Bush Site Unplugs Poster Tool (Too many anti-Bush slogans used!!!)

[Dirty Hippie]

Snicker snicker...

The Bush-Cheney presidential campaign disabled features of a tool on its website Thursday that pranksters were using to mock the Republican presidential ticket.

The tool originally let users generate a full-size campaign poster in PDF format, customized with a short slogan of their choice. But Bush critics began using the site to place their own snarky political messages above a Bush-Cheney '04 logo and a disclaimer stating that the poster was paid for by Bush-Cheney '04, Inc.

The campaign changed the tool Thursday so that users could no longer enter their own messages, but only select from a pull-down list of states and coalition groups. The campaign didn't respond to requests for comment.

The poster tool has been up and running since December, but Ana Marie Cox, editor of the Washington political gossip blog Wonkette, turned it into a weapon of mass satire this week when she devoted several posts to the inner workings of the device she dubbed the "Sloganator."

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0313-06.htm

[SiriusLiberal]

1. You know, it's funny

I looked at the web site and they do not have a coalition group for educators or teachers. "Huh," I wonder why?

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. Welcome to DU!

:waves:

[ncrainbowgrrl]

2. Just tried it-

I tried to do both "north carolina" and "jewish" coalition group. Once I picked " north carolina," it didn't let me pick anything from the coalition group menu.

How dumb can you be- I mean, if you have a site up there to produce signs, wouldn't you want someone to be able to have a sign saying "NC Jews for Bush?"

[rockymountaindem]

4. I thought that was a stupid thing to do.

I wrote "Vote for National Socialism" on one of them, but I didn't print any out. They really left themselves open on that one. I like how they had an interest group for Jewish voters. Hahahahaha. Like any of us would ever vote for the National Socialist dirtbag. What a joke!

[MidwestMomma]

5. I'm sorry I missed that

That would have been fun!

I like this part of the article:

"But despite the campaign's efforts, several Wonkette readers reported that the generator was occasionally routing slogans to the wrong users. One reported entering a sexually outrageous slogan and getting back a poster reading "Sportsmen for Bush-Cheney 2004," raising the possibility that somewhere in America a bewildered GOP duck hunter was wondering what on earth was going on with his party."

Hilarious!

[VolcanoJen]

6. I was so disappointed when I couldn't get it to work.

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I first heard about the "Poster-Maker" on Crossfire, when Paul Begala revealed his Bush-Cheney '04 poster:

"Bush-Cheney: Fighting for their own jobs, not yours."

You know, Tucker's wasn't that bad either, for a Republican trying to be cute:

"Bush-Cheney: In no way French."

[MrBadExample]

7. Heh.

Fortunately I got in under the wire: