No Silk for Making Purses, Either

by Don Boudreaux on September 11, 2008

My friend Ron Souers, via a personal e-mail to me, asks a momentous question: "Since it has become
apparent that this election boils down to one all-important issue (How
to apply makeup to a farm animal), I have one question: If you remove
the makeup from a politician, is he/she still a pig?"

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BoscoH

The whole quote was: "You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig.You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still gonna stink."

His audience knew that he was calling McCain an old fish and Palin a pig. It is funny that in this case, when you lose a little context (the old fish), the offense sounds contrived.