CBS Morning News headline: "Lipstick Gaffe?"

[Wednesdays]

As I've said before, from now until Election Day, Obama won't do a single thing right (according to the M$M). No matter what he does.

He could walk on water and the press will point out how he's abusing dolphins by stepping on them. :banghead:

[mucifer]

1. but nbc said it was mcstupid's gaffe

[MUAD_DIB]

NPR pointed it out too. Sometimes they are less whoorish

sometimes more.

[OhioChick]

2. I'm already tired of hearing about this "gaffe."

It wasn't a "gaffe" but a commonly used saying. Simply ridiculous.

[mmonk]

3. Not a gaffe at all. Truth to power.

[aikoaiko]

4. How about a little more context or a link.

:shrug:

[Wednesdays]

11. Well, it was live as they came on the air

So, no link, sorry.

It was the headline they showed just as the news came on. The spin of the story was that Obama is struggling and that the "gaffe" just made things worse. I'm relieved to find that spin wasn't played on all channels, though.

Edit: this is CBS's online story, although it's a little different than the broadcast version (especially the headline). Still, you can see the slant. And--lookie here! "Presented by Exxon-Mobil." Who'da thunk? :eyes:

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/09/politics/fromtheroad/entry4433206.shtml

[VeraAgnes]

5. Jeepers..............

We could lose this thing. :hurts:

[radfringe]

6. mascara on a moose is better?... :lol: n/t

[mmonk]

8. That would be accurate as well.

I like McCain and the Bullwinkle Bimbo as a decriptive term.

[book_worm]

7. once again focusing on this instead of Palin's continuous lies

[DemzRock]

LOL! Yahoo story on it repeats Obama's point up front!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_el_pr/obama_lipstick;_ylt=AmdxTO6fi_03be1h8.SevCWyFz4D


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McCain camp: Obama's 'lipstick' remark disgraceful

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. "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."

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he'll change Washington, but he's just like President Bush.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke even if it's not what Obama meant.

McCain's campaign called the comments "offensive and disgraceful" and said Obama owes Palin an apology. Obama's campaign said he wasn't referring to Palin and said the GOP camp was engaging in a "pathetic attempt to play the gender card." Obama's camp also noted that McCain once used the same phrase to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan.



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So, at least, in this article I think it repeats Obama's point and makes McCain look silly. Is that what others have seen in the media?!

[AlinPA]

14. The line was not "in a reference to a line in Sarah Palin's vice presidential

acceptance speech". It is a commonly used term in politics always used to refer to policies that don't work and are dressed up. AP twisted that.

[lukasahero]

17. Very glad to read this

I saw this "story" on Fox (it's one of the stations on the 7 tvs at the gym - I do NOT deliberately watch Faux News) this morning and couldn't believe the spin. The headline was something like "Obama's pig comment" and then the "reporters" were talking about how the Obama campaign is stuck in the mud spinning their wheels and couldn't get out of this cycle of mistakes.

Of course, knowing it was Faux News I expected the spin. I didn't hear it reported at all on NPR on the drive in and wanted to sign on here right away to see what the rest of the reporting would be like. Glad to hear it's not all like Fox.

[DemzRock]

9. LOL! Yahoo story on it repeats Obama's point up front!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_el_pr/obama_lipstick;_ylt=AmdxTO6fi_03be1h8.SevCWyFz4D


++++++++++++++++++++++++
McCain camp: Obama's 'lipstick' remark disgraceful

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. "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."

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he'll change Washington, but he's just like President Bush.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke even if it's not what Obama meant.

McCain's campaign called the comments "offensive and disgraceful" and said Obama owes Palin an apology. Obama's campaign said he wasn't referring to Palin and said the GOP camp was engaging in a "pathetic attempt to play the gender card." Obama's camp also noted that McCain once used the same phrase to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan.



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So, at least, in this article I think it repeats Obama's point and makes McCain look silly. Is that what others have seen in the media?!

[radfringe]

10. call the WHAAAAAAAAAAmbulance...

is this how she will react with Putin? Bin-Laden? start crying?

me thinks this woman is EXTREMELY emotional and over-reacting

[Hubert Flottz]

12. It's hard to tell where all Joe LIEberman has put his lipstick...

A GOPer can't tell a lipstick from a dipstick!

[mod mom]

13. NPR clarifed that Obama had used the "common" phrase in the past as did Mc Cain about Hillary.

[KharmaTrain]

15. Short Attention Span Theater...

Be assured hate radio will scream about this all day and the knuckledraggers will pound their chest in indignation...and the corporate media will fill hours of airtime spinning this in their gerbil mill...then it'll be replaced with the next "outrage" or "gaffe"...I expect there to be an almost daily eruption as the GOOP spin machine gets more and more desperate.

The more they squeal about this shit, the more it indicates how well Senator Obama is doing. If he was fading, they would be measuring for curtains by now...but that's far from the case. They're caged tigers stuck with time running out.

[Habibi]

16. On the Today Show this morning, Matt Lauer and

his co-host--?? seemed to dismiss the flap entirely. (I was at the gym,listening to my own music but watching the TV with closed captioning on.)

[radfringe]

19. so it's soon to be

water under a bridge to nowhere?

:snicker:

[Clear Blue Sky]

18. It's a non story but McSame already has a new ad using the lipstick comment.

MSM is sure to show it over and over again, giving McSame free advertising.

[Slammin1]

20. White women "Victim hood" Same ole story...

Sexism meets racisim...history has shown me that anytime a Black man is accused of doing or saying anything that can be remotely painted as an attack/victimization on white women he is systematically lynched. Thank God they outlawed actual hangings of Black men from trees,for merely looking at a white woman or that might have become the next headline. However, doesn't seem anyone is all upset about Obama being called "Uppity" (leaving out the N-word for political correctness)which can also be termed as a racist statement. This is real petty on McCain's part and I have lost alot of respect for his party of victims.

[droidamus2]

21. Pretend to be stupid as a strategy?

This particular spin strategy used by the Republicans/Right wing wackos has always baffled me and this is a good example. The technique goes something like this. First, find a statement made by the opposition that you think you might be a able to spin ie. She said lipstick he said lipstick can we make a connection?
Second, make up a totally ridiculous interpretation 'He was calling her a pig' and have your 1000 talking-points of bullshit repeat it over and over adnauseum. Third, if it is pointed out that the saying is a common one and the context it was used in had nothing to do will Miss lipstick either fain ignorance (that is play stupid) of the context and the long standing meaning of the saying or insist that your interpretation is the only rational one that a 'thinking person' could make hearing this 'dastardly' statement. Lastly cry crocodile tears, insist on an apology and repeat with the next statement you think you can spin. I call all this 'fake ignorance/stupidity' because they know what they are spreading is bullshit but they put that little smug smirk on their face and pretend they don't know or understand what the counter arguments mean. It baffles me because how can people fall for this crap?