Update 1: ROTFL! A female McCain advisor used the joke as the title of her book!

Yesterday Barack Obama mocked John McCain's message of change:

"You know, you can put lipstick on a pig," Obama said, "but it's still a pig."

The McCain campaign pounced on that old joke to create a rightwing sh*tstorm, accusing Obama of a sexist attack on Sarah Palin. Huh???

How the hell did that non-sequitur get turned into a sh*tstorm? Glenn Greenwald maps it out.

1. Jake Tapper of ABC News pulls sh*t out of his ass (how the hell does he know what any one person is thinking, let alone any group of people???)

The crowd rose and applauded, some of them no doubt thinking he may have been alluding to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's ad lib during her vice presidential nomination acceptance speech last week, "What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."

2. Matt Drudge hypes the imagined insult:

3. Rightwing hosts (Sean Hannity) and bloggers foam at the mouth.

4. Rightwing bloggers make it the "most discussed story on the internet"

5. MSNBC puts it on its front page and Morning Joe spews his coffee over it:

Joe Scarborough helpfully explains to Chris Matthews why he repeats every Republican lie:

MATTHEWS: I want to ask you, what will we talk about two days from now?

SCARBOROUGH: Whatever the McCain campaign wants us to talk about, because the McCain campaign is assertive.

Which means you are passive and eat whatever sh*t Republicans feed you.