Speaking Of Everything…

Lipstick on a pig…

On the eve of the anniversary of 9/11, the media is frothing back and forth over a GOP charge of “sexism” against Barack Obama.

Obama referred to John McCain’s co-opting “Change” while putting forth the same policies by saying, “if you put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig!” The McCain team immediately insisted Obama was referring to Sarah Palin. The media pounced on the subject and it has been driving the news cycle for the last 24 hours.

Beautiful. Amazing.

Lucy, Charlie Brown… football.

Here we go again. Every presidential election the GOP diverts the populace from the issues that affect them, to total bullshit Weapons of Mass Distraction; Willie Horton, tank helmet, earth tones, beer, Swiftboats, lipstick, sexism, etc. And everytime the so-called professional journalists fall for the same old schtick.

McCain’s campaign has taken what is important, blanked it out, and turned the election into the Joker’s parade from “Batman”:

“And now, folks, it’s time for “Who do you trust!” Hubba, hubba, hubba! Money, money, money! Who do you trust? Me? I’m giving away free money.”

If you remember the movie, the Joker was luring the citizen’s of Gotham downtown in order to kill them. The McCain campaign is luring voters to the polls in order to keep the corporate gravy-train rolling while health costs, energy costs, food costs, etc. continue to go through the roof.

McCain has truly gone over to the Darkside and has sold his soul to the CORPORATE store. This is Lee Atwater 101 and Karl Rove 102. Tell the lie, tell it again and then say it louder while the media swoops in to spread the lie for free while “analyzing” the situation.

A couple weeks ago I posted this bit:

Steve Schmidt, this bald-headed Rove disciple, is following the standard operating procedure of saying a big lie, saying it again and then louder until the media starts parroting the lie while pretending to “analyze” the charge. Schmidt claims this will be his last campaign, maybe he remembers the fate of Lee Atwater and wants to avoid going to hell.

Meanwhile, the pundits are also the ones screaming that Obama needs to hit back at John McCain. They said the same thing during the primary campaign when Hillary Clinton whacked him without conscious. It just goes to show that all the talking heads really don’t know the country in which they live.

Obama needs to punch back, they said. Yeah, right.

Barack Obama, black man, should have gone toe to toe with Hillary Clinton, white woman. That would have played as well as the Nicole Brown Simpson 911 tape.

Obama should slap John McCain about the head? Black man beating up Grandpa.”

And now the GOP is attacking Obama for using the words “Lipstick” and “Pig” in the same sentence and all day long that has been the national story.

And TOMORROW IS 9/11!

These guys use Orwell’s 1984 like a freaking playbook.

If things go the GOP’s way in November, by February or March of 2009, the press will probably go into their quadrannual navel gazing routine and wring their hands about how they have been mislead and distracted by the campaign and then they promise not to believe Lucy again.

And so it goes…