Shut up, Ann Curry

OK, this Barack Obama "You can put lipstick on a pig..." thing is going to drive me to drink. While Mean Mommy is not taking political sides, can we all just step back for a moment? The news has replayed this soundbite again and again, out of context, with the byproduct being anyone who did not hear the entire speech thinks Obama was making snide comments about Sarah Palin and calling her a pig when in actuality, he was deriding McCain's policices as being those of George Bush made new again.

I am this riled up not because of the light the misquote puts Obama in, but because the media is using it to piss women off. "Oh my GOD, he's talking about lipstick, let's rile up the broads!" This phrase has been used for years to talk about a myriad of things and, not so much, an ugly woman. Do they think we're that stupid? That some poorly chosen words that refer to cosmetics can make women think a candidate is anti-woman? Was it a bad choice of phrase? Perhaps. Does it make Obama a misogynist? No.

SO SHUT UP ANN CURRY and stop hyping this bullshit. Any intelligent woman, Republican or Democrat, should be ashamed of herself if she can't listen to this whole speech and realize what the point really was. Let's not be manipulated.
Meh.