I realize I’m a little late talking about this, but I still haven’t gotten over the so-called “controversy” last week when Fox News reported that *gasp* President Obama likes his hamburgers with Dijon mustard.

Now, I know that everyone has slow news days – heck, sometimes we in the PR business count on them to get coverage for a somewhat soft story. But is the fact that the President of the United States likes his mustard “a little spicy”, in his words, really worthy of broadcast coverage?

The explicit implication in the coverage by Fox “journalist” Sean Hannity is that the President isn’t terribly patriotic to prefer some kind of fancy, imported mustard to good ol’ American mustard, and he’s not really the man of the people he claims to be, is he?

If this hard-hitting investigative “journalist” had dug any further, he might have discovered something even more scandalous, like the President likes coffee (not grown in the US) or vanilla (also imported) ice cream. Let’s conveniently forget that the largest selling brand of mustard in the US is the so-called snobbish Grey Poupon label which is in fact, made by Kraft, about as American a company as they come. No, the President likes that hoity-toity type mustard, and that clearly makes him not fit to rule. Good thing Fox exposed this early in his mandate!

As for me, I’m still looking for the Dijon ketchup the Barenaked Ladies sing about in “If I Had a Million Dollars”. I’m not a world leader or anything, so maybe I can get away with it.