{"id":729,"date":"2005-03-05T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=729"},"modified":"2005-03-05T15:19:04","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T22:19:04","slug":"on-the-american-spectator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/03\/05\/on-the-american-spectator\/","title":{"rendered":"On The American Spectator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"003279\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/spectatorhagel.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/justin\/spectatorstewart.jpg\" height=\"378\" width=\"302\"><\/p>\n<p>I imagine such things as these covers, which The American Spectator seems to throw at us once a week, as Negative Political Advertising.  You can picture the faces turning to the photo-negative Blue, with the voice-over<i>&#8220;How Can You Trust This Man?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The Jon Stewart article should be read, not least of which to marvel at the spectacle of giving Jon Stewart a cover for a two-page article.  Unfortunately, the article does not appear to be online, except for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcexaminer.com\/articles\/2005\/02\/13\/opinion\/op-ed\/01aaadopedstewart.prt\">an excerpt<\/a>, where we see the author marvel at these jokes:<\/p>\n<p><i>Here are some of Stewart&#8217;s incomparable laugh-quakes from &#8220;America&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Though Ronald Reagan (1980-1989) was not considered Kennedy-esque, many historians believe he was among our most Reaganesque commanders-in-chief&#8221; &#8212; page 38.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The name of Senator Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., became synonymous with an era, not unlike his colleague Representative Pleistocene, D-Minn.&#8221; &#8212; page 61.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>My favourite joke on Reagan from the book, incidentally, is (from memory, so it&#8217;s not exact), on presidential nicknames: &#8220;Well noted as an effective communicator and Conservative Ideolouge, Reagan received his nickname &#8216;The Gipper&#8217; for his tendency to gip a lot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some people get it.  Others don&#8217;t.  To each their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I imagine such things as these covers, which The American Spectator seems to throw at us once a week, as Negative Political Advertising. You can picture the faces turning to the photo-negative Blue, with the voice-over&#8220;How Can You Trust This Man? The Jon Stewart article should be read, not least of which to marvel at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}