Lipstick on a Pig -- the Political Cartoon too hot for Investor's Business Daily?

Investor's Business Daily | September 11, 2008 | Vanity

[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.

[Zakeet]

I advise naughty Freepers to look while the lookin's good.

[A_Former_Democrat]

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

[xcamel]

Wowza!! Perfect!!!

[kik5150]

[jveritas]

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.

[LiberConservative]

“Lipstick on a ‘pig’”? No, that's lipstick on a Marxist.

[Jemian]

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.

[mewzilla]

What was IBD so worried about? Offending libs or Islamists? Pretty gutless in either case.

[jackv]

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

[Jemian]

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

[Revolting cat!]

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

[chaos_5]

[xcamel]

[clintonh8r]

Thanks. Can’t believe IBD would wuss out.

[Desdemona]

That’s an insult to pigs.

[El Cid]

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...

[Revolting cat!]

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

[Silly]

Now, that’s scary.

[Old Sarge]

BAAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

(thump)

(roll)

[RDTF]

I LOVE RAMIREZ!

[BlueNgold]

Wasn’t it Rush who made a joke about Pig’s Ears this week?

[RDTF]

I don’t agree with you at all!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I LOVE RAMIREZ!

That makes two of us. He is THE BEST at what he does.

[jveritas]

Sadly now this thread is a major red color headline on FR. Check out the main FR page. I guess many here just want to live on red meat even if it is totally spoiled meat that will poison the forum.

[SkyDancer]

That’s My Man .... *sigh* ...... oink ....

[dalereed]

Perfect depiction!!!

[SilvieWaldorfMD]

[jveritas]

They even deleted my post expressing my opinion why it is a bad cartoon. Yep my post really violated all the rules of the forum (extreme sarcasm). Really sad.

[chiefqc]

No it’s lipstick on dumbo.

[E=MC2]

It is not nearly as bad as the ones of Bush we see all the time in the major papers.

[DoughtyOne]

Ramirez is a real treasure.

[Tramonto]

Yup, still a pig.

[xcamel]

I think you have a really serious case of Stockholm Syndrome going on..

[syriacus]

The image would be great for a cross stitch border

[jveritas]

What do you mean?

[jveritas]

My mistake, they did not delete my post.

[353FMG]

Reminds me of that famous pre-WWII pose by Mussolini.

[AmericanMade1776]

When a sexist Pig, who comes from a long, long line of sexist pigs...Daddy Obama pologamist and wife abuser sexist pig, Granddaddy Obama pologamist sexist pig looks down their nose at you because you are woman...they look like the unappealing sexist pig they are.

[ETL]

you can put lipstick on a capitalist pig.
but it's still a capitalist pig.

[Eric Blair 2084]

[El Cid]

Wow! That was odd, there wasn't anything profane, or out of place in your post 10... At most it was an opinion that some folks might disagree with (although I have to agree with what you wrote) but it was just an opinion.
I should have copied it before my post (I usually do that, to save people from having to flip back - but I didn't do it this time... Oh well, my post will just be dangling in the wind with some vague reference to deleted remarks).

[Islander7]

Very appropriate! I think many democrats are thinking the same thing about now.
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Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Obama fallout

By Andrew Ward in Washington

Published: September 11 2008 23:30 | Last updated: September 11 2008 23:30

Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.

Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House and Senate in November, but John McCain’s jump in the polls has stoked fears of a Republican resurgence............

Read the whole article

[pvoce]

This naughty Baptist minister not only looked but saved it as well>;)

[Eric Blair 2084]

[pookie18]

HERE & HERE

[Eric Blair 2084]

[Gemsbok]

Would have been better without the caption.

I guess it needs to be added to the banned animal list:

no monkey business referrals
no chickens to roost comments
no pigs with lipstick analogies

I’m guessing dogs.... are next, which reminds of the
Standard White Poodle / John F. Kerry

At least Kerry was fair game, Obama’s skin has obviously been designated too delicate and holy to blemish

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