Rachel Ray having Laura Bush on her show--WTF?

[Carni]

What the hell? The promo for the title just ran on her show.

What is she thinking allowing that hag on --I never pegged RR as a bush apologist or a repuke.

I am emailing her show my sentiments on the above.

[underpants]

1. A little primer for the stay at home types on what Rx don't mix with Vodka?

:beer:

[Dora]

2. And on the website - A SPECIAL BONUS!!!

Tips on at-home bleaching of the maryjane nicotine stains from your pearly whites.

[Carni]

4. Or...make up tips

For when you want to look like Jack Nicholson in Batman lol

[Carni]

3. Yeah really lol

BTW I noticed after I posted this that RR show is on a FOX station so I shouldn't be surprised about this!

[northernsoul]

5. now I despise her (Rachel Ray) even more

She is champion of sheer, relentless mediocrity - so this move doesn't surprise me at all.

[Carni]

6. She wasn't my fave person on FOOD TV by any stretch

But honestly I never pegged her as a wing-nut type.

[Arugula Latte]

13. I saw a segment where she was encouraging people to visit the Kennedy library

I doubt she's a repuke, but you never know ...

[northernsoul]

16. I don't think she's actually a wingnut - I just think she's an idiot

As a former restaurant cook, her knife technique absolutely makes me cringe. Bourdain is the only culinary personality with a TV show that I'll make time to watch.

[Carni]

22. Ever read his books?

They are a hoot!

I have read both of Bordain's books and couldn't put them down.

They are highly entertaining.

[northernsoul]

23. The Les Halles cookbook has become my culinary gospel

Kitchen Confidential brought back a lot of memeories of my brief cooking career. It also made me glad that I got out of it. I learned a lot and I can still have great time cooking for friends and family at home - but the lifestyle is just brutal.

[Carni]

25. I have the Les Halles cookbook too

I have never actually attempted anything in it...

I have read the recipes over and over again, just haven't been energetic enough to embarrass myself formally!(he's a little above my skill level lol)

Chef's hours are indeed brutal--as is the physical labor involved!

[eyepaddle]

49. Boy, are we in complete agreement on cooking as a career.

After high school I drifted for awhile--and contiued to cook which I had done in high school. To borrow (and paraphrase) a line from Hunter S.Thompson cooking is a ot like screwing--it's only fun for the amateurs.

Getting paid for it means the enjoyment is gone. That and the fact that you probably don't get paid much. I shudder to think about those days sometimes. :scared:

[northernsoul]

57. I quit a job in a bank to "folow that dream"

I'm sooooo much happier as a home-hobbyist now. Plus, once you've mastered the menu of the restaurant you work at, it gets pretty repetitive and boring. Now I'm a lawyer (even :scared:ier).

[twilight_sailing]

38. Bourdain

That really is a fun show.

[Seabiscuit]

63. Who knows - maybe RR is doing a Hannibal routine - having Laura "for dinner".

Chop! chop!

[MonkeyFunk]

7. huh?

you have to be a Republican or a bush apologist to have the First Lady on your show?

[Carni]

8. I wouldn't have Laura's fat ass on my show

Under the circumstances of THIS admin and all the blood on their hands...I would refuse even if it violated my contract.

In normal times with a normal first lady of either party--I agree who would care.

[MonkeyFunk]

10. oh ffs...

must EVERY thing be a political statement? It's a stupid cable cooking show - perfect fodder for a do-nothing First Lady.

[Carni]

11. How is it NOT a political statement?

Why would anyone want a first lady on their show whose husband has approval ratings worse than Nixon?

BTW this isn't the cable show by RR it's her network talk show.

[MonkeyFunk]

14. it's not a political statement

because it's a stupid cooking show. They're not going to discuss the Earned Income Tax Credit.

[Carni]

15. Geez-- one more time this is NOT the food TV show

RR has two shows--one on food TV the other is a daytime talk show on network.

Laura is appearing on the network talk show NOT the food only show.

[MonkeyFunk]

17. ok

it's a stupid talk show, not a stupid cooking show. My mistake.

It still doesn't mean RR is a right-wing shill. Bush was on Letterman - does that make him a right-wing apologist?

Talk show hosts can have guests without endorsing the politics of those guests. Is Colbert a shill because he had O'Reilly on?

Laura Bush isn't even political per se - she's just married to a doof who is.

[ronnykmarshall]

33. Too bad Pat Nixon's dead.

She could have subbed for Laura.

[Madspirit]

55. Leno had her

Jay Leno had Laura Bush on his show. Isn't he a Democrat? I don't think these people always have a choice of who is on their show.
Lee

[Kerrytravelers]

61. Leno can say he's a Democrat all he wants, but he acts like Schwartzenidiot's PR manager.

I, for one, have no use for Leno. Personally, the Dancing Itos were enough for me.

[twilight_sailing]

40. Uh, nope.

It's not a "cooking show" and it is not on cable.

I got no beef with you ;)
just wanted to get the facts right.

[jobycom]

19. Shhh. It's the Two Minute Hate. Don't interupt or Big Brother will question. nt.

[KitchenWitch]

30. Agent Mike is present, I repeat Agent Mike is present

[jobycom]

39. The leaves in Aspen are beginning to turn. Come back--to life!

[ronnykmarshall]

31. Didn't get the memo?

La Ray is now an enemy of the people!

[MonkeyFunk]

42. screw her politics

she should be sent to a re-education camp for using the term "smashed potatoes".

[Arugula Latte]

48. I think "smashed" is when you leave some of the skins on and don't mush 'em up so much.

"Mashed" is peeled and whipped.

:shrug:

[Carni]

53. Blame the smashed potatoes thing on Emeril

I know that is the first place that I heard the term *smashed* used and that was in the early 90's (I think)

[MissMillie]

44. thank you

I was thinking the same thing.

[LSK]

9. EVOO anyone?

[Carni]

12. Yeah thrown on Ms Bush lol

When it's at a good hot simmer...along with a whole lot of garlic and maybe some chicken gizzards fried up in it just for good measure lol

[northernsoul]

18. Now now!

That sounds like a waste of perfectly good olive oil (I refuse, upon pain of Applebees, to refer to the gift of the Olympian Gods as "EVOO"), garlic, and chicken gizzards.

[Carni]

20. You're right

Something with trans fat is in order for the described purpose-- preferably a trans fat product with a fake butter flavoring lol

[ronnykmarshall]

34. How niiiiiicccccceee!

[jobycom]

21. Her only Newsmeat contribution was to Mark Warner's "Forward Together PAC"

February of 06. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Together

Forward Together is a leadership political action committee, of which former Democratic Governor of Virginia, Mark Warner, is the Honorary Chair.

Until October 2006, Warner was believed to be actively pursuing the Presidency for 2008, and this PAC supports many positions that Warner advocates, such as fundraising for New Democrats and Blue Dog Democrats. Most label Warner as a New Democrat.

During the 2006 election cycle, Forward Together donated over $650,000 to federal candidates

[Carni]

24. Well based on that-- clearly she isn't a bushist

I just hate to see that horrid so called "first lady" given any media platform to spew more of her BS and I have a feeling that show's audience is primarily an uninformed one (I mean politically) so they'll just think Laura's a nice gal <GAG>

I am still sending a polite email to the show stating my displeasure lol

BTW I usually don't even watch this type of programming but am still recovering from a major surgery which kind of molded my viewing habits over to the darkside of TV! (until very recently I was a very captive audience)

[jobycom]

27. It may not even be her decision, or there may be something else behind it.

Producers may have made the decision, or maybe Laura is involved in something Ray has some interest in. Like Lance Armstrong--he opposed Bush on Iraq, but deals with him to get funding for cancer research.

[Carni]

28. Her show is on Faux

I think that is probably what is up.

[NYCGirl]

37. No, her show is syndicated. Here in NYC it's on ABC following Regis & Kelly. NT

[Carni]

46. I didn't know that--thanks for the info

I didn't realize it was syndicated.

That time slot on ABC in my area is occupied by Martha Stewart and RR's show is on the faux channel.

[AlCzervik]

45. it's on the nbc affiliate where i live. There goes your Faux argument.

[Carni]

50. No, I meant maybe Faux forced her to have Laura as a guest

Obviously that isn't the case...I didn't realize the show is syndicated.

[RebelOne]

26. I have a feeling it was not her choice.

It was probably the producer of the show's decision.

[CBHagman]

29. I would cut Rachael Ray some slack simply because...

...Pickles is the first lady, after all, and Ray no doubt wants to appeal to various audiences, including the 'cans.

That said, I flee any Rachael Ray-related items in the supermarket (And they're proliferating! RUN!).

And since it must be said, I wouldn't put it past Pickles to say EVOO reminds her of abstinence programs...

[Scarlett17]

62. About the Rachael Ray-related supermarket items. . .

all I know is that Ritz Crackers have never made an appearance in my kitchen. Suddenly, Nabisco puts seven (count 'em, seven) pictures of Ms. Ray on a box of Ritz and they're my husband's favorite cracker. Coincidence? I think not.

[graywarrior]

32. Hey, I know someone who voted for "Laura" so I'm sure there are others out there

[Carni]

43. I have a friend who did just that in 2000

I wanted to kill her...she said Laura was *so nice* like *the perfect Mom*
(ARRRGGGHHHHH!)

My friend is choking on those words now!

She cannot stand the bush reich and worked against them in 04 but the damage
was done in 2000 (as it was with so many of our innocent nit wit citizens who voted and supported him that first time around!!)

[graywarrior]

56. Same with the one I know who has a 17 year old son.

She's worried he'll have to go to Iraq or Iran.

[ronnykmarshall]

35. Rachel Ray: The New Olive Garden?

:shrug:

[jobycom]

She was Olive Garden before Olive Garden was Olive Garden.

Or maybe we should say, she was Tom Cruise before Olive Garden was Tom Cruise?

[GoneOffShore]

36. Rachel Ray

Queen of unhygenic kitchen practices and bad food choices, now makes a show that even fewer people will want to watch.

Yummy!

[northernsoul]

58. Champion of deep-fried cardboard

and expositor of a knife-technique that will definitely liberate a few digits from your hand - RR is the epitome of everything that is wrong with American middle-brow food culture.

[terrya]

41. I think David Letterman has had Laura Bush on his show.

And I hardly think that Letterman is some sort of right winger.

Laura Bush is, and I know we're not thrilled by it, the First Lady of the United States. They've done talk shows...from Laura Bush to Hillary Clinton to Barbara Bush, etc, etc.

[GoneOffShore]

47. But it's such a good reason to hate Rachel Ray

Even more!

As someone downthread(upthread? I'm confused) said, Rachel Ray was Olive Garden before Olive Garden was Olive Garden(and with less compost).

[terrya]

51. I guess I'm in the minority because I don't hate her.

I'm sort of indifferent to Rachel Ray. She's not, imo, the most obnoxious person on television these days.

[Carni]

52. I really don't hate her

I am not a big fan of her cooking show and I am not into her recipes...but I think she must be a smart business woman to have arrived at the level she is at in the food and entertainment industry with no formal culinary training.

Additionally she does a pretty good job at conducting celebrity interviews IMO

Quite honestly, until very recently I was stuck in bed recovering from surgery that I had at the beginning of December and I have gotten in the habit of watching her talk show (not the food show the talk show) every day because I had nothing better to do.

Basically, I was just all pissed off this morning when I saw the promo stating that the wide end from the Clampett's whitehouse was going to be on the program!

[Madspirit]

54. No Choice

I doubt she has a choice.
Lee

[RedStateShame]

59. Wow. Cooking Laura Bush usually takes a little too long, and I find it particularly stringy.

[jmowreader]

60. This may be a sinister plot...

to get the First Lady in front of someone who will relieve her of her Joker-face makeup job and sprayed-hard hairdo.