Obama’s Lipstick on Pig Speech Stole Content From Editorial Cartoon

UPDATE: It seems that even Obama’s pig-with-lipstick remark was stolen from an editorial cartoon! Now you tell me that Copy-Cato-Bama really didn’t intend to slur Palin.

On a tip from Red Planet Cartoons.

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So Obama really stepped in the pigshot (sic) with his lipstick on a pig remark.

Could the controversy get any more embarassing for him? It sure could!

I love editorial cartoons, and I laugh at Obama, so this is the perfect combination:

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From World Net Daily:

Obama plagiarized ‘lipstick speech’?
Comments almost word-for-word copy of Washington Post political cartoon
By Aaron Klein

Remarks by Sen. Barack Obama yesterday leading up to his controversial “lipstick on a pig” jab at the McCain campaign mirror almost word-for-word a political cartoon published last week in the Washington Post.

Much has been made of Obama criticizing McCain’s idea of “change” by stating, “You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.” Taking it as an attack McCain’s vice-presidential running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, the campaign responded with a video on the Internet today.

But less attention has been paid to Obama’s statements just preceding the lipstick reference, which appear to be an un-attributed copy of the caption in a Washington Post political cartoon by Tom Toles Sept 5.

Obama stated yesterday:

“‘Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health care 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 … you know, you can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.”

The political cartoon, also mocking McCain’s and Palin’s concept of change, stated four days earlier:

“Watch out, Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and Supreme Court appointments and Rove-style politics, we’re coming in there to shake things up!”

The similarities between the cartoon and Obama’s speech were first noticed by users at the Free Republic website.

Obama’s campaign did not immediately return a WND call seeking comment.

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Video again:

Only the Obamessiah could manage to not only be so unoriginal and uninspired as to pilfer talking points from an editorial cartoon (or else his speech writers did it, which makes him even more inept)… And stick a botched joke that is immediately and widely construed as sexism onto it for good measure!

See this post for editorial cartoons mocking Obama’s piggishness.

The circle will be complete when someone draws an editorial cartoon about Obama stealing content from an editorial cartoon.

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