Notes of the Media Circus
Okay so at a campaign stop yesterday Obama said this:
Some speech writer somewhere thought that was funny. Or else ... well or else Obama is not really as savvy as we are saying.
Do I think he meant to infer that Palin is a pig? Meant to is a strong choice of words. And the saying / cliche does exist and he probably should have used a different analogy. Like, you can call a duck a turtle, but if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, at the end of the day it's probably still a duck.
Now, that having been said ... Palin's lipstick line was probably the most used sound byte after her speech. I was in Europe and I saw it on all the French channels. Clearly, she doesn't own the rights to using the word lipstick, but the crowd that was listening to Obama, and several of the reporters there, thought he was making a dig at the Governor. Perception is reality. And he can't just say "this isn't an issue" and will it all away. He made a mistake. He used a poor choice of words.
You wouldn't make a speech tomorrow and say "we crash landed into La Guardia at 4:00AM to be here today," that would be tasteless. His remarks about the lipstick, and the fish for that matter, are tasteless.
If he wants to talk about issues, lets talk about issues. Let's not compare members of the opposition to stinky animals. The same is true of McCain and company. McCain used the same bad pig line against Hillary, and he was lambasted by women's groups for using a sexist remark. Obama should not use the same line and hope to get away with it.
"You can put lipstick on a pig," Barack Obama told a rally in a reference to a line in Sarah Palin's vice presidential acceptance speech. "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."
Some speech writer somewhere thought that was funny. Or else ... well or else Obama is not really as savvy as we are saying.
Do I think he meant to infer that Palin is a pig? Meant to is a strong choice of words. And the saying / cliche does exist and he probably should have used a different analogy. Like, you can call a duck a turtle, but if it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, at the end of the day it's probably still a duck.
Now, that having been said ... Palin's lipstick line was probably the most used sound byte after her speech. I was in Europe and I saw it on all the French channels. Clearly, she doesn't own the rights to using the word lipstick, but the crowd that was listening to Obama, and several of the reporters there, thought he was making a dig at the Governor. Perception is reality. And he can't just say "this isn't an issue" and will it all away. He made a mistake. He used a poor choice of words.
You wouldn't make a speech tomorrow and say "we crash landed into La Guardia at 4:00AM to be here today," that would be tasteless. His remarks about the lipstick, and the fish for that matter, are tasteless.
If he wants to talk about issues, lets talk about issues. Let's not compare members of the opposition to stinky animals. The same is true of McCain and company. McCain used the same bad pig line against Hillary, and he was lambasted by women's groups for using a sexist remark. Obama should not use the same line and hope to get away with it.
Comments
So the point being, I don't think he meant it at all in reference to Palin simply because he has been using it all along throughout the campaign. I doubt he'll use it again, though.