{"id":3240,"date":"2008-09-05T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2008-09-05T22:34:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T03:34:50","slug":"my-spokesman-can-kick-your-spokesmans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3240","title":{"rendered":"My spokesman can kick your spokesman’s…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dagnabbit. I wish I would have caught this myself. Reposting this is admittedly a thinly veiled piece of plagiarism, but I dutifully submit it for your enjoyment in case you didn’t catch it in the WSJ<\/a> or NYT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I remember Sarah Palin’s commentary on Senator Harry Reid during her acceptance rout<\/strike> speech:<\/p>\n

Harry Reid, the majority leader of the current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee. He said, quote, “I can’t stand John McCain.” Ladies and gentlemen, perhaps no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen the right man. Clearly what the majority leader was driving at is that he can’t stand up to John McCain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Reid’s response…<\/p>\n

Now Harry Reid is hardly thin-skinned and almost anything else Ms. Palin could have said about him might not have drawn much of a reaction. But to the former boxer from tiny Searchlight, Nev., that insinuation from Governor Palin amounts to fighting words. He sees himself as more than capable of standing up to Mr. McCain and, through spokesman Jim Manley, Mr. Reid fired back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Anyone who knows Senator Reid knows he never backs down when he’s fighting for what’s right and that he always stands up to John McCain when he is wrong,” said Mr. Manley. “Shrill and sarcastic political attacks may fire up the Republican base, but they don’t change the fact that a McCain-Palin administration would mean four more years of failed Bush-Cheney policies.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Via a spokesman (Reid was getting a pedicure) by the name of Manley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dagnabbit. I wish I would have caught this myself. Reposting this is admittedly a thinly veiled piece of plagiarism, but I dutifully submit it for your enjoyment in case you didn’t catch it in the WSJ or NYT. I remember Sarah Palin’s commentary on Senator Harry Reid during her acceptance rout speech: Harry Reid, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","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\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}