OK, maybe I'm late to the trough on this topic and I've been too busy at work to be following this issue closely, but I picked up today's Boston Globe and saw the following headline:
Civility is casualty as campaigns spar
'Pig' remark puts heat on Obama
RIP, civility.
Remember when Senators John McCain and Barack Obama promised a kinder, gentler presidential race? They said the issues would be front and center, the nasty personal attacks kept at bay, and they even floated the quaint notion of traveling the country together to engage voters in a respectful competition of ideas.
Goodbye to all that.
You have to turn the article to page 6 to get the actual phrase, and it's the first paragraph:
"You can put lipstick on a pig - it's still a pig," Obama said at a Virginia campaign stop. "You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, and it's still going to stink after eight years."
It appears as though the article was deliberately edited to perpetuate the Republican spin that Obama called Sarah Palin a "pig". I'm pissed and thinking about canceling my subscription to the globe. I find it rather misinforming to read this headline and learn nowhere in the article that Karl Rove is playing a significant role in the McCain campaign. There's your headline, Mr. Helman. There's your pig.