There is always mudslinging going on, some of it fun political humor, like when Obama is made fun of for saying there are 57 states. Some is disparaging like made-up stories about Sarah Palin pretending her grandchild is actually immediate family. We had no idea the venom the Liberals were capable of spewing until a woman that wasn’t a Democrat ran for Vice President.
It was like the left side of the blogsphere had their meds wear off at the same time, the free Wifi network at Starbucks shuddering under the intense strain of all those liberal moonbats rushing to make sh*t up on the internet. They made Chevy Chase’s behavior at the DNC look subdued and conservative.
But man can those Democrats sling the mud. I can see Andrew Jackson and John Adams wiping tears from their eyes in Heaven, or Hell I guess depending on your viewpoint.
Those two, by the way were the forefathers of the modern day mudslinger. In the Election of 1828, Jackson’s wife was called a ‘dirty black wench‘, his mom a prostitute, and his father a mulatto, apparently by one of Keith Olberman’s ancestors.
Adams was attacked for being rich as well as traveling on Sundays, and having premarital sex with his wife. At least this John didn’t have a love child with a video producer, right Mr. Edwards?
Speaking of South Carolina, John McCain was the victim of some nasty mudslinging in that state’s 2000 Primary when his supporters were called by push-pollers and asked if they would support him if they knew he had an illegitimate black child. Forget mud, someone backed up a concrete mixing truck and unloaded it for crying out loud.
When you get bitch-slapped that hard it is no wonder you vote with Bush 90% of the time. That’s mudslinging for you.
The best is when the candidates themselves do the dirty work. This was the famous ‘Daisy Girl’ ad for Lyndon Johnson’s campaign in 1964:
With the production values of a crappy YouTube video, it doesn’t seem scary to people today but this ad freaked people out so much it was only run once. Guess who won the election?
The topper was of course Lyndon Johnson’s voice-over. He didn’t use a specialist like the now-departed expert Don LaFontaine. Imagine Barack Obama doing this? The guy needs a teleprompter in the bathroom for crying out loud.
Whoops did I just mudsling?
Chris Cameron writes this weekly political drivel every Thursday for Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his other attempts at being funny on his own humor blog, Angry Seafood.
Humor-Blogs.com is the home for funny blogs and pigs with lipstick. Just have a few drinks before you click there and it will look a lot better.
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19 responses so far ↓
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Skul
// Sep 11, 2008 at 10:55 pm
You know you’re getting old when you remember the LBJ one.
Sheesh.
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Insolublog
// Sep 11, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Daisy was a brilliant ad.
Did Johnson make us ‘love’ each other by providing the petri dish that spawned Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan and Obama? Me-thinks he only provided nutrients and sugar to a very special brand of flesh-eating bacteria.
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Chris C
// Sep 11, 2008 at 11:47 pm
In a way I wish our present candidates would sling the mud like in the past. A flap about a comment about a pig wearing lipstick compared to the Daisy Girl ad is like comparing the kid’s table to the adult’s one at Thanksgiving dinner.
An ad with Bush and McCain hugging? This is mudslinging? Come on.
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Chris C
// Sep 11, 2008 at 11:50 pm
I also want to note that the picture of the bathroom stall is the one Larry Craig got busted in. Pretty sure nobody would have noticed that.
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Alex L.
// Sep 12, 2008 at 12:34 am
We dont get all that Mudslinging over here really, its a shame it might make Australian politics slightly interesting.
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Skul
// Sep 12, 2008 at 2:26 am
Seen it Alex. Sorry cobber, I’ll pass.
You poor wankers are stuck with what you got for a bit.
Jeez, bring back John!
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Fiar
// Sep 12, 2008 at 11:36 am
Holy Sh*t! Now that’s what I’m talking about! That is political advertising.
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Les James
// Sep 12, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Let’s put this to rest right now. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that Michele Obama has been having sex with a dead muskrat.
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Alex L.
// Sep 13, 2008 at 12:48 am
Skul- What we have, is what we had. Names changed but not much else.
Les- Of course… it was never dead was it?
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Insolublog
// Sep 13, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Bill Ayers is a muskrat? Damn. I knew it.
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S O
// Sep 14, 2008 at 3:24 pm
I was so intrigued to find a conservative humor blog… then you insinuate it was the democrats who sabotaged McCain’s ticket in 2000. Whoops! That was none other than the prestigious W’s campaign. And guess what? McCain just hired the guy that did it.
…so, not so funny when your jokes depend on ignorance and blind hatred. Maybe that’s why conservatives can’t do humor.
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Fiar
// Sep 14, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Where exactly did Chris insinuate that the Democrats sabotaged the McCain campaign? From the linked article:
In South Carolina, Bush Republicans were facing an opponent who was popular for his straight talk and Vietnam war record. They knew that if McCain won in South Carolina, he would likely win the nomination. With few substantive differences between Bush and McCain, the campaign was bound to turn personal. The situation was ripe for a smear.
It didn’t take much research to turn up a seemingly innocuous fact about the McCains: John and his wife, Cindy, have an adopted daughter named Bridget. Cindy found Bridget at Mother Theresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh, brought her to the United States for medical treatment, and the family ultimately adopted her. Bridget has dark skin.
Anonymous opponents used “push polling” to suggest that McCain’s Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the “pollster” determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.
Thus, the “pollsters” asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that’s not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign.
Then he followed with “When you get bitch-slapped that hard it is no wonder you vote with Bush 90% of the time.”
In other words, he didn’t want to piss off Bush twice.
No wonder Liberals don’t have a sense of humor. They can’t even comprehend what they are reading.
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Fiar
// Sep 14, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Oh, I get it. You just made a sub-retarded, and wildly incorrect assumption that because this is a conservative political humor site, then we must be pro-McCain rah rah Republican cheerleaders.
But, again, I refer to your lack of reading comprehension skills. The title would say “Republican political humor” if that was the case. See how conservatives aren’t Republicans because Republicans are still Socialist Democrats. Just without the “surrender America to it’s enemies” part.
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RT
// Sep 14, 2008 at 3:48 pm
See, I’ve heard that Wright’s nickname is Muskrat of loooooooove. (Said in a Barry White type of voice.)
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Chris C
// Sep 14, 2008 at 7:12 pm
S O said: “I was so intrigued to find a conservative humor blog… then you insinuate it was the democrats who sabotaged McCain’s ticket in 2000. Whoops! That was none other than the prestigious W’s campaign. And guess what? McCain just hired the guy that did it.
…so, not so funny when your jokes depend on ignorance and blind hatred. Maybe that’s why conservatives can’t do humor.”
Your lack of reading comprehension is disturbing. Did you even make it past fourth grade?
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RT
// Sep 14, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Who needs reading comprehension when all you need is to recite one phrase and two words like “Yes, we can,” “hope,” and “change”?
No independent thought, sense of humor, or ability to read needed there, eh?
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Les James
// Sep 14, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Hang on, I’m trying to muster-up some ignorant, blind hatred… Nope, can’t do it. Way too much energy expended on a person that deserves pity, but I can’t seem to be able to bring myself to that either.
Must have been the way SO presented him/her/itself (I don’t want to assume). Next time try phrasing your answer in the form of a question. You know, like in Jeopardy. If you’ve never seen it, bring a conservative (not a Republican) friend to help you with the big words.
Being a Conservative requires the ability to think for oneself, mull over the issues after investigating the facts and then making an informed decision. Liberalism only requires the infantile ability to emote.
Damn, just gave way the main idea for an upcoming post.
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Chris C
// Sep 14, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Just remember you can’t spell moonbats without ’s’ and ‘o’. hehe
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Alex L.
// Sep 15, 2008 at 12:17 am
Blind hatred like Mrs Obama and her pastor friend maybe…
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