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Politics & Government

Political coverage: T-shirt vendors put catchy slogans front and center

September 17, 2008 07:03 AM

The vox populi is speaking, and it sounds like a pit bull in lipstick.

Only funnier.

Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's red-hot quip to the Republican National Convention about the difference between a hockey mom and a crazed canine has launched a thousand sly riffs. And they're even wearable.

At websites like Cafepress.com and Zazzle.com, where users generate content for T-shirts, the public has piled the political ridicule on both John McCain and Barack Obama, one cotton jersey at a time.

'Put lipstick on a pit bull and it'll rip your freakin' arm off,'' reads a fitted T-shirt on Cafepress.

Is that, um, a good thing?

When the anti-slogan slingers fire up the keyboards, not everything they churn out is clear or fair. But much of it is very amusing.

Read the complete story at miamiherald.com

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