Drudge smears Obama and misquotes him over 'Lipstick and Pigs'
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 09, 2008 11:00am 
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The conservatives have been waiting for a chance to scream sexism at Obama over Palin and Drudge finds a way to do it. He takes Obama out of context. In the full clip, Obama clearly is talking about John McCain as Wolfson points out, but Drudge and as usual---FOX/Hannity---lie and say he was speaking about Palin. This is Rove Politics 101.
Marc Ambinder gets to the truth: Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig
And he also remembers that McCain actually attacked Hillary with the same phrase.
And so is John McCain. Speaking about Hillary Clinton....
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health-care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton's plan, he said it was "eerily reminiscent" of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the 1990s.
"I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," he said of her proposal.
As Duncan says "Just more Zombie lies."
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Come on people, it was a clever poke at her Pitbull joke. I thought it was funny!
Ah, yes - getting to the truth . . a lost art.
This country is gone. Fox dedicates two paragraphs to a major news story and two pages to this. They do this because it is what a majority of people want to hear, read about.
We are an idiocracy.
Mike Judge for president.
Obama: McCain camp outrage 'cynical,' 'insincere'
Obama launched into a long, amused riff in Norfolk, Virginia just now on the McCain campaign's showy outrage at his reference to McCain's policies as "lipstick on a pig" yesterday.
"This whole thing about lipstick: Nobody actually believes that these folks are offended," he said. "These are the Republicans who spent a whole lot of time getting all huffy about, 'Why are you being all politically incorrect,'" he said, apparently referring to GOP scorn of political correctness.
"Suddenly they’re all up on their -- we’re shocked," he said.
"Everybody knows its cynical. Everybody knows its insincere. The media knows it," he said. "This is a game that we play. It’s a game. It’s a sport. Andd maybe if this wasn’t such a serious time, that would be OK."
Obama went on to cite the "real stakes" and "legitimate differences" between him and McCain, and offered to argue about vouchers for schools and whether the Iraq war was a good idea.
"This isn't the first time they did this," he said, returning to a process he's long approached with the insider's understanding and bemusement, and recalled the time Obama "said I thought he had lost his bearings."
"They said, 'Why are you talking about his age?' They sent out this press release: 'Obama is attacking John McCain’s age.' What are you talking about? C'mon – let’s get serious," Obama said.
"I still have faith that the truth will out in the end," Obama said earlier in the event.
In my view John McCain called Palin a pig. Obama said McCain IDEAS were pigs. McCain said Palin was.
Republicons engaging in gutter politics... oh no! Say it ain't so!
She must be pissed:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6b/OldPetunia.jpg
Later she looked like this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1a/PetuniaPig.jpg/180px...
1 BobD Says: Come on people, it was a clever poke at her Pitbull joke. I thought it was funny!
Was palin refering to herself as a bitch?
Tina Fey should sue.
So, McShame thinks Scarah is a pig?
Say it again! And again!
Do not apoligize, do not make excuses, do not back down.
Keep going ... ignore these tools ... be yourself!!
Say it again Obama, and keep saying it! They are only reaching thier base who would not have voted for you in a million years anyway and supporters like me laugh out loud every time you'll say it.
They put their foot in this steel trap ... dont let them out of it.
I'm still waiting for McCain to get angry somewhere and call Palin what he called his wife, a c*nt.
"Lipstick on a pig" sounds almost as bad as "Hot Dog on a Stick," and for the record, I never wear lipstick. I always remember one of my best friends in high school saying to her mother, "Where do you think that stuff goes by the end of the day? It doesn't wear off, you've eaten it!" As a mother of teenagers I am well acquainted with this particular facility to offhandedly speak unpleasant truths to anyone in their purview. I kind of hope things do get down and dirty in the next two months, and not because I'm into cage fighting or anything, just because I'm so sick of the way those who need not be named constantly distort/invert reality. And Palin's "church" scares me.
A REAL woman would have been more upset with the word "FISH"!
I call on the public that anyone who sees Matt Dredge in public should punch him the face, and steal his hat. The punching is option, just get his hat!
curtilingus @ 3:
Seriously, you are correct.
Palin-McCain is the Lipstick.
Failed Republican Policies are the Pig.
Repeat, repeat, repeat.
looks like palin is doing its job - distracting from reality.
As Obama likes to say, "these people". I do not understand how people can even watch some of these guys. Every day at work when I go to the cafeteria, Glenn Beck is on the t.v. just trashing Obama and people are gathered around watching it completely oblivious to the fact that he is a tool. "These people" indeed.
Our country 'twas of thee
Better off moving to Africa or something
I just had an idiot walk into my office and say "Hey did you hear Obama called Palin a pig?" We are truly doomed.
Fox News....the modern day equivalent of the Ministry of Propaganda in Nazi Germany.
They need to be silenced for the good of the country.
"I still have faith that the truth will out in the end."
Here to explain what truth means is our FOX News Analyst, Lou Zephyr, from the Knowledge of Good and Evil Institute ...
Someone needs to break it to the good Senator that the media doesn't report truth anymore. They have experts to tell them (and us) how to think.
Why even respond Obama? Mudslinging 101, the more you react to a lie the worse it become. It is like wrestling with a pig. The pig likes it and you both get covered in shit.
If McAinus and the blessed {hockey} mother can't stand their own political medicine, they shouldn't prescribe it.
I don't know how anyone could take these morons seriously. After years of heaping scorn and sexism at Hillary like a target on a dart board. I swear you could see them whacking off under the desk whenever they got themselves a fresh Hillary headline.
And now that they've got this fascist twat as a candidate it's all "wah wah wah the dems are soooo mean!"
Why don't these adolescent half-wits just make a myspace page and cry for the whambulance there all day?
I'm utterly disgusted that this shit is even allowed on the air.
And I'm even more disgusted when I meet people who watch these idiots and believe them.
the mccain can't wait to say they are so offended. last carly f. ex-ceo of HP came out and said it would be sexism if palin was asked about parenting.
well i personally don't who has or hasn't been asked about parenting. i respect gender equality having said that i don't understand why Palin can't be asked about what the campaigning for vice president and possibly becoming president has done to her shared parenting responsibilites.
so far i've seen i believe two of her teenage girls pregnant...i can only imagine what that does to your high school education abilities. i've heard her son has
possibly been doing drugs.
this is a very good strategy by mccain campaign telling us what we can and can't ask. the truth of the matter
is they don't want to be asked. certain demographics won't approve of this past and present parenting. just
parenting a special needs child in it's self must be a
challenge then add the campaign and 3-4 other children.
It's what I call "Fogey dust and Palin's Pearls". The republican strategy going into November. It amounts to nothing more than dandruff and plastic beads but it is working.
See post here: http://rooftopscreaming.blogspot.com/2008/09/fogey-dust-and-palins-pearls-of-special.html
Insannity/hannity is the poster boy for sexist, rightwing bloviating.
They are probably just upset because lipstick on a pig is one of McCain's favourite quotes. Perhaps they want to distract from the new revelations in the National Enquirer today.
Just read about this on Yahoo, and even there the AP is calling this out (against McCain)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_el_pr/obama_lipstick
Seriously, this is a really weak attack.
The republicans, mccain in particular, has sold he sold to the crazy right. Now he has to do anything to win this election.
What did you think drudge was going to say? And why do you concern yourself with him?
is it possible to get through 5 minutes without hearing that horrible woman's name evoked somewhere? bitter delusion cynical ignorant lies nightmare. have a nice day the-country-formerly-known-as America. karl rove wins.
And the fact that Palin called all women who don't wear lipstick dogs isn't offensive to all women? She and McSame are 2 of the biggest c*nts ever. Nuff said.
Palin is a inexperienced, Reslug PIG with painted lips.
“'I still have faith that the truth will out in the end,' Obama said earlier in the event."
Really? Where has he been for the last eight years?
BobD @ 1:
Not really. Obama has been using the "Lipstick on a pig" line for a long time. So of course the Rovian campaigners were just waiting for him to use it again and then cry "Foul! Sexist!"
I heard him use that line back in June of 2007.
JS Says: They are probably just upset because lipstick on a pig is one of McCain’s favourite quotes. Perhaps they want to distract from the new revelations in the National Enquirer today.
Care to elaborate?
put lipstick on Matt Drudge, and he's still a pig.
You can put lipstick on a pit bull but it won't get you health care or a national energy policy or an economy that puts people to work.
No surprise here. More hypocracy and distortion.
Lying and whining are two things conservative Republicans are good at.
I will say it then. Sarah Palin is a pig. A big pig. A filthy effing wallowing pig.
Ahhhhh, I feel better already!
I wonder if they would have been able to say anything if he had said, "you can put all the lipstick on a dog that you want but in the end it's still a dog." All he would have been doing was taking HER words and using them against her.
This will probably be my last post for quite a while. I just can't deal with this nonsense anymore. It's too exhausting. My head hurts. Amerika is packed with morons, and they have worn me out. I admit it. Hey conservatives, you want this country? Take it.
Frankly, the US deserves to have McStain/Palin running it. After eight years of Chimpy...the public still wants a big slice of the GOP. How dumb must you people be?
So go ahead, vote for McStain in November. You deserve what you get. A worse economy, a terrible educational system, fewer jobs and lower international approval.
Enjoy your decline.
You can put lipstick on an asshole, but that asshole is still Sean Hannity.
Republican message:
America will not elect an elite, martini-drinking celebrity muslim snob who calls women pigs and wants to molest your kids.
We will be hearing this over, and over, and over again.
If the MSM picks this up it could be trouble for Obama even though the whole thing is a complete fabrication. That's never stopped them before. They made up stuff about Gore, Kerry, both Clintons... and the press ran with it. I'm not confident that the truth will out in the end as someone quoted Obama saying above. At least not before the damage is done anyway. Everyone know NOW that Gore never said he invented the internet and the Swift Boaters were full of crap but when it counted those lies were given credibility by the MSM. If the same thing happens to Obama we could end up with somebody who wants to Bomb-bomb-bomb Iran in the White House.
You might want to add this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zAbeu3v3Wc
She charged the state of Alaska to sleep in her own bed?
What a pig.
shaggles @ 44:
"Dr." Jerome Corsi is working 24/7 on it, rest assured. It would not surprise me one whit to see a late October Surprise recounting Obama's breathlessly alleged extramarital affairs.
The Republicans sure are a bunch of whiny cry-babies.
I'd like to see Obama's campaign run a series of ads consisting of nothing but videotape of McCain--using this phrase, showing him taking both sides of an issue, and chronicling the voluminous other evidence of his dishonesty.
Affordable production and hard to argue with (though they would anyway).
Obama should just come right out and say that Palin is the lipstick and the Republican Party platform is the pig.
This will probably be my last post for quite a while. I just can’t deal with this nonsense anymore. It’s too exhausting. My head hurts. Amerika is packed with morons, and they have worn me out. I admit it. Hey conservatives, you want this country? Take it.
"Frankly, the US deserves to have McStain/Palin running it. After eight years of Chimpy…the public still wants a big slice of the GOP. How dumb must you people be?
So go ahead, vote for McStain in November. You deserve what you get. A worse economy, a terrible educational system, fewer jobs and lower international approval.
Enjoy your decline."
My wife and I have decided of another Con takes office, we're selling everything we own and moving to New Zealand. Then I can watch and laugh as the retards who voted for McCon cry like little bitches about the once great USA becoming a third world nation.
Suddenly I feel like having a pig in a blanket.
Tommy @ 50:
She is also McDepends' condom.
http://www.bgladd.com/McSameStore/McSamePalinCondom.jpg
It would not surprise me one whit to see a late October Surprise recounting Obama’s breathlessly alleged extramarital affairs.
Doubt it.
Bush already had FBI check that out as soon as he announced.
Bupkis.
I'm torn on the issue whether Obama should ignore these people or fight back. My instincts tell me that he should use the opportunity to release a small ad and simply tell the truth:
1)Explain how the Republicans use propaganda to sway the masses away from their best interests.
2)Put forth some damning evidence about McCain and Palin, such as the shooting wolves and the "Songbird" issue.
3)Put forth some questions that you know McCain and Palin can't answer, such as:'
a)"Gov. Palin, you are so for family values, why did you legislate against the best interests of
teen mothers in Alaska? Would you do that to your own daughter?"
b) "Sen. McCain, if you so respect women, why did you call your wife a c*** and a trollop?
Is that in the best interests of women?"
c) "Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain, if you both believe in the sanctity of marriage, why are you
both serial adulterers? Should American follow your brand of marriage fidelity?"
Continually asking these questions in every press conference. Tack on some unanswerable questions. Literally pour the quicksand on these charlatans.
Hit 'em where it hurts. Like I mentioned before, Obama must be the iron fist inside the velvet glove.
Obama's response was PERFECT! Absolutely PERFECT! We can take it however we choose to take it. But was he talking about Palin? Let them PROVE it.
Now how does Rove like dealing with intelligent, educated, street-smart, and hip opponents from Chicago AND the East Coast?
Suck it up, down home boy, Duke Rove!
Liberal AND Proud @ 52:
I was thinkin bacon....but a pig in a blanket will work too.
McCain's idea of change is the lipstick. Palin is nothing more than the ribbon the pig won at the state fair. Either way, that pig needs to be slaughtered.
biff diggerence @ 54:
PFFFFT! No way in hell Barack would cheat on Michelle...not only is she FINE as hell...but she'd kick his ass!
I really can't believe that anyone believes this is sexist. It just shows how poorly our schools teach English. This phrase is an idiom. It is no more sexist than the idiom "That's the pot calling the kettle black" is racist. (Now, some people will argue that, but I think it's a stretch.)
You can even find the "lipstick on a pig" idiom in this lame on-line dictionary:
http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/idioms/search.php?q=lipstick
This is a manufactured issue, manufactured propaganda, and apparently it is effective as evidenced by Chuck U (post 19).
The MSM is so lazy they would not even consult one of the myriad dictionaries they have on hand to call out this stupidity. Thankfully C&L has posted McCain using the same phrase. If that clip gets enough traction this will blow over, although I doubt that the "idiot" in Chuck U's post who claims that Obama called Palin a "pig" would ever have considered voting for Obama in the first place.
Allow me to be sexist for Obama. Palin is an Alaskan bimbo, with questionable ethics and self-righteous morals. She has a very narrow, pathetic world view, and she was picked by McCain only to try and shore up the disenfranchised Repug evangelical nut-bag base, and to try to steal a few of the most petty Hillary voters. She's the embodiement of the most pathetic political pander yet from this ignorant, walking hard-on Cindy McCain. Yes, I said it, Cindy McCain wants to be in power more than John, I'm surprised how no one picks up on this. Surely, judging by McCain's energy and vigor during this whole thing doesn't strike me as someone who truly has his heart in it. You can almost see the guilt on his face sometimes. I really feel for him, but thats what you get when you marry for greed and power. And worst of all, they think your stupid, and they're probably right. I'm predicting a very close race now, because the allure of Obama is starting to wear thin, and the issues really don't matter to American voters. It's whatever personality can pander to there ignorant ideals the most that wins. I don't think this country is ready for a grown-up to be in office, because most of this country is a bunch of ignorant f*cking hypocrites.
"Obama must be the iron fist inside the velvet glove."
Oooh...kinky. That'll win ya the support of the right wing base.
biff diggerence @ 54:
The truth doesn't matter.
Freddy Knuckles @ 51:
If every open minded, common sense, progresive, free thinking person leaves, who will be left to fight the fascists?
Shayne [at TP] Says:
All I know is if the McCain campaign thinks Sarah is a pig in lipstick who am I to disagree.
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boxer now on ed schultz:
"it's distract and attack"
what an insult to the pig :(
boxer: "she's so much like cheney it scares me"
that's what i've been thinking forever... lipstick on a cheney.
Drudge and Hannity.
The new Huntley and Brinkley.
So...is Hannity a pitcher or a catcher?
*
(hey, site mon. - it must be fixed... so far so good!)
"Allow me to be sexist for Obama. Palin is an Alaskan bimbo"
________________________
I swear I'm almost hearing Frank Zappa's daughter in the pitch of her voice.
"fer sher"
"bitchin"
"gag me with a spoon"
Right out of the San Fernando Valley.
This is the perfect strategy. Keep pilling it on and force McCain's camp to respond. After Pallin's speach at the convention, she's opened herself up to attacks and back-handed references to her lame jokes. Let her and McCain cry about it. Doubtfully many other than her supporters will care. If she wants to sling mud she better get used to looking muddy. How can a pitbull say she's being treated unfairly? I say call her out on everything she's said. Let her try and play the victim, it won't work. You can't be a "tough, independent agent of change" and complain that you're being treated unfairly...it just don't fly! Stomp on her and fluster her. Shake her up.
And, if this forces the McCain camp to suddenly change strategy and begin talking about the issues, well, then they're sunk.
Maybe it's time for politicians to sue news media outlets for stating outright lies about political candidates, and I mean big-time. Maybe they'd lose some of their power if they were publically convicted and had to pay enormous punitive damages.
Funny how the Right, which has so long decried political correctness and identity politics, are so good at practicing it. Now that the GOP are all convinced feminists, can we expect them to forcefully support equal pay for equal work, greater access to childcare or maybe even the ERA? At least Palin has finally given some truth to Rush's old formulation about FemiNazis.
McCain/Palin better get used to it...
Obama/Biden are not going to roll over and let you say lies about them anymore...
If you start crying like some baby about allegations that somehow Obama said something that made you sad or angry...
& there is no mention of your name in his statement...
Well, it is your fault that you just gave legs to the potential of the "lipstick on a pig" being referenced Palin....
That will just make the statement itself stay on the air just a little bit longer for the public to make the connection...
Even though that was not the original intent....
Now put your lipstick on like a good pitbull....
palin is being attacked because she is a target. she's been
thrown at us with little vetting and lower 48 exposure.
she could potentially be the prsident of the united states
anytime after Nov/08.
the mccain campaign had to add ireland as countries
she has been to when the truth is that was just a fueling
stop. if you believe palin is ready to be president you may believe pigs can fly
Hey Rapture Freak,
If the lipstick fits, wear it!
I wish I had a dollar for every time Nancy Grace used the expression "You can't put lipstick on a pig" during her crime show on Court TV and later CNN.
I'd be donating the max $2300 to Obama and still have enough money to buy a new car.
54 .......It would not surprise me one whit to see a late October Surprise recounting Obama’s breathlessly alleged extramarital affairs.........
Oh really? Let that happen and you're likely to see American citizens (private citizens) coming out of the woodwork with things they know about the last eight years.
I've made a couple donations to Obama/Biden and I will make more. This money that's being collected needs to be spent on the National Media AND BLOW THE LIES AND THE LIARS OUT OF THE WATER (There's another little saying like "..lipstick on a pig." and it isn't militaristic or sexist or threatening, it's just what it is, quaint.)!
Liberal AND Proud @ 62:
Lol. :)
But I didn't mean it that way. He has to operate under the adage of not mistaking kindness for weakness.
He's a nice man. But even nice people can't let the bullies beat up on them repeatedly. He has to use his talent with oratory with the manner of a tactician. He has to turn the tables on the Republicans quickly and deftly so much so that they don't see it coming, only to respond to it too late.
It's time for Obama to exploit his gift for oratory and use it to its best advantage against Palin and McCain who clearly don't have a way with words or intellect.
Do they have pigs in Alaska?
Dale @ 58:
Here's Maddow and Bob Barr on the "McCain/Palin, the Agents of change"....say that with a straight face, i dare ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vxr9Y-5grs
the more i hear Bob Barr, the more i like him.
This is just a manufactured drama dreamed up By MSM and McCain to distract voters. The American electorite is so ignorant. You could dangle a shiny string in front of their faces, and they would be lost.
Will someone please call Keith or Rachel and ask them to play this video on air? This should be a big deal!
Dale @ 82:
Apparently, & they also use makeup because Palin wouldn't be sooo upset.....
73 anney Says: Maybe it’s time for politicians to sue news media outlets for stating outright lies about political candidates, and I mean big-time. Maybe they’d lose some of their power if they were publically convicted and had to pay enormous punitive damages.
I was thinking this myself this morning and you bet, that's exactly what someone should do.
God, this thing is so damn stoooopid!
The depressing thing is McCain might actually win the election with this lame crap.
Of course its not Obama but the McCain campaign who is sexist. Concerning Palin Obama has been a perfect gentleman while McCain deliberately uses Palin as a victim of misogyny to deflect any criticism away from McCain and cry "sexism" every chance they get.
Doesnt matter if its true or not. The goal is to prolong this phony made up controversy long enough to make the word "sexist" stick to Obama.
surfjac Says: I’ve made a couple donations to Obama/Biden and I will make more. This money that’s being collected needs to be spent on the National Media AND BLOW THE LIES AND THE LIARS OUT OF THE WATER (There’s another little saying like “..lipstick on a pig.” and it isn’t militaristic or sexist or threatening, it’s just what it is, quaint.)!
See...that's the problem. The GOP is spending their money on ads and blowing the National Media.
surfjac @ 87:
That's a good thought...Billo and the rest of these clowns would be so gone...
bye-bye....
Enough with these Kindergarten Konservatives and their juvenile bullshit. When is John McBush going to talk about anything other than high school garbage? Enough with these bogus attacks, day in, day out.
That pig Palin is still lying like the craven swine that she and her Groping Grandpa running mate always were.
Time to take the gloves off once and for all....who's gonna punch Hannity in his lying pig face?
Bring on the 527s NOW!!!!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palineffect10-2008sep10,0,479... (see photo on top of page)
You can reference Petunia all you want. Look at the icon the Republicans have chosen for Sarah: Rosie the Riveter. Very fitting, since there will be perpetual war under McCain/Palin. I'm sickened by this, just sickened.
Drudge didn't create this. Hannity didn't create this, and neither did Fox News.
One man created it, and everyone knows who that is.
It's the type of gaffe many had hoped would've been made by Palin by now; only the exploitation of a similar gaffe by her would've been of biblical proportions.
Obama wasn't referring to Palin, but to McCain/Palin policies. But if the shoe fits.....
What is the public dealing with the PR monkeys or the aged mind of John McCain's dementia? No one for President younger than 35, OK... How about no one older than 65 when their ENDS? And while we're protecting the weak and stupid, no more religious freaks.
The fact is this is all diversionary tactics used by the scumbag Republican CONServatives to divert from the real issues because they have nothing to run on.
The past 8 years of destruction of this country says it all.
Pathetic Says: ….who’s gonna punch Hannity in his lying pig face?
Stop that. You'll make him cry.
StirFry @ 83:
That's a good indication of how bad things have become - Barr is starting to sound reasonable and something of a centrist by comparison!
on the campaign trail, obama must now bring around a pig in lipstick, and go after palin as the queen of pork
alaska is the biggest welfare state in the nation
and palin is a pig...she will say anything to gain power
Tommy @ 50:
Yes sir! Gets Obama off the hook for the faux "sexism" bullsh*t and calls the Rethugs out for what they are.
CMINCA @ 94:
You're right. That is sickening. Too bad the artist is probably dead, so the GOP can't be sued.
liberalNmoderation @ 20:
Say it again and again louder each time!!!!!!
Dale @ 82:
Don't know, but they have LOTS of pork.
They need a distraction.
They're douchebags.
"dennis Says: Drudge didn’t create this. Hannity didn’t create this, and neither did Fox News.
One man created it, and everyone knows who that is.
It’s the type of gaffe many had hoped would’ve been made by Palin by now; only the exploitation of a similar gaffe by her would’ve been of biblical proportions."
Yes, McCain, with his comment of Hillary.
The difference is...Hillary is an adult and understood the context. The GOP are children and making something out of nothing, and infantilizing their VP nominee in the process. But, she likes that of course. I'm sure that she has always relied upon the charity of strangers.
fastfeat @ 104:
LOL!
Now THAT I like!
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 102:
They better have researched that well because if does have copy rights floating around there could be a problem...
JM @ 34:
Thom Hartman just said on his show. And has said it before.
I think it was funny, not a joke, but funny in a poinniant way. I liked it an dhe should keep using it. No backing down,
Andy @ 17:
take a stand, andy... speak up and out... tell them that you don't want state sponsored propaganda in the workplace and change the channel. even CNN is better...
try it. i'd bet a big majority won't even care. it worked for me...
dennis @ 95:
Geeze, you are like stink on shit, you just won't go away. Didn't you get enough being bitch slapped by the women last night?
Giuliani has no problem wearing the lipstick and it never changed him.
The only other thing I'll say is what I said in another thread: when you continually advertise Gov. Hockey Mom in the MSM, it is as if fascism is being eroticized in the form of a Playboy centerfold.
And now putting Gov. Hockey Mom's face on Rosie the Riveter? It is a definite insult and very worthy of equating it to the images that the Third Reich promoted in its heyday.
WHEN MCCAIN PUTS LIPSTICK ON A PIG..... that would be a tryst !!!
Wait. Do you think Obama meant Rove? I saw Duke Rove sucking on Mama Sow's titty at the Austin Livestock Show. Yeah, she had 13 piglets and Rove was the runt of the litter.
Is the Coast Clear?--- @ 108:
the right wants it to be about Palin. she is being bullied
taking on unfair treatment. they know she is the weakest link.this is palying on the emotion of potential palin supporters. the only PORK i'm interested in is
the 'bridge to Nowhere'....(palin's history)...please we want it......thank you.....Now we don't want it but will keep the money....that's the pork that need's lipstick
Obama has a clever mind and a silver tongue that is like an agile boxer....
I'm glad he's having fun with them on their expense....
McCain/Palin are way out of their league....
galmud @ 89:
Keep it in the face of Joe Sixpack on the evening "news" so he goes and prattles it on to his/her dumbf*ck friends as "truth".
And don't tell me MSM doesn't know that they are complicit here. It is ALL choreographed, of course.
Sorry for the double post. I just wanted to say that I hoped someone does research into that and slap the McCain people with a lawsuit.
curtilingus @ 3:
Yep, for president of Uh-merica. Love that movie, it's more of a documentary now, it seems...and will be of McCain gets in the White House.
Drudge didn’t create this. Hannity didn’t create this, and neither did Fox News.
One man created it, and everyone knows who that is.
Karl Rove,
Director
Ministry of Propaganda.
113 The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein Says:
Excellent analogy there on eroticized fascism.
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 113:
put Rosie the Riveter on that 'bridge to noWhere' project i heard she
wanted the project before she didn't
Wow, I hope he did really mean it. She is the antithesis of everything we believe. They are playing hardball and don't give a shit what we think, we need to step up these kind of attacks. There are only a few weeks left to win this thing.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-rutten10-2008sep10,...
A Palin double standard
The McCain campaign is insisting on deference in the questioning of the vice presidential candidate.
McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, deserved full marks for chutzpah, for example, when he told Fox News' Chris Wallace that Palin would not answer reporters' questions "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."
Deference?
Respect and courtesy, maybe. Everybody is entitled to those -- including candidates for office -- and journalists seldom look worse than when they forget that. But deference? The president does not require deference from his media interlocutors, but the ambitious governor of Alaska does?
Palin, Davis said, "will do interviews, but she'll do them on the terms and conditions" dictated by McCain's campaign -- which is to say, according to a standard that applies to no other candidate for office anywhere in the country. . . .
. . . The McCain campaign's insistence on imposing a double standard for Palin is nowhere clearer than in the demand, voiced by many of the candidate's surrogates, that her religious affiliations and their implications be placed off-limits. . . .
. . . Voters might also like to know whether Palin supports, as does her church, an upcoming conference that promises to change gays and lesbians into heterosexuals through the power of prayer. That conference, by the way, is being put on by James Dobson's Focus on the Family, one of the national evangelical organizations that discovered a sudden enthusiasm for the GOP ticket when Palin joined.
Ingenious though it may be tactically, it's hard to imagine the Palin double standard enduring into the fall. Campaign connoisseurs not withstanding, politics isn't a sport, though it has at least one thing in common with the boxing ring -- you can run, but you can't hide.
Begala and every other damn "liberal" on TV need to use that "Queen Of Pork" line now over and over again. nice one Uncle Joe!
Queen Of Pork!
Queen Of Pork!
...and the Kindergarten Konservatives. Two can go about ruining brand integrity. If Liberal is a dirty word, Konservative needs to be worse.
Those bastards opened that door.
and since the msm wants to talk about character, why not ask how such an honourable man like the great War Hero John Bush could now employ the very people in his campaign who ruined him in the most despicable ways in the 2000 campaign working for George Bush jr.?
Is that honour? Quick, Gramps wrote 5 books about it! Look it up!
#####Juan Cole spanks the pig and smears the pit bulls lipstick ouch
What's the difference between Palin and Muslim fundamentalists? Lipstick
A theocrat is a theocrat, whether Muslim or Christian.
Editor's note: You can find Salon's complete coverage of Sarah Palin here.
By Juan Cole
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses supporters during a campaign rally in Lee's Summit, Mo., Sept. 8, 2008.
Sept. 9, 2008 | John McCain announced that he was running for president to confront the "transcendent challenge" of the 21st century, "radical Islamic extremism," contrasting it with "stability, tolerance and democracy." But the values of his handpicked running mate, Sarah Palin, more resemble those of Muslim fundamentalists than they do those of the Founding Fathers. On censorship, the teaching of creationism in schools, reproductive rights, attributing government policy to God's will and climate change, Palin agrees with Hamas and Saudi Arabia rather than supporting tolerance and democratic precepts. What is the difference between Palin and a Muslim fundamentalist? Lipstick.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/09/palin_fundamentalist/
theWalrus @ 122:
Yup, and don't forget his unholy spawn Steve Schmidt.
But Rove is only an informal adviser
They have done nothing but lie from day 1.
........I call on the public that anyone who sees Matt Dredge in public should punch him the face, and steal his hat. The punching is option, just get his hat!......
NO, don't take Dredge's hat. He poops in it.
116 The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein Says: Is the Coast Clear?— @ 108:
The Very Bitter Ceci Hussein @ 102:
CMINCA @ 94:
http://www.latimes.com/news/po.....8081.story (see photo on top of page)
You can reference Petunia all you want. Look at the icon the Republicans have chosen for Sarah: Rosie the Riveter. Very fitting, since there will be perpetual war under McCain/Palin. I’m sickened by this, just sickened.
Well, I hope someone does it. Because seeing that image is as much as I can take from this woman who fancies herself Vice-President material.
You’re right. That is sickening. Too bad the artist is probably dead, so the GOP can’t be sued.
They better have researched that well because if does have copy rights floating around there could be a problem…
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http://www.rosietheriveter.org/faq.htm
4. Is the Rosie the Riveter image copyrighted?
The image that has become most widely known was commissioned by the United States War Production Commission - Co-coordinating Committee for use on a recruiting poster in 1943. It was intended to be displayed for only two weeks, February 15 through February 28. The artist was J. Howard Miller. It is widely held that this image is in the public domain, but we are aware of no official documentation to that effect. There are less well-known images, including a painting by Norman Rockwell entitled "Rosie the Riveter," that remain under copyright.
this is why the right has her in a 'cone of silence' they want us to hang ourselves.....with accusations. well she needs to get her ass out their
and answer some questions. say what you want if we don't politically challenge palin were essentially saying mccain made a good/sensible
choice.
the right is watching to see what sticks to coach her on answers/response(s).
redratio1 @ 22:
No, that's what the dems have been doing wrong for the past eight years. It cost Kerry the election. He figured that, if he didn't respond, then it would just go away. But it didn't. He didn't respond, so it became "the truth" in many voters' eyes. You have to respond but you have to do it in the right way.
constituent @ 124:
If I were part of the staff who puts together the ads in the Obama campaign, I would say, "Would Rosie the Riveter build the Bridge To Nowhere?" Then, I'd list Palin's connections to Ted Stevens and the corruption surrounding the so-called project six ways to Sunday.
I'd specifically run that ad in key battleground states and during women's talks shows (i.e. "The View", "Dr. Phil", "Oprah", etc.) until Election night.
biff diggerence @ 123:
Thank you kindly. I'm only calling it as I see it. :)
Sarah Palin is a disgrace to not only this nation, but to womanhood in general.
BobD @ 103:
The more that say it the better!!
Another phony bit of Phony outrage from lipstick-Republicans.
lipstick-republicanism: The process of manufacturing outrage to distract voters from real issues like the economy and the never-ending war in Iraq. Better to do that than run on your record
Obama is a well-traveled and educated man. If he meant Palin he would have said chapstick.
Stupid republicans.
theWalrus @ 122:
Absconder
(forgot one..)
CMINCA @ 131:
If that is the truth, it's time to get the ball rolling and take it to the courts. It is time to act on this. Sarah Palin has defiled true Americana when the GOP put her face on it.
http://www.rosiehomefrontstore.com/
"We are the only source of Rosie the Riveter and World War II products officially licensed by the Rosie the Riveter Trust."
MrBigDog2U @ 132:
Voters will not vote for a person to defend them as President and C in C if that person will not defend themselves, right or left.
Exactly Kerry's downfall. Wishy washy.
These attacks are designed to show that the liberal will not defend himself, will not fight back. The content is not important, the generic attack is.
Obama is doing the right thing but we need the 527s to start calling a pig a pig in fighting words.
why the moderation on #132....just don't want to repeat
What's the difference between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin? Lipstick. Oh, and Biden has a brain, judgment, and a moral compass. And experience. And my vote.
The truth is that Palin is a pig and much worse. In fact pig is the nicest thing you can say about her. Its her best trait.
When are mcgramp's groupies actually going to start discussing the issues, and drop the biographies and trumped up charges?
I better not ask that last part, Donald Trump has probably copyrighted it.
Anyone who wants to report the unlicensed use of the "Rosie the Riveter" image, please contact the Rosie Trust at :
info@rosietheriveter.org
The photo of Sarah as Rosie is here: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palineffect10-2008sep10,0,479...
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