After a major firestorm in the media after Barack Obama said, "You can put lipstick on a pig, It's still a pig," today Obama explains his remarks and blames the media for overreacting.
The video above shows Barack Obama saying his remarks made yesterday which is all over the television media and headlining in online media articles, was "catnip for the news media" and saying
"it would be funny, it would be funny, except of course the news media decided that was the lead story yesterday."
At this point from the reactions by the audience when Obama first made the remark, the media, the GOP and even Clinton supporters, shows that no matter what Obama meant by his comment, the "perception" of what he implied is catching far more attention from across the Internet.
Despite the fact that Obama, McCain, other politicians and every day people have used that lipstick on a pig remark previously, since Sarah Palin gave her speech at the Republican Convention last week, which was watched by million of voters where she said, "You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick," now any reference to "lipstick" automatically brings to mind that portion of the speech.
Differing opinions on whether the comment was innocent or a deliberate reference to Palin can be seen across a broad spectrum of Internet sites, comment sections of blogs and news forums and on television, but the one point that keeps coming to the forefront is, shouldn't the reaction to the comment been thought of before making it.
In politics perception is important and the more people see and hear about this, whether from John McCain's new ad, television commentators, bloggers, the media or Obama himself trying to explain it, the more people will continue to identify any reference to lipstick with Palin's speech.
