comment… what is it with Ms. Obummer always wearing those butt-ugly wide belts, up above her big belly in front and dipping down to the top of her big fanny in the back?
Also, see the hula-hoop picture to the right of this thread. Same ugly belt in the same position. GAG! Doesn’t she have anyone to tell her how awful that looks?
Yes, I am much more concerned (terrified) about the the takeover of our wonderful county, but every time I see her, yes, I gag. I can’t help it.
I saw a bit of the episode that part seemed obvious & it was too easy to just change the channel.
Obama is all a facade
I’m with you digits. It is a TV show! It’s all fake. Who really believed that all those veggies would be ripe at the same time? Surely, we knew it was staged?
It is great that our first lady is encouraging people to eat healthy and to get in touch with where food comes from.
There are plenty of things to be concerned about with this administration but this one was manufactured by the Food Network.
whaaaat, the libs stage an event for propoganda purposes. noooo, that could never happen cause the media would call them out on that. you know, like the media informed the public that fdr was crippled and in a wheelchair, or that jfk was recieving morphine shots for back pain. but hey, they did let us know in a big way that rush limbaugh was taking meds for pain, and maybe he had a dr feelgood too.
Look! The emporess has no clothes! EEEWWWWW!
shocking! totally unexpected!!
I saw that episode and thought that the veggies traveled so well from the White House to the studio. My next thought was that I wouldn’t want to be eating veggies grown with sewage fertilizer.
It doesn’t really matter if the whole thing was staged, it HAD to be staged, the food grown in Michelle’s garden was toxic. No, really. Thanks to the Clinton Administration the soil at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is poisoned. I noticed they didn’t mention that.
Just another reason why the Naked Emperor comparisons to this administration are so apt, and why I call Hope-a-Dope The Potemkin President: they’re relying on stage props to try to fool people.
Literally… props.
From the early days of his candidacy and without letup, Hope-a-Dope has counted on the willing suspension of disbelief by his groupies, coupled with rapid-response counterattacks by his party apparatchiks and his media front groups on anyone who dared to point out that he’s a congenital liar and a fraud.
There are too many people who have noticed the Emperor’s man-boobs on parade at this point for the illusion to go on — they can’t all be silenced — and the only ones still in thrall are the dead-ender moonbats who have already totally checked out of reality.
That Mrs. Hope-a-Dope is just as much of a phony as he is, that’s just frosting on the cake. Skunks of the same stripe.
The only two things about Michelle Obama that are genuine are her attitude of entitlement and the size of her ass.
The deficit is real.
Food Network: The props in this episode of “Iron Chef” brought to you by Carrot Top
er.. Carrot Top
Because they know what the people would do if they knew the truth.
What they don’t seem to realize is that we’re smart enough to look behind the curtain and see the people working the levers on the machine. i.e. the State Run media, the politicians who are working for their own gain, etc.
I hate these people but the curtain is starting to be transparent.
The Obama’s are evil. Period.
Since Rogue started the name that caption contest, I want to play too.
My entry:
I swear it was this big and weighed over three Courics!
My entry:
This is the size of a Maotato when grown in our Socialist paradise.
I watched this episode of “Iron Chef” and I thought it was a little peculiar how there was all of this produce that came from that small garden. I guess the veggies were fake, but accurate.
my entry:
Look! I dug up a baby Carville!
Ms.AmpleBodiedFirstLady should try eating a few of those plastic veggies instead of wagyu beef. She’s turning into a little porker, at taxpayer expense.
Yeah except she’s used to those tiny little potatoes – she’s never seen one that big.
I just got my laugh of the month – my wife told me that if that can of our
Ms.AmpleBodiedFirstLady, I will borrow that, gets any bigger the US will not have to invest in a missle defence shield, her can will be ample enough to shield us.
Harrison Ford and Randy Quaid are Amish.
Bono: (yawn)
Biden runs the teleprompter? It would explain a lot.
Your vegetables come from Mexico – her beef comes from Upper Wagyu…
Excellent!
It’s all fake, it’s all phony, it’s all one long continuous lie. And what’s scary is how many people are falling for it without questioning anything.
AlohaGuy: and they just thought he was using the yard for a litter box, when in reality he was laying eggs!
Yahoo!! I was right!! As a person that has gardened for a long time, I told my daughter that all those veggies had to be fake, according to when they were planted, and the weather, and how soon they became so abundant!!
Don’t you feel good when you say something, and are proven right? I do!!
Think I’ll go to the kitchen and have some ice cream!!
My entry:
“Look, everybody, I LMAO!”
But, yeah, that was faked, too.
stillontheroad #70
You tell your wife I actually blew hot coffee through my sinus track over her comment about the missile shield! That’s priceless!
24Klady said:
She is great and I love that woman half to death – she did it out of nowhere and I almost swallowed my tongue.
Michelle,if you are going to do article about Mrs Bambi,please don’t include pictures.yeeach.
I called the concept that they were feeding all those people with White House garden grown argula nonsensical when they had the state dinner, too.
Michell Obama (channeling Pomona Sprout): “Now remember children, be sure to wear you earmuffs, for the scream of a mature Mandrake when it is unearthed will kill any person who hears it!”
The bunch of them-Obamas and chefs-need to share a cell with Balloon Boys dad.
Next reality show: Turnips and Rutabegas with mamaBama.It will be broadcast both with and without a Negro accent.
“Daddy taught me to raise Turnips and Rutabegas on our farm in Chicago where Miss Hillary took care of the workers children.”
But, but,… doesn’t broccoli grow with a thick blue rubber band around them?
None of this really shocks me… while I’m a fan of the Food Network, I really do think Iron Chef America is a spin-off of Iron Chef Japan that isn’t all that good. If any of you has a chance to watch Iron Chef Japan I highly recommend it… it’s freakin’ hilarious.
Another thought: do Americans really think that this garden is even “real”? That Michelle Obummer really grew any of those veggies or kept it going herself? While I realize that there are urban gardens in our cities, does anybody really think that this woman is that close to nature or even has a “green thumb?”
I think that the closest to nature Michelle Obummer has ever gotten is going to Hawaii on vacation and taking a dip in the ocean. Then again… is anything this woman or her husband do really about this country or more about them? They make the Clintons look like rank amateurs.
But, OMG… I wouldn’t want to be accused of being “petty” or, even worse, suffering ODS by the likes of Zyzzyg.
The one where Bobby Flay gets trounced is great – he’s such a sore loser. And yes, it’s a 2nd rate copy of the Japanese original.
I’m just bummed that the show got such good ratings. My wife and I purposely made a point to not watch the original or any re-runs!
Not everything on Tv is real?!? Say it ain’t so!
Uh – gee, did y’all just notice that the Food Network is, y’know, television? Or did you really think that the Chairman is the nephew of the guy on the original Japanese version of Iron Chef? Or that five of the nation’s foremost chefs all stand around waiting to be picked on the spur of the moment just prior to each battle?
And the assertion
is as moronic as it is irrelevant; the two cities are only five hours apart by car.
Looks like what’s left of the Right is trying to outdo the Left in a gripping battle of stupidity.
Oh, and another thing – at least one of the Iron Chefs is gay. Please commence running around screaming, because the knots you’re tying yourselves into here are hilarious, if sad.
Wow – another astonishing admission of utter ignorance. Do you really think the television ratings are in any way related to what you, personally, watch? News flash – they’re not. They’re determined by the Nielson ratings and other, similar ratings services.
“Huhr, huhr, huhr, I done showed ‘em by turnin’ off their gay retard show! Huhr!”
If you smell smoke while you’re reading this, run and pour water on your head – your brain’s probably overheating.
*sniff* those ignorant conservative rednecks. How stupid of them to think that the world revolves around their wishes for a clean & sensible world.
Sorry Six Degree, I won’t stoop to your level of insanity even though I am one of those Neilson Rating families. We send them info all the time but that’s neither here nor there.
I was simply appalled that so many thought the particular show was so important that the audience was in fact one of the biggest ever. Not THE biggest, but one of…
zzzzg, please refer to comment #25.
“Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my …!”
Yes. Kat Cora.
And have you seen anyone around here, or any conservative screaming that she is gay? No? Then shut the hell up.
That isn’t the issue
the issue is the veggies used in the show weren’t from the WH garden. when I first heard the “secret ingredient” I gagged – when the garden went after testing the soil it was found that the veggies would be bad – so I thought Iron Chef is using toxic veggies or fakes. I’m just so tired of every media outlet pushing the Obamas into our homes via our television sets. Yes we have a right to choice what to watch but they are limiting those choices with this crap.
The Obama’s, the ultimate phonies.
No, and neither do you.
GW went to IRAQ to have dinner with us, the troops that admire him. Something I have NOT seen 0bama attempt.
Wow, I really do have space in your head, and I don’t even pay rent.
If you weren’t petty, why would you challenge whether the garden is “real”? Or, bring the Clintons into this discussion. Far more heinous on your part is the question you raise about what she does for the country, or for herself. I am not watching what she does 24/7/365. Do you?
IMHO, when you take someone to task, do it over substance. Not using specific vegetables is . . . well, small potatoes. And, saying so in a screed that goes beyond vegetables (White House grown, or not) to include the items you mentioned . . .
Yes, you are petty and remain a liar.