The Huffington Post today caught the McCain campaign red-handed. At least three recipes placed on US Presidential John McCain’s website Sunday that are attributed to his wife, and called “McCain Family Recipes” were all found to be filched — without changes even — from the Food Network’s website. One, “Farfalle Pasta with Turkey Sausage, Peas and Mushrooms” was stolen from Giada de Laurentis.

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HP writer, David Weiner says:

CNN (and TMZ) are now reporting that Recipegate was the work of an intern, and that according to McCain’s campaign, the whole thing is a “low-level unpaid staff debacle.”

Personally, I’m not sure how an intern can be responsible for messing up the McCain “family” recipes. Did the intern lose Cindy’s recipe box only to haphazardly try to replace them with Food Network recipes? If only we could all steal and lie and lay it off on the unpaid help.

{16 Apr 2008}