Update: Day of Pigs, Fish, Chimps Ogres

Wow... cable news and the McCain Palin Campaign have done it again. This time I'm actually a bit flabbergasted. They went and took what I thought was a outlier oddball reaction to a fairly straightforward quote and churned it right up into a full-blown ridiculous web attack advertisement. In the ad, they accuse Barack Obama of calling Sarah Palin a pig. Really? REALLY!?!?!?!

Wow. This is awesome. And so third grade. "He called Sarah a PIG!!!! Make him sit in the corner!" WOW! Wtf.

Anyway, in brighter news, the cable news cycle that picked this spin up and spun it further and further and further did actually begin to result in an interesting thing: they are calling lies "lies," and the folks who tell them "liars." Now, this may sound pretty basic, but so much of Karl Rove's brand of politics relies on the media acting like lapdogs in this regard. They count on (and are too often right to do so) the fact that media will take an "unbiased" view, shying away from reporting when one political party is telling bald-faced lies about another.

All in all, today's development continue to signal to me and to many that the McCain campaign is truly adrift way far away from anything resembling integrity. Here's a bit of interesting writing on that subject from one-time-McCain-admirer Andrew Sullivan.

Possibly the Best Rick Rolling Ever Created

Thanks Purple State for posting this gem, a video of John McCain being Barackrolled at the RNC convention... I don't know what to say except that this is amazing:



Oh... Rick Rolling... how is it that you never get old???

Obama attacks Pigs and Fish, Biden to attack Chimps, Ogres

There's a bizarro-world storyline in the presidential election today, and it makes me kinda giddy because it's so so so ridiculous, you just have to love it. Obama recently rolled out a line about how John McCain wants to claim he's for change, but he advocates for many policies that seem fairly status quo. To drive home his point, Obama said:

"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. It's still gonna stink. We've had enough of the same old thing."

Now the McCain camp via former Mass Governor Jane Swift has come out in complete outrage over the fact that Obama called Sarah Palin a pig and John McCain a fish. The Obama camp will soon respond to McCain by sending out Joe Biden to call George Bush a chimp and Dick Cheney an Ogre. This is some great stuff. Here's an actual video of the somewhat reasonable context in which Obama made his oh-so-very unreasonable remarks.