Congrats to Stephanie - you broke Cookiegate, and it's being hit on every show

[sniffa]

You did DU proud. Hopefully you'll get your due, and not have Huffpost getting the credit for it. :patriot:

edit - link to original thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6365886&mesg_id=6365886

[bridgit]

1. Cookies!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Cha]

2. Congrats, Stephanie!

That's what DU is all about..great writers and investigative researchers.

We'll make sure she gets the credit:D

[FrenchieCat]

3. For those who say DUer is its own little world, and doesn't matter....

you are very wrong.

Reporters come here to find stories...which is where they found most of their stories throughout the primaries.

We need to help them now.....and give him the stories they deserve. We must be active and diligent....be silent when they want to rile us, and make noise when they want to omit the truth.

IT is so.

Thanks Stephanie.

Now, let's do it again, cause I'm fired up and ready to go! :)

[sniffa]

7. I agree with you

For some time now, I've come to view DU as representative of the population as a whole (from the center-right, or even right in some cases to the left). There are so many moments and historic threads, that prove we all come from different areas, and have our own opinions. The usual dismissal is, "If DU were reality, Dennis Kucinich would be President."
Yeah, but try starting an immigration thread here; or a gun thread; or an Israel thread; or even a panhandling or breast feeding thread. We are just as diverse as what's beyond these walls.

And yes, we do have a role in the media. We should do more to embrace that.

Fired up. :D

[Joanne98]

4. Stephanie almighty cookieslayer!!!!!!!!!

:bounce:

[papapi]

5. Stephanie knows what Cindy is all about...

and we're proud of her!

[Ilsa]

6. One of the cable news shows, I think MSNBC, said a reader of

Huff Post had sent in the link to the Hershey site for their recie and pointed out that it was the same recipe. They didn't credit Stephanie by name, but that could have been because HuffPost didn't provide it?

[blogslut]

8. Big props to STEPHANIE

She is the original source for this story. And Cindy's lil' cookie-snatching tale is spreading. Food blogs, political blogs plus the MSM.

Ms. McCain is scheduled to take a trip to Vietnam this Thursday, so she won't have to face the cameras of shame. I guess that leaves her husband to answer for her crimes. I wonder how Mr. Grumpy will handle it?

[Binka]

11. Shit Cindy Might Have To Pick Up Another Brown Kid In Vietnam

To cover up YET another youthful indiscretion. There is great speculation she adopted the Indian child to cover up the breaking drug stealing story. She is a piece of SHIT.

[Cha]

14. OT, but did you

ever learn how to do the "printer friendly"(in order to reveal Ignores) that 48 Percenter was posting about last night? 'Cause I finally got it.

[Binka]

21. No I Still Don't Get It Blast Me A PM And 'Splain!!!

[JeffR]

K & R!

:kick:

[saracat]

9. This is really stupid. You don't think seriously Michelle bakes cookies either? Who cares?

What differnce does it make if they got a recipe from a friend or a magazine or the back of a package so long as it is one they like? Bill put the WH Chef's recipe in contention. So what! At least the other cookies were edible. Sheesh. And how many of use create our own recipes? I am always getting recipes from friends or magazines and my "cheescake" recipe I make every year is from a magazine? So what?

[blogslut]

12. Attacking Michelle Obama for the proud comment is stupid too

Are you aware that the repubs are deliberately targeting Michelle? Does that matter to you?

[saracat]

26. So that makes either Michelle or Cindy McCain cookie bakers?

And you seriously think these two issues have anything in common? Whether justified or not, pride in country is a lot more important than cookie baking! or do you think cookie baking is the equivelent of "swiftboating" JK's military record? Sorry this remains stupid.And of course the repubs are targeting Michelle. They targeted Hillary in 1992 as well.It is up to her and the campaign to deal with it and they have a lot more concerns than this stupidity.

I really think the nominee spouse shoud not be attacked, on either side, but it is going to happen anyway. I think we look absurd when we decend to this level though.And we are only asking for them to attack us even worse by doing so. This is like Bush's "bring it on" and over "cookies".

[blogslut]

29. You forget there would be no cookie bake-off without Hillary

Her cookie comment in 1992 is the reason why Family Circle magazine started the bake-off. And maybe it's time to kill this ridiculous insulting contest once and for all.

The point you refuse to acknowledge is that Mrs. McCain gets a pass for every single callous thing she's done while Michelle Obama is scrutinized and demonized on a regular basis.

The fact that you brush off assaults on the character of Michelle Obama, yet take the time to defend the republican candidate's wife says a lot about your allegiances.

[saracat]

33. It says i have no alligance to "stupid "cookie " contests and I don't believe

either spouse bakes these cookies!

[blogslut]

34. uh huh

I think I'll just let your statements hang there. Ciao.

[saracat]

41. Good.

[woolldog]

35. plagiarism is a big deal.

[sufrommich]

37. Who has time to invent a cookie recipe!!!!!

I can't believe everyone is making a big deal out of this.It was a probably campaign worker who submitted the recipe anyway,I'm sure Hillary didn't rifle through her recipes either and neither will Michelle,they're all busy women IN THE MIDDLE OF A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN!.Why are we dissing anyone for "fake" cookie recipes on a progressive board?

[sniffa]

38. I'm shocked someone hasn't mentioned the plagiarism

[saracat]

40. Delete

[sniffa]

16. And you also submit those recipes as your own to magazines

:thumbsup:

[JuniperLea]

17. Because it's stealing!

You don't pass on poetry as your own that someone else wrote... you don't steal ideas... recipes are carefully guarded property and shouldn't be stolen either.

It's very basic! Stealing is WRONG!

[Debi]

20. Giving credit is proper

Do you tell your friends 'I created this recipe' or do you tell them 'I got this out of a magazine years ago'?

The proper thing for Mrs. McCain to do is to say, 'my favorite cookie recipe comes from Hershey's - here it is'.

It's not really about who bakes them.

[AlCzervik]

22. way to piss all over an appreciation thread.

[ampad]

23. It's called plagiarism

You know "Change you can Xerox" I'm sure you were all over that one though.

[City Lights]

24. Sigh...Debbie Downer dumps on DU.

:thumbsdown:

Figures you'd be okay with recipes you can xerox.

[Shakespeare]

39. Same old, same old.

Like a freakin' broken record. :eyes:

[Leftist Agitator]

28. It's the plagiarism, stupid.

"And how many of use create our own recipes? "

I do.

"Bill put the WH Chef's recipe in contention."

And he gave credit where credit was due.

You fail. Good Day.

[Erin Elizabeth]

36. I suggest, then, that she should have said she got it from the back

of a bag of butterscotch chips and not her "good friend."

[polichick]

10. Nice job! (That's the way the cookie crumbles, Cindy.)

[AlCzervik]

13. Excellent job Stephanie!

:toast: :thumbsup:

[AlCzervik]

15. ok, Stephanie, if you're reading this you should see a star next to your username.

[Stephanie]

30. well that is very sweet of you!

I was holding off until the budget got a little less tight - you're very kind! :hi:

[AlCzervik]

31. well it was my pleasure!

:toast: :thumbsup: :hi:

[sniffa]

18. I edited the OP to include link to Stephanie's thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6365886&mesg_id=6365886

[Canuckistanian]

19. Way to go, Stephanie!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[City Lights]

25. Way to go, Stephanie!

:applause:

[Stephanie]

27. I was out all afternoon!

Thanks for letting me know! I love it! :hi:

[sniffa]

32. You're welcome

As Frenchie says up thread, we can provide a valuable service when we apply ourselves. So far so good. :hi:

[Swamp Rat]

42. YAAY! Stephanie!!!

[Stephanie]

44. I Heart You, Swampy!

I need to get down to your neighborhood and pay you a visit! xx S

[JimboDem]

43. Those GOP Crumbs!

You rock, Stephanie!:toast: