Posted on 09/10/2008 4:55:09 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
An Obama campaign spokeswoman opened today's Morning Joe with an aggressive defense of his lipstick line, arguing that Obama was being criticized "for saying something that John McCain has said before, that Barack Obama frequently says about 'you can dress something up.' He was talking about the Republican change argument."
A bit later, bolstering her argument, the spokeswoman described the conference call the McCain campaign arranged to respond to Obama's line. She pointed out that all the reporters asking questions on the call were women, and that all of them asked McCain representative Jane Swift "are you serious?" in alleging that Obama was alluding to Palin.
Concluded the Obama spokeswoman: "If you read the quotation in context, he's not talking about Sarah Palin." Oh, wait. That wasn't an Obama spokeswoman. It was Andrea Mitchell, sitting in for Mika Brzezinski.
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Matthews was trying to coach strategy for Obama on how to handle accusations about the “pig” crack. Talk about “being in the tank” for Obama!
Joe Scarburough
Andrea Mitchel
Chris Mathews...
all on morning joe.
Obama was not referring to Palin. But it was very bad timing, coming after her her now famous lipstick/hockey mom line.
It shows Obama is floundering, tired and NOT ALERT.
Andrea Mitchell is a shill for the Obama campaign. She can’t see the forest for the trees. If NBC had any honesty, they would shelve her like they did with Olberman and Matthews until after the election.
Actually, Andrea, the “context” is that Governor Palin just made the “lipstick, pitbull, hockey mom” so famous a few days ago that around 40 million people heard it live and many tens of millions more have heard or read about it since.
SO, it is not plausible (not even possible?) that Obama could be speaking in the context of Palin’s remark and not be trying to change “pitbull” to “pig” in the minds of listeners. Just NOT plausible to think he could speak as he did without any relation to that context.
Certainly the ENTHUSIASM of the audience response suggests that..... they weren’t that excited and laughing in an uproar over some boilerplate reference to Bush economic policy.
But thanks for playing today, Andrea, we all know you are always objective, honest, dispassionate, and unbiased.
Callers into talk radio are over-whelmingly upset with Obama - references back to an old McCain comment and/or the media rushing to his defence won’t matter....
Obama just lost the election because women voters think he’s a nasty muslim sexist.
Mitchell can’t figure out if she knew who Valerie Plame was.
The “lipstick” references are all intentional and scripted.
Such low-brow comments illustrate that they are desperate. They are so desperate that their less-keen ideas are being voiced (as if they've got nothing to lose).
And this trend will give the GOP political ammo in future elections across the country. It's not just the NY Governor making these errors, and the Internet will remember...
Given Sarah Palin's repeated recent use of 'lipstick' as humor and as a visual prop for her campaign,,,,,
only a blithering idiot would believe that Hussein's use of lipstick/pig was JUST A COINCIDENCE!!
Don’t let this go to your head... :) But I think that’s pretty genius. I myself think people on here are being a little oversensitive on the comment so a comment like that would appeal to both sides of it. The issue is in the media so it needs to be addressed. She wouldn’t address it seriously enough so it would appeal to people who didn’t think she was called a pig and would probably make them laugh... but then it has enough zing on it to get the point off that if she was called a pig she isn’t going to just let it go.
I’d email that one into McCain.
>>only a blithering idiot would believe that Hussein’s use of lipstick/pig was JUST A COINCIDENCE!!<<
In fact, before Obama’s remark, I posted in another thread that McCain’s new “comprehensive immigration” plan is “lipstick on a pig,” but I promise I was not thinking of Palin when I wrote it. After I had already posted it, I thought about Palin’s famous remark.
Maybe Obama actually meant the remark to refer to Palin, I don’t know. I think conservatives are acting as thin-skinned about this as feminazis do, and I think in the long run it will do more harm than good.
More proof that the lamestream media are Democrat advertisers and should be handled as such by the FCC, the IRS, FEC, and other federal agencies.
>>I myself think people on here are being a little oversensitive on the comment<<
Agree.
He sure is, but it could have been worse. He could have said, "on the rag." He's rattled and worn down to his real self enough now that he probably will say that pretty soon.
BTW I am not among the people who thought he was referring to John McCain when he talked about the stinky fish which I found much more disgusting and offensive than the pig remark.
The fact that this comment is so often left off the reports tells me the enemedia knows it too.
Now, that is a darned good idea!
“They remind me of battered women; they get beat up and then go back to their man because “he loves me.” They have no dignity or self-respect. They need help in an 0bama-battered victims shelter.”
Come on now. Go easy on Hillary.
Forget the lipstick, when it comes to Andrea, a paper bag over her head wouldn’t even help.
It's not what he said, but what people heard.
This is the political reality that Obama has to face.
The more he and the media try to fight it, the more it's going to stick.
It's looking like Obama has met his Macaca, and it's stuck to his shoe.
you left off the most important part of my post,,,
Given Sarah Palin's repeated recent use of 'lipstick' as humor and as a visual prop for her campaign,,,,,
Given THAT and the incredibly unbelievable public press and comment that her lipstick 'schtick' (no pun intended) has gotten,,,,
Hussein's indignant denial, just DOES NOT PASS THE 'SNIFF TEST'.
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