Dijongate

This whole Dijongate thing - well, initially I thought it was just an exceedingly stupid conservative joke, but then Hannity and Laura Ingraham appeared to be actually nitpicking the fricking condiments on Obama's cheeseburger. Condiments which were freely available at the Virginia burger joint he went to, where the burgers evidently start at $7, which is liberal and elitist because it's 99 cents with ketchup and pickles or nothing in America.

Marvel at the conservative media kerfuffle on Media Matters.

I'm really not thrilled by Ingraham's snarky "What kind of a man..." comment because who really cares. It's not like he walked into a burger joint and ordered Kobe beef on a bun topped with sauteed black truffles. He ordered a cheeseburger. With spicy mustard. Which is, I guess, one of them fancy condiments. I had no idea that although our grocery stores are full of different kinds of food, a real American picks only certain kinds of foods. Ergo, it's ketchup on your burger and yellow mustard or nothing.

I hate ketchup. When I was maybe ten or so, I was eating a ketchup-slathered hot dog and suddenly decided I hated it. I've tried it once or twice since then and it's true. Ketchup sucks. I do like mustard, but I prefer spicy brown mustard over plain yellow mustard. Hands down.

I guess this is some more solid evidence that no matter what Obama does, or even any liberal, really, the conservative media will go after it as dishonest or inept or elitist or insert your own descriptive term here. Laura Ingraham and Rush Limbaugh are straight-up assholes, Hannity and Michelle Malkin are just complete dimwits. I can't change those personality flaws and they're not going to stop whining about this ever. But I do enjoy the entertainment value when they decide to be this stupid. Laura Ingraham might not hear how ridiculous she sounds, but I'm getting the signal loud and clear.