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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
New heights of stupidity — We're fighting multiple wars; our oldest and most established financial institutions are on the verge of collapse; we've fundamentally transformed and then dismantled our constitutional framework over the last eight years, etc. etc.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
McCain ad: “Lipstick”; Flashback: Obama flips the bird at Hillary; Update: Sexist Memory Lane — It didn't take Team McCain long to develop a new television spot from Barack Obama's “lipstick on a pig” comment. They have rolled out this 30-second spot hammering Obama for his sexism …
Washington Post:
McCain Camp Sees An Insult in a Saying — Obama Called Policies ‘Lipstick on a Pig’ — Sen. Barack Obama said yesterday that Sen. John McCain's claim that he will shake up Washington after agreeing with President Bush for so long is like “putting lipstick on a pig” …
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Fox News:
Obama Accuses McCain Campaign of ‘Swift Boat Politics’ — Barack Obama responded Wednesday to the John McCain campaign's call for an apology concerning his “lipstick on a pig” remarks, by calling the controversy “phony and foolish” and defending it as an “innocent remark” that was taken out of context.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama: ‘Lipstick on a pig’
Obama: ‘Lipstick on a pig’
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Warner Todd Huston / NewsBusters.org:
Did Obama Steal his ‘Lip Stick on a Pig’ Speech from a Political Cartoon?
Did Obama Steal his ‘Lip Stick on a Pig’ Speech from a Political Cartoon?
Glenn Reynolds / Pajamas Media:
DID OBAMA MEAN TO CALL SARAH PALIN A PIG? It's probably just a slip …
DID OBAMA MEAN TO CALL SARAH PALIN A PIG? It's probably just a slip …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
Apology Not Accepted — Back in 2000, after John McCain lost his mostly honorable campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, he went about apologizing to journalists—including me—for his most obvious mis-step: his support for keeping the confederate flag on the state house.
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Margaret Talev / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Out of bounds! McCain misstates Obama sex-ed record — WASHINGTON — Throw the flag against: The McCain-Palin campaign. — Call: Unsportsmanlike conduct. — What happened: A new 30-second TV ad attacks Barack Obama's record on education, saying that Obama backed legislation to teach …
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Los Angeles Times:
Palin bounce has Democrats off balance — Some fear Obama's more aggressive tone could enhance her appeal among white, blue-collar voters. — The emergence of Sarah Palin as a political force in the presidential race has left many top Democrats fretting that, just two weeks …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Shaken Dems fear Obama on downslide — Democrats in Congress are rattled over the momentum Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) has brought to John McCain's presidential campaign and disagree about how their candidate should respond. — Some Democrats say that Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign must …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
As Campaign Heats Up, Untruths Can Become Facts Before They're Undone — From the moment Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin declared that she had opposed the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere,” critics, the news media and nonpartisan fact checkers have called it a fabrication or, at best, a half-truth.
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
My Fair Veep — The rain in Spain stays mainly in the Arctic plain ... I hope John McCain doesn't throw his slippers at Sarah Palin's head or get as acerbic as Henry Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle when she did not learn quickly enough. McCain's Pygmalion has to be careful …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
Obama knocks press on ‘made-up controversy’ — Speaking at a high school in Norfolk, Obama took a few moments to address what he calls “the made-up controversy” of the day, Amie Parnes reports. — Obama said the McCain campaign moved to “seize an innocent remark and take it out of context …
Mark Hosenball / Newsweek:
Warned by the Court — A judge repeatedly told Palin and family not to badmouth her sister's ex — An Anchorage judge three years ago warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop “disparaging” the reputation of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who at the time was undergoing …
Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
Paul says he turned down appeal to endorse McCain — Featured Topics: - John McCain - Barack Obama — WASHINGTON - Republican Rep. Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Texas lawmaker who attracted a devoted following in the GOP primaries, said Wednesday he rejected an appeal to endorse John McCain's presidential bid.
Camille Paglia / Salon:
Fresh blood for the vampire — A beady-eyed McCain gets a boost from the charismatic Sarah Palin, a powerful new feminist — yes, feminist! — force. Plus: Obama must embrace his dull side. — Rip tide! Is the Obama campaign shooting out to sea like a paper boat?
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
UNFIT FOR HIGH OFFICE — One of the interesting aspects of this campaign is watching the scales fall from the eyes of many of John McCain's closest admirers among the veteran DC press corps. I'm not talking about the freaks on Fox News or any of the sycophants at the AP.
Marc Ambinder:
“Astonishingly Inured...” Truth, Lies, The Media And Politics — I'm not prepared to answer Glenn Greenwald, in part because doing so would require a book's worth of prep, but a bit of introspection into one of the finer points of the debate won't hurt anyone, right? — So why are some voters inured to charges of deceit?
Jim Demint / Wall Street Journal:
Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge — “But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up.” — Barack Obama, Sept. 6, 2008