The Sloganator

[pegkerr]

I hesitated over posting this one, because yeah, it's sorta unfair. All right, grossly unfair. And I do have conservative friends I don't want to tick off needlessly. But deep down in the darkest corners of my soul, it strikes me as hilarious. Who said that liberals don't have a sense of humor?

Earlier this year, the web site for the Bush-Cheney campaign - the real one, paid for by MBNA America and Richard Scaife - featured a "create your own banner" tool, where you could enter your own slogan and print out your own poster, with the Bush-Cheney logo, and a note at the bottom "paid for by Bush-Cheney '04, Inc."

Democrats, of course, couldn't get enough of this. The original sloganator accepted everything - then it started censoring profanity and words like "Hitler" "dictator," and "evil." Nevertheless, many clever folks exploited the sloganator to their own ends before its sad demise only a couple of weeks after its birth, and its mourners assembled some of the best for the slide show here.

[Warning: Politically biased humor, and at least one of the slogans probably not work safe]

Comments

[oneminutemonkey.livejournal.com]

That's just too funny. :)

[praetorianguard.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was much funnier than that. The thing was so overloaded it started sending the wrong slogans to the wrong people. And Wonkette was collecting offensive phrases it would accept.

http://www.wonkette.com/archives/the_sloganator_is_confused_013787.php

It IS funny

[amandageist.livejournal.com]

And I'm a conservative supporter of Bush. It's an art to convey so much content with so few words, it really is. "John Kerry looks French"--LOL.

And now, off to re-don my dry and humorless persona; wouldn't want to disappoint anyone.

~Amanda

[ravenspb.livejournal.com]

Thanks. My oh-so-sucky day needed that. Now I'm going to segue into hysterical laughter as I dwell on the truth behind so many of those posters.

[aome.livejournal.com]

I remember the Sloganator! I loved this 'best of' format, though.

Best. War. EVAH!

*falls over laughing*

Re: It IS funny

[aome.livejournal.com]

*Democrat laughing her head off at your icon*

[odyssea.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much; that completely made my day! Now I want a "John Kerry looks French" shirt!

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a gun-toting, right-wing conservative freak: you have got to be either crashingly naive or just plain stupid to offer something like that and think that no one is going to twist it and turn it into an amusing way to snub you. Good grief.

[soldierhope.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. That was the best thing I have read in a long time. I hope someone makes them up and hands them out outside the convention in a few weeks.

[corinnethewise.livejournal.com]

How did they not realize that this would happen? Oh wait... look whose campaign it is.