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You Can Put Lipstick on a Republican...
- Sep 13, 2008 at 3:01 PM
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I seriously doubt Barack Obama made a slip of any sort (Freudian or otherwise) when he was quoted as saying, "...you can put lipstick on a pig. But it's still a pig."
There was no hidden agenda there. No motive for maligning anyone. No code for slamming Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin. Nope. Not a single one.
Senator Obama was merely trying to paint a clearer picture of the political landscape for the American public and to point out how completely divergent his view (i.e. It's the ECONOMY, Stupid!) is from that of his opponent, John McCain.
Besides, what do the Republicans think-that they somehow own the lipstick-on-a-pig idiom?! That no one else is allowed to utter such a phrase now that Palin slathered her lipstick remark everywhere for all the world to see?!
That's simply ludicrous. And it smacks of arrogance.
What's next? An uproar ensuing over the use of the term "rat race" to describe this God-awful contest?! Because, of course, that would in effect be calling the opponents (as well as all contestants) a bunch of smarmy rodents.
Pigs are at least clean animals. So maybe Obama's blurb wasn't all that derogatory after all. Even if he was referring to Palin. Which he wasn't.
Quite frankly, I'm growing tired of all the hoo-ha. Tired of the dirt. Tired of being literally consumed by all-that-is-political. And I'm sickened to death by the media, who has succeeded in joining the fracas yet again, muddying the waters by capitalizing on our inability to filter out the noise and by feeding our insatiable desire for entertainment. Those self-serving spin-factories are champions when it comes to making-something-of-nothing. Needless to say, I was not a happy camper on the day nothing (which is now officially something) lipstick-ish splashed across my television screen ad nauseam.
Most of my displeasure centered around the thoughtless nature (read: evil-spirited glee) with which newscasters delivered the juicy sound bites day and night, fueling the fire that would surely lead to mayhem in homes everywhere. Homes in which impressionable youths reside. The ones who would willingly (and oh-so-joyfully) embrace the notion of putting lipstick on a pig-or anything else, for that matter. As if my kids needed that gem of a seed planted firmly in their twisted little minds!
"A PIG! What a marvelous creature to festoon with lipstick!" they likely pondered upon hearing it, scheming and dreaming of how such a clever ploy might be acted upon.
Good grief. Those tactless twits may as well have suggested flushing a bar of soap down the toilet (like my brother did!), putting rocks in the dryer or hiding a gallon of milk in the bowels of a closet-all completely absurd (yet infinitely viable) possibilities that exist among the gamut of that-which-is-downright-naughty.
That being said, my heathens have painted nearly every surface imaginable with (among other things) lipstick. Pink and purplish hues, more specifically, harvested from a make-up kit that I (in a moment of great weakness) purchased for them. Thus far, hapless targets have included the dog, our cats, their dolls, bears and Beanie Babies "...to make them more beautiful, Mommy, so they can get married."
Of course, I resisted the urge to inform, "A dab of lipstick does not a beautiful bride make," tabling it for a later discussion. No doubt, at some point I'll also be charged with explaining Palin's infamous hockey-mom/pit bull commentary to my daughters as well as demystifying terms like glass ceilings and penis envy.
Joy.
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Copyright 2008 Melinda L. Wentzel
Tags: funny, lipstick on a pig, mccain, media, obama, palin, political, spin factories
Comments:
Yep, it's still a piggy. Humor aside, we all KNOW what bo was trying to say. A monkey in a suit is still a monkey. See...
It's a darn shame that politicians are becoming no different from your common-all-garden celebrity screw-ups. I for one could not care less about pigs, lipstick, pit bulls and soccer-mom-hood. I do care about unanswered questions and discrepancies between the spoken point of view and the evidentiary one, but golly gee whillikers, it seems that more folks are interested in beauty pageant winners and turn of phrase so that's what we get.
Way to not make any point whatsoever, MemawBrie.
Way to not make any point whatsoever, MemawBrie.
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