Hey everybody. As we get into the last few days of the election, let’s all remember to ignore the pig-fucking. What is pig-fucking, you might ask? I will let Hunter S. Thompson explain...
This is one of the oldest and most effective tricks in politics. Every hack in the business has used it in times of trouble, and it has even been elevated to the level of political mythology in a story about one of Lyndon Johnson’s early campaigns in Texas.
The race was close and Johnson was getting worried. Finally he told his campaign manager to start a massive rumour campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows.
“Christ, we can’t get away with calling him a pig-fucker,” the campaign manager protested. “Nobody’s going to believe a thing like that.”
“I know,” Johnson replied. “But let’s make the sonofabitch deny it.”
Over the last week there have been plenty of pig-fucking stories coming out. There will be more. For now, the best policy is to ignore them, and to stay on message. Do you want the last weekend before the election to be about our candidates’s messages, or pig-fucking?
I think we all know the answer.