(2008-09-10) — In an attempt to get the mainstream media and the blogosphere to stop talking about Sarah Palin after Barack Obama’s now-famous “lipstick on a pig” gaffe, the Democrat presidential nominee attempted to direct attention to his remark just before the lipstick comment yesterday in which he used a line from a political cartoonist without attribution.
“This is my campaign not Sarah Palin’s,” said Sen. Obama at a hastily-arranged news conference. “You people should be talking about me. Why don’t you jump on me for me ripping off Tom Toles, the Washington Post cartoonist, whose line I repeated almost word-for-word as if I had written it myself. Now, that’s a story!”
Sen. Obama called his use of the cartoonist’s work “an act of plagiarism reminiscent of Joe Biden” and complained that “journalists just let it pass so they could talk about Palin, pigs and lipstick. It’s time to bring change to the news media, and return to the days when Barack Obama was always the big story.”
29 responses so far ↓
1 RedPepper // Sep 10, 2008 at 7:37 am
Can we talk about something else, maybe ?
Energy? The economy? Health care? Iraq?
Lipstick on a
BabboonBUFFOON ! ? !(Sigh!) No, I guess not …
I would almost feel sorry for Barack HUSSEIN Obama here, were it not for the way he has used the P.C.
cardclub when it worked to his advantage …Just words … right, Barry ?
2 everthink // Sep 10, 2008 at 9:34 am
Red,
You ask:
"Can we talk about something else, maybe ?
Energy? The economy? Health care? Iraq?
Lipstick on a Babboon BUFFOON ! ? !
(Sigh!) No, I guess not … "
NOT HERE!
Remember:
This is Scrappleface! That is all there is here! It is a Republican site, and this is what ALWAYS passes for political discourse.
Like your own constant reference to "Barack HUSSEIN Obama"?
Have you looked at the National Debt lately? How about the current deficit? How about "corporate welfare"?
How about bin Laden. What about this mindless obsession with Iraq without regard for cost in lives and treasure?
What has happened to your other great concerns of the past, like the "Flag Burning Amendment", the Definition of Marriage Amendment? And how about "Star Wars"?
After Bush, if you were patriots, or Christians, one might think you would take a pass on this election.
If you think 2006 was bad for Republicans, just wait a couple of months!
Moose anyone?
ET
3 Shelly // Sep 10, 2008 at 10:57 am
Excellent work, Scott! I wonder if anyone else will note how this “brilliant” man needs Washington cartoonists to write his lines.
4 Ms RightWing, Ink // Sep 10, 2008 at 11:19 am
My family, well my uncle and grandfather, made tons of money in the pig market. He literally invented lean pork after years and years of cross breeding. So our family name for pork is set in gold.
Mr Obama, I know pigs, my family worked with pigs, I grew up in Iowa around pigs-so Mr. Obama, you are a pig. I think we call them male chauvinist pigs.
So you take your lip gloss you wear, share it with your grunting, drooling pigs that live in the power houses of Chicago, in Europe and the beltway and put it where we won’t see it. (trying not to get moderated)
And yes, he does wear something on those lips.
5 onlineanalyst // Sep 10, 2008 at 11:58 am
There is no question that Zerobama lifted that line from the WaPo cartoonist. I guess that he assumed that the unwashed masses that he was addressing wouldn’t have access to that cartoon source. He is beyond pathetic.
6 onlineanalyst // Sep 10, 2008 at 12:10 pm
The other point that bothers me about OhBummer is how often he refers to Karl Rove, as if that name is supposed to be a lightning rod against Republicans.
David Axelrod has patented gutter politics and sleaze by innuendo beyond any political operative that I am familiar with. The thugs in his machine have done some mighty nasty mischief in a number of campaigns, starting with creating phony “grassroots” groups and orchestrating talking points at left-wing blogs (that Keef D’Obermann uses as his “news” script.
Mr. Obama, pigs are clean animals, contrary to the negative stereotype, and you are neither clean…nor articulate.
7 Hawkeye // Sep 10, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Ouch, Scott! Twist the knife, or what? Dead on target again.
8 Hawkeye // Sep 10, 2008 at 12:44 pm
And in related news…
“I invented lipstick” -Al Gore
“I voted FOR lipstick, before I voted AGAINST it” -John Kerry
wv = went deficient — Obama’s campaign.
9 da Bunny // Sep 10, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Lowbama hasn’t had an original thought in his life, so his plagiarizing the WaPo cartoonist is no surprise. Mr. “Just Words” is taking more cues from his Vice Plagiarist nominee, “Plugs” Biden.
And, if anyone would know “lipstick on a pig,” it’s SnObama…he’s married to it!
10 da Bunny // Sep 10, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Even in his “57 States of confusion, Barry Hussein can recognize that folks aren’t buying his muslim faith-like demeaning of women with “lipstick on a pig” references.
You can take the “communist agitator” out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the “communist agitator.”
Go back to the ghetto, Barry. Go back to stirring up people who spend their lives looking for someone to blame for their own failures. Go back to wanting to teach 5-year olds how to use condoms…don’t want any 8-year old “baby daddy’s” cropping up. You and your wife go back to telling the folks not to enter and succeed in the private sector, but instead, become “community organizers” or work for the government. Go back to TUCC and soak in more of the anti-America, race-baiting garbage known as “black liberation theology.” Go back to your “foundations” where you steal money from it’s original intended use and funnel it toward organizations like TUCC, ACORN, and Public Allies. Go back to promoting the failed social programs that keep people in poverty and despair.
11 da Bunny // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:02 pm
More American lives were lost this summer by being shot to death on the streets of Chicago than American soldiers who died serving in Iraq during the same time period. Seems it would be more dangerous to send the soldiers being brought home from Iraq into the streets of Chicago than it would to just leave them in Iraq.
Seeing as how demoncrats have been “in power” in Chicago for decades, one wonders why messianic leaders like Obama haven’t been able to clean up the mess in their own backyards.
12 gafisher // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:05 pm
daBunny Re#8: At least Biden steals from actual speeches. Barry can’t make it past the funny pages.
13 Mack // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:14 pm
R.A.M.
I type and spell check my stuff before posting. Saves on troll habits of editing my work. So I sort of overlapped your post yesterday. I only recently returned from hiatus myself. My reason was much more benign, I got tired of the trolls.
I get a chuckle out of this in that God created us so we should know he can fix us. The only question I can think of is, “Does He Want to?” The only problem I see with my departure from this world is the people who depend on me will miss me. As for me, I wouldn’t have to get up the next morning and would not have to put up with trolls. They are out there in the real world like they are here. We see most either teaching public school or doing time in jail.
14 mikofromtexas // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Palin looks like Peggy Hill
Peggy
Palin
Peggy
Palin
15 mig // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Wonder if we should be wearing Red Lipstick on Friday now…
16 Just Ranting // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:42 pm
ET re:9
I’ve had moose stew and it was hearty and delicious. It is much better than that stuff Obama has been trying to feed us which smells bad and leaves everyone a little emptier than before they swallowed it.
Hmmm…national debt…yeah Bush can take part of the blame, but congress actually levies taxes and spends the money, so I guess there’s enough blame to go around there. McCain, unlike Obama, refused to take earmark money, so I’d say we score one for him in that area.
As for Iraq, I know you are one of the “Bush lied, people died” crowd. This is war and Al Qaeda decided Iraq and Afghanistan were as good a place to duke it out as anywhere. We will be leaving Iraq as a self sufficient democracy as we begin to reduce troop strength, and it will be a beacon of freedom within the Mid-East. Yes, over 4000 precious US lives have been lost and many more suffer physical and emotional trauma. These men and women went into this war as volunteers which make their sacrifice even nobler. After 7 years are we better off? Is the world a safer place because of their sacrifice? Undoubtedly, yes.
Could things be better? Sure. And they could also be dramatically worse too. Our job when voting in November is to select the candidate who will take us from our current situation and move us forward by reducing our debt, securing our safety, and helping create more good paying jobs by reducing regulations and taxes. I believe John McCain is far more likely to do that than Barak HUSSEIN Obama.
17 gafisher // Sep 10, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Slightly OT (not very — still on Stupid Dem Candidate Statements) but by now everyone’s probably heard Joe Biden’s “Stand up, Chuck!” command to a wheelchair-bound gentleman. Reminds me of another losing VP Candidate who promised that if his running mate was elected, “… people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk again. Get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”
18 da Bunny // Sep 10, 2008 at 3:06 pm
gafisher, Rush was playing the audio of Biden’s “Stand up, Chuck!” gaffe, and inserting the ba-dum-bum drum sound after each of Biden’s sentences. It was hilarious!
Rush also said that Obama and Biden need to each be holding a drink and a cigarette, a la Dean Martin, during their stand-up routines.
19 Mack // Sep 10, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I find it hard to believe that a political machine like Obama’s didn’t see any way his remark might be misconstrued to reflect on Governor Palin. It is the same thing from the same people. “Either they are stupid or they think everyone else is.”
I did note that neverthink has arrived after a similar hiatus. Don’t really care to read it but did note it was back. Sort of like a skunk at night, don’t really know where it is, can’t see it, but wish it would keep moving until the smell is gone. This is one election that will be historic. We might not only see the Republicans retain the Whitehouse, but will likely see us regain the house and senate too. Nancy Pelosi has managed to irritate a lot of people by refusing to bring an up or down vote on any energy bill before their 5 week vacation.
This highlights the failure of the current congress and their dismal 5% approval rating. With numbers that low I think they have some problems. Harry Reid isn’t looking to good either.
20 Moonage Political Webdream » » Lipstick, uh, lipstick, uh pig, yeah, that’s it // Sep 10, 2008 at 3:20 pm
[...] update: I am quite pleased in the fact I was made aware of the Tom Toles cartoon plagiarism thingy apparently before Scott Ott was. Now, if I could just make my posts wittier or funnier than Scott’s, I’d be set! [...]
21 everthink // Sep 10, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Mack says:
“I find it hard to believe that a political machine like Obama’s didn’t see any way his remark might be misconstrued to reflect on Governor Palin. It is the same thing from the same people. “Either they are stupid or they think everyone else is.â€
Regarding:
“John McCain says he’s about change too and so I guess his whole angle is watch out George Bush, except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy, and Karl Rove style politics, we’re really going to shake things up in Washington. That’s not change, that’s just calling the same thing something different. But you know you can’t, you know you can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” Obama
How about this:
McCain criticized Democratic contenders for offering what he called costly universal health care proposals that require too much government regulation. While he said he had not studied Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s health-care plan, he said it was “eerily reminiscent” of the failed plan she offered as first lady in the early 1990s.
“I think they put some lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” he (McCain) said of her proposal.
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/mccain_rolls_out_health_plan_a.html
“I find it hard to believe that a political machine like Obama’s …”
I take it he now believes my candidate has some executive experience.
So, stop yer whining. You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
ET
22 Fred Sinclair // Sep 10, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Mack #13 - I too got tired of the trolls - finally I went on the troll wagon. Going down the sidewalk in my Hoveround I sometimes happen across a pile of dog poo - I have never stopped, picked it up for a closer examination.
So I reasoned that when I come across troll poo in ScrappleFace need not examine it but ITMO the dog poo I just steer around it and get onto the intelligent stuff posted by Scrapplers. Life became much cleaner, the sun shined brighter, Scott got even wittier And I could once again smell the flowers. Don’t go away again, you too can get on the troll wagon.
Personally, I’m too fired up over the way the Democrats have their panties in a twist, now that McCain has a “pit bull”.
Actually they will be to the Democrats what “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” were to Japan - TOTAL DEVASTATION!!!
B.O. STINKS
23 mindknumbed kid // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I’ve sworn off the troll because he is obviously too stupid to understand that leftist politicians are not a gift from the true God.
24 gafisher // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:28 pm
One aspect I haven’t heard discussed of the “lipstick” controversy is that Governor Sarah Palin’s original quip was self-deprecating humor. The closest Obama has come to self-deprecation was when he smirked that the question of human life was “above my pay grade.”
Sarah Palin jokingly compares herself to a pit bull; Obama sneeringly compares himself to God.
25 Beerme // Sep 10, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I don’t think Obama was referencing Palin with his lipstick comment. There’s plenty about Obama not to like and plenty about his candidacy to suggest that an alternative would be better. We really don’t need to jump to conclusions about what he meant when he used an oft-used metaphor like that of the lipstick on a pig.
Also, Palin doesn’t need to whine (and she isn’t) about sexist attacks because she’s solid and those who watch cheapshot artists swing away, see them for what they are: cheapshot artists! Whining makes us look weak. Stop it! The media is leftist but the majority of voters are not. Appeal to them and don’t worry about the media.
The only problem I see with Palin and McCain is the fact that they are represented by the RNC which will do anything necessary to win and keep power. They are not so different from the DNC, really.
All that said, I like Palin and she would be the only reason I would even think about voting for a schlub like McCain…
I now return you to your regular program.
26 R.A.M. // Sep 10, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Mack, Good to “see” you again! re: #13, I kind of agree with you on the “departure from this life” thing.
Something I once heard, (a story, I don’t know if it is true or not), about a guy looking for a job, was being interviewed, and out of the blue, the interviewer asked him, what is your main purpose in life?
The guy did NOT hesitate, and answered, “To go to Heaven, and take as many people with me as possible!”
Like I said, I do not know if it is a true story or not, but really, is there any better goal in life?
27 onlineanalyst // Sep 10, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Yo, et: Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO’s “The Corner” cites some economic statistics released by the Heritage Foundation.
To wit:
Brian Riedl of Heritage emails:
The current debt ratio is *below* the post-war average, and even lower than the debt ratio in the booming late 1990s;
The portion of federal spending going to pay interest on the debt has actually *fallen* over the past two decades;
The 1997-2001 budget surpluses resulted from a (bubble-influenced) revenue boom and the end of the cold war, not because of courageous domestic spending cuts;
The 2002-2008 budget deficits would have occurred even without any tax cuts; and
The current $5.4 trillion public debt is minor compared to the $42.9 trillion in unfunded Social Security and Medicare hole.
28 onlineanalyst // Sep 10, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Here is the lengthy Heritage Foundation source for the above information: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2178.cfm
It is wonkishly detailed but still understandable to those interested in the economy.
The biggest threat to our nation’s well-being is the out-of-control rise in entitlement spending. And that, my friend et, is the area that THE ONE wants to expand.
Obama and his terrorist buddy Ayers managed to waste quite a bit of the Annenberg Foundation money, supposedly to improve Chicago schools. OPM (other people’s money) led to no improvements and the disappearance of large sums.
Obama cannot handle budgets, as witnessed by that boondoggle as well as by the amounts that he has eaten up in his 18-month bid for a coronation.
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