Very American Republicans Have Never Heard Very Common, American “Lipstick On A Pig” Saying
10 September 2008, 12:00 PM. By Guanabee Staff
Obviously everyone in America knows the saying, “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig,” is a metaphor. When you say, “You can bring a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink,” you are not calling anyone a horse. But, the conservative press and the Republican party are going to pretend that Barack Obama calling John McCain’s campaign platforms ‘lipstick on a pig,’ yesterday at a campaign rally in Lebanon, Pennsylvania is a personal attack against Sarah Palin. This because she famously said at the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a hockey mom (which she considers herself) and a pit bull is lipstick. Is this association idiotic? Absolutely. Does anyone care? No. As NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan said this morning, America prefers the circus to the issues. With that in mind, video of the Obama gaffe, in context, is after the jump. See for yourselves the man was talking about the Republican candidates’ platform and not any one person and then please vote for people who are not dumb.
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Has anybody looked into Palin’s heritage? If I didn’t know anything else about her, I’d think she looked Latina.
Ana,
There is no “Latino” look, so ANYONE can look Latino. We’re human chameleons!
I’d take that milfailicious pig Sarah Palin with or without lipstick. Que hockey mami chula.
I think Obama is disengenuous, at best, and defamatory , at worst, in making any reference to “lipstick” in his “blowratories” at town meetings.
Palin used it as humor and now it shows the lack of Dem-humor
at its most despicable and dishonorable. Either McCain or Palin were alluded to as pigs..say what you will.
Palin is smart if she really gets back on this with some true humor…stay tuned as we muddle around on this while the real issues get dumped lower than rats crawling in a sewer…
@newage44: I think what was most despicable was Palin’s derogatory comment about community organizers. The republicans have always put others down in their campaigns. Look at what they did during the Kerry campaign. Comments on his nose, questioning his war experience, etc, etc.
it’s an analogy not a metaphor. If he simply called her a pig because her rhetoric is fascist then that would be a metaphor
@ Newage44: scroll down to the very end of this October 2007 article, and you will see something very interesting to say the least.
(And no, Obama did not say that in reference to Palin’s pitbulls and lipstick comment, which was just bad to begin with. Poor pitbulls never get a break!)
@guzz: I see your point, but i did some research and the consensus was that this saying falls under the title of “idiom,” which is further defined as a “colloquial metaphor.” My interpretation of it is that Obama is calling McCain’s platform a pig. So, as in your own example, it becomes classified as a metaphor.