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Pig In A Poke (Mark Steyn's Read On Obama's "Piggate" Bumble Alert)
National Review ^ | 9/10/2008 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 09/10/2008 9:20:43 AM PDT by goldstategop

I agree with Mark K that Governor Palin, who kills elk for breakfast, shouldn't be seen to complain Obama-like about how beastly and mean her opponents are. Years ago in Britain there was a dialogue-free commercial in which a cute chick looked into the camera and put on her lipstick while the soundtrack played some smooth sax instrumental of "Put On A Happy Face". That's what Sarah should do: Put on a happy face.

That said...

If you read Obama's books, you know that his preferred voice is a detached, slightly unknowable cool. He is, in that sense, like an iconic movie star running for president. But, two months out from the big vote, doing a gazillion appearances and interviews a day, you can't get by on just the detached cool, and whatever's underneath starts to show.

We already know that Obama is pretty terrible when he's off the prompter.

We also know that an amazing number of the media-Democrat elite openly loathe Sarah Palin, and everything about her from her alleged Eighties hair to her hillbilly fecundity. Oh, sure, if you press them, they'll talk about per diems and the bridge to nowhere for a bit, but they'd much rather trash her personally - reviling her as both an uptight fundamentalist and a whip-wielding dominatrix in the same publication on the same day. Given what's been expressed publicly by Maureen Dowd, Gloria Steinem et al, is it likely that in private the upper echelons of the Obama campaign are immune to the gleeful contempt for Palin expressed by almost all other prominent "liberals"?

And that's the issue. The problem is not whether Obama's sexist but whether he's disciplined enough to keep the public from glimpsing the less attractive elements of liberal-elite condescension. Where now the iconic cool of the snows of Iowa?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; liberalism; lipstick; marksteyn; mccainpalin; msmdrivebys; nationalreview; neverforget911; obama; obamabiden; palinsmears; piggate; sarahpalin
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To: goldstategop
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21 posted on 09/10/2008 9:56:55 AM PDT by TexasBeth
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To: goldstategop

Actually, Kathryn Lopez on NR had the best response for Palin I can imagine.

At the next rally. Pull out some lipstick. Put it on. Then go to the mic and say “I said ‘pitbull’, not ‘pig’.”

It’s humorous. But most important, it’s strong and not whiney. Let’s leave whiney to BO and his buds in the media.


22 posted on 09/10/2008 9:58:22 AM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: ClearCase_guy

Does that translate to “Where are the snows of yesteryear”?


23 posted on 09/10/2008 9:58:25 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: ClearCase_guy

Does that translate to “Where are the snows of yesteryear”?


24 posted on 09/10/2008 9:58:29 AM PDT by OldNavyVet
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To: ClearCase_guy

Tell me where, in which country
Is Flora, the beautiful Roman;
Archipiada , and Thais
Who was her first cousin;
Echo, speaking when one makes noise
Over river or on lake,
Who had a beauty too much more than human?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

Where is the very wise Heloise,
For whom was castrated, and then (made) a monk,
Pierre Esbaillart in Saint-Denis ?
For his love he suffered this sentence.
Similarly, where is the Queen
Who ordered that Buridan
Be thrown in a sack into the Seine?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

The queen “blanche” as lily
Who sang with a Siren’s voice;
Bertha of the Big Foot, Beatrix, Aelis;
Erembourge who ruled over the Maine,
And Joan the good (woman from) Lorraine
That the English burned in Rouen;
Where are they, oh sovereign Virgin?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!

Prince, do not ask me in the whole week
Where they are - neither in this whole year,
Lest I bring you back to this refrain:
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!


25 posted on 09/10/2008 10:03:34 AM PDT by Hi Heels (Now here at the Rock we have two rules. Rule #1 obey all rules. Rule #2 no writing on the walls...)
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To: constant

That would make a very good sign!


26 posted on 09/10/2008 10:06:01 AM PDT by GVnana ("The American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.")
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To: constant

I wish someone would post a picture of Sarah, Michelle Obama, Barbara Streisand, and Cynthia McKinney and say now you pick the pig. Sorry, that was probably in bad taste.


27 posted on 09/10/2008 10:06:06 AM PDT by my right
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To: OldNavyVet

So far as I know. See my post #16.


28 posted on 09/10/2008 10:06:17 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Michelle, spare me your phony outrage, you know as well as I do that dress makes your butt look big)
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To: ClearCase_guy
ou sont les neiges d’antan?

Sounds like a racist remark....

29 posted on 09/10/2008 10:08:04 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ClearCase_guy; Nervous Tick; OldNavyVet

It’s from Francois Villon’s 15th century poem Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis (Where are the Ladies of Times Past?). The English translation is “Where are the snows of yesteryear?” It’s become a near-philosophical quotation that’s often used to evoke the spirit of all past times.


30 posted on 09/10/2008 10:13:28 AM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: yellow rubber ducky
Hmmm...Most men I Know wouldn’t look that good in lipstick.

Did you do any photoshopping of his mouth?

Maybe it's Maybeline?

31 posted on 09/10/2008 10:18:49 AM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (SOON-TO-BE POLITICAL DISSIDENT.)
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To: TexasBeth

Great animation!!!


32 posted on 09/10/2008 10:21:19 AM PDT by End_Clintonism_Now (SOON-TO-BE POLITICAL DISSIDENT.)
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To: End_Clintonism_Now

Yours is nice as well. I’m just enjoying this way too much. Love watching the D’s twist in the wind.


33 posted on 09/10/2008 10:27:23 AM PDT by TexasBeth
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To: Bernard Marx; ClearCase_guy

thx


34 posted on 09/10/2008 10:27:56 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (I've left Cynical City... bound for Jaded.)
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To: goldstategop
The problem is not whether Obama's sexist but whether he's disciplined enough to keep the public from glimpsing the less attractive elements of liberal-elite condescension.

That is absolutely correct. Obamie, as liberals always do, will talk about anything, and I mean anything, before he's going to talk issues. It doesn't even matter if it puts him in a bad light, major scandal notwithstanding. It's all "look over here! look over here! nothing to see over there!"

slick Willie was the master at that.

35 posted on 09/10/2008 10:32:08 AM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: goldstategop
Maybe Obama's comment was anti-police.

In Ayers' day graffiti on walls made mean references to law enforcement officers as pigs."

1960s Bobby Seale PIGS Poster on eBay

36 posted on 09/10/2008 10:46:26 AM PDT by syriacus (FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
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To: goldstategop
If you read Obama's books, you know that his preferred voice is a detached, slightly unknowable cool.

And a voice from beyond the grave screams:

Listen Skizziks! You ain't cool, you chilly!
An' chilly ain't never been cool!

37 posted on 09/10/2008 10:50:29 AM PDT by uglybiker (1f u c4n r34d th1s u r34lly n33d 2 g3t l41d)
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To: syriacus
On FR Allies in War By David Horowitz
Her voice rising to a fevered pitch, Dohrn raised three fingers in a "fork salute" to mass murderer Charles Manson whom she proposed as a symbol to her troops. Referring to the helpless victims of the Manson Family as the "Tate Eight" (the most famous was actress Sharon Tate) Dohrn shouted:

"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"


38 posted on 09/10/2008 10:53:59 AM PDT by syriacus (FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
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To: subterfuge

I think that under pressure, it becomes increasingly difficult for liberals to mask their contempt. The example that comes to my mind is John Kerry’s comment about the uneducated who get “stuck in Iraq.” Another one was Al Gore’s ridiculous sighing and striding over to President Bush during their debates. The difficulty that the liberals have in concealing their contempt is one of the reasons I am so anxious to watch the debates.


39 posted on 09/10/2008 11:05:31 AM PDT by GraceCoolidge
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To: goldstategop
The Leftists like to refer to people as pigs.
1960's feminists: Male chauvinist pigs

You Tube: BLACK PANTHERS film "OFF THE PIG" (1968)

Bernardine Dohrn: "Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"


40 posted on 09/10/2008 11:10:11 AM PDT by syriacus (FIRST check out the Alaska state webpages. THEN tell me that governing Alaska is easy.)
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