Technically, Obama himself has admitted that he was referring to Palin.
The only thing is - Obama claims that Palin was the lipstick in his reference, not the pig.
The point is that whether one splits hairs in this way or not, the reference, which went on to speak of the smell of rotten fish (barracuda?) was loaded with innuendo and was dangerously subject to multiple interpretations. It leads me to question the judgement and character of the man who spoke the words - if any more evidence were necessary.
Boy you’re not kidding. The media didn’t touch on the smelly fish interpretation that could have been a lot less unflattering to Palin.
I still don’t understand why we didn’t see the video on that, or that we don’t hear more about that.
Since the comments he spoke just before the ‘lipstick/pig’ remark were lifted directly from a political cartoon, I believe that whole narrative was scipted. There are blogs on mybarackobama.com titled ‘Lipstick on a Pig’ - all written well before Tuesday. Monday morning, Bob Beckell used a ‘pig’ reference regarding Palin on ‘Fox and Friends’. On Tuesday, Biden said something at a campaign stop to the effect of ‘you can’t put lipstick on it’. A few hours later, Obama used the term after making comments that were obviously plagarized and memorized. The ‘lipstick/pig’ thing was a common theme in the Obamasphere before he ever uttered the words. There’s no way that was an ‘off the cuff’ remark.