Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between.

Framed as a barnyard simile, the line mocks political oratory as something that looks sharp at the ends (“a point here, a point there”) but is mostly empty bluster (“a lot of bull in between”). Attributing it to Alfred E. Neuman—the satirical mascot of MAD magazine—signals that the target is not a particular party but the genre of political speechmaking itself: grand claims, rehearsed applause lines, and vague promises padded with rhetoric. The joke depends on the double meaning of “bull,” combining livestock imagery with the idiom for nonsense, and it implies that listeners should be skeptical of speeches that offer a few memorable “points” without substantive argument or evidence.