Pickles fires White House chef of 11 years, wanting to "set her own style"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

First lady shakes up White House staff
Changes point to new approach for husband's second term

By Kelly Wallace, CNN

Wednesday, February 16, 2005 Posted: 6:55 PM EST (2355 GMT)

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Behind the scenes, first lady Laura Bush is making big changes for the next four years.

In the past two months, Mrs. Bush has hired a new social secretary and chief of staff -- and fired chef Walter Scheib III, who had been at the White House for 11 years.

"We don't usually think of Laura Bush as firing anybody," said Ann Gerhart, a political reporter for The Washington Post's style section. "She is just as loyal as everybody else in the Bush family. So I think it's very unusual."

"He has said that Mrs. Bush wanted to set her own style, and he had tried to adapt and wasn't able to do that, so she is moving on," Gerhart told CNN.

ON EDIT: The URL:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/02/16/first.lady/index.html

[Sub Atomic]

1. Good. Maybe the new chef will feed Dubya what he deserves.

A shit sandwich.

[Sannum]

2. She was unimpressed

by all o'that Gourmette food. He didn't wanna make bennie weenies, chili dogs and tacos:7

(spelling intentional)

[TrueAmerican]

3. Now taking resume

from chefs with Cracker Barrel or Golden Corral experience.

[Piperay]

Yeah or maybe The Waffle House

famous for being one of the dirtiest and most racist restaurants in the country. :puke:

[Uzybone]

4. Pork rinds for all now

stupid hag.

[Mabus]

8. and don't forget beanie-weenies.

Now that's down home cooking, Laura-style.

[tsuki]

27. Where's the Vienner Sausage with the partially defatted pork fatty tissue?

[Nitrogenica]

5. The new chef has that alien cookbook with recipes

for serving elderly.

[Bronco69]

6. I hope the chef spit in their food before he left!

Serves the bastards right!

[senseandsensibility]

7. Oh, I'll just bet

Pickles has her "own style." And a very classy one I'm sure it is. She wants real, authentic peanut butter and jelly sandwiches ( *'s favorite comfort food) and the GOOD pretzels, not the tacky ones. She's pure class!:*

[tanyev]

47. The small pretzels, not the big chunky ones.

Much too dangerous.

[hector459]

9. Will we hear the same kind of attack about this that we heard when

the Clinton's fired the staff of the Travel Office? The MSM were all over the Clintons as they repeated night after night the Republican talking points about the Travel Office firings.

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. Shit no!

Only that laura has a keen sense of style and grace, the change is understandable.

[Vickers]

11. She probably knows more about food that SOMEONE WHO DEDICATED

THEIR LIFE TO IT.

What an ignorant cow. You know, Laura, there's more to life than grilled cheese sandwiches and Steak Ums.

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[Bush_Eats_Beef]

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:thumbsup:

:toast:

[Vickers]

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42. Wow, thanks for all those!

[Menshevik]

18. LoL!

love it!

[Catchawave]

25. LOL....you really should

start a new thread so we can vote for it :smoke:

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it on Feb. 6th.

[stevedeshazer]

29. Very nice, LMAO!

[KoKo]

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[Catchawave]

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[BlackVelvetElvis]

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[libnnc]

13. "...her own style..."

Just imagine:

Spam & Spaghetti-O Surprise.

"The secret ingredient I use is a package of Ritz crackers. Gives the dish a nice texture."~The First Pickle



:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[FreedomAngel82]

15. People in the Bush family loyal?

:wtf: They use people and then slap them in the back and tell them "so long." So why is Laura a big surprise?

[Contrary1]

16. I read a couple weeks back...

that the Shrubbies wanted him to quit cooking French food, since France
wasn't kissing his ass. I think French cooking is his specialty.

Also, the chef was a bit annoyed at having to incorporate some products of Dubya's
high rolling donors that had to do with food and beverages into his recipes.

On the Inaugural Menu: A Dish to Please Every Donor

"WASHINGTON, DC—Just call him the "Iron Chef" of the White House. Executive Chef Walter S. Scheib III is facing a major culinary challenge: how to create an inaugural menu that pays tribute to the brand names of a dozen top Bush campaign and GOP donors. From Coca Cola to Krispy Kreme doughnuts and Pilgrim's Pride turkeys, Scheib's dishes must satisfy the most powerful appetite on Capitol Hill these days: the taste for money...."

More about half way down the page @ http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/01/

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[tinfoilinfor2005]

28. Turkey stuffed with Dunkin Donuts?

Yes, that old traditional Thanksgiving Day family recipe. Yum, Yum.
Would those be the chocolate filled powdered sugar or the strawberry jelly donuts? I'm trying to think which would taste best smothered with gravy?

[democrat in Tallahassee]

19. OMG investigate her! did she do it to give a job to her texas

cronies so W can eat bull testicles. She has no power no one elected her. Investigate, investigate, investigate. She's a republican? Well, never mind>

[ailsagirl]

20. Pardon my ignorance but... where does "Pickles" come from?

[98geoduck]

22. Some people say that she had a thing for pickles while W was out drinking.

[ailsagirl]

23. Ah... a good name for her, anyway

[Malva Zebrina]

21. I don't believe she had anything to do with the firing of the chef

this is more manufacturing of the first frump as a determined forceful woman with her own mind. I don't believe she is in charge of anything at all.

Someone else, not her, decided that the chef made a mockery of the corporations such as Krispy Kreme and decided that Laura should take the blame (initiative) for firing the chef.

The next propagandist buildup was the report that she was reading a book about American cuisine and that is the clue that this firing is about a chef who was not American enough for the propaganda and marketing of the current, classless inhabitants of the White House.

What the hell are her "stylistic requirements anyhow? She has no style, never has and never will no matter how hard the media tries to play it up. She simply Step fords herself into what she is told to do by those who control her and she is stupid enough, or comfortable enough to do so.

Showing her tongue when giving a speech or whatever the hell she is doing in that photo makes her look like a teen feigning shock.

[jn2375]

24. Any of them gay? Cleaning house before their found out??

[thebigidea]

26. don't you love all these idiotic puff pieces about Laura lately?

I wonder why, though?

Are they implying that - gasp - something was WRONG with the old Laura Bush, described at one point as the "comforter-in-chief"?

gag.

She'll still be the same waste product with the croaky, fucked up smoker's voice that sounds 20 years older than she is.

Still the stame classless cow wearing the drapes, shooting botox into her crazed kabuki-mask of a face.

"I... I used to be a teacher... or something... I do declare... uh... books... is good. and learning. and the bible."

[heidiho]

30. Perhaps Yuschenko's Soup Chef is Available!!!

As if Chimpy could look any worse.

[DemoTex]

31. Jenna is devastated. Chef made such good Champagne cocktails!

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[zulchzulu]

35. Some gay former reporter called and said he could cook and needs job

Grukert goloush...

[wakemewhenitsover]

37. Is this a flip-flop?

In his first interview with the New York Times after being installed in 2000, when * was asked to comment re. how he feels about being the leader of the free world, his reply, astoundingly, was that the food at the White House is fantastic, especially the desserts, and his number one concern was watching his waistline.

[bunny planet]

40. What's her style, pigs in a blanket?

[WMliberal]

41. hope the new chef puts pretzel on the daily menu

[leesa]

43. Ahh...the Queen of Frump has spoken!

Hillary Clinton drafts a viable national health care plan and this twit tinkers with 'the help'.

[Cha]

44. No French Fries, French Toast,

or French Wine!!!!!

[Robin Hood]

45. Pickles is taking out her frustrations on the staff.

Nice. Yeah, a real class act.

[CBHagman]

48. Well, they already lost pastry chef Roland Mesnier.

From what I've heard from a friend who studied with Mesnier, the guy is a true artist and really worthy of the position in the White House.

Let's face it: The Bushes are not presidential. There are hardly any state dinners, and of course the White House door is open to fewer and fewer people, and not just because of security concerns.

Wake me when we've got a real first lady and president.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

49. One look at the menu in post #16 above says...

...this is a president with pork rind tastes on a Beluga budget.

I'll pass on the donut-stuffed turkey, thank you.

I'd read the horror story of the chef having to prepare that dinner utilizing products from Bush's "pioneers" and "rangers," but this is the first time I've seen the whole menu.

You're right, not presidential at all.

[susu369]

50. Watch out for writer Ann Gerhart

She's a huge bu$h fan (wrote "The Perfect Wife")...also wrote the recent puff piece about Dina Powell.

Keep your eyes on her -

We don't usually think of Laura Bush as firing anybody," said Ann Gerhart, a political reporter for The Washington Post's style section. "She is just as loyal as everybody else in the Bush family. So I think it's very unusual."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

52. It seems like it's impossible for some people to see her as...

...anything other than a "good person." They want to keep propping her up as the benchmark for modern-day first ladies. They want to keep defending her, singing her praises, telling us how she's going to get gang kids off crack.

Yeah.

Even though she's stumped for the Chimp and his agenda. Even though, when asked whether or not John Edwards was on par with Dick Cheney, she replied "Oh, my goodness, NO"...

She probably IS "just as loyal as anybody else in the Bush family."

That's half the problem. I'm sure there's a broom in her broom closet, and I'm sure it's been ridden more than once.