Will the Media Ever Stand Up to Dittohead Doublespeak?
When will people learn? Democracy doesn’t work!
– Homer Simpson
John McCain’s campaign is outraged that Obama quoted the old cliché, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig” in a campaign speech referring to McCain’s policies, the McCain campaign tried to spin it as a attack on Sarah Palin. But John McCain said the exact same thing in reference to Hillary Clinton’s health care plan in 2007, saying, “I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.”
The Daily Show summarizes the rhetorical flip-flops coming from the Dittohead lobby nicely, but I have this horrible sinking feeling just the same that this Jerry Springer nonsense will trump reasoned discourse for yet another American election:
ROFL!!! <—How come your site does me using those few characters is…too few?!?!?!?!
Comment by Sour Swinger — September 11, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Testing testing…. this comment thread appears to be having problems…
Comment by ideonexus — September 11, 2008 @ 10:18 pm
Okay, now it’s working… I think. Sorry Sour Swinger, are you saying the blog complained about your comment having too few characters?
Comment by ideonexus — September 11, 2008 @ 10:20 pm
I am. When I just typed “ROFL” and again with “I am” it says the post has too few characters and to go back and type some more in.
Comment by Sour Swinger — September 12, 2008 @ 9:01 am
Just add some dummy html like [a href=”blah”] [/a]
Comment by ClintJCL — September 12, 2008 @ 10:24 am