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Barack Obama Did Not Call Sarah Palin A Pig
Oliver Willis — ... But the John Mccain camp is idiotic. I wonder where this sudden concern for women comes from on the right when their fellow travelers have been calling women “feminazi” and the like for 20+ years? ...

John McCain called Hillary Clinton "a pig"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Well, he did if you believe McCain's latest lie - that Obama's use of the "lipstick on a pig" expression is now sexist - then when McCain used the same "lipstick on a pig" expression to deride Hillary Clinton's proposals McCain was, under his own logic, calling Hillary Clinton a pig too. ...

Dumber Than A Stump
Firedoglake — ... Even more pathetic? The McCain campaign is trying to whip up phony outrage across the wing-nut-o-wrong that Obama was making a sexist remark directed at Palin. They even had a "press call" about it this evening. No, it isn't April Fools yet, why do you ask? ...

Getting All Whiny
Talking Points Memo — McCain tries to whip up outrage about Obama using a common phrase McCain used last year. I mean, can't he at least be happy that now he has someone who can go toe to toe with Obama for him? At first it seemed like they didn't want to let Palin out on her own for fear she'd stumble into some kind of trouble. But now it's pretty clear McCain's afraid to let go of her or go out alone without her. ...

Sexism Is <i>Not</i> Everywhere
Stones Cry Out — ... No, I agree with The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder that Obama did not call Sarah Palin a pig.  I don’t believe all references to “lipstick” are, from here on out, oblique references to her.  The “lipstick on a pig” word picture has been with us for a while.  It’s probably not the best word picture to use at this point in time, but I don’t think it was a personal attack. ...

Instapundit — ... It's probably just a slip, but . . . "The crowd apparently took the 'lipstick' line as a reference to Palin." Reader David Schlosser emails: "This will endear him to all those disaffected Hillary voters." And former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift is calling on Obama to apologize. All I can say is, some pig. UPDATE: "Lipstick on a trainwreck." Plus, Tom Spaulding: "This is a major gaffe from Obama." ANOTHER UPDATE: Marc Ambinder doesn't think Obama was talking about Palin. But reader Mark Martin ...

“You can’t put lipstick on a pig” CRAZINESS!
The Moderate Voice — ... Please be gentle. I’m a good man! REALLY! And the McCain campaign is jumping on this like flies to excrement along with other outraged bloggers (see Memeorandum). Throwing around sexism charges without proof is downright disgusting. And if Obama made sexists remarks at that campaign stop, then I guess I’m a raving sexist buffoon for calling my white, French grandmother “Frenchie”. UPDATE Courtesy of Marc Ambinder, Senator Obama has used this phrase before when *GASP* men were the target: ...

The Lying Liars Don’t Know How To Stop Lying!
Comments from Left Field — ... Further, if this really is sexism (which it isn’t), I want to hear an express apology from John McCain himself who said almost the exact same thing, but when he said it, an actual woman was involved: ...

Tomorrow Will Be Worse
Suburban Guerrilla — ... When I notice something extraordinarily stupid happening in the coverage of the campaign, I tune my web browser in to the signal coming from the Mighty Corrente Building to see if they’ve embraced the stupid ...

Lipstick On A Pig
JustOneMinute — ... a pig." The crowd rose and applauded, 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, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called 'change,'" Obama continued, "it's still gonna stink after eight years."Lipstick on a pig" is a common expression used by both Obama and McCain in the past, as noted by Ambinder . However, context counts - Sarah Palin's convention speech ad-lib in which she ...

Hijacking Truth
Comments from Left Field — ... politics that is all McCain and his chosen running mate have to offer. While silver-tongued liars manipulate a media that is (with some notable exceptions) all too willing to be led by the nose into writing story after story after story about what Barack Obama really meant when he said, about McCain’s mantra of change, that a pig wearing lipstick is still a pig, and whether he was calling Sarah Palin a pig (Kyle and others have ably debunked that one), the truly important things to know ...

Uproar of the Day: McCain’s Double Standard
The Democratic Daily — ... lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he said of her proposal. But suddenly when Barack Obama says something similar about John McCain, it’s first an assault on Sarah Palin and then on McCain. ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Special phony outrage edition. And the first official Palin "truthsquadding" conference call flops. More lies -- a new low in McSame campaign advertising. And the thing is, lying doesn't hurt them. Yes, they should question his honor -- because he's dishonorable. Both McPalin and Obama are in VA today where the race is deadlocked.  Bush'd: Army suicides surpass nation's rate this year.

The High Quality of our Political Debate
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... There is a lot to be said about all of this, but time presses at the moment. One simple thing to mention is to point the reader to Marc Ambinder, who notes that Obama has used the phrase before and he has the quote noted above when McCain used it to refer to the Democrat’s health care proposals. ...

McCain's Grouchy
Open Left - Front Page — Man, is McCain campaign ever grouchy lately. In the last twenty-four hours, his campaign has: Taken a common metaphor that McCain himself uses as an insult; Claimed that using stem cell research to support special needs children is "sinking to a new low"; Complained about laws protecting children from child molesters; Continued to run ads complaining about celebrities Man, the guy just complains all the time, even if there isn't anything to complain about. No wonder he hired someone who called America "a nation of ...

After Obama Jab, Pig Lipstick Sales Surge
ScrappleFace — ... So, while the debate over whether Sen. Obama meant the comment as a slap at Gov. Palin continues, at least one maker of cosmetics for horses, cows, sheep and pigs — Wisconsin-based Haybelline — is wallowing in record sales, not only of pig lipstick, but of porcine cosmetics in general. ...

You Can’t Make This Shit Up
Balloon Juice — ... It’s still gonna stink.” “We’ve had enough of the same old thing.” McCain campaign and wingnuts everywhere: OMG HE CALLED SARAH PALIN A PIG! The fact that this was spearheaded by the McCain campaign and quickly became a meme in the right-wing wankosphere merely reinforces my firm belief that the McCain campaign is being run by wingnut bloggers. On the upside of all this, the media is not swallowing this nonsense, and is in fact mocking the McCain campaign: ...

MORNING READ
News — ... Sarah Palin (R) a pig, according to the traditional media and liberal bloggers, but conservative bloggers believe otherwise. It's John McCain who is guilty of smearing, according to Obama's online backers, who note the Republican's new ad accuses Obama of supporting sex education for kindergartners. Obama used the "lipstick on a pig" idiom when trying to undermine McCain and Palin's case for change Tuesday. While McCain surrogates said that the pig Obama was talking about was Palin, Marc Ambinder reminds readers that it's a common analogy that Obama has used before. McCain ...

The Hack Gap Revisited: "Lipstick on a Pig" Edition
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo — ... Then I saw that conservatives are actually acting outraged over this "lipstick on a pig" nonsense. And it smacked me in the face: the ...

Obama Called Palin a Pig!
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... , which tracks blog buzz. But, as Marc Ambinder notes, 1) “lipstick on a pig” is an incredibly common idiom and 2) one Obama used in public fora more than once before anyone outside of Alaska had ever heard of Sarah Palin and 3) McCain has used, too, this campaign cycle. Still NYT’s ...

The Campaign Gets Ridiculous--and It's McCain's Fault
David Corn — ... Yesterday, his aides went bonkers over Barack Obama's remark that John McCain and Sarah Palin by campaigning for "change" are putting "lipstick on a pig." The McCain camp quickly arranged a conference call for reporters, during which former Massachusetts Governor Jane Swift, a Republican, accused Obama of mounting a sexist attack on Sarah Palin. (It was not an attack on McCain, because apparently he does not use lipstick.) Obama's comment, as many have pointed out, was not a chauvinist jab at Palin. He was using an expression that, again as many others have pointed ...

Drudge smears Obama and misquotes him over ‘Lipstick and Pigs’
Crooks and Liars — ...  Download | Play  (h/t Bill W.) 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 ...

I PREFER THE ‘PROM DRESS’ ANALOGY MYSELF
Right Wing Nut House — ... still gonna stink.” “We’ve had enough of the same old thing.” I actually prefer the “pig in a prom dress is still a pig” metaphor but that’s because I’m partial to sleeveless frocks worn by teenage nymphs whose nubile bodies are silhouetted so alluringly in the moonlight on prom night. (There I go again.) Did he or didn’t he? Did he actually refer to Palin as a pig? The press, playing it right down the middle, are giving Obama the benefit of the doubt as are some conservatives like Ambinder. For me, the context is ambiguous enough that at the very least, Obama can shield ...

Boycott MSNBC Today (Until 8 PM ET)
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... MSNBC has put a manufactured outrage, a non-story, in a constant loop all morning. (I will not waste one letter of my time or your time explaining it.) As if that should be the lead story while the nation looks for answers on how to get our economy back on track, solve our energy crisis, rebuild our infrastructure, make education and health care affordable and accessible to all, and restore our global standing. ...

Fights Over Tired Clichés Are Important News; Book Banning, Not So Much
Comments from Left Field — ... The only actual story here is how brazenly deceitful and cynical the McCain campaign is, and what helpful and easily manipulated allies the establishment media is in all of that. The efforts of a few isolated reporters to debunk the story won’t end up mattering much because, once injected into the Freak Show stew with the help of Jake Tapper, AP and MSNBC, it festers. Even if debunked, it helpfully distracts the country — for another day or two, until the next insipid controversy emerges — from the crises which have been created over the last ...

Livin' Palin-- Trailer Trash Deserves Some Representin' Too
DownWithTyranny! — ... When I woke up today and turned on the TV it was... like surreal. Pat Buchanan was whining that, although he knows it isn't what Obama meant, his statement about putting lipstick on a pig was coming across as a slam against Sarah Palin. Personally, I'd say that Buchanan's comments about McCain being such a complete and utter warmonger that if he ever got his hands on the presidency he'd make Cheney look like Gandhi is more relevant to the election, but today's topic seems to be trailer trash. It reminded me of a little Senate debate from when I was a kid. ...

Charade you are: McCain, the media, and pigs with lipstick
The Reaction — ... all, eagerly lapping up what the McCain campaign and the Republican Smear Machine are feeding them (and playing it all up), while McCain and his surrogates are, in typical right-wing fashion, claiming victimhood and already using the incident -- or, rather, their willful distortion of the incident -- to score political points. (Yes, there's already an ad.) It hardly matters, within this dynamic, that Obama did not call Palin a pig. (See Memeorandum for much more reaction.) Obama has used ...

Boycott MSNBC Today (Until 8 PM ET)
The Hollywood Liberal — ... , I typically keep MSNBC on in my home office during the work day, in part to support its decision to have actual liberals on during prime-time, and in part because it usually focuses on politics during the day more than CNN. But after this morning I am boycotting MSNBC today, until Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow come back on. MSNBC has put a manufactured outrage, a non-story , in a constant loop all morning. (I will not waste one letter of my time or your time explaining it.) As if that should be the lead story while the nation looks for answers on how to get our economy ...