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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 7, 2013
Former SC Gov. James Edwards: "If we don't get every vote we can out, Obama will be a dictator. He's practically a dictator now."....Sen. James Inhofe: "Our president, Obama, has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America."....Rush Limbaugh: “What the regime is doing is buying up all the ammo, so that the guns that you do have are useless.”….Mike Lupica on NRA president Wayne LaPierre: "Fronting for the big gun companies who help fund the NRA...LaPierre isn't a patriot, he's a pimp."....Niall Ferguson on his own anti-gay remarks on John Maynard Keynes: "As stupid as they were insensitive.".... -
April 29, 2013
Tom Brokaw on White House Correspondents Dinner: "What we're doing is saying...'We're Versailles. We'll let the rest of you eat cake.'"....Sarah Palin on WHCD: "Pathetic...Nerdprom...DC assclowns."....NJ Gubernatorial candidate Barbara Buono on Chris Matthews: "Ass."....Jon Stewart on George W. Bush library: "The Hard Rock Cafe of catastrophic policy decisions.".... -
April 21, 2013
Former Sen. Al D'Amato on Senate gun proposal defeat: "You've got to be a jackass to be voting against background checks."....Obama: "Shameful."....Gabby Giffords: "Cowardice... These senators made their decision based on political fear and on cold calculations about the money of special interests like the National Rifle Association."....Donald Trump on Chris Matthews: "He gets dumber every year... Must have the lowest IQ on television."....Craig Ferguson on Boston bombings: "Is anyone else sick of this s**t?".... -
April 12, 2013
NOW on proposed Social Security cuts: "Do not follow President Obama in cheating the women of this country."....Andrea Peyser: "Is Anthony Weiner completely delusional? Or is he out of his flipping, sex-crazed gourd?"....Ann Coulter: "Martin Bashir suggested that Republican senators need to have a member of their families killed for them to support the Democrats' gun proposals. (Let's start with Meghan McCain!)"....Meghan McCain: "People like Ann Coulter are part of the past and only live to spread hate and negativity."....David Brooks: "It's time to entertain the possibility that President Obama is a right-wing extremist."....French President Francois Mitterand on Margaret Thatcher: "The eyes of Caligula but the mouth of Marilyn Monroe.".... -
April 9, 2013
Westboro Baptist Church on Roger Ebert: "American entertainment industry publicity leech."....Anonymous, posting on hacked NK web site: "To the citizens of North Korea we suggest to rise up and bring those mother******s of an oppressive government down!"....Morrissey on Margaret Thatcher: "A terror without an atom of humanity."....ANC leader Pallo Jordan on Thatcher: "I say good riddance. She was a staunch supporter of the apartheid regime."....