Speech excerpt that contained Obama’s pig remark:
“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
Notice how the sneaky bastard mentioned McCain and Rove? That was just to throw you off the scent. The object of the pig remark was clearly Palin, who is inextricably linked to lipstick and who undeniably forms the subtext of any reference to lipstick in any context (even Revlon commercials). But Obama didn’t just use lipstick to smear Palin – he used CODES. Reexamine the speech excerpt above:
“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig; it’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; it’s still going to stink after eight years.”
Now put all the bolded letters together. This is what it says: “Sarah Palin is a pig.”
Wow. Just. Wow. I won’t even touch the stinky fish metaphor. I’m sure the few remaining objective feminist groups out there are on the case.
But seriously, folks…For reals, though, people: If you oppose sexism, don’t make charges about it when it’s not warranted. When you throw unwarranted charges of sexism around like the McCain campaign is doing now, it cheapens the term. Hillary Clinton was subjected to a revolting level of sexism, and even people who didn’t support her candidacy (like me) spoke up about it at the time.
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