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(Huffington Post)   "While Rome Burned... They Talked About Lipstick." Yes, the whole country's on fire. Not that we're shooting for drama or anything here   (huffingtonpost.com) divider line
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thamike
2008-09-11 11:09:43 AM  
It's a figure of speech, doofus. Kind of like the lipstick on a pig remark.

You know what's not a common figure of speech? Palin referring to herself as a pitbull with lipstick.
 
Jaboobinator
2008-09-11 11:11:05 AM  
Metaphors are hard for Republicans.
 
Philogogus
2008-09-11 11:12:06 AM  
You fail at metaphor tardmitter
 
Philogogus
2008-09-11 11:14:29 AM  
Hahaha. Greenlight! This will be epic.
 
Skail
2008-09-11 11:16:02 AM  
Hey, be nice to submitter. He obviously has some sort of learning disability... and reading disability... and cognitive disability... and is on some sort of drugs... and ate too much paint... and lived under power lines...
 
ToxicMunkee
2008-09-11 11:16:09 AM  

Jaboobinator: Metaphors are hard for Republicans.


To be fair, it's kind of a big word and stuff.
 
Asa Phelps
2008-09-11 11:17:47 AM  
The palin selection and everything since then from the RNC has been one great big troll.

And I wish we'd all stop feeding it.
 
This About That [OhFark]
2008-09-11 11:20:21 AM  
Sheesh. It's a choice between the old guy and the bimbo, or the wiseass and the old guy.
 
Kitwilly
2008-09-11 11:21:44 AM  

Asa Phelps: The palin selection and everything since then from the RNC has been one great big troll.

And I wish we'd all stop feeding it.


for shame. how disrespectful. This is 9/11. Never forget. 9/11, man. COme on.

I like how Osama isn't even a campaign issue. How soon we forget that he was never caught.
 
ManateeGag
2008-09-11 11:22:18 AM  
Obligatory?

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PurplePimpSaber
2008-09-11 11:27:42 AM  
Let the Fail Thread being!

Hajime!

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Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 11:27:53 AM  
Came to see the screechy, spittle-flying rage. Am not disappointed.

Palin sure has got everyone riled up. Seems to me some folks are protesting just a bit too loudly when they say she's an inconsequential mistake for the McCain ticket and will never amount to anything, then turn around and scream that if she's elected VP, she'll overturn Roe v. Wade, burn all books and force the teaching of creationism in public schools.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 11:29:08 AM  

PurplePimpSaber: Let the Fail Thread being!


Fark user image
 
ozone
2008-09-11 11:30:14 AM  
Who knew Trig Palin could submit headlines?
 
Eddie Adams from Torrance
2008-09-11 11:30:14 AM  
Lipstick on a pig?
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/shamelessly hotlinked because photobucket seems farked at the moment
 
smooshie
2008-09-11 11:30:31 AM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: Palin sure has got everyone riled up. Seems to me some folks are protesting just a bit too loudly when they say she's an inconsequential mistake for the McCain ticket and will never amount to anything, then turn around and scream that if she's elected VP, she'll overturn Roe v. Wade, burn all books and force the teaching of creationism in public schools.


Unfortunately, Americans have a sad history of electing politicians who should have been inconsequential mistakes.
 
ToxicMunkee
2008-09-11 11:33:07 AM  

Asa Phelps: The palin selection and everything since then from the RNC has been one great big troll.

And I wish we'd all stop feeding it.


If wishes were fishes....something something.
 
Philogogus
2008-09-11 11:35:54 AM  

ozone: Who knew Trig Palin could submit headlines?


Hey now, I hate everything Palin stands for with a firey passion. But leave the kid out of this.
 
Occam's Chainsaw
2008-09-11 11:39:26 AM  
Now that's my kinda headline!

/Local Doomsayers #354
//We're one apocalypse away from "I told you so".
 
benlonghair
2008-09-11 11:42:05 AM  
If you think the country isn't 'burning' (or as the case may be, 'being burned and pillaged') you're blind subby.

Favorite bumper sticker I've seen in a long time: If you're not angry, you're not paying attention.
 
DistendedPendulusFrenulum
2008-09-11 11:44:30 AM  
Oh, she's so goddam tough, and can dish out all that red-meat abuse.

And call herself inventive names that conjure up really ugly images.

Too bad she's a pusillanimous ninny when the going gets--well, when Rovian spin becomes--never mind.

.
 
PurplePimpSaber
2008-09-11 11:44:31 AM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: PurplePimpSaber: Let the Fail Thread being!


I'm a idiot.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 11:56:53 AM  
submitter:

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Kome
2008-09-11 11:57:39 AM  

Jaboobinator: Metaphors are hard for Republicans.


D'uh. To understand metaphors requires the ability to think abstractly and in non-literal ways.
 
Hang On Voltaire
2008-09-11 12:11:16 PM  
I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it
 
DamnYankees
2008-09-11 12:16:45 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it


I expecting an ad from McCain denouncing Loreal.
 
GWLush
2008-09-11 12:19:49 PM  

DamnYankees: Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it

I expecting an ad from McCain denouncing Loreal.


Or himself.
 
Locke3k
2008-09-11 12:25:41 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it


Please present a list of all the other harmless phrases that should not be used, so we can at least keep score along with you.
 
patrick767
2008-09-11 12:30:45 PM  
Hang On Voltaire
I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it

You have GOT to be trolling. I know the McCain campaign's outrage is completely phoney. They know better. Surely you do too. No one who can work a computer is that stupid, are they?
 
Angry Drunk Bureaucrat [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-09-11 12:34:15 PM  

Locke3k: Please present a list of all the other harmless phrases that should not be used, so we can at least keep score along with you.


Bumping uglies. Nipples. Moist.

/More words really.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 12:36:02 PM  

patrick767: You have GOT to be trolling. I know the McCain campaign's outrage is completely phoney. They know better. Surely you do too. No one who can work a computer is that stupid, are they?


Hey, they're getting traction on it -- of course they're going to exploit it.

Obama's complaining that "community organizer" is a racist code word for "black." If that works you can bet he'll milk it till its nipples bleed. This is politics -- not even McCain is old enough to have invented this crap. We've had it all along.
 
LaZBoy82
2008-09-11 12:45:43 PM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: patrick767: You have GOT to be trolling. I know the McCain campaign's outrage is completely phoney. They know better. Surely you do too. No one who can work a computer is that stupid, are they?

Hey, they're getting traction on it -- of course they're going to exploit it.

Obama's complaining that "community organizer" is a racist code word for "black." If that works you can bet he'll milk it till its nipples bleed. This is politics -- not even McCain is old enough to have invented this crap. We've had it all along.


You are the smartest person I have ever seen on Fark.
Thank You

/Really
 
MasterThief
2008-09-11 12:50:04 PM  
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/Oh, please don't help my mama bomb an Osama Obama llama diorama!
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 12:52:28 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it


Yeah, it's totally Obama's fault that McCain doesn't understand common metaphors.
 
Lionel Mandrake
2008-09-11 12:54:40 PM  

Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it


McCain said lipstick on a pig when talking about Hillary.

Are you upset by this?
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 12:57:15 PM  

LaZBoy82: You are the smartest person I have ever seen on Fark.


/gawrsh
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 12:57:32 PM  

Lionel Mandrake: Hang On Voltaire: I like how it is the McCain campaigns fault for responding to Obama. If Obama had not mentioned lipstick we wouldn't be discussing it

McCain said lipstick on a pig when talking about Hillary.

Are you upset by this?


No, no the difference is he was talking about her healthcare plan while Obama was only talking about....McCain's entire campaign

See the difference?

/yeah I don't either.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 12:58:31 PM  

cameroncrazy1984: Yeah, it's totally Obama's fault that McCain doesn't understand common metaphors.


And it's totally McCain's fault that Obama got all flustered and cranky about the whole thing.

/been fun watching a little shine rub off The Chosen One
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:04:23 PM  
FTFA: "You know who ends up losing at the end of the day?" Obama said about the latest dust-ups during a stop in Virginia. "It's not the Democratic candidate, it's not the Republican candidate. It's you, the American people, because then we go another year or another four years or another eight years without addressing the issues that matter to you. Enough."

Can I "this" Obama? Yes? No? WTF, I'm going to anyway.

Obama...THIS!

/don't care if his ideas are good or not, he makes a strong point here
 
Occam's Chainsaw
2008-09-11 1:05:22 PM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: The Chosen One


You win one instant ticket to the ignore list. We would've also accepted "Democrat party", "B Hussein Obama", or "I'm voting for McCain because he respects women". Thanks for playing.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:06:40 PM  

Philogogus: Hey now, I hate everything Palin stands for with a firey passion.


And I'll bet there are plenty of Farkers out there who would HIT THAT woman with a fiery passion.

/or like the fist of an angry God
//choose the metaphor that best suits you
///giggity!
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:06:55 PM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: cameroncrazy1984: Yeah, it's totally Obama's fault that McCain doesn't understand common metaphors.

And it's totally McCain's fault that Obama got all flustered and cranky about the whole thing.

/been fun watching a little shine rub off The Chosen One


How is that flustered and cranky? He called McCain out on being the incumbent party trying to say he'll "change Washington."

Not to mention McCain giving Obama way more attention for it than he would have otherwise. This whole thing could backfire on McCain big time. I mean, when you even have outlets like CNN saying that it meant nothing, and people like Mark Halperin saying "hey wait a minute, what's really going on here" then McCain should be pretty worried. He thought they would just report "The McCain campaign said...." instead of doing actual journalism. He may have awoken a sleeping giant here.
 
Lionel Mandrake
2008-09-11 1:07:47 PM  

SquirrelsOfDoom: cameroncrazy1984: Yeah, it's totally Obama's fault that McCain doesn't understand common metaphors.

And it's totally McCain's fault that Obama got all flustered and cranky about the whole thing.

/been fun watching a little shine rub off The Chosen One


"flustered and cranky?" Whatever.

Here's what's McCain's fault: he hired the same people that smeared him and his family to make shiat up about Obama - like calling lipstick on a pig a sexist term, even though McCain is on tape saying it four times (at least). McCain was rightly upset by these gutter tactics 8 years ago, now Mr. Maverick has these douchebags on his team.

And morans like you are playing right into the crap. But that's not McCain's fault. It's your fault.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:08:23 PM  

MasterThief: /Oh, please don't help my mama bomb an Osama Obama llama diorama!


banana fana fobama fe fi fo fama obama

/works best with a British accent
 
quickdraw
2008-09-11 1:13:51 PM  

cameroncrazy1984: He may have awoken a sleeping giant here.


I was hoping the idiotic McCain/Palin diatribe at the RNC against teh evul librul media would backfire on them.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:18:39 PM  

Lionel Mandrake: SquirrelsOfDoom: cameroncrazy1984: Yeah, it's totally Obama's fault that McCain doesn't understand common metaphors.

And it's totally McCain's fault that Obama got all flustered and cranky about the whole thing.

/been fun watching a little shine rub off The Chosen One

"flustered and cranky?" Whatever.

Here's what's McCain's fault: he hired the same people that smeared him and his family to make shiat up about Obama - like calling lipstick on a pig a sexist term, even though McCain is on tape saying it four times (at least). McCain was rightly upset by these gutter tactics 8 years ago, now Mr. Maverick has these douchebags on his team.

And morans like you are playing right into the crap. But that's not McCain's fault. It's your fault.


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And every other voter's fault that keeps electing these douchebags year after year.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:22:25 PM  

cameroncrazy1984: Not to mention McCain giving Obama way more attention for it than he would have otherwise. This whole thing could backfire on McCain big time. I mean, when you even have outlets like CNN saying that it meant nothing, and people like Mark Halperin saying "hey wait a minute, what's really going on here" then McCain should be pretty worried. He thought they would just report "The McCain campaign said...." instead of doing actual journalism. He may have awoken a sleeping giant here.


Let's not forget that Bill ORLY said something about this too, in defense (kinda) of Obama.

Shocking. What is this world coming to???
 
cameroncrazy1984 [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:25:22 PM  

xanadian: Let's not forget that Bill ORLY said something about this too, in defense (kinda) of Obama.

Shocking. What is this world coming to???


In O'Reilly's defense, he probably thought the LHC was going to destroy the world.
 
xanadian [TotalFark]
2008-09-11 1:27:41 PM  

cameroncrazy1984: xanadian: Let's not forget that Bill ORLY said something about this too, in defense (kinda) of Obama.

Shocking. What is this world coming to???

In O'Reilly's defense, he probably thought the LHC was going to destroy the world.


Anyone notice that all this silliness is happening AFTER the physicists started running their proton stream at LHC?

I think the world's already over. We're on the flipside now.
 
Analog_Kid
2008-09-11 1:34:56 PM  
You can put lipstick on a metaphor, it's still not a simile.
 
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