At the Republican Convention, Governor Sarah Palin openly, and very sarcastically, mocked Barack Obama for having been a community organizer. She mocked him for being a man who turned down potentially very lucrative jobs as a top Harvard Law graduate in order to help people find work on the south side of Chicago. We heard barely a peep out of the media, and this convention speech gave the GOP their bounce and current lead in polls.

Fast forward a bit. Barack Obama talks about issues – yes, actual issues that affect our lives – and uses a very common metaphor to describe John McCain’s policies, the media has a field day, insinuating that Obama called Palin a pig. Of course they all knew what Obama meant: McCain’s faux embrace of “change” is only superficial, as his policies are almost exactly the same a President Bush’s. But Republicans don’t want to talk about that. They want to talk about anything except the issues, so they lie, distort, distract.

And of course, plenty of Republicans have used this phrase as well. But the media doesn't find that very important either.