TAPPER: In honor of this weekend's fourth of July holiday we wanted to give you a little yankee doodle for this week's "State of the Cartoonion."</s>TAPPER (voice-over): On this fourth of July weekend, we give thanks, for this wonderful nation and we praise its founding fathers, like say presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who when they went against each other in 1800 were brutal. The propaganda working for Jefferson called Adams, the incumbent president, a hideous hermaphroditical character with neither the force and firmness of a man or the gentleness and sensibility of a woman. A newspaper allied with Adams wrote that if Jefferson won, murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced. This is how our founding fathers waged elections. In 1828, Andrew Jackson's supporters said that President John Quincy Adams once provided a prostitute for Russian emperor Alexander. They called Adams the pimp of the coalition. Team Quincy went after Andrew Jackson as a cannibal after his wife as a bigamist. When she died of a heart attack a month after the election President Jackson blames John Quincy Adams for her death. So this election season when you Jeb Bush or Hillary or whomever engaged in political attacks, just remember all this mud, all this slime, it's American as apple pie.</s>TAPPER: Thanks for spending your Sunday morning with us. I hope you have a happy Fourth of July weekend. You can catch me here every Sunday at 9:00 and noon, and on weekdays on "THE LEAD" at 4:00 p.m. eastern. Go to CNN.com/SOTU, STATE OF THE UNION, for extras on the show. I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, D.C. "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS," starts right now.
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