{"id":189199,"date":"2010-05-06T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/06\/the-demon-sheep-is-back\/"},"modified":"2010-05-06T22:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T03:46:00","slug":"the-demon-sheep-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/05\/06\/the-demon-sheep-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demon Sheep is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 384px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><object movie=\"\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jZxk_9GTHrs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" width=\"384\" height=\"\"><param name=\"\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jZxk_9GTHrs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x3a3a3a&amp;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"384\" height=\"\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"\">For a sequel, it&#8217;s pretty good.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>A while ago, I, and pretty much everyone else in the blogosphere, along with the inestimable Rachel Maddow, <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/ok-i-might-consider-donating-to-fiorina.html\">pointed out just how remarkable<\/a>, in a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Plan 9 from Outer Space<\/span> way, Carly Fiorina&#8217;s demon sheep campaign ad against Tom Campbell was.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the California Democratic Party and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee riffed on that bit of political agitprop, and came up with a &#8220;sheep&#8221; ad of their own.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually amusing, or it is if you&#8217;ve seen the original in all its ghastly glory, though I&#8217;m concerned that this is not a good allocation of resources.  After all, amusing me, a voter who does not live in California, and would sooner gnaw off my own leg than vote Republican, does not help Barbara Boxer get elected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a sequel, it&#8217;s pretty good. A while ago, I, and pretty much everyone else in the blogosphere, along with the inestimable Rachel Maddow, pointed out just how remarkable, in a Plan 9 from Outer Space way, Carly Fiorina&#8217;s demon sheep campaign ad against Tom Campbell was. Well, the California Democratic Party and the Democratic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1064,978,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189199"}],"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=189199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}