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09/10/2008
McCain: Impropriety and Double Standards We Can't Believe in
Here is a new McCain-Palin ad in which Barack Obama's usage of the old "lipstick on a pig" cliché is being unfairly decontextualized so that it's made to sound like a pointed reference to Palin:
But beyond the "lipstick" comment itself, there are several other points of opportunistic impropriety here. Like, for instance -- what campaign was Katie Couric actually talking about when referencing sexism? Was "that campaign" referring to Obama's, as Team McCain implies, or was it referring to...
Yes, that's right -- she was talking about HILLARY CLINTON's CAMPAIGN! That's a different candidate entirely, in case you weren't aware. And Couric wasn't talking about Team Obama waging a sexist war against Clinton -- she was talking about the blanket nastiness that Clinton sometimes faced, specifically pointing out things like the "iron my shirt" comment. Her commentary was not at all about Obama -- it was about the state of the American mindset.
Oh, and who himself has made "lipstick on a pig" references?
Yes, that's right -- John McCain has. In reference to the Clinton health plan, no less.
But we do think John and Sarah got the "Paid For By McCain-Palin 2008" part right, so that's something. Although with an ad this disingenuous, we're not so sure we'd be eager to take financial credit!
***This all being said, we do think that we should probably all retire "the lipstick on a pig" comment. That acknowledgment of cosmetically-altered swine contains far too much potential for misconstruction!
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