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RUSH: Last night, Late Show with David Letterman, interviewed The Messiah, Barack Obama, the Most Merciful. Letterman says, ‘Let me ask you a question here. Have you ever actually put lipstick on a pig?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The answer would be no. (rimshot) But I think it might be fun to try. (rimshot)<\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: I know the reaction to that was you were overreacting. You stand by that?<\/p>\n

OBAMA: Absolutely. Look, this is, uh — if you, uh — this is sort of silly season in politics. (rimshot) Not that there\u2019s a non-silly season in politics. (rimshot)<\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But it gets sillier.<\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: Right.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: And, uh, yeah, it\u2019s a common expression in at least Illinois, I don\u2019t know about New York City. I don\u2019t know what you put lipstick on here. (rimshot) But in Illinois, the expression connotes the idea that if you have a bad idea, in this case I was talking about John McCain\u2019s economic plans, that just calling them ‘change,\u2019 calling it something different doesn\u2019t make it better, hence lipstick on a pig. <\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: Exactly.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: It\u2019s still a pig. (rimshot)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Obama continuing his turn here as a comedy act. He just needs the cigar and a cocktail glass here going out with his partner in crime, David Letterman. Then in the next bite, Barry goes on to explain what he would have meant if he had been referring to Sarah Palin, which he says he wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

OBAMA: Keep in mind that technically she — had I meant it this way, she would be the lipstick. (rimshot)<\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: Well, you\u2019re —<\/p>\n

OBAMA: But —<\/p>\n

LETTERMAN: Now we\u2019re, I don\u2019t know, you\u2019re way ahead of me.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: The failed policies of John McCain would be the pig.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s Barack Obama on Letterman last night. He wants to drop this stuff, right? He told the press yesterday, ‘Enough, enough,\u2019 and guess who won\u2019t drop it? Obama won\u2019t drop it. These guys, the Drive-Bys, they are bemoaning — and I\u2019ve got a couple stories here — they\u2019re just, ‘Oh, you know, this lipstick and a pig business, it\u2019s just so silly, can we move on to something serious?\u2019 Remember these people went nuts over Macaca, George Allen and Macaca, they went nuts over it until they effectively killed his campaign. But now that it\u2019s happened to their guy, now we just want to move on, these things just happen, of course in campaigns people say so many things. We have a montage here of Drive-By Media people bemoaning having to cover the lipstick story.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: The political news of this day which we have to cover, this debate over lipstick.<\/p>\n

COOPER: I don\u2019t want to talk about the lipstick story.<\/p>\n

CHETRY: All the hubbub about the lipstick.<\/p>\n

GERGEN: We hit a new low, here we are, the lipstick again.<\/p>\n

KING: Where we going to go with this lipstick and pig thing?<\/p>\n

MADISON: This whole thing about the lipstick controversy was the dumbest thing.<\/p>\n

MALVEAUX: Hopefully we won\u2019t hear too much more about that.<\/p>\n

MADDOW: We haven\u2019t discussed the lipstick story you\u2019ve been hearing all day. I think it\u2019s a made-up story.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not a made-up story, and your candidate continues to talk about it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Drive-Bys and Obama and everybody else says, ‘Please, just drop this lipstick stuff so we don\u2019t have to cover the lipstick story. Could you drop it?\u2019 Fine, fine. We\u2019ll drop lipstick and we\u2019ll go back to this.<\/p>\n

WRIGHT: Not God bless America, God (bleep) America! It\u2019s in the Bible for killing innocent people. God (bleep) America! And now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back into our own front yaaaaards? America\u2019s chickenssss are coming home to roost.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The words of another famous community organizer, Jeremiah Wright, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the official pastor to Barack Obama and his wife Michelle (My Belle) Obama and their two little girls. Community organizer Jeremiah Wright. So if you want to get off of lipstick, we\u2019ll go back to J. Wright. If you don\u2019t want us to go there, tell where you want us to go. We\u2019ll find a place to go. I guarantee you, you won\u2019t like where we end up. So Joe Biden says Hillary is a better VP pick than he is. Palin, Sarah Palin, has knocked down Obama-Biden. She\u2019s bullied them, right? She\u2019s bullied them. They\u2019re on the mat. Now, what does Biden do? (laughing) Look at what they\u2019ve done. They\u2019ve dropped 30 attorneys on Juneau. <\/p>\n

They\u2019ve got wads of cash trying to find out any dirt story they can in Alaska. Then they call her a book burner through surrogates. Carol Fowler saying Governor Palin\u2019s ‘sole qualification is her not having had an abortion.\u2019 Obama goes on Letterman, starts cracking jokes; Biden goes out and says Hillary would have been a better VP pick than he was. I remember the convention Biden telling us that his mother said, ‘When they start bloodying you, when they knock you down, you get up and you bloody the bully\u2019s nose.\u2019 Would Biden\u2019s mother be proud today of how this is all shaking out? I\u2019ll tell you what, folks, not only is Joe Biden Wile E. Coyote — the bombs he sets blowing up on him — but I\u2019ll tell you, you give this guy, I give joe Biden a live microphone, he\u2019s going to end up giving himself a colonoscopy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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