Writing over at the American Scene, Reihan Salam shares a note from Baghdad:
have you heard about the US army chuck norris fixation? he’s literally on the walls of every port o john in iraq. at a base in kuwait, i peed into a urinal that said “chuck norris is watching you.” here in Baghdad, I’ve seen these: “Chuck Norris isn’t hung like a horse; horses are hung like chuck.” “Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas.” and “Chuck Norris once ate a 72-ounce steak in 45 minutes. He spent the first forty minutes making love to the waitress.”
It seems possible the Chuck Norris endorsement carried far more weight with the voters than some of us realized, but as the message of that first ad was geared to reassuring gun-owners that they’d have a strong advocate in Mike Huckabee, it’s not entirely surprising that political analysts didn’t quite get it.
