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The 5 Most Clearly Insane Public Figures Endorsing McCain

cracked.com — In the arena of politics, celebrity endorsements are everything. Take out mudslinging, avoiding policy questions, rhythmic chanting, photo ops and hollow rhetoric, and what ’s left? Just pandering, fear mongering, and celebrity endorsements. Clearly, getting whiny, shallow actors to say they like you is a key part of the process.

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  • PabloIV, on 10/09/2008, -4/+64The funny thing about Daddy Yankee, is that he wanted to endorse Obama and Obama (rightfully) wouldn't have it. Being the dumbass that he is he just asked the other guy and being an even bigger dumbass the other guy accepted.
    • sousademiami, on 10/09/2008, -8/+13Probably because people who listen to reggaeton are *****.
      • KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/10/2008, -0/+22Can you believe that Daddy Yankee is the moderator for the debate between the candidates for governor of Puerto Rico? This ***** can barely speak and he's moderating a debate!
      • belebih, on 10/10/2008, -0/+14It's ***** stupid that they put him as moderator but, even though I hate reggeton, a lot of the folks that listen to it aren't as stupid as you'd think. From what I've heard, other reggeton "artists" (I use that word very loosely) are fighting back criticizing Daddy Yankee. And a lot of his own fans are preparing a protest during the debates where they will destroy his albums due to how much his endorsement of McCain pissed them off.
      • sousademiami, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Well then his plan surely backfired. because I think he only endorsed McCain to get on TV and get attention so he could sell records.
    • CleoQKazoo, on 10/10/2008, -2/+4he is "Puerto Rican". Cracked.com FAIL
  • Sublex, on 10/09/2008, -6/+55Dugg for the sexy nun picture.
    • TheKappa, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6Anyone have any idea where this is from? I have a sexy nun fetish I have to work out...
      • Mizzer, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1I never had a thing for nuns before, but I'm willing to change all that... Where she be from?
  • SlavaPastuk, on 10/09/2008, -16/+6Remember when Cracked! used to be about huge bugs that could kill you and the top 5 manliest names of all time? Wtf is with this political *****? I miss you old Cracked!, you used to be funny, come back
    • mswaim, on 10/09/2008, -1/+14We're still funny! Read the article! I swear, is SAYS it's about McCain, but like three of entries are about these really huge bugs with super manly names.
  • S7aind, on 10/09/2008, -3/+24Tran Trong Duyet? WTF?
    • SEN5241, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Try saying that three times really fast.
    • bodisatvah, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5Mind control.

      Explains EVERYTHING.
  • Fhwqhgads, on 10/09/2008, -21/+5More political ***** on Cracked. Buried.

    Enough already.
    • mswaim, on 10/09/2008, -0/+18Come on, Fhwqhgads!
    • MiddleOfNowhere, on 10/10/2008, -1/+5Then don't read it, and don't comment on it. It's not that this is the only web site in the world.
      That being said, it is well-written, witty and - unfortunately - as close to the truth as every Stewart or Colbert show.
      In a word: The clowns are telling the truth, because everyone else is too busy sucking the establishment's *****.
  • sousademiami, on 10/09/2008, -2/+2Once again, cracked.com places what should be a #1 at the #5 spot. (See "5 Most Badass Presidents" #5 Andrew Jackson)
  • AManWithNoName, on 10/09/2008, -1/+13Dugg for "Don't bitch in the comments"
  • keithjinternet, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7They forgot Heidi Montag.

    I mean. What? I don't know that...
  • ReinMasamuri, on 10/10/2008, -20/+4Imagine if they did this on Obama. It'd have to be longer than a list of 5 though :/
    • Zarchon, on 10/10/2008, -10/+5Although you are getting dugg down you are absolutely correct.

      Rev. Wright for over 20 years, way worse.
      Bill Ayers said just last year he doesn't regret any of the bombings he did and wished he had done more and would do it again. Way worse.

      Of course none of this matters to the left.

      Michelle Obama has NEVER been proud of America for anything until the left nominated Obama.
    • belebih, on 10/10/2008, -2/+6RTFA: "Tune in to this space in two weeks for EQUAL TIME: 5 Obama Supporters He’d Rather Not Have! And don’t bitch in the comments."
  • smartguy4932, on 10/10/2008, -3/+5I hate that people don't put the right stories in the right categories....
  • dcollins, on 10/10/2008, -1/+2Who is Gov. Arnold backing?
    • NomortaL1, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2mccain
    • warsongs7, on 10/10/2008, -0/+8McBain.
    • Easyoffbam, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5McPAIN
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -2/+1Obama of course, he needs lots of loot quickly , and John hates all the Hollywood actors as they are democrat voters by nature.
  • psykiv, on 10/10/2008, -1/+21Daddy Yankee supports McCain.

    McCain just definitely lost my vote.

    If i hear "a ella le encanta la gasolina, dame mas gasolina" one more time, I'm going to kill someone.

    lives in miami, spent a lot of time in little havana.
    • TonyLocNE, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7I still have no clue who he is. Maybe I'm behind the times...
    • thegrantman, on 10/10/2008, -2/+10"a ella le encanta la gasolina,dame mas gasolina"


      • psykiv, on 10/10/2008, -0/+12Here Lies TheGrantMan
        RIP
        July 18, 2008 to October 9, 2008
    • charm803, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4He's an embarrassment to the Latino community.

      I told my friends that Daddy Yankee sings about demeaning women as if we were pieces of meat.

      I can see why he would endorse McCain, they have that in common, but I can't see why women would fawn all over this moron.
      • miriv365, on 10/10/2008, -1/+2So someone like Ludacris doesn't have lyrics demeaning women? It goes both ways is all I am saying....
      • charm803, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Here's the difference:

        Ludacris supported Obama.
        Obama denounced and separated himself BECAUSE of the vulgarity of his music

        Daddy Yankee announced his support for McCain.
        McCain embraced it.

        With the vulgarity of his music, someone thought it would be ideal to have him as a moderator.
        I simplified it for you, simpleton.
    • CrushThemTorg, on 10/10/2008, -0/+11Clearly, since he sings about gasoline, he's an energy expert.
  • whatthefu, on 10/10/2008, -1/+2This new 'columnist' thing is kind of gay.
  • Wryly, on 10/10/2008, -1/+3I'm sure they all roll dice with him in Vegas.
  • LocalDocal, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5Somebody fill me in about this 'Daddy Yankee' fellow. Now while I can understand why the Obama camp would turn him down (misogyny, violent lyrics, and so on), I can also understand why the McCain camp would assent to his endorsement (McCain wants votes from the young people, I suppose).

    However, I'm failing to understand one part of the equation: Why in the world does this 'Daddy Yankee' want to support a political candidate? It doesn't seem as if taking part in politics (and supporting a Republican at that) would entice the young people to listen to his music since the 'reggaeton' genre seems to be an offshoot of 'rapper music', which espouses a lot of things, but politics not being one of them from what I know.
    • EH90, on 10/10/2008, -4/+4Yea, but see I'm quite sure he's getting money off of this if not he wouldn't be supporting McCain. Reggaeton is HUGE among hispanic youth in America, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, Colombian-Americans, you name it, the majority of them listen to reggaeton. In the hispanic community Daddy Yankee is not seen as the misogynistic rapper most Americans see him as. The music is not nearly as shocking as some people make it out to be, just like other genres have their extreme sides as well. I listen to reggaeton so I guess that makes me a "*****" as sousademiami put it. In fact, Daddy Yankee endorsing McCain could have a huge pull in the youth of the Hispanic voting community.
    • belebih, on 10/10/2008, -2/+4"Why in the world does this 'Daddy Yankee' want to support a political candidate?"

      Simply put, he's an idiot. Not much more to it than that. And it seems like instead of bringing the Hispanic youth to McCain it's just causing a big backlash on himself.
    • sousademiami, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5Money. It's a free ad on every major news network.
  • TexasShiv, on 10/10/2008, -0/+5What if Tran was letting the truth...
  • dashdingo, on 10/10/2008, -2/+3Anyone else mistake McCain for a zombie in the McCain/Bush picture? Number 3, http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/funpages/cms_con ...
  • ElBeh, on 10/10/2008, -4/+11Cracked + List + McCain-bashing = Instafrontpage
  • TSK05, on 10/10/2008, -12/+6Two can play that game..

    How about when Hamas endorsed Obama?
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Don't bitch in the comments .
    • sousademiami, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4Was Obama shaking their hands while they did it?

      I think not.
  • indubitably, on 10/10/2008, -2/+35#6. palin
  • fuzzmeister, on 10/10/2008, -2/+29Nothing like a good ol' KKK endorsement to boost a campaign.
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -1/+1Those pesky burning crosses really mess up the nice green font lawn .
  • 147982, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7I'll let that nun convert me any day.
  • Bagrad, on 10/10/2008, -1/+6Screw this story, just give me the name of that nun !
  • SetOverSet, on 10/10/2008, -9/+4Anyone endorsing McCain or Obama is an idiot. How can anyone support a candidate that voted for a 700 billion bailout.
    • azAZ09, on 10/10/2008, -1/+4So you would rather that the banks fail, millions lose jobs, and anyone with an mortgage gets forclosed immediately. The world plunges into the second great depression??
      If you are one of those free-market at all cost idiots, you deserve what is about to happen.

    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Buddy can you spare sixty two trillion dollars ?
    • sousademiami, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Compared to the LOSS of over 2 Trillion dollars in retirement accounts alone in the past two weeks, LOANING 700 billion really isn't such a big deal in the grand scheme of things.
  • gallito89, on 10/10/2008, -6/+2Hmm, I'm all about bashing McCain but there is a limit as to how many anti-mccain diggs I see.
  • rromansanturio, on 10/10/2008, -2/+4Daddy Yankee? Really? Because of the Yankee? or is it the Daddy?
    Is the best way to get the latino votes, to Obama...
    /douge
    • sousademiami, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2The best part is that his big reason for "supporting" McCain is "immigration."


      ...


      HE'S PUERTO RICAN!!! (That's the USA baby!)
  • thebrokenlight, on 10/10/2008, -0/+7"And what’s the presidency if not a glorified drive thru window? You take the orders of America, misinterpret them due to a broken and convoluted communications system, then give them what you thought they wanted and charge them for it anyway."

    Quote of the day.
  • Rasica, on 10/10/2008, -8/+2 A new poll shows that 95% of African Democrats harbor negative views toward whites. Obama's problem is close to home — among his fellow Democrats, particularly non-Hispanic white voters. 9 in 10 people who are African call themselves Democrats and support Obama
    [Obama] is drawing almost unanimous support from blacks, the poll shows.

    Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support would be as much a 6% percentage points higher if white racial prejudice [among Democrats] was not in play.
    Race is the biggest factor driving Democrats and independents towards Obama.
  • goph, on 10/10/2008, -5/+5You show me 5 insane public figures that support mccain, and I'll show you 500 obviously insane public figures voting for someone who thinks they know how to run a country.
    • demonsnake69, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7Well, cracked.com showed their five, now you gotta show your 500.
    • Joemagnum, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4This should be entertaining.
  • ennio, on 10/10/2008, -7/+4Boobtacular nun = rubbed one out realquick.
    • belebih, on 10/10/2008, -0/+6There's free porn on the internet you know. Or do you prefer to still fap to your mom's JCPenney underwear catalogs?
    • azAZ09, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4That's a bad habit.
  • motivatedguy, on 10/10/2008, -10/+9Another McCain bashing article... Imagine That
  • zebraz, on 10/10/2008, -15/+5The Obama socialists taking over this country makes me ill.
    • azAZ09, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4zebraz WTF?
      Watch the video at the end. The god-damned KKK, an unabashed fascist hate-group-- one with a long history of domestic terrorism--- finds McCain and the GOP to be an ideological match. So you are saying that a slight lean toward socialism makes you sick but BIG FASCISM and terrorism is OK with you? If knowing that your Ideological Brethren on 95% of the issues are the most reviled wackos in the country would normally give one pause to re-think one's position.

      All this, and you are worried about socialism?

      A lean toward socialism would not harm the country as much as Christo-fascists and the GOP have already. in fact a little socialism might save your home, your job, your family.
      • NomortaL1, on 10/10/2008, -2/+2there are two candidates with varying opinions.
        you have a KKK member who wants to support a candidate.
        This KKK member may feel strongly against abortion, therefore he may feel as though McCain is a better choice.
        From that saying McCain == KKK is pretty ridiculous
  • octiron, on 10/10/2008, -16/+6I would take that list over Ayers, ACORN, Jeremiah Wright, Jamie Gorelick, Daniel Mudd, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson
    • octiron, on 10/10/2008, -4/+2Wow, look at that, what a surprise, -3 diggs and counting, yet no educated responses.
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+4Why would we bother regurgitating ancient history , when you already know the answers .
  • Dustin00, on 10/10/2008, -2/+7INSANE PUBLIC FIGURE NUMBER SIX: SARAH PALIN

    Seriously, how'd they miss this one?
    • octiron, on 10/10/2008, -1/+7seriously, how did you miss this, it is already in the comments, even has a reply

      and on a side note, nice work with the capslock
  • retawd, on 10/10/2008, -5/+2Obama has Hollywood's vote. I don't think it's in Obama's best interest to start talking about "clearly insane public figures" and whom they support. No need to mention the not so public figures but still "clearly insane" voters in San Francisco and randomly spread throughout the nation.
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3I would estimate about thirty five million former core republican voters so insanely disgusted by McShame/Failin' campaign that has brought dishonor to the parties name , but quite possibly a few more for a good measure too.
  • maus56, on 10/10/2008, -1/+6How is the name "Yankee" going to help in Florida?
  • DrSavage5, on 10/10/2008, -11/+4Why is Hollywood so liberal, and why do liberals lack family values?

    In the publicity build-up to Arianna Huffington's launch of her ambitious new Huffingtonpost celebrity bloggers website, I thought it revealing to see that the default assumption in the mainstream reporting on it was that Hollywood bloggers would be liberals.

    The New York Times report said, "The site is likely to start as a watering hole for liberals." Variety reported, "Huffington is wisely confining her site mostly to politics. It's safer, after all, for liberals to bash the government than Hollywood."

    It has become just a given. People speak of our town as being exclusively populated by liberals. It isn't (and please count me alongside Chuck Heston, Mel Gibson and many other conservatives here), but non-liberals in Hollywood usually seem conspicuous or, if not yet secure in their stardom, stealthy.

    For years, great minds the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Michael Medved have mused over what causes Hollywood's leftward political tilt, but they have never quite nailed it. So, let this fool rush in with a theory here.

    I haven't seen anyone offer this elsewhere. My intent is not to scorn – as in "liberalism is a mental disorder" or any of that – but to ponder things coolly from the close-up vantage point of an entertainer who's resided the same jogging distance from Sunset Strip since 1960. If I win more disdain from the liberals I dwell amongst, I expect it will be because my theory makes them uncomfortable, and attacking me as judgmental will serve them better than attacking my judgment.

    The mystery of why Hollywood is so left-liberal does have a solution. Let's ponder the obvious: Hollywood is a place where people come from near and far to devote themselves to the pursuit of conspicuous public career accomplishment. These individuals, perhaps even to their credit, do believe in themselves as exceptional, or at least believe in the exceptional worthiness of their aspirations. Each of them reflects a remarkable choice or ability to give higher priority to making it big eventually than to providing financial stability here and now.

    Unless you're a lucky heir or beneficiary of someone else's money, to live your young adult life willing to wait tables and perform unpaid in showcases or work on music or film productions "on spec," you must put aside the focus on financial stability that more traditional young adults practice in their family-formative years.

    If you live this "on spec" lifestyle for many years, the value you place on making it big in the future must compete with any idea of family stability in the present. Duty to things like children or in-laws would distract from your needed obsessiveness with showbiz "prospecting."

    So, Hollywood ends up being home to disproportional numbers of the more self-absorbed, who lack a bit in the way of family bonds and often "have a problem with commitment" in their personal lives.

    Being more narcissistic and less family-involved than most citizens is a difficult (if not much pondered) fact of life for folks in this community. As long as it remains un-cool to be a narcissist, and as long as ***** sapiens remain a family-organized species, they have a problem.

    Ah, but Hollywood does have its remedy: It's long been to cultivate a standardized "I love you" posture toward any audiences, fans and peers you have, while you substitute a high-minded universal "community" consciousness for the missing family component in your personal life. This way, you provide yourself cover from seeming narcissistic or unrelated. Inherent in this remedy is (mystery solved) a political left turn.

    The collective "we" so reflexively embraced in Hollywood naturally welcomes something of a nanny state. If it's a problem to have neither the means nor the time to provide the best for your children, why not have the government do it?

    Family values are more negotiable if you don't value family a heck of a lot more than you value conspicuous public career accomplishment. So, merging the duties of individuals and families into those of politicians and governments makes easy sense.

    And to favor such collective caring lets you avoid feeling yourself not a fully functional community member. You can feel like an altruist, not a narcissist.

    A Hollywood so populated with citizens committed more to personal biographical accomplishment than to family turns out to be a Hollywood known for its leftish politics. This should mystify us only if we ignore the universal human need to be sure of membership in community, perhaps tribe, and above all else, family. The human animal, as the anthropologists say, is social. When its need for family gets compromised or repressed, as it does routinely in Hollywood, it comforts the human animal to get more socialistic.

    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Wow so many words meaning so little , I am amazed you can actually use words more than three syllables long in one sentence too (shakes head) .
    • cheshireluna, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2You say that your goal is not to scorn, yet you immediately assert that to be a liberal you have no family values? Really?

      I argue the opposite. My "liberal" family values include EVERY family, not just the white 2 parent heterosexual middle class family with 2.5 kids an a dog. Maybe when the Republican party stops feeding off of ethnocentrism, racism, and homophobia, they might have my vote. Until then, I'm a democrat.
    • 4321234, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1***** you. You possess the same sense of moral superiority as the terrorist on the video sawing somebody's head off. Once again, ***** you.
    • stormkrow, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1You are obviously retarded. You have put "great minds" and Limbaugh in the same sentence alongside Michael Medved. Put the crack pipe down and turn of the FAUX news. A drug addicted closeted homosexual who spills vile and filth every time his mouth opens and cult following right wing ultra-conservative detached from reality have ZERO clue as to what America thinks or needs. Sorry but Mormons are a cult. Period.
      Both men should have lost there shows years ago and been imprisoned for instigating hate crimes.

      The reason Hollywood is overwhelmingly "liberal" aside from B-listers and regiulous freaks is because this is 2008 and not 1956.
      Get used to it, the republican party is dead and the christian conservative agenda has no place in a modern society.
    • shmatt, on 10/10/2008, -0/+1Can you define family values? They're different for each and every family. So logically you can't say that anyone lacks them for sure. After all those words you wrote, you failed in the very first sentence.
  • Asten77, on 10/10/2008, -4/+3hah, this is hilarious. The equivalent list for the other guy would be a lot tougher to narrow down to 5. There's so many.
  • crackberri, on 10/10/2008, -8/+1That’s funny, didn’t see the list of Communists and Terrorists which are supporting Hussein. Oh, I forgot this is DIGG.
    • heystoopid, on 10/10/2008, -0/+3Yawn !
    • an0nymous, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2Well heck. Put them here sport!
      Remember the ground rules: Obama has to have accepted the endorsement. Let's see what you got.
  • QubitTarutaru, on 10/10/2008, -0/+2If Republicans really want McCain to win, they should have Bush endorse Obama.
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