W&W: Joe vs Sarah the (Unlicensed) Barracuda? And Yes, Ted Got Arrested...

So, um, lipstick? Yes, lipstick is the main story of the day; but why? Is it sexist? Is it a diversion? Is it just... lipstick? In today's Wilshire & Washington, hosts Ted, Teresa, and Maegan take on the overflowing Palin-spectacular, and ponder other important questions of the day: Can Biden take Palin in a hand-to-hand combat? What's Steve Schmidt's problem, saying the media needs to provide proper "deference" to the Republican VP pick? Does Meghan McCain's claim that her family "understands" war make her fair game? Where do we draw the line with families? And how did Obama do on the No Spin Zone?

Ted also addresses the unfortunate circumstances in St. Paul, where he was covering a protest for Variety and got arrested and held for four hours by the police despite being, you know, his right as an accredited journalist to be there.

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Comments

[Promise]

Lipstick is in the news these days and I find it very funny. It's the combination of Palin's lipstick on a pit bull comment and Obama's lipstick on a pig comment PLUS the fact that Palin really smears it on herself....way over the lips...gooey, icky. No one is coming out to connect the dots...but everyone gets it...Lipstick is one of Sarah Palin's weapons and it makes her look very foolish.

[fishsandwichesr2good]

Here we go again. Liberals dust off the same approach they used in 2000 on Katherine Harris. How'd that work out for ya?

[wallygator]

Katherine Harris is long gone. She gave up her seat here in Florida's 13th district and made an unsucsessful Senate bid against Bill Nelson.

[seeker1of2truth]

I wish people would stop using the term "anti-abortion". The right wing zealots are really "anti-choice'.
They aren't "pro-life" they are "anti-choice" because basically they don't really trust women to make intelligent, informed choices on their own. You hear all these comments about trusting the American people to 'do the right thing', etc., etc. But, anyone who thinks and believes differently than they do
should be forced to abide by their rules by law. Same with the gay marriage issue. The rigidity
of their views can't be negotiated with. With them everything is just black and white with no grey -
life doesn't work that way.

Obama / Biden = Road to the FUTURE
'make-believe' mavericks McBush / Slick Sarah = Bridge to NOWHERE

[mobetta]

The lipstick controversy is a "tempest in a teapot."
While Obama said, children, families, and faith are off-limits, he might want to reconsider his moratorium against faith. McCain"s selection of Sarah Palin for VP made faith an issue.
It was the evangelicals who enabled Mr. Bush to win his elections because he dangled their two "absolute" issues: gay-marriage and anti-abortion in front of them like a carrot. It's an important link between McCain and Bush because the "moral absolutists" are the people Karl Rove manipulated to inflame the hatred and polarization that exists today in America. By choosing Palin, McCain is in conflict with his message of bipartisanship and national healing.
Sarah's absolutist views are relevant because she has indicated that they strongly impact her thinking by calling the Iraq war; God's will.
It"s a war of and for military industrialists.
She has demonstrated that she'll attempt to force her "absolute" ideas upon other American's even if they disagree with her or in spite of the fact that she can't live up to her own standards.
In the international arena, Mrs. Palin's combination of inexperience and "absolute" values will lead to unnecessary, deadly, and dangerous brinkmanship with first, second, and third-world leaders and crackpots.
Barack Obama has to carefully gauge the backlash from this strategy. However, knowing the evangelicals as I do, their almost certain rabid outrage to this strategy would probably reveal how radical and distasteful they really are.