{"id":181188,"date":"2016-09-08T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/bigger-third-party-candidate-fail\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T00:16:00","slug":"bigger-third-party-candidate-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/09\/08\/bigger-third-party-candidate-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigger Third Party Candidate Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving, as Charles Pierce says, that the Libertarians put the wrong guy at the top of the ticket, Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/gary-johnson-aleppo-gaffe-227895\">drew a blank on what the f%$# Aleppo was<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Libertarian&#8217;s &#8216;what is Aleppo&#8217; flub comes at a particularly inopportune time for the long-shot candidate.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">In a make-or-break moment, Gary Johnson broke.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">During an interview in which Johnson would later say he mentally \u201cblanked,\u201d the Libertarian Party presidential nominee on Thursday flubbed a question on the Syrian civil war, asking, \u201cWhat is Aleppo?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">His fellow MSNBC panelists were agape, as Johnson had just claimed unfamiliarity with a city at the heart of Syria\u2019s ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis. Johnson spent the rest of the morning on a self-flagellating apology tour, including a brief follow-up interview with Mark Halperin in which Johnson admitted frustration at his answer, an appearance on <i>The View<\/i>, and a statement of public mea culpa.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, a mea culpa on <i>The View<\/i> is going to make this all better.<\/p>\n<p>You have the Green Party candidate with an arrest warrant out against her for vandalism,<sup>*<\/sup> this guy, and I&#8217;ve seen over a dozen Clinton ads this week, and they all talk more about Trump than her.<\/p>\n<p>I have never seen more bizarrely self-destructive Presidential campaigns in my lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Actually, the arrest warrant is for a protest against a pipeline company that is going straight through a sacred Indian burial ground, which is kind of cool.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proving, as Charles Pierce says, that the Libertarians put the wrong guy at the top of the ticket, Presidential candidate Gary Johnson, drew a blank on what the f%$# Aleppo was: The Libertarian&#8217;s &#8216;what is Aleppo&#8217; flub comes at a particularly inopportune time for the long-shot candidate. In a make-or-break moment, Gary Johnson broke. During &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[768,815,823,816,824],"class_list":["post-181188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fail","tag-foreign-relations","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}