Pigs And Lipstick

Here is the entire quote by Barack Obama:

“John McCain says he’s about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. That’s just calling the same thing something different.”

With a laugh, he added: “You can put lipstick on a pig; 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.”

So the McSame camp turns around and says Barack is talking about Sarah Palin, calling her a pig? Right Wing papers like the NY Post put her picture next to the quote to help spread this fallacy. This is not a question of interpretation. McSame is willing to outright lie in public. This is your Republican Party. Out of ideas, living in the past, 8 years of failure, using lies to cover up their inept divide-and-conquer culture war approach to politics.

Andrew Sullivan notes: "This claim is absurd on its face, like the Palin nomination to begin with. Absurd. And you can now tell who on the right has even a scintilla of intellectual honesty. That's all this episode is about: another tail-spin in the death throes of the Republican party."

Entire NYT article here.