{"id":1312,"date":"2008-09-25T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1312"},"modified":"2008-09-25T10:00:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:00:16","slug":"mccain-campaign-straight-talk-express-completely-off-the-rails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/09\/25\/mccain-campaign-straight-talk-express-completely-off-the-rails\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Campaign: Straight Talk Express Completely Off the Rails?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re seeing another demonstration of the &#8220;first time as tragedy, second time as farce&#8221; maxim with the McCain campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole suspending-the-campaign-to-save-the-economy schtick is a naked political ploy.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems he can&#8217;t even pull that off without getting caught in bald-faced lies.\u00c2\u00a0 The clip below is from last night&#8217;s David Letterman, whom McCain cancelled on at the last minute, telling Letterman (personally) that he was &#8220;racing back to Washington&#8221; and couldn&#8217;t be on the show.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole 9 minute clip is worth watching, but if you only want the punchline, watch the first minute or so and then fast forward to 6:40.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E&amp;e[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>McCain &#8211; just can&#8217;t tell the truth when there&#8217;s a chance to tell a lie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we&#8217;re seeing another demonstration of the &#8220;first time as tragedy, second time as farce&#8221; maxim with the McCain campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 The whole suspending-the-campaign-to-save-the-economy schtick is a naked political ploy.\u00c2\u00a0 But it seems he can&#8217;t even pull that off without getting caught in bald-faced lies.\u00c2\u00a0 The clip below is from last night&#8217;s David Letterman, whom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}