CBS Asked YouTube To Remove Lipstick Ad
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, McCain, Media, Palin, Partisan Nonsense, VideoI guess there’s one more post to squeeze out of this silly controversy after all.
Earlier today a lot of folks had embedded the “Lipstick” ad, but then it went dead. And when you clicked through to YouTube it had said that CBS Interactive had asked for it to be removed.
YouTube has removed a webad that casts Sarah Palin as the victim of sexism on the request of CBS, whose anchor Katie Couric was featured in the ad.“One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism in American life,” Couric is quoted in the ad.
In the original clip, which aired months before Palin entered the race, Couric was talking about Hillary Clinton. The ad applies her words to Palin.
However, to the person just taking a look at the ad on the web, it definitely suggests that Couric is referring to Obama’s lipstick comment because before she speaks it say, “Katie Couric On: This Election.” Not “Katie Couric On: The Democratic Primary” which would have been, you know, not a lie. No, the McCain camp had to go one step further and suggest that Couric was referring to the general election.
Here are Couric’s comment, in context…
And just in case you haven’t seen it, you can also view McCain’s ad at his website. Something tells me that it won’t be coming down anytime soon.
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September 10th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Anyone who says Obama was talking about Palin when he made that comment is either an idiot or a liar. Totally absurd. For McCain to make that add, and stand by it, has just made him lose every last bit of credibility he had with me.
Obama has/had washed his hands of Palin and was clearly talking about the last 8 years of Republican leadership. Shame on the right’s blowhards for making this an issue.
From this point forward, Obama should take of the kid gloves. To hell with the civil campaign, time to blow these people out of the water using the same tactics the right has made their SOP for the past 8 years.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:29 am
Perhaps, gerryf, but it really doesn’t matter if ‘lipstick on a pig’ was aimed at Palin or not, does it?
You believe it was an ‘off-the-cuff’ comment? It wasn’t a prepared remark? Come on, gerryf. Even I’ll give you more credit than that.
It is amazing however, that someone on Team Obama could give such unbelievably short-sighted and BAD political advice to use a phrase like that, knowing full-well how it would be interpreted.
I’d say the larger story is that someone in Obama’s inner circle is very politically inept.
Oh, and by the way, who is it that Obama is running against, anyway, McCain or Palin? The more Obama talks about Palin, the more obvious it is that he can’t (and isn’t) running against McCain.
September 11th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Last first.
Did you read what I wrote? Obama has moved on….this election is against McCain and the last 8 years of Bush–that is why it is completely clear –if you listen to his speech–what he was was talking about.
You’re so myopic that you don’t even read what is staring you in the face. The far right wing of the GOP is playing you for a fool, getting you all lathered up about non-issues and bogus issues, that you cannot see what is going on.
If you are an honest conservative, rise up and take your party back from these people. They have nothing to run on so all they can do is run a campaign of lies and misdirection.
There was a time when the GOP stood for something, but now it’s only about winning. It is insane that a true conservative would vote for a group that has abandoned fiscal responsibility, trumpets interfering in the lives of private citizens, practices cowboy diplomacy, and suffers the corruption that is rampant in the party.
Dwight Eisenhower is literally spinning in his grave.
As for the lipstick on a pig remark, you’ll give me more credit than to believe it was an off the cuff remark?
Well, I gave you more credit than you probably deserve if you really think this was an intentional reference to Palin. Are you really so paranoid that you need to disect every remark looking for scary digs where there are none? C’mon, man, you’re scarying me.
Has the right gone so completley off the deep end.
If you really think that, then the right has pushed you over the edge…please, step back. Im serious.
Was John McCain insulting Hillary when he used it last year regarding her health care plan? Don’t be silly. Lipstick on a pig, can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear, blah, blah, blah….
I am deeply concerned about the gullibility of the people on the right who can no longer discern spin from reality.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:37 am
“…getting you all lathered up about non-issues…”
Getting me lathered up? Ha! Ha! Ha!
Grrrr! Spittle-anger!-hate!-(throws Hello Kitty pencil sharpener)-I’m-smarter-than-you-bastard!!!
“There was a time when the GOP stood for something, but now it’s only about winning.” Yeah, now would be a good time to take a lesson from the Losercrats, huh?
“Dwight Eisenhower is literally spinning in his grave.” Literally? Really? So I should take you seriously?
“…if you really think this was an intentional reference to Palin.”
Dun!-Dun!-Dun!… Yes, gerryf. Although it doesn’t actually bother me in the least, I actually believe the Obama campaign decided they MUST respond to her ‘pitbull in lipstick’ remark, and someone (stupidly) told Obama to use the ‘lipstick on a pig’ as a witty rejoinder. But it back-fired. Badly. Pretty much all of Earth recognizes that, present company excepted.
Gerryf, you know how you can tell when you’re losing an election? When the only thing you talk about is the competition. That’s how.
And gerryff, you’re way too easy to spin-up, brother. I’d hate to see your head ass-plode all over the interwebs.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Dawg…
Count me in with gerryf. Obama made an off-the-cuff remark. Freepers like you are getting bent out of shape over nothing. Deal with it.
So that’s two… who else…
Oh yeah. Mike Huckabee. And I guess, based on his comments, you can probably toss Justin on the pile, too.
Care to keep going? No? Smart move.
McCain was actually doing very, very well, two or three months ago; then, it’s like he lost his mind. He abandoned the moderate, centrist voters that actually gave him their votes last spring (and as a result, the nomination), and started pandering to neoconservative crackpots, theocrats, and every other fringe element that GOP leaders envision as part of their “base.”
Fringe elements, apparently, just like the one you see in the mirror, dawg.
Today is a poignant reminder to us of how much change can be heaped upon us in a matter of minutes; for that reason, I won’t deign any guess on the outcome of this contest.
Our mission these next few weeks should be to focus on the issues facing our nation, and what each of the top five or six candidates proposes to tackle those challenges head on.
Kissing of pigs and pitbulls can resume in January, after inauguration… and after Congress is back in session.
Agnostick
agnostick@excite.com
http://www.independentvoting.org
September 11th, 2008 at 9:40 am
“Obama made an off-the-cuff remark.” And what a brilliant one it was! Fortunately, there hasn’t been any ‘blow-back’ at all!
“Freepers like you are getting bent out of shape over nothing.”
Getting bent out of shape? Good grief, read gerryf’s posts and tell me he didn’t wet himself somewhere in the process! I’m just having fun with you losers!
And as for: “McCain was actually doing very, very well, two or three months ago;”
Ummm, note to fake independents (I’m lookin’ at you gerryf a.k.a. “Agnostick”) who were always going to vote for Obama anyway:
Three months ago McCain was down by 7-9 points in nearly every poll.
Today he’s up by at least 5 points in nearly every poll…by pandering to ‘fringe elements’ like the one I see in the mirror.
“…I won’t deign any guess on the outcome of this contest.”
Das’ kuz U be loozin’ now, babeeee!!!!! Suck it!
Power to the people, Agnostic.
September 12th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Both McCain and Obama used the phrase before we ever heard of Palin.
Obama was talking about the last 8 years of failed policy.