--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > > > > Are you saying our glorious presidential candidate, Obama, > > calling his opponent's VP pick a pig is not sexist? > > How very Fox news of you. Fortunately for those of us who can > read, your (and the conservative media's) attempt to twist what > he said into a schoolyard insult is obvious. Sara does not own > the rights to the term "lipstick" and anytime it is referenced > it isn't about her.
Nobody said that "anytime" it's referenced it's about her. raunchydog is saying--and I agree--that *this* time it was about her. He phrased it carefully to give himself plausible deniability--just as when he gave Hillary the finger, thinly disguised as a cheek-scratch, awhile back--and combined it with a painfully artificial bit of body language, rubbing his forehead as if he were searching for the right words, then artfully pausing to let the words sink in. Since the Republican convention and for some time to come, lipstick = Palin, in any political context. She made it her motto with her crack about the difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom. His audience got the reference immediately. There's no question it was intentional. To be fair, Palin isn't above schoolyard insults either. The difference is, she wouldn't pretend she wasn't delivering one. She wouldn't hide her glee, she'd be openly laughing along with her audience. And FWIW, it's not just the conservative media that's calling him on it. Feminist lefties (male and female) are as well.
