It may not seem possible, given the surreal lengths the right will go to these days in an effort to find something, anything they can make stick to Barack Obama, but I just can't believe that this apparent parody of a self-parody is actually serious:
I mean, sure we've seen tea bags and teleprompters and heard comically backward-ass calls for a corporate "revolution" -- but mustard?
From conservative blogger William A. Jacobson:
MSNBC Hides Obama's Dijon Mustard (aka Dijongate)
MSNBC, Obama's favorite network, reported on Obama's trip with Joe Biden to get a burger. Just two wild and crazy guys out for some red meat. Andrea Mitchell (does she have nothing else to do?) reported that Obama ordered a burger and mustard. Sounds like it had that "real guy kind of quality."
Mitchell even noted that Obama left a $5 tip in the tip jar. But she didn't mention one arugula-like fact, and you couldn't hear it on the MSNBC video because Andrea and her correspondent Kelly O'Donnel (they needed two people to cover this story) were talking so much.
NBC's regular news reported Obama's order as follows: ""I'm going to have a basic cheddar cheese burger, medium well, with mustard," Obama said. "Do you have spicy mustard? I'll take that."
Actually, the quote was "you got a spicy mustard or something like that, or a Dijon mustard, something like that" (at 0.55 of the unedited video... without Mitchell's talkover).
Obama ordered his burger with DIJON MUSTARD! Bet he had to seek John Kerry's counsel on that.
I get that it's kind of a meta-joke, an imitation of Stephen Colbert imitating the Republicans -- but it comes from an actual conservative and really says a lot about how desperate the right is at the moment.
Because even though the news of "Dijongate" is delivered with tongue at least partially in cheek, D-list far right mouthpiece Michelle Malkin's idiotic "Arugulagate" and, even better, "Gherkingate" are all too real.
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