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STICKS, STONES, BROKEN BONES
During the 2000 Bush-Gore presidential race, we began collecting negative soundbites and posting them weekly on a MUDLINE ticker, as a temporary election feature. But in the aftermath of that tumultuous contest we realized that the tone of public discourse was unlikely to improve, and elected to continue the feature. Unfortunately, we were right; two decades later, incivility is hotter than ever. If you just can’t get enough snark on social media, this mud’s for you.
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May 12, 2012
Rep. Carolyn Maloney on killing of American Community Survey: "The GOP have earned a reputation as the 'do-nothing party' and now they want to also be the 'know-nothing party.'"....Lugar funder Jim Bopp of USA Super PAC on Obama: "An administration out to destroy us."....Fox News host Shep Smith on GOP: "On the wrong side of history."....Joe Klein: "I'm still waiting for the moment when Romney actually tells the truth about something difficult."....Gerald Rafshoon on Romney: "His campaign has been an exercise in feeble appeasement."....Cher: "If Romney gets elected I don't know if i can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters.".... -
May 8, 2012
Cher tweet: "If Romney gets elected I don't know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters."....Rush Limbaugh on NOW: "If there was ever a group that speaks for an almost infinitesimal minority of women, it's them."....Howard Dean on Romney candidacy: "A shipwreck."....Greta Van Susteren on John Edwards: "A fraud...Disgusting."....Jonathan Chait: "Really, is Obama in charge at all?"....Arnold Schwarzenegger on GOP: "Big ideas don't often come from small tents."....James Carville on Dems: "WTFU. Wake the you-know-what up.".... -
May 5, 2012
Newt Gingrich on Obama: "The most radical, leftist president in American history."....Rep. Allen West on Obama: "Seems determined to punish and wipe out economic success in this country, leveling tax weapons of mass destruction on all taxpayers."....Glenn Greenwald on NBC's OBL special: "As vapid as it was propagandistic."....Columbian prostitute Dania Londono Suarez on FBI agents: "Idiots."....Mel Gibson on his life: "It's like living in a bad B movie.".... -
April 25, 2012
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on the left: "Their one mission in life is to abort children, is to kill children in the womb."....Missouri Rep. Todd Akin on federal student loans: "America has got the equivalent of the stage three cancer of socialism."....Rush Limbaugh on Obama: "There's a word for somebody who has no conscience, who has no sense of responsibility for anything. There's a word for this. It's 'sociopath.'"....Sen. Robert Menendez on Romney: "Selling snake oil in our community."....Martin Bashir: "It doesn't matter how many times he hears the truth, Mitt Romney prefers to tell lies...Mitt the Mendacious."....Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese on Ryan budget: "Reflects the values of his favorite philosopher Ayn Rand rather than the gospel of Jesus Christ.".... -
April 19, 2012
Mitt Romney on Obama: "Likes to attack fellow Americans."....Karl Rove on Obama: "Shriveling before our eyes."....John Boehner on Obama administration election strategy: "They're going to pull out every bogeyman they can."....Dick Cheney on Obama: "An unmitigated disaster to the country."....IA Gov. Terry Bradsted on Obama: "Spending all his time attacking Romney."....Romney on Obama presidency: "A failure."....WVa senatorial candidate John Raese on anti-smoking law: "Remember Hitler used to put the Star of David on everybody's lapel, remember that? Same thing."....Ted Nugent on Obama administration: "Wiping its ass with the Constitution."....