Remember last week’s overly-hyped Iron Chef episode that featured dishes supposedly made with fresh ingredients from the White House garden? As it turns out, the White House footage was filmed in October, but the actual episode wasn’t shot until a week later. And as a result, the Iron Chefs used STUNT DOUBLE VEGETABLES in the episode, and not the produce they had just picked from the Obama’s garden.
This incident wouldn’t have been a big deal, had only the Food Network fessed up instead of intentionally trying to deceive the public.
Well well well… The big hype was a big nothing.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, though. Scripps has been lying about having their programming pulled from Cablevision (they pulled it themselves in order to turn fans onto Cablevision; a strategy that’s clearly backfiring as no one seems to give a rat’s ass) since January 1st, so if they’re willing to lie about something that big and provable, there’s no reason to think they’d suddenly find integrity and honor when they can create drama in the cutting room.