Rush Limbaugh used to do a routine on his show about how he would see women farding while driving. Offended women would call in and demand "How DARE you say such things???" and Rush would say "Why? What's wrong with what I said?" They would sputter back "Well, how can you tell?" and he would reply "I can see them doing it through the car window!"
It was hilarious!
You've probably heard about George Smathers' "redneck speech":
Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, he has a brother who is a known homo sapiens, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.
Supposedly, this horrified rural Florida voters and they rejected Pepper in the Democrat primary (which was the real election in Florida at the time). Pepper did win in the subsequent primary, in 1952.
However, the speech never actually occurred. It was dreamed up by reporter, and reported as fact by Time magazine. The campaign denied it, and the reporters covering the campaign confirmed it was a hoax, but it never went away.