Torie Clarke, a long-time McCain adviser and former Pentagon press secretary, wrote a book entitled, Lipstick on a Pig: Winning in the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game.
--from the RTE web page for 10 September 2008
Our friends overseas are watching the spat between Obama and McCain and concluding that our elections have come down to gender baiting and race baiting--confirmed over the phone for me last night by a journalist in Ireland who can be trusted to have that nation's pulse. "It's plain as day to us that McCain's argument has only two points: first, that the nation isn't ready to elect a man of color; second, that Palin is the American Idol contestant."
The RTE web page has its reporting completely up to date on the "lipstick on a pig" faux controversy:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0910/uselection.html
Truth Squad? Who are they kidding? We're watching Winston Smith in action, sitting in a cubicle rented by the McCain campaign, assigned only the task of snipping out the inconvenient truths from the past and replacing them with new myths masquerading as facts.
Keating Five anyone? $17,000 in per diem payments anyone?
My Irish journalist friend had one final comment: "It seems as if you're about to let the ee-jits decide your election."
Translation--the idiots who are still undecided (ee-jits) or the idiots who can't see substance through the smokescreen of style are on the brink of trumping every thoughtful voter (Democratic, Republican, or Independent) because the Republicans have gone to "Ludicrous Rove Speed" in this critcially important election campaign, pushing out onto the national stage lies, deceptions, canards, and repackaged garbage, insisting to all of us, in the bullying sort of way that pushes Matthews and Olberman off the election night coverage team, that they can do and say whatever they want.
Pretty simple really: we must seize the power we've had all along and get those millions of inspired voters to register and then to vote for TRUE change--not ad campaign change, not the kind of change that your local channel 5 offers when they put a pretty new face at the news anchor desk, and not the kind of change that pretends Republicans are just the ones to clean up the mess made by Republicans for the last eight years.
Fed up, but still ready to go,
--Ruairi O'Murchu
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