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Message: [QUOTE="abashii, post: 3160014, member: 8686"] You don't give these type of allegations any airtime at all. From le google: [I]Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72[/I] By Hunter S. Thompson San Francisco, CA: Straight Arrow Books 1973 Pg. 247: 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 rumor campaign about his opponent’s life-long habit of enjoying carnal knowledge of his own 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 [I]deny[/I] it.” [/QUOTE]

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