Cornell University Employs Insane Man as Law Professor: Spends all Day Blogging about Mustard

[SemiCharmedQuark]

Over at the Sleuth at WaPo, they've picked up on the latest Obama outrage: The mustard he ordered on his burger.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2009/05/_fallout_over_president_obamas.html?hpid=news-col-blog

Mary Ann Akers notes:

"Cornell law school professor William Jacobson has been obsessively chronicling what he has dubbed "dijongate" on his blog. "Obama ordered his burger with DIJON MUSTARD! Bet he had to seek John Kerry's counsel on that," writes Jacobson.

He, too, notes the alleged cover-up by the mainstream media, noting that Mitchell "didn't mention one arugula-like fact" - which was that Obama had the gall to ask for Dijon mustard. "You couldn't hear it on the MSNBC video because Andrea and her correspondent Kelly O'Donnel (they needed two people to cover this story) were talking so much," says Jacobson."

And here is the man's blog itself:

The post concerned the lunch trip of Obama and Biden to a burger shop to get a "Hell Burger." I accept that this should not have been news, but the White House image makers wanted to portray the two as just regular guys out at the local diner, so the event was hyped. MSNBC just happened to be in the burger place with cameras rolling when Obama and Biden came in and ordered. Again, not sure why MSNBC had to cover it, but they did, on live TV with Andrea Mitchell at the news desk and Kelly O'Donnell on scene. The dialogue between the two harped on how the trip had a "real guy kind of quality."

And that was the story line. Two regular guys out for a guy kind of meal. A script written in the White House and read by MSNBC.

But MSNBC edited out the audio when Obama ordered his Hell Burger just at the moment when Obama asked for Dijon mustard. Now I have nothing against Dijon mustard, but the image didn't fit with the image being spun by the White House and MSNBC. Dijon mustard on a Hell Burger had a very John Kerry-ish quality about it.

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/05/msnbc-hides-obamas-dijon-mustard.html

He then updates this story TEN TIMES and starts a whole new blog post about it where he attacks Obama as a blank slate that the mainstream media and "nutroots" are trying to build up.

Well done, sir.

[JayMusgrove]

1. Is this man a tenured professor?

How about a few hundred of us DU Cornell grads/alums send letters to Cornell asking for this guy to be fired, oh wait, excuse me, tenured professors are "asked to step down"... let's also make sure he can't keep his law license either.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. He shouldn't be fired! I just thought it was funny. People usually hold Ivy League professors up

on a pedestal. But they can be just as wingnutty as RedState.

[rvablue]

5. Nah, no license seizure or firing...

but some resourceful Cornell students need to video this guy at the local Starbucks ordering a soy latte and then blog about it.

What an idiot and embarrassment this man is to his profession and school.

That's punishment enough!

[ShortnFiery]

6. Oh the man is on a roll: I'm afraid that A VIDEO has surfaced and not only was it "dijon"

but "the mustard" employed was ... PARISIAN! :wow: :rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPieHx2B_Vs&NR=1

[AtomicKitten]

2. They've got their wingman for condiment-gate. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

3. OMG! They're so pathetic that comedians should pay the wingnuts for the material.

[karynnj]

7. Come on now - John Kerry, husband of Teresa Heinz Kerry, would know to use ketchup

and we know the brand he would use. He has made many jokes about ketchup.

PS That Kerry opted for real cheese likely made a better tasting and healthier sandwich than the artificial chemical filled cheese product.

[3waygeek]

8. Mustard is serious business to Midwesterners...

ask Barry Levenson, a former Wisconsin assistant AG who started a http://www.mustardmuseum.com">Mustard Museum in Mt. Horeb.

[Thrill]

9. So the guy likes spicy mustard on his burger. Big deal. This is why Republicans

will never make a comeback

[whistler162]

11. But, what does the President like on his SPAM?

[Cha]

10. Poor delirious drooling

..what did you say he was? A Prof?

Fuck you, William Jacobson..we like John Kerry who has more intelligence and intregrity than you could only dream about.

This idiot needs to be held accountable for stupidity.

Rec'd~

[Jackeens]

12. This response cracked me up

Jesus H. Christ on a Segway. Is this the best a law professor from Cornell can come up with? Snide comments about Obama requesting Dijon mustard?? My father, a tried and true conservative, WWII ball turret gunner on a B-17 for 25 missions over Germany - many of them unescorted - recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Army Air Corp Medal for valor, likes Dijon mustard. He eats it on every kind of sandwich. Would you like to imply that he's an effete, metrosexual, elitist secret Frenchified wimp?

I've always wanted to say this: Professor? Go fuck yourself.

Oh, and before you go, can I have a look in your lunch bag? I want to make sure your wife packed your juice box and cut the crusts off of your PBJ's.

You're a fucking child.

A. Fucking. Child.

http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2009/05/msnbc-hides-obamas-dijon-mustard.html

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. I like this one:

"Greg said...

And here we see the magic of tenure, which allows William A. Jacobson, "Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY," to apply his legal-eagle mind to the parsing of Presidential condiment choices. Of course, if Jacobson were a real 'Murican, he'd do without condiments altogether and just shovel fistfuls of raw ground beef into his mouth, washing it down with Ithaca-brewed moonshine."

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. Update: Wingnut's blog hit with people making fun of him--Professor claims they hate free speech

Yes, completely unhinged. The reactions to this post confirm what has been obvious for years (and decades). The most intolerant people are those on the left who claim to be tolerant. The people who hate freedom of speech the most are those on the left who claim to be in favor of free speech. If left to their own devices, we would have tens of thousands of wannabe Hugo Chavez's.

[BlooInBloo]

15. hahahaha!