# Extra! Extra! Scandals revealed before election.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 3, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603 "2000-11-03T21:45:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603/1 "2000-11-03T21:45:02Z")

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Check this site out…it has all the election scandal headlines that the NY Times and the Washington Post are afraid to print.

[http://www.brunching.com/toys/scandal.html](http://www.brunching.com/toys/scandal.html)

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**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603/2 "2000-11-03T22:16:57Z")

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heehee…I love it. A campaign scandal generator. These are some of the results I got:

!!! GORE CAMPAIGN ACCUSES BUSH OF CALLING SECRETARY OF STATE MADELINE ALBRIGHT AN ASSHOLE SOMETIME BEFORE 1978 !!!

CAMPAIGN SHOCKER!!!  
BUSH ADMITS TO SPORTING A PROUD, STATELY ERECTION WHILE GROWING UP!!!

XXX CAMPAIGN SHOCKER!!!  
Bush accused of mispronouncing the word “Mummenschantz” during a press conference!!! XXX

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**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603/3 "2000-11-03T22:42:38Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Shadowfox \*  
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> XXX CAMPAIGN SHOCKER!!!  
> Bush accused of mispronouncing the word “Mummenschantz” during a press conference!!! XXX
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Mummenschantz. :eek: :shudder:

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603/4 "2000-11-04T02:41:46Z")

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Bush admits to calling a Washington Post reporter an  
asshole during the Vietnam War.  
Bush admits to touching a college buddy  
inappropriately sometime before 1978.

Gore admits to touching Ralph Nader inappropriately on  
Oprah.

Gore campaign accuses Bush of being overly  
affectionate towards a Chinese national while in college.

Gore accused of taking ludes at a Buddhist temple.

Bush admits to sporting a proud, stately erection during  
the Vietnam War.

Bush admits to bribing former president George Bush  
while holding office.

(“Hey, Dad-if you give me the car tonight, I’ll make sure you’ll get the Texas votes!”)

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**Author:** ![dcnewsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dcnewsman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dcnewsman)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extra-extra-scandals-revealed-before-election/39603/5 "2000-11-06T17:49:37Z")

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here are some I got today…

Witness: I saw Bush mispronouncing the word “foliage” sometime before 1978.

Bush admits to sporting a proud, stately erection during a television interview.

Television ads show Bush falsely claiming to have invented stupid jokes about inventing the Internet on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Bush accused of falsely claiming to have visited Dallas after it was devastated by vampire rodeo clowns during a press conference.