George Bush Sr - "No new taxes, 1000 points of light, and potatoe"
Bob Dole - holding a pencil weird
Ross Perot - big ears and too many charts
Al Gore - "Lockbox"
John Kerry - Flip-flopper
John McCain - “Maverick” and "dontchaknow Palin"
Mitt Romney - Mormon
Hillary Clinton - “Pokémon Go To the Polls” (plus Russian led disinformation campaign to paint her as an unlikable bitch)
Then there’s: Trump - sleeps with prostitutes, promotes “grabbing women by the pussy”, openly racist, praises world dictators, makes fun of handicapped people - wins election.
Now I’m Australian so what I saw might not have been the full picture but it felt like Hillary ran a lazy campaign at least from the international coverage.
I dont remember a single specific thing about it, no policies, platforms or sound bytes. It wasnt memorable. What I do remember was mostly commentary about how she was clearly better than Trump. It felt like she expected to win on name recognition and because he was so clearly wrong for the job.
Just my thoughts, I have no doubt there was medding but I also dont think she played a strong game either.
That was her problem, she basically figured it was her “turn” after Obama and then all she had to beat was that moron Trump. Technically she did have more votes it our stupid electoral college system let him win more electoral votes. She did absolutely suck and there needs to be better options in this country.
Yea her campaign was “I’m not trump, and I did decent under Obama” unfortunately those two statements were a major problem for what appears to be nearly half the voting population
Ross Perot was never going to win. Especially after dropping out then rejoining. He said dirty tricks party threatened to out his daughter which came off weak instead of just saying “Republicans”
Al Gore - Bragger
It was Al Gore is a bragger for saying he invented the Internet. Which he didn’t say, and Vint Cerf repeatedly defended Al Gore as the only politician who saw the potential of the Internet and worked to make it happen.
The general public tends to make snap impressions. Even if this was how a CVC looked on a real tanker, people weren’t looking at them side by side. The photo op was a very transparent attempt to “look tough” by someone who simply didn’t, and probably shouldn’t have tried to do so.
That aside, his liner at least does seem about a size too large. The liner is massive and because of that, the CVC shell’s lip is about even with the top of his head. As opposed to a properly fitting CVC, the lip of the shell just about touching the top of the eyebrows:
How does this rank in terms of (in)famous highway chases from police? I’m asking because I’ve seen this scenario in the Simpsons, I think, and other fictional shows and I am wondering how much of a reference to OJ these are
It has to be close to number 1. I’m Australian and was only 9 at the time, and remember watching it on tv back in the day. The only other ones that have really stood out like that to me are the ones that end with the driver committing suicide on live tv…
Definitely #1, although I do think about the guy that was joy riding a tank, think it was in San Diego. It was on one of those “wildest police chase” TV shows and they kept playing the same clips over and over, the tank running over cars and stuff like that. Also not sure if it really counts as a police chase, but there is the kill dozer.
Unless Trump tries to run for it in his limo, I think it’s pretty safe to assume the OJ chase in the Blanco Bronco will remain the most famous of all time.
Great points! Also, “if the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”. That kind of reducing an issue to a single point and putting a catchy spin on it seems rampant in political messaging and advertising these days
I believe that’s factually incorrect. “Yellow journalism” became a known term circa the mid-1890s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Etymology…). Meanwhile “journalism” has essentially meant what term means today from an earlier time and has a different etymology:
journalism (n.) “business of writing, editing, or publishing a newspaper or public journal,” 1821, regarded at first as a French word in English, from French journalisme (1781), from journal “daily publication” (see journal); compare journalist. (www.etymonline.com/word/journalism).
FWIW, I cant recall a single other person’s name from a car chase, but I have this entire day on recall. What I was doing, the incident etc. I’ve only got that with one other day. 9/11.
OJ was a huge household name, LAPD was beating prime left and right, racial tension was at an all time high type explosion. And Internet wasn’t a thing but 24 hours news was, that brown bronco was on repeat for months, y maybe a year until that trial was over.
Similar to John Kerry’s bunny suit photo… In the US you can be an absolute shit of a person, but don’t you dare let someone take an unflattering of you or the American people won’t vote for you.
Between this and cheating on your wife with a porn star paid off with campaign funds not derailing a campaign. Boggles the mind how the bar fell so far.
Was the payout actually from campaign funds? I thought the problem was that it wasnt and that the money needed to be reported as a campaign contribution because keeping it quiet was obviously for the benefit of the campaign.
My understanding is that Michael Cohen paid out of his own pocket and was reimbursed by the campaign effectively (as you noted) being an unreported contribution. But that aside, we used to hold candidates to a standard - Dukkakis’s photo op, Hart’s boat trip, Dean’s silly yell - that was the end of their run. Trump literally cheats on his wife, talks about fondling women, is…himself over and over and quite literally takes the unprecedented step of refusing to gracefully cede power and…he still thrives. It’s beyond parody.
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