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McCain Responds To "Pig" Remark
Riehl World View — Personally, I can't believe this is getting the legs it is. But it is! It was already on the car radio when I was out and I have readers and commenters who are ticked. So I decided to contact the McCain people myself for a response and he is said to have dismissed it. "Look," he said, " it's simply a figure of speech. It's no different than if I had said you can put hair plugs on a bald guy, or you can hang a cross around the neck of a Muslim ... at the end of the day, I'm still running against an idiot with phony hair and a terrorist loving third world type ...

Obama’s “Macaca Moment”
Patterico's Pontifications — ... An Instapundit reader described today’s Obama comments — comments that arguably compared Palin to a pig and McCain to an old fish — as Obama’s Macaca Moment. ...

Obama Pigging Out
The American Mind — ... Sorry guys, Sen. Barack Obama didn’t call Gov. Palin a “pig.” It’s called an “idiom” or “figure of speech.” ...

Memo to Team Obama
Slublog — ... your surrogates to say nonsense like this without comment, don't pretend to be shocked and horrified when people get a little upset at your 'lipstick on a pig' comment. Obama's campaign is responding by questioning John McCain's honor. Great move, there, community organizer. I hope McCain's campaign doesn't make too much of this. Sure, what Obama said was stupid, but let voters make their own judgments. Instapundit has a good roundup of reaction.

This Isn't The Lipstick You're Looking For
The Jawa Report — ... September 09, 2008 This Isn't The Lipstick You're Looking For Via Instapundit I bring you the obligatory Obama said, "You can put lipstick on a fish, but its still a pig coughsarahpalincough", post." The Obama campaign responded with, " ...

Alaskans on Obama’s “Lipstick on Pig” Comment:“Just plain rude”
GayPatriot — ... While there is some controversy as to whether the Democratic nominee meant to refer to Palin, Alaskans were convinced that he meant to insult their popular governor.  This is not playing well in a place where people call her by her first name. ...

Acting Like Swine
Classical Values — Acting Like Swine There is a whole lot of smoke about Obama's latest insult of the McCain/Palin Campaign. Instapundit has a good roundup. It appears that Obama is resorting to something called ...

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,' it’s still gonna stink."
Althouse — Said Obama, and speaking of stink, it's raised quite a stink. Now, I didn't blog this yesterday, because frankly, I considered it absolutely nothing. "Lipstick on a pig" is an extremely common expression, and it doesn't become taboo because somebody else made a wisecrack about lipstick on another animal or because that somebody else happens to wear lipstick. And I don't like seeing a lot of men jumping to Sarah's defense over some other man's possible sexist slur of her. Excessive chivalry doesn't advance feminism, and women themselves, as Palin ...

The lipstick story, and meeting Chloe
Maggie's Farm — ... A pig and an old fish? At Insty. This is good: Meeting Chloe

A pig in a poke?
sisu — ... lipstick during the 2004 presidential campaign. We headed over to that venerable post and added an update: Welcome, Googlers and Christian Science Monitor thevoteblog readers! It's September of 2008, a whole presidential-election season later than when we first published this post, but some things never change. For all Palin all the time, check out our category "Sarah get your gun." And for the record, in light of the currrent pig-in-a-poke brouhaha, we agree with Jennifer Rubin at Pajamas Media that " ...

Fishy
Jules Crittenden — ... on that side of the aisle. Out come the eff words and the vile, hypocritical sexist, agist, racist slurs. Either way, I’m enjoying see the lefties get whacked for using the English language and harmless old cliches. Here’s one. “You can’t put hairplugs on a bald old white geezer.” No wait, you can. Here’s another. “You can take the turban off the candidate, but you can’t take the turbans off his supporters.” That works . Extensive lipstick-pig scholarship via the learned Instapundit .  Malkin , throwing a loaded phrase at a loaded phrase, calls it a “botched ...

Obama Called Palin a Pig!
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... reports, the attendees whooped in appreciation, “some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week.”  (Editor’s note:  It wasn’t an ad lib.  She’s been using that line for quite some time now.) Glenn Reynolds is staying above the fray but rounds up several reactions from readers and around the ’sphere, mostly unflattering to Obama. So, was Obama calling Palin a pig?  Umm, no.  It doesn’t even make sense.    Was he consciously alluding to Palin’s “pig” reference?  ...

Joe Biden channels Benny Hinn
Pundit Review — ... As for Obama’s lipstick comment , he did not mean it towards Palin. That’s a real stretch. Was it stupid? Indeed. Intentional, I think not. One Response to “Joe Biden channels Benny Hinn” ...

Pig Party
Whiskey Fire — ... conversation with Gene McCarthy which he recounted in Miami and the Siege of Chicago. McCarthy had some things to say which seem appropriate today. "You have to start pigs running with a great deal of noise, in fact, the best way to start them running is by reciting Latin, very loudly, that'll get them running. Then you have to quiet your voice bit by bit and that'll keep them moving." Glenn Greenwald gets it. First, the loud noise. Then, more loud noise. Then, the sotto voce; and then the swine ...

Leftist and Hot Stoves
Chicago Boyz — ... The farce of Obama’s lipstick on a pig comment reminds me that leftist often behave something like toddlers touching a hot stoves. Non-leftist warn them not use some tactic or advocate some policy because history shows that it leads to woe but like a toddler warned about touching a stove, they do so anyway and get burned. ...

Fights Over Tired Clichés Are Important News; Book Banning, Not So Much
Comments from Left Field — ... and the most widely-read right-wing Republican blogger, who hasn’t brought himself to write more than five words on any story in several years, writes a virtual novel on this matter last night[.] … ...

Barack Obama: Jerk?
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... couldn't possibly be dumb and mean enough to call Palin a pig." Yeah, she mocked him during her convention speech, but it was all about his record (or lack thereof) and soaring rhetoric. Which isn't nice , perhaps, but that stuff is fair game in a political campaign. Could he really be so thin-skinned and self-serious that he'd start hitting back with personal insults? At first I thought it was a mistake for the McCain camp to demand an apology. As I told my close personal friend Glenn Reynolds , I thought they should have said something like: "We're pleasantly surprised by ...

Wherein I very importantly weigh in on the Lipstick/Pig kerfluffle.
Rachel Lucas — ... Everyone else is blogging about Obama’s latest “misspeak” and if I don’t too, I’ll be kicked out of the super secret blogger cabal mafia. No way you haven’t already heard about this, but in case you haven’t, read about it at Instapundit, ...

More from the Morrissey Grand-Slam
Little Miss Attila — ... to think Obama an idiot for not seeing the subtext of his own statement, especially since the crowd understood it all too well. Obama himself has cried about the supposed racist attacks of Republicans and the McCain campaign all summer long, without ever once giving any evidence of it, and certainly not a data point like this. If Obama wants to argue subliminal racism, he has no defense against overt sexism now. This is his game, and he just proved himself incompetent at it. Glenn's original roundup on this is excellent and extensive, despite the fact that he read the remark ...

Links for 2008-09-10 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Day By Day by Chris Muir September 10 - "Sexism Plus Ca Change" Barack Obama Watch: Lipstick on a Pig Flap Calling Sarah Palin A Pig Round-up From Instapundit Flap and Big Brother Live Show September 10 2008 Edition Sarah Palin Watch: Lipstick on a Pig - The Response John McCain Watch: "As Obama Drops in the Polls" Breitbart.tv » ‘Like A Really Bad Disney Movie’: Actor Matt Damon Condemns Sarah Palin More celebrity snobs for Obama ...

links for 2008-09-11
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Flap and Big Brother Live Show September 10 2008 Edition (tags: Big Brother 10) Calling Sarah Palin A Pig Round-up From Instapundit (tags: sarah_palin) Barack Obama ...