The "lipstick on a pig" lie

[solarbird]

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:

“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.”

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.”

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:

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!

Comments

[firni.livejournal.com]

I still can't figure out if this one is latching onto the lie or the actual comment.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f211/jfreshbloomer/palinlipsticksb6.jpg

(edited to use my bobble-head icon)

[loopback.livejournal.com]

I predict now that the Republicans will win this election, take the high ground of 'first woman elected into the white house', and we will see 8 years of McCain, 8 years of Palin, and the democrats will continue to limp along, unwilling to engage and attack when they are strong, and tactically incompetent at responding effectively to Republican attacks when they come.

I'd like to believe that's not true, but I see this, and I expect it to continue.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

What was that about pearls before swine? And yes, *I* am calling John McCain a pig. A male chauvinist one, at that...

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

From my f-list, so no further source, but:
"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.

[doc-mcdowell.livejournal.com]

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