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Pass It On: In Which A Political Staffer For A US Presidential Campaign Just Up And Licks A News Camera

SWEET LORD, WHY.

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Is there something about working in politics that makes people do weird-ass things with their mouths? Or are life’s mouth-weirdoes just naturally attracted to the work? They make their mouths do stuff that mouths should not do. They put them in places where mouths should not be.

Exhibit ARGH.

Exhibit BLEGH.

Turns out Tonguey Abbott up there has a long-lost cousin in Kentucky, who’s currently employed as Republican Presidential hopeful Rand Paul’s political director in that state as the Republican primaries warm up. David Chesley obviously wasn’t a fan of progressive research group American Bridge filming one of Paul’s campaign events, and expressed his displeasure by getting right up in the camera’s grill and licking it like a fucking Calippo.

Cameras are not for licking, David. Ice cream is for licking. Not cameras.

Why, David. Why you gotta do that with your mouth. That’s not what mouths are for.

If you can’t be trusted not to do unforgivably weird things with your mouth, you shouldn’t be trusted with a nation’s future. That is just science. Stop it.