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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.

  • September 30, 2011

    Chris Christie on Obama: “A bystander in the Oval Office.”….Fidel Castro on Obama UN speech: “Gibberish.”….Roger Simon on Perry: “George Bush without the brains.”….Herman Cain on black voters: “Have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view.”….Pat Buchanan: “What [Cain is] saying is they bought a lot of liberal propaganda on the liberal plantation and I think he’s right!”….
  • September 26, 2011

    Brit Hume on Perry in debate: “Really did throw up all over himself.”….James Taranto on Romney and Perry: “Like watching Donny Osmond dominate John Wayne.”….Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Italy: “This shitty country makes me sick.”….Michael Moore: “I ask all Americans with a conscience to shun anything and everything to do with the murderous state of Georgia.”….GA governor spokesman Brian Robinson on Moore: “We think it’s cute that he thinks anyone in Georgia would buy his book.”….Roger Ailes: “One out of every 25 people in America is a psychopath.”….
  • September 22, 2011

    Fred Karger on Rick Santorum: “Truly nuts.”….Rick Perry ad on Obama: “President Zero.”….Rep. Joe Walsh on Obama admnistration: “Playing class warfare and race warfare games.”….Netanyehu on UN: "House of lies."....Michelle Malkin on Alec Baldwin: “Hollyweirdo.”….Baldwin on Malkin: “A world class, crypto fascist hater.”….Pat Boone on President Obama: “Growing up in Indonesia, he used to read the Koran in Arabic. He hasn’t celebrated any Christian holidays in the White House, but he does Ramadan."....
  • September 19, 2011

    Greta Van Susteren on Tucker Carlson: “A pig.”….Sen. Lindsey Graham on Obama: “Everything is worse.”….Joe McGinniss on MSM Palin coverage: “Willing to gamble the nation’s future in exchange for the cheap thrill of watching a clown in high heels on a flying trapeze.”….Mark Morford on GOP: “The most shamelessly weird, unscrupulous right wing in modern history.”….Dan Savage: “Religious conservatives loved the HPV virus because it killed women."....
  • September 15, 2011

    Todd Palin on McGinniss book: “Full of disgusting lies, innuendo, and smears.”….Janet Maslin on McGinniss: “Too busy being nasty to be lucid.”….McGinniss on Sarah Palin: “At best, she’s a hypocrite. At worst, she’s a vindictive hypocrite."....