You need to do this to hob-nob with world leaders.
This is why I eat pizza with a knife and fork and always will.
Edit: if you’re a politician (or, indeed, Trump or Palin) you should probably just stay away from consuming food in public at all. You can’t win. You’re either a slob or an effete snob.
Or a horndog.
I guess I haven’t seen enough of Vine. I thought this was a GIF, and I can tell you it was pretty surreal without any sound. Then I saw the “mute” icon…
The Demon of Self Deception?
Now I gotta go shower, thanks Obama.
At least Rick and Michelle had enough sense not to ask for arugula at the state fair.
I wonder why Elizabeth Warren doesn’t attract the same sort of comments? Or even Fiorina, despite her activities at HP. Or, spreading the net wider, Angela Merkel.
Palin is sexist. She does a conservative sexy housewife act which I suspect of being just that - an act. A feminist or an egalitarian woman would leave that sort of thing out of politics as being unprofessional.
Wasn’t Murdoch claimed to have offered £50 000 for a picture of Miliband trying to eat something with pork in it and pulling a face?
The Left don’t have that sort of money to throw around, or the newspapers in which to print the result. But, even more to the point, pictures of Trump, Rubio, Palin etc. looking ridiculous doesn’t seem to lose them votes. It’s as if their constituency either thinks “Hey, he looks just like me in that picture my brother took” or “typical élites gunning for my candidate.”
Oh come now, we’re talking about two presidential wannabes who were trying to win populist points, not an elected leader hosting dinner for a head of state. “Debasing oneself by eating disgusting hand-held foods at the State Fair” has been part of the ritual for US Presidential Primaries for years now.
I think candidates are now required to consume their own weight in pork products just to prove they aren’t a secret Muslim.
Fiorina’s dishonesty and batshit loonyness isn’t sexy. But for insecure/immature men, dumb women ARE sexy. This is especially so for the today’s Republicans, constantly hearing from their leaders that being educated is a sin.
If ignorance I bliss, Palin is downright orgasmic.
WTF is Hillary eating? It looks like something you’d find on the ground at a building site.
I’m not sure, but I have to respect her expression of grim determination.
Being a Presidential candidate at an Iowa State Fair is kind of like being a contestant on Fear Factor. It doesn’t matter what horrible thing they shove in front of you, you have to do your best to keep it down if you want a shot at winning.
Why is it always Iowa, then New Hampshire anyway?
Isn’t there something fundamentally undemocratic about it always being the same voters in the same states who get to set the tone of the election?
Why not Texas and Florida?
Oh. Right.
A stick of butter rolled in corn nuts, then fried. It being Iowa.
I just realized that this means a politician-turned-reality-show-host just endorsed a reality-show-host-turned-politician. It’s like an ouroboros of idiocy.
Apparently, it is way, way less fun than it sounds. I haven’t had the pleasure, and sincerely hope I never do.
This is a great and unprecedented meeting of the minds.
No idea where those minds may be meeting, it’s only clear that they have departed their host bodies.
