MSNBC Hides Obama’s Dijon Mustard
posted at 4:33 pm on May 5, 2009 by Legal Insurrection
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 HERE without Mitchell’s talkover).
Obama ordered his burger with DIJON MUSTARD! Bet he had to seek John Kerry’s counsel on that.
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fact: regular guys only get ketchup on their burgers.
kirkill on May 5, 2009 at 4:56 PM
FACT: Only broads, Euros, and homos use Dijon mustard.
The Wall on May 5, 2009 at 6:12 PM
The burger in question pictured here. (Reasonable facsimile of POTUS thumbs.)
laelaps on May 5, 2009 at 6:18 PM
Who eats Dijon mustard on a burger?
SouthernGent on May 5, 2009 at 6:49 PM
CNN did the same thing with Wolf Blitzer’s Sh*tuatuion Room report on the Burger King.
andycanuck on May 5, 2009 at 6:54 PM
If the guy likes that mustard, fine. But the fact that the MSM feels the need to cover that up says volumes.
Upstater85 on May 5, 2009 at 6:57 PM
Maybe there is something I am missing here, but I don’t get the big brouhaha over this. So the president likes Dijon mustard, so what? I actually prefer it myself over regular yellow mustard as I find it less tart.
I am actually more concerned with the mainstream media following Obama to lunch than I am of Mustard Gate.
eaglescout1998 on May 5, 2009 at 8:18 PM
That is rather the point, yes.
Jim Treacher on May 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Ketchup on a burger, and mustard on a hot dog, with the hot dog preferably smothered in sauerkraut. Cheeze, is this guy for real?
This is the kind of hard-hitting reporting you get from a slobbering press, instead of reporting on, say, why we don’t get to see the photos from the AF1 prank on NYC.
TeeDee on May 5, 2009 at 10:26 PM
It’s always the cover up that does them in.
I just hope someone asks Gibbsy about this – just to see him squirm over nothing.
Buy Danish on May 6, 2009 at 7:45 AM