Posted on 09/09/2008 3:36:33 PM PDT by kristinn
Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA:
Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig."
"You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."
"We've had enough of the same old thing."
The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."
At the top of Drudge, they already are. Did you look at his hits just in the past 24 hours? Tomorrow this will be the 'bomb'.
He doesn’t have to since Huckabee’s doing it for him.
Sure, freedom of speech for obama. But when he calls Palin a pig, he will need to accept the consequences.
Colmes is way out of touch.
Colmes and Wolfson were just going on and on and on.
So Hannity jumped in and said one thing. Alan made it look like Hannity interrupted thier entire conversation.
Alan started naming off and trying to defend journalists.
“You think Mike Barnicle’s a liberal? What!”
“You think Tucker Carlson’s a liberal? What!”
“You think Alex Costello’s a liberal? What!”
Hannity was like yes, yes yes!!
This has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Read the Constitution for a proper definition.
The Huckster is so like Lurch. Trying to stay relevant...dying for some attention. Good luck with that.
and yet Hussein think it's ok to lower the ugly POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION to a new low!!!
Shameless. Absolutely shameless.
I bet Sarah’s husband would dust him in a flash if he said that to her face in some bar in AK.
Wouldn’t yall love to see “First Dude” cold cock him?
John
You bet your bippy, it is.
This is Obama’s pig beast!
Any sightings of ManBearPig?
silly Senator,lipstick is for Sarah,Michelle is the pig!
“You can take the ears off a donkey, but it’s still an ass”
You found it!
That’s what we’ve been looking for..
or to quote Obama
“The video is the one we’ve been waiting for”
He’s too sly by half.
The “veiled reference” is obvious to everyone.
I’m having trouble thinking of an analog for what follows for him. It’s bigger than the bunny suit and the tank ride. It’s half a dozen algore lies rolled into one ginormous raspberry Blunt.
Funny you should say this :) My wife is out of town at a conference. I knew she hadn't heard about Obama's latest faux pas so I AIM'd her a little while ago. Nothing else was said about lipstick or Obama before this part. This was our conversation:
Me(8:23:30 PM): Have you heard of Obama's latest "gaffe"?
Her(8:23:53 PM): no what did he do this time
Me(8:24:05 PM): watch it and you tell me. Not long - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPd4yk0x-eg
Me(8:24:09 PM): from today
Her(8:25:47 PM): what a douche bag. so now he is calling palin a pig!!!!
Me(8:26:03 PM): Well, the audience certainly thought so
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I think it's pretty evident what people will think of this at face value :-)
From NRO’s The Corner
Was McCain the stinky old fish? [Victor Davis Hanson]
In all the furor over the Obama “pig” quote, commentators forgot to examine his entire attack:
“You can put lipstick on a pig. “It’s still a pig.”
“You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”
When read in the entire context you can see what he seems to mean with his dual animate male/female references and why he probably evoked two metaphors: most would think that Obama is talking about both on the ticket and his anger how each has expropriated his change motif.
So in that sense he appears both to insult the 72-year old McCain as the “old fish” that is still going to “stink”, and to refer to Palin, who had famously evoked the metaphor of lipstick in a nationally televised address, as still the pig despite the lipstick.
The fact that he used two metaphors to attack the two, and used expressions referring both to age and Palin’s recent use of “lipstick” don’t seem to be accidents and that’s why the cooing crowd got the old fish=McCain;lipsticked pig=Palin immediately.
I’ll leave it to others to deconstruct the historical use of pig as a sexist term in the recent climate of generic attacks on Sarah Palin.
PS. The VP nominee was just announced and already Biden has called her “good looking” and now “a step back for women”; most know what he intended, but like most Bidenisms they come out wrongly and confirm a popular perception that he suffers from logorhhea and that there is a different standard of reference applied to Palin due to her sex.
Someone in the campaign has got to manage the ex tempore carelessness.
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