NEW YORK – Right-wing commentators have slammed New York Times food critic Shauna Campbell for a recent review in which she described a chocolate cake as ‘rich.’
Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney mentioned the gaffe in a recent speech: “’Once again we see the New York Times using the shameful language of class warfare. ‘Rich’ has become a pejorative term for the people that we prefer to call ‘Americans of Successful Ancestry’. What Ms. Campbell doesn’t seem to realize, is that this Chocolate Cake is really the last hero of American Free Enterprise.”
The attacks continued on Rush Limbaugh’s popular morning show. The pundit declared, “Ms. Campbell’s review has only perpetuated the liberal idea that wealth is something to criticize, or to apologize for. In my America, people should aspire to obtain wealth and cakes should aspire to be as rich as possible, without having to be ashamed of their status. Ms. Campbell clearly does not reside in the same America as I do.”
This is not the first time that Campbell has courted right-wing ire. Last November, Mississippi governor Phil Bryant (R) called for Campbell’s resignation after she criticized a local restaurant’s Mississippi mud pie as “Overwhelmingly sickly-sweet, with a processed, chemical aftertaste and a strong sensation of racism.”
