# So NOW you admit the "pig" comment was innocent, Senator? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2008, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760 "2008-09-15T23:36:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/21 "2008-09-16T04:00:57Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Where I come from a politician who is able to choose his words carefully is considered to one sharp cracker. Now there you go, dragging race into the issue. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/22 "2008-09-16T04:02:57Z")
> [@CaerieD](#): > > Now there you go, dragging race into the issue. Beaten by two minutes, dammit. Er, POW! ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/23 "2008-09-16T04:04:13Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > He’s still a lying fuck. For 5 years he HAD to lie! He was in the hands of the enemy, and any truths could kill his comrades. Now he’s too crippled to tell the truth – his spine was shattered. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/24 "2008-09-16T04:18:21Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > For 5 years he HAD to lie! He was in the hands of the enemy, and any truths could kill his comrades. > Now he’s too crippled to tell the truth – his spine was shattered. And it was only his faith in God that mended it. While he was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2 years. But his faith wasn’t quite strong enough to let him use a computer. And for those 5 1/2 years he neither committed adultery nor married a much younger much richer trophy wife who stole pills from her own charity and “plasters on the makeup like a trollop”, let alone call her a cunt, because for those 5 1/2 years he was a prisoner for your sins in Vietnam, alone but for his faith in God. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/25 "2008-09-16T06:37:59Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > McCain can’t raise his hands. Guess that whole oath of office thing is right out too. > > POW, POW, bite my Butt! If he’s that incapacitated, he’s totally unfit for the Presidency. Like an oath means anything to the repubs… ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/26 "2008-09-16T06:48:26Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Optimus Prime: Do you smell something? > > Bumblebee: I think you have some crap on the bottom of your shoe, boss. I will not stand by while you slander him in such a way! Optimus Prime would _never_ step on a human. … Oh, and I guess McCain isn’t a piece of crap, either. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/27 "2008-09-16T10:50:21Z")
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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/28 "2008-09-16T11:10:56Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Well, I can’t hit an old man Sure you can. Hint: you do it the same way you hit a younger man! Hope this helps. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/29 "2008-09-16T13:06:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Some months ago, I arrived late at a **League of Doom** meeting and missed most of the announcements. > [@](#): > > _I’m a member in bad standing of the **Legion of Doom** ;_ So which is it, you prevaricator? :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/30 "2008-09-16T13:08:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > I’m a member in _bad standing_ of the Legion of Doom Nitpick: isn’t this just a fancy way of saying you can’t balance yourself on two feet? Perhaps you’re a _sitting_ member? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/31 "2008-09-16T13:52:24Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > And it was only his faith in God that mended it. While he was a P.O.W. for 5 1/2 years. When a prison guard scratched out a detailed image of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling on the dirt floor, using only the tip of his penis, that strengthened McCain’s faith sufficiently to implore the baby Jesus to reform his vaporized skeletal system and eventually recover well enough to become an aircraft pilot again. Yet, not well enough to jab a finger onto a keyboard, which one might falsely consider to be less difficult and take less fine motor skills than handling the controls of an aircraft, but is actually so difficult it lies far beyond the abilities of even the Lord Jesus Christ to heal. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/32 "2008-09-16T15:22:31Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > For 5 years he HAD to lie! He was in the hands of the enemy, and any truths could kill his comrades. > Now he’s too crippled to tell the truth – his spine was shattered. Look, I’m not CRITICIZING McCain for lying. We in the Evil Community officially sanction deceit as a valid power-accumulation strategy (though I myself try to avoid it, preferring brute force and global extortion). I’m just pointing out the disconnect between his rep and his actions. “To live outside the law, you must first be honest.” ---
**Author:** ![Tabula\_Rasa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@Tabula\_Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabula_Rasa)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/33 "2008-09-16T15:23:13Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > When a prison guard scratched out a detailed image of the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling on the dirt floor, using only the tip of his penis, that strengthened McCain’s faith sufficiently to implore the baby Jesus to reform his vaporized skeletal system and eventually recover well enough to become an aircraft pilot again. Yet, not well enough to jab a finger onto a keyboard, which one might falsely consider to be less difficult and take less fine motor skills than handling the controls of an aircraft, but is actually so difficult it lies far beyond the abilities of even the Lord Jesus Christ to heal. Wait…whose penis? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/34 "2008-09-16T15:23:36Z")
> [@Subway\_Prophet](#): > > Nitpick: isn’t this just a fancy way of saying you can’t balance yourself on two feet? Perhaps you’re a _sitting_ member? Fool of a Took! Obviously one cannot be a member in GOOD standing of an evil organization. That should be obvious even to a straphanger such as you. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/35 "2008-09-16T15:43:40Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Fool of a Took! Obviously one cannot be a member in GOOD standing of an evil organization. That should be obvious even to a straphanger such as you. So… you’re in a constant struggle against the forces of good and equilibrium. Oh wait, whaddayaknow. It says just that on my Straphangers’ Association membership card. :o ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2008, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760/36 "2008-09-16T15:47:23Z")
> [@Subway\_Prophet](#): > > So… you’re in a constant struggle against the forces of good and equilibrium. > > Oh wait, whaddayaknow. It says just that on my Straphangers’ Association membership card. :o You write things like this, then act surprised when platoons of giant mind-controlled Cybertronian robots arrive at your place of business, stomp all your coworkers cars into atoms, and then proclaim “If you want us to stop, send out **Subway Prophet** ’s bodyin seven separate containers.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-you-admit-the-pig-comment-was-innocent-senator/463760.md?page=1)