{"id":3364,"date":"2008-09-24T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T12:51:12","slug":"we-interrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"We Interrupt&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the media&#8217;s dissection of the minutes of then-mayor Palin&#8217;s remarks about praying for an Alaska Huskies victory made during a 2003 meeting of the Wasilla City Council to bring you some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/2008\/09\/23\/2008-09-23_barack_obama_tells_running_mate_joe_bide.html?print=1&#038;page=all\">actual signs that a vice presidential candidate is unqualified to serve<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When the stock market crashed, <a title=\"Franklin D. Roosevelt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Franklin+D.+Roosevelt\">Franklin Roosevelt<\/a> got on the television and didn&#8217;t just talk about the princes of greed,&#8221; Biden told <a title=\"Katie Couric\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/topics\/Katie+Couric\">Katie Couric<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Herbert Hoover, actually, was the president in 1929.\u00a0 The crash happened largely because of pseudo-socialist meddling in the economy.\u00a0 Plenty of people got rich under FDR&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah &#8211; and while FDR <em>was <\/em>the first President to appear on television, it was <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.answers.com\/Q\/Who_was_the_first_president_to_show_up_on_television\">ten years later<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A dumb flub?\u00a0 Yes (and one among many, many, many such for Biden).\u00a0 And one that, had it come from McCain or Palin, would have made the front page of the NYTimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;the media&#8217;s dissection of the minutes of then-mayor Palin&#8217;s remarks about praying for an Alaska Huskies victory made during a 2003 meeting of the Wasilla City Council to bring you some actual signs that a vice presidential candidate is unqualified to serve: &#8220;When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","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=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}