McCarthy's role in a shoe commercial where she appeared sitting on a toilet.) The name of the communications director for CGS Productions was Stoidi Puekaw – "wake up idiots" backwards. Abel once ran for Congress on a platform that included paying congressmen based on commission; selling ambassadorships to the highest bidder; installing a lie detector in the White House and truth serum in the Senate drinking fountain; requiring all doctors to publish their medical-school grade point average in the telephone book after their names; and removing Wednesday to establish a four-day workweek. Later career In 1999, Abel appeared in the documentary Private Dicks: Men Exposed, in which he claimed to be the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the smallest penis. Abel, who initially appeared in the video as "Bruce the musician" (later versions of the documentary changed this to reflect that Abel was a prankster), did not disrobe for the documentary crew, and said that he would only do so if they were to have group sex afterwards. Abel stated, "They said no. So I didn't have to take off my shorts." At the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Abel introduced a campaign to ban all breastfeeding because "it is an incestuous relationship between mother and baby that manifests an oral addiction leading youngsters to smoke, drink, and even becoming antisocial." After 200 interviews over two years, Abel confessed the hoax in U.S. News & World Report. Abel died on September 14, 2018, at his home in Southbury, Connecticut, from complications of cancer and heart failure. Documentary In 2004, his daughter Jenny Abel, along with Jeff Hockett, made a documentary film of Abel's life called Abel Raises Cain, which played at the Boston Independent Film Festival and the 2005 Slamdance Film Festival, where it won first prize for Best Documentary. It has been released on DVD. Books The Great American Hoax (1966) The President I Almost Was by "Mrs. Yetta Bronstein" (Abel and his wife) (1966) Confessions of a Hoaxer (1970, Macmillan) The Fallacy of Creative Thinking (as Bruce Spencer, 1972) The Panhandlers Handbook (as Omar the Beggar, 1977) Don't Get Mad, Get Even (1983, Sidg. & J) How to Thrive on Rejection'' (1983, W W Norton & Co Ltd, as W. W. Norton) See also Joey Skaggs, a more recent performer of media hoaxes including Cathouse for Dogs(1976) References External links Abel Raises Cain at