{"id":15996,"date":"2016-10-26T17:43:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=15996"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T00:43:42","slug":"the-problem-of-trump-and-the-problem-of-hillary-at-the-al-smith-conflag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2016\/10\/26\/the-problem-of-trump-and-the-problem-of-hillary-at-the-al-smith-conflag\/","title":{"rendered":"the problem of Trump and the problem of Hillary at the Al Smith conflag"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump ruined the Al Smith Dinner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Or so goes the consensus.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, but looking at the selection of jokes tossed about<\/a>, we do begin with ones which seemed — oh, maybe risque only in terms of the venue, where the politicos are required to stick to nothing more outre than what Bob Hope might have lobbed at us.<\/p>\n

This transcript is annoying.\u00c2\u00a0 After the line… After listening to Hillary rattle on and on and on, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so badly of Rosie O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Donnell anymore, <\/em>we ought see “Smattered Boos”, not “laughter”.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, the line of “boo”ing is intentional and a good crowd reaction.<\/p>\n

But then… the problem with these…<\/p>\n

Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate Commission.<\/em><\/p>\n

(BOOING)<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s not a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a very insular, feedback loop of right wing demogaugery, which makes no sense to anyone not in this loopy world.<\/p>\n

See too…<\/p>\n

and a totally different policy in private. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s okay. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know who they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re angry at Hillary, you or I. For example, here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A wikileaks – related politicking, needing to get this meme out there.<\/p>\n

What’s weird is the canned response from Hillary Clinton.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, I know, the idea is to just smile and nod, but the gracious laughter routine was such that the response was just the same no matter what Trump threw out there — whether funny or inflammatory.\u00c2\u00a0 And maybe there is comedy to be gleaned by the latter, in the sense of “Wow.\u00c2\u00a0 My opponent is really self-immolating here” — but it doesn’t do much to dispel the robotic \/ micromanager conception of her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump ruined the Al Smith Dinner. Or so goes the consensus. It’s interesting, but looking at the selection of jokes tossed about, we do begin with ones which seemed — oh, maybe risque only in terms of the venue, where the politicos are required to stick to nothing more outre than what Bob Hope […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15997,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15996\/revisions\/15997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}