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Back before most of you were born, there was a blog called Low Culture. And when they weren’t busy making insider-ish jokes about people I didn’t know, they found time to run a little feature called “Unintentionally Hilarious Photo of the Moment.”

The Low Culturalists have moved on, but yesterday they sent over a rather Unintentionally Hilarious Photo of the Moment:

And though it was plenty hilarious on its own merits, I just couldn’t leave it alone.

But first a flashback to the very pre-9/11 Republican primary of 2000 in which George W. Bush came frighteningly close to not winning a damn thing. That is until the ratfuckers who ran his campaign came up with a charming South Carolina strategy that went something like this:

Anonymous opponents used “push polling” to suggest that McCain’s Bangladeshi born daughter was his own, illegitimate black child. In push polling, a voter gets a call, ostensibly from a polling company, asking which candidate the voter supports. In this case, if the “pollster” determined that the person was a McCain supporter, he made statements designed to create doubt about the senator.

Thus, the “pollsters” asked McCain supporters if they would be more or less likely to vote for McCain if they knew he had fathered an illegitimate child who was black. In the conservative, race-conscious South, that’s not a minor charge. We had no idea who made the phone calls, who paid for them, or how many calls were made. Effective and anonymous: the perfect smear campaign.

Luckily they didn’t have LOLCats eight years ago, otherwise Karl Rove might have cooked this up: