"Lipstick Piggery" -- Joe Klein calls bullshit on the sleazy distractions from the McLame campaign

[jefferson_dem]

September 10, 2008 8:41
Lipstick Piggery
Posted by Joe Klein | Comments (12) | Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Email This

The John McCain campaign is so, so upset that Barack Obama said that McCain's efforts to camouflage his own policies is "like putting lipstick on a pig." I am sure that there is no cynicism involved here. I am certain that Steve Schmidt and his band of merry men--and the are, almost exclusively, men--are deeply offended, in their feminist souls, by what they perceive as a glancing reference to Sarah Palin's lipstick on a pit bull line in her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

I am certain this has nothing to do with diverting attention from matters of actual substance. That's why Matt Drudge and the New York Post have made it their lead items. I am equally certain that my colleagues in the media, especially the geniuses who populate cable news, will find this far more important than, say, McCain's and Obama's respective positions on the energy bill--which contains crucial tax credits for alternative energy programs--now being considered in the Congress. (Hint: McCain opposes the bill because it would close tax loopholes for oil companies, a tax "increase" of the sort that he has pledged to never, ever support.)

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/lipstick_piggery.html

[ErinBerin84]

1. ha, I love that several comments to that article respond to the line

"especially the geniuses who populate cable news, will find this far more important than"


'Klein, you are one of those gas bags on cable tv , so get on tv and call them out on it!'

[ejpoeta]

2. i know!

we can call it new coke!! now, the problem with that phraseology is that some might not understand it. and some might misinterpret it. but it is what i think of whenever the republicans try to dress up the same product in new packaging. just because you put 'new and improved' on it does not mean it is any different inside.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Yet more evidence that the McCain camp walked into a well-sprung trap

Who's the hunter now, freepers? :rofl:

[jefferson_dem]

4. Joe is pissed. Here's more --

Swampland, TIME
September 10, 2008 9:03
Apology Not Accepted
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Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists--including me--for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house.

Now he is responsible for one of the sleaziest ads I've ever seen in presidential politics, so sleazy that I won't abet its spread by linking to it, but here's the McClatchy fact check.

I just can't wait for the moment when John McCain--contrite and suddenly honorable again in victory or defeat--talks about how things got a little out of control in the passion of the moment. Talk about putting lipstick on a pig.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/apology_not_accepted.html