For politicians, the age of the bullet-pointed press release is long gone, replaced by schticky websites and "sharable content." So it's no surprise that the Missouri Democrats, desperate to snag outgoing Sen. Kit Bond's seat from Republicans, have launched a site devoted entirely to senate candidate Roy Blunt's many varieties of shady.
"He spent 14 years in Washington," party spokesman Ryan Hobart tells Plog. "There are a lot of pieces of his record that people need to remember. It was just a fun way to get it out there."
The new site, as you can see below, has a cutely crude design that looks to have been designed by my niece, which may or may not have been intentional.
It allows users to pile a variety of scoops onto a cone and share that cone with friends, with each scoop representing a different "flavor" of Blunt's liberal application of ethics. The flavors include "Everything but Ethics" and "Cookies and Kickbacks," which details Blunt's relationship with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff -- a friendship that "entitled [Blunt] to free cones and extra scoops."
You get the point. If you feel like it, build your own cone at flavorofthemonth.com. Or do yourself one better and just go to Glace, where the flavors don't have that bitter corrupt aftertaste.
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