Text, subtext, context
September 10th, 2008
Y’know, I was all set to do a post defending Obama for once, whose seemingly innocent but politically tone-deaf “lipstick on a pig” remark set off a maelstrom of denunciations. Then I saw this. Then I read this:
Bear in mind as the inevitable nutroots naysaying about this gets going how insistent and ingenious they were in spinning secret offensive subtexts out of McCain’s ads. They’ll drill through six feet of bedrock to find “code” in something a conservative says, but they won’t dust off the topsoil of Obama’s comments.
And after all that, I just kinda thought to myself, “fuck him.”
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