No, Just One Double-Cheese — I Have to Save Room for the Shrimp Vindallo
Via Captain Ed comes this story shedding even more light on the John Kerry trip to Wendy’s:
While Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards, and their families were having a “lite” lunch at Wendy’s in the Town of Newburgh Friday, drumming up local support right after the national convention in Boston, their real lunches were waiting on their bus.
A member of the Kerry advance team called Nikola’s Restaurant at the Newburgh Yacht Club the night before and ordered 19 five-star lunches to go that would be picked up at noon Friday. Management at the restaurant, which is operated by CIA graduate chef Michael Dederick, was told the meals would be for the Kerry and Edwards families and actor Ben Affleck who was with them on the tour.
The gourmet meals to go included shrimp vindallo, grilled diver sea scallops, prosciutto, wrapped stuffed chicken, and steak salad. The meals came to about $200.
If this story is accurate, the photo-op at the Wendy’s was nothing but a fraud, designed to make the patrician Kerry seem like a man of the people — even though he had shrimp vindallo and sea scallops waiting for him in his bus.
The L.A. Times, which missed the story about the Marines who felt used for a photo-op, missed this story too.
I’m still trying to figure out what happened to the lunches they ordered from the Alexis Diner…
“No Coke, Pepsi.”
Comment by Kalamity — 8/1/2004 @ 2:01 pm
Why would they waste time on those stories when coverage of the plight of muslims in Vegas is so much more important?
Comment by julia — 8/1/2004 @ 2:42 pm
YOU CAN FOOL SOME OF THE PEOPLE…
Faux Populism at Wizbang Patterico’s Pontifications The deception of Kerry and Edwards gets help from a well known propagandist. Belgraviadispatch covers the NYT slant You can’t fool all the people Another example of Kerry flip flopping. Then scroll t…
Trackback by JOE'S BLOG — 8/2/2004 @ 5:40 am
And didn’t Edwards talk alot about “Two Americas?”
Little do his supporters know …
Comment by MOG — 8/2/2004 @ 11:50 am
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Trackback by BoiFromTroy — 8/2/2004 @ 3:15 pm
Wow…now this is real news. Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention, as it is quite possibly the most relevant issue facing Americans in November: what does John Kerry really eat for lunch?!? Looks like a real credible source too, given their front page coverage of the NY Christian Coelitian’s take on the ‘Kerry agenda’ as well.
But no worries, Patterico…I’m sure you’ve covered the photo-ops of George W. “Let’s pretend I can fly an airplane!” Bush with just as much scrutiny.
(And before you respond and tell me that your coverage doesn’t have to be balanced, believe me, I understand that. Just having some fun, dawg. So there.
Comment by Tom — 8/2/2004 @ 3:30 pm
Re: the importance of what Kerry has for lunch — you bet this story would be all over the late-night talk shows (Leno, Letterman, Conan) if it got some real publicity. It feeds the image of Kerry as an out-of-touch patrician.
And if it were the Republican who was the out-of-touch patrician, the story would have gotten the publicity.
Re: the reliability of the source:
Luckily you liberals don’t judge a news source based on just one story. Oh, wait — you just did.
Of course, you overlooked this story from the same paper about local Democrats rallying at the convention, or this story from that paper about young Democrats uniting for the cause, or this story (again from the same paper) quoting a local Democrat leader as praising Edwards’s message — etc. etc. None of which tells me much of anything, other than it’s a little paper serving a little town.
But all of a sudden you can tell that the paper is a conservative rag, based on one story.
Was there a hidden story behind a Bush photo-op that was buried by our vaunted media? Tell us all about it. Oh, you don’t have one? Then what, pray tell, is your point?
Comment by Patterico — 8/2/2004 @ 6:50 pm
First question: when you state “If it were the Republican who was the out-of-touch patrician…”, what do you mean “if”?
Secondly, as a cursory glance through what I actually wrote should remind you, I never claimed the newspaper is a “conservative rag”–rather that perhaps their penchant for what constitutes “news” is a bit different than that of, say, any other major news source as of 10:17PM EST that I can find. Come on, Patterico, don’t you think if there was more to it that at least Fox would’ve covered it? Or are they being railroaded by that leftist Rupert Murdoch again?
Thirdly, with regards to the “hidden story” behind Bush’s flight-suit dress-up day, I believe that would consist of his well-hidden National Guard records that the Pentagon can’t seem to find. But it’s no worry, because the good Liberal Media has been doing such a stellar job of keeping us up-to-date on that topic.
Lastly, jokes aside, are you trying to imply that Bush and Cheney are better suited as ‘candidates of the people?’ I’d really like to hear that one…
Comment by Tom — 8/2/2004 @ 7:35 pm
Secondly, as a cursory glance through what I actually wrote should remind you, I never claimed the newspaper is a “conservative rag”–rather that perhaps their penchant for what constitutes “news” is a bit different than that of, say, any other major news source as of 10:17PM EST that I can find.
Well, you linked to your comment, so people can judge for themselves whether you damn well implied it or not.
As for what you could find as of 10:17PM EST, even the NYT reported this incident. Couple days ago, I think. They didn’t make much of it — but they reported it.
Comment by Patterico — 8/2/2004 @ 8:39 pm