{"id":730209,"date":"2010-05-20T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:39:38","slug":"dale-peterson-mocked-in-fake-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/730209","title":{"rendered":"Dale Peterson Mocked in Fake Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/05\/petersonparody.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19565\" title=\"petersonparody\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/files\/2010\/05\/petersonparody-259x230.jpg?resize=259%2C230\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a>It was bound the happen sooner or later. The inevitable parody video has been cut: Big horse  (named Franklin), big gun and big accent included.<\/p>\n<p>The spoof website Funny or Die has produced a fake campaign ad after Dale Peterson&#8217;s Internet sensation.<\/p>\n<p>In his bid to head up Alabama&#8217;s Agriculture Commission, Peterson&#8217;s take no prisoners-style (complete with a big horse and big gun) has made him a cyberspace star. That ad has been viewed 800,000 times since Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Now Funny or Die has spoofed his ad, making fun of Peterson&#8217;s walk, talk and gun as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/videos\/ea0f0bfaf2\/we-re-better-than-that-too-w-dale-peterson\">Click  here to see Funny or Die&#8217;s spoof ad.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an idea.<\/p>\n<p>Original ad: \u201cI\u2019ve been a farmer, a businessman, a cop, a marine  during Vietnam, so listen up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spoof ad: \u201cI\u2019ve been a farmer, a cop, a volunteer, I sat people in a  movie theater one summer\u2026so listen up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0\">Click here to see Dale Peterson&#8217;s original ad.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was bound the happen sooner or later. The inevitable parody video has been cut: Big horse (named Franklin), big gun and big accent included. The spoof website Funny or Die has produced a fake campaign ad after Dale Peterson&#8217;s Internet sensation. In his bid to head up Alabama&#8217;s Agriculture Commission, Peterson&#8217;s take no prisoners-style [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4594,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4594"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831855,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730209\/revisions\/831855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}