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Lipstick on a Pig -- the Political Cartoon too hot for Investor's Business Daily?
Investor's Business Daily | September 11, 2008 | Vanity

Posted on 09/11/2008 6:09:51 PM PDT by Zakeet

Earlier today, Investor's Business Daily posted a cartoon from their resident genius, Michael Ramirez, which perfectly captured the essence of Barry Obama's "lipstick on a pig" comment. Copyright restrictions do not allow us to display the toon on Free Republic, but as of the time of this writing, you can view the Mr. Ramirez' artwork HERE.

Later this afternoon, IBD deleted the cartoon from their website, and as you can see HERE, it is no longer listed in Ramirez' archives.

Obviously, the heat's on IBD from the mavens of political correctness.

In my opinion, the only remaining questions now are whether they will pull the above link and when.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008election; cartoon; electionpresident; ibd; lipstick; obama; pig
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1 posted on 09/11/2008 6:09:51 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

I saw it earlier today and don’t understand the deletion. OK, NObomba has pig ears, er, big ears, and wears lipstick. So what?


3 posted on 09/11/2008 6:12:40 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: Zakeet

Wowza!! Perfect!!!


4 posted on 09/11/2008 6:12:56 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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5 posted on 09/11/2008 6:13:43 PM PDT by kik5150
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To: Zakeet

IBD did the right thing, this cartoon is too stupid and is not worth to be published by one of the best publications in the country. Ramirez is always good but he screwed up badly on this one.


6 posted on 09/11/2008 6:13:53 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless President Bush and our brave troops)
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To: Zakeet
“Lipstick on a ‘pig’”? No, that's lipstick on a Marxist.
7 posted on 09/11/2008 6:14:07 PM PDT by LiberConservative (Sarah Palin makes me tingly.)
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To: Zakeet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2080413/posts?page=1

Yeah, well, it's too late for that. I've seen it in many places.

8 posted on 09/11/2008 6:14:45 PM PDT by Jemian (Nobama - wants to kill babies & raise taxes; Palin - wants to kill taxes & raise babies!)
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To: Zakeet
What was IBD so worried about? Offending libs or Islamists? Pretty gutless in either case.
9 posted on 09/11/2008 6:15:50 PM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: Zakeet

Bet bambi won’t think this is so funny like he did his stunt.


11 posted on 09/11/2008 6:16:20 PM PDT by jackv
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To: Jemian

Oooh! Ignore post. It’s the pain-killers I’m on. I can’t be responsible for coherency.


12 posted on 09/11/2008 6:16:22 PM PDT by Jemian (Nobama - wants to kill babies & raise taxes; Palin - wants to kill taxes & raise babies!)
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To: Zakeet

Huh? The first link leads to the IBD website, from which you say they pulled it?!


13 posted on 09/11/2008 6:18:02 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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14 posted on 09/11/2008 6:18:38 PM PDT by chaos_5 (Why I dont like McCain -> http://www.johnmccain.com/climatechange/)
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15 posted on 09/11/2008 6:20:28 PM PDT by xcamel (Conservatives start smart, and get rich, liberals start rich, and get stupid.)
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Thanks. Can’t believe IBD would wuss out.


16 posted on 09/11/2008 6:20:57 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Fire mission!)
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To: P8riot

That’s an insult to pigs.


17 posted on 09/11/2008 6:21:36 PM PDT by Desdemona (Lipstick only until the election. The gloss has been sacrificed for the greater good.)
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To: jveritas
Yeah, I agree.
Ramirez is consistently great.
The IBD is consistently excellent.
Neither of them needed to 'push the envelope' with this cartoon. Not all that funny, and it almost descends into 'Toles territory' -- which is a gutter you want to stay out of...
18 posted on 09/11/2008 6:21:44 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Zakeet

Me thinks the effect would have been better without the caption, which is obviously implied.


19 posted on 09/11/2008 6:21:59 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: kik5150

Now, that’s scary.


20 posted on 09/11/2008 6:22:52 PM PDT by Silly (PalinLove.com)
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