So I missed the last 18 hours or so of the news cycle doing normal people things. And as we all know missing 18 hours of a news cycle means when you come back there is certain to be something idiotic going on.
Turns out the McCain campaign is throwing another bogus hissy fit, this time because Barack Obama dared to compare McCain’s economic plan to the proverbial pig wearing lipstick. So in the continued effort to define what liberals may or may not say, the GOP is now claiming ownership of hackneyed old sayings. All of this is utterly irrelevant to anything, but that’s by design.
Atrios recently observed:
At this point even Republicans all know it’s full of shit, but they don’t care. It pisses off liberals! And that’s really all they care about.
The blogger tristero, writing at Hullaballoo, proposes that statement be known as “Atrios’s Law.” Tristero makes an important point as well:
Republicans feel no compunction about using racist language – no, not racist code words, racist language – while objecting furiously if Barack Obama warns his audience that they will be doing just that.
Because of the way conservatives constructed the playing field, and no one jumped all over them in time to stop it, liberals aren’t allowed even to use common phrases like “lipstick on a pig” to describe an opponent’s plans. But describing blacks as “uppity” is fair fame.
In the sub-text of the campaign, this kind of stuff is important. Republicans are arrogating to themselves the meaning of the English language itself.
It’s enough to make you want to hit yourself in the head with a hockey™ stick. (Ooops, can’t say “hockey.” Sorry.)
It’s enough to make you feel like we need a new bridge™. (Uh, again, sorry about using a Republican trademarked word. I meant “permanent conveyance built of steel over a body of water.”)
Really, I’m so upset about all this I think Ill drop by church on the way home and pray™. Or not.
Um, maybe I can get a dog. And it would be a pit bull™ of course.
On second thought, maybe I’ll just lie™ around and watch old television shows. I always liked Maverick™.
McCain is pretty much shown himself to be a desperate, dishonorable bastard at this point.
McCain really, really doesn’t want to talk about the issues.
Talk about an empty suit…
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Is Jon getting paid for writing this post?
We’re just taking a break from the accusations that will fly should we use any of the following words:
Doberman, puppet, propaganda, lipstick, old, Oprah, Alzheimer’s, torture, McSame, confused, abstinence, angry, fundamentalist, polar bear, caribou, toe-tapping, hypocrite, lying, fibbing, pig, fabricate, falsifying, misleading, Barbie, pork, senior, Iseman, librarian, troopergate, plane (in conjunction with either “preganant” or “ebay”), mooseburger, or grumpy