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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Actually, I've never said a thing about the loyalty oath. When you asked if it had really happened, I was actually curious -- I thought that maybe relying on the Daily Show wasn't necessarily a good idea.

So, I did the Google search. The New Mexico story comes up a lot but there are stories from other places too, like a Cheney rally in Wyoming.

There was this story by Chris Suellentrop in Slate:

• PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—"I want you to stand, raise your right hands," and recite "the Bush Pledge," said Florida state Sen. Ken Pruitt. The assembled mass of about 2,000 in this Treasure Coast town about an hour north of West Palm Beach dutifully rose, arms aloft, and repeated after Pruitt: "I care about freedom and liberty. I care about my family. I care about my country. Because I care, I promise to work hard to re-elect, re-elect George W. Bush as president of the United States."
  
  I know the Bush-Cheney campaign occasionally requires the people who attend its events to sign loyalty oaths, but this was the first time I have ever seen an audience actually stand and utter one. Maybe they've replaced the written oath with a verbal one.