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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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November 21, 2011
Newt Gingrich on OWS: "Go get a job, right after you take a bath."....Rep. Joe Walsh on OWS: "Generally spoiled, pampered, unfocused, clueless young people and a smattering of other people who don't understand this country."....George Will on Gingrich: "The classic rental politician."....Paul Krugman on Gingrich: "A stupid man's idea of what a smart man sounds like."....Mitt Romney on Obama: "Failed leadership.".... -
November 18, 2011
Newt Gingrich on Obama: "Four years of amateur ignorance."....Barney Frank on Gingrich: "Lobbyist and liar...No ethical core whatsoever."....James Taranto on OWS: "A squalid Obamaville."....Andrea Peyser on OWS: "Silver-spooned sickos...Scum."....Michelle Malkin on Obama: "Corruption, profligacy, class-warfare demagoguery, progressive pandering, and epidemic failures."....Ann Coulter on Obama: "Big-eared beanpole."....Matt Taibbi on Coulter: "Supreme Reichskank."....Buzz Bissinger on college football and basketball: "Rotten beyond repair."....Sarah Palin on Sandusky: "Hang him from the highest tree. I'll bring the rope."....Salman Rushdie on Facebook administrators: "A bunch of morons.".... -
November 15, 2011
Michele Malkin on Herman Cain: "Makes Rick Perry look like a Mensa president."....Michelle Goldberg on Cain: "Has staked out new frontiers of boorishness."....John Podhoretz on Perry: "Has a sense of humor about being completely unfit to be president."....Alex Pareene on Gingrich: "A transparent bullshit artist."....Leslie Bennetts on Gingrich: "A mind-bogglingly self-destructive blowhard."....Bachmann campaign manager Keith Nahigian on CBS' John Dickerson: "A pice of sh**. He is a fraud and should be fired."....Frank Miller on OWS: "Nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness.".... -
November 9, 2011
Herman Cain on Pelosi: "Princess Nancy."....Michele Bachmann on Obama: "Continues to go to General Axelrod in Chicago to look for his orders."....Romney on Dems: "Think that when a corporation is profitable that's a bad thing."....French President Nicolas Sarkozy to British PM David Cameron: "You have lost a good opportunity to shut up."....Sarkozy on Netanyahu: "A liar."....Reagan budget director David Stockman on GOP: "Has totally abdicated its job...They're on an anti-tax jihad."....Joe Klein on Perry: "A minor league ballplayer flailing in the majors."....Andrew Sullivan on Perry: "An extra in The Walking Dead. But less articulate.".... -
November 2, 2011
Matt Taibbi on Rick Perry: "Brings shallow to a new level...He could be the Adolf Hitler of shallow."....Paul Begala on Perry: "Looks like a guy at an office party doing a bad impression of Will Ferrell doing an impression of Bush."....George Will on Obama: "A floundering naif."....Herman Cain on Obama: "I do not believe he represents American values."....Dana Milbank: "If Herman Cain were found to be a serial killer, his supporters would take this, too, as reassuring evidence that he is not just another career politician."....Eugene Robinson on Cain: "So many reasons to oppose this loopy candidacy, so little time."....Senior WH adviser David Plouffe on Romney: "If he thought it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue to win an election, he'd say it."....Newt Gingrich on Obama Mideast strategy: "A total grotesque failure."....Katrina vanden Heuvel on Congress: "It hasn't hit bottom yet -- there's still nine percent of the public that approves of the job the legislators are doing."....Pete Townsend on iTunes: "A digital vampire."....