The Worst Ever U.S. Presidential Slogans | QI
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This clip is from QI Series R, Episode 15, 'Random' with Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Eshaan Akbar, Bill Bailey and Katy Brand.
One of my favorite terrible Presidential slogans is "Hurray, Hurray, the Country's Risin' - Vote for Clay and Frelinghuysen!" from the 1844 campaign of Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen.
I just love the audacity of actually trying to rhyme something with Frelinghuysen, even if the end result was rather uninspired.
...utterly preposterous!
"Dewey or Don't We" is pretty good!
Not in the broader context of Dewey's campaign. His entire platform can be summed up as "I'm not Truman." He literally didn't stand for anything at all, and neither does that slogan.
That bit about the origin of "OK" is a spurious folk etymology.
I'm sure worse will come along shortly.
true,,, like "I can run the country from jail"! ;)
@@keithskelhorne3993 Or _"My opponents get locked up in jail!"_ 🤭
I mean the civil war wasn't soon after
@@Rathkryn yeah, thats a Disney (antisemeticish) lie
@@Rathkryn but strangely ,not,,,
I just realized... They didn't capitalize Richard's name. Seems like someone dropped the ball.
Nixon's 1972 campaign slogan was _"Nixon Now!"_
The one mentioned was used by supporters, not the actual campaign.
That's minus twenty points for the QI Elves.
A few more points off for that OK story, because that's just one of several theories.
This is standard hap for QI
They routinely bend the truth, omit details, or similar, to maximise the entertainment value. QI is an entertainment/comedy show before it is a fact show.
@@kirotheavenger60In a few years they’ll say Labour used the White Stripes when in the 2017 election
They didn't specify _official_ slogans
The etymology of OK is disputed, but most sources agree on the following:
The origin of OK is disputed; however, most modern reference works hold that it originated around Boston as part of a fad in the late 1830s of abbreviating misspellings; that it is an initialism of "oll korrect" as a misspelling of "all correct". This origin was first described by linguist Allen Walker Read in the 1960s.
I had an old Cuban guy once tell me it comes from zero casualties. “It’s 0K(sic) nobody died”
Except that correct was never commonly known or spelled as "korrect".
This, the 'oll korrect' is 10000% "a story to fit a question". 😏
@@Tao_Tology thats the point, it was a part of a fad to misspell words. Same as the Oll at the start
@@PureZOOKS Uhuh........
@@Tao_Tology it was a fad to misspell words, it happened all the time, we even do it today.
WH Harrison died and thus the first constitutional crisis occurred when no one could figure out what exactly to do next. Tyler was the first presidential successor, but his party didn't really like him that much and never really intended for him to have any power, so they tried to say he was only acting president and could only do certain things, but he said screw that, look at me, I'm the president now, and that set the standard for successive... successions. The party abandoned him and he played spoiler in the next election. But that party's long gone now, so good lot that did them.
Regrettably, Tyler would later be elected to the Confederate Congress, but died before he could take office, which I suppose is a bit ironic, or poetic, or something.
Fun fact: there is at least one grandson of Tyler still living as of 2024, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, he's 95.
ah, another alleger origin story of "OK"...
William Henry Harrison’s slogan was “Tippicanoe and Tyler too”
Apperantly Rushi has just watched this and is building his own giant ball.
Van Buren popularised OK, he didn’t invent it. Though disputed, the most likely roots come from Boston when it was used as an abbreviation for an older term, ‘oll korrect’ which meant all well or all good.
Plenty of sources about which corroborate this.
Surprised Hilary's "Pokemon Go- to the polls" didn't make the cut.
The origin of OK or okay is in dispute. I don't recall the idea that it is based on Old Kinderhook, so I'd have to say that this is a less likely possibility.
Mine: "A frigging ADULT for a change"
I'd say "Make America Great Again" is pretty high up there.
As a bad slogan? Whether you agree with Trump or not, it's a catchy slogan. That's why it's parodied all the time. Nobody even knows Biden's slogan, if he has one.
Considering that it is probably one of the most famous ones in history, I would say it's actually one of the best. However, the President behind the slogan is certainly debatable.
How anyone American can criticise making america great is way beyond me
Of course you would. NPCs gotta NPC.
@@annother3350 The issue people have with it (aside from it being associated with Trump) is that for the most part in the U.S. the past was never that great, whether it was slavery, or Jim Crow, or women being unable to work, or homosexuality being seen as a disease, etc., saying the U.S. should become "great again" implies those past things were great as well. That and the fact that it's pretty uninspired, to the point where he's not even the first president to use it as a slogan.
It's just "Kinderhook". Harrison was "Old Kinderhook".
Van Buren was Old Kinderhook.
@@EebstertheGreat Yes, oops. Thanks. Apparently what I was incapable of saying was that "Old Kinderhook" was the person, not the town.
I love Eshaan.
That is all. ❤
Surely in the last slogan "Dick" should have been capitalised as it was Nixon's nickname?
It was capitalized, but it wasn't Nixon's campaign slogan. It was a slogan used by his supporters.
@@Rathkryn it wasn't when quoted.
@@thomthom6268 Well spotted!
The slogan was capitalized back in the 1970s. It was not capitalized in this show.
It was also not used by the Nixon campaign.
Minus forty points to the QI elves.
Barry Goldwater's "AuH2O" was a bit silly too.
Eshan ❤ king lid
Worst ever: Trump 2024.
His slogan is Make America Great Again. Regardless of whether he accomplishes that, it's something most Americans understand, and it's a good sounding slogan for any president to use. Biden like Obama used Hitler's slogan, "Forward," which seems pretty questionable.
@@litigioussociety4249 Actually, Obama had "Yes, we can". Which was a pretty popular slogan at the time for sure
@@litigioussociety4249 Sure thing Yuri.
Worst ever: _"Biden ... um... you know the thing... pause... Orange Man bad!"_
@@Rathkryn Apparently you don't even know one thing.
They wouldn't learn the slogans, but it's too bad QI has never been to the Springfield Presidents Day pageant so they could know that William Henry Harrison died in 30 days! Along with some of the other mediocre presidents.
The name of the borough is Kinderhook, Old Kinderhook was Van Buren's nickname. Jeez, so many facts wrong in this short clip.
ALL the way with L B J ................ ( ? ) .................. DAVE™🛑
Trump, had he not been convicted: "You Can't Trump This!".
His conviction is meaningless
Biden, since Trump has been convicted: _"Vote for me or it happens to you too."_
'If you don't vote for me, you ain't black.' Biden 2020
How about these campaign slogans?
_"Repeat the line."_ ~ joe biden
_"Pause."_ ~ joe biden
How about _I'll be a dictator on day 1_ - your Führer.
How about that, John? You have to misrepresent the quote to find a flaw with it.
Btw, which candidate tried to set up a Ministry of Truth and which one deported an actual Nazi for trial?
no "OK" came from the phrase "oll korrect"
Or it could come from the french frase "au quai" that the "transport leader" said when the cargo was ready to be send to the dock for loading onto a ship.
Yes, it would have been more correct to say it was popularised in 1840 by the presidential election.
However, we also just spent a lovely few minutes actively learning things through discussion and research, rather than relying on a light-hearted panel show to teach us things by rote, so I guess everyone wins, in some shape or form.
In France, it's Chirac's "Mangez des pommes"
Eat apples !
The Nixon one warrants an explanation. You can't just let that slide.
No explanation. Evidently YOU chose to let it slide.
@@thomthom6268 huh? I wasn't part of the show.
The name Richard is often shortened to Dick. Lick used to be synonymous with defeat. "They can't lick our dick" means "They can't defeat our Richard (Nixon)."