Sexist Pigs for 0bama.
Posted on 09/09/2008 6:43:30 PM PDT by flyfree
In all the furor over the Obama "pig" quote, commentators forgot to examine his entire attack:
"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 gonna stink."
When read in the entire context you can see what he seems to mean with his dual animate male/female references and why he probably evoked two metaphors: most would think that Obama is talking about both on the ticket and his anger how each has expropriated his change motif.
So in that sense he appears both to insult the 72-year old McCain as the "old fish" that is still going to "stink", and to refer to Palin, who had famously evoked the metaphor of lipstick in a nationally televised address, as still the pig despite the lipstick.
The fact that he used two metaphors to attack the two, and used expressions referring both to age and Palin's recent use of "lipstick" don't seem to be accidents and that's why the cooing crowd got the old fish=McCain;lipsticked pig=Palin immediately.
I'll leave it to others to deconstruct the historical use of pig as a sexist term in the recent climate of generic attacks on Sarah Palin.
PS. The VP nominee was just announced and already Biden has called her "good looking" and now “a step back for women”; most know what he intended, but like most Bidenisms they come out wrongly and confirm a popular perception that he suffers from logorhhea and that there is a different standard of reference applied to Palin due to her sex.
Someone in the campaign has got to manage the ex tempore carelessness.
I agree with your earlier comment about McCain taking it and beating them over the head with it. It is everybody else sitting around saying how dare he say such things that bothers me.
And Hussein plays hardball, with vicious, insulting, Chicago-style GUTTER, POLITICS OF PERSONAL DESTRUCTION!!
Does anyone think the MSM will notice this difference? I'm taking bets.
Everybody knows what was said. I think the state of mind of the speaker should be of concern to even Bob Beckel!
I wondered who would be first to close that circle!
Obama has nothing else on his mind ~ a woman who can hunt, ski, snowshoe, dress and slaughter a moose, have 5 babies, be Governor and also marry one of the most macho guys on the planet ~ and he's sitting there feeling terribly inadequate, as well he should!
Its also a RACIST slur! Jeremiah Wright anyone???? It has the same equivalence as a white person calling a black person a nigger. Imagine the outcry if McCain did this! I can't shout this from the rooftops loud enough!!!!!!!
I can’t wait for Rudy to hit the campaign trail. Obama’s gonna have an ***hole you can drive a truck through.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2078524/posts?page=44#44
You can elect a Marxist to the Senate, but he’s still a Marxist.
Damn...I just spilled half of my favored beer! BTW how is the tuna fishing now-a days.
Out of the depths of an evil heart one’s mouth speaks.
Anyone know how to write a virus that will disable teleprompters? Imagine the video footage after that. /grin
“You can put hair plugs on a Biden, but it’s still a Biden!
Me thinks Obama was referring to his own wife!!
Sexist Pigs for 0bama.
Mr. Palin should challenge the commie punk to a dual for slandering his wife. It’s happened before.
Ok, I have been reading and waiting for the obvious word to crop up re: the fish comment. Barracuda is the magic word. Because Sarah is called the Barracuda I feel certain both of his remarks were aimed at her, not one at her and one at McCain. Just my two cents worth and wondering why no one else sees this.
OMG........you are RIGHT! yeowwwwwwwwww
Dual carbs? Dual exhaust?
Duel?
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