Pig lipstick: Keith Olbermann comments on faux scandal

So it's come to this. The full context of Barack Obama's quote is as follows:

John McCain says hes about change, too — except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics. Thats just calling the same thing something different. With a laugh, he added: You can put lipstick on a pig; its still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change; its still going to stink after eight years.

We are being asked to believe that he called Sarah Palin a pig. If the people making that accusation have half a brain they know it's not true. This is not a question of interpretation. It is a fact. So we now find out again that John McCain is prepared to tell an absolute lie - in public, verifiable, uncontestable. He does not have the minimal public integrity to be president of the United States. Game this all you want; distort it all you want; bamboozle the morons at cable news all you want; win however many news cycles you want. 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.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/pigs-and-lipsti....
NORFOLK, Va. -- Sen. Barack Obama blasted his GOP rival, Sen, John Mccain, during a visit to a school here today, for lying about an "innocent remark" and practicing "swiftboat politics." Obama said the Republican presidential nominee is deceiving the public and distracting the press from the actual issues at stake in the campaign.

While Obama spoke in a calm and earnest tone, his language was sharper than usual. Just this week, Obama declined to use the word "lie" -- despite entreaties from local supporters -- when discussing falsehoods from the McCain campaign. Today's rebuttal dispensed with such diplomacy. "Spare me the phony outrage," Obama said, criticizing the "news media" for treating McCain's false attack like "catnip."

McCain's ploy helped waste two of the last 55 days of this election, Obama pointed out, saying that Republicans can only win by distraction and distortion.

Ticking off populist policies on the economy, education and health care, Obama said the public backed his agenda, while there is not "a dime's worth of difference between what [McCain's] offering and what we've already got."

During questions at the event, one attendee asked Obama how he could beat Republican lies while prioritizing integrity within his campaign -- citing the 2004 defeat of Sen. John Kerry as a cautionary tale.

Obama conceded that it was a challenge to "fight nonsense" about taxes from the McCain campaign. For example, it falsely claims that the Democratic nominee would raise taxes when, in fact, he would cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans.

"I still have faith that the truth will win out, in the end," Obama said, to a smattering of applause. "This whole thing about lipstick, nobody actually believes that these folks are offended," he added, tweaking the party for PC hypocrisy.

"Everyone knows it's insincere," he added, "the media knows it! It's a game; it's a sport. Maybe if this wasn't such a serious time that would be OK. But this is serious," he stressed, reiterating his differences with McCain on education reform and Iraq.

As Obama voiced his optimism, however, the traveling press corps tapped away at a filing station in a small classroom here, churning out more headlines about a non-story created largely by the media, and repeatedly airing the McCain campaign's false distortion of Obama's remark.

It's a sorry scene for the homestretch of this long, and important, campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/obama-blasts-lies-swiftbo_b_125358.html

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[TheLGNCollective]

Ummm... what?  Wow! Ignorant people sound insane when confronted with a truth they don't like. McCain is clearly reaching at straws to find ANYTHING negative to say about Obama.

[PimpDiva21]

LOLOL Obama was bout to say "WHAT THE FUCK"!!!!

you go head Obama!!!! shine a light on them cockroaches!!!

OBAMA-BIDEN '08

[bacondoesabodygood]

Someone should make a movie about the McCain campaign. It would be a comedy, undoubtedly......

[HSOUIXZ]

Sarah Palin and her state owe the American TAX-PAYER 442million dollars. Nobody gives a rats ass what she looks like. A crook wearing lipstick is still a crook. She said ETHICS and EARMARKS were her priority #1. She mis-appropriated that for money that was for the Gravina Is. Bridge (the bridge to nowhere). SHES A THIEF. Albeit a lipstick wearing thief; she stole from all of us. Now give the money back. Male or female doesnt matter. A THIEF IS A THIEF. Give us tax payers our money back.

[arkybarky]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

vote on November 4, 2008 for Obama & Biden!!!

[sxyjavon]

Let me be the first black man to say that I'm incredibly glad, that whites,blacks,mexican,asians, and everyone else can come together, and see through McCain's bullshit. When Barack first came out, I thought he had no chance, due to the overwhelming amount of racism I witness on this website. But now I see that that is only a few dumbasses and does not respresent you all. God bless u all and we will rise together and put this country on the right track.

[kirkmach32]

Oooh! Olbermann, former sportsmoron, comments. About scandal.  Right. This fuckhead knows all about scandals. Yes he does.

[edwardvondoom]

I think it's become clear that logic and reason have no place in conservative "thought". I'm finding it easier to accept the fact rather than weep for our country's intellectual future. It'll be "Idiocracy" in about 8 years if nothing is done about this.

[LunarFaith]

Well the Republican party is losing, they are trying to use any method to skew the vote to their side. Nothing is wrong for that kind of politics... ENOUGH!!!