{"id":408,"date":"2004-08-17T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2004-08-17T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2004-08-17T19:01:10","slug":"unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Blogged by Brad from the road…)<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/a>The RNC thought they had a winner when they came up with the Bush\/Cheney “Sloganator” on their official website.<\/p>\n

Bush supporters were invited to enter a slogan for the Bush\/Cheney campaign, which would be added to the top of a Bush\/Cheney ’04 poster that the user could then print out and display proudly…wherever someone might wish to display such a thing.<\/p>\n

Funny thing is, the opposition found out about it, and started leaving slogans that were…shall we say…somewhat less than supportive of Bush\/Cheney for others to chance upon as the previous slogan was left for the next user to view.<\/p>\n

They tried to fix it (as if it was an election, perhaps) by disallowing words such as “Dictator” and “War”, etc., but somehow those pesky lovers of free speech (and those with vocabularies larger than the average Republican Webmaster) were able to work around even those restrictions.<\/p>\n

Eventually, they gave up, and the Sloganator was finally put out to pasture. But not before some clever folks were able to capture some of the favorites.<\/p>\n

I was recently reminded of this when confused “conservative” BRAD BLOG commentor Ed<\/a> recently emailed me the graphic one the right.<\/p>\n

And so, for your enjoyment, I link you to the touching sites and sounds of the Bush\/Cheney ’04 Sloganator Memorial<\/a>. (NOTE: Most moving with sound turned up!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Blogged by Brad from the road…) The RNC thought they had a winner when they came up with the Bush\/Cheney “Sloganator” on their official website. Bush supporters were invited to enter a slogan for the Bush\/Cheney campaign, which would be added to the top of a Bush\/Cheney ’04 poster that the user could then print […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}