James Taranto simply passes over something I find absolutely incredible, especially since accusations of plagiarism have been hurled at both Barack Obama and Joe Biden in the past.
Please read (right now) the monologue bubble to Tom Toles' September 5 cartoon in the Washington Post. And then read what Barack Obama said FOUR DAYS later (as printed in the LA Times):
"John McCain says he's about change too...So I guess his whole angle is: Watch out, George Bush -- except for economic policy, healthcare policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics, we're really going to shake things up in Washington.
"That's not change. That's just calling the same thing something different. But you can put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, and it's still going to stink after eight years." [emphasis mine]
Pretty amazing, huh? How did this go unnoticed? Why did this go unnoticed? Did Sen. Obama preface or end his remarks with due attribution to Tom Toles? I believe he did not.
Seriously, I have never seen such a swift and immediate meltdown. I did not think the lipstick remark could be all that devastating to Barack Obama. Alas, it seems it highlighted a part of his speech that he would have liked to conceal. How ironic that he would have used lipstick to highlight his apparent plagiarism.
Call it the Year of Cosmetics, when Lipstick on a Cover Girl with Pluck was used as a Highlighter on a story you can't Make-Up. Some have tried to Gloss it over, especially to keep the Base happy. Some have no doubt Blushed, while others will hardly bat an Eyelash -- unless they hear of a Cover-up or Concealer. It's the year of the pig, or what the Pigment.
Mascara Palin has got them seeing Red States everywhere.
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2 comments:
But Bill, didn't you learn anything in high school? You conveniently missed the very thing that makes this quote all Obama's, " "Karl" Rove-style politics".
The cartoon merely had "Rove-style politics". Not plagiarism. Neener Neener.
On Taranto's point about the media being complicit in the Democrats intransigence, noticably absent in any discussions about wayward offspring (Palin's)are any references to ill gotten gains in the hedge fund game (Biden's).
They (the media) couldn't be any more transparent.
Peace,
Chris
A meltdown is exactly what we are watching, Bill. Frankly, I have felt that the Republicans have carried a sort-of defeatist air about them since it came down to McCain and Obama. Likewise, the Democrats have had a certain smugness about how "this one is in the bag."
Then McCain picks Palin and upsets everyone's apple cart. The Democrats, now realizing that this one is most definately up-for-grabs, are changing tactics mid-stream and not doing a very good job of it. And Obama is (mis)leading the way.
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