Froggy mustard outrage
A year ago Newsweek wryly pointed out that back in 2009 Fox News was so desperate for material on Obama that it had to resort to sneering at his lunch choices.
In news from eight years ago that appears to be from some alternate reality, Obama left the White House and went out for a local bite to eat with vice president and BFF Joe Biden in May. The two politicians ordered hamburgers, MSNBC journalist Andrea Mitchell reported at the time, with the sitting president requesting mustard on his red meat.
The story was featured on Sean Hannity’s show, Hannity’s America, as a screen showed a photoshopped image of Obama surrounded by bottles of mustard with the words “PRESIDENT POUPON” plastered on a red and white banner.
And Hannity actually did make an issue of the fact that Obama ordered mustard on his burger and then asked if they had spicy mustard, Dijon mustard. He actually did.
I had a friend once accuse me of being un-American because I ordered horseradish and asked them to leave off the ketchup. No kidding – but she was, sort of (she hated horseradish).
The American Right is something else again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScecsY6YLWY
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to play Clue with Fox.
“It was Colonel Mustard with the wrench in the study.”
“Colonel Mustard? Thanks Obama.“
There are American spicy mustards too. So what’s wrong with those Obama? Huh?? HUH???
/snark
But of course the “Dijon” mustard we get here is made in the US.
Also note that Obama was careful not to pronounce it Frenchly – the j was Frenchly but the on was not.