{"id":88235,"date":"2024-08-29T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88235"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:04:22","slug":"the-massage-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88235","title":{"rendered":"The Massage Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So Kamala Harris is both an incumbent, and &#8220;fresh and new&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This would seem to be an inconsistency and liability to normal candidates &#8211; who&#8217;d be getting questioned about this by a press that actually did its job.<\/p>\n<p>But we don&#8217;t have that press:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">She&#39;s the sitting vice president. She&#39;s the candidate of change. How Harris is having it both ways <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wuytMhNOW9\">https:\/\/t.co\/wuytMhNOW9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1827989411604091282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 26, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our actual press is more of a Praetorian Guard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> is having it both ways as she hits the campaign trail after the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/democratic-national-convention\">Democratic National Convention<\/a>, taking credit for parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\">President Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> record in rallies staged in front of Air Force Two while casting herself as a new leader who rails against \u201cthe politics of the past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In every presidential cycle candidates run on experience or freshness, but Harris so far appears to be successfully harmonizing two seemingly competing messages, much to the frustration of former President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his allies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And, shucks, the AP isn&#8217;t going to do anything to change that, are they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Kamala Harris is both an incumbent, and &#8220;fresh and new&#8221;. This would seem to be an inconsistency and liability to normal candidates &#8211; who&#8217;d be getting questioned about this by a press that actually did its job. But we don&#8217;t have that press: Our actual press is more of a Praetorian Guard: And, shucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235","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=88235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88247,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88235\/revisions\/88247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}