{"id":181844,"date":"2016-03-02T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/02\/who-knew\/"},"modified":"2016-03-02T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T00:55:00","slug":"who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/02\/who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio&#8217;s jokes about Trump&#8217;s dick size are not a low point in Presidential campaigning.  It turns out that it it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a42614\/thomas-jefferson-dick-jokes\/\">goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">As a matter of fact, Jefferson <a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=http-3A__articles.philly.com_2012-2D08-2D25_news_33367841-5F1-5Fjefferson-2Dpresidency-2Dpresidential-2Dpower-2Dhideous-2Dhermaphroditical-2Dcharacter&amp;d=CwMFaQ&amp;c=B73tqXN8Ec0ocRmZHMCntw&amp;r=C0G6Ae5N6o-49Sr-4B0ssYoInBjTRIEXRRb2OslIKxo&amp;m=79q6w37fS58HuofIBXxdjF-koVa5Xncl0h9Qg6S5o34&amp;s=ss2hn4hnXf98kZUVpRn86FL1x9oC8v-Nc6bQaou9BcA&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was well aware of the political salience<\/a> of the well-timed tiny-dick joke because he used them himself, in the ferocious campaign of 1800.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">As  the challenger in 1800, his goal was to topple the incumbent. His  critique of President John Adams included the accusation that he was &#8220;a  hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and  firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\">And, of course, old Martin Van Buren campaigned by accusing William Henry Harrison, the hero of Tippecanoe, of being <i data-redactor-tag=\"em\" data-verified=\"redactor\">&#8220;a  man who wore corsets, put cologne on his whiskers, slept on French  beds, rode in a British coach, and ate with golden spoons from silver  plates.&#8221; <\/i>Which is sort of an implied dick&nbsp;joke from a more  civilized time. And thus do we discover that, in yet another vital  element of being a political candidate, Marco Rubio comes up\u2026well\u2026short.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I loves me some history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Rubio&#8217;s jokes about Trump&#8217;s dick size are not a low point in Presidential campaigning. It turns out that it it goes all the way back to Thomas Jefferson: \u2026\u2026\u2026As a matter of fact, Jefferson was well aware of the political salience of the well-timed tiny-dick joke because he used them himself, in the ferocious &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1011,1187,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-insults","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}