{"id":271,"date":"2006-12-28T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/27\/chase-on-ford\/"},"modified":"2006-12-28T09:28:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-28T15:28:52","slug":"chase-on-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Chase On Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chevy Chase on the the guy who <strike>launched<\/strike> was the <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&#038;storyid=2006-12-27T184601Z_01_N27443220_RTRUKOC_0_US-FORD-CHEVY.xml&#038;src=rss&#038;rpc=22\">reason for\u00a0 his career<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chase, 63, was an original cast member on the trend-setting late-night comedy television show &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; and frequently opened the show pretending to be Ford stumbling and falling. The parody in 1975-6 helped reinforce a popular image about Ford&#8217;s clumsiness, even though the president had been a star athlete in college.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chase proceeded to make that (and <em>Fletch<\/em>, which was basically the Ford bit tacked onto a private eye) his whole career.<\/p>\n<p>Was he grateful?\u00a0 Well, eventually:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He had never been elected period, so I never felt that he deserved to be there to begin with,&#8221; the actor said about Ford, who died on Tuesday at age 93. &#8220;That was just the way I felt then as a young man and as a writer and a liberal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later on we became friends and he was a very, very sweet man,&#8221; Chase said in a telephone interview from a Colorado ski resort. &#8220;He took my wife and I on a whole lovely trip through Grand Rapids to show us where he had been as a child and what not. We kept in touch and he was just a terrific guy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.\u00a0 Are Republicans supposed to be &#8220;terrific guys?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote \/><p><font color=\"#003399\" size=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevy Chase on the the guy who launched was the reason for\u00a0 his career: Chase, 63, was an original cast member on the trend-setting late-night comedy television show &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; and frequently opened the show pretending to be Ford stumbling and falling. The parody in 1975-6 helped reinforce a popular image about Ford&#8217;s clumsiness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}