September 11, 2008
SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe was quoted in a USA Today story about Barack Obama's controversial "lipstick on a pig" comment, which John McCain's campaign has called sexist. "Lipstick on a pig" is the cousin of another old chestnut, the one about making a "silk purse out of a sow's ear," Jeffe said. "It means taking something that you can't change - that's a negative - and putting the best spin on it," Jeffe said. "It has nothing to do with sexism."
SPPD Senior Fellow Sherry Bebitch Jeffe was quoted in a USA Today story about Barack Obama's controversial "lipstick on a pig" comment, which John McCain's campaign has called sexist. "Lipstick on a pig" is the cousin of another old chestnut, the one about making a "silk purse out of a sow's ear," Jeffe said. "It means taking something that you can't change - that's a negative - and putting the best spin on it," Jeffe said. "It has nothing to do with sexism."