Re: errors in Moore's film
From: Mike Walsh (mp1walsh_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 07/19/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:31:49 -0700
"Terrell Miller" <millerto@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:qBYKc.1679$%S4.546@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
> "Tom Clarke" <tclarke@ist.ucf.edu> wrote in message
> news:40FBE578.7562F5D9@ist.ucf.edu...
> > Eric Chomko wrote:
> >
> > > Well given that just 50 odd years ago a candidate won a congressional
> race
> > > by claiming his opponent was a practicing "homosapien", that his
sister
> > > was a "thespian" and that he "matriculated" with females in his
school,
> > > and those charges, though true, cost him the election; nothing
surprizes
> > > me. This happened in Florida in 1950.
> >
> > The way I heard it, it was also stated that the candidate's father was a
> > sexagenarian.
>
>
> and he and his wife practiced interdigitation before marriage :O
>
> Is this urban legend, or did it actually happen?
>
> --
> Terrell Miller
> millerto@bellsouth.net
The part that is "urban legend" is that this was what caused the other
candidate to be defeated in the election. Also, the versions of what was
said seem to change over the years.
I read that the winning candidate (A Republican I believe) accused his
opponent of practicing monogamy for years and that the candidates
sister was a thespian in New York.
Yes, something of this nature did happen and the media picked up
on it immediately. By the time the election was held everyone in
Florida should have been aware of the joke.
Mike Walsh
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