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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 25, 2016
Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton: "As crooked as they come."....Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Trump: "Cares about no one but himself. A small, insecure money-grubber who doesn't care who gets hurt, so long as he makes some money off it."....Trump on Warren: "Didn't have the guts to run for POTUS."....Pat Buchanan on Bernie Sanders: "More and more has the aspect of a kamikaze pilot."....Emily's List VP Marcy Stech on Trump: "A known misogynist who tears down women for fun."....Trump on Bill Clinton: "The worst abuser of women in U.S. political history."....Paul Krugman on GOP: "Has largely cornered the market in raw ignorance."....Rep. Elijah Cummings on Benghazi Committee: "Republicans have now spent more than two years and nearly $7 million of taxpayer funds for the illegitimate purpose of bringing down Hillary Clinton's poll numbers."....Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson on Paul Ryan: "Isn't fit to be Speaker."....Variety's Maureen Ryan on Trevor Noah: "It's as if our reliable attack dog had suddenly lost its teeth and self-medicated with Xanax.".... -
May 17, 2016
Sen. Lindsey Graham on Trump VP slot: "That's like buying a ticket on the Titanic."....Trump on Graham: "You ever see this guy on television? He is nasty...A disgrace."....Trump on Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "Hillary Clinton's flunky...A fraud!"....Warren on Trump: "A bully who has a single play in his playbook -- offensive lies thrown at anyone who calls him out."....Trump on Warren: "A goofus."....Warren on Trump: "We get it. When a woman stands up to you, you're going to call her a basket case. Hormonal. Ugly."....Trump: "Goofy Elizabeth Warren is now using the woman's card like her friend Crooked Hillary. See her dumb tweet, 'When a woman stands up to you...'"....Warren on Trump: "Your words are reckless. Your record is embarrassing. And your free ride is over."....George Packer on Trump: "A celebrity proto-fascist with no impulse control."....Trump on Hillary Clinton: "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of [the women her husband had affairs with] is disgraceful.".... Trump on Obama: "The worst president in U.S. history."....Paul Krugman on Trump: "More ignorant than you can possibly imagine."....Jon Stewart on Trump: "Are you eligible to run if you are a man-baby, or a baby-man? He has the physical countenance of a man, and a baby's temperament and hands."....former McCain aide Mark Salter on Trump: "He's just an a**hole.".... -
May 9, 2016
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Donald Trump: "The nominee the Republican leaders deserve...a misogynistic, anti-Latino, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant xenophobe."....former McCain aide Mark Salter on Trump: "A vainglorious, foolish, ignorant, low-character, bum of a guy."....Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Trump: "There's more support for him among leaders of the KKK than leaders of the political party he now controls."....former Eisenhower and Nixon aide Stephen Hess on Trump: "He of all the candidates I have ever known is the most profoundly ignorant of the presidency."....former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Trump: "Maybe he never read history or he doesn't understand it."....Glenn Beck on Trump: "I don't want my children to look at that man and say, 'That is my president.'"....Die Welt magazine on Trump: "The unthinkable has come to pass."....Jon Stewart on Trump: "An unrepentant, narcissistic a**hole.".... -
April 28, 2016
Sen. Al Franken: "Republicans are in kind of a bind since their best hope for stopping Donald Trump is a guy who's the lovechild of Joe McCarthy and Dracula."....Trump on Cruz: "A phony."....Cruz on Trump: "Makes absurd statements on a daily basis."....Cruz campaign manager Jeff Rose on Trump as GOP nominee: "A sure disaster."....Trump convention manager Paul Manafort on Cruz campaign: "Gestapo tactics."....Charles Koch on Trump Muslim registration plan: "Monstrous...Reminiscent of Nazi Germany."....Sen. Chuck Grassley on Sen. Harry Reid: "There's Reid, and then there's reality.".... -
April 20, 2016
Trump on Cruz campaign: "Dirty tricksters."....Cruz on Trump: "Curses and yells and insults whoever's nearby...Has no solutions to the problems we're facing."....Iowa Trump co-chair Tana Goertz on Cruz: "Stealing, lying, and bribing people to become delegates."....Cruz spokesman Ron Nehring on Trump campaign: "Operating with the same efficiency as...Trump University and Trump Steaks and Trump Magazine."....Trump on Clinton: "Her whole life has been a big, fat, beautiful lie."....Trump on Colorado primary: "A total fix...A crooked, crooked system."....Trump on RNC: "They should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of crap to happen."....Trump on Clinton: "Guilty as hell."....Bob Cesca on David Brooks: "Totally, painfully, irredeemably clueless."....Bill Maher on upcoming GOP convention: "Professional wrestling meets Krystallnacht."....Alex Jones on Glenn Beck: "A false prophet whose messiah is Ted Cruz...A cynical, twisted weirdo...An egomaniac, super-narcissist, probably psychotic, in my view, and he's insane and wants to be a cult leader."....Steve Miller on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: "This whole industry f***ing sucks...All the people that were sitting in the front row tonight, like the guy that came from my record company, I wanted to pull him by his necktie and kick him in the nuts."....