The Pig Trifecta

Posted on 09/10/2008 at 7:58 am by Bob Cesca

Here’s how this story has worked…

1) Republicans distort a common metaphor and turn it into something ridiculous.

2) Drudge picks it up and runs it above his logo.

3) Cable news runs with it like it’s the end of the world.

Chuck Todd this morning: “This is a joke. It is laughable. It’s such a faux controversy.”

Meanwhile, did you know that the Dow dropped 280 points yesterday? What say you, Scarborough?

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  • ceu

    Unbelievable! Scarborough has talked about nothing else for the last hour and a half. And now they’re focusing on how Obama has to stop talking about Palin – which he wasn’t talking about in the first place!!Everytime anyone says anything the Republicans scream sexism and yet the GOP wants Palin treated with deference – apparently because she’s a woman.I’m disgusted.

  • JJ Jxn

    Statement from the Obama camp-In light of the reaction to the controversy that has erupted over the Senator’s “lipstick/pig” comments, we would like to issue the following statement- “Fuck You Karl”

  • amaraya

    I’m starting this election is going to come down to one simple factor – the intelligence, or lack thereof, of the American public. I honestly don’t know which side to bet on.

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    You know what? I’m glad he said it. There’s no way that after the RNC and the “pitbull/lipstick” reference, that ANYONE in the Obama campaign would think that this phrase wasn’t going to be misconstrued as an attack on Palin. I think it was a direct “FUCK YOU” to the McCain camp with plausible deniability.

    Everyone’s talking about how Obama isn’t tough enough. How about now? At first I thought Obama had my blog bookmarked because I called her a pig a couple of days ago (HAHAHA!) not because she’s an ugly woman, but because her attitude and meanness were ugly, as shown with her acceptance speech.

    Gee, I wonder if anyone else has used that phrase…

    The reaction set off a frenzied dive into the opposition research vault. Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton sent reporters a Chicago Tribune article published in 2007 during the Democratic primaries that cites McCain criticizing Hillary Clinton’s health care plan. “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” McCain is quoted as saying about Clinton’s proposal.

    So fuck you, McCain, fuck you surrogates, fuck you Scarborough and fuck you Palin! If the lipstick fits…

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    Okay, so Obama speechifies and calls this a made up controversy, which it obviously is. In my conspiratorial mind, it’s just part of the plan to make the Republicans and the McCain camp look petty, silly and show proof that they remain true to their devisive political games. Or, Barack Obama took a perceived nagative and flipped it into a positive by forcing us to face the real issues instead of falling for the Mothers of Distraction. Seems like a win-win either way.

  • ShelleyBee

    Carl, I agree with you 100%. That statement is obviously not about Sarah Palin, but it is also so obviously about Sarah Palin. You can’t prove it is, and you can’t prove it isn’t. I’m glad he said it, too, and he doesn’t owe anyone an apology. After all the shit that’s been thrown at him, he’s earned this one. It’s a pretty clever way to use an old cliche. Anyway, Palin is not the pig in that analogy; she’s the lipstick on McCain’s pig-ass campaign. My respect for Hillary Clinton has grown lately, but what turned me off in the primaries was her shrill, thin-skinned, “Fire that staffer,” poor me, “Shame on you!” campaign tactics that McCain-Palin are so eager to take up. Do people really go for that whiny shit? Maybe Obama is too calm under pressure to a fault. In a non-crazy world, a former P.O.W. (which is admittedly pretty badass) and a self-described pitbull wouldn’t let their spokesmen make a federal case out of every little dig at them, real or imagined. And I won’t believe McCain or Palin are personally offended until I hear it from their lying mouths firsthand. Pit. Bull. Shit.

  • JG

    I blame the BBQ more than Mccain–McCain does this because HE CAN, and he is enabled by the corporate MSM. The fact it is even uttered on a “news” outlet is pathetic. Funyy hiow everything the throw against the wall gets mentioned–diverting and distracting. meanwhile the country is headed in the WRONG direction. Did they learn nothing from the war in Iraq? Shameful.

  • ceu

    Seems to me that he wasn’t calling Palin a pig; he was calling McCain a pig. Funny how the GOP missed that and just assumed it was a slur against the poor, fragile woman.And isn’t the timing convenient? No one’s talking about Meghan McCain’s self-centered statement of yesterday…

  • http://www.broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    ShelleyBee said: …and he doesn’t owe anyone an apology.

    Excellent point, ShelleyBee. At no point did Obama offer any sort of apology or back off his comment. A lesser candidate would’ve caved and said some bullshit line like, “That wasn’t my intention and I apologize if it was misconstrued,” which would have been a tacit admission of guilt.

    Nope. Not Obama. He gave them the “What the…” fill-in the blank and followed up with “Distraction: this is what they do.” FUCKING AWESOME!