--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> 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.
>
It is complete idiocy that his topic is even being discussed. We look like
morons in the
eyes of the world.
How about moving on to the real issues?
