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We know that NARAL was using the "Lipstick on a Pig" template as early as Thursday, September 4: "Lipstick on a pig" and other liberal misogyniesTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2008http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/09/lipstick_on_a_p.html We know that the "Lipstick on a Pig" template appeared at mybarackobama.com on Sunday, September 7: Lynn Ehrlicher's "Lipstick on a Pig" post, at mybarackobama.com, on Sunday, September 7thSUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078854/posts We know that Bob Beckel used the "Lipstick on a Pig" template on Fox News on the morning of Monday, September 8, and that Julien Epstein used similar language, on CNN, in the same general timeframe: Bill Hemmer rips...

Amie Parnes reports from Lebanon, VA: Obama poked fun of McCain and Palin's new "change" mantra. "You can put lipstick on a pig," he said as the crowd cheered. "It's still a pig." "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink." "We've had enough of the same old thing." The crowd apparently took the "lipstick" line as a reference to Palin, who described the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull in a single word: "lipstick."