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  • Karl Rove has nothing on these guys!!

  • Thanks for your work. I'm promoting this video here - nwoillustrated*com/2012/02/22/­88/

  • The main stream media stirs the pot thru their 'news' departments and so called 'debates' and then the sales department reaps two billion or more dollars.

    

  • As much as I love this video, it is somewhat misleading. It makes it sound like Thomas Jefferson actually said that about Jon Adams (and visa versa), but that's not the case. If you check the sourcing for this video, it's actually other people saying that about him, and not saying that either of them approved it.

  • @Mrihearvoices So, it's analogous to Super PACs?

  • @brouhahabob except that:

    1. Those sources didn't fund the candidate, nor had any inclination that they supported it. It'd be more like some Tea Party member shouting things and claiming Ron Paul said it.

    2. SuperPacs aren't endorsed by the candidates, they have to remain separate.

  • But... the star spangled banner wasn't written until the war of 1812? How did it end up in a war in 1800? Unless Jefferson is a time traveler!!

  • Just because it's not as bad as it used to be doesn't mean it's not still bad.

  • 23 people are 'hatchet-face nutmeg dealers'

  • - Rotfl ! The words they used to talk about people were funny !

  • HEY, I did one of my papers on Douglas vs Lincoln in my studies in America ! loved the subject.

  • Do we have any citations for this?

  • I miss the good old days. Politics used to be so much more interesting!

  • 20 People are hideous hermaphroditical characters with neither the force and firmness of a man or the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.

  • @TheSirBadass Neither-nor

  • Yeah. I'd say it was a little worse back then. Proves how passionate they were about their beliefs.

  • lol I watched this in A.P. Gov! "You hatched-faced nut meg dealer!"

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  • Did Adams just say "ho cakes"?

  • @yorktown99 "hoe" not "ho"

  • @UncleSam13 Well, Jefferson did advocate for the agrarian ideal of a republic of citizen-farmers.

  • Adams/Pinckney 1800!

    ...aww :(

  • My name's Kelly, and do I approve this message? I don't know.

  • Lol @ antichrist Jefferson.

    "I'm John Adams, and I support this message!"

  • I remember reading an excerpt from Poor Richard's Almanack where Ben Franklin called someone sexually loose by saying they were "as common as the pavement," and this was acceptable. If only our politicians were as creative with their words. Oh, the English language is in a bad way!

  • If only duels still existed.

    

  • oh God, I can't handle how funny this is.

  • Jefferson 2012 Lulz!

  • Total win!

    Vote for Jefferson! He'll stop the monarchy from coming back! XD

  • You forgot the one where they called Thomas Jefferson an atheist. As if religion even matters in politics

  • @Shonenut213 Sadly religion does matter in the United States. If you say you're an agnostic or an Atheist or don't attend church service on Sunday you have as much of a chance at getting elected as the Detroit Lions have at winning the Superbowl. In this day and age you'd think we'd be past that kind of puritanical thinking, but we're not.

  • @COLUMBINE1818 Everything you said is true. But what I meant was that a president's religion shouldn't be a real issue as long as he can do his job without his religion influencing his policies.

  • @Shonenut213 Agreed. It shouldn't be an issue, but it is for some reason.

  • You won't see Ron Paul getting personal in his attacks. He may attack their methods or ideology, but he won't make personal attacks or threats unlike his fellow Texan candidate....

  • @rubbersole79

    Really? See his ad against Rick Perry.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy

    Nope. Have not seen the ad with a personal attack.

  • @rubbersole79

    It sure was dirty though, and not about the issues.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy

    You'll have to refresh my memory on that one. The one I'm thinking of calls Rick Perry a "cheerleader" for Al Gore, helping him with his 2000 election bid. Something a conservative republican would never do.

    If so, that would be pretty mild stuff in today's politics. I stand by my comment unless shown otherwise.

    Sorry, but your "say so", ain't enough for me.

  • @rubbersole79

    2000 election bid? It was talking about Perry supporting Gore in 1988.

    It's not talking about the issues, it's a guilt by association attack.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy

    Yep, my bad. Still let me know if ya see a personal attack of any kind by Ron Paul.

    I don't see callin' a spade, a spade as an attack really....

  • @rubbersole79

    It was dirty and not about the issues.

  • The "Hatchet faced nutmeg dealer" quote works on soo many levels. Calling someone a nutmeg dealer was an insult because nutmeg dealers were notorious for selling fake nutmeg made out of carved wood.

    So in essence this call to civility based on the notion that we have a "legacy" of past civility and we should go back to the "good old days" is the same as being sold carved wood. It is a fabricated truth. We have always been a nation of open and vigourous debate.

  • They pretty much stole this idea from an old PBS thing (though did it better.) Search "1800 Anti-Thomas Jefferson Negative TV Ad " on YouTube.

  • Thank you for making this. Todays politics whines about yesterday's rosy history which just isn't true.

  • The quote at the end by Stephen Douglas is more amusing once one knows that nutmeg used to be used as a drug.

  • This is so awesome. 

  • Guess some things never change

  • This reminds me of some of the attack ads on the radio in Grand Theft Auto IV- "John Hunter has lost an erection more than once, and has disappointed his wife much in the same way he'll disappoint you....Call John Hunter, tell him that comb-over's not fooling anyone.....short-ass bald bastard"

  • @chardim2 haha man, the radio station ads and tv shows in gta4 are the best part of the game, imo.

  • MY TEACHER SHOWED ME THIS TO DAY IN SOCIAL STUDIES..

  • lololololol my teacher showd us this video. lololololololololololol so funnnaaaayyyyyyyy

  • John Adams went borderline crazy with his attacks, like when he said that Hamilton was an opium addict. XD I'm sorry, even if you disagree with his policies, Hammy was NOT a druggy.

  • Did Patrick Steward do the voice of Thomas Jefferson?

  • @kr192101 It sounded like Michael Moynihan.

  • people don nothing especially the not reported the illegale trades of the black holocauste africa and the indians ,,

  • @MultiSolucion What the white man did to the Africans and Native Americans pale in comparison to the butchery of the English language by you. I mean for goodness sake man, we have spell check! Use it!!!

  • the white people killing the indians , spreading diseas / posion the water pools from the indians / had additional wapens to kill the indians... ,, it not the excuse indians dying from diseas of the western europa ,,,, no no it lies deliberating and planning murderds the indians ,, stealin their product and land ,, still today are the white nation the immigrant of indians nation ,, karmaaaaaaa,,,, time coming

  • @MultiSolucion

    Trying viewing people as individuals for once in your life. Not every white person in history murdered Native Americans and not every Native American that ever lived was completely innocent. What happened to many Native Americans was terrible but is not an excuse to hate every white American for it. When I was in grade school, I got bullied for being half-Asian by whites and blacks but I don't hate every full-blooded white person or every black person for it.

  • @Infantry9 Sorry you got bullied. Sounds like an attractive combination. I'm black and I take heat from a lot of urban blacks since I am 'Caribbean-American, but you have to stay strong. Be the individual you want to be seen as. Most people aren't that blind and the ones that lump everyone together are just ignorant.

  • LOL I love it. Politics are nasty. That is just the way of it. And I love it. Absolutely love it. Oh and the Obama political correctness? One more thing I do not agree with him on. Oh lordy, he is the worst President I ever witnessed. But Carter was bad too even tho I was 6 when he left office.

  • @SonnyTheWhiteDwarf Vote Cthulu! Why settle for the lesser evil?

  • Thomas Jefferson for the win!

  • My teacher showed this in class today! lol

  • I love this so much. So, so much.

  • This video just highlights how illiterate Obama is when it comes to history. This explains why he acts as if this is the first time in all of human history that a leader has faced what he faces. It is amazing how a few good speeches, with lots of "feel good" words, can enthrall a segment of our population to actually think that he is suffering like no one in all of history has suffered. After all he has a degree from Harvard, which makes him a super genius! History does not apply to Obama!

  • God, you pander to moron conservatives. Newspapapers were expensive, literarcy was lower in 1800, and negative messages were fewer in number, just how things were different in 1800 compared to how filthy maggot conservatives act now

  • @robertmike57:  "Literarcy" is apparently still pretty low (moron).

  • @calexander007 oh my, you caught a spelling error, bravo!

  • Lol, this is great.

  • omgggg they used to go in lmaooo

  • hahaha this sounds like a onion clip haha

  • My favorite part is the way the S in "Jefforfon" is written.

  • People don't know their history. The 2008 election was one of the tamest times for political mudslinging compared to past elections. It really was not that bad.

    Like 1800, another election that had heated attacks was the 1828 election between the Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams.

    Adams called Jackson a murderer for his past transgressions in the army fighting indians. Then Jackson called Adams a "pimp"(yes he used that term) for being with numerous women.

    People in America are clueless.

  • @LaLaGrunge It was tame compared to many other elections, but it most definitely wasn't "one of the tamest." I realize that's subjective, but there it is.

  • Someone should prosecute these men! for inciting violence. The things they have said here, are a Direct result of what happened in Arizona.

  • Everyone says it

    s always been like this but arent we supposed to be advanced now? Havent we progressed?

  • Didn't Obama say "....we need crush our enemies..." before the Nov 2010 mid-term elections?

    Nick A.

    Author, Please Break The Law (the book)

    Please Break The Law.com

  • @TheCommonManUSA This is because we currently attach healthcare to your job, it should a personal thing and then this wouldn't ever be an issue. It also isn't cross state so if you move you could loose your coverage. The system is retarded but easy to fix if everyone in power would only stop trying to "help" so much and making things worse because they don't understand the law of unintended consequences. Government doing more will only make things more complex and worse.

  • That last Stephen Douglas quote just made me laugh out loud.

    The difference between then and now is simple: Vocabulary. Thanks to the dumbing down of America people can no longer speak coherent English. (Thanks NEA)

    @crjhnsn

    For the love of Pete why would you even bother engaging someone who goes by '666brainiac' for crying out loud?

    Prating leftist windbags like him have had nothing but drivel to say since they had the tar beaten out of them by tea drinking mothers.

  • wait, what did you call me? A hatchet faced nutmeg dealer?! Fool I'll kill you!!!!!!!

    this is way to funny

  • lolz

  • HIDEOUS HERMAPHRODITICAL CHARACTER

  • Later in life, Adams and Jefferson become best of friends........and died on the same day - July 4th, 1826 - the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.

  • If only politicians nowadays were as creative in their use of language as our ancestors, elections would be so much more interesting...

  • Yes, of course. George Washington referred to it in his Farewell Address, after all. Yes, U.S. boys and girls, like it or not, political parties and partisan mudslinging are well a part of our political history.

  • I miss the good old days of Roman politics, when the candidates simply hired bands of thugs and brawled in the streets. Whichever candidate survived was OBVIOUSLY the better candidate.

  • @CreamSoda64 heh that would be nice. no more sarah palin!

  • @Eggbert1x What do you have against Sarah Palin? 

  • @CreamSoda64 Vote Julius Caesar, OR ELSE! LOL!

  • My teacher showed me this in my class too!

  • hahah my teacher showed this in class too lol!

  • This video should be broadcast during every American election to give some real historical perspective amidst the mudslinging.

  • Didn't know there were libertarians at The Daily What.

  • When the liberals start whining about mud getting thrown (and both parties do it), what they mean in a veiled fashion is "we need the Fairness Doctrine, we need Internet Neutrality."

  • They just don't do nasty like they did in the old days. Lets see a duel then I'll call it nasty.

    but on a unrelated point...

    What the hell are hoecakes?

  • This is not a political commercial. This is a social studies lesson.

    Pat

  • Too funny X D

  • the hermaphroditic quote was actually from james callender, ally of jefferson, and, later, his enemy with the publication of the sally hemmings non-scandal. suprisingly callender was found drowned in a puddle.

  • *insert pointless political debate remark here*

  • Childeren writhing on a pike Female chastity violated DWELLINGS IN FLAMES!!!

    Well that tears it Im voting for Jefferson

  • LOL Now I'm having flashbacks to American history classes! Thanks for posting that. :-)

  • The rent is still to damn high.

  • Veryvery funny

  • "John Adams is a hideous and hermaphroditical character"?! LOL! Borrowing quotes from Jefferson takes on a whole new dimension!

  • But the question the video fails to ask was what the outcome in terms of relationship between those two former friends was and the mood of the country. 'Everybody else did it' is a pretty lame ass excuse.

  • @ISUtube1857 The point is that its god-damned human nature

  • And your point is?

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

  • Does anyone know what the font used for "President Jefferson" (jefferfon) is?

  • @BEARCRAB

    the name that looks like Jefferfon is actually the same as Jefferson. If you look closely at the name, the third to last letter that looks like an "f" is actually an "s". this was how they wrote "s"s back then when the letter "s" didn't start a word.

  • @Kazuobot Yes, thank you, professor. I was asking what the font used was and put jefferfon in parenthesis to be specific on what I was referring to.

  • @BEARCRAB

    lol i know jeez i was just giving an interesting fact that i didn't think a lot of people know >:( i wasn't trying to make you look stupid

  • Brilliant vid!!!

    I do wonder about the Hamilton bit at the end there. It's not like he supported either candidate...

    Still, this does put everything into perspective- some things never change *sigh*

  • Priceless

  • Immorality and the character of the candidate is the issue.

  • LOL MY TEACHER SENT ME HERE

  • @Desmater Go to SFU?

  • @Desmater american west?

  • Seriously this is without a doubt what things should be like today. Screw the issues, politics needs more hermaphroditical characters, and rapist inbreeding adulterers!

  • In the 1800s, printers printed the "s" as an fancier "f", and that sorta carried over in this video. Kudos to the creators.

  • You misspelled 'Jefferson.'

  • @ivankurz No that's how they spelled 'Jefferson' in 1800... the s was rendered 'f' hence 'Congreff' but it was pronounced the same...

  • @ivankurz

    That's how they wrote S's back then

  • Jefferson's accent is almost English! I wonder what they really sounded like...

  • saw this last nigh on CNN, best mudslinging campaign to-date

  • 11 people are Hatchet-faced Nutmeg Dealers!

  • What's wrong with politicians calling each others' names, Obama? He rarely corrects himself, even when he makes a huge grammar gaff. Are you allowed to call a president a "dork?"

  • ... I think I'm going to vote for Zombie Jefferson if that is what happens when he wins! D:

  • I actually read the 'murder, rape, incest, adultery' line in Jefferson's Second Revolution, so this is certainly truthful.

  • Ha, too true.

  • I had this crazy thought recently that if a politician, no matter how little I agreed with him/her on political stances, were to run a campaign without the use of juvenile attack ads and the belittling of their opponents in a debate, I would vote for that candidate based solely on good merit and intention, which is something politicians clearly lack today. I know it's a farfetched thought, I'm just ready for something fresh from our government.

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  • Any man who would start a war with France has my vote. Adams for prefident!

  • Excellent, except the background flags were clearly wrong.

  • this was an awesome video.

    L O L

    Yeah, vile personal attacks were the usual back in the days.

    Lulz, was the same in the Britain.

    NOTHING CHANGES, EH?

    NEGATIVE MESSAGE > POSITIVE MESSAGE.

    haha.

  • It's funny how people believe that campaigns are dirty now. They're nothing compared to the ones in history.

  • Kenya is a shit hole. The whole birther thing is more of a wish instead of a belief. Just trying to illustrate obama's hypocrisy.

  • @FSBlueapocalypse What a divine quote that is. I will find a use for it

  • @FSBlueapocalypse

    Really, sir? To say such a thing is to insult our hermaphroditic friends.

  • The problem with this video is as follows:

    John Adams never spoke bad of Jefferson publicly, especially in such terms.

    The phrases used in this video are phrases used by radical newspapers in New England at the time - not by the candidates. Rest assured neither Jefferson nor Adams would have ever "approved" such messages.

  • @bretw

    indeed.

    Then again, you'd never have to approve them. Its pamphlets and newspapers, after all.

    Best campaign is served through people's gossip and a long, and I mean LONGGGG, speech.

  • The Wesleyan Media Center has viewed 400,000 political ads aired in 2010 and concluded most Republican attacks ads are issue focused whereas Democratic candidates tend to more often air personal attacks. Google Wesleyan Media Center to read the study.

  • @rream01 Really? Remember that whole... John Kerry is not a war hero thing? Issues focused? Really?

  • @but8mokey As Sgt. Joe Friday liked to say, "Just the facts." The Wesleyan Media Center study looks at political advertising in 2010 and this year only. So I can't tell you about the Kerry -Bush race. By the way, Politico reports that Ds outspent Rs by about $180 million this cycle ($850 mil to $670), including indy expenditures, so that may be why Ds could air more personal attack ads.

  • NICE!

  • The core of the American scam is the idea that change occurs in politics. Yet more proof that nothing in that arena ever really changes. It's still rich people ruling poor people with lies. And it will continue to be that way until some disruptive technology changes the nature of the game itself.

    (AI/robotics is probably going to be the first.)

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  • Wow, seems a few of our commenters have lost the plot. God bless YouTube!

  • As in blood during political uprisings in third world countries such as Kenya. We doing our fighting and disagreeing at the ballot box.

  • @krblizzard Kenya is a stable parliamentary republic, moron.

  • @GoldRainGirl There has been significant widespread violence following elections. Read your history. Dipshit!

  • @krblizzard Once, that's like saying the US is a political shithole because the south decided to flounce and cause a civil war because they lost an election that would cost them their slaves.

  • @krblizzard Also that still makes you a birther: you have about as much political credibility as people who quote the protocols of the elders of Zion as a sane rational human being.

  • @GoldRainGirl Kenya is a shit hole politically and socially.

  • Yikes!

  • Mr. President, Unlike your home country of Kenya, we are a democratic society and choose to do our fighting during a campaign and not in the streets with blood shed. If you long for the days of old in one breath and then turn around and tell us we need "hope and change" in the next, you become highly hypocritical. Maybe you should go back to Harvard and brush up on your AMERICAN history? Can't wait until 2012!

  • @krblizzard What? Where is the blood in the streets? A comment made in regards to attack ads does not call for violence but civility amongst politicans.

  • @fenwick23 Maybe it's an indictment of the latest acts of violence by the teabaggers and krblizzard is getting ready in advance to condemn them?

  • Excellent, pro abortionists have over 50 million US children who they have killed "writhing on a pike' on their list of dirty deeds.

  • lets all fight!

  • Too few politicians run on the "children writhing on a pike" platform.

  • I find this video and the comments all hilarious and enlightening. That old Bible verse is right: "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." (Ecc 1:9)