DailyKos Permeates the Net - or - Smile, You're Famous!
Tue Dec 02, 2003 at 10:20:45 PM PDT
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This was fun to read, and wanted to bring it to a wider audience. The original Haloscan thread is gone, but I would be interested in seeing if any of the authors of the bumpesticker slogans in the extended story are still around -- kos)
I wanted to report an interesting experience - one that was, actually, a source of momentary disorientation.
I received an email at work several days ago. It contained a selection of humorous Bush '04 re-election slogans. As I read, I thought "these seem familiar, I'm almost sure these are from DailyKos". Then, the clincher - I was sudddenly reading my own slogan! Not that it was that funny (I mean, I liked it or I wouldn't have posted it, but I'm under no illusion that I'm the next Al Franken), but it was unmistakeably mine.
I included the email below, has anyone else seen it? Or has this been noted at Kos before? I certainly haven't read every thread.
How deeply has this list permeated the internet, for me to receive it like that, out of the blue? My work environment is very large and quite conservative.
Anyway, this made me curious. So I Googled my slogan and got 337 hits, 89 of which Google deemed "relevant". The earliest example I found was on 3 September (though I had quoted myself at
Billmon's on 30 Aug).
The slogans' origin is on record, barely. When I added "kos" to the search, Google returned 7 "relevant" hits, only a couple of which included the specific attribution.
There were many small sites, and a few high-profile ones. Examples:
Rittenhouse Review (11 Sep), Oakland News (9 Sep)
The weblogs of
Howard Dean (9 Sep), John Kerry (13 Sep, longer selection), Wesley Clark (9 Sep)
These two had a longer list with a DailyKos acknowledgement (dates unknown):
topplebush, Skreed
And last but not least, my fellow Okie Bartcop, who used my slogan for a Volume Title!
Most of the hits included a standard list of 25 slogans, which is apparently the form in which somsone initially compiled it and sent it spinning off into cyberspace. Anyone want to own up to being the originator?
I wanted to make a version that acknowledged the authors, so I went looking for the original Kos thread. It wasn't the 13 June thread, and it wasn't the 3 March thread. No, as luck would have it, it was apparently the 24 July thread, which dates from the period when the comments were temporarily hosted elsewhere, and are now lost. It'd be cool if anyone who recognizes a slogan as theirs would chime in!
All that's left is for Snopes to officially debunk the slogans as fakes...
Props to the Kos community for this small yet trenchant contribution to the the destruction of what Paul Wolfowitz called "...a dying regime of criminals."
Oh, wait - you say Wolfie was talking about Iraq? Sorry. Honest mistake, though.
Bush/Cheney '04: Apocalypse Now!
Bush/Cheney '04: Because the truth just isn't good enough.
Bush/Cheney '04: Compassionate Colonialism
Bush/Cheney '04: Deja-voodoo all over again!
Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars!
Bush/Cheney '04: Leave no billionaire behind
Bush/Cheney '04: Lies and videotape but no sex!
Bush/Cheney '04: Or else.
Bush/Cheney '04: Over a billion Whoppers served.
Bush/Cheney '04: Putting the "con" in conservatism
Bush/Cheney '04: Thanks for not paying attention.
Bush/Cheney '04: The economy's stupid!
Bush/Cheney '04: The last vote you'll ever have to cast.
Bush/Cheney '04: This time, elect us!
Bush/Cheney '04: We're Gooder!
Bush/Cheney '04: 1984 Now
George W. Bush: A brainwave away from the presidency
George W. Bush: It takes a village idiot
George W. Bush: The buck stops Over There
George W. Bush: Let them eat yellowcake! Vote Bush!
George W. Bush: Peace & Prosperity Suck -- Big-Time
Vote Bush in '04: "I Has Incumbentory Advantitude" (mine)
Vote Bush in '04: "Because every vote counts -- for me!"
Vote Bush in '04: "Because I'm the President, that's why!"
Vote Bush in '04: Because dictatorship is easier.
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