You know what I call a bulldog with lipstick?

[jsbowden]

A bitch.

The media are just cruising along with this whole lipstick thing, and personally, if I were Obama, I'd OWN that shit. "Yes, I know damn well this analogy can be taken two ways in context with her acceptance speech. Welcome to politics, bitch...I mean lipstick wearing she dog."

Comments

[cerebresque.livejournal.com]

I absolutely endorse this advice.

[skwidly.livejournal.com]

I just hate that the Daily Show and Colbert are off this week...

[ceara.livejournal.com]

I really can't figure out how anyone could possibly think that making a big stink out of the perceived/possibly intended insult was the proper way to spin it, anyway.

[dlganger.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of is that if the political parties of the principals were reversed, what we're seeing now would be nothing, and someone on the Republican side thought that making a stink would be the best way to expose that.

If that's what they thought, they were wrong. Dead wrong.

[dscotton.livejournal.com]

Not only wrong but empirically disproved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPYkNQlJMM

[mikeda.livejournal.com]

The idea presumably is that by ramping up the faux outrage right now they can both rally their own base and intimidate away any sort of future criticism of Palin.

The extent to which it will work is an open question.

[askesis.livejournal.com]

What cracks me up about it is Palin is the lipstick.

[culfinriel.livejournal.com]

Using a folksy cliche is not a slam on your media doll. Now, if Obama and Biden showed up from now on wearing lipstick ...