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The "lipstick on a pig" lie
The GOP, with the help of the ever-compliant political media, is trying to create a controversy out of a lie; the assertion that Senator Obama called Governor Palin a "pig." This is, again, a lie. Here is the actual quote:
eta: Wow, MSNBC is really going overtime to kiss up to the GOP at this point; they've put up a poll asking whether Senator Obama "went too far" with this thing he did not actually do. Now that's being a Political Media player! Go TeamGOP!
“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”Note the complete lack of any reference to Governor Palin; please note the clear and unarguable analogy of the GOP record. As Andrew Sullivan notes, this lie - being pushed by the McCain campaign, ABC News, Drudge, Sean Hannity, The New York Times, National Review, the recently slapped-down MSNBC, and no doubt others - demonstrates that Senator McCain does not have the minimal public integrity to be president of the United States:
With a laugh, he added: “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 going to stink after eight years.”
We are being asked to believe that he called Sarah Palin a pig. If the people making that accusation have half a brain they know it's not true. This is not a question of interpretation. It is a fact. So we now find out again that John McCain is prepared to tell an absolute lie - in public, verifiable, uncontestable.It also demonstrates the depth of the depravity, stupidity, and compliance to power of the American political media. It is beneath contempt.
eta: Wow, MSNBC is really going overtime to kiss up to the GOP at this point; they've put up a poll asking whether Senator Obama "went too far" with this thing he did not actually do. Now that's being a Political Media player! Go TeamGOP!
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http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/jfreshbloomer/palinlipsticksb6.jpg
(edited to use my bobble-head icon)
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I'd like to believe that's not true, but I see this, and I expect it to continue.
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www.fighthesmears.com
National media could give a fuck, but local papers definitely react to letters.
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How would you like to be attributed?
And if that's not okay, that's okay. :)
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Damn thing is that we will be laid up while the election goes ahead; are now hoping that at least we can arrange to vote either via proxy or via advance poll. Every vote does count, and thus far we have not yet seen any sort of Rovian attempts to convince various demographic subgroups that voting would be futile.
Colour us more disgusted than frightened, at this point.
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"Enough is enough. The McCain campaign’s attack tonight is a pathetic attempt to play the gender card about the use of a common analogy – the same analogy that Senator McCain himself used about Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s health care plan just last year. This phony lecture on gender sensitivity is the height of cynicism and lays bare the increasingly dishonorable campaign John McCain has chosen to run." -Anita Dunn
The fact that he used that same analogy is pretty damning.
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