{"id":3069,"date":"2008-09-09T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/09\/donate-to-my-compliance-fund-please\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T15:29:36","slug":"donate-to-my-compliance-fund-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2008\/09\/09\/donate-to-my-compliance-fund-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate to my Compliance Fund, please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing about, running down the blog-o-roll, there is this ad blip from MSNBC which has a blue image of McCain (is he still running?) faced up against Obama, promoting debate coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a mass ad buy which attaches itself to blogs by key-words and topic, hence it follows it will be there under dailykos.\u00c2\u00a0 The joke is that it was attached to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/9\/8\/15303\/51738\/655\/591257\">this story<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose these things are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the Washington Monthly, something called &#8220;The John McCain Compliance Fund&#8221; has a large ad, and here I&#8217;ll go ahead and link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_09\/014626.php\">an item of interest<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(soon to be useless because the ads will donate out) to see the set of ads on the sidebar:\u00c2\u00a0 elecotral horse-race website &#8212; check,\u00c2\u00a0Polar Bears &#8220;Shame On Big Oil&#8221; fund &#8212; check, and&#8230; John McCain &#8220;Compliance Fund&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Notwhithstanding the attempt at cross-over appeal McCain seems to be going for in advertising in the quite polarized environment of political blogs, the phrasology seems like\u00c2\u00a0a joke.\u00c2\u00a0 I gather its odd name fits into the genre of &#8220;Contractual Obligation&#8221; &#8212; surely skirts about McCain \/ Feingold, but we may be better off there to refer to the &#8220;Compliance Fund&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 McCain is Complying to something, even if the name demands of us to Comply to McCain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing about, running down the blog-o-roll, there is this ad blip from MSNBC which has a blue image of McCain (is he still running?) faced up against Obama, promoting debate coverage.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a mass ad buy which attaches itself to blogs by key-words and topic, hence it follows it will be there under dailykos.\u00c2\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/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-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}