Posted on 09/10/2008 6:48:06 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
The folks at FreeRepublic have found an interesting... uh, shall we say coincidence... concerning Barack Obama's widely panned September 9 comments made at a rally in Virginia where he seemed to be saying that Governor Palin was a "pig" by referencing the "lipstick" quote from her acceptance speech at the GOP convention. It is looking like Obama's comments were not off the cuff, but scripted. And, not only were they scripted, but they were stolen without attribution from a Washington Post political cartoon by Tom Toles from September 5.
Obama tried to quip that "you can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig" when attacking the McCain/Palin record. But the entire segment, including the previous comments leading up to the insensitive "pig" line, are almost word for word from the Tom Toles cartoon form the 5th.
Transcript:
John McCain says he's about change too. Exce- and and so I guess his whole angle is - watch out, George Bush - except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl-Rove-style politics, we're really gonna shake things up in Washington.
That's not change.
That's that's just callin' sumpin' the same thing somethin' different.
But you know, you can't, you know, you you can put, ah, lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig.
And now for the cartoon...
You can see for yourself that the entire segment before his "pig" quip matches the Toles cartoon exactly.
So, now we have a few points to ponder. Will the Obama campaign admit that this whole bit was lifted from Tom Toles? And are we to understand that the Obama campaign is now being programmed by cartoons?
See ya in the funny papers, Barack....
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
If the author of a piece might support a candidate, it may be wise to inform the author about plagiarism, but it would be unwise to accuse the candidate of plagiarism directly. If the author says that he told the candidate he could use the material without attribution, such an accusation would backfire 100% on the accuser.
put him out of his misery
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The Larry Sinclair Story will do that very very soon for sure.
HEY MARINE LETS GO FOR A LITTLE PT WITH THE FLAG
RUNNING WITH THE FLAG TODAY
TOMASUSMC | 9/11/08 | TOMASUSMC
But -- I've had two flags posted on poles in front of my home and lighted throughout the night for decades. The U.S. Flag and the flag of our Marine Corps...
When Clinton was in office -- I retired the U.S. Flag to the protection of my home - and replaced it with the Gadsden Flag.... The Yellow "Don't Tread On Me" flag....
If Americans lose their minds and elect the black racist, Communist and Closet Muslim Barack Hussein Obama -- the Gadsden flag will return to it's former position.....
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