{"id":181684,"date":"2016-04-14T18:54:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/14\/yeah-i-guess-kasich-is-the-best-they-have\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T18:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T23:54:00","slug":"yeah-i-guess-kasich-is-the-best-they-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/04\/14\/yeah-i-guess-kasich-is-the-best-they-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I Guess Kasich Is the Best They Have"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Donald Trump (but you already guessed that) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/early-lead\/wp\/2016\/04\/13\/hows-joe-paterno-trump-asks-pittsburgh-crowd-about-dead-penn-state-coach\/\">wondered in a speech how former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was doing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Trump forgot that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paterno was fired a because he covered up the activities of a serial child rapist.<\/li>\n<li>Jo Paterno is dead.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oops: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump mentioned late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who died in 2012. Paterno was fired from the school and his statue removed after Jerry Sandusky&#8217;s sexual abuse of children came to light. (Reuters)<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pandering to local crowds is a staple of political campaigns everywhere, and Donald Trump\u2019s is no different. But the key to successful pandering is knowing to whom you\u2019re speaking and, of course, what you\u2019re saying.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Trump was way off base on both those counts Wednesday, when he spoke before a crowd of supporters at a rally in Pittsburgh.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI know a lot about Pennsylvania, and it\u2019s great,\u201d Trump said. Which is standard-issue stuff, but then things got awkward.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHow\u2019s Joe Paterno?\u201d Trump asked. \u201cWe\u2019re gonna bring that back? Right? How about that whole deal?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Paterno, for those who may have forgotten (including, possibly, a certain presidential candidate) died in 2012. (Wait, is bringing him back from the grave an essential part of making America great again?)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His campaign is now claiming that he was asking if the coach&#8217;s statue was returning to the State College campus.<\/p>\n<p>No.&nbsp; Trump had a brain fart that makes John Kasich look like Stephen f%$#ing Hawking, only, of course, Stephen Hawking is a <b>far<\/b> more inspiring speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Donald Trump (but you already guessed that) wondered in a speech how former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was doing. It appears that Trump forgot that: Paterno was fired a because he covered up the activities of a serial child rapist. Jo Paterno is dead. Oops: Speaking at a rally in Pittsburgh, Republican &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,963,969,977,1057,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-donald-trump","category-evil","category-presidential-campaign","category-sports","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181684"}],"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=181684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}