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December 23rd at 10:34AM

This Makes Me So Effin' Hot for America!

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

We have no one to thank, but Gawker's Richard Blakeley himself.

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September 22nd at 12:00AM

Countdown to Electiony: 43 Days

POSTED BY: Dennis DiClaudio

On January 20th, 1961, at the age of 43, John F. Kennedy became the youngest person elected to the office of the American presidency. (Teddy Roosevelt was actually the youngest, at 42, but he had moved up in position from vice president after William McKinley's assassination.)

Wait a minute! Kennedy was assassinated. And then he was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. Who was from Texas. And a lot of people ride horses in Texas. And if you've never ridden a horse before, it's probably pretty difficult. Or "rough." Teddy Roosevelt was a member of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.

Oh my God!

Teddy Roosevelt killed John Kennedy!

It all makes sense now!

Go back to Day 44.

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June 16th at 3:11PM

Tony Schwartz, Creator of LBJ's "Daisy" Ad, Dies

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

We lost another giant of modern political discourse over the weekend.

On Saturday, Tony Schwartz -- the man who created Lyndon B. Johnson's infamous, pants-shittingly scary "Daisy" advertisement against Barry Goldwater -- died at the age of 84 in his Manhattan home...

"Media consultant" is barely adequate to describe Mr. Schwartz's portfolio. In a career of more than half a century, he was variously an art director; advertising executive; urban folklorist who captured the cacophony of New York streets on phonograph records; radio host; Broadway sound designer; college professor, media theorist and author who wrote books about the persuasive power of sound and image; and maker of commercials for products, candidates and causes.

What was more, Mr. Schwartz, who had suffered from agoraphobia since the age of 13, accomplished most of these things entirely within his Manhattan home.

If his vision of the world is anything like the one portrayed in this 1964 TV advertisement, it's no wonder he stayed in his apartment all the time. I'd never leave the closet.

Our condolences go out to Mr. Schwartz' family.